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They will be entitled to I column, confined exclusively to their business, with pi-; Wlege of change. • Advertising m all cases exclusive of sub scription to the paper. JOB PRINTING of every kind in Plain and Fan cy colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Hand bills, Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, Ac., of every ve rity and style, printed at the shortest notice. The RE POSTER OFFICE has just been re-fitted with Power Presses, aud every thing in the Printing line can be executed in the most artistic manner and at the jowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. (Eariis. npHOMAS J. INGHAM, ATTORNEY 1_ AT LAW, LAl'OßTE,Sullivan Connty,Pa. / i EORGE D. MONTAXYE, ATTOR VJT XE Y AT LA IV— Office in Union Block .former ly occupied by Jxa. JIA SCANS. WT. DAVIES, Attorney at Law, To • wanda, Pa. Office with Wm. Watkins, Esq. Particular atteuiion paid to Orphans' Court business and settlement ol decedents estates. 25-42. MERCUR & MORROW, Attorneys at Law, Towanda, Penn'a, The undersigned having associated theiuselvas togeth er in the practice of Law, offer their professional ser vices to the public. ULYSSEb MERCUR, P. D. MORROW. March 9,1865. Patrick & peck, attorneys AT LAW, Offices In Union Block, Towanda, Pa., formerly occupied by Hon. Wm. Elwell, and in Patrick's block, Athens, Pa. They may be consulted at either place. H. W. PATRICK, apll3 W. A. PUCK. Hll. Ml K KAN, J TTORNE Yd- CO UN • SELLOR AT LAW, Towanda, Pa. Par ticular attention paid to business in the Orphans' Court. July 20. 1866 HENRY FEET, Attorney at Laic, Towan la. Pa. jun27,66. WH. CARNOCHAN, ATTORNEY • AT LA IV, Troy, Pa. Special attention given to collecting claims against the Government for Bounty, Back Pay and Pensions. Office with E. B. Parsons, Esq. June 12,1865. EIDWARD OVERTON Jr., Attorney at X2i Luu J, Towanda, Pa. Office in Montanyes Block, over Frost's Store July 13th, 1865 [OHN N. CALIFF, ATTORNEY AT l) I.A IF, Towanda, Pa. Also, Government Agent or the collection ot Pensions, Back Pay and Bounty. *S" No charge unless successful. Office over the Post Office and News Room. Dec. 1,1864. DR E. H. MASON, rH YEICIA N AND S VRGEOS, offers his professional services to the peopleof Towanda and vicinity. Officeat hisresidencf on Pines' reet, where he can alwaysbefound when not ■nfarituDy engaged. HE." RY A. RECORD, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, having permanantly located in Mill view, Sullivan Co., Pa.,would respectfully offer his pro fessional services to the citizens of the place a vicinity. Jan. 30, '66. 0 1). STILES, M. D., Physician and Sur • geon. would announce to the people ot Rome Bo rough and vicinity , that he has permanently locate t at the place iormerly occupied by Dr. G VV. Stone, for the practice of his p ofession. Particular attention given to the treatment of women and children, as also to the practice of operative and minor surgery. Oct. 2,'66. DR. PRATT lias removed to State street (tirst above B. S. Russet: & Go's Baok). Persons ■from a diftance desirous -1 con ulting him. will be most likely to find him on Saturday Dt each week. Especial attention will be given to surgical cases, and the extrac tion of teeth. Gas or Ether administered when desired. _Jnly IS.JSGS. D. S. PRATT, M. D. TP D WARD MEEKS—AUCTIONEER^ f ' Ail letters addressed to him at Sugar Run, Brad t,,r,j Pa., will receive prompt attention. May7'66tf, lIRANC, t S E. POST, Painter, Towanda, I'u with if vears experience, is confident he can give the best satistu xtion j n Painting, Graining, Stain lug, Glazing, I articular attention paid to Jubbiug in the 'lutiy. April 9, '66. j .1. N£WE Lb , COUNTY SURVEYOR, Orwell, Bradford Co., Pa„ will promptly attend to all business in his line. Particular attention to run ning and establishing old or disputed lines. A ' so t0 surveying ot all unpattented 1 ands as soon as warrant are obtained. May 17, 1866. Drntistrp. 1 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE . IN DENTISTRY J. S. SMITH, M. D., would re spectfully inlorm the inhabitants of Bradford County that he is permanantly located in Waverly, N.Y., where he has been in the practice of his profession for the past four years. He would say that from his long and suc cessful practice of 25 years duration, he is familiar with ail the different styles of work done in any and all Den tal establishments in city or country, and is better pre pared than any other Dental operator in the vicinity to do work the best adapted to the many and different cases that present themselves oftentimes to the Dentist, as he understands the art ot making his own artificial teeth, and has facilities tor doing the same. To those requiring under sets of teeth he would call attention to his new kind of work which consists ol porcelain lor both plate and teeth, and lorming a continuous gum. It is more durable, more naturai in appearance, and much better adapted to the gum than any other kind of work. Those in need of the same are invited to call and exam ine specimens. Teeth filled to last for years and otten t mes for lite. CHloroto, m, ether, and "Afttrou* oxide" administered with perfect satety, as over tour hundred patients within the last four years cau testify. I will be in Towanda from the 15th to 30th ol every mouth, at the office of V.K. TAYLOR. (formerly oc cupied by Dr. O. H. Woodruff.) Having made arrange ments with Mr. Taylor, 1 am prepared to do all work in the very best style, at his office. Nov. 27,1865. yl. T)R. 11. WESTON, DENTIST. Office JL/ in Patton's Block, over Barstow Gore's Diug and Chemical S:ocs. ljanCti AMERICAN HOTEL, TOWANDA, PA., Having purchased this well known Hotel on Bridge Street, 1 have refurnished and refitted it with every convenience for the accommodation ot ail who may pat me. No pains will be spared to make all pleas am i,nd agreeable. J. S. PATTERSON , Prop. Jfay J. 66.—tf. _ HOUSE, TOWANDA, PEN VA Ot Main Street, near the Court House. ft. T. SMITH, Proprietor. Oct. 8, 1866. SNYDER HOUSE, a four story brick ed ifice near the depot, with large airy rooms, elegant > ariors, newly turai-ned. has a recess in ntw addition for Laiiea use, and is the most conv-nient and only first class hrnel at Waverly. N. Y. It is the principal office tor stages south and express. Also for sale ol We-tern Tickets, and in Canada, on Grand Trunk Rail way, tare to Detroit from Buffalo, $4, is cheaper than auy oiher route. Apply lor tickets as above to C. WARFORD. **" Stabling and care of Horses at reasonable rates. Waverly N. Y., 0ct.26,1866.-3m. C. W. QROOERIES AND PROVISIONS, WHOLESALE AND KKTAIL, JOHN MEIiID ET H , Main st., first door south of Rail Road House, Towanda, us just received a large addition to his stock of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS lowest rates* B ° ld 81 wholesa!e and reUil , at C j very farmer s Produce of ail kinds bought and sold, stock wlucl IC a ' teaUuu 'S respectful ly invited to my prices and wilM l U ' be Fresh, bought at low Xowand. Jay low rates. E. (>. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. ACT CMS RAIN. Spell-bound, often have I listened, To the wild and plaintive tone Of the wind-harp in the forest, Wailing for the loved and gone, There's a sadness I've endeavored To dispel, but all in vain, As I listen to the moanings Of the fitful autumn rain. Gold and crimson leaves are falling Thickly all about the ground, And their rustle 'neath the footfall Hath a melancholy sound. Like the leaves our lives are fading, Death will sometime come to all; Youth and age alike are covered With the gloomy funeral pall. There's a sense of desolation, Aud a thrill of almost pain, That steals o'er me as I listen To the wild, sad autumn rain, I forget each joy or pleasure Which my life had ever known, And remember but the sorrows Taat were in my pathway strown. Dark and dreary seems the Future, And the Present cola and chill, And the patter of the rain drops E'en my very heart doth thrill, Oh! I love the rain of summer, Falling in refreshing showers, Waking earth to joyous beauty, Cheering all the drooping dowers, But when twilight shadows deepen, Listening to the lonely strain (Like an outcast spirit roving,) Of the mournful autumn rain. Ofttimes my heart grows weary, As the shadows o'er me creep, And I've felt a strange wild longing For the last eternal sleep. folitial HO\t SIMON CAMERON U. S. SENATOR, AC. MR. EDITOR :—ln your issue of Nov. 22d, is an editorial favoring the election of Hon. SIMON CAMERON to the U. S. Senate. The successor of the recreant COWAN should be characterized by breadth of comprehension, firmness of will, a readiness to assume all responsibilities dictated by passing emer gencies, and his past record should be a sure guarantee that he would be for the Government against its betrayers, and a friend to its friends against all their op pressors. How nearly SIMON CAMERON ap proaches this standard, let the following extract from his Report as Secretary of War in 1861 be taken in evidence. Bear in mind, at that early date, to talk of eman cipation was fanaticism with many, to ad vise the arming of negroes was sacrilege with more. But subsequent events vindi cated the wisdom of the wise and stamped with infamy the follies ot the fearful. Extract From the Report of the Secretary of War, Simon Cameron. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 1861. It has become a grave question for de termination, what shall be done with the Slaves abandoned by their owners on the advance of our troops into Southern terri tory, as in the Beaufort district of South Carolina. The whole white population therein is six thousand, while the number of negroes exceed thirty-two thousand. The panic which drove their masters in wild contusion from their homes, leaves them in undisputed possession of the soil. Shall they, armed by their masters, be placed in the field to fight against us, or shall their labor be continually employed in reproduc ing the means for supporting the armies of rebellion? The war into which this government has been forced by rebellious traitors, is car ried on for the purpose of repossessing the property violently and treacherously seized upon by the enemies of the Governmen,and to re-establish the authority and laws of the United States iD the places where it is opposed or overthrown by armed insurrec tion and rebellion. Its purpose is to recov er and defend what is justly its own. War, even between independent nations, is made to subdue the enemy, and all that belongs to the enemy, by occupying the hostile country, and exercising dominion over all the things within its territory.— This being true in respect to independent nations at war with each other, it follows that rebels who are laboring by force of arms to overthrow a government, justly bring upon themselves all of the conse quences of war, and provoke the destruc tion merited by the worst of crimes. That government would be false to national trust, and would justly excite the ridicule of the civilized world, that would abstain from the use of any efficient means to pre serve its own existence, or to overcome a rebellious and traitorous enemy,by sparing or protecting the property of those who are waging war against it. The principal power and wealth of the : rebel States is a peculiar species of prop l erty, consisting of the service or labor of I African slaves, or the desceudents of Afri- I cans. This property has been variously | estimated at the value of from $100,000,- I 000 to 1,000,000,000. Why should this property be exempt from the hazards aud consequences of a re bellious war ? It was the boast of the leader of the re bellion, while he yet had a seat in the Sen ate of the United States, that the Southern States would be comparatively safe and free from the burdens of war, if it should be brought on by the contemplated rebell ion, and that boast was accompanied by the savage threat that " Northern towns and cities would become the victims of ra pine and military spoil," aud that "North ern men should smell Southern gunpowder aud feel Southern steel." No one doubts the disposition of the rebels to carry that threat into execution. The wealth of North ern towns and cities, the produce of North ern farms, Northern workshops and manu factories, would certainly be seized, de stroyed, or appropriated as military spoil. No property in the North would be spared from the hands of the rebels, and their ra pine would be defended under the laws of war. While the loyal States thus have all TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 6,18(56. their property and possesion at stake, are the insurgent rebels to carry on warfare against the government in peace and secu rity to their own property ? Reason and justice and self-preservation that such should be the policy of this Gov ernment, but demand, on the contrary, that, being forced by traitors and rebels to the extremity of war, all the rights and pow ers of war should be exercised to bring it to a speedy end. Those who make war against the Gov ernment justly forfeit all rights ol proper ty, privilege, or security, derived from the Constitution and laws, against which they are in armed rebellion ; and as the labor and service of their Slaves constitute the chief property of the rebels, such property should share the common fate of war to which they have devoted the property of loyal citizens. While it is plain that the Slave property of the South is justly subjected to all the consequences of this rebellious war, and that the Government would be untrue to its trust in not employing all the rights and powers of war to bring it to a speedy close, the details, of the plan for doing so, like all other military measures, must, in a great degree, be left to be determined by particular exigencies. The disposition of other property belonging to the rebels that becomes subject to our arms is governed ' by the circumstances of the case. The Gov ernment has no power to hold slaves, none i to restrain a slave of his liberty, or to ex- j act his service. It has a right, however, ! to use the voluntary service of Slaves lib-1 erated by war from their rebel masters,like any other property of the rebels, in what ever mode may be most efficient for the I defence of the Government, the prosecu tion of the war, and the suppression of the : rebellion. It is as clearly a right of the ! Government to arm Slaves, when it may j become necessary, as it is to use gun powder taken from the enemy. Whether it is expedient to do so is purely a military \ question The right is unquestionable by ' the laws of war. The expediency must be j determined by circumstances, keeping in view the great object of overcoming the j rebels, re-establishing the laws, and restor- ' ing peace to the nation. It is vain and idle for the Government to ! carry on this war, or hope to maintain its existence against rebellious force, without employing all the rights and powers of war. As has been said, the right to de prive the rebels of their property in slaves and slave labor, is as clear and absolute,as the right to take forage from the field, or cotton from the warehouse, or powder and arms from the magazine. To leave the en emy in the possession of such property as forage and cotton and military stores, and the means of constantly reproducing them, would be madness. It is, therefore, equal madness to leave them in peaceful and se cure possession of slave property, more val-: uable and efficient to them for war, than ■ forage, cotton, and military stores. Such policy would be national suicide. What to do with that species of property, is a ques tion that time and circumstance will solve, and need not be anticipated further than to repeat that they cannot be held by the Government as slaves. It would be useless to keep them as prisoners of war ; and self-preservation, the highest duty of a gov ernment, or of individuals, demands that they should be disposed of or employed in the most effective manner that will tend most speedily to suppress the insurrection and restore the authority of the Govern ment. If it shall be found that the men who have been held by the rebels as slaves are capable of bearing arms and perform ing efficient military service, it is the right, and may become the duty, of the Govern ment to arm and equip them, and employ their services against the rebels, under proper military command. But in whatever manner they may be used by the government, it is plain that, once liberated by the rebellious act of their masters, they should never again be re stored to bondage. By the master's trea son and rebellion he forfeits all right to the labor and service of his slave ; and the slave of the rebellious master, by his ser vioe to the Government, becomes justly en titled to freedom and protection. RICH MEN'S SONS. —Henry Ward Beeeher, in a sermon delivered at Plymouth Church, produced the following picture of rich men's sons : Men seem ashamed of labor, and often, j often you shall find men have made them- j selves respected in labor, have built up a j business and amassed a fortune/who turn : to their sons and say : " You shall never ' do as I did ; you shall lead a different life ; j you shall be spared ail this." O, these rich j men's sons ! They aim to lead a life of el- j egant leisure, and that is a life of emascu lated idleness and laziness. Like the polyp | that fioats useless and nasty upon the sea, j all jelly and flabby, no muscle, no bone— it shuts and opens, opens and shuts, and sucks and squirts out again, of no earthly account, influence or use. Such are these poor fools. Their parents toiled and grew strong, built up their frames of iron and of bone ; but, denying all this to their sons, they turn them upon the world boneless, muscleless, simple grizzle, and soft at that. ANECDOTE OF DANIEL WEBSTER. —The fol lowing new anecdote of the " Godlike " is taken from Frazer's Magazine : " At the political dinners, of which Web ster was rather fond, he almost invariably became tipsy before his speech time arrived ; and some of his most admirable after-dinner speeches were the composition of friendly reporters. On one occasion he had to be prompted by a friend, who sat just behind him, and gave him successively phrases and topics. The speech proceeded some what after this fashion ; "Tariff." Webster, "The tariff, gentlemen, is a subject requir ing the profound attention of the statesman. American industry, gentlemen, must be—' (nods a little). Promoter, 'National Debt.' Webster, 'And, gentlemen, there's the na tional debt—it shonld be paid,(loud cheers, which rouse the speaker) yes, gentlemen, it should be paid (cheers) and d—d if it shan't be-(takiug out his pocket book)-I'll pay it myself 1 How much is it ?' Tnis last ques tion was asked of a gentleman near him, with drunken seriousness,and coupled with the recollection of the will known impecun iosity of Webster's pocket book, excited roars of laughter, amidst which the orator sunk into his seat and was soonaaleep." REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER A PURE DEMOORAOY. But lew people in this country have any ' just conception of what a pare democracy | is, or how laws are passed in countrias governed by that system. A correspon j dent of the New York Observer, now in that country, gives us the following interesting I account: So ignorant was I of the forms of govern j rneut existing in this part of the world, I ' did not know that six out of the twenty two Cantons, or States of Switzerland, are purely democratic iu their government. It is true that this is modified, in a measure, by their confederation with the others, anil that they have delegated to their general government the power of declaring war, coining money and regulating a system of mails. And, by the way, postage is cheap er in Switzerland than any country I was ever in ; five centimes, or one cent of our money, conveying a letter anywhere with in the country, and, in all the villages and cities, delivering it at the residence of the receiver. These several Cantons are, in oth er matters, independent of each other, and, in times long past, have had fearfully bloody wars among themselves. St. Galf is at the foot of the hill five miles below me, and is in canton of that name. Up here lam in Canton Appenzell. The road down the hill has run with blood, like water, in the fights between the people of these two Cantons. They are at peace now, but from lather to son is handed down the story of the warß. This Canton, containing a population of about 50,000, is a simple democracy, aud as primitive and pure as ever could have i existed in the earliest days of Greece or Rome, before an oligarchy or a monarchy I was known. Here the people, all the males over eighteen years old, actually a>semble, | personally, and in one place, to choose the necessary officers, and to make their own laws. This popular meeting is held in April j every year, and on Sunday always. On that day there is 110 preaching in any | church in the Canton, except the one where ' the election is held. All the ministers come 1 with the people. At the close of the moru -1 iug service, the election is opened by pray er, aud then the people proceed to the dis i charge of this serious duty, the act of their ; individual sovereignty. Every man wears 1 a sword by his side, a token of his being a | freeman ; for, centuries ago, when serfdom prevailed, only freemen could vote, and they wore swords. Now all wear swords on election day, for all are free. The Canton is not so large but that they can all come and return in the same day, and, for the most part, they come on foot. It is expected that they will all come. Aud where the power of voting is equally dis tributed in this way, and every man feels that he is an equal part of the government, there is little danger of any one's staying away, who is physically able to come.— Tbey meet sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another, but mostly in this village of Trogen, on the pubUe square.— Here a platform is erected, anil the officers chosen last year conduct the proceedings. The landeman, or chief, presides, and the clerk announces the name of any one nom inated for public office. All in favor hold up their right hands. All opposed then do the same. If there is any doubt, a count would be resorted to, but that is never nec essary. Office is not sought with any great rapacity, and the people are not divided in to parties fighting for the spoils. The sev eral officers thus elected are charged with the execution of the laws. A council is ap pointed, which meets, from time to time, in the State House here, and consults in re gard to the internal affairs of the Canton. If any new legislation is necessary, they frame the law, put it into print, and a copy of it is then placed in every house in the entire Canton. It is not yet a law ; it is thus distributed that the people, who are the law-makers, may examine it, talk it over among themselves and make up their minds as to its expediency. If is of import ance sufficiently pressing to require imme diate action, a meeting of the people may be held four weeks after the law has been proposed ; but generally this is avoided by having the me .sures submitted to the mas- meeting, and they vote for or against it, by the uplifted hand. As ample time has been given to the people to discuss the matter, there is no call tor long speeches, nor would they be tolerated by an assem bly that was bound to break up and get home the same I ight. And the laws thus adopted are put in force by the magistrates appointed by the popular vote, and often at the same time that the laws themselves are adopted. Among the principal cares of such offi cers must be the construction and repairs of the highways. 0 that otir American peo ple would send a commission of their country pathmasters over here ! Within the last four years two of these Cantons, not so large, and not a tenth—no, not a twentieth part so rich as Westchester and Dutchess Counties, in New York, have built a road along the eastern side of Lake Lucerne, that would do honor to Napoleon in the days of his mightiest power. For miles it is cut into the edge of solid rock, which makes the bed of the road, and a parapet ; sometimes it is tunneled, and once a tun nel with window looking out on the lake. All the main roads are like those in Central Park. All are made by the voluntary., self imposed taxation of a hard-working people. | And so far as I can judge, or learn, this | community, so governed, is as happy as any other. Whatever good government 1 can do for a people is done for this, and the people do it for themselves. * Here is a problem for our study. The greatest curse we labor under in America, as things go at present, is the universal suffrage which gives the control of our elections to the demagogue, and the igno rant, vicious and venal populace at his heels. If the evil is not greater here, there is reason for it. If a republic rests on the ; virtue and intelligence of its people, even j more dependent is a pure democracy like j this. And here is the secret of it. As there would be no need of government if all men were perfect, aud as the best form of gov ; ernrnent is the divine, a despotism, or the I power of one, when that one is perfect; so | the people, if intelligent and virtuous, will govern themselves wisely and well. Switz erland is an enlightened country, aud prob ably as moral a people as any other. By law every child is required to attend school from three to four years every day till he is twelve years old, aud a certain number Jof hours every week afterwards till he is sixteen. This makes education a necessi ty, unless the children are incompetent to learn. And there is an enthusiasm on the subject of education surprising even to an American. The various grades of schools meet the wants of all, and fit the young for any department of life's great work. In this village the Oantonial College, or High School, is located. Any parent may send his son here from any part of the Cantou, and he is educated at a trifling expense. — Young men go from this school, at once, in to mercantile employment in Asia, in France, England and America. And there are pupils in it from India, from Smyrna, from South America, Mexico, and New York. I haard a trampling in the street last evening, and, looking out of my win dow, saw a host of boys marching by, I learned by inquiry, that they were a school of 120, —making a pedestrian tour through a part of their native country, Switzerland. Accompanied by their teachers, they thus walk day after day, getting health and knowledge and fun, for they make play of it as they go. Early in the morning I was awakened by hearing them agaiu. They had been lodged, how I know not, at the iuns in the village,—and now at three o'clock, A. M. (for I looked at my watch,) they were up and off. Just then they struck up one of their merry sougs,and ser enaded the sleeping villager < as they took their leave. And even now, while lam writing these lines, I am called to the win dow to look out again, and here is a large school of girls, some of thom small, and other young ladies grown, making a pedes trian tour. Both of these companies are three or four days journey from their homes. They will be absent, perhaps a week or a fortnight. And they will be wiser, healthier, and happier for their tour. I mention these pleasant incidents to show the interest which teachers, parents and pupils must take in the business of ed ucation, when the school is thus made a part of pleasure, as well as the labor, of the young. Perhaps our teachers at home might take a leaf out of this Swiss chapter and put it into their own system. Nor is the moral culture of the young neglected. Far, very far from it. These schools are not godless schools. Religious instruction is not legislated out of education in this country. In this Canton they are nearly all Protestants. But in St. Gall, where they are nearly equally divided, the Ro manists have their own schools and the Protestants have theirs, both supported by the same system, and working harmonious ly,so far as any co-operation is required, but kept distinctly in the matter of instruction. And it is not likely that the same kind of moral and religious teaching is imparted as would be most pleasing to our American evangelical idea of what is necessary to be a Christian. This is not the business of the State to do. But it is the duty of the State to require in its teachers the ability, and to exact of them the duty to impart to all the children of the State such moral and religious instruction as is essential to a good citizen. That is what they get here. And that is what they cannot get in the public schools of America. Thus have I shown two grand reasons why democracy works better here than even a modified democracy, a- democratic republic, does with you. The people are compelled by their own laws, to attend school till they are sixteen yeais old, and they are carefully instructed in the princi ples of religion. Tims knowledge aud vir tue are recognized, by law, as the founda tion of public order. God is acknowledged in all the operations of government, aud peace, prosperity and happiness are the re sult. IRE.V.ECS. FRESH AIR. How few of us kuow the importance of a supply of fresh air ! We willfully keep out the floods of that sunlight which is neces sary to the health of our bodies, and the deprivation of which is perhaps the great est source of scrofula and all diseases of which it is the origin ; but, as if to brjug into full development, all the maladies thus created, we deprive ourselvesof the air of heaven, the pabulum which is the sup port of all nature, animal aud vegetable. The same contrivances, construted to pre vent a ray of the sun gaining access to our dwellings are generally sufficient to keep out fresh air also. But these are not enough in all cases to injure our health suf ficiently, and so we devise other methods to accomplish our objects more effectually.— We shut up our houses tightly, not only to keep the sun from coming in at the windows but we do the same on the north side of our dwellings. Many of our people never open their doors and windows except when driv en to do so by the melting heat ; but in the cooler portions of the year every opening is closed except in the morning when the house is "'dusted out," At this time the windows are opened for a Jew minutes while the dust is suffocating, but when enough has been driven out by the wind to make breathing just possible,down go the sashes,as if there were a pestilence in the atmosphere. The fires are replenished,and owing to the waut of draught or the impurity of the air in the room, burn but feebly, and their fumes of sulphureted hydrogen and carbonic acid gas fill the atmosphere of the room with a still larger quautits of poison, and at night the carburetted hydrogen of the gaslights infect the air still more. It is strange that with our lungs filled with dust and poisonous vapors, and gas ses from the very impure exhalations aris ing from several human bodies sitting to gether, is it strange, we say that we should complain of headache and geueral debility. And then again, what little air is admit ted is but too often poisoned before it reach es the door or windotv, and beariug evi dence that in its passage it has come under the corrupting influence of the cesspool or the filth of our streets and gutters. In additiou to all this, how many are yearly killed by the supposition in regard to the night air—that it is unhealthful ! If perchance, a window should be fouud open at the approach of night, it is carefully let down, and the consequence is that the air of the chamber uext morning is stifliug.— We complain of feverishness when we awake, and of headache, lassitude and hor rid dreams, all of which we could easily ac count for were we to reflect that for eight hours we had been breathing poison. This poison is the more potent, the more per -1 sous occupy the same room. per Annum, in Advance. EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY. LOUISA DLACKMAN's STOBY AS BELATED BY ILEE.SELF. [From the Pittsburg Gazette.] On Saturday there arrived in our city from Indianapolis, a person possessing a history so remarkable in its way, that but few individuals in any region or any time, have furnished the parallel to it. Indeed we doubt if any record is known of exper iences similar in their cause, progress and results, to the experiences of the person of whom we speak. She is a young girl not yet seventeen, rather delicate than robust in physique ; possessing a high degree of intelligence ; having manners at once mod est and winning ; aud before the terrible ordeal through which, far from scathless, she has come, was gifted with more beauty of form and feature, than usually falls to the lot of womanhood, even at seventeen. Yet this beautiful girl has gone through a terrible and sharp experience, the mere contemplation of which would make the bravest and hardiest pioneer tremble, ap palled, and which might safely be promised to kill the toughest hunter of the Rocky Mountains or the African juugles. Our readers certainly remember the ex traordinary case of Louisa Blackman (or Blackburn, as the name was erroneously spelled in the papers at the time of the occurrence), who last winter was found horribly frozen near a hay stack, in Law rence county, in this State, and whose ac count of her sufferings for months previ ous to being found, was published through out the country, and excited universal com ment. This girl, on Saturday afternoon, arrived in the city, and is now stopping at the Eagle Hotel, on the corner of Second and Ross streets. We have received the story of her remarkable sufferings from her own lips since she arrived in the city, and the facts, as related by her, are sub stantially as follows : In the year 1860, Thomas Blackman, the father of Louisa, was living with his fami ly at Jefferson City, Missouri, whither he had removed from Joliet, Illinois. Black man was strongly predisposed to Mormon ism, his father having lived in that faith for the last few years of his life, and died in it at last. At length, yielding to his in clinations and the persuasions of others, Blackman determined to become a "Saint," and in the autumn of 1866, took his family and started with several other families for Salt Lake City. They reached the chief city of Mormondom at length, and eventu ally Thomas Blackman was received into the Church of Brigham Young. Sorely against the wishes and expostulations of his wife and three daughters the new con vert adopted the social customs of his new belief aud added another wife to his house hold. This new state of things was endur ed by the first wife and his children as long as possible, but at length the indigni ties practiced upon them, and the outra geous observances surrounding them on every hand, became intolerable, and they determined to escape from this empire of corruption to the bounds of civilization. Accordingly, in the month of April, 1862, having braved the abominations of Mor mondom tor a year and a ha f, they prepar ed to brave the horrors of the wilderness as an escape. One night, in the month mentioned, when circumstances favored, they passed the sentinels surrounding the city and en tered the wilderness. They were accom paned at the start by a Mrs. Ward, who proposed to escape with them. This un fortunate woman, however, was soon re- I captured and suffered the penalty affixed, by Mormon law, to the crime of attempting to escape—was hung. Mrs. Blackmau and her three daughters kept on rapidly for that night and a portion of the next day, until they reached a rocky cave known as the "Lion's Mouth," some thirty miles from the city. There they lay hid for sev eral days until they judged the heat of the pursuit was over and they started out again Louisa states that while they re mained concealed in the cave, they more than once heard the baying of the blood hounds of the pursuers. They struck out now across the plain, proposing to reach some point of civilization on the other side of the mighty desert. Think of a woman and three helpless girls with only such food as they could in a bundle, with no sufficient knowledge of the country be fore them, with no guide to direct or coun sel them, and with only the strength of feeble womanhood to defend them from the multiplied horrors of their fearful journey, undertaking a passage that men accom | plish only in strong and thoroughly equipp- I ed parties ! These woman undertook this journey. Of their progress and the unimaginable sufferings they endured, there is only one who knows anything, and that is Louisa, the single survivor of the feeble party. She states that when they had been some three month; of their journey her yourg esf sister, a girl of some thirteen, died of starvation and exhaustion. A week later the elder sister, aged about fourteen, also died—starved to death. Louisa was strong er, healthier and more robust than the others, and the hardships of the journey made less impression on hex. Leaving the corpses of the dead girls up- j on the plain, the mother and her one child j continued on their weary way of increas ing terrors. Their little stock of food had been exhausted in the first few days, and they could get nothing but such precarious subsistance as the prairie afforded. They had brought plenty of money with them, but what mines of gold would it not have taken to purchase a meal in the midst of that world of desolation ! They had bro't a bow and arrow with them.and with these they killed an occasional bird tyr gopher, which they devoured raw. Now and then, also, they encountered some edible roots. These were their feasts, with intervals of days in length between. Ak length, j some two mouths after the death of her I children, Mrs. Blackmau also lay down aud j died, first making Louisa promise that she ! would continue her journey and endeavor j to reach "the States.'' Louisa, alone now, continued to follow the Indian trail, living as heret fore, till at last she fell in with a party of Fox Indians, who took charge of aud clothed aud fed her,treating her with the greatest kindness, and conducting her to a white settlement about one hundred aud fifty miles this side of the Rocky Mountains. This post was reached by Louisa some nine months from ' the time of the commencement of her horri ble journey. She tarried here, aud when she became strong, went to Jefferson City, and last winter left her Liends there aud traveled—this time with n > i untie accom paniments —to Mount Jackson, Lawrence county, in this State, where a family she formerly knew had resided, an ! with whom she hoped to get employment. This family had removed, but Louisa was referred to a family who would probably give her work. She reached the house of this family near evening on a bitter cold day in January, 1866. The family on whom she called did not need help, but directed her to a house where she was sure of work. It was al most dark, aud a blinding sleet was driv ing, but Louisa, declining an invitation to stay all night started for this other house. She had not gone far before she had lost her way. The cold benumb *d her and she felt the drowsiness of freezing people. At length she sat down by a tree and fell asleep. She slept, but did not die. In the morning she awoke with her limbs so fro zen that she could not move. The sun thaw ed her partially, and she managed to crawl a little way out of the woods iuto which she had wandered. She reached a haystack on the farm of Mr. Davidson, but could go no further. She was too far away from the house to make herself heard, and crowded herself up as closely as possible to the hay stack, where she lay in agony until night. At night the sheep gathered close about her and kept her a little warm, but during that night she became insensible with the cold, and,as was ascertained after she was found, she lay for twenty-three days beside the haystack. She was insensible during the entire time, and probably would have fro zen entirely to death but Lr the sheep who partially protected her at night. Her des ert experience had prepared her to do with out food, and this, together with her insen sibility, saved her from utter starvation. One morning a little boy hunting rabbits discovered the insensible girl and gave the alarm. When found she was lying on her left side, her dress, her arm, her hair, and the right side of her face being frozen to the ground. She was carried to Mr. David sou's house and such restoratives as possi ble applied. Her right foot was so badly frozen that it dropped off at the ankle. An examination of her other foot showed the necessity of amputation,and both legs were taken off tour inches below the knee. After four or five weeks of insensibility she com menced to recover, and although she was horribly frozen ii various parts of her body, she recovered with the loss of her feet and her left eye. Since her recovery she has been kindly cared for by the authorities aud citizens of Mount Jackson. Last week she went to Indianapolis, partly to 6ee if artificial limbs could be fitted to hers and partly to obtain employment. She failed in both objects,aud on Saturday came here and was taken by Mr. Fortune to the Eagle Hotel where she still remains. NUMBER 28. We have given her story as she gave it to us. It is almost incredible, but she tells it with a truthful air that almost compels belief. Perhaps her great sufferings have confused the events in her mind, so as to distort them and make them seem to her different from what they were, but she evi dently believes her own story. UNITED STATES SENATOR. The-election advertised in Franklin coun ty, came off a few days ago, and termina ted, as we predicted, in a miserable farce. It seems that one or two wire-pulling poli ticians in that locality took it upon them selves to choose a United States Senator, by giving instructions to the Representatives of that district. But with all their efforts, only about seven hundred out of more than four thousand Republican votes were polled, viz : 473 for Curtin and 283 against him.— Three thousand and five hundred Republi cans in the county took no part in the mat ter. They had elected their representatives knowing them to be honest, upright and in dependent, and they are now willing to trust the matter in their hands. The same shallow scheme, we learn, is also tp be tried by a few busybodies in Erie county, to tie the hands of Hon. Morrow B. Lowry, of the State Senate. But they will assuredly fail, for Mr. Lowry has the cour age to follow his own convictions of right, and the ability to maintain his position. From all that we can gather from our ex changes, and the kuown preference of a number belonging to both branches of the Legislature, we regard the probabilities as being in favor of Gen. Simon Cameron for the U. S. Senatorship. Gen. Cameron has been our standard-bearer in victory and de feat, at times when there was no hope for any other, aud now, when the choice of a Republican is certain, the considerate mas ses of the party feel that the honor belongs to him. As a citizen of Pennsylvania, he has done much to develope her resources.— Ever true to the interests and the honor of the State, he has long been recognized as the champion of Protection to Home Indus try, and all that tends to elevate the mas ses. As a member of Lincoln's Cabinet, la; exhibited the highest qualities of American statesmanship. He seemed to grasp tlie situation in all its magnitude, and almost to see the end from the beginning, and had . his counsel then been followed, millions o! treasure and thousands of precious lives would have been saved to the country - And to-day he has the proud satisfaction to see the sentiments he then uttered becf the majority. This is no tinn '<> \.try the abilities of those irho have had no e<- ! perience in national legislation.- -Montour ! American. I "MOTHER, can Igo aud have my daguer j reotype taken?" "No, I guess it isn't worth while." j "Well, then, you might let me go anil have a tooth ! pulled, I never go any where." A miserly old farmer who had lost one of i his best hands in the midst ot hay-making, remau ' ed to the sexton, as ho was filling up the grave : | "It's a sad thing to lose a goo