eiTtionbia c§vg. A. .111. R.A.MBO, Columbia, Pa. Saturday, April 20, 1867. Advertisements, to secure immediate in- Beaten, mint be, handed in on or beforeThurs daF evening, each weeh. Democracy. From the days of Tnlleyrand, who first publicly announced the theory that " Language was given to man to enable him to etnaccal his thoughts" down to the present day, there has never been a more successful or extensive application of the doctrine, and at the same time, successful attempt at false pretenses, than that which has been practised by the "so called Dem. ocratic party" for the last half century. Called into existence as a party, under the leadership of the immortal Jefferson, at a time when there was an evident in tention to so mould our institutions as to centralize power in the hands of the Ex ecutive and heads of Departments, it nat urally- attracted to its folds the majority of the American people, many of whom bad come to this country as an asylum from the tyranny of the old world, add naturally sought affiliation with that party which held doctrines differing most from those which obtained in the country from which they had fled. As a natural and inevitable consequence,tlae Democratic party became the popular party, and of course the dominant party, but to perpet uate the power, (aud patronage, for it was the Democratic party that originated the doctrine that "to the victors belong the spoils,") thus obtained, it became neces sary to change the tactics of the party, and to use all the means at their com mand for the securing of votes; and by .tracing the history of the party it will be found that it long since lost the peculiar features which had given it its first pop ularity, i. e. its devotion to the interests of the many in opposition to the interests of the few, and as much as thirty years since, it ceased to be a party of principles and degenerated into a mere name, advo cating one set of principles iu one latitude, and another set iu another, as witness the base swindle practiced upon the honest yeomanry of PLunsylvania when the De mocracy (?) carrried this great State for James K. Polk, by announcing him as " a better tariff mau than Henry Clay," and parading the streets with their ban ners and transparencies, inscribed " Polk, Dallas and the tariff of '42". About this time an institution came into existence in Pennsylvania known as " the common school system,"—not indebted to the Democracy for its inception, (but to Thad deus Stereos, and a few other's of that school of politics,) although the party does attempt to glorify the administration of Gov. Wolf, -for its adoption—which said institution was calculated to open the eyes of the voters'tii the real designs of -politicians,-(there ist no eye-salve like 61, uciatiori to remove scales,) and our Detai ner:lde leaders, finding the ignorance of the masses of the North no longer afford ed them a secure tenure of office, threw themselves into the arms of the South, leaving behind them, as cast off garments, all their old anti-slavery doctrines or pre tensions; (the most ultra anti -slavery res olutions ever passed by any Legislature south of the latitude of Boston, were pass ed by the Democratic—largely Democratic —Legislature of Pennsylvania, during the administration of Gov. Wolf.) From that day to the present, the Democratic party has only existed in the name, i. e. the " so called Democratic party" has had nothing democratic about it, except the name.— Finding, as we before stated, that they could only retain their hold of the loaves and Eshes, by truckling to the South, and thus receiving them as allies, the Dem ocratic party commenced the crusade against the negro, first by an amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania, dis franchising the few of them who, under the already sufficiently proscriptive laws of the State, were allowed the franchise, then by the enactment by Congress of the infamous Fugitive Slave Law, under the operation of which persons were made to suffer for merely giving a crust of bread or a cup of cold water to a famishing negro who was attempting to escape from the worse than Egyptian bondage, under which. he had suffered in the laud of chivalry, then by the still more in fumous Dred Scott decision of the man Taney, who will be known in future as not being satisfied with the amount of in famy he had earned by his consenting to become the tool of Jackson, in the " re moval of the deposits," the result of which was so disastrous to the business interests of the country, but must needs add to his black record the prostitution of the sacred ermine at the behests of the same Dent ocrizek party. _Democracy is defined as "a Government of the People," and a Democrat as "one who adheres to. a Government by the people, or favors the " extension of the, right of suffrage to all classes of men."— Webster. Now mark the course of this party, from the day when they were first threatened with the introduction of education, which would necessarily open the eyes of the citizens of such districts as had sense enough to accept its beneficent provisions, to the present, and witness its close affiliation with the party which holds to the Divine Right of the few to rule 'the many, and t. ap e , opriatie to themselves their earn ings. Witue-s the Mexican war, waged at the mist of so many valuable lives, and the subsequent purchase of Texas. at the cost of so many millions of money, all for the purpose of at/arging the area of slavery, and perpetuating the power of the Democratic party. Witness the moral encouragement given to the South, to in augurate the last bloody conflict, which, but for the insane desire of that party to retain a political preponderance, would have been as bloodless a.- war of ideas as that which has preceded any other moral reformation in the world. Witness all this; but most degrading of all, witness their frantic attempts to pre vent the re-organization of the South, un der the benign enactments of Congress, fur their benefit. The present attitude of the party can only be explained on the hy pothesis that their leaders are mad, or that the party is drifting without leaders —more probably the latter. They see all the old catch-words lose their p-itency, the cry of the inferiority of the negro is met by the Act, (hit! these '• facts are stubborn things,") that negro orators by the score, are springing up all through the South—men who have never read a book in their lives, except the ever-open book of nature, and have got all their ed ucation from facts—addressing public meetings, composed indiscriminately of the whilom master and slave, and in which the latter as ofteu as the former, comes off victorious in the encounter of mind, displaying a knowledge of his changed condition, with the duties: and responsibil ities which it devolves upon him, for which his warmest friends had not here tofore given him credit. They see that the foreign element is not so tractable and so easily gulled by the ad captanduns cry of " Democracy" as heretofore. Our Irish friends continue to itumigrate to our shores, as formerly, and as a general thing, they come with as small a knowledge of our political institu tions as formerly, but there is one great change in the condition of things, which the Democracy will try in vain, either to obviate or ignore, and that is, that thous ands of the descendents of the original Irish and German immigrants are now— thanks to our enlightened system of Pub lic Instruction—educated professional men, filling prominent and influential positions in the country, and many of them have commanded Divisions, Brigades, Regi ments and Companies, throughout this long war, (inaugurated through the com plicity of the Democratic party,) and by their own experience have learned solTEC thing of the working of the Divine Insti tution, e. y. the starving and maiming of prisoners of war, and a host of other nice little accomplishments and embellishments of life, which they do net desire to see engrafted upon our civilization, and as the Irish emigrant of the present day can go for counsel to au educated and intelli gent Irishman, instead of to one of the leaders of the Democratic party, that party now finds itself under the necessity of getting up a bait for the emigrant that will first catch the educated Irish popula tion of' the country, and as that is out of their reach, the hope of ever again polling the foreign vote solid is given up in des pair. They may, of course, occasionally carry a solitary precinct, (where schools are scarce, ride, Bucirs county, which " went it strong " for Clymer,) or, when an independent issue of a local character is involved, as in Connecticut, they may even carry a State; but alas for the palmy days of the Democracy ; alas for the good old days when the holding of mass meet ings and the dissemination of political in formation through the press was a work alone for the " Whigs"—when the De-no cracy calmly waited for the advent of :he " man that told them how to vote "incl voted accordiuglY—alas, we say, Air th good old days, departed never to ret ) .n. The people have risen to the dignity of thinking for themselves; they recognize the divine truths of the Declaration of Independence; they appreciate the fact that the world moves, and they recognize the equally patent fact that the " so called Democratic party" is dead, and buried beyond the hope—no, the fear of' resurrec tion, and all that remains to be done is to say *to the dear departed :Editor "Requieseat in Pace." - THE majority of the copperhead papers are doing the Republican cause much more good than harm by their senseless ravings, and vain attempts to thwart the will of the people in their determination to re-organize the country on a sure and stable basis; and the hest way to treat such papers is to " let them alone," as their arguments generally refute them selves, but occasionally, an article will appear which demands notice, and of.this class is the leader of the ".11r. Y. II'or3" of last Tuesday, entitled " The Strikes— Eight hour laws—Lower Prices"—which will be read by many who will look upon it as a mere financial affair—a calm view of the condition of the country and a sug gestion of " ways and means" to extricate us from the effects of the high prices, &c., &c.. which are seriously retarding our re turn to the prosperous condition in which the country was before these same Copper head papers and politicians plunged the country into a five years' war. But the article referred to is a covert attempt to undermine the feeling which prevades all classes with regard to the inviolability of the debt incurred in the suppression of the rebellion. President Juhason having failed in his attempt to create a fccling in favor of ie pudiating our sacred. obligations, the lForld has taken upon itself the honor able task, but we have no fears of the effects of his articles, as our coolidence in the determination of the American people to pay every dollar of the liability incur red in the vindication of our Nationality, is unabated—despite the covert attacks of the Mr& and all the hosts of Copper head sheets combined. An Encouraging Prospect. While many are predicting a gloomy • future fbr our country, some id our Trans- Atlantic cousins send us words of coin fort and encouragement. An intelligent. London correspondent of a New York paper, says he is inclined to think that if we get things settled in America and ar range our differences with England befhre the end of this year, that the next Euro pean mania for specuiation way turn to wards the United States, very likely to the purchase of Southern lands and grand plans of emigration. In another year something must be done with the vast ac cumulation of money now lying idle there and on the continent. The United States is in- high• favor. If we have no serious mishap this will increase. The lavish ex penditure of Americans in Paris and else. where, backed as it is in most cases by unquestioned and rapidly acquired wealth, is making a serious impression upon Europeans. Future Political Parties, The Cincinnati Commercial says that parties now are not what they were be fore the late rebellion began, except in name. To all intents and purposes, it says, they arc now parties with no issues to meet, and new results to work out. The Northern Democracy can make no stronger appeals to the South than the Republicans, unless it be on the score of political fellowship in years gone by, and pledges unfulfilled. Will an indulgence in the sentimental luxury of old memo ries compensate the South for casting its fortunes with a party everywhere in the minority—where it has not shed its seedy clothes and put on the robes of Republi can righteousness ? If, in order to re suscitate its fallen fortunes, the Democra cy of the North should have to follow the example of Connecticut, and make lead ers and standard bearers of men that three or four years ago they burned in effigy as Abolitionists, what would be gained by an alliance with them that is not already as sured by alliance with the dominant or ganization ? European. Our latest foreign advices indicate that the war-cloud between Prance and Prus sia, which at first was " uo bigger than a man's hand," is now assuming threatening proportions, and later intelligence from 'Europe will be eagerly anticipated; but we realy cannot perceive how the affair is greatly to affect this country, although many of cur leading journals are predict ing any amount of injury to our interests —industrial and commercial—in the event of' the present misunderstanding culmina ting in actual hostilities. Chicago Election. CHICAGO, April 16.—The election to day passed off quietly. At this hour, 11 P. M., we have returns from eleven wards, giving a majority for the Republican ticket of 2,634. The estimated returns from the other five wards increase this majority to 3,784. The Council will stand, twenty-five Republicans and seven Democrats. [Sp.:eta' Correspondence of the Columbia "3py."3 Letter from the West. BELLEVILLE, ILL., April 15, 1867 If the reader will go with me a Rahe less than a mile north-west of our city limits, lie will find it a beautiful wooded country, with patches of rich prairie where grow the great crops of wheat for which this country is noted. lam told by old settlers, that much of the country hereabouts that is now covered with a vigorous growth of young timber, was in their chilhood open prairie. Such was the case with the locality where wo are now supposed to be. The ground here is higher than the city, and Richland creek; running south, is between us. In a few years these gentle slopes will, no doubt, be covered with fine country residences and luxuriant vineyards, but now they aro used for growing wheat. Here at our right is a fine field, along side.of which is the in. evitable zigzag rail fence. From a casual glance you would not suppose that a dwell ing had ever stood in this neighborhood. A close inspection, however, reveals a slight cavity which was once a cellar, a few re mains of a foundation arc also discernable, and in front stands an old apple tree. Here was formerly the residence of Col. E. D. Baker, afterwards U. S. Senator from Ore gon, and whose valuable life was ended at the battle of Balls Bluff, in October, ISfli. The particulars of his death" are thus rela ted by Victor: About four o'clock p. m., Colonel Baker, pierc ed by a number of balls, fell, at the head of his command, while cheering on ale men, and by his own example maintaining the obstinate re sLstance they were making. In full uniform, with a "regulation" bat and feather, and mount ed on his horse, lie was a conspicuous mark for the sharpshooters. EntirelyA l egardless of per sonal safety, he led and cheer on his men. remarked to those around him, "A rascal up in that tree has tired at me live or six tines;" and the rascal in the tree was speedily brought clown by a well-directed hall. Soon after this Col. Ba ker was surrounded by a body of rebel cavalry and taken prisoner; but the right wing of the battalion charged with the bayanet, routed the cavalry, killed numbers of them,and re-captured their Colonel. But a few minutes had elapsed, however, when a tall, ferocious Virginian, with eyes fairly ablaze, came 'rushing from behind a tree, with a huge revolver in ins hand, and, placing the weapon almost against the Colonel's hen in flicted a mortal wound. Not satisfied with his deadly work, he fired the second ball, while simultaneously the body was pierced with four bullets from the tops of trees, The brave Colo nel fell lifeless from his horse. Captain Lewis Berial, of Now York city, commanding Compa ny (3, California regiment, seeing the fISSELSSiIIa -0011 of Colonel Baker, rushed upon the radian, seized him by the throat, and shot hint dead on the spot with his revolver. Years ago this city was the home of a larg er proportion of the leading men of the State, titan any other single town or city. Lyman Trumbull, now U. S. Senator from Illinois. commenced his career in Belle ville. Many of our oldest citizens remem ber him as a young and successful practi tioner of more legal ability than any other town in Illinois. I have heard them re mark of the time when he was living here working himself up from a poor boy. A few months since I was conversing about him with an old gentleman, now living here—a strong opponent, politically, of the Senator. He said young Trumbull was the most studious and persevering man he ever saw. At that time he was in the momm tile business, and as is usual in country towns, his store was often kept open late at night. My old friend informed me, that whenever ,:,he went home, whether it was ten, eleven,' twelve, or one o'clock, as he passed Trumbull's office, the latter was al ways to be seen pursuing his studies. His habit was to pace his office backwards and forwards, his book in ono hand and a can dle in the other. It was months and years of this continuous application, that, in part, has made Judge Trumbull ono of the first men in a great nation. Among other prominent men who resid ed in this city, we might mention Gov. Kin ney. Gov. Bissel, whose untimely death, 1 while in office, was, at that time almost a national calamity, Gov. Edwards, Col. Fouke, and others. Among those still left aro Gov. Kcerner, late Minister to Spain, and John Baker, our present member of Congress, an unobtrusive gentleman of re markable power, nervous and somewhat eccentric, and the only man among the Re publicans, who, at the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress, had the hardihood to but against Tiro. Stevens. Mr. Baker, like Mr:Trumbull, is a self-made man, and will yet wake his mark. By some legerde main, the city of Alton usually gets the credit of being the home of all the promi nent men in the 12th Congressional District, and therefore Mr. Bakers residence is giv en in the Tribune Almanac, as being at Al ton , while the fact is, ho does not, and never did, reside there. "Darin." A. T. Stewfret. This man is famous, and for nothing but his wealth. All the papers in tho country toady after him because hots rich. Harper's Monthly gives him a grand lauduiion ; the Philadelphia Home Weekly continues the Strain and other papers aro loud in praise. We have heard of none who dare to do other wise than flutter. But, the fact is, Mr. A. T. Stewart has but few friends in New York where his greediness is known. With great emphasis he declares "Truth" to be the source of his success and that "fair-dealing" is the watch-word. • Now, how has he dealt "fairly" with the public? It is reported to his credit that. ho has created panics in the Dry Goods mar ket by buying all of a certain kind of goods. the market held, and then raised the price up to his own figures. It is also related that he undertook to work the same " Truth" and "Fair Dealing" game on Boston, but the party to whom he entrusted his generous designs, beat him at his own trick. Now what is all this? It is nothing more than robbery, and every time Mr. Stewart does it he is dealing un kindly; nay, that word won't express it—he is dealing dishonestly with the people. He strips the market to spring the price in order to enrich himself. That Mr. Stewart has become rich because ho has been "honest," is stuff. He is rich because ho was shrewd ; because betook every advan tage he could of the people and the markets, and though he would not allow a clerk to raise the price of calico upon an ignorant customer one cent a yaid, yet he would raise it ten cents upon millions of people. If the press will paint Mr. Stewart as he is, ho will stand out before the world not as ho now does, but as a shrewd and success ful speculator, no better than a thousand Now York merchants and not as liberal and generous as hundreds of thousands all over the land who are not worth one-thousandth part as much. Ho is rich, but what has he over done to thank the people for their patronage? He is, so they say, one of the stingiest men in New York. When he does give, it is done with the blast of ten thousand types, and all the presses of Harper and Leslie, the .7ri buize and Herald. Richer than Daniel Drew, yet he has not half his charitable spirit nor kindliness of heart. Daniel MT AV is a bene factor of his race. Ms last gift of V. 50,000 is more than A. T. Stewart ever gave away or ever will. Not even the awful grandeur of George Peabody seems to affect him to tenderness and charity. Stewart is no longer the " merchant prince of New York." Horace B. Chaffin, ono of God's noblemen, beat him twenty millions of dollars last year in the amount of sales; Dlr. Claiiu never lets his right know of the charity his loft hand imparts. As a merchant he is respect ed and revered ; as a citizen he is liberal and humane and us much the superior of A. T. Stewart as gold is superior to brass.— Railroader, C"incinitati Ohio. Beaturegard to the Rescue. The little mendatious Creole, one of the most pestilent of secessionists, who did all he could to destroy a great nation and set up a reign of plantation aristocracy on the ruins of one-third, more or less, of its terri tory, has come to the surface again. This time ho Is eating his own falsehoods. He advises submission ; and then avows tha opinion that the negro, taught a little and owning a little property, will make a re spectable Southern citizen, and vote with his old master, and thus secure a victory over Northern radicalism. Bfoturegard is of no account; except as a weather-cock, and the way he points note shows just how much of sincerity ho and his fellow con spirators had when they insisted that the colored race were incapable of taking care of themselves,and providentially boudmen for their own good. Another thing is rich in the sublime resignation of Beauregard. He is extremely anxious that this country should not be reduced to the anarchical condition of Mexico and the South Ameri can republics. In view of the antecedents, this solicitude of the Rebel braggadocio would be creditable to him, provided any body trusted him or cared for his senti ments. In this instance, as in others, the rating passion of the Secessionists is strong in death. They cannot fight,being out of pow der. They cannot emigrate, as there is no land like this to furnish them with bread and butter. They have been whipped as arch-traitors, but according to them no dis honor rests upon their defeated treasonable purposes. Proudly they bow their heads to the yoke and endeavor to cajole their late chattels to come to theirAelp,"so that they may have another small chance to indulge their autocratic hatred of dernocratic Yan kees, and exorcise a little brief influence without titles of office. Verily it takes the self-conceit of the -Lees, I3cauregards, and others like them; a 1(514 time to read the hand-writing on• the -.Wall, and accept the doom which. pronounces their inhuman schemes ariddefdly pretensions entirely an nihilat-ed..BOs ton Transcript, OilitoTiialt \& ClippialT.:i. —Envelopes ftirtjshed and printed at the .Spy Office, for $4.-50 per thousand. —Business seems to be always very brisk with I. 0. Bruner. —The immortal "S. IN"." was in Mans field, 0., last week. —A special meeting of the Vigilant Fire Company will be held at their hall, on Second St., Monday evening next. —Morris Clark, Justice of the Peace, has opened an office on the corner of Locust and Second streets, Columbia. —Two rafts broke loose from their moor ing -Am Thwrsdny last, and mut oiler the Colum.aa dam. —Married, :In Williamson, Mass., .fr. William Williams, and Miss Lizzie Wil liam,. For particulars See small Bills. —Joseph W. Young, the eldest son -of President Brigham, has married Miss Clare Ste.thouse, dam:diter of the editor or the Mormon paper of Salt Lake City. —The Spy . Job Printing! Office., offers better facilit i es for doing job wort.than imy other office in the vicinity. Conse quently we do work much cheaper. —Harriet Beecher Stowe is reported as so delighted with Florida, that she has pur chased a place on St. John's River, and in tends to take up her residence there. —The latest case of taking revenge is that by Senator Fessenden, who, because Port land took fire from a fire-cracker, moved to exclude them from importation. —Victoria lately stood in person as god mother at the baptism of the young Indian, Victor Albert, the inthnt son of His High ness the Maharajah Dhaleep Sing. —A. T. Stewart's store on Broadway, New York, is to be enlarged during the summer to six times its present size, when it will cover an acre and a quarter of ground. —A man named Carr, convicted of man slaughter, at Wilmington, N. C., on the Zdh inst., was sentenced to be branded in the usual manner prescribed by law, and pay the costs of the case. —The Russian treaty, as ratified by the Senate, was sent to the Emperor of Russia by cable at a cost of $0,500, and it is under stood that his formal assent to the same has already teen received. —The Erio Dispatch says a " Mind-Your- Own-Business-Society" was to have been formed in that city, but the project fell through because no one could be found who was eligible for membership. We don't doubt it. —Just now porcelain from China is be coming very fashionable in New York. Dinner sets cost from seven hundred to ono thousand dollars, and contain, perhaps,three hundred and fifty pieces. —Mr. Cyrus IV. Field has completed a contract with the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, for the man ufacture of a cable to he laid between Placentia ( Newfoundland) and. Cape Bre ton. —A wealthy widow lady in New York lately comessed,while supposed to be dying, a tremendious lot of love for her son's private tutor, and " willed" him 510,000. Lady didn't die, and the wedding is an nounced. —The Boston Post thinks that Senator Sumner must have been beyond the reach of Senator Chandler's breath when he omitted to include him with SenatocSitails bury , in. Lis resolution for expulsion. —For Liver Complaint—Use Dr. S Rogers' Liver Pills, purely vegetable. They are warranted to give satisfaction. 50 cents a boy. Sent by mail for 60 cents. Depot, 206 Dock street, Philadelphia. Sold by Druggists. —.A.'man named Carr, convicted of man slaughter at Wilmington, N. C., on the sth inst., vas sentenced to be branded in the usual manner prescribed by law, and to pay the costs of the case. —The grain crop in the Shenendoeli Val ley, it is said. will bo larger the present sea son than ever before. Wheat, end rye never looked better, encl en immense amount of land is to 130 planted in corn. —Many persons aro to-day sturoring• from Dyspepsia who do not know it; they feel a heaviness after eating. a sort of languor or leek of energy, end attribute it to the spring weather. It is nothing hut Lenges tion, me.: one dose of Cuo's Dsspvpsin Cure wi et, ti rin this fact. J. A. NI eyers, A gent, Odd Fellows' Bell Columbis. Thousands die anntuaty cloul neglected coughs and colds, which sow] into consutnption, or other mildly Intel diseases of U• 0 Lungs; when by the timely iise single bottle of ll'istar's BO am of Wl,rl Cherry their lives emild have been presi ry ed to a green old age. —At a meeting of the Associated Press of New Orleans, held last week, it was resolv ed, in order to afford all persons connected with newspaper offices of that city an op portunity of enjoying such rest, recreation or religious exercises as the conscience of each may respoutivel,y approve, to discon tinue the Monday morning edition of the several daily journals. —The Methodist Conference, now in iessiou in New York, has adopted a report, deprecating the increase of worldly amuse ments—such as dancing, attendance nt theatres, operas, circuses, negro minstrels, and the taking of such diversions as cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus. Resolutions wore unanimously adopted, calling upon all christian men and women to discountenance and refrain from all such pastimes. THE COLUMBIA SPY.— Cernpli ineutary and Encouraging. We are daily receiving flattering enconi ums, congratulations and good wishes for the sneccss and prosperity of the Columbia ,Spy. We thank you gentlemen, (ladies to,) most heartily thank you, for this mark of respect and favoritism shown us. We cops the following extracts from letters, and a portion of the ninny notices of the Press throughout the country: Prnsucuctr, April 111th,1867. Ed. Spy:—Ton will please coolant° nay subscrip tion to tie ...Spy." I will be one oft our subscribers al long as your paper continues the course it has token. I hope t our Lubsemption has doubled since the eulm•Gment. It sorely ought to be. It should be taken by every f artily in your distri in prete•rence to; ny other paper; become its tone is strictly tumid, and you publish none of those obscene itarerti-e -mentq that many papers are cursed ;AWL Etiolated find 51, A nd eentatue to send the Say," to ow address, Respectfully, Act, LANCAKTIA Pu-, April think thnt every man in Columbia should feel tumid of your paper. Such ajournul as you send out has few superiors—certainly none in the 9ch Con gressional DP-triet. I hope you will bo abundantly sustained in your efforts to give to tho public a good newspaper. Enclosed is the prico of ono year's sub scription. Yours, de., CO.CTXSVILLN, Pa., April oth, 1907. Mr. A. M. Rantho—D:te. Sin :—lind thought of .topping 1.11, Sjw. HS 1 Lillie in all about eight papers, but am compelled to acknowledge that I like theSpg the best. Enclosed is the subscription pilau 52.1 w. Wishing you success. I not Yours ' , internally * * April sth, 1867. 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The old school house comes, "all the same, With the windows creaking in the frame," And bids me take my soot in school agmn. The old Church too comes, inviting ate to the Sabbath Set 00l and the altar where the holy man t.l God raises the voice of prayer, and reads the words of him who spoke as man nevsr spoke; and than the choir pour forth the glorious anthem to the ttecl above; then what a sermon do I hoar, to good old Methodist sermon, which now, if not among the past, are, " Rico angels visits, feu , and Ihr between." Nor are those the only attendants; spirits from the hill above, come. My sainted mother and father talk over with mu the past and tell me of the joys they entered into at the close of their labors here. I love the "Spy " for its associations and for its own intrinsic merits, and the best evidence I can give you is the enclosed to pay my subscription for another year. Very Respectfully, - a I.o.trmenz, yld, April 16th, Friend Rambo:—lt with feelings of pleasure that I drop you these few lines to acknowledge the leccipt of the Spy regularly since its enlarged and Improved form. It is now ono of the best papers published. It contains fifty per cent. more reading matter than over before; and with new t 3 pa and a now power press it presents a neat and beautiful ap pearance. Every family in the county should now subscribe for the opy. Penult me to congratulate you, friend Rambo, mid" may success attend you, which you so richly deserve. Your paper must suc ceed. foi Otti SUBSCRIDEII. Cr:cot:viva:l, 0., April 13th, 1567. r /end Ren:bo :—Allow me to congratulate you upon the handsome appearance non• presented by ho spy. May it prove a mane o 1• wealth and honor to its cruet prising publisher. Altray , mulling you at ••the top of the heap," I remain Yours truly, D. P. E. I= Tot COLLInUIA "SPY."—Thls lively and inter esting newspaper comes to us this Reek in cot enlarged form and in a new dress. The Spy is now a thirty-two column paper, and has the op portunity to make itseli a very valuable and use tul Journal. We are sincerely glad to note the success of our valued cotemporary, and hope it will continue to flourish and prosper. Mr. Rambo, its proprietor, is a man of enterprise and large experience, and the success he has won in the past, is an evidence that ho is competent to OA) Su in the luture. We congratulate toe Spfj ou Its tine appearance, and wish It every success.— Trt,e Danocrat, York, Pa. The Columbia S i , ! ,, has Leen enlarged. It makes a neat typographical appearance, and. see trust Mr. Rambo will meet with the prosperity which his enterprise 1 tiny men Is.--11iltrm Al it ton, Pa. The cuhcabzu App of Saturday last, reached us rather tardily, lint enlarged to a full thirty-two column paper, handsomely pruned on good type and a SLCILIII power As it is the paper on which we tried our - prentice ban*" editorially a third of a century ago, we have a sort of I.ersonal we4kne,s towards it, and are glad to see it pros per. Its editor, Mr. Rambo, seems to be a sound —npp e—conduces a good Union paper, and de serves, and, we hope, reeeivessuccess.—Repubterc., York, Pa. The Colunaaa Spy Comes to us enlarged and im proved. Its Editor has purchased a Potter POWC Press, mid rinds that it wurlti lice a charm. The paper is clean, free trout unsightly cuts and Ells vacetul aavertise;nents, and:AVMS gentlemanly :ald courteous to Its tone. MIS is to, era of Im provement. ID the press at thO'COMltry. rind IVI/1 result to the henelit of the reading p001u..-0)- tuudaan, Moom.,burg, Fa. The C' l ,e'ie Spy, published at Columbia, (Pa., by A. M. Rambo, has been enlarged and lin proved, and In et...tills a handsome appearance. is one of the most spirited of our country ex changers,—Telegram, Baltimore, Md. The (Ilum;,la .Spy is very handsome In appelr ance. The improvement among country papers the past few years, has beau very rernarha Ole. They are equal In appearanee with city papers, and many of them edited with as much, it nut more, cure and ability.—Coan,, Lebanon Pa. The Caiumbal Spy Caine to as last Saturday en larged and improved. It is now about the size o our paper, and is one or the largeot weekly journ als in our State. Mr. Rambo has received a nee. Power Press, rind is doing a good business. Orion, Coatesville, Pa. The Cbhunbia Spy, published at Columbia, Pa., Is now printed on a new Potter Press. It has been enlarged ton thirty-two column paper, and is very much improved. The `Spy' is none one of the handsomest newspapers in the Stale—hay ing long been one of the best. Friend Rambo will accept nor congratu lat lons.—Britt and i.sriatpt• 6711 Jouraat, Reading, Pa. COLUMBIA. SPY.—This most excellent paper conies to 1.1 , .1 this week, enlarged and improved. We congratulate the editor on this evidence of deserved prosperity, and we congratulate the pepple of Columbia, on their good fortune, in halme a lire, progressive paper, worthy of their earliest support.-310,dour American. Danville, Pa. Tile Columbia Spi, edited and published by _l. Rambo. made its appeanmee on Saturday, considerably enlarged and in an entire new suit of type, etc. The Spy is now near the close of its thirty-ninth volume—a good old age—but it pos sesses all the spirit and vivacity of youth. Mr. flambe has put into his °dice a steam powa•er press, and is now enabled to print his paper with more expedition than heretofore. We wish our neighbor continued success.—Theiv Expr,ss, Lan caster, Pa. Tlio Columbia Spy, in au admirably condnete, paper, and We aro pleabed to notice its renewer evidence of prokpority.—Tehlraph,flarrisburg,Pa The Columbia Spy made its appearance in an enlarged form and a new dress. Cho Sp;/ is now near the close of its thirty-ninth volume—a good old age—but still possesses all the energy and spirit of its youth. Iqr.R.v.quo the worthy editor is bound to lteep step with the improvement of his cotemporarfes, and we bespeak for him large accessions to his Est.—Star, Gettysburg, Pa. Tim COLuxBrA (Pa..) "SPY."—This Journal comes to us this Aveck very much enlarged and improved In appearance. Friend Rambo has got a new steam power press and new type, and cuts a tine figure before the public. Serves him right, say we. The Spy is one of our most valued U. S. exchanges. Success to him.—SenUnd,. Coburg, Canada 'West. Tiito Columbia Spy came to us this week greatly enlarged and in an entire suit of new and beau tiful type, presenting a neat and clean appear ance. The " Spy' Spy is now one of the largest week lies in the State, and is edited with vigor and ability. We hope friend Rambo will be remun eratively rewarded for his °Worts to present an attractive snout to his patrons. The citizens of Columbia and vicinity should extend a gemerolu. support to the i• Spy." as its handsome pages re flect the highest credit upon their town, We are pleased to see that friend Rambo comes out squarely iu advocacy of the internal principles of the great republican party. We wish the -SW all the success possible.—SpeclaSir. Hanover, Pa. The Coliunhia •Spy having outgrown its •' old cloths;' puts on a new anti shining dress. making It one of the hest looking among our exchanges. —Examiner, Lancaster, Pa. Tho Columbia Spy conies to our table to-day greatly enlarged and Improved In its every de partment. It is an excellent bandy Journal and deserves continued sueccess.— Laity Di.•patch. Reading, Pa. Phe Cambia Spy has been enlarged and other wise improved. making it one of the handsomest papers that comes to our office. The Spy is on &prudent paper, hut its influence bears strong ly to the right sofa— MAIM, Jersey Shore, pd. The Cgtn,, hh S;" is now one of the best papers In the county. 11r. Rambo deserves credit , or tis enterprising spirit. and we wish the paper .thundant success.—Sent , nct. llnnheitn. Pa. We have reeclved n copy of the Cn'unthig Sp,. In on enlarged Irwin and otherwise greatly improv ed. This sneaks well for the people of Colinb'n. The .any is. now n first-class poper.nbly conducted en I rirecci nnr in a very now, t vrocrophleal dre,. We wish crietyl Ram's) nn abandon ^e of sumo w. —Gozette Elintbetlitown Pa. The In‘t number of the Co , untica Spn came to us much culamod nn•l imeroved Itt appenranec 0 new power press nod other liztlngs having been I,mineo and put into successful operni ion. The Scu Is a purer of long ...landing being now in Its XXX VIII volume. nod is always a welcome visitant to Its subscribers. We conttro t Mato nor friend RAN.I:O on that success Neltirh enables him to appear before hts readers In such it large and respectable garb.—Star. Wrightsville. Pa. The Cambia Spy looks very handsome, and Is now one of the finest looking xipers In the county. The Spy was started in 1816.—Mariettian. Marietta, Pa. ENLAtuirm AND I3EPROVED: Last week the Columbia Sat/. edited by A. IL Rambo, appeared considerably enlarged and Improved, making a neat rind very pretty appearance. The ' Spy" Is now in its thirty-ninth year's volume, and is one of the ablest conducted weekly Journals In the State. We wish It every huccess.--/,l9sirer, Lan caster, Pil. The Columbia. Sp Y. established in 1816, one of the reliable Republican journals of Pennsylvania, appeared on the 30th ult., much enlarged and Im proved in appearance.-Repuldiran, Norrlstown, Pa. LITERARY NOTICES. TIIE MAIMET Asstsrxxr. By Thomas F. DeVoe, New York : Hurd Houghton. —Storm vague. Mr. DeVoe, author, is also Mr. DeVoe butcher—"huts learned in suffer ing what he tells in song." And there is certainly a sweet juiciness and liquor a bout his descriptions of choice outs which show him the master of the foundations of gas tronomy, without whom Sirillat-Savarin would be as tin possible us tl:o Sphynx, or those larded ormlans and nightingales which Eastern lifble makes around in the valley of repose, ready cooked and cry ing to be eaten. After prefatory note which serves as the Kitsch and Curacon, or the absinthe and anisette of the repast, Mr. DeVoe introduers his feast with some very rational anti well ordered remarks on the articles we eat and the best methods or marketing. He then treats of beef, mut ton, pork, hunt), veal ; the portions we use from each ; game, poultry, fish, shell-fish, vegetables, herbs, fruits, dairy and house hold products, and cooks and cookery. He gives drawings of each useful part of each animal, states their comparative merits, and oilers wise recommendations as to how they may be selected and improved. To the true bon vivant this alone would be suc culent literature. Mr. DeVoe flavors and seasons it, however, with a thousand and one rare anecdotes fitted to the theme: when the biggest bullock was killed, and what General Scott said of the meat; when the largest catfish was en tight, where and by whom ; how the eggs of a butchered tur tle hatched and hopped about in the stall where the maternal was slaughtered ; how saw-fish was conquered iu 1836, which weighed 3000 pounds. and how Robert Sehomp, of Reading, N. J., has a goose known to be in her second century; how Isaac Saunders' son James killed a bear which weighed 302 pounds; how a monk fish was killed from which, when eat open, a live bird escaned. Mr. DeVoe evidently has done what few have—he has mastered the science and the literature of his profes sion ; he has hung garlands of poetry on the ribs, chucklebones and second joints of practice; he has basted his dinner with ap petizing anecdotes and fat relishes ; he has enlivened it with appropriate spirit, and ac complished for the market that apotheosis which the simple Cobbler or Agawan brought about for the last. The volume is exceedingly useful for family use, aid can be employed for post as well as ante-pran dial comMrt. Our. MUTUAL Ffnu.s.n. By Charles Dickens: Boston, Ticknor and Fields. This is a most satisfaetory copy of this powerful written novel. The illustrations by Eytinge, represent from original designs by the accomplished artist, "The Bird of Prey;" the Vencerings, the good natured Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, Miss Abbey Potterson, "sole proprietor and manager" of The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters; Mr. Wegg and iNfr. Venus ; Mr. Podsnap, who "stood very high in Mr. Podsnap's opinion ;" Mrs. Hig den, Sloppy, and the Innocents; Bradley Headston and Charley Hexam; the Person of the House (one of the most striking characters in the book) and the Bad Child ; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lammle, ho "the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of logs, because "instinct going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two ;" Fledgebv and Riah ; Rogue Riderhood and Miss Pleasant ; John Harmon, Wrayburn and Lightwood ; The Cherub and his daughter. The Lovely Wo man ; Mrs. Wilfer, Miss Laving, and Mr. George Sampson ;—all of these, their say ings and doings, and eventful lies, are neatly °tibial med and made common to the wide world of readers in a convenient and durable form. This edition of Dick ens' works, by Ticknor and Fields, is so excellent and cheap, that we commend it to the reading public. These works as issued, ran lie obtained of the publishers, or they can be purchased at tho book-store of 'W. U. Hess in tins Bo rough. So meritorious an addition of these popular works, because it is within the means of nil to purchase, bus never before been published in this country. TILE LAnY's FIIII7.SD, Fort Mar, 1867. "The Itecognition." a pretty and pleasant Steel Engraving, leads otl• this number of the "Lady's friend." Then we have the usual elegant Steel Fashion Plate, lbllowed be a Toilet for the Opera, tt Ball Dress, a Young Lady's Dinner or Evening Dress, Carriage Dress, Fashionable Sleeve, Cant- Bennet, . ittle Bov's Pantaloons, GirPF, Jacket, ctic., kc. The _ltneic• fbr this month is, "Isn't it provoking ?" Antotig the liter ary content- are the continuations of "How A%Voman Ilad iler 'Way," ••O ville col lege." aim "No Longer I'oung"—all first rate stories. Price (with engraving)32,so a year; Fonr copies (with ono ellglavingl Sr %,0U One copy of Lady's Ft fond and one of Sal urday Eve ping Po , a (and one engTav ma:), f Inn. Ad dress Deacon di, Peteraon, 319 Walnut Street, Pltilndelpbia- BttANt.r.lF .I.ND JActiaos. the 31; of Thought and the Man of Action, with Por triuts—Mark Lemon, of London Pima — Portraits of Nineteen Mugs and Queens of Sweeden—Al lie Arnold, Poetess—A Chero kee Legend ; Thu 0115:ill of the Hainan Raee, of Game and Indian Corn, by E. G. -quier—Phrenology iu Schools—'The Me- Inc System—Tight. Lacing, ill ustrated— M uscular Power—Effects or a Bad Dream —National Salutations—Shopping, by Mrs. Wyllys—Charity, by Hope Arlington—To tal Depravity of Infants—Thy Active and the Pasqive— Origin of Life—Pope's Essay on Man—in May number Pita ENor.ocitcAL JOIMNAL L`O ctv., or $2 a year. Address, S. R. Wri,m,s, Editor, 359 Broadway, N. Y. "Goner" 1 , 011 MAr.—This excellent Mag azine for the ladies has been received. Its usual superb engravings and usual good reading are the t-trik log features of this number. It is a r•agazino that will inter est and instruct the young and will give vivaell3• and information to those more ad vanced in lile—the lash log plates will inter est the fashionable, and the literary con tents the intelligent. W. IL Hess has it for sale. Terms Sc a year. Address Louis A. Godey, Philadelphia. CELE,LA BO US. _ . 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Our stock of staple and fancy groceries is full and complete and we intend keeping It fresh, by almost daily addition,. Notions of different kluds alwars on hand. FREDERICK 13UCILIEI:, to rpr. ith fi LJe.ust Sts. L INE! LIIIIk!! LDIE 1 : ! under,iznod has token ebarue of the Lime Kiln lately worked be Chrkflan Brenemon, on the form of John P. Steman, to or Cola mbla. lid will be prepared to lurnish Lime to his enstomer, tor nil purposes. This Line is well known to Budder!: to be of a first rate nunlike. Anl I:1- 1 t.. 1 1110:\ CAS STF.WART. INT UT CE In Pursnance of a nicotine; held hr the corporators. Notice is hereby Mven, that Books for subscription to the Stork of the DELAWARE oind PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD, will be opened at the Public House of F. S. Dunlap, in Delaware City. Delaware, On TUESDAY, APRIL 2tid, 1667. between the hours of 10 A. M., and 4 P. M. Said Company are authorized by their Charter to eonstruct a Rail Road, from a point on the Delaware River, convenient to Delaware City, to the Jinr.aand or Pennsylvania State line. F. D. DUNLAP, Chairman. E. D. CLEVER. Secretary. Delaware City, March 30th, 1507. 1 - ILLBWORTH SALOON. N-4 4 I. N. THARP has again tram possession attic Ellsworth Saloon on Front Street, and in vites his old friends and the public generally to give him a can. All the delicacies of the season cnu be supplied. Latter's superior Rending Ale always on draughty [apt 13-tf DRY GOODS. ATTRACTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE FONDERSMITIUS COLUMBIA, PE NA NEW SPRING STYLES, A BEAUTIFUL STOCK oF FANCY GOODS, DRErS GOODS, FOR THE LADIES OPENED THIS WEEK, .1 , ...N0T1T1= LOT CA' THOSE HANDSOME DRESS GOODS AND YARD-WIDE MUSLINS, STILL LOWER PRICES Great Success I I WE HAVE MET WITH GREAT SCICCES'9 IN THE ERCHANT TAILORING Business Dena] tment of our Store EVERYBODY IS PLEASED WITH OUR WORK. AND PRICES. 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