• IneriLan bolunteer. EVERY THURSDAY MORN INU BY .TTOIsr • • -.SOUTH Mans:ET SQUARE. • o Dollars per year If, paid strictly Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if paid ' months; after which Three Dollars • od. These terms will be rigidly ad. :,very Instance. No eul.scription_dis : Itl u tr!:mgetlare.paidomiese.ai t Editor. • toteßotoual OtarDs3.• • a 417E1r AffilPti • ICH do PARKER, ATTORNEYS AT EA Tr. Main Stroet, In Marion Hall, Car ...-• 1811 S— • E. MAGLAUOHLIN, Arron- LA*. •011 ice In Building formerly Volunteer, a few doors South of Wet , D STATES CLAIM AND EST.A.TE A GEIVC M;.8.. BUTLER,. ' . ATTORNEY AT LAW, , Story of Imhoff's Building, No. 8 So street, Carlisle, Cumberland coo . , Bounties, Back Pay, &c., promp lone by mall, will receive immedi attention given to the selling or re I Eget°, In town or country. In all 1 airy, please enclosspostage stamp. lifft—tf BELTZIKOOVER; • TORNEY—.AT—LAW,. CARLISLE. PA. On South Hanover Street, opposl • goods store. • • tr ERMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAI 'co In Rheem's Hall Building, In t Court House, next doorto the "H Carlisle, Penna. • . • •• 8666, J. SHEAREFti ATTORNEY AN lINSELLOB. AT LAW, has removed h he hitherto unoccui&d room -In t t corner of the Court House. 1111-1 v • • ENNEDY, ATTORNEY AT LAN :Male, Penna. Office same as that . dean ' Volunteer." . SHRYOCK, Justice of the ce. Officallo 8, Irvin's Row, Carlisle. 1159—1 y eEORGE SEARIGHT, 'DEN From Dm 'Baltimore allege of Dents ffice at the residence of his moths or Street, three doors beloir cane. • • S. BENDER, Hoinceopiabh clan, .office No. ii, South Hanover at. • ,coupled by John Lee, Esq. B. HIRONS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT 1,4 Aries T, BELOW CHESTNUT, Cm. Library. • . • PHILADELPHIA. tT OWENS, • ATE ROOFER, - T • • E ;BALER , LANCASTER, PA. Zl Work Guaranteed. ' • era Left at this Office will, receive • ntion. . ' October 14. 1869-Iy. % ato anb (laps • H SUMMER ARRIVAL OF 'ALL TUB • A.ZW . STYLES OF TS 'AND CAPS. lbet has lust opened at No, 15 Nord' .eet, a few doors North of the Carlisle nk, one of the largest and best Stocks .d. CAPS ever offered-1n Carlisle. ' ,Caradmerp of all styles and qualities, ~ different colors, and every descripL Hata now Old Fashioned and Old Fashioned Brush, con hand and made to order, all warrant atlafactlon. ' &full assortment of • 'S, , BOY'S, AND CHILDREN'S HATS. added to my Stock, notions of differ consisti ng of . AND GENTLEMEN'S STOCKINGS, . Suspenders, . Gloves,'coeds, Thread, Sewing 811 k, Umbrellas, dm SEGARS AND TOBACCO ALWAYS ON HAND. small, and (Mahan° my stock as I feel. (pleasing all, besides saving you mo- JOHN A. KELLER, Agent, ' No. 15 North Hanover Street. B. AND CAPS! UVANT, A NICE HAT OR CAP ? 80. DON'T FAIL. TO CALL ON • • J. G. OA LLIO, • 'O. 10 , w&•97 MAIN STRILET, • a be seen the finest assortment of ATS AND — C AP S . ght to Carlisle. He takea great pleas oiling . old friends and customers, w ones, to his splendid stock Just re m New York and Philadelphia, con part of fine • LIC AND CASSIHERE HATS, n endless variety of Hats and Caps o style, all of which he will sell at th di Prices. Also, his own manufactur I %%ye on hand, and • MANUFACTURED TO ORDER. 'the best arrangement for coloring Hata eche Woolen.Goods,Overcoata, Ate. -at •t notice (us he colors every week) and .•1 reasonable terms. Also, a line lot of ads of - )BACCO 'AND CIGARS hand. He desires to call the attentio who have . COUNT'R . Y FURS he pays the highest oasis prices for lie m a call, at tho above number, his 'ld lie feels confident of giving entire sa Uoota inti SJjoes. •D STIIOHM. / , W. D. SPONSLER, JOHN W. STROHM, ' w am dl> op dub SHOE ’ TRUNK .ANJU Hat stoke. , ls ' s °dth hanoveii street, * J ““ “DraM too largest ana best stock ■M?n T o SHOES eSve a»Mi 8le ’i a . nd co »tinue alraoft. '!«. Ou? .^ oods ln our lln o as every Of uur Bl °ck consists In all kinds and *menB ,o M l )u d Chil ‘|rena’ strong Leather vSS H wVi 88eH nd Childrens* Lusting laS-Jgtove Kid. Turkey and French JmlM™ Culf * Buiruud Kid Wens' 0 an.? y n u *, and Bu *T Congress Mem*’ “?,? poys Lastlne (Jailers and u Sand £ U o yu .9 tt,f and Buff Oxford Vomenu'ri U . ua «r lu . H and Overshoes;, u* Goat, Welland Carpet Siip i«oys and OhUdreuB 1 Fur and Sox ?oSLml v lz ?. sond P rlces : Traveling U wi?i«h u^Bea i together with a tine ViSf A W S^Hl aol ‘times,, Thir‘if ND ''¥ 4 LLa PROFITS.’ ’■ M oh «® re l° r °t In Issuing our card, It UaninA«w2 Uul invitation to all in dertm&°... throu tf| l oar stock without 1 “lDriri gu » t .l ou l u, . bu y unless suited In yonein WeBhall always try to deal ve r y P “ a straight forward manner, C r!i ut< l , . aer , a * ull equivalent for his. °PPonmwA, aval? themselves of : k'pyrtumty to coll and see us. STKQttMiHPOWSLKB. WOItNER, merchant tailor, lim n!?*’ . noar Bheem'a Hall, Car- Gho |11S„ .‘' t “ r i I<!d ,rom tllu Eastern SSf? 1 uud most *' bl E AHSOftXMENT OP ‘ A NB WINTER GOODS, nf * «HS, ' °AHBIMEnEg, alehlno u . VESTINGS, «’» ofoUta°comprlßO Ver brWSM NC ? t and AMBUIUAN MANUFACTURES, r buinL®K. nd of rtU ebadoH. nice . * 5J' lu “ ,lf . a practical cutter of <upi’flili?‘? ,,arvd 10 warrant perfect lab* ut orders. . . • Don't Aug. w, mu. t-dv t 1 4 •, 1 ' • rtra 1 . -BY BRATTON & KENNEDY rjIHE BEST IN THE WOULD! THE SCIENTIFIC A IiERI $1,500 Gash. lor 1870. A VALUABLE TitEMIUM Foil ALL, This splendidly Illustrated weekly Journal 01 Popular Hclenoo, Moelnjnlcs Inveufon,Ei mi Chemistry, Architecture. Agriculture Sw fl ltl : ,U f e ? nr ' s ’ eater “ l,a twelily.llfth year on the 111 «t of January next, having a clrcula now nii'ldUduu? I 11! tllllt of “ ,ly “'mllar Journal THE KOITORIAL DEPARTMENT of the Sol-' entlllc American Is very ably conducted, and Bomeof the most p polar writers in this C. unlrv and Europe are contributors. Every number has 10 imperial panes, embellished with lino En- Krnvluns of Machinery, Now Inventions. Tools for 1110 Workshop, harm and Household, Engi neering. Works, dwelling Houses, Public Urn Id- reads the Hclcntlflc American Is on tertalnod and Instructed, without being bothered with bard worduor dry details. TO INVENTORS AND MECHANICS „nln Journal lb of special value, ok it contains a weekly report of all the Patents issued at Wash ington, with copious notices of the lending AMEKJL'AN AND EURUPBAN INVJBNTIOwS ihe publishers of the Scientific American are the mo t Extensive Patent. Solicitor* in'the world, andbavo unequalled facilities for gather, fngavompleio knowledge of the progress of in vention and Discovery thr. ughout the world* and with a view to mark the quarter ofaceutu ry, during which this Journal has hold the llrut place in tfclQnuflc and Mechanical Lalomturo. the Publishers will issue-on January first tho large and splendid Steel ugraving by John Sar talu, of Philadelphia, entitled : g y , ■'Men of Progress—American Inventors 1 ' tbe plate costing nearly gi.ooo to engrave; and p9^^ uBu,neteeni, keneBBes ofilluatrfouaAmer , lean-inventors. Itiauauperb work of art. c i u !:° 8 ' P rimea 00 heavy paper, will bo but anyone subscribing for the Sci entific American tbe paper will be sent for one year, together with a copy of t..e engravlnir on receipt ul Sul. The picture Is ulso ollert'i is u premium /ot.clubs of aubajribefs. ■OS'BI,SOO CASH PRIZES, “ffia In addition to the above premium, the nb- Ushers w II pay $1,600 lu CASH HRIZlia for lists ;of subscribers sent In by February 10,1»70. Per °' J want to compote fur those prizes, should end at once for pfoapectus and blanks xor names. Terms of Scientific American, one year $3.00 six months, *1.60; four months, $.OO. Tocluusoi 10 and upwards, terms 82.50 per annum Hpeci men copies sent free, Address the Furnishers • MUNN&CO., „ , _ ~ 37 Park Kow, New York. How to pet A pamphlet of Patent Laws and insttucilon to luventora sent free. , '1)60.23,1800. G IT, C»y.° F ' UJVIBERLAND .v^.lV 170 “ O ™ oa hand and Just received from the cities, and from manufacturers, the lamest stock of new, cheap, and good goods to be found In aiiy two stores in the valley. We have the beat assortment of CLOTHS, OABSIMER3, SATINETTS. TICKINGS, ’ QINCHAMS.PRINTS. MUSLINS. DBESS GOODS, Silks,- Merlnoes, Repps, Delaines, Alpacas. Coburgs, Plaids and Stripes. p *-RIBBONS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, Zephyr#, Towels, Yurn'., Linen and Cotton Table Diapers, CLOAKINGS, low prices and line , HANDKERCHIEFS, COLLARS and CUFFS. Velvets. Trimmings and more notions. than can be found anywhere under one roof. PURS A'ND CARPETS, 'Coverlets, Quilts, S H A W L S, of every description. In fact a splendid assort ment of goodp, and more given for the dollar, than anywhere else. WOO L, at the highest price takuo •lii'oxchanse, Give us a cull Ont. 2S. IBCy. p BOOJBBIES, Ac. The subscriber leave to lb form the citl zeaeof Carlisle and vicinity that he has pur chased the Grocery Store of D. V, Koeny No :H Womb .Huuover Street. Carlisle, where he will carry on the Grocery Business us urfunl. His ua sortment Is varied, and consists in part of QUEENS WARE, GLASSWARE, ,v • ' STONE and EARTHEN WARE. CEDAR and WILLOW WARE TEAS, * . COFFEES. SYRUPS. SPICES, FANCY SOAPS, ROPES. TOBACCO, FISH, OILS. HALTERS, SEGAKS, SALT, POTATOES DRIED AND CANNED FRUIT, ’ COHN MEAL, BUCKWHEAT, FLOUR, FEED, and a fall assortment of articles usually kept In a first-olosa Grocery store. Give him a cull, ami satisfaction will be guaranteed. Oct. 10, I«09, JOHN HECKMAN. Q HEAP COAL ' CHEAP COAL! I The subscriber is prepared to.deliver, by the car land, to Llmeburners and other consumers along the line of the Cumberland Valley Hull road, the celebrated HICfiORF UkW COIL! at the LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES FOR CASH Tills Coal Is of very superior quality, and will be furnished at prices which will defy all compe tition. . .The subscriber will deliver Coal at Carlisle, during the current month, at the• following prices per ton of 2,000 lbs.: . PEA, 6:1 15 • NUT, 4.55 . STOVE 5 65' EGG 555 And to other points of the road, he will deliver It. adding or deducting the expense In freights. The above rates will bo subject to the rise or fall of prices, each mouth at me mines. GEORGE ZINN, Office cor. Main and Pitt Sts., Carlisle, Pa. D00.*23,1800. E« H GARDEN. FLOWER, 1 Fruit Herb, Tree, Shrub and Evergreen heeds,, with directions for culture, prepaid by mnll The mostcoraplote aud Judicious assort* inent In the country. Agents wanted. 25 sorts ol either for Bi.Uo;_propuld by mail.— Also small trulls, Plants, Bulbs, all the now Potatoes. <Sc., prepaid by mall, 4 lbs. Early Hose Potato, prepaid, for 91,00. Conover's Co lossal Asparagr.-', *1 per 100; 825 per 1000, prepaid, flew hardy fragrant evorblootmug Japan Hon eysuckle, 50 cts*. each.prepaid. True Dupe Cod Cganberry, for upland or lowland culture, 81,00 Eur 00, prepaid, with directions. Priced Cata iguetoauy address, gratis; also trade Hat.— deeds on Commission. g/ B. M. WATdOfl, Old Colony Nurseries and Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Muss. Established In 1842. Dec. 23, IbfiO— ’ IVjOHUMRUGI NO HUMBUG!! Christian Inhoff, of Carlisle, has the sole right os Agent for Cumberland County, Pa, for the sale, wholesale, of u new Burning Fluid called Kino's Nun-Explosivbßiiilliant Illumina ting bLUin, which ts superior to auytblbg ever Introduced, aud can supply the trade through the County wholesale. This Fluid Is cheaper than Kerosene or any other oil or compound in use, emits no bad odor or smell, and is perfectly harmless;. Merchants and all others wishing to wee and to lest the article will please cull at my store. In Carlisle. Oct. 7, IWW.-tf. CHRISTIAN IfIHO'FF. 1 A AAA Agents wanted for the Priest JLV/jl/UV/ and Nun. This most exciting and Intel eating book, by u popular authoress, Is now ready, and those who wis{» to canvass for It should apply Immediately for circular, (with stamp enclosed,) stating territory desired, expe rience. «fic. Agents waited everywhere for this and other first-class books and engravings, by OBITTE.n DEN «S McKINNEY, 130 S Chestnut BtT. Philadelphia, Pa. . ’ Oct. 21, UUO—Sin AMERICAN ALE.—The' American Ale Brewery; formerly Qebhart’s, Ims been re-opened by O. 0. Faber, who ts now ready to supply this Justly celebrated brand of Ale to Ho-, teln, sul.to’is and Private Families, at low rates. Ale delivered m all parts of Cumberland, Ad ams or Perry counties. C. O. FABER flv. 18, lsuo_Bm«* [Wo doubt hot that many a heart, covered by the frosts of oven sixty winters, will read the following beautiful Hues with the emotions of younger years crowding about lt; v andhe who never attempts to read poetry of any kind will bo Instantly touched when the eye falls upon these lines :J $1,500 (Jas. I played with you. raid cowsllpsgrowing, - When I was six and you were four; When garlands weaving floWer-balls throwing, Were pleasures soon to please no more, Thro’ groves and meads, o’er grass and heather, , With little playmates, to ned fro, We wandered hand In hand together; But that was sixty years ago. You grew a lovely roseate maiden, And still our early Jove wosstrong; 8111 l with no cares our days were laden, They glided Joyously alone; And I did Jove you very de> How Uearlv, words want p..»> or to show; I thought your heart was touched as nearly; mu that woa fifty years ago. Then other lovers came around you; Your beauty grew from year to year, And many a splendid circle found you The centre of Its glittering sphere, I saw you then, first vows forsaking, On rank and wealth your hand bestow ; O, then I thought my heart was breaking; But that was forty years ago. And I lived on to wed another; No cause she gave mo to repine; • And when i beard you were a mother, I did not wish the children mine. My own young fioclc, in fair progression, Made up a pleasant Christmas row; Myjoy m them was post expression; But that was thirty years ago. You grew a matron,''plump and comely, You dwelt In fashion’s brightest blaze, • My earthly lot was far more homely, But I, too, had my festal days. No merrier eyes have ever glistened Around the hearthstone's wintry glow, That when ray youngest child was christened; But that was twenty years ago. Time.passed. My oldest girl was married, And now I am a grandsiro gray; One pet of four years old I carried * Among the wild-flowered meads to play, In our fields of ••hlldlsh pleasure, Where now as then the cowslips blowj She Alls her casket’s ample measure— : And this Is not ten years ago. But thouch first love’s Impossl >ned blindness Has passed away In colder night, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do 'till our last good night. The over-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will bo an hundred years ago. filifirafazoto. FACNTLEROT, THE FORGER. What I and going to tell you, gentle men, happened when I was a very young man, and when I was just setting up In business oh my own account. My father hud been well acquainted for many years with Mr. Fauutleri y, of the famous Loudon bunking Arm of Marsh, Stracey, Faiintleroy aud Graham. Think ing it might be of some future service to me to make my position known toa great man in the commercial world, mv father mentioned to'his highly respected friend that I was about to start in business for myself in a very small way. and with very' little money. Mr.' Fauntleroy re ceived the intimation with a kind ap pearance of interest, and said that he would have his eye on me. I expected Irom ibis that be would wait to see if I could keep on my legs at starting, and that if he found I succeeded pretty well, he would then help mo forward it it lay in his power. As events turned out, he proved to be a far better friend than that, and ho soon showed me that I had very much underrated the hearty and gener ous interest which he had feltln my wel fare from the flrst. While I was still fighting with the dif ficulties of setting up my office, and rec ommending mys"lf to connection, and so forth, I got a message from Mr. FaUn tleroy, telling me to, call on him, at the banklug house, the first time I was pass ing that way. As you may easily itnag iue, I contrived to.be .passing that way on a particularly early occasion, aud, on presenting myself at the bank, I was shown at once into Mr. Fauntleroy’s pri vate room. . ’ He was as pleasant a man to speak to as ever I met with—bright, and gay, aud companionable in his manner—with a sort of easy, hearty, jovial bluotnesa about him that attracted everybody. The clerks all liked him—and that is some thing to say of a partner in a banking house, X can tell you! •Wed, young Towbridge,’ says he, giv ing his papers on the table a brisk push away from him, ‘so you are going to set up in business for yourself, are you ? X have a great regard for your father, and a great wish to see you succeed, flave you started yet? No? Juston the (mint of beginniug, eh? Very good. You will have your difficulties, my friend, ami 1 mean to smooth one of them away from you at the outset. A word of advice lor your private ear—Bank with us. ‘You are very kind, sir,’ I answered, 'and 1 should ask nothing better than to profit by yoursuggestion, if I could- But my. expenses are heavy at starting, and when they are all paid I am afraid I shall have very little left to put by for dhe first year. I doubt If I shrll be able to muster mush more than three hundred pounds ofjsurphia cash lu the world after paying what I miist pay before I set up my office, and I Should be ashamed to trouble your house, sir, to open au ac count for such a trifle as that.’ BENTZ & 80. 'Stuff and nousens •I’ aaya Mr. Fauu- ‘Are you a banker? What busi leroy ness have you to offer an opinion on the matter? Do as I tell you—leave It to me —bunk with us—and draw lor what you like. Stop! I haven’t done yet. ?fWheu you open the amount, speak to the head cashier. Perhaps you will find that he has got something to tell you.* There! there! go away—don’t Interrupt me— good-bye—God bless you I’ That uas his way—ah! poor fellow, that was his way. I went to the head cashier the next morning when I opened my little modi cum of an account. He had received or ders to pay my drafts without reference to my balance. My checks, when I had overdrawn, were to be privately shown to Mr Fauntleroy. Do many young roeu who start In business find their prosper ous superiors ready to help them lu that way ? well, I got on—got on very fah]y nn.d steadily, being careful not to venture out of my depth, and u >t to forget that small beginnings may -lead In time to great ends. A prospect of oue*6f; those ends—great, 1 mean, to such a. ‘ small trader as I was at that period—showed | itself to me when I had been home' little time in business. In. plain terms, 1 had a chance of Joining in a first-raie transac- tion, which'would give me profit ami po sition, and* everything I wanted, pro vided I could quailfv myself for encaging in it by gelling good security beforehand for a large amount. In this emergency, I thought of my kind friend, Mr FaunlJeroy, and went to the bank,-and saw him once more in his private room. There he was at the sumo, table, with the same heap* of papers about him, and the same heariy easy way ,of speaking hla mind to you at once, in the fewest possi ble words. 1 explained the business I came upon with some little hesitation and nervousne-s, for I was afraid ho might think I was taking an unfair ad> vantage of bis former kindness to the.— foment LOVE AND AGE. BY WILKIE COLLINS. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 6, 1870 When I had done, he just nodded bis head, snatched up a blank sheetof paper, scribbled a few lines on it in bis rapid way, handed the writing to me, pnd pushed me out of the room by the two shoulders before I.could say word. I loooked at the paper in the outer office. It was my security froip that great banking house for the whole amount, and.for more, if more was want ed. I could not express my gratitude then, aud I don't know that I can describe it now. I can only say that it has outlived the crime, the disgrace, and the awful death on the scaffold. I am grieved to speak of that death at all; but I have no other alternative. The course! of my sto ry must now,l»*ad me straight on to the later time, and to the discovery which exposed my behefaotor aud my friend to all England as the forger Fauutleroy, 1 must ask you to suppose a lapse of some* time after the. occurrence of the events that I have just been relating.— During ibis interval, thanks to the kind assistance I bad received at the outset, my position as a main of. business had areutly improved. Imagine me now,.if you please, on tiie high road to prosper ity, with good large offices and a respec table staff of clerks, and .picture me to yourselves sitting alone in my private room, between four aud five o’clock on a certain Saturday afternoon. All my letters bad been written, all the people who had appointments with me had been received. I was .looking care lessly over the newspaper. v .&ud thinking about going borne, when one of my clerks cam** in, and said that a stranger, wished to see me immediately on very important business. ‘Did be mention his name?’ I in quired. •No, sir.' ‘Did you ask him for it?’ ‘Yes, sir. Aud he said you would be none the wiser if he told me what it was. . 1 . . ‘Does he look like a begging letter- 1 writer. •He spoke sharp- and decided, sir, and said It was in your interest that he came, 1 aud that you would deeply regret it af- 1 terward if you refused to see him.’. ‘Hesaid that, did he? 6bow him in at once, them’ , He was shown in Immediately; amid diiug-«ized mpn, with a sharp, uuwhol sorue looking face, and with a flippant, reckless manner, dressed In a style of shabby smartness, eyeing me with & bold look, and not so overburdened with po liteness as to trouble himself about taking off his hat when he came in. I had never seen him before in my life, and I could not form the slightest conjecture from his appearance toward guessing his position in the world. He was not a gentleman, evidently ; but as to fixing nls whereabouts .in the infinite down ward gradation of vagabond existence in Loiid>>n, that Was a mystery which I was totally incompetent to solve. ‘lsyoiirname Towbridge?’ he began. ‘Yes, I answered, dryly enough. ‘Do you bunk with Marsh, Stracey, Fauutleroy, and Graham?’ ‘Why do you ask V ‘Answer my question, and you will know.’ ‘Very well, I do bank with Marsh, Stracey, Fauutleroy and Graham—aud what then ,7’ ‘Draw out every farthing of balance before tbe bauk closes ut five to-day.’ I stired at him in speechless amaze ment. The words, for an instant, abso lutely petrified me. ‘Stare as much as.you like,’ be proceed ed coolly, ‘X mean what. I say. Look at your clock there. In twenty minutes it will strike five, and the bank will be shut. Draw out every farthing, I teli you again, and look sharp about it. v ‘ Draw out my money I’ 1 exclaimed, partially recovering myself. ‘Are you in your right senses? Do you kuow that the firm ! bank with represents one of the first banking houses in the world ? What do you mean—ry» u who ar&a total stranger to,me -by taking this extraordi nary ibterest in my affairs? If you want me to act on your advice, why don’t you explain youranlf?’ *i have explained myael/. Act on my advice or not, just as you like, I’ve done what I promised, and there’s an end of it.’ . He turned to the door, Tbe minute . baud of th clock was. getting-on from ■ the twenty minutes to the quarter, 'Done what you promised/ 1 repeated, getting up to stop him. ‘Yes/.he said, with his hand on the lock. ,*I have given my message. What ever happens, remember that. Good af ternoon. He was gone before I could speak again. I tried to call after.him, but my speech suddenly failed me. It was very foolish, it was very unaccountable, but there was something in the man’alast words which had more than hall frightened me. 1 looked at the.clock. The minute hand was on the quarter. " My office was just far enough from the bauk to make It necessary for me to de cide on the instant. If I had had time to think,! am perfectly certain that I should not have profited by the extraordinary warning that had just been addressed to me. Tbe suspicious appearance bik< man tra of tbe stranger; the outrageous I improbability or the inference against I the credit of tbe bank, toward which his j words pointed ; the chariot thatsome un derhand attempt being made, by some enemy of mine, to frighten me into embroiling myself with one of ray best friends, through sbowlnguu ignorautdia trust of the linn with which he was asso ciated us partner—all these considerations Would unquestionably have occurred to me if I could have had time for reflec tlou; and, as a necessary consequence, ootoue farthing of my balance’would have been taken from the keeping of the bank on that memorable day. I As it was, I had just time enough to act, und uot a spare moment for think- Ing. Some hekvj payments made atlhe beginning of the wesk had so far de creased my balance that the sum to my credit in the baufelng'book barely reached fifteen hundred pounds. X snatched up ray check book, wrote a draft for the whole amount, and ordered I oue of my clerks to ruu to the bank and gee it cashed before the doors closed.— . Wnat impulses urged,me oo except the bliud Impulse of hurry and bewilder ment 1 can’t say. I acted mechanically, under tbe influence of the vague inexpli cable fear which the man’s extraordinary parting words had arroused iu me, with out stopping to analyze my own sensa tions—almost .without knowing what I wasabmt. In three miuutes from'the time when the stranger had closed my door the clerk bad started to the bank, and I was alone again iu my room, with my hands as cold us ice amj my head all in a whirl. I did not recover my control over my self until the clerk came back with the notes iu his hand, tie had just got to the bank In the nick of time. As the cash for my draft was handed to him over the counter,-the clock struck five, and he heard the order glyen'lo close the doors. M » When I had counted the bank notes ana bad looked them up in 1 the safe, my better sense seemed to come back to me on a sudden. Never have I reproached myself before and since as 1 reproached myself at that moment. What sort of re turn had I made for Mr. Fauutleroy’s fa therly kindness to me? I had insulted him by the meanest, thegrossest distrust of the honor and the creditor bis house, and that on the word of an absolute stranger, of a vagabond, If ever there was one yet. 4t was madness—downright madness in any man to have acted as I had done. I could not account for my own Inconceivably thoughtless proceed ing. I could hardly believe in It myself. 1 opened the safe and looked at the bunk notes again. I looked It once more, atfd Hung the key down on the table in a fu ry ol vexation against iny*»elf. There the money was, upbraiding me with m 3 own Inconceivable folly,, telling me lu the plainest terms that I had risked deprlv- ing myself of my best ami kludest friend henceforth and forever. It was necessary to do something at once toward making all the atonement that lay In my power. I felt that, as. soon as I began to cool down a little, there was but one plain, straight-forward way now left out of the scrape in which I bad been mad enough to Involve my self. I took my hat, and, withoiit stop ping an instant to hesitate, hurried oil to the bunk to make a clean breast of it to Sir. Fam tleroy. When I knocked at the private door and asked for him, I was told that he bad nut been at the bank for the last two days. One of the other partners was there, however; and was working at that moment in bis own room. I sent in my name at once, and ashed to see him. He and I were little better than strangers to each other, and the interview was likely to be, on that ac count, unspeakab y embarrassing and humiliating on my side. Stilt, I could not grfcshome. 1 could not endure the inaction of the next day, the Sunday, without having done ray best on the spot to repair the error into which my own folly had led me. Uncomfortable as 1 felt at the prospect of the approaching interview', I should have been far more uneasy In my mind if the paitnerhad de clined to see me. To my relief the bank porter -returned with a message requestiug-me to walk in. What particular form my explanations and apologies look when I tried to offer them is more than I can tell now. I was so confused and distressed that 1 hardly knew what I was,talking about at the time. The one circumstance which I remember clearly Is ihat l was ashamed to refer to,my Interview with the atiange man, and that I tried to ac count for my sudden withdrawal of my balance by referring it to some inexpli cable panic, caused by mischievous re ports, which I was unable to trace to their source, and which, for anything I knew to the contrary i might, after all, have been only started in jest. Greatly to my surprise, the partner did not seem to notice the lamentable lameness of my excuses, and dfd not additionally confuse me by asking anj* questions. A weary, absent look, which I had observed on his face wheu I cume in, remained on it while I was speaking. It seemed to be an effort to him even to keep up the appearance of listening to me; and when, at last, I fairly broke down In the middle ol a sentence, and cave up the hope of getting any iurther all the answer he gave me was compris ed in these few civil commonplace words. ••Nevermind, Mr, Trowbridge ; pray don’t thin nof apologizing. We are all liable to make mistakes. ,Say nothii g more about it, and bring, the money back on Monday if you still honor us with your confluence. He looked down at his papers as if he. was anxious to.be alone again, and I bad no alternative, of course, but to take my leave immediately. I went home, feel ing a little.easier iu my mind now (hut I hud paved the way for making the best practical atonement iu my power by bringing my balance back the flrst thing on Monday morning. Still £ passed a weary day on Sunday, reflecting sadly enough that I bud not yet made my peace with Mr. Fauntleroy. My anxiety to set myself right with my cenerous friend was so intense that I risked in truding myself on his privacy by calling at his town residence on Sunday. He was not there, and his servant could tell me nothing of his whereabouts. There *as no help for it now, but to wait till bis week-day duties brought him back to the bank. 1 weut to business on. Monday morn ing half'an hour earlier than usua , so great was my impatience to restore the amount of that unlucky draft to my ac count as soon as possible after the bank opened. On entering my office, I stopped with a startled feeling just inside the door.— Something serious had happened. The clerks, instead of being at their desks as usual, were all huddled together in a group, lalkiug to each other with blank faces. Wheu they saw me, they fell buck behind my managing man, who stepped forward with a circular in his hand. '•Have you heard, the newa, air?' he aaid. •No. What is it? 1 ? He handed me the circular. My‘heart gave one violent throb the instant I looked at it. I felt myself turn pale; I felt my knees trembling under me. Marsh, Stracey, Fauntleroy and Gra ham had stopped payment. ‘Thecircuiar has not been issued more than half an„hour,’ continued my mana ging clerk. ‘I have just come from the bank, sir. The doors are shut; there is no doubt about it. . Marsh & Company have stopped this morning., I hardly heard him ; I hardly knew who was talking to me. My strange visitor of the Saturday had,taken instant possession of all my though's, and his words ol warning seemed to be sounding once mure in my ears. This man bad known the true condition of the bank When not another soul outside the doors was aware of HI The last draft paid across the counter of that ruined house, when the doors closed on Saturday, was the draft that I hud so bitterly reproach ed myself for drawing; the one balance saved from the wreck was my balance. Where bad the stranger got the informa tion that had saved me ? aad why had he brought it to my ears? | I was still groping, like a man in the dark, for an answer to these two ques tions—! was still bewildered by the un fathomable mystery of doubt into which they had plunged me—when the discov ery of the stopping ol the bank was fol lowed almost immediately by a second shock, far more dreadful,, far heavier to bear, so far as I was concerned, than the first. While I and my clerks were discussing the failure of the firm, two mercantile men, who were friends of mine, run into the olfiee, and overwhelmed us with the news that one of the partners had been arrested for forgery. Never-sball I forget the terrible Monday morning when those tidings reached me. and when I knew that the partner was Mr. Fauntleroy. ! was true to him—l can honestly say I was true to my belief in my generous friend—when that fearful news reached me. My fellow merchants had gv<t all the particulars of the arrest. They told me that two of Mr. Fauntleroy’s fello v trustees had come up to Lodon to make arrangements about selling out some stock. On inquiring for Mr. FaunUeroy at the banking house, they had been in formed that be was not there; and, after leaving a message for him, they hud gone into the city to make an*appointe meat with their stock broker foru future day. when their fellow trustees might be able to attend. The stock broker volun teered to make certain business inquiries od the spot, with a view to saving os much time as possible, and left them at his office to await bis;return.,. - He cum back, looking- very much amazed, with the information that the stock had been sold out down to tbe last five hundred pounds. The affair was instantly inves tigated; the document authorizing the selling out was produced ; and the two trustees saw on it, aide by side with Mr. Fauutleroy’a signature, the forged sig nature of their own names. This hap pened on Friday, apd the trustees, with out losing a moment, sent the officers of ju.slicelii puisuitof Mr. Fauntleroy. He was arrested, brought up before the mag istrate, and remanded on the Saturday. Ou the Monday 1 heard from my friends the particulars which I have Just nar rated. Hut the events of that one morning were not destined to end even yel. 1 hud discovered the failure of the bank and the arrest of Mr. Fauntleroy. I was next to be enlightened in the strangest and the saddest manner, on the difficult question of■ his innocence or guilt. Before my friends had left my oifice before 1 had exhausted the arguments which my gra titude rather than my reason suggested to me in favor of the prisoner, a note marked “Immediate" was placed 7n toy hands, .which silenced me the instant X looked at it It. was written from the prison by Mr. Fauntleroy, and it contain ed two lines only, entreating,me to apply •lor the necessary order, anul to go and see him immediately. * I shall not attempt to describe thefiut ter of expectation, tbestrange mixture of dread and hope that agitated me when I * recognized bis handwriting, and discov ered what it was that he. desired me to do. I easily obtained the order, and went to the prison. The authorities, knowing thtfPdreadful situation in which he stood, were afraid of his attempting to destroy himself* and had set two men to watch him. One came out as they opened bis cell door. The other, who wad ta bouud not to leave him, very delicately and considerately adected to be looking out of the window the mo ment I was shown In. He was sitting on the side of his oed, with his hdad drooping and his hands hanging listies.-Iy over bis knees when 1 first caught sight of him. At the.sound of ray approach he started t<» his feet, and, without speaking a word, flung both his arms round m'y neck. My heart swelled up. ‘Tell me it's not true, sir! For God's sake, tell me it’s not true,' was aill could say to him;.! He never answered—oh me !he never answered, and he turned away his face There was one dreadful moment of si lence.' He still held his arms round my neck, and on a sudden he put his lips close to my ear. ‘Did you get your money out ?* he whis pered. “Were you in time on Saturday afternoon?' I broke free from him in the astonish ment of hearing those words. ‘What!’ I cried out aloud, forgetting the third person at the window. ‘That man who brought the message -* ‘Hush 1’ he said, putting his hand upon my lips, 'There was no better man to be found} after the officers had taken me— I know no more about him than you do —I paid him well, as a chance messen ger, and risked his cheating me of the er rand.’ I ‘You sent him, then.” I *1 sent him.’ My story is over, gentlemen. There is no need for me to tell you that Mr. Faun tleroy was found g iilty, and that he died by the hangman’s hand. It was in iuy I power.to soothe his last moments in this world by taking on myself the arrange ments of some of his private affairs, which, while they remained unsettled, weighed heavily on his mind. They had noconnection,with the crime be had com mitted, so I could do him the last little I service he was ever to acceptat ray hands with a good heart and a ole *r conscience. I say nothing in defence of his oharac- j ter—nothing in palliation of the offence I for which he suffered. But I cannot for get that in the time of hia most fearful extremity, when the strong arm of the law had already seized him, he thought I of the young man whose humble fortunes I he hod helped to build; whose heartfelt I gratitude ho had fairly won; whose' slm I pie faith he was resolved uever to betray. I I leave it to greater intellects than mine I to reconcile the anomaly of his reckless falsehood toward others and hia steadfast I truth toward me.! It is as certain as that I we sit here that one of Fauutleroy’s last eflorts in this world was the eftbrt he I made to preserve me from being a loser by the’trust that I had placed in him. I There is the secret of my strange lender- [ ness for the memory of a felbn ; that Is why the word villain do«s som» how still I grate on my heart when I hear it associ ated with his name. .. -I THE GASIEST£R!S PALACE. CROSSING THE GILDED THRESHOLD OF A NEW YORK HELL. Some years ago a gentleman of wealth, residing in Albany, became involved In domestic difficulties which culminated in a separation. Broken-hearted, wretch ed, and reckless, Gen. Ransom came to Kew York, purchased au elegant brown stone mansion adjoining an Episcopal church iu one of the fashionable streets up town, and opened a first clues gamb ling establishment. The elegance and liberality of the house led many to predict that its grandeur could be but temporary —that ho faro bank could sustain such a palace. Ail predictions proved false, and to-day Geu. Ramson's gambling house, not one thousand miles from Chamber lain's establishment in 25th street, iu one of the most sumptuous and most exten sively patronized of any in the United States. the: bewildered display The house is 50x151), four stories high, brown stone front, high stoop, and fur nished throughout luxuriously. At the ringing of the bell the immense plate glass doors are epeued, and a young color ed boy appears and ushers you into the drawing-room. A stranger is sf once struck with the magnificence of the apartment. The main parlor is a long room, artistically frescoed and elaborate ly furnished, and carpeted with a velvet medallion* Between the front windows is a long French mirror stretching from ceiling to floor, and on its sides hang heavy blue satin curtains over white lace. Mirrors are hung over the two raantlepieces. which are : of solid black walnut hung with blue and gold, and a mirror is inlaid in the back of every door ip the entire bouse. ‘ _ THE BANQUET* In tbe centre of the room is a long black walnut table, where every night ntr eleven o’clock supper Is served—sup pers that cannot bought—suppers that would delight the palate of Epicu rus. The steward of the establishment does not hesitate to. bnaat that no other man in (he United Suites can serve the suppers he does, and certainly he should be permitted to indulge in a little ego tism- Everybody is welcome, is pressed to,sit down and eat a<* much as he will, free of all expense, whether inclined to gamble or not. Ti en* is no obligation the courteous and handsome proprietor seeming pleased that you enjoy the re past. Two colored servants noiselessly move about with stive** trays, and it is a rule of the house that they never accept a fee, the wages they receive being sum clent compensation for their services.— Two great sideboards, loaded with fruits and wiue, stand in the room close to the wall. Any oue is free to call for liquors and cigars, and to offer money in pay ment is an insult. THE GLITTER OF THE BANQUET HALL. The walls of this banquet hail are fres coed in blue and gold ; ail the furniture corresponds ; the chandeliers are of gold, mounting a dozen globes each, flooding the room with gaslight; and toe oil paintings on the wall are valuable. In the parlor there is ho evidence of gamb ling—no tables, fixtures, nor apparatus of any description.. The men sit around in etiny chairs, road; smoke, and talk.— No singing, whistling, or disorderly con duct In n'fimvud, and at all times (ho pro roundest quiet prevails. Adjoining tbe parlor is the FAKO BANK. You enter beneath a beautifully fres coed arch Into a large circular room, with an umbrella surmounted by a cupola- . The walls and ceiling are painted In dark green and gold, the car pet Is of gre£n velvet with gold figures, the furniture Is of black walnut and green reps, and a gorgeous chandelier is suspended with gold chains from above. A cosy soft coal fire throws a glare of scarlet light,upon the rich carpet, and the mantel is ornamented by a largo mirror and handsome bronze clock. At the head of the room is a long (able, around which are always seated a num ber of men engaged in the game of faro. THE DEALER.. A fine-looking man, known South as ' VOL. 561-NO. 30 I “Major,” sits bell Iml the “green cloth” frequently from eight In. the evening un til live the next, morning. The cards are all of the b st material, and in the faro dealing they are enclosed In a case of solid silver, pushed gently out one by one bv the dealer. On the other side of the room stands the roulette table; ele gantly mounted In silver. Opposite la the whist, poker, and euchre table, around which throngs continually gath er to play or to watch the progress of the various games. The "chips, ’’ “counters," &c., are all the best that money can buy, and new packs of cards are called into requisition nightly. ■ THE PLAYING is, in gamblers’ terms, “on the square," the proprietor priding himself upon bis honorable and conscientious dealings at all times. Large sums of money change hands every night. amkSSOO,OOO Is the reputed "strength ' of the bank. The habitues of the elegant establishment are men of all classes. Bankers, merchants, lawyers, artists, generals, and young men about town are frequents of this palace of the gamesters Even the rever end clergy have been known to gamble here, and a once prominent General of the Union army is a constant visitor and determined gambler-- Many of the sty lishly dressed men who congregate In front of the Hoffman House during the afternoon, of-at Ford’s famous bar, udder the St. James, are the "friends" of the bouse. ;c DURING THE DAY Ills very quiet In and outside the dace. The shades are all pulled down, no one goes in or out, and one at first regards the place as the private residence of some retired merchant. Gen. Ransom is very popular, dresses in good taste, wears no diamonds or jewelry, and is on good terms with his brother professionals and associates. —New York thin. FORTUNATE CONGRESSMEN. Surprising Instances of Financial Pros perity—Tbreo-story Bricks and Stenc , Fronts. ’Tis true, >tls pity, and pity 'tis 'tis -rue,” that we have sunk to that low (io gree in our political ayatein that the ques tlon of three atory bricks and stoue fronta must enter largely into the discussion of i the merits of public men. It baa recent ly come up in this city as affecting the probity aud integrity of Iwo of Ohio’s distinguished and loyal sons, who repre sent Badlcal. constltueuciea in the House of Bepreaentaiives. I had heard In Ohio of General Hchenok’s $32,000 establish ment, but not till I arrived here, did I learn that his distinguished colleague, General Garfield, was also rearing a top loftlcal pile of brick and stoue on one of the fashloeable avenues of the Federal city. Nor should I allude lb a subject which relates so exclusively to the pri vate business of the sons” afore said, had I not lying within close eye range at the present writing a very In teresting and instructive volumn con taining a full report of the impeachment of a party by. the name of Johnson. An •example set by the patriots and states men who pushed that trial forward with so much zeal and so little discretion must be worthy of ail Imitation: In that vol ume will be found every conceivable ap plication of aqua fortis to develope the alloy in A. J.’s moral character; aud among theolherhigh-minded expedients will be seen examinations of dry goods bills and bank accounts. V“ry well. If it was right to investigate the shopping accounts of the President's daughter In hope of finding a peg to hang an im peachment article upon, why may we not make public matter of a three-story brick with a brown stone front, whereof Messrs. Schenok and Garfield stand con leased ? I do not assert that these gentle men are exceptions to the general rule of Congressional economy, by which men are enabled to spend $lO,OOO a year out of a salary of $5,000, and establish a sinking fund of half a million to retire on at the close oft to or four years’ service. The wonder is rather that they haven’t gone into architectural investments before, now; than that they should beembarking in them at present. There are many in the Third District whose ears are accus tomed to Schenok’s plea of poverty, in fact his poverty, and not his will, has consented to his remaining in the public service any time these six years. Yet he nas found means to make the lour of Eu- rope recently, umLuow his utter indi gence blosoms ln'fe32,ooo worth of tow ering brick. All, as he says; the proceeds of wild lands. Well, there is no telling what sort of euphemism will be Invented next, or how soon we shall have to adapt' ourselves to a new edition of Webster. I have heard of many incomprehensible designations; but this thing of calling the whiskey ring "wild land,” rather beats me. Then there is that amiable and loy al person who represents benighted Ash tabula, and the home of sturdy old Ben. It Is yet a question whether his home or Sohenck’s will bo the grander in its ma jestic proportions. And yet, a few years ago, General Oarileld wielded the ferrule in a country college, and administered broken doses of mental philosophy to the plastic minds of rural youth. . This, as we all know, is not a lucrative employ ment. Few men accumulate fortunes at it. It is cultivated, for the moat part, on their diet of this world, and the hope of bright reward in that which is to come. But whence the house ? A vile copper head question doubtless, but I again en ter the plea of the loyal example set forth in the impeachment trial, wherein it was sought to blacken the character of the President by some mysterious lissoci- atiou'supposed to exist between the pricq of a peticeut aud the patronage of the Executive. If the ela any large amount ot indignation at such remarks as are contained in this paragraph, let it be re membered that they come fiom a disre- gard, on the part of the Itadicals, of the sound advice given by Shakspeare, to “heatuota furnace fur jour foe so hot that it do singe yourself. ’’— Washington Correspondence Cincinnati Enqnircr. A Touching: Case of liiiautly. A reporter of the Washington Star has recently visited the government asylum for the insane, and among other incidents of his visit, gives the follow ing: A lady of rather graceful figure was hitting the billiard bulls with considera ble brilliancy. We thought she might he an attendant, but she proved to be a “patient.” The only sign of insanity was a fluttering restlessness whic(i kept her constantly in motion. She showed cultivation and intelligence ,and seemed to feel it her duty to extend to us the courtesies of the ward. She took us to see her birds, her plants and an im mense number of pretty knicknacks she hud worked will! needle and sciss ors, anion st them a drawer full of beau tiful, cornucopias she had prepared for the Christmas festivities. Her history is rather romatic and touching. In her youth she was a Philadelphia beauty. A derangement of mind followed upon some Illness and she was sent to an insane asylum, was cured to ail appearances, at least in the opinion of a young physician who attended at the hospital, who fell in love with her, and married her. But soon after marriage the taint of insanity again showed it self. Again and again she Went to the hospital, and again and again returned home apparently cured. Bhe was aware when the attacks were coming on, and with the same heroism and devotion shown so touchingly by Mary Lamb, the sister of Charles Lamb, was accus tomed to take fearful leave of those dear to her, and voluntarily; make her way to the asylum. In this way she is at the government asylum, and stays there cheerfully and contentedly us the best place of the kind she has been in. Hates for ZfoertistnQ. • ADVKBTisnnccrrs will bo inserted at Tea coni per line for the drat insertion,. and five cents per lino for each subsequent Insertion. Quart erly half-yearly, and yearly advortlsomoula In serted at a liberal reduction on the above rates Advertisements should be accompanied by the Gash. When sent without -any length of time specified for publication, they will be oontlnne until ordered out and onazgod accordingly. JOB PRINTING. CJARds, Haitdbilu), and every oth er description of Job aud Card Printing. ON TUB RACCOON. BY JOS* BILLZNOa. «Tho Raccoon iz a resident ov the Uni ted States ov America; he emigrated tew lids country soon after its dlskovery by Columbus, aud nothing but bis claws tew get a living with. He-is one ov them kind ov persons whoze hide iz worth more than all the rest of nlm. He resides among the heavy timber, and cultivates the corn tleidaand untiring garden boss for sustenance, and under* stands bis bizziness. His family consists ov a wife and three children, who live with him ou the inside ov a tree. He can always bo found at home dur ing the day, reddy tew receive calls, but biz nights are devoted tew looking after his own affairs. He dresses In soft fur, and biz t-dl which iz round, haz rings on it. These rings are ov the same material that the tail iz, aud are worn on ahncea slons. During thp winter be ties himsell up into a hard knot and lays down by bis fireside. When spring opens, he opens, and goes out tew see bow the chickens have wintered. - ' His life is az free from labor az a new penny, and if it wasn't for the dogs ami the rest ov mankihd, Ibe raccoon would And whgt everybc’K vise haz lost a heaven upon earth: But the dogs tree him and the men skin him, aud what there is left ov him ain’t worth a cent. He is not a natural vagabond like the hedgehog and the alligator, but iuvs to he civilized and lly among folks ; but he has one vice that the smartest m ! sionarv on earlli can’t redeem, and tl. ,t iz the art ov stealing. Heis seokond only to the ci..w In pe tit larceny, and will steal what he kant eat nor bide. He will tip over a barrel ov apple sass just for the fun ov mauling the sass with his feet, and will pull out the plug ov the molasis, not because be iuvs sugar enny better then he does young duck, but jist tew see if the molassis haz got a good daub. I bevstuddied animal deviltry for 18 years, bekause the more deviltry in ani mal, the more human he iz. I can't find by searching the passenger list that Noah bad a coon on board, out I am willing to bet 10 pound of mulion sassage that mister coon ana biz wife commuted by stealing a ride. I never kbu a raccoon tew want enhy tbing long that, he could steal quick. Euueybody, who haz ever looked u coon right square in the face, will bet yu a dollar that be is a dead beat, or under five hundred dollar bonds, not tew go in ’to bizness for the next ninety days. I bev bad tame coons by the dozen, they me az eazy to tame ns a child, If yu take them young enufi*, but I kan i ad vise ennybody to cultivate coous, they wautaz much look-after az a blii.d mule on a tow path, and there ain’t enny more profit in them than thar iz in a stock di vidend on the Erie Bail road. I never was out ov a pet animal since I kau remember till now, but I hev gon out ov the trade forever ; lately I discov ered that it was a good deal like making % wbissei out of a kata tale, ruining a comfortable tale .and reaping a mean whistle, Eaoc'oons liv tew be 05 years old, if they miss the society of men and dogs enuff, but thare, ain’t but few ov them dleov old age; the northwestern fur com pany are the great undertakers of the coon family. A Desperate Ally ay. - A desperate character named Cooper, who had been whipped by a party of regulators in Pulaski county, kentueky, caused the arrest of some of his neigh bors, whom he accused of administer ing his chastisement. Last Saturday morning was fixed for his trial, aud Cooper and his friends entered Somer set the county seat, armed to the - teeth. Here the accused parties 'numbering twenty, and Cooper and his confeder ates equally strong, entered into - a quarrel, which culminated in a regular . pitched battle. One hundred and fifty, shots were fired, resulting in tbekijling of three men- named Todd, Daulton and William Pleasants, and mortally wounding one James Pleasants. The-, light was abated by mutual consent, both parties being out of ammunition, A short time after, each party having recruits, its forces wereabouttore-enter the town, but armed citizens warned them off. A Little Girl Buried Alive.— The Discovery Made too Date.— About four weeks ago a little German girl in Brooklyn took sick with the lock-jaw, and rumor says that in a few days she was thought dead and was buried. On he evening of her burial, the mother, f>r some reason, was-led to the grave, and with her ear pressed to the ground, thought she heard a noise and believing her child to,bo moving in its coffin. She withheld from asking assistance for fear of being ridiculed, and imme diately procured a spade and began to dig up the earth. Soon she came to the cofflin, and hurriedly taking it from the earth opened it, and there found the body ot her child, nine hours after its burial, as warm as if it were living, and lying on its side. She took the child to her house, where a physician was immediately called in and every re storative applied to bring the child to life. It was too late. The soul had taken its flight, and in a few hours more the body was cold and icy. It was soon buried again, and has not since been disturbed. This report is common talk among the citizens of the West Side, the story as above related is well known to a great many reliable persons residing on Detroit street and in Brook lyn.—Cleveland (O#) Leader, Bgy-John J. Eckel, who was a boarder with Mrs. Cunningham-Burdell when the celebrated murder, was committed at No. 31 Bond street, New York, died at Albany recently, and it is re ported that Mrs. Cunningham and her daughter were present at the deathbed of their former boarder. Just before dying Eckel made a confession or state ment, in which he denied any con nection with the Curdell murder, and that he did not know who committed it. On the night of the murder he said he entered the house about 11 o’clock. Mrs. Cunningham met him in the lower hall, and appeared confused and excited. She proceeded him up stairs, and closed the door of: the room occu pied by Dr. Burdeil.: She then accom panied him to the door of his own room, locked f the door, and’ retired to bed. Ho-said he was entireiyignorant of the murdSFiintil after the discovery of the body. Eckel was an attendant of the Breabpterian .Church, but the ministers of that denomination declined to per form the rites of too Church either be fore or after his death. 11Et1 ,— A darkey returning from church was asked to give an account of the ser mon. • Well sail, de sermon was upon de miracle ub de loaves •and fishes. De minister said bow der was seven thou- . Baud loaves and five thousand fishes do. vlded 'tweet' de twelve 'pestles." Well what miracle was there about tbut?' 'Why, stih, de miracle was datdey diun't bust.' B6T‘Waiter,’ said a fastidious gem tleiuuu, exhibiting a singular-looking object on tire soup-ladle, ‘waiter, do you know what tiiat is, sir? ‘That, sir, looks like a mouse, sir. We often find'them In soup, sir. No extra charge, sir? 1 «
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