Site iitMttgfttrtt, Published every Wednesday by COOPER, SANDERSON d CO. H. G Smtth, J. M. Coopeb, Wu. A. Morton, Alfred 'Sands bson' TEEMS—Two Dollar? per annum, payable all caseß In advance. OFFlCE— Southwest coenzb of Centbe Suuabb. WAU letters on business should be ad dressed to Coopeb, Sanderson & Co. An Obliging Disposition. It is several years since the following capital story made its last circuit of the papers, and we start it once more on its travels. It will find some new readers and many old ones who will enjoy it. There is nothing like an obliging dis position, I thought to myself, one day when travelling in a railway car from Boston to Worcester, seeing a gentle man put himself to considerable trouble to land another gentleman, who had fallen asleep, at his destination. “Passengers for West Needham?" cried out the conductor—“ the car stops but one minute.” “ Hallo!” exclaimed a young man in spectacles, at the same time seizing an old gentleman by the shoulders, who was sleeping very soundly, “ here’s Capt. Holmes fast asleep, and this is West Needham, where he lives. Come, get up, Capt. Holmes, here you are.” The gentleman got upon his feet aud began to rub his eyes, but the young man forced him along to the door of the ear, and gently landed him on the road side. Whiz went the steam and we be gan to fly again. The obliging young man took his seat again, aud said with a good deal of satisfaction to somebody near him—“Weil, if it hadn’t been for me, Capt. Holmes would have missed his home finely. But here he has left his bundles:” and theyoung man picked up a paper parcel and threw it out. “Well,” he said again, “if it hadn’t been for mb Capt. Holmes would have missed his bundles finely.” When we stopped at the next station a lady began to rummage under the seat where Capt. Holmes had been sitting, and exclaimed in great alarm: “I can’t find my bundle.” “Was it done up in a piece of brown paper?” I asked. “Yes it was, to be sure,” said the lady. “Then,” said I, “that young man yonder threw it out of the window at the last stopping place.” This led to a scene between the oblig ing young man and the old lady, which ,pnded by the former taking the address of tlie latter, and promising to return the package in a few days provided he should ever find it. “Well,” said the obliging young man, “ catch me doing a good-natured thing again. What can I do for that poor woman, if I cannot find her bun dle?” Whiz went the steam, ding, ding, ding, went the bell, the dust flew, the sparks flew, and the cars flew, as they say, like lightning, till westoppedagain at the next station, I forget the name of it now, but it would be of no conse quence if I could remember it. An old gentleman started up and began to poke under the seat where Capt. Holmes had sat. “What are you looking for?” I in quired. “ Looking for 7" said the old gentle man, “ why, I am looking for my bun dle of clothes.” “ Was it tied up In a yellow handker chief?” I asked. “ Yes, and nothing else,” said the old man. “ Good heavens,” exclaimed the obliging young man, “I threw It out of the car at Needham ; I thought It belonged to Capt. Holmes.’' “Cupt, Holmes!” exclaimed tho old follow, with a look of despair, “who Is Capt. Holmes? That bundlocontained all my clean clothes, that I was to wear at my son’s wedding to-morrow morn ing. Dear me what can Ido ?" Nothing could be done but to give his address to the obliging young man as before, and cpnsole himself with the promise that the bundle should be re turned to him, provided it was ever found. The obliging young man was now in despair, and made another sol emn vow that he would never attempt to he obliging again. The next station was his landing place, and as he went toward the door of the car, he saw a silver-headed cane, which he took hold of and read the Inscription on it, “Moses Holmes, East Needham.” “Well,” again exclaimed the oblig ing young man, “if here isn’t Capt. Holmes’ cane !” 11 Yes,” said a gentleman, who got in at the Inst station, “and the old man is lame, too. He will miss his stick.” “ Do you know him ?" inquired the obliging young man. “Know him? I should think so,” replied the gentlemun; “ho is my uncle.” “ And does he live at East Needham?” asked the obliging young man. “Of course he does. He never lived anywhere else.” “Well, if it don’t beat everything,” said the obliging young man, “ and I put him out at West Needham, a mile and a half the other side of his home.” Romantic. Of all the romantic stories in the Arabian Nights, there is none more ex traordinary than tho little episode that has jußt occurred at St. Petersburg. You will have noticed that an attempt was made to shoot the Emperor, which was frustrated by the prompt action of a youngman who stood near the would be assassin. That young man, acting from n momentary Impulse In striking down the arm he saw raised against his sovereign, was afterwards so frightened at his own rashness that he ran away ns fast as his legs could carry him. He was pursued and brought back to the presence of the Emperor, at whose feet he threw himself lq a state of terror, as if he had been the assassin hlmßelf. The Emperor raised him, embraced and kissed him, and proclaimed him a Rus sian noble from that hour. The romance of the story is this: The now Russian noble, only live minutes before, was a poor illiterate drudge in a small hatter’s shop in St. Poters burgh, A week ago, hlB habits and dally occupation were of the most vul gar nnd menial ohuraoter. To-day he ranks with the most ancient nobility of the empire. A subscription wasatonee set on foot to provide him with means to sustain his new dignity, and presents are flowing in upon him from every direction. His photograph is displayed in every shop window, prayers are said for him in all the ohurches, and a ret inue of the Czar’s own servants are in constant attendance upon him. And this great change has come upon him Blmply because, doubtless, he impul sively seized an arm he saw holding a . pistol and this diverted the Bhot from its intended destination. There is some thing so melodramatic about the whole affair that one is disposed to question whether it may have been a carefully devised spectacle, the object being to gain favor on the part of the Emperor from the lower orders, to whose ranks the Emperor’s savior belongs, Lancaster VOLUME 67. A Bomance of Troth. There are the \elements of a novel of surpassing interests in the following story, the truth of which Is vouched for: A man by the name of Holden, a Canadian by birth, went to Cayuga co., N. Y., in 1820, and married a Miss Ta ber, daughter of poor but respectable parents. In 1833 thlsconple, with their two children, David and Mary—the oldest three years and the youngest six months old—moved to the then wilds of Wisconsin, and commenced the labor ious life of farming and hunting. David was a bright little fellow, and at five years of age, when at play near the house, with his hatchet, had the mis fortune to sever the little toe from his left foot. In 1842 Mr. Holden returned to Cay uga eo., N. Y., to look after a little property that had been left his wife by the death of her parents, and while there he received the sad intelligence that some unfriendly Chippewa Indians, taking advantage of his absence, had killed his wife and children and burned his house and barn to ashes. Holden had always a misanthropic turn of mind, and at this point of his misfortunes, that sourness increased to almost a hatred for every human being. He lost his parents when a mere in fant, his only sister was drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the river St. Law rence, and his two brothers were killed by the burstingof a cannon in Montreal. Without kith or kin in all the wide world, he resolved to proceed at once to the shores of the Pacific and there end his days among the wild fur-traders of Oregon. Enlisting at a branch house of the Hudson Bay Fur Company in St. Louis, he .crossed the Rockymountains near the head-waters of the Columbia, and then floated down the river in a bark canpe until he reached Vancouver —the company’s headquarters of the Pacific coast. Receiving a sharp repri mand by the commandant of the sta tion for inattention to duty, Holden soon deserted, and on a horse borrowed without leave—for the occasion—rode about 800 miles south, and hired out as shepherd to a rich old Mexican ranchero, or farmer, just east of Monte Diablo, in what is now called Contra Costa county, Cali fornia. Here he worked for six years, for good wages, acting as general super intendent of the entire rancho, em bracing upwards of 8,000 acres. The old Mexican had a violent temper, and was noted as a wilful tyrant and a fierce desperado; but he andHoldengotalong remarkably well together until the latter, by accident, shot a valuable horse ; and a coldness then at once en sued which resulted in the separation of the two men. A month afterward, the Mexican died, and Holden present ed a large mortgage against the estate, foreclosed it and took possession. On the 19th of January, 1848, gold was first discovered in California, on the American river, In El Dorado county. These latter have since been known as the southern mines, and the way to them led by Holden’s extensive ranehe. Many of the early miners of ’4O and ’5O recollect but too well the Inhospitable selfishness and miserly meanness of the rich old farmer on this extensive ranehe.' On no account whatever would he per mit a traveller to sleep on the premises, and for every-morsel of food furnished, the highest price must be paid. Late in the evening on a cold, raw, stormy day in November, 1850, a young man or a hoy not more than 20 years of age, limped slowly up to thehousewhere the old man was smoking his pipe, and modestly asked if he could obtain a few mouthfuls of something to eat. “Got any money to pay for it?” asked the old miser. The young man replied that it took every dollar of his money to pay his passage to San Francisco; that he was now on his way to the southern mines, and that the first money he obtained he would certainly send it or bring it back in return for something to eat; that he had traveled all day on foot in the cold driving storm without one morsel of food, and that he was now chilled to the bone, and almost dying with hunger. “ Bah,” was the insulting reply of the old tyrant—“do you think I am green enough to believe all that nonsense? Eat acorns, grass, anything you can find on the road; but don’t come to me! Do you think I am going to feed all the miserable beggars that are stroling through the country ? Begone! Be gone! or I'll set the dogs on you!” The fair-faced lad burst into tears, and exclaimed : Oh dear, I wish I was back in old Cayuga !” “ Back where?” quickly inquired the old man. “ In Cayuga county, New York,” sobbed the boy. " If you're from Cayuga, you may come in,” said the old fellow, Boftened at the recollection of his deceased wife and children. “ What’s your name ?” “•Holden," gasped the boy—" for God's sake give me a mouthful of some thing to eat; I’m fainting !" Quickly placing before the lad a bottle of wine and a plate of bread and meat, the old fellow said : “ Have you always lived in Cayuga ?" “ I was born there !” was the feeble reply, “ but my parents moved to Wis consin when I was but three years of age. When I was eight years old, one day, when my father was away from homo, some Chippewa Indians came and burned down the house, and killed my mother and sister on the spot. They sold me to some Decotahs who took me at once to tho upper Mlssfturl and adopted me into their tribe. Three years ago I ran away, and have since lived with an uncle in Cayuga!" During the delivery of the foregoing remarks, the old man stood as if petri fied. Finally, gasping for breath, he asked : “ What 1b your first name ?’’ " David I” " Remove your loft boot I" The request was compiled with, nnd the old man screamed with Joy, 11 My own son I" and,fell senseless on the floor. This story is denuded of all extraneous dressing in order that it may be crowded into this small space, but, with the ex ception of the names, it may be relied upon as Btrlotly true. The old man is now dead, and we have seen the son gazing with content and happiness on an amiable lady and three children, 7,000 head of cattle, and 8,000 acres of land, that he could honestly call his own. The Senate, the'well-grounded be lief is, will reject the disfranchising clause of the Congressional Plan. Un less the House recedes from its action, the measure will be lost, and Thad Stevens said he would rather lose it than recede. But there is some reason for believing that the leaders power will not suffice to hold the House where he now has it Pittsburg Commercial, Strange Customs. The following is a curious account of the habits and customs of some of the tribes in the interior of Africa, as we find it in the new volume of travels by David and Charles Livingstone, just is sued in London. Speakingof the women in Morambala, the narrative says: “These damsels looked with considera ble disgust on the ‘men in bags,’ as the trowsered whites were called. Even the less fastidious matrons quieted their children by threatening to fetch the white man to bite them. In their eyes, Dr. Livingstone, busy with wet and dry bulb themometers, was an object of pity ‘playing with toys, like a little boy!’ but when they beheld the travel ers spreading butter, ‘raw butter,’ on their bread, their disgust was beyond expression. They only use butter after melting it to annoint their heads and bodies. “The most wonderful of ornament, if such it may be called, is the pelele or upper-lip ring of the women. Themid dle of the upper-lip of the ring is pierced close to the septum of the nose, and a small pin inserted to prevent the punc ture closing up. After it is healed the pin is taken out and a larger one is pressed into its place, and so op succes sively for weeks, and months and years. The process of increasing the size of the lip goes on until its capacity becomes so great that a ring of two inches in diam eter can be introduced with ease. “All the Highland women wear the pelele, and It Is common on the upper and lower shire. The poorer classes make them, of hollow or solid bamboo, but the wealthier of ivory or tin. The tin pelele is often made in the form of a small dish. The ivory one is not un like a napkin-ring. No woman ever appears in public without the pelele, except in times of mourning for the dead. It is frightfully ugly to see the upper lip projecting two inches beyond the tip of the nose. When an old wearer of a hollow bamboo ring smiles, by the action of the muscles of the cheeks the ring and thelipoutside of itare dragged back and thrown above the eye-brows. The nose is seen through the middle of the ring, and the exposed teeth show how carefully they have been chipped to look like those of a cat or crocodile. “ The pelele of au old lady, Chikanda Kadze, a chieftainess, about twenty miles north of Norambula, hung down below her chin, with, of course, a piece of the upper lip around its border. The labial letters cannot be properly pro nounced, but the under lip has to do its best for them against the upper teeth and gum. Tell them it makes them ugly, they had better throw it away, they reply, ‘ Kodi! Really !It is the fashion!’ How this hideous fashion originated is an enigma. Can thick lips ever have been thought beautiful, and this mode of artificial enlargement resorted to in consequence ? “ The constant twiddling of the pelele with the tongue by the younger women suggested the irrelevant Idea that it might have been invented to glvesafe employment to that little mem ber.. ‘ Why do the women wear those things ?’ we Inquired of the old chief, Chensune. Evidently surprised at such astupld question, he replied,‘For beauty, to be sure ! Men have beards and whiskers ; women have none; and what kind of a creature would a woman be without a pelele ? She would have a mouth like a man, and no beard ; ha! ha!’ Afterwards, on theßovumwa, we found men wearing the pelele as well as women.” lifting Three Thousand Fonnds. The Herald of Health gives a striking account of Dr. G. B. Winship, thestrong man, who is a physician in Boston. He is the fourth physician of the family. Instead of giving drugs to his patients, he gives exercise to strengthen them, and good hygienic advice. He is gen erally opposed to the use of drugs. He can lift 2000 pounds, Intending to go on to 3000 pounds, and stop there. His history is remarkable. While in col lege he had practiced gymnastics, but after a while discontinued them, when one day he was taunted as being the smallest In his class, which was true. He afterwards was grossly insulted by a classmate who was larger and stronger than himself, who also told him to help himself if he could. then determined to put himsedf on an equality with his antagonist, ahd said to a friend, “Wait two years, and I promise you I will make my tormentor apologize, or give him such a thrashing that he shall re member it for the rest of his life.” He practised an hour a day for two years, when he was notoriously the strongest man in his class, and he called on his opponent to apologize or fight. The apology was given promptly. Among those effects ofphysical train ing he has found in himself and others that it has given a steadiness to his nervous system. He used to be remark ably nervous, so that It was torture to hear the grating of a slate pencil, the filling of a saw, or scratching on glass, but by exercise his nerves ceased to be impressible by such things ; headaches and indigestion were removed. He seems to think that too much exercise of this kind might have an effect on the mental power. Lifting he regards as of the greatest Importance. He sayß, both from his own experience and that of hundreds of hiß pupilß, that without regarding it alone as a panacea, but merely one means of improving health, he has found it the great remedial agent in cases of dyspepsia, pulmonary consump tion, biliary affections, neuralgia, chron io rheumatism, and general debility. He recommends all his pupils to prac tice till they can raise not leßs than a thousand pounds, nor more than fifteen hundred. Muscular action may be excessive, but always probably at the expense of Intellectual power. But muscular de velopment he regards as always advan tageous. He thinks that lifting will tend to expand the chest and the lungs better than any other exercise, though it should not be practiced alone. Ithas proved very successful, in a hygienio point of view, to ladies, but It must not be too muoh or suddenly attempted. It generally takes his patients a little less than three months to double their lift ing power. Heoan “put up” a dumb bell weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, with one hand, and thinks he can increase it to two hundred and thirty. Students ought to try all this, at least to the extent of keeping up health, but more than that, with the hope of uniting the highest physical with the highest mental powers. This 1b what makes nature’s true noblemen. It might save thousands of students from untimely graves, and thousands more from those dissipated habits whioh in many cases arise from bodies over fed, but not duly exercised. It is by the well-balanoed development of every power that' the truest, and most pure and useful man hood is attained. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1866. A French Story. A few dayß since, the Marchioness de , a stately lady of ancient family in Faubourg St. Germain, asked one of her friends to get a drawing master for her two daughters. Great stress was properly laid on the habits and manners of the drawing master; it was necessa ry that he should be talented, respecta ble, and very sedate and grave. Her friend obtained for her the services of an able artist who possessed all the de sired qualities, and gave the artist a let ter of introduction to her. When the artist called at the old family mansion in Faubourg St. Germain, he was told that the Marchioness was absent, but was momentarily expected, and had given orders to show him into the draw ing room if he came while she was away. He was shown into the grand old room which looked so like one of the saloons of Versailles, the artist could scarcely refrain from thinking he must be in Louis XlV’s palace. To pass away the time the artist examined the objects placed on a stand with shelves on one side of the fire-place. They were ob jects of art collected in Italy and Ger many. While examining one of tha curiosities whose nature and use defied his acuteness, a portion of it fell down his sleeve, and in his efforts to recover it the portion felldown his drawers. He was greatly embarrassed. Were he to undress to get it, there was danger the mistress of the house would return at a most critical moment of the process. So that was not to be thought of. He shook himself almost to pieces, with no result but to drive the object into his boots. To pull otf boots and stockings in a drawing room of the Faubourg St. Germain was as heinous an offense against good manners as to undress. At last he remembered his skill in walking on his hands, and he argued that as a reversal of a bottle brought to the orifice the objects at the bottom, so if a man placed his heels over his head the heels would surrender all unattach ed objects which might be at them. Time pressed, and he at once turned a half summersault and stood on his hands, his feet in the air. He walked about the room in this position, kick ing his heels together to accelerate the fall of the objects in his boots. The noise he made by kicking his heels together prevented him from hearing the door open and as his face was directed to the floor he could not see that sev eral persons had entered the room. The new comers were the Marchioness and her daughters. I cannot pretend to ex press their surprise at seeing a gentle man promenading about the drawing room on his hands. You may easier conceive it. They stood for spme min utes in silent confusion. A turn in his course brought the artist's face in their direction ; he looked up, and, before I can describe it, was on his feet and as silent and confused as they had been. He fully expected to be shown the door. A smile on the Marchioness's face re assured him. He confessed to her what had occurred. She laughed heartily over it, gave him her hand und became at once his warm friend. Dancing Women. “ I believe a woman would do a great deal for a dance,” said Dr. Growling; “ they are immensely fond of saltatory motion. I remember once in my life I used to flirt with one who was a great favorite In a provincial town where I lived, and confided to me that she had no stockings to appear in, and without them, her presence at the ball was out of the question.” “ That was a hint for you to buy the stockings,” said Dick. “No, you’re out,” said Growling. Khe knew that I was as poor as herself; but though she could not rely on my purse, she had every confidence in my taste and judgment, and consulted me on a plan she formed for going to the ball in proper twig. Now what do you think it was?” “To go in cotton, Isuppose,” returned Dick. “Out again, sir—you’d never guess It; and only a woman could have hit upon the expedient. It was the fashion in those days for ladies in full dress to wear pink Btockings, and she proposed to paint her legs !” “Painting her legs!” they all ex" claimed. “Fact, sir,” said the doctor; “and she relied uponmefortellingher if the cheat was successful.” "And was it?” asked Durfy. “Don’t be in a hurry, Tom. I com plied, on one condition, namely, that I should be the. painter.” “Oh, you old rascal,” said Dick. “ A capital bargain,” said Durfy. “ But not a safe covenant,” added the attorney. “Don’t interrupt me, gentlemen,” said the doctor. “I gotsomerose pink, accordingly, and I defy all the hosiers in Nottingham to make a tighter fit than I did on little Jenny ; and a pret tier pair of stockings I never saw.” "And she went to the ball?” said Dick. " She did.” “And the trick succeeded?” Inquired Durfy. “So completely,” said the doctor, “ that several ladles asked her to re commend her dyer to them. So, you see what a woman will do to go to a dance. Poor little Jenny!—she was a merry little minx—by-the-bye, Bhe boxed my ears that night for a Joke I made about the stockings." “Jenny,” Bald I, for fear your stock ings should fall down when you are dancing, hadn’t you better let me paint a pair of garters on them ?’’ Smart Dog. The town of Astoria, Oregon, can boast of the smartest dog that has been heard from lately, if Van Dusen tells the truth in relation to the doings of his canine. While vlßitlng Tillamook Beach this summer, the dog was troubled very much with fleas, and had become tired of scratching. He was discovered one day hunting around the house for some, thing, and finally picked up a piece of loose soft cotton batting and started off for the beach with the cotton sticking out of his mouth. He went to the water, slowly booking down into it, and hold ing his head up so as to keep the cotton dry. The fleas started for his head as the dog kept backing in the water, and finally there was but the cotton out of the water, when suddenly cotton disap peared, and the dog made his appear ance minus cotton and fleas. The cot ton was picked out of the water, and was found actually alive with fleas. Van says he saw the dog do it—so it must be so. Over five millions of dollars have been already expended in attempting to span the Atlantlo Ocean with a telegraph wire. Pfettltottwro?. Homan’s Health. Mrs. H. Beeoher Stowe contributes an article in the February number of the Atlantic Monthly , on the subject of Woman's Labor, and thus refers to the subject of Woman’s Health : A woman’s health is her capital. In certain ways of work she obtains more income, but she spends her capital to do it. In another way she may get less income and yet increase her capital. A woman cannot work at dress-making, tailoring, or any other sedentary em ployment ten hours a day, year in and out, without enfeebling her constitu tion, impairing her eyesight, and bring ing on a complication of complaints; but she can sweep, cook, wash, and do the duties of a well-ordered house, with modern arrangements, and grow health ier every year. The times inNew Eng land when all women did housework, a part of every day, were the times when all women were healthy. At present the heritage of vigorous muscles, firm nerves, strongbacks, and cheerful phys ical life has gone from American wo men, and is taken up by Irish women. A thrifty young man, I have lately heard of, married a rosy young Irish girl, quite to the horror of his mother and sisters, but defended himself by the following logic: “If I marry an Amer ican girl, I must have an Irish girl to take care of her; and I cannot afford to support both.” “Now domestic service is all the while fitting a girl physically, mentally and morally for her ultimate vocation and sphere, to be a happy wife and to make a happy home. But factory work, shop work, aud ail employments of that sort, are in their nature essentially undomes tic, entailing the constant necessity of a boarding house life, and of habits as different as possible from the quiet rou tine of home. “The girl who is ten hours on the strain of continued, uuintermitted toil, feels no inclination, when evening comes, to sit down and darn her stock ings or make over her dresses, or study any of those moltifarious economies which turn a wardrobe to the best ac count. Her nervous system is flagging; she craves company and excitement: and her dull, narrow room is deserted for some amusement or gay street prom enade. And who can blame her ? Let any sensible woman, who has had ex perience of shop and factory life, recall to her mind the ways and manners in which young girls grow up, who leave a father’s roof for a crowded boarding house, without any supervision of ma tron or mother, and ask whether this is the bestschool for training young Ameri can wives and mothers. “Doubtless there are. discreet and thoughtful women who amid all these difficulties, do keep up thrifty, womanly, habits, but they do it by an effort great er than the majority of girls are willing to make, and greater than theyoughtto make. To sew or read or study after ten hours of factory orshopworkisafurther drain on the nervous powers, which no woman can long endure without exhaus tion. “When the time arrives that such a girl comes to a house of her own, she comes to it as unskillful in all household lore, with muscles as incapable of do mestic labor, and nerves as sensitive, as if she had been leading the most luxurous, do nothing, fashionable life. How different would bo her prepa ration, had the forming years of her life been spent in the labors of a family! I know at this moment a lady at the head of a rich country establish ment, filling her station in society with dignity and honor, who gained her do mestic education in a kitchen in our vicinity. She was the daughter of a small farmer, and when the time came for her to be earning her living, her parents wisely thought it far better that she Bhould gain it in a way which would at the same time establish her health and fit her for her own future home. In a cheerful, light airy kitchen which was kept so tidy always, as to be an at tractive sitting room, she and another young country girl wero trained up in the best of domestic economies by a mistress who looked well to the ways of her household, till at length they mar ried from the house with honor, and went to practice in homes of their own, the lessons they had learned in the home of another. Formerly, in New England, such instances were not uncommon ; would that they mightbecomesoagain! The fact is, the places which the daughters of American farmers used to occupy in our families are now taken by young girls from the families of small farmers in Ireland. These are respectable, tidy, healthy and capable of being taught. A good mistress, who is reasonable and liberal in her treat ment, is able to make them fixtures. They get good wages and have few ex penses. They dress handsomely, have abundant leisure to take care of their clothes and they soon acquire skill in doing it equal to that displayed by women of any country. "They remit money continually to relatives In Ireland, and from time to time pay the passage of oue and another to this country, and whole families have thus been established in American life by the efforts of the younger girl. Now, for my part, I do not grudge my Irish fellow-citizens these advantages obtained by honest labor and good con duct—they deserve ull the good fortune thus accruing to them. But when I see sickly, nervous American women jostling and struggling in the few crowded avenues which are opening to mere brain, I cannot help thinking how much better their lot would have been, with good strong bodies, steady nerves, healthy digestion, and the habit of looking any kind of work in the face, which used to be characteristic of American women generally, and Yan kee women in particular. " The matter becomes still graver by the laws of descent. The woman who •enfeebles her muscular system by sedentary occupation and over-stlmu lates her brain and nervous system, when shebecomes a mother, perpetuates these evils to her offspring. Her children will be born feeble and delicate, incapa ble of sustaining any severe strain of body or mind. The universal cry now about the 111 health of young American girls is the frultofsome three generations of neglect of physical exercises and un due stimulus of brain and nerves. Young girls now are universally born delicate. The most careful hygienic treatment during childhood, the strictest attention to diet, dress and exercises, succeeds merely so far as to produce a girl who is healthy so long only as she doesnothlng. With the least strain her delicate organism gives out, now here, now there. She cannot study without her eyes fall or she has headache ; she qannotget up her own muslins, or sweep a room, or pack a trunk, without bring ing on a headache : she goes to a con cert or a lecture, and must lie by all the next day from the exertion. If she skates she is sure to strain Borne muscle, or if Bhe falls and strikes her knees or hits her ankle, a blow that a healthy glrlß would forget In five minutes, term inates In some mysterious lameness whloh confines our poor Bybll for months. "The young American girl in our times is a creature who has not a parti cle of vitality to spare—no reserved stook or force to draw upon in coses of family exigency, She is exquisitely strung, shels cultivated, she is refined; but she is too nervous, too wiry, too sensitive; she burns away too fast; only the easiest of circumstances, the most watchful of care and nursing can keep her within the limits of comforta ble health: 'and yet thlß is the creature who must undertake family life in a country where It is next to an absolute Impossibility to have permanent do mestics. Frequent changes, occasional entire break downs, must be the lot of the majority of housekeepers, particu larly with those who do not live in cit ies. " In fact we In America have so far gpt out of the way of a womanhood that has any vigor of outline, or opu lence of physical proportions, that, when we see a woman made aa a woman ought to be, Bhe strikes us as a monster. Our willowy girls are afraid of nothing so much as growing stout; and if a young lady begins to round into propor tions like the woman in Titan’s and Giorgione’s pictures, she is distressed above measure, ana begins to make secret inquiries into reducing diet, and to cling desperately to the strongest corset-iaeing as her only hopes. It would require one to he better educated than most of our girls are, to be willing to look like the Sistine Madonna or the Venus of Milo. “Once in a while our Italian opera singers bring to our shores thoseglorious physiques which formed the inspiration of Italian painters; and then American editors make coarse jokes about Bar num’s fat women and avalanches, £and pretend to be Btruck with horror at such dimensions, We should be better in structed, and consider that Italy does us a favor in sending us specimens not only of higher styles of musical art, but of a warmer, richer and more abundant womanly life. The magnificent voice is only in keeping with the magnificent proportions of the singer. The voice which has no grate, no strain, which flows without effort, which does not labor eagerly up to a high note, but alights on it like a bird from above, there carelessly warbling and thrilling —a voice which then without effort sinks into broad, rich, sombre depths of soft, heavy chest-tone, can only come with a physical nature at once strong, wide aud fine—from a nature such as the sun of Italy ripens as he does her golden crops, filling it with the new wine of song.” The Morals of New - York “Societies.” An indignant Frenchman, stirred thereto, by a stricture in the New York Times upon Parisian vice, declares that the morals of New York, especially in “good society,” are much worse than those of Paris. He says : “ Let foreigner pass through Broadway at uight, and observe the signs and transparencies which indicate the entrances to the deus of vice which everywhere abound on that street, and tell me if we have anything to boast of over Paris ? Such infamous institutions would not be permitted in that city, or at all events such “ indecent display” of them would uot be permitted. I know of nothing in which we are behind Paris in these things. We have our public restaurants fitted up with “ pri vate apartments for ladies and gentle men.” We have places of public anvtisement which are notoriously ren dezvous for improper persons—assigna tion places under the disguise of places of amusement—picture galleries used for the same purpose. Houses of ill repute everywhere abound, and are well patronized. Hotels in which per sons notoriously reside in the most shamefully illicit relations. Anatomi cal Museums, too disgusting to be vis ited by any decent person, are kept open on our most public streets, and rendered very attractive by a gorgeous display of “ gas lights,” and into which all applicants are admitted without re gard to age, sex, or condition. The vice of intemperance, too, is infinitely greater in the city, and in thiscountry, than in Paris. Every American who lias been abroad knows this to be true. And as respects admitting im proper persons into society, I do not think we have anything to boast of in that particular either.— At the Bal d’Opera, a few evenings since—professedly a most select and re cherche affulr—persons might have seen quite as obnoxious to remark as Mdlle, Tlierese—and as for proprieties of be havior, I am constrained to say that I never saw exhibitions of such gross dis regard of the common decencies of life in any Salle In Pariß, as I saw at the Academy of Music on that occasion. I saw a man take liberties with the person of a female at the supper table too dis gusting to mention, and which would not be tolerated in the lowest dancing garden in Paris. I also saw the son of the editor of the leading (so-called) newspaper of this city so drunk and dis orderly that two policemen had him by the throat and collar, ejecting him forcibly from the house. I saw indecen cies in dress and costume that would have compelled the wearer to have re tired from any company inParis to which decent people are Invited.” Roman Lawyers and their Fees, Tlie bar with us is oue of the great forces of society, and opens a road to affluence and to political success. But the old Roman lawyers seem to have had some advantages over their modern brethern, to judge by an article in the British Quarterly : At first the Roman pleaders received .no remuneration beyond the services which every client owed to his patron. Subsequently, when law had become a difficult science,| it became the practice for clients to reward their advocates by making them presents, which (to evade the Cinctan law passed to prevent this) were often disguised os secret loans. Before the fall of the republic these fees equaled in magnitude the largest fees known In modern times. Eveu Cicero, who was regarded as a model of disinter estedness, Is said to have received from Publius Bylla about $40,000 as a fee for his forensic services. In modern times many large fortunes have been made at the bar, but, we Imagine, none to be compared with that of M. Llclnius Crassus, whose fortunes is said to have exceeded $15,000,000. One mode of re warding advocates, by legacies left to them by their clients, appears to have been a source of considerable profit, and was esteemed highly honorable to the legatee. Cicero boasted that in this way he had received twenty millions of sesterces, more than $BOO,OOO, We fear that clients in our days are not so liberal in their last wills and testaments. In fact, during the best days of Rome success at the bar was* the surest intro duction to popularity, distinction and political power. No wonder then, that the art of forensic speaking was greatly cultivated wlthsomuchsuccess. Proba bly no age has produced a band of more eloquent men than Cicero and his con temporaries of the Roman bar. Nor were the barristers of Rome distin guished only for oratory. Many of them were men of enlarged erudition, of lit erary taste, and of varied acquirements. Varo, " the most learned ot the Ro mans,” Quintilian, Buetonlous, Pliny and Tacitus were all advocates; and the volumes of Cicero still bear testi mony to his versatility and power in almost every department of literature. Under the emperors the elo quence of the Roman bar had greatly declined, as all that Is manly and great must decline and wither with the loss of freedom. Moreover, the treatment of the bar was not always such os to en courage much mental vigor. Lord Mackenzie relates thatone day Galllcus was pleading before the Emperor Clau dius near the banks of the river Tiber, when the advocate, having irritated the Emperor, was by his orders thrown In to the river. Some days after a client of Galllous brought his case to Afer, the the most celebrated advocate of the age, and requested him to plead It before tho Emperor. " Who told you,” said Afer, " that I was a bettor swimmer than Gal llcus? About Good and Poor Milk. Mr. N. T. True, of tho Maine Farmer, writes that milk differs more widely in quality than almost any other article. It differs In different breeds, and In cows of the same bleed, and even in the same cow at different seasons of the year. Let a cow be fed on meadow hay alone", and that late cut, and her milk will look blue and thin, and void of cream. Buyers of such milk have reason to complain of poor milk. On the other hand, the same cow fed with sweet clover hay, or fed with meal, will give you milk entirely different in quality. Milk kept in a foul cellar will be essentialy affected by the odors aris ing from the decomposition of vegetable matter, NUMBER 20. John W. Geary and the Boldlers of the Mexican War. Read ! ! J Read ! ! 1 Read ! ! ! John W. Geary, the candidate of the Radical Abolitionists for Governor of Pennsylvania, was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the 2d Pa. Regiment of vol unteers in the war with Mexico, upon the brganization of that Regiment in the city of Pittsburgh. William B. Roberts, of this county, was the Colonel commanding and diea in the city of Mexico. Auer his death, Geary was promoted to the Colonelcy. The Fayette County Volunteers were attached to this Regiment, and known as Co. H. They distinguished themselves for gallant conduct and intrepid bravery in all the important engage ments from Vera Cruz to the city' of Mexico, including the bloody assaults upon the gates of that city. They con tinuedln service until the end of the war, and were honorably discharged. The survivors, upon their return home, were received with well earned and highly distinguished houors by their fellow-citizens. Here, at the County Seat, they were honored by a splendid reception, participated in by the citi zens of the county generally, as well as by the ladies, who greeted their re turn with all that delicate attention and refined taste peculiar to their sex. At Connellsville, also, they were the recipients of a handsome ovation, the heartfelt tribute of the citizens and la* dies of that place and vicinity. The re ception at Connellsville took place on Saturday, July 15th. 1848. The reception speech was made by Dr. James C. Cum mings, and the response by Sergeant Peter A. Johns. After the delivery of the speeches, and partaking an elegant dinner prepared for the occasion, the returned met together and unanimously adopted, a preamble and series of resolutions, whioh show up the character of John W. Geary in such a light as would render his election as Governor an everlasting disgrace to the State of Pennsylvania. These resolu tions, it will be seen, were unanimously adopted’by true and tried soldiers, by men whokuew Geary well,and bymen who did not hesitate to proclaim their estimate of his character, and that too not in tender, dainty sentences, but in well expressed and forcible language. The testimony of these proceedings, gains additional force from the fact, that it was uttered at such a time and under such circumstances as to'exempt it entirely from any po litical influences. Tne proceedings were published in the papers of this county, by request of the soldiers, on the 27th of July 1848, and here they are. Again we say, read, read, read. The following Preamble and Resolu tions were offered by the returned vol unteers, of Company H, 2d Pennsyl vania Regiment, and unanimously adopted by the meeting : Whereas, The discharge nnd arrival home of the remaining members of tho Fayette Volunteers has again placed them in tho position of citizens of tho Common wealth of Pennsylvania, and enabled them to speak and assert their rights, they now embrace this occasion, the first opportunity since tlioir return, to express their deep and ABIDING INDIGNATION of the conductor John W« Geary, since he was elected to the command of tho 2d Penna. Regiment, at tho City of Mexico. Tho said -John W. Geary procured his election by a mere plurality ofvotes, by FALSEHOOD and DECEPTION—whiIe he was promis ing to give company 11, tho privilege of electing their own officers, according to tho laws of the State of Pennsylvania,; he, the said Geary, bargained with others for votes promising and giving appointments in said company H to men from other companies who might answer his peculiar purposes. The law of Congress of tho 13th of May, 1840, calling for volunteers for tho war with Mexico, has this provision: Sect. 5, And be It further enacted, that tho Raid Volunteers bo offering tholr services shall bo accepted by tho President, In companies battalions, squadrons and regiment#, whose olllcers shall be appointed In the manner pro scribed by law In Ido sovoral Staten And terri tories to which such companies, battalions squadrons and regiments shall respectively belong. The said Geary, while he availed himself of this law to gel himself into u high olfice, refused thesumo right to company H, which legally* and properly bolongotl to them. Therefore, Resolved , That we, the remaining mem bers of the Fayette County Volunteers, view the conduct of tho said John W. Geary towards company II as an OUT RAGE upon their just rights, as secured to them by the laws of Pennsylvania as well as tho laws of Congress. The whole course and conduct of the said Geary being INCONSISTENT WITH THE CHARAC TER OF A GENTLEMAN OR MAN OF HONOR—it was treating us os a sotofmen who did not know their rights, and who could not appreciate them—it was COR RUPT and MERCENARY in all Its bearings, characteristic of a LOW AND GROVELING CREATURE, hunting and seeking popularity for courage and patrio tism THAT HE NEVER EARNED, by bargaining with supple tools and mercena ries, one of whom at least was a notorious black leg. That tho arrest and trial of Ist Sergt. John A. Cummings, by u Court Martial, for daring to ussort his rights und those or tho company, was A RASE AND COWARDLY EXERCISE OF USURPED AUTHORITY ON THE PART OF THE SAID JOHN W. GEARY—after ho, tbo said Geary,had SURREPTITIOUSLY and VILLAINOUSLY SUPPRESSED tho or der of the Adjutant Gon. of this State, (issu ed by directien of Gov. Shunk,) directing him to fill all vacancies in the 2d Regiment of Penna. Volunteers by election—taking advantage of his STOLEN authorltylto cov er up his WORSE than RASE MOTIVES, and toinjure the hard earned famoofa bravo and gallant officer. On motion of Peter A. Johns, it was Resolved, That all tho harm wo wish Col. Geary, IS THAT HIS DISGRACE MAY FOLLOW HIM THROUGH ALL THE LANES and AVENUES OF LIFE, AND THAT HE MAY NEVER DIE OR GET OLD. —Genius of Liberty. The Newspaper. It is plain that journalism will hence forth and forever be an important and crowded profession in the United States. The daily newspapers is one of those things which are rooted in the necessi ties of modern civilization. The Bteam engine 1b not more essential to üb. The newspaper is that which connects each Individual with the general life of man kind, and makes him part and parcel of the whole ; so that we can almost say, that those who neither read newspapers nor converse with people who do read them are not members of the human family /—that is, not actually, not now; though, like the negroes of Guinea, they may become such In time. They are beyond the pale ; they have no hold of the electrlo chalti, and therefore do not receive the shock. There are two mornings of the year on which newspapers have not hitherto been published In the city of New York —the 6th of July and the 2d of January. A shadow appears to rest on the world during those days, os when there Is an eclipse of the Bun. We are separated from our brethren, cut off, lost, alone; vague apprehensions of evil creep over our mind. Wo feel, In some degree, as husbands feel, who, afar from wife and ohlldren. say to themselves, shudder ing, "What things may have happened and I not know It!” Nothingqultodis- Eels the gloom until tho Eveniny Post— ow eagerly seized—assures us that nothing very particular has happened since our lost. It is amusing to notice how universal Is the habit of reading a morning paper. A hundred vehicles and vessels convey the business men of New York to that extremity of Man hattan island which may be regarded as the counting-house of the Western Continent. It is not uncommon for every individual in a cabin two hun dred feet long to be sitting absorbed In his paper, like boys conning their les sons on their way to school. Still more striking Is it to observe the torrent of workingmen pouring down town, many of them reading as they go, and most of them provided with a newspaper for dinner-time, not less as a matter of course than the tin kettle which con tains the material portion of the repast. Notice, too, the long line of haokney coaches on a stand, nearly every driver sitting on his box reading his paper,— North American Review for April, rates: of BuiotBB AcYXßnaiMxjTg, 02 a year per eqoare of ten llnee; ten per cent, inereeeeior traction. of a rear. ■ _ 'l'lt Ran, Ebtatx, Pxßaoxai. PBORSTT.ana QB nui> Anvnnmnno, 7 oenta a line for tne tint, anil 4 oenta Ibr eaek enUeqnent lmer tion. ' Panzrr HKnicnas and other adyer'a hy column: ‘ Oueocdunm, 1 year, HOO Half oolumn, 1 year~........~~..~......... 00 Third column, 1 year, 40 Quarter oolumn, .. w ... 80 Busxvxsa Qabds. often lines or less, one year,.. ...... 10 HUBinessCards,flvellnesorl€as l one J Lkqazi Ain) omen Notices— Executore* 2.00 Administrators' notices 2.00 Assignees’ notices, 2.00 Auditors’ notices, 1.50 Other “Notices," ten lines, or less, three ,50 Speculations and Abuses under tbe Freedmen’a Bureau. Generals Steadman and Fullerton, the Commissioners appointed by the Presi dent to investigate the operations of the Freedmen’a Bureau in the Southern States, have presented their report. They have performed that duty only in the military departments of Virginia and North Carolina. The effects of the manner in which the affairs of the Bu reau have been administered has been carefully noted, as to the relations be tween the white and black races, and advantage has beeu taken of every op portunity to converse with people of all classes and conditions, and obtain their opinions with reference to the Bureau. In Virginia a majority of the freedmen to whom rations are delivered are un doubtedly able to earn a living if they were removed to localities where labor could be procured. In the districts con trolled by faithful agents of tho Bureau there has been no conflict between, them and the citizens. But in many places where the agents are not men of capacity and integrity, a very unsatisfactory condition of things exist. This originates from a variety of causes which are inimical to the welfare of the freedmen, and to the arbitrary use of power, &e., in deciding land claims, trying questions involving contraots, crimes aud even actions affect ing the marital relations. The Com missioners recommend the removal of the officers of the Bureau in Virginia, and that their duties be performed by the officers commanding the troops in that department. The presence of noth the Bureau aud the military is unneces sary. The restoration of civil law and the recognition of the civil rights to the freedmen renders the latter perfectly secure, with the troops to protect them. The effectoftheoperationsofthe Bureau has ouly promoted habits of Industry among the negroes when officers of high character have had control. It is the idle and worthless who look to it for sup port. General Brown Is laboring faitn fully and zealously to harmonize and protect the interests of both races. In North Carolina, the feelingtoward the Bureau is ifiuch tho same as in Virginia, except that there appears to be a more universal desire on.the part of all classes to have it removed. Col. E. Vfhlttlesey and tho Rev. Horace James, officers of tbe Bureau, are in terested in the cultivation of a large farm in Pitt county. C'apt. F. A. Seelv, of the Eastern District, is interested in the cultivation ofu plantation in Wayne county, and Capt. J. Rosecrans, Com missary of Subsistence, lias an Interest in a Pitt county plantation. Capt. Seely is charged with prevaricating os to the extent of his interest in the farm. Cant. Rosecrants, who is sub agent at Ncwbern under Col. Seely, and Commissary of Subsistence, uses freed men like tho others, and supplies them with rations as part payment for their labor. Rations had frequently beon taken from the warehouse at unusual hours. In a particular case of four barrels of pork, Capt. Rosecrans denied all knowledge about it. His brother, a citizen, sometimes au acting Commissary Sergeant, attempted an ex planation, to tlie effect that the pork was delivered to a Mr. Mervln, by mis take and returned. Mervln says he borrowed four barrels of pork of Rose crans which had been returned, and further, that 110 had exchanged with Rosecrans two barrels of brown sugar, for two barrels of white sugar and palu Rosecrans five cents per pound for making the exchange. A settlomentof four thousand freedmen opposite New born is the scene of deplorable misery and want. Tho* small pox recently scourged the place from end to end. Tho Rev. Mr. Fitz presides over this colony and has exercised the most arbitrary despotic power, and practiced rjvoltlng and unheard of cruelties, A tax which the Rev. Mr. Fitz says goes to support the Bureau, Is Imposed upon thoownor of each hut for ground rent. All business transacted by theso people is heavily taxed. The Commissioners could not ascertain how much money tho Rev. Mr. Fitz Imd collected in this manner. He says Seely required from him $l,OOO per month. Seely evinced a desire to shield Fitz by stating that a great deal of what was said against him resulted from prejudice. A freedman who stole provisions from Seely and James was killed by being shot while attempting to escape from performing the penalty inflicted on him—digging on Seoly and James’ farm. At Goldsboro, the Super intendent is cultivating two farmß on his own account, tho freedmen re ceiving for their labor a little clothing and scarcely a cent of money. At Wilmington, Quartermaster J. O. Mann is cultivating a rice planta tion “to convince Southern peo ple that the negro will work.” Majo I. C. Wickersham, sub-agent,cultivates a nice plantation near Wilmington. Ho compelled negroes ;to fulfil their con tracts by putting them to work with ball and chain In the streets of Wil mington. The arbitrary power exer cised by some of these officers in mak ing arrests, imposing fines, inflicting punishments, disregarding local laws, and especially the statute of limitations, creates prejudice against tho Govern ment. If the officers were all honest and intelligent, with even limited legal information, it might bo Bufe to trust them with this extraordinary power, but in many instances tho men do not possess the slightest knowledge of law. Generals Steadman and Fullerton make the same recommendation os to the offi cers of the Bureau in North Carolina as in the case of those In Virginia. I*pl gjotirw. EBTATK OF JAMKN HONK.H, I.ATK OF Manor township, Lancaster county, dec'd. —Letters of Administration on tho (‘state of Hald dec’d, having beon granted to tho Hub ncrlberH refddlnu In (,'onentoga towoHhlp, ull peraonH Indebted to wild entute nre horoby re queHted u> make Immediate payment, ami thoHo having claims will prenent them, without delay, properly authenticated for nottlement WILLIAM W. HON EH, SAMUEL W. WKlGirh apr 18 Otw* 15 Administrator*. INSTATE OP PAUL NIIERIC U, DECD. j —Letters Testamentary on the estate of Eaul Hhcrlck, lute of Washington Borough Luncostetcounty, dec'd., having been granted to Lho subscriber residing In said borough • AIJ persons Indebted to suld eslaio urn requested to m 'ko Immediate payment, and tUoso hav ing clutrnH will present them, without delay properly authenticated for settlemoul. ' JOHN KVANH, Executor. muy 0 (Jtw*lBj AUDITOII'N NOTICK....mATK OF Jollier Bartholomew, late of Htrasburg towiißhlp, Lnneustor county, deo'd.—The un* dorslgdod Auditor appointed to distribute tho balance remalulngln tho hands of John Hmitb AdrninlHtraior of wild doc'd, to and umomt thoHo legally entitled to the Hume, will attend 5 r A l v R . t wP u V rp . 0 V e, . , °.“ ™*>*l)A Y, tho 20th day of MAY, 1800, at2o (dock, P. M., in the Library Room of tho Court House, In tho City of Lan caster. whoro all persons Interested lusald dls* trlbutlou may ultoud. BENJ. HERR, Auditor. itw 18 E 15 or H VHAH NIIKAFFER, (Willow,)" luio or 1110 Ulty of Lttiicantor deceased.—Letters testamentary on Raid OHtAto having boon granted to tho under* signed, all persons Indebted thoroto are ro quested to mako Immediate settlement, and thoso having claim# or damands against tho name will presout them without delay set* llernout to thu undersigned, residing In tho township of Penn, said county. liAVII) lIUUUHTETTEU. may 3 Ulwl7l Kxcoutur. All I> 1 T <» II • N NUTIOK..»KMTATK OF Uoarno WuldkT, Into or Eiuit Kurl town "hip, I.unuaatur county, ilocaiucd.— I Tho under algued Auditor, appoint'd to dlxtrlbuto the balance maalolnu lu thu hand* or U. y. Kln r,orand W. W. Kluxer, Exoautora ortho litat will or said doc’d, to and amoug those lewdly on 4H?rVf? W HI or that purpose on f HIDAY, JUNK Bth, 1800. at 2 o’clock, P. M.. In the Library Room of the Court House, lu the City of Lancaster, whore all persons Inter* CBtod in said distribution may attend; MARTIN E. STAUFFER, mny 104Lw ID] Auditor. Estate of william dugan, decd. —Letters of Administration on the estate of William Dugan, late of Conoy township Lancaster county, deo'd, having been granted to the subscriber rosldlng In said townsblD* Ail persons Indebted to said estato are request* ©d to mako Immediate payment, and those having ololms will present them, without de* lay, properly autheu- lcated for settlement. JOHN KOB. may lfl fltw* 101 Administrator 100,000 SPLIT HICKORY SPOKEB, 100,000 HICKORY PLANK, 60,000 POPLAR SCANTLING, By SPRECHER & SHEAFPER. Southeast comer of Lake mid church «t, w» taw 19
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