The American Volunteer PUBTjISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING •Xoli.il B. Bratton OFFICE SOUTH MARKET SQUARE. Terms.— Two dollars per year If paid strictly in advance. Two Dollars and Fifty Cents If paid within three months, after which Three Dollars Will be charged. These terms will bo rigidly adhered*to In every Instance. No sub scription discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Jeaal polices. N O'RDINANC E. Relating to the Sale of Meat Be It enacted and ordained by thoTowu Conn* oil of the Borough of Carlisle, and It Is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority ot the sarao: Sec. 1. That the Inner stalls and area of the market bouse, and all stalls on the outside, now in use. or that may hereafter be appropriated for the sate of meat, snail bo exclusively appropri ated to batchers and retailers of moat, who shall use the stalls or benches for the purpose of exposing their meat for sale; and nil the c.uter stall*' or oenohes except those set apart for meat stalls, shall bo exclusively appropriated to the venders of provisions, and articles other thnr fresh meat by less quantity than aqunrter; pro vided, however, that the privilege of selling fresh meat by the quarter on the outer stalls or benches, shall only extend to, and bo enjoyed by farmers and others who may kill for market stock of their own raising. And/urOicr provided that all parties offering meat at retail on any of the stalls except those sot apart ns meat stalls, shall pay an additional rate or tax for every such sale, to the clerk 01 the market, of twenty five cents. % Sec. 2. No butcher or retailer of meat by less quantity than a quarter shall occupy any stall of the market bouse without first having ob tained a license therefor from the borough treasurer, and .having paid the said treasurer the sum which shall be fixed by Connell as the annual rent of such stall, ns, bo or she may se lect. Any person or persons violating- this or the foregoing section shall forfeit aha pay the the sum of Five Dollars, which may be sued for and recovered before ony Justice of the Pence resident In the borough. _ „ tfcc.B. It shall betne duty of the High Con stable and the clerk of the market, to be vigi lant to prevent a violation of either of the fore going sections; and If either of them shall pros ecute any offender to conviction be shall he en titled to one-half the penalty.■ Sec. 4. That all ordmames passed heretofore regulating the sale of meat, be, and the same are hereby repenled. Enacted into an ordinance this 3rd day of January, A. D. 1878. . Attest: GEORGE E. SHEAEER, A. J. WETZEii, rrcs't Town' Council. Sec’yto Corpor'n. JO9EHH BAUTZ, JanßlMt Asa'l Burgess. QRPHAJN’S COURT BALE OF HOUSE AND LOT OF GROUND I By virtue of on order from the Orphana’Cowrt, of Cumberland county, tbe undersigned, Guar dian of Daniel Powell, minor cuild of Daniel Powell, deo’d.. will expose to nubile sale, on the premises, in the borough of New Cumberland, WEDNESDAY, THE Dm OP FEBRUARY, 1873, at U o’clock, A. M., a LOT OF GROUND contain ing 50 feet in front and 150 feet in depth, and having thereon erecled a TWO-STORY-FRAME DWELLING, HOUSE, KITCHEN, and BACK BUILDINGS. , • • Terms of sale: iTen por cent, cash whenthe property is sttricUeu off; the balance of one third on the Ist 'day of April, 1878, when deed will be made and possession given, and one tblrd on tne mat day of Anrll, 1871. with interest from the Ist of April, 1873. Tho remaining one third Is to remain In tho property during the Ilf© of Mrs. Clara Powell, Widow of Daniel Pow ell, dr (loosed. . DANIEL &lENEA.R. Janlo>3t Guardian. ATOTICB IN PARTITION.— To the W heirs and legal representatives or Robert Bi‘lnn late of the Township of Penn, County of Cumberland, deceased, lane notice that. In pur suance of a writ of partition and valuation is sued out of tho Orphans’ Court of Cumberland county; and to me directed, an inquest will be held on the real estate of said decedent, to wit: A lot or piece ground situate In tho township of Penn andOconty; of Cumberland, bofinded by lands of Jacob Kellar, the late T. C. Miller, the State load and laud of Dau’l Kellar, containing Eighty Porches; neat measure, on Saturday, the 15th day of March, A. D. lS7B,at ll o’clock, P.M., on the premises for the pUrposoof making par tition and, valuauon of. the Real .Estate of r sald ■ deceased. J. K. FOREMAN, Sheriff's Office, > Sheriff, i .Carlisle,Feb.o,7B-Bw. t TN tbe matter of tbe District Court of Itho United States, Eastern District of Ponna.; /John S. Dougherty, of Nevyvllle, County of ’Cumberland, a bankrupt, having petitioned for his clischarge.a meeting of creditors will bo held on Wednesday, the fifth day of February, 1873, at 2 o’clock, F. M., before Register Chas. A. Bar nett at his office, in tho Court house, at Carlisle, Cumberland county; Pa„ when and whore the examination of the bankrupt may be finished, and any business of meetings required by sec ' lions 27th and 2Sth of the Act of Congress,traas tt<A? hearing will also beheld on Wednesday, the 10th day of February. 1873. balore the Court, at Philadelphia, at 10 o’clock, A. m,, when and where parties. Interested may show cause against the discharge. OUAS, A. BARNETT, . ' JanUMJt Register. EXECUTOR’S' NOTICE. —Notice la hereby given that letters testamentary on the will of James Bamllton, late of the borough of Carisle, deo’d.. have been Issued to the under signed Executors, the first named residing in South Middleton township,.and the latter In Carlisle. All persons Indebted will please make payment without delay, and those holding claims will present them to A ST uaRT, A. BO3LEK, JZcecutors. Feb. G-flt A UDITOR S NOTICE.—The Auditor /Vanpolnted by the Coart to distribute the balance in the hands of Abraham Hosier. Se questrator of the Hanover and Carlisle lurn gllse Company, among the creditors of suld orapany, hereby gives notice to those inter ested. that he will attend to the duties of his ap pointment at his residence, in the Borough of Carlisle, No. 59 East Main Street, on• the• 18th day of February* 1873. J. It. IRVINE, Jon3o-3l* • Auditor . EXECUTOR'S NOTlCE.—Nbtlce is hereby given, that lottois testamentary on tue eatate-ol Mrs. Melinda Sites, late of Carlisle, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, residing in Carlisle. All nersona knowing themselves Indebted thereto are requested to make payment Immediately, and those having claims will present fl. h. HECKER, ! JEr editors. JunSO'Ct VrOTlCE.— Notice is hereby given, V\ that the undersigned tons boon appointed the assignee of William Shimp.of I-rankford township. Cumberland county, for the benefit of the creditors of the said Win. ahlmp. Persons Indented to the said assignor are requested to make Immediate payment, and those having claims SKalnsl him to P™enUlmm. OBRISj Assignee. JanSO-St" A EDITOR'S NOTICE.—The Auditor A appointed by tbe Court to distribute the bauiuco in tbe bands of .Jacob O. hehumn, as signee of Washington Wolf, of South Middleton lowhshlp, under deed of voluntary assignment tor benefit of Creditors, hereby gives notice to those Interested, that be will a h, uud ,l, o ih o , d ties of his appointment at bis office, In Carlisle, on Saturday, the 22d of F^hruury^umjPclooU, A ilJan73 A miliar. TjIXECUTOR’S NOTICE. ■Notice Is hereby given that letters testa mentary on the estate of Henry A. Aiyors, late of South Middleton township, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, residing In Paperiowu. All persona knowing themselves to be Indebted thereto, are requested to make payment. Immediately and those having claims will present them for BUTr En 2'Jxccutor, 3Janot' NOTICE. ( Notice Is hereby given that letters of Admin latratlon on tbeeatate of Baldoser Eckert, late of the borough of Carlisle. deo’d..havo been ant ed to the undersigned, residing In the same place. All persona indebted to the said estate are requested to make payment Immediately, and those having claims against the estate will also present them EoKlsnT( 4d/}il»Wralm, 2jan73-Ct A SSIGNEE’S NOTICE. Whereas, x\_J#hn Sollenberger, Kr.» of South Middleton township, Cumberland county, by a voluntary deed of assignment* conveyed to the undersign ed, (residing In Carlisle,) all hla property,real, personal and mixed, for the benefit of his cred itors. Notice la hereby given to all persons in debted to said party, to settle the same with the subscriber immediately, and those having claims will also present the same, without de lav. to . H. K. PEFFER, Jan 23*3t Assignee. ASSIGNEE'S NOTlCE,—Whereas, M. Michael and Philip Bnsmlngor.trading as the Arm of Michael * Ensralngol', of Carlisle, Cumberland county, by a voluntary deed of as signment, bearing date Nov. 20, n>72. convoyed to the undersigned all their property, real per sonal and mixed, for tno benefit of their credi tors. Notice is hereby given to all parties In debted to said Ann, to settle the same with the subscriber Immediately, and those having claims will present the Assignee, Jan 23-St EXECUTOR’S NOTlCE.—Notice la hereby given that loiters testamentary on the estate of Jacob Sqaler, late of the Borough of Carlisle, deoM,, have been granted to the un dersigned, residing in said borough. Notice is hereby Riven to all persons Indebted to make payment, and those having claims to present them for settlement to /J. W. EBY; Janlo,72—Ct* Executor. \ DMXNISTBATOJR'S NOTICK jJlhloe Is hereby given that letters of Admin lalrallon on tha estate of Michael Q. ueltzbpov* er. late of the borough of Carlisle, Cumberland county. Pa., deceased, have heed granted to the undersigned, residing In said borough of Car lisle. «u persons therefore having claims or demands aualnsl tbe estate of the said decedent, are requested to make the same known to the said uuderaighed wi'boui delay, and ifcoso In dobted will make payment immjodlntoljh^ ECM BY JOHN B. BRATTON "THE OLD, OLD STOEY.' In golden ugCH, warm Old Ovid sr.iu “The old, old Htory,” and was liulk-d by men - High Priest of love! Iluril of tin* honeyed longno! The earth was young. ’lwa> an old story then. I#ovo clung to Time, and then a Oothlo saint “That old. old story,” still to mot tats told, "That old.old story," beautiful and quaint, Old ns creation—yet ns fresh ns old. ’NeutUtho broad oaks of Eld,ln deep green glades t On the soft moss, the lovers waste the hours; Fond swains are whisperings© love*alck raalds •The old, old story.” In the woodland bowers. On sunlit shores where the broad ocean rolls, Roaring in deep sea oaycs his ancient song, "The old, old story,” midst hla roar Is hoard; As old us ocean—lt will lire ns long. Beneath the gable of the Usher’s cot, By the bright sonny wall a maiden stands. And bends with loving, trusting heart to hear "That old, old story,” on the yellow sands. |pijsteßancottJsv MY LADY'S EIHG. ‘Dreams is more lima dreams, mem/ said Charles, Ihe footmau, in a deep, sig nificant tone. Charles was admitted to tbe room of which Mrs. Scarlet was tbe presiding goddess, on account of his “ hexcelleut heducation.” He had been known to bavo attended several scientific meet ings, and ‘Charles says* decided many vexed questions on historical and scien tific subjects in tbe servants’ ball. . ‘And, talking of dreams,’ continued Charles, *1 wish somebody would dream where to find missis’s ring.’ Tbe house in Grosveuor street, where tbe party of servants were having sup* per, was owned by a pretty old lady— rich and unmarried, courtly, of old-fash ioned ways, who called her housekeeper ‘Skiarlet,’ and her chariot a ‘charyot.’ The usually quiet and regular house hold had been sadly ‘upset,’ as they re marked, by, the loss, within the last few days, of a diamond ring of great value, left by the old lady, as she perfectly re membered, on her dressing-table one Friday night. There* was excitement and distress amongst the Grosevenor street house hold. The cook had been seen weighing several carrots, the supposed weight of tbe lost jewel. She was hesitating as to the precise number of .‘several’—four ap pearing too many, and three scarcely, up to tbe mark, when Charles approaching her with an ironical smile, Informed her that, ‘although the word was the same in hevery respect, still the jeweler’s car rpls do not belong in hauy way to the kingdom of vegitubles. Heverythiug being divided inlo kingdoms—diamonds too.* Charles was in livery, and did not therefore enlarge upon the subject as he might under other circumstances. The cook flurig her bunch of carrots into a corner, and prepared to devote herself to other branches of the ‘kingdom of vogit ables.’ i was then waiting-maid of the dear old lady, whom I truly loved. I was a lonely creature, too, iu those dreary days; but the comforts of the housekeeper's room were luxuries to one who, like my-, self, had passed her youth in a valii en deavor to aid her parents to work their weary way in the bush. I was in. Grosvenor street fora purpose, and sat amongst the servants silent and sad. To chronicle the orations of Charles was my great and only amusement. Why I endured those three most weary years, I cannot even now explain. I could not have remained a day, had it not been for .the love I bore my mistress. Wo were a small but ‘select’ party of four in the housekeepers room. Scarlet, the housekeeper, Scarlet, the butler (hus band and wife,) Charles and myself. Scarlet, the butler, was enormously fat. I think I never saw so large a head and neck. He looked quite imposing be hind my Indy’s chair atdlnner, but when he threw open wide the drawing-room doors to announce a visitor whom he thought it worth his while to introduce himself, then he was sublime. Ho was entirely honest. The pride and pleasure of his life* was to protect he wealth of gold and silver-plate entrusted to his care. He polished it, respected it and .loved it. It was delightful to see him lifting a valuable soup tureen with pa rental tenderness from its bed of pink cotion. Nature had denied him chil dren, so he adopted my lady’s dish-cov ers. He rarely spoke; but the day in ques tion. over his cake and wine, ho became animated ; he, too, was under the influ ence of the painful slate of things, and, letting his enormous hand fall heavily upon the table, and turning his honest face toward us, said : ‘lf I had stolen my lady’s ling, I would go hang myself?’ ‘You would save the hangman a great deal of trouble,’ sharply answered his helpmate, indicating with her finger his enormous throat. The p»or man was atartled ami as tonished. In all the years of their mar ried life his wife had never thus address ed him. She was not loving, but she was never cross, and they Lad sailed silently but peacefully many years together, on a mod untroubled sea. At last he with drew Mb’ eyes from her, and spoke no more. Charles, who bad sought in vain an answering look from me, continued the conversation. • ’Aving our boxes searched is what hevory one would wish; but it’s the most onsntisfactory thing a policeman does. What's to .prevent ray taking the ring out of my box, and hanging it in a bag up the kitchen chimney i* Look at Mrs. Scarlet. Hold up, mlm, hold up,’ said Charles, vainly trying to prevent her slipping down stiff and straight upon the floor. While as death--not dead though, for she shook like a leaf. We carried her to bed, and after some time left her recovering and sleepy. Scarlet, her husband, forgetting the recent in sult, poring around her, as it were, and soothing her to rest. Poor old soul! The loss of the diamond ring, and the conse quent upset bad been, we said, too much lor tier. i'l’lie season was over, my lady closed her house in Qrosvenor street, and start i ed for her place in Cornwall, taking 1 Scarlet, as usual, In the carriage with Adminiilrator, her. • . . , .. . . ' ' . . ./. . • , . , I 6 . . • . ijki.. ; . . .. ~,..., ~ . . . . , . t [ ' I .. .. . , .. k l ---' . • '; ,• , -• • t . , , ^ I I ' it . . ' 1 trif•a. tit .. , . ,•• . . . Ipßrtical. [ The weather was iuteusely hot. nod | my Indy travelled at night, taking pil lows and comforts, Intending to sleep and ho happy. 'Scarlet resolutely refused t r look herself up, preferring to sit bolt upright to keep herself awake, a vain endeavor. She sank gradually but sure ly into a remote corner, uncomfortably doubled op, but fast asleep. My lady was awake,' watching Mrs. . Sklarlet „ with much amusement, when suddenly a look of horror crept over the sleeper’s placid face. She screamed aloud, ‘the purse, the old leather purse! I took it out of the chimney ! Oh, my Lord ! my Lord t save a poor old woman ! The devils are after me again 1’ Scarlet sat upright, her eyes open, staring wildly, but fixed In sleep; she seized my lady's arm, and shook It. 'Here; here, in the old leather purse—the diamond ring—lake it and go!’ My lady was brave as a linn. She knew the old leather purse that Scarlet had carried about her for years. In an in stant she understood the situation, and with her bright little eyes glittering like steel, ebestood over the sleeping woman, hissing out, in an agitated.whisper, ‘you old serpent, give me the purse.’ Slowly the sleeping woman drew it out, nod, with the same horror-stricken eyes, gave it to my lady, who calmly took the missing ring from its depths and placed it once more upon her finger. My lady let the woman sleep till the train was drawing up at Blank ; then she woke her, waving her hand with the recovered treasure before the face of . the miserable woman, who fell, in a fit upon the floor. . ' My lady was gone when Scarlet recov ered consciousness,, and they never met again. My lady left her to her misery and her despair, but took no further steps to punish. Another, housekeeper reigns in her stead. My lady refused to receive the resignation of her faithful butler,who brought it, with tears of shame, and with a list of the plate. After a severe illness ho returned to his old mistress ; and I have heard that the dishonest Scarlet de rives tbe bread she eats from the mistress she bad robbed. Charles is fixed in his original opin ion that ‘dreams Is more than dreams, mern.’ He is now hall-porier at the Blank Museum, a post after bis own heart. He may frequently be seen, and heard* escorting through the various apartments, little groups of his old friends, and explaining to them par ticularly the ‘ kingdom of vegitables.’ A EAOE FOE LIFE. An Engineer Oliased by Fire at Seventy Miles an Hour—A Thrilling. Narrative. A correspondent of the. Grand Rapid (Mich.) Eagle writes: To make it an in telligible matter to tho reader let me say that the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburg road intersects tne Lake Shore at this place. The station at the junction is named Brocton. Now iet it be under stood that from this point to Maysville, at the head of Chatauqua Lake, a dis tance of only about ten miles, a train is carried over an elevation of seven hun dred feet From the station to the sum mit tbe grade Is about eighty feet to the mile, with curves which increase the.dls* lance by four miles. It is over this road that tbe immense quantities of petrole um are brought. . On Tuesday evening about niue o’clock, a train consisting of six oil oars and two passenger oars reached the summit on its way to the Junction. Here, by some cause as yet unexplained, one of the oil tanks took fire. The passenger cars were at once detached, and the brakes stopped them. Next the oil ears were cut off, and the locomotive, tender and box ear, containing two valuable horses and two men, passing down the road, the engi neer 'supposing that the brakemau on the oil ears would arrest tho course of those, hut what was his horror, on looking back, to see the six oars In pursuit of him down the grade, enveloped in flames. They not only pursued, but overtook him, strikiug the box car with inconceivable force, knocking the horses aud men flat upon the floor; and yet almost miracu lously not throwing the engine from the track. It was now with the engineer a race for life, and ho gave the engine every ounce of steam. Looking south from the place of my residence at that (errible Juncture, one of the most magnificent spectacles was witnessed that a man sees in n lifetime. , A sheet of intensely bright flame, sixty feet high, was seen coming down that Southern slope, appa rently with the speed of a meteor, add really very nearly the speed of a hurri cane (eighty miles an hour); for the pur suer flew over the course, or rather down it, and around the.curves at the rate of more than seventy miles an hour, as the engineer declares, and as everybody can believe who witnessed the spectacle. The whole heavens were Illuminated, and the landscape was lit up as by the noonday light. Onward and downward flew the engine, and behind, it flew the huge fiery demon. Twice its prodigious weight was driven against the fugitive, as if instinct with a purpose to drive it from the track. It seemed as if to the heroic engineer and fireman there was a perfect environment of peril. The speed of the engine was such that it ceased to pump; then again the Cincinnati ex press was due at the junction at this time. The engineer of the oil train whistled “open switch,” and shaking hands with the fireman, they bade each other farewell, knowing that their lives depended on the opening of the Lake Shore switch by their friends below, and this was to Imperil the express train com ing down from the west with its living freight. The engineer on this train saw the fire when it first broke out upon the summit; and supposing he could clear the junction before the flaming terror reached it, he, too, put his engine to the utmost speed oh a level grade. A mile short of the junction ho saw that the ef fort was a vain one, for. the flying confla gration had rushed out upon the Lake Shore truck. and was roaring onward In the direction of Dunkirk. He checked the headlong rush of his own train and brought it to a standstill. It did not pro ceed until at three o’clock In the morn ing. The case took in another danger, and it wae Imminent. A heavy freight train was coming up the Lake Shore road* All I will say of the escape of this .Is that it did escape to tfio side- track, and only es CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13.1873. oapod by the last minute of possibility. Running on to a safe distance from the depot, the engineer of.the oil train de tached his engine and left the six cars to consume. He says his situation was fully realized ,by him. He expected to lose hia life. moment he ex pected the engine to leave the track. Ho saw he was going at a perilous rate of speed, but there was no help for It. The demon wfcs behind him, and he declares it looked like a demon. With that fond ness, or, real affection for'his engine which these men display, he said, •*! was determined to stay to it to the last. 1 ' The fireman made one attempt to escape by jumping from the tender, but the engi neer restrained him. Altogether the oc* currence was a remarkable one, and in part remarkable for this, that no lives were lost. The brakemen on the oil cars had gone back to tbe passenger cars, when the oil cars started. -It was well they did. Unless these cars had been detached and stopped, their inmates would have been burned to death. VISITIH G. BY GAIT. HAMILTON. ' There are visits which remain in our memories as bright spots in life, and there are visits whose only pleasure Is that they are over. But visiting ought always to be pleasant—pleasant to both giver and receiver. One of the best things connectsd with keeping house is the freedom to receive one’s friends. Many a, newly married couple, many a small family without children, could board with less care and expense than housekeeping costs them, and almost equal comfort. But the boarder is dependent upon the will and the convenience of others. He can not invite his friends to come and spend a week with him without consulting the capabilities, or depending <for welcome upon the disposition, of some other host than himself. This puts him in an atti tude out wholly dignified—not that which a mature person, man or woman, would naturally choose to maintain. But the householder is monarch of all he sur veys, and invites at his own sweet will. If he meets an old friend suddenly in the street, if she learns by chance that a for mer school-mate is in the neighborhood, there are-no outside authorities to con sult, no whims or moods of a landlady to consider. Forth from the warm welcom ing heart goes the invitation, and the futted calf walks to the block nt once, knowing that his hour Is come. This theoretically; yet practically it sometimes seems as if the hospitality of householders is as really hedged in as if they were but inmates 'of a strauger/s house* People. who are hospitable at heart, thoroughly friendly and well-dis posed, do yet make such a burden of hos pitality that one wonders bow they can find any pleasure In it. This Is a groat pity, for the exchange of visits ought t be what it is capable of being, one of.tbe great pleasures of life,, a rest, a refresh ment, an incentive, not a burden. But to-render it so we . need not follow the ruloe .aid down in. the books, to di vest receptions of their terror by being always ready to receive. Is it Buskin, or Eastlake, or Luaucolot, or another, who condemns extension-tables on me ground that your table should be equally large at all times, to indicate that you are always ready for your friends? Go to, Eastlake and Bauncelot I Sincerity is the watch-word of the new dispensa tion. We must have the supports of our. brackets visible, and the chair-legs as palpably as they are really and as really as they are palpably firm ; but if the ta-. ble is to indicate that we are always ready for our friend, the table becomes at once a piece of household artfulness and not of household art, for we are not at all times equally ready. Honesty in life must precede honesty in furniture! We need not direct our efforts to being always ready to see friends, but we could do much in the way of trying not to be disturbed by their coming when we are not ready. If Serena could have her owu way, she would prefer Celestial call to bu in the afternoon when the mid-day meal is over, the dishes are washed and removed, and Helena is calmly reposing in lidy dress and comparative leisure. But if Celestia must leave town by .the noon train, and runs in by ten o'clock in the morning, when Serena is trimming the lamps, and there is much odor of pe troleum in the air, and Serena's lingers are not wholesome to Celeatla's gloves, shall Serena be dismayed and apoligize and mentally regret that she is always “caught in the suds ?" Not the least in the world, if she is u sensible and friendly woman. If U is the proper time for her to bo cleaning lamps, and she is in a garb proper to u lamp-cleaner, she has no. cull to be disturbed though the Queen of England in crown and . sceptre should pay her a morning visit.- She should not consider herself as "caught in the suds,” or as caught at all. She is in the suds of her own free will and by the fore-ordina tion of Heaven, and if “Heaven itself should stoop to her,” it ought to find her nowhere else at that. hour. It would be very unbecoming that she should be trimming her lamps in a silk gown in the front parlor. Why not be entirely frank and at ease, and if her work bo pressing, bid Celestia to a safe seat by the kitchen Are, or. if she cun conveniently go oil duty fpr a while, take her pleasant chut to the pleasant parlor? So far from its being necessary to bo al ways ready for company, it is one of the pleasures of housekeeping for company. Sweeping and dusting are* but dull drudgery when cleanliness is the only object; bub how pleasant It is to tidy the rooms when a houseful of guests are coming at the end of it I There is uu in centive worthy of toil—that transmutes toil into delight. Cut suppose you have been ill, or the children have had scarlet fever, or Norah is gone, 'and there Is u chance for a visit from a friend. Must you send her away? Yes, if you abso lutely can not undertake the slight addi tion to your work which her visit neces sitates. But remember her visit does not necessitate that you should go through bouse-cleauiug previous to her appear once. Suppose the doors are finger marked, and-the Windows, not faultlessly clean, and the guest-chamber has not been swept for a month, the doors will open, and the windows will let in fresh air, and you and your friend can get im mense draughts of satisfaction out ol the visit, though things are not us you would bo gladly have them, If you will only not fret about them, hut consign them to the insignificance they merit. We are afraid of each other, forgetting that our friends have the same kind of experi ences that wo have. The meet thorough pf housekeepers is sometimes forced to ‘‘let things go,” unless ‘she sacrifices something of more importance than “things." Borona is distressed because the afternoon sun reveals lo her respon sible eyes a little dust under the sofa. But Celestla is equally distressed because her stiuler.. ,) suddenly goes out du ring Serena’s eveningoall. Why should not both comfort,themselves with the re flection that nothing has happened unto them but such as is common unto wo men, and dismiss their apprehensions ? I know a man who came near bleeding to death because there was not a cobweb to be found In house or barn to staunch the blood Bo advised, dear house-moth er, and do not lose all the freshness and impulse to bo found in your friends vis it because you have no time to go through the house-witti your broom upside down. DEIFTS of death. The Terrible Tempest in Minnesota—Over Tiro Hundred JAves host—Rabies Frozen at their Mothers* Jtreasts. Few of the people of this section of our country can have any idea of the suffer ings endured by the men, women and children of portions of Minnesota during the late terrible snow storm. Nothing. liKeit haa been known for years. Tbe loss of life was frightful, While the de struction of property was Immense. The , following is a description of .tbe horrors of tbe hurricane, as sent by a correspon dent from Winona, Minn., on Jan. 18, to the NvY. Herald: I was in. Minnesota after the awful massacre of ten years ago. when the red wave of Indian invasion swept over the smiiiqg land, and left It a.waste of ashes soaked with blood; but the scalping-knife and bullet of the Sioux did npt do such havoc as the snows have wrought this year, nor were all the tortures of tho red fiends productive of more agony than I have witnessed within (he past ten days. What has been suffered and bow many have been slain, has not yet been ascer tained, for the settlements are far apart and communication is difficult; but by every mail come particulars that chill the blood, and we can now fairly esti mate tbe extent of the calamity. - Up to that fatal Tuesday, at whose mention many a heart shall ache in Min nesota for years to comb, there had been winter weather of tbe usual sort, clear, cold, with occasional storms of spow, some of which had seriously blockaded the railroads, and Induced considerable suffering from scarcity of fuel. Tuesday, the 7th, was a lovely and mild day. The sun was bright and the air balmy. The farmers were nil out at the nearest settlement. They were get ting short of fuel; there was but a hand ful of flour at tho bottom of the. barrel; not a scrap of meat was left. But the snows had ceased, so every farmer, hitch ed his team for tho town. In the little cottages of wood were women and chil dren—the school houses were full of lit tle ones. Such was the country, thus* its dwellers, when the blow fell. Nature would seem to .have arrogated to herself all tbe savage attributes which had marked her first children there, their careful and patient watch for an easy op portunity, and their sudden and relent less onslaught. So utterly unprepared were tho people for the change in the weather, and so suddenly did it come upon them, that one man at Winnebago City describes it as "if a man bad clapped his bands—so, and the snow came in our faces.” Know ing what the hurricane boded, men leap ed into tbeir sleighs, and with voice and lash urged their cowering horses out in • to tbe storm. Then the work of death again. For more than HO hours, till late on Thursday, the freezing wind and fal ling enow continued. It was not a steady full of snow, but a howling hurricane— the wind sometimes attaining the speed of twenty-eight, . thirty, or thirty-two miles. Tho snow came in fitful flurries with a wild screech and u stinging whiz. The thermometer feel steadily, till at Champlain It registered 54 degrees below zero! At other places the mercury or spirit marked from 8 to 42 degrees below. Some of the fanners who set out soon found, that if they valued life they must turn back. They were enveloped In sheets of snow that blinded them. The wind came so fiercely that, they were fain to stop and turn around till a mo mentary lull came. The road—why, the level prairie was all road now—without one track of wheel or runner to Indicate the path of safety. Whenever there was a slight knoll or a tree tho driving snow sleet curled round it and broke over it like yeasty billows over a wreck, and far to leeward grew up drifts of eccentric form. Then tbe snorting horses that lolled along, pressing with their heaving flanks closer to each other for warmth and dumb protection and sympathy, re fused to go forward ; the driver felt him self becoming listless, bis cold, limbs were growing warm, and warned of the swift coming of death, he turned and re traced his steps. Happy they who did so betimes. There were many who held on stubbornly till It was too lato. There were many more, who, goaded on by a dreadful fear of tho fate of their wives aud little ones, left alone in their frail citadels, forced on through the drifts that glow deeper at every step, and cold that became more intense every moment. And there were others who grew weary of the contest, and, lying down in tbeir robes, were lulled by the elemental rage into a slumber which knew no awaken ing. Sometimes tho horses gave out, and the unhappy driver, benumbed aud chill ed, his movements impeded by his hea vy clothing, hud to abandon his team and lake to the drifts. The moans and snrieks of tho horses that found themselves thus deserted by their masters are said by some few who survived, such ecanes to have been agonizing to hear. Aud at tbeir homes things were no better. There wits perhaps u scanty supply of fuel in the corner, and but a day’s food in the Ju:dcr. Night trod closely on the heels of noon. Perhaps the mother was alone with her sucking chlld» her husband ton mile* away in one direction, her chil dren two miles away In another. Those napless parents suffered countless deaths. The wooden buildings croaked and rock ed in tho swing of the storm like ships gt sea. The timbers cracked with the frost like rlllea. Beads of. frost stood on 1 every piece of wood work —the small I panes of glass were so thick with Ice that there was no chance that tbe lamp set in the casement could send Its feeble light to the belated stragglers without It was impossible to open the doors, so high had thedrifts become. The fire grew low, though it was replenished with the scanty furniture. Day succeeded to dark ness, but the (Jay was as the night. Only the chimney of the house appeared above the drifts. The poor woman knew that her children lay dead, hand in l hand, on the prairie, and that her hus band’s corpse was somewhere entombed in the glabt drift. The little baby’s blue lips were laid against her empty breast; the soul had sped from. between, them on a iittfb cloud of frozen vapor. She lay down and died, and the relent ing winds wafted through the apertures of the rooch a decent dilft of diamond snow for her windings sheet. These pic tures, terrible as they may appear to the readers of the Herald , who alt by warm fires and find the music of the snow as it tiukles against the glass a musical and a cheerful sound, are less than the reality. Tbe advance of death was like that of a tortufer, - jvho comes with all his horrid engines, to the victim bound-at the stake. Only they were to be envied who met a, swifter fate in the raging storm without, and were spared the sight of their chil dren dying before their eyes of hunger as well as cold. On the railroads there was not absolute suffering. Of course trains were snowed in for dtiys in drifts that towered'to the telegraph wires; and passengers had to shiver and be scantily fed. But this was only a trifle. When Friday, the,loth, came, the sun rose upon a land of snow and silence. Drifts many feet and many square miles In extent were there. Here and there tbe chimney of a house stood up like a tombstone In a vast cemetery. The laud lay like a corpse under a winding sheet that bad moulded itself into occa sional wrinkles over the-dead limbs or set features. Now came the giant labor of clearing away the giant drifts and set ting free the imprisoned, trains, and the sadder task of tracing through the pral ries the steps of the dead. Everywhere they were found lying still and statue like in the icy embrace of death. . {Sometimes the searchers would find man aud horse together, the former lying dead, wrapped in his robes, with the whip in his hand; in the sleigh, one horse down, the other standing in the spot where he was fastened by his part ner's fall till he shared his partner’s fate Sometimes the sieigh was found over turned, with the traces cut. Then to tbe rlghtor loft would be discovered the dri ver, who bad wandered round in a des pairing circle to die. Occasionally the beasts showed In tbeir dilated nostrils, widely spread lips, anti staring eyes, the 'signs of mortal terror. And the men, too, were sometimes Laocoons of ice— statues of writhing despair. But, as a rule, death came quietly, as it generally does in such cases, first robbing the vic tim of tbe consciousness of death, which begets an agonized struggle for life, and stilling him with a stupor said to be as delicious as It is'deadly. The death roll cannot be made up with any reasonable degree of certainty. \V© are only now getting detailed reports from the nearer settlements, and it will be fully a week ere these are so complete as to be trustworthy. Many of the missing will not be found till Spring; but It is safe to set down all the missing as dead. After carefully collating the various re ports received thus far, and making all allowance for the remaining parts of tho State, I am leu to conclude that the loss of life in Minnesota will range from two hundred and fifty to three hundred. It is just possible though not probable, that the higher figure may bo reached. Almost all of these are men, and a very large proportion of them fathers of families in straitened circumstances. The surviving widows and children will thus be left without means of sup port of any description. The charita ble of the East'will here find an object for their sympathies. JERONAUTIC VOYAGE • DONALDSON’S TRIP TO IRELAND IN SEVENTEEN HOURSt Al.f> AIIOCT THE GREAT PROJECT. After inquiring of several citizens of Beading as to the character of Prof. Donaldson, and being informed that ho was an exemplary citizen, sober and industrious, a JSew York Sun reporter called upon that gentleman for the pur pose of an interview. We extract ,: A DESPERATE EXX’EftIMENT, “ You see,” said tho icronaut, “I am over my ears in this affair ; and it will claim every moment of jny attention from now on until July, in order to have things perfectly arranged. I havu just finished ray plana, specifications and sketches for my ship, and I am ab solutely certain that what I am per fecting will carry me to Europe ns sure as tho sun shines to-morrow morn ing.” “What is this?” asked your corres dondent, pointing to a miniature bal loon filled with gas. "That,” said Donaldson, “is a model of the ‘Will o’ the Wisp,’ my new pa** per balloon, which is going to carry me to the clouds as soon as tho weather moderates sufficiently. It is composed of common brown paper, and will cost mo just $6 50 when completed. I in tend trying an experiment with it when at an altitude of half a mile. 1 have a patent parachute I wish to test, and to do this I shall experiment with tho paper balloon, by exploding it when about 8,000 feet highf to see whether I can safely descend. 1 shall first ascend and then X shall open my parachute (tho model of which looks for all tho world like three lamp shades strung on a string about two feet apart), see that it is perfectly filled, and part company with tho paper balloon, after having ignited a fuse, which will explode it a few seconds afterward, to tho delight of the people below. With my para chute I expect to descend to the earth at the rate of a mile an hour. AN EXPLOKIG BALLOON half n. mile high will be a nevelt.v, ami a change of cars, as It were, at that al situdo will also bo something new for the sensational people of this fast ago. But this has nothing to do with cross ing the ocean.” Donaldson then produced a series of diagrams and drawings of his proposed mammoth air ship. He proposes to have one large balloon, which will have sufficient power to successfully carry him through the trip. But to be more than safe in the raatfer he will carry with him two other supply or smaller balloons. With these he says he can fill the larger balloon, in cose of a loss or' escape by leakage or condens ing, and when they are empty he pro poses to pack them up, label them, and toss them into the ocean, which will relieve the ship of 250 pounds weight. During the day the floating power of the gas diminishes at the rate of about twenty-five pounds per hour; but at night the loss is greater through con densation, This ■ loss, however, is equalized by expansion when day comes again. If it should rain or be a damp disagreeable night it would add weight to the balloon. Suspended un der the large balloon will bo a metallic life boat, with oars, sails, condensed food, water, instruments, barometers, &c,, ready for any emergency. Several marked improvements will be raadfe in the construction of his boat. In order to test the upper currents he proposes to use a pilot balloon. The following are tho dimensions of the great balloon.' It is to be 80 feet in diameter, with a capacity of 208,000 feet of gas. To construct it, it will re quire 2,300 square yards of cambric, and it will be capable of lifting to the required altitude, 9,380 pounds. The weight of the gas chamber of this mon strous air ship will be 1,532 pounds while the nettings, etc., will weigh COO pounds. The two supply balloons will be 32 feet in diameter,which will require 374 yards of material, with a capacity of 28i000 cubic feet, and a lifting power of 980 pounds. The weight of tho two supply balloops, nettings, etc., will be 280 pounds,. A small balloon to save gas as it expands will weigh 140 pounds making a grand total of lifting power of 10,000 pounds ; total weight in full about 4,000 • pounds, including rope; life boat, provisions, instruments, etc., etc., leaving for passengers and supplies, 6,000 pounds. The outfit will be suffi cient for A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD; or for a month at least. After Hie above' recapitulation, Donaldson said : “Judging from my trips on land, I travel 20 to 150 miles per hour, so to cross the Atlantic to the coast of Ire land, which is the direction of the cur rent, distance 2,600 miles, it will require to make the trip from seventeen hours to two days and a half. But to provide for all delays I shall be cautious and provide for a much longer time say thirty days. X know-of two cases where a single ballosn traveled half the above distance without any previous prepar ation. I shall take two passengers with me; scientific men if they can be in duced to accompany me.. There is much to be discovered in the clouds and published to the world, and I know of nothing so exteremely unde veloped as the science of icrial naviga tion.” The corresponds then asked Donald' son what good could result from the trip, even if he were successful. The aironaut replied; If my trip is successful lean cross the ocean at one tenth of the cost it will require to make the first journey. I will CROSS THE ATLANTIC ON A TRAPEZE PAR, just to show the people it can ho done ; and if the whales give mo an audience, I’ll do a few tricks for them' above mid ocean. Mail matter, freight and passengers can be carried with facility, and at a cost far below that which is paid at the present day. Instead ol seven, eight or fen days, the journey cun be accomplished in two and a half; without the dangers of storm, lire, etc., that await those who go down to sea in ships. There will be no sea sickness, but in its stead a most delightful voy age. TO EUROPE. In reply to a question as to who would accompany him, Donaldson smiled, and proceeding to his desk brought forward twenty-three letters, most of which commenced : “ Prof. Donaldson—Having read in the Sun that you are about crossing,” etc. — Thirteen came from jonrnalists of New York, Boston, Baltimore and Philadel phia. Three were from ambitious nov elists, who desired to write books. A YOUNG LADY FROM JERSEY' CITY offered her services, saying if. she could not be a Joan of Arc, she could be the first woman tit cross the ocean in a bal loon. Pour applicants wanted to go very bad, because they thought piles of money could be made lecturing after the trip. The remaining two letters came from patent medicine houses, who desire to negotiate with the pro fessor for some sort of advertising. Aside from his absolute and deter mined intention of crossing the ocean, I find him a gentleman of leokiess dur ing. He never possessed fear or ti con sciousness of danger. His ocean trip Will bo positively made during the calm months of the next summer, and three people will constitute his crew. The upper or eastern current, he says, was created for icrial navigation. The existence of a returning current, blow ing from east to west, Donaldson is positive of finding. An enamoured swain who recently took the small-pox from his sweet heart, while she escaped with an un broken ekin, fell on his knees before her at’ their first meeting afterwards, and thanked her for so many marks of heriovo. Note for Darwin, touching crabs—lf you place one auywbere In the street it will Immediately got on the “side-walk.” Sly knavery is too hard for honest wisdom. - Rntos of AdveHJ6<iig. No. times Ib,q; asq.. 8 riq. 4fq. &.o ‘Ho 1 cofj 1 week. 81 W) *2 00 83 10 |4 00 97-00 $l2 00 822 uj 2 “ 160 800 400 600 000 14 00 26 0° 5 “ ,2004 00 ; 6 00'6 00 ll'OO Id 00 80 0® 4 “ 3C04765780 70 12 60 18.00 32 6^ 6 “ 300 660 660 760140 U 50 00 85 0 •« , 350 650 7.60 860 15 f-0 22 60 37 6° 2 months 4 00 ,7.60 8:60 060 17 60 25 00 42 6° 3 • “ 500 850.f16010 60 20 00 SO 00 60 00 0 •• 7601000 12 60 Iff 00 28 CO 40 00 75 0” 1 year. 1 <OO 15 00 20 00 25 <P 40 00 75 00 100 0° For Am le«s contn For Bubl u poi line. Doublocolamn advci .isoruenU extra. VOL 59-N0.36 On Tuesday, Gen. John P. Hartranft assumed bis dutitM as Governor of Pennsylvania. A successful leader In a hotly contested campaign, and the representatve of a faction that has won a great victory, the ceremonies atten dant upon his initiation into office were showy and imposing beyond parallel in our staid old State. All the thousand and one small politicians were there, the Federal office-holders (the faithful Prndorian Guards of our senior Sena tor), and a host of others ready to do homage to the power that is now firm ly enthroned in Pennsylvania, hold all its high offices and dictating all its leg islation. Simon Cameron .was recently re elected United States Senator for an other terra of six years. The prize which cost him so many bitter struggles in his more youthful days, and In the pursuit of which lie developed those rare qualities (let us thank Heaven for the rarity) that have made him the ac knowledged founder of the political philosophy Which Tweed practiced and the organs preach, is now his without oven a dissenting voice in' the Repub lican party. The septuagenarian, has won a greater victory than over crown ed the strong man in his prime. It is proper that these two events should follow each other so closely. In, the lalo campaign Simon Cameron and John P. Hartranft fought side by side, the first the grand commander, and the second a subaltern of the army of cor ruptionists. The venerable Senator won the fight for his young friend, and has since claimed the credit of his vic tory, and demanded the reward , of ; his services,. The two incidents,, then, go ; together. They are a part of the histo ry of the State. ’ Back of all Tuesday’s pomp and glory [was the sinister figure of Simon Cam eron. His subtle genious wrought the triumph that was celebrated; it was his. power that called together the shouting multitude and this subservient lackeys, and so ho loomed far above even him in whose name the feast had been called, Why, therefore, should we comment on a fact 1 so humiliating 'to our State pride, and indicative of so low a condition of political morality ? This is Mr. Cameron’s triumph, and he more than any other living man rep resents the subversive side of American ■politics ; it was he who first bought his Way into the United States Senate, who set the shining example to Patter son and Caldwell and others like them. We venture to do so simply because .of a physical fact and of a strong hope encouraged thereby. Senator Cameron lost to tho conspiracy of corruptionists, and the fabric will melt away faster than the snow from out; fields. Qenl Uartrunft is a young man. It needs no prophet, too, to tell him that the days of the Directory which lias taken him ip hand are numbered. The demand for reform grows louder every day.- A new spirit is abroad. Party is no longer held superior to conscience, and tlie press of the State grows more and more independent with each issue.— Ife has a chance now to surprise both his enemies (as those who refused to support his claims to the Governor ship of Pennsylvania are called) and his “friends.” Both parties expect evil from him ; but if ho does only good he will win more popularity and greater honors as a civilian than were the re wards of his bravery as a soldier. We appeal to him to thro w his influence in behalf of the right, and toavail himself of tho golden opportunity of the pres ent. In every honest effort he makes for reform and for the redemption of the Executive and Treasury Depart ments he shall have our hearty support. Now Is the time for him to choose. It is his own interests that are nt stake, not the people’s. They will take care of-themselves in the future. This journal has chosen its path and resolved to follow it to the end-; and, as th§ Governor has begun his official career by appointing M. S. Quay See-, retary of State, to succeed the able and and honest Jordan, we must say that his first act is a discreditable one, and that the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, as reconstructed, is un worthy of public confidence and respect. With Simon Cameron in the fullness of his powers, and B. W. Mackey, M. S. Quay and Harrison' Allen at the head of the State, it is full time to pray, “ God save the Commonwealth.” —' Everything rests now with Hartranft, unless. Indeed, Allen maintains tho in dependent spirit of whidh'he gavons a sample a short time since. The squirming among the bribe ta kers is livlier than ever since Oakes Aides found bis memorandum book.— Thd New York him thus comments: .The Massachusetts Sampson who has made sport for the Philistines for all these weeks and months has- recovered his strengh with his memory. Yester day putting his arms around. Colfax, Gerfleld, Daws, Wilson,. Allison, Kel ley, Scofield and Bingham, pillars of the Republican temple of Dagon, he tumbled the whole edifice of falsa;.ood and corruption to ruins. There were premonitions of it on Monday, when he began to be jocular about sending mon ey to Indiana “ where it would do the most good.” Yesterday ho unbosomed himself. ,-,t> .... And so, there’s the testimony. The very men'who with a show of indigna tion last summer denied any knowledge of or connection with the Credit Mold. Her are proven to have lied—not by the unsupported testimony of Mr. Oakes Ames, but by the record evidence, the cheeks and receipts, and written mom orandu, dbout which theto can be no mistake and which cannot be contro verted. Every one of them is proven to have held stock in the Credit Mobiller, and to have received each his share of its enormous dividends. E\ l en though the transaction had not worn the badge of fraud trom the outset in being held by Oakes Ami b in trust for men who were ashamed or afraid to appear as stock holders, the criminated members aru debarred from pleading that they were innocent of evil attention by the eager ness with which they washed their hands of it last summer. That of itself was dishonorable and corrupt. They stand before the country now branded with falsehood and covered with dis grace. The very least that Congress can do is to expel them. Twelve lines constitute For Executors* and Adc For Auditors’ Notices, For Assignees’ and slmil For Yearly Cards, not ext ' nuo’ —flvo i square.' ‘ i'ra’. Notices laiNotices, ■ •3 00 :ccocllng b!x lines, 7 00 coots per Hno un car. Nollccb. 10 ecu* jo'uncomcnta flv» meted for by the; ilncsa and Special |)drticaL [From Forney’s Press.] A GOLDEN OPPOBTOTITY. Squirming of tho Bnbe-Takors.
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