®I)C 3Vtnerdgn Volunteer.
rUBLISUBU EVER* THURSDAY MORNIN
BRATTON KENNKJY.
OK fH3!-(l*BTI» MABMKT IKJIARK.
, , Two Dollars por year If paid strlol.y
In advauae; Two Dollar. and Fifty Cents If paid
-ItUln tliree months; aner which Threo Dollars
will bo chareed. These terms will bo rigidly ad
•d t 0 m every Instance. No subscription dm.
o.lluued until all arrearages are paid, unless at
fl,e option of the Edltois.
ffiatos.
r'fwTßD STATES CLAIM
' AND ■ ■
ti J.JAL ESTATE AEENCY.
WM. B . BUTLEE,
ATTOnNKY AT LAW,
ln Franklin House, South Hanover Street
etfllsle,Cumbeiland pouuly, Peiina.
Application. by mall, will receive Immediate
‘artleoiar attention given to the selling orrent
of Real Estate, In town or country. Inall let
ters of Inquiry, please enclose postage stamp.
July H. ISlti—tf
0 E. BEIAJiIIOOVEK,
1 w,
CARLISLE. PA.
Borneo (m anovcr"’fe’i'rcot. opposite
. p 6 „iz’s dry goods store.
Jiuc. 1. IWW.
[ rUMIUCH & BARKER,
I I - A TTOIt HEYS AT LA IF.
OrtUr* uii Multi atieet. lu MArloa Unll. Cur
lisle, Pn.
D«f. 2*981
n E O. 8. E M I G ,
ATTORNEY- at-law, ,
■ Office with S. Hepburn, Jr.
£ont Main Street,
CARLISLE. PA.
Full, a, 71-ly _
W KENNEDY, Attorney at Law
' Carlisle Penua. Office same an thatol
he "Amortcau Volunteer.”
Dect I. 1870. .
DB. GEOBGE S. SEARIGHT, Den
Tiar From Vie JiaUUnvrt OntU'i/r, oj Dcnta
*firrnrru Office ftt the residence of Ilia mother
halt Loulhor Street, three doors below Bedford
Carlisle, Penua.
Dec. 1 IWJS.
SJ'atjas anii <Eam
-gABGAINS IN
HATS AND CAPS!
At KELLEU’S. 17 North Hanover Street,
We have received the latest styles of HAT--*
nnd CAPS. Silk Flats, New York and Philadel
phia stylos, Cosslmere Hats of all shapes and
prices. Soft Hals of every kind, from To cents
np Cloth Hats. in. HI. o. Velvet, La .tin*:, Mixed
Cass and Black. Also a Hue hit. of Boys’ and
Children's Hats, Clcith and Poll, and at all pri
ces.
MEN
BOY'S. AND
CHILDREN’S.
HATS.
In slyi H ß too numerous to montion. all ot which
will he sold at the lowest Cosh prices.
Call and examlnoour stock, you cannot fail to
lie pleased lu price and quality.
TIAT-S of auy kind made and repaired to
order on short notices ,
orucr, o JutlN A . KELLER, .Agent,
No. lONorth Hanover Street,
Sept 28, 71-tf. \
■gATS AND CAPS T
TIO.YOU want a nick hat oh cap ?
v if so, TJon'T'Fatlj to Oau. on
J. CK GALLIC),.
.VO. 29. WES 7 MAIN STRJIET.
Where cau be neon Hie lineal nasonmoul ol
HATS AND GA. PS
~vur brought to Onrllale. Ho taken great picas
aero la Inviting Ills old frlenils iib'l customers,
ami all now ones, to hla splendid s'Ocls Inst 10-
olfvcrt trout Now York and Philadelphia, con-
nno AsRiMEBB , ha
m.sitlps an endless variety of Hats and taps o
I o latent stvlo. all ot wlilcb bo will sell at tb
tmraS oifc A-i At. Also, h a own niapufacturc
H HAra fiIOTKAotDRBD TO ORDER,
flo ha* Deal arrangement for coloring Ilata
A ndall kltmaof Woolen Goods. Overcoats, &c.,
fha RhortPßt notice (as ho colors every week) and
on the most reasonable terms. Also, a line lot oJ
’ bo ‘c'Tobacco and cigars
Iways on hand. Ho desires to call thoattontlon
io persons atalg™, n Y E U R S
tosoll.as he pays the Highest cash prices for He
11 Ot™ him n cnll. at thn above, number, bis dd
diud; ns be feels cOiltldent of giving entire sn .Is
faction.
Bept. 28, 71—If. . ,
DRY i®®DS
BEAL YALTJB
HARPER’S !
SO VTB BANG VER STREET,
If yon wnnta. nic« CALICO DRIiBS,
If you want a nice I)o Lame WRAPPER,
If you want n nice ALPACA LUSTRE,
If you'want a nice, PURE MOHAIR,
If you want a nice CASSIMERE SUIT
II you want a nice CLOTH SUIT,
v Ifyouwant a nice TABLE LINEN,
if you want a nice FELT or HOOP SKIRT,
if yon want a nice OPERA FLANNEL,
Ifyou want a HANDSOME SHAWL,
If you want a Handsome LACE COLLAR
Ifyou wnnta Handsome Lace Handkerchief
Ifyou'want Hamburg EDGINGS CHEAP,
Ifyou want GUIPURE LACKS CHEAP,
Ifyouwant Linen Handkerchiefs CHEAP,
If you want DR.’» GOODS CHEAP,
CALL AT
HARPER’S.
Yow will find ati extensive and superior va
riety In Dress Goods, comprising Cashmeres
Australian Crape. Silk and Wool Repp-, Plain
and Plaid Poplins. Black Silks, and a complete
assortments staple Dress Goods. Also, Blan
kets. Flannels; water-proof Repelhuits, Volvo*
teens (Black and Colored )'Merino Shirts and
Drawers, Ladles’ Merino Veals Twilled Sheet-,
lug (a new article,) and Full lines of Notions
White Goods and Ribbons,
If you would save money call at my store,
where prlceswlll compare favorably with auj
on this sidooflheEastein Cities;
Joseph Kids, SI.OO.
Oct. 5 ’7l—6w.
IjIAEMERi’S BANK. CnrHalß. Penn-
Jj- has facilities for the transaction of, every
Variety of BANKING BUSINESS that may ho
required,by Its customers and correspondents.
Makes collections ouali points In the United
States.
Buys, sells, ami attends to all orders for the
sale or purchase of Gold, Government and
Slate Bondt, and all other flr-t class securi
ties.
Negotiates loans and discounts commercial
paper.
Attends to the collection of interest coupons
and dividends.
Furnishes drafts to persons wishing fo remit
money to any part of the United States, Ca
nada or Europe,
Receives deposits In inrgo'or small sums .and
pays Interest on special deposits.
Is empowered to act as ireasurer and finan
cial agent for Mate, county and city govern
meats, corporations and individuals.
R. GIVEN, President.
J. C Hovfkr, Cashier.
Aug. Rl.-7l—Bm
IN THE MATTER of th© assigned
I Kstiite of M. H. ZEIGLER:
The Auditor appointed bv tbo Court of Com
mon Pleas of Cumberland County, to dlstr’bnto
Jim balance of assets in the bands of Lovl Zeis*
lernnd J. *C. Belcller, assignees of said M. H.
Zotgior, will meet all persons Interested for tin*
pnrpoKQ of his appointment, at his office, in the
borough of Carlisle, on Saturday, October 2Uth
A. D., 1871
Q.OOD NEWS FOR THE PEOPEB.
J. ELLIOTT,
(Successor to J. W. Smiley.)
No. 33 NORTH HANOVER STREET,
Carlisle. Pa.. .
* ,(i “ Just opened a large and splendid assail
inontof
MIL AND WINTER GOODS.
CLOTHS CONSISTING ON
(jASSIMERES,
OVERCOATING,
, . . , VESTINGS, &C,
he will sell by the yard, or make up Into
‘- uU to order, on short not co. and at unusually
.‘owprlcos. Having secured the sorvlcesof ono
of the
. BEST PRACTICAL CUTTERS '
m Carlisle, together with a number of tho best
Practical bands to make up, he promises to giyo
outlro satisfaction In fits, stylo and workmatt-
Always on band : a largo and complete
stock of
ri heady-made clothing.
of home manufacture, which ho will Bellas cheap
the cheapest. Overcoats on band or made to
°ra er, i ■will let no man undersoil mo. A largo
«nd complete stock ofprlmo Winter
Boots. Shoes. ’Gaiters.
«c., of every variety, style and quality, for gouts
Ladles’, Misses’, Boys’' and children, made to
mder. All to be sold cheap, cheaper, cheapest.
Also, a great variety of
~ MATS,
of latest styles and best qualities, together with
a general assortment of NOTIONS and Gent’s
*urnlahlnc goods. Do not fall to give men call.
-'*y motto la “ Quick sales and small profits."
JOHN ELUOTT.
21, 1871—8 m.
BY BRATTON & KENNEDY
QKh: MI.LLJ.OjS OK LIVES SAVED.
It Ls one of the remarkable facts of this ro*
markable nge not merely that bo many persons
are the victims of dyspepsia or Indigestion, but
its willing victims. Now. we wouhl not bo «n
derstood to say ttmtuny one rogiiMln dy.sj>epsia
with favor, or feels disposed lo ninli it among
the luxuries of life. Fui Irom it. Tho.so whr>
nave experlonced-ils torments would scout such
an idea. All dread it, and would gladly dispen o*
with its unpleasant.fainlllarltfes. .Mark Tapley
wlio wasjoily under all the trying elrcumMim
ces In winch ho was placed, never had an attack
. of dyspepsia, or his jollity would have speedily
forsaken him. Men and women sometimes
suffer Its tortures uncomplainingly, hut whoev
er hoard of a person who o.njoyed (hem ?
Q( nil tho multifarious diseases to which The
imman system Is liable, there is perhaps no one
so generally prevalent ns dyspepsia. There ifre
-diseases-inore-neu te-antlrpninfiilr-nnd--wlrtc.tr
, TOOf , cYirqntmfTy”piTlV6~nTlmrCiTf”i7c)ne , t , ' , Llje''o f
foots of which are so depressing, to the mind rind ■
so positively distressing to the body. If there is
9 wretched being In tho world it is
Rut It is notourinieuUonto dlscautoulhe hor
rors ofDyspepslo. To describe them truthlully
s simply an impossibility, but ll Is possibly to
point out a remedy. Wo have said that dyspep
sia Is perhaps the most universal of human dis
eases. This Is emphatically tho case in the
United Stales. Whether this geneial preva
lence Is due to the character oi the food, tho
method of Us preparation, or the hasty manner
In which it Is usually swallowed, is not our pro
vince to explain. Tho great fact with ■which we
are called to deal is this :
DYSPEPSIA PREVAILS
almost universally.
•.Nearly every other person you meet Isa vic
tim, an apparently willing one, for were this not
the case, why so many.' uilerers, when a curtain,
speedy and safe remedy is-within iho easy
reach of all who desire loavull themselves of U?
Hat the majority will not. .Hliiulud In preju-.
• lice, or deieued by some other unexplained in-
Huoncu, they reiusu to accept the relief prolur
cd them. They turn u deal ear to the le.-aimony
of the thousands whose i>ui)crmgs have been al
leviated, and with .strange inlaiuaiu.ii, appear
to cling with d spuralu ileleriuuuuioa to ineir
ihuhlcss lonneiut.r. Hut says a dyspeptic.
What is this remedy? to which we reply ; J Ins
great alleviator ol human Millunbg is almost as
widely Known as me English language. It has
allayed the agonies of thousands, and Is 10-diiy
carrying comfort, and encouragement to thou
sands ol others. Tills acknowledged panacea Is
none oilier than
Bn. UOOI-HAND’S GERMAN HITTERS.
Won - d you Know more ol the.merits ol inf
wonderful medicine lhan can lui learned from
the expenome of olheis? 'lry It y ourself, and
when it has failed to Jiillll the assurance ol lls
.oUh’ucy given by the proprietor, then abandon
lullli in it.
first of all, that Iloolhuul’s G-ThmuHlUers iV
not a rum beverage.
They arc not alcoholic in any sense of tin*
term. They* arc, composed wholly ol tlie pure
juice or vtial principle of roots, This Is note
mercassertlou. Thu extracts Ironi which they
are compounded arc. piepund. by one ol iho
ablest German chemists. Unlike any other
Bitters m the market, they nrn wholly free irom,
spirituous Ingredicds, Tho objections which
hold with so much force against preparations ol
this class, namely—Unit a desire for intoxicating
<1 rinks is stimulated by iheir use. ai n not valid
In tluscDsool iho German Hitters, solar limn
oticouraglngor mculaliug a taste or desire foY
Inebriating beverages, it. may’ be conlldenilv a«»
sorted that iheir tendency is lira diametricnlh
opposite direction. Their dibi ts can be
- BENEFICIAL ONLY
In all cases of the biliary system Hoollaml’s
German Hitters stand wiihoutan equal, tiding
promptly and vigorously upon thoniver, they
leinpve Its torpidity and cause healthful secre
tion of bile—thereby supplying the stomach
.with the most indispensable elements ol Hound
digestion m proper proportions. They give tone
to the stomach-sthnuiallDg Us fund ions, and
enabling it to porlorm lie duties as nature de
signed it should do. They impart v gor ami
stieugth to tho entire system, causing the pn
.tlent to feel like another being—ln. fact, giving
him a new leii'C of life.
THEY PURIFY THE HLOOi).
cleansing the vital fluid of ail huriftil impuri
ties and supplying them with iho dcmonis of
genuine heallhiulncss. In a word, there In
scarcely it disease In which Ihev cannot be
Hiiiely and beneficially employed ; “but In that
most generally pievuleut distressing and dread*,
cd disease. Dyspepsia,
THEY SI’AND UNRIVALED.
Now, thoie are certain classes ol persons to
whom extreme Hillers are not only unpalata
ble, but who llml it impossible to* take them
Without positive discomfort. For sueh
HU. JIOOFLAND’.S GERMAN ToXfC
has been specially prepared. His intended for
use whore a slight ulchohol stimulant is requir
ed in connection unn the weii-known jumc
properties of the mire German Hitters. Tins
Tonic contains all tho ingredients of luo Hlttcrt
but so flavored as lo remove the extreme Inner-.
ness.- This prcpuiatnm Is not only palatable
but. combines, m modified fonTi. ull'lho virtues
of the German Bitters. The solid extracts ot
some of Natuic’s choicest restoratives are held
in solution by a spirituous agent ot the purest
quality. In cases of languor or excessive debil
ity; whore the system appears to have become
exhausted of its energies,
lIOOFLAND’S TONIC '
acts with almost marvelous effect. It notony
stimulates the Hugging and wasting energies,
but Invigorates ami pernumetly strengthens Its
action upon the Liver and Stomach thorough,
perhaps less prompt than the Bitters, when the
same quantity is taken is none the less certain.
Indigestion, Bllllousness, Physical or Nervous
Prostrotion,»leld readily tolls potent influence.
-It gives the invalid a new and stronger hold
upon life, removes depression of spirits, and In
spires cheerfulness. Jt supplants the pain of
disease with the oavo and comfort of perfect
health,Jittgiyc9 strength to weakness, throws
despoDififlffijft&Q the winds, and starts the re
stored imßßmmpon a new and gladsome career.
But Dr. BSSHB^d’s-benefactions to the human
race arenQfSbnflued to his celebrated
GERMAN BITTERS,
or his Invaluable Tonic. Ho hasprepared an
other medicine, which is rapidly winning its
way. to popular favor because of Us intrinsic
.merits. Tills Is
lIUOFLANU’M PODOPHYLLIN PILLS.
a perfect substitute for mercury, without any of
mercury’s evil qualities.
Tueso wonderful Pills, which are intended to
act upon the Liver, arc mainly composed of
Rodophyllln, or the
VITAL PRINCIPLE OF THE MANDRAKE
ROOT.
Now wo Jeslro the reader to distinctly under
stand that this extract <>l the Mandrake is inair.v
times more powerful than the Mandrake Itself.
It is the medicinal vlitues of this health-giving
plant In a perfectly pure ami highlv conceal ia*
led form. Hence it M hat two of 'he Podophyl
iln Pills constitute a full dose, while anywhcie
six to eight or u handful of other piepa’ruilons
of the .Mandrake are required. The Phodophyl
-11 ii
ACTS DIRECTLY ON THE LIVER,
stimulating its functions a ml causing It to make
Us biliary seo’eltuns In regular and proper
quantities. The Injurious results which Invari
ably follow the use of mercury, Is nnthely
avoided by their use. But It Is not upon the
Liver only (hat their powers n»o exerted. The
extract of Mandnikeeontuimul In them is skill
fully combined with four other extracts, one of
which ads upon the stomach, one upon the up
per howe's, one upon too lower bowels, and one
prevonisany griping olleel, thus producing a pill
that mfiuuocs the digestive ami aliment ary sys
tem, If an equal and Harmonious manner, and
A. HARPER.
Us action entirely free from nausea, vomiting or
griping {mins common to all other purgatives.
• Possessing these much-desirable qualities, the
Podophyllln becomes Invaluable as a
No household should be wltjiout them. They
are periectly safe, require but two for an ordlnu
r.v 'doso.aro prompt and efficient in action, and
when, used In connection with Dr. Hoolland's
German Billers, or Tonic, may be. regarded as
certain specifics In all cases of LlvcrCpniplalnt,
Dyspepsia, or any of the disorders to which the
system Is ordinarily subjec. The
PODUPHYLLIN PILLS.
act upon the stomach and bowels, carrying off
improper obstructions, while the Bitters or To
nic purify the blood, strengthen and Invigorate
the frame, give lone, and appetite to the stom
ach, and thus build up the invalid anew.
Dr. Hoolland, having provided internal reme
dies fordlseases, husglvi n the world ono main
ly for external application, In the wonderful
preparation known as
Du. HOOrLAND’S GREEK OIL.
This Oil Ih a sovereign remedy for pains and
aches of nil kinds.
Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Toothache, Chil
blains, Sprains, Burns, Pain In the Bade and
Loins, Ringworms, «Sc„ all yield to Its external
application. The nmuberufcifies ofiecled by it
Is astonishing and they are Increasing every
day.
GEO. S. KMIG,
Auditor,
Taken Internally, Ills a euro for Heart-burns,
Kidney Diseases. Hick Headaches, Colic, Dysen
tery, Cholera Morbus, Cramps, Pams Tn tho
Stomach. Colds, Asthma, i&c.
The Greek Oil Is composed entirely of healing
gums and essential oils. '1 ho principal ongrcdl
oni Is an oily substance, procured In the Honth
orn part of Greece. Its effects as a destroyer of
Esiiuuro Irnly magical. Thousands have been
ouellttecl by Its uso, and a trial by those who
are skeptical will thoroughly convince them of
its Inestimable value.
These remedies will ho sent by express to any
locullty.upon application to the Principal Office,
nt tbo German Modiclno Store, No. B3L Arch Ht,,
Philadelphia,
ttSTTheso remedies aro for sale by druggists,
st orekeepers, and medicine dealers every whore
Chas. M. Evans,
Formerly 0- M. JACKSON & CO.
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A CONFIRMED HVSPEPXIU.
LET IT HE REMEMBERED,
FAMILY MEDICINK
Proprietor.
■ ,
THE WITHERING LEAVES.
The summer Is gone and the autumn Is here,
And the Rowers are strewing their earthly bier;
A deadly mist o’er tno woodland swims,
While rattle the nuts from t[io windy fimhs :
Prom bough to hough tho squirrels run
At the noise of the hunter’s echoing gun,
And tho partridge Hies whore my footstep
heaves
The rustling drifts of tho withering loaves.
Tho Hocks pm sue their southdWi flights
■Some all the day and some al 1 the* night ;
And up front 4ho wooded mavshes come
mj— 1
On the highest hough tho mourner orow
Sits on his funeral sdlt of woo ;
All nature mourns—and my spirit grieves
At the noise of my font In the wlthorlngieavoi
Oh, I sigh for tho days llpit have passed away
When my lire nice tho year hud its season o
‘ May ; . .
When tho world was all sunshine and bosun j
and truth,
And tho dew .bathed my feet in the valley oi
youth !
Then my heart felt-the “wings, and no bird
tho sky,.
Sang over the Howors more Joyous than I
But youth Is a. fable, and beauty deceives ;
For my footsteps ‘are loud in the wltliorin
leaves.
And T sigh for the time when the reapers a
morn
Come down froiii tho hill’at Iho sound of tin
horn ’
Or when dragging the' rake I followed (hen
’ , out
While they tossed (he light sheaves with the!
laughterinbuilt;
Through the Held with boy daring, barefontCi
I ran ;
Hut the stubbles foreshadowed the path ol th
man,
Now the uplands of Hie He all barren e
sheaves--
Whlh* my footsteps are loud lu the withering
leaves.
IHisccllancous.
HOW [ RODE FROM ST. JOE TO SWAMP CITY,
A FRONTIER STORY
Few English travelers have ever visited
Pt, Joo ; few. perhaps, have over heard
.of its existence; ami yet it in a town o;
■some note —a town which stands as tin
outpost of civilization ami Anglo iSnxoi
supremacy, Jar down in lonely Kansas
far down on the turbid, surly Missouri
On one side of it stretch away for thou
sands and thousands of miles tho federa
ted States of the great Republic; on tin*
other fide lie the broad prairies, tin
grassy pampas and the prim and bound
less forests, where the Red Indan'stil
holds his lordly sway—the battle-ground
of the Comnriches, Pawnees, Rlackfeet,
Crows, Asslnibones ami Sioux.
Time* have changed since the days
"•lion the St, Joe of the present was the
San Joesf of tin* past: when tho. Hal root
haciendas of the opulent American dot-
ted the green slopes outside the town >
and the shovel hatted priests and man
tillated donn is, ami pretty bare necked,'
bare armed little poblanas, with then
earthen pitchers poised so gracefully on
their plumb, nut-brown shoulders, saun
tered aloni' the pavtunents, or gosslpped
at the fountains ; when the Angelos so
sweetly sounded from tho groat lower of
San Pedro, and the dance and ihesniifL
the tlukllngof the guitar, and the clash
ol the'castlnet welcomed the soft ligiit of
the warm southern, evening:. A I this
passed away in a single night : /or be
tween sunset and sunrise, five thousand
blood thirsty, howling Assiniboioea and
Comnnches stormed, pillaged and lived
the city; and ot its .inhabitants, neither,
man, nor woman nor child escaped.—
Daybreak discovered a plain of.levelled,
blackened, smoking ruins, where the
night before a fair city had stood, and.a
few miles distant an army ot pillage-la
den, blood drenched, half b sotted savu
Res, each led-skimml demon staggering
on with a great bunch of gory sca l ps
dangling at his waist belt.
Fifty years have come and gone since
that terrible night. Notone stone of the
old San Josef remains upon another, bin
a busy (own occupies its site—a long and
straggling place, with almost ns many
streets as houses, hut presenting not one
single object of interest to the poet, the'
painter or the architect.
What brought mo to Rfc. Joe lean now
scarcely remember. I know I had been
a wanderer for years over the face of the
earth, and had won my dally bread with
my rifle in every Suite of South America,
from Patagonia to Panama. On this
particular occasion I had made tracks
Irom Denver Creek, on the other side of
the, Rocky .Mountains, and as the season
was-early Bpring, and game very Scarce
on the ronjl. I had Innf starved on the
way, and entered the town bootless and
almost li lei ess? Though weak In body,
V had, however, plenty of pluck left, and
having bargained my ride for a week’s
board and lodging, 1 begun at once to
look about me for means of subsistence
after (hut week should have expi red,,
Well, luckily the St. .Incites don't set
much value upon a suit of broadcloth or
a pair of kid gloves Seek a situation In
rags, and they won’t militate against you
getting it, provided you are the proper
tiling in yonr.-eif. I applied fora berth,
where u resolute brow, an eagle eye, a
broad chest, a stro.ng arm, and about five
feet four of firm flesh, gwod bone, blood
ami sinew were (he chief requirement' l ,
and from a hundred and twenty candi
dates I was selected as the most fitting.
The questions put to me were pretty
curt, and. my answers just as brief.
‘Cun you ride V
‘I have Jived all my life in the saddle.’
‘Can you fight V
‘I believe I’ve fought u representative
>f every nation, .Republic, State, and
ribe on the American continent.'
‘ Are you intimately acquainted with
every'caravan ami mall track between
this and the Rocky Mountains?’
‘As per/ectly#usuL am with.overy patch
and reut of this old jacket of mine.'
‘Can you endure a life of continued
hardship, danger, anxiety and broken
rest?’
‘Better than I could one of ease, afflu
ence, luxury and , idleness, for I have
never known any other.’
‘Then you’re the man to suit us. I
won’t ask you whether you’re houestund
trustworthy, because I’d as soon take
that for granted as trust to a man’s own
word ; and here, in St. Joe, we set no
value in characters or testimonials from
different States, that, for aught we know,
may be forged. You will go at once to
the Company’s oultUter in Johnson at.,
and order your uniform, arms and ac
coutrements, to bo ready by Monday
morning, of which day at noon, you will
attend at tho post office, to enter upon
your duties.’ And with these iustruc
(ions I was dls missed.
The reader may, by this time, bo cu
rious to know on what service I was en
gaged, and who were my employers.—
Both questions ore easily answered.
I was merely appointed a postman,and
nil that I had to do was to curry the mall
hags on the back of a strong and sturdy'
pony, a fifty mile stage to (Swamp City,
a dreary collection of log huts, built on
the edge of a'vast morass, and constitut
ing the first transfer station on the long
and weary track to Salt Lake City, or
the Oregon.
.My employers were Messrs Russell &
Co., o firm well known in both Kansas
and Texus, and, indeed, for that matter*
through the whole length and brendtli
of tho Union, in every hank in which
heir bill for ten thousand dollars would
have been deemed «s satisfactory as the
euirency itself. They were at that tlifie
the moit extensive curriers of goods and
passengers In the world, often Blurting
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1871.
a one year from St. Joe, Leavenworth,
«nd Nebraska City two hundred and
•ightcen trains of wagons, twenty-six
yagons to a train, making In nil ,tivo
housnnd,, tdx hundred and sixty-eight,
. j a«h drawn by twelve bullocks, conse
quently requiring between sixty and sev
-nty thousand bullocks, besides relays
uni substitutes for those breaking down,
■'Phis firm executed.large transportation
contracts for tho United States govern
ment, their business with it prior to the
formation of the great Union Pacific rail*
road, sometimes amounting to $5,000,0p0
in-a single year. In 1864, the year in
which t entered their service, they had
In theft* employ no less than 5.00() men*
Near tho foot of the Rocky Mountains
LS a place called
LvfirreXJst:! ii?J ts m eaf;
neighborhood, and ns several thousand
'orsons live there who produce nothing
but the precious metals, the whole of the
• applies had to be earned in these wagon
mins, This was a large portion of their
‘airiness during the summer, but anow
'rifts cut oft this digging city from all
•applies during the winter months,
Before the opening of the railway, St.
f 'H was in’fact the great eastern termi
ms of the various overland expresses,
>nd the principal point of arrival and
'ep iriure of ihe vast overland trafTlc to
a d from .the eastern and western terri
\t„ H les of (ho U'don; for these wagons not
p iv went to Denver Creek, but to huu
.df'dsof equally isolated places, journey
la : oven mh far as the Oregon in one
.roc?ion, and California in another, and
•ver thousands of miles of prairie, wood
uni 'mountain.
. For mutual protection the wagons tra
ded in trains across tin* plains, from 10
o 20 making up'-a train. Each large
‘•agon carried about six thousand pounds
weight, and was drawn by oxen or horses.
They started early in the morning and
•raveled until midday ; the cattle were
then unharnessed and allowed to graze
on the plain in charge of a herdsman,
•vliiie the travelers hunted and shot,
plenty of game being found on the prai
rie**, .as well ns elk, deer, antelopes and
buffaloes. At night the wagons were
daced together, so as to form a square or
triangle, the cattle being kept within the
mclosure. The camp-fires were then
lighted, and after eating and drinking
their fill, the men slept on the ground
mound them, wrapped In their blankets',
sentinels being first (Inly posted, who
were relieved at intervals during the
night,, the greatest caution being neces
sary when traveling acn ss the plains, us
tiibes of wilil Indians still frequently :
fravoi>e them, who steal, kill and scalp,
wherever they have a chance. They are,
ho" 6ve r , afraid of the terrib’e weapon
*vhich white carry, and will seldom
‘Pack them unless they can effect a sud
den surprise, or are immeasurably supe
rior in numbers.
Besides their great wagon budnesa,
Messrs IlnsseM & Co. were the mail coj -
tractors of the celebrated ‘Pony'Expres*,’
by means of which a frequent and rapid
communication was maintained in doz
ens of different directions between the
far divided territories of. the ilocky
Mountains—the longest and most peril
ous of these routes being that to Salt
hake Cifv, the abode of the Mormons,
and from thence on to Plucemlle, in
California, or in other words, rlghtacross
the great Northern Continent; the whole
journey, with the' exception of when
crossing mountain ranges or other diffi
cult ground, being performed at the rale
of nine miles an hour, or two hundred
and sixteen miles in the twenty-four
hours, and necessitating upward of a
hundred relays of horses and men cn
ronftc ■
The first stage on this wonderful line
of communication it was henceforth my
duty to ride, Rt Joe being my port of
departure, and Swamp City, some IKty
miles distant, my port of arrival. This
stage, was perhaps one of the least dan
gerous ones along the whole line of the
route; and yet, inasmuch as never a year
passed without one ‘Pony Express’ man
meeting a violent death, while on the
-spur between the two cities, it may be
concluded that the trip was a hazardous
one after all. Peril, however] was my
natural heritage so I took no account of
it, and as I had about forty hours tf>
spare before T need betake myself to boot
and saddle, I determined to have a good
look at the town into which fate had cast
me.
• There was not much to be seen—an
ugly, dingy town, straggilnland scatter
ed, built on the red sandy bunks of a reft,
turgid river. A line hotel, or “ Palee
House,” with the only goods shop in the
place, (flustered closely around it, a busy
market place, no end of gin palaces—
though they don’t call them that there
—and a great wooden bridge crossing the
Missouri to the village of Pembroke, con
stituted the chief features of the scene.
There were sometrecfi, too, looking weak
and sickly, probably from being treated
like spoiled children, which they roost
undoubtedly were ; clouds of sand and
dust to any amount, myriads of mosquit
oes. at d every other winged and - un
winged entomological abomination that
could sling nr bite, and last, but by no
means least, for they alone seemed to
give n transient life and spirit to the
place, an occasional steamboat calling on
its passage up or clown the river.
Well, that forty hours passed slowly
and wearily enough; and T was not sorry
when the Monday morning came, and !
found myself mounted cm my steed, and
which I judged to be a crov* between a
Norway pony and a Mexican mustang-,
outside fl»e door of the wooden post of
fice, and only waiting for the mail bags
in order to ho off.
I presented a very different appearance
now from what I had done in my rags
and tatters two days previously. My
uniform, which was both handsome and
serviceable, lifted to perfection. In the
broad, silk flush that girt my waist was
stuck both knife and revolver, while In
addition there was slung at roy back a
short, carbine-shaped, six chambered re*
volving rllle, that I doubted not would
prove a right trusty friend in time of
need.
Five minutes later the mail bags, by
no means a weighty load, were thrown
across the pony's broad buck, and secured
to ihe saddle behind, and I was trotting
down McAdam street, fairly en route for
Swamp City.
It was one of those lovely mornings so
common in America at that period or tbe
year, when nature wears her freshestand
im nt delicate tints—when the Spring
flowers exhale their-sweetest od« rs, and
the wild birds warb'e their most joyous
strains. I was as joyous as either bird
or flower, as most men would who
suddenly found themselves well clothed,
well fed, well mounted, and well paid,
after fighting with cold and hunger and
grim want for many long and weary
months. I therefore rode gaily along,
whistling as I went, and ere I had left
St. Joe nine miles in the rear, I entered
upon a wild prairie, which stretched
away before me as far ns my eyes could
reach, like n sea of waving grass, without
a tree, bush, or undulation to vary the
level monotony of the scone.
I had now to'bo on the alert, for I was
leaving Kankee for Indian territory; in
fact, I was already upon the debatable
ground of seven distinct tribes. Hun
dreds of battles had been fought on this
very prairie between rival Indian forces;
and about noon I came upon a patch of
barren land, of about six acres in extent,
(Hied with hundreds of holes about two
feet square, and live or six feet in depth.
I learned afterwards that this spot was
known as ‘the battle gVound, 1 and that
hero some nine years previously a strong
body of Sioux had dug these holes and
hidden themselves in them, to lie in wait
for a smaller body of Pawnees, whom
they knew to be approaching from the
southward. The unsuspecting foe drew
near and encamped in the neighborhood
for the night, and when they were all
asleep, the crafty Sioux loft their hiding
places, crept into their camp, and there
slaughtered and scalped the greater part
of them.
In crossing this prairie live express
riders bad at different times been killed ;
two of them by 'white savages, for any
Jreasurothnt the mall bags might con
tain, and three by red , savages for ihe
sake of their scalps. I did not at the
time know nil these dismal records of
the track that I was pursuing; had I
done so I might not have taken matters
qnlto so coolly, and I certainly should
have been more on the qut v/vc as It
■was, howuVer, my faculties were estln
ed soon to be aroused by dangers iu the
present, If not by knowledge of perils
in the past, for as I was speeding along
at an easy hand gallop, an arrow sud
denly whizzed by my ear and quivered
In the ground some fifty yards liheau* of
me. My hand was on the stock of ray
revolver ip ap instant,Tor 1 did not care
Jo drop my reins in order to unsllng my
—tj ni c kly' ~ g lai ioi- ug
around* I saw a clump of tall tussocky
gross slightly moving on my left- -T
fired three charges of my revolver right
into it, and was rewarded by hearing a
smothered groan. Rather incautiously,
nerhaps, for the bush was capable, of
concealing half a dozen savages at the
least, X wheeled around, rode up to it
ami, dismounting, entered it on foot.
As it happened, no one had been
hiding there but the vlcim ofmy bullet v
who lay stretched on his back, with his
glazed eyes fixed on the blue vault of
heaven, and Ids dark red skin already
growing pale and ghastly beneath the
blue mid led streaks of war paint. A
stream of blood was welling forth from
a hole in his naked breast, through
which the leaden. messenger had sped
straight to his heart..'
I know by the way that his scalp-lock
of coarse black luiir was twined and
braided, and by the colors of his war
paint, that he was a Pawnee, by his hal
tered and broken eagle plume, his richly
embroidered wampum* belt, and his
heavily fringed moccasins, that lie was
a chief, and by the raw circles on his
wrists and ankles, and two or three very
recently revealed wounds in different
parts of his body, that he had taken part
'in some great fight, had been made pris
oner and escaped. I had never before
heard of a single.lndian attacking a sin
gle white man and I felt convlnceed that
such a feat would only have been at
tempted by one who of two deadly perils
chooses tho least. I therefore concluded
’that the Pawnee, under the impression
that Ills bloodthirsty and remorseless
foes were close on his trade, had been
hiding., not to waylay me. hut to conceal
himself from them, and seeing mo un
expectedly pass had discharged ids ar
row, hoping to bring me down, and then
escape on my hofro.
This conclusion once arrived at deter
mined me upon pushing on as speedily
as. possible, for if this dead red skin’s
.foes happened to be Assiniboinos, the
best mounted Indians on tho plains, I
should stand a very good chance of fall
ln <r into their hands myself, and a 1? these
Inhuman tiends always tortured their
prisoners before they killed them, in or
der (so I have heard old trappers say) to
make them tender for eating, it was
clearly (inadvisable to let the grass grow
under my feet all the way to Swamp
f’ily, from which I was still distant
about twenty miles—open, short-grassed
prairie all the way.
I must say that I felt rather nervous,
for if I had a dread of 'anything it was
of Indians ; so. as I galloped along, I
kept continually looking over one shoul
der or the other. ISuddehly my pony
sided at 9omethlng and then stood slock
still, trembling like a leaf. I was not
long in discovering the cause of its
alarm, for the skeleton of a horse ami
Its rider lay right In our track. I know
hy the ghastly grinning teeUi of the
latter that he had been a white man, for
many of them were decayed and an In
dian’s teeth never decay. I knew, too,
hy the skeleton of his steed, that it must
-Imve-boen a pony of about tho size of
mine, while a round hole in the dead
man’s skull, which the birds or beasts of
prey, or probably both, had cleared of
every vestige of flesh and hair. Indicated
that he had met a violent death. Neither
arms nor fragments of apparel lay about
him, as might bo expected; but there
were plenty of pieces of cut leather eca -
tered about the grass, some having
blotches of ceiling wax on them; so that
I pretty well guessed them to be frag
ments of a mad hag, such as I myself
was the bearer of. *
“What was your fate yesterday may
be mine to morrow, old fellow; and ho
good by,“ I muttered, half addressing
the bleached corpse, half in mental sol
iloquy as I forced my pony past.
Again T pursued my course with a
gallop, but I was destined to meet with
strange adventures on this particular
day, ami presently, on glancing behind
me, I saw about a dozen horses about two
miles in rny roar, coming on the level
prairie, right on my trail.
Now, had I been a green horn, 1 should
have imagined these horses to have been
riderless. I certainly could perceive no
one on their backs, but I could Instantly
tell, both by the way they galloped and
the steadiness with which they hold on
their course, neither diverging to the
right nor to tlio left, that they were
guided by invisible yet firm hands.
Their riders were lying prostrated along
their bucks to escape observation, an I
they were all in pursuit of one scalp,
and that scalp was my own. I knew
that no men could ride thus but Indians,
and no Indians* but Assinlboines, the
boldest and most brilliant horsemen in
the world. If I fell Into their hand? the
chances were that I should be butchered
without pity. But I wasn’t In their
hands yet, that was one comfort ; and
though their long b ailed, long limbed
mustangs were fleeter of foot than .my
own little steed, yet they had not the
strength and endurance in them that I ho
Norway cross gave to the pony I be-
Mtrodo ; and as a stern chase is prover
bially along chase, whether on sea or
land; except perhaps when a locomotive
under a high pressure of steam is in pur
suit of a black beetle, I did n’t give up all
hopes of escaping from their knives.
“Go it the pace, old girl! there’s In
juns after us,” I cried patting my pony
on the shoulder-. As if she understood
my words, she bowled away right mer
• rily over the soft prairie, and after a
lapse of ten minutes or so I came to the
conclusion that if my toes were gaining
on the—a fact I almost doubted it was,
at all events, very slowly indeed.
The Indians were not long In observ
ing my increase in pace, and knowing
therefrom that I had not been deceived
by their ruse, they quickly assumed an
upright position in the saddle, and treat
ed me to n terrible war whoop, that
made my blood run cold, and every hair
fairly rise on my head, although in an
ticipation of coming off’, which they
undoubtedly woUid do within the next
hour unless my usual good fortune at-
tended me. , T
In the midst of all my danger I could
not help admiring the Arm centaur like
and yet graceful riding of the pursuing
Aeslniboiues, whose naked bodies shone
In the sunshine like statues of bronze.
Broad chested and powerful fellows they
were, looking warlike and picturesque
enough with their head dress of gor
geous feathers, and their, brightly color
ed mangas or cloaks floating behind them
on the wind. Over the right shoulder of
each appeared the barrel of a rifle, for
the Assioiboiuea are the best armed In
dians on the American Continent, and
have discarded the how for nearly a
quarter of a century. ,
Thus we swept on, pursurera and pur
sued. for more than one hour, and then
the prairie was nearly crossed, and a«»
the sun sunk below the vast plain I saw
the wooded country just in my Irdut, a
seven miles’gallop through which would
bring me to Swamp City. My foes had,
however, by this time, gained upon me
very considerably, and I know* they
wpuld not he shaken off until tho town
was fairly in sight. Luckily my pony
showed no signs of distress. I therefore
had still a hope left of saving my scalp,
though it grew fainter and fainter every
minute. At last I was fairly amougthe
trees, but tho track was perfectly plain,
ami so I had not to draw rein for. n mo
ment.
Little did I think that, I had- foes in
my front as 'veil ns in my rear, yet of
the fact I was somewhat abruptly con*
vlnced by several men springing put of
the hushes on each-side, and forming
across the road. I saw at a g/anco that
they were armed bribe teeth, and that
•four or five revolvers covered me; yet I
felt delighted to see the-o- men, rascals
though they were.
“We don’t want your life, stranger—
wo want the mall bags; but /if you
don’t give them up quietly, why, we’ll
precious soon take both,-” shouted a fel
low. who seemed to leader*.
“Don’t ask for the hag,-or talk of* ta- •
Jkingjny_flfeP_.l,*aii3wered t -.-fijr-ln-iU fo w
"ini notte’- t.tmo-yoiT^ll-lmve^rron'gtrto'ilO^'
to save your own. I am dying from the
Indians, who arp close behind ; so let mo
pass.”
“Injuns.” said they, “that’s a likely
yarn. Injuns -don’t come within live
miles of Swamp City, so none of your
tricks upon travelers. If you don’t drop
that mall bag before I count throe, PH
shoot you as dead as a clam ; there now!
One.”
These felloe had appeared so sudden
ly upon the scene, and now covered me
so completely with their weapons—their
leader especially—that I saw thnt'before
I could handle my own rifle or pistols
I should be riddled hy a dozen of balls
at least. Lucidly however, at this crit
ical moment the Indian war whoop ran"
out shrilly close in my rear, and that
wild and terrible cry produced a magical
effect upon the white'banditti.
"Now will you let ms pass ?”■ I cried.
“Pass?" said they. “Yes, why of
course, hut surely you won’t leave us to
the mercy of these Infernal rod skins?
We’ve no horses to oscipo on, ami your
rifle might turn the day in our favor.”
“I don’t know why I should risk my
life lu.your defence, for you would, have
taken mine without a scruple,” I re
plied ; yet as I’m dying to have a shot
at these dogs of Assinihoines, who have
worried'me so, T’ll stop and empty one
or two saddles for you. at all events. -
There was no time to sav more, for
the Indians were upon. us. They seemed
surprised at perceiving our numbers, but
they had no thought of shirking the
contest on that account* We were seven
to twelve, but onr,revolvers and my six
shooter rifle, especially, gave ns great
advantage over them. Directly as the
red Sklnscame within range, the robbers
fired a volley at them, not a shot, how
ever. taking effect. In return tlie Assi
niboines drew rein, and unslung their
rlffes, brought them to a present as
calmly and collectedly as English
soldiers would have done on parade;
hut before a single trigger was pulled,
two had fallen victims to my riffle oir
bine, and of the remaining shots one
grazed my shoulder, and another killed
one of tbe robbers—that was all.
I had hy Ihjs'Mme worked myself in
to the rear of the half dozen rascals on
•whose side I was fighting, and again
faking deadly aim., I brought down an
other Indian, and then shouting, “now
I guess you’re an equal •match, for I've
wiped out throe red skins, and having
kept my word, will leave you (o light it
out fair and straightand wheeling
round mv pony, I once more struck out
Into a gallop for Swamp City.
For several minutes f he vrd shots and
cries and aM the noises of a desperate
conflict, hut I never stopped to listen nr
look around ; and in 1 -as than Ivlf an
hour I saw lights gleaming ahead, and
oresenlly drew uh before the voidcn
Post Office in Swamp City, where I
found another expressman mounted and
wailing to .carry tho mail to the next
stage, Soloman Town. 4
I. was In the Pony Express service at
St. Joe, for five years after this my first
ride, hut I don’t remember ever eiicoun
teringso perilous a ride again. I discov
ered. on my next journey, that tho
Assinihoines had beaten their white
opponents, rud killed and scalped every
man of them.
Beautiful Ireland.—We know, oi
course, that Ireland is called the ‘Emer
ald Isle,’ and the color of the emerald Is
green, but never had it entered into .our
imagination that there was anything in
this world to ho seen such verdure as it
charmed nnr eyes to look upon in the
rural districts of Ireland. The slopes,
the knolls, the dells, fields of young grain,
over which the breezes creep lik a play
ful spirits of the beautiful; the pastures,
dotted over with sheep of the purest
wool; the hillsides, rising up Into mist
shrouded mountains, are all covered
with think. carpets of smooth velvet
green. Hut Ireland should also be called
the Flowery Isle. There is not a spot in
Ireland, I believe, where blessed nature
can find an excuse for putting a flower ;
but she has put one—not only In the
gardens and in the meadows, but upon
the very walls and la the crags of the
sea, from the great blooming rhododen-
drons down to the smallest flowret that
modestly peeps forth from its grassy
cover. The Irish furze, so richly yellow,
covers all places that might otherwise be
bare or barren; the silkworm delights
everywhere, from thousands of trees, to
rop Its webb of gold;’ the bio lifting
hawthorn, with the sweet scented pink,
and especially the white variety, adorns
tiie landscape and the gardens; wall
flowers of every hue and variety, clam
ber to hide the harshness of the mural
supports; the beetled cliffs of the’iNorth
Sea arc fringed and softened with lovely
flowers; and if you kneel anywhere al
most on the yielding, velvety carpet,''you
will find little, well-nigh invisible flow
ers, red, while, blue ard yellow, wrought
into the very woof and texnre. Ireland
might to be called ihe Beautiful JMe.—
The spirit of tbe beautiful hovers over
and touches to living loveliness every
point.— Pall Mall Gazette .
The Traveler in the Snow.—A
traveler was crossing a mountain height
alone, over almost unlrobb-n snow.—
Warning had been given him ifslumber
pressed down his weary eye lids they
would invariably bo sealed in death. For
a time he went bravely on his dreary
path; but with the deepening shade an
freezing blu-ft at night there fell a weight
upon Iris brain and eyes, which seemed
to be .Irresistable. In vain he tried to
reason with himself; in vain he strained
his utmost energies to shako off* that fatal
heaviness. At this crisis of his fate his
foot struck heap that lay in his
path. No stone was that, although no
stone could have been colder or more
lifeless. He stooped to touch it, and found
a human body, half buried beneath u
fresh drift of snow. Tho next moment
the traveler had taken a brother in his
arms, and was chafing his bunds, and
chest, and brow, breathing upon the,4llll
cold llpsthe warm breath of a Hying soul;
pressing the silent heart to the beating
pulse ot his own generous bosom. The
effort to save another had brought buck
life.and warmth, and enei gy. Ho was a
man again, instead of a weak creature,
succumbing to despairing helplessness,
dropping down in dreamless sleep to die.
‘He sayed a brother, and saved himself. ’
Du Ckaillu, the famous African ex
plorer, wbeu last heard from, whs at
rlammerfest, Norway, whether ho had
just returned from tho North Capo, tho
extreme point of tho European continent,
which juts into the weird, wild Arctic
Ocean. Since ho left us last spring, lie
has visited Sweden, Finland, Lipland,-
parts of Upper Uussia,,and hits been far
up the Gulf of Bothnia. It is reported
that ho likes his old “stamping gropnd”
fur better than tho scenes of bis recent
travels. He misses tho oharmArf tfie
barbarians ho has heretofore visited and
described. He loves the forests, the. tig
ers, the apes and the gorillas, where he
was far away from his species, and was
the only “ other man” in and among
them ; and ho longs to he hack again in
the midst of his blessed baboons* Ap
propos of that; lie announces Ids return
10 New tfork some time in November or
early In December.
VOL. 58.—N0- 23,
HOW TO WOO AHD WIN
hy johx c. s v.vn
n Wou'd you play tho manly lover?'
Suit! a graybeard to his sou,
“ List ray son while I discover
How a maiden should bo won.
“ Woo her not.wlth boastful phrases,
Lr ast you teach her lips to sneer;
Still a suitor’s warracstprnlscs
In appear.
“ Woo her not with senseless sighing
Maidens love a laughing ej*c:
Toll her pot that you aro ‘dying,’
Lest she, mocking, bids yoWlle !
n’Woo'he'fnot'VvltU wcaiciywMiiing'"’
O’er your poverty or poll,
Lest she answers by<lccllnlng
Iloth your sorrows—and yourself!
rk Woo her with a manly wooing
Giving hostages to rate.
All the heart’s devotion showing
By Us strength to work and wait.
“ Woo her not with idle prattlo
Whom yon fain would make your wife
ihitwlth proofs that In life’s battle
You aro etmoi lo tho strife.
Like tho knight whoso simple sucln;
• Won the hicly (says the tale),
When tUsplio their wordy wooing
AM the rest wore doomed to lull.
* Lady !' quoth tlio bold Knight Errant,
' Brief 1 ho story I shall tell;
F would wed thee—here's the warrant—
' I shall love ami serve theo well!’ "
“ And behold ! his dexter Ungers
Crush a horso shoo like a reed !
Ami within her lap there Ungers
All the gold the twain can need !
“COUfITIN’S HOT.”
(Correspondence of the Syracuse S(andard(
A party of • us were chick hunting the
otlier day on the Missouri bottoms.—
Night overlook us almost before wo were
aware of it, and we were obliged to seek,
lodging at the first dwelling we could
find, [t was a small, one-story structure
of throe rooms, and occupied by a family
of six—father, mother, daughter and
three sons.’ The sons .wereall unmarried,
and from the calls that were made after'
ward we judge the daughter was unmar
ried also, Wo hadn’t been in the house
five minutes wnou some kind of a vein
cle drove up., and two young men wore
ushered into the parlor. .Sf.aightway the
mother and daughter held a whispering
consultation,'which closed with an invi
tation to the sittin’ room for supper. It
was evident that the young men callers
had been to tea, as they stayed, in the
parlor with ‘sweet sixteen.’ Scarcely hud
wo taken our seats at the table when a
howl from the dogs out doors announced
another comer. .He sm-mml to avoid the
front door, and knocked at that where
our party was just settling to supper.—
The mother rose to answer the .summons,
when we were surprised by the daughter
opening, the parlor door and rushing
forward with ‘Don’t gil up, mother! it’s
one of my fellows! Come iu, Jim ; how
do you do ?’ , *
And .Jim entered iu response to the
cheery salutation. He made himself as
comfortable) as possible till we had fin
ished supper, when another whispered
conversation proved that the ‘parlor Is
full as ilort to be,’ which was whispered
by Miss in response to some motherly
suggestion. The old gentleman solved
the question by inviting us into the
kitchen to smoke. It was evident Jim
dijn’t. smoke, for ho remained in the sit
ting mom. \Ve would have doubtle-a
enjoyed a quiet cigar had not the old
huiy opened the back floor, and shouted
at the top of her voice: ‘Come round here
to the hack door.* II was another young
man, and. we fancied he looked as if he
had came rather late. Two young men
within the parlor, one in . the sitting
room, and one in the kitchen. \Vbat
should be done? courting business
was getting hot. There was another talk
between mother and daughter.* It was
evident.their devices had been exhaust
ed. The old gentleman was called info
the corner. He settled the question with
a whisper:
‘I’JI lie damned if I'll move again till
th*> sitting room’s full F
Into the sitting room went number
four, and .wo smoked, ftwas fully ten
minute- before the next disturbers came,
and they entered the kitchen 1 with an
air of oid acquaintances. Wo looked
anxiously at tho host. Taking his pipe
froth his mouth, a-single sentence re
lieved ua:
‘Them’s the widowers ! Slick !’•
And we ‘stuck and smoked on. For the
next half hour the girl must have been
kept busy. Thu widowers certainly had
a third of her lime. It was 0 o’clock.—
We wished to go to bed, and the only
bed we had discovered was in the parlor.
The old gentleman ' divined our wishes
and said :
T am sorry, gentlemen. lint this is one
of the regular courtin' nights ! Them
two fellers in the parlor-never'leave be
fore midnight, and the widowers alius
stay all night. And that ain’t tho worst
of it! .Dan ’ill be here at 10 o’clock ! I
and tho boys alius sleep in the haystack
'Friday nights* Ver welcome to that 1*
Tho parlor, sitting room and kitchen
full, wo retreated to a haystack. I
sponse to a question on the point, theold
gentleman said, that—
‘Friday night il‘s purly bad, hut Sun
day Its wuss. Last Sunday night there
was ten on ’em, ami the -girl is gittln’
more amkmore parlikilor. The more she
gets, the more she wauls!’
On the haystack, with a stilt* breeze
driving away the mosquitoes, we heard
Dan drive up. One of the lust remarks
of tho old man before ho lull asleep was,
‘Yes, gentlemen, courlin’s hot in Nebras
ky!’ And wo believed him.
There is only one territory of any size
and never lias been but one, occupied by
any considerable population, from which
woman is absolutely excluded. Yet such
a place exists to-day, and has existed for
centuries. As far back us history reaches
to all females it has been a 'forbidden
ground. This bachelor’s Arcadia is situ
ated on a hold plateau between the old
peninsula of Acte, in the Grecian Archi
pelago and the mainland. Here, in the
midst of cultivated fields and extensive
woodlands, dwell a monastic confedera
tion of Greek Christians, with twenty
three convents, and numbering more
than seven thousand souls, and not one
of the monasteries dates from a later
lime than the twelfth century. A few
soldiers guard tho borders of this anti
female land, and no woman Is allowed to
cross the frontier. Nor is this all ; the
rule is extended to every female creature,
and from lime immemorial no cow, or
mate, hen, dude or goose has been per
mitted to make acquaintance with hill
or valley of Mount Athos territory. A
traveller was startled by tho abruptques-
Uon, ‘What sort of human creatures nr©
tho women?' Tho very idea of woman,
whether os mother, wife or sister, is al
most lost. To ail woman-haters; to
bachelors of oyer forty years' standing;
to all men who seek refugo from the wiles
ami ways of tho opposite sox, this region
can ho safely recommended-as a haven
of refuge.
A widow, a boarding-house keepc r out
in Kansas, who entered a complaint
against a border, gave her ago as twenty
three, when she is fifty if she is a da-,
when the enraged Justice dismissed IhO
case without inquiring any further.
An old farmer, who was asked by an
Impertinent attorney If there wore any
pretty girls in his neighborhood, answer
ed ; ‘yes sir, lots of 'em ; so many that
they cunt all find respectable husbands ;
and lately sumo of 'em’s been taken up
with lawyers.’
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per lino for tho first Insertion, and five cci,
per lino Tor each subsequent Insertion. Q,m
t?rly, half-yearly, and yearly Advertisements
orted Atn liberal reduction on tho above rat.
Advertisements should bo accompanied by ih<
Case. Wood sent without any length ol lime
specified for publication, they will be continued
nniilordercd out And ouargtid accordingly
JOB PRINTING.
C’Aiin'i, handbills. Circulars, and every olh
cr d(s riptlon of Jo» and OarO Printing. ’
©iTDs anti ffints
A black bird—a raven huo ollicer.
Fascinating ladies—Arch duchesses.
Thr cup after the cup that cheers—the
iic-cup.
IT wit is bad in age, what must it be in
'outh?
The stouo to do a good turn—thegriud
stoue.
A man ought to keep out of trade, if he
can’t get in.
.* Ho\f to test the Weight of awr fi
scal© It.
.. WirAT....oughf Jalways t0...b0 up.to the
-
When is a smile behind time? Whoa
it’s a littio laughter.
A western gentleman advertises for a
‘self-supporting wife.”
Honey bees aro winged merchants—
They cell their honey.
Is it possible for a garret window to
suiler room-attic panes?
“2th piUs” appears on a vase in a Dan
bury boarding house.
Barbers make many • friends, but
scrape more acquaintances.
How on earth is it that, at a party, the.
guests grow thin after supper?
New Orleans girls complain that the
young men don’t ‘tease them enough.-
Why is a tight rope dancer like an ep
lemic? Because he’s poison in the air.
Judy asks whether women are neare;
angles since they r:ave worn high heel.* /
“Figures won’t lie.” Won’t thfW
Docs,a fashionable woman’s figure toil
ie truth?
‘I want to bo an angel’ was played as
an introduction t;- Bon Butler’s Havet-.
ill speech. •
Why is a donkey that cannot hold his
bead up like next Monday.? Because it’s
neck’s weak.
Ph • dle are always advised to put the
best foot forward. , What is to be done
with the other?’
It is the approach of dinner time that
we feel most sensible ‘the emptiness o;
things below. ’
Fashionable boot, makers cannot al
ways cure ladies' boots if they are bad ;
but they heel them.
Bald-headed men are advised to util
ize the shiny place by painting their
monograms there-on.
A‘DRUMMER is the fastest time
world because time beats all men, but a
unimcr beats ilmo.
A man named pledge, seventy-three
years old,-is in the Virginia state prison.
Of course it’s Old Sledge.
Mrs. Gubkins says her husband is like
a tallow cmdle, because he always will
smoko when lie is going out.
A Cincinnati horse doctor advertise
to teach a horse to slug. But we have
enough one-horse singers already. ,
An Irish Judge said, when addressing
a prisoner: ‘You are to he hanged, and i
pe it will proven warning to you.’
An exchange tells us that Mr. Chase
experiences a little difficulty in speaking.
This is a me it which too few few politi-
cians possess.
A Boston lady declares she is guilty of
downright falsehood a dozpu times a day
by saying to the people she meets, ‘I am
glad to see you,’ and cannot free herself
of the habit,
The ‘Neglected Married Woman’s Bo
.ciety ’ passed h resolution inviting respect
able young men to attend the weekly
meetings.
Josh B llings say’s : ‘Never do any
work before, breakfast. If it is necessary
to work before breakfast, have, your
breakfast first.’
A correspondent wants to km w
whether, considering the great utility ,<»t
the, ocean, poets are not wrong in calling
it a ‘waste of water.*
The difference between a watch-key
and a captain on the look out for squalls
is, that one winds the watch, and the
other watches the wind.
A Mr Day wished to*Join theKnighu
Templar, but was rejected on the grounu
that the days never did and never 0...1
mix with tho nighty.
Many ladies have ruined the shape m
their ears by wearing heavy, massive,ear
rings, wliich not only spoUathe shape « 1
the ear by elongating it, but also produo
headache and pains in tho face-
An Illinois lover closed his letter to
his lady sentimentally as follows: My
best loved one, I ebawed tho postage
stamp on your last letter all to thunder,
because I knew you licked it on,
A Duiu/que farmer putout a fire in his
mrn with a deluge of milk. Dubuque is
mt'tho only place where milk differs
>ut little from water.
A shrewd waiter at one o. our water
ing places says that, ‘Them as is most
plain in what they eats, are the most ac
complished and ladylike.’
>!i BiLLtN'GS says: 'Courage with
iscretion is like a ram with horns, it
ends—he will have more lights -i
iand than ho can do Justice to.’
Jns:
iut di
A Milwaukee widow married a wool;
fter tlie death of her first husband, ‘to
ifevont 1 orself from frettcn to dull ■■'i'
he sake of poor Mike, the dear sow!- 1
Brown, the other day, while looking
at the skeleton of a donkey, made a very
natural quotation : ‘Ah,*said he, ‘we are
feunnlly and wonderfully made.'
The Memphis Appeal bowed down
with woe, makes inquiry; • ‘VVhat can
fill an empty pocket with greenbacks or'
pluck from the memory a rotted sorrow?’
‘Mary, I am glad vour heel has got
well.’ ‘Why ?’ said M irv, opening wide
her largo blue eves with astonishment,
‘Oh. nothing,’ said John; ‘only I see
it's able to be out.’
A German advocate is said to have
pleaded for his client in the following
way. ‘Ho has killed his father and
mother, and now he U an orphont. Poor
fellow I We ought to protect him.’
An bid sailor, finding'a corked bottle
[oating on the sea, opened it, with the
allowing soliloquy : I hope; gin,
think; tracts, by jingo!’ and then threw
hem buck into the water.
tJoMEHODY wrote to H. G,, says the
Lowell C’onW«r,inquiring the best method
of preserving-farm tools. The philoso
pher advised the best loaf sugar, pound
for pound, and boll one hour.
Two PnoHtANS, living on the same
street, unblessed with tho same name.
Both are married ; one has a large, tho
other a small wife. They are known as
‘Big’ ami ‘Little’ wifed ‘Brown.'
A couuksi’ondknt wants to know the
best way to become a literary man. Well,
the quickest way U for him to take-a
short voyage to sea. He will then very
likely become a contributor to the At
lantic.
A LIVKLY girl had a bashful lowr
whoso name was Locke. She got out of
patience with him at lust ami In her an
ger declared that Shakespeare-hud not
said half as many things us lie ought u»
about Shy Locke.
What class of workmen ou Hu i..e
French government' to employ for ti ; \
purposo of restoring the Veu
dome to Us original position ’ Composi
tors. of course, for,liny are ia luq habit
of setting up columns.