(2-2Sj IKETTSSSJCKBIS £3 IPUHiI&IISSiIEIBSs
Whole No. 2748.
Ijewistown Post Office.
Mails arrive and close at the LawistowD P.
0. as follows.
ARRIVE.
Eastern through, 5 33 a. rn.
" through and way 4 21 p m.
Western " 44 44 10 38 a. m.
Bellefonte " " " 230 p m
Northumberland, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, 6 00 p. UJ.
CLOSE.
Eastern through 8 00 p. m.
•' 44 and way 10 00 a. m
Western 14 " 330 p. m.
Bellefonte 8 00
Northumberland (Sundays, Wednesdays
and Fridays) 8 00 p. rn.
Office open from 7 30 a. m. to 8 p. m. On
Sundays from Bto9 am. S. COMFURT, P. M.
l,ewistown Station.
Trains leave Lewistown Station as follows:
Westward. Eastward
Baltimore Express, 4 40 a. m.
Philadelphia 44 533 " 12 20 a. m
Fast Line, 020 p. m. 350 44
Fast Mail, 10 38 "
Mail, 4 21 "
Through Accommodation. 2 35 p. m.
Emigrant, 9 12 a. m.
Through Freight, 10 20 p. m. 120 a m
fast 44 340a. m. 815 44
Express " 11 00 44 235 p. ru.
Stock Express, 5 00 " 9 05
Coal Train. 12 45 p. m. 10 38 a. m.
Local Freight, 040 a. nr. b 2t) p. m.
4®-Galbrtu4h's Omnibuses convey passengers 'o
and from all the trains, taking up or setting them
dowaat all points within the borough Unnts.
GAZETTE
FOR 1864.
JAM AHV. FEBRUARY^
Pundav , I3ToIT 24 31 Sunday . 714 -.'l Js
Monday i 411 IS 25 Monday 1 815 22 291
Tuesday - 512 19 2'. Tuesday 2916 23
IVod'sdav ; 613 20 27: Wed sday 3 10,17 24
Thursday • 1 7 14 21 2s' i Thursday 411 18 25
Friday " ,l; 81522 20 | Friday ,5,12 19 26
Saturday |2 9.16 23.30; ' Saturday :6|10,20,27
MARCH. APRIL..
Sunday , 101329 27 ; Sunday 31017 24
Monday i ! 714 21 28 Monday 411 IS 25,
Tuesday T 81522 29 ITuesday 51219 20
Wed'sday 2 91623 30 WedVday 6:13 20 27 [
Thursday 3 1", 17 24 31, i iThursday 714 2128
Friday .4 11 18 35 I jFriday 1 51522 29
Saturday |5 12119.20; | j |Saturday ,2j 9;10;23|30|
ItAY. JUNK.
1 81522 29 ; Sunday |1512 19 26j
Motidav 2916 23 301 Monday jI6I •. 20 27j
Tuesday 3101724 31 Tin-day I 714 21 28.
Wed'sday 411 lIS 25i j j j Wed'sday 11 81522 29
Thursday 512 19,20; ! Thursday.2! 9 10,23 301
Friday 6 13120 27! : I Friday* >3 1".1. : 24. [
Saturday 7114;2i;25| I j [Saturday !4:11|16i25| J_
JULI. Al GUST.
Sunday i 310 17 24 31 Sunday 7 14 21 28
Monday 41118 25 Monday 1 815 22 29.
Tuesday 51219 26 Tuesday 2 9 16,23 30J
Wed'sdav ! 01320 27 Wed'sday 3 lo 17 24 31
Thursday 714 21 28 j | Thursday .4,11 18 25:
Fridav ' 1,8 15 22 29 j i Friday 10 12 19, 20|
Saturday 2 9i 16;23130 I ISa'imtay |6|13J20|27!_
SEPTEM BER. OCTOBER.
Su tidily > i4lllß 25 Sunday 1 . 2 91623 3(
.Monday i 51219 20 M>uday 1,310 17 24 ~1
Tuesday ! 613 20:27 Tuesday 1.411 1825,
Wed'sdav 7 14 21 28: Wed'sday, > 5 12 19 26
Thursday 1 1 815 22 29! ! Thursday ;61320 27
Friday .2 91023 30 | Friday 7U 21 2s:
Saturday |3! I 4 | 17i24; | | (Saturday il 8,15 22 231 _
"ROVBMBER. DECEMBER.
Sunday I 20 Sundav j 41118 2o
M n<lav * i 7 H2l 2> Monday j j 6 12 19 2ii{
Tuesday |li 8 15 22 li' Tuesday 13 20 271
Wed'sdav 2: 'J IS 23 30; Wed'sday •7H21 2V
Thursday Hit" 17 24 Thursdav 1 8 15 22 29.
Friday Uju}lß I [Friday 13 9is 2:5 30
Saturday j5;12j1U,26; j Saturday jS lO 17 24 Ml,
County Officers.
President Judy,
Hon. S.S. Woods. Lewistown.
Associate Judges,
Hon. Elijah Morrison, Wayne township.
" James Turner, Lewistown.
Sheriff,
I). M. Contner, Esq.
Deputy Sheriff,
John C. Sigler, Esq.
Prothonotary, Clerk of Common Pleas, <£c.,
Nathaniel C. Wilson. Esq.
Register and /.' carder ant Ci&rk of Orphans' Court,
Samuel VV. Carr, Esq.
Treasurer,
Amos Hoot, Esq.
Commissioners,
Samuel Drake, Esq.. Newton Hamilton.
O. P.Smith, Esq- Armagh township.
M. Miller. Esq., Perry township.
Commissoners' Clerk —George Erysinger.
Auditors,
H. C. Vanzant. Esq.. Decatur township.
H. L. Close. Esq., Armagh township.
M. Mohier, Esq., Derry township.
Deputy Surveyor,
John R. Weekes. Esq., of Lewistown.
Coroner,
George Miller, E.-q.. Lewistown.
Mercantile Appraiser,
James M. Lashell.
Superintendent of Common Schools,
Rev. J. Williamson.
LIST OF POST OFFICES.
Offices. Postmasters.
Lewistown, Samuel Comfort
Decatur, A M. Ingram.
Strode's Mills, Jos. Strode, Jr.
McVeytown, J. Criswell.
Newton Hamilton, S. \Y. Norton.
Atkinson's Mills, R. S. Gamble.
Reedsville, Samuel M Greer.
Milroy, A.W.Graff.
Kishacoquillas, E. W. Hill.
Locke's Mills, E. E. Locke.
Belleville, W. C. Nelson.
Menuo, Benj. Groff.
AUenville, N. Hartzler.
CLERGYMEN.
Presbyterian—Rev. O. O. McCLEAN.
Lutheran—Rev. H. R. FLECK.
Methodist —Rev. JOHN GUYEB.
Episcopal—Rev. JOHN LEITHEAD.
Tiie Rev. J. S. MCMIRRAY. Presidiug Elder of Car
lisle District; Rev. S. LAWRENCE, and J. B. STRAIN, Pres
byterian ministers, are also residents of town.
African Wesley Church—Rev. Williams.
African Bethel Church—Rev. John Henry.
THE IIASIAGI-.
THE CHARGE OK THE PEW V. RE
SERVES AC GEH VSIILKu.
PUBLISHED IIY REQUEST.
The sun in his glory was sinking to rest.
The army by legions and carnage o'er-prest;
The columns were flying,
The wounded were dying—
But hark! what is swelling? the enemy swerves—
Ts the old battle-shout of the galiaut Reserves.
Right onward they strode with a firm, measured tread.
Unheeding the wounded, unheeding the dead;
Their banners are streaming.
Their bright eyes are gleaming;
With hearts beating proudly, with unshrinking nerves j
Is poured forth the shout of the gallant Reserves.
Xow quicker their footsteps are pressing in wrath,
And many a comrade is left in his path;
Still onward they're dashing,
With bayonets flashing.
Till victory smiling o'er those she preserves,
Rolls back the proud shout of the galiaut Reserves.
Oh! let not the nation forget the brave deed
Which saved our groat land in her uttermost need;
Where treason so vaunting
His banners were flaunting—
But give in your annals the -Meed" it deserves,
To the desperate charge of the galiaut Reserves.
MMELLAMOHI
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Delivered at Harrisburg, Jaa 19, 1364
tdloweitizens of the /Senate and House
of Representatives :
Called by the partiality of my fellow eit
zens to the office of Governor of Pennsyl
vania for another term, 1 appear before you
to solemnly renew the prescribed obiiga
tion to support the Constitution of the
Tinted States and the Constitution ol the
State ot Pennsylvania; and to discharge
the responsible trust confided to nie with
fidelity.
When first summoned before you, three •
years ago, to assume the sacred duties ol
the Executive office, the long gather
ing clouds of civil war were about to
r>
break upon our devoted country. rot
years treason had been gathering in might
—had been appropriating to its fiendish
lust more and tuore buuntifully of the na
tion's honors—had grown steadily bolder
in its assumption of power until it hud won !
the tolerance, if not the sanction of a for
midable element of popular strength even
in the confessecly loyal States. The elec
tion ot a President in 1800, in strict con
formity with the Constitution and the laws,
though not the cause, was deemed the tit j
occasion for an organized attempt to over j
throw the whole fabric of our tree tnti
tutons, and plunge a nation ot thirty
millions ot people into hopeless anarchy ;
The grave offence charged against the :
President elect seemed alone to consist in j
his avowed fidelity to the Govei nment, and
his determined purpose to luifil his solemn
covenant to maintain inviolate the Union
of the States. When inaugurated, he
found States in open rebellion, disclaiming
allegiance to the Government, fraudulently
appropriating its property and iusoleutly ;
contemning its authority.
Treason was struggling for supremacy in
every department of administrative power
Lu the Cabinet it felonouGy disarmed us— !
our arsenals were robbed to enable the ar
mies of crime to drench a continent in ;
Iraternal blood —our coasts were left com- i
paratively defenceless to tall an easy prey |
to traitors —our navy was scattered upon
distant seas to render the Republic helpless
tor its own protection —officers, educated,
commissioned and sworn to defend the
Government against any foe, became do
sellers, detied Heaven inshamele-s perjury,
and with fratricidal hands drew theirswords
against the country ol their allegiance, ;
and when treason had thus completed it* I
preparation, wanton, wicked war was forced
upon our loyal people.
.Never was war so causeless. The North
had sought no sectional triumph, invaded
no rights, inflicted no wrongs upon the
South. It aimed to preserve the Republic,
not to destroy it, and even when rebellion
presented the sword as the arbiter, we ex
hausted every effort consistent with the
existence of our Government to avert the
bloody drauiaof the lastßyears. The insolent
alternative presented by treason of fatal dis
memberment or internecine war, was met by
"enerous effort to avert the storm of dearly
which threatened to fall; but the leaders of
the rebellion spurned peace, unless they
could glut their infernal ambition over the
ruins of the noblest and freest Government
ever devised by man.
Three years of bloody, wasting war, and
the horrible sacrifice of a quarter of a mil
lion lives attest the desperation of .heir
purpose to overthrow our liberties. Mourn
tug and sorrow spread over the entire na
tion, and defeat and desolation are the terri
ble trophies won by the traitor's hand
Our people have been sorely tried by dis
asters, but in the midst ol the deepest
gloom they have stood with unfaltering
devotion to the great cause of our common
country. Reiving upon the ultimate tri
umph of tin right, they have proved them
selves ett ml t > the stern duty, and worthy
of their r clt inheritance of freedom. Their
fidelity i.,n been well rewarded. In God's
own good tun'-. He has asset ted His aveng
ing power; and if this war is persisted in
by the leaders of the rebellion, as has be
come evident, then slavery and treason,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1864.
the fountain and stream ot discord and
death, must soon share a comu on grave.
In this great struggle for our honored
nationality, Pennsylvania iias won iiumor
tal fatue Despite the teachings of the
faithless and the hesitation of the timid,
she has promptly and generously met every
demand made upon her, whether to repel
invasion or to fight the battles of the Union
whenever and wherever her people were
de nanded. Upon every field made historic
and sacred by the valor of our troops,
some of the martial youth of Pennsylvania
have fallen. There is scarce a hospital that !
has not been visited by our kind offices to !
the sick and wounded, there is not a de :
partmert in wh eh brave men do not :
answer with pride to the name of our no 1
b'.e State, and while hisroiy endures, loyal
hearts will turn with feelings ot national
pride to Gettysburg, where the common
deliverance ot Pennsylvania and the Union
will stand recorded in the unsurpassed glory
of that blood 4" field.
1 need hardly renew my pledge, 'his
during the term of office on which 1 am
about to enter, i will give in" whole moral
and official power to the prosecution of that
war, and in aiding the National Govern
ruent in every effort to secure early and
complete success over our malignant foes.
For the preservation of our national liie,
all things should be subordinated. It is
the first,, highest, noblest duty of t e citi
zen—it is bis protection iri person, proper
ty, and all civil and religi us privileges, ;
and for its perpetuity in form and power,
be owes all bis efforts, his influence, his
means, and his life To compromise with
treason, would be but to give it renewed
existence, and enable it again to plunge us
into another cau-eless war.
In the destruction of the military power
of the rebellion is alone the hope of peace;
for while armed rebeis march over the soil
of any State, no real freedom can prevail,
and no governmental authority, consistent
with the genuts of our free institutions, can
properly operate.
The people of every State are entitled
under the Constitution to the protection ot
the Government, and togive that protection
lolly and fairly, rebellion must be disarmed
and trodden in the dust. Hy these means,
and these alone, can wu have enduring
union, prosperity and peace. As in the
past, I will in the future, in fanhful obedi
ence to the oath I have taken, spare no
means, withhold no power which can
strengthen the Government in this con
ilict. To the measures ot the citizens
chosen to administer the National Govern
merit adopted to promote our great cause
1 will give my cordial approval and earnest
co-operation. It is the cause of cuustilu
tional liberty and law.
l'owers which are essential to our com
utun safety should now be wisely and tear
lessly administered, and that Executive
would be faithless, and held guilty before
the world, who should fail to wield the
might of the Government tot its own pre
servation. The details of my views on the
measures which I recommend are contained
in tuy recent annual message, and need not
here tie repeated.
1 beg to return to the generous people
of my native State my hearty thanks lor
their unfaltering support and continued
confidence. They have sustained me amid
many trying hours of official embarrass
merit. Among all these people to none am
I more indebted than to t! e soldiers of
Pennsylvania, and here I pledge to these
brave men my untiring exertions in their
behalf, and my most anxious efforts for
their future welfare, and I commend here,
as I have frequently done before, those de
pendent upon thorn, to the fostering care
of the State.
1 cannot close this address without an
earnest prayer to the Most High that lie
will preserve, protect and guard our he
loved country, guiding with Divine power
and wisdom, our Gove nment. State and
National, and I appeal to my fellow citizens,
here and elsewhere, in our existing embar
rassments, to lay aside ail partiz.tn feelings
and unite in a hearty and earnest effort
to support the common cause which in
volves the welfare of us all.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of
Representatives, I pray you, in God's name,
let us, iu this era in the history of the
world, set an example of unity and concord
in the support of all measures for the pre
servatiou of this gre„t Republic.
AG. CURT IN.
A Man St 1 icenl in Two. —The Horns
viiie (N Y.) Tribune says: 4 A most ter
rible accident occurred at Reynold's Saw
Mill, a mile north of this village, last
Thursday morning While a man who
gave his name as Frank Smith, who has
been employed in the mill four months,
was engaged in edging boards with a buzz
saw and attempting to remove the edging,
the saw caught his sleeve, instantly sever
ing his right arm, at the same time draw
ing him down upon the saw, almost sever
ing his body at the breast, separating the
great arteries, and killing him instantly.
The real name of the deceased was Alonzo
I). Lewis. He was a single man, las been
a soldier in one of the Pennsylvania regi
merits, and was said to have been a desert
er, which accounts for his having changed
his name.'
DO you attend church ?
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE TER
RIBLE CALAMITY IN SAN
TIAGO, CHILI
Tw Thousand Women and Children
Smothered and Burned to Death
M e briefly notiied last week that one of
the most horrible calamities that has ever
fallen upon any people occurred in the city
of Santiago, the capital ol the republic ol
t'hili, on the night of the Bth ot Decem
ber last.
The Church < f the Jesuits, in which
was being celebrated the immaculate Con
Ception of the Virgin, was destroyed by
fire. and with if were hnrned and sifora
ted over two thousand wom/ n and children
One can hardly realize the terrible catas
troplie that has fallen upon the p ople of
Chili \\ hole families b .ve ben swept
away in all instant, as it were, and tlo-re is
hardly a home in Santiago that has not
been thrown into rite depths of woe. The
battle field hath its horrors; but they are
the incidents of war In this ease it has
been women and children who have been
destroyed, and none were able to render
them any aid. Husband", brothers and
lathes have had to stand by and witness
wives, sisteis and children perish in the
flames and not be afile to render assistance.
1 give you the full acC' unt from the Mcr
euro del \ apir of the 17th ultimo, which
lias all the details; also remarks from that
paper concerning the catastrophe, all of
which are of deep interest:
One of those awful visitations which
from time to time inflict nations with eter
nal mourning took place on Tuesday, De
cember 8, at the festival of the luitnacu
late Conception, in what was the church of
the Jesuits in the capital. A magnificent
temple reduced to ashes, hundreds of dear
lives sacrificed, the wh. le city weeping its
lost ones—such is the picture Santiago of
fers us since the fatal night; the miniver
sary of another mortal catastrophe—the
battle of Longs mil la. On the c.x memo
ration of the lumiaculute Conception, the
last of the festivities of the month ol
Mary, the most popular and frequented of
all our solemnities, thousands ol fair devo
tees thronged to the lust performance,
which was to eclipse all that had preceded
At six in the evening the spacious steps
and part of the open place before the
church swaruied with ladies in veils, fran
tically struggling to enter a temple where
not one more could be made room for.
A lew minutes before seven, and when
the religious performance was about to com
meitce, they were still, lighting the last
lights in the chancel, when tlie portable
gas in the half-moon canvass and wood that
formed the pedestal of a colossal image of
the A irgin Mary began to burn one of the
extremities of that apparatus Some out'
rushed on the rising flame, and succeeded
in smothering it; but by a fatal rebound
the gas, compressed by the effort, I urst.out
with redoubled vigor at the other extremi
t.y of the false half moon. Immediately a
! fierce flame rushed up The persons who
j thronged the chancel flew towards tile sa
oris r\, crying 'water, water;' whilst the
i w.nneu, who filled the n ive, arose in tu
uiukous confusion, screaming tor help.
The suddenness of the tire was awful
The dense mass of women, frightened out
of their senses, numbers tainting, and a!i
entangled by their long swelling cresses,
rushed, as those who knew death was at
their heels, to the one doo', which soon be
came choked up. Fire was everywhere.
Streaming along the wooden coiling, it i
ilung the camphene lamps, hung in rows
there, upon the struggling women
In a moment the gorgeous church was a
•ma of flame Michael Angelo's tearful
picture of hell was there, but exceed-d
Help was a.l but impossible; a Hercu4es
might have strained his strength in vain
to pull one from the serried mass ot iren
zied wretches who, piled one above anoth
cr, as they climbed over to reach the air.
wildly fastening the grip of death upon
any cftie escaping, in order that they might
be dragged out with them. Those who
longed to save them were doomed to bear
the most harrowing sight that ever seared
human eyeballs—to see mothers, sisters,
tender and timid women, dying that die id
ful death, that appalled the stoutest heart
of man, within one yard of salvation, with
in ore yard of men who would have given
their lives over and over again for tbeni.
It was maddening—the scre.niing ard
wringing of hands for help as the remorse
less flames came on ; and then, while some
. already dead with fright were burned in
| _ hastlv indifference, othe sin t! eir borri
: i le agony —some in prayer —were tearing
their hair and battering their faces. Wo
: men, seized in the embraces of the flames,
were seen to undergo a trait-formation as
• though by an optical delusion ; first daz
i ziing bright, then horribly lean and shrunk
I up, then black statues, rigidly fixed in a
| writhing attitude.
The fire, imprisoned by the immense
thickness of the walls, had devoured ev
erything combustible by ten o'clock ; and
I then, defying the sickening stench, peo
pie came to look for their lost ones. Oh.
what a sight the fair, placid rai on looked
j down upon ! Ciosely packed crowds of
calcined, distorted forms, wearing the fear
ful expression of the last pang, whose
smile was once a heaven ; the ghastly phal
anx of black statues, twisted in every var
iety of agony, stretching out their arms as
IP^STO
il imploring mercy; and then, of the heap
that had choked up the door, multitudes
with their lower parts entirely untouched,
and some all a shapeless mass, but with an
arm or foot unscathed.
The silence, alter those piercing screams
were hushed in death, was horrible. It
was the silence of the grave, unbroken but
by tile bitter wail or laintingcry— over two
thousand soid.s had passed through that or
deal of fire to the judgment seal of God.
Heroic acts of sublime daring have not
been wanting. Enduring gratitude has
been excited in every Christian heart, by
the gallant efforts of Mr Nelson, he Min
i>!er of the United States, his countryman.
Mr Meiggs. and several other foreigners
There were generous men who defied the
lury of the flames to save lives, and some
of th"so died HI irt yrs t ■ t heir nob t- heat ts
An Eng ish Uot OR HI V :. .■< HI if >s tin
Known which, wa a to rush through
the tl ions, and seize in h s powerful arms
a lady, stride with her a little way, and
then, with his h ir in a blaze, choked with
smoke, fall hack into the volcano never to
rise again. A young lady named Ovello,
having in vain implored some bystanders
to save her mother, rushed in and shortly
afterwards miraculously issued forth wiili
her parent in Iter arms, saved. A young
lady of the name of Solar, just before the
smoke suffocated her. had the presence < t
mind to tie her handkerchief around her
leg, so that her body might he recognized
Additional particulars state that
'Twenty two hundred bodies have been
counted out from the ruins, and it is sup
posed many were entirely burnt The pre
vailing opinion is the number of lives lost
will reach twenty five hundred. The
count. ;.nd names collected to date amount
to some fifteen hundred. Many families
have lost the entire ft-tnale niemhets—six,
seven, eight and nine from one family.
All those that could not be recognized by
their surviving friends are now buried in
ooe grave or hole. A place twenty five
yards square war, excavated; into this they
were laid, or tumbled and shoveled.'
Governor Wriguit's Repirt of the Hani
buig Exhibition.
Ex Governor- Wright, of Indiana, who
attended the International Agricultural
Exhibition, held at Hamburg, has made an
official report, n which he says that 80
acres of land were occupied by theexhibi
tion. Buddings were erected lor the ac
commo'Jation of more than tour thousand
ei tries of stock, machinery, locomotives,
steam engines, ste-m plows and farm im
'elements, mineral products, artificial man
ures, plants, trees, fruits, flowers, and seeds
Thirty four nationalities were represented
by contributions, including 400U of the
finest horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, some
of the Sovereigns being contributors
Three thousand machines, and farm ituple
nients, and 75 steam engines wete exhtbi
| ted.
Governor Wright is convinced of the
complete success of steatn plowing, and
thinks we are not sufficiently mindful of
ihe progress of Great Britain and other
portions ot Europe in agricultural iniple
tu -nts, though we surpass others in cheat,
labor saving machines, such as threshers,
reaj ers, etc. The American reapers were
awarded the superiority Alter stating
other interesting facts, he says he antiei
piti s iruportai t lesults torn the sympa'by
awai ened and xisting friendships strength
etiod towards our people hy this exhibition,
am] testifies to the ardent sympathy for the
restoration of law and order in the States,
and for our sucee-s and u ity. It was not
thought possible for this country to achieve
triumph- in comptting at the exhibition
amid the scenes ol civil war, and our ac
tti.i 1 success exhi' ited a m >ra! power illus
rative ot the energy ot the people and the
resources ot the com try.
EJC.I IITION <f <I Ho/noil. —The English
papers contain an account ot the execution
of Alice Hewitt, at <Jhest< r, tor the mur
dcr of her mother. She induced a neigh
bor to personate her mother and hy this
means obtained an insurance upon her life.
She then killed her mother by the admin
istratiou of poison. Some three or four
thousand persons were present it the exe
cution. She fell on her knees, an I prayed
that her infant child might he spared a
similar fate, and that her death might be a
warning to others. Executions of females
in this country are ot rare occurrence.
Last year one was executed in Canada with
her husband tor murder. In Boston dur
ing the last century a woman was hung tor
theft.
Pertinent Question. —At the National
Hotel, Lewistuwo, a few days since, two
triends were conversing, and one of them
asked :
'By the way, friend S , what is
your politics?'
' A Democrat, sir, because my father was
one,' atisweied the person addressed.
4 And what is your religion, S ?'
4 A Protestant, sir, because my father
was one.'
4 And why are you a bachelor?'
4 Because my father was—'
At this moment S happened to
think what he was saying, so he turned
muttering:
'ol', darn, what's the use talking. Don't
bother me with your silly questious.'
New Series—Vol. XVIII. No. 13.
Schuyler Colfax in the Printi >}?• Difioe.
Samuel Wilkermm, e>q , formerly of
the Buffalo Press, n >w of the N V.
Timers, in his a Imiruhle address as pre
siding officer at the ' Press di m-'i',' gv
en at Washington recently to Speak*, r
Colfax, related tiie folio wing pleasant
incident:
E.gliteen years ago, at one o'clock
of a wint ni >ouiiglit in >roing. while
the horses in the stage coach in woieh
I was plowing the tin k 111 i 1 of In li
ana were be ng changed at the t tvern
in S null Bead, 1 walked the to > way
ot' the principal street to siiake oft a
great weariness 1 saw a light th l on.; i
a window. A sign. •f :e 11 •g.-ter.
was legible above it an i 1 saw thr >a d
the window a man in his shirt sleeves
walking quickly about tike one that
worked. 1 paused and looked, an l
imagined about the man and ihout tlt-*
lateness of the hour to which it was
protracted; and I wondered it his wife
was expecting hiai a id h id llgh'ed a
new candle for his coming, an i d he
was very tired. A conn ig step inter
rupted this idle dreaming. \V aeu tiie
walker reached my side I rejoined him,
and as we went I asked him questions,
and naturally they were about the
workman in his shirt sleeves. 'What
sort ot a mail is he.' - 'lie is very good
to the poor; lie works hard; he is soci
al le with the people; he pays his debts;
lie is a safe adviser; lie doesn't drink
whisky; folks depend on him ; all this
part of Indiana believe in him.' From
that day to This I have never taken up
the South Ik ml Register without think
ing of this eulogy, and envying tiio
man who had just ly entitled himself to
it in the dawn of his manhood.
The Spirit, of a True Union Sol lier-
A correspondent writing from tlie
Army of tue Cumberland gives the
following incident-:
While riding up Mission Hill on the
memorable 2ot h, turning my horse to
the rght and left to avoid treading up
on the wounded. I bad dismounted
from r y horse to give water to a dy
ing boy, who lay upon his gun with a
bullet hole through bis head, when, a
few yards to the right, 1 observed an
officer being carried down the hill on
a stretcher. Hiding up, i inquired of
the men :
•V\ ho have you here?'
'Adjutant Marsh, of the 21st Michi
gan.'
'Where are you wounded, Adjutant?'
'ln the left arm,' was the reply.
'Badly?' I inquired; when with a
smile lighting up his face, at the same
instant 1 discovered the arm adheting
to the body by a small piece of flesh,
he replied :
•My arm is gone; that's nothing;
we've beaten them, thank God, and
the slur of the Chickamauga defeat is
obliterated. Let the arm perish; such
a victory is worth a thousand arms.'
A Presbyterian Horse.
A short time since, a certain minister in
a certain vsihsge not iar from Buffalo. start
ed in a buggy to fulfil an appointment in a
town some 2U iuiies distant. He had driv
en but a lew miles, however, when he dis
covered that bis horse was quite lame, and
as the evening began to draw nigh, he
deemed it best to top tor the night, in a
short time be espied a farm bouse, in front
id which stood a yeoman considerably ad
vanced in yeais As be drew up the fol
lowing conversation took place:
• Can you tell rue, my friend, how far it
is to a hnye ol entertainment?'
' Weil, if you mean a tavern,' said the
old man, ' it's close on to twenty uiiles;
but if you mean a house of entertainment,
we have one ourselves.'
•Ah, very good. My horse is quite lame
as you see, and I am somewhat fatigutd
myself. Can you accommodate us for the
night, my friend V
'Well, yes, we can accommodate you;
hut if you ate a minister, as you seem to
be, I must tell you that 'he fare )ou'ii get
depends upon your religion.'
' 1 low so, my friend ?'
1 Why, you see.' replied the farmer, 'if
a minister is a good Presbyterian, we give
him the best the house affords; if he is a
Baptist or a Methodist, he gets tolerable
hv.ng; but if he's so unfortunate as to be
an Episcopalian clergyman he can't expect
much. We dou t thins much of them out
this way "
1 Well, my friend, I am sorry that your
prejudices are so imbedded.' remarked the
other with a bland smile. ' Unfortunately
in this instance, 1 am an Episcopalian
clergyman, and I suppose I must content
myseli with a scanty meal, but (more caro
ful of bis lior-e's comfort than his own) let
me assure you of one thing, that my horse
is the bluest Presbyterian you ever saw.'
The old farmer was not so obtuse that
he did not discover and appreciate the min
ister's joke—a joke that procured for man
and beast the bust the farmer's larder and
barn afforded.
Bgu A couple announce in the Prov
idence Post their inarraige, and add to
the notice—'No cards nor any money
to them with.