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VOLUME XLI, NUMBER 38.1
THE COLUMBIA SPY,
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AT' OR AT LA*.
CITAS. E GAST,
(Office with T. E. Franklin, Esq.)
No. EAST ORANGE ST., LANCASTER, PA
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F. ESII LEM :N,
(Office with Hon. I. E. Eliester,)
No. SS' NORTH DUKE ST., LANCASTER, PA
fely2.6 Ott
pulup BAKER
No. 11 \OIITII - D:"Ii."1 , ; ST., LASUA`;TER, PA
A J. KA UF FMAN,
.2„lie , Ahms maul. in Lancaster and adjoining
,:om
Peaslon-, Bounty, Back Pay, and all claims
-I.ga mst LLc government promptly prosecuted.
Office—No. 21i, Locust street.
1-Ic. VOCCI
COLUMBIA. PA
OFFICE—SPY Bank Streel, near
Locust.
Collections made in Lancaster and adjoining
count/es.
HENRY C. G REBER,
No 52S Washington street, near Sixth,
Reading, Pa.
Collections made in Becks and adjoining
counties. uov27-tt
1A - M. NORTH,
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Columbia, Pa.
Collections promptly made in Lancaster and
York. Counties.
THOMAS J. DAVIS,
No. Ii North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa.
Professional Business carefully and prompt
ly attended to. Loct3o'69-tf
Tl, P. ROSENMILLER, Jn..,
_LY.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
OFFICE.—NO. 5 Court Avenue, Lancaster, Pa,
JOHN M. GRIDER,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, W.:RIVE-NEIL ,S:o.
Mountrille, Lancaster County, Pa.
WI- Office Hours from 6 to S o'clock, A. M.,
and 7 to U o'clock, P. M.
CLARK,
101 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
OFFICE—No. 12 N. Third street.
Office Hours—Front6.to 7 A. M. 12 to 1 P. M.,
and from 6 to 0 P. M. [sepl-69-tfw
SAMUEL EVA.NS,
JUSTICE OF TEE PEACE.
(Mice, on Second St., adjoining Odd Fellows'
Hall, Columbia, Pa.
D ENTAL SURGERY
3. S. SMITH, DENTIST,
Graduate of Pennsylvania College of Dental
Surgery. °nice No. 210Loeust Street
2nd door above Odd Fellows' Hall.
Columbia, Penn'n.
Dr. J. S Smith thanks his Iriends and the pub
lic in general for their liberal patronage in the
past, and assuring them that they can rely upon
having every attention given to then•in the
future, In every branch of his profession he
has MNt ays given entire 'satisfaction. lic calls
attention to the unsurpasssed style and finish
of artificial teeth inserted by him. lie treats
diseases common to the mouth and teeth of
children and adults. Teeth tilled with the great
est care mid in tile most •approved manner.
Aching teeth treated and filled to last for years.
The best 01 dentrilices and mouth washes con
stantly on hand.
N. work wArranted.
sepl-a a.lyty .T. S. SMITH. D. D. S.
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A .
s ROEON DENTIST
Extracts TePOI wtt hollt P:1In, Nitrous Oxide or
LAtighi.ur; U.ts
215 I.oCiftir 6TREET.
ser t 4.49-15 W
B ussELD,
• TEAC,ITELL 01" MUSIC
PIANO,
0 tGA • ,
MELODEON.
CULTIVATION or the VOICE and SINGING.
Sent:Li ativn lion given Beginners and young
219 LOCUST STREEr
J. Z. HOPPER.
ENTIST
Mllll=ll=U=
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Lion of 'roan,
- ()dice— Front Street, next door to R. Williams'
I tru , 4 store, between Locust and Walnut Streets,
Cillllllll/ill P.l.
141 . HINE LE,
IIEYSICIA.N it SURGEON;
offers his prelesskuntl hervices to the citizens of
Columbia and vicinity. He may be found at the
office connected with Ills residence, on Second
street, between Cherry and Union, every clay,
(rum 7tolt .1 M., and troin 6toB P. M. Persons
wisoing his services In special eases, between
these hours, will lea. e word by note at his office,
or threat: Pi the post office. sepl-70
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
The undersigned have opened an office for the
purchase and sate of real esvite, collect ton of
rents, and the renting of property. llusines,
entrusted to their care will meet with prompt
and careful attention. F. X. ZIEGLER.
oet3o-'69-ttij A. J. KAUFFMAN.
TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS. •
uilding, paving and other brick always on
hand. They are hand made and superior to any
brick in this part of the country. They are of
feredatt the very lowest price.
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_MOTELS.
WESTERN HOTEL,
Nc. 1,4: 15 CORTLANDT STREET,
NEW YORK.
THOS. D. WINCLIEF.TER, PROPRIETOR.
This Hotel is central and convenient for Penn
sylvanians.
Misithrit. of Reading, Pa.,
Is an wislstant at this Hotel, and will be glad t."
see h. friends at all times. septl-iis-tfw
" C"TINE>.ITAL."
THIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED,
between the Stallone of the Reading and Colurn
and Pen rr+ylvaula Railroads,
FRONT STREET, COLUMBIA, PA.
AM pic accommodations for Strangers and Tray
:tiers. The Bar is stocked with
CHOICE LIQUOILS, •
And the Tables furnished with the best fare.
UItIAH FEN.7DLEY,
Proprietor.
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FRANKLIN HOUSE,
LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA.
Tlils is a lINt-clat,shotel,end is every respect
-adapted to meet the wishes and desires of the
rtravelinc Public. MARTIN ERWIN,
sepl-70 Proprietor,
r i IItENCH'S HOTEL,
(..n the European Plan, oppoqlte City Hall Park
New York. 11. FRENCH,
Sept. 19. Proprietor.
MIMEI
West Nlarltet Sount e, Refultni 'Remelt.
EVAN MISULER,
Proprietor.
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BITCHE_Ing COLITIFELV.
T C. BUCHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
ORME=
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Wines and Liquors !
Has removed his Store to his Building, adjoining
Haldeman's Store, Locust St., Columbia, Pa.,
where he has fitted up rooms and greatb
increased his facilities for doing
a more extensive business
MISIILER'S CELEBRATED
HERB BITTERS !
PURE AND 'UNADULTERATED,
These Bitters are celebrated for the great cures
they have perlormed in every case, - .vhen tried
Dr. Mishler offers five hartarcd dollars to the pro
prietor of any Medicine that can show a greater
number of genuine certificates of cures effected
by it, near the place where it is made, than
MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS
MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS
Is for sale in Columbia by
J. C. BTiCkIER,
At his Store, Locust Street, Columbia
WINES AND LIQUORS!
Embracing the following;
Catawba,
Port,
Lisbon,
Currant and Muscat WlicES
COGNAC, OF DIFFERENT BRANDS
Also, OLD RYE WHISKEY and
BRANDIES of all kinds
Blackberry
Catawba,
Cherry,
Rum,
XX Old Rye X Old Rye,
Pure Old Rye, Monongahela,
Rectified Whisky, London Brown Stout.
Scotch Ale, &c.
MALT AND CIDER VINEGAR
He Is also Agent for the Celebrated
MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS
POCKET FLASKS,
DEMIJOHNS,
end FANCY ARTICLES, in great variety
MISHLER'S BITTERS!
PURE Sc UNADULTERATED
BEST STOUT PORTER!
From E. ,( G. HIBBERT. LONDON
PURE MALT VINEGAR
Cannot be purchased at any other establish-
ment to town. and ig warranted to keep fruits
and vegetables perfect.
The Best Brunds of Imported
SCOTCH AND LONDON ALE
TO SMOKERS AND CHEWERS
BuellErt. will still keep on liana the
SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO,
SNUFF, HAVANA, YARA, and
COMMON SEGA RS. Also,
SNUFF A; TOBACCO BOXES, PIPES—a
thousand and one varieties. Call at
Locust Street, adjoining. fialdeunin's Store.
It is the greatest es te.b ish men t of the kind this
tide of Pli !lade/ t..!:
ae.Only Agency tor Lees. London Porter, and
kliakiler's Bitters.
Cherry,
Maderia,
Malaga,
Champagne,
Claret,
Rhine,
Blackborry,
Elclei berry,
Jamaica Spirits,
Kurninel.
G ngor,
Gin,
Superior 0/ .1 Rye,
Pure Old Rye,
XXX Old Rye,
AGENCY FOR
FOR SALE
TOBACCO BOXES,
At J. C. Buckimii
For Sate by
J. C. BUCHER
For sale 13)
J. C. 13UCLIER,
Loo net Street, above Front
Agent for the
For Sale at
.Y. C. BUCHER 8
Best Brands of
J. C. BUCHER'S,
COLUMBIA., PA., SATURDAY" MORNING, APRIL 30, 1870.
MIS C.E GLANEOVS.
a - A - i7) - Ii AU GURATIOi
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LOW PRICES.
HOMER, COLLADAY & CO.,
Nos. 1112 & 141.1 Chestnut St.,
PHILADELPHIA,
ARE NOW OFFERING THE WHOLE OF
THEIR
MAGNIFICENT STOCK
-OF
DRESS GOODS, SILKS. &C.
Replete with all the Choicest .Yovelties
of the S,ason.
TOGETTIER WITH
LARGE INVOICES OF DESIRABLE GOODS,
Purchased in this Market for CASTI,
alt ,lstoilishbw Low Prices !
H. C. & CO. conclude that it is only necessary
to quote a few or their offerings as an in.aix of
the prices at which this SUPERB i-TOCK will
be disposed of, to insure an early cad.
HANDSOME DOUBLE-WIDTH CHENE MO
HALMS, CENDS.
DOUBLE-FOLD' FOULARD MOILURS, 15
CENTS.
DOUBLE-FOLD NORWICH POPL IN's, IN THE
NEW I,RAIT SHADES, H CENTS.
HOYLE'S YARD-WIDE ENGLISH PRINTS
25 CENTS.
PRINTED SATIN CLOTH, A NEW ATZTICLE
FOR THE HOUSE OR WALKING COS
TUME, ai CENTS.
ONE CASE OF TT!E FINEST ORGANDIES
IMPORTED, 40 CENTS.
REAL SCOTCII GINGIIAMS, IN ALL COL
ORS, 21 CENTS.
TWO CASES OF FRENCH FOULARD MO
HAIRS. WHICH SOLD BY THE PIECE FOR
65 CENTS, ARE NOW OFFERED AT 56
CENTS.
BLACK LYONS GROS GRAINS AND DRAP
DE LYON, OF THE BEST MAKES, FROM
$1.50 to $8 PER YARD.
WIESE SILKS OF THE LATEST DESIGNS
OP THE PARIS MARKET, AND EXTRA
QUALITY, SOLD LAST SPRING AT $3.25,
.50.
STRIPED SILKS FROM $.1.50 TO $2.00
BLACK CANV S BA REGES , EXTRA SU
PERB QUALITY, 623,4 CENTS.
BLACK. CANVAS BAREGES, 75 CENTS
BLACK CANVAS: BAIIEGES3, ALL WIDTHS
AID QUALITIES, UP TO S 6.
WALKING SUITS, LACE SHAWLS, LACE
POINTS, .c.
ALL AT THE NEW RATES
pr.)! 16-3nl
NO. 13
SHREINER'S
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Where you can buy a firht rate
AMERICAN, ENG (ASH OR SWISS
IV 11'(,' II
BEAUTIFUL SETS OF JEWELRY,
SOME BREAST PINS, EAR RINGS,
SLEEVE BUTTONS,
and almost everything in the Jewelry I•ne
AT THE LOWEST PRICE
Or you cum purchuNe
FINE SILVER AND SILVER PLATED
SPOON'S,
FORKS. KNIVES CASTORS, GOBLETS, ICE
PITCHERS. BUTTER DisIIES Sr.
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WANT 01 , TIME
you Call buy any hind of
AMERICAN _CLOCK,
warranted of ILe lieNt quality, at a low ligure
CULL AND SEE: FOR
Cl-IAS. P. SHREINER'S.
Scrit-iwtfl N 0.13 Front SI., Columbia, Pa
BEIM
j B. KEVINSKI,
DEALIM
PIANOS, OLWANS, MELODEONS
AND MUSICAL I.I`;TEUMENTS
GENERALLY.
A large asaorttnent of Violin.,
Banjo., Act•ordeon-, I Inz
rnonleas, ohd 11111,e:11 131111'1 . 111itliil,e 0,1i,ay,. on
hand.
SHEET MUSIC.
A large ',Wel: on hand, and eonmantly receiving
all the latest public tious as soon :is v,..tn.d.
311131 e and :Musical Bunk. will be sent In - maul
free of postnee, when the twirl:et pt lee i. remit
ted.
1) AC A L CO 31 A N lA,
Or the Art of transferring Picture , . Can be
transferred on any object.
.I. would call speelal attention of the Coach
makers to my tgovk of llacaleoinanht.
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STEINWAY .5: SON'S PIANOS, PRINCE
NEEDITAM ...1c SON'S CI:MEHL:A..
ORGANS AND MELODEONS.
Sole Agent for Stoll's Unrivaled PIANO
FORTE AND FURNITURE POI.I I.
Call and examine lay Sloelc at
NO. 3 NORTH PRINCE STHE
LA.tiCASTER,
MM=ll
S. E. cur. 9th & Market Sts.,
PHILADELPIHA.
Raving rebuilt their store, will open about
October Ist, with an elegant stock, tt . which
they Invite no exaleination.
Upwards of seventeen years of act ve busi
ness at their present local ion, enables them to
Judge of the wants of their patrons, to buy at
the inweht prices and to sel I at the Ninallest war
gill of prom. Full lines of
BLACK SILKS,
DRESS STUFFS,
SILK VELVETS,
CLOAKS, SHAW Is,
HoSIEItY. TIES,
HANDKERCHIEFS,
COLLARS, CU El 'S. ,te.,
wHITE GooDE.4,
I:LN:ls:in.:Ts, QUI L S.
}IUSLINS, LINENS,
CASSIMERES, CLOTI•tS,
CLOAKING*,
VELVETEENS, eze..
COOPER: S CONARD,
S. EL car. th Morhet Sts.,
Philtnielph ht.
0 g.—THE FOLSOM II E
PROVED TWNTY-
Ad./ FIVE DOM,A It RA 3.11 LY SEWING
§ACIIINE. The cheapest Flist-Clig.s Machine
In the market. Agents wanied 111 every :own.
Liberal comml,ston allowed. F r terms nod
circular address A.S. HA3III.TuN, Get'. Agent,
00 ChestnutNo.7 St.,..Phlra, Pn. apllo-3m
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO OECEAr AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE BO LASTING."
'We meet to-nlah I to dedicate this hall.
Here weshall gather, when the toils of day
Are past and faded, and the twilight s fail
Summons us where the taper's glimmering
ray
Lights up the word of patriot bard and sage,
The classic lore of every clinic and age.
Here we shall bring at times the weary brain,
The heart, o'er worn with the world's :416:n( ng
cares,
And strive in learning's precincts to attain
The highest of truth's waiting altar stairs;
To glean from fields of workers gone before,
And leave our cares and doubting , : at the door
And if at times perchance the printed page
Shall bring to us some comfort and relief,
Shall tell us 01,01110. .tetOr on life's stage,
Who found life's action, antidote for grief;
Then we shall leave the knowledge-seeking
throng,
Knowing ice too can " suffer and be strong."
Nor shall the lighter products of the mind
De lacking here; the Poet's cheerful lay
Shall soar and sing, leaving dull earth behind,
Free as the air, and lithesome as the day,
Till with Ills thoughts our own shall rise and
soar
To find a natal clime, a happier shore.
Within this hall, the mercury of the press
Around the world its girdlingarms shall pass,
fn forty minutes, whether more or less, 4,
end hold up to events the magic glass.
And n•e shall se, each pas.ing paragraph
Recorded by the pen or telegraph.
nuin.t. sill!' leave their itri-
Pres , here.
Aral foot print, trace upon the passing hours,
Mnkiriu tier paths of knowleage bright. and
•
clear,
Till wisdom's buds shall blossom into flowers.
leavinz this hall, our minds shall bear away
Its trea , ures to en ebb us day by clay.
Each hook and paper here shall be a friend,
Can,trrtanuin welcome arms toall mankind.
The ivorl I's ',trite within these walls
shall cud,
And In these. predncts, !Mild converse with
ni
glance In intelleatual span
I=iolll 111811 to-day, to j.re-historic man.
Not here will end the influence that it casts
Ilload on the water, Bice the sower', seed;
it, germs n ill sLll survive the storms and
And bring bark to oar home, a glormm; meed
Perchance the future ruler here may hind
The lit Nt itch food to urin.e the giant mind.
The granger here shall find Colulabia's seal
Of inlelleet, In lore to alt made free:
And seeing this w:th in, himself shall feel
I'l at by thu. fruit he well may Judge the Ire.
Where'er Ilse town's benelleenee 1113 y fall,
is the noblest imgitute Of all.
We welcome you to-night ,mt.tretchea
hands.
Gathered with us this hall to dedicate
To lore of native, and of dist:nit land.—
And with us in our hope, participate.
here learning's ray's" shall letee Ui mind's
dull gloom,
Welcome tv. ice welcome!! to our ltr...tnmi
Room.
*" PII put a girdle round the earth in forty
Minute,"
(Mercury in Shakspeare',, tempest.)
`aliistellancou )3cguling. ,
WHOM A MECHANIC SHOULD I•EADEY.
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Of late years thew has been a tendency
among poor young mechanics to go out
of their sphere and surroundings in search
of wives. By some strange inconsistency
men who live by the labor of their hands
and the sweat of their brows are becom
ing every day more prone to undervalue
women whose estate in life is similar to
their own. This is especially the case
with poor and struggling mechanics . in
large cities. They are beginning to look
with contempt upon the robust frame,the
clear eye, the ruddy cheek, and the alert
step of the sensible American girl who
does " the work " in her father's family,
or who goes out "to live " in some re
spectable family, or who follows any oc
cupation involving manual labor, if they
be conjoined with the hard red hand and
the homely calico dress of every day work.
They are beginning to slight 1 his man
ner of women, for the pale-faced. limp
figure, hollow-chested sewing girl. who
works "by the piece. — or creeps abjectly
from house to house, or %VIM. in some
dark, bad smelling, over-crowded work
room, wears her life away, day after day,
because. forsooth, it is "more respectable"
than to put her hands to any more Vigor
ous use, which might perchance soil them.
She must not soil her hands, even to saNT
her health and her life. The pale un
healthiness of this girl, her tawdry finery
of dress, has become a badge of gentility
in the eyes of the mechailic. For her
sake, he turns away from the healthier
and more helpful woman to her inferior.
who has grown up without two definite
ideas in her head as to the management
and ordering of a poor man's home, and
who has not the least inclination for put
ting her hand to anything ontsiihe of the
work enforced by her calling.
To the mechanic I vvoial say. do not
despise any honest calling because it in
volves labor with the hands. Above all.
yon should be proud of your profession.
and not make your friends among those
who are apt to view it with a supercilious
disdain. You know well enough that not
nine out of ten among sewing girls have
the genuine good sense to prefer a me
chanic to a clerk. especially if the mechan
ic is just beginning life. Anil yet rightly
viewed, your calling is immensely more
conducive to moral and physic:el health.
and to mental improvemt. than the body
washing and soul-contracting occupation
of a half starved clerk in a petty store.
And it ought to give you sympathy for
other workers with the hand. Reflect for
a moment as to what are t he qualifications
most needed in a meolianio's n ife. She
ought to be strong and vigorous, bright,
cheerful and industrious. Von expect her
to be the mother of pair children. You
want those children to be strong-lif abed
and healthy, so that they may make each
his own way in the world.
O. 13
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Good health and an independent and
couragous spirit are the hest fortunes
they can inherit from you. under any cir
cumstances. ITow can you expect a puny
pale, emaciated. and spiritless creature.
whose limbs have perhaps I 15. en fully
exercised in the whole course of her life,
to hear you such children? Yen need to
be thrifty, to ecomnuize, s.) that you may
get on in your business, and your wife
ought to he capable of getting on without
help at home, if your circumstances re
quire it. But how can you expect this of
a girl who has never in her life to put her
Laud to anyo•work about the Louse,' upd
who has not the smallest idea of what is
lioctrtt.
DEDICATORY
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BY 110 WAD C: LYDON
meant by " getting dinner," except where
the eating part comes in, after it is cook
ed, seeing that she has always lived in the
attic of some cheaping boarding house?
Young man! If you are a mechanic,
don't make a fool of yourself when it
it comes to getting a wife. March boldly
up to the puppet of straw called " genteel
appearances," which is set np in your path
by addle-pated simpletons,and dissect it at
your leisure. If keeping up a " genteel
appearance" means marrying a girl with
out health, strength or spirit, because she
has white hands and a little waist, and
comes to you in a tawdry silk dress and
pinchbeck earrings, and knows how to
"play the piano," (?) do you steer clear
of it.
If you ever find an American girl who
has so much regard for her health and so
much contempt for appearances as to "go
out to work" in a respectable family, in
preferene to being cramped up all day
over her needle, and if she be bright eyed,
and clear-voiced, and supple, and erect
with well-kept hair, clean and whole cali
co dress, nice linen collar and neat feet,
don't you be such a fool as for one moment
to contrast slightingly her honest, hard,
red hands with the limpy sallow - ones of
and vain and lazy creature, without a
fraction of her true and independent wo
manhood!
Yon want a wife who is able to get up
and get your breakfast at four or five
o'clock in the morning, if need be, with
out thinking it any hardship—to keep
your house in apple-pie order, and make
it a resting place for you when your day's
work is over; and such a woman, the one
who could do all this, I dare be sworn,
will have a good common education, and
be better able to keep up with you in the
matter of mental improvement than a
more showy woman, with greater preten
tious of gentility. She has probably given
to self-improvement the time which the
other has given to dress. We look down
too much upon manual labor.—That is
why the ranks of the clerks and the
seamstresses are so fearfully crowded.
Mechanics ought to marry the sisters
and daughters of mechanics; they ought
to marry country girls—farmers' daugh
ters. In so doing, they will lay the found
ation of substantial comfort and solid re
spectability. While on the other hand,
mismatches with superficial women gen
erally bring ruin upon the household and
prevent the mechanic from saving his
money and rising to a better position in
life; and oftener still drive him to the
bar-room and the dram shop.
There is no greater mistake made among,
those laboring with the hand, than the
mulerating of the dignity of faithfully ex
ecuted manual labor.—X. ikehanic.
ROMANTIC STORY OP A NEWSBOY
The Boston correspondent of the Chica
go Joanna tells the following:
Years ago, about the time the war
broke out, one of the shrewdest newsboys
that ever sung the song of the bulletin
imardt. or Nmalled -the extra, i s o
get down into Virginia with a Masaschu
setts regiment. and finally controlled the
exclusive sale of New York and Boston
papers, in the wake of a sutler. Ile was
fifteen years old at the time, but he had
the business capacity of a merchant's clerk.
All he needed was opportunity, Brains
was his capital, for the most part. In the
course of it year the newsboy accumulated
$2.700, which lie invested in tobacco and
segars and smokers' goods generally. Be
ing g clever. accommodating boy, he
made friends with everybody. and conso
'lucidly did a thriving business. :After
while he got out of the tobacco business,
and went to Washington, where lie hung
out his shingle as a grocer, in a small way;
and having an extensive acquaintance
among the -Massachusetts soldiers, mid
kniuving almost every officer of note, he
established a large trade in the way of fur
nishining, luxuries, etc.. for officers and
their friends, and finally his place became
a sort of headquarters for the out fit of
settlers. When the war closed, and after
Grant and Lee held that memorable con
fab nnder a certain apple tree. our news
boy found himself good for Stiff,ool) or $90,-
000. But he did not leave Washington
with the return of peace. lle lingered
there until profits were small and trade
was On the wane. and when lie did leave
for Boston be brought home with him the
heart of a young heiress. which he lied
the year before attacked. ILltd which had
capitulated to him.
The event which rendered the young
lady an heiress were fraught with sorrow.
When she was but a helpless, wailing
baby, her mother fled her home and child
and was divorced. her only brother, a
wild, but high-spirited youth, shocked at
his mother's egualuet, put to sea in a mer
chant vessel engaged in the China trade.
The vessel perished. and the crew were
never more heard of. Her father, whose
s o le heiress she now was, sent the young
lady to a fAshionalik , boarding school. (it
was the year the rebellion commenced),
wlmie she melnainol until her eighteenth
year. She had learned to sing, dance,
play. and dress fashionably and was well
acquainted with the names or natures of
patrifitisin, beneficence. social duty or
moral responsibility: and life seemed to
her a gorgeous banquet. She went to
Washington with some friends, hoping to
captivate some young. brave and affluent
mid noble man, in the career of fasldona
life. when she was met by the perambula
ting Boston newsboy, who proved himself
as shrewd in love matters as he had been
in business affairs.
It is unneecessary to add that the intel
ligent glances of a pair of the handsomest
hazel eyes in the universe reached down
into the palpitating, heart of the heiress,
and after a while, to make a long story,
short, the epistolary correspondence con
veyed by Uncle Sanmel's mail-hags be
tween a certain quiet town in Maryland
and the Boston post-office was increased,
nor WaS it diminished until the two "souls
with but a single thought, two heart's
that heat as one," were made man and
wife. The event occurred on Washing
ton's birthday, in this city. The young
man says he owes his success in life thus
far to a diligent attention to business,
honesty, goalwaditiveness, and a polite
treatment. of both friends and strangers.
Nawshoys, even the raggedest gamen of
them all, can learn a lesson from this bit
of history.
THE New York papers say the spring
suits for the ladies there are ornamented
with evert• thing "from Jacob's ladder to
a pen-wiper, in silk.
MORE THAN ROMANTIC
George Alfred Townsend writes to the
Chienga Tribune:
Paul Beales was a bank cashier, at or near
Williamsport, Pa., along about the year
'49. In those days there were no express
companies, and once a month, or once a
quarter, Paul Beales, like all bank cash
iers in Interior Pennsylvania had to go to
Philadelphia to adjust his balances with
the bank which corresponds with his own.
Paul started one day with $30,000, which
he was to take in person to the Farmers'
and Mechanics' Bank, and he arrived in
Philadelphia the next day at noon. Ile
was a temperate, virtuous, respected mar
ried man, popular with everybody and
well-to-do.
But on this occasion Paul Beales was
possessed with the devil of postponement
and being tired with travel, he did not
promptly go to the bank, but lounged
about the hotel till recklessness, that nev
er came before, come to him and suggested
that lie might make a night of it. In a
few minutes he was in a gambling saloon,
and had shortened his account some thou
sands of dollars.
The next morning the bank received
three-fourths of the money from Williams
port by an anonymous hand, and Paul
Beales was missing. They searched for
him, high and low, in vain. It was be
lieved that he had been murdered, and his
widow put on mourning, while all this
community grieved for him.
About that time there arrived in Cali
fornia one Daniel Clarkson, a fine looking
affable man with little money but big will
and he plunged into the mining and busi
ness. Ire was honest and popular, and
every mall, woman and child learned to
love him. Ile was married after some
years, to a tine Pacific woman, one who
was a dead shot with a pistol and had all
the virtues that bloom beyond the Sierra
Nevadas, and in course of time we had
nominated Daniel Clarkson for AP2OlyO
- or Mayor of the city of San Fran
cisco.
While he was walking one day on _Mont
gomery street. a man from Pennsylvania
stepped up to him suddenly and putting
out his hand said:
Paul, how do you do ? •
Right well, I thank you, sir,' exclaim
ed Daniel Clarkson ; but' after a pause
you have mistaken me for some one
else.'
' Excuse me,' said the man, 'but I
thought I had found Paul Beales. of
Will iamsport, Pennsylvania.'
Daniel Clarkson continued on down
the street. and pretty soon ho came to a
daguerreotype saloon, before the door of
which, conspicious in a show case, hung a
Portrait of himself, the most popular man
in San Francisco. Bearded and grown
older, and with that look of philosophic
thought which wide expefience gives, he
the prompt resolve to Int` a picture of
Daniel Clarkson and send it to the Mayor
of Williamsport, to inquire if it resembled
in any manner the missing Paul Beales.
This, perhaps, was the madness which
lets out murder, but, confident and self
possessed, the fugitive cashier did it. The_
Mayor and his friends mused over the
picture, and saw a resemblance, but at
last concluded to abide by the decision of
the widow of Paul Beales. She had been
waiting all those years, hopeful that the
drops of time would give up their secret
sonic clay, and when she saw the picture
of Daniel Clarkson she recognized her
husband, and fell fainting to the floor.
At that day a wretch subsisted in Cali
fornia who earned his ignominious bread
by blackmailing the citizens in the col
umns of his vile print. He began by call
ing Clarkson a bank robber and a thief,
and said that he was a fine figure for
unyementa. He tilled his paper with
the name of Paul Beales, and the whole
city looked up astonished to see its most
respectable merchant blackmailed in this
way. If Daniel Clarkson had killed the
blackmailer he would have been justified
on every side. Not so. He protested
that he had always been Daniel Clarkson,
and that he never heard of Paul Beales,
and so solemnly did he aver this that not
one of his friends wavered in his support.
But the printing wretch grew more cir
cumstantial with every issue, and at last
the friends of the merchant said:
"Clarkson you must go back to Williams
port and show yourself. You must fate
this thing. We believe you. and will see
you through."
Ile said with all cheerfulness, that he
would take the first steamer, and so he
did accompanied by many supporters, and
cheered as the ship left the dock by a great
crowd. lie left behind him in San Prim
c isco two hundred thousand dollars' worth
of property.
As the ship's company was crossing the
Isthmus of Panama, on mules, Daniel
Clarkson was missing somewhere on the
way, and for three years he disappeared
anew. At last they found him working
in a candle factory in Cincinnati, (11 . es-wit
like a laborer, and poor, and desperate.
The California boys put him on his feet.
They said:
"Clarkson, there is only one way to do
this thing. Begin at the begining. and
return to Williamsport to your wife."
Ire said he would do all they asked.
They paid the money he had ahscon ded
with and lost. They persuaded the wife
he had in California to give him up quiet
ly. Ills own wife, who had lived all alone
these years, was glad to have him back on
any terms; and there lie lives to this day,
near Williamsport, a tolerably old man
and his story is one of the reminiscences
of our coast.
TEE MG= TO SLAY A SEDUCE&
The Rev. Charles B. Smyth, of the
Eleventh Street Presbyterian Church,New
York, in a sermon preached on Sunday
from the tenth verse of the twentieth
chapter of Leviticus, apropos of the Rich
ardson-McFarland case, maintained the
old Mosaic doctrine as laid in his text, and
said that the doctrine that a man should
be allowed to violate the seventh command
ment with impunity is absorb. It is op
posed to the instincts of human nature.
The offense is one that pierces the heart of
the injured one with a poisoned arrow
that sets his nerves on fire and consumes
all his joys sud his hopes. It wounds his
brain and sends his reason reeling. It meets
a spontaneous, ungovernable instantaeons
resistance, which seeks the life of the
offender, 'mad or not mad.' Now, from
the facts that God himself decreed death
as the punishment for adultery, it follows
that death is the natural and proper
punishment for that crime. And if it is
so how comes it to pass that nations under
the sway of modern civilization, professd
ly Christian, have not affixed that penalty
to the offense?
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lI:STAMM IN 1.1:7E
There is no more prolific cause of re
pining and discontent in life than that
found in looking back upon by-gone mis
takes. The word "if ' is on all our lips,
in accounting for the various evils which
beset us, and we are fond of persuading
ourselves and others that could certain
crisis have been decided differently, our
whole course in life would have been one
of unmingled success, instead of the par
tial failure that is so frequently appears.
This melancholy review is not wholly
erroneous. None can tell how weighty
may be the results of even trifling actions
nor how much of the future is bound up in
every-day decisions. We can never calmly
revise our past life, without being con
scious of having Wien far short of the
ideal with which we started, and, com
pared with which, the reality seems indeed
but a confused medley of unfinished be
ginnings.
The great error men make in this revi
sion is in attributing their failures to
circumstances, instead of to character.
They see the mistakes which lie on the
surface, but fail to trace them back to the
sources from which they spring. The
truth is that crisis are the occasions for
bringing out predominating points of
character. They are tests of the nature
and qualities of the man, rather than
en uses of future success or failure. Chances
are lost, and opportunities wasted; advi
sers ill chosen, and disastrous specula
tions undertaken; unhappy attachments
formed and ill-sorted marriage contracted;
but there is nothing properly accidental
in these steps. They are to be regarded
as the results of unbalanced character as
much as causes of future misery. The
disposition of mind that led to these errors
would, under other circumstances have
led to different, but not less lamentable,
results.
We see this clearly in judging of others.
We attribute their mischances without
compunction to the faults that we see in
them, and sometimes even make cruel
mistakes in the investigation; but in re
viewing our own course, self-love draws a
veil over our imperfections, and we per
suade ourselves that unavoidable mistakes
or unfortunate circumstances are the en
tire cause of all our misfortunes. This
spirit of mind soon leads us to implicate
also friends and connexions, and where
blame is inevitable, to throw it upon oth
ers, rather than to accept our full share.
If a mistake is acknowledged, the respon
sibility is shifted on our advisers, and
even where admitting defects too glaring
to be entirely ignored, they are usually
blamed upon a defective education, and
the guardians of youth arc made the sole
offenders. It is true that no circtunstan
ce.s are always favorable; no training
perfectly judicious; no friends wholly
wise; yes he who is ever shifting the
blame of his mischances upon these exter
nal causes, is the very man who has the
most reason to trace them to his own in
herent weakness or demerits.
It is questionable whether the habit of
- looking much, at mistakes, even of our
own, is a very Piofitable one. ,Certainly,
the practice of moaning over and bewail
ing them, and charging upon them all the
evils that afflict us is most injurious to
our future course, and the greatest hin
drance to any real improvement of char
acter. Acting from impulse and not from
reason, is one of the chief causes of these
mistakes. and lie who would avoid them
in the future will submit all his sudden
impulses to the searching and penetrating
upon them. Above all, the steady forma
tion of virtuous habits, the subjection of
all action to principle rather than policy;
the stern and unilinehable adherence to
right, as far and as fast as it is discovered
are the best safeguards against mistakes
in life. If these are cultivated, and ob
served, we shall look back upon past er
rors, not to bemoan them or to blame
others for them, but only as a means of
avoiding them in the future, by controll
ing the evil and developing the good points
of our characters.
wALEDT. G ERECT.
Walking erectly not only adds to the
manliness of appearance, but developes
the chest and promotes the general health
in a high degree, because the lungs, tieing
relieved of the pressure made by having
the head downward and bending the chest
in. admit the air freely and fully down to
their very bottom. if an effort of the
mind is made to throw the shoulders back,
a feeling of tiredness and awkwardness is
soon experienced, or is forgotten. The
use of braces to hold up the body is neces
sarily pernicious, for there can be no bra
ces which do not press upon some part of
the person more than is quite natural,
hence it eannot fail to impede injuriously
the circulation of that part. But were
there none of these objections. the brace
would adapt itself to the bodily position,
like a hat or shoe or new gan•meut. and
would cease to be a brace.
TO seek to maintain an erect position, or
to recover it when lost, in a manner which
is at once natural, easy and efficient, it is
only necessary to walk hal ituallywithithe
eye fixed upon an object ahead, a little
higher than your own, thc• eve of a house,
the top of a man's hat, or simply keep
your chin a little above the horizontal line,
or it will answer to walk with your hands
behind you; if either of these things is
done, the necessary. easy. and legitimate
effects is to rebel e the chest ft om pressure,
the air gets in more easily, develops it
more fully, and permeates the lungs more
extensively, causing a mote perfect purifi
cation of the blood. imparting higher
health more color to the cheek,and compel
ling a throwing out of the toes. To de
rive the highest benefit from walking
hold up the head, keep the mouth shut,
and move briskly.
F; remember that, some years ago, the
old Independence bell in the steeple of the
hall in Philadelphia, being cracked, a hell
founder, who was employed to repair the
damage, abstracted a few ounces of the
precious metal and converted it into tiny
bells for charms and appendages to watch
chains, and so eager was the demand that
any price could be obtained for them. It
was so good a speculation that other man
ufacturers took the hint, and ere long tons
of little bells purporting to be from the
Simon Pure hell that proclaimed "Liberty
throughout the land and to all the people
thereof.'' were in the market and obtain
ing ready sale. And it would now be im
possible for the possessor of these precious
relics to determine which is the genuine
or which the spurious; nor, to any sensi
ble man, 'would it make any difference,
their intrinsic value being precisely the
same.
[WHOLE NUMBER, 20,838.
VIE DELTA MASONIC GRIP.
Major James Garrison, of Le Roy, New
York, though a small man, had a most
powerful grip of hand. It was like a
smith's vice whenever he chose to exert
its strength. It was one night in the
height of the anti-masonic excitement of
1836-7-S, that a silly "anti," by the name
of Smith, came into Le Roy and sought
out the major, saying that ho had heard
that he, the major, could give the real
master masonic's grip, and that he bad
come over eighty miles on foot to obtain
it. The meeting took place in the bar
room of the village tavern, where, as
usual, many persons were congregated,
who, knowing the strength of the major's
grip, were on the lookout for fun. Rav
ing according to the custom of those days,
first taken a drink, the major extended
his right hand and slightly grasped that
of Smith.
Are you ready?" asked the major
"All readyrreplieel Smith
The major, steadily looking Smith in
the eye, began to tighten his grip, Smith
became uneasy and began to wince.
Tighter and tighter grew the major's
grip, and Smith began to beg to be let off,
"Why, this is only the entered appren
tice grip," said the major, "I will now
give you the fellow craft," and the major
gave his hand vice several more turns,
which caused groaning and many ludi
dons contortions on the part of Smith,
who lustily begged to be led off—said he
was satisfied, and did not want any more
grips. The major, however, was inexora
ble, and held on to Smith, all the time
shaking his hand and every shake causing
a groan.
" Now," said the major, "having come
a long way to get the real master mason's
grip, it would be wrong in me to let you
go home without it." "T here it is," said
the major, "the real master mason's grip,
and one that you will not soon forget;"
and at the same time exerting to the ut
most his great muscular powers, causing
the bones of Smith's hand to crack, and
the blood to start from under his finger
nails—Smith in the meantime hallooing
with pain. "Go home," said the major,
" and tell your anti-masonic friends that
if any of them want the master mason's
grip to come to me, for I flatter myself
that I can give it as well as any other
man.
The major gave one more turn of the
vice, and then released the victim. The
next day Smith, with his hand done up in
a poultice, started for home, entirely sat
isfied with the masonic information he
had so painfully obtained—a wiser if not
a better man.
Tiu following paragraphs from "Re
collections of curious characters possess
local interest:
" Old Fenschtermucher," in my boyhood
was a well known character in the Done
gals, and in Rapho and Westhempfield
townships. • His range may have been
wider, but phaps be was best known in
the tow nships named. He always carried
a bundle slung on his back; aLtd44o l o o
rim through it, which was
"shoulder." • Ile seeinedt : „
the go," summer Micr." - wi.r.
" wandering Jew," and always
inquiry for "catnip plants." He had been
one time in his days, a thrifty farmer, but
from some adverse circumstances became
reduced, and mentally unhinged. Ho
thought people ought to give more atten
tion to the cultivation of -Catnip. If un
molested he was generally harmless, but
somewhat irritable, and when offended,
was exceedingly slanderous. and unhesi
tatingly attacked the fairest characters.
I think he (lied somewhere about the year
1826.
" -Ifahison," a, tall, strarght-haired.
copper-colored "gentleman," said to be
half African and half Aborignal. Raised
I believe somewhere in the neighborhood
of Columbia, Pa., where the elder 3fahtson
resided. lie was the pretended heir of all
that land now occupied by Columbia, and
a goodly portion of that above and below
it. Ile never realized , anything more of
his vast presumptive inheritance, than as
much of the distilled juice of its several
products, as by "hook or by crook" he
could contrive to place himself " outside
of," and which was, perhaps, all he ever
really cared about.
T itana is said to be a paper in Philadel
phia which has one wood-cut. It was en
gaged originally to represent Arthur
Spring, but the proprietor liked it so much
that he determined to keep it on hand
run it into the paper whenever anybody
else was hung. or died, or was elected, or
made a speech. And so every time a por
trait was wanted, this wood-cut was al
tered to tit it. First the hat was cut
down: then the nose was chisseled into v -
rions shapes; then the eyes were gouged a
little; then the beard was altered and the
cheeks hollowed out. It never at its best
looked like any human being that ever
existed in this wide world; but that made
no difference, for the proprietor always
run it right in every time with a fresh
name and a biographical sketch. It has
served already for James Buchanan, Jeff.
Davis. Probst, General Grant, Susan B.
Anthony, Mayor Fox, Senatoritevels, Ar
tellies Wald, Daniel in the lion's den,
Winnemore, Jefferson as Rip Pan TRakte,
Ristori, Asa Packer, Governor Curtin,
and a score or two of others. It is some
what rustle now, that old wood-cut is,
but the owner clings to it with unalterable
affection, and, the first time anybody does
anything alarming, in it will go again
with a new sketch. This won't make any
difference now, because the block is very
much worn, and when the picture is
printed you can't tell, to save your life,
whether it is intended for a man's face or
for a study of a simoon in the Desert of
Sahara.
A TALKTNG match lately came oft at
Yew Orleans for five dollars a side. It
continued for thirteen hours, the rivals
being a Frenchman and a Kentuckian.
The bystanders and judges were all talked
to sleep, and when they woke up in the
morning they found the Frenchman dead
and the Kentuckian whispering in his ear.
Two Irishmen were one day engaged in
roofing a house, when - one or them lost
hold and fell to the ground. The other
hastened to him,. and inquired when he
found him lying prostrated add still,
"Mickey! Mickey: are you dead?" "tio,"
replied Mickey; "not dead but spache
less. . .
LEGACY—The 'spice white embalms
your memory.
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