3. W. YOCUM, Editor.
VOLUME XLI, NUMBER 22.1
THE COLUMBIASPY,
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
A , ICAUFFMAii,
Collections ina,le in Lancn.stor and :ulJolnln
:;oontles.
Pensions, Bounty, Back ray, and all claims
against the government, promptly prosecuted.
Otllce—No.ls2, Locust street.
w. YOCIUM,
COLTS3I r 3 lA, PA
OFFICE—SPr Banl: Stroll, nen
Locust.
Collections made In Lancaster and adjoin in .
counties.
ITENRY C. G. REBER,
No 323 Washington street. near Sixth.
itending, Pa.
Collections made in Derics and adjoinill
counties. nov27-tf
. M. NORTH,
Colombia, Pa.
Collections' promptly made In Lancaster am ,
Vorl: Counties.
TIIONAS J. DAVIS,
tiro. 11 North Dul,:e Street, Lancaster. Pa.
Professional Business earelully and prompt
ly attended to. Coet3o'69-tf
JOFIN M. GRIDE'R,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
Mountvllle, Lancaster County, Pa.
011 ice Hours from I; to S o'clock, A. :U .
and 7 tot o'clock, P.
CLARK,
Nl. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
OFFICE—No. 17 N. Third street.
Office Hours—From 6 to 7 A. M. 17 to 1 P. M.
and from 6 to 9 P. M. [sept-69-tiv.-
SAMUEL EVAIVS,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
0/lice, on Second Sr., adjoining Odd Fellows
llall, Columbia, Pa.
A J. GULIGIK,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Extracts Teeth without Pain. IN More; Oxide or
Laughing Gas administered.
OFFICE 248 LOCUST STREET.
sept4.U9-trw
B C. UNSELD,
* TEACHER OF MUSIC
PIANO,
ORGAN,
MELODEON.
CULTIVATION of the VOICE and SINGING.
Special attention given Beginners and young
pupils.
sept.l49-lyw
7.111 LOCUST STREET
•
JT . lIOFFER,
. DENTIST.
Nitrous Oxide Gas adtnittistered to go extract
Office— Front Street, next door to IL - WI Mains
Drug, fAtore, betweenLoeust and NVlAltaut,tit,reets
Columbia. Pa.
1 - 1 E,
. PI tYS c-r s ußaEox;
offers his professional services to the citizens 01
Columbia awl. vicinity. He may be found at the
otlice connected with his residence, on Second
street, between Cherry and Union every clay,
Irian 7to A. H. and nom ato S P.'2.1. Persons
winning his service.; lit special cases, between
these hull rB, wilt leave word by note at his office,
or thr•ordi the Lost ()thee.
MOORE
J. S. S:VTITEI, Di:.•rt,•r,
(Jr:I.III,UL. (.f College of boolal
tior,q - ery. (Alice in Watmor , ..Butl,liott,ovor
liai.lLAnun's dry goods sine.
'270 Lo. .11,c. Street,
Penn'a.
fir..T. S Stnitlt than:ft , his truants and the pub
lic In general for their lii>eral patronage in the
past:, aml o..snrinu; theta that. they ean rely uplift
havin; - every attention given to them in the
future. In every bra itell or his proles-ton he
has :du ays given ell t Ire satisfaction. lle calls
attention to the unsitriiisssett style amt oriels
of artificial teeth Inserted Ity hum Ito treats
onanion to the month awl teeth of
child om 11111.1 with the gre.o -
cot ',lle :111.1 itt lilt Mo.( sitivirovist manner,
Ac . ititg tool It treatc,l my: titled to last. for years,
The hest of dentrilieus .11111 mouth washes cou
rt:utile on hand.
il, .\il wont warrante.l.
M=S
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
The undersigned hit , *e opened an office for the
purchase and sale ‘ll real estate, collection te
rents, and the rentin or property. Business
entrusted to their care will meet with prompt,
end careful attention. F. X. Z I EC; I,P,
octal-'O9-t A. J. K.UJFFI.tAN.
r' l o P till DIiTS AND OTIIIMS
Building, paving and other brick always on
hand. They arc hand made and superior to any
brick in this part of the country. They are of
leredat the very lowest price.
:Nei) .14354Cw1 MICH:IEL Lu'iLsavr.
- -
HOTELS.
W"TERN HOTEL,
No , I, &15 CORTLANDT STILEET,
NEW YORK
TILOS. D. ‘VINCISIISTE Pitoidtmcon.
This Hotel Is central and convenient fur Penn
sylvanians.
Mtanwan. of Readlna.
Is an assistant at this Hotel, and will be Owl to
see hi blends at all flutes. set,tl-0-tlw
" CONTINENTA
TIIIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED,
IsAiveen the Stations of the Iteadi ug, ;mil Coln in
,antl Pennsylvania liallroa,l4,
PRAY NT STREET, COLUMBIA, PA.
neeoinniotlatlons for Strangers sad Tray
tilers. The Bar Is stocked with
CHOICE LIQUORS,
and the Tables furnished With the best fare.
URIAU FINDLEY,
Proprietor.
sep I-G9- tfw}
RANK:LIN HOUSE,
LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA.
This Is alirst-elassbotel, and is in every respect
%dallied to meet the wishes mid qt - r. , ,Vt•S or the
traveling public. MAK.TIN Mt WIN,
Proprietor,
Firt.P.r.ccirs ILOTEL,
On the. European Nan, opposite City hall Park
New York. 16.1 1tIQ.:(111,
Sept. ID. MS. Proprietor.
MIS LER'S HOTEL,
West. Marl:et Square, Reading Itenn'a.
EVAN .I.II.SFILEtt,
Proprietor.
sept4-GG-Crw]
MABB.L.E' 1V01?IiS.
CIOLUMBIA MARBLE WORKS.
.J The Subscriber , : would respectfully Inform
the citizens or Columbia, and surrounding
country, that they have openod
A NEW MARBLE YARD IN
COLUMBIA,
On sth Street, between Locust and Walnut SLA..,
and ask the patronage of the public.
They have had great experience on fine wen k,,
both in Philadel pain, anti New York. They with
furnish in the higheststyle of the art, itandsorna.
0 RANT. STONES, MONU\U
STATUARY, ORNAMENTS, Stec
niso MAMILE MANTLES, BUILDING
&C. Orders promptly attended and exceeded at
cheaper rates titan elsewhere. Call and, see ut
Designs of new styles of Niue work,such aa.
monumental ,tine arts, tee., will be furnished
Parties upon application to the pro G priet o3lEl rs.
ItEPTINI-
saptl-C9.tfw
TTPHOLSTERINGI''
The undersigned has takenrooms adjoining
the residence of James Barber,lit Walnut street, LOeuSt Street, ad j oiningEralcleman's Store,.
where hu Is at. all times prepared to do all kinds
of work in his line, suell as Hanging Curtains, It is the greatest establishment of the kind this
cutting, making nud laying Carpets, repairing
Sohn; anti Chairs, making Spring, Corn-husk dr aide of Philadelphia,
Bair 'Mattresses, Cushions, &c., &c. re-Only Agency for 14 , e's London Porter, and
50p.149-tfw3 SAMITEL CAB.T.P.A. Xishler's Bitters.
~ la ~A
~~~~
0. 13UCITER,
MBE=
Wines and Liquors !
Has removed Lis Store to lit%lloilding,adjoimog
11 .- F'4lt - B BITTERS !
Th 04:e 13! t t ers are eelebiatea for 1.110 great mires
Liles have perinnned In e ✓cry n111;0,1:11021 tried
13r. alisider oars hte,:eed dullar; to the pro
prietor of any Medicine that eon show a greater
number of genuine certificates of cures effected
by it, near the place Where It is made, than
Is 101 sale In Cult:ln:AU b 3
Catawba,
COGNAC, OF DIFFERENT BRANDS
_.—Also; OLD-IiYIT WITISKEY
Blackberry
MALT AND CIDER YINEG llt
I. 14, SAI ITU . . 1). I).
POCKET FLASKS,
DEMIJOHNS,
ToßA.cco "soxEs,
and FANCY . ARTICLES, in great, vnriety,
MISHLER'S BITTERS!
PU A:. UN ADULT ERATEDI
BEST STO UT PO RTER !
From E,
Cannot be p‘irehnsed at ;my (Aber establish-
=ant In. town. and Is warranted to 'coon fruits
eruct vec, , t,tables perfect.
TO SMOKERS AND CIIMVEIIS
/11.7€ 0 IIER. - will still Reef) cm hand the
Best Brands of
•
SMORTNG AND CHEWING TOBACCO,
COMMON sns.A.Rs. Also,
BN - cry -ft TOBACCO : BOXES,PIPES—a
thousand and - oho varieties. Call at
.*
/
rl: t4 ,' .
r: :f N pl
- Ai
*:7
A 14* g,
ea t t.t. , 3" e . A
7-, -
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BUCHER'S' 'COLUMN;
Wholesale and Retail [water In
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Haldeman's Store, Locust St., Columbia, Pa.,
where he has fittect up rooms and greatly
Increased his facilities for floing
a more extensive business.
MIS IT L ER'S CE LE BRA.TED
PURE AND UNADULTERATED,
MISITLER'S 11EBB BITTEIIS
M•in II lite; Llrel'S o V St mien try I Pm tali, En
gines, 01 the Most and plan.
Mill CittaTlLV4, Sliatillig, rt/IleyS, era and
Couplings, 01 an improved pattern. Farmer
Portable UrSt
OUR, NEW ANTI EV.. GRA. fY
lusnr,ltilvs BiTTERS .
. C. 13liCUER,
At Ills SLorc, Locust Sixes - 4,, Colt:1)11,1u.
WINES AND LIQUORS!
Embracing the following;
Port,
Lisbon,
cherry,
llrderm,
Malaga,
Champagne,
Claret,
Rhine,
Currant and Muscat WINES
BRANDIES of :111. kinds
Catawba
Cherry,
MEI
Superior Old Bye,
Pure Old Rye,
XXX Ohl Rye,
xx Ola Rye X Old nye
Pure 011 Lye,
net:tined vinitsky,lonclon Brown Stout
Scotch Ate, &r,
AGENCY FGH
Ile is also Agent for the Celebrated
lIERII BTTTF,RS
FOR SALE
AL S. C. IarCIIER'S
For Sale by
J. C , . IiIJCIIEStI
For h.r.lc br
I. C. 111JCIIElt,
f,oetts L Street, Lluovr, irroll
Agent for the
PURE MALT VINEGAR
The Ilea Dramls or I mportoa
SCOTCH AND LONDON ALE
MEETS
J. C. BUCIIER.
SNUFF, HAVANA, YARA, and
J. C. BUCIIER'S,
COLTIM..BI_,_A__, SA.TITRIDA. - Y - MORNING-, JANUARY 8, 1870.
MISCELLANEOUS.
K MAY & ERWIN, B
105 Locust St., Columbia; Pa.
im..u.Ens
Agents v SCHOOL, Sheet
for all Miscellaneous and 0 Music
New York, &BLANK Be of all kinds,
Philadelphia, OBOOKS. D 1111 c and
and Lancasterfrk . ; . half Dime copies.
Dallies and Week- 0 Initial Caskets,
Iles. New publi-nro ALL low, fr at 1 0
eationgreceiv- Izr..NDs e cents, 11 cents
ed as soon OF STATIO.NETZ.Y."an up
as Issued. ®SCHOOL DIRECAteI e ward s.
p ia TORS AND TEAcrr FRS sur-
IMP LIED AT WHOLESALE Vllg
M.: RATES. DON'T FORCE.T THE PLACE,
105 LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, Pa.
n
1869. NP- 25 - 1810.
CHRISTMAS AND NEIV E
TFI'S.
N.:1012/g In,,re suitable 111:171 a niet•
i \- r r. ' OR C.2_\._ll?
S 4.C•,-
tti King Street, rogn'a
=8
I'. I'. LAN DIS, FIZNA LANDI•4, .I.ll'oll, LANDIS
.I..YST ONE
•
EASf JAMES' STREET, LANCA , TEIt, PA
- with the .73e , t 'l'riplcut (lea( et! iLon.e. Power.
iron and itrabs works ma, le to ender. Furnisit
2,‘10de1.; 1 - .1- Patten, at rea,onable rate,. Ilatme*
go'gi. and ox perielleol hand,,llng boint.; pr.let tea;
meelatmes i licaNelves, seal Nare m guarantue
ing till thoir work to give ~at i•,faecton. Far par
ticalms addre,s L.1.N1).1:,: 1i; (20.,
Lanea,ter,
THE 111 . .);KLY FAMILY
KNIT"' I IMACEIBE
TILE WONDER OE THE OE!
RNI TS EVER,YTHING !
Combines an picitty, tztutplicit-,•. Dm n l,ll, ty :in t t
Cheapllo, - I,:illtilliLf Walt
ESe•IA11111C.11
r, , Zi - itt . ,VCiNT,C the Ihnlte,t i'r••tn;n: t at Foe
I, Exposition, and “tent, . te.l
Into, Now York, lo(17„ For nu :her ea:: t
call on 1•:.:,:
Agent for Y.:lnc. - N.ler eunnl:,-,
Orango at, In:tweet' :N. (Lunen an&l Pc
NO. 13.
SHREINER'S
B I a okba rry,
Where you can buy a lirBt rare
A ' ERECt.N, ENGLT S OR SW fSS
'WATCH,
Eldei berry,
BE-cUTIFUL SETS OF JEWELRY, 2.1?.. - > m-
SOME BREAST PIN'S, EMI 1:1NC354,
SLEEVE BUTTONS,
utd almost eyeTyllting. 01 Alm jewtelry•ltne
Or you call purchase
PINT SILVER. AND SILVER PLATED
SPOONS,
Fu P.isS , Rzcivps CASTORS, GORT.ETS, TOP
PITCHERS. MITTER PISA El, ate. ,\t•.
ri Is,
lily/ mei
MEM
you Call buy any knul. of
AMERICAN CLOCK,
tt•:u•r.ui tell of the bc.,l quailly. at, a low 'lgor!
CALL AND SEE For.. YounsEr:x
CHAS, SIIREINEWS
Sept: t No. I:lFront St, Cohoolda, L'a
IVIIEELER & WILSON'S
Locic_srircir
Family Sewing Machine.
OVER 400,000 NOW IN USE.
EXAMINE cr BEFORE BUYING ANY OThtR.
SOLD ON LEASE PLAN,
3. 0 , _T•
PETERSON & CARPENTER, Ceneral.7.l.ven4-.
General Office for Lancaster County
64 North Queen St. 64
et -Wit)
T - OMER, CULL:A.I)AV co.'S
1412 AND 1414 CHESTNUT ST.
Pif LAI) E 1,1 , 11 A
UltErVf BARGALN 8
DRESS COS.
advantag; of 11Id grvn: ti0:,,••.-7(rn in
basino.s, 11. C. 67. Co. kave a :lac
imiaemo Pitroita:,x.;;
of Die, Good., in Gil,
I-Zo(lii.ction.
BeleW the cost or import aim], h
op.ning, and will onia• at a very .slig.l vatlek.
They desire to dl eet special attention to this
stoelr, together with (heir own large import -
Lion, which hare beet, reduced to eorrespond-
Ingly low ratcs,anol will b found nit
LAEGEST AND CHEAPEST STOCi.
EVER. OFFERED, D.:CLUDD.7G
10 Caro,. .1 3 / 1 10 and Green Stripe,.
• Ct.-11e 11721.1 lSu)11:1.11 . : 4 .
great variety of styles for • :al its, at :17VA:
Worth 7.1 r. to $1.‘11).
hesll. - y - Vk r (J2•,41.124 . 1 F 4 e2.4. - tel , .. In the
rash rlc. slia.leN fur t.taits,ille.
1 4 'irat.• A..11.-Vtrool Clul Its, its
all 4.01(11's, I 11e.1114.11 rig the Very al eh nap le
Nhat-s lit navy Ettw,
Spla•ntlicl !.- , 11 :11 all
17.1e1t 7>rocAc Wool,
very 75(..
Vrench TlOl.l 1-'ol,liit.,::ll Silk and Wool
ESE
1.47,1x1va. Itemvy Cordi 4,
for Wa11:1 ng. 1)s asses, E 1.25.
~Tl.t.lt I'lZ I"N TT N G.—Cali at the
1,71 Stearn Printing It use or tho (A)r,1:2481y
rear of COIEIIOIOO Notional and ex
suninespecfmeto,of Letternends,'Notos,t;n rat; T.,
mor's
NENV STOIIE,
CI1.11:1.1.-; 11. .1 MET:.
MACHINE WORKS
I=
AT THE LOW,SST PEICE
Tllen If you ; - tre to
WANT OP TIME
E:~
MEM
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO MEEK"' AS BEADING, NOR ANY PLEASIIIM SO LASTING."
3.11 - S.C.ELLANEOUS
OP ! OPENING ! OPENED!
T I Ifs DAY, T
AN I) - UNTI r. FURTHER ORDERS,
T±, l 141 'S
12S l'Aletzst Street,
TI IFI LA ItO EST STOCK OF
HATS YD CAPS,
For Men, Youth and Ch ildren. ever before ()tier
ed to the people of Columbia, comprising as it
does, STY LE and (tU LCTY in soft and stiff
brim, such as the Warwielc, Ida,3.ewis,Sl4lad,
rrinec Arthur, American Girl, Kute, Peerless,
Lady Tharn , "towing, Star, Cuuan, Waverly,
Gilmore, Itoh 'toy, and the Fall style of Silk
I fate, ju‘t, out, together witli a full stork of
GENTS'
FU RN'S fir NG GOODS,
Cons link nr While. and Colored Sliirta, Flannel
Shirts and Drow , a a, Eugll.l, German and Do
me,tic Ifo,iery, Gloves, Irandkerelliels, Sus
pender,, s
Tie, Linen and Papal Calf, and Col
lar'-,
ITMIIIIELT,.',S !,:;1) CANI:S
'Part ios 1:4 with their patisynn4e nte
assured that it will lie our constatit to
merit their confidence :old support.
Call and vsuui Liu our well selected
at lute
No. IL:3 St:Cet, Caltimbio, In
out.:1:0)-11-
1)::lit:3. C.ll:3:lC'Ar..q.
.V" 2,.. MMY,EIIS
.
I)raggisL aucl ii..-aothecary,-
D FELLO WS' 11?-1, T.,
La ito:: ...ttontioa :t few si)...ialtles now in
sock:
U.1. - NAILY SEED
WA) SOAP I:Altq
' T - S 13E0 IZILLEI:,(,IIre thing and
liarmk.... to
ti:J IZAT
I.ELZ, o.lle tu.n4 tItIVV. y( ,
2\ O. 13
SI'LI3NDID LOT OF CILIINZOIS SKINti
1.1.1171 C TOWELS, SPONGES AND GLOVES
CU itKI,V 00 D FOIL S FLO En \
COARSE AND FINE PEPPEit,grcaatt itt the
rem sprei:s -VND CREAM TA.u.T.A.r.
Together with our usual large stock of Ditvcs
MinncisEs, and. IntucunsTs SUNDIULS
arc entlrql.y C !-f:l4..pnrelin.ses. r
YsieLtzes ritrscittPTTOSS alld 1 7 .1.3111.1 - 11..X
-creEs prevared by night cr day with accuracy.
Iterucinbcr the
F..orax mEDiciNE STORE,
hout-CCO-trwl Odd Fellows' Ha 11.
j B. EVINSK I,
PIANOS, Olto ANS, MELODEONS,
iND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
GENERALLY.
I:u • gc :I,Nortlmmit. of Violins, Flutes, Go itars,
Banff., 'P:rtaborron•s, Aeconlettlis, Ft teoi
lfiu•-
monices, outl inti.tettl to ut elitonti,e always on
hand.
SI-lEET MUSIC.
A large ~toe's on iin 1, aria °in:tautly reeeiving
all lint lntetiL public Lions ns :soon as :".red.
an 13tH 1;001,:r.., will be not t
fr., of pir“:l,4o,lVilen i Ililaket Priet, isrcmit
lctt.
1) AC ALCO 31 ASIA,
Or tin• Art of tran,lorring Pkturez. thin Lie
lratv,torred On ally 6liject.
I wonlit attention of the Cnacti
nittirtnt, to toy tock of Oticalnontanitt.
c!:
xEF.l):E.‘:.kr e.: :
AND -.11:1:1,0
`.. 4 4)1e Agent for St M'.; Um. 1V At P r :C r \ )
D ITILNIT VOLISLI.
Call and exam inc ink• , ;(. 0,1, - . at
NO. 3 NORTH :PRINCE STREET,
P.%
COOPER & CONARD,
S. E. _.±w% 3lttricet Sts.,
PEILA.DELPIII3
having rebuilt their store, will open about
oetober mtillt nit ttlettltat stack, to which
they invite an eNttut nn t ton.
Upwards of heychteen yt ars netive
net,' nt their pre,,nt too:atoll, h to
judge of the want , : of their p.ttron, to buy wt
the Ittetve,t toSell at Ow stattllvst„
protit. lines of
II LACK SILKS,
„ES STUFF,t,
SILK Vit:IXETS,
CLOAKS, SIT.k
HANKEItCIIIEFs,
WHITE (1001,5,
I;
USLINS, L.:NI:ET: 4 , Q . L'ILTS,
L[NEN:4,
CASSIMEIZE: 4 , CLOTII, 4 ,
•LoA 1:J1s - us,
VKLVETEENS,
Cu 0 PE C DNA I; It,
S. E. N1:1:1) 31:tr1:4,t
oct.2-'o.ly-1-2-';pl Phil aduli,lll.l
"I,IT 0 0 DW A)W'S
'VT 'WHOLESALE AND IZETAIL_
MUSIC STORE,
NO.':: WLST KING ST ItEET
Pianos, Otgans. Melodeons, Plano and Melo
deon stools and CtrVer,, Guitars, Ban
jos, Tamborines, Aeeordeons,
Drains, Flies, Flutes. Flageolets, diarmanieos,
Clappers. Triangles, Strings of all kinds liww
H at r, Tuning Moats,
Cello
Pitch Pipes, Violin
Cello Bo vs. - Vtolin and Guitar Boxes, If I llSte
Portlolios, Instruction Books of all kinds,
Skeet Music, Music Books, and every descrip
tion of Musical Merchandise. All orders tilled
promptly at the usual Retail and Wholesale
Prices, and satisfaction guaranteed.
CZ-Timing and repaid", promptly
WA attended to.
A'. p
r omptl y
deal:o94n No. 1.'2, West King St., Lancaster.
AIRS. (L M. BOOTH,
No. 153 LOCUST SL, coLumnit, PA
IWALEIt
SEC AltS, TOBACCO, SNUFF:I,
PIPES, &e.,
And all articles usually ltrptia n first-class To
bacco 'dad Seger Store The public eau rely on
getting at ourstore as good goods for the nudley
:14 eau be obtained at any similar eStithiliolltielit
ill I1il• State.
Irr I do not tit init. it necessary to publish my
prtees, as the Goods will len for themselves.
:tins. G. yI. 1:00Tif,
- Locust Street,
seinn-Cti-lywj tilitat of the Punch.
OLD H~ - ~IRL. T ES
The Cheap _Boot 3Lither„
Ha FRONT STREET,
\\Mere he will znanuroPtore to order All
or mows Loot, u...ErrEgontt cirEA PEI:, than
any other establlshinent lu the County.
$77..00 w
FII.F.NCIt CALIz 1;OOTS, 8.04); doable-soled 5,7,0
.....;J-11cpairing Neat /:,•• ncl Fro ptly Executed.
All worlc Ararratite,l:l , ; good ag the best. Cttl
and sec the" 01.1 Corey" :At.
No. 119 1 , 11.0 NT Sl'ltEE'l', C01X31111.1, EA,
I;:.NF:7i.XN'S,
MIMI
BM
I.lq. 1
',Corttli.
BEA UTriFUL SNOW.
Oh! the snow, the Ibeautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below;
Over the house tops, over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet
Dancing,
Flirting,
.Iclintning along
Beautiful snow! it can do no wrong,
Flying to hiss a fair lady's cheek,
Clinging, to lips in a frolicsome freak,
Beantifni snow front the heaven above,
Pure as an a rip], gentle aSIOVc
O ! the snow, the beautiful snow,
How the Hakes gather and laugh as they go
Whirling :thout, in their maddening fun,
It plays In its glee with every one—
Chasing,
Laughing,
Hurryin4 by ;
lights on the face and it ,narkles the eye,
`Arrd the tlogti with a bark and a bound,
S;nap at the crystals that eddy around—
The town Is alive and Its heart in a glow,
To welcome the coining of the beautlin
snow !
l Tow witd the crowd goes swaying along,
Itailinn• each other With humor and song
llow the gay sledges, i meteor:: dash by,
llcight for the moment, then 104 to the eye—
Ringing,
:Swinging,
Dancing they go,
Over the crnst of the beautiful snow ;
Snot• :4,1 pure wtteu it falls from the shy,
To be la, trampled In the mud by the crowd
ru,Ling by,
To be trampled and tracked by the thou
:4:1:1d, of feet,
Till it blend, %ratt the filth in tie.; horrible
street.
Once I was pure as the snow—but I !
Full like the ,11•Jw-t1.11,:vs from In , :tven to
hell;
Fall to be trampled rt filth in the street ;
Feu t o b e s cu lled, to be spit on and beat :
Pleading,
Cursing,
Dreading to rile
Selling ins• out to whom vuc would buy,
Lea (mg in shame for a morsel of bread,
Ifating the living and tearing the dead ;
gerelfu! God! have I fallen so low?
And yet I was once like the beautiful snow•
Once I was fair as the beautiful
With an eye late its crystal, a heart like its
glue :
Flattered and suu;ht for the charm of illy
face
Father,
Mother,
God and myself 1' re lost by my 1,01.
The verlest wret(ll that g"es7slilvering by,
Will make a wide swoop lest r wander to
nigh;
I , or all that i.; on or abo. - e In, I know
There is notieng as pare as the beautifall
How strange it should lie that the beautiful
flow
,Slxoultl. fall on a Nlnaer wltltuuwltere to go?
?low strange, ltshoukl be,wlten night c.:onies,
again,
Tithe snow and the lea strikes my despe
rate brain,
Fainting,
Freezing,
Dying alone,
?,' , la wicked fof Prayer, tog weak for a 'aorta.
-rrit,J heard in the streets of the crazy town,
Gone mad in the, Joy of the snow corning
down;
To be and to die in my terrible woe,
With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful
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Iltir.rrltattcotio a;catling
Three Sights from a Book Win-
doll.
history is not at all pat Ocular as to the
places where the acts she puts o❑ record
occur. Whenever something worth re
cording happens— whether in a country
village or a City street, ou a seashore or a
mountain-side—there she is, tablets in
baud, ready to record the facts and to
draw the logical and moral inferences from
them which arc necessary for the instruc
tion of mankind. The green in front of
the meeting-house in Lexington, or the
bridge at i-:(PICOrd,
s•Jobral led Zara - len. stood,
Ilroa the abut heal d ronail I he world
answer her purpose just as well as the
Hiuhts of Ab retain or the plain of Water-
Jo.). What .slit demands is a fact which
stands out from the vulgar level of life,
and which she discerns to be a point from
which great consequences take their start.
One ‘vould not think, o priori, that the
windows of a State-street bank in Boston
would have looked out upon memorable
and cardinal historical events. And yet
the same eyes looked out of such a win
dow at three most waked and momentous
OM
Happening of late to be providentially
in the city of Boston, and having a spare
hour to cetpend upon somebody, we be
thought ourselves of• the venerable poet,
Charles Sprague, wltout we had often been
invited to visit; and we thought we could
not do be' ter fur ourselves than to bestow
our tetli,usuess upon him. This excellent
gentleman, tmw verging upon his eigtiettt
year, is incapacitated by lameness front
leaving his house; and is, Owl-cline, a fit
victim for such a desi:,7l/ as ours, since he
is entirely unable to escape. And he is
so charming in his temper of mind, and
his flow of talk, that his visitors find it
very hard to get away from hint. We
found hint in his house in the heart of
Boston, on Washington street. His par
lors are overrunning with book , , and
pictures, and pail s oliletg and comfortable
chairs, where he delights to receive vis•
itors and make himself perfectly content
when they do not come. One seldom sees
so attractive a picture of a tranquil and
happy old- age—enjoying life and not
afraid of death. Mr. Sprague is as true
a cockney as Charles Lamb himself; and
loves dearly the streets of his native city,
from which he has seldom ventured far.
Few of our wandering Yankee tribe have
staid so much at home as he. We should
hardly be afraid to lay a wager (did we
ever do a thing so contrary to law as well
as good morals) that he has never visited
our riabylon. lie told us that be had not
been in the mijoining town of Cambridge
since he delivered his fine poem " Curios
ity before the Society of the Phi Beta
Kappa, forty years ago. But few men
know mote about the world than he. But
all this is beside our purpose.
It is well known that Mr. Sprague was
for many years the cashier of the Glo e
Bank in :•chose archives his most volumin
ous works are to be found, as those of
Charles Lamb were to be on the shelves of
the India house. Speaking of that part
of his life, after the tar, had taken a wide
range, he said that he had seen three mem
orable sights from the windows of that
bank. " One afternoon," said he, as near
ly as we can recall his words, " I was busy
finishing up my work, after bank-hours,
when I heard a noise in Wilson's Lane;
(The narrow street which has borne the
name of the first minister in Boston for
two hundred and forty years.) "Looking
out of the window opening in that diree.
tion. I saw an exasperated mob dragging
a wan along, without his bar, and with a
rope about him. But," said Mr. Sprague
the wan walked with head erect, calm
countenance., and flashing eyes, like a
martyr going to the stake, full of faith and
manly hope. The crowd turned into
State street, and I saw him no more.
That was the first sight I have to tell of."
None of our readers need be told that the
mob was that of the gentlemen of proper
ty and standing in tine broadcloath" ;an
the ma n in their bands, Garrison, the Ab
olition printer.
Nearly twenty years passed by, and one
morning Mr. Sprague found the street
lined with military of all arms—cavalry
iaCantvy, anti artillery It was not easy
to get to his banki-g .tonic; but reaching
it. with no appetite for business—which.
indeed, was suspended on that traotdi
n•u•ynary holiday—tie looked out. of the bank
window opening, on State street, and pres
ently the second memorable sight e,:ne in
view. Escorted by all the troops in Bos
ton, consisting iof the flower and the bone
anti sinew of her youth and numlmo i,eame
a man closely surrounded by a body of po
lice, whose safe-keeping was the cause of
all this d;splay of force. It was Anthony
Burns, the fugitive slave, on his way to
the vessel which was to take hint hack to
slavery. Thoui2,h not what Dr. Charming
once called "a techinal Abolitionist," Mr.
Sprague felt keenly, as every honorable
gentleman must, in view of such a stain
on his native city. Ou his way home, be
tact an acquaintenance, a business Wall to
WllOlll he expressed his indignation. ••
for me," said this man of property and
standing "I would have that nigger car
ried back, thought the streets of Boston
ran blood. I have never spoken to
that man since," said Mr. Sprague. This
second spectacle was the logical sequence
of the first. The assault on slavery had
aroused all its malignant energies, and
this was the culminating point- aits ap
parent triumph over anti-slavery, in what
was regarded as its strongest hold. It is
but just, however, to add here that very
many of that escort afterward redeemed
the disgrace of that day by faithful ser
vice in putting down the Slaveholders'
lte
bcllioc—encouraged in fact, by that very
act or submission---and not a few washed
it out with their lite blood.
Eight years passed away from that
black second day of June, and then the
third sight presented itself to the eye of
the looker-out of the bank window. It
was summer time again, and a sweltering
day. The street resounded anew to the
sound of martial music and with the meas
ured tread of marching men, and the sun
was flashed back from a thousand bayo
nets. But it was not now a slave borne
back into slavery that those bayonets en
circled. It was men of Anthony Burn's
race that carried theta, on their way to
light and die for the deliverance of their
brethertt is bonds. Young gentlemen,
sons of "men of property and standing,"
officered them ; and at their head rode the
gallant Shaw, a generous scion of a true
New England stock, his fltir young face,
sad but resolute, seeming to confront the
noble death to which he was Intstenill.
The sidewalks were crowded witu specta
tors, the windows filled with ladies; and
so, with shootings and with clappings,
with waving of hankerchicfs and with
showerings of flowers, with smiles and with
tears, that procession passed away, and the
lustration of Boston was finished. These
were the three sights which diversified
with intense moments the monotonous
banking years of the poet, which we wish
we could tell as he told them to us. But
it needs no poetic vision to discern the
connection of the three, and !he place thoy
will find in history.
EVA.NGELINE NOWZIERT.•
FORTY FIVE YE. ns BETROTH ED
The following is taken from a Concord
letter to the Boston Journal :
One of the happiest Thanksgiving din
ners in New Hampshire was in one of our
lovliest rural villages not thirty miles
from Concord. It was the first re-union fur
many years of several generations of a cer
tain family. At the head of the table sat
the venerable grandfather, now 81 years of
age, who is yet a charming picture of
health and strength preserved in a won
dmful degree. He had come alone thou
sands of miles, from the distant West, to
meet his descendants around the festive
board of a married daughter. After the
dinner, what could be snore appropriately
in order than the narrati.n by the grand
sire of the interesting events in what had
proved to him a very romantic life ? His
story was long and fascinating, and some
of its main matures we have gathered for
this letter. We suppress names, but the
facts are already known to not a few.
The hero of the story was bore in the
State of Ncw York, and passed his youth
on a fertile. farm in the valley of time Mo
hawk river. In the course of time he was
engaged to be married. Before the nup
tials were celebrated he became interested
in another young lady, who also proved to
be engaged ; but between them there soon
sprung up a strong intimacy, which on
the part of both was carefully concealed
$2,00 Per Year, in Advance; $2,50 if not Paid in Advance.
from the other parties concerned. They
both were convinced that their existing
engagements were not the result of any
deep-seated love, but that a union between
themselves would be _productive of the
highest earthly happiness. The most sol
emn pledges, however, had been made by
thew, and like honorable persons they
shrunk from the idea of breaking their
plighted faith.
In vain they waited, hoping Clint some
thing might oec.ir which would cause the
other parties to give them release from
matrimonial obligations. .I.t length they
met, as they supposed, quite probably for
the last time, and parted only after pledg
ing each other a love which death only
could destroy. The man married cud mi
grated to the West, and the woman was
united in hymenial bonds and settled on
the shores of Oneida Lake These occur
rences happened nearly 30 years ago The
western adventurer proved a good husband
and a kind father, and grew into middle
age a widely known and influential citizen.
Prosperity attended him and wealth and
tunny friend; came to hint. After twenty
years of m..trried life his wife wa; taken
from bin], but children remained to glad
dcn Iris heart and borne.
Sometimes in the twilight houci as he
gazed over 1t:. broad acres :tod looked upon
his ovcrlluwiug granariei he would think
of his only love, and hope that if she were
living there was never a leanne•s in Imr
basket or store. By and by several of his
children married,and one of them came to
New rrampshire. Years passel on and
his hair became silvery white, bat he had
never visited:the east. When a certain
sweet linage floated in his mind he would
endeavor to forget it and convince him4elf
that quite likely she had long ago passed
away from earth. This conclusive was
strengthened front the fact, that he had
never received in any way a scrap of in
telligence eon eeroing her. After repeat
ed invitatiom3 from his relatives, he con
cluded a rev: months ago to spend with
them in NeW liampshire the then ap
proaching festival or Thanksgiving.
llc reached Albany at the time of the
height of the late great flood, and travel
being much interrupted he stayed over a
few days and accidentally wet some old ae
quaiotance of his youth. During one con-
versation there was casually mentioned the
name of her from whom he had. so sorrow
fully parted.. I,agerly . lte asked. if yras
yet alive , - aircl . hen answered in the af
firmative, tears came to his eyes, and h
told his friends that he must at once set
out in search of her. He was told where
she was living only six months previous,
and thither be went with all possible
haste, but she was not there. Only a
month before she had gone away. fie
learned the direction it was supposed she
bad taken, and again with all possible
speed he pushed forward. But fate seem
ed against him, for further and further
away seemed the object of:his search.
At last, after he bad traveled hundreds
of miles, going often by night as well as
by day, he found the lost anuel of his
youth. Words cannot picture the scene
of the meeting, and over it we kindly draw
a veil. In a moment, as it were, the his
tory of their lives went iu review before
them, and the sad parting of 45 years ago
were again a living reality in their sight.
The many years of their separation had
n u t dimmed their affeethm fur each other
and a bright nod happy future seemed
dawning upon thew. The story of the
woman wa,: one of long toil and suffering.
After ten years of wedded life her lies
baud bad (Lei of lingering di,ease, leaving I
three children.
One after unotller of there treasure;
claimed by death, until alone and friend
less :,he was {cf•t to battle with the world.
For a (tale the thought of one whose
picture was ever in her heart gave her
some encouragement and ,trength ; but at
length she caperienced bitter de,pair, and
to death :,lone site looked f, r relief•. In
such eirctunet.inees was .she found by one
who renewed the pledges of his youthful
affection, and asked that to her happine-s
he might devote. the remainder or his life.
titieh wa, the grand f ;Abu r'b story at the
Thanks t !ivico; dinner, and he closed by
saying that o;.e wec;: ffulll day he IvrtS
Le mart icd ru ber who had been so long
1 0 , t, hut who was at length re•tored to him.
The preparati(,m: for the marriage are
ow iu progre,:,, and nothin: 7 will be
spared to make the occasion one of the
happiest possible. Eelatives and friends
in large numbers, are to be present, many
of them to come a km!: distance, and
bright and numerous are the anticipations
of pleasure. The grandsire feels himself
very young, and he often amuses himself
by telling them what he proposes to do
"when he gets old."
The Age of Our Earth.
Among the astounding. discoveries of
modern sciences is that of the immense
periods that have passed in the gradual
formation of the earth. So vast were the
cycles of the time preceding even the ap
pear= ce of man on the surface of our
globe, that our own period seems as yes
terday when compared with ae epochs
that have gone before it. Had we only
the eYienee of the deposits of rocks heap
ed upon each other in regular strata by
the slow accumulation or materials they
alone would alone would convince us of
the long and slow maturing of God's
works on earth, but when we add to these
the successive populations of whose life
this world has been the theatre, and whose
remains arc bidden in the rocks into
which the Lund, or sand, or soil of what
ever kind, on which they:live has hardened
of the eourie of time—or the enormous
chains of mountains whose upheaval divi
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tied these periods of quiet accumulation
by great convulsions—or the changes of a
different nature in the configurations of
our globe, as the sinking of land beneath
the ocean, or the gradual rising of conti
nents and islands above or the slow growths
of the coral reefs those wonderful sea
walks raised by the little ocean architects
whose own bodies furnish both the build
ing stones and the comet that binds them
together, and who have worked so busily
during the long centuries that there are
extensive countries, mountain chains, is
lands and long lines of coast, consisting
solely of their remains—or the countless
forests that bare grown up'and flourished
and decayed to fill the storehouses of coal
that feed the fires of the human race—if
we conclude all these records of the past,
the intellect fails to grasp a chronology of
which our experience furnishes no data,
and tune that lies behind seems -s much
an eternity to our conception as the future
that stretches indefinitely before us.—
Ayasscz.
Clerks •ani Mechanics.
A coteMpor.ary says, a firm in Boston
advertised for a clerk to fill a subordinate
but laborious position at a :salary so low
that none other but a single man of the
most frugal habits could pArdbly subsist
o n it, and yet they received over three
hundred applications for the place, some
oft hem bringing the highest testimonials
as to character, capacity and long mercan
tile experience. And yet young men
crowd into small clerkships, in the face of
such facts as these, repeated in every
large city, when it is notorious that skill
ful mechanics can earn from S 3 to $5 per
day. The lowest on the list shoemakers
and tailors, earu more than seven tenths
of all those engaged iu the clerkly avoca
tions. 3iason earn S 5, ornamental and
frescoc painters more still on an average,
while a printer, a carpenter, or a black
smith's exchequer, on Saturday night,
shows double the amount of three-fourths
of those employed as clerks- all this is
saying nothing of the opportunitiek on
western lands. Something ought,to be
done to render mechanical 'label- less re
pulsive to fastidious starvelings.
Pe, 31.04i1er Poisons her Child.
A sad case of poisoning occurred about
three miles west of Cedar River, in Mud
Ts township, Michigan, lately. It seems
that Mrs. Varney, from some2ktycx.phAttcti.
cause,d t
Inhreatened to de
stroy herself. Her husband quietly took
it away from her. She then undressed
her little girl, about three years old, and
took her up stairs to bed. Being gone an
unusual length of time, her husband fol
lowed her, and found the mother in the
uct of feeding the child something she
had prepared as food on a plate.
He asked her what she was doing, and
received for an answer that "the little soul
woould be in heaven in ten minutes, and
sbe wouldn't live a great while, at the
same time eating sonic of the preparation
herself, which she said was strychnine,
which proved too true. Mr. Varney took
it from her and then ran to the nearest
neighbor for help, but before he returned
the child was dead. A physician being
immediately called, it is thought the moth
er will recover. Temporary insanity is
suggested, but the woman appears to be
entirely rational, and no solution to the
mystery is known.
A Simp le Post-Office
A German paper says that the simplest
post-office in the world is to be found on
the southern extretnity of America. For
sonic years past a small barrel has been
fastened by an iron chain to the outermost
rock of the mountains overhanging the
Straights of Magellan, opposite Tierra del
Fuego. It is opened by every ship which
passes through the Straits, either to place
letters in it or to take letters from it. This
post,uffice, therefore, takes care of itself,
it is confided to the protection of seafarers
and there is no example of any breach of
this trust having occured. Each ship un
dertakes the voluntary transmission of the
contents of the barrel if their destination
is within the limits of its voyage.
Warning - to youtil.v. Ladies.
At one of the medical college clinics in
New York city, the other day, there vas
exhibited a young lady in a most lament
able state of deformity, caused by wearing
high-heeled boots. Compliant nature hav
ing adapted herself to circumstances, cer
tain mucles—which the learned professor
darkly alluded to as •"gestrocnemi" and
"peronie—had permanently contracted,
elevating the victim's heels far above the
vulgar earth, and converting the transient
illusion of the grecian bend into a stern
reality.
Strength or Spider's Silk.
It may surprise some of our readers to
learn that while a bar of iron, one inch in
diameter, will sustain twenty-eight tons, a
bar of steel the same size, will sustain fifty
tons, a bar of spider's silk of the same di
mensions, will sustain seventy-four tons.
This is based upon a calculation that a fi
bre of silk one four thousanth of an inch
iu diameter, will sustain fifty-foursgraius.
Trilling Mistake.
The trouble has been taken to correct
a Ini:Fprint that occurred in the President's
message, whereby President Grant was
wade to say that the linited. States was
the ''first of all nations" instead of the '
"freest of all nations." As a matter of
accuracy it was well, perhaps, to make-this•
correction ; but really, it didn't make:
much difference. Either word would do.
This is both the first and the freest of na
tions; perhaps the first because the freest.
Ttrigham Young has an idea of setting
up an iron foundry.