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Newel Items: • • -
Queen Victoria is growing very corpulent;
Gen. Ord will report to the President be
fore goip,g,tO California. • •
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,Prof. Agassiz predicts thirty six snow
storms this winter.
General Custer, it is said, will spend his
forced furlough in Europe.
A Kansas paper proposes Horace greeley
for •President. .
Ottt of V,445 children in the public schools
of Cincinnati 10,12 are' studying German.
Salmon ova to the number of 506,000 were
lately planted in a single day in a river in
Engler&
cry Southern paper recrlyed tells us a
sad t;tory of suffering, destitution and des
pair Of the future.
A till to repeal the prohibitory liquor law
will toe introduced at the opening of the
Massachusetts Legislature.
Jefferson Davis and family arrived at
Havana on the 25th en route for New Or
leans.
A family of seven persons, living on
Cheyenne river were recently overtaken by
o prairie fire and burned to death.
Whet aro Grant's Views? That the
American horse is the finest trotter in the
world.
A. negro, accused of an infamous crime,
has been burned to death by a mob of whites
and negroes, in Jefferson county, Georgia.
Charles Lobdel, associate editor of the
La Crosse Democrat, who was Linimod to
death by the Angola disaster, was on his
way to Connecticut to get married.
•Gen.Gillem has gone to assumecominand
of the Fourth Military District, relieving
ten. Ord, until the arrival of Gem McDow
oll from the Pacific coast.
Wendell Philips was recontlx,snow bound
for forty hours in Connecticut; living on
crackers and cheese. He wasn't tamed in
the least.
If tiny woman in England has three chil
dren at a birth, the queen makes her a
present of three guineas. This is royal
liberality.
A large republican mars meeting was
hold In Now Orleans on Saturday night.
A preference for Chase for President was
expressed in the resolutions.
Ono of the Virginia .conventionists, who
'wean a white choker, is compared by an
irreverent vorresheudent to a iar baby in a
.cream pot.
Tho remains or two men, supposed to be
lynched robbers, huve been found in the
Coosahntehie river, near Macon depot, on
the Memphis and Ohio Railroad.
Robert Preston, clerk of the Dorchester
gutual Fire Insurance Company, of gas,
sachusetts, has disappeared with $lO,OOO of
the Company's fund . .
Advices from Northwestern Arkansas
notice the discovery of rich gold bearing
quartz in the Red River Mountains, misty-
Jive miles west of Fort Smith.
The report of the Commissioners of emi
gration so far this your shows an increase
in the number of emigrants over last year
of 11,622.
Advises from Texas state that Indian
depredations continue On the frontier not
withstanding Gen. MeCook's disposition of
troops.
On February 15th, the Freed TN GIVSI Bu
reau will cease iii Tennessee. F;xcept the
Superintendent of Education, ill the officers
will be discharged.
Jacob Schopp, an old citizen of Belleville,
Illinois, whose wile was recently divorced
from him, fatally stabbed both her and
himself on Thun:ilay.
John McNamara, realding in the suburbs
of Baltimore, brutally murdered his wile
by boating out her brains with a bout Jack,
Christmas night. Ile has been arrested.
The Iron columns for the second story of
A. T. Stewart's new and vast warehouse,
in New York, are now being erected. The
iron work for the building will Cost over
$300,000.'
The negroes of the South I Imirdently ex
poet that region to be the white inan's he:l
and the black man's heaven. But they are
pursuing a course to make it the hell of
both rune.
Moncuto D. Conway Is pastor of an Uni
tartan Church in Landon, a regular con
tributor to Fraser's, Um fi'rtnialitly and the
Atlantic, and correspondent fur half a dozen
American papers besides.
Thu Tortola inhabitants, whom the flood
and earthquake spared, are in a fair way
to perish by starvation and plague. They
are alinbst entirely without rood, and ninny
of the dead are yet unburied.
The wire of Aaron Bowe, living three
miles from Mount Vernon, Ohio, un the Id
inst., gave birth to three boys a n d two girls,
all of whom, with their mother, are doing
well.
Chicago, the great city of sensations, new
has a new One. Four citizens have mys
teriously disappeared at different times
within the past week, and nothing has boon
heard of Mull',
The Virginia newspapers note on active
immigration to that State, which, they say,
comes chiefly fromtionthern Pennsylvania,
and is of the right stripe," as the immi
grants intend to farm the land.
A son of Senator Bonham, of Missouri,
aged twoniptwo, attempted suicide last
week, withinorphine ' and at last accounts
was in a dying condition. The cause was a
quarrel with his betrothed.
Thu fierman brunch of the Young Mot's
ChriHtill.ll Association of New York city,
will shortly open on eating establishment,
at which poor persons can receive one good
meal a day free or charge.
Tho Detnocrats M Vermont propose to
celebrate, with a grand banquet, at Mont
pelier, the Bth of January, the anniversary
of the victory of Jackson at New Orleans.
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts,
will be there.
Over' two thousand bodies- have been
buried in the Notional Cemetery at Little
flock, and the work of interment proceeds
steadily. The cemetery, when completed,
will contain the rontoms of newly six thou
sand soldiers.
Among the killutt liy the railroad acci
dent at Angola, was Charles Lobdeli, asso
elate editor of t h e Ls Crosse (Wisconsin)
Democrat. HO WI'S on his way to Bridge
port, Connecticut, to spend the holidays
with his relatives.
An Illinois woman lately sold her hus
band to another female fin: $1:20. Thu pa r
c baser clone near being swindled by pa -
Mg the money before the delivery of good.
but, on threatening prosecution, the hus
band was handed over in good order.
It is stated that the now running of the
boundary line at Pembina, Blum, shows
the Hudson Bay post there to be iu Anieri•
can territory, and that the company have
been notified that hereafter they must pay
the American Import ditty on everything
imported there.
Thorn is au end, at lust, of the Brooklyn
mysterious poisoning case--the,inry finding
that Mrs. hull and lice daughter CUM() to
their death by stryillin in, administered by
whom they are unable to say. Price, the
accused party, hence is discharged from
custody.
Tito Alargoll with having
sent ton large number oFIe explosive
letters. All reports adds kind should be
received with distrust ; but should the 1020V0
be found to be true, it will greatly neutral
ize the sympathy shown by Foreign nations
with the grievances of lrehind.
In Philadelphia, New I,,rk and Boston
the Postmasters have obtained permission
from the Post-office Department Lowellpost
age-stamps and stamped envelopes to drug
gists, stationers anti others in dlthirent parts
of the city, at a small discount.
Stoves are sold in London which t,m -
sumo their tiv.m smoke', and therelere du
not need a pipe. By adding to these the
American set' lighting screw now used In
Igniting gas burnous, the invention would
be entitled to be called a matchless one In
deed.
Seward Is said to stick to thu St. Thomas
purchase In spite of tho mocond varthqunke.
Ills optimism will carry him through a
dozen earthquakes. With Sumner in the
Senate and Thad. Stevens in the II oune, ho
feels confident of carrying through any
treaty he may negotiate.
queen Isabelle, Spain, Is 1111111/11, 10 1111 d
a Prima) that will !flurry her eldest daugh
ter, a young beauty with (hint flashing eyes.
All courts decline respectfully to enter into
the bonds of relationship with her Castilian
Majesty, although the young Princess 10
rather good looking, and said to be a very
amlable
The yellow fever still lingers In New Or
leans, causing eighteen deaths in the two
weeks ending December 15. There were
also several deaths from other malarious
fevers. Cholera also continues there with
little abatement. There were sixty-two
deaths from Cholera In each ofthe two weeks
ending December 15.
1 Frederick Barrett; of Cleveland, Ohio,
who shot his mistress in Alden street, 800.
ton, in September last, plead guilty to as
sault triul sentence was suspended for the
purpose of allowing him to be taken to Ohio
to be tried lbr robbing the office of the
Merchants' 'Union Vxpress in Cleveland,
where he was once a clerk.
The proprietor of one of the New York
Stock Yards has been proseduted by the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, for allowing beef cattle to stand
in his yards without shelter. The oprie
tor Will defend on the grcitind that t Li cattle
lava never been kept under slasher nay
winter during their lives,
General Ord, It appears, has the editor of
the, ake Village (Arkansas) Press iu con,
flnement. The Vicksburg Times says that
he has been imprisoned for more than three
months on charges preferred by a provost
marshal, who, at last accounts, was him
self on trial before an Arkansas court for
obtaining money on false - retences
VOurtee,4 girls in the employ of a dry
god firen,iu Boston were recently taken
sick with smallpox all on the same day.
They wese employed in the same depart
ment, and hare been and nra very sick., the
disease being of a virulent type. It is sup
posed thO contagion was contained in some
recently imported goods.
News Items.
An English magazine states that a mous
tache maybe matte seieral shades darkerin
color by tying a cabbage leaf on it on re
tiring at night. By repetition the hair may,
thus be made 'as dark as 'is desired. • A
reader disposed to be caustic might wonder
whether the person who discovered this dye
got the specific from his own head.
A Danish landholder of St. Thomas has
furnished the :Secretary of State, for the
benefit of scientific men, with an accurate
rocord of the shocks and noises accompany
ing the late earthquakes in that island. He
say the earth was agitated like a rippling
sea, and it was almost impossible either to
walk or to remain in one place.
On Saturday last, on the line of the Little
Rock railroad, twenty five miles from Mem
phis, a Mr. Neely, living at Black Fish, ac
companied by a friend, a Mr. Montgomery,
was followed by a Catamount for three miles,
who finally sprung on Mr. Neely, and ter
ribly mangled him before he and his friend
could succeed in overcoming and killing
the savage beast.
Thurlow Weed promises to write a book
of Political Reminiscences after the next
Presidential election, with the assistance of
some two thousand letters which have been
preserved and indorsed by his daughter.—
The letters are from all the leading Whig
statesmen and Republican politicians of
the last thirty or forty years.
Robert S. Pringle, one of the registers of
the twenty-second senatorial district of
Georgia, was a candidate before the Recon
sprnotion Convention for sergeant-at arms,
byt was dprellted by a colored man. He
tools. the platter to rt f uGh at haart, anct was
so taunted by hie neigbbers thqt he com
mitted suicide.
A man out West became so angry be
cause his brother-in-law would not endorse
his note that he followed him home and
shot both barrels of his shotgun at him as
ho sat at dinner, He did not hit him, yet
be fell dead, and on examination it was
found tint the dead man's heart was dis
eased, and that the great excitement had
killed him.
The President has not yet designated a
successor to General Pope, commanding
the Third Military District. It is under
stood that General Meade does not desire
the position, and rumor has it that it may
he given to pneral Thomas. General
Swayne, a sub,comniander in Alabama,
and an officer of th,e Preeciman'ii Bureau,
is also to be relieved of his present duty,
and assigned to some other post.
~, E sop might have made a fable with a
moral. out of an incident which happened
in California not long since. A rat hunger
ing for animal food squeezed through a cage
hn which was a canary, seized and devoured
im. But he ate so greedily, and gorged
himself to such sn extent, that ho could not
het out of the cage before the muster of the
ouse appeared and punished the intruder
with death.
Ono of the latest innovations made at
fashionable dinner parties in New York, is
the ornamentation of the bills of fare always
laid beside the plate, with a little water
color drawidg. Thesepictures are intended
to be kept by each guest as a souvenir of the
party. They consist of landscapes, or
bunches of flowers, fruits, or figures, and
are exquisitely executed. Sometimes the
lady of the house, if she is au artist, paints
these cards with her own hand, which makes
them still more valuable.
The post-Office Department has on hand,
talon from the dead letters which accumu
rated during the war, more than 10,000
photographs of Union. soldiers. Although
it is believed that many of their relatives
would be glad to obtain such pictures,
especially of those who have died since the
pictures were taken, the Department has
not yet been able to decide upon a plan by
which the gratification may be afforded.
Says tho Chicago Journal : Our readers
will accept it ae one of the marvels of the
year just closing, that oars are now running
from Chicago to Cheyenne, via the Chicago
and Northwestern and the Union Pacific
Railway, without change. A temporary
bridge has been thrown across the Missouri
river nt Omaha, and there Is now an un
bioken line of railway more than a thous
and miles west of Chicago,
A loyal letter writer who has been visi
ing Springfield, mentions the following
ma dent in connection with thd 'nonunion
al tomb built for Abe Lincoln by his pntrio
ic townsmen "The tnassi✓o door of this
unoccupied mausoleum left open, swine
have made a lodgment within its sacred
walls. We noticed with disgust that an
obscene hog, of the female persuasion, had'
made her bed in its very interior, and given
birth to a litter of pigs. This is scandalous!"
ft is stated that old Parson Brownlow
has come out in favor of Gen. Grunt for the
Presidency—assigning as a reason, first,
that the General's nomination by the Re
publicans is a foregone conclusion, and
next that his own nomination for Vice
President will become equally certain if he
can secure the yoto of Tennessee for Grant.
Tha Now York Times, in a quiet way ob
serves that in this case Brownlow "may
be about half right; ho can't possibly ho
more than that."
E. A. Demuth, of Henniker, and John
Hove, of HlM:thorough, N. I-1., have laid a
wager of iNUO a side that the latter cannot
haul live Keene sleighs, hitched together,
from Henniker to Hillsborough Bridge, a
distance of six miles. GOVO is to have any
six consecutive days of the winter which
Ile may ehoomo to do the work hi. The
mloighs, connooted as closely together us pos
si hie, will make a lino of about forty foot,
and will avorago in weight 135 pounds ouch.
'l'ho road for (love to haul his loud over is
mostly a slight up grade, with two small
hills beside.
The Watheua (Kansas) Reporter, 12th
inst., learns further about the death of Mr.
Lemeson. It scorns he had in his pocket a
bottle of whiskey and one of varnish, and
by mistake drank half a pint of varnish
instead of the whisky! By the time ho
relished home he was crazy, and tried to
kill himself and wife with u revolver. His
wife obtained the pistol, when he seized a
musket and ran out of doors. In coming
buck he stumbled, and, the gun lock catch
ing against the door jam, discharged the
contents of the gun into Ills groin. lie livdd
but a short time.
The Denver Tribune hears from the min
ing counties the most encouraging reports.
The mines generally are in a prosperous
condition, and the minors are hopeful of
the future. At no time since Colorado was
opened up by the pioneers of 'IS and 'l9,
has there been so mtiny mines In operation
as at the present time, and what is still
better, they are all paying. The processes
too, appear to be running successfully. A
gentlemen well posted says there are more
mills running in the vicinity of Black
Hawk at the present time than over wore
in actual operation before at any ono time
in the whole territory.
Jom Mace, the champion pugilist of Eng
land, left Liverpool on the 11th inst„ in
company with Dooley Mace, on the steamer
City of Antwerp, which arrived nt New
York on Saturday. Mace's object in visit
ing America is to fulfill the promise, lie
made to O'Baldwin to meet him for the
championship belt of Great Britain. The
fight will cause intensoexcltement and will
assuredly be proßuctive of intense interest
in sporting and pugilistic circles through
out the country, rivaling in importance
and excitement the great pugilistic contest
between the rival champions, Joe Coburn
and Mike McCoole.
New Mexico is getting ahead in grape
culture. recent letter says that during
the past fall more wine, and of a better
quality, was made by the vine-growers of
the valley of the Rio Grande than ever be-
They seem to have awakened to the
idea that wino is hereafter to be ono of the
principal staples of the country. The grape
grows luxuriantly, and, owing to the con
ditions of s ii and climate, has a thin skin,
and Is devoid of that musty taste so com
mon to most American grapes. At the In
dian pueblo or village of Isteta, more grapes
are raised than nt any other on the Rio
thando, ease .1 -km.
Dubuquo Times tolls un iutereoling
story of the deceiving and disgrace of a
young woman ; of how her brother was a
soldier in the army ; of how, he tried to got
a furlough to go after his erring sister but
was refused; of how ho wont to President
Lincoln, got sympathy, a furlough, and a
Captain's commission ; df how he went and
rescued her; of how she fell again; of how
he rescued her again, and lastly, how tho
j wo have gone fur away into a lone prairie
o live beyond civilization, and, conspquent
ly, beyond tomptotion, Tho villain who
wrought this mishap is said to be in Albany.
A despatch to the //myth/ tells this story.
of the Jimmie]. of General Months - in Hayti.:
General Leon Montes woe murdered In his
dungeon at Cape Ilitytien, Although he
had been kept without food for four days,
the poison that was at length administered
to him proved ineffectual. Salnuvo finally
ordered Deforms to smother him, but in
this ho could not succeed, Having failed
in all other plans, ho stabbed him with a
chisel. Even this was done so roughly that
Montes suffered the most atrocious tor
ments. The body was delivered to his
friends almost entirely naked. It was con
lieyed ono boards to the cemetery by his
friends. The brother of General Monies
has been captured and chained down in the
bloody bed of the lute murdered prisoner.
An interesting case which has boon be
fore the LouisyilleChancery court fo • two
yours, ryas decidod on the 13th. Paulbon
nolli etolgrated from Mthui,'Austrian Italy,
to henttiolty, many years ago and lift two
brothers in Milan, one of iyhoni died, where
upon the other brother married the widow,
an illegal not, according to church and
Austrian law. The marriage, however,
took place privately, in Switzerland, where
it was lawful. The wife soon gave birth to
a daughter, who was put in an orphan asy
lum fur a time, and atterwardreclaimed by
her parents. Afterward Paul paid a .yisit
to Milan, Where he saemad ltinclA pleased
tho girl; called her his niece, and.grged
her father to legally adopt her. This. was
done after Wien came under the authority
of the Italian government. Two years ago
Paul died, leavliad no children. His estate
Was divided =Ong his brothers and their
heirs and the question came up whether
. the girl above mentioned should have her
share. The case has been decided in her
Paver,
The 141.1 his or XF. nananteiwPartien.
fare
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MAIMMILA Mc, Dec. 213.-This village
and community are enshrondedln a mantle
of gloom by one of the most horrifying
tragedies known in theannals of crime, by
the death of Hon. Cornelius S.-Hamilton,
member of Congress from the eighth con
gressional district of Ohio, by the hand of
his eldest son, Thomas C. Hamilton, a youth•
of eighteen. The facts in short are about
as follows: The son Thomas was are,
markably good -and steady boy. About
three weeks ago be became uneasy about
himself, and wished his father to come
home. His mother also being concerned
about him, wrote Mr. Hamilton to come
home, He came home, and on Saturday
last instituted proceedings in the Probate
Court to send theboytothelosaneAsylum,
but did not get the papers in' ime to send
him on Saturday,
Sunday morning, at about 9 o'clock, Mr.
Hamilton said to his two oldest boys,
Thomas and John, that they would go out
and " feed." The throe went out, the
father carrying some corn-fodder, a dis
tance of ten or fifteen yards, and throwing
it over in the barn lot, the younger (John)
going over and distributing it to the stock
as the father directed. Mr. Hamilton then
bade John go and .prepare for Sunday
School. He did so, leaving the father and
Thomas Woking up and scattering corn and
stocks. He testifies that he looked back
when part way to the house, and that
Thomas was watching him. He bad got' to
the house and partly prepared to go to Sun
day School, when the mother went out 04
the porch and saw Thou
house alone, V4Pi l2 tg, to the
She inquired where was father. He picked
up an almond made for the mother. John
seeing this demonstration, screamed and di
verted Thomas from the mother to himself:
Ho run into the house, first into the dining
room, then to the hall, then into the sitting
room. Here Thomas came upon him. John
run past him, and slipped and fell about
the time he reached the door, Thomas mak
ing a blow at him, which took effect in the
left shoulder, and partially stunned him,
but he crawled out of the house. Thomas
then made pursuit of the mother, who fled
across the street to Mr. John Guthrie's a
distance of about two hundred yards. Here
he was met by Mr. Guthrie's family and
Mr. F. Wood, superintendent of the public
schools of this place, who bid him put down
the axe—he carrying it in an elevated man
ner, and made at Mr. Wood, who retreated
into the house. Thomas followed to the
door with the uplifted axe.
He then returned to the street, where be
was met by M. 0. Lawrence, aisq., who in
.quired of him, "Where is your hither?"
suspecting foul play. He, with an uplifted
axe, then made for Mr. L., who retreated
down and across the street, Tuomas follow
ing. Thomas then crossed over the tenee,
and making in the direction of the wound
ed boy, who had gone book to the house
and carried two small sisters a distance of
one hundred yards or more, and was call
ing to Mr. J. C. Botkin, who had been
attracted by the cry of distress, "Savo my
two little sisters!' Mr. Taitkin revelled
the two sisters and took them up, but
Thomas was coming in and cut off his re
treat, so he took them back to where they
were by a wood pile. Taking a stick of
wood, which to him seemed too unwieldy,
ho drooped it us Thomas was coming on
him with an uplifted axe clenched in both
hands. Botkin, with great presence of
mind, seized the only alternative left him
by jumping into him head first, striking
him iu the breast while his arms were up.
lifted to fell him with the axe. Thus he
was captured.
Search was now made for the father, and
the sequel shows that at the very place
where John loft them—which is about thirty
or forty yards from the house—Thomas had
killed his hither and covered the body with
corn-fodder. It appears that he had felled
him with u heavy piece of two inch board,
striking him front behind, and fracturing
the right posterior of the skull. Time left
posterior wits ithao fractured, or better de
scribed by being badly mashed in. The
heart sickens to describe and contemplate
how one highly respected by all, and loved
by many, was so suddouly and tragically
removed from us,
Col. Porker's Ancestry
A writer in the Buffalo Commercial says
that the family of Col. Ely Parker, whose
recent marriage at Washington is the theme
of gossip, had its origin in the connection of
a French officer who was stationed at Fort
Du Quesne (now Erie) when that post was
occupied by the French, with a Seneca
woman. The offspring of this connection
was a daughter. On the withdrawal of the
officer from that post, he wanted to take
the child with him; of course this was
strenuously objected to by the mother,
and by the advice and through
the assistance ol her friends and family, sue
started with her child for the home of her
parents, which was then on the Ohio River.
The officer becoming aware of the night of
the mother with her child, sent a squad ol'
soldiersin pursuit. They followed with such
.vigor that the fear of being overtaken
prompted the mother to commit the child
to an Indian runner, who, with the child
bound to his tick, took the direction
through the unbroken forest to the prin
cipal town of the Senecas, then at Chall
is-Me-0 (Genesee River.) . 110 arrived in
safety with the child, where, In duo time,
It was joined by the mother. The child
green() be a very beautiful girl. She was
either the grandmother or great grand
mother of Col. Parker.. The immediate an
cestors of Col. Parker, his father and
father's brother, have long resided on •the
Tonawanda Reservation, and the family is
remarkable for their good looks, intelli
gence, and superior acquirements. •In re
lation to the position of Col. Parker in re
spect to his own nation, it is proper to re
mark that he is not related by blood to the
celebrated Seneca Chief Red Jacket, but
belonged to the same clan. Red Jacket
did not belong to the class of hereditary
Chiefs. On his death his successor was ap
pointed from his clan, in the person ol
Jimmy Johnson. On his decease Colonel
Parker was appointed or elected to fill his
place, which office he now holds. The state
ments rather recklessly made in regard to
Col. Parker's social relations are entirely
erroneous and unjust, as the following ex
tract of a letter from the Rev. Ashur Wright,
long a missionary -rnongtheSeneeas, dated
Dec. 23, 1807, will show: I have been ac
quainted with Col. Parker from his boy
hood, and the singular persistency with
which he had avoided every implication of
matrimony among his own•people, has won
my unqualified admiration. I have never
heard so much as theslightestrumor among
the Indians that any Indian woman had a
claim upon him. His' Indian family' Is a
pure invention. We, at least, among the
Indians, know nothing of any other pater
nity for it," •
Reconstructlon—Pope and Ord Removed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.—The following
order was issued this afternoon :
GENERAL ORDERS, NO, 104.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY, A. 0. 0.
\VASIIINUTON, Dec. 28.
By direction of the President of the
United . States, the following orders - are,
made:
1. Brevet .Major General E. 0. C. Ord will
turn over the command of the Fourth Mili
tary District to Brevet Major General A. C.
Gillem, and proceed to San Francisco, Cal
ifornia, to take command of the department
of California.
2. On being relieved by Brevet Major
General Ord, Brevet Major General Irvin
McDowell will proceed to Vicksburg,
and relieve General Gillem, in command of
the Fourth Military District.
3. Brevet Major General John Pope is
hereby relieved of the command of the Third
Military District, and will report, without
delay, at the headquarters of the army fur
further orders, turning over his command
to the next senior °Meer until the arrival of
his successor.
4. Major General .George G. Meade is
assigned to the command of the Third Mil
itary District, and will assume it without
delay. The Department of the East will be
commanded by the senior officer now on
duty in it until a comMander be named by
the President,
5. The officers assigned in the foregoing
ordns to the commends of military districts
will exorcise therein any and all powers
conferred by act of Congros upon district
commanders, end also any end all powers
pertaining to military deportment com
manders.
O. Brevet Major General Wager Swayne,
Colonel 45th U. S, Infantry, is hereby ro•
moved from duty in the Burean of Rofu.
gecg, Freedmen qnd Abandoned Lands,
and will proceed M Nashville, Tennessee,
and assume command of Ids regiment.
By order of Gem Grant.
re 71, ToWNs.tilin, A. A.
Gossip About the New District Cont.
wanders.
The following special telegram to the
Philadelphia Ledger is of interest:
It is not expected that Gon. Meade will
give himself over to the interests of any
party, and certainly no understanding of
any kind has been entered lute between
that officer and the President as So
that shall be pursuOd itt thh' eonduc o
fairs in the Third DiStilet. hi. we itfrom
unqudationable that General
Meade is sai..sted to succeed Gen. Pope
simply upon the belief that the farmer
will excut'e the reconstruction laws to the
letter, and at the same time in such a man
ner as to give to none just cause for com
plaint of tyrannical or partial exercise of
the almost unlimited powers conferred upon
district commanders, Oen. itrd mot long
since reouested that be. he relieved from
command of.tne 'Fourth District,• and on
. that account Mid the hope that a now
ofiker in charge of that ,i' 4 lEttriot might pos
sibly avoid same of the errors committed
by the late commander and govern the dis
trict in a more consistentand, symmetrical
manner than it bashitherto been managed,
Ord was relieved. It was shown satisfac
torily to the President that General Wager
Swayne has been making use of his official
position in .klabama forhis(Swayne's) pwn
adVaacement, and therefore the
61.der that hebe relieved from duty in that
State and join his regiment in Nashville,
State Items.
As the evening train from Philadeljohla
neared Magee station, below Norristown,.
on Monday evening, an accident occurred to
the machinery of the engine, which threw
all the cars off the track. No one was
seriously. injured. Mr. William Carr, 'of
Noiristown, started_to walk home, but had
not proceeded far before he fell dead. It is
supposed from heart disease.
The extensive manufactory of Mr. T.
Rather,, at Harrisburg, was burned on
Wednesday night. Mr. Rather is the man
ufactnrer of the Zingari Bitters. The loss
of Mr. Rather is about 2.5,000. He was in
sured for about $17,000. .
On Thursday evening a man named Ber
genstock, from Trexlertown, visited Allen-
town, and in coming but of Koeifig's saloon,
be noticed a number of men in front of the
Good Will Engine House, among whom
was Richard LaFavour, Engineer of the
steamer. Bergenstock drew a revolver
and fired at Laravonr, missing him, and
then' escaped. It appears that he visited
Allentown last spring, and for some reason
was arrested by one of our police, whqb
called LaFavour to his assistance. At that
4 4
time Berge took swore revenge on the
party who ted him, and it is supposed
he thus song it.
The Case of Custer
EiA.NDIISKY, 0., December 27.—The Daily
Register of to-morrow will contain a long
letter, dated at Fort Leavenworth, from
General Custer to Colonel 'Nettleton, of
Sandusky, making a defence against the
charges on which he was :court-martialed
and sentenced to a suspension from com
mand. He meets the charge of cruelty to
his men .by saying, that while on the expe
dition, surrounded by savages his men be
gan to desert. This threatened to leave him
with a large amount of supplies at the mer
cy of the savages. A scheme of desertion
was formed by a lar portion of the reman
ing men. r,leven who escaped were seen,
and General Custer ordered a squad of men
to pursue and- bring them back. A part of
the deserters, who were mounted, fled and
have never been seen since. The dismount
ed ones raised their carbines to fire on the
pursuers, when they were fired on in return,
slightly wounding three. They were taken
with the command in army wagons, ambu
lances being unserviceable. General Cus
ter complains bitterly of the composition
of the court that tried him, four
members being his inferiors in rank,
and one member, a commissary officer, had
been censured by General Custer for cor
ruption in issuing; rotten meat to the sol
diers. The General says he was never ab
stilt without leave, and should again act in
a similar manner with deserters under like
circumstances.
Leaving the Loyal Leagues
The Warrenton (Va.) Index publishes the
following card from Beverly Thornton,
colored, of that place, to a citizen, whioh ex
plains itself;
tig. I. F. L.—Having been a member of
the 'Union League, with the understanding
that it was the best step to take to promote
peace, but now seeing that it is a peace
breaker of this community, and being a
lover of peace at all times, I do withdraw
therefrom. Yours, very truly,
BEVERLY Tgcqc , ,zroN.
We are requested, says the index, by
Daniel Brown, carpenter, colored, to say
that ho has also withdrawn from the League
for the reasons assigned in the above card
of Thornton. Wm. Webster., blacksmith,
Wishes the public to know that he has with
drawn from the League, and will not here
after have anything to do with it. Minor
Grayson, blacksmith, goes a step further.
He will have nothing to do with the League,
and promises to vote the conservative white
man's ticket.
A Reign of Terror in Virginia
CHARLOTTE COUNT'S", - VA., Dec. 27.•-Along
and throughout all the counties named
below a reign of terror prevails. The freed
men have become desperate awaiting the
distribution of farms, and now seek revenge
by house burning, cattle slaying and other
outrages. The counties of Amelia, Matta
way, Prince Edward, Lunenberg, Halifax,
Mecklenberg, and Pittsylvania, are deluged
with such outrages. Murder, arson, and
incendiarism are of nightly occurrence, and
a war of races seems inevitable. The civil
authorities are powerless to protect, and
military posts are so remote that the whites
have determined to defend themselves in
different ways as their defence may be; but
the resolution is death before negro su
premacy. The forty acres and two mules
promised the negroos at Christmas' has
caused this terrible state of affairs.
Important Principle Decided
The breaking down of the platform of the
Pennsylvania railroad company, at Johns
town, on the occasion of the visit of Presi
dent Johnson, in September,lB6o, by which
several persons were killed, and a large
number crippled for life, is fresh in the
memory of our readers. A large 'number
ofsults have been instituted against the
company for damages, and uno of these—
Gillis vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany—was recently disposed of before Judge
Taylor, at Ebensburg. This was a teat case,
and the issue turned upon a single question,
namely—whether the railroad company
was bound to construct their platform that
it would suppOrt any Nveight which might
be put upon it, or whether they wero only
mired to make it sufficiently strong and
sale to transact their ordinary business.
T/10 evidence was very voluminous, and
the arguments of counsel most elaborate.
Ills Honor, Judge Taylor, in an equally
elaborate opinion, decided the legal point
against the plaintiff, and instructed the jury
to find for the defendant without leaving
the box. The counsel for the plaintiff will
appeal to the Suprema from the decision of
the court below. Until a decision Is reach
ed before the higher court, It is understood
that no other case growing out of the fall of
the platform will be tried by them in Cam
bria county.—Harrisburg Telegraph.
Political Changes in Alabama,
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 21.—Nicholas Davis,
a prominent Radical of North Alabama,
has published a letter fully endorsing the
address of Mossrs. Semple, Speed and
others, the protesting members of the Con
vention, against the proposed Constitu
tion.
The Huntsville Advocate, a Radical or
gan, calls for the reassembling of the Con
vention, to modify the objectionable fea•
tures of the proposed Constitution—name
ly, the clause about schools, the franchise
and registration oaths. That piper says
"If the Constitution is not so modified, en
vironed as we are, and almost in a state of
anarchy, its adoption can only be accepted
as a choice of evils, not defended as right
and proper. But it is in our power to mod
ify the evils now, and for that purpose
urges a cull of the Convention to assemble
again."
The Tuscumbin North Atabainian repu•
diates the nominations by the self-appoint
ed political Convention. The Huntsville
Advocate repudiates the notion of the Radi
col meetings in North Alabama, and says
the white Unionists are ignored and re
jected as unsound.
The Conservatives nil over the State are
arousing and determined, using every effort
to defeat the Constitution,
In North Alabama it is stated that the
whites who went into the Radical party
are leaving it, on account of the objection-.
able features of the Constitution,
Beating Railcars
Two cars fitted with steam boating ap
paratus, nre running on the New Haven
(Conn.) railroad, and two more of an ele
gantdesoription,divided Into compartments
after the English style, are being built for
the same road, to bo similarly heated. A
small apparatus for generating steam oc
cupies u corner of each stir, and from thence
iron pipes are titled near the feet of every
passenger—the principle being that observ
ed in applying. bottles of hot water. We
are informed that the plan is entirely satis
factory, and pronounced feasible. the cost
for each car is about WO, but the consump
tion of is trifling (only two or three hods
of fuel between New York and Boston
and tho comfort obtalbed is very solid.
Since the terrible accident on the Lake
Shore railroad, there is a general demand
that stoves 1n railcars should bo abolished.
Tho Ice at Fort Delaware.
The Philadelphia Ledger tells the
lowing :
During the recent cold snap it became
neceSeary to send n boat from - port Dela
ware to Delaware City for mails and pro
visions, The boat was placed on wooden
runners and' pushed over the ice byeight
men to Delaware Oily, and 114 to the tort
without touching the waier. A gentleman
who has resided over tiventyyearain Dela
ware says that he has na recollection of the
river ever having been so jammed with ice
at, that point that a boat could be pushed
over it, The Delaware river is About eight
miles wide at Delaware City, and the Dila•
ware, from Port Delaware to Delaware City,
is nearly three miles."
Died in the Wool
Said one Radical to e‘nS.thek Ilia other day;
"You've beard of tin Alow who idled at
bis post i have you, not 7 0
answered his friend.
"And you've heard of the other one who
died in the harness?" •
(q), yes," answered the Radioal.
"And we Republicans have died in the
wool,"
His friend saw the point and looked sa4.;
Stolen Bank Cheeks Bet,turnod,
NEW Yonz, December2B.—CYFLOhilstmes
morning a lad etitered the office of the
Superintendent 9 fl,lolice and left a pareel,
which he 'laid had been given him to deliver
by a gentlemen at the Anson House. On
the parcel being opened it was found tb
contain checks of the Bank of New York
for three million six hundred and eighty
three thousand four hundred and thirty-five
dollars and sixty-one dents being the
amount stolen from the back. uses finger
recently in Wall street., " . .
=2:f MIII
' Vitimin IN NEED.—Grace's Odebrated
Salve is afriend indeed; Who him not found
'it such in curing cuts, burns, bruises, scalds,
,felons, boils, and even the most obstinate
old ulcers and other sores. It /13 a Wonder
ful compound, suited alike to the skin of
the child and of the adult, —Communicated,
tinttnignia.
OriSmtVANJE of Clatiarlitas.—Christmas
was universally observer:l , m a holiday in
this city.. -All buidness was snapendedjand
the whole population seemed to recognize
the claims of the chief holiday of the year.
The day was bright overhead, and the air
Was mild and pleasant. The chief draw
back upon the enjoyment of our citizens,
and it.was a serions one, was the Condition
of the pavements. The thawing of the ice
and snow which had been carelessly per
mitted to remain, made the walking de-.
cldedly disagreeable. Is there an ordinance
in existence requiring the pavements to be
cleaned? If there is we hope the city au
thorities will enforce it vigorously. There
was the penal amount of feasting, and we
doubt not that in the family circle the occa
sion was one of unalloyed pleasure.
The churches were well attended in spite
of the disagreeable condition of the streets,
and in most of them the services were suit
ed to the occasion, and of more than ordi
nary interest. Many of the churches were
handsomely decorated for the occasion.
In the Moravian Church service was held
in the morning, andat a o'clock in the after
noon there was a love feast, with the usual
fare of cake and coffee. The church was
very elaborately and handsomely decora
ted after a design drawn by Capt. Rice. A
central canopy of hemlock greens depend
ing from the ceiling, over the pulpit, was
festooned into the recess,supported on either
side by wreathed columns, with ornament
ed capitals. The recess was ornamented
with a central design of a large shield, en
closing the monogram I. H. S., the cross on
which was formed of white flowers.
Two side canopies, surmounted star me
dallions, with a base of double festoons.
The desks were elaborately festooned with
hemlock, the base being arched panel work.
The galleries were heavily , ornamented
with double festoons of hemlock; the col
urns being wreathed, and the gas fixtures
hung with cord and tassel of green.
The decoration of St. John's Free Church
surpasses that of previous years. Festoon
after festoon hang and intertwine each
other, while at the eastern end of the chan
cel is an arch beautifully trimmed, con
taining the motto "Glory to God in the
Highest, and on Earth Peace, Good Will to
all Men." The pulpit, reading desk, chan
cel and :communion table are also hand
somely trimmed, making one of the finest
decorated churches in the city.
The decorations in the First Reformed
Church (Rev. A. H. Kremer Pastor) con
sist of laurel strands extending from the
centre to the four corners of the church with
double festoons around the galleries. Fes- .
toons of laurel bang suspended from the
organ, and the pulpit is trimmed with ivy.
In the arch behind the pulpit is a largo
cross, 9 feet high, made of evergreen and
sprinkled with diamond dust, while above
the pulpit is a star. Along the gallery and
the pulpit is the following: "Blessed is He
who cometh in the name of the Lord, Ho
sanna in the Highest."
The usual Christmas services were ob
served at St. Mary's Catholic Church, and
High Mass was celebrated at fi o'clock, A.
AL ' by Rev'd Father Barry, followed by
other masses by the venerable Father
Keenan. For some reason unknown to us
the usual decoration of the Church at
Christmas was dispensed with. St. Jo
seph's German Catholic Church wore simi
lar decorations of green to those of last
year, and High Mass was celebrated by
ftev. Father Neufeld at 5 o'clock, followed
by other masses.
St. James Episcopal Church was as usual
very profusely and beautifully decorated
yesterday. The large colored window was
very heavily arched - with evergreen, from
which also were suspended many festoons
of hemlock and spruce, Below the gas jet
star, which is in the centre of the window,
are the following words In diamond form—
"GLORIA IN EXCELS'S DEO." The gal
leries were very heavily and handsomely
festooned. The railing around the Chancel,
the Altar and the Communion Table were
very finely decorated. The front of the
Communion Table bore a very pretty and
unique monogram of "I. H. 5.," and the
front of the altar bore a large evergreen
cross.
The music was one of tho principal fea
tures at this church and was excellent, be
ing under the direction of Prof. Gloeffen,
the accomplished organist. The services
opened with a grand and very appropriate
anthem, and the Jubilate (anthem) and the
Tc.Dculti were well rendered. The admirable
singing of the ladies in the choir—the Misses
Roberts and Miss Clarkson—were appreci
ated, each one receiving a neat testimonial.
Rev, Dr. Mombert had a sermon very ap
propriate to the occasion.
The usual Christmas services were ob
served at the Trinity Lutheran Church.—
The pastor, Rev. Dr. Greenwald, at the
close of the sermon, thanked the congrega
tion for the very handsome gifts received
by his family.
DEATH . Or REV. Dii. HAMM:CUL—WO
learn with regret of thu death, on Saturday
evening, after a long and exhaustive ill
ness, of Rev. Henry Harbaugh, D. D., at
Mereersburg, Franklin county. Dr. liar
baugh at the time of his decease, was pro
fessor in the German Reformed Theological
Seminary at that place, and editor of the
Mereursburg Review, a theological quar
terly. To the religious world he wee widely
and favorably known as a somewhat vol
uminous author. His series of works on
" Heaven," embracing several volumes, his
" Birds of the Bible," "True Glory of Wo
man," " Life of Schlatter," and others, en
joyed a popular circulation, running
through many editions. Among literary
men he will be best remembered by his
happy transcriptions of the Pennsylvania
German. " Das sehal haus an der crik,"
and some similar little poems, written
with severe and homely simplicity in
what will soon be but the tradition
al vernacular of our State, will prob
ably find an established place in the litera
ture of the country. For many years he
edited a religious . magazine called the
Guardian. Dr. Harbaugh was of Swiss de
scent. Ho was born near Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania, in ISI7, and died conse
quently aged fifty years. He was fbr
long time, pastor of the First Reformed
Church of this city, and was much loved
by a large circle of friends.
Frnr.—The city of Harrisburg has again
boen visited with quite a destructive fire.
Early last evening the barn on Jacob Eby's
farm, just above Maclay on the riverbank,
was discovered to be in flames. Nearly the
whole stock was consumed, consisting of
eight cows of the most improved breeds,
four valuable calves, twenty-live head of
hogs, and asplendid blooded horse, together
with wagons, harness, threshing machines,
winnowing mills, eon) shollers, cutting ma.
chines, and in htet everything pertaining to
the working of an immense farm like this.
The fire is supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary.
WILD TunitEy KILLED IN \ NCAsTEn
COUNTY.—Mr. Jacob shuntml his brother,
Henry Shoff, both of Drutnoru township,
shot a very large wild turkey ou Saturday
morning, December 21. When standing
erect it measured four feet one and a-half
inches from the ground to the top of its
head, and five feet seven inches from the
point of one.wing to adother. This turkey
has been seen for some time on the farm of
Jacob Shoe and hunted by him, but being
so very wild no shot could be secured. On
the evening of the 20th inst. the Messrs.
Shoff watched it from the hill and saw it
going to roost on an island in the Susque
hanna river, belonging to Mr. Felix Swei
gert, of Platte's Eddy. The Messrs. Shoff
proceeded thither the next morning, and
with great difficialty succeeded in killing
this last relic of Am erica's indigene= fowls.
This is the only wild turkey that has been
known in this section (If the State for 25
years
Our correspondent who sends us the above
item informs us that a party of sound Dem
ocrats made a hearty Christmas dinner on
the aforesaid wild turkey and on wild
ducks. We calculate that was as cloth:lions
a repast as any family in Lancaster county
sat down to on Christmas day,
"Foul PLAT.—.Every.Staarday for Jan.
4 has the first instalment of a new Story
called "Foul Play," written by Charles
Reade and Dion Boucicault. It bids fair to
he one of the most entertalulng stories of the
now year. This number of Every Saturday
also contains a
H Story by Rev. Norman
Macleod, an essay on Fai (M
ntly osta" by
JamesaritUaYl " "
AP (-lid Wife's Song," by
Jean Dagelew, and several other stories and
essays from foreign periodicals. Every Sat
urday aims to give its readers the boat and
most readable papers that appear in Euro
pean Magazines and Reviews, and is almost
Indispensable to every intelligent Anar,*• .on rt.
Tiolcuor Lt Fields, Boston, nr;„ V 4O :
ere.
4 Ldi.SIea.SWERIAN IN TNN "REAL Es
'AU " RUalNS.BB.—Captain Wm. Reynolds
of the U. S. steamer Lackawanna, has taken
formal possession of Brooks' Island in the
Pacific, for the United States. Dr. Kenne
dy, the surgeon of the Lackawanna, made
an examination of tile new territory. Ile
reports it to consist of two distincii coral
islands, surrounded by a barren reef. The
soil 'is thin, producing oily 16w shrubs,
herbs and coarse grasses, but with qultiya-
Ma it ean be made to yield 'Potatoes, peas,
beans, and perhaps other vegetables. Wells
were ling by 'the exploring purty, and
wafer fodnd at a depthoff);Ora four to seven
feet. After biltretioh thiS water proved to
be hard and free from organic impuri
ties in solution. Dr. Kennedy is satis
fied that by digging to a proper depth
a good supply of potable water can be ob
tained. The Island is a great regort of Sea
birds, but :very littleguato,vias found The
lagoon swarms wit:4 Essh.“. Welles' Har
bor” is a 14tle .temietl.than that 'of Honolu
lu---eager, but hasless depth of water; at
lOwlrater the depth varies from twenty
one to sixteen feet. It can be readily en
tered by vessels drawing less than eighteen feet. Vessels of deep draug.t mtist lie in
Seward Roads, picking their anchorage.
Captain Reynolds's a native .of .I.4aticas
ter, and a Mother of Gen. Reynolds. Mr.
Sewaril is not to be alloWed to Monopolize
the " Real Estate" business'of Untie Sam,
and the navy is to come in for some of the
honors in that line.—Examiner.
THE Niw Yian.--Jantiary 'fie - the Open
gate of the year, shut until the shortest
day Is passed; but now opened to let in the
lengthening daylight. It is very appro
priate that this should be the first month
of the year, since its beginning being near
the winter solstice, the year is thus made
to present a complele'series of the seasonal
changes. Yet the earliest calendar, as the
the Egyptian, and the Greek, did
not place the commencement of the year at
this point. It was not done until the for
mation of the Roman calendar, usually
attributed to the second King, Name Porn
pillus, whose reign terminated Anno 692
B. C. He decreed that the year should
commence at this time, and added two new
months to the ten already in existence,
calling the first January, in honor of the
Deity Janus, who was represented as a man
with two faces, one looking backwards, the
other forwards, implying that he stood
between the old and new year, with a re
gard to both.
In spite of the popular regard. for the first
of January as the beginning of the year, the,
ancient Jewish year, which began on the
25th of March, continued long to have a legal
position in Christian countries. In Eng
land it was not until 1752 that the first of
January became the initial day of the legal
year. Before that time it was customary to
set down dates between the Ist of January
and the 24th of March, inclusive, thus:
January 30, 1648.9, meaning that popularly
the year was 1649, but legally 1648. In
Scotland this desirable change was made
by a deeree of James VI., in 1600. It was
effected in France in 1564; in Holland,
Protestant Germany, and Russia, in 1700,
and in Sweden in 1753.
The length of the year is strictly express
ed by the space of time required by the re
volution of the earth around thesun,namely,
365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 49 seconds,
and 7-10 tbs of a second ; for to such a nicety
has this time been ascertained. But for con
venience in reckoning, it was found neces
sary to make the year terminate with a day,
instead of a fraction of one, lumping the
fractions together so as to make up a day
among themselves,
About 45 years before Christ, Julius
Caesar having, by the help of Sosigenes, an
Alexandrian philosopher, come to a toler
ably clear understanding of the length of
the year, decreed that every fourth year
should be held to consist of 366 days,for the
purpose of ab3brbiog the odd hours. The
arrangement he dictated was a clumsy one.
A day in February, the sixth before the
calends of March, was to be repeated in that
fourth year. It was as if we were to reckon
the 23d of February twice over. Seeing
that in reality a day every fourth year was
too much by 11 minutes, 10 seconds, and
3-10ths of a second, it inevitably followed
that the beginning of the year moved on
ward ahead of the point at which it was in
the days of Cesar; in other words, the.
natural time fell behind the reckoning.
From the time of the Council of Nice in 325
when the vernal equinox fell correctly on.
the 21st of March, Pope Gregory found in
1582 that there had been an over-reckoning
to the extent of 10 days, and now the vernal
equinox fell on the 11th of March. To eor
rect the past error, he decreed that the sth.
of-October that year should be reckoned as
the 15th, and t'b keep right in the future, the
overplus tieing 18 hours, 37 minutes, andl6
seconds in n century, he ordered that every
centennial year that could not be cliv'ided
by 4 (1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, &h.) should. not
be bissextile, as it otherwise would be;
thus, in short, dropping the extra day three
times every four hundred years.
The Gregorian style, as it was called,
readily obtained sway in Catholic zountries,
but not in Protestant. It was not adopted
in England until 1752, by which time the
difference between the Julian and Gregorian
year amounted to 11 days. An act or Par
liament was passed dictating that the third
of September thitt year, should be reckoned
the fourteenth, and that three of every four
of the centurial years should, as in Gregory's
arrangement, not be leap years. It has,
consequently, arisen-1800 not having been
a leap year—that the new and old styles
now differ by twelve days, our first of Janu
ary 'tieing equivalent to the thirteenth, old
style. In Russia alone, of all Christian
countries, is the old style retained. It is,
however, still retained in the accounts of
the British Treasury.
As New Year's day, the first of January
boars a prominent place in the popular
calendar; and is generally observed as a
holiday everywhere. It has ever been the
custom of Northern nations to see the old
year out, with the highest demonstrations'
of merriment and convivality. To but few
does It seem to occur that the day is a
memorandum of ;lie su bstraction of another
year from the little sum of life. With the
multitude the feeling is a desire to express
good wishes for the next twelve months'
experience of their friends, and be the sub
ject of similar benevolence on the part of
others. In this country it is the custom to
salute the New Year with tiring of guns,
pistols and even cannon at midnight, and
with a ringing of bells. Very many persons
sit up until midnight, with their friends, to
drink a happy New Year to each other over
a cheerful glass, while those who aro more
religiously inclined meet in their churches,
and spend the last hours of the dying year
In prayers and other devotional exercises
These are styled" watch meetings," and aro
very , common among the Methodists
and the Moravians, and the churches of
these denominations will be kept open to
night until the your of 1867 has passed
away, /mud the year 1868 begins.
The custom of making Now Year's calls
is of ancient date, nod is well observed In
New York. Elsewhere It Is becoming
Tashionable o jn this country, and wo believe
It will not he long until It will be generally
observed.
LEAP YJ:An.—With to-morrow begins
leap year. a privileged twelve month for
every maiden and widow in the land. Dy
established custom it will• be considered
perfectly consistent with modesty and pro•
priety for any single lady to propose mar
riage to any gentleman she may fancy dur
ing the year 18(38. We hope our fair readers
will not neglect the opportunity thus pre
sented. Each one of them has it in her
power to make some forlorn bachelor very
happy. Let them remember that no man
worth having would dare to decline. Propo
sitions can be made either in person or by
letter—for our part:we wou id . infinitely pre
fer that the farmer method sl iou id be adopt
ed—and speaking of ourselves reminds us
that there is not a married man on the edi
torial !deff of the INTELLIOENCER. We aro
bachelors all—apen to propositions however,
which we assure our lady readers wo will
be delighted to receive, provided they don't
all speak at once.
rttii Ptii,T)inwrEns AT L1T.121.
M no llull, widow of the late Dr.
I. has rre•lved her commission
little. end whit enter on
the disr•herge of her duties with the New
Yrs r. The name ot• the party removed is
N. S. Wolle.
LOCAL SummAnv.—An old citizen of Con
estoga township, named Joseph Miller, re•
siding near Martic Forge, was found dead
In his sitting room on Tuesday, the 17th
Inst. He was In the 88th year of his age.
On Monday, the 16th inst., Charles Groff,
a son of Wm. D. Groff, watchmaker at
Mount Joy, between three and four years
old, fell into a tub of hot water, and was so
badly scalded that ho died the next day.
James Moore, of Sadsbury township, was
found dead on Tuesday, the lilth inst., at a
crossing on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
above Parkosburg.
J. M. Frantz, on Saturday, the 21st inst.,
bought fifteen shares of stock in the First
National Hack of Mount Joy nt $llO per
share. The sale took place at Cooper's
Hotel, and the stock belongel to the es
tato of H. L. Frantz, deceased.
The Commissioners of thiscounty on
Monday fixed the rate of assessment for
county purposes, for the coming year, ut
two and a half mills, or twenty-live cents
on each hundred dollars of the valuation.
Lust year the. date was five mills on the
valuation of each dollar. The valuation of
real property was raised ten per cent.
Jacob Leman has leased the Vountain
Inn, South Queen Street, from the Ist of
March next. Mr. L. wasibrinerlyproprie.
tor of the Sorrel Horse Hotel, West King
street.
Three school houses In Duke street were
forced open several nights since, and robbed
of some of their contents,
Absalom Fairer, formerly a Steward of
the Lancaster County Hospital, and who
recently removed to York county, has re
ceived thu appointment of Steward In the
York County Hospital.
D. M. Holton, of the firm of Holton &
Fahnestock, Pittsburg, Pa., and formerly
of this city, was In Lancaster yesterday.
Benjamin F. Bowc, au,ciioneer, recoutlY
sold seven cows, the property of David
11riowrer, of Eden township, for $520.75, an
average Of 875.08 for each cow.
Nix% Carri, M. Yeager has resigned as
Ma,tron of coo Children's Home of this city,
and accepted the same position In a Soldiers'
Orphan School at Titusville, Crawford
county, Pa.
Forty shares of the crArtal stock of the
Lancaster County Natioind Bank, belong
ing to the estata of John Bards deed., sold
at public cule M 1 Thursday as follows t Tqc
shares at SOO 80 per share ; thirty latwes at
sflt per share.
The net proceeds of the St, Jtoseph's Ger
man Catholic Chnrch Valr amount to about
$2,500.
- Pnet!•Thkr—Youtco Max !—lnto the ear of
your' neighbor—lt may carry gladness into hit
household, and cause'him to ever bold you in
grateful remembrance—we mean the l'fiet that
the
"BA.RLEY surgAir
is the handsomest, w...dot aeronomical, and al
together the beat C.k,ing Stove ever invent
ed Thia great Accra Will burn either wood or
ca Wad :mob substantiate all that 11 ating
coa l ,. Thamanlifektureta are llessrs di•yrl
Peterson & Co., Of Philadelphia, gae of the
oldest and most liberal stove firms in the
Unitin. Write for a descri,pll,ve circular, and
beware of Frauda t.
L.intrA 'who are suffering front certain corn•
is, known only to females, should akottce
gettr. Velpau's Female Pills. Tnexproduce a
Most Charming erect. Bold )a z all Druggists,
$25 PER DAY.
Agent wanted; Male and Female; Local and
Traveling. Business nets, light and nonorabll3.
Steady employnient the year round. Nd Capi
tal reqnired. Address ' • '
REEVES .4 CO.,
No. 78 Nassau street,
July 13 tfw 28 New York.
Natal gotten.
W The Healing Pool, •
AND HOUSE OF MERCY.
Howard Association Reports, for Young Men, on
the:Clime of Solitude and the Errors, Abases and
inseams which destroy the manly powers, and Create
impedimenta to Marriage, with sure means of relief.
Sent In sealed letter envelopes, free of charge. Ad
dress, DR. J. SErr.r.lN HOUGHTON,
illoward Assoclation.;Philadelphla, Pa.
sap 23 =dew
air A Permanent Tonle.
Every ono at times feels the necessity of
eolnethlng to tone up the sYStein depressed by
mental or bodily exhaustion. At such times
let every one, instead of taking alcoholic or
medicinal stimulants, reinvigorate his deblii
tatted system by the natural tonic elements o
the
PERUVIAN SYRUP,
or Protected Solution of Protoxido of Iron,
whica vitalizes and enriches the blood by sup
plying it with its Life Element, IRON.
Being free from Alcohol in any form, its en
ergizing effects are nor followed by corresponding
reaction, but are permanent, infusing strength,
vigor and new life into all parts of the system
and building up an IRON CONSTITUTION.
WM. C. STERLING, Esq., of Poughkeepsie,
New York, says :
"Since taking the Peruvian Syrup I feel bat
ter, my sLreugth is improved, my bowels aro
regular, my appetite tirst-rate.
There is an old Physician In this city, (older
than I am) who has been in the Drug business
for 40 years, who hos used the .tlyrup for three
months, and gives it as his decided opinion,
that It Is the best Alterative Tonic Medicine
he ever knew."
For Dyspepsia, Debility, and Female Weak
nesses, the Peruvian Syrup is a specific. A 33
page
pamphlet
sent Telennloe has
Peru,imNruiovninlkegass
J. P.
DINSMORE, Proprieto*.
No. 36 Dey at., New 'York,
Sold by all Druggists.
GRACE'S CELEBRATED SALVE.
we are constanly beari❑ favorable reports
from those who have tried this remedy. Amy
.Anthony, wife of Mark Anthony, of this city,
and living at No. U Locust st., afflicted with a
felon on the linger, was recently induced to
make a trial of the Salve. Almost instantly
she experienced relief from the pain, which
had been almost unendurable, livery other
remedy but this proved unavailing. Those
who have tried it once are satisfied of Its merits
and nothing will induce them to be without a
supply.—Fall 'Liver News. dee 18 Imd.tw
Alai-True but Strange.
Any person sending us their Address, with
20 cents, will receive, by mail, the Name and a
Carte de Visite of their future Wife or Hus
band. REEVES CO.,
oct 16 3mw 411 78 Nassau et., New York.
*A-Great Care Taken with the hewing
ONE PRICE CLOTHING.
JONES' OLD ESTABLISHED STORE,
604 MARKET STREET, ONE DOOR ABOVE SIXTH.
For many years this Establishment has done
business on the One Price Systm nod we be
lieve we are the only Clothing House in the
city that strictly adheres to this principle. We
have earned a reputation which wo are proud
of, for good taste in selecting good styles and
substantialmaterials, and not less important,
for having all of our goods.
EXTRA WELL :11ADE.
We employ the best talent for Cutters, and
our Goods are of both kinds—Fashiouable and
Plain—so that all tastes cau be suited. The
prices are the very lowest, us any one by a
moment's thought must see, or otherwise wo
could not meet the competition of our neigh
bors, for as no deductions are ever made, we
must put our prices down to the lowest figure,
80 as to give to our customers all the advan
tages we promise.
The people may depend, this is the true plan
upon which to do business, and many a dollar
can be saved to Clothing buyers by keeping In
mind
JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE,
604 MARKET STREET,
of on the Corner, but one Door above Sixth
mar 12 lyw
Deafness, Blindness and Catarrh,
treated with the utmost success, by J. ISAACS,
M. D., Oculist and Aurlst, (formerly of Leyden,
Holland,) No. 1305 Arch Street Philadelphia
Testimonials from the most reliable sources in
the City and Country can bo seen at his office.
The Medical faculty are Invited to accompany
their patients as he has nu secrets in his
practice. ARTIFICIAL EYES inserted with
out pain. No charge for examination.
may 8 10mw
NOY FAT'S LIFE 1'11.L.4 AND PMEN 1X lIITTV.ItS.
The wonderful effects of MolTat's Life Pills In cases
Of mental depression or physicall weakness, proceed
ing from indigestion, ;costiveness, or bilious score
ions are certified to by millions of persons who have
been benefited by them. They aro the most effective
Cathartic and purifier ever before the public and have
ever been In use since 182.5. They are cheap, safe and
reliable. Sold by all respectable dealers every where.
- -
A7 - Praltritarttaient..
of facts. 'l : inherited Hcroftila,
and many of my relations have died of it. In 163 U my
case was frightful. Tumors and ulcers spread until
In 18-12, under the advice of my physicians 1 went to
Avon Springs. • I received 11,) benellt.—tried every
medicine and did everything I could. I had to rod my
Atrin on a cushion, and had not boon able to raise It to
by head for over a year. The discharge from two
ulcers was nearly a 1,1111 a day. Amputation way
recommended; but pronounced dangerous. 1 could
not sleep, and any sufferings were Intolerable. A
friend brought mu au English physician who applied
a salve with which he said ho bud accomplished eat
traordinary cures In the hospitals In England.
commenced to relieve; persisted in its use; It finally
effected a perfect and entire cure. It Is now ISIS, it
Is live years since I had the appearance ofascroftions
Rom and my health has been good ever since. I
Procured the receipt of his wonderful article—this
leasing of humanity—and have called It" Pm/WS.
I.:LIMA-5W.1.1/e," and allow the public to use it or not
an they choose. This is a brief but candid statemen
given more telly In my circular.
GENEVA, New York, December, 18-IS.J. M. PAGE.
NEW Tonic, Oct. 16, 18611.
" I have known J. M. Page, Esq., of Geneva, 10. Y„
for many yearn. Ito Is oue of the first citizeas o
Western New York. I saw him last week in good
health. ills case was a most remarkable one, but ac
tually true In every particular.
(Signed.) Mat As 14,111 S
We have watched the unaided but growing favor of
Paoc's CLIMAX SALVE.," and availing ourselves of
the knowledge of Its wonderful curative powers, have
become proprietors of the name.
It Is sure cure for Burns, Scalds, Scrofula, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Broken Breasts, Frost Bites,
Sings, Bruises, Cants, tlwuilingn, Sc.,
whether upon man or beast. It muttdues pain and
inflammation with surprising celerity, awl heals
burns without a scar. No family should be without
it. It is always wanted, :and is always ready. We
will forfeit a dozen horto fur any single failure. We
believe there wasnever anything like it in the
It Is put up hi tin boxes, surrounded by a full circula
giving facts, directions, testimonials, Jce., and Cu,, be
or, ,red through any respectable Druggist throughout
the corld, Price only 22 cents.
WHITE & HOWLAND.
Successors to J. M. Page, 121 LIDEIITY STRICET, NOW
York. 29 Iveoan w
Narriagro.
MAIIGAN—HARTMAN.—On the 2Uth Inst., at
Orelder's Hotel, by the Hey. W. T. Gerhard,
Wadkln Margan to Anna D. Hartman, both of
Hohreretown.
Bummairr—Fustx.—AL the came place, on
the SUMO day, by the same, Martin B. Burlc
hart, of Rohrerstowu, to Barbara E. Funk, of
Ml llarsvl lie.
SRLINO.—On 29th inst., at the
residence ox George A. IClugh, at Harrisburg,
by Rev. G. F. bLelling, Jesse Klugli, of May
town, to Miss Alice Gemperling, of Lancaster
city.
I:IOWEN—NRIVCOMER.—On the 21th lust., by
Rev. J. J. idtrine, at his residence, John Bowen,
to XiEISI Libby U. Newcomer, both of Hebron
town, Rant Hemptield tWI).
REITZEL—KLIIGII.--On the same day, at
Kauffman's Hotel, by the same, Jacob 1.. Rel
zel, of Columbla,to Miss Lizzie Riugh,of Mount,
Porra-9trat3.--On tho 25th Mat., at the real•
deuce of the father of the bride by Rev. 11, E.
Spayd, Samuel W. Potts to M Ina Martha Sidon,
of Weal Lampoter. •
13WILNIC—Dsttsit.—At the bride's home, by
Rev. W. V. tiotwald. William Sweat{ to Alimti
Louisa J. B. Deese, both of thin city,
leissrmt—UßAllA3l.—On the 21thinst., by the
Rev. J. J. Strine, J. C. Fleeter, of Salisbury, to
Mies A. M. Graham. of this city.
MURPItY—Mt:CUMaRY.—Un the canto day, at,
the Cross Key's Hotel, by the name, Milton
Murphy, of East Lampeter, to Miss Julia A. E.
MeCumhoy, of titranburg twp.
KREMER—NNVIN.—On the nth inst.,'at the
residence of the bride's fattier, by the Rev. A.
H. Kremer, assisted by Ray. J. W. Novlu,
1). D., and Rey. T. it. 13arker, J. Brainerd Kro.
mer and Mice DlAttle E. Novin, daughter of
prof. Wm. M. Neyln, all of tills city.
STSWAII.I;t--EWINO.—On the 113th Inst., In this
city, by Rev. J. U. Owens, Clement Steward to
Raabe] Ewing, both of title county. •
HA 3113/tltillT—Sritt FLY.—Ozi the 26th 1nt1.., at
Manchester, Md., by Rev. Geo. Lightner,sturi'l
M, liambrfght, of Lancaster, Penn's, to Mollie
E. Stelley t of Carroll county, MO. •
HAND—TROUT.—on the nth Inst., at tile resi
dence of the bride's brother, Mr. John Trout,
by the Rey. J. V. E.Atert, Mr. B. R. Hand of
New Jersey, to Miss A. E. Trout, of St resb(&rg
township.
RoW.l.—arnticrac.—On the 26th bust, at the
reit:46)lo3 of the bride's father, Mr. William
Ku le , by the same, Mr. Daniel. F. Rowe, of
Edet6, to Miss Rachel J. Kurnitle, of Coleraine
township.
Maths.
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Suwiacrorr.—On the 27th Inst., to this city,
Robert Singleton, In the 60th year of his ago.
Nlvatts.
Philadelphia titan' Market,
tiftILA.DX.I.PIIIA, Dec. 31.—Flow: continues
;inlet; 700 bbls sold at 87.50@8.25,f0r superfine;
88.50©9.50 for extra; 8.00111 for Northwestern
family, and 8110012,50 for Penna. and Ohio fam-
Wheat very dull,. email sales of prime red at
82.45g2.50.
Rye upeNanged ; prime Penna. sold at 81.70.
Corn is firmly halo ; 4,500 bus sold at 81.42 for
Old yellow, 81.10611.20 lor new do, as to condi
tion, and SI..W for new Western mixed.
Oats dte dull and lower; 3,000 bus Sold at 75c.
Heeds continue dull; sales of Clover at 87L1,
Timothy at 82.442.60, and. Flaxseed at 02.50 per
bushel.
Few, York Markets.
NEW Youtt. Dec. s`.—Cotton firm at 15y 4 e.
Flour firm • 4,500 bblasold, State, 8 8 .35(r1;10.6d;
Ohio, 89.75(01'3; Western, E5..,50(015; ; Southern,
810(14.60; California, $12.51413.W..
Wheat firm ;. 1,090. bus, mold, white Missouri
a 82.8 W. '
Cori:LAl:tier 291,000 bus sold; Western, 81.300
Oats
firm • Western at 81%e.
Barley quiet; 1,000 bus sold, State at $l.BB,
Beef quiet.
Fork steady; Mess at $21.25,
Lard quiet.
Whiskey quiet,
• • i
i •
PRILAIntr-Htti. il men - ttil t , n irdos iathar thig
more diepoeiti. 4l l 'c l -- ---„, "l ea d . Gothrto
morning, and Or.
• Ic A.,Yliettl , 101 A was bid•for
raen . A
_ ollllll 2c 4 T ... n e 11, - for IWO:
for lu-m.• for u -.,- a l w ,d 1
105 8 4 fbr!gi fwd. • 105% —. . tWd
Jury 85 &AIL 0117 LoaCT l ZA ll a d v a noe - or
the nem sold oi• MOW' %moat active on
Railroad 'hares were the , . • .. 4 54r oc h
list; Reading Raliroadisold ~ s, 634--noingin
Reading at 48—no change ; Lo.
-.-4 iiljahl de.
change; Catawlasa pri., at 73 3v1./...-9, decline
Mine; Philadelia and Erie at lunge; 1.28
of W. and Ca mden nna.,at 83--nd
wea old forand Amboy, ant. .
Northern Central.
-- -
. .
NEw Yon_g., ,
Dec. 81.—U. 13, es of 'Bl, 11 7
(811.2%; U.S. 5.:7Ja of 'V, 105)0108%; do. of t, P.
105MolO&X; do. of '65, 10,534106• do. of Jet.
and - July i 0733401013%; 10-10 a, 101611102;
June and Dec., l04.)-g; do. of annary and
July,lo4rgtlo4%; New (Wu. Centra l . l / 8 340/18%1
Erie 71 , •$(071%; do. preferred, 73071; kladalon,
130@131 1 • Reading, 6647,086 1 4 ; Michigan South..
ant, 81a 3 64Y,; do. Central 107; Dllnols Cen
tral, It 13334; Northwestern Common, 5834
do. preferred, tkitgelli Cleveland and Pitt*.
burg, 86litg•fs614; Cleveland and Toledo, 07%6
g 7%; Wayne, U 3 629 Terre Haute, 80; Toledo
and Wabash, 46341,• Chicago and Alton, 180;
do Ppreferred, 18fK0132%; Ohio and miselsalpDppi
Certiacatea, 271X(s)tai,• Atte= Express Co.' 77iS .
(g 77;;;; Canton, 48448%;__ Cumberland, B l ®sBBB__
quicksilver, 2W1% W. U. Teleg7aPh6sr
gag; Boston Water Power. 1914019 V mum
110 521//05.1,; Atlanta Mail, 11%®11 6. market strong. tsoid,
Philadelphia (Attie Market.
MONDAY, December 80—Evening..
Beef cattle were scarce and In demand =LI
week at full prices. About 81.0 head arrived and
sold at the Avenue Drove Yard at 90100 18 ID,
gross, for extra PenneylVania and Western
steers, 73,4y683/ j e, for fair to good do, and 54310,40
et It gross, to. common as to quality. The Bil
lowing are the particulars of the sales:
31 P. McFillen, Western, oioloc, gross.:
15 P. Hathaway, Chester county,7 , 4®934e,
gross.
34 James S. Kirk, Chester co., B©loo, gross.
75 James McFillen, Western, 85d3ic, gross.
30 E. 8. Mcleilign, Chester county, 8(g)150, gross.
511 Ullman dc Bachman, Chester county, 7, 1 43
o 'sic.gross.
IS Moo/ley at Smith, Western, 6430 a, gross.
21 8. Mooney & Bro., WesterL, 607, 1 4 c, gross.
14 H. Chain, Penna., 0(570 gross.
10 L. Frank, Western, kitLtic, gross.
75 Frank d Schamburg, Western, 7@9e, gross.
70 Hope & Co., Western, 6(58%0, gross.
37 Blunt & Co., Western, 048 e, gross.
25 B. Baldwin, Chester county, 7©8,5...c., gross.
45 14. Hood, Cheater county, 6;4(3,93 , 0, gross.
Cows were iu fair demand; lto head sold at
84006.3 for springers, and 850400 'f head for cow
and calf.
Sheep wore also In demand tit an advance;
. 2,101) head sold at S®SAo It gross.
hogs were
retry't+ 1,015 s higher s,ooohead sold
at the diffards at sll.3o®s/0.611 '0 NO /a
net.
Lancaster Household Iffarket. •
lia-NcesTEs., Saturday, Dec. 28.
40445 e.
15418 c.
400.
50475 e.
..... tN.4SOe.
1.2542.10
1.254150.
200.
1.3041.40
214250.
80425 e.
_1.0041.10
.... .0410 e.
154200
—.2.0042.10
„ 15418 e.
i 1.1041.2.5
10400 e.
Butter, yt ID
Lard, VIC
Eggs dozen
Chickens, 01 , 100 pair
Do. (cleartedo "f pair
Turkeys, " piece
Geese, "
L Ib
amb,
Sausages,o t a m p t b o o , . b ib zl r
p h
e e .
......
Do. Sweet,'f bushel..
Apples, " 3 peck
New Corn bustle!
Old "
Cabbage" head
Onions, " peek
New Oats V bag
Apple Butter, 3$ pint
Do:crock .
Turulps, vl bushel
LANCASTER GRAIN MARKET, MONDAY
Dlickmiiiiii 30th, 1867.—Market quiet
Family flour, p bar $ll 00
Extra do do 10 00
Supertine..do do 025
Wheat (white) "Ei bus, , ~. ...... .. 2 60
Wheat (red) do 230
Rye do . 1 50
Corn (uew) do 1 05
Oats
Whiskey
4rAtT Atittertionueuto.
ESTATE 01' WILLIAM MURPHY, LATE
onLancoster city, Lancaster county, de
ceased. LeLturs of administration on said
estate having been grantee to the undersigned,
all porsons Indebted 'thereto, uru requested to
moue lunnediatesettlement, and those towing
claims or demands atunnet, Wu same, Will pre-
sent them Without delay for settlement to the
undersigned, residing in sold township,
IdILHAEL MUItPHY, Administrator
titrawbrhigo, York county,
Or J. W. F. ic.Wl A.ttorue
Jo 1 I.llcr' 321 No. 13, North Duke street.
ESTA'fli OF CAPTAIN JOHN STEELE.
late or Leacock township, auceased.—Let•
tors or admlnintratlou cum. tee. an. do bones
noir on said estala nosing been grouted to the
undorsigued, all persons Inutamoa Lboreto are
requested tornuhu lintnedtutu noLLloruouL, and
Liam° having oialius or demantla agalnbt the
balite, will preheat. Loom watait delay fir set
tlement to tno uudockogood, residing In sold
township. 11.E.N11.1' E. IiLAYAIAa.EIi,
sAAII.. F. I , oerrElt,
J a 1-ULw Adnuntstrators (J.'l'. A. B. B. N.
ESITA'rE 01 , JOHN BIetiOVERN, LATE
or East, Rumpheld towustilp, deceased.—
Letters 01 Adiniundration on said estate hav
ing been granted to the undersigned, unper
son, Indented thereto are requested to make
immediate pay ILIOUL, and Laolle tooting claims
or demands ugalusc the wild uweunnL will
present them to the undersigned, residing In
sold township, ur co W. LArpenter, No. 27 East
Orange street, Lancuster,
ED WI), MOANERS,
Administrator.
ACCOUN 1 S OF 'III,UST I:STATEN. tte.—
Tao accounts of Wu following .ristuoil es.
totes Will- bo presented for aotinraußlon on
Mt./ALAI'. J A.Ol U MAX 27, 18O21:
Polar /fuller and Wile's,listate,Samuol Eby
at at Assignees.
Benj. J. Linville and Wifo's Estate, Samuel
Bleetnu Assignee.
Bache! n IlilllUSLoolen Rotate, Christian
Rhino, Trustee.
Unleou iiaulrmali and Wito'a Extate,; J1:10.
I:at/Milan 01 al Asingunem,
blary Cuwetui liatate„ Jacob 13nel:tong of al
Truenues. W. L. I.lEalt, Plothonotary,
Pruinunotar)"n OUleu, Due. du, Mg.
Jan
VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY ATPIIIB.
LIC BALE.—On MONDAY, the lath day
of JAN CAItY, Iwo, In pursuance of an Order of
the Orphans' Court of Lancaster county, the
undersigned, Administrator of the estate of
John Jacob Fischer, deceased, late of the city
of Lancaster, will expose at public vendue, on
the premises, all that certain lot or piece of
ground, situated on the west side or North
queen ci ty e Walnut and Lemon ate., in
toe bald of Lancaster, and fronting on
North queen street thirty-two feet and two
and 00e-fourth Inches, and extending west-
Ward In depth two hundred and lorty.livefeet
1.0 a fourteen feet wide public alley, and Is
Mined on the north by property of Bawls
Hartman, on the south by property of Joseph
Weaver, on which are created a one•story
FRAME HOUSE, with an extensive new
two-story brick HACK BUILDING, hog pen,
hen house,;,Ste. The yard and lot are neatly
laid out and cultivated with choice grapes
and tine fruit trees.
This property has boon licensed and men
pled la a Restaurant and Eating Houma, for
more than 16 y ears, uud Las always been doing
a very largo business.
Salo to commence at 7 o'clock In tho evening
of said day, wnen terms will be made known
by MARTIN KLIHLER, Administrator.
Jan 13,w dr. OtdlW
pIIINCIPAL AND INTEREST
IN GOLD COIN
THE BEST INVESTMENT
FOR , YURPLUS CAPITAL.
The attention of Inventors, Trustees Execn
torn, and other's desiring an unusuallisofe, re.
liable, and profitable form or permanent In
vestment, Is called to the advantages and [as
surances of
VI CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
Fl MT MOUTOAGE BONDS
The Central Pacific Railroad Company ofrer
or sato :heir FIRST MORTGAGE THIRTY
YEAR SIX PER CENT. GOLD BONDS, and
submit to Investors thefollowing, among other
obvious consideration , and Invite the oom.
It:Arisen With the merits mid excellencies of any
clam of corporate securities:
I. These bonds aro based upon the moat vital
and valutiblo part of the Grand National Pueblo
Railroad, soon to become the main channel of
communication on the continent.
11. The local settlement, and the buslnesa
therefrom is remarkably large and peal:Ruble,
hnd must constantly thereinto.
I IL The hardest partof the road's now built,
Find the remainder will be rapidly carried for
want over the Halt Lake Malay.
I V, The greater part of the moans necessary
to build the road is provided by the U. S. Gov
ernment upon a subordinate Ilan.
V. The State and chief cities of California
have contributed upward of ilii,ello,ooo to the an.
tormasr, Without lien.
VI. The grunt or Ili zul is destined at an early
day to prove of fur greater market vuluo than
Wu total of the Flrst Mortgage bonds loaned
upon the read find equipments. - -
VII. This Road lies altogether among the
gold and silver producing regions, and Ita
revenues are received lii coin.
VW. The inunageMent of this Company has
been distinguished for prudence and economy;
and the surplus earnings, after payment of ex.-
poolieu and Interest, are devoted to construc
tion purposes.
IX. The Interest Itabiinlets of the Company
upon the nortlon now in operation are less
than a third of the not earnings.
X. Both princlpa and interest are payable IN
cola , . under special provisions of both Nation
al an d State enactment.
These bonds In sums of 131,0%, each, with
semi-annual gold coupons attached, payablean
January and July, and are offered for sale at 96
per cent. of their par value and accrued inter
est from Suly 1 added. In currency.
At this time they yield nearly
NINE PER CENT. UPON THE INVESTMENT
These bonds bid fair to attalathe most promi
nent position among the nou-speenlatlve In
vestments of the country, and rill be actively
dent in at the money centers In Europe.
Holders of Government !Securities have an
oppartunity of exchanging them for Central
Pacific Bends, bearing artoqtml rate of interest,
with the principal abundantly secured, and of
realizing a proat of ten to fifteen per cent, in
addition.,
Orders Sent with the funds through;responsl•
blo 13unta or Express Companies will receive
prompt attontlou. Bonds sent by return IC.x.
press, to ally address in the Uulted titates, at
our co, t. information, DescrlpUve Pamphlets,
'Maps, &c., furnished ma application at tne onion
of tue ItaUgoad (Minpauy,
SCA 34 WILLIAM STREET,
AND OF
FISK & HATOII
Bankers & Doolen In Gov't Glifa t urtilev f ,
AND
-FININCIAL AGENTS OF WW2, P. R. E. 00.
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