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VOLUME XL, NUMBER 14.1
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:PBO.P_ESS.TONA._L.
. CLARK,
JUSTICE OE TISE PEACE
OFFlCE—next door t o Aces' book store.
Office I fount—From G Lo 7 A. M., 12 to 1 P. M.
and from 6 to I P. M. (Ltitr,2o,
BREW
.ATTOILNEY & COUNSELLOR-AT-LA W,
Columbia, Pa.
Collections promptly inailc in Lane:lst Cr an
tiorlt. Counties.
A J. 'KAUFFMAN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Collections made in .11,mic4,ier nail adjoin tug
ijoun ti es.
Pew-Amis. Bounty, Pack ray. mitt till elnlnts
2,trililv.t tile govern I Ileil I. promptly prosecuted.
Unice—No. 152, Locust street.
AIM U E EVANS.
JUSTICE OF TUE' PEACE.
°Mee, on Second St., culJoining Odd Fellows
11:01, Columbia, Pa.
T
DENTIST.
Nitrous Oxide Gas administered in the extroc
," lion of Teeth. .
Oillee—Front Street, next door to It. Williams
Drug Store between Locust and Walnut Streets
Columbia, Pa.
NICLE,
F. HT - PHYSICIAN SURGEON;
oilers his professional services to the citizens of
Columbia and vicinity. He may be found at the
office connected with his residence, on Second
street, between Cherry and Union, every day,
from 7t09 A. 71., and from G to 8 I'. M. Persons
wishing his services in special cases, between
these hours, will leave word by note at his ofnce,
or through the post office.
HOTELS.
WESTERN HOTEL,
Nos. 9, 11, 13 d: 15 CORTLANDT STREET,
NEW YORK.
THOS. D. WINCRESTEit, Paoralwron.
This Hotel Is central and convenient for Penn
sylvanians.
AnLE Afisur,En, of Reading, Pa.,
is an assistant at this Hotel, and will be glad to
see hLs friends at all times. octlo-tfw
" CONTINEINTTAL."
THIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED
betweer_ttmStattonsZt-the Beading-and - Colum.
bb a; and Pennsylvania'rtailroads,'
FRONT STREET, COLUMBIA, PA.
Ample accommodations for Strangers and 'r m.,
elers. The Bar Is stocked with
CHOICE LIQUORS,
And the Tables furnished with the best fare.
URIAH FINDLEY,
Columbia, April 29, 1867.] Proprietor
RANKLIN HOUSE
E LOCUST ST., COL'UNIBIA, PA.
This is a first-elitsti hotel, and is to every respect
adapted to sleet the wishes and desires of the
traveling public. MARTIN ERWIN,
Proprietor,
F RENCH'S HOTEL,
On the European Plan, opposite City 7lall Park
New York. It. FRENCH,
Sept. 19, IStiP, Proprietor.
MEEMOI
West Market Square, 11AndIng rtelm'a.
EVAN MIS FILER,
Proprietor
EXCLIANGE HOTEL.
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
Pirst-Class Accommodations. The Chnicest
Liquors at the Bar. ALEX. B. REESE,
Proprietdr.
MA LTRY ITOUSE,
BA LTIMORE, MARYLAND.
This hotel lots been lately refitted with xll the
neeessary improvements renown to hotel enter
tirke and therefore otters tlrst-ehiss accommoda
tions to strangers and others visiting Baltimore.
A. B. MILLER.,
Proprietor.
ED TICATIO Nall.
LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
FALL TIF:II.MCOMNIENCI.:S AUGUST 9, 1564.
This institution aims to erturrtle youth of both
s exes in all the solid or .4:m:uncut:ll branches.
Its °dicers hold that students should be Lt tatted
with a view to the sphere or life they are to oc
cupy, and to occomplish this object.,` the Mllow-
Jug courses of study have been adopted :
I. A Chts.sleal course.
2. A Biblical course. •
3. A Ladies' course.
4. A Scientific course.
5. A Teacher's course. •
G. An Ornamental course.
7. A Commercial course.
S. A GrammerSchool course.
Th me courses 'are , THOROUGLI, COMPUF.IIEN
SI and COMPLETE its alemxelves
We invite all who have children or wards to
educate, to visit this School before sending else
where. It presents many advantages, among
which are
Ist. Thorough and practical instruction.
and. Accommodations not excelled elsewhere.
3rd. 20 per cent. less in cost than other schools
of equal grade.
.1,, , -Fui/u told fashion are not part of our pro;
gra;l:c. aim at refinement, but a refinement
springing, front a goofheart and a clOtiratta intel-
I ect,.'
For Catalogues or i4rt i leur v iar44 . nr . s i ngilress
Anuville, Lebanon County,
July •
71r, .7?I3LA' 137:00K5.
LANCASTER
MARBLE WORKS,
LEWIS lIALDY, Proprietor
All persons In want of anything In the Marble
line, will ho furnished at the very lowest prices.
Only the best workmen are employed, conse
quently we arc enable to turn out in a superior
manner
MONUMENTS. STATUARY, TOMBSTONES,
ORNAMENTS. MARBLE MANTLES,
BUILDING FRONTS, SILLS,
And Marble Work of every description.
[l7-Orders promptly attended to
LEWIS IiALDY,
Lancaster City, Pa.
4,'67]
CLLUILES Isl. HOWELL,
MARBLE MASON,
2`.ro. 66 NORTH QUEEN STREET,
EAST SIDI,.
The Oldest Marble Works in Lanmster County.
Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore
bestowed upon him, he respectfully solicits A.
continuance of the same. He has on hand the
largest, roost varied and complete stock of
finished .
MONUMENTS, MANTLES,
GRAVE STONES, &c.,
to be found in the city, and Ivltich will be sold at
the lowest prices. Building work and Jobbing
of every description punctually attended to.
Persons In want of Zfonuments, Mantle% or
Grave Stones, are Invited to call and examine
the stock cm band, also the portfolios of designs.
June
SEEING is BELIEVING 1
AT 704 ARCH STREET
NEW PUICES! NEW GOODS!
RICH SILVER AND SILVER-PLATED
WARES,
Including every Style and description, made ex
pre...sly for the Winter Trade, which, for
neatness and durability cannot
be surpassbd at.
JOHN BOWMAN'S
Wholesale and Retail Manufacturing Establish
ment, 704 Arch Street, -
PIifLADELPICIA.
Re• Plating at Short Notice.
dec. 14. '67-iy.
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BUCILLI_B'S COLITILEN.
J
T C. BUCHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer to
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Wines . and Liquors !
has removed Lis Store to his Building, eiljoitung
Tialdonuip's Store, Locust St., Columbia,
whero he has fitted up rooms, and greatly
Increased ltis facilities for doing
a more exterthive busluess
IUISLIBI7]R'S CELEBRATED
HERB BITTERS !
PURE AND UNADULTERATED,
These Bitters are celebrated for the great cures
they have performed in every case, when tried.
Dr. MlMller offers jive hundred dollars to the pro
m ictor of any Medicine that can show a greater
number of genuine certificates of cures enacted
by lt, near the place where It lu made, than
MIS IMER'S }IEII.II
MIPAILEII.'S lIEMTI 111'P'rEltS
Is for Ralf In flolumhlal3
At Ills Store, Locust Street, Coltmila.
WINES AND LIQUORS!
Embracing the following;
Catawba,
Port,
r sbon,
Cherry',
Maderia,
Malaga,
Cha mpagno,
Currant lnd Muscat WISES
COGNAC, OF DIFFERENT BRANDS.
Also, OLD EYE WIIII§EEY .00fi
,
BRANDIES of all kinds
Blackberry,
Catawba,
Cherry,
IMM
Superior 010 Rye,
Pure Old nye
XXX Old Rye,
XS Old Rye X 01(1 Rye,
Pure Old Rye, 'Monongahela,
Ileahied Whisky, London Brown Stout.
Scott:.ll Ale,
AGENCY FOR
MALT AND CEDER VINEGAR
lle La also Agent for the Celebrated
iNITSHIER'S • HERB BITTERS
FOR SALE
POCK ET FLASKS,
DEMEISOIIN'S,
TOBACCO BOXES,
and FANCY ARTICLES, in great variety,
AUSIILER'S 'BITTERS!
PURE & UNADULTERATED
Far Sale by
BEST STOUT 'PORTER !
From E. Sr, G. DIDDERT, LONDON
For sale by
J. C. BUCHER,
Locust Street, above Front
Agent for the
PURE MALT VINEGAR
Cannot be purcir- —i at any other entablisb,
moat. In town, and to warranted to keep fruit:a
aacl vegetables perfect
The Best Brands of Imported
SCVICII AND LONDON ALE
For Sale at
J. C. BUCHER'S
TO SMOKERS AND CHEWERS
BUREIER will still keep on hood the
Best Brands of
SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO,
SNUFF, HAVANA, Y.A_TtA, and
COMMON SEGARS. Also,
SNUFF dr, TOBACCO BOXES, PIPES—a
thousand and ono varieties. Call at
J. C. BUCHER'S,
'Locust Street, adjoining Ilaldentan's Store.
It la the greatest establishment of the kind this
side of Philadelphia.
to,Only Agenc
Bittersy for Loe's London Porter, and
/Balder's .
COLUMBIA, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBEIV, 14, 1868.
THE SUCCESS
Of our One Dollar sttle has caused such a
COMPLETE
RE:VO7_,T_Tri!ION
That in order to supply the demand occasioned
by our constantly increasing patronage, we
have recently made importations for the Fall
Trade, direct from European manufacturers,
AMOUNTING TO NEARLY '7.-,*500,000,
So that we arc prepared to sell every description
of Dry and Fancy Goods, Silver Plated Ware,
Cutlery, Watches, Albums, Jewelry, of bet
ter quality than any other concern in the coun
try, for the uniform price of
oNE DoLtAr. FOR EACH ARTICLE.
With privilege of exellange from a large variety
Uf u,eful articles, not 0111:: of which could be
bought for
TWICE THE AMOUNT
in any other way.
hto - - The best of Boston and New. York reference
given as to the reliability el our house, and that
our business is conducted in the fairest and
most legitimate manner possible, and that we
give greater value for the money than can be
obtained in any other way.
ALL GOODS DAMAGED OR BROKEN IN
TRANSPORTATION ]G
WITHOUT CHARGE.
Checks describing articles sold sent to agents
in Club,st rates mentioned below. We gunran
tee every article to cost less than if bought at
any Boston or New York. Wholesale house.
Exceed those of curry other establishment of
the kind,—proof of this can be found in com
purl ng our premiums with those of others for
clubs of the same size, in addition to which we
claim to give better goods of the same char
acter.
WE WILT. SEND TO AGENTS FREE OF CHARGE,
FOR A CLUB OF 20 AND THREE DOL
LARS—One of the following articles: 1 doz.
good linen Shirt Fronts. I set Solid Gold
Studs. All Wool Casslmere for Pants. Fine
white Counterpane, large size. I elegant Bal
moral Skirt. 20 yards brown or blenched Sheet
ing, good quality, yard wide. 1 elegant 10)
Picture Morocco-bound Photo. Album. 1 double
lens Stereoscope and 12 Foreign Views. 1 sliver
plated engraved 5 bottle Castor. 1 elegant
Fan, with - Ivory or Sandal Wood Frame, feath
ered edge and spangled. 1 Steel Carving Knife
and Fork, very best quality, ivory balanced
handle. 1 handsome beaded and lined Parasol.
20 yards good Print. 1 very fine Damask Table
Cover. 1 pr. best quality Ladies' Serge Con
gress Boots. 1 doz. line Linen Towels. 341 dozen
Rogers' best Silver Dessert Forks. 1 Ladies'
large real Morocco Traveling Bag,. 1 fancy dress
pattern, .I doz. elegant Shyer plated engraved
km Rings. 1 doz. Ladies' tine Mel me or
Cotton Stockings. Gents' heavy chased solid
Gold Ring. 1 pr. Ladies' high cut Balmoral
Boots. 1 elegant Dcbsine Dress Pattern. 1
Violin and Bow, in box complete. 1 set Jewelry,
pin, ear drops, and sleeve buttons.
Foil A CLUB OF 50 AND FIVE DOLLARS.-1
black or colored Alpacca Dress pattern. 1 set
Lace Curtains. 1 pr. all Wool blankets. En- I
graved Silver plated 6 bottle Revolving Caster.
1 beautiful 11. riting Desk. I solid Gold Scarf
Pin. ay. yds. very fine Cassi mere, for Pants
and Vest. I set Ivory balanced handle Knives
with silver plated Forks. 1 elegant Satin
Parasol, heavily beaded and lined with silk. 1
pr. gents Call Boots. 30 yds. good print. 30
yds. good brown or bleached Sheeting, yard
wide or 10 yds. 34 yd. wide, good quality. 1
ladies' elegant Morocco Traveling bag.. 1 &ire
Wool Shawl. 1 plain Norwich Poplin Dress
pattern, 131:f yds. don. width cloth for ladies'
cloak. Elegant engraved Silver plated Tea Pot.
3 yds. double width proof cloth for cloaking.
FOR A CLUB OF 100 AND TEN DOLLARS.-1
rich Merino or Thibet Dress pattern. 1 pair line
Damask Table Cloths and Napkins to match. 1
pair gents' French Calf Boots. I heavy, silver
plated engraved Ice Pitcher. Very line all Wool
Cloth for Ladies' Cloak. 1 web very best quali
ty brown or bleached Sheeting. 74 yds. line
Cassimere for suit. 1 elegant Poplin Dress pat
tern. 1 elegant English Berage Dress pattern.
/ beautiful English Berage Shawl. 1 set Ivory
balanced handle Knives and Forks. 1 ladies' or
gents' Silver Hunting-case watch. 1 Bartlett
Mand, Portable Sewing Machine. Splendid
Family Bible, steel engravings, with record
and photograph pages. 25 yds. good Henip
Carpeting. good colors. 1 pair good Marseilles
Quilt. 1 good 6 barrel Revolver. I elegant Fur
muff and Cape. 1 single barrel shot gun. 1 sil
ver plated, engraved, b bottled revolving Castor,
cut glass bottles. 1 very line Violin and bow, in
ease. 1 set Ivory balanced knives and forks.
J. C. BUCTIER,
Claret,
Rhine,
Blackborry,
Elderberry,
' -P,resents for larger elubstverener_in.,,Lbe...sarno
;37P-Send Money by Registered Letter."
BEND FOR OUR :SEW CIRCULAR
- PARK rat tt: Co.,
Nos. OS and 300 Summer street, Boston.
oett3l'6S:iw:atnl
Jamaica Spirits.
litimatel,
(linger,
ivANTED -AGENTS-1N EVERY
Town for CUSHMAN 4: CO :S
GREAT ONE DOLLAR STORE.
Deseriptivo checks SlO per hundred. Consum
ers supplied direct from the manufactories, and
all goods warranted. Circulars sent free.
Address CUSHMAN-J.: CO.
oct24 .12tw-e.td] 10 Arch St., Boston.
Ma
$.lOOO a
P"
YEAR guaranteed,
nd STEADY yZIPLOYM.ENT.
We want a reliable azent In every county to sell
our PATENT CLOTHES LINES (l.v tner.A.sTrNo).
Ado.lria,s WHITE WI RE CO., 7a William St., N.
Y.. or Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. [octanlw:c.tn
GkRPETS !
DON'T PAY THE HIGH PRICES!!
The NEW ENGLAND CARPET CO., of Boston,
Mass. established nearly a quarter of a century
ago, in their present location, in Holls over 71,
73,75, 77, 79, St, 8:3, 85 and 87 Hanover street, have
probably furnished more houses with Carpets
than any other house in the country. In order
to talbrd those at a distance the advantage of
their low priers, propose to send, on the receipt
of the price, 20 yards or upwards of their beauti
ful Cottage Carpeting, at 50 cents per yard, with
samples of ten sores, varying in price from 25
cents to S 3 per yard, suitable for furnishing
every part of any house. (oct3l'BB:lw:e.c. D.r„
TOBACCO ANTIDOTE,
WARRANTED TO REMOVE ALL DE-
This great remedy is an excellent appetizer.
ft purities the blood, invigorates the system,
pil.ssesses great nourishing and strengthening
jxow or ? enables the stomach to digest the hear
tiest Mod, makes sleep refreshing, and estah
lb,lies robust health. Smokers and Chewers for
SIXTY YEARS Cungai. Price, Fifty Cents, post
free. A treatise on the injurious effects of To
baeeo, with lists of references, testimonials,
sent free. Agents wanted. Address Dr.,17. lt.
Aimorr, Jersey City, N.J. foct24-12wc.vo
At J. C. BUCHER'S
MONEY EASILY MADE,
With our Complete STENCIL AND R.ET
CRECE: OUTFIT. Small capital required. Cir
culars free. STAFFORD MAN FO. CO., 613 Ful
ton Street, NOW York. Lott2l-Iw-c.ul
TH. GROVESTEBN,
Founder of the old and favorably known house
of Grovesteezt & Co.
GROVESTEEN, FULLER LC: CO.,
J. C. 13UCHER
PIANO--FORTES.
Fhe great increase in the demand for our Plane-
Tortes throughout the country, have compelled
us to extend our Manufacturing facilities to
three times their former size, and having added
many new improvements in Manufacturing, we
shall continue to keep our prices the same as
they always have been, the lowest of any First-
Class Piano-Forte maker by at least one-third,
and we respectfully solicit by parties about
purchasing to a comparison with all other
makers.
fl MILES 4; AUXER,
•
TIN & SHEET—IP,ON "WORKERS,
•mo. 3 WEST ORANGE STREET, LANCASTER
(opposite Shober's, Engle hotel.)
Beg leave to inform their 'friends and the
public ,enerally,that they have opened a first
class TIN AND SHEET-IRON STORE, at the
above named place, where they have on hand,
and are manufacturing daily an immense stock
TIN ROOFING, SPOUTING, and Repairing
of all kinds executed at the lowest. cash
Prices. and in the best workmanship manner.
Call and examine our Stock before purchas
ing elsewhere- H. F. AUXER,
apl2s'6„i-ly] D.
REEVES' AMBROSIA FOR THE
mull, IMPROVED.
s an elegant Dressing for the Hair.
it causes the Hair to Curl Beautifully.
It keep the Scalp Clean and Healthy.
It invigorates the Roots of the Hair.
It stops Hair falling out.
It keeps it from changing Color by age.
It restores Grey Hair to its original Ckilor.
It forces the Hair and Beard to grow.
It is always beneficial and never injurious.
Sold in 8 oz. bottles sit el each, by Druggists
and Dealers in Fancy Goods everywhere; at
Wholesale by the lending Wholesale Druggists
and Dealers In Patent 3tediclues in New York
and other cities. ocLIO-tfw
T K. BAUMAN, .
ty •
WHITE AND RED SOLE LEATHER
CALF SKIN, KIP, UPPER AND SPLIT
LEATHER, MOROCCO, LEs.fINGS. Also,
A. VARIETY OF SHOE RENDINGs,
At Jest end of Pennsylvania Railroad Depot
CHESTNUT STREET,
LA.NCASTER,PA.
splii-atuw]
BUSINESS CARDS. PRINTED AT
this office a 3 low n sl.Zuer thousand.
DRY GOODS.
IN TR A 1) L,
OUR COMMISSIONS TO AGENTS
MISCELLANEOUS.
SIRE FOR TOBACCO
HAVE REMOVED TO THEIR
NEW 117 AREROQ MS,
Si Mercer,Street, New York.
OF TIN & SHEET-IRON WARE
D.E.A.LEIt IN
"'NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
Original g, oetrg.
[For the SPY.]
DEAD FLOWERS.
BY "CON"."
A srul, sweet sense the low wind yields,
So touching wild I can but weep;
Faint-felt from the Mr-off meadow fields,
Where gently blown, the wild flowers sleep
My spirit sees them as they lie
Astrewn the fields where first they grew;
When April's promise cleared the sky,
Where first their lifclets . sought the blue.
ROM' calm they le on grassy biers;
The grass their stars,did once adbrn,
When sunny smiles and Joyful tears
Did cheer the young illay's dewy morn
The meadow waters softly hush,
The clover trembles with a sigh,
The Mead-lark trills a mournful gush,
The down-of-thistle floats ilk sky.
Fit time for one alone to roam;
To kneel uncovered In the Holds,
And with the dead flowers' wafting home,
To send the prayer that sadness yields.
•• May soon the flowers be with our hearts;
To cheer the brook lets wandering way,
To smile the love that Spring imparts,
To teach the lark its morning lay."
CoLUMBrA, November ad, MS
Priscellaurinto `ezuling.
[Written for the Sm . .]
THE DEAD SECRET.
I=
A ahor of "Andrcw, The Sorcerer;" " Cath
arine Teresa," &c., &c.
The war was over, and Spain was again
at peaceful rest under the reign of her
much prized sovereigns. " Plow shares
and pruning hook's" had been made of the
implements of war, and the public mind
was tranquilly resting front excitement,
save in an occasional startle it received,
attendant upon no daring and unpardon
able exploits of Don Hernandez Pedro, the
outlawed rover of the high seas. The cir
cumstances of this blood-stained pirate
formed a historical problem, one which
occasioned much inquiry by limo crown
heads of the Eastern Hemisphere during
the latter part of the seventeenth century ;
and had given rise to many conjectures,
and excited in a particular manner the
curiosity of the public. The mere mention
of the name of Ilernandez Pedro was
enough to freeze the blood in the veins of
the mariners, not only those trading along
the Indian coast, but of those who naviga
ted the waters of the English Channel, and
along the coast, of Spain itself.
In 'l6—after her Commerce had been
preyed upon almost to extinction in the
Indian seas. Spain driven to her last ex
tremity, fitted out an Armado for the cap
ture of this more than relentless rover, and
after a very expensive and unsuccessful
cruise of ten months, the piratical craft was
overtaken, and Don llernandez Pedro with
his crew, were taken to the Bastiles of
Madrid, there to await the punishment his .
_crbpos so rielily-fic l / 4 Frited.u -----
The. "Dead Secret" was divulged to
Senor Lopez, a convict, who had been tem
porarily confined in the Bastile, and who,
I propose to allow to finish this little sketch.
" I was ushered into a damp dark cell ;
the heavy creaking portals had closed upon
MC, and my heart sank within me as I list
ened to the clanking of chains and the omi
ous footsteps of the retreating turnkey.
The blood in my very soul seemed as ieo
—and my breath seemed curdled as I felt
the dampness and gloom of that dismal
dm peon-wrought prison house. There 1
was, a prisoner, a convict, but not a felon,
thrust in among thieves, pirates, murder
ers, and brutal, loathsome wretches of al
most every conceiVable descriptie -
"The tenderness of a Mag , ,...ene stole
into my heart, and I fell upon the hard cold
floor only to weep—and covering my face
in my bands, I freely suffered my cheeks
to be drenched by the large hot tears that
gushed out so freely from the springs of
agony in my soul. The night bud waned,
and the small hours of morning had broken
in upon my sufferings, when the keeper,
that inevitable turnkey again' intruded
upon my hoped for privacy. He was a
large man, having the look of a brute, and
apparently, the heart of a devil incarnate.
rtvery vile, bad passion seemed to have
added an expression to his scoundreiry
face, while his eyes, of a small and green
ish gray, a pointed hooked nose, enormous
black whiskers, and a billions, sallon com
plexion, Ware set off with a frown which
the constant bullying among the wretches
under his charge, had deepened into it per
manentscowl of cruelty and hatred, seldom
mistaken, and not easily forgotten by those
over whom he presided. His voice was
brazen and disagreeable even to the most
hardened in crime. It, to me, resembled the
discordant cry of a savage bird of prey, and
always sent a shudder through my frame
that unstrung my nerves for hours after he
had departed.
" Get up, clear out from there, you ras
cal!" he said, with a kick, "Its nigh bed
time—off with you 1"
The manhood that was sleeping within
me was aroused—and the blood mounted to
my temples with a rush of fury that was
painful. I raised my arm to strike, when
he gave me a blow that laid me upon the
floor, and screamed out for a guard, who
grasped me by the shoulder with the grip
of it. vice, and almost lifted me from: the
floor. Leading me with every epithet of
insult, the barbarous keeper struck me
again with his baton, while the soldier held
me with the strength of a giant, and the
next moment I found myself stretched at
full length on the cold stone floor of a nar
row cell, in which, I perceived, I was lock
ed for the night.
A faint light shone in through the bars of
the window, and discovered to my view
two straw beds, the only furniture, on one
of which sat another figure. He was as
motionless as a statue, and in the confusion
of tbencoment I scarcely knew whether it
was en apparition conjured up by my ex
cited fancy, or a figure hewn out of granite,
or a human being and prisoner like myself.
I gazed upon him through that dim light,
with a fearful interest, for ho was of a col
lossal size. An expression of fixed and
stern despair was pictured iii his rough
and savage-like face ;"' and seated on the
rough bed, his cheek and temple rested on
the open palm of his brawny hand.
Silence reigned for some time, and
so far as I knew ho did not look
at me even, although the rude
manner in which I was hurled into the
room or cell, wits apparently sufficiently
abrupt to have, at least, excited the atten
tion of an ordinary man. As I have said,
there was a dead silence for some time,
during which he sat steadily gazing at the
narrow strip of sky visible, with its bright
constellations, through the narrow, barred
window. There was something in his atti
tude and aspect thaf made my blood cold,
and sent it tremblingly back from the swol
len veins of my forehead with a rush that
completely deadened the fury which had
burned in my heart since my last meeting
with the jailor."
" Who are you, friend ?" I exclaimed, in
a whisper, so low that I scarcely knew
whether it was my own words, or merely a
thought, but it sounded distinctly through
the deep hush of that dungeon, and seemed
to echo back the words from its cold, damp
walls, while he slowly turned his large,
fierce eyes upon me. As he moved, too,
there was that horrible rattling of chains,
and I perceived that ho was heavily fetter
ed by manacles which were fastened by
massive iron rings close to his ankles and
wrists.
"I am Don Hernandez Pedro, Senor," ho
said, with a foreign accent, and a voice full
of melody
No one can describe my feelings when I
heard that mime. I actually startled, and
lay with my head thrown back as far as
possible against the rough stone wall, and a
feeling of horror thrilled and vibrated
through every nerve of my frame. He was
a pirate, of noted ferocity, who had com
mitted more monstrous murders than man
could enumerate. He was a by-word
around the hearthstones of thousands of
families, and his name used to check the
sweet smile of the sailor's wife, and make
the merry faces of his children turn white
with awe. Now I remembered that this
terrible ruffiad was said to have been cap
tured, and was awaiting the punishment of
death in the " Old Misfile," but in the hur
ry and untold anguish of my own sudden
calamity, I had entirely forgotten it, but,
reader, I was not now likely to forget it
again.
"As soon as my eyes began to graduate
themselves to the dim light of the coil, I
commenced more plainly to distinguish his
features, and I noticed a smite suddenly
dawn upon the sombre shadows of his thee,
betraying a line of white teeth, contrasting
finely with the sable curl on his lip, and his
deeply expressive eyes lighted up for a
moment.
he really looked beautiful. A picture of
hint with that proud, deliberate smile, the
black, soft hair 'curled closely upon his
broad, clear forehead, and a milk-white
collar of linen falling carelessly buck from
his athletic throat and chest, might have
passed for the hero of many a romance,
which steals the white oyes of the enamor
ed maiden from her inklnight slumbers.
"Boy," sold he, in a rich Spanish ac
cent, and in the same mellow tone, which
touched me like o rebuke for its gentle
ness, " look at me—are you, too, afraid of
the manacled Hernandez? He will not
hurt you. He will never linrt any one
again. Then let us be friends. Come, boy,
here's my hand."
I reached out mine, and ho, the miserable
pirate, shook it with such feeling; as to
moisten my eyes with tears.
" And how long have you been here, Her
nandez, or Friend Ifernandez?" I asked,
in 801110 tneasure recovering may natural
mood.
" But two short months," said he, bow
ing his head.
" AnQ how long I stopped.
" You are a stranger here—no?" he in
quired, with a smile.,
6,fore, and - hope I newer shall be
again."
"Then I know wfiat yon want," said ho.
"You want to know when I - shall die?"
I shuddered, and,nodded my head.
" To-morrow morning, boy," said he,
with an indescribable expression; and a
kind of ashy paleness settling over his fea
tures, yet in a voice remarkably firm. "
must be dragged out of this cell, this miser
able pen, to-morrow, like a beast, before my
fellow men, and to-morrow night you will
bo sitting here alono—and where shall I be?
Oh, God !oh, God! where shall I be ?"
The barrier of his feelings seemed to have
been no longer strong enough to contain
them, but to break away on a sudden, and
he shook with an agitation so tremendous,
Hutt I thought his existence would end at
once. Presently he recovered. It was won
derful to see him three himself back into an
air of resolute calmness, and dash away
the large, hot tears from his long lashes.
I had always experienced it feverish cu
riosity respecting the effect upon the mind
of a brave villain of immediate death, and
begun, in conversation with this wretched
'individual, to realize a fearful pleasure.
Ife was strongly hardened upon the sub
ject of his crimes, and in that respect, only,
differed from other people. We have a
false idea, many of us, that a murderer, or
professed pirate is an intrinsic monster;
but I found this unfortunate being only a
man, gifted with man's best attributes,
compassion, courage, perseverance, gene
rosity, and even delicacy of sentiment.
lie was only a man, who had committed
monstrous deeds, with the same qualities
as ourselves, but led away into dark places
by
. sophistry and passion. I name this
distinction, that the innocent and high
mindod, in perusing the history of such a
creature, many not look upon it as some
thing with which they themselves have no
relation, bat rather as a career into which
they imp , be plunged, unless ever watch
ful to shun the most trifling deviation from
principle, , mod avoid cruelty or impetuosity
in ordinary affairs.
As the weary hours of.the night rolled on
I spoke these sentiments to the condemned
pirate, and won so on his confidence that
ho told me I was Mc only being who had
ever-zreated- him with kindness since his .
boyhood.
" Lied you been tbrtunato enough to have
possessed parents," said I, " to train you
up in the way you should have gone."
"It was my father's cruelty," interrupted
lie, "that made me what I atn. When
once guilty, I despaired of forgiveness froth
man or heaven, and went on desperately
shedding blood; but my father drove me
from my home by a blow. Yes, o btowl"
he repeated with a tierce glance,as if ho even
yet wirthed beneath it, "and I was a villian
from that moment. I shall think of that
to-morrow when strangling before the thou
sands. I will tell you," ho said, "how I
was blasted when I was but a boy. I was
not tame and crouching, like other boys, but
nature had filled Inc with unmanageable
feelings. When any one made mo angry I
lost my self-command ; when they were
kind to me, I never forgot it. My father
was a cruel nmn ; he never loved me, and I
should have left hint before, but for a girl.
I was only a boy, and we loved each-other.
Ono night I had been sitting with her, we
had mutually promised to be faithful, and I
left her with such a full happiness, that I
scarcely heard the stern question of my
hither.
"Where have you been so late ?" and, in.
stead of repenting it—or waiting my reply
—be struck me. I dashed away like a wild
deer. It happened that the very day before
I had been strongly persuaded to embark
as a sailor on board of a ship bound for the
West Indies. I flew to the friend who had
made me the offer and accepted it. We
were to sail the next 'day but one. My
heart failed one afterwards, and Lwent hack
to my dwelling at night. It was a cloudy
and blustering evening. I looked in at the
window and saw my mother and sisters:
they were weeping—weeping for me—and
Rosa was there, too ; and several times she
turned her large, clear blue eyes upon
the window where I stood. My soul re
lented, and I was about to rush in, when
the door opened, and my father entered
with his erect form, and cold, stern, cruel
look. The sight of him brought back all
the tumult of my bosom. I stamped my
feet and clenched my fist, then cast one last
look upon my aged mother, my affectionate
sisters, and dear Rosa. I never saw them
more. To-day they are ignorant of my
fate and, perhaps, to-morrow, when I am
struggling in the last agonies of death they
will be smiling. They have forgotten me.
Oh, that to-morrow was past!"
I asked him if he did not repent of his
crimes since committed.
"No," ho answered, with the look of a
demon—"No ! I glory in them ! Man has
hunted me, and fortune, too. I have never
known friendship or kindness; and now
they have taken me as others would a
monster, and would put. me to death. I
have no regret for any crime except one,
and that, I confess, haunts mime, and always
has haunted me. When I was in the Curti
bean Sea, I commanded a piratical brig,
and we boarded a merchantman well load
ed with specie. We murdered all the crew,
cut them to pieces, or shot them down just
where they happened to he. The deck was
slippery with their blood. They were all
massacred !" •
"Monster!" exclaimed I, Execrable
monster!!" "Nay," he continued, with a
hoarse, horrid laugh, "that was nothing. It
is no more to me at this moment than if
they had been so many hissing adders I
had destroyed by grinding their venomous
heads with my heel. But—''
Ile paused, drooped the lids over his largo
black eyes, and drew his breath in between
his half closed lips, as if recalling to memo
ry some horror which stung him actually
to the nerve. I wits almost frightened to be
thus alone, at midnight, in a dungeon, with
a being capable of such atrocious deeds of
death. I thought his desperation might
next induce Idin to grasp my throat with
those giant hands, and from the very wan
tonness of the madness that came creeping
over hint, add one more victim to the
bloody catalogue of crime.
"Do not go on," I exclaimed, shrinking
from him as lie• as I could. Ile seizt.d my
trembling arm with stai ding energy. The
chains upon his limbs r•altted and clashed.
"But, I will go on!" His voice had now
altered to a scream—shrill and piercing.—
"I InUst go on, boy. You must hear it. It
has been locked up in the core of my heart
for years, bccmning and bca•nivag and burniny,
and if I do not reveal it to you I shall never
ieveal it, litr to-morrow, you knots', I are
to take the leap—ha, ha, lui,—short time for
story telling, is'at it my friend ? but I will
tell you ; and I would tell you !" he added
with an oath that made my head swim, as
his dilated eyes glared with terrible feroci
ty—"l would tell you, though I knew it
would bring those accursed walls tumbling
about our heads. What are you frighten
ed, my poor fellow? Well, come," he said,
relaxing his grasp, and patting my should
er affectionately, "why should I injure
you ? Why should I rush into the presence
or ati already. 9ffencted,Grott,wltli, my hands
reeking and smoking with the blood of the
only one \who ever looked upon me with
pity, or said a gentle word to rue, since I
turned away front those blue eyes Of Rosa' s,
forever aud forever ! Rosa," he repeated
musingly, "Rosa, why may not this be all
rt circa to? Why may I not wake presently
and find that sumo sweet face bending over
me, and feel time soft, kind Mind on any
hot Ibrellead, and hear that beloved voice,
instead or the clank of chains, and open my
eyes to the gracefat drapery of curtains,
and gaze on the soft June sky through the
window, and feel these hideous dungeon
walls Melling away front around me as Lho
fumes of slumber pass off!"
He resumed the attitude in which he sat
Whoa I entered, and remained long without
speaking. I oven began to feel sleepy.
For several nights I hail been a watcher ;
and so I stretched myself down upon the
thin straW, inch wished, like my compan
ion, that this might be all a dream. I
soon followed my example, and by his
silence I thought him
"As fast locked up in sleep, as go It labor
When It lies starkly In the travQlloe's hures:
After some time he started up and faced
the narrow cell ivlth a desperate imps tience,
sometimes uttering such a groan that my
eyes were filled with tears of compassion.
Ile saw them us our eyes met, and I per
ceived that he, himself was again weeping . ;
he came to rue softly, and taking my band,
kissing it and said:
"Ryon. wish God to bless you in your
last extremity bear me speak this secret,
will be gentle, I wish to unload my con
science. It is the only act of my life that I
ever could remember without trembling.
I told you of the merchantman—the mur
der of the crew. Mother and chlid, hus
band and wife, were struck that day in
each others arms, and went, down in the
still sea together. Tile bubbling water,
stained with gore, told the flood had tini,h
od what the axe, the bullet, and the knife
had but half performed. 13a t of all these,
there was one a young girl of such a re
markable lovelittess, that her perfect face
touched my Soul—even me, whose red fin
gers were but just unlocked from the blood
w•et hair of her father. The old gentler:ion
was game: I half-liked biro; for he show
ed fight to the end, and tired at me with a
pistol for putting my hand under his girl's
chin. Ha, ha, ha—he'd have got over that
squeamishness. If he'd lived a little longer;
but that could not be. The girl prayed
so hard for life on any tennis, that I could
not, resist, and we spared her. I mulct not
but think how many throned kings, how
many dukes and lords would have given
their eyes almost, to have had those red
lips to touch—and to sit still, and make
thoso delicious blue eyes look up into their
face for protection on any terms, as they
did in mine. I saved her for several weeks;
but wo found it necessary to put into shore
—and the crew began to grumble—and I
thought myself that we stood in need of a
rope—or I should have said u chance of a
rope, should any one full afoul of us with
this tender thing on board. So one morn
ing—(his face grow deadly pale) "the
creature was standing with me near the
gangway. She seemed to have clung to
me through the whole of it, and called me
her preserver--and I stood with her here
talking, as I might have done to Rosa, her
self, had I grown up to virtue and honor,
and bean a proud and happy husband of
so much love and beauty. She butt not the
slightest suspicion of my purpose, and
when 1 drew out the cutlass, she took the
glittering blade iu her lingers, played with
the jewels on the handle, and even with a
kind of sportiveness, fitted it to my thigh,
and said.
" You look the soldier well, Senor. It be
comes you.'
" I should have spatted her at all risks,
but I knew my men, anti they were ex
changing signs together, and the mate,
who was a devil incarnate, came twice op
to use with a gruff shout, ' We're nearly
ashore, Captain P I never shuddered at
anything before. My heart sickened, and
my eyes were wet with tears—my hands
trembled. She inquired in a voice of ten-
$2,00 Per Year, in Advance: $2,60 if not Paid in Advance.
derness that could not be assumed, if I VIIS
unwell? I put my lips to hers, and kissed
her with an
.. agony, and then the flashing
cutlass descended ell her curly head, and—
oh, horror! I was covered with her blood
She screamed—" here Iris voice faltered—
his face grew paler, resembling the pallid
countenance of a corpse.
" She clung to the shrouds; I . seized her
sweet form in my arins,and threw her over.
Still she clung with a convulsive tenacity,
and—"
I covered my ears to shut out the con
clusion, but could not.
"She gave me one look as I cut, nit' her
hands, one of which lay bleeding on the
deck. The body fell with a heavy splash
into the clear, smooth water. tier lovely
head, with its beauteous tresses, lingered a
moment on the surface—then the ripples
died away quietly in extending circle,. I
heard her voice never again, eveept when
that scream stat tles int, from my midnight
slumber.
" I have told toy secret—it W3'4 to Inc a
dead secret! To-morrow' at Sunrise
He started up wildly, and gazed from the
window. The stars were paling their
light, and a faint beam of light arose front
the horizon, grog ing broader and brighter
every instant. Then the fiery streaks shot
op and glanced tar along the reddening
arch. My companion shook hi, head, and
calmed his manner, then he stopped and
laid his car to the door. X minute after• the
door opened, officers of the law and justice,
accompanied bya clergyman, entered.
man gave hint a white dress, a hich he pat
on in silence. face a as absolutely yel
low, and a streak of white upon his upper
lip betrayed his agitation; but he was tlrm
and proud in his demeanor. lie shook we
once by the hand, closed his eyes a mo
ment, and then motioned them to lead the
way. There was a bustle in the prison.
All had now become silent, save the dolls
faint sound of their retreating footsteps. I
sat watching the fantastic elonds burning
in the lest, till the dazzling rho of the sun
peered above then', and as it slowly lifted
its vast circumference into full view, Don
Hernandez Pedro was no mere. no had
paid the penalty of his climes, and gone to
stand before that bar where his victims
stood ready as Ills aCell`3ols.
triad stt•uuger :In Lear later
Int. a striped ribbon, which he said Pedro
had desired should be handed tile, after all
aas over, with his last farewell. I still
hold this token of friendsldp, but I cannot
express the strange thoughts I have when
ever I gaze upon it.
St range S tory,
The Galveston Bulletin s "One of the
strangest incidents of domestic life that
ever came under our notice, occurred on
Tuesday of last week. The story
thus told : Mrs. Bowen is a widow of forty
one years old, whose husband died last
year with the yellow fever. Thirty years
ago, • heiag then only eleven years old, and
a resident of Comanche county, Alabama,
her eldest sister married and removed to
another portion of the same State.
"This marriage was unhappy. The husz
of tlils
marriage was a daughter, tvlto was stolen
from school, and seems to have been reared
in almost total ignorance 01 her family.
All that we know of the child is that she is
now a lady of twenty-nine years, anti re
sides in her native State. About a year
since Judge Dent, of Batt., Dean WM
son, received a letter front this lady, say
ing that she believed her aunt resided in
Galveston, and that she desired to know of
her whereabouts. After inquiring, he
found the missing aunt in he Mrs. flower.
The ladies were put in communication, and
the one in Alabama assured that her moth
er, from whom she had been stolen, nay
dead.
"Thus matters rested until last Thursday,
when a Mrs. Martin, at the suggestion or a
mutual friend, was introduced to and visit
ed Mrs. Bowen. During the conversation
that. followed it bet•:uuu plain that they
were sisters, and that Mrs. i'dartin was the
mother of the _Nlabama lady who was
stolen twenty-live years since. Thus the
two met and were 12CUghiced, atter nit ab
sence of thirty years, With heVer a t,tratt•-
berry mark on the left arm of ej t h cr. Ono
sister has been a reSitieht. of Galveston four
teen 3 - ears, amid the other eight. Roth are
happy in the Meeting, and in the prospect
of soon sceing the daughter of one :mud the
mike,' of the other.
E'resently
Never say you will (10 presently what your
reason or your conscience tells you should
be done now. No man ever shaped his own
de s tiny or the destinies of others, wisely and
well, who dealt much in presentlies. Look
at nature. She never postpones. When
the t hue arrives for the buds to open, they
open—for the leaves to fall, they fall. Lock
upward. 'rho oldning worlds never put oil'
their risings or their settings. The omiets
even, erratic as they aro, keep their ap
pointments, and eclipses are tilnays punc
tual to the minute. There are no &lays in
o iv of the movements of the universe
which have been pre-determined by th e ab
solute will of the Creator. Procrastination
among the stars might involve the destruc
tion of innumerable systems ; proem:gni:t
hen in the operations of naturuon this earth
might result in famine, pestilence and the
blotting out of the htite4at race. Man,
however, being a free agent, can postpone
tlfe performance of his duty ; anti he does
so, too frequently to his ott n destruction.
The drafts drawn by indolence upon the
future are pretty sure to be dishonored.
Make Now your banker. Do not say you
wilLeconotnize presently, fur presently may
ho bank rn pt ; nor that you, will repent and
make atonement presently, for presently
you may be judged. Bear in mind the im
portant fact, taught alike by the history of
nations, rulers and private individuals,
that in at least three cases out of live, pres
ently is too late.
Singular Case
A Vermont paper. says: " There k
man in this State who cannot speak to his
father. Previous toms birth crone difficul
ty arose between his mother alai father,
and for a considerable time she refused to
speak with him. The difficulty was subse
quently healed, the child wits born, and in
due time began to talk, but when sitting
with his father was invariably silent. It
continued so until the child Nvai five years
old, when the father, having exhausted his
powers of persua.ion, threatened it with
punishment for its stubbornness. When
the punisffinent was inflicted it elicited
nothing but sighs and groans, which told
but too plainly that the little sufferer could
not speak, though ho vainly endeavored to
do to. AIL who were present united in the
opinion that it was impossible for the child
to speak to its father. At a minute age its
efforts to converse with its parent could
only produce the most hitter sighs anti
groans.
Reward Otflred.
ATLANTA, Nov. 9.—Governor Bullock is
sues a. proclamation offering :llt.",,O00 for the
arrest, and conviction of the per oor per
sons who caused the death or Albert el.
Itutlio, Sheriff of Richmond county, ‘‘ho
teas killed in the election riot at Augusta.
[WHOLE NUMBER, 2,042.
t'ann ztail 4 10115thold Tolutun.
AcancuLTunE is the most useful/In t l most noble
employment of man.—WAvills:rvrox.
•.
COMMINTCATIONS, Selection , ,.
Recipes a n d ar
ticles of intere:4 and value, are solicited for this
department of the paper. We dc!,ire to supply
the public with the btat practical information in
reference to the limn, garden,and household.
Prints ou Apples and Pears.
A friend, who has lately been on a visit to
the " Hub of the Universe," writes us this:
" I barn just seen a very pretty and fanci
ful idea developed on pears and apples in
the orchard of a friend at West Roxbury,
Mass. As you ramble among the trees you
are ever and anon saluted by an inscription
upon the fruit, done as if it were by the
bonds of nature herself. Hero you meet
with the familiar name of Mary, or Alice,
or a date (ISGli)—in brief, everything that
may suggest itself to your taste or fancy,
attd all done in the skin of the fruit, without
abrasion or any eweign impression. The
discovery was made by Hon. Arthur W.
Austin, of West Roxbury, in 1851-2. He
observed, deli ne the former year, that ap
ples did not reddeic in that part of the fruit
where a leaf happened to lie upon it. In
155'2., he cut out letters from newspapers,
and when the apples were yet green, he
pasted them upon them with paste such as
the apothecaries use, made of Gum Traga
euth. The apples would reddens in all parts
not covered by the pasted letters. When
the fruit had reddened to perfection the
letters were removed, and they would ap
pear permanently outlined in green. So
again, When be pasted on the apple a paper
in which the letter, were cut one, the parts
covered by the paper would be green,
and the letters would appear, distinctly
t u rued in red, the green ground surround
ing them. The experiment is a very pretty
One, and produces a happy effect. Let our
fruit growers try it. 1.7.0 w much sweeter
Must be the relish of an apple or pear, if the
name of a flivorito should thus appear on it,
as if written by the hand of nature. What
a price such fruit, so inscribed, would com
mand in market, and what a pretty pres
ent it would be to any lady at a feast."
MAKING ujT.--As As several_ladies
within the past two weeks have desired us
to republish our receipt for making this
much esteemed dish by many persons, wo
herewith comply with their request, in
order that it may be in time for this year's
crop of cabbages. It is this: "In the
first place let your 'stand,' holding from a
half barrel to a barrel, be thoroughly scald
ed out; the cutter, and the stamper also
well scalded. Take off all the outer leaves
of the cabbage, halve them, remove the
heart, and proceed with the cutting. Lay
some clean leaves at the bottom of the
stand, sprinkle with a handful of salt, fill
in half a bushel of the cut cabbage, stamp
gently until the juice just makes its ap
pearance, then add another handful of salt,
and so on until the stand is full. Cover
over with cabbage leaves, place on top a
clean board titling the space pretty well,
and on top of that a stone weighing twelve
or fifteen pounds. Stand away in
_a cool
- place dial - when - Wird 'freeZiiig chines on
remove to the cellar. It will be ready for
use in from four to six weeks. The cab
bage should be cut tolerably coarse. The
•savory' v:u•iety makes the best kraut, but
it is only half as productive as the Drum
head and Flat Dutch.-OCr»Ut Wow:, Tele
gretph.
Us it oc LnmoNs.—When persons are
feverish and thirsty beyond what is natural
indicated in some cases by a metalie taste
in the mouth, especially after drinking
water, or by a whitish appearance of the
greater part of the tongue, one of the best
"coolers," interiml or external, is to take a
lemon, cut off the top, :sprinkle over it
soine line loaf stigar, work it downward
into the lemon with a spoon, and then suck
it slowly qqueeting the lemon and adding
tno re sugar as the acidity increases front be
mg brought up from the lower point. In
valids with feverishness may take two or
three lemon , . a day in this manner, with al
most marked benefit, manifested by a sense
of coolness, Co m tort and invigoration. A
lemon or two taken thus at tea-time, as an
entire substitute for the ordinary "supper"
of 811111111er, w ould give many a man a
comfortable night's sleep, and an awaken
ing of rest and invigoration, with no ap
petite f‘tr loyal:fast, lo which they aro
strangers ttlto Will have their cup of tea or
supper "relish - rind "cake" and berries or
peaches toot cream.--.Rohs Jeuraca of
Jh'ullh.
Pr.E,EIZVE citron melon, take two
lemons to a pound of melon ; let the sugar
be equal in weight to the lemon and melon.
Take out the pulp of the melon and cut it in
thin slicer, and boil it in fair water till
tender. Take it out and boil tho lemon in
the sonic water about twenty minutes.
Take' out the lemon, add the sugar, and, if
nece,,ary, a little more water. Let it boil.
When clear, add the melon and let it boil a
MENEM=
AFrita an experience of 30 years, a writer
in the X. E. Fanner says that good cows
will eat, on an average, 20 pounds of hay
per day when giving milk, and 13 pounds
when dry. Not by guesswork, but tested
by actual weighing fur months at a time.
They will pay well for their keeping by
yield big aa average of G quarts of milk per
day throughout the year. He estimates
summer pasture at 30 cents per week, and
milk at W. ; cents per quart.
Lttnots Fut.—Two cups of sugar, two of
warm water, two eggs, two lemons, three
ounces of butter, one table-spoonful of corn
starch, grate the rinds of the lemons, use
the juice of both, but the rind of only one,
or it will be bitter ; beat the sugar and eggs
together, then add the juice mar rind, then
the butter end corn starch, then add the
warm water, this is sufficient for two pies.
To cum: chapped hands take three
drachms of gum camphor, three of white
beeswax, three or hPerouteiti, and two
ounces of olive oil. Put them together in a
tin-cup, on the stove, where they will melt
slowly, and form IL white ointment iu a few
minutes. If the hands be affected, anoint
them on retiring at night, and put on a pair
of gloves. A day or two will suffice to heal
them.
To rim; nn.A. I:—Shred red and white
cabbage, spread it in layers in a stone jar,
with salt over ':tell layer. Put two spoon
ful:, of whole black pepper, and the same
gunntity of all-pico, clove; and cinnamon,
in a bag, and -cald them in two quarts of
vinegar, over the cabbage., and cover it
tight, use it in two days after.
Fon •rtin Sicn—SAth. , Mtr.n—Soak ouo
011:1(%t of sago in a pint of cold water an
hour, pour otr tho water, and add a pint
and a half of new milk. Si in Inc: it slowly
till the sago :trt.i milk aro well mixed.
Flavor with sugar, ISUlffieg and wine.
TO K WINTER.-Cut
up in piece-i, and to every pound, add half
a pound of sugar. and strew well, put down
in jars, tie up tight, and it will be ready to
eat Plain, with meats or for puddings.