®Ut pnwster pteUlgeum, Published evbhy Wednesday by H. O.SMITH & CO. 11. G. Smith. -A-. J. Steinman* TEU.MS—TWO Dollars per annum, payable all casos In advance. uKKlOß—Southwest corner op Centre Shuake. 49-All letters on business should be ad* dressed to H. G. Smith & Co. sptcranj. The Steamboat Bacc. A THKIIiLINO SKETCH. IFroin a novel entitled in tllL Keitel Capital,*’ puhjWied in me Cortinopolile. i Well, we are aboard of Hie Soutlieni Republic, the last bell liaa Houuiled, the last belated truAk has been t }'“' ull * l d over the plank, aAd we ate oil, the cal hope we reaming I>W like ten thousa ml devils, and the efowds on the bank ■waving us Oon Tiie main saloon ui the boat was a spacious apurtment, a hundred feet long bv thirty in breudth, gorgeously deco rutod with modern paint, and brilliant ly lighted. The galleries leading to the state-room, rising tier upon tier, lan entirely around it, while above them a sky-light ol' tinted glass shed a solt, Wurm light. There are olliees, card rooms, bar rooms, barber shops,, and even faro hanks, aboard all these boats; and as t he down trip occupies from forty-eight to seventy hours—according to the stage of the river, and the luck ot run ning aground, a performance to l>e ex pected at least once in each trip— we become quite a mutual amusenientcom muniLy by the time it is over. This trip Die boat was very crowded, and at supper the eH’uct ol the line of small tables, tilled with oillcers in uni form, ladies tastefully dressed, and u sprinkling ol homespun coats all ie* M.-eied in the long mirror— was very on-bland gay. Alter meuls there is gem-rally a promenade on the upper drfks - so/m nou ( 'i. where people talk, | smoke, inspect each other and flirt. '] hen they adjourn Instate room, saloon, or ear-1 room and lounge or read to kill time ; for the Alabama Is anything hut a picturesque stream,, with Its low. Inals by hanks, only varied by oecuslonal " sli-h's " and negro quarters. This night was splendidly clear, the moon bright as day ; and Styles and I. ul'ler seeing the Colonel " well lucked In, siiild on deck i,o scrape acquaintance Willi the pilot, and the siimll needy l , 'reie liman who ollh'lHted at the ealll ope, lie WHS mi original In Ids way “ Hie prol'ermur " with Ills head like a build, garnished with hair of the most wiry lilueklieHS, eld as close an the hclh hois could hold It, locking like the most uneoinpromls.iig poreupint:. Ol course, he was a pulllienl'fH’tlgeu " liisi, ! A i.re, nalionule! jam <><>» c.lidhi /" he exclaimed, sealing hlmsell aL Ids iiistrumeiil, and twirling a liugg inusl iclie. “ ld/7// hi Murm ith m/: / /at make natiomd hymn for yen!" and he made Ihe whistle roar mid shriek In a way lo have sent lluj red caps Into Die air. a hundred miles away. t “ (.rand ! splendid !" roared Myles above the steam. " Why, l’rufessor, you’re a genius. ( dine and lake some brandy." , , The I’rofessor hanged down Idsinstni meui, led the way lie'lanter down to our dale-room, and once there did lake Honielhfng, mid then something else, an I finally some more, till hv got very (hii’l;-longued and enthusiastic. “(irmel alre of /.e Dlberle !" lie cried at lad, again to Ids jiercli by tile smokestack "Song composed by iiio i<>r one grand man— ze Van Dorn. I make Ibis and dedicate to him and lie haiige I away at the keys till he tortured Die steam into the “Lihvrly (liu //o” from J'urituni. “How you find /at, eh? /at makes ze hymn Yor souse. Me, I am rcpubll cuiiC. Voila! I wear ze mustache 01 ze revoluiibnisle —my hairs are cut cn ttf ! Were znv colcre more n«.| as red, 1 would bezut!" amt the J'rolessor was so struck with the bril liance of Ids idea Dial he played Die air again and again, till it rang like a phantom chorus over Die still planta tions. At last he was overcome by t'luqlJoii and brandy, slid Iroiu the stool UndsMik at Die Idol of the smoke-stuck, iiUih/'lng: "/at Is ze hymii-hlc tliAJi/a' ' to ze (leneral and ze -hie Iry !" and lhell he slept the sleep oINJC Vic |il"l I*l•11 mi 1 1C 1 1 M 1 1'. “'l'ii’iir'M thcr Soralor, am! mliu’h Kaln ln’ mi ut," suit I Mu 1 pilot, an \vi« walkial t'urwiii'l, pointin k l" a thin column <>! Hinokr nullin' oulol* ilm U'L'uh Jukl übmiHt of IIM. " i low far iimlith V" “ A mattiT ol'alioul two tnlU.'H aroum Unit pni.nl." “ S|ili'inlUl night lor a nioo,” millllt ml Siyli'fi. . “ will Him nvorluko un, ( aiitalli . “ Wall, iiuillii'i' !” mpHi'd tlm old I'lvrr don, while 111'' nniM jiro I'i'hhl ol iill jrj'ln hliul over lilh lull'd, woodon fi'iiUU'fH spn rlull.y id' I filin' Up l lilh’iu' old ~ll“ 'll:i, Joiifh'.' Now wo'll liuvf 11. Wo w'll1 1 1 mm In now," flnifliluil SlylcH, hnugliiK mi' In tlif l>iifk, Alumni ImpiTfi'plllily our Hpciid Hliwk cimd, mid I In- lliln, dill'll foluiiiu fl'i'pt tn-ui-.-r mid iifiii't mu ml Urn I ri-i'H, mi tin- puliil 111 our wako, till at hint lliu s4ti'iiiin'i luii'hlh lulu nighl, mil a plHtul- Hilo! IIH (.1 1 1' 11. Tlifi'i* i i a nliai'p fllidi id Uni pilot h la'll, a ganplng lliroli, ii:i il iuir lioal took a dia‘ 11 , lout; l'i'"nlh, and Jiihl hh tin* “ Srioilor” iimki'Hoiii' wlii'i'l, Wf iliimluni i,n lu'iiin, with f.'i'iy aliolii' of 1.1 ii' piHtim thri'inriiliiK l" rai'k our I'nil 1 I'aluli' lulu hli I'i'd a ..1,, hvi'r lii'i'f In pi'flly wldi, and tin' I'limmi'l ili'fp mid o I i'll r. 1 lif “ Sfiia Ini'" pull,, a 1 11 'ml 111 Mai lull t Hlyli'i now ,lll111,11’ 1 1 1 r, now a bind h IfiiKlli i,.ah fiii'liii'H I'oarliii! and Himi't- Inn II ko miMi-y 1 1 1 ppupi >1 ii in 1 1 anil Imili yi'„i,i'ln inn'll lin; mill nl ml n 1 UK Ml I Mif.V ~i.fin lo paw llii'ir way ilii'oukli Mm idiiirimd waii'i’. Tillli ol liormi runl l l M and i./ nulf ! Hut, iixni'pt llm wld ili'llrlmii "I 1 a I'uvali'y I'hnrgo—iih iln wrlla-'d by iliohii who liiivu Imuii In mm —linn' i- no t'Xi'llcmi'iit. Unit nan ap piourli hunt railing on tlm Holitllorn ilvi'i's. lino by ono llm puuplu pup up Imldn - mid thi'onp tlm ralla, Kirnt, Mm uimiiipi"> "d d, ■■'!■: loiii d m ; limn a allay jroull I I I or mO, and dually ladio:- and childii'U, lill llm rail h; lull and ovoiy oyo Ih anxioualy »| mini'll Lo the oppoalto boat. (Sim lioMh Imr own wondi.'i'fiilly wol uoiinidering Llm ri'pululinn of oiii'h; ui at oimli burnt, wlmii slm si'onii'd lo gai oil us, the whole crowd hold their lireutl ami an hlio drops' oil' again, there iH deep-drawn, gasping sigh of relief, like wind ill theplueH. J'A'en “ Hie Colonel” line roused hilnsell' Ironi ill earns of turtle at the SI. Charles, ami red llsli at l’en naeula, ami has collie oil deck in uslioot- Ing-laekeL and glengnry cup, that makes him look like jaunty J'bsco. lie leans over Lhestern rail, pulUing hlsHahaiiam long easy whitl's as we gain a length, or wending out short, angry pulls at the “ Senator” as she creeps up oil us. Knot hy foot we gain steadily until the gap is widened to three or four boat lengths, though the “Senator” piles her llres till the shore behind her, on each side, glow from their reflection, mid her decks, now black with anxious lookers-oir, send up cheer after cheer, as •she snorts defiantly after us. Suddenly the bank seems to loom up Tight under our larboord bow ! 'Wc have cut it too close ! Two sliurj), vicious elicits of the bell. •Our helm goes hard down, and the en gines stop with a sullen jar, as I catch ,u hissing curse break through the set teeth of the pilot. A yell of wild triumph rises from the J ‘ Senator's ” deck! On she comes in gallant style, shutting thegupandpass ing us like a race-horse, before we can awing into the channel and recover headway. It is a splendid sight as the noble boat passes ns, her black hulk standing out, in the clear moonlight, against the dim, gray banks llkealiving uionster, and her great chimneys snort ing out volumes of massive black smoke that trails our Hat behind ner from her great sweep. Her side 'toward us is crowded with men, woniou and child ren • and lints,handkerchlefsuudlinnds are swung madly about, to aid the clien t of the hundred voices. Close down to the water’s edge scarce above the line of foam she cuts —her lower deck lies black and unde ilned 111 the shadow of the great mass above It." , ~ „ , ISiidden It lights up With a lurid Hash as tho furnace doors are thrown wide VOLUME 67 open, and in the. hot glare the negro stokers —tbeirstalwartformß jetty black, naked to the waist and streaming with the exertion, that makeß the muscle strain out like cords—show like the dis torted imps of some pictured inferno. They, too, have imbibed the excitement, and with every gesture of anxious haste and eyeballß starting from their dusky heads, some plunge the long rakes into the red mouths of the furnace, twisting and turning the crackling mass with terrific strength, whileotherH hurl in the huge logH of resiuous pine, already heat ed by contact, till they burn like pitch. Then the great doors bung too, the yo . yo! of the negroes dies away and the whole hull is blacker from the contrast, while the Senator, puffing denser clouds than ever, swings round the point a hundred yards ahead ! There is a dead silence on our boat so deep that the rough whisper of the pilot to the knot around him is heard the whole length of the deck: Damnation . but I'll overstep her yit, or bust . “ Good, old fellow!” responded Styles let herout, and I'll stund the wine!” Then the “old Colonel ” walks to the wheel, with his face purple, ills glen irurv nuHhed fur buck ou bin heud, and hiH cigar glowing «ke the “red eye of buttle,” uh lie pufln angry wheezew of smoke through hisuostrlis. “Damned hard, sir—hard !, hard '. hgud ! I d burn the last ham in the locker to over take her,” and he whirled the glowing stump after the “ Senator,” a- the Spar tan youth buried the shields into the thick of battle, before rushing to re claim them. Ou we speed, until the trews on the hunk seem to fly back past us, and round the point to see the nuu ator " just turning another curve . On .It!l4 faster than ever, with every glass on hoard Jingling in Its trame, and every joint and timber trembling, us with a congestive chill ! ,Still the black demons below ply thuh fires with the fattest log H—and even a lew barrels of pilch are slyly slipped in -the smoke behind us stretched straight and fiat from the smoke stack, . Now wo enter astralghl, narrow roach, with the “ Honulor" Just hel'oro uh. Kasim' ami faster wo go, til the boat fairly melts and swings I mm side to side, hall'll lift I with every throb ol the en gine, Closer ami closer we creep harder ami harder thump the cylinders until at last we (dime, our how Just lapping her stern ! . Ho we run a lew yards, by little—Hollttlutlml wu lost by Itoountlng her windows —we reach her wheel puhh by It—lock her how and run nuck to neck fora hundred feet! The stillness of duatli Is upon both boats; not a Hound hut the croak atm shudder as Limy struggle on. Huddunly the hard voice of our pilot crushes through It like a hrnadaxu : *'(ino<l bye, Hun * tor! I’ll huiul yur a tug!” uml hegl vl'H the bull a merrv click. Our huge bout glvcH one Hhuddurlug llimb thiii ruwkH bur from uml to uml; ouu iilinigu, uml thuh hliu hullluh Into a Htuuuy runh. umi forgun rapidly uml evenly ulieuu. Wider uml wider grown thu gup ; uml wu wlml out of night, with l,hu buulou bout live hundred yurdn bu- 111im! uh, Thu clgur I took from my mouth to muku way lor thu deep, long nigh, In uhuwud to u purl'uut pulp. A wild, punt upyull ofliatfHtivugu LrlumpU gouH up from thu crowded ,nimh uh 1h heard nowhuru ulnu hut whui'u thu cupturuil work rowurdn thu bloody uml oft re* puuled charge. Cheer after cheer f»l lowh ; and, uh wu approach thu thin column of Hinoku, curling over the treew between uh. .StyleH bonlrldeH the pros- Irate form of the Htillsleeping lToleHHor, and makes the calliope yell uml Hhriuk that ulukhlc ditty, “Old Cray Horst* come out of the WilderneH !” ut the In* visible rival. I doubt if heartier toast whh ever drunk than the ‘‘(Colonel,” gave the group around the wheel*l»oUHo, when StyleH “hIooiI” the wine plighted the pilot. The “Colonel” wuh beaming, thu glengury hul jauntily on one nine, and Ids voice actually gurgled uh lie "Knud! I’d iiilhh my illnnoi' lor i] wnok for Uilh. (loiitli'iiion, a toiiHt! lliiro'H to lliu old boat! lloil liluhh Inn HIHII 1” Origin or mu AHNorlalod ITukh, A coiTUHpomluuL of thu Hurttor /Vf hh wrlti'H : Nuxt to thu political I'.ontuMt, the topic of convurHatlon In our m'WHpapurolUucH 1h lhL» removal or rcHlgnatlon of 1). 11. Craig from the muuugumunt of the Ah- Houlatuil I’l'uhh. Thu AhhoulhUhl ITuhh, L-oiir ruailorH will umlurHtaml, Ih con rolled uxelunlvoly hy the New \ovk impei-H, iiml the iieWH Ih moUI hy Ilium to )Lhur JourualH through thu country. There uru Home Interehtlng lnuhluiitH lionneetud with lt« origin. Long yearH niro. hel’ore the days of telegraphy, the Sun mid wore thu two great competing papui'H In thu metrnpollH. 'The Sun wan Htartud by one Mr. Ihiy, and noon lull Into the handH of Mohch V. Heaeh, who now UvoHln wealthy re tirement at Walling lord, Conn. Mr. Heae.li exhihlted great enturprlHU In the management of thu Aim, prouuilng, umiing other newspaper liicilltloH unnek ufeurrlcrplgi'onsjn1 1 - nH' •Hy “icald ~f these pigeons Mr. Hunchwas enabled to outstrip nil cmiipelllurs mill to uston [hli tlit* public. They at Ural wore kept at Sandy ilouk. Halifax, and thu pnintH on Ihccisist, to brlngllhc foreign news to Now York. Knr example, a man In a Htnnll yawl would Inlernept a viwl a Cow inilvM out I'rnni Halifax, and Imvl n»f nlilalliiMl lho lIOWM, would wi'lln It mil and li'lli'ee a pigeon, whloli would bring It till lift'. In Idlin' 11 ii'mo pigeons were alao Mlal.lolii'd lit llohloii, Philadelphia, llultliiinrn, and W null I union. Hy puli- Hulling a Hpoi’oh ol' Danlol Wuhstur a Cow lioui'H after lin dollvu ry at Huston, llio Sun niadu a world-wide reputation Cor IlHidC and increased ItH. ulrtiulallon lour-Cold. Thu Mexluun war opunud ini a now Hold of onturprlHu I'm Mr. Hoiudi. Thuru wan a strip oC ter rilorv, Mixly miluN wldu at thu Wont, h.uli the tluvurnuiunt kept uj communication butouueamonth. Alim tlit} conlliot began, Moses Heuch do apatched two of Ida anna to lliia remote region, who purchased some mules, and established; semvtly and quietly, a pri vate uxpruas of t.huir own. lime ultei lime tin- iSun contained news of Scott s victoriotiH progress, wheu the Govern ment and other papers had not received a line from our absent legions, the Administration thanked Jlr. Heaeli In the warmest manner Cor the news thus obtained, ills competitors at length, ul'ter trying in vain lor some time, dis covered the manner in which the oim got ahead of them. Thereupon, Hen nett, of tlie J/crald, Hulleek, oi the Juuniul uf Commerce, and one or two othera, culled upon the &un proprietor and requested the privilege of sharing in tlie advantages and profits of the mule express. The request being re fused, they told him they should start an express of their own. He then ac ceded to tlie request, and this was the origin of the Associated Press, which, a lew years later, built the telegraphic Hue to Cape Kace, purchased a steam sloop to intercept vessels, and now eou rols the news market of the country. Importuut Decision. A linn in Philadelphia having failed and made an assignment to preferred creditors, the assignee refuses to pay tho government claim for laxes, although he has some sv>o,Uoo worlli of property in his possession, on the ground that the government claim cannot supersede prelerred creditors. Collector Slounnker submitted the following proposi tion for tlie decision of tho commissioner ol internal revenue; Does the government claim tor laxes owing and due before fail ure, as shown by the sworn return presen ted to the assessor, and returned by liim for collection, supersede preferred creditors, and if not so, would the collector be justifiable in proceeding to distraip proper ly in the hands ofUio assignee? Tho following reply was received from Deputy Commissioner Harlund: If the tax against the firm alluded to was duo at tho date of their assignment, there is a lien upon the property unsigned in favor of tho United States; tlio claim tho govonern munt takes precedence over all others, and should bo enforced by distraint, if necessary. Hon. Geo. B. Pendleton 1b on a visit to Boston. He tins a sou at Har vard College. The Great Markets or Paris. [Translated for Every Saturday from the French. | FIRST PAPER. There is in the heart of Paris a mon ument where the monster with 1,900,- 000 mouths seeks his daily food ; in whose neighborhood are to be found street after street which wake when the other portions the city prepare for sleep; a quarter traversed every night by 12,000 vehicles, and which from 4 to 10 o’clock, A. M. sees added to its 42,000 inhabitants a floating population of at least 00,000 souls; a noisy centre, with hybrid manners and customs ; a strange assembly of unknown wealth and ex hibited poverty ; the affluent blouse grazing the threadbare frock coat lazi ness elbowing labor,—in one word, the Great Markets. Kix unilorm divisions, marshalled in two ranks, are sheltered under an im mense irou roof, which has asuperflcies of 20,000 yard.-. A forest of delicate and elegant small columns support tills gigantic roof. Broad sidewalks, planted with trees, extend around the vast par allelogram, which is crossed by three broad covered avenues. One is longi tudinal. This is culled the Great Alley. The two Olliers are transversal. One ol them begins ut the end of the Hue de lu Lingerie, of which it seems a contin uation, and thence iH culled Linen Alley. Thu oilier is occupied ull day long by people who sell their stock by the heap, and so it is called the Little Heaps Al ley. Tile six divisions have each their especial Irude. .One is devoted to Irult and flowers; another to vegetables; another to flsli; this to eggs and butter by Hit* wholesale; Unit to game and poultry; us lor the sixth uml last, ho muny dlllerent sortH of things uro sold there that the Archblsliopol' Paris him self could nut hour to the end the long unuineratlon of them. it was when tlio uuw Great Markets were opened Archbishop Hlboiii' had at Ills elbow a cicerone wliohu duty It was to Inform Idm of tile destination of the several divisions, as lie blessed them one alter the other, Ile had already blessed live of them. When he reached the sixth tile cicerone said, “ 'l'lds is the division of retail buUur, h " 1 bless the division of retail blitter," said lie' Archbishop, ruining bln humlM, “ Ainl of bread, whispered tliu cluoroue, “Of rutull butler uml bri'ml,” added the Arch bishop, catching li 1 nisei I • “Ami of cooked niuut.” “Ol rutull butter unu bread uml cooked uieul.” “Ami kitchen furniture.” “ Oh !” exclaimed thu good Archbishop, making a gesture of dospuir, “ 1 bIeHH everything.” , Mi , The hlx divisions ulreudy built form only the nocoml hull* ol tlie Oruut Mar kets, uh they uro duHtlned to appear. Hence they uro respectively numbered from»7 to 1-. , .. , Jluneuth the Ureal Markets vittlble uro the invisible Uruut Murkets. Wo cannot better begin our visit than by examining them. The Oruut Markets are cloned ut midnight; hut wo are privileged diameters, and cun mukothu gutuH uiin on Lhclr bln ,ch. Let uh go down tiioHU ntupH. There uro lid ol them. We are In thu uollui'H. Ah freely uh ulr circulates In the Urout Markets above ground, ho It Ih rare in the cellars. One would be tempted to believe it took uh peraouul the inscrip tion “ No Admission,” visible oil the vault which for inn the cellurH* entrance. 1 saw nothing of light—the absent ought never to be abused. As a general rule, each collar in a basement iluor which is an exact copy of the division above ground. There are the same lines of stulls, only Instead of the stalls aboveground there are lolty recesses, divided by Iron railing, with numbers corresponding to thu numbers ol the shops above them. These recesses ure the store-rooms of the market-peo ple; they keep their stocks uml baskets In them. They are ull alike; except that thu ilshmongers have, be sides, reservoirs supplied with runnlnir water, where llshes uro kept alive. All Is quiet In this part of thu cellars. Here ami there oue moelH a shadow which [lasses and disappears, or hears, the monotonous noise of water falling Iroui hydrants Into stone basins. As we go farther we find something like anima tion ; Ibr even when this great body seems life less some artery still duals. There Is by day and by night some cor ner of the Uruut Murkcts whero people are at work. ~ , . , In the cellar of retail butter-duulurH several conscientious tradesmen are to be discovered giving their stock (which 1m HometimcM a little rancid) the desired fresh taste. They attain tlds end by an operation called fiinlfU’Of/ I '-, which wo will, for clearness’ sake, call painting. They mix by gusllght on wooden hoards tliulr venerable butter, water It, add a little Hour II the butter lacks consistency, and If It Is too pale they mid carrot Juice or carmine, which lu alow moments gives the pulosL butter tlie beautiful orange coloraodear to all housewives. Come now, don t frown ! Arcn'tciistomerH Lobe pleased’, ’Tin the llrst rule of trade. And Ih n'Llt all proper and right that painted women should eat painted butler? A portion of this cellar belongs to cheesemongers, and another portion Uuir/ctjuinn dealers: It need scarcely he huUI that odors lelgn In this quuriur which astound the most Imperturbable nose. Nevertheless, these odors arc as delicuie perfumes compared with those which 111 l the uLinoupnere of the next wilin'. Wlw pouplo pul 11 loll' uu-;u |„ iiniVMi wlu'ii llii'Y poku II Ini" Uil" iMliil'h’l’, |l. Ih Hill pnllllry Hllilllllflim. A run lul iilrlil liiililiuiHii limi'liU' UUiluh. -lul'iml t,i|uiiliHliuit I'miii uiuili iiUior nr ivgulur ordur, urn mull, wuinon mid <jl 1 11<II'L-n, ul l lllllKj clipping p tearing, nicking, pulling. They have nil been at work since 11 o’clock I', M., ami they will no! h..ve muled their tank before h or li o’clock A. M. ; tor tliuy liavu to pre i.arc nr 1,001) or 1,1100 gcoHU, turkeys, chickens, duck, or pigeons for the mar ket stalls. Everywhere In the neigh borhood of this cellar one sees nothing hut baskets lull uf feathers, baskets full of poultry, under sentence of death, ,f dressed poultry. Here Is a line eana o f micks lmn giiig liy'one leg, he town wards. Presently a young g. conies with u huge knife. Her little hand slips the steel on the neck ot the duck nearest her.' You would think she was caressing it, she Is so rapid and so light. Whe goes to the next, and to the next, and to the next: a second for each duck. She passes on, her task ended, as quietly as if she had been picking apples for the oven. It is with great relief one regains the upper air, and breaths once more night’s pure atmosphere. The Great Markets are still quiet, but labor has begun its tasks even above ground. One detects faint glimmers of liligt through the iron railings of the divisions alloted to fruit and vegetables. If one goes near, one discovers women seated urouud lamps or lanterns. They are in groups, and ply their fingers nimbly. They are shelling peas. You may exclaim, “What 1 is shelling peas a particular branch of trade ill Paris?” Indeed it is; and, despite all the peas shelled by cooks and greengrocers, a large number of women earn their daily bread for six months of the year by shelling peas. One may form some conception ot the number of peas required, when one is told that Paris consumes during these six months 600,000 bags, say 30,000,000 quarts, of the valuable vegetable. There are some vegetable preservers who em ploy every season 200 women to do nothing but shell peas for them. Walk through the Great Markets during the season, you may see, besides the regular pea-skellers.wkole'fainUies at work. You may see not only the vegetable-dealers so employed, but the flower-women, the butter-dealers, the poulterers, when they have nothing else to do. The fish mongers do so, too ; and you may Bee men and children,—in fine, everybody, shelling peas. Nevertheless, all these people do not shell enough ; It is abso lutely necessary that women spend a portion of the night shelling peas In or der that the crowded elty may find at Its waking a sufficient quantity to fill its enormous mouth. The pon-shellers LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28,1866. are recruited among that crowd of women which constantly throng the Great Markets, and are ready for any sort of work. When these women seethesea son of one vegetable or fruit end, they turn to another. After wearing out their fingers shelling peas, and then shelling beans, they blacken them husking walnuts. They get 30 sous for shelling a large basket which contains 25 pounds of peas. An active woman can shell 50 pounds in her 10 or 12 hours of labor; but then she must not dawdle. While they are so busily engaged here traffic has already commeuced yonder. The market for peas and French beans begins at 11 o’clock, P. M. There we may scrape acquaintance with the forts cr porters of the Great Markets. Frequenters of masked balls are prone to consider these porters full of fun, always ready to sing songs and kick up their heads. Nothing less resem bles the real porter than this imaginary por,ter. No notary signing a marriage contract, no prosecuting attorney rising to address the court in a great criminal cause, no physician communicating to a patient the imminence of his last hour is half so grave as a porter of the Great Markets. They are organized in an ex cellent association. Five or six hun dred members belong to their society, and they unload and load not ouly in the Great Markets, but in several im portant markets. They are divided into gangs, which are subdivided into squads, each having a “ boss” or head-man. At the Great Markets are to be iouud the butter-porters, the fruit-porters, the meat-porters, the Hour-porters, and the others. Markets in Paris have their porters.’ Ga Vallee porters, He Mail porters, Le Marche Noir porters. A head “boss” is invested with the sover eignty over all of them, although he dues not receive one sou more than auy mm. He is the beau-ideal of the tltutimml monarch. He Is P u| d i or nothing, and personally bus no ir, nollhur to reward nor to punish, butter-porters mid meat-porters their 10 francs n morning. .Next i Ilium cornu tliu fruit porters, ami tnu sli and Ilnur porturs. The latter uarn t most r, francs a morning I to malcu m. Ills disproportion, tliu police allow the onr-porters to work for linkers, and tliu .sli'piiilcrs tu iinluml puns, I liu pun lu wo sou arranging long narrow nags n linos, like so many sausjtgos, along liu sidowalks, urn portal's nl thu Ureal -larkuts, VVliilu a Bipuid work under idiu uyu of Lliulr “ boss," another squad, slrutuliud at length on tliu siduwalk, taku ilmlr rust. They sluop undur tliu I'uut of jiussurs, thulr huads covered with thulr strlpud cotton-uups. Near Ilium llus tliu wlillu full hat with all lmuiuUHU brim, thulr ulassiual head pluuu, which is, huwuvur, murcly an aucusHory of thulr uostumu, uhd Is nut. as Is commonly hullcvud, thu ussentlal uiumunl of It. Thu portur never wuars this hat uiilusH he has sacks to carry, for wliun he lifts baskets to carry hu places Ilium on a leathern cushion se cured to Ills shoulder, und when hu has Imuk-haskuts to carry hu places around Ids nuult a wadilud collar, to prevent the friction of thu huskul. When you sue In thu 11 runt Markets a tall, stalwart fel low, with muruly a moustachu, with squiirc shoulders auil solid logH, culm, silent, und uctivu, us u general rule you may bo suro lie is u porter. And when you suu u little fellow, iut, well led. uluiuishnvud, looking like u retired trmlesmun who Is sauntering for pleas ure, but bends every momout under the weight of his abdomen and ia constantly obliged to take a seut in order to support Ills own weight, be sure he Is u "boss.” Thu porters are hearty enters. The raw passer, who til break fust-time sees them enter the nuiHlruijtwl (the vintner's) with u whole breast of mutton and two putinds ol bread under their arm, cannot repress u gesture of alarm. Nevertheless, it Is his abundant regimen which sustains heir strength, It Is true they have leeii reproached for saerlflcing the murlshmenl ui'lhe mind to thu nourish ment el' thu body ; luit It should lie remembered that thulr body enables them to uarn thulr livelihood. If they willingly toss cdl’a hoinhc or parijiiclnit if brandy, at three sous, they arunever theless laborious workmen, and of Incur ruptlhlu honesty. As we (pill thu porters we discover In uhHuurlty a silhouette familiar to all the nocturnal laborers of the (I real Markets. Ills Mouse duals In thu wind, ho has a black overcoat on Ills arm, his uup Is drawn over his eyes, ho lmn a pipe In Ills mouth. ’Tin the Awukunur. He undertakes, for a trilling amount ot money, to rotisu at any given hourol the night whoever may eoullduthu earn of thulr intereslH m him. It Is a grave question for the laborers of thu Great Markets to he roused In due season. Hu goes about the streets In thu neighbor hood of the Great Markets from Id o’clock, I’. M., to 1 o’clock, A. M., bawl ing to this one, ringing up that one, and continuing to bawl and ring until the sleeper gives HlgnH ol lllu by bawling hack or tapping on the window. Euuh customer pays him one or two sous a night, or between thirty sous and three franus a month, according to the distance hu is obliged to come. Home utislomerH give him as much as three souh ; these aru thu hard sleepers, who must hu pull ed out of hud or hu shaken by thu arm. Thu AwakeiiuiTsan unamuller by tradu, and he can make good days' wages; hut hu prefers poor nights 111-paid passed mil of doors, Ills tradu of Awukunur, which used to bring him In ell an average Sl,mi a year, scarcely brings him In two thlrds of that amount now, What ol that'.’ Hasn't he all the more lime lor star-ga/.lng The duullne of his Income Is due to the razing of houses In the nolghhorl of the Great Markets, which lias somewhat dispersed the working nunplu who earuud thulr liveli hood at them, ami who formerly wore all assembled lu thulr Immediate neigh borhood. Our phllosopheruonllmies to rouse people, from love ol art and Irom family tradition. JUs father carried on thu business 20 years. Hu has been en gaged in it 11 1 use 17 years. It need not uesaid Unit he knows the Great Mar kets thoroughly ; and that he regrets the old ones. He says, bitterly ; “Ah ! you should have seen them In old time ! They have lost all their Individuality these alii years gone. They do iciiv here and thero even now; but, bless your soul! ’tain’t any thing like the old way. You ought to have heard our fish-women! AVhat tongues and what arms they had I If any housewife took it Into her head to cheapen u bream too long, the llsh worneu would take it by the gills and slap it on your housewife’s jowls before she could say Jack Kohinson! You didn’t know 7’ Azarcl (lc la/ourchettc 1 'Twas on the Square of the Inuoceuts. ’Twas a great pot boiling In the open air, with every sort of thing swimming in the pot-liquor. You had the right, for one sou, to stick in the liquor a long fork and fetch what you might. If ’twas a bone, all the worse for you. When everybody had had enough, the cook cried, ‘Look out for your legs!’ and the bottom of the pot went to feed fishes. She sold soup at one and attwo sous the plateful. The one-sou customer furnished his bread; the two-sou cus tomer had bread supplied him. You did not see that? Oh la la!” The Awakenpr suddenly drewouthis watch. “The deuce!" said he. “’Tis one o’clock. I’ve to go my rounds. Good night.” He disappeared rapidly down a neighboring street. I stood gazing at him until a singular sight challenged my attention. I dis covered four furnaces, glowing at the back of a narrow Bkop filled with vege tables. Stahding on stools were several men ; they wore no Bhirts ; their whole costume consisted of canvas pantaloons, secured by a strap around their waist. They threw vague objects into immense boilers. I saw them through a cloud of steam which rose in thick mist to the ceiling, and poured forth in volumes through the front of the shop, which had neither glass nor shatters. These strange workmen were artichoke-holl ers. An active, lively, healthy brunette, the mistresß of the establishment, stimu lates them by voice and gesture Her name Is Pauline Gandon. She is the largest ar tlohoke-boiler of the neighborhood. During four months of the year she does business to the amount of $4,000. In the artichoke season, vehicles full of them are'daily emptied in front of her door. Women wash them and cut off the stalk. They are then sorted, ac cording to size, and packed in the boil ers, the several layers being separated by linen cloths. An immense wood-fire is carefully kept up, during the whole period of time required to cook them, and which lasts till daybreak. From 5 o'clock A. M.-, to S o’clock A. M., there is quite a procession of green-grocers, petty eating-house keepers, and vege table-pedlers comine to purchase their daily supply. Tu three hours' time at least 3,000 artichokes are sold. There are not above three or four great ar tichoke-boilers in the neighborhood of the Great Markets, because this busi ness requires not only the appliances to carry it on, but a good many servants and large daily expenditure of ready mouey. Let us return to the Great Markets. Already the market-gardners are begin ning to spread their stock in trade. They come early to select their place—to secure a favorite corner: and then most of them bring articles which can be sold as soon as the bell announces two o'clock. Here are potatoes, there are salads, yonder are fruits or cresses taken out of the carts and placed on the market. After the marketmeu and market women count their baskets, they lie down in the midst of their vegetables. Home of them keep watch, wrapped in their thick cloaks. Others moved about among the carters, porters, and strange figures which go to and fro In silence. These uneasy shudows belong to a Btrauge corporation, —the clan of vicious and good-for-nothing fellows, or, as itls called, la Qouapc, —vugubonds driven nightly to the Great Markets for the sake of the shelter they afford. There at least they may hope to be lost In the perpetual going and coming, favorable to their thievish practices, 'Tis strange a laborious and active centre should likewise be the centre of Indolence and theft 1 Kxamlne closely those faded faces,—those now haggard, then veiled eyes, Observe those strungo costumes. Yonder goes one with a ragged dress coat, wearing woollen shoes, Hero Is another without a shirt, wearing a cra vat around his iiuclt. The clothes of all of LI are too long, or too shorl, o, 100 wide, or too narrow, Greasy caps and rusty straw- hats crouch on uncombed hair and sordid heard, I’nli tu itions, Irlngud at the bottom, uru kept In plauu by twine, slockingluss feet drag turned-down hliocs All those wretched creatures move restlessly to and fro hungry, housuluss and homeless, more or less haunted by dread of to-morrow, waiting till the cloak strikes three and the Vinters' shops open. They are som bre birds frightened by the policeman’s cup. They slip along the shadow of walls,'hum their lips with theclgur-end picked up in tho sower. After a night of alarms and fevered watches they pass awuy the day In sleeping on the quays or under the bridges. Misery Is present time to them ; occasion Is their lime future. They are ready to under take any and everything In order to do nothing. They taku moru trouble to steal an empty basket, and spund more time In ellliclng the murk on It than would bo necessary to earn their living honestly. Tho Police make frequent hauls among them, but this social mould springs Incessantly between thopuving stoues of tho streets, It rises in a night like mushrooms on a compost heap. They are ehlelly lazy fellows, pro fessional thieves, and good-for-nothing workmen dismissed from their places. These have a foot lu crime, those are ankle deep in it. If there are honest men among them, their honesty is in most imminent peril. They are, in fine, a collection of cowardly knaves, reudy to swoop on all easy prey. A portion of them belong to the species of knaves called barbotimn an pnivrtcr or travail lrurn nitr leu mnrquanln, which means, lu our vulgar tongue, they rob drunk ards. The dog drunkards. They po lllcly offer lo see them home. If neces sary, they completely intoxicate them In some vintner's shop, and then de spoil the drunkards ol their watches, chains, purse, and sometimes even of their clothes. Woo to the tired way farer who accidentally goes to sleep on a bench ! He may wake up In Adam's full costume. Since tho disappearance of Paul N'hiuet's establishment, one of the places of meeting of these knaves was not long since Guedras’ establishment.. It was lu that portion of the ltuedesl'i-ouvalrcs Lorn down lust week. Guudras fed these fellows. They got for live sous an ex cellent cabbage soup and a piece of moat which was always a cow's Jowl. Guedras bought for next to nothing In uumberablo heifer's Jowls, which his adroit fingers transform Into every sort of meat. At present lliesu knaves meet In tho various sorts of eating-houses to be found in the Hues du la Grande and de la Petltu Truunderlc. There at day break they may be seen pale and heavy eyed, as may be expected, ul'ter a sleep less night, crowding lu smoked, luw-hrow'ed rooms, drinking tho worst brandy by the bumper. Former ly these, shops were allowed lore main open all night for the sake of marketmeu who come from a dis tance, and who, especially In winter, feel It necessary lo taku some refresh ment after thulr long Journey. Hut the disorderly scenes witnessed in them led the police to Interdict their opening be fore II o'clock, A, M. When this ordi nance appeared there were some vint ners who wore a good deal embarrassed to escape vlolatlnglt. They Ingenuously confessed that they had neither front doors nor shutters. 'llu/l bad never eltmid Ihvlr ulttip. This police measure was a great service to the neighborhood for If prevented drunkards, already ex eltud by drink, from lleeklngthcru aftur the close of establishments In other quarters of tho town, To lessen tho In conveniences of this measure, some men wore authorized to hawk coffee among tho murket-gurdenurs and other nou turnal laborers Tlio WllLir ofNnlt I.llUe. All travelers have mentioned Willi uulon- Islnnont the peculiar buoyancy of tho water of Great Halt Lake, ami it is truly surpris ing. No danger of shipwreck noed over cross die mind of those who uuvigato tho lake, for It would bo simply impossible for them to sink if thrown overboard. With my hands olaspod togollier under my head and my feet crossed, I iloated on tho very surface of the lake, with at least otto-third oftny body above tho water. Upon a warm summer's day there would|not bojthosllglit est difllculty in going to sleep upon tho lake, and nllowing yourself to bo blown about as the wind permitted: only otto would need an umbrella to keep off tho rays of the huu. Mr. Howies has stated that tbruo buckets of this water will yield one bucket of solid salt, but inasmuch us water will not hold above twenty-five per cent, of saline matter in solution, and if more be uddud it is instantly deposited upon tho bottom, his estimate is, of course, too lurge. On inquiring of tho Mormons engaged in procuring salt, they unani mously stuteu that for every five buckets of water they obtained one buckot of salt, which gives the proportion as no less limn twenty per cent. No visitor to the lake should omit the bath, tho sensation in the water is most luxurious, and leads one to think himself llouting in the air. On the way back to the city, it will be as well for the bather to stop at the superb sulphur baths just outside the town, and remove the saline incrustations which will have formed upon hitri. by a plunge into the fine swim ming baths, whose only objection la its peculiar odor and its great heat, which re quires a large admixture of cola water. Another Big oil Strike, The Titusville Herald says: Tho oitizens of Tarr Farm are rejoloing over a three hundred barrel well, the property of Clark and Sumner. It was struck about a fort night since, and had been pumping about twenty- live barrels per day until Saturday lust, when it commenced flowing, and in tho course of forty-eight hours had pro duced six hundred barrels of oil —actually barreled. Mr. Doublo;davisSuperintendent. The well Is 591 feet deep. It is located on bluff territory, on a parallel line with the Bakery well, which suspended operations as soon as the new well commenced flow ing. Tho Bukery well was producing ninety barrols per day. The new well is named Keystone No. % It la the largest producer in Pennsylvania, and Is the best Btrlko made on Tarr Farm for several years past. Tho famous Phillips well, which was tho I largest flowing wolf on record, was on Turr i Farm, as ulbo the Woodford. Arlemus Ward at tho Tower of London, I skercely need inform you that your excellent Tower is very pop’lar with people from the agricultooral districks. and it was chiefly them class that I found waitin’,at the gates the other mornin’. „ 1 saw at ouce that the Tower was es tablished oil a firm basis. In the entire history of firm basisis I don’t find a basis more firm than this one. “ You have no Towel in America, said a man in the crowd, who had some how detected my denomination. “Alars! no,”'l auserd, “we boste of our enterprise and improvements, and yit we are devoid of a Tower. America, oh my unhappy country, thou hast got uo Tower. It’s asweet Boon. The gates was opeued after awhile, and we all purchist tickets, and went into a waitiu’-room. “My frens,” said a pale-faced little man in black close, “ this is a sad day.” “ Inasmuch as to how?” I said. “I mean it is sud to think that so many pe’ple have been killed within these gloomy walls. My frens, let us drop a tear!” “No,” I said, “ you must excuse me. Others may drop oue if they feel like it; but as for me, I decline. The early managers of this institootion were a had lot, and their crimes was trooly ortul; hut I can’t sob for *hose who died four or live hundred years ago. If they was my own relations I couldn’t. It s ab surd to shed sobs over things which oc cured duriu’ the rain of Henry the Three. Let us be cheerful,” 1 continued. “Look at the festlv’ warders, in their red Han nil jackets. They are cheerfu , und why should it not be thu ly with U "a warder uuw took us in charge, ami mlh>wed us the Tniter's Gate, the ai mel a uml things. The Tmler’s (Jute Is wide emifl' to admit about twenty trnters abreast, 1 should Judge; but beyond tills, I couldn't see that It wus superior to gates In geti’rnl. Trnters, 1 will here remark, are a on fortnlt class of pe'ple. If thuy wusn t, they wouldn't bo tralors. They conspire to bust up a country, they lull, and llicy'ru trnters, • They hirst her, and tliey become statesmen and heroes like tint of (iioHUT, iiMcrwiiril i Dfctk Urn Throo, who umy bu hcmmi , tlio Tovvor on horm'lmuk, In u muivy Jn ovur(iouL”-utUu Mr. (iloHlor h oiwu. Mr, (1, WHH H OOUMplntlOl' of lliu hIIHIHt dyo, uml If huM fullmi, hu would Imvu licun hung on « Hour tipplo lino, JJul Mr, U. Huoooodoil, and buouinu grout. Hh wuh wlewod by Cob but hu livoH In hlHtory, and lilh oquoHirlun may bo hoou dally for a Hlxponco, In uonjunotlon with olhor om'nont por- MoiiH, and no ox try oliurgu for tho ward oj'h able and bootlful loutur, Tboro’H one king In tliia room who Ih mounted oil to a foam In' Hteuil, his right hand grtiHplu’ a barber's pole. I dldu t loam Tilm iiamu. l'iio room wlioru tbu daggers and pls tlln mid olliur woppliiH aru kept Is In terestin'. Among this collodion of choice cutlery I notlHt tlio bow and amir which ilioho holhoded old chaps UHOil touonduulbatlluH with. JtU ([illLo llUo tliu bow and arror uhoil at Huh day by curtain tribeH of Ainorlcan luluiih, and they Hiioot 'em oil' with huoli an excellent precision tlmt I alinoHt sighed to boa Injun when I wan In tho Hoolty Mount'iu regin. Tlioy aru a pleasant lot, them Injuns. Mr. Cooper und Ur. Catlln have told uh of tlio red man h wonderful eloiiuence, and 1 found It ho. Our party wuh Htopt on the plaitiH of Utah by a band of Shoshones, wlioae chief Htiid, "Brothers! the pale face Ib welcome. Brothers! the sun ia Hinkin’ in the weHt, and NVa-na bucky-Hhe will soon ceiiHe speakln'. Brothers 1 the pool- red man belongs to a race which Ih fast bcoomln’ extlnk.” Ho then whoop ed In a shrill manner, stole all our blankets and whiskey, and Hod to tho primeval forest to conceal lilh emotions. 1 will remark here, while on tho sub- Jeekof Injuns, that they are In the nmlnn very shaky Bet, with even lohhmuiihu than tin' Ken lans, and when I hear plillnn thrnplHlH bewailin’ tho lack that every year "carrle- the noble rod man near tlio Hullin' Him," 1 simply have to Hay I'm glad of It, tho’ It Is rough on lliu Buttin' sun. They call you by the sweet name of Brother one nilnit, and lliu next they sculp you with their Thomas hawks. But I wander. But uh return to the Tower. At one end of the room where tho weppliiH Is kept Ih a wax ilgger olTluuun Kllzubeth, mounted on a llery unified liohh, whoso gltiHH eyu lliihlioh with pride and whoso red morocker nostril dllatcH lmwtlly, uh If couhclouh of lliu royal burden hu boars. I have ussoelated Kllznboth with tho Bpanlsh arniady. Hliu’s mlxod up with It at tho Hurry Thoutru, where "Troo to the Coru” Is bein’ acted, and In which a full bully core Is lntrojooced onboard the Spanish admiral's Hhlp, glvln’ tho andlens tho Idee that ho attends openin' a music hall In Plymouth tho moment ho conk ers that town. But a very InteroHllng drainmar Ih "Troo to the Coro,” not wlthstandln' the oe.coutrlc conduek o tho Spanish admiral j and very nice ,x 111 uuuuii Kllznbctii lo nmko Murth rrm-Kiilil u baronet. Tim wnrilur hliowh uh Hotnu limtruo miMiiH of tortiir, hiic.li iih tliiimh-HiiruwH, 111 runt colliiin, uli'.i nlullii' Hint theno woi'ouniiliorctl from the Hpiui lull nnnnily, 11111 l lullllll’ wluit u crooll pu'plu till! HpiiiilnnlH wu« In tlii'in ilnys—which cllhmlled from a bt'lKlit cyuil little Klrl of iilimil. twelve HiiiiiinerH llio rimiiii'li Unit nliii tlio't It »’((« ill'll to till It nliiHlt the emnllly of tho HpunlurdM linin' ihumh* hiTi'WM, whim hu whh In a Tower where ho many noor po'plu'H head* 1 iml been mil oil' Thin made the warder nlam hum* and turn red. I WUH HO pltMlHl'l! with tho 111 lU* kdrl M hrltfhtnuHH that I uould have Ulhhlhl tho dear chllil, uml I would If nlio'd boon hlx yearn older. I think my uompuuioiiH Intumlod imikin’ a day of It, for they all hud HlUldWU'hurt, HUHHitfOH, ot«. Tho H*d lookin' man who hud wanted uh to drop a tour afore we wtarted to go round Hing'd such quantities of sussiges ii lilh mouth that I expected to seo h clioo hlsself to tleutli; he said to me, in the Beauchamp Tower, where the poor prisoners writ their ouhappy names on the cold walls, “ This is a sad sight.” "It is indeed,” I anserd. "You’re black in the face. You shouldn’t eat a sassige In public without some rehear sals beforehand. You manage it ork wardly.” "No,” he said, room.” Indeed he was quite right. Tho’so long ago oil these drefful things hap pened, I was very glad to git away from this gloomy room, and go where the rich and sparklin’ crown jewils is kept. I was so pleased with the Queen’s crown, that it occurred to me what a agree’ble surprise it would be to send a sim'lar one home to my wife; and I asked the warder what was the vally of a good, well-constructed orown like that. He told me; but on cypherin up with a pencil the amount of funs I have in the Jint Stock Bank, I conclooded I’d send her a genteel silver watch in stid. , And so I left the Tower. It is a solid and commandin’ edifls, but I deny tnat it is cheerful. Ibid it adoo without a I was droven to my hotel by the most melancholly driver of a four-wheeler that I ever saw. He heaved a deep sigh as I gave him two shillins. “I’ll give you six shillins more,” I said, "if it hurts you bo.” . "It isn’t that,” he said, with a heart rendin’ groan, "it's only a way I have. My mind’s upset to-day. lat one time tho’t I’d drive you into the Thames. I’ve been readitr all the daily papers to try and understand about Governor Ayre, and my mind is totterin.' It’s really wonderful I didn’t driveyou into the Thames.” I asked the onhappy man what his number was, so I could redily find him in case I should want him agin, and bad him good-bye. And then I tho’t what a frolllckßome day I’d made of It. Respectfully, &c., ’ Aktemus Ward. “ I mean this sad The Federal dead In and abound Hunts ville, Ain., aro to be romoved to the national burying ground near Chattanooga, NUMBER 47 News Items. There are forty new oil wells now going down on Pithole creek, and preparations are making for sinking twenty more. The cholera has appeared in the oil regions of West Virginia, and at some places is raging with usual fntality. The receipts of Internal Revenue from January Ist to October Ist of this year have been $125,251,593. Peter Fry, of York, Pa., was found dead iu his bed a few mornings ngo. Ho was in his usual health when he retired the previous evening. The Mobile edited by |Captain Semmes, has suspended publication. A monthly muguzine, called the Radical , published in Boston, urges a crusade against what it calls ‘‘ Bible worship." Glenroy Baker, the negro man who killed A. Judson Motley, was hung at Spottsyl vania Court House, Vu., lust Friday. Fifty-three railroad trainsleave Pittsburg daily. Three thousand freight cars pass through there daily. Actors tore taking to base ball. The last event was a match between the Old and Now Bowery Theatre Companies. Richard Lawrence, who attempted to as sassinate President Jackson in 1835, is still living, and in the Maryland Lunatic Asylum. The Ex-Generals Pemberton and Hood [of Atlanta and Vicksburg fame) are among Lho latest arrivals In Now York. The English papers have It that the mon ument ortho late Colouel Colt, of pistol memory, Is to cost Co,ooo, Is to be sixty feet high, and is to revolve. It is announced that thu total value of the property assessed this year in New Orleans is $1241,574,705, as compared with $98,788,855 for last yoar. General Plx has rocolved his limit In structions from tho Department at Wash ington, und will sail for Franco in tho steamer on the 2-itb. ThoCharlestou il/ercurylms been revived, die ilrst number was issued yesterday. It limits tho downfall of Hlate-rlghts, and imposes to advocate tho muturlal interests 4' tho Mouth. A gonlloman by tho name of Knight, living at Lafayette, Christian county, Ken* tuokv, a day or two since killed a negro for instilling )i(s sister, by nlferlng toescorUier home from a protracted meeting. 'Plin M il wm iikin .Sentinel roportsu singular aecldeiil, A lady wastrlpneil tip by liorowu crinoline, mid tell to the side-walk, when a sharp stick struck her In thceye, forcing llm organ almost completely from Its socket, The report of the Commissioner of Pen* sinus will show Dial there Is hut one revo lutionary pensioner living, namely,Hamucl Dunn, whoenllstud from New Hampshire, and now resides In New York. Frederick Weed, a nephew of Thiulow Weed, committed suicide Iu Salt Lake City on tho loth of November. He left a letter, which Htutmi ns a reason for his rash act that ho was tired and discouraged. Among the Kings of England who were Grand Masters of the Masonic Order, pre vious to 17:15, were Alfred, 900; Henry VI,, Mid; Henry VII., 1500; .lames 1., ldo:t; Charles 1., ((125; Charles 11., 1000, and Wil liam 111., 1002. Within the space of one year attempts iitvu been made upon the life of the Em tororof Russia, the King of Prussia, and tow tho Emperor of Austria, besides those mule upon the Ministers of the two Ilrst if those sovereigns. A negro accidentally shot himself with a revolver at Pltholo on Tuesday. A physi cian was called to attend him, and begon by examining Lho revolver Instead of the patient. In doing so tho weapon was again discharged, wounding him a second time, A highly respected citizen of Warrlors inarktownship, lluntingdoncounty,numod Christian Vanpool, died last week at the advanced ago of ono hundred and twelve years, lie was tho oldest native of tho county, und perhaps of tho Htuto. Wo have late advices from Montana. Mnow had fallen to a groat depth in the region of Fort Benton. Tho plains were covered to tho depth of three feet, and several westward-bound trains, with women and children, weru enduring untold NUtlering. A broach nf promise wult him boon com menced at Nt. Donls against thu (‘nnsul 01 tho Netherlands hy Mlmh Purcell, who pre vented liln marriage In a I'nnhlnimlilotihurt•!] by forbidding llio Imnns publicly. 'Du* < 'on mu 1 was subsequently married by a mugls- Irulu. ’ho Trustees of thu Statu Lunatic AMylum 11arrlHburg rained the prleu of board for lenlM to three dollarM ami a half per wuok tho countloN, throe dollarM for townships. ami thruu dollars and a hall' um ilia lowest rules for private patients. Tillh Inureusi wuh, of course, luiiuend by the advanced cost of provisions and attendance, The Legislature of Georgia proposes to secure natlvo teachers, by providing that every Georgia soldier, under thirty yours of ago, maimed In thu service, may hu cnlu outod at the Slalo UnlvurHlty at tho public uxputiHo for kno 1 1 length of Hum us ho will Kivu hIH obligation to loach after leaving llui University. Queen Km mu arrived at Honolulu on thu steamer Vandurbllt October 22, after a pas sage of nine days from San Francisco, Shu wuh greeted with a royal Hululo, to which tliu Vanderbilt and the Prussian war Htuumor Vunottn responded. 'niouHiindM of puoplu UHMumblud to grout hur on land ing. Tho ijuoHllon whulhor Jnmus Stephens him loft thu country 1m (Hhcumhuil In tho Ku nlun elruluH. All day long a man looking like him sits In lilh olllco in Now York, l/ut only thu Inltialud can Hpuak lo him. though visitors may look at him, and It !m believed Dilh 1m only an imitation of StephuiiM, got up to “ fool " thu Kiigllnh spies, A dinicully occurred on Monday liihl near Marion, Arkansas, In whlcli a man named Lusby laid lilh throat cut by a knife in the hand** of Doctor peters, Thodlllleully grew out of a mlMumlerMlandlng which huNoxlsl ed for yea I'm. Doctor Peters 1m the muiiiu who mlioi aiid killed hen. Van Dorn during the war. The Krench method for proMervlng the grapuM (lie year round U by picking the lmnuhoN Jukl before they are thoroughly i ipc, ami dipping thorn in lime water hav ing the conHiMiency of lliln cream. 'I he lime coating kuepH out the air and checks any tumlumsy to decay. When grapes thus pre pared aru wantud for the talile, they art) placed for a momunl In hot wutur, ami thu lime will bu removud. N. P. Willis, It is said, is now passing away, lie has not appeared at any of thu planus hu 1h accustomed to frequent New York for some weeks, hut has been con lined to Ids residonuu on tin* Hudson, by his foublo hoalth. With thu exception, per haps, of Mr. Simms, of South Carolina, In* Is the last representative of thu second gen □ration of American authors. Mr. Willis must bo nearly seventy years of age. Mr. Joseph Sanford has been awarded tho contract for the reinterment of thq Con federate dead immediately around Spott sylvunia Court House, Vu., hy the Memo rial Association, for the sum of one thou sand dollars. There jssupposod tobeubout one thousand bodies to‘be dug up tor interment. The Hoanoko (Va.J Time* says thut the engineer corps of tho Haltimoru and Ohio Hailroad have completed their survey of the contemplated route for the Valley l{ail road. Tho route was found entirely fea sible, and there will be no diflioulty In es tablishing the terminus at Salem, as pro posed by tho charter. Two oitiaena in Savannah, who were sen tenced to deuth by tho Military Commis sion, have been discharged from custody by tho United States District Court, on a writ of habeas corjms and turned over to the civil authorities. These are said to be the last of tho military prisoners in Georgia. grofessional Cards |_| U. SWA K K 'attorney-at-law, No. 18 North Duke street,; (Near the Court House,) LANCASTER, PA. nov 1 ir d4W pK. JOHN McCALtA, hurueon dentist, Office and resldenoe opposite Cooper’s Hotel W|Bt Kino btbeet LANCASTER, PA. STEINMAN attorney-at-law, opposite Cooper’s Hotel. WBBT King min, LANCASTER. PA, tAUW RATES OF ADVERTISING. Btraureu adv ngraonras, tU.s jraar per square or ten lines: ten per oent. lncreasetor fractions of a y ear, Bsax. Hbtatb, pkbbohai. raorairT, MULL AsvaaTißno, 7 oenta a llne for tne first* and 4 cents tor each subsequent Inser tion. Special Notice inserted in Local Column, 15 cento per Jine. Special Notice preceding marriages ana deaths, 10 cento per Line for first Insertion* and 6 cento for every subsequent insertion. Business Oabds, of ten lines or less, one year, 10 Business Cords, five lines or less, one year 6 Legal and or a a Notice Executors' notices....... ».oo Administrators' notloes, 2.00 Assignees' notloes, aw Auditors' notloes 1.60 Other "Notices, ’ ten lines, or less, three times, - JJRY GOODS —AT REDUCED PRICES! HAGER & UUQTHEUS ore now selllug at greatly reduced prices DRESS GOODS, GINGHAMS. PRINTS, MUSLINS SHEETINGS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, Ac. JUST RECEIVED FROM AUCTION, A choice selection of Silk Warp Poplins, Empress Clo hs, FreucU Merinooa, tM Wool De Lalnes, Wool Plaids, Black and Col’d Alpaccas, Shawls and Cloakings, which we are soiling at very l 0" 1 ’ nov l!U tfditwl HAGER A BROTHERS, FCItHI MINK, SABLE, SIBERIAN, SQUIRREL AND FITCH. A comnloto uHsortment In MARTA LETT AS. BERTHAS, COLLARS AND MUFFS. Call and examine. uov '2O tfdAw] HAGER & BROTHERS. jyj E » ’ H WEAK! CHINCHILLA, MOSCOW AND EDUEHTON UEAVEH OVERCOATINGS. ULACK AND COL'D FRENCH CLOTHB. lENCU AND AMERICAN CASSIMEHES EOll SUITS. HEADY-MADE CLOTHItTU ! The largest stock In ip" V .W I ,'? W irlct's. HAUEllililtOrHEltS. uov 20 UdJW rjMIK UIIKATKNT I’LAI'E IOK a HEAP n A li U A 1 X ti In EauoiwturClty lsnt (.'HEAP JUIIN'H VARIETY HTOHE, No. u Baht Kino Hth is bt. Whuru will lin fount! a Iar«o uNHortmont ol d n y (/ ood s i {•OWHIHTtMI Ol<- lANDMO.ME DKEAINKH KUK FADE. NMAT AND DAUK CAEICUKM KOU KAEE. MIMLINH, KEANNKEH, CANTUN DEAN N KIA A Hjilomllil iiMHorlmonlJ ol HAEMUKAE HKIKTH lor llio.Kall. CEOCKM, JEWEEKY, TUUKAPJI KIIAMEH AND AEIHJMH, TAIIEE AND POCK ET CUTEHHY, NOTIUNM, UEUVKM, HOHIEKY, T UIM MIN UM UKA E E JCIN DH, ;Kll M EHY, KANDY AND OTIIEHBOAPH, CLASH AND iI UKENH W A K E, JiOO Tti A XJ) tillUßtid’c., ito All of which will 'in holtl wholcHalo or rulull al aHtonlHhlnaly low prlcca. Don't forgot Lho place, CHEAP JUIIN’H, .Vo. :j Rant JClnt/ tit., and tiouthcant, tittle. Centre tinunre, Lanaattcr, J*a. Wholesale anti Hot.nl 1 Auout Tor >ruf. MoKntyro'H Celebrated MuiUelnus. auu 10 lyw M l> It Y II O O II N WEST'/. IIItUTHICItH' II H K II I V K MTU It K , No . fi 10,A HT KIN (i HTIIIt II T A HIOAIJTI FIJI, IJIOMONHTHATION, ICKH AUK DIOCIIiIOIIIjY HHANONAIIUi Wi! huvi) now on nxliUilllon iv immt HUlinrb illHpluy of iruttmablo and ftiihitmublo anodn ns well n* n lurun Hloolt of Hlni>Ui und DomunUo Uouiln, to wliluh wn InvlUi Kurly und Hpoolitl Attention. f>ur price* will he found low. CAUPISTHumIuILCLUTHHaIiUm an uurnoHt attention. The lonu oHliiblUhod ahnmalor of the "UKKiIIVIfiHTOUK” ,n ii HuMlolunt Kiiivruiitou Unit uvury cuntomur will nut lliu worth of their money, IAIJIKH HAUt|UJCH, (JI,OAKH AND ULOTiIH, WKNTZ HIiOTUKItH "Hltfu of lliu Umi JIlvo," No. 5 Kunt KUitf Htroot. upr HI tfw IUJ sats, (Gaps & &m. fancy fuhn NOW OPENING AT HIIU L T Z & into T IIEII'H 20 NORTH UUICEN STREET, LANUAHTUK, I'A \ ■■■ ry ’Mjicocolk'oUtjiiof Uulluh' Fancy Fiirn, INK, SABRE, HIIiERIAN SQUIRREL, (JKR.mAN, RUHHIAN AND )i;K MARTIN. CAPES, VICTOIIINEH, BERTHAS, CUKES aNl> MIJKKS Fou LADIES' ANh chimmien'h wear. Litilii’u' (Mid Childnm'H Hoods, Cups, ami Kur rimmlim. llonLltiimmu' Kur Collars, Gloves, til L'ujm In nil huhlßloh. A complete assort* ('MI Ml FANCY HLKIUIIJNU ROIIEH, Vll Ul. T/. ill Jl U 0 Tll Ell , HATTERS AND KURRIERH. 4r-A]l JilmlM of SHIPPING FURS bought, ml luyluijst cash prices paid. |UOV 1-lfdAW rjpili: UKKATENT HAKUAINN, LARGEST AHHOUTMENT ANU LATEST STYLES, TO UK FOUND IN TUB CITV, AUK AT J. M. (JHEEN'ii (.‘iucccssor to Jcsic timith,) NEW HAT AND CAP BTO UK HOWELL'S BUILDING, NO. 01, NOUTH Q.UKKN BTUKKT, LANCASTER, l'A. The proprietor, having Just roturucd from Now York and Philadelphia, would respectlully inform hIN patrons aud tho public generally. (Hat ho him now on hand tho Latest, Rost und most compioto unsortment of i H AT S AND CAPS,; ever oirured to tho citizens of Lanca-stor and vleluiiy, uud at tliu most REASONABLE PRICES. This Block consists of all tho novelties ol tho leuson, some of which aro: * THE CHAPEAU BREVETE, NEW SARATOGA,. CYNOSURE, INDICATOR, SARATOGA, MORTON, IAMUEL H • REYNOLDS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No, 63 East King street, (Opposite Lechler’s Hotel,} LANCASTER, PA, A B BA Bf SHANK ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No. 30 North mm stbbkt, LAHOASTEK.PA. TT M. NORTH, £Vt oknky-at- aw COLUMBIA, PA. JUIED. 8 PYFEB, attorney at law, Oiiioi: No, 6, SOUTH DUKE STREET, LANCASTER PA dov i lydAw HATINETTH, TICKINUH.AU 186(3. AMERICAN PITCH, AND PETO. tfd&w
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