A. "NO ENTERTAINMENT SO OE.A_P 8 READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." J. W. YOCUM, Editor. EC $2,00 Per Year, in Advance; $2,50 if not Paid in Advance VOLUME ELI, NUMBER 17.1OIALMBIA _-SArI'ITRIDAY . MORNING - IDECEMBT,M, 4 1869. .E.W.HOLE„NUMBER, 2,0817 THE COLUMBIA SPY, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION WEEICE,Y; .12.00 per year, If paid in advance; six months, $1 If not paid'until the expiration of the year, $2.50 will bo charged. SI:sML - ..: COPIES No paper will be discontinued until all arrear nes are paid, unless at the option of the editor. Advertisements not under contract, must be marked the length of time desired, or they will be continued anil charged for until ordered out. Special Notices i.l per cent. more. All Notices or Advertisments in reading mat ter, under ten lines, $1.00; over ten lines, 10 ens. per line, minion type. Yearly Advertisers discontinuing their adver t isements before the expiration of the year, will be charged at full rates as above, or according to contract. Transient rates will be charged for all matters ant rcloting strirtiv to their-busincbs, All advertising will be considered CASH, after 11 rat Insertion. PRO_FIESSION.A.L. A J. ICA TIFF AIAN. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Collections made in Lancaster and adjoining ';Jort Mies. „ Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay. and all clafins against the government promptly prosecuted. Oilice—No. 152, Locust street. W. YOCUM. LUI ATT onSE A N 1.) COUNSELLOR AT LAW, COLUMBIA. PA. OFFICE—SPY Building, Bank Street, near L•vmst. f;all , ation , made in Lancaster and adjoining conntle-.. }:„.IEN 111 7 C. Cr 11 MB F.,' R. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Nu 528 Washington street. near Sixth. Reading, Pa. Collections made in Berks and adjoining counties. nov27-tf f ir. NORTH - , ATTORNEY 4: COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, Colombia, Pa. Ddlections promptly made In Lancaster and 'Cork Counties. T HOMAS J. DAVIS, ATTORNEY NT LAW, No. 11 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa. Professional Business carefully and prompt ly attended to. foctllo'69-tf J. GULICIi. A. SURGEON DENTIST, Extracts Teeth without Pain. Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas administered. OFFICE 2.48 LOCUST STREET. septl.i9-tfw B C. UNSE LD, 0 TEACHER 01 MUSIC PIANO, ORGAN, MELODEON. CULTIVATION of the VOICE and SINGING. Special attention given Beginners and young • septi-69-lyw 219 LOCUST STREET if CLARK, 131. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. OFFICF,—No. 1 . 2 N. Third street. Oilice Hours—From 0 to 7 A. H. 19 to 1 P. H., 1051 from 6 to 9 P. M. [sept-09-tiw SA".IUEL, EVANS, JUSTICE OP THE PEACE. °Mee, on Second St., adjoining Odd Fellows' flail, Columbia, Pa. - I - Z. HOFFER, J. DENTIST. Nitrous 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. V HINKLE, . PHYSICIAN <C.'. SURGEON; °W on: his professional services to the citizens of Columbia and vicinity. He may be found at the Office connected with his residence, on Second street, between Cherry and Union, every day, ir,nn 7to it .1 31., and from ti to BP. 31. 1.-'ersOns whining his services in special eases, between these hours, n•ill lea, c word by note at his ("Mee, or through the Duet °dive. "y' EN SURGERY. J. S. SJI IT I I F:srisT Graduate If Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. 0 tlice in Wagner'sßuilding, over Haldeman 's dry goods store. En trance, 270 Locust Street, Columbia, Penn'a. Dr..l. S Smith thanks his friends tool the pub he in gereral for their liberal patronage in the ami assuring them that they can rely upon I aving every attention given to them in the future. in every branch of his profession he has alu ay, given entire sat Istaetlon. lie calls attention to the unsurpti-,sed style and finish Or artl racial teeth inserted by him. He treats disea- es common to the mouth and teeth of ehilciren and adults. Teeth tilled with the great est .a r' and In the mont approved manner. Aching* teeth treated :tint tilled to last for years. Tlie bent of dental:lces and month Washes con stantly on hand. 11.— AI wo:k warrante.d. epl-aidyw J. S. SMITH. D. D. S. R EAL ETAT.I;', AGENCY. The undersigned have opened an office for the purchase and eale of real estate. collection of rents, and the renting, of property. Business entruated to their (awe - will meet with prompt and careful attention. F. ocusu-'O-tri A. .3. KALIFF.II.k2s7. To BUILDERS AND OTHERS Building, paving and other brick always on hand. They are hand mad , and superior to any brick in this part of the COW] try. 'They are of feredat the very lowest price. set, 4...6g-tfwi ILICHAIsL LIPHART. - - HOTELS. H ..„ AT EST 1. , .; RN LIOTE 1, 13 az. 15 COETLANDT STREET, NEW YORE. THOS. D. WINCLIEsTEit, Picoriurrrox. This Hotel is ventral nail convenient for Penn sylvanians. Mrstr.r.Eß. of Heading, Pa., is an 13 , ,Istant at this Hotel, awl will be glad to see h. friends at all ti ales. ‘• CONTINENTAL." _ - _ TILLS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED, between the Stations of the Reading, and Coluin ,and Pennsylvania Railroads, 10 I10.:',V1" STREET, COLUMBIA, aecom raotlat tans for Strangers and Trav , niers. The Bar Is stocked with CIDDICE LIQUORS, Juni the Tables furnished with the best fare. UltlAll FINDLEY, Proprietor. sepl-69-tfw] r j l RANKLE:C . HOUSE, L' LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA . . This is a first-thus hotel, and is in every respect vlapted to meet the wishes and desires of the traveling public. ATI.TIN ERWIN, Proprietor. F RENCH'S HOTEL, On the European Plan, opposite City hail Park FANCH, York._ . _ E = INES LI: R . H 0 , \ Vest Market Square, Reading Reuit'a. EVAN MISRLER, Proprietor. septl-6G-tfw3 NI A. LT B Y HOUSE, Al BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. This hotel has been lately refitted With all tho necessary improvements gnown to hotel enter prise and therefore offers first-claws accommoda tions to strangers and others visiting Baltimore. HOG AB. Proprietor. sept4-69-tfWl - lOLLDIBIA MARBLE WORKS. A._/ The Subscribers would respectfully Inform the citizens of Columbia, and surrounding country, that they have opened A NEW MARBLE YARD IN COLUMBIA, On sth Street, between Locust and Walnut Sls., and ask the patronage of the public. • They have had great experience on line work, both 'Philadelphia and :Sew York. They' will furnish in the highest style of the art. handsome GRAVE STONES, MONUMENTS, STATUARY, ORNAMENTS, &.c. also MARBLE MA NTLF- 4 i, BUTIDIRG WORK. ,ec. Orders promptly attended and executed at cheaper rates than elsewhere. Call and see ut Designs of new styles of Fine work,such ns monumental ,tine arts, &c., will be furnished parties upon application to the proprietors. HEP7'ING S: METH. septl-40-aw - . . . t "I .11 - • . • . . • • . • 77 . 1 . ji; • . . . • BUCHER'S COLV7IEN: J C. BUCHER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In = FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines and Liquors ! Iran removed his Store to his Building, adjoining Haldetrum's Store, Locust St., Columbia, Pa., Where he has fitted up rooms, and greatl) increased his facilities for doing a more extensive business MISHLER'S CELEBRATED HERB 'BITTERS PURE AND UNADULTERATED, These Bitters are celebrated for the great cures they have performed in every ease;when-tried Dr. MU!'ler offers flee 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 • MISLILER'S IIERB BITTERS MISTILER'S HERB BITTERS Is for sale in Columblaby J. C. BUCHER, At his Store, Locust Street, Coltunbin WINES AND LIQUORS! Embracing the following; C ttawbet, Port, Lisbon, Cherry, Currant and Muscat WISES COGNAC, OF DIFFERENT BRANDS Also, OLD RYE WHISKEY and BRANDIES of all kinds: Blackberry Catawba, Cherry. UM SS Old Eye X Old Rye, Purr Old Rye, Monongahela, Reetified Whisky, London Brown Stout Sroteh Alo, ttc., ac: MALT AND CIDER VINEGAR He Is also Agent for the Celebrated hIISHLER'S HERB BITTERS POCK ET FLASKS. DEMIJOHNS, TOBACCO BOXES; anti FANCY ARTICLES, in great variety, MISHLER'S BITTERS! PURE & U\ ADULTERATED' BEST STOUT PORTER! From E. eft G. HIBBERT, LONDON PURE MALT VINEGAR Cannot be purchased at any other establish- Proprietor. ment to town, and I warranted to keep fruits and vegetables perfect The Bent Brands of blaported SCOTCH AND LONDON ALE TO SMOKERS AND CHEWERS HUFFIER will still keep on hand the Best Brands of SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO, SNUFF, ITAN'ANA, YARA, and COMMON SEGABS. Also, SNUFF TOBACCO BOXES, PIPES—a thousand and one varieties. Call at J. C. BUCBER'S, Locust Street, adjoining Haldeman's Store. It is the greatest establishment of the kind this side of Philadelphia. Ifn l- 1?:, I s y ßlt g t e 4: y for Lee's London Porter, and \fader's, Mainga, Champagne, Claret, Rhine, Blackberry, Elderberry, Jamaica Spirits, Kunkmel, Ginger, Glu Superior Oltt Rye, Pare Old Rye, XXX Old Rye, AGENCY FOE FOR SALE At S. C. BUCHER'S For Sale by J. C. BUCHER 13=E!!! 3. C. BUCHER, Locust Street, above Front Agora for the. For Sale aG J. C. BUCHER 8 _MISCELLANEOUS. K MAY & ERWIN , - E 105 Locust St., Columbia, Pa. DEALERS Agents Ai , SCHOOL, goaiii Sheet for all I Miscellaneous and 1 60 17 Mus ic New York, ' I D,BI,ANIC if of all kinds_ Philadelphia, ViaPROOKS. Dtn e oil and Lancaster half Dime cop.— Dailies and 'Week- lnitial Cask eta, lies.Nevr publi- or ALL 1r low, from :0 cations receiv- 1 KINDS I cents, 15 cell:; ed as soon isqk OF STATIONERY.O%and up as issued. %dr SCHOOL DIRECAIs , ward a. RTOES AND TEACHERS SUP- pki PLIED AT WHOLESALE ORATES. DON'T FORGET TEE PLACE, GNo. 105 LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, Pa. n0v20.'69-ly 1869. NO. 25 1870. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR GIFTS. Nothing more suitable than a nice HAT OR CAP FROM Smith Sc Amer's NEW STORE, No. 25 East. King Street, Lancaster, Penna. F. CHARLES It. AMER. • 110W20..69-/y F. F. LANDIS, EZRA LANDIS, .lArOll S. LANDIS - KEYSTONE MACHINE WORKS, EAST JAMES STREET, LANCASTER, PA. Manufacturers of Stationeryand Portable En gines, of the most approved style and plan. Mill Gearing, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers and Couplings, of tin improved pattern. Farmers Portable Grist Mill. OUR NEW AND IMPROVED GRAIN TattESIIERANp SEPARATOR. With the Best Tripled Geared Horse Power. Iron and Brass works made to order. Furnish Models for Patters at reasonable rates. _ Having goad and experienced hands,and being practical mechanics themselves, feel safe in guarantee ing all their work to give satisfaction. For par ticulars, address LANDIS et CO.. n0v.p . .'69-tf] Lancaster, Pa. 186 ,.FALL,t WINTER.? 869. WILLIAM G. PATTON No. 160 LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, I'A., Is now opening A Large Stock of DRY GOODS, O ROCERIES, QUEENSWA.P.E, Suitable to the Season, comprising Assortment of DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, SACKINGS, BLANKETS, WHIT GOODS, TEI3MINGS, HOSIErtY,OLOVE.44, NOTIONS, LA DIES' AND G ENT NISILD.GI GOODS, LADIES MISSF,S, & CHILDREN :9 ...Yi2OF.S`. SEWING MACHINES ! °fall lel - I{llllg tanker; at Agent's Prices MERCHANT TAILORING In all its branches. Saltslaction guaranteed full line of CLOTHS, CASSIMER ES, VEST INGS, d:C., always on hand. REMEMBER that this Is the place to get the BEST GOODS at the LOW EST PRICES. WILLIAM G. PATTON sep4-GO-trwl HOMER, COLLADAY & CO.'S 1412 AND 1414 CHESTNUT ST., PHILNDELPHIA GREAT BARGAINS DRESS CO ODS. Taking advantage- Of the • great depression In business. - j-T...C.'d: Co. liavelif ado. Imthense -Piirchases of Dress Goods to this market for cash at Enormous Reduction Below the ma of importation, which theyare opening, and will ofrer at a very slight, advance They desire to direct special attention to this stock. together with their own large importa- Lion, which have been reduced to correspond- ngly low rat,&, and will be found the LAROEST AN CHEAPEST STOCK EVER OFFERED, r.4.:cr,i3 DING 10 cases 131ne and Green Stripes, Chezie IF"erzlintz ands liohaii•r. in great variety of styles for suits, nt :173ie worth 7.W. to t 1 A) - Ve3•y heavy leVoregted Ser=es, In the fashionable dark shades for suits, ',loe Vine -4.11-" Wool Ell,press Cloths, in all colors, including the 'eery desirable shades in Navy Blue, for suits, 65e Sillendid quality Silk Seraph, la all enlors, Rich. 313roadxe .11?opllus, Silk and Wool. very handsome goods, 7:;, French 12011 Poplin Silk and Wool, MEI suss /1 vy 061 Poplin Cord fi, for Walking Presses, $1.2.3 STEAM PRINTING.—CaII at the Steam Printing notate of the COLUMBIA h Y, rear of Columbia National Bank, and ex amine specimen,' of Utter Headx,Noten,Cards &c 311SC_ELLANEOTTS. OPEN ! OPENING ! OPENED ! THIS DAY, THIS WEEK, AND UNTIL FURTHER ORDERS, BRENEIVI_A_N'S 12S Locust Street, THE NARGEST STOCK OE RATS AND CAPS, For Alen, Youth and Children, ever before cater ed to the people of Columbia, comprising as it does, STYLE and QUALITY in soft and stiff brim, such as the Warwick, Ida Lewis, Slnbad, Prince Arthur, American Girl, Rule, Peerless, Lady Thorn, Rowing, Star, Cuban, Waverly, Gilmore, Itob Roy, and the Full style of Silk Flats, Jost out, together with-a full stork of GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Consisting of White and Colored Shirts, Flannel Shirts and Drawers, English, German and Do mestic Hosiery, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Sus penders, Ties, Linen and Papa• Cuffs and Col lars, Se. Also, ITMBRELLAS AND CANES Parties who favor us with their patronage are assured that it will be our constant aim to merit their confidence and support. Call and examine our well selected stock at at low prices. BP ENEMA N'S No. 128 Locust Street, Columbia, Pa Dtuas. _CHEMICAL'. J- T A. MEYERS • Druggist and Apothecary, ODD FELLOWS' HALL, Invites attention to a few specialties now In stock: PRIME NEW CANARY SEED OLD PALM SOAP IN" DADS, PRATT'S BED BUG KILLER, (sure thing and harmless to persons,) ROTHE'S :NEW AND IMPROVED RAT KIL LER, (the best thing we have yet sold,) SPLSI`MID LOT OF CIIA3IOIS SKINS, DATIL TOWELS, SPONGES AID GLOVES, CORKWOOD FOR SHOEMAKERS, COARSE AND FINE PEPPER, ground in the PURE SPICES AND CREAN TARTAR Together with our usual large stock of DRUGS MEnrcnirEs and Dnuaaisrs SUSDRIES which arc eutirely CASH purchases. I'irrstc.t.AN'S PnESOniPrioNs and FAmILY RE czr.to prerozplYT•riglit pr, orty,- 1 01),PeCt1Y47,,, Remember the FAMILY MEDICINE STORE, sent:l'694lw] Odd Fellows' Hall. T B. KEVINSKI, e-1 , .DLIAr.Eit Ir • PIANOS, ORGANS, MELODEONS, AND MLJSI L INSTRUMENTS GENERALLY. A large assortment of Violins, Flutes, Guitars, Banjos, Tamborines, Accordeons, Files, Har monicas, mid znusleal marcliandise always on lutml. SHEET MUSIC. A large stock on hand, and constantlyrecelving all the latest public .tions as soon as issued. Mask. and Musical Books will be sent by mail free of postage, when the market price Is remit ted. PACALCOMANIA, Or the Art of transferring Pictures. Can be transferred on any object. I would call special attention of the Coach makers to my stock of Dacalcomania. STEINWA.Y & SON'S PIANOS, PRINCE & CO'S., & NEEDTIAM .k SON'S CELEBRATP,'D ORGANS AND MELODEONS. Sole Agent for Stoll': Unrivaled PIANO FORTE AND FUR.).:ITL7RE POLISH Call and examine my stock at NO. 3 NORTH PRINCE STREET, LANCASTER, PA COOPER & CONARD, S. E. cor. 9th & Market Sts PHILADELPHIA Raving rebuilt their store, will open about October Ist, with an elegant stock, to which they invite au examination. Upwards of seventeen years of active busi ness at their present location, enables them to Judge of the wants of their patrons, to buy at the lowest prices and to sell at the smallest mar gin of profit. Full lines of BLACK SILKS, DRESS STUFFS, Sax VELVETS, CLOAKS, SHAWM, HOSIERY, TIES, HANDKERCHIEFS, COLLARS, CUFFS. Am., WHITE GOODS, BLANKETS, QUILTS. .MUSLIMS, LINENS, CASSIMERES, CLOTHS, CLOA KINGS, VELVETEENS, &c., &c. COOPER& CON ARD, S. E. cor. Ninth .S Market Slur., oct.2-'(o.ly-I-2-3p) Philadelphia, MRS. G. M. BOOTH, No. 153 LOCUST ST.. COLTS-11MA, PA. DRALEN. IN SEG ARS, TOBACCO, SNUFFS, PIPES, &c,, And all articles usually kept in a first-class Tn bacco and Segur Store Tito public tut rely on getting at our store us good goods for the money usual be obtained at any similar establishment in the State. Mr I do not think It necessary to pnbii►b my prices, as I lie Goods will tell for themselves. 31us. G. BOOTH, Locust Street, Columbia, Pa.. septll-69-Iyal Sign of the Punch. TO 3IANUFAOTURERS. Rights to use "ALLEN'S PATENT ANTI LAMINA" will be Issued on application to the undersigned. It Is a Sure Preventative of Scale in Boilers. This article will be furnished at Six Sxms,An+ pee sun e r Can, or for we will sell rights to makeand user th Ten Dollars per annum for each . Boiler. i Tile material for making the Ana-Lamina will j be supplied by us, If desired, at low prices. flights for Counties, States or other Territory , for sale at fair rates. ALLEN et NEEDLES, Dealers in Oils, N0. , 12 S. Delaware Avenue, Philadelpb ia. Circulars will be sent on application. oct-13t. NOTICE! • vlng disposed of my Watch and Jewelry' 1 . Store, No. Sfl Front Street, Columbia. Pa., to the firm of Butler, McCarty .t Co., of Philadelphia. .1 hereby notify all persons that the some is now in their hands from this date, and respectfully request a continuance of the patronage of the people. EDMUND SPEKING, enlilmbla. (Mt. 27. ISt MEM Store, MEEIIIII 'ortrll. AmARAArru. 0 love the dearest theme oral], The oldest of the world's old stories, No fairer fate can e'er befal A. poet than to sing thy glories. And as Anacreon contest, In verses full of power and passion, His lyre a ould always praise one best, The world has followed in the fashion Old Horace in the classic days, Sang sweetest of Love's fatal sorrow; Catullus wrote an odo In praise Of Lesbia and her pretty sparrow ; Berang,er sang to his Lisette; And Burns to Mary brimmed the chalice There's lovely Beatrice—Dante's pet ; The Laureate's Adeline, and Alice. And still to love the lyre is strung, Still Eros rules our modern ineaburen ; There's not a maiden's name unsung, No phase of Love's eternal pleasures. Love beckons in the painter's dream, 'akes music in the poet's metre, O'er youth and age he rules supreme ; And still the song,s of all the world Shall celebrate Love's endless blisgev, While on a neck a tress is curled, And while a red lip pouts for kisses. In verse, by any poet planned, The praise of Love the sweetest line is, Until Pule takes the pen in hand, And on the page of life writes "Finis." A LIFE'S LESSON. I am sitting; again by the old oak tree, NOW Tin old, and gray, and alone; And I think of the lesson you taught In me Though It :s many a year a-gone. And many n I)f:we tree has bent :nut brelc. And many a heart since then, But wthie Is as strong as the brave old oak, And as green as the broom in the glen. The harvest moon lent a tiny beam Of white for each golden tress, And you seemed like a spirit one sees, in a dream, In your wondrous loveliness. Like a spirit? Oh, no: it was real and true, That story of love, I ween ; That I rend as it trembled in love-wrung dew On the lash of your violet eon. In the lips that clung In their feet to part In the white hands' close entwine, In the oniek beat of the brave little heart I was pressing so close to mine! Sol loved—was it strange?—though I mind but few Of the burning words I said; It was cruel—but, oh ! it was kind of you To be deaf to my prayer to wed ! You were pale as death, as you rose to go Your brow in Its cold pain knit ; Your voice, in its agony, low—so low: But it faltered never a whit. "'Twere death, where I love so well, to be wed To be loved for a sweet shoat hour; But shun'd when the morn of my bloom has fled, And let but the.faded flower." "Ile rather the gift to another one Than you of my life and its truth, For when he grows cold I can still live on, In the dream of my early youth:" ip You have wed since then, but you have not loved, I have loved, but I have not wed ; And my life's exlierience has but, proved The wisdom of all you said. Now years have teat you a ttuy beam Of white for each golden tress, aaa somewhat to old to dream— . the But I have to think of the past to prove, Here, under the old oak tree, That 'tis Letter we never were inertial, love Aye! better for you and for me! NisreliastatiO 'grading Burning of Alabama University. BY :MOSES GOIT TYLER In the College Courant of the date Sept. 4th, 1869, appeared an article refering to the recent election o Prof. Cyrus North rop, of Yale, as president of Alabama University. The writer gives a concise sketch of the history of this Southern uni versity, and refers very naturally to the lamentable destruction of its buildings during the war. It will be interesting and valuable to quote the exact language of the Courant; :-Thistis - u 'state university, and was estab lished in IS3I. Previous to the rebellion it bad 120 students, and 20,000 volumes in the libraries. Ou April 3rd, 1805, the college buildings valued at 250,000, the libraries, cabinets, eet., were burned by a brigade of U. S cavalry, by command of Maj. Gen. Wilson. The brigade was un der the command of Brig.-Gen..f. T. Croxton, of Kentucky, a classmate of Prof. Northrop. In a note we received from the university two years ago, the act of burning, this collee was spoken of as a 'vandal deed.' Unless it was used as quarters for the rebel troops. we cannot see how the act could have been justifiable [sic] ; and, were it so used, the libraries and cabinets should have been spared. We understand that Admiral Semmes was the rebel candidate for the position [of president]. It is a somewhat remarkable coincidence that one Yale man should be the instrument used by the Government in destroying this college, and that a class mate of his should be elected president to rebuild it." As a classmate and a friend both of the reputed destroyer and of the elected re builder of Alabama University, I could not help reading the foregoing statements with particular interest. The circum stance that two classmates should have so peculiar and athletic a relation to that same university was one of those telling facts which seem arranged by Providence for the especial felicitation and behoul of paragraph writers; and accordingly this fact, started in the Courant, has furnish ed a capital personal item foi nearly every newspaper, rural arid urban, in the land. There is no force kuod'u to physics mighty enough to head off and turn back so good an item as that. All that is left fur one in the least interested in the matter is to hope for the luck to start another item half as good, which may tell half us many people a different story about the same thing. So the name of General Croxton within the last six weeks bee passed un der one cannot say how many million eyes as the performer of "a vandal deed," and as acting the terrible part of the third person of the Rindoo Trinity, having been to a noble and beneficent public institution a sort pf ruthless Federal Shiva. Having, however, on tny own part, sev eral distinnt douhte about Jolt n T. Crox lon being either a god, a vandal, or the 13rali minical god of destruction; and believing also, that very likely there were sound reasons of military necesity to justify an act which in any view was most deplor able; I sent to hint a note the other day, begging him to give me an exact account of tb-a circumstances of the case. His let. ter is so ample a compliance with this re quest, and withal, like himself, is SD frank, straightforward, soldierlike, that it ought to go on public record, for the satisfaetion of all parties, as well as for a noble sol dier's reputation. Here it is. PARIS, KY.. Oct. 11, 15139, I - - Ify dear old Friend :—Your kind note of the sth, enclosing paragraph from the Yale Courant, reached me several days ago ; and at my earliest opportunity [ hasten to reply to your inquiry as to burn ing of Alabama University by my C.,t17- inand, in April, ISti:i. As far as my de5.11 , e is concerned. I 'night close the case by pleading, the order of my c.mi ma nd inf , officer. This however, would leave the charge unanswered as 1 against him ; and hence l proceed in give i the reasons why it was so ordered. The University had been coeverted in to a military aratienty, whoT, tuttler i officers detailed by the rebel war depart• i merit, men were educated to command rebel troops. Having been prostituted to the purpose of war. it only met the fate 1 of war. 'We were mot vandal,. invading the peaceful retreats of the 31uses. They 1 had been enthroned by the rebels. and driven hence; and :lye car c to a Vollgil ! I their wrongs. I am free to say tl at the Itttoks huh i works of art wool d have been removed from the buildings, had their existence been within my knowledge and bad ()nor- i tunity offered. 1 We entered Tuscaloosa at midnight. by 1 the bridge over the Black Warrior, cap turiug the guard that held it. Several I hundred cadets, supported by the scatter ing troops that constituted the garrison of the place, came down to drive us back ; but we succeeded in holding the bridge until daybreak, when T passed over •ny command, and, deploying, moved our , through the city, ordering the command ing officer on the right to fire the Univer sity buildings. The day previous, I had encountered Jackson's rebel division—a force double my own; and I hid no reason to believe he was ignorant of my advance on Tusca loosa. and I expected a fight before 1 got out of the place. The command was in line of battle wh i the:- If nib] ;9;x-dotail. from the line. The University was on the extreme left while I wa: with the center of the line, and no opportunity of seeing and did not hear of the books and works of art until it was to late too save them. T candidly say that I would gladly have saved them, and incurred some risk to do so. But I had no opportunity of seeing; no one told me; and the surroundings of that and previous days and years were not such as to suggest a thought of their ex- istence, much less of their preservation. I'm really sorry that the poeple of Al abama lost their books, and trust they will gather wisdom from the reflections inspired by their loss. As ever, yours, .Iso. T. Cuo.x - roN. Of all those kinds of propriety, public or private, thich the inevitable havoc of war way consume, there is no other the ruin of which is so much lamented by every liberal mind as . the edifices and the apparatus of education. All loyal Amer cans who have heard of the disaster which overwhelmed the once prosperous Uni versity of Alabama, no doubt, sincerely grieve at it ; but all of them who may see this statement of Gen. Croxton will like wise see that the dire calamity was per petrated in no wanton spirit, and that it leaves nu stain upsn the record of a brave and patriotic soldier. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Oil. 14;111. An Amusing Story- -A Reverend Gentleman Chased by a Loco- mot Lye Rev. J. liyatt Smith, a popular preacher of New York State, relates the lollowiug as one of his amusing incidents of a trav eler's life : We stopped at Syracuse (N. Y.) for dinner. You remember the railroad de pot, centrally situated, with its eastern anti western entrances alike—as much so as the two ends of a car. After we had dined, the.depot•master informed me that we had seventeen minutes to spare before the departure of the Eastern train. This, thought I, will give me an opportunity to see the city and a glorious chance fur a smoke," provided a clergyman could be tempted into such a piece of wasteful and worldly amusement. I sauntered forth, and, after an absence of exactly thirteen minutes, having enjoyed a delightful and . soothing stroll, I was leisurely returning, watch in hand, when, to my sudden as tonishment, f beheld the train slowly glid ing out at the other end of the depot, and increasing its speed at every ''puff of its gigantic locomotive. Here indeed was a call ' that admitted of neither correspond ence nor delay ; there was no time fbr " taking it into consideration." So, with out conferring with flesh or blood, 1 put off like a sky-rocket with a double fuse. For a moment I thought I had it all my own way; I thought I was gaining ground, although I knew I was losing wind. 1 was encouraged in the race by sundry helpful fellows who kept crying out as I passed " go it, gaiters:" " plucky boy :" •- he ain't left, 0 no :" and other well meaning snd benignant exhortations. Though they intended, perhaps, helping me over the course. I found that the more they shouted the less inclined I was to run, and the more decidedly did the lo comotive make terrible headway against etc. To give up the chaise; to submit to the chagrin of being left; to lose my party and my passage ; to meet with dis appointment and not to meet with friends, all this was bad enough ; but the thought of encountering, all the way back to the depot, that lino of interested individuals who with their cheering exclamations had so feelingly encouraged me on my out ward journey, this was the bitterest pill in this unexpected dose. But it must be done ; so tapering off gradually, I gave up the contest and turned back to meet my fate, and—if I could find him—the depot master whose blundering statements were the cause of all toy trouble. Without .search that individual advanced to greet me with the bland recognition of a filet that no one could deny, '• Well, you got left, did you ?" T replied only with the resentment cla " silencing eye." if I looked as I tHe I to look, my photograph taken at that instant, would hardly be chosen to grace;an album gallery of" em cent divine.." several bystanders seek ing informat.on. asked, with it ,11 , 11 r of confidential interest in no case. on what wise the thing hail happened? aria others wishing, " to point a moral," advised me to be oil hand a little earlier nest time. With returning breath relief and words cattle together, and I squarely charged the railroad official with all the blame. I spoke of his incompetence. in no measured ternts. Kcalling how that after I had placed my party in the ear he had as sued me dint there, wine full seventeen minutes to spare before the trait; went out : while here," said I, with hilltll - exhibition of tay watch, •• the seventeen minutes:lre CA-en now barely up. and yet the train is gone and tint of sight." After no little hot shot cast back and forth, with the usual variations and final perorations of you did and you didn't," " your another," etc., I asked him whether I would be risking another chance of be ing left. if I depended on him to give me the exact hour of the departure of the ;text Eastern tarin. 0 Eastern !" ex claimed he. "des, Eastern," replied I, with a decided upward and sarcastic in flection. '• Why," quoth he, " the train you've just been chasing with such poor luck wasn't an Eastern traiu,but the West pro Express!" With much and increas ing confusion and excitement I stammer ed ut, ' Then where in Joppa is the Eastern train ?' " Why, there it is." re plied he, " just getting under way at the Lef_the , :lerot lej it. you',ll t Lose Mat," If ever I (lir / Lai:7i Deiter time f made it then. I passed right through that depot like the wind. I felt as if I ws' all legs. One glance, how ever,at the rear door of the last car as I was nearing it, came near being too much for me. I discovered the group of my long lost friends, whose forms and faces seemed bursting with poorly suppressed and ill-timed mirth. As I reached safely the platform, the fire that opened upon tae could only he equalled for its merci less effect by the fire in the rear, from which I had providentially felt. I heard• jibes, and jokes, and jeers; I heard the hoarse laughter of full-chested men, the hysterical efforts of mirth.exhattsted wo men. They had all witnes , ed my chase after the wrong train ; now fearful lest indeed I should overtake it, and then to joined at my evident lack of what jockeys call bottom, - as my speed began to slacken and toy chances with the locomo tive began to grow " small by degrees and beautifully less." They had witnessed the " blowing up •' administered the de pot-master, the strange procrastination in starting for the right train, until at length it had ac litany started and I had entered upon a second '• stern chase.'• Then they feared f. was left again, as they lock ed with breathless interest at the unequal contest of legs eeemt, a locomotive. They had witnessed my final triumph, but how gracefully 1 was welcomed, and with what feelings L i ceeived their petettiav congrat ulations, L leave my bearels to illlapinc. short sermon tor Editors It is only or late years. remarks the Louisville Cusrif r—lour‘arl, that journal ism has risen to the dignity of a profession which requires as much social standing, education, and moral worth. combined with engerf..y, to succeed in, as medicine, law or commerce. The majority of the men now in it took it up because they pre fcred it. Some who have tidied as law yers, ministers and physicians, have been driven to journalism and achieved success. The fascination of the life, with all its wear and tear, cannot be declined. There is an exhilaration to the mind it the con- stant changes of the kaleidoscope made of the news of the world, which keeps the mind constantly occupied with something novel. To have the events of the day passing, as it were, in a panoraurt before the minds eye, is of itself absorbing. We hear a great deal about the "exhausting effects of the life of a journalist on the mind and body," but it may be doubted whether the life of a physician or a sailor are not equally as hard ; yet nice retain their health and cheerfulness in both of these professions. The truth is that the reason so many brilliant men of letters have been borne to untimely graves is not that they were worn out by their work, but by their habits. The hours many of them keep tempt to disipate. Once on that road, their descent and ultimate ruin are certain. But it cannot be gainsaid that, if journalists will lead regular lives and cultivate habits of soberness and cleanli ness, they will live and last as long as other tueu. "Wnish:Er — is the epitaph of the literary men who have sunk into early graves within the past twenty years. Philadelphia. The Day, the new daily published in Philadelphia, thus speaks of Philadelphia's early revolution history : Philadelphia, for at least twenty years, was a great historic centre. Here, in 1774 a tea ship came, and though our ancestors did not dress themselves up as Indians, and at night throw the contraband stuff into the Delaware, and their descendants have not celebrated the feat as most heroic ever since yet with gravity and dignity they refused the ship an entr!, and sternly ordered her away. Here in Philadelphia stood then, and stands now (and may it stand forever!) the modest building, out of sight almost, up an alley, built by the master carpenters— according to our observation down to this day, the most intelligent class of mechanics —where the mother Congress met in 1774. Here Patrick Henry made some of his great traditionary speeches, and when one looks at the small—very small room in which it is believed they were pronounced, there is a little wonder at the narrow compass with in which the thunders werecompresSed. We pass by "Independence," its record, and its traditions, simply noting a popnlar error, generated, perhaps, by Trumbull's picture that the signature of the Declaration was a contemporaneous net—the truth being that several did not sign till August, and one, it is surmise 1, not till live year later. When the war began Philadelphia was a spot of imposing interest. It was, in a military view, the objeolive point or the hostile movements. In 1770, it was vainly threat ened. The Hessian itnees-t.,rs of a race foreign inercettariei surviving in (1111 . OW I) (illy IC Within twenty wiles of us. In 1777 Philadelphia fell, and for nearly it year (;orin:uilou•u, and llarren, Chestnut and Edge and the Sltippack, and White illarsli and Valley Forgeoveretnado classic. Here occured the fruitless attempt of the British Commissioners to negotiate. !Tare after the evacuation, in the artificial sail of a disloyal society, really germinated .11.- 0;li • T l'eabt)ll ; .111 , 1 here, Wier° he 14 . .14 a known tailor, ho was, as a peculiar, diseur ere,l anti exposed. Titus, for our limits of illustration aro exhausted, wo pass down the e on r•qe time, recording oak- t tie great, work of vonloieral ion in 1778, when the Thirteen pronounced theniselves "sover eign," till we conic to the great tut of the Federal Coastitution,which wade the more perfect Union. Are we then wrong—aro we unduly self complacent—in claiming for this city of our birth, and life its distinction as. in ancient story, the most illustrious spot on the sur face of the old Thirteen? Boston saw, smelt no danger after 177.3. New York was in the quiet possession of the enemy from 1776 to 1782. Baltimore was "no where." hence all honorto the historic fame of Rev olutionary Philadelphia. Droll Scene at a Negro Camp Pray- cr-meeting. One of the droll scenes of the war, awl one, on the whole, which was rather jolly in the monotonies of camp life, was the meetings—half dance, half prayer-meeting —of tho negroes. One of these little gather. ings has been deftly sketched by Colonel Illgginson, down at Beaufort, in December ISil2 : This evening after working themselves rushed off, got a bnrrrel,iand mounted =" man upon it who said, " Gib anuder song, and I'se gib you a speech!" After some hesitation, and sundry shouts of " Rise de sing, somebody V' and " Stan' up for Jesus brudder !" irreverently put in by the j t ve nds, they soon got upon the John Brown song, always a favorite, adding a jubilant verse which I had never _before heard : •' We'll beat Beauregard 011 elare battle field." Then came the promised speech : and then seven other speech, by as many men, tat a variety of barrels. The most eloquent perhaps, was by Corporal Lamb kin, just arrived front Fernandina, who ev idently had a previous reputatton among therm His historimil references were very interesting. Ire reminded them that he had predicted this %vi- ever since Fremont's time, to which sonic of the crowd assented : lie then gave a very intelligent account of that Presidential campaign; and then de scribed most impressively the secret anxie ty of the slaves in Florida to know all about President Lincoln's and told how they all refused to work on the 4th of March expecting their freedom to date front that day. Ire II natty brought out one of the very few really impressive appeals for the Amer ican Ileg that I have ever heard : "Our nais'rs day hab lilt under de . flag, dey got dere a ea Ith under it,tand ebery flag:beauti ful for date chircu. Under it dey hab grind up,and put us in dare pocket for money. ll'ut de Ins' minute day link dal ole flag mean freedom for we colored people dey pull it right down, and run up de rag ob dere Own." (Immense applause.) "But we'll weber desert de Me flag boys—weber we hab lilt under it for c;gliicen hundred and sixty-tiro years, and we'll die for it: now !" With which overpowering discharge of chrenulogy-at-lang-range this most drecti iv() of stump speeches closed.—Etuvon's Dix swim, in Ha per's 314;pe:inr for Dreew- Ler. What, Came of a l'ltototmaph. A friend who knows whereof he speaks, gives us the particulars of a little bit of ro mance, the actors of which are residents of this comity. Less than two years since, there arrived in the Eastern part of the county, from Switzerland, a young man of goodly appearance and fair educational ac quirements. Se well pleased was ho with his anew home, that he soon reported to his friends across the water the many advan tages that an honest, industrious immi grant found here. A young lady in Switz erland—and entire stranger to him—learn ing from a lady friend, of his happy situa tion in America, wt'nte to hint through friends that site would like to visit his adopted home, and along with the letter she forwarded her photograph. Ile was pleased with the picture—the feat ures were fair to look upon, and the letter indicated a well educated mind, so he sent her his photograph. Thus commenced a correspondence that in a few months at tracted her across the ocean to meet the man she had learned to love, though had never seen. With a friend she arrived the last of October at Tuscola, Douglas county, where her unknown lover met her as she alighted from the cars—inquiring like one of old, " if she were his Katherine"—and there he first saw her and first kissed h er as his affianced. Within two days the couple, thus strangely and romantically brought together, were married, and are on the way back to . the residence of the young man's employer in this country, where they have since lived, both doing accepta ble service foro ono of our enterprising farmers, and both seemingly as happy as it there bad been five years' courtship.—Car rotton (lit.) Patriot. A raEEDNIES'S teacher writes of a colored woman who, lytving learned her alphabet, said, " Now I want to learn to spell Jesus, for 'pears like the rest will come easier if I learn to spell that blessed name first•" A good many things ";come easier" if we learn that nnmP
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