Volunteer. ( js hj3d EVERY THURSDAY MORNINU BY j BItiWTTON 3c KENNKDY j otf iCE««OBTHMABHM WVAMV. «s— TWO Dollars per year If paid strictly ‘advance: Two Dollar* and Fifty Cents If paid thin three months; after which Three Dollars 11 be charged. These terms will ha rigidly ad; 1 ~1 to In every Instance. No sob orlptlon die atlnnod until all arrearages are paid, unless at leoatlon of the Editor. ffrorcggmnargEatgg. q - tn xted states cLaim I' • AND - FAL ESI ATE A'OENCT.. WM. B. BUTIiEB , ■ ATTORNEY AT LAW. in Franklin House, Sooth Hanoverßtrefc. rTijaja Cumberland county, Penna. by mall, will receive Immediate a Particular atten Mou given to the selling or rent- We otHeal Estate, townbr country, in all let- Sr« of Inquiry, please enclose postage stamp. 3july lh 1870—tf • . » 1 ■ ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, CARLISLE. PA, Office on South Hanover Street, opposite IfiiU’B dry goods store. Dec. 1.18U5. pj-UMBiIOH & PARKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. [Office on Main'Street, tn Marlon Hall, Car Isle, Pa. ■* ' Dec. 2 1808— . . fE O. S.-E MIG. attorney- at-la\v, Office with S. Hepburn, Jr. East Main. Street, CARLISLE, PA, ‘;Vi?’eb.2, 71-ly .. ' :4tt KENNEDY, Attorney at Daw -vCarliale; Penna. Office name as thatol tic 11 American. Volunteer.” l. 1870. Kb. GEORGE S. BEAEIGHT, Den- V) tist, « From the Baltimore College of Dental turnery. Office at .the residence of bis mother KWt Lonther Street, three doors below Bedford Jarlisle, Pcnnu. I Dec. 1 1805.... JDats ana ■h R KS H ARRIVAL | OP 1 tr ATS AND caps Tl’lio subscriber das jUBt opened at No. 16 North .'Banover Street, a few doors North of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, one of the largest and best Stocks iHATS and over offered In Carlisle, 3llk Hats,' Cosslmere of all styles and qualities, llTßrlins, different colors, and. every deaorlp m of Soft fiats now made. The Punlcanl and Old Fashioned Brush, con intlyor. hand and made to order, allwarrant to give Satisfaction. A full assortment of VI GENTS, -:J BOY’S, AND . CHILDREN'S, 4- ‘ ' HATS. ’-iuave also added to my Stock, notions of differ', •Al kinds, consisting of ■AaDISS’ AND GENTLEMEN’S STOCKINGS SezK ne*. ■ Sxispenaers, j Collar. 1 !, Gloves , ■i Pencils, • 2 hread, Sewing Silk, ■ . Vpibrellas, dec jPRIME segaes and tobacco OF ALL THE EW STYLE* ALWAYS ON HAND. S 'Jive me a call, and examine my stock os I feel ionfldent of pleasing all, besides saving yon mo- JOHN A. KELLER/ Agent, No. 16 North Hanover Street, Out. 1870. ATS AND CAPS I i: j nil YOU WANT A NICE HAT OK CAP ? i IF SO. DON’T FAII/ TO CAL*. ON ! J.G.CALMO, : I NO. 29. WKSI MAIN STREET, s, JiVherp can be seen tbo finest assortment 0/ ■ i HATS AND CAPS - Wr brought to Carlisle. He lakes great pleas 'here in Inviting hia old friends and.customers, v kndallnew ones, to his splendid srook Just re - - cllvetl from New York and Philadelphia, con sisting In part of fine . _ • f SILK AND OAB9IMERE HATS, besides an endless variety of Hats and Caps of \ihe latest style, oil ol which he will sell at the real Cash JPrice*. Also, hia own manufacture flats always on hand, and HATS iIA N UFAOTUBED TO ORDER. : ae hufttite best nrraneement tor.colartna.Hfl.ta i-iadall klnua of wdolen Goods, Overcoats, io., at -ilhe shortest notice (as he colors every week) and on the most reasonable terras. Also, a fine lot of .dholce brands of • - , • • \r TOBACCO AND CIGARS .always on hand. He desires to call theottontlon to persons who have „* -:’,t COUNTRY FURS io soli, aa he pays the highest cash prices for he , -Isatae. , ■ ‘t, Give him a call, at the above number, his »ld .’tftand, as he feels confident of giving entire satis faction. *| Oct, lb7o. Sltunfitrs. #c. I $ $ f $ .9 $ , § '.9 James caiu-belu \ w. f. henwood. \cAMDBELL~& HENWOOD, I PLUMBERS, GAS AND STEAM FITTERS, No, 18 North Hanover St,, O A R L I B L B;;F A. bathtubs, ■ WATER CLOSETS* WASH BASINS. HYDRANTS, DIPT ANDFORCE PUMPS, CISTERN AND DEEP WELL PUMPS. GAS FIXTURES, GAS SHADES AND GLOBES Ac., AC. lead, Iron and Terra Cotta Pipe, CHIMNEY TOPS and FLUES, .q\ All kinds ol BRASS WORK 'ior Steam and Water constantly on band. k WORK IN TOWN OR COUNTRY 'promptly attended to. attention given to orders for material or work irpma distance.-®* Having special advantages we-are prepared to isn - ( k ■ M hkk & ■ k Is h Sep. 1. TO~IV jaOTIONS WHOLESALE AT CITY PRICES, constantly on hand such at*. OLOVKS. SUSPENDERS; NECKTIES and ROW'S. SHIRT FRONTS, Cambric and Linen Handker chiefs, L2nen and Paper Collars and Cuffs, Trimmings Braids. - Spool Cotton.. WalletU Combs, Stationary, wrapping Paper and Paper Bags, Drugs, Soaps and Perfumery, Shoo Black, Stove Polish, Indigo, Segars, «Src« Ac. COTCLE BROTHERS, No, 24 South Hanover street. March 30,1871—-fim. ‘ Carlisle, Fa, J L. STERNER & BRO., LIVERY AND SALfi NS ABLE, BETWEEN HANOVER AND BEDFORD STH IN THE REAR, OF BENTZ HOUSE, CARLISLE, PA. Having fitted up Itu! stable with now Carrl-' ages, <tc., I am prepared to fiirnlsn flint-class turn-outs, at reasonable roles. Parties taken to and ftom the springs .April 25. 1807.~2t . Dividend, Carlisle Deposit Carlisle. Fa.. May 2,1871. The Board of Directors hove this day declared a Dividend of five per cent, for the past six months, on the Capital Stock, fteo from State and National Taxes, payable on demand. J. P.HASSLER. May 4,1871 —3m Cashier, MOTICE.—AU persons Indebted to the undersigned, arc hereby notified to c<Ul and settle the same before October. 1, 1871, or the same wlll'bo given Into the bands of a collector for collection, ISAAC LIVINGSTON. Aug. B,lB7l—tf EOR BAX'S -OB RUNT.—A good two»elory Brick House, No. 68 East North WE^ZEL P <S ,y i ¥ ? ENRY ® NYI Eft, ‘ or aFi & April 177-1871— Xt-Ml" flu Hmmran Diiluutfev BY BRATTON & KENNEDY; Jtteilcal. QNE OE DIVES SAVED It Is. one'of the remarkable facta of this re* markable age, not merely that so many nersons are the victims of dyspepsia or indigestion, but Ita willing victims. Now. we would not be an* jlerstood to say that any one regards dyspepsia with favor, or feels disposed to rank It among the luxuries of life. Far Irom It. Those who faavQ,experlenced its torments would scout each an Idea. All dread It. and would gladly dispense with Us unpleasant familiarities; Mark Tapley • who was Jolly Under all the trying circumstan ces in which ho was placed, never had an attack of dyspepsia, or his Jollity would'hove speedily -forsakflQL. him. Men- 1 and women sometimes suffer iUrtorturos uncomplainingly, bar whoev- -1 cr honfd of a person who enjoyed them ? Of all the multifarious diseases to which tile human system Is liable, there Is perhaps no one so generally prevalent as dyspepsia. There are diseases more acute and palnutl, and which more frequently prove fatal, but none, the ef-. foots of which are so depressing to themlnd and' so positively distressing to the body. If there is a wretched being In the world it is A CONFIRMED DYSPEPTIC. But it is notour intention to dlsoantontbe hor rors of Dyspepsia. To describe them truthfully' Is simply an Impossibility, but it is possibly to point out a remedy. We nave said that dyspep sia Is perhaps the most universal of human dis eases. This is emphatically the case In the United States. Whether this general preva lence is duo to the character oz the food, the inetbod of Us preparation, or the hasty manner in which it is usually swallowed. Is not our pro vince to explain. Tne great fact with which wo ore called to deal Is this: DYSPEPSIA PREVAILS almost universally. Nearly every other person you meet is a vic tim, an apparently willing one, for were this not the case, why so many ruuorers, when a certain, speedy and safe remedy Is within -the easy reach of all who desire to avail themselves of It? Bat the majority will not. Blinded by preju dice, or deterred by some other unexplained in fluence, they refuse to accept the relief profor ed them. They turn a deaf car to the testimony of the thousands whose sufferings have been al leviated, and with strange infatuation, appear to cling with desperate determination to their ruthless tormentor. But says a dyspeptic: What Is this remedy? to which wo reply: This great alleviator of human suffering Is almost as widely known as the Etigllsh language. It has allayed the agonies of thousands, and Is to-day carrying comfort and encouragement to thou sands of others. This acknowledged panacoals none other than Dn. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS. Would you know more ol the'merits of this wonderful medicine than can bo learned from the experience of others? Try lifeyonrself, and when It has failed to fulfil the assurance of Its efficacy given by the proprietor, then abandon faith In It, LET IT BE REMEMBERED, first of all, that Hoofland’s Gorman' Bitters is not a rum beverage. They are not alcoholic In any sense of the term. -They are composed wholly of the pare Juice or vital principle of roots, This is not a more assertion. The extracts from which they are compounded are prepared by one of the ablest-German chemists.- Unlike any other' Bitters In the market, they are wholly free from spirituous Ingredients. The objections which hold with so much force aimlnst preparations of this class, namely—that a desire for intoxicating drinks is stimulated by their use, are not valla In the cose of the German Bitters. So far from encouraging or Inculatmg.a taste or desire for inebriating beverages, It may bo confidently as* sorted that their tendency is In a diametrically opposite direction. Their efforts can be . BENEFICIAL ONLY in all-coses oftbe biliary system. Hoofiand’i. German Bitters stand without an equal, acting promptly and vigorously upon the Liver, they remove its torpidity and cause healthful secre tion of. hlle-rthereby supplying the stomach with the most Indispensable elements of sound digestion In proper proportions. They give tone to the stomach— stimulating Its functions, and enabling It to perform He duties as nature de signed It should do. They Impart vigor and strength to the entire system, causing the pa tient to feel like another being—in fact, giving him a new lease of life. THEY PURIFY.THE BLOOD, cleansing the vital fluid of all hurtful impuri ties and supplying them with the elements of genuine healthluiness. In n word, there is. scarcely a disease In which they cannot he safety and beneficially employed; but In that most generally prevalentdlstressingand dread ed disease. Dyspepsia, .THEY STAND UNRIVALED. Now, there are certain classes of persons to when? extreme liters are not oniy unpalata ble, hut.who find'lt Impossible to take them Without positive discomfort. For such dr. hoofland’s German tonic has been specially prepared. It is Intended for use where a slight alchohol stimulant Is requir ed in connection, with the well-known Tonic .cvopoHlo,; of iho pnrv Utiduau Slktw.oi Tills Tonic contains all the Ingredients of the Bittert, but so flavored as to remove the extreme bitter ness. This preparation Is not only palatable, but combines, in modified form, all the virtues of the' German Bitters. The solid extracts of some of Nature’s choicest restoratives are held In solution by a spirituous agent of the purest quality. In cases of languor or excessive, debil ity, where the system appears to have become exhausted of its eneneles. HOOFLAND’S TONIO acts with almost marvelous effect. It not only stimulates the flagging and wasting energies, but invigorates ana perraanetly atrengtbens Its action upon the Liver and Stomach thorough* perhaps less prompt than the Bitters, when the same quantity Is taken la none the less certain. Indigestion, BlUlousnoss, Physical or Nervous Prostrotlon, yield readily to its potent Influence. It gives the invalid a new and stronger hold upon life, removes depression of spirits, and In spires cheerfuldess. It supplants the pain of disease with the ease and comfort of. perfect health. It gives strength to weakness, throws despondency to the winds, and starts the re stored Invalid upon a new and gladsome career. But Dr. Hooflaud’s benefactions to the human ■race are not confined to bis celebrated - . GERMAN BITTERS, or his invaluable Tonic. He bos prepared an other medicine, wolch Is rapidly winning Its way to. popular favor because of Its intrinsic merits. This Js HOOFLAND’S PODOPHYLLIN PILLS, a perfect substitute for mercury, without any of mercury’s evil qualities. . These wonderful Pills, which are intended to act upon the Liver, are mainly composed, of Podpphyllin, or the VITAL PRINCIPLE OP THE MANDRAKE ROOT. Now wo desire the reader to distinctly under stand that this extract of the Mandrake Is many times more powerful than the Mandrake Itself. It Is the medicinal virtues of this health-giving plant In a perfectly pure and hlgblv concentra ted form. Hence ft Istbattwo or the Podophyl lln Pills constitute a full dose, while anywhere six to eight or a handful of other preparations of Ihe Mandrake are required. The Phodophy 1- lln . ACTS DIRECTLY, ON THE LIVER, stimulating its Amotions and causing ittomake Its biliary secretions In regular - * and proper quantities. The Injurious results which invari ably follow the use of mercury Is entirely avoided by their use. But It Is not upon the Liver only that their powers are exerted. The extract of Mandrakecontalned In them is skill fully combined with four other extracts, one ol which acts upon the stomach, one upon the up per bowels, one upon the lower bowels, and one prevents any griping effect, thus producing a pill that Inflences the digestive and alimentary sys tem, In an equal and harmonious manner, and Its action entirely free frdm nausea, vomiting or griping pains common to all other purgatives. possessing these much desirable qualities, the Fodopbyllln becomes invaluable as a FAMILY MEDICINE. No household should bo without them. They are perfectly safe, require but two for an ordina ry dose, are prompt and efllclentln action, and when used- In connection with Dr, Hoofland’* German Bitters, or Tonic, may be regarded as certain specifics in all cases of Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, or any of the disorders to wbfob the system is ordinarily suhJeo. The PODOPHYLLIN PILIH. act upon the stomach and bowels, carrying off iniproper obstructions, while the Bitters or To nic purify the blood, strengthen and invigorate the frame, give tone and oppetlte to the stom ach, and thus bnlld up the Invalid anew. Ur. Hoofland, having provided Internal reme dies for diseases, baa, given the world one raalnj. ly for external application, in the wpnderfu preparation known as 1 • Du. HOC ALAND’S GREEK OIL. ThiaOU isa sovereign remedy for pains and aches of all kinds. Hhenmatlsm, Neuralgia, Toothache, Chil blains, Sprains, Bqrns, Pain in the Bock and Loins, Ringworms, Ac., all yield to Ite external application. The numberofoures effected by it Is astonishing and they are Increasing every T&ken internally. It is a oure for Heart-burns, Kidney Diseases, Sick Headaches, Colic, Dyson .tery. Cholera Morbus, Cramps, Pams In the Btoipach, Colds, Asthma. Ac. The Greek Oil Is composed entirely of healing gums and essential oils. The principalengredl ent is an oily substance, procured In the South oi n part of Greece. Its effects os a destroyer of g.lnaro trnly magical. Thousands have been oaetUled byitsnse, and a trial by those who aio skeptical will thoroughly convince them of Its inestimable value. These remedies will be sent by express to any locality, upon application to the Principal Office, at the German Medicine Store, No. 631 Arch Bt,, Philadelphia. . *'* remedies are for sale by dingclsts, storekeepers, and medicine dealers every who e. Ohas. M. Evans, Formerly C. M. JACKSON & 00. THE THREE LITTLE CHAIRS. They sat by the bright wood Are, The gray haired dame and the aged sire, Dreaming of days gone by; The tear drops fell on each wrinkled cheek. They both had thoughts thby could not speak, And each heart ottered a sigh. . * i ■. / For their sad and tearful eyes descried Three little chain! placed side by side . * "'—’■••-Against-lho.slttingxooia.woU^..—.-..^ —- Old fashioned enough as there they stoftd, Their seats of flag and their frames of wood, With their backs so straight and tall. Then the filre shook his silvery head, - And with trembling voice he gently said: •‘Mother, these empty chairs ; They bring ns such sad, sad thoughs to-night, We’ll put them forever out of sight, la the small, dark room up stairs.” But she answered: "Father, no. not yet. For X look at them and 1 forget That the children are away; The boys come back, and our Mary, too, With her apron on, of checkered blue, And sit there every day. " Johnny still whittles a ship’s tall masts, A ml WilH* bis bulloto vmu, . . While Mary her patchwork sews; At evening the three childish prayers' Go up to God from these little chairs, So softly that no one knows. "Johnny comes back from the billow deep. Willie wakes from the battle field sleep. To sny,good'night to me ; M&ry’s a wife and'mother no more, Bat a tired child whose playtime Is o’er, •And comes to rest at my knee. " So let them stand there, though empty now, And every time when alone we bow • At the Father’s throne to pray, We’ll nBk to meet the children above. In our Saviour’s home of rest and love, . - Whore no child goetb away." IPisctllantmts. LOTTERY TICKET 3000. We were a party of six, a West African governor and his wife, a commissary gen eral and his wife, a chjef justice, and your humble servant. A fever-stricken lot were we, and had Just escaped with our lives from an epidemic, to recruit health and strength In the salubrious climate of Tenerlffe, that beautiful island province of Old Spain. • . We had money to spend; as why should we not, coming from the Gold and Ivory Coast? and only required health to enjoy it. We bad great animal spirits) too, not withstanding a manifest attenuation of ourmateriu! persons, and were thorough ly determined; not a day should pass without its excitement, some excursion, or picnic, of supper party, or something. We waited on the governor general, and ■ were received with a flourish of trumpets) rather inconsistent with bis excellency's occupation, as we came up on him, coat off, lopping the dead leaves of his favorate tree camellia. ’ Then his excellency and suite returned our call,, when we happened to be out; which was better luck, I must say,, than a repe tition of the painful interview that bad taken place in the saloon of the Govern ment House, where broken English) and worse attempts at Spanish, bad almost confounded and angered us into some thingdesperate. Still, this was Insufficient excitement, for emancipated coast officials.. We ro. aulredafiesb stimulant, something novel and startling ana extravagant. ‘I have it I* said the governor one morn ing, to onr great relief, as we sat at breaks fast, silent and moody around the table d’hote of the only English hotel In S,anta Cruz, ‘just the very thing I What can be more wildly intensely delightful than —gambling V The ladies shuddered and looked die* mayed. . ‘I don’t mean that We should drop into the casino next door, and stake our sov ereigns on the monte table; but why should we not go In for the lottery V ‘What lottery?’ we all asked in a breath. ‘Why, the Madrid great prize lottery ; see here is all about it-’ And then he read aloud an English translation of a circular, setting forth the advantages and inducements of a ticket in th,e great lottery of the year; highest prize £20,000 sterling, and 150 otherprizes, ranging downwards so low as £lO, but nothing Short of that amount, the ticket itself costing the moderate sum of £7. . ‘Now, there are six of us,’ he went on ; ’and If I can induce Mr. Robinson, our landlord, to take the seventh share, it will, only come to a pound, each, not much to lose but so much to gain. What say you all ?’ ‘ Of course we agreed; and our chief sallied forth to confer with our boat and to purchase the ticket. ‘lt’s all right, I have it, very well, I went in time, for It was the very last left; how lucky we orel’ exclaimed the gov ernor on his return, a few hours later; and be flourished the lottery ticket before our eyes. ‘I hope It will stick to us,’ remarked the judge, doubtingly. ‘lt is sure to be a prize*’ propheised our sanguine Irish friend, the commissary .general. ‘At all events, ‘never venture, never have,’ I added, hopefully; but the ladies remained silent* ‘And now,’ continued the governor, since we cannot possibly learn the result for some weeks, suppose we pass the time elsewhere than.in this hot city. We have seen all that Is to be seen ; and,, for my part, l am sick of the cathedral, and crowded piazzaj and the mole, and IN’el* son’s wound.* Wo want rest and re freshing breezes in the highlands; let us betake ourselves to the mountain brow, to Oratavs, the Villa of the Peak.* The proposition was bailed with the ■ delight of people who had, nothing better to suggest; presented it self at the outset, in the fact that none of us except the chief Justice, understood a word of the language; and In a Spanish hotel we should be ail adrift. However,in ourdiatreasand perplexity, a delta ex mathina presented itself in the parson of an English speaking Spanish gebtleman, who came to call upon us;, and, on the case being stated to him, he informed us that he was himself desirous of visiting Oralava, and would gladly do so In our company. Accordingly next day saw u» wending our way across the island, In an omnibus drawn by a triangular arrangement, of first a mule, as leader, then two mules, and then two horses in the shafts. The day was bright, warm and exhiierating, the pace rapid, and the aoenery exquisite and sublime; more especially when we reached an elevated plateau that com manded a full view of the far famed Peak, and the iron-bound coast line far os the eye could reach washed by might iest breakers. Butt have no Intention of being descriptive, .abler pens than mine have failed in the attempt, to word-paint. this garden of the Heaperldes; lam on ly lingering en route in a tantalizing mood, to pile np your agony as regards ‘No. 8060/ Our days passed pleasantly at Oratava. There were gardens to visit, ferns to col lect, and an antediluvian tree to gaze wonderfully at in Us' grand decay. We took long rides, too, in the neighborhood; and actually bandied ‘the lava that lu days of yore, bad swept down the sides of the great mountain. W. descended into the Sultry lowlands, and we climbed the snow capped Peak, thus diversifying our temperature within the hour. "For there may'be .now on tho'nooigntaln top;. While there's heal In the valley below." Time passed unnoticed by ail except by two of us, myself and our worthy friend .•Lord Nelson lost his right urn at the assault on Bonta Crur, Ten.rlffe, 17M.' Proprietor. Ipotital. CARLISLE, PA., .THURSDAY, AUGUST IT. 1811. and Interpreter, the Spaniard. Properly .peaking, this gentleman was’ not a Spaniard, although he wished to bo con sidered one, nor even was he a native of TenerliTe. He was a .ettler from Gibral tar, and, as all the Initiated know, such Individuals are yclept 'Book Scorpions a. a Book Scorpion-thoi.fore, I shall speak of him henceforth. With him I concocted an abominable scheme. It was the day that the new. of the lottery might arrive from Madrid, and tOhy should we not anticipate it f It was n vile, unfeeling, disgraceful un dertaking, as you should see; but once tbe-dovli-took-possession of us (an.d in.no. other way can'l account for it), we en tered heart and soul into carrying out* the details of the plot, as completely as our means would permit of. , ■ imprimis, we required official paper, and in the ill-supplied shops of Oratava, none was to be had ; no paper was, in fact, procurable, except‘gold edged post,’ quite unfit for our purpose. However, we made the best of it. I snipped the edges with a pair of scissors, and, when folded length wise, the document assumed a formida ble shape. But even this fictitious re semblance to -an official’ was denied us, as the largest envelope in the stationary establishment was not so large as some I had myself, and they were small enough. On the matter and otjta of com position wo were, therefore, compelled to rely, and In this respect we are not mis taken. I was aware that it had been arranged by the governor, with Mr. Robinson, of the English hotel in Bantu Cruz, that should the steamer arrive at any unusual hour so ns to prevent him sending the news by the ordinary post, and should our, ticket, No. 3000, be the winner of a prize, a special messsenger should be despatch ed with the happy intelligence.. Accordingly, the Eook Scorpion and I Invested in a small boy mounted on a mule, and we Instructed the imp in what manner he was to act. These preparations, made to our entire satisfaction, we joined our party, and sat down composedly to the de lapodrida set before us. 'Good gracious!’ this is actually the Ist of April!” exclaimed the governor, as he helped the dish, ‘theday the steamer from Lisbon Is due; I wonder stall we hear anything? I don’t think Bobinson will disappoint us if we have bad any luck.’ ‘You are too sanguine, dear; do bo less hopeful, and wo may win something,’ said bis wife. ‘For my part X have never given the thing a second thought,’ boasted the chief justice; 'the chances are a thousand to one against us; besides, I put little faith in these government managed lotteries. Indeed, I disapprove of such gambling sources of revenue for any respectable country.’ ‘Thank you for your opinion of us,’ re turned the Rook Scorpion, sarcastically; ‘but still, I don’t suppose you would ob ject to win a prize from us, would you ?’ ‘I shouldn’t, at any rate, put In the commissary general." . ‘Nor I, dear,’ whispered his better half; ‘for I should know, what to do with such a godsend.’ ‘O, don’t desecrate the, name; remem ber this is a gambling transaction,’ cried the governor’s wife, who caught the ex pression. I really believe I should trem blo to touch money won so easily. I agree with the Judge, it cannot be right or pro per. it’s nae canny.’ 'Hallosl what’s the row below ?’ I cried, on recognizing the clatter of a mule’s hoofs entering the paved patio of the establishment. An unintelligible shout now resounded in the quadrangu lar courtyard, and involuntarily wo all started to our feet, then, impelled by ir overlooking the yard, and craned bur necks, to catch sight of the indubUible ‘special messenger.* But almost imme diately* dignity and decorqm returned to us, and we resumed our seats silently at the table. I noticed that we all closed our lips very closely (I did so, I suppose, from sympathy, and that a pallid hue Seemed to pervade our faces. It certainly seemed an age until our lugubrious waiter slowly entered the room, and banded a broadly sealed letter to the governor. ‘EI Gobernador de y ios estranger ous Ingleses,’ he read aloud ; ‘yes, there Is no mistaking the Pillars of Hercules,’ bis Excellency went on, glancing at the dollar Impressed seal; and, here in the ■corner Is Is a memo, from .Robinson— ‘Please pay the messenger a dollar and a half.’ Certainly, certainly; here, Juan' money for the messenger, feed him, too;, and he placed a handful of silver in the waiter’s hand. 'And now I think I have earned the righ t to open this official from the lottery office at Santa Cruz; but lam sorry to say that 1 cannot read it; how ever, it is certain that we have won a prize, and, great or small, It is entirely my doing. I shall, therefore, claim you all as my guests for another month, and we shall spend It in Maderia. Do you consent?’ ‘O yes, yes!’we all cried; but do open the letter.’ He .broke the seal rudely, abstracted the documents within, and dung the en velope under the table - Our excitement became intense. ‘Weil, what is it?’ asked one of the ladles. Impatiently. 'I cannot make it out, the figures are many, but the amount is stated in fuertes, dollars ; do read the letter, judge.* And bis excellency banded the missive across to the imperturbable chief Justice, who translated it slowly with all bis circum locution, pausing for a moment as he came to the figures. It was merely a stiff and formal announcement from the secretary, to inform bis excellency and the other English strangers sojourning in tbs island, (hat their ticket in the Mad rid lottery, SO6O, was the successful hol der of a prize which, reduced to England currency, amounted to the round sum of .£9,000 sterling. . Stunned we wero at first and utterly confounded ; then, as the Irish commis sary general found his voice and uttere* a wharh(jpp of . joy, we all Joined in a Jubilant shout, and madness ruled the hour. Of course I was bound to be especially extravagant. ‘Well, say what.one will, the love of pelf is only human nature after all,’ re marked the chief justice sententiously. ■I must’Obngratuiateyou, my dear friends, on our exceeding great good fortune.*' And thejudge gravely stretched forth his band to grasp us all in turn. 'lt isn’t every day that you and I. (addressing me) come in for £1,285,14s 3Jd.; that is our share and Mr. Robinson’s you know,’ (for he had made a rapid mental calculation, while some of us were going through the slow process of pencil and paper. Of course you married folks are entitled to double shares.’ ‘What!’ exclaimed Mrs. , to her husband, the commissary general,’ can It indeed be possible that we are actually in possession of—of, let’me see of—O, de lightful ! £2571 Bs. 4d.? Now, John, you must promise me one thing at once,' and she drew her bend down lovingly, so as to Impart her proposition wbisperingly, ‘you must put one thousand In the Banf of England, for Tommy, and let the Interest accumulate until he comes of age. Won’t you promise, dear?’ The words reached me, and for the first time, strange as it may appear, the vil lalny'of the trick I was playing, struck me as with its open palmon, the cheek, and I felt the very roots of my hair grow ted. Tommy was their little boy, eight years, old, at school in England. But the ball had been set a roiling down hill now, and for the life of me 1 could not stop it. I could not find the words to tell them It was' all a cruel, wretched, merciless imposture- I became for the once a speechless hypocrite, and kept up the farce with a nervous eagerness, that must have been quickly detected had they been In their sober senses, All I could do was to Jump about and clap my hands like a driveling idiot, but in thelr present state of delitum, any passionate excess was unheeded. It was soon felt by all, that the dinner tab), was no place to discuss private In tentions, and as of course, no one could eat, we separated into natural groups.— The governor and his wife entered tbs big sitting room, and seated themselves in close .onference on a sofa in a remote corner. The commissary general and his spouse retired to their ropras) to talk of little Tommy and that bargain about the the housanjl pounds, while tile chief justice, who had at leqgth caught the prevailing enthusiasm, seized .me plqsply by thp arru and muttered, guttur al iy: ” ■ : ‘Come out and walk, I want air I Hang it, man !’ he went on, as we gained the street; ‘I despise wealth, and only regard money for the comfort it brings ; but to give -away a pound hapbazzard, and to' get back £1,286 14s. 3}d., all for nothing! come) step out!’ He was tall, and I was short, and his strides were long. X tell you I had to beep at a run by bis side during that six mile walk, up bill and down dale. He spoke not again until we reached the hotel; no doubt his thoughts were give up to the contemplation of our won derful luck, and he was mentally review ing the thing at the table. Suddenly wo encountered the waiter. ‘I wish I had seen that messenger, where la he? Did you give him the money?’ ashed the judge, iu Spanish. ‘No, eenor,’ was Juan’s reply ; ‘the muohacho had disappeared, he (Juan) had returned the dinero to hie excellency, and the latter bad allowed him to keep so much,’and the lugubrious creature dis played to our view five bright shillings. ‘Very extraordinary!' murmured the judge, appealing to me, and bis face fell In a fearfully portentous manner. I felt a cold shiver run down my back and a strange huskiness in my throat, but I was not obliged to say anything, so we hurried up stairs. The messenger has gone back to Banta Cruz without his douceur,’ said the gov ernor, in a reassuring tone, advancing to us. ‘Poor boy I he could not of course read Bobinson's memo., and perhaps thought be was not tp be paid until his return. It don’t matter much, but let mo tell you what does. I'Bave just bean re lating to my wife a -circumstance that happened to me in Spain, years ago.—- This is not the first time, 1 should tell, that I have dabbled in lotteries, and on one occasion when my brother and I wore staying at Madrid, we took a ticket in a small lottery. The ticket was only a couple of dollars; and the highest prize was one hundred pounds. We won it! This Is ' perhaps why my ambitious thoughts made me imagine that we had a chance of the twenty thousand pounds now. But we have done well, and I should not grumble. When we went in to the office next day to be paid, what do you think they offered us ? Coppers, sir, coppers! ‘Gold and sliver have we none,’ they told us, ‘take the coppers or leave them.' They, were piled up in bags in a corner, ready counted for us, and what were wo to do? Of course we took them; but gracious, what a job It was ! I had first to £o to the alcalde to obtain from bim a guard of boldieis, then we hired men and. wheelbarrows, and iu this way conveyed our hundred pounds of coppers to our hotel. Now think of it for a moment, if they played us theeame trick here, nine thousand pounds of cop pars! Gold, as you are aware, is at a high premium ;so are bills of exchange; no chance of our being paid by either me dium. My belief, then, Is that they pay us in silver, and ray idea is this : As the Secretary directs us to attend at the office to-morrow, to present our ticket and re- W‘B?e/ iffiinose that yo*l. and I Santa Cruz by moonlight. It is only 27 miles, and wo’ll take our time and be ready after breakfast to attend when the lottery ticket office opens at 10 o’clock.— Then, we ascertain their method of pay ing us we can make our arrangements. I shall ask my friend, the governor, for u military guard, and we can cart tlie'bags of silver up here for distribution. Now go out aud hire two strong ami sure footed ponies, and direct them to be sent here for us after supper.’ Naturally I had to comply, but my heart misgave me as I passed out,to notice that the ladles were in close consultation, and that the secretary’s letter was iu one of their hands. All this while the Rock Scorpion was disregarded and forgotten by everybody. He had felt himself do trap, and so had betaken himself to his chamber, but I now passed him in the veranda, on his wayto the sitting room,.as I hurried out. I hurried out indeed, but not upon the errand I had undertaken, but to think. My head ached with the thoughts of the wrong I was Inflicting,with the miserable dread of discovery before I could explain matters, and with the Innumerable plana that! had formed and rejected, to break the killing, unpardonable news, that No. 3060 was a delusion and a snare. When I returned to the sitting room I found our party in confusion, and a very Babel of voices in hot dispute concerning tbd letter. ‘I say that gold-edged paper was never used in an official form before;Jook at ■that; it is plain that the vile “wretch, whoever he is, that has played us this dastardly trick, tried to clip ofll ail the gold, but left so much to tell the tale I’ and the governor’s wife, who was the speaker, held up to view the tiniest bit of gold edge at a corner of the abominable production. 'That, coupled with the disappearance of the messenger; is conclusive in my opinion,’ assented the chief justice, ‘O 1 I have explained his absence, I thought,’ said the governor, who still hoped against hope 'll I thought it was a trick played us by any garlic eating Spaniard,’ growled the Irish commissary general, looking omlniousiy across at the trembling Black Scorpion, and elevating his voice as ho went along, ‘I would grip my blackthorn by this' —and he grasped it in the middle —and I would clutch the fellow tight round the throat so,’ —and he performed the mimic gesture—‘and I would thrash him within an inch of bis miserable life. I would, by heavens!’ His wife, meantime; had disappeared from the room,and returned as ho finished with that fierce vow of vengeance. Irrepressible tears coursed down her cheeks as she advanced to the group with an envelope in her baud. ‘A Manchester envelope never come out ■of a Spanish lottery office,’ she sobbed forth. ‘See there, there is the trade mark! O, poor little Tommy, how hard it is to bear this cruel disappointment!’ and she leaned against her big angry husband. ‘Why don't you suggest something 7’ asked the judge, suddenly turning sharp towards poor, silent shivering me. ‘Do you think It a hoax; a contemptible and unfeeling practical joke at our expense, or wbat do you think ?’ ‘I can't think,’ I returned, sadly,’ and It was certainly the beat answer I could have made, for we were evidently bus?? pected, under the.circumstances. Shortly afterwards the Book Scorpion and I left tbe room, and I made him, on p&ln of an immediate sound beating from that awful blaak thorn, Indite another letter, setting forth that the secretary was stirry to Inform the English strangers that 3069 was not the number of the winning ticket, that the right figure was 3001. It was a poor, lame attempt at getting out of the scrape, a sort of hysterical won’t you forgive me style of thing, and I was thoroughly ashamed of it. But it was transmitted to the goverpbr in duo course, and when he opened it tbe farce was at an end, the tragedy commenced. Home good people never credit a thing entirely,"until they see it in black and white, in mean, base, deceitful words, that ammed to shrink from showing themselves in patent black and white. It was the straw that broke tbe camel’s back. ■I wouldn’t have played such a trick on s cat,’ sighed the governor, as tbe flush of Incipient fever mounted to his brow, and he retired to hia room, followed silently by his wife. The coram'saary general advanced a step and clutched bis blackthorn menac ingly, but yielding to his gentle wife, he too, quietly withdrew. For an Instant the chief justice hesitated and glared with frenzied eye at the two miserable culprits on the sofa; and then seizing bis hat, he planted it firmly on the back of bis beau, and stalked out of the bouse into the noiseless streets, and on, on, over mountain and plain, seven and twenty miles down.into Santa Cruz. How I passed that night loannhtdell; it was jot in bed; a stupor overcame me, ’aad-I^uppose-Ircmatnodoa.that,horse; hair sofa. The Sight of the Rook Scorpion I loathed, and I told him so. As, there fore, ho had no friend left among us, be departed at daylight; and-I have not since 1 set eyes upon him. A physician was summoned the next morning to attend the governor, and he recommended change to the mild warmth of Santa Cruz, as soon as his excellency could be safely moved. There was, therefore, good excuse for them to remain in their rooms ; but so did the commissary general and his wife, without excuse. It was evident I was to he ‘out:’ and I sat down to a sorrowful meal ail alone, and choking with ming led remorse and pain. So passed that day and another. On the third, the governor was to leave, and he was resting in the big sitting room, awaiting his conveyance, when I chanced to enter. The sight of him as he Jay there, pale and dejected, oppressed me greatly ; I think tears filled my eyes, for, noticing my emotion, he held out his hand and pardoned me. ' ‘I feel sure you had no idea of the length you were going to,’ ho said, very simply ; ‘ but, my boy, remember that auri sacra fames is universal, and that you hurt a man to the quick when you touch his pocket. That money was ours to all intents and purposes; as we had determined what to do with it, you have deprived us of that pleasure. It was the most dangerous of practical jokes.’ ’ He spoke truly, hut the reproof was unneeded; the crime carried its own pun ishment. Little further passed at our interview, and he left shortly after for Santa Cruz, while I, relieved beyond measure fay our reconciliation, sailed out fora good day’s excursion. I returned late in the evening and was engaged in my solitary supper, when suddenly my Irish friend opened hla door and came forward. ‘The governor has made up with you, I understand,’-he said, almost gruffly, ‘and so will I. Tip us your fist, old boy. I can’t bear to see you ail alone, and yet I hate you; for you have nearly killed me and my poor .wife;—and he squeezed my hand unmbroifully—‘but you are not out of the woods yet, let me tell you ; you forget that the judge wasn’t such an old friend of yours, and he is not so weak as to make up in a hurry, not without sat isfaction, you understand ? Remember, you are in a foreign.country; and I am sorry to say,,he has written to me to .the effect that he will have you out.'. It was hot a comforting reflection that instantly occurred to' my mi ini: Have you escaped the. perils of pestilential Africa, to fall now by the bullet of a Judicious duelist ? ‘X am fully aware of the consequences of my unwarrantable liberty,’ I replied ; ‘and am bound to give him the satisfac tion he requires, and arrange it when and where you like.’ ‘l’ll see what I can do,’ he returned, carelessly; ‘meantime we will remain on here quietlv- And now come and make vour peace with my wife.’ J folly a wcoh- after nils lUUC 1 arranged to return to Santa Cruz, with the idea of having the duel over at once, one way or the other, and I rode across, the country ail alone, arriving at night fall at the hotel- The English mail steamer had come into port, and, anxious for letters, I went at once to Mr. Robinson’s office. ‘Yon are still in time for dinner, if you you hurry, sir,’ ho said, ‘a large number of passengers came ashore to dine here; and you may know, some' of them.’ I hastened to the table, but as I was advancing along the corridor to the door of the dining room, I was arrested by bearing my own name mingled with shouts of laughter from the company, and one voice clear above the others, as though causing the mirth by some witty recital. It was the governor’s, and be was in the act of narrating, with embellishment, and in his own quaint and irresistible manner, the lottery trick and its conse quences. I stood in the doorway. ‘And there he is, the villain 1 cried his excellency, pointing at mo with a theat rical flourish, ‘There stands- the horrid contriver of tills detestable practical ioke; gave us nine thousand pounds, gentle men; aud then ‘robbed us of that which not enriches him, and makes us poor, indeed.’ ’’ I was received with cheers, long aud loud; and, amid it all, the chief justice, who was present, held out the hand of good fellowship, and '"there was peace once more in the land. Cheap but Honest.— Many years ago when Judge Robert M. Charlton, of Sa vannah, Georgia, was quite a young map, he, in company with hie father, the Hon. U. P. Charlton, spent every summer in the delightful little village of Clarksville, northeast Georgia. One day Robert was passing along the street in Clarksville, and it happened to be the election day, (members of Congress were then elected by what was called the general ticket system, and not by districts, as they now are) when he was met by a verdant but honest voter of the mountains, who ac costed him thus; ‘Mr. Charlton, are you the man that is running for Congress?' ‘No. sir, lam no candidate—my father Is, however. But may I ask you why this inquiry?’ ■Nothing, only I haven’t voted ylt.' ‘lf it is consistent with your feelings, I would like if you would vole for my father.’ ‘f would just as soon vote for him as anybody.' Mr, c. thanked him, and thinking, perhaps, bis friend was seeking a treat, invited him into a neighboring tavern. ‘What will you take?' 'X never drink anything, but I see they have some ginger cakes. I would as lief take one of them with you as not.’ ‘Very well. Give usa coke.’ ‘My brother is in town with me.’ ‘All right. Take him a cuke with my respects.’ Another cake was purchased and paid for, and the two friends parted, ‘Greeny’ to find his brother, and Mr. Charlton to join in the merry dance with his young friends in a parlor hard by. ‘The golden hours on angels’wings' passed‘rapidly away with Mr. Charlton. His friend was soon forgotten. Late in the evening, when there was a pause in the dance,our verdant friend, very much to the surprise of every one, stalked into the parlor and Inquired for Mr. Chariton. Of course all eyes were directed to our friend as be ap proached Mr. Charlton. Drawing from his bosom a four by six Inch cake, he said : ‘Mr. Charlton, here’s your cake. My brother had voted afore I seed him.’ TuELujamvop .laziness.—Borne few years ago a ‘‘Lazy Man’s Society” was organized In London, England, and one of the articles required that no member should ever be 1m a hurry. If he violated this artiste be was to stand treat to the other members; Now Uhappened on a time that a member, debtor, was seen driving post hasts-thrOugh the atreeta to visit a patlentf«4ffl|Hfaiemhers of the so ciety saw him attffonuokled over the Idea of a treilt, and on his return reminded him of bis fastrldlng and violation of the rules. ‘Not at all,’ said the doctor, de termined not to be undone; ‘the truth is, my horse was determined to go, and I was too lazy to stop him.’ They did not oatoli tbe doctor that time. VOL. 58.—N0. 10, MIDSUMMER. It Is midsummer, the sweet midsummer— Poor Daffodil blossom I what’s tbat to thee ? Tbou host no part In Us golden "glow— Thy time of blooming was long ago; Thou hast no shore In Its silver dew— It will not wake thee lo life snow, What sadder fotocan tho Autumn bring Than Summer does to a flower of Spring'? It Is midsummer, my life’s midsummer— My sorrowing Heart 1 what’s that to thee ? Its joys are. things that I can not share—; ’Xls not for mo that It’s days are fair; ■ For Love for mo was an April flower,- Whoso beauty wont wlth’tho passing hour. .WhatHaddor.fato.cft.nthQAutumnhrlng' Than Summer does to a'flower of Spring? DUKE AKD SENTINEL. The late Duke of Brunswick used' to relate the following anecdote with crest glee : On a certain occasion, one of the heav iest of German soldiers had the duty of mounting guard at one of the ducal hunt ing seats; and, not to perplex tho poor fellow, with more ideas than he could conveniently carry, and a single ‘notion’ was with some difficulty, rammed into his .noddle —viz, that he must present arms to the Duke,"should his Highness pass that way. Ho was left to hla cogita tions, which, we need hardly say were of that class described by the renowned author of “ Knickerbocker’s History of New’York" as appertaining to the pilot of the Good Vrow, who, we were Inform ed, sat at the helm, thinking of nothing either past, present, or to come. Tired at Inst of this transcendental monotony, our sentinel had recourse to the universal German solace—his sausage and schnapps. While thus agreeably employed, he saw an unpretending-looking person approach the place where he was seated, dressed in the common German hunting-dress— a sort .of queer smock-frock, , leather breeches, and continuations. . ‘Good appetite to you!! said the new comer. ‘What is that you’re eating ?’ •Guess" gruffly answered the peasant soldier.- ‘6h ! perhaps rothwurat,' said the Duke, for it was no less a personage. ‘No; something better, than that.’ ‘Then I suppose that it islebberwurst?’ ‘No; something better than that.’ ‘Probably then It Is metterwurst ?’ ,‘Yes.’ (The three terms, rothwurat, lebber wurat, and metterwurst, are the positive, comparativp, ouperludvo degrees of the German sausage,) ‘And now that you know ail about my sausage, pray who are you ?’ •Guess,’ said the Duke. ‘Oh! perhaps you’re one of the Duke’s pages ?’ ‘No; something better than that.’ ‘Then you’re probably one of the Duke’s alds-de-camp ?’ . ‘No; something better than tbai.’ ‘Perhaps you’re the Duke himself?’ ‘Yes,’ ‘Def teufel! Hold that sausage, for my orders are to present arms to you !’ A Short Courtship.— A Cincinnati paper relates an incident which develops a new feature in railroad traveling, and shows that courting can be done at thirty miles an hour. It occurred on the Little Miami railroad. A lady, somewhat past that period of life, which the world would term young, was on her way to that city. At a point on the road a traveler took the train. After walking up and down between the seats, the gentleman found ho unoccupied seat, except the one-half of that upon which the lady bad placed her precious self and crinoline. As the train flew along at express speed, the SSf *®0 BI SrSS!iyRtP AaniUßier'SßSr the lady certainly did not pout. After other subjects had been discussed and worn threadbare, the lady made Inquiry as to the price of sewing machines, and where such an article could bo purchased. in the city. The gentleman ventured the opinion that she!bad “better secure a husband first.” By the time the train arrived at the depot in Cincinnati, the proposal had been made and accepted. .The party separated ; the gentleman, In good earnest, started for a license, and the lady made her way to a boarding house on Broadway, above Third, for a dinner. At. two o’clock the gentleman returned with a license and a Justice, to the great astonishment of the fair one, and, a few tears and imif-remonstratlve expressions, she submitted with becom ing modesty, and the squire performed the little ceremony in a twinkling. The happy couple departed for Louisville, cn route for New Orleans and California. Court Gqssip.— The marriage of the young Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lome was not, according to English gossip, by any means the love match it has popularly been supposed to be, and the wedded pair are now far from happy together. The story is, that the Princess inherits her mother’s,quick and imperi ous temper, and the two women had such frequent quarrels that the peace of the royal domestic circle yras quitodestroyed. The marriage of the Princess and her residence elsewhere being then the only resource in the emergency,,a number of young noblemen were selected nod in vited to Windsor Castle, and the Princess required to chose a husband from among them: She. obeyed, and her choice fell on the young Marquis, but there’was no more love between them than usually attends such business-like arrangements. The result has been, that the Princess’s eraper is as bad as ever, only it is now txercised on a new object. The exclusion of the Marquis from the royal circle, and the consequent separation of him from his wife on state occasions, is said to be owing to these conjugal differences, and not to any Jaw of etiquette. It Is even reported that not long ago the Queen was sent for, and wont down to Claremont, the residence of the young couple, to prevent a complete rupture. All this accords so well with what is.known of the relations between Victoria and Albert that it is probably true. A Wonderful Clock.— R.D. Munson is a persistent Yankee, and a native of Wiillston, Vermont, who has devoted ten of his fourscore years to the achievement of making a clock that is much more complidatedly ingenious than the famed Btrausourg time piece, and vastly more serviceable. It runs.eight days, and the dial marks the second, minute, hour and day of the week, month and year; a thermometer rests against its pendulum, giving the state of temperature; the ball of the pendulum contains a miniature time piece,which derives its motive pow er solely from its vibrating position, and keeps accurate time; with this there is a delightful musical apparatus,which plays an air at .the end of each hour, and it is piously precontrlved so as to play only sacred tunes on Sunday, beginning and ending with the ‘Doxology.* On national holidays the airs are diversified with such tunes as “Yankee Doodle,” &b. This wonderful clock presents a black walnut front,-ten feet high, twenty.inches wide, and ten deep, and is embellished with profuse shell-work and national designs. About Monkeys.— Rougger observed an American monkey carefully driving away the flies which plagued her infant; and Duvancel saw a hylobates washing the faces of her young ones in a stream. Bo Intense Is tbe grief of female monkeys for the loss of their young, that It inva riably caused the death of certain kinds kept under confinement by Brebm, in North Africa. Orphan monkeys were always adopted and carefully guarded by other monkeys, both male and female. One female baboon had so capacious a heart that she not only adopted young monkeys of other species, butstole young dags and cats, which she coutlnually car ried about_ An adopted kitten scratched this affectionate baboon, who certainly bad a sharp intellect; for she was much astonished at being scratched, and she immediately examined tbe kitten’s feet, and without more ado bit off the claws. —All The Year Sound. &atcs fpt ADVKUTI3KMKNTS wui be inserted at I«n;cents per lino for the first Insertion, and five cents per line for each subsequent Insertion, Quar terly half-yearly, and yearly advertisements lh> erted at u liberal reduction on the above rates Advertisements should bo accompanied by the Cash. When sent without any length of time specified for publication, they wlll .be continued untilordered out and emerged accordingly. ■ JOB PRINTING. cards, handbills, oiboclaus, and every olh er description of Jon and OAnn Printing, ©iras airtr Enira. A shrill old Indy in Memphis, when she loses her scissors, rouses the family with; where’s them scissors appeared to 7 Personal.— St. Clair A. Mulholland, Chief of Police of Philadelphia, gave us a call on Friday lost.—Bradford Argus. What deviltry have you been into? It is a mistake .to suppose that gold’ fish confined in a globe can live on the animal life they find in the water. They require food, such as small -dough, pills white of an egg and flour 1 , and an ocoa jsjonal angle ivorra, cut fine. Specimen Chipago local: ‘T. J. Fails was his name. And 1 shall not deny. With regard to the same, That he dame from Shanghai, And he put up last night at the Sherman, Considerably close to the sky.’ -,J.U . i t i. jl J) The following item contains a large amount of what may be called spicy ego tism : Kernel Carr says there is but one man in Illinois who is really able to edit a newspaper. As-'Widow Bedott says, - it Is not for him to sdy who that Is. A grumbler who was loud In com plaint because of the degeneracy of the times got this left-handed . sympathy : ‘What you say is undoutedly true, for I remember that when I was a boy, I heard my father Say that, when he was a boy, he heard my grandfather say the same thing.’ An Irlshmau having jumped into the water to save a man from drowning, up-, on receiving a quarter from the person as a reward for the service, looked flrrt at the money and then at him, and at last exclaimed : ‘l’m overpaid- for the job.’ In an Ohio school celebration the su perintendent announced the. title to a song as ‘Riding the Elephant" Home.*— When the audience found that It was ‘Write me a Letter from. Home,’ he thought it prudent to disappear.’’” , The mayor of St. Joseph, Mo., gave permission to a citizen to kill two dogs which annoyed him, and the.next morn ing the mayor found two of his own dogs dead, iylth his own warrant, of permis- , sion for their killing pinned on their '•> bodies. Though ho. -hasn’t exactly got “ the hydrophobia; that mayor Is mad. ’ Thin id tbtr-rraj-tne aarctio,i;ian chron icles the opening of the season : ‘Oar mammoth'hotela were thrown open yes terday for the reception of young June, dazzling July, mature and peerless Au gust, and, partriaobal September, .who , have all engaged suites of rooms.’ An observant young man in Portland, Maine, greatly admired a married lady of that town, and was In the habit of looking in at her window as he passed.— One day he saw her wave a handkerchief, and forthwith rang the door bell. - After he was picked out of the gutter a few mo ments later, and bis contusions dressed by the nearest surgeon, it was. explained to him that the lady was merely shaking some crumbs from a napkin. SpoNoe paper, a Drench novelty, Is said to baveall the peculiarities of sponge,, absorbing water readily, and remaining moist a long time. - It has been used as a dressing for wounds with considerable advantage, For its fabrication, evenly and finely divided sponge is added to or dinary paper pulp, and this is worked, as in a common paper-making apparatus, into sheets of different thickness. ■T. K. ’Butis.—uv, of Elmira, saidsome .impioMast things about H; Bf Smith, elected to Congress from Elmira district. Smith remarked to him that those state ments were conspicuously inexact.— Beecher straightened back in some ex citement, and exclaimed in a decided tone, ‘Do you want to get up a quarrel with, the Beecher family ?’ No, Sir,’ said Smith, ‘but I- want to know if you intend to get up a fight with the Smith family ?’ An armistice was declared af ter that. A gentleman writing of a ‘long’ ac quaintance, says there is among his ac quaintances one at least who enjoys a ‘high’ reputation, for he stands over seven feet In his stockings, and though a tal ented member of the bar, lie Is a good natured, modest citizen. Ue was sitting in the stall 'of a theatre when the curtain rose and the actors advanced to their po sition. a cry of ‘Down in front!’ became general throughout the audience. Their attention was directed towards the tall « r —, who, feeling himself the object of remark, thought he was required to set tle a little. Looking as is he would like to settle through the floor, he proceeded to raise himself to a standing position, in such a manner, however, as to convey an impression that there was no end to him. At last he did get straightened out to his full length, when, slowly glanolngaround at the astonished audience, he very de liberately remarked: 'Gentlemen to sat isfy you that I was sitting down, I now stand up!’ A burst of laughter and ap plause succeeded, tke audience and actors became curtain descended rapidly, the manager, with beaming.face, came forward, and, amidst the wildest applause, conducted the gentleman to a private box. _ . The millennium of sconndreUsm. Butler having heard how William J-. Ovens, the murderer, was unanimously elected Sergeant at Arms by the Radicals at the last session of the Legislature, and that Mann, and CoIIIs and Stokely have been nominated for cnr chief munfsipal offices, and that the Press of this city, the leading organ of its party, bos declared that considerations of personal character do not enter into its philosophy—Butler, hearing these things, feels emboldened to offer himself as a candidate for the office of Governor of Massachusetts. Eve rywhere thore"seems'to be a belief that the rule of Radicalism has at last brought on a.millennium of scoundrellsm, and that neither the murder of a distinguish ed soldier, llke'Colonel Riddle, or of a moro ohsore cltlzon lilre John O. Nolan, nor the most notorious 1 Implication and open. complicity in frauds and thefts, form any bar.to nomination to office by the. Radical ‘party. Personal character does not enter Into their philosophy. Tbe absence of it is a recommendation; for the greater the rogue, tbe greater the plunder for him and 1 the “ Bing" ho be longs to. This rule runs through every department of the government that is ad ministered upon Radical principles,—, When General Butterfield, a great per sonal friend of the President, was ap pointed aub-Treaaurer in Now York, he instantly embarked in a huge ‘‘gold conspiracy” with Corbin, the President’s brother-in-law, and pursued it till they shook the whole Commercial world, using the name of tbe President of the United States as their partner and ac complice I In.this clty, the.samo game of plunder is carried on in all the public departments, unchecked, except when the culprits come under the notice of oar city police, Vho’biwdgained Radical en mity and Radical abuse by a commenda ble vigilance, which often thwarts these Radical plunderers. Last week tbe police arrested aßadioai empioy ee -in the post- office, and found) bis pockets; as well as bis lodgings, full of opened letters. Yesterday, the news papers alt recorded bow ’ tbe city police arrested certain Radical officials' who were selling the public property)'frppi Fort Delaware.' The scoundrels have'a very poor opinion of a police' that thus interrupts business, and are exceedingly anxious to haye the whole oity adminis tered upon a philosophy that takes no note of such matters as theft, speculation or oven murder. They pant for the good time coming: tbe great long looked fox Radical millennium of ecoundrellsm, when to be a man of decent character shall be a reproach, and to bo a,thief.or, assassin shall be a title to public office,— Philadelphia Age.
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