A. N. RAMBO, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XL, NUMBER 35.] THE COLUMBIA SPY, DAILY AND WEEKLY TERI'S OF SUBSCRIPTION WEEKLY, $2.00 per year, if paid in advance; six months, $1 not_paid until the expiration of the , „ year, 82.50 will bo charged. , Si>rain dokEB No papor will be discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, unless at the option of the editor • RATES OF ADVERTISING: EIGHT LINES SPACE 3IAILP' . A SQUARE 11w12wIlml2m13m16mIlyr 1 Sqr. I $l.OO $1.50 I $2.50 14 4 . 00 I $ 5 . 00 I $B.O O I $12.00 2 Sqrs. I 2.00 I 3.00 I 5.00 I 13.00 I S.OO 172.00 I 18.00 3 Sqrs. I 2.50 I 4.00 I 6.00 I 9.00 I 12.00 I 18.00 I 25.00 Col. 1 5.00 1 7.00 1 9.00 1 12.00 1 15.00 1 20.00 1 30.00 54 Col. 18.00 I 35.00 I 18.00 I M.OO I 30.00 I 60.00 I 70.00 1 Col. 112.00 1115.00 I 2:3.00 I 30.001 40.00 I 65.00 I 125.00 Double the above rates will he charged for dis play or blank advertisements. Advertisements not under contract, must be marked the length of time desired, or they will be continued and charged for until ordered out. _ Special Notices ti per cent. more. All Notices or Advertisments in reading mat ter, under ten lines, $1.00; over ten lines, 10 cts. per line, minion type. Yearly Advertisers discontinuing their adver tisements before the expiration of the year, will be-charged at full rates as above, or according to contract. Transient rotes will bio charged for all matters not relating strictly to their business. All advertising will be considered CASH, after first insertion. PROFESSIONAL. MAT CLAIM, " . • JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OFFlCE—next door to Hess' book store. Mee Hours—From 6 to 7 A. H. 12 to 1 P. H. and from 6 to 9 P. H. [upr.2o, H M. NORTH, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, Columbia, Pa. Collections promptly made In Lancaster and York Counties. A .1. KAUFFMAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Collections made in Lancaster and adjoining Counties. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, and all claims against the government promptly prosecuted. Office—No. 152, Locust street. SAMUEL EVANS, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Office, on Second St., adjoining Odd Fellows' Hall, Columbia, Pa. TZ. HOFFER, DENTIST. Nitroux Oxide Gas administered in the extrac tion of Teeth. Office—Front Street next door to It. Williams' Drug Store, between Locust and Walnut Streets, Columbia, Pa. 11 HINKLE . PHYSICIAN & SURGEON; offers 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 clay, front 7 to 9 A. 31., and from 6 to 8 P. Persons wishing his services in special cases, between these hours, will leave word by note at his office, or, threugh the post office. HOTELS. WESTERN HOTEL, Nos. 9, 11, 13 & 15 - CORTLAIk:DT STREET, NEW YORK. THOS. D. WINCIIF....STER, PROPRIETOR. This Hotel is central and convenient for Penn - AZLE Mismign._, of Reading, Pa., is an assistant'at this Hotel, and will be glad to see his friends at all times. setlo-tfw 44 CONTIIstEN.TAL." THIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED, between the Stations of the Reading and Colum bia, and Pennsylvania Railroads, FRONT STREET, COLUMBIA., PA. __ 'Amplelickoranandationa.for Strange:lnland Tray , elers. .The„Dar is stocked with , CHOICE LIQUORS, And tho Tables furnished with the best fare. URIAH FINDLEY, Columbia, April 20, 1667.] Proprietor FRANK . LIN 'HOUSE, LOCUST ST.,COLUMBIA, PA. This is a first-class hotel. and Is In every respect adapted to meet the wishes and desires of the traveling public. MARTIN ERWI:%.:, Proprietor, FRENCIPS HOTEL, On the European Plan, opposite City Hall Park New York. R. FRENCH, Sept. 19, 1568. Proprietor. MISHEER'S HOTEL, West Market Square, Rending Renn'a. EVAN MISHLER, Proprietor. MALTBY HOUSE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. This hotel has been lately refitted with all the necessary Improvements 'mown to hotel enter prise and therefore offers first-class accommoda tions to strangers and others visiting Baltimore. A. It. MILLER, Proprietor. EDUCATIO NAL. LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE . ALL TERM CO'AIMENCES AUGUST 3, 1865. This institution aims to educate youth of both ■ exes in all the solid or ornamental branches. Its officers hold that students should be trained with review to the sphere of life they are to oc cupy, and to occomplish this object, the follow ing courses of study have been adopted : I. A Classical course. 2. A Biblical course. S. A Ladies' course. 4. A Scientific course. 5. A Teacher's course. • 6. An Ornamental course. 7'. A Commercial course. 8. A Grammer School course. These courses are THOROUGH, COMPREHEN SIVE and COMPLETE in themselves We invite all who have children or wards to educate, to visit this School before sending else where. It presents ninny advantages, among which are Ist. Thorough and practical instruction. 2nd. Accommodations, not excelled elsewhere. Brd. Ml per cent. less In cost than other schools of equal grade. .41)-Follv and fashion are not part of our pro; creme. We aim at refinement, but a refinement Springing front a goof heart and a cs/firated intel lect. For Catalogues or farther particulars, address T. It VICKROY, A. M., • - - Aurtville, Lebanon County, Pa. July 25'68-tf. MARB.LE WORKS. LANCASTER MARBLE WORKS, LEWIS HALBY, Proprietor All persona In want of anything in the Marble line, will be furnished at the very lowest prices. Only the best workmen aro employed, conse quently we axe enable to turn out in a superior manner MONUMENTS. STATUARY, TOMBSTONES, ORNAMENTS. .MARBLE MANTLES, BUILDING FRONTS, SILLS, And Marble Work of every description. 'Orders promptly attended to LEWIS lIALDY, May 4;67] Lancaster City, Pa. CHARLES M. HMV - ELL, MARBLE MASON, NO. 66 NORTH QUEEN STREET, EAST SIDE. The Oldest Marble Works in Lancaster County. Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore nestowed upon him, he respectfully solicits a continuance of the same. He has on hand the largest;. most Varied and complete stock of finished . _ _ - MONUMENTS, MANTLES. GRAVE STONES, dm, Ate., to be found in the city. and which will be sold at the lowest prices. Building work and Jobbing of every description punctually attended to. Persons in want of-Monuments, Mantles, or Grave Stones, axe _invited to call and examine the stock on Aand, also the portfolios of designs. June Z-tfl WITERS. S WATERMAN, I PROPRIETOR. OF WATERNIAN'S Cocktail and Tonic Bitters. Wholesale and Retail, No. 1106 Market Street, Philadelphia The tonic properties of these Bitters have been certified to by some of our most eminent practising physicians, as the best tonic now - is use. and the „Cocktail Bitters is the universal favorite among Judges of; a .good gin or whisky cocktail. " ' .ijanSO--tf TOB -- :' PRINTING! -OF - EVERY ty paicrlpticitt neatly executed at Ude Oftice . .. ..._ _ ........• ,_ . , _ .. .• • . , ',,..------ ' • . ' . * . •. . -_,......... ':41.-, ' ....:';'• • , ...:. it ...,....„.;,.., - ...,, ....:•• :,. .... .., .. ... .. . ...... .. . ...... .... ...:.... , 1 1-. ...... : ._. .. ..„. ...._ ... );...., ~......iiit.;:,,.,. . :-. . ..... •.. ... .1 .(...„.:,.....„ 0 \....„..7,-..-,..•.,.....,:: .: .... i ........, ~....:.: ...::......, 11 . • • 1:-... . .......:......., . BUC_FERWS T C. BUCHER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In PrvE CENTS FOREIGN. AND DOMESTIC Wines and Liquors ! Has removed his Store to his Building, adjoining Haltbanau's Store, Locust St., Columbia, Pa., where he has fitted up rooms, and greatli Increased his facilities for doing a more extensive business MISFILER'S CELEBRATED HERB BITTERS ! PURE AND UNADULTERATED, These Bitters are celebrated for the great cures they have performed ha every case, v:hen tried. Dr. Mishler otters fire hundred dollars to the pro prietor of any Medicine that can show a greater number of genuine certificates of cures effected by It, near the place where it is made, than MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS SIISHLERB HERB BITTERS Ix for sale In Columbia by J. C. BUCHER. At his Store, Locust Street, Columbia. WINES AND LIQUORS ! Embracing the following Catawba, Port, Lisbon, Cherry, Currant and Muscat WINES COGNAC, OF DIFFERENT BRANDS Also, OLD RYE WHISKEY and ,BRAbIDLES.at -alLkinds - Blackberry Jamaica Spirits, Cattm - ba, Cherry, EMI XX OM Rye X Old Rye, Pure Old Rye, Menongahela, Rectified Whisky, Londou Brown Stout Seoteb Ale, 4e., &C., ,te. MAUI' AND CIDER VINEGAR Tie is also Agent for the Celebrated MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS POCKET FLASKS DEMIJOHNS, nd FANCY ARTICLES, in great variety, At J. C. BUCHER'S. MISHLER'S BITTERS! PURE 3- UNADULTERATED BEST STOUT PORTER ! From E. C G. TIMBERT, LONDON Agent for the PURE MALT VINEGAR Cannot be pnrehaxed at any other establbsh- ment In town, and Is warranted to keep fruits and vegetables perfect The Best Brands of Imported SCOTCH AND LONDON ALF: TO SMOKERS. AND CHEWERS BEWIER will still keep on hand the Best Brands of &MORINO AND CHEWING TOBACCO, SNUFF, HAVANA, YARA, and COMMON SEGARS. Also, SNUFF TOBACCO BOXES, PIPES—a thousand and one varieties. Call at J. C. BUCHER'S, Locust Street, adjoining Haldeman's Store. It is the greatest establishment of the kind this aide of p4lladelphla: in„Only Agency for Lee's London Porter, and litlattleros Bitters. Maderia, Malaga, Champagne, Claret, Rhine, Blackberry, Elderberry, Ktimmel Ginger, Superior Olu Rye, Pure Old Rye, XXX Old Rye, AGENCY FOR FOR SALE TOBACCO BOXES, For Sale by J. C. RUCHER For sale b> J. C. BITCHIER, Locust Street, abtave Front For Sale at J. C. BUCII.ER S COLUMBIA, PA., SA:I I T_TRI).A:Y - MORNING, APRIL 10, 1869. .F_LNA_NCIAL. 1,02 6 MILES OV T.ll E UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD ARE NOW COMPLETED. As ni miles of the western portion of the line, beginning at Sacramento, are also done, but about 200 MIMES REMAIN To be finished, to open the Grand Through Lino to the Pacific. This opening will certainly take place early this season. Besides a donation from the Government of 12,800 acres of land per mile, the Company is en titled to a subsidy in U. S. Bonds on its line as completed and accepted, at the average rate of about $.2.0,300 per mile, according to the difficul ties encountered, for which the Government takes a second lien as security. Whether sub sidies are given to any other companies or not, the Government will comply with all its contracts with the Union Pacific RaProad Com pany. :Nearly the whole amount of bonds to which the Company will be entitled have al ready been delivered. FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS AT PAR. By Its charter, the Company is permitted to issue its own FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS to the seine amount as the Government Bonds, and no mon. These Bonds are a First Mortgage upon the whole road and all its equipments. They have thirty years to run, at six per cent. and, by special contract, both PRIZZCIPAL AND INTEREST ARE PAYABLE IN GOLD. I iTlie U. S. Supreme Court has recently decided that this contract is in all respects valid and of legal obligation. Such securities are generally valuable in pro portion to the length of time they have to run. The longest six per cent, gold interest bonds of the U. S. (the St's) will be due in 12 years, and they are worth 112. If they had thirty years to run, they would stand at not less than 12. i. A perfectly safe First Mortgage Bond like the Union Pacific should approach this rate The demand for European investment Is already considerable, and on the completion of the work will doubtless carry the price to a large premium. SECURITY OF THE BONDS. It needs no argument to show that a First Mortgage of s2li per mile upon what for a long time must no the only railroad connecting the Atlantic and. Pacific States is perfectly - se cure. The entire amount of the mortgage will be about 830,000,000, and the interest $1,800,000 per annum in gold. The present currency cost of this interest is less than $2,500,000 per annum, while the gross earnings for the year 1863, from way business only, on an average of less than 700 miles of road in operation, were more than FIVE NIILLIOls.: DOLLARS. The details of which are as follows: From Passengers g 1,021.00.3.97 Freight 2,010,24.3.19 Express 1:16,22.1..19 " M.seellaneous . 91 926 2i Government troops 10F,007,77 freight 119,110.03 Contractors' men 201,179.09 material 908,130.32 QM This large amount Is only an indication of the immense 'Manic that must go over the through line in a few months, when the great tide of Pacific coast travel and 'trade will begin. i t is estimated that this business must make the earnings of the road from Fifteen to Twenty Millions a Year. As the supply of these bonds will soon cease, parties who desire to invest in them will find it for their interest to do so at once. The price for the present is par and accrued Interest from Jan. 1, in currency. Subscriptions will be received in Columbia by SIMON C. MAY, At Columbia National Bank, and in New York AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 20 Nassau Street, anti by JOHN J. CISCO & SON, 13ANkans, No. 59 Wall Street, and bytheCompany'sadvertised agents through out the United States. Bonds sent free, but parties subscribing through local agents, will look to them for their safe delivery. A NEW PAMPHLET AND MAP WAS I,%sued.,Oct Ist, containing a report of the pro gress of the work - to - that date, and a raore - cona pieta statement in relation to the value of the bonds than can be given in an advertisement, which will be sent free on application at the Company's ogices or to any of the advertised agents. JOHN J. CISCO, Tnmtsuitan, felr.rmht wl New York. 14 UARTERLY REPORT SHOWING the condition of the FIRST _NATIONAL BA,.'K. of Columbia, on the morning, of the first Monday of January, 1869. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ;:12.. 46.51.70 U. S. Bonds 176,100,00 Bonds and Mortgages 8,565.64 --.. $410,647.51 Duo to Banks 4: Bankers 50,5:1`3.95 Legal Tenders 19,301.00 3 per cent. Certificates 10,000.00 National Currency... ..... ..... 7,610.00 Cash Items 2,122.06 1,5:11.1Z :N1.43 10,853.34., _ . Postal Currency Specie Current Expenses, Interest on deposit of Taxes Revenue Stamps LIABILITIES. Capital Stock 150,000.00 Circulation 131;189.00 Individual Deposits 1841,512.Zi3 Due to Banks .5:: Bankers 20,112.43 Profit , : 15,284.94 Surplus Divldendh inpald Indebtedness of Directors $9,8.30.00 Sworn to and subscribed by . Jautt-3m] S. S. DETWILER. Cashier. W E" ARTERLY REPORT OF THE Condition of The COLUMBIA NATIONAL BA_r.. Colombia Pennsylvania, on the morn lug of the First MONDAY of January, 180. RESOURCES: Loans and discounts.. $759,143.51 U. S. Bonds deposited for Circulation 509,000.00 91,265,113.51 U. S. 3 F et. Certitleates....... 10,000.00 Legal Tender Notes 105,513.00 Notes of National Banks... 6,215.00 other .• 119.00 Fractional Currency 169.1:1 _ Cash Items including Re venue Rtittrins 1,195.07 Due from National 13 auks.. 119,718.34 •• other .. ..... 1,618.14 Banking House and Real Estate 11,500.00 Over Drafts 22.3'2 Current Expenses k Tines 10,137.84 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $.100.00.3.(0 Surplus Fund Discounts and Exchange__ 11,1:31.S.I Profit and Loss 4,021.01 • _ . iti,675.93 Due to Banks tt: Bankers... 7,139.61 Cireulat'n of Colurabia\a tional Batik .119,675.00 Individual Deposits 1G6,•;16.39 Dividends Unpaid 7041.50 Sworn to and sub4erlbed by SAMUEL SHOCII, Cashier. COLUMBIA, January 4.180. [Janti-tfd.tw IRST NATIONAL BANK OF CO LUMBIA. nterest will be paid by this Bank on Special De posits, as follows: 534 per cent, for 12 Months. per cent. 6 months and under 12 moult S. 43,4 per cent, for 3 and under G months. We make Collections on all Accessible Points the United States, on liberal terms, Discount Notes, Drafts, and Bills 01 Exchange. Buy and sell GOLD SILVER and all I3NITED STATES SECURITIES, And are prepared to draw DRAFTS on Pblladel phia, New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, England, Scotland, France, and all parts of Germany. 7-30 TREASURY NOTES. Holders of First Issue Seven-Thirties will do well to call and exchange them for the new Five- Twenty Gold Bonds, and Flve-Twenties deliv ered at once. S. S. DETWILER, April 6, '67. Cashier. TNTEREST ON DEPOSITS. 1. THE COLUMBIA NATIONAL BANK will receive money on deposit, and pay interest t here for, at the following rates, viz; 534 per cent, for 12 months. 5 per cent, for 9 months. 5 per cent. for G months. 434 per cent. for 3 months. 7-WIT S. Treasury Notes exchanged for new 5- . Gold Bonds. SAMUEL SHOCK Cashier. GOLD PENS. THE BEST IN THE WORLD! FOLEY'S GOLD PENS Ore acknowledged to be the best yet offered to the Public P. Shreiner 6: Son have Just received a large stock of these celebrated Pens. Ills old stock has also been exchanged for new, so that custo mers can now select trout the LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT of Gold Pens ever brought to this market. pa-Pens are guaranteed for six months, Push along. Get a 1 Ask for Foley's. mar.21,'67-tf.) P. SHREINER SON WEDDING CARDS neatly printed nt this afire "NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." Original goetry. [For the SrY.] To Hy Orphan Brother, on His Nineteenth Birthday. Childhood is now forever past, And youth will soon be gone, For thou hest traveled nineteen years Upon thy Journey home. Already thou bast learned that life Is but a troubled dream ; Though pleasureswear a luring light, They are not what they seem. But brother, mine, keep thou a heart Undaunted, brave and true, Be not dismayed if trials come, But battle bravely through. Hope sings her siren song to thee, And hope beams in thine eye; Onward and upward bend thy steps, And set thy standard high. Hope's chaplet, thou hast,learned, ere now Has many withered flowers; The brightest lot to mortals given, Has some dark, weary hours. So let the moments flitting by, Be with all goodness rife ; They are the little golden grains That moire the sum of life. When months and years have o'er thee flown And manhood's strength is thine, May no unjust, unmanly act E'er mar thy spirit's shrine. Fear not—if round thy barque of life The storm and tempest lower ; For ho who bade the sea be calm, Can give thee conquering power. The Editor's Song. The editor sits at his table, Writing as well as he's able, Paragraphs, leader and puff; Hts scissors beside hint are lying While he is in agony trying, Of copy to furnish enough, Toil, toll, toil ! What a weary life is mine! Wasting the precious midnight oil In leader, and column, nod line, Working from morn till night, Working from night till morn, Oh ! why was that steam press ever made Oh! why was the editor horn? And whose Is the grain when won ; 'Whose are the trophies we achieve, And for whom are the laurels won? To stand in the foremost rank 0 f each hard fought party fray— To share the toil and only get Abuse and neglect for pay. =ll Toil, toil, toll ! What a thankless task is ours, To bake the bread and press the cheese, That Senator Jones devours ! To sit on a three legged stool, Whilst others have hair-stuffed seats, To prepare the hash and cook up the stew, But never to taste the meats! Toil, toll, toll As the constant drop on the stone, So the ceaseless, endless work, Wears away body and soul Though the poet splutter and write, Though the orator bully and brawl, If 11 were not for the editor's pen, What were the use of It all Christi ans, Mormon and Jews, Is there a man on this weary earth But grows richer by reading the news Richer, richer, richer, As they read it by sunlight and taper— And yet there isn't a soul of them all But grudges to pay for his paper, Toil, toil, toil ! There's a row in the very next street ! Somebody Is going to murder his wife, And I must be TOUrE-SOUTE. Yesterday at this time, Two policemen got clicked Lu a riot ; And so It goes front morning till night, And an editor never knew•s quiet. PiricrlinutottO .6herding. 1+,990.53 413.61 [Written fur the Spy.l Biographical Sketch of Charles William Hickman (" Bean Hick- 5511,168.90 man.") Who is there, among the countless thous ands that have visited Washington, who has not seen or heard of "Beau" Hickman ? Where is the Senator, Congressman, For eign Minister, yea, even President, who has been so rash as to refuse him the cus tomary "initiation fee," solicited with flint inimitable assurance for which he has gain ed such an unenviable and wide-spread reputation! Woe to the newly elected member who shall turn him off with a short answer or a refusal, for from that mo ment he may date all his future trials and tribulations during his stay in the city ; jokes at his expense of every con ceivable character, and circulated and spread broadcast from the inexhaustible stock of the relentless " Beau." They pen etrate to the august assemblages at the Na tional Capitol, are retailed on the Avenues and street corners by newsboys, boot blacks and carriage drivers, (for the can naile are ever ready to catch up and circu late any witty story, and " Beau" is no bungler in such matters,) until 'the unfor tunate hero, in sheer despair, hoists the white flag, and meekly capitulates. "Captain Wragge," he does nothing by stealth, all his "financial" operations are conducted openly, and are the more re markable from the unparalleled assurance and audacity displayed in their execution. Hundreds of jokes, exploits and sayings, which could only emanate from the fertile brain of " Beau" are still related through out the land, for the benefit and edification of open-mouthed listeners. There have been many attempts made to draw from "Beau" some account of his early life and doings, but up to this time, all have proved futile. Communicative as he always is upon any other subject, ho has invau•iably maintained a profound si lence upon that, and any attempts in that direction have always been met with a sarcastic and characteristic refusal. 5,000.00 70.00 .5511,4e,90 1:C,3q9.13 =3 MEMEI It has been the good fortune (?) of the writer of these lines to secure what many others have vainly attempted—a biographi cal sketch of that renowned personage. By a systematic cOurse of acquiescence to any and every design upon the exchequer, this object has been accomplished, and this narrative has been drawn piece-meal from his own lips, all the more natural and erod ible, from the reason that ho had not the remotest idea that it would ever appear in this form. Ills own words are given, for the sake of originality "I was born," said "Beau," "so they tell me, in C— county, Virginia. I suppose I was present at the time, but I was too young to remember anything about it. Our family is a good ono—as good as any in the State, (fact)-1 have always had what they call a constitutional antipathy to anything that smacked of work ; I mean manual la bor; I am, and always have been fond of drawing—principally segars arid money. I was always a moderate kind of youth in everything but dross, and when I was at school I was a walking fashion-plate for all tho rest. There's where I got my nickname, gad there's where I first got into money difficulties—`impecuniosity' I believe they call it now-a-days. I didn't stop In school I=3 Toil! toll, toil! =HOME long, study's too much like work, so I struck out on my own account, and brought up in Richmond. There's where I first made the acquaintance of my' Uncle;' he had three gold balls hanging out over his door. I cultivated' him, until all I had in the world was the clothes Istood in. Then's the time I first commenced humbugging people for a living. I mean as a regular business. I had been writing home for money, but they didn't send any; they said they wanted me to return immediately ; now, they pay me a monthly salary to keep away. I went to all my father's friends, and borrowed what money I could ; from one I got an overcoat, which I lent my uncle, as it was cold weather, and he was older than I was, and needed it worse. was so short, then, that I couldn't think of paying board, and I always cleared out on Saturday morning, and left my dollar-and a half trunk, filled with newspapers and a few bricks. I stayed in Richmond 'till I thought I owed all I could owe, from the Spottswood House down to Black Hanni bal's, on the levee, then I took all my uncle's tickets to him, and got a new ticket and another advance on the whole. There was three or four fellows in Rich- mond who always liad about as much money as I had, and I thought I could use them in a scheme that would bring us in some funds. They had just passed a bill and made an appropriation in the Legisla ture, to survey a new line of railroad, so I got N—, G— and —, and we all went to an auction store, and bought an ax, and an old rusty compass and chain. The com pass hadn't any needle, and the glass was gone, but I got a knitting needle and stuck it on with settling wax. I knew that old P—, an ignorant old fellow, but very rich, had just built a new house two miles from the city, laid out ornamental grounds, and all that sort of thing, and my plan was to pretend to bo surveyors for the new rail road, and to run the line right through his house and grounds if he didn't 'come down.' I put red flannel strips on hatpins, and spent two hours scrubbing the old compass with brick dust. I had a copy of a newspaper with the resolution of the Le gislature in it, to show. I was chief sur veyor, H— was rodm 0— was chainbearer, and S— was axman. When I got where I thought they could see us from the house, I set down the old compass, spread out the legs, looked up at the sun for about five minutes, and then took a squint across tile compass in the direction of the house, and told S— to drive a stake which I marked with red chalk. A— ran ahead about fifty feet, and planted the pole. I squinted again, marked the stake, and took out a little book and scribbled in it. The next move took us right into the flower beds. ll planted again, another squint, motions with my arms, up and down, right and left, and every new motion meant a new hole in the beds. Just then old P—, and all bands came out. 'What'n h-1 are you doin' ?" Four hundred and thirty-one and an eighth,' I hollered, scrib bling away in the book. ' I will talk with you, sir.' says immediately upon the completion of this observation.' rhe next hitch, the pole stood up against the bay window. I went over the same rigmarole again, and then walked up to the old man. mstAlear-sir,'- says I, 'this-is -the survey ing party sent out by the Legislature to survey the line of the new railroad,' and I showed him the paper. the Legisla ture and their new railroads! Do they think they can run a railroad through my parlor window ? 11-1 of a note !"1 can't help it,' says I, ' my instructions are to take a direct line from one point to an other,' and I explained the law to him. Ile ! cussed a good deal, but finally cooled clown, and wanted to know if there wasn't some way to go round. I told him - there was, and if he'd make it an object, I'd do it, Ind he must keep main, or I'd lose my sit uation. He • came down' with live hun ch ed, and signed a paper that he'd never tell. I gave the boys a hundred each, and kept the balance as 'chief surveyor.' I be lieve old P— thinks to thls day that he altered the line of the R. a: C. railroad, which, by a mere chance, runs within a mile of his house. I took the compass back to the city, and sold it for old brass. After this surveying trip, it occurred to me that the climate in Richmond didn't agree with me, and I came to Washington. The first thing I did here was to go to O—'s and get 5 - -05* suit of ' togs.' I swelled it souse which I could do then better'n I can now, because my feet were sound. I didn't go on "tick" as long as money lasted, though I believe Washington's the easiest place in the United States to dodge a board bill. Pendleton got the most of the money, but I think it was well invested, because I never asked hint lhr a dollar afterwards, while ho lived, that I didn't get it. Department clerks, as a class, are a very unproductive set, their salary's always mortgaged before they've earned it, consequently they've never got twenty-live or fifty cents in their pocket for me. They can't be depended on. Members of Congress and Senators, when they're "fresh ash," don't know the ropes; they're the boys, always got money, too. 1 hadn't been here long before I was "dead broke," got a little "seedy." I went to the depot and got on the Baltimore train, didn't have no gate keeper then. When the conductor came 'round I had my head out of the window•, he tapped me on the should er. i didn't stir. "Ticket." he hollooed in my ear ! I jerked my head in suddenly, and off went:the bat; I bewailed the loss of the bat and the ticket which was stuck in the band. I told him I had paid the last cent I bad for the ticket, that I lived in Bal timore and could have the money where he could get it in the morning. When the train got in he took me to a hat store and bought me anew hat. That dodge is `play ed' now,—no good. From the hat store I went to Barnums, put on airs, and registered myself as G. P. R. James, Richmond, and ordered the best room in the house. Early in the morning I got up and burned all my old clothes in the fire place, fastened a lock-pick in the key hole outside, shut the door and rung the bell 'till the wire broke. Waiter came up, I was furious, money, watch, clothes, all stolen. Clerk came up, same story. Proprietor came up, same story, only more of it. "What kind of a house do you keep, where thieves are allowed to break in and steal the shirt off a man's back, where he goes to bed at night NI, ith clothes, watch and money, and wakes up in the morning and finds he hasn't got any such things?" As kSflid,thiS I wrapped the bed cover around me and stamped up and down like a luna tic. I answered every question With a howl, and swore I'd publish, the affair in every paper in the United States. Ho examined the lock and tried to get the 'pick' out. Mr. James,' ho says, ' pray be quiet,' and if you'll promise never to mention it again, I'll make your losses good to you! I promised. He went and came back with a tailor who took my measure, and in an hour's time I walked out of the house with a new suit of 'togs,' a gold watch and, a hundred and thirty dollars in money in my pocket. That dodge is ' played out" too, now. I never mfas a Wednesday at the Presi- dents grounds, nor a satnrday at the Capi tol when there's music, I always pick up something there. They have had me dead and buried most as many times as Washington's body servant; but to my knowledge, I never have died yet. I keep walking to save funeral expen ses. lam fifty-five years old and think I'm good for twenty more. My life's in sured. Gov. S gave me _No Xame to read. I don't read much, but I read the parts he marked about a' Capt. Wragge.' When I ' squeeze' a man, I do it before his face. I don't keep books nor give credit. I've seen the evils of the credit system. Webster always used to give me five dollars. I've been in his room many a time and told him yarns. Five dollars is the regular "initiation fee" for members; but I generally take alt I can get over a I was dead broke in New York once, and used to walk around in Broadway nights to get the fresh air; and once I went into Gould's, in Fulton street, to get is fill up.' The figures on my check said I owed a dol• lar. I walked up and give it to the man at the counter, and told him I was ready. `Ready,' says he; 'Ready for what ?' Ready to be kicked out says 1, fbr I'm • dead broke.' He called a peeler and ho took me to the station-house. The Justice said he'd let me off, prodvidcd I'd leave the city. They say there's a hotel in New York where they give you soup for the first, whether you want it or not; and after you've tasted, they ask you for the stamps. If you have'nt got it, they put a big syringe in your soup and suck it ail up. They had a story going 'round that Gen. Spinner wanted to put my head on the five cent notes. I got back from New York by stow ing myself away among the freight on one of the Philadelphia steamers, and in Phila delphia I got one of the brakemen to lock ' me up in a through freight car loaded sill pork; it took me three days to get here." Some time since somebody sent "Beau" a cigar in which a Chinese Lite cracker was rolled up, but the idea of anybody's giving him anything, unsolicited made him suspi cious and he discovered the cheat, in time to save his moustache. A Mau in a Peddler's Pack. A short time since, just at dark, a peddler carrying a large pack appeared at the door of a wealthy farmer in the town of Green Garden, and requested the privilege of re maining over night. The fanner being :may from home he was informed by the hired Marl that he could not stay. Ile then re quested the privilege of leaving his pack until morning, as he was very tired, and could not carry it further that night. This was granted, and the pack was deposited in one corner of the dining-room. During the evening souse of the females of the house hold had occasion to move it, and taking hold of it - discovered that there was some thing suspicious about the contents. The hired man was called, and upon taking hold of it found that it contained a man. He quickly stepped into an adjoining room and returned with a revolver, mo tioned the family to stand aside, and at once proceeded to fire three shots into it. A piercing shriek issued from it, and on rip ping otr the outside covering a man with a largo bowie knife and a revolver clenched In' hiVhanthe was found^weltering--in blood. Two of the shots had proved fatal. The neighbors were alarmed, but no traces of the peddler who left the precious pack Could be found. Thus by a mere accident, doubtless a shocking case of robbery and perhaps murder was prevented. It was doubtless a plot to rob the farmer, as it was known he had a large sum of money in the house. An inquest was held over the body on the following morning, and the verdict was that the killing was justifiable homi cide. No clue leading to the discovery of the name of the victim, or his accomplice, has, as yet, been ascertained. Such sum mary justice is seldom unclad out to the guilty.—Johce(lll.).Signal. Josh Billings on Lonna. Lailin is strictly an amusement, altiai som folks make a bizziness of it. It has been considered an index of char akter, and there is some so close at reason ing that they can tell what a man had for dinner bi seeing him lam 1 never saw two laff While there • are . sunt who don't make tinny noise, there are stun who don't make anything but noise—and sum :iglu who have music in their lair, and others who lad' host as a rat does who has caught a steel trap with his tail. There is a mistake in the assershuns that it is no comfort to hear stun le that cum romping out of a man's mouth like a district skool of young girls let out tew play. Alen who never la ft* may have good hearts,•but they are deepsentedlike snot springs they have their inlet and ou ❑et front below, and show no sparkling bubble on the brim. I don't like a giggler ; his kind of lair is like a dandylion, a broad yeller with not a bit of good smell abOut it. It is true that enny kind of a lad', if it is honest, is better than none; but giv me the latr that looksout of a inn's eye, Ms: to see if the roast is clear, then steals down into the dimple of his cheek and in eddy thar awhile, then waltzes a spell at the cor ner ov his month like a thing uv life, then bursts its bonds ov beauty, and till, the air for a moment with a shower of silver tongued sparks, then steal, back with a smile tow lay in the heart tew wahth again for its prey—this is the kind of a WTI luv, and ain't afeered OV. ENERA.I. SLOCUM, in his lecture on "Military Lessons of the War," tells the fid lowing story in his reference to the battle of Bull Run : "The influence of our officers over their men, and the state of our discipline, is best illustrated by an incident which occurred on the field of battle. An officer, who has since become very prominent and well known throughout the country, was then in command of a brigade on the right of our line. While riding over the field, ho discovered a soldier concealed in a hole in the ground, which was of just sufficient di mensions to afford Icim shelter. The gen eral rode up to him, inquired as to his regi ment and ordered him to join it at once. The man, looking hinu full in the face, placed his thumb upon his nose, and re plied : 'No you don't, old fellow, you want this hole yourself.'" A WOMAN with a child entered a photo graph gallery in Newburg the other day, and previous to placing it for a picture the woman subjected the young one to a vig orous spanking. The artist interfered,when he was informed by the woman that she was only trying to got up a tine color in the child's face, In order that it might be repre sented in the picture with blooming cheek 4. She was somewhat surprised to learn that the matter of color in a photograph WIN quite an after consideration; that the ma chine to take colors just ns they -Mood not yet invented. —A. colored fiddler at Coxsackie, New York Is seven feet two inches high. $2,00 Per Year, in Advance; it 2,50 if not Paid in Advance. Cruelty to Animals. The State Legislature has passed an addi tional act for tho prevention of cruelty to an imals. This act which extends over the whole State, provides for the punishment of any person who shall wantonly or cruelly ill-treat, overload, beat or otherwise abuse any animal belonging to himself or to an other, or who shall in any way be concerned in fighting or baiting any bull, bear, dog, cock or other creature. The abandonment in any public place of any maimed, sick in firm or disabled creature is also to be pun ished. The penalty for disobeying the law is for the first offense a fine not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars, and for the second, and every subsequent offense nut less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars. The informer is made a competent witness and receives one-half of the fine, and the county where the offense may be com mitted the other half. The proceedings are summary, and the offender, in default of payment of the fine and costs, can be com mitted to the county prison until discharg ed by due course of law, which miming to the three months required under tbe insolv ent laws. When the fine exceeds ten dollars the defendant mac appeal to the Court of Quarter sessions, where the offense is to be presented as a misdemeanor. To aggravated cases, the defendant may he bound over for trial at the Quarter Sessions, where,. on conviction, he is liable to a fine not exceed ing two hundred dollars, or to an imprison ment not exceeding one year, or to both. The necessary expenses of taking charge of animals transported in an inhuman manner or of removing and destroying disabled creatures, can be recovered from the owner in a suit at law. A Blind Preacher-au Inmate of the Allegheny Poor House, Elopes with a Servant Woman of the Farm. A singular ease of elopement took place in Allegheny, Saturday, which beats any thing we have heard of tbr some time. The gay Lothario was a middle-aged German, thrtnerly a minister in the West, who had become nearly blind, and being stricken with poverty while here was compelled to seek refuge in the Allegheny City Poor Farm. The other party to the affair was a young German woman, a servant in the family of the resident Physician or the Poor Farm. It is said that since his arrival at time Poor House the blind preacher has shown considerable affection for the female servant, and they were often found in com pany together. Saturday morning both suddenly disappeared from the farm, and, upon inquiry, at was found that they had come to the city. Subsequently the blind preacher called upon the Directors of the Poiiir, and by representing that ho wanted to return to his home in the West, procured from them some money to take him home lie was afterwards seen in the company of• the German servant woman walking in the direction of the Union Depot, and there Is no doubt but that they have eloped. It. is known that the German woman had a ticket for Germany, and as she had consid erable money with her, it is supposed that they have both started for the "Faderland." —Pittsburg Leader. A Child Attacked by Rats 7 Nlnch of Its Flesh Eaten Off. !- from --Donglasavi Ile,-this county, wo have an account of a sad and shocking occur ranee which look place on last Monday night. It applars that the house of Mr. Joseph Holloway near Douglassville is in fested with rats and so complete is their sway that they have undertaken to drive the family from their home. On the night mentioned a little child was put in its bed and after it bad gone to sleep several largo rats attacked it end eat a large portion of the flesh oil its hands arms and face before its cries were heard by the parents. The mutilation of the child Is related as horri ble and heart-sickening. Medical aid was summoned but it is feared that the child cannot long survive its injuries. %Vhero rats infest houses too much precaution can not be exercised to avoid their poisonous bites.—Reeding Dispatch, pith inst. DRUNKARDS UNFIT TO MAunr.—No more licenses to marry can be procured by drunk ards iu the principality of Valbeek, Ger many. Wonder if that is not a good regu lation. It is a restriction of liberty? What do the girls think about it? Do they need legal protection against the blindness of law? It seems so from the number of wives and mothers made miserable by sottish husbands. Rut we will not write further, just now, lest we argue ourselves into the support of the policy. We really think that it would make young men more cautions ns to their potations. To be unlit to marry is a serious reflection on one's manhood—and such a law declaring a young mum who gets drunk even occasion ally unfit for a husband and father would be a wholesome restraint. Wonder if the women won't put such a measure through in "double quick - after they get the bal lot? TnE FUNERAL or TIE in.AE , TONn tr.Y.—The funeral of the Blackstone family murdered in Philadelphia, took place in Madison, Conn., on Saturday last, trout the residsnee of the father of the late Mr. Black stone. The town was crowded with visitors from the adjoining towns. The bodies lay side by side in the parlor, and all traces of the wounds indicted by the husband and father had been obliterated. At the head of the funeral procession wits the Rev. Mr% ffallup and Rev. Mr. Lee, and the aged father and mother of Mr. Blackstone, bow ed down with grief and anguish. It is sta ted that, in addition to the letter which Blackstone sent to his father, i n !oral ing him of the murder, he sent by express at package of smoo in money. This money, it is said, uvus drawn front the bank on the Saturday preceding the murder. Couldn't Afford to Take It. Last summer one of our subscribers dis continued his paper because he couldn't af ford as he said, to take it. In January his property w•as sold for taxes, and had to pay ten dollars penalty in order to redeem it, because, as he told the party who had pur chased it at tax sale, be never knew• it bad been advertised for sale. }low• much did that man save by stopping his eounty pa per ? Another gentleman .old hi. pork n short time n o go, for two cents n pound less than the market price, and lost over t wen ty dol lars; was too poor to hike the paper from which he would have learned of the ad ranee in price, and saved the amount of ten years II b4crii)tion.—Brlnront Chronicle. Tit COAL n , i3 in the Schuylkill re ;;ion. Is pronounced exceedingly dull at the present time. Many collieries are standing Tale, while tho , e in'soperation are not work ing to neer their full capacity. The reasons assigned for this state of affairs is the limi ted demands for the "black diamonds" in market and the refusal of the ininers to work outran extensive supply beyond cur rent demands. MAN): who go to the White Pine region in pursuit of wealth are fortunate if they can get a white pine coffin on their anal de parture. [WHOLE NUMBER, 2,064. arm aud 'llouselzoid &bum. AGRICULTURE Is thw most useful and mostnobl• employment of man.—WAsaccoros. COxstmciCArtosS, Selections, Recipes and ar ticles of interest and value, are solicited for this department of the gaper. We desire to supply the public with the best practical Information in reference to the farm, garden,and household. To Dri: 13LACM.—Rusty nails, or any rusty iron, boiled in vinegar, with a small bit of copperas, make a good black. W . AS lIINO Woot.E Ns. —lf . washerwomen would be persuaded to iise cold water with a little borax in it, for washing flannels, they would not only be better cleaned, hnt there would be no shrinkage whatever. WATERY POTATOE.9.-Put into the pot a piece of lime AS large as a hen's egg ; and how watery soever the potatoes may have been, when the water is poured off, the po tatoes will be dry and mealy. LICLITT Conn BnEAD.—One quart of boil ed milk poured over one pint of corn meal, salt, three well beaten eggs, four table spoonfuls of dour, half a spoonful of soda, one of raParn of tartar, and a little butter. vicionotTs circulation of tho skin should be constantly maintained. If neglected, the blood which should circulate in the skin is gathered into the stomach, and disease is the consequence. Frequent bathing and the use of a coarse towel and gloves, cannot be too highly recommended. How TO CLEAN OIL CLOTHS.—TO ruin thom—clean them with hot water or soap suds, and leave them half wiped, and they will look very bright while wet, and very dingy and dirt when dry, and soon crack and peel oft But if you wish to preserve them and have them look new and nice, wash them with soft flannel and Luke warm water, and wipe thoroughly dry. If you want them to look extra nice, after they are dry, drop a few spoonfuls of milk over them and rub with a small dry cloth. To Cc - 1:E A Corn.—Tbe following from Hall's Journal of ficalth ought to be known by everybody. To follow this would save thousands of lives annually: "The moment a man is satisfied that he has taken cold let him do three things.—First, eat nothing; second, go to bed, cover up in a warm room; third, drink as much cold water as ho can, or as much as ho wants, or as much herb tea as he can; and in three cases out of four he will be well in thirty hours. To neglect a cold for forty-eight hours after the cough commences is to place himself beyond cure, until the cough has run its course of about a fortnight. Warmth and abstinence are safe and certain cures when applied early. Warmth keeps the pores of the skin open, and relieves it of the surplus which oppress it, while abstinence cuts off the supply of material for phlegm, which otherwise would be coughed up." Farmers' Budget. Plant. potatoes early. No crop suffers so much from late planting as potatoes. Long wooled sheep should never be pas- Lured with merinos. The latter poison them so that they soon become eyo sore and run down If tomato plants are half lifted with a fork after they have grown to a considerable - size, so as to - break - off - parrot the roots,, - the whole crop will ripen earlier, but not con tinue long. A gentleman in Stamford, Connecticut, cut a limb off an apple tree In January, to support a vino in his cellar, and on going to see how the vine flourished, found an apple branch in blossom, February 23d. An agricultural exchange says: "We know a cultivator who had heavy crops or plums seventeen years in succession—his swine for these seventeen years, without a season's interruption, beingallowed the run of the yard." Were it not for the improved machinery now in uce upon our farms, particularly reapers, mowers and threshing machines it would be utterly impossible to supply the home consumption of grain in this country. In plowing , down green crops attach It heavy chain to the front of the plow bentn, which drags down the grass so that It does not choke the plow. In this way it can br plowed down so nicely that one would hardly believe two feet of clover had been turned under. .4 ecompl (shed Housewives. How few of the young men now-a-days, who aro seeking wives, care to inquire whether the women they propose to marry ever adorn their fingers with thimbles, go to market, or are of that rare class amongst the woman of this age and generation, "good housewives," Anna Dickinson hit the nail on the head in her last lecture—"A Struggle for Life"—when she asserted that nine-tenths of the helplessness, distress and shame of woman could be properly traced to unwise tendencies of parents, who labor ed to teach their daughters everything but Unit which, in an emergency or in married life, could be made practically useful to them. Young men aro as frequently to blame as foolish fathers and mothers. They look for brilliant, not useful women ; for getting the fact that what are termed "bril liant accomplishments" are those which are soonest forgotten by their possessors, and which, in domestic life, generally carry with them the fewest and shallowest of real enjoyments. The performance of a difficult passage on the piano, or the faultless execu tion of a graceful movement in the dance, are well enough in their way, but they are wretched compensations for sour or heavy bread, badly cooked steaks, sloppy coffee, slovenly dresses and untidy chambers. It does not of course necessarily follow that a brilliant woman is a poor housewife. Fur front it. We have known those who ex celled alike upon the piano and grid-iron ; who plied the broom as gracefully as they twirled the tiny sunshade; who were as neat and cleanly in their hours of domestic leisure and employment as when entertain ing company in the parlor or promenading the street: but these were the exceptions, not the rule. Such women are rare birds— met with mire in awhile, and once in a while only. Mothers and fathers we want more of them—more good housewives. have 3 - our daughters taught music, and drue ing, and French and dancing, but for theirs, your own, and the sake or the men they may marry, do not forget to acquaint them with the fact that there ie connected with their homes such a department as the kitchen, and that the crowning accomplish ment of all is to be perfectly familiar not merely with the locality of this important adjunct to every household, but with the theory and practice of its operations. Send them to market, and teach them to be able to diecriminato between a beef steak and a veal cutlet, and to know the difference be tween a turnip and a head of cabbage— teach them the coveted art and mystery of good bread baking,palatable coffee making, and the thousand and ono other little items of culinary knowledge and practice that go to make up the "good housewife." And young men, you who are on the hunt for partners in life, be advised, and In making your selection, have a sharp eye to those domestic qualifications to which the old Frenchman's ward gave such decided pre ference.
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