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PATRICK, apll3 W. A. PECS. ÜB. McKEAN, ATTORNEY d • COl SSKLLuR AT I.A II , Towau da, Pa. Part;, ular attention paid to business in the Orphans' Court. July 20, 1800. UENRY I'EET, Attorney at £aw, To van la, Pa. jun'JT.OO.. W U. CARNOCHAN, ATTOBr * • SKY At LAW, Troy, Pa. Special attention giveu t collecting claims against the Go\ erumeut for B- nnty. Back Pay and Pensions. Office with E. B. Parsong. E.-q. June 12,1860. JJDWARD OVERTON Jr., AtEr- AAney at /.air, Towanda, Pa. Office in Mon ta.ives Block, over Frost's Store. July 13.1.-03. JOHN N. C A LIFE, ATTORNEY fJ AT LA IV, Towanda. Pa. Also. Govern m-.-nt A gent for the collection ol Pensions, Back Pay aud Bounty. >n-1 -ii.tt.iu him, w,.l be most likely to find him on S.v.-vay >f each week. Especial attentionfwill j be-.veu to surgical cases,and the extraction of ! teeth. ',u-or Ether acimiuistered when desired, i July D. 1-1)6. P. 8. PRATT, M. D. j DOCTOR CHAS. F. PAINE —Of-j A-J fice in GORE'S Drug Store, Towauda. Pa. I t'aii- promptly attended to at all hoars. Towanda, November 28. lobs. LMHV 1) MEEKS—AUCTIONEER. JL J All letters addressed to him at Sugar Run, Bradtoid Co. Pa., wiil receive prompt attention. L? RAN CIS E. POST, Painter, Tow- X anJa, Pa, with 10 years experience, is con fident he can give the best satisfaction in Paint in-. Graining, Staining. Glazing. Papering, Ac. *#- Particular attention paid to Jobbing in the country. April 9, 1.-66. J J. NEWE LL , COUNTY SURVEYOR, Ot well, Bradford Co., Pa,, will piomptly attend to all bu-iaess in his line Particular attention giver, to running aud establishing old or dispu ted lines. Also to surveying of all unpattented lands as -oon as warrants are obtained. mjl7 Drntistrp. rpWENTY-FIYE YEARS EXPERI j 1 EN- E IN DENTISTRY. J. R SMITH. M. P., would respectfully inform J t luLabitunts of Biadtord County that he is , ..ted in Waverly. N. Y., where) has I -en in the practice ot his profession for '.V p ,-t >ur tears. He would say that from his • long -;. d successful practice of 25 years duration 1 ht - uia....r with all the different styles of work d -tie iu any and all Dental establishments in I city or country, and is belter prepared than any ; other Dental operator in the vicinity to do wor'; 'he be-! adapted to the many and different I <.isesth.it present themselves oftentimes to the [ Dentist. he understands the artot making his ; 1 vn artificial teeth, and has facilities tor doing the same. To those requiring under set- o: teeth he would call attention to his near kind of ; w irk which consists ot por elain tor both plate : ar.d teeth. and forming a continuous gum. It s more durable, more natural in appearance, and ai.cii belter adapted to the gom taau any other k.ud of v. rk. Those in teed of the same are"* invited to call and examine specimens. Teeth filled to last for years and oftent mes for lite.— < - • c o si, ttktr, a.-.J "-Y trmu oxide" admin- j i-ten d w-.h pertV I soiety. as over four hundred ' patient- within the last four years can testify. ' 1 will be in Towanda ir.ua the lith to joth of i every month, at tie officio! W. K. TAYLOR.: (formerly occupied by Dr. O. H. Woodruff.)Hav. : ing made Arrangements with Mr. Taylor. 1 am prepared to d t'.. wmk ia the very Lest stvle. a; I - ffi e- Nov. 27. MB. ! DR. H. WESTON, DENTIST Office in Pattern's Block, over Gore s Dipg rs. WARD HOUSE, TOWANDA, FA. j On Main Street, near the Court House. C. T. SMITH Proprietor. Oct. V 1.-66. MERI CA N HOTEL , towanda, PA., Having purchased THIS veil known Hotel OB or.cue ;-.reel. i have retucaiahed and refitted j with every convenience for the accommoda tion of .. who ruay patron Lie me. No pains will oe area to make - . pleasant and agreeable. v,. y t. J. s. PATTERSON. Prop DBR HOC a four story brick j V t BM: the depot.with large airy rooms, ! 'PI rs. cewlv f.iru:-hed. ha* a recess in *--d:tioa tor Laiies use. and is the meat - ' and 1 n.y first class ho'e! at Waverly. o I it is the prill ipal office for stages south . re-v-. A.-- t>r sale of Western Ticke s. I atn t anada on Lrand Trunk Rai. av. Fare ' from Buttaio,s4, is cheaper than icy ' --er route. Apply for tickets sal-, veto j C. WARFORD ! ** - s tabliug and ca;e of Horses at reasonable Waverly X y . 0ct.26.1866-3m. C. W PINE ASSORTMENT OF PRAY ■ B.ks at the NEWSROOM. \fimUE ANY OTHER AR- : f ' '-*• ri :ur line, c rdered at short notice - cl -.:tig at the NEWS BOOM. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF best qua ty Perfumery a: th- NEWS ROOM IS. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. Go rem or's Messagc. i To the Semite aiui House of Rrjrresentatives of the VommoniceaUh of Pennsylvania : We have reason to be thankful to God, for the blessings of peace, abun dant crops, that industry has been re warded, and that thus the Common wealth lias been able to do her full duty to herself to the country and prosperity. The condition of our finances is as follows : Balance in Treasury, Novem ber 30, 1806 *. $2,373,668 14 Receipts during the fi.-cal year eudmg November 30, 1860.. 5,820,668 54 Total in Treasury for fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1866.. 7,203,336 68 Payments for same period have been 6,462,303 41 Balance in Treasury. Decem ber 1. 1866 " 1,742.033 27 Amount of the public debt as it stood on the first day of December, 1866 " .. $37,476,258 06 Amount reduced at the State Treasury, during the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1866, 5 percentioansl,B2B,ss3 25 4 ? per cent loan 25.000 00 Relief notes .. 626 00 Domestic creditors' certificates 26 65 1,854,205 90 Public debt. Dec.1,1866. .35,622,052 26 To wit funded debt: 6 percent, loan $400,630 00 5 per cent, loan 32,073,192 59 4f per cent, loan 213,200 00 6 per cent. loan, military, per act May 15, 1861 2.820.750 00 Unfunded debt, relief notes in cir ulation 96,625 00 Interest certificates outstanding 13.086 52 i unclaimed 4,448 38 j Domestic creditors'certificates 119 67 i 35,622,052 16 j Assets in Treasury : ! Bonds Pennsylvania railroad company $6,600.000 00 I Bonds Philadelphia and Erie Railroad company 3,500,000 00 i Interest on bonds of Philadel phia and Erie railroad Co 1,225 000 00 j | Cash in Treasury 1,741,033 27 13.086.033 27 Liabilities in excess of asset - 22.536,018 s9 35,622,052 16 Liabilities in excess of assets, j November 30. 1861 $28,148,060 36 | Liabilities in excess of assets, ; November 30,1866 22.536-018 89 Improvement in Treasury since 1861 5,612,041 47 The extraordinary expenditures, during the war and since its close, ; n payments growing out of it by au thority of acts of Assembly, have aruouuted to upwards of five millions of dollars, which, added to the actual payment of the indebtedness of the State, and money in the Treasury for that purpose, shows the revenues, above the ordinary expenditures, to have amounted to $10,612,000, which would all have been applied to the 1 payment of the debt of the Common wealth in the last six years. A care- 1 ful attention to the revenues of the Commonwealth, with such just and prudent changes as may be required in the future, and a wise economy in expenditure, will, in my judgment, i ensure the entire payment of the pub- i' lie debt, within the period of fifteen j•< years. i The time fixed for the redemption of $23,108,620 24 of the indebted ness of the Commonwealth having expired. I recommend that provision be ruade for its redemption, by mak ing a new loan for that purpose, pay able at such periods as the prospect ive revenues will justify. I recur, with much satisfaction, to the wisdom, prudence and economy of the representatives of the people, in the management of the finances of the Commonwealth, during a period of much embarrassment, uncertainty and distress, and congratulate you and them on the near approach of the entire liquidation of the public debt. Since my last Annual Message, I have drawn from the Treasury, two thousand dollars of fund placed in the hands of the Governor for secret service and other extraordinary ex penses, which I have expended, in payment of my personal staff', and for other purposes, as heretofore, ex cept five hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty-eight cents, which 1 have returned into the Treasury. I present, lor your consid* ration, the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, proposed to the Legislatures of the several States by a resolution of both II uses of Con gress, passed on tne 16th day of June last. I was glad that it was possi ble, without delaying the final adop tion of these amendments to ascer tain the opinion of our people npon them, at the general election, in Oc tober last. By the election of a large majority of members openly favoring and advocating the amendments, that opinion seems to me to have been abundautly expressed Indeed, the amendments are 6o moderate and reasonable in tueir character, that it would have been astonishing if the people had failed to approve them. That every person, born in the United -States, and free, whether by birth or manumission, is a citizen of the Unit ed States, and that no State has a right to abridge the privileges of citizens of the United Mates—these are principles wtiich were never ser iously doubted anywhere, until after the insane crusade in favor of slav ery had been for some time in pro gres. What is called the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Dred Scott case, has made it expedient and proper to re assert these vital principles in an authorative manner, and this is done in the first clause of the proposed amendments. The right of prescribing the qual ifications of voters is exercised by the respective states, under the Con stitution ot 17s& ; three-fifths of the slaves were counted in ascertaining the representative population of the several States. The amendment to f the constitution abolished slavery in all the btates and Territories. Though f it was formerly otherwise in most, if uot all, of the old Southern States, 1 yet for many years past free Negroes have not, in any of these, been per mitted to vote. At present, there fore the late slave States would be entitled to count the whole of their I former slave population, as a basis for representation, instead of three ' fifths thereof. That is to say, they would have in the existing ratio about twenty more members of Con gress than they had before slavery I was abolished, and the free States would lose the same number, making a difference of about forty members of Congress, or, say, one-sixth of the whole body. In other winds, the - trea on of the rebellious States, the suppression of which has cost us so many hundreds of thousands of pre cious lives, and so many thousauds 'of millions of treasure, would be re -1 warded by giving them a vast in crease of political power. This ab surdity, the second clause of the pro posed amendments, designs to pre vent, by the just, equal and moder ate provision, that in future, the rep , resentative population of each State shall be ascertained by making a : proportionate deduction from the whole population thereof, if its laws ( exclude from the privilege of voting, any male citizens, uot criminals, of the age of the age of twenty-one years. I have yet to learn that any plausible objection can be offered to ! such a provisiou. The third clause of the proposed : amendments excludes from Congress, ! and from the College of Electors, j and from all offices,civil and military, | of the I nited States, or of any State, I persons who, as functionaries of the ; I nited States, or as Executive or Ju dicial officers of any State, have | heretofore sworn to support the Con stitution of the United States, and afterwards violated their oath by en gaging in rebellion against the same, unless Congress, by a vote of two thirds, shall have removed the disa bility of any such persous. The fourth clause affirms the valid ity of the debt of the United States, aud prohibits the assumption or pay meut of the rebel debt, or of auy claims for the loss or emancipation of any slave. The fifth clause provides that Con gress shall have power to enforce the provisions of the other clauses by appropriate legislation. That these wise aud moderate pro visions will meet the hearty approba tion of the Legislature, I cannot doubt. If proposed by two-thirds of each House of Congress aud ratified by three-fourths of the Legislatures of the States, the Constitution pro vides that they should staud as adopt ed amendments of that instrument. A question has been raised wheth er the States lately in rebellion, and not yet restored to their privileges by Congress, are to be counted on this vote—in other words, * whether those who have rebelled and been subdued shall be entitled to a poteu i tial voice in the question of the guar i antees to be required of them for fu [ ture obedience to the laws. So rnou j strous a proposition is, it appears to me, not supported by the words or spirit of the Constitution. The pow er to suppress insurrection, includes ] the power of making provision i against its breaking out afresh.— These States have made an unjust ] war upon our Common Government '■ and their Sister States, aud the pow- ' er given by the Constitution to make t war on our part, iuclndes the power ' to dittate, after our success, the i terms of peace and restoration. i The power of Congress to guaran tee to every State a Republican form < of Government, would cover much c more cogent action than has vet been < had. t The duty imposed upon Congress, to provide and maintain republican governments for the States, is to be accepted in the broadest meaning of the term. It is not a mere forma! or unnecessary provision. The power was conferred, and the duty enjoined, to preserve free institutions against all encroachments, or the more vio lent elements of despotism and an archy. And now that tr< a- :i has, by rebellion, suuverted the govern ments of a number of Ftat- s, for feiting fur the people all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, in c 1 tiding even those of property and life, the work of restoration for these States rests with the Nat nal Guv- eminent, and it shou d be faithfully and fearlessly performed. By their passage by Congress, and the declaration of the people at the late elections, the faith of the nation is pledged to the amendments, and they will be fairly carried out, and their benefits given to the rebellious States. But when the amendments shall have passed into the organic, law, should the people lately in re bellion persist in their rejection, and in continued disobedience, and the obstruction of the execution of the national laws, it will be au admoni tion to the nation that tne animus aud force of treason still exist among a people who enjoy none of the priv ileges of the government, save of its generous tolerance. With their rejection, all hope of re-coustiuction, with the co-operation of the rebell ious States, en a basis that would secure to the Republic the logical results of the war, will have van ished, and the duty must then devolve upon the government, of adopting the most effectual method to secure for sutes tLe character of gov ernments demanded by the Constitu tion. They are without lawful govern meats —they are without municipal law. and without any claim to par ticipa'e in the government. On what principle of law or jus tice can the rebellious States com plain, if after they have rejected the TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 10,1867. fair and magnanimous terms upon which they are offered brotherhood with us, and a participation in all the blessings of our freedom, and they have refused, if the govern ment, in the exercise of its powers, should enter anew upon the work of re-construction at the very founda tion ; and then the necessity will be forced upon us to discard all discrim ination iu favor of the enemies of our nationality, to give us and them enduring freedom and impartial jus tice. The Constitution has defined treas on, and has giv. n express power to suppress insurrection, by war, if necessary. It has uot provided, iu detail, the terms to be granted alter such a war. How could it do 6o ? It would probably not be contended by the wildest partisan, that these States 11 ad a right to be represented in Congress at a time when they were carrying on open war against the government, or that Congress was n >t then a lawful body, notwith standing their exclusion. How then have they regained the right of rep resentation ? Surely not by simply laying down their arms when they coutd no longer hold them. The United States have the right, and it is their duty, to exact such securities for future good conduct as they may deem sufficient, and the offenders, from whom they are to be exacted, can have no right to participate in our councils in the decision of the question of what their punishment shall be. Practically, common stuse determ ined the question of their right so to participate, when Congress proceed ed in the enactment of laws,after the ! surrender of the last rebel military force. It was determined again,when the now pending amendments were j proposed by Congress. If two-thirds j of Congress,as now constituted,conld ' lawfully propose those amendments, ' then three-fourths of the States, not : excluded from representation in Con-! gress, form a sufficient m ijority to ef- 1 feet their lawful adoption It was de termined again by the formal sanction of both the great political parties, wheD Congress, by au almost unani mous vote, declared the rebellious States without the right of represen tation in the Electoral College in 1864. We ought to go on resolutely and rapidly,with all measures deemed ne cessary to the future safety of the country, so that all parts of it inay,at the earliest day, be restored to just and equal political privileges. The annual report of Hon. Thomas 11. Burrowes, Superintendent of the maintenance and education of the sol diers' orphans, will exhibit the pres ent condition aud the result thus far of that undertaking. Nearly three thousand of the destitute children of the brave men who laid down their lives that the nation might live, are now not only comfi rtably provided for and guarded from temptation, but are receiving an education which will fit them to re-pay the care of the State. The appropriation made for this pur pose, at the last sesion, has been suf ficient to meet all expenses of the fi nancial year just closed. And I rec comtnend whatever appropriation may be necessary, to continue and perfect the system under which the schools are conducted. There can be no doubt that the ap propriation will be made. Were Ito select .State interest which I would warmly commend to your prompt at tention and liberality than another,it would be this. All Pennsylvauians are proud of it, and it lies near the hearts of all true men. Owing to their great destitution and want of information on the part of their relatives, the orphans of our colored soldiars may require some special attention. Perhaps authority to the State Superintendent, to nse, for a short time, the services of an agent, to ascertain their number and claims,and bring them intathe schools that may be provided for them, will be sufficient. The whole cumber iu the State is not large, of whom a few have already been temporarily provi ded for. I recommend that provision be made for the maintenance of such of our soldiers as are in poverty, ud have been so maimed as to prevent them from securing a livelihood by their labor,by renting bti ldiu sat once,or such other means as you may deem wise and proper, until the arrange ments proposed by the National Gov ernment for their support are comple ted. They are probably few iu num ber, and it is due to the character of the Commonwealth, that th-y should not remain in or become the inmates of, poor houses, or pick up a precari ous substance by begging. Patriotic aud charitable citizens have done much for them,but speedy and proper relief can only be given them by the systematic and continued benevo lence of the Commonwealth. The Leg islature can alone afford immediate relief to all of this class of our citi zens,and in thus exhibiting gratitude to heroic and faithful men, who did so much for the country, the burden will fall equally on all her people. By our existing laws, juries are se lected by the sheriff'and commission ers of the respective counties. As these officers are generally of similar political affinities, the sy>tem has al ways been in danger of being abused for partisan purposes. During the last six years, it Las been frequently so abased, in many of the counties. To secure, as far as possible, the administration of equal justice here after, I recommend that jury com missioners shall be elected in each county,in the same manner as inspec tors of election are chosen, each citi zen voting for one jury commissioner, and the two persons having the high est number of votes to be the jury commissioners of the respective coun ty. to perform the same duties, in the REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. selection of jurors, that are now im posed upon the sheriff' and county commissioners. It is impossible to provide, -in ail respeets.for the increasing and chang ing interests of our people,by the en actment of general laws, but to a large extent it is practicable to re lieve the Legislature from special leg islation which is demanded and occu pies so much of its sessions. Special legislation is generally passed with out due consideration, much of it at the close of the session, and is chielly objectionable from the partiality with which powers and privileges are con ferred. 1 again recommend the passage of general laws, when it is at all prac ticable, and iu this connection, rec couimend the passage of a general law, regulating railroads now exist ing aud the incorporation of new com panies,so that so far as possible there may be just uniformity in the fran chises granted,and e val facilities af forded to the people m all sections of the Commonwealth. There are at this time, iu the vari ous prisons, a number of persons un der sentence of death, some of them for many years, aud as it has become a custom that an incoming Governor should uot issue a warrant of execu tion in cases unacted on by his prede decessor, it not uufrequently happens that in many cases, some of which are recent, while some punishment should be inflicted, that of death may appear to the Executive to be too se vere. I earnestly repeat my recommenda tion heretofore made, that provision be made for the reception of such per sons into the penitentiaries, who may be pardoned on condition of remain ing a limited time therein. I re-appointed Hon. C. R. Coburu, Superintendent of Common Schools, [ un the expiration of his term in June last, and he continued at the head of that Department until the first of No vember, when he resigned, and 1 ap pointed Col J. P. Wickersham. It is due to Mr. Coburu to say, that he ful filled all the duties of his office faith fully aud efficiently. It appears from his report, that there were in the school year of 1565, 1,863 school dis tricts in the State ; 13,146 schools ; 16,141 teachers, and 725,312 pupils, with an average attendance of 478, 866. The total cost of the school sys tem, for the entire State, including taxes levied and State appropriation, was for the year 1836, $4,195,258 57 The increase in the number of school districts was 26 ; in the number of schools, 222 ; in the number of chil dren atten :ing school, 19,932 ; in the average attendance at school, 15,945, and in the total cost of the system, $581,020 02. I invite your attention to the valuable suggestions made in his report, and that of Col. Wicker sham, and commend our system of public instruction to the continued fos tering care of the Legislature I herewith present the reports of Col. F. Jordan, Military Agent of the State, at Washington ; of Col. H. H. Gregg, Chief of Transportation ; of S. P. If ites, on military history of our | volunteers ; of trustees of the Sol diers' Gettysburg National cemetery ; of the proceedings and ceremony of the return of the flags, on the 4th of July, in the city of Philadelphia, and of Col. James Worrell, commissioner appointed under an act relating to the passage of fish in the Susquenanna, and invite your attei.'ion to them,and the reports of the Sc. veyor General and Adjutant General. The Agency at Washington should, iu my judgment, be continued. It has proved very useful in all respects, and especiall}- to our volunteers and their families. Four thousand six hundred and nine ty cla ; m have passed through the l Agency during the past year, and : three hundred aud eleven thousand j seven hundr d and three d 'liars has ! been collected from the Government j and transmitted to the claimants free . of charge. It will be necessary to continue the office of Chief of Transportation, as there are unsettled accounts with rail rord companies and the National Guv erume it. and duties to Le performed n the removal and care of bodies of the dead, which require it. An addi tional appropriation will be required for this Department. I earnestly recommend, in justice to the living and the dead, that our in litary history he pushed forward vigorously, and that money for that purpose be appropriated. The trustees of the State Lunatic hospital represent that it is impossi ble for them to accommodate and care for the number of patients committed to them under the laws regulating ad missions into the hospital, and earn estly reccoinmend that provision be made for increased accommodation. I need not say that the institution is carefully and economically manag ed, or to refer to that great good it has produced ; and that I cordially unite in the statement and recommen dations of the memorial herewith pre sented. I invite your attention to the con dition of the Arsenal. It is too small—unsafe as a deposi tory for the large amount of valuable military material to be kept in it, and is, in all respects, inconvenient and not adapted to its purpose Much inconvenience was experien ced during the war for want of suffi cient room and safety, and I recom mend that ground be procured aud a new and commodious arsenal be erec ted in or near the Capitol of the State Since the adjournment of Legisla ture I drew my warrant ou the Treas ury for five thousand dollars, appro priated to the National Cemetery at Antietam, and appointed Major Gen. Jno. R. Brooke, trustee to represent the State. Before the warrant was drawn I appointed Colonel Win. H. Blair and Captain J Merril Linn,who examined the groun and made a fnll iuvestigation.their report of which ac companies the message. It will be noticed that they report seven hundred and ninety-seven bodies of Pennsyl vanians that will be removed into the cemetery, and recommend an addi tional appropriation, in which I most cordially unite. I cannot close my last Annual Mes sage,without renewing the expresion ■ of my gratitude to the freemen of the | Commonwealth, for the hearty appro val with which they have cheered the j labors ol the Executive Office. To have earned such approval by my offi cial conduct,during the last six years, must always be a source of pride to myself and children. Without the j consciousness that I was endeavor j ing to deserve their approval, and without the hope that I should suc ceed in attaining it,l must have sunk under the responsibilities of my posi tion. It was only a reliance on Divine Providence, and the active, resolute, hearty support and zeal of the people, and their representatives,that encour aged me during the dark and terrible crisis through which the country has passed. I tried to do my duty to my country, and know I was at least faithful to her iu her deep distress, i and I conceived that duty not to be limited to the merely putting of men into the field to suppress treason and rebellion, and maintain national life, j and doing of everything in my power j to sustain the just war forced npon 1 us. I felt also bound, so far as 1 could, to protect and promote the | rights and comforts of our volunteers, j after they had left the State, to aid j and relieve the sick and wounded,and 'to care for the transmission, to their ! bereaved families,of the precious bod ies of the slain, and the maintenance j and education of their orphans as hon ored children of the country. To have been the Chief Magistrate of this great Commonwealth, during the period through which we have ! passed,and to have earned and main tained (if indeed I have done so) the confidence and affection of her people and their representatives, are quite enough to satisfy the highest ambi- s tion, and in my retirement from the , high trust given me, I pray God that j the State may continue to grow in | power and strength, and her people in prosperity and happiness. A. G. CCETIN. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ( Harrisbarg, Jan. 2. 18C7. j ARAB ODDITIES. —An Arab, entering a house, removes his shoes but not j his hat. He mounts his horse upon j the right side, while his wife milks j her cows on the left side. With him ' the point of a pin is its head, while ! its head is made its heels. His head | must be wrapped up warm, even in j summer, while Lis feet may well! enough go naked all winter. Every ) anicle of merchandise which is liquid ( he weighs, bat measures wheat, bar- ! ley, and a few other articles. He reads and writes from left to right. He eats almost nothing at breakfast. | about as much at dinner, but after ; the work of the day is done, he sits i down to a hot meal swimming in oil, i or, better yet the boiled nutter. His , suns eat with him, but the females of the house wait till his lordship is done. He rides his donkey when traveling, his wife walks behind. He laughs at J the idea of walking in the street with his wife, or ever vacating his j seat for a woman. teir* The beginnings of sin may ap tly be compared to a im perceptible break in an embankment. It may appear as of trilling conse quence, while in reality it is a breach in the defence against the rushing wa ters which, gradually increasing, pre pares the way for the restless inunda tion which sweeps sw a y everythiag jin its course. It is hazardous to say of any sin, is it not a little one ? It is a precursor, and encourager of those which will follow. It is in this way that the most vicious habits are form ied-by little and little. Judas was not protected ev. n by hi.- at> stlestip. j Coveteousnc-ss had gradu illy 1 • cr-n e I a habit of his soul; when the oppor tunity seemed favorable, he became a thief : then the unresisted 1 ve of mon ;ey seduced him to the fou! betrayal f ; his Lord ; then, when the enormity of Ins sin tlashed up n liirn he was dnv j en to despair—and then he went out and hanged himself. In iulged covet : • lisnoss at the beginning, -elf-murd- r at the end. Thus it is in thousands |of cases—a little pleasurable sinning, and then hell. THE MOTHER —The is s mething in I sickness that breaks d wn the pride lof manhood ; that softens the heart and brings it Lack to the feelings of j infancy. Who that Las languished, i even in advanced life, in sickness and despondency ; who that has pined on a weary bed, in the loneliness and negeict of a foreign laud, but has ; thought on the mother "that looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow ard administered to his help lessness ? Oh 1 there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a so i, that transcends all other af fections of the heart It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor ingratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience ; she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoy ment ; she will glory in his fame and exult in his prosperity ; and, if misfortane overtake him, he will be dear to her from misfortune : and ; f disgrace settle upon his name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace ; and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to him. A mad wag says Hiram Powers ha.- just executed, -t Florence, a figure of . "£ t After the Wan.r-.Fall. THE last case of jealousy is that of a lady who Jdisoardcd her lover, a sea cap j tain, "because he tugged the store #3 per Annum, 111 Advance. TBEASUBE TBOVE EXTBAOBDI NABY- Several years ago a little German , Jew named Schwartz, believing that in the sewers of New York might be found many articles of value which had been lost, entered them, and for three days wfndered through the labyrinth. He was very successful, picking up some $27,000 worth of jewelry, spoons, forks, &e. ; but hav , ing lost his way the first day, he be , > lieved that he mi „■ ht have found much more could he have carried out the original plan, which was to visit Fifth and Madison avenues, Broad way, and the wealthy portions of the city. So great, however, were the difficulties and dangers he encount ered, that nothing could induce him again to visit " New York under ground." His adventure for a time created quite a little sensation, but there were none venturous enough to at tempt a second, until Wednesday of last week, when an adventurous par ty of three entered the sewer of Houston street, at the ferry on East I river, intending to remain for one i week, during which time they pro i posed visiting every portion of the city where there seemed to be any chance of finding treasure trove. The | party consisted of Miss Mary Walk ! er, a young lady of eighteen, her I brother Jnines, aged sixteen, and , Michael Grady, an old man of about , fifty. The project originated with ! Miss alker, and lhe " how "of it j is in this wise : Some two years ago James Walk | er, Jr., was a merchant, doing a good | business at 00.', Bowery. He was getting rich fast, but in an evil hour j : he was prevailed upon by frieud(? ; I to use some of his money, which had | been "salted down," in speculating in gold. The result was easy to be 1 foreseen. He lost. To recover he 1 took money from his business. Again he lost. His business became em- ' barrassed : in despair he committed j suicide, and Miss Walker and her j j brother found themselves, six months i ago, the inhabitants of a room on the i i upper floor of a double tenement, 209 ; | Sixth street. Miss Walker, some ! i months ago, in an old paper, wrap ■ ped around a parcel which she was taking home from a " slop-shop," saw an account of Schwartz's undertak- j ing. and resolved to imitate it. Maps were obtained and the city ; studied carefully. Each day's work j for herself, her brother ami Gradv, I who waa lormerly in her father's em- j • plot', was carefully marked out. Ev- I ' cry preparation which limited knowl- j j edge could prepare for was made, | and the adventurers started. I wish that I might have room to tell the ! story of the week they passed, but my manuscript warns me that I must ! condense. Each day they rendez- ! voused several times in the chambers 1 at the street corners. On Sunday they had filled all the bags they had taken with them, some fifteen in num- i bcr, and Miss Walker returned.— James M alker a: d Grady continued their search, emptying six of their bags at the corner t Twenty-second j street and Fifth avenue. On Wednesday morning at a very \ early hour, and before people were- j stirring, Miss Walker was at the place w:ia a wagon. Ou removing an iron plate, which at each street I corner leads into a small chamber ' connecting with the sewer, she found j her brother, but not Grady. He Lad staned off on another trip, aithough the six bags Lad beeu filled in Madi son avenue, lhe 1" -se treasure was placed in extra bags and the whole driven to a Broad vav jewel's The ! res; were taken f rom the places on Thursday morning. A watch was set for Grady, but up to ibis time of writing nothing has teen heard :r m him, and it is feared that he Iris per- ■ ished. Th" result of t r week's search : is roughly estimated at M,500,000. i 1 saw me treasures yesterday pil- j ed in three heaps on the floor, and the jeweler inl-Trued me that it must have Cost ver $3,000,000, but in c<>n-1 S"qnenee of the old Ti-lr ned s vie of; sotting, its bruised .attend and c..r --r ded Coudit on, ic value was redu ced at> >ut on -half. A little over a ' bushel how qui., it sounds t- talk' J" '-•• Iry ye bushel!) has b. en | sorted, and among it hive been fund j . lie lit I'll. !. ri r. V ,Iu d at f 16,000. two m re v.* u . d at So,OUO and half a ■ ;• z u v.i;u r. 53,000 and upwards. The m c...us is a plain g >ld ring inscribed - n V * inside in Dutch, | "Peter Stuyv- sant to wife." It is an j heir-: oin of the -Stuyvesant's, and i was leu, with otner jewelry, last ■ M rch by burglars IT -w it came in the sewer :s a problem for phi!' so- j phers to spec.'!at aboht. Miss 1 M aik* r and h<-r brother, who find : themselves thu lift d nuddeulv fr>m j penury to gr. at wealth, intend to pro- j ceed t E glai-d. wh- re they Lave re latives. This adventure is talked of j everywhere, at..! already there art- ' others preparing to Jnliuw in their ! fu tsteps. Corr<-.-]j- adent >he Erie Dispatch. EVKKY W ORB TRI E. —lt is A great aud prevalent error, that children mav be left to run wild in evmy sort of company and tempiati us ter several years,aud tlien it will h-.- time enough to ! reak them in. This mistake makes half our spendthrifts..ramblers.thieves and drunkards. No man would deal so with his garden .>r iui j no man w uld r,:se a c-olt or puppy on such a principle. Take .tice, arcnts-un 1* ss yon till the new soil and throw in ' the good seed, the devil will have a crop of weeds before you know what is taking place. I.ot kat your dear children, and think whether you wiii j leave their safety or ruin at hazard,or j whether you shall not train them up in the way they should go. NEVER purchase love or friendship by gifts , when thus obtained they are lost soon as you stop payment. THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE. Where willows weep, where birds are still. Where infants fold their little hands, A warrior's tomb—a grassy hill In yon old village corner stands' No subtle carving on the stone Shall tell us who is heath the sod : Below the body rests alone — His soul is in the ranks of God! The scent of one white rose's breath In sorrow floats amid the air— The rose of Hope, and Love, and Death • Her widowed hands have pi mted there ' How often there a woman sits, While tears are in her soft brown eyes! The odors that pale ros - emits To her are airs of Pan->ise ! The laughers cannot laugh at her The idle pause with eyes intent i On those clasped hands that never stir— The knees that in a prayer are bent' Along the village path she strays, Nor lingers the wild flower to take ; Through those long winding meadow ways— By hedges heavy, for his sake ! Then lighter, softer is her treau ; Her tears are falling there at last! Her fingers clasp the rose—her head Rests, dreaming of the sweet, sad past' FUN, FACTS, AND FACETI3L To be dexterious iu danger is a vir tue ; but to court danger is a weakness. HE who sets up a carriage at the i suggestion of his vanity generally sets it j down at the suggestion of his creditors. I ARCHIMEDES being asked to go aud hear a person who imitated the nightingale to perfection, answered, "I have heard the J nightingale herself." IF you are disquieted with anything you should consider with yourself—is the thing of that worth, that for it I should so disturb myself and lose my peace and tran quillity ? ALL who love peace, are destined to live with those of less delicacy of feeling than themselves, must learn to take no of fence where none is intended. Ax excellent old lady says the only way to prevent steamboat explosions is to make the engineers ' 'bile their water" ashore. In her opinion, all the bustin' is caused by "cocking the steam ' on board. A gentleman, having occasion to ; call on an author found him in his study. He remarked the great heat of the apart ment. and said it was "as hot as an oven." j "So it ought to he, "replied the author, "for here I make my bread." IT is related that the clerk of a rural church in England recently made the follow ing announcement to the congregation : j "You are desired to attend a meeting in the j vestry, at four o'clock, to consider on the means of 'eating the church, and to digest j other matters." AN odd bit of a dialogue occurs in j a novel now published in a French paper : j "Where is your husband?" asks a gentle ; man. "He went out to buy a cigar," re ; plies the lady. "Has he been gone long ?" | "Eighteen years." "He is quite right." re-' j marks the gentleman philosophically ; •he wants to choose a good one." MAKING THE DONKEY Go.—You are ' very stupid Thomas, "said a country school master to a little boy eight years old ; • *you are like a donkey, and what do they do to j cure him of his stupidity ?" "Why, they feed him more and kick him j less, " said the urchin. A PROBLEM —lf, as the poet says, : "beauty draws us with a single hair." then what—Oh ! tell us what—must be the effect | of a modern waterfall AN enraged parent had jerked his • provoking son across his knee, and was op erating on the exposed portion of the urch in's person with great vehemence, when the young one dog into the parental legs with his venomous little teeth. "Blazes ! what are you biting He for .*" "Well, dad, you begined this here war.' "HAS your sister got a son or a daughter .- aked a son of Erin. "Upon my life," was the reply, "I don't know whether I'm an aunt or an uncle." A "green 'un" who had never before seen a steamboat, fell through the hatchway down into the hold of one. and being unhurt loudly expressed hn> surprise : "Well, if the darned thing ain't holler I" BETTER to be despised for too anx ious apprehensions, than ruined by too eon fident a security. ALT. those things which are nuw held to be of the- greatest Antiquity, were at one time, new ; and what we to-day hold up by Example, will rank hereafter as a Prece dent. NUMBER 32. A> long us yoa are engaged in the World, von must comply with its maxims ; because nothing is more unprofitable than the Wisdom of those persons •* ho set up for Reformers of the Age. Tis a part a man cannot act long, without offending his friends and rendering himself rldiculots. HE alone is wise who can accomo date him-d: hi all the contingencies 01 Life : but the fool contends, and is Strug Li ang, iike a swimmer against the stream. ADVERSITY has the eflect of elicit ing Taients, which, in prosperous Circum stances, would have lain dormant. A has but one Master, the ambitious Man has as many Masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to th- advancement ol his Fortune LET the World have their May games. Wakes, Whitsunales ; their Dan", iugs and Concerts: their Pupprt-sbow Hobby-horses Tabors. Bag-pipes Ball- Barley-breaks. and whatever sport- and r. creations please them best, proti l-.-d thr\ W followed with discretion. .MODERATION cannot have the ert-D IT of combating and subduing ambiti n they are never found together. Moderali ■> Ls the Languor and Indolence of the S a- Ambition is its Activity and Ardor. A SERVANT uewly engaged, pre sented to hi* master, one morning, a pair oi boots, the leg of one of which was much longer than the other. •• Ho * comes it. that these boots are not of the same length' 1 " I really don't know, sir ; but what both ers me the most is. that the pair down stairs is in the same fix." THE bevy of young ladies who re ceived the King of Pruiaa. on his triumph al entry into Berlin, have received gifts of gold brooches, ornamented with the head of the king and the Prussian Eagle. A man who knows the World, will not only make the most of everything L. does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his ad roit mode of hiding his Ignorance, than the Pedant by his awkward attemts to exhibit hi. Erudition. A Snake IMMBEPDSO IN ROCK —A Texas c -rrespundeat of the Rocking ham Va J&ginier, relates that a snake has been found in I.amar coun ; ty, Texas, imbedded in the solid rock. It was eight inches long. "When first found," says the correspondent, "it seemed to have no life, but alter being exposed some eight or ten mi nutes it gave signs of life. It was then carefully disenibedded from the rock, sent out from the cistern, and i exposed to the sun. It became very restless, and in about fifteen minutes ; it assumed the snake shape, round, and about the size of a common black lead pencil We discovered that it could see ; it would lick out its little forked tongue and crawl eff slowly. When first taken out it was the color | of the rock, but soon gTew darker "