® 6 ® OTmHWCNHBg acSJHKSESaMfc Whole No. 2874. Poor House Business. 1 ho Directors of the Poor meet at the Poor House on the 2d Tuesday of each month. Kishacoqullias Seminary AXD NORMAL SCHOOL. rjlllK Summer Session at tbiS institution will begin L April V. ISG6, and continue 20 weeks. Cost for Boarders per session. $75. Day scholars, sl2. Special Attention paid to Normal Class this session The assistance of the County Superintendent is ex pected For particulars address niar'2l-iim ' S. Z. SHARP, Principal. J. [ I O-80. 77. 2LD2E } Attorney at Law, Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at f end to business in MltHin. Centre and Hunting iCn couptie* tnv2G So HDiianilSSTs I'. S. E ramininj Surgeon, "VI7*E3T Market ."tract. Lewistown, two ; it doors from the diamond, offers his professional services to tye public. By au thorny from Washington he has been ap an EraniwxAg Surgeon- feb7 DENTIST. /yKFFRS his professional services to the citizens 'f '.' Lw mil an t vicinity. All in want of good, nea; work will do well to girc him a call. He may be found at ail times at his office, i doors cast of if. M. 4 11. Pratt's store. Valley street, apltsdy- | M. R. THOMPSON, D. D. S. ' HAVING permanently located in Lewistown. otters i his projc-sional services to the ladies and gentle- j men of this place and vicin- lty. Being in possession ! all the late i til juove- j ences—host lauijbcs. . ! Office west Market street, near Eisenlusc hotel, ; w here he can be found for professional consultation j Irom the first Mouday of each month matil the totirt.i lloii lav. w hen he wiil ho abseht on prfylce.-iomtl lu-i- : JSCS, oil., week. JliaylO-tt 1366. 7s E W GOODS.' AT NATHANIEL KENNEDY'S ' S TO IF3L 213 , In the Odd Fellows' Hall. T I "ST received from Phi la leipliia, a i t) very choice assortment of ,;o. .'. . c -o. 7 S-. g ,'if i *£/* - > JAU K.^ tiingliauis. Flannels. Checks, il i. kory. Foreign and . i'oiiicstie L'ry Coed- of a I kn.Tc Sngiii'J. t'ofTee*. Tint, fkecolafr, i.-M'nni- 01 Ci'lfeo. ljueoiisuure. Stonu witre. Har Iwarcauu < 'edaruare.Biioiil- Uers. ll.un, Mackerel. Herring, I ; Sha< I. 1 loots :tml Stitiee. I.IHIU Hags. Also, , I a fine lot of U'hiskv. I It li A N' I V Wine and -in, ' SALT. 4c, . 4c.. 4c, which will e sold rctvl-w. Country Produce taken j 1 in exchange for goods I>\ : < X. KENNEDY. I.ewntown, October 11. I*C5. Liewistown Mills. I TIIE TIIUnEST CASH PRICES FdR WHEAT, ASI) ! ALL RIMS HP GRAIN, or received it on storage, at the option of those ; having it for the market. Thev hope, by giving due and personal at i tention to business, to merit a liberal share of ; pu Llic patronage. OI'LASTKK. SALT and Limeburners ; COAL always on hand W.M. B McATEE & SON. Lewistown, Jan. 1, IBGo.-tf WHAT'S ALL THIS ? Why, the Grain Business Reviv ed at McCoy's old Stand. f | 1 LIE undersigned, having rented the large J and commndiouii Warehouses formerly occupied by Frank AfcCoy, esq., is now pre pared to purchase or receive and forward All Kinds of Grain, for which he will pay market prices. Also, he will k*ep for sale, Salt, Plaster, Coal & Fish. He returns thanks to all his old customelS for their former patronage, and shall feel grateful for a renewal of past business rela tions. lie has also accepted the agency for • the celebrated Syi-HIL-gj -Verchants will find it to their advantage to give him a call. marl4-ly \VM. WILLIS. NEW BOOT & HOE STORE IN THE WEST WARD. The undersigned hft-ju-t opened a new and large I stock of HOOTS and SIiOKS in Major Buoy's store room. West .Markft street. Lewistown a few doors from the diamond and opposite Eiseuhiso's Ho- ! tel. where will be found an emire new stock of Fash- ' iouable BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS,! SLIPPERS, SzG., for Ladies. Gentleman, Girls. Bovs, and Children, so- | looted with much care, and which will lie sold at rea- j sonahle prices for cash. Custon work will also be punctually attended to, j this branch being uuder the superintendence of Wm. j T. Went*, an old and experience workman. REPAIRING also attended to. The public, as well as his fellow soldiers, arc invited j ; 'o give him a call and examine hie stock. FRANK H. WENTZ. 1 Lewistown. Sept. 6. lRttS. IE 3 O IE T IR, ""ST . Consider. I Consider The lilie* of tha field whose biooin is brief ; We are as they ; Like them we fade away, As doth a leaf. Ccr-ider The sparrowi of tho atr. tf - niul; a • -outit; Our Gor mount; He guards u 3 t<. J. Consider The lilies that do neither spin nor ; :!, Yet are most fair; What profiis ail this care Aud all th - coil Cons.Gtr The birds that have no burn nor harvest weeks , God gives them food. Much more ot:. father To do us good. .if icwt." ta's Magazint. What is Earth! What is Earth, sexton? A place to dig graves. What is earth, rich man ? A place t wo] k slaves. What is earth, graybeard? A place to grow old. What is earth, miser? A ; act* 10g,., gold TV hat is earth schoolboy .' A o ' ir.v pl.iv. What is earth, maiden ' Api •• to be gay. What is earth, seamstress.* A; . ■• where I ween. What is earth, singeju'd ? A | . c to What is earth, soldier? A : ,1. •: ... What is earth, herdsman? A . - : se u.tle. What is earth, widow Ap' . ... ;,r tr.c- v .• What it earth, tradesman i (II tell ■ ... , -,,,.. r r W'iiat is earth, sick ni.u, "i is r.otlai _to n • Wlu tis earth, sailotg My* i- lie Whal is earth, state-to in : A ; one. W'hat i earth, autli' i 1 write :i.\ name. W.hat e.irlh. rnonan . I'.,i i,v i aim lis g.van. Wli.it is earth, Chris;i in ? i •g : v * . H ivn. "A. O-000 cTOHY. A STOBY or TWO KISSES. 1 am an old nun; -o old am I, that, looking buck, lifts . htid very long, and yet so tsliort. that I do not know whether many tHings did not happen in a dream. I am ital • and heartv, and merry, for tin? matter of that: and when I laugh, my laugh i .ag.- u;t clear ly and loud, they - y; so mu';!i * that it makes the people .. :>n:. 1, -p. iaiiy my grandchild:--.-;:. ;••..! n ph v - an aieees, laugh too. Ami wh n i i-ingSi. tin* old times to =:;; it-i, v. i.cn olut i who are silent no v, lau A :d with me, and t-ben i am suddenly -Till, ami the laiigit dies away ; and '■ hen I think of it, its empty ech >e> lii 1 my brain just as if it were sleep laughter in a dream. When 1 stop laughing.sosuddenlv— for the merriment and cmoymeiit, and, for the matter of tiiat, the grief and pain of old men. are short and sudden, like thoke o! children—rnv grandchildren, and nenliews. and niec es, have a great difficulty to stop too ; and they choke, and nudge each oilier, and say. "Ah ! that is a good story, uncle; almost as good a- the st try you told us yesterday. Told 3'cstei'd'.\ ; iet mc stto what it , was that I told yesterday, lktw long ago it seems; it mu-t he ' >nger ago than the time wiu-r. I b'.i - otn\" twen- j ty years old. a h.vnrt. i-iave fellow in yellow bret eh - hi tek leggi ig'S, a heavy brass-boa mi leather helnn t with ; a white plume tipp • th red, an ia t clanking sword wh'hi I now c u!d not lift with tnv two hamis i was a roy al volunteer then prepared to resi.-t tho French, and 1 and si :ic < f mv companions were encamp. 1 in white tents on the coast of Kent. Yes, people think mo very merry. And so, bless Heaven! 1 am; fori try to stand upright, lour square to the world, as a man should; tut, bt ing an old man, I have blank places in my heart now, where no love grows; bar ren spots iii my memory, and chill and numbed parts in my feelings whereto I cannot look back, and whereon i dare not tread and touch, lest sudden pain should conn: back, like to the shooting of an old. old wound. Been in love? Yes, I should think I have; how oh-c could 1 have grand children, those p.-t ? Yes, been in love! Well we"just did love when I was a young fellow. and 1 recollect my Alice, and J ree<- Meet her as 1 loved her when alio was wry young, and as I love her now. 1 think that she could do any thing but drink and smoke, or tell an untruth, or do a wrong ac tion. Her laco was a sweet oval face ; her hair a very dark brown, nearly black; and her eyes a deep blue, full of merriment at one moment, ay, at all moments, except when she heard a sad etory or was touched with pain for anyone else, and then they grew deep er and deeper as they filled with tears. Not for herself. She never cried for herself that 1 know ot, for she never had a day's illness. But she was ter ribly cut up when her poor brother died, and that you see was how 1 knew her. Her brother was in tnv compa ny. Matty's the time that he stood shoulder to me. good at drill, good at song—good at anything. lit used to WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1365, live near the coast; and, indeed, he joined us, and 1 was one of his tent fellows, and his chum. Well, he knew people that 1 knew, and we were soon friends ; and he took me home to show me Alice. He was always talking about her, and she about him; and, when he was there, scarce a look did she give me. Her brother—his name Joe, and mine too —could do everything, and was tho be-all and end all ot' the world. I used to think; and r-o one day 1 tried to run with Joe, and Joe beat me, and Alice laughed : and then I shot against Joe, and he beat mc too. and she laugh ed the more ; and 1 wrestled with him and threw him, and she didn't laugh then, but ran to see whether lie was hurt, and said it wasn't fair lbr Joe to tackle a big fellow like me, although lie was an inch taller. In short, 1 could not please her anyhow. Well, it was one day that we heard that the llat bottomed boats of old Bo nay were not coming over, and that j the army of Boulongc had melted bit by bit away like a snow-drift, that we made a night of. Ay, it was a night, too! and being hot and in the summer, we must needs keep up the *.n till the sun came up over the seacoast, look : ing red and angry at our folly. Well. Joe and I—the two Joes as they culled us—ran down on the beach and waAn ! cd our hot faces, and plunged in the j fresh, salt waves, and were in a few ' moments as fresh and merry a- larks And after dressing, Joe must needs taiie a walk with me—who was noth ing loth, you must know—along the • edge of the cliff. The for centu : ries have been washing that ehaik ; bound coast, and at intervals there J stand uj) pillars of'.chalk,.with seas i around them. )he people call such a place, **No Alan's Land," and no man can own it truly. Well, Joe came t , one of these within a few Jeet —-;-v twelve—from the cliff, and turning to me, said •'.roe Junior," s-.id ie—l think 1 see his bright face now— '* 1 challenge vou to jump on thai ; * No Man's Land," J do." •• Joe," said J. hurriedly. *•' don't be a 1" •! It may ne i ! w-mid give uwav ;• the top, and if it di i not. bow <■ aid you jump lack wit!, at a run? Y u\i be stuck on t!m t'lji (ih 'i'o li!;.- a mad se?i'.im-l ui- a piiiai -. int Jin not go ing to jump it." •• But 1 am, sal i he. And '• ! re I could stop him, if indeed I bad tried, ! he took run an i jumped. It was a.i sudden that 1 eoui i ouiv : stand aghast when J saw him there.— 1 He stoo l, indeed, but for a moment, and then he Look a b.tcic step, and would have jumped back, when I heard ' a rumbling sound, and half the top of i •'No Man's Land" part,and the chalk and earth, and Joe. too. fell down with a crash on the rocky coast below. I ran around the little creek to the ; other side of the small bay. and throw ing mysclt down on the turf, stretched ■ my neck over, looked over and cried, Joe ! Aro you hurt. Joe !" A faint voice came up, and 1 could see the poor fellow struggling under a f huge piece of chalk which seemed to hold ruin down in agony. lie smiled in a ghastiv way with his whitened lhce, and said, "Hun, Joe, run! the tide's coming in !" Well, I did run, and we got ropes ! from the tents, and a few strong lei lows held these as I swung over the cliff, just reaching poor Joe us the cold water was lap, lap, lapping up to his mouth, taking away his breath and then running hack, crawling over him and leaving bubbles of salt foam, as if in sport. 1 got him out, but lie could not stand. Some bones were broken and lie was badly bruised, so that I was forced to tie him to the rope and they hauled him up, and afterward pulled me up. and we took him home. Well, well ! tit make a long story short, poor Joe died, with my praises on his lijis, and Alice bowed her head like a broken lily.-, it was a long time before site got over it, and summer had grown into winter, and winter to i summer, to autumn, and to winter again. .1 lie threat mod invasion was ail over; our swords were getting rusty, our uniforms dirty, and when the holidays came I left tho firm in which ! had just became a partner, and went to spend a fortnight at rnv friend's in Kent. Alice was there, well and cheerful now, and reconciled to her loss, though we often talked of poor Joe, and as the days wore on we grew close together, and she called me by my name and seemed to have transferred her broth er's love to me. She never told me so nor let others see it till one merry Christmas night, when she rejected a*!! her cousins and her other friends, an i would only dance with mo. We had the mistletoe, too At last, one madcap fellow proposed that the latlies should kisi the gentlemen all around when a; i how they could ; and Alice should play, too; and she, in a solemn, quiet way, smiling eadly and yet sweetly too, took me beneath the I hristtnas hough and kissed me on the lips. At-, tt s, many years ago, but I feel it ■ now., My heart beat so last that I | hardly dared return it: but I put my j arm round her and took her gently to i t he l-uy window of the old hail, saying, : as I pressed her hand. "Alice, dear I Alice did you iiiem that kiss? - ' V ed, 1 need not tell you what she i answered. Ti< fifty years ago, tiftv j years ago. and 1 am surrounded by ; Alice - dear grandchildren; and there ' is • ne, a little thing with light and : golden hair that wiil deepen into brown, i who plays around my knees and tells me :.er iittie stories, her sorrows, and I her joys; so quick, so hurried in their ' 0 -uiing and their going that they are like my own. and as we talk, we grow : quite friends and companions, as mv Alice was to me. Bless you, she understands it uli! She is a woman in pretty ways: her pout ings, pettings,and quarelings. She manages her household of one wax doll and two wooden ones, and tells "ie for the wax doll is the lady- and -ne two woodou ones arc the servants io no-heaps and stuff gowns, when ' oey gossip with a wooden policeman, who belongs to her brother, Ft lie Joe. ' So we a *e fast friends, little Alice, • • nd T; an J to night, on Christmas night, 1 noticed that she would not dance m r play with Che pink and shiny-faced iit tie boys who were unnaturally tidy ; ami dean in their new knickerbockers, with red stockings but she came and sat by in.- and talkcdsoflly in the fire light as Alice did, and ma le me think oi fifty years ago. An ! only think bow i >id times came back and new j times like t'leold; only-just think that wi.cn her mother toid her she should i choose a swectheai t, she got a iittie bit i o! rni>t!ot'"-, and climbing slily on my knee, and holding me in talk as if to • ie Iter purpose—though I guessed it I soon, I a teli you,—site put her iiitie doll-like arm around my neck, and hoi ling tUQ mistletoe above my head, ; -no kissed me again and again, and | .in, and said T was her sweet heart. ! -So this chiid sweet heart brought j -he old times buck—the old times that ■tre stiii so distant and so near—and ; iiie sweet kiss neath the rustling • caves, made me think ot my dead Al- ■ ice in the grave. -A-. 3-1?. IOTJJLYC U IR, ,-N.TA. The Currant. in the selection of small fruits spo i daily adapted to planting in a new i country, we should set high value on ; the currant. Nor is it much less desi rable on an old homestead thai is well furnished with fruit; but where tho in satiable currant s orrn has established • itsclt this crop is a costly and difficult one to grow. For family use the cur rant is tiardiy surpassed bv any one of the bush or vine summer fruits Scarcely is the berry formed from the ! ilowc-r. ere it is p ; ackcd and used for j Juoo. \\ he:; fuiiy ripe, its t.isto is \ agreeably acid during the hot weather, and it has the peculiar and valuable quality, in so small a fruit, of keeping perfectly for weeks ou the bushes, af j tcr its color and size announce its ma turity. Its value in cookery is well known, and its fermented juice forms a oevcrago which is superior to any other manufactured from fruit, cxc-.pt that made from the apple and grape. The currant is very easily propaga ted front cuttings taken from the la : test growth. Th y should be long ' enough to reach to the moist soil, and : they ought to lie planted early in the spring—before the buds start. There are two methods of training—one to ■ allow the hush to take its natural hab it, ns-isling it by proper thinning and ' piuniiig, and the other to force it Um grow in the tree form. For genera! cultivation the first method is prefera ble, it is more natural, and we think ; the plant will be - longer lived and healthier. At proper intervals tho old ; wood can be cut away and the growth ; renewed by suckers springing from buds below the ground.-The tree form is very handsome, convenient for til lage, and for a few years produces ve ry fine fruit. When this form i$ desi rable it is only- necessary to remove , all the buds on the cutting below j where you wish the branches to form. ; They should lie cut out with a knife, j It any suckers spring up from the ground, or branches start too low down, they- may be easily removed, ' and when the plant becomes well es- , tablished in its growth, no further, trouble will arise from this eoui'ce. Four or five feet apart in the row is a convenient distance to plant. — Rural Acic ior her. A Wonderful Tree. —In tho birch wood of Culloden, Scotland, there is a remarkable tree, well worthy of note. About thirty years ago, a young giant of the forest was blown down, and fell aorots a deep gully or ravine SS33FOSJ which it completely spanned, and the top branches took root on the other -ide. From the parent stem no less ; Hian fifteen trees grew up perpendieu j larly. all in a row ; and there they still j flouri.-h. in all their splendor, while j tiie parent stem evinces no token of ; decay. Several of the trees are not ; le-'S titan thirty feet high. The tree is j a birch fir. MISCELLALTYT } Kissing. Some chap who has evidently had considerable experience in the matter, discoi rses as follows on the subject of i kissing: '• People will kiss, yet not one in a hundred knows how to extract bliss from lovely Jips, no more than they know how to make diamonds from charcoal. And yet it is easy, at least for us ! First know whom you are lo . uiss. Don t make a mistake,although a mistake may be good. Don't jump ttii like a trout for a fly, and smack a ■ woman or. the neck, on the ear. or on i j t he corner of h-w forehead, on the end of her nose, or knock oil'her waterfall. : Tiie gentleman should be a little tho tallest. He should have a clean face, a kind eye, a mouth full of expression. Don't kiss everybody. Don't sit down to it; .-land up. Need not be anxious ! about getting in a crowd. Two per-j sons are plenty to corner and catch a kiss , more persons spoil the sport j lake the left hand of the lady in your i >ght: let your hat go to —any place ! ml ot tiie way, throw the left hand gently over the shoulder of the lady, i and let the hand fall down upon the ' right side toward tiie belt. Don't be i in a hurry; draw her gently, lovingly j to your heart; her head will fall fight- i ; ly upon your shoulder—and a hand some shoulder strap it makes! Don't I be in a hurry ; send a little life down your ielt arm. Her left hand is in your right, let there lie an impression j to that, not like the grip of a vice, but a gentle clasp, full < i electricity, tho't ; and respect. Hcn't fie in a hurry! j Her head fies carelessly on year shoui ( dcr ! You are nearly heart to heart ! Look down into her half closed eves' j (fentiy, yet manfully, press her to your : j bosom ! Stand firm. Bo brave,' but don tbein a hurry. Her lips arc al most. open! Lean lightly forward with your head, not the body Take - y-:od aim; the lips meet—the eyes : ! close—the heart opens the soul rides ' 1 the storms, troubles and sorrows of! j life (don't be in u hurry)—heaven opens before you—the world shoots 1 Irom under your feet as a meteor flash- ; e-> across the evening' sky, tdon't be a l .raid. > the heart forgets it*. ! itl< rness, j and the art of kis-ing i> learned. No ! noise, notuss, no liultcringand squirm- . ing like hook-impaled worms. Kissing ; i don t hurt; it don t require a brass ! band to make it legai. Don't jab down on a beautiful mouth as it'spear ing for trbg> ! Don't grab and yuuk the lady as it .-be was a struggling colt . Dou L muss her hair, scratch ■ down her collar, bite her check, squiz- ' z!e her rich ril buns, and leave her mussed and rumpled ! Don't flavor your kisses with onions, tobacco, gin- • cock-tails, lager beer, brandy, etc., for , a maudlin kiss is worse than the itch to a delicate, loving, sensible woman. ; For the Little Folks. MisUr Eh'turt, will U Xcuse me if 1 pen 1* a ° of 2or o lines 2 let U no 1 ve Ist rate luk fc have found ti c gall that fills my I, A I" may Dpend she's Ntra, k more A all I've got married k i keep house 2. \ou no 1 sed 1 wood ! tell L all about my wife when I got ], A" no w I iii gone 2. \Yul, stirs, Die's 2 for me, that is. I don't disilve her, but bless my *** I've got her. She's not 1 of fir MTheadelf wimmin that H 2 often 2 15 found, she's not 2 young nor 2 old, she's just XX. She's chok full of fun, but no vanLT, full of NliG, but not 2 swift, plenty of grit, without XV, Her ii's K bright but not 2 sharp, A -lie's moderately plump & not 2 much OBC T. U needn't think this ' 2 my wi:o is 2 extra, fur 1 no t can't, find her ij in this §of the country. It didn't take me long to pop the ?. I didn't edge along by 03 like some timid thing, but kurn rite to the ?in less than a'. Scz J, will L" B 2 me a loving wife? Site sed, Yes sir E. Then sez she, Will ÜB2me 1 O B D ent huz? A sez I, Yeth'rn, so we Beam 2 in 1. Only 1 thing has hap pened to disturb us since we were ' 2gother. There is an ugly old maid ' keeps house in the same building A ' she's hateful enough. 'This is a very Xpensive place 2 live in, wud is high we burn cole; well we Miss-trusted this old maid would pilfer all she could get her s on. Wai, my wif, Uno ' i told fi", was some grit; wal, 1 day she was ir. the old maid's part A there i? was she seen her fire, & she went rito up 2 her & sez, There's our : your fire. I teil U she looked tt out of her 2 ii's. It you'd been there you'd have tho't Vol. LYI. No. 24- so 2, lor it was a gal affair. I never C my wii'so spunky Biore, she did cut a and no mistake. 2mv wile's V. k the old maid looked rather but we agreed if she'd pay 82 cost, we would bring the matter to a full . Dr. Asa Shade's Celebrated Fever Nagur Culiuinator. Cures tan bark, bark of dogs, and my bark is on the sea Tom Moore; pimples, plumbago, warts, gunibiies, sweet corns, itch, phontoids, loul se cretions (of other people's portable property,) unnatural stoppages of board bills, want of appetite, drinka tito. or other tights; elecampane, or . all pains or campaigns, blotches on the ■ body, politic or otherwise. It prompt ly eradicates ugly chaps or bruises or bruising around, stomach ache or frost ed cake ; excise taxes or other difficul ties. and is bully for the mumps. 1 his celebrated, and now for the first time ottered to the world 'clocks 'ers is absolutely magical lor stopping pains and window panes—it was prepared with the greatest pains. For arrest ing malarious vagabonds it lias no j equal on earth. It enables creditors jin easy failing circumstances.to outwit the sheriff; causes the miserly un cles to relent and come down with tlio soap; to the afflicted it comes asgrate , biily as a fifty cent postage to a penni less loafer, whose bronchia Is yearn lor i irritating fluids. its general, effect upon the soul or ■ system is as inild and invigorating as Rhine wine or Congress waiter altera three weeks drunk. In short, the pro prietor longs to put it within the reach i of all. Rut in gallon bottles at the low rate of so a drink, and in Pollock's course of time may be found upon the shelves ot every respectable druggist, or, as assets in the hands of his assignee.— Beware of quack imitations by J)r. Drake, and fictitious counterfeits by any other poultry montc bank. Eve ry bottle has Dr. Asa Spade's signature flyblown on the cork. .1 S-afusion Minister matin Bishop.— Ihe Lev. J. R. B. Wilmer, formerly j Rector ot St. Mark's Episcopal church of Philadelphia, has been chosen as the new .Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, lie is a native of Alexandria, Ya., and for the last year or so has resided at Eikridgc, Md., where he had church, lie left St. Mark's Church and return ed south, and was subsequently sent ; to Europe to purchase Bibles and Tes taments for the confederate army. It was on his return from England that he was captured on the lower Chesa peake ly a Federal cruiser, and sent ; to the old Capitol prison, from which : he was soon released. 'IT is statement, published in a southern paper, is not altogether correct. The Rev. gentle man was detained at Fortress Monroe, lie had with him a large number of chests filled with printed works and material of every description, some of which were exactly the reverse of bi bles and testaments, and made for base purposes. Specimens of the same were brought to Philadelphia and ex hibited* in the detective's office. lie was permitted to go south, but was finally arrested as a spy, and locked up in the old Capitol prison, from which he was released by the clemen cy of President Lincoln. Queen Elizabeth. —Eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth are hanging in tho London National Portrait (fallery. They represent her at all periods, from youth to old age, and she is painted as u blonde, slight, with a light shade of rod hail 1 , blue eyes, a thin, finely-cut mouth, and a nose somewhat aquiline. One ot' the portraits depicts her in a black jeweled and quilled gown, open at the throat; another, painted after her death, represents her as an old woman sitting at a table, resting her head upon one hand whilst she holds a book with the other. Her face is sad and thoughtful, allegorical figures sur round her, and Death is whispering in her car. The South Carolina Conference of the African M. E. church has lately been in session. Its proceedings appear from the reports to have been as dignified and strictly parliamentary as those of white bodies of the same character. A report, from the temperance committee depreca ting the use of tobacco was passed in an amended form, bv which the members pledged them.-elves to abstain from the weed by the next s<.--ion of the annual conference. Looking Glasses and Picture Frames r RIIK undersigned, thankful for past fu- JL vors, would inform the public that he still manufactures Frames of every de scription, as cheap as they can he inado elsewhere. Looking Glasses of every de scription. wholesale and retail, at reduced prices, lie respectfully solicits a share of public patronage. All persons who have left pictures to frame or frames to be filled, • -c rc