PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, RAUCH & COCHRAN, No. 13, South Queen Street, Lancaster. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I copy, one year, • 1.00 S sapid., (each name adteesed,) 7.00 10 moo " 13.00 13 copies " Al 18.00 y 3 copies " 14 MOO And $l.lO for each additional subscriber. Tait CLUES, IX PACZAOYS. 5 copies, (to one addrese,) $ 6.80 30 copies " 4 l MO 15 copies " It 16.80 motes " II 20.00 And.sl.oo for ascii additional imbscriber. .—All subscriptions must inviudably beladd in advance. JOB PRINTING= Of every description, neatly and promptly exe euted, at short notice, and on the most reasonable terms. Railroads. P ENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL R. R. Trains leave the Central Depot as follows: EASTWARD. WESTWARD. C i nein. Ex....12:17 a. m. Erie Mail 1:50 a. in Phila.Exprese 5:12 " Phila. istxp... 2:40 Fast Line 7:02 " I Mail 11:15 Lane. Train.. 9:05 " I Fast Line..... 2:35 p. in Day Express. 1:45 p.m. Columbia Ac. 2:45 " Harrisb'g Ac..5:51 " Harriet)* Ac. 5:54 46 Lane. Train.. 7:29 " Cincin. Ex....10:43 " EADING RAILROAD. WINTER ARRANGEMENT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1868. reat Trunk Li nel rom thc North and North rest for Philadelphia, New York, Read, ina, * Pottsville, 711maqua, Ashland, Sha mokin, Lebanon, Allentown Easton, _Eph rata, Litiz, Lancaster, Columbia, &v. Trains leave Harrisburg for New York as fol lows: At 3.50, 6.53, 8.10 a. in., 12.40 noon 2.05 and 10.56 p. m., connecting with similar trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad and arriving at New York at 11.00 a. m., 12.20n00n, 3.50,7.00,10.05 p.m., and 6.16 a. in. respectively. Sleeping Cars aa. aortoi ;B i66a. m' -• • • ,14," Pine rove, Allentown and Phi‘adeip 8.10 a. m., 2.05 and 4.10 p. m., stopping at Leba non and principal Way Stations; the 4.10 p. train making connections for Philluiclphia and Columbia only. For Pottsville, -chuylkill Ha yen and Auburn, viaSchuvlkill and Susquc Minna Railroad, leave ilarrisburg at 3.30 p. m. Returning: Leave-New York at 9.sti a. m ,12.00 noon, 5.10 and 8.00 p. 1/1., Philadelphia at 8.15 a. in. and 3.30 p. nl ; sleeping cars accompany the 9.00 a. nl. 5.10 and 8.00 p. 111, trains from New York, without change. Way Passenger Train leaves Phila lelphia at 7.30 a. m., conuccting with similar train on East Penna. Railroad, returning loom Reading at 6.35 p. m., stopping at all stations; leave Potts vile at 7.30, 8 45 a. m., and 2.45 p. m.; Shamokin at 5.25 a. m.; Ashland at 7.00 a. m., and 12.30 p. m.; Tamaqua at 8.30 n. and 2.20 p. for Phila delphia. Leave Pottsville, via Schuylkill and Susque hanna Railroad at 7.10 a. in. for Harrisburg, and 11.30 a. in. for Pine Grove and Tremont. Reading Accommodation Train : Leaves Reading at 7:30 a. in., returning leaves Phila delphia at 4:45 p. Pottstown Accommodation Train: Leaves Pottstown at 6.45 a. in.; returning, leaves Phila delphm at 4.00 p. m. Columbia Railroad Trains leave Reading at 7.00 a. in. and 6.15 p. in. for Ephrata, Litiz, Lan caster, Columbia, tic. Perkiomen Railroad Trains leave l'erklomen 1 unction at 0.15 a in. and 5.30 p. m returning, heave Skippack at 8.10 u. m. and 12 45 p. m., coa -1 ecting with similar trains on Reading Rail On Sundays: Leave New York at 8.00 p. m., Philadelphia at 8.00 a. in. and 3.15 p. in., the 8.00 a. in. train running only to Reading; Potts ville 8.00 a. m.; Harrisburg 5.60 a. in., 4.10 and 10.50 p. in. and Reading at 1.05, &W and 7.15 a. in. For HarrAburg, at 12.60, and-fBl a. m. for New York; and at 4.25 p. in. for Philadelphia. Commutation, Mileage, Season,School and Excursion Tickets, to and from tll points, at educed rates. Baggage checked through; 100 PO LIZICIS ItilOWed each Passenger, G. A, NICOLLS, General Superintendent. REAPING, Pe., Dee. 14, 1808. [(leell3-ltd&w MUMM=I Trains leave York for Wrightsville and Co lumbia, at 6:20 and 11:40 a. in., and 3:30 p. in. 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Also, prismatic instrumentu Large Colored Work by some of the best Ar tists in Philadelphia and elsewhere in the high, est style of the art: India Ink, Pastille, Crayon a nd colors, at GILLIS CITY GALLERY, No. 20 East King-st. lan 1-Iyr] Coal, Lumber, ste. EBLER, BRENEMAN & CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN COAL, OF THE BEST QUALITY. YARD—COR. WATER ST. AND PA. R. IL Osszcß—NO. 2 EAST ORANGE ST., LANCASTER PA. [dee 18-ly B. B. MARTIN, HERBERT THOMAS, JOHN S. M ASOS 5,000,000 FEET OF DRY LUMBER. MARTIN, THOMAS & COLUMBIA, LANCASTER CO., PA., Manufacturers At LOCK HAVEN, CLINTON COUNTY, PA., AND WHOLESALE LUMBER WHITE PINM J _IIEMLOCK, POPLAR, W ALNUT ASH, FLOORING, SIDING, WEATHER BOA RDS, PICKETS, LATH, BOX BOARDS, &c., &c. inbl . 2-Iy] Hotels. US. HOTEL, • OPPOI3ITE PENNA. B. It. DEPOT, HARRISBURG, PA. —O-- W. IL EMMINGER it CO., inal2-Iy] PrOprietors. 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BOUNTY (additional) to Soldiers who enlisted for not less than?, or 3 years, or wore honors hly discharged for wounds received. BOUNTY (additional) to Widows, Children, or Parents of Soldiers who died from wounds re ceived or disease contracted in said service. PENSIONS for invalid Soldiers and Sailors, or to their widows or children. PENSIONS for fathers and mothers, brothers or sisters of deceased soldiers, upon whom they were dependent. PENSIONS and GRATUITIES for Soldiers or their Widows from Pennsylvania, in the War of 1812.• PAY due Teamsters, Artificers and Civil em ployees of the Government. PAY due for horses lost in the United States service. CHARGES.—Iees fair and moderate, and in will • 11, made unt the ta. rzza THE OLD PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPiLVI OF PHILADELPHIA ACCUMULATED CAPITAL, 62,000,000, After paying Losses to the amount of $1,120,000 CHARTER PERPETUAL All the Surplus Dividend amongst the Policy Holders every year. 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Active solicitors, male or female, wanted in every township in the State. tjan 1.8 m• Fcrttlizers. WE lIAVE NO TRAVELING AGENTS Farmers and Dealers who send their orders direct to us, can avail themselves of the LOWEST PRICES And save the Commission. Early orders will be advantageous to buyers. ALLEN & NEEDLES, Manufacturers of IMI'ROVED SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME, AND TDB AMMONIATED FERTILIZER PERUVIAN GUANO. We sell only No. I—received direct from the Government FISH GUANO. A splendid Manure packed in barrels We also ofter for sale PURI LAND PLASTER, HYDRAULIC CEMENT and a full assortment, of 011.8 and CARDLEN• A DISCOUNT TO DEALERS. ALLEN & NEEDLES, 42 SOUTH DELAWARE AVENUE, PIIILAD,A ESTABLISHED IN 1835 GEO. M. STEINMAN & CO., febll2-Sm] Sole Agents at Lancaster CAUTION. Whereas my wife CATHAMINE M. Las left my home without any just cause or provoca tion, all persons are hereby oantioneol not to trust her on my account, as I will pay no debts which she may contract. DAVID 11. HEINEY. Marti° township, April 9th, 113(10-3t* LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1869. fairly tore from his finger. Then he drag ged the body into the thicket, picked up hisritle, plunged madly through the bushes into the road, mounted the traveler's horse and rushed away from the awful scene!. We must now suppose a lapse of twenty years. In the spring of 1537, there lived in the !city of New York a banker and a million aire, whom we shall call Stephen Edwards. Ile owned a palatial mansion, splendidly furnished, in the very heart of the town, and he and his wife were among the lead ers of the fashionable world. They had a beautiful daughter, gust turned of sweet sixteen, who was about to be married to a foreign nobleman, and great preparations were making for the happy event. One day, about this period, as the great banker stood conversing with a gentleman from another city, who called to see him on business, he observed the latter sudden ly turn very pale and begin to tremble. "My dear sir," he said, in the usual tone of oir hand sympathy, "what is the matter? Are you ill?" " little faint sir, but nothing, to capse Abe ether " - ec to Similar spells. If you will be kind enough to excuse Inc for ten min utes or so I will take a short walk, and re turn in better condition." In ten minutes he did return, said he was quite well, calmly proceeded to finish his business with the banker, and then respectfully took his leave. It was, perhaps, a week after this that one night, the great banker was sitting before the fire in the library, when the servant came in and presented him a let ter. lie took it with a yawn, opened it in the most indolent and indifferent manner possible, but he had not read a dozen words before he came up with a start, turned deadly pale, and trembled so that the paper rattled, Ile finished the note— for it was rather a note than a letter— worked one hand nervously at his throat, and with the other clasped his forehead and temples. For a minute or two he seemed to be choking into calmness, by an iron will, sonic terrible emotion, and he so far succeeded as to address ie waiting servant in an ordinary tone. "James," said he, "who gave you this ri" TRUTH lette STRANGER THA,. " A man, sir, and said he'd wait fin. an FICTION. , answer." "Then I suppose he, is waiting?" In the autumn of 1817, while the v?oodllis ," Yes, sir'," were bright with the variegated hues " Very well; show him in." which follow the light touches of early Soon there was a light tap en the door, frost, a mountain traveler was quietly and the banker said "eons , in," iu an pursuin g his way through a dark, broad, ordinary tone. lonely forest, in the western part of the The servant opened the door, ushered in State of New York. lie had ridden three the stranger, and immediately withdrew. miles without seeing a human habitation, The latter was a man verging on sixty, of and had yet two miles to go beiore he rough appearance. and coarse attire. lie could get sight of another. Ire was de- wore an old gray overcoat, buttoned to the scending a hill into a gloomy-looking val- throat, and a pair of green goggles, and ley, through which flowed a shallow but his whole attire was saturated with rain. swift running stream ; and on reaching " Take a seat," said the banker, point the water he permitted his thirsty beast ing to a chair near the fire. to stop and drink. "No, thank you, I'll stand," was the At that moment a man came out from gruff reply. " You got my letter and I,f a cluster of bushes into the road or horse- course, know my business," he added. Wottvg. THE FIRST OF ALL THE LAM). Up to the outraged seats of power He comes, the drat of all the land, Unmoved as in the battle tour, A people's favor in his band. To whom but unto him belong Welcomes to the Deliver's place? It was his sword annulled the wrong, And re-ennobled half a race. His sword was in his greatest hour To angry States the wand of peace ; And, loyal to his silent power, The echoes of rebellion cease. And Fame to land and age afar Shall glorify him doubly great— Unbaffied soldier of the war, Untroubled ruler iu the State. Oh, land, to high occasion true ! The instinct of thy people brought Their trust to him whose words were few, But pregnant of the fields he fought. •_' ..e ere reyo 0111ws Beare some of an heroic breed. Nor lightly way the land forgot The men of thought or deed sublime, Whose grand, decisive lives have set Her luminous landmarks fur all time. Oh, land, self-ruled and self-redeemed ! The Ilow of Peace, ascendant now, Is fairer than the Promise seemed When Freedom was a perilous vow For other lands, beholding thee, Alert with purer vigor, rise, Shall scorn the ancient heresy That Truth or Freedom ever dies. Dissevered States the bond renew, Purged form the old offence and shami And to their last allegiance true, Stand phalanxed in sweet Freedom's name Oh, day of all the land'e desire Of night long promise and release I Night and eclipse with thee expire, And dawn the happy years of peace —Harper's Weekly, arch 13 _4tioctilatitoug. path, on the other side of the stream. This man was dressed like a hunter, and carried a rifle on his shoulder. In his general appearance there were 'nothing that indicated hostility ora wicked design. lie was of medium size, compactly built, with intellectual features and a certain a of gentility—seeming rather as one abroall from some settlement for a day's sport than a professional hunter. All this the mounted traveler carefully noted before he crossed the stream to continue his jour ney, and when they came near „together a pleasant salutation was exchanged. " Fine weather for traveling, sir • • , marked the man with the gun. "And for hunting also, I should sup pose," smiled the other on the horse. " Yes, there is game enough," returned the other, " but I am not agood hunter, and can show only one bear for my day's work, and that is almost useless to me, because I have no means of taking it away. I would willingly give a dollar for the use of a horse like yours for a couple of hours. If you could sparo five minutes or so, I would like you to seethe bear. It is only just back behind these bushes, some two hundred yards from here." "I will not only look at it," replied the traveler, dismounting and fastening his horse, "but, if not too heavy, I will take it along for you, seeing I am going your way." The hunter thanked him in a most cor dial manuer, and then, as if to make him self agreeable and keep up the conversa tion, inquired 'where the other was from, whither journeying, and so forth ; and learned in reply that the latter resided in Albany, was a merchant in good business, and was traveling partly for his health, and partly with a view of making an ex tensive laud purchase for future specula tion.)7 " Well, here we are ! exclai ' fiftfidt— hunter as the two emerged from - the Aso thicket, through which they had slowly forced their way, into the open wood, " here we are, and now I will show you as fine and fat a beast as you ever saw. Observe where I point muffle." He stepped hack some eight or ten feet, deliberately raised the piece to his eye, and pointed the muzzle directly to the head of the traveler. There was a flash, a loud report, -the victim fell like a log, his face covered with blood. This might and might not have been the first ermine committed by the man with the rifle. But as the traveler fell the rifle slipped from his hands, and he shook vio lently from head to foot; yet, he sprang to his victim and hurriedly robbed him of a purse, a pocket book, a gold watch and chain, some curious seals, a diamond breastpin, and a diamond ring which he "You allude to this I suppose," return ed the banker, producing the letter which had caused him so much perturbation. " Yes." "I do not understand it. You have made a mistake." "No, no mistake at all; I was present twenty years ago, come the tenth of next October, and saw you,Stephen Edwards, shoot the man, and I'l have you in prison before morning. I've laid my plans, and got everything sure; and if you go to play ing innocent, and refusing my terms, I'lL take care to see that you die stretching p . l/ The banker in spite of himself, turned pale, shuddered, and staggered to a seat. " What do you want?" he groaned. • "A hundred thousand dollars. Not a cent less." "I cannot give it—it would ruin me." "Just as you say," rejoined the other, moving toward the door. " You know what will follow if I go this way." " Ohl stay; you must not go yet!" cried the man of crime in terrible alarm. He argued, pleaded, implored for mercy at a less fearful cost. In vain. At last, the banker, seeing ruin, disgrace, and death before him if he refused, agreed to the terms. lle also agreed to meet the stranger, with the required sum, on the following night in front of St. Paul's church. Both were punctual to the fixed time, and bills and checks to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars changed hands. A month later, there was a tremendous rush on the bank of which Stephen Ed wards was the principal owner. It was soon broken and. closed. Then the sheriff was set to work by eager creditors, and all the real estate and personal property of the late millionaire were seized and sold, leaving him a beggar and many just claims unsatisfied. Fashionable friends deserted"the family, and the proud noble man refused the hand of the ruined bank er's daughter. In the very midst of his disgrace and tribulation, Stephen Edwards encounter ed the man who turned so pale and be came so agitated in his presence a short time before. " I think you do not know me, sir," said the gentleman, with a formal bow. "Your face seems familiar, but I can not place you," said Edwards. " Permit me to bring myself to your recollection then; I wish you to know me. A little over six weeks ago, I was talking with you on business, and you observed that I turned deathly pale and became agitated." "Ali, yes; I do remember you now." " Let me tell you why I was thus af fected. My eye had just chanced upon a curious watch-seal, which had once be logged to a merchant named Philip Sid ney, who was shot in the western part of this State, some twenty years ago; and on looking at your featurys closely, I knew you to be the very villAn who perpetrated the foul deed." " Merciful GodP , exclaimed the banker, with a blanched face and quaking form. Yes, I knew you," Pursued the other; "and a week afterward I disguised my self, and had an interview with you in your mansion. You remember that of course!" " But," gaspeil the trembling wretch, "did I not pay you your own price to keep my fatal secret?" "Fes, and with that very money, and what other I could command, I was enab led to buy up enough of your own bills to make that run on your bank which broke it, and forced ruin upon you." "And what would you do, now that I am ruined?" inquired the other, with the deadly calmness of desperation. " Now that I have had my revenge, I want you to know that I myself am the man you attempted to murder and did role! I am Philip Sidney! Behold the scar where die ball struck and glanced!" and he lifted his hat and showed it. "God be praisedP 7 ejaculated the other, "God be praised that you are still living!" and unable to restrain his emotions, he burst into tears. ''o sir!" he continued, "you have taken a load from my con science—a weight from my soul. Though poverty, disgrace, beggary, and death are staring me in the face, I am happy in the knowledge that I am not guilty of murder —more happy than Ihave been for twenty years, with all the luxurious surround ings of wealth! It was my first and last Crime, and I have never been able to tell how 1 was tempted to so outrage my own nature as on that fearful occasion. Now, sir, do with me what you will--only I pray you be merciful to my innocent family." " I forgive you!" returned the other extending his hand. "I forgive you. You have been fearfully punished already, and as God has seen tit to preserve us both, and bring us together, let us hope it is for our present and future salvation, and en deavor to live so as to deserve the bless ings we receive. I will restore you enough to keep you and your family above want; and for the rest, I trust we shall both remem ber we shall have to render an account of our stewardship in another world." Philip Sidney kept his word; and with a fresh start in the world, and now an easy 'conscience, the still enterprising Stephen Edwards accumulated a respectable for tune, much of which he spent in charity, Philip Sidney died in 1847, and Stephen Edwards in 1851. Front a private source we have all the facts we have recorded. Is not truth stranger than fiction? e lfatker brahaneo t RAT soup is one of the delicacies of the Chines:: restaurant in San Francisco. SMALL rot killed off three thousand of San Francisco's sons and daughters. THE Sunbury American this week has donned a new suit of clothes and looks very well in them. YOUNG gentlemen may be pleased to learn that it is becoming fashionable for brides to lire one year with their parents. .I.:AsTos has a man who has lived to the age of 92. Ile never was intoxicated and never tasted tobacco. Ilurrahfor Easton! OBSERVE if you please, how remarka ably well our women are looking now-a days, without their wide war-hoops. Six bridesmaids and no groomsman is the correct thing now. The poor bride groom must go it alone. THE Salt Lake papers are making mer ry over a tight in the household of a Mor mon bishop, in which the "saint" got fearfully thrashed by several enraged wives. SOME of the Democratic tax collectors in Schuylkill county, we learn from the Journal, are heavy defaulters, and are skedaddling. THE New Orleans Rtpubtican says that many of the colored men of that city can not be distinguished from the white men. They are only traditionally colored. Tim Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society has determined to hold its exhibi tion on the 28th of September, and to con tinue it for four days. TUE Christian Register solemnly says church fairs are a nuisance—and that it is impossible to spend money rationally at them. AWFUL accounts of the peach prospect are beginning to circulate, in order to ac custom the people to high prices before the time arrives. Tyr: new administration has made the slate business uncommonly brisk—for our oldest inhabitant cannot remember the time when so many slates were broken. ALEXANDER 11. STEPHEN'S, thrinerly Vice President of the 'Confederacy,' is very ill and lying at the point of death at his residence in Augusta, Ga. PREPARATIONS are being made in Kan sas City, 1110., thy a grand builitio hunt, the excursionists intending to start on the 30th. Distance 405 miks--- fare $ . lO for the round trip. AN insane man recently visited the Pennsylvania Legislature. and on his re turn to the asylum, being as!;•41 what ht 3 thought of it, "Well, I think they arc a branch of this establishment. Jotug C. Breckinridge says that in pol itics he is an extinct volcano. The intclli ligence that we shall have no further erup tions from this crater will be uncommonly agreeable to the general public. CASH RATES OF ADYERIISING Ten lines of Nonpareil constitute a Square TIME I week... 2 weeks.. 3 weeks.. 1 month.. 2 months 3monthe 6 months 1 year.... Executors' Notice 1 Administrators' Notice.. Assignees , Notice... tc BM ioriilN - otice SPECIAL NOTICES—Ten cents a line for the first insertion, and Seven 'Dents A line for each snbse tM ihm. • nna o f." ve yenta a to for each addit ona No. 22. WALL KINDS ow JOB PRINTING executed with neatness and despatch. GEN. DANIEL E: SICKLIN, of N. Y. just retired from the army at his own re quest, has b4n tendered the mission to Mexico by the President. He has d&- clined to accept. 'I7IIE Republican Invineibles of Phila delphia, a large and influential political organization, have adopted. resolutions favoring the re-nomination of Governor Geary. Poor. Tom Thumb is said to drink too much for his health and reputation. A Kentucky paper thinks Mrs. Thumb may find consolation in the fact that he can't drink as much as other men. THE more people do, the more they can do. Ile that does nothing renders him self incapable of doing anything. While we are executing one work, we are prepar ing ourselves to undertake another. Tut other evening while titv Chicago express was nearing Pittsburg at the rate of thirty miles an hour, a passenger came aboard. Ile is doing well considering the circumstances. And so is his mother. Josh 131ut1ios defines a "thurrer bread bizncss man" as "wun that knows enuff about stealin' so't there kart enny body steel from him, and enuff about law se that he can do his stealin, MAINE newspapers say that there is a great surplus of potatoes in that State, of an unusually tine quality, and that before planting time the prices will become con siderably reduced. The supply in the West this spring is also very large. Tnr. New York Sun charges the rich men of the country who "either make no income returns, or make them untruth fully, guilty of swindling their fellow-citi zens. They arc morally as muck thieves as the pickpocket or the shoplifter. That's so A NASHVILLE druggist has invented a rat paint made of a preparation of phos phorus. You first catch the rat, then you paint him. After dark he looks like a ball of fire, and going among his fellow-rats, they vacate the premises, the "bright par ticular rat following and hurrying up the rcar. A wow il l Onondaga county, N. 17., recontly cut out her own daughter in the good ~ r ae-s. of her lover, and married him herself. To obtain revenge for this most umnotherly triek, the daughter set her cap for and married the youn! , man's rich father, m' whom he wt the o,lly heir, to 11 - w i tin is annoyance of her step-children. A CITIZEN Of Indiana, who had the ex pc:rience of eight wives, says that divorces are much cheaper than funerals as a way of disposing of an uncongenial partner. The same remark will apply to Pennsyl vania. The way divorces are rushed through the legislature at Harrisburg is simply infamous. SEVERAL Colored men have been nomi nated to important positions by the Presi dent. B. P. Joubert, appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue in Louisiana, C. N. Wilder, Postmaster at Columbia, South Carolina. and two of the Justices of the Peace of the District of Columbia, are among the number. JOAN BROWN, an eccentric colored bar ber of Akron, Ohio, died on the 30th ult., leaving property valued at $35,000. In the year 1840," when colored children were refused admittance into common schools, Mr. Brown erected a school-house in Cleve land at his own expense. For some time he hired teachers and paid them, the school being free to the children of hia race. KANSAS has a population of about 400, 000. It has six hundred miles of railroad in active operation : and the best system of roads projected and under construction enjoyed by any State in the Union. There are published in the State ten daily and fifty weekly newspapers. The State has a debt of one million dollars, and under the Constitution, this debt cannot be in creased beyond that amount without a direct vote of the people. RATHER PLEASANT.--A writer in Packard's Monthly for April contends that dying is not near so painful as gener ally supposed to be; on the contrary, "where acute pain is not wearing out life, a careful diagnosis will show both the ap proach and the presence of death to be pos itively pleasant—as pleasant as the approach and presence of sleep." The longest word in the language,—An ti-ve-loc-i-pe-des-ti-na-ri-au-is-mat-i-cal-ly —is an adverb of sixteen syllables and thirty-four letters, and isapplied "thusly:" I Peter T. Flopadiddle, in propelling hi* velocipede up Fourth street, very antivel ocipedestinarianismatically lost his bal ance, and after performing a delicate gyra tion in the parting atmosphere, landed in tke mud ; beat this who can.— Williams port Bulletin. THE young men of St. Louis have or ganized into a society, for the purpose of moving for the right of suffrage for all young men over eighteen years of age. We can see no objection to this. Certain ly if a youth is old enough at sixteen or eighteen years of age, to march to the field and light for his country, he is also old enottlt to march up to the polls and vote for his country. Negro suffrage granted, too, youthful suffrage cannot be denied, on the score of intelligence. MAYOR. Hall, of New York, has issued an official circular, cautioning strangers against swindling prospectuses, •ient from this city by so-called co-operative unions, gift enterprises, dollar stores, and other schemes whereby property or value is promised greater than the price asked to be paid. Ilis Honor gives notice that every such advertisement is necessarily a fraud, and a false pretence, and country newspapers which advertise them, he says, arc simply aiding the swindle. 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