`6lje adalatmilia §inj. 4 . Z r- t 4 / 4 441 "4;4 NV. YCOJII J. W. YOCITM,I Publishers and .1 A. WOLFERSBEitabIa,) - Proprietors. Columbia, Pa. tctitrday Dec. .31, ' The rewards of labor increase as occu pations become diversified. It is easier to purchase eight hundred, or even a thousand millions of home pro ductions than to pay for three hundred millions' worth brought from Europe and Asia. Fuom the newspaper accounts of the proceedings of Congress, it appears there are those who are ready and willing to indemnify the citizens of the rebel States fortheir losses during the war which they forced upon the North. With what jus tice any such claim can be proposed or allowed, we are unable to see, nor do we know how the government can ever hope to pay these demands, because millions upon millions of dollars would be requir ed to do it. But is it not singular, that such unwarrantable claims should for a moment, engage the serious attention of the members of Congress, when the loyal citizens of the North cannot obtain in demnityfor the loss of property which the government expressly ordered its of ficers to destroy by lire and otherwise,as a military necessity. We know of no step taken4r effort made to do justice in such cases. and think that if Congress is so very liberal to the South, we would like them to be just to the North. A Wife Beater The meanest man we know is he who will strike a woman—especially a wife. Every husband when married has promis ed to love, honor, cherish and protect his wife. Imagine then, how mean and cow ardly he must be that will strike or beat her. Such a fellow should be ridden on a rail and driven from town. Bat as this cannot be done except in violation of law, the only and best remedy is to avoid the dirty wretch, have nothing to do with him, cut him in every way, don't deal— neither buy of nor sell to him, and in this way punish him by ruining his business mull he changes his character. If any man knows of any one who beats his wife he should make it known that lie may be shunned by all decent people. Or if any one knows a man who beats his mother, and we are told there are such dastards, let him be reputed. The public have a right to know if such a wretch disgraces our town. The mark of Cain must be put upon him, and he must be avoided as if he were a venomous serpent or a mad dog. Shun him day and. night. TUE eorruptionists are very adroitly reporting that the proposition of the peo ple to elect Mr. Coleman to the office of State Treasurer, is a mere blind, really intended to elect Mr. Mackey and nobody else. Nothing is more untrue, and they know it. Mr. Coleman stands before the . people as their candidate. He will serve, if elected,but he will not disgrace himself and his friends by runniniiibitiiit and.huy int up editors and members of the Legis ature, with the public money. He is an honest man, and, the corruptionists dis til-i.7 "and - irill'nbraece t the office on the cot -`Twit tffrmS employed by Messrs. Mackey -and Irwin. Corrupt editors and mem bers of the Legislature don't want such a man. They like to - plunder the Treas ury according to the present custom, and • will snerifice - themselves in public estima tion to do so. But we caution our mem - hers of Lancaster County. If any one otes for either Mackey or Irwin and does not vote for C6leman, • they will be 're membered for it, for all time to come.— Rascality will not forever go unpunished. Tho_lTest Apportionment The House of Representatives now has 244 members. By the new law, Congress, under the next apportionthent, is to have members. The census returns indi cate that the population is about 35,000,- 000, an increase of-7,000;000 since 1860. This will give about 153,250 population to a member. The New England States will each lose one member, Massachusetts losing two. New York will lose four, Pennsylvania and Ohio three each. Of the Southern States, Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Kentucky will lose one each, and Texas will gain one. Of the Western States, Michigan, Min nesota, lowa, Wisconsin and Kansas gain one each, and Illinois and liii souri two. New Jersey, it is thought, and is the only State on the Atlantic coast which will gain. Of the whole country, New England loses seven, the Middle States 'nine, and the Southern States three, while the West gains nine— :the Pacific States remaining as hereto fore. TEILE is a necessity, as acknowledged by most people, that a convention to form anew constitution should be called. No doubt our Legislature will consider the matter and if no improper influence pre vails a law providing for it_willbe passed. We have, hoWever, lately understood that' the corrupt politidians who think their - 'trade and occupation-may. suffer by any improvement of- our' organic laws, have resolved ,to defeat ~every proposition of the kind. It seems a little hard for lion - est tax-payers that any good measure ' must be and is opposed by bad men, who by bad means generally manage to defeat every measure..: intended for the public gOod. - But:: now-a-days everything must -- "Jiay,'l that is, no proper or correct meas ure. can succeed, unless some corrupt ras cal is to have a sop otit of it; and corrupt • measures are daily concocted to put mon ey into the hands of the dishoneSt. Go to Harrisburg and look at the - corruption :there.. -Look the 'Legislature, and what is it but a congregation of men who have for - the most part assembled to make money by any trick they can devise, and yet-escape the penitentiary. How com : mon is it to black-mail men who go-there to obtain legisiation—to take from one to , more 'thousands of dollars for votes on particular bills,- or at elections, for Statd - TreiMirer—to vote to dishonest corpora ' dons the property of the State, to get up bills' to rob the Treasury on payment of a ,:percentage to the members, and other ' l 'scliemes that would-. disgust and sicken ..miyhonest man. , We beg' leave to put - every,well-disposed Man upon -his :guard and adviie him to 'consult' his own true Anterests:by - voting. in accordance with the; wishes of ,t Lis People • who desire .a new constitution. Oar Minister to Turkey, Mr.. 'McVeigh, is sorious,ly,ill,' and, once return to 'ea" -andresign — his' position. — . True Ileronuo 3eform ;•`A duty only upon those articles which We could dispense with, known as luxur ies, and those wliich we produce." "..A.ll duty removed from tea, coffee and other articles of universal use not pro duced by ourselves," "Encouragement to home products, employment to labor at living wages, and development of home resources." "Disappearance of the national tax gatherer and reduction of the national debt." Editor ANOTLIER calamity has occurred at Richmond, Va. A fire broke out in the Spotswood Hotel, in that city, at two o'clock on Sunday morning, the 25th inst., and caused its destruction, with the en tire block. The housekeeper of the hotel and six or seven boarders perished.in the flames. Several other persons are mis ing, and supposed to have also perished. The total loss of property by the fire is es timated at $300,000: The firemen had great difficulty in obtaining water, owing to it being frozen. A Cool Burglar in a Bedroom with Two Cool and. Rightful Occupants.. Charles Lines' residence, No, 27 Mason street, was entered by a burglar about 2 o'cleck last Friday morning. The fellow made so much noise that Mrs. Lines was awakened. She roused her husband and informed him that some one was in the room. After listening a moment and hearing no usual noise, he turned over and lighted the gas to quiet his wife's fears, and then settled himself for an other snooze. Mrs.. Lines, feeling posi tive that she had heard the footsteps of some one in the room, crawled cautiously down and peered over the foot-board. There she saw the ..urglar crouched upon hishands and knees. Unlike most - women, she did not announce the discovery by a series of little screams; but she crawled back and whispered in her husband's ear the unwelcome intelligence, "There is a great big robber right down behind the foot-board." Mr. Lines crawled down to take a peep for himself; sure enough,there the fellow was. doubled up into as small a space as possible, anxiously waiting for the light to be extinguished so that he might continue his researches. Mr. Lines seized him by the hair, and was on the point of giving him a severe talking to and then kicking him down stairs, when the burglar presented a revolver, with his compliments, and told him he could con tinue to live provided he kept quiet and behaved himself. Mr. Lines acquiesced, and the followed ruffian hastily left the premises.—San Francisco Alta. Discovery of Masonic Emblems The 'Newark (New :Jersey) Advertiser says : Some interest has been created in Sus sex county during the excavation for the Midland Railroad, by the discovery of some relics of former times in the form of two silver Masonic badges, ornamented with square and compass, moon and sun, in accordance with the Masonic emblems of the present day, which were found five feet below the hard earth excavations. How the badges ever got there is a miste ry, as no human remains were connected with them, and the soil is a compact slate. Victor M. Drake, of the Newton "Her ald," says that it is well known that Ma sonic emblems were worn both by the pio neers and Indians of the country as a means of self-preservation against the in cursions of Tories and robbers, who in the early settlement of the country held almost undisputed sway on both sides of the State line. The fact is well establish ed, th 4 as early as 177 G, Major 'Wood, of Gosll4ll4.4tto.arna. -I.....comasnaand. - the finisipltbattle, fought opposite the Lack awaxeri, when being overpowered by the Indians, and - taken prisoner, saved his life by signaling Brandt wtih the grand hailing Masonic sign of distress; and Ma sonic badges were in general use at the time, both in the Delaware and Susque hanna valleys, as one of the measures for protection against the bloody Indian in cursions to which the frontier settlements were at all times liable. The protective policy so persistently ad vocated by true Pennelvanians in the halls of legislation is finding new adher ents elsewhere than in the Keystone State. Wise men in the West see very plainly that to develop the mining interests of their region it is necessary to fight Free Trade, and this will be done by them in the future with an effect that • will guar antee beyond doubt the permanent sub jection of the importers of New York, who would ruin all other interests that their own might prosper. Senator Cameron—always found in the right place upon every national question —in a recent letter produces new proofs in plain language of the soundness of the principle of Protection. - He says : "It seems marvelous to me that argil -ment is necessary to show our people— and especially the people of the West— that protection is the only solid founda tion on which to build up a permanenent growth. One would imagine that self interest would point to this truth, and that the experience of older nations would be conclusive only on the subject. Our people have been supplied incessant ly with arguments in favor of free trade by emissaries of foreign manufacturers and importers, while the Protectionists of the country have been asleep to the best interests of themselves and of the nation." Referring to the war now in progress in the France, and the utter helplessness of that empire in consequebce of follow ing England's free trade advice, he re marks : "If my mind were yet open to contro versy as to,the policy of free trade or protection for our nation, I think events now passing in Europe would decide the question. for me. France, yielding to the very advice which England is so lavish of us, is a pitiable example of even com parative free trade. Her resources melt before the hostile encounter of a people inferior in numbers, not braver, and without the exalted military fame of the French people. But her weakness bears no comparison to the absolute prostra tion of the British military power. The exhibition of England's weakness is amazing. She stands as a laughing stock of the great powers of Europe. Free trade has brought her down to the dust.— She was unable to prevent the war now raging—her interference was contemned —and she is now powerless to even im press the belligerent powers when she at tempts to bring abont peace. " prussiti and Germany, with her high tariff—the Zollverin—seems capable of coping with any fee that may assail her, having just humbled to the dust the proudest military power in Europe. "To me this strange display is full of warning to us and to all nations, and I hope the lesson it teaches will not be lost on the American people." Mr. Cameron concludes by giving the protectionists a rap over the knuckles for their lack of zeal in the cause as compar ed with that shown by free-traders, and thinks,and correctly too, that if the form er were one-tenth part as liberal, in up holding the hands of those who champion their cause, the whole issue would be - ended in a year. "We demand,"'our Senator says, "that our labor shall be forced to compete with that of America. They demand that American labor shall compete with the labor of the whole world." Protection TEE NEW-70BE T3133111TE 1871. Through struggle and suffering, at the of multiform agonies, bereavements, de vastations, the American Idea embodied in the preamble to our fathers' Declara tion of Independence approaches its com plete realization. The noble, inspiring assertion that "all men are created equal," and endowed by their Creator with ina lienable rights to life, liberty, and the pur suit of happiness, is no longer a glittering generality, a poet's fancy, a philosopher's speculation, but the recognized base of our political fabric. The benign Revolu tion, which dates from the Boston Massa cree of 1770, finds its logical completion, just one century later, in the XVth Amendment, which gives to the equal po litical and civil rights of every man born naturalized in our Republic the shield and defense of the Federal Constitution. The billows of Caste and Privilege may roar and rage around that rock, and may transiently seem. on. the point of washing it away: but its foundations are deep-laid and stead fast, and the breakers of Reac tion and Slavery are hurled against and dash their spray over it in vain. We do not underrate the forces of Pre judice and Aristocracy. We do not for get that a very large minority of the American People still hold in their inmost hearts that Blacks have no rights which - Whites are bound to respect. We fully appreciate the desperation wherewith all the warring elements of hatred to Repub lican achievement will be combined and hurled against the battlements of Repub can ascendency in the Presidential Elec tion-of 1872. We do not doubt that local successes, faciliated by Republican feuds and dissensions, will inspire the charging host with a sanguine hope of victory,such as nerved it to put forth its utmost strength in the earlier stages of the con tests of 1864 and 1868. Yet our faith is clear and strong that the American Peo ple still bless God that, on the red battle fields of our late Civil War, the Union was upheld and Slavery destroyed, and will never consciously decide that the precious blood thereon poured out was lavished in vain. The TRIBUIsTE believes in the prosecu tion of the great struggle by legitimate means to benificent ends. To St:.te Sov ereignty, it opposes indissoluble National Integrity; to Slavery for Blacks, Liberty for all: to Proscription enfranchisement; to Popular Ignorance, universal Educa tion; to intensity and eternity of wrath ful Hate, universal and invincible Good Will. It would fain do its utmost to hasten the glad. day when the South shall vie with the North in exultation and gratitude over the disappearance of the last trace or taint of that spirit which im pelled Man to exult in the ownership and chattlehood of his fellow Man. Profoundly do we realize that the con test isnot yet ended—that Millions mourn more or less publicly, the downfall of the Slaveholders , Confederacy, and rear their children to hate those by whose valor and constancy its overthrow was achieved. If we ever seem to differ essentially from other Republicans, our conviction that magnanimity is never weakness,that ven geance is never politic, and that devils are not cast out by Beelzebub, must serve to explain alleged eccentricities whose perfect vindication we leave to Time and Reflection. The TRIBUNE has been, is, and must be, a zealous advocate of Protection to Home Industry. Regarding habitual idle ness as the gicatest foe to human progress, the bane of human happiness, we seek to win our countrymen in mass from the en suing lures of SpeCulation, of Traffic, and et always over-crenT %led rroressions,tb the tranquil paths of Productive Industry. We would gladly deplete our over-crowded cities, where thousands vainly jostle and crowd in misguided quest of "Something to Do," to cover prairies and plains with colonies absorbed in Agriculture,Mechan ies and Manufactures, and constantly projecting into the blank, void wilder ness the homes and the works of civilized Man. Holding the Protection of Home Industry by discriminating duties on im ported Wares and Fabrics essential to the rapid, beneficent diffusion of Production in all its phases and departments, and so to the instruction of our people in all the gainful arts of Peace, we urge our coun trymen to adhere to and uphold that pol icy, in undoubting faith that the true in terest, not of a class or a section, but of each section and every useful class, is thereby subserved and promoted. The TRIBUNE aims to be pre-eminent ly a /Crews-paper. Its correspondents trav erse every State, are present on every im portant battle-field,-are early advised of every notable Cabinet decision, observe the proceedings of Congress, of Legisla tures, and of Conventions, and report to us by telegraph all that seems of general interest. We have paid for one day's momentous advices from Europe by Cable far more than our entire receipts for the issue in which those advices reached our readers. If lavish outlay, unsleeping vigilance, and unbounded faith in the lib erality and discernment of the reading public, will enable us to make a journal which has no superior in the accuracy, variety, and freshness of its contents, the TRIBUNE shall be such a journal. To Agriculture and the subservient arts we have devoted, and shall persistently devote, more means and space than any of our rivals. We aim to make the WEEKLY TRIBUNE such a paper 'as no farmer can afford to do without, however widely his politics may differ from ours. Our reports of the Cattle, Horse, Produc and General Markets are so full and ac curate, our essays in elucidation of the Farmers' Club and kindred gatherings, are so interesting, that the poorest farmer will find therein a mine of suggestion and consul, of which, he cannot remain ingor ant without positive and serious loss. We sell the Wm - Ex - LT to Clubs for less than its value in dwellings for waste-paper; and, though its subscription is already very large, we believe that a Half Mil lion more farmers will take it whenever it shall be commended to their attention. We ask our friends everywhere to aid us in so commending it. TEEMS DAILY Tirrna's.,.-E, Mail Subscribers, $lO per annum. SEMI-WEEKLY TRIEU:N.ZE, Mail Subscrib ers, $4 per annum. Five copies or over, $3 each. TERMS OF VIE WEEKCT To Mull Subscribers. One Copy, one year, i 2 Issues Five Copies, one year, 22 issues.. A miner from Fall Creek; by the name of Timothy Guilfoy,was ran over and instantly killed on the night of the 16th inst., while lying on the railroad track, a short distau ce from the railroad bridge that spans the Sus quehanna at Towanda: The head, arms and legs of the deceased were severed, and the body othenviso horribly mutulated. On Friday night last several colored men of York were hunting oppossums, and hav ing as they supposed treed one of their game, imagine their surprise when it came to the ground being shot, to find a good sized Wild Cat- The animal weighs twelve pounds, is two and a half feet long, and was killed on the farm of Henry Welsh, Esq., some three miles from York The aonvillo Iron Company. We clip the following from the Knox ville (Tenn.) Chronicle, and our readers will be much pleased to hear of the pros perity of Messrs. Richards and Lewis who, while they lived among us, were much esteemed and highly respected : "The magnitude of the operations of the Knoxville Iron Company is conceived of by only a few of our citizens. But few, we suppose, have ever considered how much - their business adds to the prosperity, not only of Knoxville, but of East Tennessee. The Company was or ganized soon after the war, under the name and style of Chamberlain, Richards and Co. The Messrs. Richards we re born in Wales, where they resided until they had reached the years of manhood. • They are three brothers—David, Joseph and William J.—all of whom are practical iron men, having been engaged in the business since childhood. They emigra ted to this country while young men and settled in the iron regions of Pennsylva nia, where they liyed sevegal years, and from whence they came to Knoxville.— They thoroughly understood the mechan ical part of the business, and it is largely owing to their practical experience that the manufactured articles turned out from the establishment are always of a sapetior quality. In 1868, the Company was chartered under the name of the Knoxville Iron Company, tinder which name it still does business. The incorporators are H. C. Chamberlain, Joseph Richards, David Richards, Thomas Lewis and Daniel Thomas. The Company was organized with Capt. Chamberlain as President, Maj. W. B. Tuttle as Secretary and Joseph Richards, General Manager.— Major Tuttle is a native of Connecticut. During the war, he served on the Staff of General Sherman. and injoyed the con fidence of his superior officers. He is a thorough business man, and systema tizes the work in his department, in a thorough and satisfactory manner. Mr. Lewis is also a native of wales and is a practical iron man. He is so modest and unassuming that he is scarcely known, except by his immediate neigh bors. tie understands his business—is just in all his dealings, and upright in every transaction. The Company used in the year 1869, about 4.000,000 pounds of pig and scrap iron. This year they have worked up about 25 per cent. more. They employ in their rolling mill, nail factory, ma chine shop and foundry,about 150 hands. their wages will average abbut two dol lars per day—some. receiving more and others less. The highest wages is paid to the heaters, which reaches from $l6O to $l9O per month. Paddlers receive about $lOO per month,.we pre►me.— In the year 1868, the Company found their operations somewhat circumscribed for the want of a foundry and machine shop, and they immediately set about to supply the want. This department is in charge of Mr. Thomas D. Lewis, who is a first-class master mechanic. The rolling-mill is a scene of activity at all times, day and night. There we see the puddle' s in their ceaseless toil, where the pigs have been thrown into the puddling furnace, and melted,land stirred until the molten mass becomes grained, and the dross is separated from the met al. Here it is made into balls, then ta ken to the squeezers,squeezed into blooms, then taken to the rollers, where it is roll ed into muck-bars. It is then sheared up into short pieces, piled, taken into the heater, heated again, then back to the rollers, wher it is made into merchantable iron. , ' draltiV M. David Richards, as superintendent, as sisted by his brother, Wm. J. Richards. As we have above stated, they employ about 200 hands in their establishment here and and iu their mines at Coal Creek. Most of these are heads of fami lies. Allowing each family to contain five persons, and the population support ed directly by this Company would be 1,000. These one thousand persons have to buy their provisions from the grocer, their clothing from the tailor, their shoes from the shoemaker; &c., so that this es tablishment adds, in a large degree, to the prosperity of every class of people in the community. What we want is lust such men as compose this Company, and a few more similar establishments. Tne Citation to Stevens' Executors. The Cougt re-assembled at 2.3- o'clock, P. M., and Mr. Dickey resumed_ his argu ment, which was characterized•, by much personality. He said he would now pro ceed to consider the character for honesty of the two professional shysters who had taken charge of this case. The one, Mr. Landis, was steeped in venality and cor ruption. He had been for many years Solicitor to the Commissioners of Lan 'caster County, and in that connection had caused. the County to lose thousands of dollars in forfeited recognizances. So corrupt had he become that he was hurl ed from Power by the Legislature abol ishing the office he had disgraced. The charges which he here made he was sor ry to make, but would be pleased at any time to prove them if the gentlemen deemed himself aggrieved, befole a jury of twelve sworn men. As for the other attorney, Mr. Price, he never had the confidence of Mr. Stevens, living, or any of his friends when dead. He, too, had held a position in the State Legislature, where, he had the reputation of being among.purchasable - members, the "cheapest of the cheap." Judge Long stopped Mr. Dickey and told him to be less personal, but Judge Hayes said that Mr. Dickey had a right to reply, he having been grossly assailed by the other side. Mr. Price remarked that when lie was a member of the State Legislature it was no usual thing to see Mr. Dickey in Har risburg as a log-roller, for putting through any corrupt job out of which money could be made; and with the permission of the Court be would reply to Mr. Dickey's per sonalities, and show up his character for honesty as illustrated in certain transac t tioni nearer home. Mr. Dickey said be intended to put the plaster just where it belonged. That these men were steeped in corruption and fraud, and it did not lie with them to as sail the character of such men as Hon. Anthony E. Roberts and Hon. Edward McPherson. Without speaking of himself the two other Executors would do justice to the memory and estate of Mr. Stevens, who well knew the jackal's who-Would-he hunting him after his death; and so one of these gentlemen had been seleeted as his historian, and the others for the settlement of his estate. It will l their duty to erect a monument over his re mains, upon one side of which would be inscribed the epitaph written by his own hands, and upon the other side would be inscribed his name, and still higher up would be placed an inscription which would forever debar these two men from visiting his grave—the inscription being " Here lie the remains of an honest man." The Court reserved its opinion, which will be delivered at stature day. Items of Interest. Laughter is tonic. Oriental jewelry reigns. The coffee plant grows 12 feet high. Neat lockets of Roman gold are out. The cactus fence is peculiar to Mexico. California brags of a lemonade spring. Rich widows are knee deep in Brooklyn. Equine sausages have occurred in Lon don. Rogers is doing a Rip Van Winkle sta tuette. A new pronoun is needed for the Siamese twins. Carlyle says : "Nothing over happens but once. A Boston girl is undone unless she has eye glasses. I The fattest Congressman ever we had weighed 400. Sheriff Leeds don't intend to run for of fice:again. Russia leather glove stretchers are the la test novelty. There are 61,000 ministers in the United States. The Chicago poor-house children got $2,5 worth of candy. Tom Norton is the latest convert from New York 'wickedness. Andy Johnson warms his shins in a coun try store these times. Scarlatina is very destructive in London. I fDickens' good characters die of decline. Yale College revivals never amount to much. Gambetta scarfs aro worn by London swells. German misses are wearing Milan jackets. Patrick Henry's first oration was a sad bungle. Scene—Boys playing in the roadway.— Clergyman—" And so you are building a mud village, are you ; and that's the church? But why haven't you made the parson ?" Boys—"We hadn't dirt enough." Parson continues his ramble. The following touching epitaph is to be found on the tombstone of a Colorado dea con ; "When circumstances rendered it impossible for bins to attend the stated preaching of the gospel, ho made it a pious rule to kill an Indian'every Sabbath." General Sherman,in:a speech in Cleveland, afew days ago, is reported to have said that the Army of the Cumberland would never have permitted itself to be cooped up like the army in Paris. Major George K. Brady, of the United States Army, lately sent the body of his in fant son—the first American child born in Alaska—a distance of nearly ten thousand miles, that it might be burriod "at home." The oldest stove probably in the United States is the one which warms the ball of Virginia's capitol, in Richmond. It was made in England and sent to Richmond in 1770, and warmed the House of Burgesses for 60 years before it was removed to its present location, where it has been for 30 years. It has survived the British mon archs ; has been cotemporaneous with four kingly monarchies, two Republics and two imperial governments in France. The Re public of America has been torn by internal strife, the breaches partly healed, and still the old stove remains unmoved in the midst of all. A Minnesota paper, in rofering editorially to the after-dinner speech of an admirer and subscriber, says : "Mr. Barlow's inimitable style of elocution and gesticulation knocked into a cocked hat the most sublime, power ful and successful tragic efforts of Forrest, Macready, Murdoch, Booth and Pechter." A. fashionable lady in San Francisco has contracted for her coffin, and made elabor ate arrangements for her funeral by having tickets of invitation prepared to be sent to her friends. She intends to make the event an imposing one, and is probably in hastoto die. Anateof ready-nawde cofitas, ,?tt auction, took place at Lincoln, Neb., recently. A black walnut article, with silver trimmings, brought $26 ; the purchaser being a man whose wife was very sick. The State Jour nal regards this sale as conclusive evidence of the desperate healthiness of Lincoln. One tablespoonful of cranberry sauce and two of molasses, taken at bed time will cure the piles. John L. Breese, a wealthy farmer, of 76 years, living near the Big Miami, recently led to the altar Lydia Arm Dean, a miss of twenty-five. A Sacramento paper says the wild geese are so plenty in California that they give as much annoyance to railroad men as the grasshoppers in glimmer. A small mountain of mineral paint has been discovered about seven miles from La fayette, Ind. It is said to be better than the Lake Superior mineral paint. There is an old lady in St. Joseph, who has kept house over twenty years, and who had only one paper of pins in that time, and yet has a part of a paper left. Mrs. Annie L. Camfield has been appoint ed deputy collector of internal revenue in an Ohio district, the first woman appointed to any office in the internal revenue service. For picking at his eyelids with his finger nails 4 a lad, Henry Birney by name, living on Rodman street, in this city, has nearly destroyed his sight. The lids have swollen enormously, and are covered with ulcers. A Mrs. Whisler, of North Liberty, 0., was cbastizing a refractory child when her rod broke, a piece of it striking her spectacles, fracturing the glass, a portion being driven into the eye and destroying the sight. Dr. A. P. Pownall, a young physician of Sand Hill, Ky., was drowned in Crooked Creek, near Sand Hill, a week ago last Sun day, while being baptized. lie had been married but a few days previous, and was highly esteemed. James Clegget has been sentenced to eight years and six months imprisonment, for murdering Policeman Sullivan, of Philadel phia. " . .Mahlon Pepper during a row in Norris town, some days ago, beat a man so badly that he died. Mahlon, sled, but was arrest ed at Manayunk and sent back to Norris town. A Miss Blotz, a sister of the wife of Col. J. A. Stable. of York, was found dead in bed on Thursday morning, 22nd inst. She resided with CoL Stable, and retired in her usual health, and died sometime during the night. The tallest member of the State Legisla ture, soon to assemble, is Samuel D. Clark, of Lawrence county. Ho stands six feet seven inches in his single soled boots.— Capt. H. K. Sloan, of Indiana, is six feet four inches in height. SPECIAL NOTICES. DECEMBER. The Great Pictorial Alineal. Hostettei's United Almanac for MI. for dis tribution gratis, throughout the United States, and all civilized countries of the Western Hem isphere ,will be published about the first of.Jan nary, and all who wish to understand the true philosophy of health should read and ponder the valuable suggestions it contains. In addition to an admirable medical treatise on the causes, prevention and cure of a great variety of diseas es,it embraces a large amount of information in teresting to the merchant, the mechanic, the miser, the farmer, the planter, and professional man ; and. the calculations have been made for such meridians and latitudes as are most suit able fora correct and comprehensive NATioitAz. CALENDAR. The nature, uses, and extraordinary sanitary effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the staple tonic and alterative of more than half the Chris tian world, are fully set forth iu its pages, which aro also Interspersed with pictorial illustrations valuable recipes for the household and farm, hu morous anecdotes, and other instructive and amusing reading matter, original and selected. Among the Annuals toappear with the opening of the year, this will be one of the year, this will be one of the most useful, and may be had for the asking. The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter dt Smith, on receipt of a two cent stamp, will forward a copy bymail to say person who can not procure it in his neighborhood. The Bitters aro sold in every city, town and village, and are extensively,used throughout this enUre civ. Lifted world. NE W ADVERTISEMENTS • FOR THIRTY YEARS Has that wißknown, standard, and popu remedy, PAIN KILLER manufactured by Perry Davis cE Ben, Provi dence, R I, been before the public, aud in that tiXte has become known in elf 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 seve re pain, has never been equalled and it has earned Its world-wide popularity be its intrinsic merit, Ito curative agent has had so wide-spread sale or given such universal satisfaction, The various ills for widen the Pain Killer is an unfailing cure, are too well known to require recapitulation in this advertisement, As an external and internal medicine the Pain Killer stands unrivaled, Directions accompany each bottle, Sold by all druggists, Pi ice 2o ets 50cts, and taper bottle. COLUMBIA GAS COMPANY. An election for President and Managers of the Columbia Gas Company, will be held at their Oilice, on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th, between the hours of 10 A. M. and 3 P. Id. By order CHAS. 1-1* MoCULLOUGH, novl9-1t Secretary. RICHARDS' CONFECTIONERY! NO. 152 LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA. CAKES, CANDIES, FRUITS AND CREAMS, of the choicest kind kept constantly on hand. r2r Families and Parties supplled with Ice Cream In Churns or Moulds, Itt Short Notice and Reasonable Rates. GENTLEMEN' AND LADIES' OYSTER SALOON. Having re-opened my Oyster Saloon, I would respectfully invite all to call soon and often. It is the most comfortable and Inviting Saloon in the borough. None but the BEST Oysters are used. .tar- Families and 'Parties supplied at Short Notice. is.. Remember the place-152 Locdst Street. Mrs. ALLEN RICHARDS. 4-20's and I.BBl's BOUGHT, SOLD AND EXCHANGED ON MOST LIBERAL TERMS. GOLD Bought and sold at Market Rates. COUPONS CASHED. PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD. STOCKS Bought add Sold on Commission only Accounts received and Interest allowed on daily balances subject to check. at sight, g. subject No. 40 South Third Stree, PHILADELPHIA. A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and In struetion," Harper's Bazar. A supplement containing numerous full-sized pattern's of useful articles accompany the paper every fortnight Harper's Bazar contains 16 folio pages of the size of Harper's Weekly, printed on superfine calendered paper, and Is published weekly. E=ll HARPER'S BAZAR, one year AO extra copy of either the Magazine, Weekly or Bazar will be supplied gratis for every Club of Five Subscribers at 04,00 each, in one remit tance; or, Six copies for $29,00, without extra opy. c Subscriptions to Harper's Magazine, Weekly, and Bazar to one address for one year, SI0,00; or two of Harper's Periodicals, to one address for one year, $7,00. Back numbers can be supplied at any time. Vol. 1., 11., and 111., of Harper's Bazar, for the years 100$. '6O, '7O, elegantly bound In green mo rocco cloth, will be sent by express, freight pro paid, for 07,00 each. The postage on Harper's Bazar is 20 cents a year, which must be paid at the subscriber's post office. Address HARPER & BBOTHERS, New York! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE People of Columba & Vicinity ! B. EISEMAN'S, EMPIRE CLOTHING HALL, FULL OPERATION. LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND LOWEST PRICES I CALL AND SEE Astonishing Bargains READY-MADE CLOTHING! AND Gents' Furnishing Goods!! The Goods being all my own manufacture I can fully guarantee them to be Superior in Every Respect, And I am selling thorn at PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION I So If you want to save 25 per cent. In purchas ing your goods, go to B. BISE2ffAXIS EMPIRE CLOTHING HALL. No. 43 Front St., between Locust & Wal nut, Columbia. REMEMBER No. 43 M'DONALD 13UCHhat REAL ESTATE _ COLLECTION 6• INSURANCE AGENCY, Branch office of TnEO. W. HSER, Lancaster. Farms, Houses etc., in City or Country sold ex changed or rented. Special attention given to selling Real Estate by public sale, without trouble to owners, and with less than ordinary expense. Rents and interest money sau 4 all other claims promptly , collected. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages written. Insurances effected in the most reliable Life, Fire and Accidental Companies. Powers of Attorney to collect money from Eu rope, written. Passage Tickets to an 4 from Europe In first.- class vessels, at low rases. Agency for the Staten island Dye House,Omce No 270 Locust Street, over A. Haldeman & Co's., Dry Goods Store, deca-3m'7o M'DONALD & BUCHER. CoLumnrA Niel'loNAL BANN. i Columbia December 10th 1870. 1 The annual election for Directors or this Bank will be held at the Banking House, on Tuesday the 10th Day Of January Next, between ten o'clock A. M., and tnroe o clock P. M. SAMUEL SHOCK, Quibler. FOE. SALE. • A good covered WAGON with three good spring's, at E. A. Becker% Black Smith shop , Con. bd antl'Odion sta., Cotunable- deo 11-tr ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE. cute of JOSEPII LOCKARD, late of West 'Hemptield township, deceased. Letters of administration on mid 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 against the same will present them for settlement to the undersigned residing In said ,ownship. SAMUEL M. LOCKARD, Dee 15-1870 Administrator ec 17-8 t TUANTED AG EN I'3 —To sell the WALE tif SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE. Price $25. It make.; the "Lock. Stitch," (alike on both sides) and ie the mdylioensecl underfeed Shuttle Machine sold for less than $5O. Licensed by Wheeler & Wilson, Grover & Baiter and Singer .t Co. All other under-feed - Shuttle Machines sold for less than $OO arc infringements, and the seller and user liable to prosecution. Address JOHIgSON, CLAES. & CO., Boston, Mass., Pitts burg, Pa.,Chlimgo, /IL,or St.Loutsaita, j(l4 514 w IrOLIDAY GOODS! 31USCATTELL BASINS, 31USCATTELL BASINS, 31TJSCATTELL BASINS, CRANBERRIES, CRANBERRIES, CRANBERRIES, CITRON, CITRON, CITRON, WRIGHT'S AND ATMORE'S MINCEMEAT, WRIGHT'S AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAS, WRI4HT'S AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAT, At HOLIDAY GOODS! We call particular attention to our immense stock of SPICES, consisting of GINGER, GINGER, , CLOVES, _CLOVES, CLOVES, CLOVES, CINN AMON, CINNAMON, CINNAMON, CINNAMON, WHOLE MACE, WHOLE MACE, WHOLE MACE, WHOLE MBCE, GROUND MACE, GROUND MACE, ENGLISH 8.1. CARB. SODA. Weir Al l these Spices are warranted Pure and Fresh, at HOLIDAY GOODS. .$4 00 CROSS & BLACKWELL'S ENGLISH PICKLES. CROSS & BLACKWELL'S ENGLISH PICKLES, CROSS & BLACKWDLL'S ENGLISH PICKLES, HOLIDAY GOODS' ! We bave on hand the largest assortment of FINE GLASS AND QUEENSWARE, FINE GLASS . AND QUEENSWARE; CELERY GLASSES, CELERY' GLASSES. ' CELERY GLASSES, CELERY GLASSES, GLASS BOWLS; COVERED & UNCOVERED, GLASS BOWLS COVERED & UNCOYERED, GLASS SETS,' GLASS SETS, GLASS SETS,GLASS SETS, - GLASS PITCHERS, GLASS PITCHERS, GLASS PITCHERS,. GLASS PITCHERS, GOBLETS, - GOBLETS, SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS .PRESENTS, at R. HAYES', HOLIDAY GOODS ! Just 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' SOUTH EAST CORNER - FOURTH & CHERRY'STRFETS 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 public to his large end well-selected stock of FRESH GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS just received from the City, which he will sell CHEAPER THAN EVER!—FOR CASH! His stock comprisins SUGARS, SPICES, HAMS, DRIED BEEF, DRIED AND C4LNIVED FRUIT, Also, BROOMS, BitUSITES, BUCKETS, BED CORDS, and everything in the Grocery lino. He directs special attention to his new and superior stock of GLASS AND QUEENSWARE, Which he Is selling at 'prices Low.sn than ever before offered in Columbia. Call and examine for yourselves. Also, on hand FLOUR Alti D FEED. Aar- AG.EICT von. WM. GOOD'S EAGLE MiLLS FLOUR, The BEST Family Flour In the Market Every barrel Warranted- Sold Cheap for Cash. Having purchased my gouds cheap for Cash, lam prepared to offer them cheaper than say r Ther dealers. Goods sold for CASH. ONLY. • R. HAYES , South-saes Corner rourth Att• Cherry Sts., Co& nai SEEDLESS SEEDLESS SEEDLESS R. HAYES', South East Corner Fourth & Cherry Streets GROU.NID PEPPER, for .B2ttcl erin . q purposes SODA BISCUITS, SODA BISCUITS, BISCUITS, BISCUITS, WINE WINE AMERICAN PICKLES, AMERICAN PICKLES, FRENCH MUSTARD, FRENCH MUSTARD, CORNER FOURTH & CHERRY CORNER FOURTH & CHERRY S. E. COR. FOURTH & CHERRY STS COFFEES, MACKEREL, SHOULDERS, TEAS VALENCIA BASINS, VANENC IA BASINS, VALENCIA BASINS, BASINS, BASINS, BASINS, CRANBERRIES, CRAN BERRIES, ; CRANL ERRIES," R. HAYES', S. E. COR. FOURTH & CHERRY STS R. HAYE'B, SYRUPS, POTATOES, CANDLES, CHEESE, SOAP, CITRON, CITRON, CITRON,