egtuntiria Saturday, December 11 1869. Actvertuiemo.lus, to secure immedi ate in ,ortion, must be handed in ou or before Thum a evenlng, enel) week. Ale sv A a vertisements. The following new advertisements appear i n to-day's SPY. —A Thief. —Old Barnes. —l , lnittlng Machine. —Odd Fellows' —prof. Dean Itetorned. Dr. lkfcClintock's Sslotice. —Lorillard's Preparations. —Shreiner's Grand Display. —Election of Bank Officers. —J. A. Meyer's Holiday Goods. —prof. Unseld's Holiday Notice. —lt Williams' Goods for-Holidays. LOCAL, INTELLIGENCE. Loc+►l Th rographs 11..olent her the P.m , ordinance. A goo , ' Imitator—Dr, McClintock. Prot. D,ll , Clintook ia.. live leeturer. Only :t few sleighs were nut on Tuesday. onwi i•1i.50 per 'barrel in York. I:Amnon county has but .'ix prisoners iu her jail. Mutt has become of the Hutchinson so ein'ttlpg A•: a ler•tnrer 1)r. McClintock is a phone_ mo .c.—fhtardirtn. Charades sere the sine rpm non on winter even Mg Sneinhipq, Mcs.rs Ala}• et: Irwin have resumed the delivery co rp, t"•r4. The ic )1 1,.1B mks will hold their anneal elections Jan. 11 18E9 The Susquehanna Rolling Mill has sus pended for a short time. Dr. McClintock's first lecture is free to all well behaved persons. A i‘fisouri editor alludes to the "Egnin oxial Council" t. he held in Rome. Boy s viit.ia Nn. 111 , ir yellow pap-r t boy. , :.:t•f•.:t Vt . :l,l*" O r I! 1:04. v. 4 IC. TAY O,Ct , •{2.' 4 ,, itig • •t at the It. E. Chord. Hs.; •li.roatthing pletion, The sno' was seven and a halt' deep, by actual ineasurment, on Tuesday morning. The Columbia Cornet Land serenaded M. M. Strickler. P,Ati. and guests one evening week. A IVo , tern town k withont a newspaper hued use " the lad Ms' sewing society answers just as Well." .N ..- 13 physician in America stands higher, or is more universally esteemed than Dr. Mceliutock.—Ctly flew.. A hungry Alaska editor writes that out there a beefsteak would be an angelic vi sion of the happy land." The " cloak. man" is reported to be in town, and has made several manifestations within in the past week. The boarding-house keepers and landlord do not seem to appreciate the low price of flour. Boarding is still tilt) same. Our large calendars arc ready for gratui tous distribution. If any of our business men fail to get them, let us know, A :igew York pugilist, who does not read the papers, on hearing of the Cardiff Giant, offered to fight him for '''l,ooo a side. Pedestrians should remember that the Litlloool pavements are not so easily " pe destrianatecl" when covered with ice. The season for slaughtering hogs has ar rived. Our butchers are busy and chopping machines are heard rattling in every dim- Lion Dr. MeClintock's enunciation is as dis tinct and emphatic as bis arguments and Illustratious are forcible and perspicuous.— Ouctrthan The property offered at public sale a -few days a4n by E lward Reuss, now occupied by Mrs. Knotwell, has been sold to Mrs. Turner for f 53,100.00. This week we give onside selections 4,r . social character mostly, Next week we will give at little romance.. We will try to suit the tastes of all nu.- reader::, Our Christmas number o' the Sri - will contain n Chri.thnim , V , 0•71 written expressly for tits Soy, by a Columbian. Several hati• dr..l P-..titra enhiev Velll 101. S• 4,::: The sciseAt awl hest oleo in the erktintry have been patients of Dr. James MeOlin took's. Some of the exeotest physician have been his pupils.—N. Y. Times." Tao river was full of Ii rot ng ice d aring. r.g; days 01 this vp-ok. Should the canal freeze soddenly, much of the Cowl in tra• e• Ito will not reach the markets till spring. Track. is brisk:, our merchants ere ticivor- Using liberally. ar, compellea to issue tt Itolid ty •uPNleinent, xn Ilkt to give Apace to the grant• atnOunt of local matter this week. Wnen a man and woman are made one by 21 clergyman, the question is, Which one? Sometimes theta is a long struggle betwf en them before the matter is finally sett lee. On r yomnt triemi omuld attend this writ iuv SlTilOrti ek. Thi• (,•t ins are low, anal the system emnplete. Yon ng gentle men can tit themselves Ayr business nit It going to Commercial Colleges. Among those men, rho by their learn ing and skill have given us the celebrity of which intelligent Philadelphians are proud, Dr. McClintock by general consent has for years nocupleil a protninent position.-Phila. .21f4,crtity. Them is an talitor over in New Seraey who begs publicly, through his columns, utmost every week, for rxduertisentents, ci gars, turkeys and ducks. Ins appeals are so personal that tho community is getting uC , lntuicil 01 his imper' inence. Wrgh.—A. severe storm passed over the county last week doing consider able damage in some places. Happily we °sea; ed this lute visit from the storm king. The York Democrat in speak ing of it says : On last Tuesday night about twelve o'clock a terrible storm of wind passed over our borough, making the houses tremble in some places, and alarming the inmates sons to put down sleep as impossible. Those who were awake at the time the storm was at its height, say that it equalled, in vio lence, the tornado of last`sumtner. No houses were unroofted,we be Sieve, although some of them were shaken from their cen tre to the circumference. The days of old Mars are pretty nearly over, for this time, and we shall be glad when they are gone. He is certainly a rough, uncouth and un scrupulous character and when be rules the earth he exercises his authority with an iron will and an iron hand. He did not, however, boisterous as he was, interfere with our fate harvest sad fruit crop, for which we are most abundantly thankful. 'WE notice that our ..1d friend Lewis if Gordon, late at the Easton Free Press. has purchased an intert , d in the Columbia Pa., 73. pliblieum—Bro. Gordon is a practical printer. a twaj s gets op a good paper, and e Al ish ban jov In his new field. We rl ip tile above fro en The Family Cask et, u weekly paper publish d at White lintote Station New .Iprsey (a copy of which was sent to as marked.) and edited by A J. Sham pa mire Esq. Oar bother chip is con siderably mistakes, awl no doubt slightly mix d as to the Ideality. We ...accept for ourselves all the joy lie wishes Itro:Gordon, who always gets up at good paper: - Wafeel sorry tbr Gordon that he most forego the comsr tulatiens and good wishes of his neighbor of the Casket. LAST Stlncluv tra , c.ne th:•se nupleaa• ant Sundays, which uJte•a sitThrd on excuse (.r not attendihg church, notwithstanding the condition of the streets end the threat ening weather, the churches had good mi . ,- gregationa. Wilma WILL WE 'GET MONEY?—The condition of the money market is such as claims the attention of every thinking heal nese man. In a recent number of the Philadelphia Ledger, we have a very inter esting prediction of what the future may or may not be: "The announcement made by the Secre tary of the Treasury that be will during the coming month of December sell gold and purchase bonds precisely as he announced to do for the present month of November, is generally accepted as the unusual the ex citement in the gold and bond markets yes terday, and the very severe decline of prices in both. This operation will throw on the market in December $11,000.000 in gold, absorbing at the same time $18,000,000 of bonds t to be followed on theist of Jan uary with the disbursement of 02,000,000 in gold in the payment of Interest, and per fume the usual further purchase of bonds. This may for the time satisfactorily account for yesterday's decline in prices to those who must have a reason for every up and down in the market; but as these fluctua tions are common, and in directly opposite directions, regardless of assumed causes, it would probably be safer, and as near the truth, to ascribe the steady decline for the last fortnight to the feet that there has been all the rime more sellers than buyers of gold ; perhaps for the reason that the Secre tary of the Treasury Las all the time freely supplied the market through the public sales, while the demand for customs has been unusually light; and, as regards the bonds, there have been more sellers and buyers, for the reason, perhaps, that some holders wanted money, and had nothing that they could so conveniently spare that would command it, and those who had money at hand, seeing the sellers' necessi ties, arm, perhaps, distrustful of the future, availed themselves oi• the opportunity to buy as low as possible. These reasons may be accepted in the absence of those more satisfactory; but we know that there are very intelligent merchants, compelled to use coin its their business, who are buying gold at present prices and holding it for use in the near future, when they belive it will be much higher, They may be right in this conclusion, and then, again, they may not. It la expeeted that the newspaper men should know all about this, and not a few 01 our readers will no doubt feel chagrined wbeu they discover that we have not been more definite and direct in our conclusions; but the truth is, humiliated as we are to confess it, we cannot tell to an ai brio/ I/ cet - minty whether gold and bonds at , going lower, or whether, from this time forward, they will both steadily advance o their former high prices. Whet/ we reach this perfection of divining the future, we shall consider that we have found that long sought treasure, the philosopher's stone, incontinent:3 , quit the press, and• fin* the rest UI our do; Ii Into the E,p,iunt ri I 5t...1 h 3 Bret ..;11,“ilig Y , llll,:vi , girl of ,•.. S 6. ehnr, is now making t upon the farmers who att,tut market, and sell produce at the market-house or curbstone. This new as sessment is made in pursuance to instruc tions from the Troasuery Department, act ing under the decision of the commissioner of internal revenue, that "if limners who go to market regularly twice a week and sell their products from the curbstone along the market at any place they can find not al ready occupied. should be regarded as pro dare brokers, I reply that they should be regarded as produce brokers, and required to pay special tax as such. Farmers are exempt from special tax when selling their produce at the place of production or in the manner of peddlers, but selling at the mar ket place, even though a different stand or station is taken every day, is not selling in the manner as a peddler. The farmer who is in the habit of going to the market place regularly twice a week and selling iu the manner above indicated, thus makes it his business so to sell, and should be required to pay special tax accordingly." AN UNGRATEVUL Sox-IN LAZY,--Last spring, says the "West Chester Record, Mr. Entriken, of Pncopson, placed his son-in law, Lewis S. John, on a farm near Mar shallton West Bradford, and furnished him everything necessary to carry on the same. Week before last, John returned from Phil adelphia, and told his father-in-law, that Daniel Gunkle, also a son-in-law of Mr. Entriken, had requested hint to bring down eight very fine cattle, that had been fed on the farm that John had charge of, that ho bad a good market for them. As Sir• Gun kle had an interest in the cattle, Mr. En triken thought It was all right, anti the cat tle were sent, John taking charge of them. :Not returning in a few days, Mr. Entriken concluded to go to the city and see about him. Calling on Sir. Gunkle he was sur prised to learn that he knew nothing about the cattle, or the where-abouts of Soho, not having seen him at all. Mr. Entriken after wards learned that John had sold the cat tle to a cattle dealer from Lancaster county, at a low price for cash, pocketed the mon ei•, and left for parts unknown. RISE.V.S Fott Sk.ATERS.—An exchange suggests the following rules for skaters Skating requires no force, the principal to be aimed at is " balancing" the body and Living it the proper inlination. The body should be kept erect, shoulders thrown back, the eyes looking Mont. the surf,ce of the ice and never at the feet, the arms held naturstly and graceful. After these rules have been mastere.l, and the skater is able to keep his leet and strike out, the fancy branches of the art may be essayed. A beau tiful and wall-zlike movement is the long forward and backward roll, which is a great favorite with the ladles. Then the canning of circles, names. and eagles may be at tempted with success after a little practice. THE VIGILANT.—The electiou for of fieer•nf the Vigilant Fire Company. held on last Friday evening resulted us follows; President, Fred. Williams; Viee Presi dent, James ; Treasurer, A. Bruner Jr. ; Chief Engineer. N. Gilman: C'heir Director, H. Hines ; Trustees, James IticGirdlis; Wm. Patton; W, P. Shuman; Asst. Engineers , A. O. Baker; Shultz; J. Haughey ; W. Paxson ; S. Camp. J. Fil bert ; Pipeman, G Sheet?. ; H. Bovtl ; H. Coin ; Firemen, J. Beaver; 0. MeGlauch lin ; John Zell; Jos. Clark; John Hoak ; Will. Baker; Hose Guards, S. P. 'Moder well ; A. Grove: D. Sample; F. Hublev ; A. Flubley ; G. Snyder; John Howard; E. Wittors; 0. Richards; C. Finkabine; C. Grove; H. Allison; Janitor, G. Grove. NIGHT SGllOOl,—At a meetiug of the school board held on last .Nlonday everting M which were present Nlessrs North, Grove. Steacy, Strine, Young and Watts, it was agreed that the board establish a night school for three months. L. C. Oberlein was elected teacher at u salary of *25 per month. Messrs Samuel Grove and Geo. - Young, were appointed a committee to make Arrangements to secure an assistant teach er for the night school. The usual report of average attendance Sze, was received from Prof. Palm, the Principal. Warm° SCHoOL.—Prof. Dean having finished the course. in Mania,lin, returned to Columbia, sad will open a course of in struction at the Town . Hall on next Monday evening. We have heretofore referred to his system of instruction; and hop, our people will avail themselves of this last opportuni ty. THE' Merchant's _Exchange, an imposing building situated on South'Second street, Pulls., and familiar no doubt to EnitLny'OTour r eaders burned to the ground on Tuesday evening. The interior of the building so. elaborately and tnagnificently ornamented, is a muss of charred rains. THE Normal School at blibersvilic, has nearly five hundred students in attendance. The Normal Literary Society will celebrai.e their anniversary on the 2:3ilt or January. This iest.val occasion attracts crowded houses, and the exorcises are invariably good. WILLIANSPOttI• had a su:cidc. Mary Haug. wife of Gotleib Haug cut her throat _with a knife on Tuesday. The cause Ives temporary insanity. She had live c .ildren, the oldest being only' ten yeti's old, Tux party who borrowed our Lancaster County Directory will oblige us by return ing it to the alien, soon as possible. SINGULAR DOTAGG.—One of the Most singular cases of dotage we have ever heard of came to our notice a few days ago. An old lady in her 84th year, residing at the southern extremity clone of our principal streets, named Deborah Brant,has for a long time attracted the attention of her neigh bors and immediate relatives by her singu lar conduct. It appears that Miss B. re ceived a very good education, so considered in her youth, and at the age of thirty, ha v ing no means of support, opened a sehool in the sonthern portion of this county. She would take only eighteen pupils, and tho' numerous applications were made for ad mission, none succeeded. If any vacancies occurred, she took up the applications in the order of date, and admitted a number sufficient to makethe magic eighteen. She would have her school open bat eighteen days in a month, and the school year di vided into two terms ofeig;hteen weeks each. She charged eighteen cents it week for tui ition for the smaller pupils, and twice eighteen for older and more advanced ones. In health she would work eighteen hours a day, devoting the remaining six to sleep. She led this pecullar,sedentary life Lie ' many years with long vacation periodic. In 1849, having received a legacy from an only relative, she came to Columbia, and has since then led a quite secluded life, refusing to see strangers, and seldom. if ever al/ow ing those around her to converse with her. On each returning eighteenth birth-day, she is given to unusual depression of spir its, and during the day will not speak a word. On t eighteenth of each MO th, her reticence and depressions arc wore no ticeable than at other times, She keeps her own secrets, something which younger ladies find it hard to do, and very little is known to assign for this sin gular conduct. In other respects she re tains her faculties to a remarkable deezree. - Chi theory with the most knowing . and speculative ones is that Miss 13. was made the victim of misplaced confidence, in early youth, culminating, no doubt, in terrible realty on or s bont her cit.:,-liteenth birth day. She speaks of no ow- in unkind tones. Tire future may develop more of her singular history. TATTELL'S Llyr o Acr,.---No. 1329 of The, Living Age. Mr the week endimr Nov. 20 enntaios Qoarteri.‘ Beview's —aye ;wile], no • Ttt e Berm, ert •,;" Ilene Ili> na ries et• New York, cize., cVe N.,. 1330, litr the week toolin4 Nov. 27, contains '• ISM/1.," >t vory notable paper by the author of the celebrated "Taint lid '• ar ticle, and written with the same power: also" in Enigma of Ilistory---The Captiv ity of,Toartna of Castile, called ' L.t Loco.' or the front new documents, trans lated for Tim Living Age from the " llevus des Deux Monties: the conclusion of "The Portrait in my Uncle's Dining Room, — from the French and other articles. In No. 1331 will be begun a new story of Russian life, translated list The Livia;/ sigt% which will be concluded in the last number of the year. The Living Age is issued evert- Saturday, giving fifty-two numbers, of sixtv-four pages each, or more than Three Thousand double-column octavo pages of reading matter yearly ; enabling it to present with satisfactory completeness the best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Tales, Poetry, Liter ary, Scientific, klislorienl and Political in formation, gathered from the whole body of foreign periodical literature, and from the pens of tho ablest living writers. " The best of all our electic publicatilus." The Nation, New York. Published weekly at $B, a year, free of postage. An extra copy sent gratis tOr a club of flys new subscribers. Lit tell tt Gay, Publishers, 30 Bromfield street, Bos ton. WE find the following floating .:round without authority, and give it for what it is worth : "Some important changes have recently - been,Mado wedding•etit]uette. The card' invitations should be issued three weeks before the marriage, and should be provid ed by the bride's parents, Brides expect ant should entirely seclude themselves after the eards are issued. At large receptions each guest should leave his or her visiting card, so that the hostess may be positive who were present. There should be lour bridesmaids and groomsmen present at a wedding. Congratulations are out of piano in church, and should be reserved for the reception. The display of bridal presents is going out of tasltion a moue; pea pie of taste. When the collation is anuountital, the bride and groom lead the tray LI) the dining room. The bride's (mike is in the center at the table, and the bride cuts the first slice. The reception lasts during the afternoon, and is sumetlines followed by a dance in the evening. If the bridal panty go on a tour, their departure• is usztafty the signal for the guests to disperse. The old superstition of throwing an Ida shoe after the happy pair, to insure goon leek, is faith fully observed.--' • DEATHS AT THE 11031E.---Thete have been several very singular death,. at t h e Cbildren's Rome at L,trwaster. The ;in.( was Samuel Coda, one of the friendless ohildrv. wets a aetien p ii n tri bead, and aftr sutrering for only two hut died ; on Wednemday wornitaz, Morris Laity one of the orphans w.v; Anand tb•a,l itt bed. Several other children manifested si..rns of headache, but remedies being 0 1 , 0 143 , zh , 'Y soon recovered. The cause or these sudden death:, is not knewn, and much anxiety in telt far the safety and health of the ,v 't. Ire says he won't be undersold. SUCCESSFUG RABUIT 11UNTINO.—J . Reddig, James /Layne and Peter Wein hold, recently spent a portion of three days in rabbit shooting, on the hills in tho of Reatnstown, this county. They met with the following success : st