A. N. RAMBO, Editor and Publisher.
VOLUME XL, NUMBER 35.]
THE COLUMBIA SPY,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Toil! toll, toil!
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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.