afije fcolitntccr. PUBLISSKD BVJBB f, THURSDAY MOENINa '■ BY JOSH id. BRATTON. . srricK~>oiiH habket s«mg. ■~tnKa;— Two Dollars per year It paid strf jby . * dvanoo; Dollars ami Piny bents If paid ' .ithln threo months; aftor which Throo Dollars charged.' These terms will be rigidly all hired to In every Instance. No subscription die continued until all arrearages are paid, unless a the tptlonoftheE'lltof. , foclical. BRIRRRR tODt RIB RTL : • ar oorrr- ooorrr. If apody dreatsa poty, 'MitsomogootoUlrye, Un If » body lakes hit toddy, . Sometimes on dorsly ; ■ Or if some volloW. Vndcr mellow Trlnkii dll 1 he get high ; ’Gnlnit der llqnor shall he bellow 7 ■No sooch /00l am i. . ’ . . Chobdb —Every popty loveable toddy, lh*aiidy, chlQ or’vino; Efery bn* has got bis happy, ,'; Goot pld iy olsh nflnc. : f Down der.ohdreet I often meet ; , Zoihp Dutchmens on per shpree ;,,,. Uml if ono of dem. should sfilaml dreat. Itsgoot oldrye forme, , Of all der drinks dere's none, i .dlnks, . Bo god t von vpne Ish dry; Hero’s nodlng. von your shplrlta sink. Gbn liaise dpm like old rye, Cnontra—Efery poody I oves his toddy Prandj l , chin or vine ‘ Uud oferyvon has go t his hoppy, r Ooot old rye Ish mine. Yen vuna lah vlaah den off I tosh , » tfoMyadbrfoMiqaqr abtorei;.. pat dereTiiever trlnkftoo maob,, a quart shaft, oat; ijo more, , y»\i i I VeaonderahtreetT happy bo, ' i \ 1; ‘ i xkmgb In der ehtroeia ‘ i / ; ,' v tin alt tb'e lah nix to 1 aid I '' ,! '** You (risking gool old rye. '■ ;■ CnoßUfl.—Ef«ry poddy loves bis toddy, Frandy, ohln or wine; ;: s■; > > Va eteryVori has got bis hdppy, Mine Un'cootoldPje; _ Il&ellmicms. THE MAN WITHjMOSE LIKE AN OWL, j For'klxVtnbriths Mr. Jared Abrams, ready-made clothing merchant in Chat-1 bam street, hud done as he advertised W great business, in suph a very small shop' that- the- front: of It might hare been covered by one of bis b\yri posters. 1 Then, for six months ' more, Mr, Jared Abrsms.no longer of Chatham atreet(tbe sheriff having stepped in as head sales man and cleared of his stock for him), bad fallen as completely lost, mislaid, sod undlsooverable as if he were a new edition of the ten tribes of Israel. . The common opinion. was—so far as anybody cared to form an opinion on the subject—that be bad Joined an emigrant train,' or perhaps It might have been a training expedition, going from Fort Laramie,’ or some other fort, to the set tlements on the Columbia River, oreome other settlements; and that somewhere or other, nobody specially cared; where, he bad dropped out of this train, or.this expedition, and been gobbled, as bis best friends cheerfully expressed it, by the Indians’—lf dldil’t much matter with In-| dlans. The only lamentation uttered In- Chatham-street .over the afja(if;Wfß; ‘§o little’ Abrams bash gone up! Well, I sphose ho would,’ j Unluckily for little this be lief Was about square with the facts,—: After the unprofitable closing tip of bis great, business in th'o ! olof h|rig , Hno,V he had associated blmselfwitb threeor four mercantile gentlemen ofauomadloand filibustering turn, and bad pushed' into tbs Bosky Mountains with the intention of making a good thlbg out of tbo noblc savage. .These 1 huckstering freebooters, meeting, certain! Shoshoules, who were not members,of the. temperance society, inveigled themselves Into taking too much tire water, ariditben decamped with their peltries, T,he Shoshonles, recover ing their sober senses, pursued vlndlot , Ivoly after the ’ freebooters, overoame them in battle, arid deoariiped with tMer peltries. The only exception made was , In favor qf little Abrams, who, having surrendered at tho.flrst war-whoop, was ailowedto keep hla scalp and what life had not been soared’ont of him.''' bo far w«a bad.enough, Here waaan* other failure in bnslnesZ; here were sheriffs of a new and moat alarming ape* oles. Butithls was not the worst it; .‘for tbe.noble red men carried little Abrams away Idtd!'oa'pllvltjr!-’ tied him to a post In the midst of a village which amelled worao thaii the Bowery, danced around, bltnln a howling' and, threaten! ing and otherwise disagreeable manner! piled logs olfn wood,and; other combustl! bias against big lower .limbs, and proceed* ed to set Are Co Che same. It was obvl-; ously a time to' tlitnk of Bbadraobj Monhech, and Abednego. Little Abrams did think of tfaeip,, and was, all the more frlghtonedthereat! and let .out bis, fright very audibly. There Was a vast deal of hallooing at the time ;" but he bullnoed dander, than - all the Shoshoniesputtoi gethei, eo that the very deafest old squaw iq the village beard him plainly, and, belug exceedingly delighted thereat, re solved to save him,The result was, that she adapted him as her eon ; at least so little Abrams blmeelf understood, It and probably with reason ; for It 1s hardly, likely that even, the moat benighted sav age :would. adopt blm : as a daughter.— Little .Abrams ,was, nof,qf the martyr sort, nor'of the Indian-brave sort. Ha was ‘exceedingly glad when they took the, logs away, from hie lower limbs, and led him out of the emoae, 41th only bis coat-taila bprnte“nd quit shaking tomar haqrkß lh his' face anti yelling at him.— He smiled to right and . left as sweetly as the trembling of. his Jaws.would permit; He bowed toWarrioraand ohlßfamore obsequiously than hbhad over bowed td cußtdi^ejs.lWWathim’etVeot. . When tbd deaf ol«| sqUqW ;$we htni a maternaVl>l>B he returned It with a regular old-fashion, ed stage embrace, 1 sitoklpg hU bead ovef her Bboqidar ah.q edafa|lciai(y,.T-{ What with hla grinning and the bending ofhlg knees with .fright and fatigue, be looked l like a monkey doing middling well at standing on two legs. He would hardly havesCßmb'd biit of character dan*| olng on s bartel brgan and bolding out a! cooked-hat lor peonies. Probably ‘therd was not a brave In the tribe the deaf squaw's choice of a son. Ev|n| theyopog Jadles -of* bought .'that sUe have dohe mucll.better to let" hlm sing' hlo war' Bong, hold ‘fllre brande ln hls;flst r ppd goon 41th hla dy ing.- ' 'However, the deaf due was;obsti nate, and her right to adopt any captive 'ahe pleiiaed was unquestionable,, and. so little Abramafoundhlmsolf launched In life aaaShoihonle. . i He was nowiwell fedand.well treated, There weld donation’visits fdr the bene fit of the hew mepjber of tlie tribe. Sur- P rlß « ; . panics -of hunters and of squaWs ’d'roppsd'lntd bis mother’s wigwam with PWOTtf! ..df,j bpjted, skunks and toasted roots. ,Little Abrams ■ recovered his • ’’ ■■ •• •-.-fMWH* -J- •-* ... , •*. -.1.-..,--,,-. , ,x - V • .-t-., . ~t • W*. .-u. 1 t f«- ** i.i jS'Sc.n'A U. T«.-n" ..■Vv'.-ll *, v♦- :;.'V-V • • .-tT-tt’. I ‘-*«' JrUi i’ii. i . ,i ij! >• i ■ 'ij f «a JniiT,iih> ('onfiin.M j :tui ..M’lriri 1 "! lit JUumran Boluntccr BY JOHN B. BRATTON. 'Strength and spirits. Ho used to grin at the deafold squaw, and out plgeon-wlngs to amuse her, and scream In her ear, ‘How Is that for high V He fabricated whistles out, of. willow- bark, and gave them to all the principal warriors. He made a cross bow, which so astonished the bead chief that he resigned his posi tion, turned pow-wow, and did nothing for the .rest, of bis life but worship the Great Spirit who could Inspire man to InVe^l’ fl'uih Wonderi. In',hhdrt, ! lltllb Useful oltiien,'hu 'or imtiieni'tb Eooky : 4ittuntaln' society, had a general .fayoritp.,,. The,, Bhosbonlea Would not have parted with him for a! million of greenbacks, not hardjy for a gallon of whisky.’ Meantlmohe learned something of the Bboahonle language.—; Be discovered that bis mother’s name was 'The woman with ears Ufa. a slump,’ and that his own name was • Iheman with a nose like an owl Of course bis linguistic acquisition was of no use to him .in discoursing with his maternal: relative, who could no more understahdj what was said tp her, in Indian, than; what was said to hor ln'English. But It' .was.very eon venient to blm ln speaklng: soft thlngs fo a pretty young aquaW call ed Yellow Cloud,- Indeed, It was so en-j snarlngly convenient.‘ for: this purpose' that before long an old chief named: White Crow Informed' him that he was engaged tie Yellow Cloud hod must mar-. ,ry bar,:.":' , : , , , 1 Now'JAe man with a nose like an owl did riot want,to anlar into a iriatrlirionial connoOtlonlritho Rocky Mountains nor anywhere near them, . What be -wanted and all that he wanted was to run away! from those eleyptloris, and get to some' country In which ho, :c6utanywhere,, and all piled compactly in a circle, with a hollow in the center, 1 , after themanner of a fort ification. There,; ,6$ a/lbjttely . blUft of Oregon,' yflth no spectator, - and apparently no claimant but our bankrupt and half-starved shop keeper, towered „ this nutritious , and sweet-smelling monument., . , ' ’The man'jvlth a nose like an owl near-! ly wept with gladness, and. gratitude.— Perhaps he remeriibered bow - bis fore fathers bad bfeen fed in the wilderness with quails - and manna. At the same time hla emotions and reminiscences did net occupy him so entirely as to keep 'him from eating, all together, cheese,- herring, crackers, sardines and canned peaches. His hunger satisfied,'ho pour ed out a glass of fairish whisky, lighted a fairish cigar, and began to query whose restaurant this might be.. An hour or more passed, and no one came; he hal looed repeatedly and got no answer. At last he concluded that some adventur ous traders bad got thus far up the river or down the river, on their way to some market unknown to him, and that their means of transportation break ing down here, they bad stored their goods to the best of their ability, arid then pushed' on to obtain, assistance. 1 -: What puzsled.hiai was that the flat-bciai should have been left'bbblnd, and that no one should have remained to guart| the provisions. | ‘There must be two thousand dollars worth here,’.remarked to ,himself, ‘l’ll shtay a day of two and look-after it.-’lt might be a sbance. to !get into partner: ships and make a fresh shtart In busl: ness.’ ■'’ ’ ’■ ■ ■ • ' '■i So, when night came, be curled him self up In. the little!,hollow in the center of the mound, and . fell asleep amid, a fragrance of eatables more spothlng than opiates. He dreamed that lie was .in Chathapi street, and bad a corner gro eery, and so many .customers that he couldn’t welt on them, and they made such an uproar about It that be. threat teuod to send for the police. Awakening with a start be. became immediately aware that the iigllest klnd of a bustopner had called upon blm. and' that tfils cus tomer waa In a! most Inhumanly! .raven| ous and impatient humor. By the light of a full moon -he beheld the ebaggy bead and shoulders of the disgustingly, long-nailed pawa of a monstrous grizzly bear, The bear stood on his .bind legs Just outside of the rampart of edlbleft.and be seemed to little Abrams to be any where from six to sixteen feet hlgh. One of hit claws clutched a Goshen bheesel and the other a Kentucky bani,' as thof be made up bis mind to 1 have those two articles vat any price. He had very much the air of a burglar, leaning over the counter and Inspecting a frightened clerk on the floor behind It. Hie big mouth was open, and be' waa snapping and snarling loudly and.be was as dread! (ul to see as any bruin ever was si neb the grst bruin took to being dreadful. Little Abrams was paralyzed with ter ror. He was degradlogly Ignorant of the tastes of grizzly bears, and he sup posed that they ate men In. preference to groceries. He expected every moment that the animal would slide forward q claw, drag him out of hie refuge, and de vour him whole, as If he were a raw oyster. In the imbecility of his fright he thought of Little Jack Horner, who 'put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said, what a big boy amTl' He wished, as far as be understood himself, that be was on the top of Mt. Plvgah, or In the Wilderness of Sin, without any munna and,,without any quails. Mean time the bear went on snapping and enarliQg.ae if he were depreciating the provisions and trying to cheapen them. If little Abrams bad owned the Whole twotbousand dollars worth, he would have let, the creature have the lot of nothing, and called It a good riddance!— But be bad no choice In the transaction, and so be Just lay speechless, and trem bled like a hUmcplng-bird, only wishing that he could fly away like one. At last the bear seemed to ootno' to the conclusion that be bad cheapened the groceries enough, and got them reason able. He left off snarling at Abrams, commenced snuffling among the packa ges and boxes, selected. a couple of, the biggest hatua, took one In bis month and one In hla rlght paw. and went off In' d dignified, slow waddle, tike apnray bid gentleman doing bis own marketing! His heavy, cushiony tread died nwaji gradually in the quiet night, apd then all was sileat. Little Abrams listened— sympathetic souls can imagine bow.he listened-It seemed to blm'ai lf hla eatV stretched In the effort , as If they grew to be a foot long: Finally, bearing, noth! lug, be slowly got on bis ib'skalng leg/sj and looked around him. What was his horror when be saw the grlszley only a few rods oil, deliberately flnlshlriga,cou ple of ham bones 7 Be silently carted blmself.up again In bis cuddy, and pr'er' pared bis soul to be masticated out of his body. ' , • :■'' Nevertheless, the danger was ovbrl The bear ate up the bam bones aa If they were sugar sticks, licked his chops med itatively.for a minute, conolcded t|iat be had supper enough for one night, and , CARLISLE. PA., THDRSPAY, MARCH U,; 1872, went oil abont'bis giltzly employments. Although little Abrams lost bis sleep foj the rest of the night, be preserved all bis members andl inwards nneatpn, and had - breath ■ enough .'to, animate them; You 'miy" Imagine, however, that loot before the .eon rose upon him, be bad decided to evacuate .that, locality, even though hlaokoduß Involved a. forty years wandering. -; A circumstance which came tojils knowledge Itr the!morning fixed him in bla i'iabluflhhi .so far as be needed fixing. As He cautiously about the bluff, to see if bis, iigly-ouatomer of the night before wete anywhere; near, he stumbled upon a gun, then upon a body. The butt of the gun was bitten to splln teraVihd the b'afrel wia tw'letedllke a ram’s horu, while the body was nearly stripped- of itsdothlng, and-showed the marks of enormous teeth and claws. Little Abrams at oncognoaaed that this man had been left to guard the groceries,, and tb.at he liad perished In 'the Course, of an altercation about the grizzly. But ! what was bis emotion (a mixttlreof na tural grief, and shall we say natural Joy!); .yfrhelj^ wb-] ognlsed the face of lilsown father, Jared; AbramWaV., alao latebf Cbatham street I; ■.‘Sotlfatah the end of Aim /' moralized | Jared, jr. ‘Veil, I guessh I’ll bury him, and take the shtook along. Of courshe Itsh mine I’ i So -said, so done. After performing such funeral ceremonies as wero neeilod,; he spent the rest of the day In getting the groceries down the bank,, and'ship-’ ping them on. the. flat-boat'and. 'raft, eventually dropplng.down the riVerjust; as the grizzly balled him from the bluff. Reaching Col umbla' City, dr Some, oth er city of which I am equally Ignorant, be opened a respectable retail shanty, made what be cheerfully called bis lit-; tie, pile, pushed on to San Francisco; add set bp in the wholesale tallow line. ; Such were the romantic adventures of The man wiihanoselikean owl.—Hearth and Home. Tbb Red River Raft.— Having heard of the “great raft" in the Red River, since our geography days; we are all' apt-to suppose we know all about it. We are all well aware that It is a mass of drift wood, completely obstructing naviga tion at the point where it covers the wa ter with its countless trunks; of forest trees. We know, that the river passes under this mass as If It were a bridge j and we may remember that la 1833, when the raft was one hundred and twenty? . four miles long, the general government . began the work of removing It, but after working at it for twenty.-two yeara, aban doned' the attempt as inbpraotlaable, and confined,its efforts to the opening up, of some of. the laterar channels or bayous. We may know ail this, but still be Ignorant of one of the most cu rious characteristics of the . great fhfc, which is that if, unlike rats in general,. moves up the river 4 against the current Insteafihf down. The knoyement is very tlqnt, betug but a nslle or two In a year. Tbe'explanatlon of this retrogade move ment of an apparently stationary, mass jlii slmpieienobgh> *fhe logsof the, lotfar end of the; ji»ft are continually broke? away and. carried off by the floods and ~ fteaHete. 1 Thus the raft, 'aWkjs falling away : at 'one' end’ and‘growing at the other; gradually moves up the river, , and:U',;.is daipulateci that ’it ;,Jjas“ moved sines, its forming abput four hundred miles! ‘Scientific writers have suggested the Idea that this vast muss of aftbr, lying In'.the did , bed 4 of ; the river: ■for-quite a number of > ages,, will beddipe edaj bed. But when ttie’ Bed .R| w becomes.thickly settled/ this enormous collection of driftwood may he< utilized in .some way, -or other, and. thus incalcu - lably distant-generations may becheateii, out of many a good coal flie. A JT UNSYMPATHETIC! RAILROAD OF FICIAL,—‘Your fare, If you please, mad-', aitae,’ said the'conductor to an'elderly lady who bad got aboard at a way sta-. tlori; ' The' elderly lady, looked upland drawing fanh aletter,' spoke with a voice that was .shrill: Two of - Mr. ———-’s children are dead, jahd /they’ve writ in'e to come to the bulgin'- to-day. Isn't It tdrrible?’ 1 The conductor looked as shocked as possible, and expressed sym pathy. ‘ I can't let you. ride free unless 1 you have a pass,’ replied the conductor,; mfldly. Notto go to a fuoeaal V said the old lady.' ‘No, madamo, 1 replied /the conductor ; ‘l’m sorry to say that, of iheroad are very strict, and' I todi-eerjminale. 'Well,' I think yoif Oughtn't 1 to charge folks for going to a Inn end,' persisted the old lady. ‘lf we let every body going to funerals ride free’—again sp.nko.the conductor— •lt wouldn’t pay. Besides, It would 1-6 encouraging' the funeral‘business lu s' way (hat would c.sist" gloom over the en tire country, . Yo>ar fare is i a dollar and a halt, .mailairie..’ ‘Well,’ retorted the ! $d dpjwlnjj out’a well-filled purse, l T thjpk you naif, -bit let mo go free' ’spe cially a» Ilia going to a douhle funeral. Mr. H’e ohlldro n ara both 'dead, and they’ll be burleU la the satne grave, ! reckon. Oh I It’s a turrlble blow I,’ Au(l the old lady, -wiping her eyes, paid her fare. -As the conductor moved, qn,she turned to a passenger and remarked,with some - indignation,; .‘These railroaders Is the most upfoelid’ folks I ever, seed.’ ‘ A Pectoliak LaT>y.— London hnsre- bereayopient rip the; periibo if'alady of the not unfamiliar name of Brown, Some time back aboi offered the Board of \yofps 1 $250,0.00 If It would make a contemplated alteration In. a street In the manner she wished, but lhe;? wero unable to accede tc, her wishes,' She then offered them $30,000 for the erection of a drinking fountain to be placed at the end of the street In which shie lived, and this was about to be qrectcd. The Board was also in communt(}f>t|oh .with her about ppblic baths, which'the Intended to erect.at a cost hf $2£&((00 when suddenly pattkla •mart, had taken some Umeobmllig, for Mrs. Brown was ninety, death stepped' in and dissipated her benevolent in tefh t|on. She died Intestiite, leaving sp' es tate of $60,000 a year, und without aim main relative, Ills the irefore'stated that the' property will go' to- the Crown,' but; as there ere several Bro wns about, It will ,be hard If. one of that: 0 blqultoue family •can't substantiate aolahtii; Perhaps some of the American branch • of the clan will think It worth While to hook up their ped- Igrsss. ' BEOamStLIATiSNI As through the land at) eve WB went. And plnqked the ripened ears, Wo fell out, my wife and I, : Oh I. we fell out. I know not why, ; And kissed again with .tears. . For when we came where lies the child We lost In other yeare, ■' There-rabove the little grave. We kissed again, with tears.- ' * WAMDERER'S BCTQRR. IB Carry Blade relate*' that Us edl-, net n man on Saturday, juiit. arrived : l the West, who was returning to (place of‘his -nativity, In Venango ipty, from wbloh .be has been absent jteen years In China, India, Austra-J god California,, moat of this time,how-, i| ,In India aodChloa. He mined fort il,|h Australia, and mdt with some; I log adventures among- the bush-1 nl- Be prospected a few months in! CaUjbrnla.dlscOveiingaallveriode whiohj be qplil out at an advance. He then] thought be would dome home, and see If any ofi hls. friends were alive. Ho wan; 'tnbw-bobnd on the Pacific railroad, and i wga' tvfenty-'elgbt days coming from San ■Francisco. Wheu bo left home .be went with a determination to make, his, for tune, meaning never to return Until be was ablo to count ,dollars with the rich iest of bis friends. Wo suggested to him that some of hie friends lived In the heart of the oil "region, and we knew that some of them bad acquired conside rable money. Ho said he would have to 'count with them before he would’ud sail foiled that bo .could not. buy the 'hest of them. Ho named a nice little sum wblplj he,sent to a banking-house In a- large city la this State, represented tfy bonds bearing the sign-mahual’of “tTnote Samf neb”. Five years ago,, while In, Hong Kong, China, be got nearly ready to rej tufn, but being unable to settle all hiji business la time to take the steamef u. Bj Grant, be concluded to stay a while longer.” He thinks there was something providential in . bis detention,, as the steamer,waslpet.and alien board were., drowned. We withhold bis name, ni present, as he wishes to see earns of hi friends before .they hear of his arrival.-i-: Thera are several substantial men in this laity that have known hjtn from boyhood. One of whom he - pointed oU' on the platfoi’m, giving his’ name anil former reside.nee., Mr! has chang ed. so . much in his appearance that hV . thinks hie fi-lends will hhrdly recngnlzt hlm. He did,not pear of ! the rebellion until, nearly, two years after it.broke oui. He Was very“ muoh. surprised when he arrived at Oorry, for, when he left home, Corry of thje railroads passing through |l had not .been ,tboughf of, . .He felt some as Rip Van Winkle, did, and his heard was about half a yard In length. He Is now 1 forty-nine years of age, half and hearty- Ho went to Titusville op tin ‘evening, ‘train.. If bis. parents are stiii ■living’tlley must.' have considered him dead, years : ago. .In speaking of the probability of. finding them ai(ve and again meeting them, - his lips quivered and his whole frame ahoak wltb emnlloq. Ho has kept a diary of his life during the entire time. . It would no doubt he an in-, tefeeting book to read. . ' /About a Shake.— The Richmond cor respondent of the Petersburg Index telle the following: - " A gentleman, a physician, resident near the Warm Springs, but - now on a visit to this city,- tolls a remarkable story. The doctor was recently sent Mi to see a lady of bis .neighborhood, who had been bitten on the ankle hy a raltlg ’ shake. When ho reached the pat(eht hf' found that her friends, adopting an old ’ Indian remedy, 1 which had bdmb ‘down todhlß generation with all the legendary Ibre of the neighborhood, had bound the wound—already much' swollen—with ’several folds of the Inner lihlng -(fibre) of the bark of the Sycamore tree. Wil ling to await iho result of. this experl j meet, and seeing really no chance for the application of betfMßemedy, our doctor ’allowed the' lady to -keep the bandage on, and Ip a few hours she wa relieved from the pain and the effects ol the poison, too, as she declared. Then It was removed. ’ The wound presented a most favorable appearance, and the dure was soon pronounced complete. Now the most astonishing part remains to be told. On unfolding the bandages I have referred to, the exact outlines, the very photograph, yea, the perfect picture of the snake, coiled; ready for. a spring, was found Impressed upon It: So perfect waa the llkeneass, that If any one had seen the bark bandage lying open on the ■ roadside,, he would have .thought thb ‘ratller’ had colled upon H for one of his deadly springs. The doc tor saw this with his own eyes. And the remedy,has been applied to similar cases lu (bat sect leu of the country with as, liappy effects. ’’ '.The Bangor Commercial tells the fol loading good story: ‘Everybody recol lects .Uncle Van Meter, the colored philosopher of Barkersville, who died some months since. Van was a char acter, He waa summoned on pue oc casion as a witness In the,Supreme. Court on a cow case at the time the be nevolo nt Judge Hathway presided.— ThV counsel on either' side, who are still ijy'log in thlB city, out of sheer fun racked their brains to obfusticato the veteran African boy by plying all man-, ner-of questions pertaining to every other topic but the cow. The ei-i . pertinent was successful, and < poor befoggled Van answered as wildly ,'B3; ( a blind pugilist strikes out at hip antagonist, Judge Hatljawayi willing to enjoy a little sport, but with a view (0 getting the bewildered philosopher back to a rational standpoint, turned bonlgnnntly toward him and put a simple question. This , waa more than the Illustrious voudoo could stand j a nmgapio^;,never , exploded .quicker;— Lifting both' hands above his head, and with a conntenanee beaming with da apiilr, *I tiow, yott old' gray-harted gem trian np dar on do bench, don’t you Interfere wld dfs matter. I’ve Just'as much oa l ean do to take cate of dese i\yo c|iaps down here I’ ” . Jf yon do nob give mo a dime,' said a young hopeful.to his mamma, Iknow a' boy who’s' got ‘the meusela, and I’U go and catch them.’ : iM -FV-idHtn ftqWfiWl '«EVOII»'riBII*BrHIBTOHL n: , ; ,! VALLEY FORGE.* . ,- This is a small, village on : the, Beading railroad,mast,of Plioouixvilfe, yfticse sole distinction consists In , Its having been the' plaoo where VVashlngton made If Is winter quarters in 1777-78. The Forgo baa long since disappeared, as well os all the buildings occupied by the employees of the irpn. works, and the'only bonnes now standing that were built before the Revolution it 1 the building occupied by Washington as bis head-quarters. This'; Louse was built by a 'gentleman named ‘Potts, who established Iron’works here, thaUy of "whose descendants' have -been] extensively engaged ib tbO iron business i In this and neighboring counties, and for, Whom Pottstown and Pottsgrovo ware: named. ‘ The’, house Is of stone about thirty feet square; and is substantially! constructed. The lower story Is divided; into two rooms, both of which were oo ; copied by Washington. In one of theaej rooms Is an old fashioned Franklin stove,; around wbiob Washington and hie Qon-i orals aat ■ during, that gloomy wjntor to discuss the position and prospects of our struggling, Republic. Everything about' the houso remalnpjps It yvas at that.lime,’ and its, present owners and occupants! will treat yon politely if you stop off be | tween trains to view the.premises.’ The 1 old entrenchments are still plainly vial-: ble, the main line extending southward from the Bcbuytklll river for mot's than a mild. Cannon balls'and old swords and spades are still ploughed up In the neighborhood by ]the, farmers; Washington, after his disastrous defeat at Brandywine, 1 arrivod'at Valley' December'l7th. 1777, when hewventldtj winter quarters. ' It was proposed that be should retreat to Lancaster, and even as far Westward as Carlisle, but It was 11- 'nally deolded'by a council of war to keep near the British ai'my, keep an eye on Philadelphia, and thus protect a’largp extent of territory, that would be exposed to tbe Brltiab, and foraEod on by tbbml if the American army should go fartbei' west.- ■ • . ~,i , Irving, in his Life of Washington, says: ‘Bad and dreary was the march to Valley Forge, unohesred ,by the reoolleo-, tlon of any recent triumph, as was the march to winter quarters in the pteoeed; lag year. Hungry, and cold were 4 the poor fellows who had so long been keep ing the field/ for the provisions 4 were .-•cant, clothing worn out, and so badly wijfe they off .for shoes that the footsteps of many might be tracked In hided. Ar rived at Valley Forge, the troops bail atili.tp btave the wintry weather In tents until they could construct huts for their accommodation. Those who weroon the tick list bad to seek temporary shelter among the’ farmers of the neighborhood. The huts of the soldiers fronted on'Btrebie.i those of the officers formed a line'ln the -ear, Und the : enOampmetit assumed 1 the; look of a military village. This was pej--. (laps the most eloomy period of the Rev olution. Washington’s military opera-. Hons were severely criticised by many 1 1 ; /• to ■ • .M. ;■ itiitE ELEMENT care. in,o War In Africa—Dr. Pdlno ■ Fighting Ihr EwniwHtrtnmft and j : Mackey aceu«edr-*Evan» the Vic* I tlm of a Consplraojr***l*et ail Dl»* | ..clym thj) Whole Truth. I ■ ' Philadelphia!' March' I.—The Qeo. i 0. Evans embenlement: fight In this State.ls IFiicts'am dal-i ly coralugto light which lend to ebow I that Evans la not bo great a rascal after { all, but that be Is made to appear. #o to) shield others’ In the State Government. 1 The Investigating committee of the! Senate came here on Tuesday to examine! Evans, but found that ho hsd gono to ; New York,* ahd, as ho himself alleged, i Was to ill to'Upper. This looked bad for] the ex-Stalo Agent, and probably nqt| one In ten believed 1 his story 1 ; but his counsel, J. H. Blrahan of New York, ap-, peared next day In person, and assured, the committee that Evans Wnsaotuslly| ito ill to leave bis 'bed. Hp. also brought a oertlßoate from, a prominent New York ; physician corroborating his statement.— .Notwithstanding this, the committee wont back to Harrisburg determined tor sue out an attachment and secure Evans on a requisition upon Gov. Hoffman,— But the parties who are so vigorously pursuing, Evans with the strong arm of the law have'mec with a sudden and un expected obstacle. THE POOL, The history of Evans’s alleged embez zlement. la wall known, and neetjs no repetition now. Suffice it to' say that the, whole thing grows out ,of the collec tion of Pennsylvania's, war claim against ,tho national Government. , There is. nrii Upubt that, a pppi was made up in the Executive Department of the State Qovj-. ernment .tp.make money put of this claim. undeniable, and ft. is to escape discovery of their crimes in th is respect that several of the State officers ' are now hounding prior Evans to death). The officers who are 'Strongly, suspected of complicity In this are John E. Hkrt- J ranft' the Audllrir Generali and ! R. : W. Mackey, State Treasurer. Both are be ■ llevera In the White House dogma that tho very best President we river ‘had. or everoan have Is Ulysses S; Grant. ' j Hartranft da a strong candidate for Governor, and will receive the support of the Grant faction-In tho State. Another member of the war claim ring was Wtn. :H. Kemble, Iprmotly State; Treasurer,, and the..incumbent of, iho offlee wlion, the large claims were being collected. “ ' A SNAO. •: 1 As I have'said, those Who are how. persecuting Evans to shield . thrimsolves, have suddenly fun 1 against a snag. : Tills snagia Dr., William Paine ol thoPhilS delphla University. Paine is a warm friend of Evans—ln fact; the only one of prominence who be lieves,in, bis,entire, innocence. He is, ,moreoveri veryrloh and very energetic. He got Into a row with the Pennsylvania State officers because of his warm friend ship for Evans, and they in turn went for, him on the charge of selling bogus diplomas from his university. When Evans was arrested In New York last fall and. lodged In the Harris burg jail, it was to Paine’s indefatigable efforts that he was Indebted for hls' re teose. Indeed, after signing bis bail bond and providing other additional se curity, Paine ’ had to actually threaten Hartranft and Maokey with afreet for conspiracy before they would consent to Evans’s, release. 11 This embittered them , still more, and soon afterward thppom mlttei,,waS. appointed; from the Legisln tureto lovesllgate Paino’,a college. fEtiisi was all,the. work of Hartranft,and Mack ey. The committee, have got , through their, work,-and so fai; aa Dr. Paine and hie college are concerned, hot a particle of evidence has been brought out to show that a,diploma ,was,ever sold. A DOCrIOR ON TUB WAR PATH. And now comes Dr. Paine's, turn., He Is shrewd, energetic,vindictive, and has the means to carry out bis ends. He.has put on-the .war paint, slesed'bis toma hawk;, and declares that tie will have the scalps of Hartrauft, Maokey and Kemble before thirty; days. He is already well armed. He first proposes to . show (hat the -appointment of Evans as. State Agent was a conspiracy to make money out of the. war claims. The other day, when Kemble was before the committee,,-' he testified that, although he was State ' Treasurer at the limp, he did riot know that Evans was agent for. the collection of the claims. This is a rap at Governor Geary, and Dr. Paine says, la falsehood number one in Kemble’s testimony. - Again, Kemble says that Evans came to him and naked for aletter of Intro duction to some one in Washington who could help him get a claim through. ) Ha said be gave him one to Titan J- Coffey, a lawyer, there, but that .Evans never, used It, 'for the reason,’, said Kemble, *tba,t he did not want a letter to a respeo tabfe,Jawyer, but one to some one who could take him into Grant’s departments, by the kitchen way.’ Now Paine knocks spots out of this statement by'exhibiting the original letter given by Kemble to. Evans to present to 'the respectable lawyer.’ Here it Is: State op Pennsylvania, ) Execotivr Dep., Trbas.’B Ofeicb, [■ . Habeisbdbo, Joly 7, 1886. J My Dear Coffey : Allow rao to la trmluoo to you iuy particular friend,Mr. George O. Evans. He has a claim of some magnitude whioh he wishes'you to help him In. Pot him through as you would me. He understands addition, division and alienee. Yours, &0.. Wm. H. Kemble. To Titian J. Coffey, Esq., Washing ton, D. (J. SWINGING A, HEAVY TOMAHAWK. Palno'eaya (bat Evans' never need this letter because' he Was ashamed to present > It. But Paine' has another' tomahawk which he says will go clean through the political skull of Hartranlt. ' That Is a sworn transcript of Harttauft's private account with his brokers In Philadelphia! This shows thhtat the time these claims werecbllooted tbat i worthy had specula-. tlv6 transactions amounting to. .$681,000.. He i also bos letters, checks, and .other, documents (all oHglnala) proving con- : piuslvely‘that not only Haitranlt, but. Mackey tiiO wks ualng the,funds of the, coU,imonvy ! ealtb (money derived \lrom these war claims) to speculate upon and to pay their private obligations. • —* —|•'. >.-■*■' , t.v'v—JWA' I ■feyE^JS^'M- .<> sr per line flrmi ipy&rtipifr'ygti five cenU perllno tot each wibßedtifedt tnfertlotu Quat* errJy r fiAlfO r *A* , l7< And yearly advertUemeuu la terte deedrlptlcb 6fXpJi add CXioPrlatingli; v i V =MI !'7 ,f n Palpß 1 alao b'ak']tlid 1 dehd-'wiod'bil • ! tlfb following ‘transactions': -IMu&itotf WMI Mackey not long ago used the 1 fends of* -tliy ’’* oomWohweilth' l to' 'pur- Cliaae’slB§]soodf the 5 percent. bonds Of the State! add tbe $31,050 of the 6 per ct. bonds.: These. bonds they sold bank to the Sinking Fund under authority:of legislative enactment lat a i profit of SO,-- 048.42, the: whole transnotion occupying but & few days. Pulnobaa in: his p'qasep- Sion a ocpyofthelr account, with the bro ker who made Mie transfers: ; ~ The Indefatigable dootbralso bos docu mentary proof that Mackey, the Treas urer, loaned lbe mbney of the Stpte to private parties, receiving for tfaesame In terest as follows':;Aug- 26,1860, $577 60 ; Feb: 9, 1870, $3,900 60,- ; May 18, 1870, $314 60; and Oot. 14,. 1871, $5,000. Tbe doctor is going to Harrisburg to lay bis proofs before tbe Legislature and demand an investigation. Meanwhile there la .quaking. In. Harrisburg least Evans should tel)'tbe whole troth. If they fear him so much the effects of the arrival of Dr- Paine may be likened to ,t£at in. a neat of pats by the sudden,appearanoo’of a terrier. OR THE EVE OF BATTLE. General Custer, 'in his life on the Plains, thus describes the prelude to what might have beeh a' battle between the United States itnd the jfndiabs: For a few moments appearance seem ed to foreshadow anything but a peace ful issue. The Infantry was' .in tfie ad vance, followed'closely by tbe artillefy, while my command, the' cavalry was marchingi OU the flank.l .General Han cock, who was riding with his staff at the head of ,tho column,; coming sud denly In view of the wild fantastic bat tle array, which extended far to our right and left, dud not more',than half a mile In oUr‘ffout| hastily sent orders to the infantry, artillery, and cavalry to form line of battle, evidently determined that if war was intended' wo shotild be joreiiared.' Tbe cavalry;‘being the last tri form on the right,'.came Into line on, a gallop, and, without’ waiting 1 to' align the ranks carefully, the command was given to ‘‘draw'sabre." As the bright blades flashed from their'scabbards into the morning sunlight, and tiie Infantry brought their,'muskets to a parry, a moat iieautiffil pud > wonderfully, interesting sight was;spread;out before anil around us, presenting a contrast; which, to a .military- eye, must be striking. Here, in battle array, facing each >other;, were the representatives of civilized .and, bar barous: warfare.,!/The one, with but: few modifications, stood clothed ‘ln the same rude dress, bearing the same patterned shield and weapon; that -his ancestors had borne ceniuries before; ‘the other confronted him dresss and Sup plied with the implements of war which the most advanced stage of civilization had pronounced the mriat perfect. 1 Was the oothparallve superiority Of those two classes to be subjected to be mere test of wsr here? Such sebmedutiie'prevailing impression on, botji aides,All was eager anxiety and expectation, side seemed to comprehend the object or In tentions of the other ; eaoh was waltlng for the other to deliver the first blow. A more .beautiful battle-ground could not have been chosen. Not.a bush or even the slightest irregularity of ground In tervened between the two lines which ..now stood frowning and facing each other. " Chiefs could be seen riding along the lino, ns If directing and' exhorting their braves to deeds of heroism. Fortu-. nately before coming tooonlllot matters were explained, and the two bodies were soon at .work maklriga treaty of peace, Instead of flghtlbg. 1 ’• SHORT CAREER OF A BART HiPPOPOTAMDS,. ’On Thursday morning last Mr 1 . Bart lett was kind'enough to inform me that a little Hippopotamus had been born. On looking through the window we could easily fees’'the. mothef 1 and baby. The mother lay in the corner farthest away from the' window, the young one b y close to her, the nose of the mother was close to tKp'nbse of the infant.' . Everything wife, pairi'fully quiet, and the ofaly sound was the chirping of the sparrows. The sparrows seemed to chirp louder in the hippopo tamus house than anywhere else,The little animal, Mi. -Bartlett informed me, had pot been seen tp auck, although the mother had plenty of milk- -An at tempt bad been made togot tbe little thing away directly it was born, but the ndotherowas. So savage that it was thought best -to leave matters alone.— The little one is as'near ks pooible the same size os its brother, which was born February. ■ 51,"1871; and died in three days. ' ft'seems surprisingly strarigo that the instinct' of the mother was pot suffi 'cipnt' to induce the young one'to suck, and it seems' almjost e'emtrary to the ‘‘rule of nature the young one did not know where to' seek for its food.—. Both mother and child had been in the water, and the young ono,,could,swim as well aa its mother, Two milk goats had been provided .in case , they could . have got the youpg,.one away irom its mother.; ~On Thursday morning! went again, and found, alas! that the little umzlmvaobooj ns the Africans call the hippopotamus, had died at six o’clock on Wednesday night, at the age of 14 hours.. It was in the disseoting-r oom. ltd total length from tip of nose to end of tall was threo feet nine, inches, head ten inches long, tail live inches. - The skin is very muon sorrugated, and seems covered with’a gloss-llke Var nish. ’lt is very pink about the mouth and lower ’Jaws. : The'hoofs are dark chocolate, the legs and lower portion of the body’the color of the section of a piece of india-rubber. Mr. Bartlett managed to' get the young one away from its mother, and it sucked down a 'pint and a|taif oCgoat’s piilk before it diedi, ’Tbey[ to drive' the molhec lrito her tank of water by squirt ing.water - into her nice with iyWriterfu I engine; The moment/sho en tered Her bath , they slammed the'gate, and then stole the yriubg'one; 'T iindor stand that thla'tkre'^'eciffleri’of a suck ing, ißeheiurith is to'b'e 1 sent to Oxford Yor diaseplibri;—ilidnif and Water.' Oral stioro line to fill this pagei 1 r I wlu uuteried at Tod C«nU IMORE. I= Vinl•••••••....ii