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VOLUME ELI, NUMBER 17.1OIALMBIA _-SArI'ITRIDAY . MORNING
- IDECEMBT,M, 4 1869. .E.W.HOLE„NUMBER, 2,0817
THE COLUMBIA SPY,
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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
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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.
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0 TEACHER 01 MUSIC
PIANO,
ORGAN,
MELODEON.
CULTIVATION of the VOICE and SINGING.
Special attention given Beginners and young
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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.
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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."
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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.
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r j l RANKLE:C . HOUSE,
L' LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA
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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,
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\ Vest Market Square, Reading Reuit'a.
EVAN MISRLER,
Proprietor.
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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.
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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.
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BUCHER'S COLV7IEN:
J C. BUCHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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!
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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
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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