1!1. RA 80, Editor and Publisher.
VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 16.1
THE COLUMBIA SPY,
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BUSINESS CARDS
311. NORTLI,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAU
Columbia, Pa.
(,ollections promptly made in Lancaster
York counties.
Cola., July 2, 1565.
J. W. FISHER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office on Front Street, between Locust
and Walnut, Columbia, Pa.
fel). 10, '6O.
• A. 1 KAUFFMAN,
ATTORNEY AT L&W.
COLLECTIONS Made in Lancaster and
adjoining Counties.
Pensions. Bounty, back pay and all
claims against the government promptly
prosecuted.
o:lice—Locust Street,between Front and
Second. Dee. 1'64.
SAMUEL EVANS,
JUSTIVE of the APE4C.E.
OFFICE IN ODD FELLOWS' HALL.
COLUMBIA , PA.
ly.
June IS, ISa5
J, Z. HOPFER,
DA_.. 7 ENTIST.---OFFICE, Front Street next dom.
to R. Williams' Drug Store, between
Locust and Walnut sts, Cola., Pa.
S. C. E.REIENTROUT,
ATE of Reading, Pa., offers his pro
fessional services to the citizens of Co
-1 tunbin and vicinity. Office in Walnut St.,
"belc w Second. j lily 14,'6G.
LOCUST STBEET, COLUMBIA, PA.
rpHIS is a. first class lotel, and is in every
k respect adapted to meet the wishes and
lesires of the traveling public.
JACOB S. MILLER,
july, 15, '65 Proprietor.
MISHLER'S HOTEL,
EVAN BUSHIER, Proprietor.
WEST M.A.RKET SQUARE,
/?..EAD_r_EN co ) .PEN_AP A
Oct. 7th. ly
GEORGE BOGLE,
Dealer in
LUMBER OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Also, PLASTERER'S HAIR
Office and Warehouse—Front Street be
tween Locust and. Union.
July 8, 1885.
onf'ection ery
A ND FRUIT OF ALL KINDS IN SEA
iitson. Parties and families supplied with
'cm ca.m,..a.w.
by the freezer, or in moulds, with pi:ompt
ness at
GEO. J. SMITH'S
Adjoining the Franklin House, Locust St
P. S. Also a fine assortment of Toys
and fancy articles constantly on hand.
July
COLUMBIA FLOUR MILLS,
GEORGE BOG-LE, Proprietor.
mHE HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID
A. for all kinds of Grain. -
Superfine and Extra Family Flour for
sale, also mill feed of all kinds. Wheat
ground and packed to order
Town and country custom solicited
July 29th 1865.
SUPPLEE & HOWER ,
Manufacturers of
addition to our Foundry and Machine
a. work, we are now prepared to manufac
ture every variety of Boiler and plate iron
work,
Blending and Preparing Boilers
Promptly attended to. Thankful for Fast
favors, we would invite the attention of
our friends and patrons to this new branch
of our business.
SUPPLEE Lt. BRO.,
jan. 21, ,65. 2d Street,
_Columbia.
SUSQUEBANNA IRON CO
MUnufacturers of all sizes of
Refined & Double Refined
ROUND, SQUARE, FLATS, OVAL,
AND HALF OVAL IRON.
Car Axles, Shafting and Horse Shoe Bars.
Orders promptly filled from Stock
on hand or made to order.
reins, net cash, at Manufacturer's prices,
delivered an Cars or Boat.
Office at their ROLLING MILL,
Columbia, Pa.
Sept. 23, 65 ly
IDODGERS & BROTHERS ' SUPERIOR
Silver Plated Ware at
E. SPERING'S
Cheap Jewelry Store
NTEW ST YLE OF WATERFALL Combs
..LN at
aug. 26,
Wanted, To Rent or Boy.
A HOUSE in a central part of Columbia
or to rent two or three comfortable
rooms Apply at THIS OFFICE.
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Susquehanna Planing . Mill,
ON FRONT ST. AND PENN . RAILROAD
Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa.
rpHE subscriber would respectfully an
uounce to the patrons of his Mill, that
the advanced prices of labor and expellees
incident to carrying on the business of his
establishment compels him to charge his
customers an advance on formerrates, and
takes this method to inform them that the
following are the prices for work done at
his Mills:
For working Flooring per M 0 14.5 0
14 do Weatherboards " 4.50
" Surfacing one side, per M. 2.50
do two do do 4,50
" Re-sawing White Pine face
measure, per M. 5.00
do Poplar face meas. do 0.00
" do Ash, Oak dt Cherry,
face meas. per M. 8.00
" Ripping 4-4 per line, 16 ft. 11:
" do 8-4 do do 3
" do Joieo do do
4'-
ye"- Lumber hauhid to . the Mill and re
turned to Yard without extra charge.
Accounts for working or dressing 1 umber
will be considered collectable every four
months.
The subscribes has on hand an assortment
of ROUGH and DRESSED LUMBER,
which is for sale at Market Prices, and so
licits a: continuation of public custom.
JOHN B. BACHMAN.
Columbia,March 18, 1804.
A.O
Capital all paid in,
Net Cash Assets,
TNSURES against Accidents of All Kinds
causing , Bodily Injury or Loss of Life.
IT IS cREAr! IT IS UNIVERSAL! IT IS RE
LIABLE!
Policies issued from One year to Five years
from $3,00, to :5:50,000.
J. F. COTTRELL. W. P. COTTRELL.
J. F. COTTRELL el: BROTHER,
Successors to
J. W. COTTRELL, dee'd,
- r), Balers aat Foreimn 4: Domestic
f rrrl~r~n i 4 qtr i 7 ern; en - 1;•t
G-!ass, Paints, Oils,Varnishes, Turpentine
Benz ne fie.,
A large assortment of Parlor, Cook and
and Office Stoves always on hand. Tin
Ware manufactured to order at shortest
notice.
WOOD AND WILLOW WrARE,
in large quantities and of every variety
Plows, Corn Shetiers, Fend Cutters,
Shovels, Hoes, Forks, Rakes, tte.
Coarse and Fine Salt at lowest market
prices.
A large assortmentof Double and Single
barreled Guns, Powder Flasks,- Game
Bags and shot pouches.
Rifle A: Blasting Powder, shot and caps.
Highest market prices paid for
Clover, Timothy and Flax seeds, large
qua.itities of which we have constantly on
hand and oiler at the lowest rates.
Lubricating, Sperm and Fish Oi.s, suit
able for machinery. A Fine assortment of
Coal Oil Lamps, Shades. Lanterns, and
Lamp trimmutfzs.
We respectfully solicit a. share of public
patronage. Locust Street, Columbia.
toy. 4, 61 tf.
ATAVE RN STAND AND D WELLING
house hi Front Street with Lot of
Ground, being MO feet deep and tiO feet
front with Stable, Wash House ac., The
property is offered at private sale till 7th
of December, if not sold till then it will
be offered at public sale at 7 o'clock in the
ev-ming
R EMEITIBER THE OLD EST.I.D
LIS 11.lill STAND.
GREAT BARGAINS AT THE
CHEAP CASH BOOK: STORE.
We have just received from the Fall Trade
Sale a selected stock of
BOOK.S AND STATIONERY,
which we now offer at Greatly Reduced
Rates. Al large assortment of
SCHOOL MERCHANDISE
Constantly on hand. Also,
STANDARD EDUCATIONAL WORKS.
Brooks' Normal Elementary Arithmetic,
Brooks' Geometry and Trigonometry,
Rauh's Normal Speller, Sanders' Union
Readers. We call special attention to our
large assortment of
HOTUGLIAPEI ALBUMS,
FAMILY BIBLES,
AND
DIARIES for 1566
MERCHANTS and TEACHERS
Supplied at Wholesale rates, at
JOHN SHEA'FFER'S
Cheap Cash Book Store,
No. 32 North Queen St.. Lancaster, Yr..
nov. IS, '65.
The Celebrated Rooster Whiskey
q t.
can be had only at the corner of
Walnut and Commerce Streets.—
For quality, flavor and purity,
it cannot be beat. Also
"Bourbon Whiskey
from 'Bourbon County Kentucky, war
ranted to be the pure article, or no sale.—
We have Wines, Brandies, Gins, Cordials,
Old Monongahela of all grades. Give us a
call and examine for yourself.
CRARLES GROVE,
Corner of Commerce and Walnut Sts.,
Columbia, Pa. may 19-,6G-tf.
P ATEST HEST GE BACK ALBUMS
Alteinns ct Co's. Patent Hinge Back Al
bums, the best album made• Call and ex
amine at
E. SPERING'S
Jewelry Store
rpHE CELE.BRA.TEp SETH THCAIAS
I, CLOCK. E. Spering has just receiv
ed from the city a choice stock of these cel
brated clocks. The best, neatest and
prettiest Yankee Clock warranted for two
years. . tug. 26,
Tho Original
Travelers' Insurance Company,
}Hartford, Connecticut.
I'O.IIEDICAL EX.I.3IISATION REQUII?ED?
Every information given at the office of
he --Igen!, F. X. ZEIGLER.
Walnut Street, above Front.
may 19-'66-6m.
PIISHLER'S BITTERS,
Sold only by
J. C. BUG HER,
Corner of Front and Locust streets,
Columbia. Pa
may 19,-tf
TAVERN PROPERTY AT
PRIVATE SALE.
Aug. 18-tf
ROOSTER 1
aug. 20
- $500,000
- $610,000
BLANKETS & COVERLETS
BARGAINS IN FLANNELS '0
To this large and beautiful selection of
Goods, we cordially invite the attention of
our cu:storners and the public generally.
H. 0. FONDERSMITII
ADJOLVIXG THE COLUMBIA
NATIONAL 8A.41 7- K.
Sept. 15 186(1
ATTENTION HOUSEKEEPERS.
WyE rea almost tinily in receipt of new
and fresh groceries, such as
Sugars, Meat,
Teas, Fish,
Coffee, Cheese,
Spices, Flour,
Fruits, ,V,e.
Provisions of all kinds, together with
Wood audWillow-ware,Gla----tnd Queens
ware.
German fruits, d-o.
ENGLISH ANII IHERICAN PICKIES.
Fresh Peaches, and all the Iltncy grocer
ies pertainining to a well regulated gro
cery store. lam determined :lotto be sur
passed in cheapness and in the excellent
quality of my goods,
Call around and inspect our stock
whether you buy or not. A share of pub
lic patronage is solicited.
GEORGE TILLE, Agent,
Locust street, above 2cl.
July i 'GG tf.
C. TYSON
NEW GROCERY STORE.
rrHE Subscriber would respectfully in
lorm the Public generally, that ho has
just received a general assortment of
Sugar eared Hams.
No. 1. and Me As Mackerel.
Extra Fine Syrups.
Relined sugars of all kinds.
Old Rio and Java coffee.
English and American Pickles.
DRIED AND CANNED FRUITS.
Raisins, Prunes and Prepared Mustard
always on band and of the very best
grades.
Our stock of staple and fancy groceries
is full aml complete and we intend keep
ing it fresh, by almost daily additionq,
Notions of different kinds always on
hand.
iIIit4PRIEZURIVADE.
r well known Summer drink, extra
tine and pure, by the quart, gallon or
barrel, at J. C. BUCHER'S,
Cor Front and Locust Sts.
WATCHES, JE tit ELRY,
AMERICAN CLOCKS,
SIIVER AND PLATED WARE,
SPECTACLES, c&c.
FRONT ST., NEAR OLD BRIDGE,
Columbia, Penn'a.
READER—You can get an always
ready and reliable Gold. Pen exactly
adapted to your hand and style of writing
with which your writing will be done
vastly cheaper and with greater ease and
comfort than with Steel Pens (prices 50
cents and upwards) by calling at
P. SHREINER 6: SON.
June 0
E. SPERING'S
Jewelry Store
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1866.
1866. AUTUMN. . 1866
GRAND OPENING
of
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Carpeting,
Oil Cloths, &c. &c.
AT
Fond&smith's Store,
COLUMBIA, PA.
FlVidn, MEIIINES, VALENTIAS,
$1,25 Lupin's French alerinoes,
51,00 Lupin's 6-4 Delaines,
5.1,00 Plain Poplin; (very cheap
5-4 Beautiful Plaid Valentias.
GO cents only, for Embroidered Wincies ;
a new article for Ladies' dresses.
Cheap Cotton Goods,
1:11 cent Calicoes and Muslins,
25 cent Sheeting Muslins,
25 cent Heavy Canton Flannels,
20 cent Yard Wide Muslins,
22 cents for good Gin ;hauls.
In all Colors, Sizes, and Prices
40 cent Flannels,
50 cent Heavy Twilled Flannels,
Real Shaker Flannels,
All Colors Opera Flannels.
MEN'S WEA
Good Pant Stuff, 25 to 65 cents,
Good Satinetts. 75 to 1,00,
A full line New Cassimeres,
Over coatings, Velvet Cords, Lf:i
ALL T HE NOVELTIES
In SHAWLS, CLOAKS, and
CLOAKING. CLOTHS
BA Lmon.lL AND HOOP SKIRTS
SWITZER AND LIMBER CIIEE:SE,
roecn•ies, Provisions,
TEAS AND SPICES.
FREDERICK BUCHER.
corner 4th & Locust Streets
?my 2Gth, ly.
P. SHREINER & SON,
SOLE AGENTS
for the sale of
MORTON'S GOLD PENS
Dealers in
AUTUMN.
1866,
MALTBY 8c CASE
LOCUST STREET, BELOW SECOND,
Have now open
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
PA.l_,l_,
anai'
WINTER GOODS,
offering
GREAT INDUCENIMN TS
TO PURCHASERS.
ATTENTION
Is especially invited to their
SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
DRESS GOODS.
embracing . all the
LATEST STYLES AND FABRICS,
In the market
HOOP SKIRTS,
BRADLE Y'S DUPLEX,
And other popular makes at all prices
73ALMOILA.L SKIRTS,
WHITE G-0 03DS:
IaIIDIES' S.A.CE. CLOTLS
BLACK CLOTHS & DOESKINS,
FANCY CA_SSINIERES,
SATINETTS, JEANS, TWEEDS
•- YNSTING . ..4,4 1
• IN GREAT VARIETY.
GLITLElirdi3 PREIRIIIN GOODS
Comprising every desirable make and
style
UNDER-SHIRTS, DRAWERS,
HOSIERY, GLOVES,SCARFS,
CCE‘IFORTS, SHIRTS,
COLLARS TIES Lf:c.
LADIES,IIIISSES' and CHILDRENS
Y'T.TR,S,
SHA W LS, BREAK FAST SHAW LS
SONTA`GS, CAPS; NUB LAS,
SCARFS, HOSIERY, GLOVES,
NITS &c..
Boots Sz Shoes
of all descriptions for
MEN A- D BOY'S,
LADIES, MISSES CHILDREN
READY MADE CLOTHING
CARPETS, AND OIL CLOTHS,
GROCERIES, cf: QUEENSWARE
with a great variety of other
SEASONABLE GOODS
An examination of our Stock is respect
fully solicited—all goods sold at the very
LOWEST CA:sll PRICES,
and.
Wa Fran fed as represented
IIALTBY & CASE.'
Columbia, Pa
Oct. 27 GG
AIERCIL-BT TAILORING.
Having secured tho services of an ex
perienced
Fashionable Tailor
Merchant Tailoring in all its bra n .Ales will
also be carried on in connection with our
other already large mercantile business
All orders in that line will be executed
with
PROMPTNESS AND DESPATCH
Entire satisfaction. both as to Work-
manship and Fit guaranteed.
PRICES MODERATE.
la.. Orders respectfully solicited.
MALTBY & CASE,
/Columbia, Pa,
Oct. 27 'O5.
1866.
F_ 111 I T ICE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
HAS located premanentiy in Columbia,
and offers his professional services
to the citizens of his place.
He may be found at his office at the res
idence of B. Haldeman, on Locust street.
every day from 8 to 10 A. M., and from 7
to BP. M. Persons wishing his services
in special cases, between these hours will
leave word, by note, at his office, or thro'
the Post otlice. Oct. 0, 'OO.
PEOTOGRAPITS.
TEIE OLD ORIGINAL GALLERY.
The subscriber has completely re-fitted
his establishment, and his gallery cannot
be_ surpassed by any , in the county, and he
hopes by careful personal attention to dive
the public better pictures than have here
tofore been produced.
AMBROTYPES, PHOTOGRAPHS,
Ivorytypes, Melainotypes, Carte de Visitc,
and pictures on canvass taken in the best
style, and at prices which cannot be beaten
for cheapness.
;2 "Likenesses warranted, and a satis
factory picture furnished without repeated
sittlugs. He asks a continuance of the
liberal patronage always extended to this
establishment. Call and examine speci
mens at the rooms, northeast corner of
]+ rout and Locust streets. Entrance on
ocust street. B. J. DI. LITTLE.
Oct. 24 1863. •
R,eading e`6° Columbiarb. R.
Wlll commence running regular Passen-
ger Trains on -
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23d, ISGG,
'Between
OiLsznat3.c..mesctom.,
Ccola_am3=)2lza,
AND
AS FOLLOWS ;
Leave Laneamter and Columbia at
8.15 a. rn., and arrive at Reading 10• 30 a. rn
3.00 p. m. 5.30 noon.
Leave Reading at
7.15 a. to., arrive at Lancaster ..1; Columbia 0.45 n.m.
5.15 p.m. 8,30 p.
- r121... The Sunday train is discontinued.
Throng:l tickets to New York, Philadelphia and
Lancaster sold at principal stations, and Baggage
checked through. Freight carried with the utino,'
oromptm‘ss and dispatch, at the lowest ratea.—
Furtlter i nformoti.m with regard to Freigiet or
passage may be obtained from the ager.t.?Af the
company.
GEO. F. GAGFA .
npt.
E. P. IiERYER, Gen. Freight and Ticket Agt.
Columbia, Sept. 8,1850
CO
PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD.
Trains leave Columbia going East,
Lancaster train, S, 30 A. M
Harrisburg Acconunoclation, 5.3 S P.M
ItavoMest, .
Mail train, 11.55 P.M
Haarisburg Accormaodation, G. 30 P. M
Lancaster train ar ives, 8. 10 "
•
" Columbia lecommodation.
Leave Colu fo- n easter, 1.40 P.M
Arrive at Lancaster :2.10 "
Connecting with day express for Phira
Leave Lancaster at 2.45
Arrive. at Columbia 3.21) "
11. C. R.ASIBUT.eIY.
YORE AND WRIGHTSVILLE R. R
The trains from Wrightsville and York
will run as follows, until further orders :
Leave Wrightsville S CQ A. M.
1 SIAP. M.
Lt
6 45 P.
Leave York 6 45 A. M.
12 10 P. M.
3 50 P.M.
Departure and Arrival of the Passenger
Trains at York.
DEPARTURES FROM YORK
For I LTIMORE, 4.15 A. M. 7.00 A. M.,
and 3.50 P. M.
For .11Annisnuno, 12.52 A. M. 7.10 I'. M
.111E1 11.50 A. _M, and 10,40 A. M.
ARRIVALS AT YORK
From BALTImonE,IO.3S A. M. 11.45 P. M
and 2.50 P. M. and 12.47 P.M.
Prom HAnnisnuna, 4.10 A. M., 9.57 A.
M., and 2.45 P. M.
On Sunday, the only trains running are
the one from Harrisburg at 9.57 in the morn
ing, proceeding to Baltimore, and the one
from Baltimore at 12.47 A. 111., proceeding
to Harrisburg.
HALL'S
VEGETABLE SICILIAN
HAIR RENEWER,
The effects of which are to
RESTORE THE HAIR
NATURAL COLOR,
AND PROMOTE ITS GROWTH.
It is an entirely new scientific discovery,
combining many of the most powerful and
restorative agents in the vegetable kingdom.
It cures all diseases of the scalp, and
allays all that heat and irritation, and fur
nishes a nutritive principle by which the
hair is nourished and supported, and by its
remedial virtues, it causes the hair to grow
where it has fallen out, and restores it to
its natural color when gray. The old in
appearance are made young again. It will
keep the hair from falling out.
It is not a Dye, it strikes at the roots and
fills the glands with new life and coloring
matter. It is the best
HAIR DRESSING
Ever used, making it moist, soft and glossy.
It removes dandruff, and all those scurvy
eruptions. It does not contain oil and alco
hol, which dry up the secretions upon which
the vitality depends.
No person, old or youno, should fail to use
it. Itis recommended anclused by the FIRST
MEDICAL AUTHORITY.
Ask for HALL'S VEGETAIILE Sicxmin
Hint RIINENVER, and take no other.
Our Treatise on the Hair sent free upon
application.
R. P. HALL & CO., Proprietors,
NASHUA, N. H.
BOLD BY ALL DBLIGGISTI3.
BAY RUM FOR THE TOILET.
Recommended by all Doctors, for wash
ing purposes. 7;5 cents per bottle, at
J. U. BUCHER'S,
Cor. Front and Locust Sts.
july 60 tf
PARIS FANCY' GOODS !
For Holiday gifts oonsistincr o f F anc y
Work Boxes Seger Stands, Watch Stands,
Vases.„&c. Fine Cutlery, Pocket Books,
Combs, &sc., at E. Spering's Cheap Jewelry
Store.
MEM
$2,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,50 IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE.
octrij.
Any Pr . etty Brunette.
BY EVA SLICE
My heart with a treasure is laden,
Far richer than gems of the sea;
'Tis the love of yonder sweet maiden,
Whose tears are now falling for me
0! sweet are the thoughts which I cherish,
Love's arrows are causing me pain;
I can bleed, can suffer, near perish,
If only to meet her again.
Such charms of unspeakable beauty !
Those smiles I can never forget.
But alas ! I'm a soldier cm duty.—
Farewell to "My Pretty Brunette!"
Niorell a ittuoro.
Ventilate Your Children's Rooms.
Most parents, before retiring to rest,
make it a duty to visit the sleeping
rooms of their childreu. They do so in
order to be satisfied that the lights are
extinguished, and that no danger is
threatening their little ones. But if they
leave the room with closed windows and
doors, they shut in as great an enemy as
fire, although his ravages may not be so
readily detected.—Poison is there slow
but deadly.
Morning after morning do may little chil
dren wake weary, fretful and oppressed
"Whatrian it mean ?" "What can it
be ?" the mother cries. In despair she
has recounSe to medicine. The consti
tution bocCmes enfeebled, and the child
gets wore
The c. use, perhaps, is never traced to
over Jrowded sleeping-rooms without
propo air, but it is nevertheless the right
.:. se. An intelligent mother having ac
quainted herself with the principles of
ventilation, will not retire to her own
room for the night without having pro
vided sufficiency of air for her children
in the same manner that sho provides
and regulates their night covering,or any
requisite for refreshing slumber. Some
times by judiciously lowering a window,
and at other times by leaving a door
wide open, this end may be attained.
In many houses the day and night
nurseries" con.sinunicato. When this is
the case the window of the farther room
i should be left open, and the doors be
tween the rooms likewise open. Even
in severe weather young children can
bear this arrangement if they are not ex
posed to a direct draught.
"Danie Fortupe's Freaks."
The Newville Star says that a young
man now engaged in teaching " the
young idea to shoot" in Mifflin town-ship,
Cumberland county, is reported to be
the happy recipient of an estate valued
at 575,000. This freak of fortune is
tinctured with the colors of romance.—
Belonging to one of the Pennsylvania
regiments, he was engaged in the battle
of Gettysburg, in which he received a
wound in the arm. Returning from the
field he became faint from the loss of
blood, and Etas kindly taken care of by a
benevolent Jaraily living near by. During
his confinement, women whose heart is
always alive to suffering humanity, ten
derly watch over him. Iler tender
nursing kindled love's flame. The nurse
and patient promised each other days of
future bliss. The father of the family
perceiving this state of affairs and weak
ening under the infirmities of age made
his will prior to their marriage, in which
he bequeathed this clever estate to the
soldier and his expectant bride uncon
scious of such ptcrnal favor. The
young soldier engaged in teaching, nobly .
striving to homstly earn his bread, and
was thus laboring when his cttorney
notified him of his happy fortune
Poi tune smiles ou the brave.
Tobacco.
There are about thirty species of tobac
co, all posessing nearly the same proper
ties. It is said the plant was first found
in Yucatan. It was taken to Spain and
from there to Portugal. From Portugal
it was carried to different European king
doms. Snuff-taking commenced in Paris,
Catherine de iVedicis, whose name has
an unpleasant history ; from its connection
with the massacre of Protestants, being
is first patron. Soon after the settle
ment of this country it became an by
portont article of commerce, and one
hundred and twenty pounds was the
stipend paid for a wife by some of the
early settlers of Virginia.
—Cyrus W. Field has twice failed—
once in 1857 and again in 1860—both
times from the effects of commercial
panics, superadded to his investments in
the Atlantic cable scheme. creditors
of 1857 he subsequently paid in full,and
he is now engaged in the same service
toward those of 1860, the successful lay
ing•of the cable having put him in funds.
The amount he is now thus disbursing is
about $200,000.
[WHOLE .NTTAIBER 1,940
Burd Patterson, in an article in the
Miner's Journal says that steel rails for
railways will last twenty times as long as
iron rails. He alludes to the iron rails
on the Reading Railroad at Pottstown
lasting but three years, and remarks - as
follows :
For the Sp 3
"All the steel rails now used in Eng
land have two treads. Mr. John L. Pott
and Mr. Lewis Griffith, have returned
to this place from a three months visit to
England, Scotland and South Wales, for
the purpose of examining the Steel
Works making' steel by the Bessemer ,
process. They took letters of introduc
tion from Governor Curtin, and were
freely admitted into all the large works.
They have obtained much valuable infor
mation. They saw a portion of 10,000
tons of steel rails now being made by
Brown & Co., of Sheffield, for the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. Steel rails
imported at this time will cost about two
hundred dollars per ton; iron rails ninety
five dollars per ton. We must make our
own steel rails and quit using iron rails.
Safety and economy both demand it.—
Very many of the old iron wcrks in
England, Scotland and Wales are putting
up Bessitner Steel Converters. The
process is very simple, and requires only
thirty minutes to convert melted pig
metal into Bessemer steel, by blowing
cold air into it at a pressure of fifteen
pounds to the square inch."
In the year 1849 a young man left the
city of Richmond for California, where
his efforts proved successful, and in time
he amassed a fortune. Lfe kept up a
correspondence with his relatives there
until the beginning of hostilities, when
mail facilities being cut off,
.his family
heard no more of him. After the close
of the war a report of his death reached
Richmond, and he was duly mourned
as a . son and brother lost. His father, a
wealthy citizen, died in the mean time,
and his estate was duly administered
upon and divided among die "reinaining
heirs. Recently the young man reported
and lamented as dead made his appear
ance, well and hearty, as agent of an
immizration society and was not a little
surprised to learn that he had been
thus summarily consigned to an early
tomb. As a matter of course he is en
titled to a share in his father's estate,
and the administrator is much perplexed
as to how he shall act in the premises.
Whiskers aria Kisses.
The cditress of the Lancaster Literary
Gazette says she "would as soon nestle
her nose in a rat's nest of Swingletown
as a man with whiskers to kiss her." We
don't believe a word of it. The objections
which some ladies pretend to hate to
whiskers all arise from envy, They don't
have auy. They would if they could;
but the fact is, the continual motion of
the lower jaw is fatal to their growth.
The ladies—God bless them I—adopt our
fashions as far as they can. Look at the
depredations they have committed on
our wardrobes the last few years. They
have appropriated our shirt bosoms, gold
studs and all. They have encircled their
soft bewitching cheeks in our standing
collars and cravats, driving us to fatties
and turn-downs. Their innocent little
hearts have been palpitating in the inside
of our waistcoats, instead of thumping
against the outside,"as naturally intended.
They thrust their pretty little feet and
ankles through our iiiiinentionables, un
think abouts, and they arc skipping along
the streets in our hiirli-heeled boots. Do
you hear ?—we say boots.
Ladies am! Newspapers.
it is a great mistake in female educa
tion to keep a young lady's time and at
tention devoted to the fashionable.ditera
tore of the day. If you would qualify
her for conversation, you must give her
something to talk about—give her edu
cation with this actual world and its
tr a nspiring events. Urge her to read
the newspaptrs,aud become familiar with
the present character and improvements
of our race. History is of some impor-
tance ; but the past world is dead, and
we have nothing to do with it. Our
thoughts and our concerns should be for
the present world,to know what it is and
improve the condition of it. Let her
have an intelligent opinion and be able to
sustain a conversation concerning the
mental, moral, political and religious im
pi °cement of outfilintes.
—A sea wall for the protection of a
portion of the harbor of San Fraucisco,is
to be constructed at a cost of $2,500,000
—Slander is more accumulative than
a snow-ball. It is like a salad, which
every one will season to his own taste, or
the taste of those to whom he offers it.
Steel Rails.
The Dead Alive.