. . She itafkiaillii „.-PgF.,...t.R...Eutirgrezixs.AxAT , 2 trdWittlii - I; 'it - - - 15:4). '•••2 :It•';•.:ict:, 2' ---- • ;' - ' - ': 1 :7;--bL COOPER, - • • 71 , 1:&,24.0p50rr, . - . - Ai YBED SANDE - 280N T51341.13,-_. Two Dollars per .A.LUIUID, payable Reebeltn . adyence. • • , • ~,,§"Fel:ri3w•Egrr • CORNIER.• OF CENTRE *iiqv.ll ietters on business sh'ould be id resaeitte 'COOPEIC,.BA.NDERSON CO. Ziterarg. Story of a Miser If any of Our readers ever go over London Bridge and look at the beauti ful Church of:St. Mary Overies, let him think of the miserly ferryman and his loVely daughter who plied there in the remote Anglo-Saxon times. In those ages. there . ; was no bridge over the Thames ; and old John Overs, who fer ried people across from the city of Lon don to the borough Southward, pros pered at a great rate. John rented the ferry of the city ; but so many people crossed from side to side, together with horses and cattle, and market produce, that he made a very large profit by his work, and, waxing rich, put out his money at usurious interest, and he waxed richer. In time (according to the old tract in the British Museum from which Mr. Timbs quotes) he ac quired an estate equal to that of the -best alderman in London ; tfut he al ways lived in abject poverty ; though, for purposes of business, he kept several servants and apprentices.— He bad an only daUghter, beau tiful and pious, whom he took care to have liberally educated, but "at . the cheapest rate." When, luiwever, she grew of age to marry, " he would suffer no man of what condition or quality soever, by his good will, to have sight of her, much less access to her." Of course - all his flue precautions were in vajn. You may shut up Danae in a brazen tower, but -Jupiter will find his way in somehow. But the Jupiter of this particulank , gend was a young gal lant, who certainly did not effect his entrance into the maiden's bower in a rain of gold, for he seems to have rather sought that commodity than to have brought it with him; but who managed in some way to obtain three interviews with Danae while her father was low ing to and fro on the river. Finally a match was ageed on ; but an unlooked for circumstance prevented the desired nuptials. Old John took it into hismiserly head that he could save something worth hav ing by starving himself and all his house hold for a day ; he, therefore, feigned to be dead, and caused his daughter (who reluctantly consented to the trick), to wrap him in a sheet, and lay him out iu his own chamber, with a taper burn ing at his head, and another at his feet, as the manner then was. He took itfor granted that all the people in his house would fast during the whole day, in sorrow at the event; but, watching narrowly from his sheet, he was horri fied to find that everybody sang and danced for joy, end, breaking into the larder, began feasting without check. He bore it as long as he could without moving ; but at length the agony of see ing so much Waste going'on about him became greater than he could endure, and, says the tract, " stirring and struggling in his sheet, like a ' ghost with a candle in each hand, he purposed to rise up and rate 'sin for their sauciness and boldness ; when one of them, thinking that the devil was about to rise in his likeness, being in a great amaze, catched hold of the butt end of a broken oar which was in the chamber, and, being a sturdy knave, thinking to kill the devil at the first blow, actually struck ont his brains." The sturdy knave was afterward tried for murder, but acquitted, doubtless to the satisfac tion of all reasonable men. The ferry man's daughter inherited the old man's estate; and the lover, hearing of the news in the country, where he then was, posted up to London as hard as he could, but on the way was thrown from his horse, and broke his neck. The body of Overs, the ferryman, was denied Christian interment, on account of his extortions and usury; and when the friars of Bertnondsey Abbey consented, for a money consideration, to give a lit tle earth for the reception of the remains the abbott, who was away at the time, nb sooner learned the fact on his return, than he caused the body to,be taken up, and put on the back of an ass, which was then turned out of the abbey gates, the - abbot praying that the beast might carry the corpse of the old usurer to such a place as he would best deserve to be buried in. The ass thereupon paced solemnly along Kant street, and so to a certain pond which was then the com mon place of execution, and there he shook oft his burden immediately be neath the gibbet, and the body was put under the ground without any kind of ceremony. The lamentable events seem to have permanently overshadow ed.the spirits of fair Mary Overs, and to have turned her thoughts from this world to the next; for she first dedica ted her wealth to the building of the Church of St. Mary Overes (so called after her), and then retired into a con vent. A Bride's Rare Prerogative Some years ago, a ludricrous incident happened at Vienna. The emperor was interrupted in the midst of a cabinet council by a message from the empress, who it xv:.s said, wanted him immedi ately. On going to her majesty's apart ments, she threw herself before him in an imploring attitude, and begged him that she might be allowed the extraor dinary privilege of putting on her own stockings. The high dames of the court, it seems, whose duty it was to perform that function, insisted upon discharg ing it,"though, as their imperial mis tress represented, " they tickled her" when doing so in a way that she could not endure. The young princess, whom fortune had raised to be the partner of the Kaiser's throne, had been brought up in asimple and sensible manner, and really could not see why the hands God had given them should be less useful to imperial and royal personages than to any other people. The emperor yielded, doubtless to the consternation of the ladies of the bedchamber, who saw in this innovation a precedent fraught with danger to the most hallowed institu tions of the monarchy. Soldier Wit. A feature of the war literature of the country during the last four years has been the terse, expressive NV it with which many a humbug and sham has been la beled and sent forth to the world with some new but highly-expressive name Not to cite familiar illustrations of this, there is something nearly allied to it in the amusing use made by the returned veterans of the word "brevet," the hon ° ors of which they seem to think extreme ly easy, so they characterize whatever is of an inferior grade as a "brevet." Thus, a stubborn mule is a " brevet horse." A. regiment recently returned from long and wearisome detention in Texas, after being, mustered out, were retained; under military restrictions, to be paid off and discharged here, styled themselves " brevet eltizens.!' • • " Who' is that doubtful looking female blu 2 Eigkg:t°l4o l l2 l said one.: • fi Oh, tfutt'll : 44 W:eYet - , .11:7;:g1 1 "'.,'....i;11 4 ` , . - •![ -. 0. - {l•l'rr.! - ; 1 ' , 'l. .1!...l F.: - 7 - mo - ' zolt: , !nine: l- ' l ' . f.l/1!:•Ifi irl-,' , Z a3O rt f_lni.'l•3ll7 - 1:1•.,?1•,::;', 'l,ll .4 ., Ji -7/0111 la.firlA 1 , .. 1•;n•A 961 Ilni,l'r I.mc b8}:1 oc.1: 7:1 ,- )71 I-J .rlftif?sl39 ',_"f1D.,5151(11 t}} ` , ;:. ~ , ,,::, L ',.- 'l.l. • - 7'` :rlic , P311.---.?1: : I c. , ... -. ....-..l''' • -4-:;,- , Illil , , 1 11 ., c•1'1 =...::.,..,..,, --ill: 7 .--q •T.. 1 ' . 0 . - 1 • 0111111101 • ~".: ." :- .. . ''',.T' I':' '` : 0 ; - .1 - "ii , -„e, , 3 1 • .., 4 ,._,.. : , :A: , ~ : -. Ern , Jr.:.' ~- . • 11,, ;: .I. ,', c ..J I/ - .•,..... 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I walked down the ile in my usual dignified stile, politely tellin' the peo ple as I parsed along to keep their seats. Don't git up for me," I sed. One of the prettiest men I ever saw in my life showed me into a seat, and I proceeded to while away the spare time by readin' Thompson's Bank Note Reporter and the comic papers. The ordinance was large. I tho't from a cursiry view that the Finnnigan Brotherhood was well rep resented. There was no end of bootiful wimin and a heap of good clothes. There was a good deal of hair present that belong ed on the heds of people who didn't cum with it. The okistry struck up a toon, & I ask ed the Usher to nudge me when Mr. Pogue cum out on the stage to act. I wanted to see Pogue, but strange he didn't act durin' the entire eveniu'. recken he has left Niblo's and gone over to Barnum's. Arrah-na-Pogue was writ by Dion O'Bourcicolt & Edward McHouSe.— They rit it well. O'Bourcy has rit a cartload of plays himself, the most of which is fust-rate. I understand there is a large number of O'gen'lmen of this city who can rite better plays than O'Bourcy does but somehow they don't seem to do it.— When they do, I'll take a box of them. ACK THE I.—Glendalo by moonlite.— Irishmen with clubs. This is in 1798, the year of your birth, Mr. Editor. It appears a patriotic person named Mc- Cool has bin raisin a insurrection in the mountain districks, and is now goin' to leave the laud of his nativity for a tower in France. Previously to doin so he picks the pockit of Mr Michael Feeny, a gov'ment detectiv', which pleases the gallery very much indeed, and they joyfully remark, " hi, hi."— He meets, also, at this time, a young woman who love him dearer than life, and who is, of course related to the gov'ment; and just as the Gov'ment goes agin him she goes "for him. This is nat'ral, but not grateful. She sez : "And can this be so' Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem !" or words to that effeck. He.sez it isn't any other way, and they go off. Irish moosic by the band. McCool goes and gives the money to his foster-sister Miss Arrah Meelish, who -is goin' to shortly marry Shaun, the Lamp Post. Mae then alters his mind about goin' over to France, and thinks he'll go up stairs and lie down in the straw. This is in Arrah's cabin. Arrah says it's all right my darlint, och hone, and shure, and other poplar remarks, and Mac noes to his straw. The weddin' of Shaun and Arrah comes off. Great excitement. Immense demonstration on the part of the peasan try. Barn-door jigs, and rebelyus song by McHouse, called " The Drinkin' of the Gin." Ha, what is this ? Soldiers cum in. Moosic by the band. " Arrah,' sez the Major, " you have those money. She sez, " Oh, no, I guessnot." He sez, " Oh, yes, I guess you have." "Itis my own," sea she, and exhibits it. "It is mine," says Mr. Feeny, and identifies it. Great confusion. Coatis prodooced from up stairs. " Whose goat is this ?' sea the Maj. "Is it the ,toat of a young man secreted in this here cabin ?" Now this is rough on Shaun. His wife ac coosed of theft, the circumstances bein' very much agin her, and also accoosed of havin' a hansum young man hid in her house. But does this bold young Hibernian forsake her? Not much he don't. But he takes it all on himself sez he is the guilty wretch, and is march off to prison. This is a new idee wife who suffers, in the play, for her husband; but here's a noble young fel ler who shuts both his eyes to the ap- parent sinfulness of his new young wife, and takes her right square to his bosom. It was bootiful to me, who love my wife, and believe in her, and would put on my meetin' clothes and go to the gallus for her cheerfully ruttier than believe she was capable of taking any body's money but mine. My married friends, listen to me. If you treat your wives as tho' they were perfeck gentle men—if you show 'em that you have entire confidence in them, believe me, they will be troo to you, most always. Shaun is tried by a Military Commis sion. Col. O'Grady, altho' a member of the Commission, shows he sympa thizes with Shaun and twits Feeny, the Gov'ment witness, with being a knock kneed thief, etc., etc. Mr. Stanton's grandfather was Sec'y of War in Ire land at that time, so this was entirely proper. Shaun is convicted, and goes to jail. Hears Arrah singin' - outside. Wants to see her a good deal. A lucky thought strikes him ; he opens the win dow and gets out. Struggles with ivy and things on the outside of the jail, and finally reaches her just as Mr. Feeney is about to dash a large wooden stone on his head. He throws Mr. Feeney into the river. Pardon arrives. Fond embraces, tears of joy and kisses ala Pogue. Everybody much happy. Curtain falls. Yours till then, The raven possesses the power of imi tating the human voice, and if not so voluble as the parrot enunciates his sentences with tenfold the gravity of Poll. A raven's corpse was once fol lowed by a greater crowd than ever es corted the funeral of one of Rome's distinguished sons. This honored bird was born on the top of the Temple of Castjr, but took up his abode in the shoemaker's shop opposite. Crispin took great pains in educating his black lodger, and his pains were well bestowed. Every morning the raven used to fly to the Rostra, and salute in turn Tiberius and his nephews, and having thus testi fied his loyalty, amusing himself with exchanging greetings with the populace. For several years the bird continued to delight the idlers of Rome, until a jeal ous brother of his landlord's craft killed him in a fit of anger. The mob rose as one man, drove the murderer out of the city, and then executed him. The body of the popular bird was then placed on a litter, and borne to the pile amid the laments of Rome, and his ashes deposited in a field on the right hand side of the Appian Way. Most of our readers will remember crazy Barn aby's friend and companion•, Grip, ever insisting upon his diabolical origin ; but few, perhaps, are aware that the novel ist drew Grip from the life, the idiot's pet being compounded of two great originals, of which Mr. Dickens was once the happy owner. The first of these came to an early end after ban queting upon a pound or two of white paint; the second and more gifted bird is so happily drawn by his master's hand that we must give his description entire : "The first act of this sage was to ad minister to the effects of his predecessor by disinterring all the cheese and half pence he had buried in the garden, a work of immense labor and research, to which he devoted ail the energies of his mind. When he had achieved his task, he applied himself to the acquisi tion of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept that he would perch outside of my window, and drive imaginary horses with great skill all day. Perhaps even I never saw him at his best, for his former master sent his duty with him, ' and if I wished the bird .to come out very strong, would I be so good as to show him a drunken rnim 2' which I never did havingt--,un farturtately, 31013 e ,but.. 0911561 petple" at • , -=' The Hon. Ben. H. Hill, of Georgia, one of the leading men of that State, wrote as follows before the recent elec tion : The oath is unconstitutional, because it adds to, and varies from, the oath re quired by the Constitution. This is set tled by several adjudications. The oath is unwise, unnatural and unprecedented, because it is retroactive in its requirements. It does not seek to secure proper conduct in an officer while discharging the duties of his office ; but does seek to exclude him from the office altogether by reason of something done, or not done, long before the office was conferred. If Congress can prescribe one test it can prescribe any other test; and thus by legislation, destroy the right of rep resentation. I would vote for no man to represent Georgia who could take this oath ; be cause it is the highest evidence of infi delity to the sentiments of the people of the State. I would vote for no man, anywhere, who would take this oath; bec,ause it is the highest evidence of infidelity to the Constitution. The man who takes that oath admits a power in Congress to destroy every department of the Govern ment as well as every right of represen tation. I am a candidate for no office, and will seek none, and desire none. The man who wishes now to be a represen tative in Congress from the South either does not comprehend the very unpleas ant and very heavy duties of that posi tion, or has made up his mind to hold the position without discharging the duties. In either case he is not fit to be trusted. There is no danger now from any spirit of resistance in Georgia. The on ly danger comes from an opposite direc tion—servility. I intend to be loyal my self, and have not been faithless to any obligation I ever assumed. I resisted secession until resistance was hopeless, and then I resisted subjugation until resistance was hopeless. I would not if I could change my record. But I will help no man to represent Georgia whose fidelity to the State is doubtful, or whose ability and willing ness to maintain and vindicate the hon or of her people, living and dead, is sus picious. I will vote for no man to ad minister the Constitution who, in the very beginning of his work, would take an oath which admits a power in Con gress to subvert that Constitution. Each House of Congress is the sole judge as to whether persons seeking seats have the qualifications prescribed by the Constitution, and have been elect ed and returned according to the laws. The people are the sole judges of every other qualification. Otherwise Con gress can nullify or even destroy the right of election secured to the people alone, and thus make a Congressional despotism. The right of the States to representa- tion in Congress is the clearest of all rights under the Constitution. It is the right without which no other right can exist, and no obligation can be imposed. I have an abiding faith that the Presi dent will not permit its destruction by test oaths or otherwise. He was for the Union against the South ; and it is my opinion that he will show himself for the Union against Massachusetts when the issue comes Pennsylvania Taverns In the Olden Time. The York Gazette says : We copy from the History of York coon y, the following list of tavern rates and prices regulated by law, in theearly days of the comgy, which will doubtless prove interesting and amusing to the readers of the presen t generation. These rates contrast very strongly with those of the present day. It is true that they then had no "National" "Washington" and other firstclass hotels, but the wines and liquors furnished were no doubt much purer and better than those of the present day, and the "one man's break fast," " dinner" and " supper" abund ant and substantial meals. It is gin'rally the The general assembly of Pennsylvania considering that Inn-holders, &c., ex acted excessive rates for their wine, provender, &c., made a law on the 31st of May, 1718, by which the justices of the peace, in their quarter sessions, should set such reasonable prices as they should see fit. The justices of York county, on the 18th of January, 175 . 2, established the following rates and prices : We give them in an extract taken word for word from the records of the Court of Quarter Sessions. f. 8, D. " One quart sangaree made with one pint of good Ma- n. deira wine and with loaf I - " sugar, A bowl of punch made with one quart water with loaf „ sugar and good Jamaica '- spirits, 1. G. One pint good Madeira wine, One pint good Vidonia wine, ... One pint good Port wine, One quart of mimbo made) with West India rum and ( •' U. 10, loaf-sugar, One quart of nilinbo made) with New England rum and '1 " 0. 9 loaf-sugar, One gill of good West India 0. 4 rum, One gill of good New England 3 rum, 1 One gill of good whiskey, " 0. 2. One quart of good beer, " 0. 4. One quart of good cider, " 0. 4. One man's breakfast, " O. 6. One man's dinner, " 0. 8. One man's supper, " 0. fi. One horse at hay 24 hours, " 0. 10. One horse at hay one night, " 0. 8. Half a gallon of good oats, " 0, 3. " The above rates were settled by the court and proclaimed by the crier in open court of general quarter sessions, in pursuance of an act of general assembly of this province in such case made pro vided." The above continued for some years to be the tavern rates within the county of York. But the statutes requiring them, have long since been repealed ; and inn-holders are now (Jan., 1834) permitted, as they ought to be like other persons, to regulate their own prices. M. EDMOND ABOUT is working on a novel of which this—an incident of real life here—is the theme : A young man of enormous wealth is extremely in love with a young girl, but he cannot marry her, so great is the disparity between their social positions. He goes to a school-fellow who is very poor, ignorant of the world, and ab sorbed by a love of chemistry, which is to some degree a platonic love in con sequence of his poverty, and he says to him, "You care for nothing on earth but chemistry ; now, if you will agree to myproposition I will give you money enough to enable you to devote your whole time and attention to your favorite study. This is my proposition : Ask Mlle —in marriage; she will not refuse you ; I have arranged all that with her. After marriage you both will take up your residence with me, and you will be the nominal, I will be the real husband." The poor student accepted the proposi tion. The two lovers launched their bark into the sea of pleasure, without giving a though t to the poor fellow whose ignoble connivance they had purchased, and who, absorbed in his science, gave no thought to them. They, by degrees, ran through his estate, and when pov erty came, the woman discovered that her lover was a giddy and heartless fel low. All this - time the chemist has labored ; he has made discoveries which have brought him wealth. He has looked around him, admires his wife, falls in love with her, and when, one day, the last cent of her lover's estate has been spent, she comes to him for bread; he feeds her, her children, and her lover, and becomes in reality . her husband. What a corrupt, society, that - niuit be in which such ti revolting story can be accepted as a faithful' picture ; o f 'real life hotter. ' gitisalUntous. The Test Oath. I=l " 1. t 0. 10 1. 0 LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1865. Army Joke. The following good one at the expense of Gen. J. B. Magruder is told by the Natchez .Democrat: While retreating from the Peninsula in 1862, the General and his staff stop ped at the house of a widow lady on the road, and engaged dinner. In a few moments Jim Phelps, a Louisiana sol dier, accostedthe lady with : " Madame, can I get dinner?" "Yes, sir," was the reply, " but as I am preparing din ner for General Magruder and staff; and have not room at my table for more, you will have towait forasecond table." " Very well, madame, thank you," said Phelps, taking his seatin a position to command a view of the dining-room. Watching the movements of the ser vants, Phelps waited until the feast was on the table and while the hostess pro ceeded to the parlor to announce dinner to the General and staff, Phelps entered the dining-room, and, seating himself at the table, awaited further develop ments. Upon the entrance of the party of of ficers, there was found to be seats for all but one, and one politely returned to the parlor to wait. The General took a seat next to Phelps, and, after the first course was finished, turning to Phelps, he inquired: " Sir, have you any idea with whom you are dining ?" "No sir," coolly replied Phelps. "I used to be particular, but since I turned soldier, I don't care a d—n who I eat with, so that the victuals are clean." "Soldiering." What a world of tricks and dodges were invented during the war by the poor fellows who had got in and wanted to get out of the army. An officer was telling the other day of a soldier, who shortly after going into camp, was taken insane. His appearance, actions and everything about him, betokened abso lute insanity. All day long he would sit in his tent with a little stick and a string attached, raising and lowering in a sort of fishing pantomime, • saying, "No-o bite," "No-o bite." This he continued for some weeks, and he was at length sent to the hospital. Here he was carefully examined - and closely watched, for it was suspected at first that he was "shamming." Still he had the same vacant stare iu his eye, the same idiotic expression in his counte nance, the same indifference to every thing about him, and he still fished with his stick and thread from morning till night, no word passing his lips but the solemn, ever recurring " No-o bite." His friends came to see him. His only recognition was a vacant stareand "No o bite." So it ran on for a couple of months, and the young man's father at length, the case being so very clear, procured his discharge. He came to the hospital with the document. " Charles," said he, " I have got your discharge." Charles only fished and said, "No o bite." " Charles," repeated the old gentleman, " I've got your discharge and want you to go home with me." Still no reply, but " No-o bite." The officers and othersstanding around were affected almost to tears by the scene. At length the aged father stooped down and put the discharge papers into his hand. In a listless way the son took them, opened them, turned them over, read them through carefully, saw they were all signed properly and complete, got up, and with a very sudden change in his apppearance, remarked, " Well, gentlemen, Lve been fishing a good while, but I've finally got a bite,and I think it's a bite worth having." Leav ing the party somewhat astonished at the sudden restoration of his facul ties, the insane youth retired with his father, and they probably enjoyed the bounty together.—Norwieh Bulletin. Facts and Philanthropy FACT—The Freedmen won't work, even to supply the most pressing neces sity. PHILANTHROPY—Then give each of them a forty-acre farm. FACT—They hang about the towns to beg and steal. PHlL.—Then amend the laws so as to allow them to sit on juries and testify in the courts. FACT—They are naked and homeless, and unless relieved, will starve to death. PHlL.—Then establish schools for their education, and churches for their conversion. FAcl , --They have neither foresight nor economy, and are at once helpless and dangerous. Pit iL.—Then obliterate in your society all distinctions on account of color. FACT—They destroy their children, and are themselves infected with loath some diseases. PHIL.—No higher proof could be given of the unity of the human race, or of the higher moral endowments of the Afri can. Give them an abundance of bibles, tracts and testaments. FACT—The women prostitute them selves, and the men aid them in the traffic and divide with them the pro ceeds. PHlL.—This proves their eminent fit ness for the holy state of matrimony, which, with the aid of Divine Provi dence, we have introduced among them. FACT—They are universally unfaith ful in the marriage relation. PHlL.—Thisonly shows how like they are to ourselves.—Cincinnati Inquirer. Singular Blunder in the Treasury Depart Correspondence Cincinnati Conrinereial WASHINGTON, Nov. IG.—The Print ing Bureau of the Treasury Department recently made a blunder of such a stu pid character that it is a wonder that it was not discovered by some one of the many attaches in time to save the rep utation of the establishment. The care less and off-hand manner in which they do things iu the Printing Bureau would ruin any job printing office in the Uni ted States in six months. Think, for instance, bf them striking off, I don't know how many thousand dollars, but as much as they wanted at any rate, of ten cent fractional notes, and then dis covering, when the work was comple ted, that in the engraving the word "cents" had been omitted, and that the bill might mean ten mills, ten cents; ten dollars, or ten d—ns, just as might' be agreed upon between the holder and the redeemer of it. It had 10's all over it, but the word "cents" didn't once occur. The faux pas was not discovered until the greater part of the notes bad been paid out of the Department. An attempt is now being made to call in the erroneous issue, but the work pro ceeds very slowly. The head of the Printing Bureau is Mr. Clark, about whom a Congressional investigating committee told so many naughty stories a year and a half ago. But there seems to be some hidden virtue in him that made him invulnerable. Man Killed by a Bear A young man named Friester, resid-! ing near Bear Meadows, started from his home to the Meadows for the pur pose of hunting small game, taking with; him a shot gun. After being out a short time, he came across a huge bear into which he poured the contentsofhisgun. The bear, aggravated by his wounds, made at the defenceless young man, and succeeded in devouring all of him but one leg. When what was left of young Friester was discovered, the bear lay dead a short distance away, havirkg died from the wounds inflicted by the shot from Friester's gua.--/Tuntingefon. Monitor A hen was killed at the Cowell House one day last week, that contained about; two and a half dozen eggs. Oneofthe eggs had a hard shell on it, seven others of full sized skins were brokenand theii contents absorbed. Besides there were near two dozen small eggs fronithe size of a head, cherry, walnut, ttc. Had these eggs all come to maturity they would • have been worth more than the hen, .as eggs have•been -selling here at fifty cents per dozen. This is equal t Bfltz's:Feleb;stied egg bag:-.7462i1e5t9z0n Prolific lien Interview Between the President and Senator. Hamner. rich interview took place .between the President and Senator Sumner on the'evening after the Message was read in Congress. It lasted for several hours. There: were three or fo u r persons present. Sumner is represented as having been very nervous. Some of those present thought he would go into a fit at two or three different periods of the consulta tion. At any rate his actions justified the application of the term of being a monomaniac in regard to the negro. Finding himself unable to move the President; he finally broke out as fol lows : "Mr. President, I notice that the white rebels down in Alabama and oth er localities in the South are talking very strong against the Union, and de nouncing it in strong terms; can you not do something to put a stop to it?" The President coolly replied : " I see, Mr. Sumner, that the white rebels in Boston are talking against the Union. Can't you put a stop to it there?" This confused the Senator for a short time, but after twisting in his seat for a short time he again broke outas follows: " Mr. Johnson, the reports from the South show that the white rebels in almost every section are insulting the freeslinen. Don't you think that Con gress ought to do something to correct this evil?" The President, with a significant wink to the other gentlemen present, replied : " Mr. Sumner, I notice by the papers that the white rebels in Cincinnati have been recently insulting white people there and knocking down one or two. Can't Congress do something to correct that evil?' • It is needless to add that the stay of the Massachusetts negro monomaniac at the White House was of short dura tion after that thrust —N. Y. Herald. Sleeping-Cars The people of this country are paying several thousand dollars per night iu generous prices for the use of Sleeping- Cars on Railroads, and receiving in re turn more poison than the Black Hole of Calcutta could have generated had it been filled and refilled with helpless captives down to this hour. It would be a low estimate to place the baneful re sults of these mephitic dens at thirty thousand typhoids and one thousand deaths per annum. A Sleeping Cur might and should be properly, thoroughly ventilated ; but none ever will be so long as air shall be admitted only from windows at the top nor so long as the quantity of air admit ted is controlled by any person or per sons. The occupants of the top berths very naturally object to sleeping in a draught for the benefit of the ground hugs ; and your attendants will shut up ventilators to save heat until thecar be comes a foul, revolting charnel-house, wherein sleep is perilous and breathing the inhalation of disease and death. „Until this abuse shall be reformed, and every ear thoroughly ventilated from the bottom as well as the top, so as to maintain a pure atmosphere within it whatever may be the temperature without, and utterly independent of the will of the conductor, we advise passen gers to keep out of Sleeping Cars.—N. Y. Tribune. A New "Iron Mountain." The Iron Mountain of Missouri, situ ated some eighty miles west of south from St. Louis, has long excited the wonder and admiration of metallurists and commercial men. It is doubtless the greatest development of rich iron ore, above the surface and " patent to the eye," in the known world. Wealthy capitalists, years ago, monopolized this great bed and mound of ferruginous treasure and are profiting from its pro duct. A gentleman who recently visited East Tennessee, has described to us a new mountain of iron ore recently dis covered in that State. It is in thesouth ern part of Roane county, three miles east of the Tennessee river, and sixty north of Chattanooga. This placer consists of a hill of iron ore of the kind known as specular, lenti cular, hematite ore; familiarly called " dyestone ore." The eminence is di vided into three spurs, or offshoots, each of which has a brood top covered by solid bedsof ore. The exact thickness of these beds is unknown, but is pronoun ced at least twenty-five feet from out cropping crags, and may be treble that depth. The surface of the hill extends over two hundred acres. The finest timber grows apon the property and in the neighborhood. Prof. Safford, Ten nessee State Geologist, says the dye stone ore yields seventy per cent. of iron, by a nice analysis, though in practical working it would not produce over sixty. This ore is unusually "kind" in fluxing, and make a soft grey iron. There are two other similar developments in the same district, and all of them will be brought within convenient distance of Cincinnati by the construction of the proposed Southern railroads. An English Girl Sold to an Indian Chief. [From the Delhi Gazette.] It appears that a certain chief who holds sway in the State of Bhatwa, in the Kattywar territory, and who is named Khamaldeen, or Kumaloodeen, lately conceived a desire to add to the live stock in his harem. For this pur pose emissaries were dispatched to Ahmedabad, where lived an English man with his wife and children. They were a dissolute couple, by all accounts, and of course had long rubbed skirts with poverty. They had a daughter, named Anne, a girl of 14 years of age, and the Bhatwa emissaries determined to make the parents an offer for their daughter. The father agreed, in con sideration of 3,000 rupees, to consign his daughter for her life to the tender care of Kumaloodeen. The bargain hav ing been struck, the contracting parties made the best of their way to Bbatwa, where money was to be paid and the goods delivered. Arrived at their des tination, this child of 14, the offspring Of English parents, and a daughter of the Christian Church, was handed over to her purchaser, and the delicate-mind ed parents became the happy possessors of 3,000 rupees (X 300). At this stage of the proceedings he chaplain of Rajkote called upon the political agent of Katty war to rescue the child from the destruc tion to which, body and soul, she was doomed by her guardians. Our corres pondentdoes not vouch for the truth ofthe report which has reached him touching the action taken by the political agent in the matter; but what he says is, that Anne after she had become the Na waub's property, was solemnly made to abjure the errors of-a Christian Church, and formally received into communion with the followers of the true prophet. The next step taken in regard to the child was to marry her, after the Ma hometan fashion, to her purchaser, but before this ceremony was performed the political officer is reported to have caused the bridegroom, justturned sev enty, to draw up a marriege . settlementi by which the new light of the harem is secured in the possession of an income of two thousand and odd rupees per an num, including an item of thirty rupees for- pan and sooparee, which may be looked upon as an equivalent for pin money. The political agent, however, was not satisfied with this provision for the present wants of Anne. He caused another deed to be drawn up, by which it is stipulated:that, "in the event of her being at any time banished from the harem, she is to receive, for the term of her natural life, the allowance of three • thousand rupees per annum." This af fair has natural 'caused great indigna tion amoog:the Burnlienns in India. Whotesalely.ing by a Minister. The•Beio: 'Et. , M. Sneed, pastor of the Sixth Street Methodist Protestant Cbureh, at Cincinnati, has just been tried on sixteen, charges of "wilful and maliciiius lying" and "general imnior ality."' The specifications set forth that the reverend gentleman is guiltyof" ly ingat exindry.times and.places, not only about pis ;broth rep but als9, about him -14f2) The - , verduit.lita. not."yet been rendered;blitrtin#o4olt .WPI4 - agatlet _, J._ . , fl( A Capital Bath An open window with the direct rays of the sun coming in will begixbdfor the little one. On a hot summer day, to lay it down near the window,quite nude, and let it lie for some. minutes where the rays of - the sun may fall upon its skin, will give it new life. There is vital re lation between sunshine and a vigorous human being. Seclusion from sunshine is one of the greatest misfortunes of civ ilized life. The samecause which makes potatoe vines white and sickly when grown in dark cellars, operates to pro duce the pale sickly girls that arereared in our parlors. Exposed either to the direct rays of the sun, and they begin to show color, health and strength. When in London, some years ago, I visited an establishment which had acquired a wide reputation for the cure of those diseases in which prostration and ner vous derangement were prominent symptoms, I soon found the secret of success in the use of sunshine. The slate roof had been removed and a glass one substituted. The upper story was divided into sixteen small rooms, each provided with loungers, washing appa ratus, etc. The patient on entering each his little apartment, removed all his clothing, and exposed hituself to the direct rays of the sun. Lying on the lounge and turning over from time to time, each and every part of the body was exposed to the life-giving rays of the sun. Several London physicians candidly confessed to me that many cases seemingly only waiting for the shroud were galvanized into life and health by this process.—Dr. Dio Lewis. The Effects of Fear on Children The most effectual way, for all purpo ses, to discover the fear that is already there, in order to relieve him from it, is by changing thiS weakness into a source of strength and comfort. What is it— this fear that lies hidden in him? A boy who is not afraid of the dark, or a bull, or of a ghost, may tremble at the sight of a drunken man, or at the hearing of an oath. A girl who is not afraid of a spider, or a toad, nor thieves, or of climbing ladders may tremble at the moaning of the wind in the chimney, or at a frown from her mother, or at enter ing a sick chamber. Whatever it be let the parents watch, carefully but si lently, till they have found it out; and having found it out, let them lead on the child td•conquest, both by reason and by bringing such courage as he has to bear on the weak point. In any case, whether of a bold nr timid child, the only completely effectual training comes from the parents' example. If the ev ery-day life of the parents show that they dread nothing, but dying wrong, for either themselves or their children, the fears of the most timid and of the boldest will alike take this direction, sooner or later ; and the courage of both will, with more or less delay, become adequate to bear and do anything for conscience sake.—Miss Martineau. Arrival of Gen. Lee's Faintly In Lexing General Lee's family arrived in Lex ington on Saturday morning last by packet, and took possession of the pres idential residence on College Hill. They have been detained hitherto in Cumber land county, awaiting repairs of their future residence. It will be gratifying to the numerous friends of the General and his family to know that many of their wants had been anticipated and provided for. For some days before their arrival several of the lad es of the town had been dili gently ei gaged in having the house thoroughly cleansed up, carpets put down, furniture adjusted, &A!. Mrs. Lee's private apartments were completely and handsomely furnished through the considerate and liberal kindness of a wealthy lady of Cumber land county. And, to her praise be it spoken,she had all the furniture manu factured in Lexington—thus setting an example worthy lof imitation.—Pich inond:En anima Mamas— • Executors' notices--- Administrators' 2.00 Assignees' 2.00 Auditors' notices .... 1.50 • Other "Notices, ' ten lines, or less, three ...... .60 The Fenian Troubles in Ireland From the Dublin Freeman's Journal HEAD CENTRE STEPHENS' ESCAPE. The escape of Stephens is one of the most remarkable, and at the same time instructive and suggestive events that has occurred in connection with the Fenian conspiracy. That his escape was the result of treachery there is no longer any doubt and that treachery was aided by the omission of due pre caution on the part of the authorities is no less plain. The prison was in facefor hours in the hands of the Head Centre and his accomplices, and the only mat ter of surprise is that all the prisoners, as well as the chief, were not liberated by those who used the master key with such effect. At the time Stephens left by the southwestern gate of the prison it was raining in torrents, and blowing nearly a full gale from the , southwest. There is no doubt of his having left the jail about half-past one o'clock, and at that time, on such a night, in all probability he did not meet a soul save a stray policeman, who would take no notice of a gentlemanly looking man walking rapidly for own. The only rumor which bears the semblance of probability is the one which has been generally cirou• lated, that Stephens, after he reached town on the morning of his escape, met his friends by appointment, and pro ceeded at once to the neighborhood of Howth, where he got on board a fishing smack that put to sea before daybreak without exciting suspicion. If this course was adopted it was a practical one, as the wind and sea, though very heavy, were off the shore, and there would be nothing easier than for the smack (which belongs to. a most wealthy class of vessels) to get into the course of long sea going ships, and put Stephens on board one of them, or perhaps on board a ves sel that was lying in waiting for him.— It sLould be borne in mind that Steph ens and his friends knew to the hour when he would be released, and knew it, in all probability, for a week before his escape was effected. Under the circum stances, there is every reason to believe that the plans of the conspiratorsdid not only embrace' the release of Stephens from prison, but were all matured and arranged for his safety when he regain ed his liberty, The special commission for the trial the Fenians was opened in Dublin i the 27th November, and the trial of Thomas Clark Luby, proprietor of the Irish People, was commenced, the charge being treason and felony, for which the maximum punishment is ervitute for life. At the opening of the trial, the coun- tiel for the defence exhausted every con ceivable plea for the postponement of die case. All the objections were over ruled. In choosing the jury a long panel of three hundred and twenty mimes was called over, and about one hundred and eighty answered. The prisoner was entitled to challenge twenty, and he exercised that right to the full, being, indeed, allowed to ob- ject to more than that number. The Attorney General, Mr. Lawson, then opened the case on behalf the crown. lie stated that the offence charged against the prisoner was "treason felony," an offence constituted by law so that the crown was enabled to treat wore leniently than before crimes of this character. lie added that this was not a press prosecution ; Luby was not tried as the publisher of the Irish Peo ple, but as a member of a conspiracy having for its object the dethronement of the Queen. On Friday the trial was brought to a elose. The jury retiredat half-past one, and remained nearly two hours in de- aeration. They brought in a verdict d . guilty on all the counts. Their ordships then retired for a few minutes consider the sentence. When they . 2turned the prisoner was put forward Ind asked by the Clerk of the Crown i at he had to say why sentence should lot be passed on him. The prisoner then addressed the court i a calm, collected manner, with much wee and propriety of language. He emphatically denied and repudiated the allegations of assassination which had been urged against him and his fellow prisoners. He admitted that according to the British law he was guilty. Al though it was of no practical utility nowi 'till he believed that his words would carry conviction, and carry it much surer than any words of the crown pros ecutors, to three hundred thousand men. of Irish race in England, Ireland, Scot land and America. He believed that if his guilt or innocence were to be tried according to the higher standard ofeter nal right, and if the issue were put to the country, the majority of his coun trymen would pronounce that he was riot a criminal, and that he deserved well of his country. Mr. Justice Keogh addressed the pris oner, deploring that a person in hissocial 1,,n-iiiou should occupy that place, and pointing out the destructive conse quences of revolu,tion in this country. l'he sentence of the Court was penal servitude for twenty years. Tile prisoner was then removed, and in a few minutes was transmitted under military and police escort to iNl,,untjoy Convict Prison. W hile the jury was deliberating, John O'Leary was placed in the dock and ar raigned for the same crime. Another jury was sworn to try him, and the statement of the Attorney General ocr cul,ied the court till its rising. During the day the grand jury found true bills against O'Brennan, Hartigan, 0' Nfahony. Cleary. Poan tree and Keane. Bottled F. Batter The following reminiscence is from the Memphis Bulletin: "On Monday evening, succeeding the Baltimore Convention of 1860, a great concourse of people gathered'in front of the residence of Jno. C. Breckinrideg at Washington. He bad been nominated for President by a portion of his party, which bad seceded from the main body thereof, and the collection to which we allude was assembled for the purpose of receiving his acknowledgments. In the course of the evening speeches were made by Mr. Toombs, Mr. Davis and Mrj Yancey. " Toward the close Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, a secessionist from Massachu setts, was called for, and spoke for half an hour more violently in favor of Southern rights than any of his prede cessors As he concluded his harangue - , the writer of this brief reminiscence turned to Andrew Johnson, who hap pened to be standing near at hand, and inquired what he thought of it? "By G—d sir," he replied, with character.; istic warmth, " I never like a man to be for me more than I'm for myself," From Georgia---The President on Gov. Jenkins' Inauguration. . MILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. 12.—The Pro visional Governor sent to the Legisla ture the following despatch : WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 11. J. Johnson, Provisional Governor: The Governor elect will be inaugu rated, which will not interfere with the Provisional Governor. You will receive instructions in a few days in regard to being relieved. Why can't you elect a senator? I would issue no commis sions to members of Congress, but leave that for the incoming Governor. We are under obligations to you for the no ble, efficient and patriotic manner in which you have discharged the duties of Provisional Governor, and will be sustained by the government. ' ANDREW JoirlYsorr, President. A committee was appointed to wait on the Governor elect,.and learn when it would suit him to be inaugurated. It is understood that he desires to know his status before taking his seat. GENERAL GRANT has issued an- order for the discharge from the army :of: all civilians exedritmlerks, and- to 8001- -tate fotthetai:wheimegeelukry,aieulife tailed freaithearmvr.-: - . : 1