Vje extuntyia F0C1J.111.... J. NIT.VOCIEd, Publishers and JA. IVOLVEILSBERGER,S Proprietors. Columbia, Pa. Staurday Dec. 24, 1870. A Town Meeting. Who Seconds the Motion ? A. public meeting of the citizens of Co lumbia has been called for the evening of Thursday, the 29th inst., at the Town Hall, to discuss the propriety :of encour aging the establishment of manufabtories in our Borough. The citizens of Marietta have already set us a good example, and there is no reason why we should not be doing all.we can for ourselves, in , the same way. Columbia has many natural advantages, and if capital and enterprise from other places was broughthere, much good could be accomplished. We think the m?.tter is scarcely debatable, and therefore briefly say, let us unite and do what we can to advance the interests of Columbia. Let there be a full turn out. Let no man stay at home. The Express and Free Trado. In response to our article on the Tariff question last week, the Express says that it declines further controversy on the gen eral subject of the Tariff, because we did not give verbatim, a resolution of the iron men of Columbia, passed during the pen ding of the Tariff. bill. We did not give it because we did not have a correct copy; but in its absence stated virtually the tenor of the resolution. This the Express seizes as a pretext for declining further controversy, and then complains of mis representation. • To the intelligent reader of the „Express such a plea is of all others the most ab surd, and the most inconsistent.. The whole article of the Express, in question is full of misrepresentations of our posi tion, and its readers well know that the editor of that paper is proverbial for just such tricks. The wax iu Europe and the prospect of its continuance have had the effect of in creasing the demand, the Express to the contrary notwithstanding. Any pros pective market, which may make a de mand beyond the regular consumption, will advance prices, and our free trade cotemporary knows this fact in political economy as well as its readers. In our last issue we gave facts and figures about the cost of manufacturing iron, and showed the net gain, without counting interest on capital, on a ton of manufactured article. Now as the value of the raw material is a mere bagatelle in the whole cost, and can not be reduced, either much or little, ~and as the great bulk of the cost is in labor, i. e. the wages paid, it follows that when the tariff is re duced, and the market value of iron is re duced to the same extent by the immedi ate.competition of, the pauper labor of Europe, then wages must come down ; for the manufacturer must curtail his ex penses, and reduction of wages is the only means whereby this can, be accom plished. Hence the Express in advocating Free Trade, out of charity (!) to British capi talists and monopolies, and in opposition to American labor, is only striking at the happiness and comfort and wages of the laboring man : and this cannot be gain sayed. In tilt; light the course of the Express is regarded. A CORRESPONDENT of the Lancaster Intelligence; in great agony of soul, com plains that a negro has actually been se lected 'as a juror in York county. Just think of it, it is perfectly awful. This negro no doubt had the impudence during the Rebellion to shoulder the musket and risk his life in preventing the rebels from overturning the goveinment, which is certainly a very henious offense in the eyes of some people. Now, that as a freeman he should be invested with civil rights, pay his taxes and be selected as a juror in common with other citizens, according to the law of the land it is perfectly ridicu lous. If he, like Judge Black and some other notables of York, had cordially greetdd the rebels as they marched into their town in 1863, and entertained and dined with some of the rebel officers while others were levying an assessment of $lOO,OOO upon the citizens, it would have been a much nobler act, and more consonant to, copperhead proclivities and character. But for a negro to defend his home and his country, and afterwards en joy the rights and privileges guaranteed him by the laws of his country as other citizens and tax payers do, it is really horrible. That Nigger ought to be asham ed of himself and sent to the enlightened State of Delaware where he could be soundly thrashed for his presumptuous impudence. A nigger juror indeed! Why he isn't half as good a citizen as Jeff Davis or Judge Black. State Treasury Nearly all the newspapers of respect able-standing have spoked out earnestly in favor of the election of a State Treas urer in the interest of the Commonwealth -and yet there seems to be certain symp toms that all these evidences of the wishes of the people will not have that weight which they ought to have. There is in short, we fear, as there has been for some years past, a willingness to set public opinion at defiance, and to execute schemes which have been formed in the interest of CR,itlllll individuals. This is all wrong, says the Village Record,—dan gerous to the party—and should no longer be - ttleight :of. 'All good Republicans should noWlook to the good of the party and-the State-for their interests are identical. No - man—no candidate—ought tobe pushed to:the jeopardy of the party,. All the candidates spoken of have friends; but is the success• of any one to be com pared with the success, of the Republican partY?:'''Theinterests of the party, if not the state, clearly indicate the wisdom of selecting a new man !for the-:position. THE, election, on Tuesday, of Col. Robt. P. Dechert, the Deinocratic candidate for the State Senate in the First District, Philadelphia; ,to , fill the ;vacancy oc • - easioned by:the death of Senator Watt, will give ilieDemocrats a majority in the - Senate, and place the organization under the Contra]: of,the, Denlocracy., Iris ma . jority is between 1,800 and :1,400, and is -beyend - doubfentitled AO the seat. ' The Ledgii:repertS,the aggregate returns its follows : - Robert P. ,Deehert, Dem., 14,187 ; Jos. 'B. Lyndall, Rep.,. 12,886 ; Dechartis - ma _ - , , '. :-The Speaker, Sergeant -at-Arms, • ClerkS, .., - AO.'„iiill be Democratic. .- It, is unfoitii note,that this reverse should happen' du ring iiapprtant term of the Leg . _ "laid**. :: : !--' --- . _ ' ' • - . • .. • Mr. D AVID A. WELLS (" IN MS 21.L1I) LEGS.") "WIFAT A DUST WE KICK VP." Delatted especially to the Lancaster Express and its few Free Trade supporters. Editor. The free traders had a jollification over the defeat of the Republicans in a few districts at last election, which is report ed to have cost $2O a head. It s was in New York, at Delmonico ' s where good eating and drinking can be had for a "consideration," -on short notice. The banquet took place on the last Monday in November that the brilliant speeches fol lowing and sparkling with Delmonico's rich wines, might be fresh to enlighten and guide the members of Congress who were about assembling. The probabilities are that it was a reas onable temperate party for Rev.' I. S. Prime of the Presbyterian and Rev. Abel Stevens of the Methodist Church were very much out of place there. It may be that like chaplains in the penitentiary, or in Congress, they are invited to do the praying and give an air of piety to the fraud of Revenue Reform. Robert B. Mintum Lloyd Aspinwall, E. S. Jaffray, S. S. Cox, William Cullen Bryant and perhaps David A, Wells were placed, Mr. Wells must have spoken after the clay had been moistened and softened by the generous liquors, and he tried to be funny for when he, spoke of Henry C. Cary or Horape Greeley he elicited ['great laughter]. , In his opening he said : I. felt unwilling to refuse a call from my friends, and to-mght I have answered that call, and, as they say out West, am "up on my hind -lers"—Liaughter]—to make a speech and I propo.so to tlo it to the best of my ability. He was appointed to the office and be ing then a protectionist he says, "I re paired to Philadelphia, looking to that place as the central sun of political econo my and science as there I could get the advice of Mr. Henry C. Carey. ['Laugh ter.] Very funny no doubt, but rendered so by the wipe, not the wit. "When wine is in wit is out" says tlio proverb. Again : "Up to that time I had been a protectionist of the strongest and strict 'sehool, I had sat at the feet of Henry C. Carey,ancl I had read all his books" [Great laughter.] What an inimitable wink., or leer must have accompanied that speech to have drawn great applause fremllessrs. Prime and Stevens. But here comes real wit because pointed with truth. Let us copy it as reported in that excellent and outspoken free trade paper, the N. Y. Eudning Post. ' lam reminded here of the story of the fellow who lost his shirt. It was a very dirty shirt, too ; he hunted for it day and night, high and low. Finally he went into a bath, and after he had been there a little time, he actually washed down to the shirt he thought he had lost. [lmmense applause and laughter.] Now I say that we have to wash down to protection. We have not got clown to the question of protection as taught soy those great minds, -Carey and Greeley and others. [Laughter and applause.] When we have washed down to that, then is the time to discuss the question of protec tion and free trade. The Reverned gentlemen and even Mr. Bryant must haye shown jusf a little of the color of the "rosy" wine while laugh ing at their situation among such a dirty crew if any blush was in them. Perhaps 'the laugh comes in too soon, beforethey discovered that they were in the same plight and must scrnb down to the party of ‘protectionists like Carey and Greely be fore they could find their dirty shirts. So much for wine and wit. Now for the argument : Mr. Wells continues : One of the last things I did previous to my visit to Europe, was to. go through the cutlery manullictories of this country, and see how they were doing their business. I found on entering the manufactories that the.ivory was brought in and; cut by ma chinery into pieces of the right length to form the handle ; then by another ingen ious arrangement of little saws these blooks were cut in elongated pieces, machinery drilled the holes in the handle to receive the shank, and then the handle was ready to be fitted with knife. Then I found that the steel was cut into thin strips by machinery, and the blade and handle stamped into form by dies ; and the whole work being thus done by mechanical arrangements, all the parts of every knife fitted every other knife, like the parts of a Springfield musket. There is good protectionist argument in the above. It is one of our strong points'that protection encourages inven tion and that even such articles as may be enhanced in price by tariff ,at first, must soon be reduced by ' domestic competition and invention' of machinery by yankee ingenuity to cheapen manufac turing to a lower price than the same ar ticle could be bought for, when we de 'pended upon our foreign shops, and for eign labor and foreign ships for it. As was the case with nails if memory serves us.. - Even with cheaper lab& in mope we had to pay more, for foreign capital demanded greater profits for its risks in a distant market. But David continues : Well, now, I went into the manufactories of cutlery in Sheffield soon after I arrived in England ; and there'. immediately learn ed the secret how and why the American manufacturer was able to hold his own mar ket in spite of the tariff. All the bits of ivory for the handle of the knife were sawn and drilled by hand, labor yeas cheaper there than machinery . ; all the blades and shanks of the knives, instead of being stamped, as with us, were formed by hammermg by hand. I saw that in consequence of the American manufacturer having taken ad vantage of machinery, we were enabled to hold our own in spite of the tariff; And if we were thus enabled to hold our own un der the present system, what conld not the manufacturer do if he had everything per fect ? Exactly so. With all the imperfections of our tariff ; and free traders always manage to secure argument against a law by rendering it imperfect if they cannot defeat it ; we can manufacture many things more cheaply than they can abroad in spite of our higher wages. Here we have the admission that labor is cheaphr than machinery in Sheffield,— But mark the innocence of his question. "If NVO are able to hold ourown under the present system, what could not the manu facturer do if he had every - thing ?" How)perfect ? lie has machinery de scribed as perfect, and he has a market. The farmer in the same spirit queried "Why not kill the goose and get all the golden eggs at once and not wait , for one a day ?" Just as wise as David, who is by no means a Soloinon, and experience has afforded-us lessons teaching the same results in the• destruition of protective tariffs under the influence of other reve nue reformers.. Mr. Wells was sent to Europe in 1867 by the government and ther6 he became 'a free trader. He says : I learned for example, the fallacy of the statement so often made that the ability of a manufacturer to compete with the manu factures of other countries pepends upon the 'wages. I went from Lancashire, in En gland, where I bud been through the cotton mills, to ,Glient, Belgium; and under the 'auspices of the ]aiding manulitcturers dertoole. an investigation of the manufac- tories there. I found that on the morning I got there the mills were closing up and beginning to work at half time partly through the depression of business, which was beginning throughout Europe, but mainly through the-competition of the En glish manufacturers, 'chose goods will find on all shelves. But at that very time the rates of wages in Belgium were :fully. one-third more than were paid at Manchester. .A.t the same time they were working with English =wadi:rely. And its I went further eastward on the European continent, where wage:: were low er, I found that just in proportion as wages were relatively lower as comp ared with Great Britain, those were the places whore protection was most demanded. This is not free trade argument. We cla , rn it as ours and it is perverted by use at a revenue reform junketing. 'England by a long course of rigid protection had built up manufacturing and accumulated immense - wealth. The skill of her me chanics was almost perfect. English goods "were on all the shelves" of every country able to buy. Money by its abun dance was obtained at low rates of inter est. The very extent of her market en abled her manufacturees to sell at the lowest possible margin of profits, so that with English machinery and lower wages Belgium could not compete, for with "English goods on - all the shelves" there was no room for home made articles. We felt this in 1836-7. One manufac turers of cotton said that they could sell as low as the English articles were bring ing, but "English goods, (brought in un der 'revenue reform' duties) were on all the shelves" and there was no room for Chester Creek brands. Without a mar ket and with interest on capital double and more than so much as in Europe, mill owners had to stop and be sold out by the Sheriff. American labor, in 1837 could buy pantaloons at three cents a pair, but being idle it had np three cents to buy with, Give us the market. Keep English goods off "all the shelves" we can make cheap goods and have money at home to buy with. True, the manufacturer will make money. Every man does that if he can, but why not the American as well as the foreigner who pays high wages and spends his gains abroad ? Riddle me that, We have no room for more, but add that Mr, Wells was not only "up on his hind legs" but was on his fours, and should have had an audience that could have added "'ear, 'ear" to the "applause and laughter." Tun fight for the Treasury is more quietly conducted. But everybody is convinced that a new man is wanted by the people. The press everywhere has endorsed the name of G. Dawson Cole man, Other men equally as good could be found ; but as Mr. C. has consented to be a candidate, we urge his election. Our Republican members of the Legislature cannot fail to see that another series of disgraceful scenes, like those enacted last winter, will complete the defeat of the party in the State. Every one should be willing to lay aside personal matters, and unite for the good of the State, and to avert the impending ruin of "party inter ests. We cannot afford to sacrifice the great industrial interest of this great 'Commonwealth for the gratification of personal likes or dislikes. This danger over, the people will take care of the future. A Constitutional Convention for the purpose of framing a new Constitution is another public necessity wherein the cu mulative system of voting should have,so far as practical, an opportunity, of being tried, It is but just that minorities should have a voice in government, and the cumulative system also will give it.— The State Treasurer should he made a liberally salaried office, elected by the people, and surrounded with such con stitutional restrictions and regulations as will require him, as we said last week, to turn - the State balances to the' greatest ad- - vantage for the people. In other words, let these "fretful ,, ,balances be loaned to the highest bidder, upon the security of government, or other collaterals. The future supremacy of the Republican par ty depends on just such reformatory measures as these, together with a high protective tai iff for the whole country. WE learn that it is intended to call a State Convention of the people at Har risburg some time in January, for the purpose of urging the necessity for Con stitutionalßeform upon the Legislature. This may prove to be a valuable aid to ward producing favorable action. This call is to be put' forth in the names of prominent men in the Republican and Democratic parties, and an effort will be made to obtain a full expression from all parts of the Commonwealth. The impor tance of the subject will be sure to bring out a large attendance of the best citizens of the State. More effective, hovever, we believe, will be a liberal exercise of the right of petition. Hundreds will freely sign their names where one will go to Harrisburg, at some cost of time and money. If we will keep pouring in these appeals from the masses of the people their effect will soon be felt. They will follow home the promptings of the popular Convention, and the Legislature will be obdurate indeed if it does not listen to the universal demand. Now is the time to do the work, for"next year we Shall be distracted and divided over political ques tions that at present rest in abeyance. THE Doylestown Democrat of last weew contained a strong article in favor of the proposed reform of our State Constitution. It calls upon the good men of both parties to come forward and put their shoulders to the work now, when there is no politi cal excitement to prevent harmoneons action. It is only by such means that the corrupt influences that prevail in much of our State lezislation can be defeated, and no man, whatever may be his political af finities, should hesitate to strike a timely blow in favor of official purity and integ rity. We are glad that the Democrat is to be found enrollNl among the earnest friends of Constitutional Reform, and trust that its good example will be gener ally followed. Thr. man who finds a purchaser for his own labor at once buys that of other EIECEI ine'-tenths of what people eat and drink and wear, is of home production. ' It is as foolish as dishonest to stamp home-made goods with a foreign trade mark When industry is diversified labor tends to change from muscular to mental. Amona the books that perished in the destruction of the old and exceedingly valuable library at Strasburg, by the Prussian bombardment of that city, was the very oldest volume ever printed. It was written by one Tundalus der Ritter, and printed in the year 1437. There was in,the library a wonderful collection of the Bible's first printed, the oldest bearing the impress of "Mentolio, 1466." Tar following flgttres show the daily edition of the Philadelphia Public _Ledger 'foi• last reek: Monday, December 12th "1,500, Tuesday, December Mb Wednesday, December 14th 75,000. - Thursday, December 15th.. 70,060. Friday, December 10th - - 4400. Saturday, Decent her 17th 75,000. Total roirober of copses for the veek......40,7z0 TnE WAR n FRANCE.—Trochu and Favres have escaped from Paris. A bril liant sortie movement is expected. Paris has pro Visions to last three months. GODD closed yesterday at 110. . ER! For the Spy. Should the Legal Rate of luterest in Pennsylva- nia be Seven per Cent ? Our answer to the caption of this ar ticle would be in the affirmative, and such, we opine, would I.)e the verdict of the people were it put to a vote and the matter properly understood. What good reason can be assigned why Pennsylvania should not pay the same rate of interest, as the neighboring States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, when it is universally known that Pennsylvania is not only the Keystone State, but pos.sess es many advantages over all others ? „ Our Coal Fields, hidden treasures of Minerals of almost every description, Oil, and fine Timber Lands are awating cap ital to bring them out and send them forth to the world. Without• capital it will take ages to develop the great re sources of the State. We ask the reader to look over the past few years and see what capital has done in bringing forth Coal Oil. Had it not been for this valu able product of our land, we would have been at a loss to find a substitute to sup ply its places for the many purposes .to which it is now applied. Our lands are adapted to the growth of Wheat, Rye, Corn, .Oats and Tobacco, and in the growth of the latter article,we now stand the second State in the Union, for quantity and quality, and the day is not far distant when Pennsylvania will head the list of Tobaccb growing States. Our lands far surpass the lands of Con necticut, and all that is wanting is the proper seed and attention. With all our resources, develod undeveloped, to let the States above named surpass us in the rate of interest is out of reason. Capital is what our 'State needs, to be second to no other, and inducements should be thrown out to invite it. The way to do this is to pay as high rate of interest as the States bordering upon us. Some States pay double our present rate, while a, majority pay over G per cent, 113 present capital is being driven from us. Our money, is loaned to New York and New Jersey at 7 per cent. There is scarcely a Bank or Banker in the State who does not keep its or his greater balance in New YOrk City. Why is this ? pecaAse the money can be employed more advantageous than in Philadelphia, owing to the increased rate of Interest. Give Z'eansylt•ania 7 per cent., and in a short time the capital of the State will be greatly augmented and prosperity will be the result. The Coal and Iron trade will have such competition, as will rediteeltr price thereby benefiting the whole coun try—the poor by increased demand for labor, and the producers by the increased facilities. The States named as paying a high rate of interest cannot in any manner be com pared to the old .Weystone, and why we should be behind in a matter of so great importance is more than we can conceive. A BORROWEA, GEN, ..414 , n.np PLEASCENTON 7 has just been appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue, was graduated at West Point in 1814, and has since served under Gens. Sumner, Harney, Zachary Taylor, Worth, Twig%P. F. Smith, and others, to the hearty satisfaction of them all. He had served through the Mexican War, in the Indian country, and on the 1 4 ,9,Wt0 toast, before the ontbreak of the Rebelli . In our , late , Civil War, Ale -acted und r the immediate direction of Gens. 1 eade, Grant l and others,and won the coil..._9lve of them. all. Resigning'after the "f the War, he was appointed by Gen, Grant to the Collectorship of the 4th, and in due time promoted to that of the 32d dis trict of this State, and his work in each has been performed to the eminent satis faction of his superiors. Transferred to the head of the Internal Revenue bureau, he will devote to his new duties the same zeal and fidelity which have carried him successively through a'quarter of a centu ry of varied service to his country. A few days since, an aged woman, who lives in Philadelphia, in hunting over a box of nick-mix, which accumulate in every household, chanced to find au old dirt-begrimmed breastpin, which, almost a score of years ago, her father had given to her, It had some stones in it, which she thought of no particular value. She carried it to a jeweler for repairs. After scruitinizing it, he asked her if she knew its value. She replied, "There may be about five dollars' worth of gold in it;" whereupon lie offered her $BOO cash:ll6l7lC for it. This staggered her. She then learned that the stones, of which there were ten, were each two carat diamonds, of the very finest description ; five of them having a peculiar bluish tint that gives them a great value. Upon taking the pin into a laoge ehe.tnut street es tablishment she was offered $2,000 eash for it, and another offer was $360 for ench of the tinted stones. Words can not describe the joy of this aged lady, whose circumstances were far from com fortable, when she diScovered the worth of this ornament, which for years had been shuffled about in a box of rubbish. A Washington despatch to the New York Herald says : The Pennsylvania politicians are making quite a fight upon General Cameron, John Covode, _ who is a candidate for Governor of that State in 1872, has notified the President that it will be impossible to carrvit • •- pu_lican party if Cameron is alloWed - to control the federal patronage, He says he has no personal hostility to Cameron, but the sentiment of the Sta t e is so much against him that if the impression that he is the organ of the administration is allowed to prevail the State will go against the administration. Covode, who is now the chairman of the State Central Com mittee, will not accept the nomination of the Republican party for governor unless there is a change in the present tactics of the administration. He does not pro pose to run and be beaten. • WILLTEVER Gen. Carl Schurz may or may not do, there is one step which would seem to be to him impassible. He cannot become a modern "Democrat." Ile takes an early occasion to say so; and thus brings to untimely grief a great many nice Democratic calculations about what their Missouri chickens would bring when taken to market. COME TO GRIEF.—The Cardiff . Giant has been seized under process of . attach ment while on its way to Syracuse. It is not stated what the s3aid attachment amounted to, but if anyone'should steal the entire humbug he could hardly be con victed of petty larceny in any law court. The old maids of Sioux City, lowa, enjoy ed a banquet at a hotel on Thanksgiving af ternoon, and the bachelors a supper at anoth er place in the evening. A •Miss Kennedy made the concluding speech at the former, and created a furor by saying : "Let others do as they please ; as for me, I am determin ed to have a husband as soon as I get one. And let us alt see to it so when another Thanksgiving day rolls around there will not be an old maid in Sioux City." The ban quet closed with the song, "No one to love," At ono of the Wellsburg., Ohio, churches on Thanksgiving day, somebody quietly dropped a ono hundred dollar greenback into the money bag. The unknown donor has the satiefitction of hearing his home pa per say that the gift is either a mistako- or conscience money. The shock of an earthquako was felt at Golden City, Colorado, on Sunday morning, which extended southwest to New Mexico. , The Allentown Iron Company have in use ft horse..3s years old. Ile carts from fifty to seventy-five tons of ore every day a distance of nearly two hundred yards, from the shaft to the railroad. The horse IS in fine condi tion , and looks as though he might not be more than ten or twelve years old; • There aro five medical practitioners, and but ono undertaker in Denver—a very un equal proportion t An exchange says: Statistics are being care fully compiled of the pockets pitked at the late Michigan fair. Returns so far in indi cate nearly tivo hundred, with thirteen towns to hear from. Three or four carpenters had a dance upon the roof of a school house at Pittsfield, Blass. the other day. They were shingling the building, and in tearingolT the old rooi;found a big hornets' nestwhen men, overalls, shin glos,hats and ins ,, Pts flew about hastily for a time. There was no retreat for the men, and so they had to fight it out on that line until the foe was annihilated. Troy claims to have the most fertile soil in the whole country—a street with uniform mud sixteen inches deep. Ex-Senator Gwin, of California, the well nown ex-rebel, is in New Orleans. • Mr. A. W. McCausland, or Gardiner, Me., has received from parties in New York an order for 60,000 base ball bats. A lively in terest in the great national game is evident ly-anticipated the coining summer. The Augusta, Me., Journal says that a dis tardly attempt was made Friday evening to throw the six o'clock accommodation train off the track at Farmingdale. The obstruc tion was a piece of railroad iron about ton , feet long. The wife of Dominick Murray, the Trish comedian, seeks a divorce from hint on the ground of excessive cruelty and stinginesS, because be has given her only $4OO out 613,750 gold, earned by him since ho came to this country in June, 1869, It is a comical sight, says a Georgia paper, to stand oil the outsido of a circus tent at night, and watch the shadows on the canvas. To see these distorted and spectral figures occasionally bending double and opening their huge lips is as good as n panto - mine. While trying to. aVest Andrew Sauls, noted desperado of Liberty county, Georgia, peputy Sheriff Stafford and a young :Irian named J, A. Mann, a student of the gine vile Academy, were shot by him instantly killed. Sauls then made his escape, bat was found the next day about four miles from his own house, Iyiug deadin the woods from the effects of wounds received during the rocontre. A curious accident occurred at e. church in Meriden, Conn., last Sunday. A gentleman was promeaading the aisle with his overcoat on his arm when from the pocket of his coat, to the amazement of himself and others, slip ped a pack of cards. Smiling a ghastly smile, ho scooped up as many as possible of the pasteboards, and passed along as quickly as possible. Two men in Bridgewater, Conn., caught 21 foxes within the last month s Snow drifts, throe or %or Chet deep, may be seen otl Alio Jefferson ct Randolph roads, N. R, .The starch factory at Peru, Me., when not used for that purpose, is uSedfor the Purpose of saNVPt4 clapboards, laths, dte. The streams are so low that a number of -4mills in East Lee, Mass., have been ohliged to stop, and on the river steam engines Lave to be used to make enough paper to fill con tracts. A fine looking dog, in Portland saw ahem running away and with an instinct remark able, jumped up, and after several efforts, succeeded in catching the bridle in his teeth and stopping the horse. A few days ago a son of Dr. Sweat, of COl'- 111511, Me., shot himself under singular cir cumstances. is father requested him togo to school. but the boy refused. The father insisted, and the boy, rather than obey, took a pistol and indicted upon himself a wound which it is thought will prove fatal. There is a clergyman, and a Doctor of Di vinity at that, in Rhode Island, who has offi ciated five times at the marriage of one man, and all five of the women to whom the fellow was married are still living. When we talk about the divorce laws of Indiana it will ho well to ask if the great West can beat that. , When President Lord, of Dartmouth Col lege closed his 3,3 years of service in that in stitution, he had exactly 50 cents left of his salary. A cow belonging to a family in Omaha strayed into a neighbor's garden patch and he secretly penned her up, The cow's owners were obliged to have milk, and, hearing that their neighbor had a good cow, bought theif mill; of him for three weeks. They then as certained they had been buying what was their own and rushed to a court of law for vengeance Every officer and soldier in the German ar my has a whistle which enables the chiefs to perform the different calls and the men to give warning'of the approach of the enemy, to call each other, and to seek theircompany when they have strayed. William Glazier's children, out in Bremer County, lowa, made a play-house between two of his hay-stacks. In order to "make tea" they needed a fire, and made a big one —out of fifty tons of hay and a large_ barn near by. One of the children but just escap ed with its life. Juvenile tea parties are not as popular in that family now as they were. lergyman, reading a chapter in the Bible for his congregation, found himself at the bottom of the page with the words, "And the lord gave 3,570a1t a wife ;" then turning over two pages instead of one, he continued, "and ho pitched her within and without' with pitch." A laughable thing took place at a revZ: - al meeting somewhere in Mississippi not long since. The minister noticed a seedy-looking chap in one of the seats, looking as though he needed religion or a good square meal. So he stepped up to him and "sked him if he was a Christian. " so, sir," :laid he, " I am the editor of the Democratic paper in this place." "Then, in the name of God, let us us pray," replied the devoted minister. SPECIAL NOTICES. DECEMBER. Tllo Great Pictorial Annual. Ilostelter's 'United Almanac for 1871. for dis tribution gratis, throughout the United states, and all civilized countries of the 'Western Hem isphere . will be-published about the hest of Jan uary, and all who wish to mideridand the true philosophy onion' tit shooed read and ponder the valuable siamestions it. contains. In Will/ClOll to an admirable medical treatise on the causes, prevention and cure or a great variety of diseas es) t embraces a large amount of infortnation in teresting to the merchant, the mechanic, the miser, the farmer, the pluntei, and professional man ; and the calculations have been made for such meridians and latitudes as are most suit able for a correct and comprehensive BAnot:AL CALE 7.434,172. The nature, uses, and ex , raorellnary sanitary effects of Hostetter's i , tohnich Ifittei a, the shade tonic and alterative of more thandialf the Chris tian world, are felly set forth In its pages, watch are also interspersed with pictorial illustrations valuable recipes for the lviusel.old and farm, hu morous ane dotes, and other Instructive and amusing reading matter, original and selected. Among the Annuals to appear with the opening of the year, this will be one of the year. this will be one of the mo 4 useful, and may be had for the asking. Tho proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter ek Smith, ou receipt of a two cent. stamp, will fsrward a copy, by mall to any person who can not procure it in lib neighborhood. TIM Bitters are sold in every city, town and .village, and are OXLoll4iVely used throughout this entire civ ilized World. BILL --HEADS, LETTER-HEEDS BUSINESS CARDS, &c., by tho thousand at tho SPY 0111 to. n t ~:_j?. Items of Interest NEW ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THIRTY YEARS Has that wilhltnown, standard, and popti •emedy, PAIN KILLER manufactured by Perry Davis d Son, Provi dence it I, been before the public, and in that timehas become known in alf parts of the world, and been used by people of all nations, It , remains to-day that same good and effi cient remedy, Its wonderful power in relieving the most severe pain, has never been equalled and it has earned its world-wide popularity be its intrinsic merit, No curative agent has had so wide-spread sale orgiven such universal satis Mellon, The various ills for which the Pa in Killer is au ttnfalling cure, me too well k 'flown to require recapitulation in this advertisement, As an external and internal medicine tile Pain Killer stands unrivaled, Directions accompany each bottle, Sold by all druggists, nice 25 cts , Wats, and 31 per bottle. HOLIDIY 11.EINUIRTERS En C. P. SHREINER'S JETV.ELBY STORE, NO. 13 NORTH FRONT ST Ile offers this season an unsurpassed stock of GOLD tg; SILVER WATCHES GOLD, SILVER AND PLATED CHAINS For Ladles and gentlemen. A splendid as serum: au. el FINE GOLD JEWELRY, Which we are selling at the LOWEST CASK Picika.:S, ICo on need lear of being baited, ua We have without clouUt TILE LARGEST STOCK Ever oft red for the Inspection 01 tile People or Columbia. we invite the O.I•E,IAL ATI uur new :Mil unriVulleu Lusortaleilt, OI 11w FINEST SILVER PLATE WARE which fur beauty .d' design and tin tell is UNE qUALLI.II),,IIi ILI. Ullr goods are purchased directly fruit' the .dAntIISCLUTeIIi :AL .del Aden, Coma., and we ire able Lt./ sea Lime hest Goods. A Lower Price Than paid for the ordluttry Philed Goods. Cal and see tor youn.elves We offer a due lot, of Super/or ENGLISH & AMERICAN TABLE POCKET A.‘EUTLERY, Which we are determined to sell at the lowest possible rates—eall and get a FIZsrE SET OE O IVORY HANDLE KNIVES, A Good Carver Ar Steel Ora good POCKET KNIFE lor Yourself or MEI CLOCKS 1 CLOCKS : CLOCKS A.-new and splendid assortment of SETH THOMAS CLOCKS, And other Verities of THE BEST NANUF.A.CTUICERS Call and see them and be convinced, that here is the The Best Place for Time Everything usually kept in a first-class Jewel ry Store, can be found at skirtEl NER'S. Don't leave town to spewi your money, but en courage liOnk: ENTLRPRISE, by culling at the F1i.N.1.0 JE WEL ICY STORE: of CHAS. P. SHREINER, '_►o.l3 N. Front Street, Columbia. COLUMBIA GAS COMPANY. Ap,election for President and Managers of the Columbial. Gas Coral:wy, wilt. be held at their ()Mee, on SATURDAY, DEC.}..M.B.ER 10th, between the hours of 10 A. \l. and 3 P. AL INEIMMEM • By order nov.lo-1t IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO TOE People of ColumMa & Vicinity B. EISEMAN'S, EMPIRE CLOTHING HALL, FULL OPERATION. LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND LOWEST PRICES ! CALL AND SEE Astonishing Bargains READY-MADE CLOTHING! ESE Gents' Furnishing Goods!! The Goods being all my turn manufacture I can fully guarantee them to be Superior in Every Respect, And I am selling them at PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION I So if you.ivant to save. 25 per cent. in purchas ing your goods, go to B. _BISEMA_Y'S EMPIRE CLOTHING HALL, No. 43 Front St., between Locust & Wal nut, Columbia. REMENBER :No. 42. AIDON ALI) LJUIIEIt 11./..:A_L ESTATE COLLECTION & iNgURANCE AGENCY, Branch office of TIIEO. W. nEltl2, Lanmster. Farms, Houses &c., in City or Country sold ex ed or rented. Special attention given to selltng Real Estate by public sale, without trouble to owners.uod whit less than ordinary expense. "tents and interest mom* Anti all other promptly collected, Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages written. Insurance' , effected in the most reliable Life. Fire and Accidents I Companies. Foviers or Attorney to collect money from Eu rope, written. Pass.me Twit:et. to and from Europe in Brat class vessels, nt low ra es. Attency for the Suttee Island Dye Honse,Offiee fro Locust Street, over A. Haldeman 6:Co's., Dry Goods Store, tleo3-3m . 70 ,lI'DONALD St BUCHER.. ColiOstntA NAIiONAL BANK'. Co'unibla 13 cember lOtn MO. The annual election fur Directors of this Bunk will be held at the Banking House. on Tuesday the iOth Day DI January Nest, between ten o'clock A. M., Alla three o'clock I'. M. SAMUEL SIIOCH, Ca,hler. FOR A good covered WAGON witl3 three good springs, at E. A. Becker'. Black Smith shop, Cor. 3d and Union sts., Colurubia. dec 17-Lf ADAth ISIRATOIt NOTICE. rsliite of JOSEPH LOCKARD, late of West Mem pfleld township, deceased. Letters or' administration on .ald estate hav ing been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted thereto are requested to make Imme diate payment, and those having claims or de mands lignlnst the same will present them for settlement to the undersigned, :essling in Nil Id township. SAMUEL hl. LOCILARD. Dec 154870 Administrator deo 17-6 t. HOLIDAY GOODS! MUSCATTELL BASINS, MUSCATTELL BASINS, MUSCATTELL BASINS, SEEDLESS BASINS, SEEDLESS BASINS, SEEDLESS BASINS, CRANBERRIES, CRANBERRIES, CRANBERRIES, CITRON, CITRON, CITRON, WRIGHT'S AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAT, WEIGHT'S AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAS, WRIJE.T'S AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAT, At HOLIDAY GOODS! We call particular attention to our immense stock of SPICES, consisting of CINNAMON, CINNAMON, CINNAMON, CINNAMON, • WHO LE MACE, WHOLE MACE, WHOLE MACE, WHOLE MBCE, GROUND MACE, GROUND MACE, ENGLISH BI: CARE. SODA. GROUND PEPPER, for _Butchering purposes .All these Spices are warranted Pure and Fresh, at HOLIDAY GOODS. SODA BISCUITS, • SODA BISCUITS, WINE BISCUITS, WINE BISCUITS, CROSS & BLACKWELL'S ENGLISH PICKLES. CROSS & BLACKW ELL'S ENGLISH PICKLES, CROSS & BLACKWDLL'S ENGLISH PICKLES, AMERICAN PICKLES, AMERICAN PICKLES, FRENCH MUSTARD, FRENCH MUSTARD, AT AT R. RAH'S, CORNER FOURTH & CHERRY. CORNER FOURTH & CHERRY. • HOLIDAY GOODS ! We have on hand the largest assortment of FINE GLASS AND QUEENSW ARE, FINE GLASS AND QUEENSW ARE, CELERY GLASSES, CELERY GLASSES, CELERY GLASSES, CELERY GLASSES, GLASS BOWLS, COVER ED & UNCOVERED, GLASS BOWLS COVERED & UNCOYEREO, GLASS SETS, GLASS oIiTS, GLASS SETS, GLASS SETS, GLASS PITCHERS, GLASS PITCFIERS, GLASS PITCHERS, GLASS PITCHERS, GOBLETS, GOBLETS. SUITAELE FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, at R. HAYES', HOLIDAY GOODS ! received a large lot of NEW CROP NEW CROP PRIME NEW ORLEANS BAKING MOLASSES PRIME NEW ORLEANS BAKING MOLASSES ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER QUART. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER QUART. YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT, YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT, YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT, YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT, GOOD'S EAGLE MILLS FAMILY FLOUR GOOD'S EAGLE MILLS FAMILY FLOUR. at R. HAYES', _ `3OTITH EAST CORNER FOURTH ch CHERRY STRFET S Also, constantly on hand a large stock of FINE FRESH FAMILY GROCERIES, Better and Cheaper than, can, be bought elsewhere. The undersigned would call the attention of the pnblic to his large And well selected stock of FRESH GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS just received from the City which he will sell CHEAPER THAN EVER f—FOR CASH! His stock comprises COFFEES, MACKEREL, SHOULDERS, SUGARS, SP ICES, HAMS, DRIED BEEF, DRIED AND CANNED ERVIT, Also. BROOMS, BuUSTIES, BUCKETS. BED CORDS, and everything in he Grocery line. He directs special attention to his new and superior stook of GLASS AND QUEENSWARE, Which he is Hailing at prices LOWER. than ever before offered in Columbia. Call and xamine ler yourselves. Also, on band FLOUR AND FEED. x.ty- AGENT FOR WIVI. GOOD'S EAGLE MILLS FLOUR, The BEST Family Flour in the Market Every barrel Warranted. Sold Cheap for Cash. Slaving purchased my goods cheap Mr Cash, Imu prepared to offer them cheaper than any , her dealers. Goods sold tor CASH ONLY. R. HAYES, : • South-east Corner Fourth, tr; Cherry Sts., Cotundri R HAYES', South .East Corner Fourth & Cheri y Streets. GINGER, . GINGER, CLOVES, CLOVES, CLOVES, CLOVES, S. E. COR. FOURTH & CHERRY STS S. E. COR. FOURTH Lc; CHERRY - STS TEAS CHEESE, - SOAP, VALENCIA BASINS, VANENCIA BASINS, VALENCIA RAS LNS, CRANBERRIES, ORAN BE ARIES, C RAN LERRIES, CITRON, CITRON. CITRON, ---~ --~ ----- R. HAYES', SYRUPS, POTATOES, CANDLES,
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