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MERCUR & MORROW, Attorneys at Law, Towanda, Penn'a, The undersigned having associated themselves together in the practice of Law, offer their pro fessional services to the public. ULYSSES MERCUR, P. D. MORROW. March 9,1865. PATRICK & PECK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offices :—ln Union Block, Towanda, Pa., formerly occupied by Hon. Wm. Elwell.and in Patrick's block, Athens, Pa. They may be consulted at either place, a. w. PATBICK, apU3 w. A. PECK. H B. MCKEAN, ATTORNEY & • COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Towan da, Pa. Particular attention paid to business in the Orphans' Conrt. July 20, 1866. HENRY FEET, Attorney at Law, Towanla, Pa. jnn27,66. WH. CARNOCHAN, ATTOR • NEY AT LAW, 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. DR. H. WESTON, DENTIST.— Office in Patton's Block, over Gore's Drug and Chemical Stors. Ijan66 i[lD WARD OVERTON Jr., Attor- Jney at Law, Towanda, Pa. Office in Mon uuyes Block, over Frost's Store. July 13,1865. lOIIN N. CALIFF, ATTORNEY ATLA W, Towanda, Pa. Also, Govern ment Agent for the collection of Pensions, Back Pay and Bounty. 49* No charge nnless successful. Office over the Post Office and News Room. Dec. 1, 1864. OD. STILES, M. D., Physician and • Surgeon, would announce to the people of Rome Borough and vicinity, that he has perma nently locate J at the place formerly occupied by Dr. G. W. Stone, for the practice of hispiofes- MUU . Particular attention given to the treat ment of women and children, as also to the prac tice of operative and minor surgery. Oct. 2,'66. DIl. PRATT Las removed, to State street, (first above B. S. Russell A 'Co's Bank). Persons from a distance desirous of con sulting him, will be most likely to find him on Saturday of each week. Especial attention,will be given to surgical cases, and the extraction of teeth. Gas or Ether administered when desired. July 18. 1866. D. S. PRATT, M. D. DOCTOR CHAS. F. PAINE.— or fice in GOBB'S Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. Calls promptly attended to at all hours. Towanda, November 28, 1866. EDWF MEEKS—AUCTIONEER. All letters addressed to him at Sugar Ron, Bradford Co. Pa., will receive prompt attention. FRANCIS E. POST, Painter, Tow undo, Pa, with 10 years experience, is con fident he can give the best satisfaction in Paint ing, Graining, Staining, Glazing, Papering,.Ac. 49* Particular attention paid to Jobbing in the country. April 9, 1866. I K. VAUGHAN— Architect and *J • Builder.— All kinds of Architectural de signs furnished. Ornamental work in Stone, Iron and Wood. Office on Main street, over Russell A Co.'s Bank. Attention given to Ru eal Architecture, snch as laying out of grounds, Ac., Ac. April 1,1867.—1y. J 17 NE ' W ELL 7" COUNTY SURVEYOR, Orwell, Bradford Co., Pa,, will promptly attend to all business in his line. Particular attention given to running and establishing old ordispu ted lines. Also to surveying of all unpattented lands as soon as warrants are obtained. myl7 W~ HERSEY WATKINS, Notary • I'ublic is prepared to .take Deposi ons. Acknowledge the Execution of Deeds, M rtgages, Power' of Attorney, and all other instruments. Affidavits and other pipers may be sworn to before me. Office opposite the Banking Honse of 8.8. Russell A C., a few doors north of the Ward House. Towanda, Pa., Jan, 14,1867. I). K N A FP, Watch Maker and Dealer in Gents and Ladies Watches Chains and Finger Rings, Clocks, Jew elry, Gold Pens, Spectacles, Silver ware, Plat ed ware, Hollow ware, Thimbles, Sewing Ma chines, and other goods belonging to a Jewel ry Store. Perticular attention paid to Repairing, at his old place near tbe Post Office, Waverly, N. Y. Dec. 3,1866—tf. JOHN MORAY, ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER. Will promptly attend to all business In his line. Special attention given to Landscape and Stere oscopic Photography. Views of Family Resi liences, Stores. Public Buildings, Animals, Ma chines, etc., taken in the best manner. Particular attention given to the novel and beautiful stere-copic representation of objects. Orders received at Wood A Harding's Ph olo graphic Art Gallery, Towanda. Towanda, April 2i, 1867 yl. THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE -I- opened a Banking House in Towanda, un der the name c. G. F. MASON A CO. They are prepared to draw Billa of Ex ban ge, and make collections in New York, Philadelphia, and ail portions of the United States, as also England, Germany, and France. To Ixan money, receive deposit - , and to do a general Banking business. G. F. Mason was one of the late firm of 1-aporte, Mason A Co., of Towanda, Pa., and 1 his knowledge of the business men of Bradford and adjoining Counties .and having been in the banking business for about fifteen years, make ibis house a desirable one, through which to make co Uections. G. F. MASON, Towanda, Oct. 1,1866. A. G. MASON. jj RADF 011 D COUNTY REAL ESTATE AGENCY, 11. B. McKEAN, REAL ESTATE AGENT. Valuable Farms, Mill Properties, City and •own Lots lor sale. Parties having property for sale will find it hi their advantage by eaving a description of the same, with terms of sale at this agency, ae parties are constantly enquiring for farms Ac. H. B. McKEAN, Real Estate Agent. Office Montanye's Block, Towauda, Pa. Jan. 29, 1867. A CHOICE SELECTION OF MlS ceHaneou* and Juvenile Books at BIDGWAY B DBUG A BOOK STORE. *f - E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. tjotfls. HOUSE, TOWANDA, PA. On Main Street, near the Court House. C. T. SMITH, Proprietor. Oct. 8, 1866. AMERICAN HOTEL, TOWANDA, PA., Having purchased this well kuown Hotel on Bridge Street, I have refurnished and refitted it with every convenience for the accommoda tion of all who may patronize me. No pains will be spared to make all pleasant and agreeable. May 3, '66.— ti. J. S. PATTERSON, Prop. CNYDER HOUSE, a four story brick L? edifice near the depot,with large airy rooms, elegant parlors, newly furnished, has a recess in new addition for Ladies use, and is the most convenient and only first class hotel at Waverly. N. Y. It is the principal office tor stages south and express. Also for sale of Western Tickets, and in Canada, on Grand Trunk Rail-way. Fare to Detroit from liutlalo, $4, is cheaper than any other route. Apply for tickets as above to C. WARFORD. 49* Stabling and care of Horses at reasonable rales. Waverly. N. Y., 0ct.26,1866.-3nL C. W. gMITHBORO HOTEL, SMITHBORO, N. Y . Having rented and Refitted this well known Hotel, I am ready to accommodate all who may favor me with a call. I have a large Hall at tached, suitable for lectures, dances, Ac. Pass engers carried to any point by applying at the Hotel. No pains will be spared to make every thing agreeable and comfortable for the t ravel ing public. J. B. VAN WINKLE, Jan. 10, 1867. Proprietor. JHUUntrj) anil Dries Ulaking. MISS GRIFFIN, Would respectfully ask the ladies to call and examine her stock of Spring Millinery Goods, just received from New York. Every thing beautiful and new, in the line of Bonnets, Hats, Trimmings, etc. She takes pleasure in offering to her friends and the public generally. Of her work, those who have patronized her, are the best judges, and to them she refers. Towanda, April 23, 1867.—6w* jyjISSES WOUGHTER & SHIP DRESS MAKERS. Rooms over Bramhall A Cowell's Store, Main Street. Second Door below Be idle man'a Block. Towanda, Pa., April sth 1867.—3 m. JYJ I L L I N E R Y . MRS. J. C. FIERCE, Would announce to the citizens of Towanda, and the public generally, that she has just re turned from New York with a well selected as sortment of Goods, and opened a MILLINERY STORE, Over Shlam's Clothing Store, in the front room formerly occupied by W. C. Bogart, Esq., where she will be pleased to see the Ladies of Towanda and vicinity, being confident that with a varied and well-selected assortment she can supply their wants. Having procured the services of one of the best Milliners irom the City, she believes that she can give entire satisfaction. Particular at tention given to STRAW WORK. 49" Come and see as. Don't forget the place, over Shlam's Clothing Store, next door to Mercnr's Store. Towanda, April 8, 18(17. JJISS M. A. BUFFINGTON, Would announce to the ladies of Towanda and vincinity, that she is now prepared to give her time ana attention to DRESS MAKING, V And solicits a share of their patronage, All or ders will be promptly attended to. Rooms at the residence of N. •I. Keeler, (up stairs) two doors east of Dr. Pratt's office, on State street. Towanda, April 15, 1807. MILLINERY AT MONROETON. Miss EMMA SILL A Miss MARION S. RIDGWAF, Having just returned from New York with a fine and well selected assortment of MILLINERY ANI) FANCY GOODS, Would inform their friends, and the public gen erally, that they would be pleased to receive a call from them at their rooms formerly occupied by Mrs. H. M. Tracy. 49" Particular attention given to Straw Work. April 17, 1867. fHißicllancons. T O. OF O.F.—BRADFORD LODGE A* No. 167,1. O. of O. F., meets at Odd Fel lows Hall, every Monday evening from the first Monday in April to the first Monday in October at 74 p. m., from October to April at 64 p. m. J. S. CAREY, Sec'y. April 23, 1867. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.—Miss STELLA HALL would inform the public that she proposes giving instruction upon the Piano, and (that havingpaid especial attention to the principles of Music, she feels confident of giv ing entire satisfaction in the advancement in musical attainments of any who may be placed under her charge. Terms—24 lessons and use of instrument $l2 ; without use of instru ment $lO. Residence two doors north of Dr. Ladd's. Towanda, Dec. 3/1866.—tf. PUBLIC DRAY. —The subscriber has had made a new and convenient DRAY and will hereafter be prepared to do hauling for all persona desiring his services. His Dray will stand in front of Patch's store, when not engaged and all orders may be left at that store. The patronage of the poblic is respectfully solicited, as by prompt attention to orders, and, by punctuality and low charges, he is determ ii. Ed to merit a shareot custom. PRANK STEPHENS. Morch 28,1867.—3 m* GRIST MILL. —I have purchased the grist-mill known as the Hale Mill, sit uated near the month of Towanda Creek, and about two miles south ot Towanda Borough. I take this method of notifying my old friends of my location, and am in hopes to gain many new Iriends aad patrons by strict attention to my business. All I ask is a fair trial, as lam well satisfied th-t I can suit my customers^ South Towanda, April 23, 1867. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERI ENCE IN DENTISTRY. J. M, SMITH, M. D., would respectfully inform the inhabitants of Bradford County that he Is permanently located in Waverly, N. Y., where he has be in in the practice of his profession for the past four years. He would say that from his long and successful practice of 25 years duration he is familiar with all the different styles of work done in any and all Dental Establishments in city or country, and is better prepared 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 of making his own artificial teeth, and has facilities for doing the same. To those requiring under sets of teeth he would call attention to his new kind of work which consists of porcelain for both plate and teeth, and forming a continuous gum. It is more durable, more natural in appearance, and Tnuch better adapted to the gum than any other kind of work. Those in need of the same are invited to call 'and examine specimens. Teeth filled to last for years and oftentimes lor life.— Chloroform, Ether, and " Nitrons Oxide " ad miniatered with perfect aalety, as over four hun dred patients within the last tour years can tes tify. I will be in Towanda from the 15th to 30th of every month, at the office of W, K. TAYLOB, (formerly occupied by Dr. 0. H. Woodruff ) Having made arrangements with Mr. Taylor, I am prepared to do all work in the very best style, at bis offlcs, April 33,1867. pisttllantflus. (From the Temple Bar.) A MINER'S LOVE STORY. | Nelly Glover was the prettiest lass in the pit village. Her eyes were of the sweetest blue ; her checks were like a rose ; and you might have thought her brown hair was the Quest silk. Then she had a Qgurc like a fairy, it was so trim ; and with a waist you could almost spau. I loved Nelly, but, as for that, all the young chaps of the village were of the same mind, and she might have had her pick of us ; the worst of it was, she treated us all alike, and wouldn't look at one more that an other. She had a smile for every body, and was always good-temper ed, but there it ended, and, somehow, none of us could screw up courage to try her further. I don't know how often I thought it over. It came in to my head the Grst thing in the morning, and there it remained the last thing at night, when it either kept me awake or haunted my dreams At last it quite took possession of me. No matter where I am, digging or blasting,or tunnelling ; above ground or down in pit ; my thoughts turned on Nelly, and from being the mer riest fellow in the village, I just came to be the dullest. One morn ing there was no work in the pit for my gang, because the viewer waut ed that part of the seam shored up, and it struck me, all at once, that I would have it out with Nelly, so I made myself smart, and set off, walk ing as brisk as if it was a wager.— You may think it conceit in me, but I can say that I was then as clever a chap to look at as you would often see—and I knew it ! For all that, I began to walk a bit slow when I caught eight of Mrs. Glover's cot tage, and I felt a dread at my heart. But I went on, and I just got up to the cottage, when who should come out but Nelly herself. She never looked prettier than at that minute ; but, appearing so suddenly, she dashed my spirit, and I hadn't a word to say to her. " Why, Charley, what is the mat ter ?" " Well, it is just this," I said ; and there I stopped. "Is there anything wrong with Jack ?" she cried, quickly. " Jack 1" " Yes, he is down in the pit, and they say it is foul, which makes moth er and me uneasy. You haven't heard anything ?" And she looked in my eyes as if she would search me through. " No, no 1" I answered, steadying, now that I thought I could comfort her ; "He is all right. You musn't mind what the old women of the vil lage say, or you'll be looking for a blow-up every day in the year, when there is nothing more than common. I haven't come to you about Jack, Nelly ; it is about myself." She gave me another look now ; then her cheek flushed up like aflame; and her eyes turned away. " Do you know what I want to say, Nelly ?" I went on ; "I wish you did for I can't tell it. It is more than I have got words for. How I love you, how you are always before me, how I am crazed and mad about yon ! But though I can't say all I want to, here I stand, and I wouldn't change with a king, if you'll take me as I am ?" " Ah, Charley ! you don't know how you pain me," she answered. " Don't say that, Nellie. I doubt ed about speaking to you, but now that I have done it, now that I can't go on deceiving myself, if you have any pity in your heart, show it to me, and I will cherish you to the day of my death." " It is no use," she replied, " I can never marry a pitman. I gave the promise to mother and Jack, when he walked up the village at the luueral of my poor father and brothers, all three killed in the mine—our great sorrow, which I can never think of without crying. And the tears, it is true, were run ning down her cheeks, though, for the minute, she seemed to be harder than stone. And I seemed turned to stone myself. I had no recollection, no feeling, and no sense, and I could n't have moved a step to save my life. Then it all flashed upon me like lightning. I took a last look at Nel ly, dropped my head on my breast, and, without a word more, walked out of the gate. Our village seldom looked bright, no matter how the sun shone, and now I felt as if the sun would never shine again for me, so, as my eye fell on the line of cottages, with the clouds hanging down from above, and nothing round but a waste, I thought I might as well be in my grave as continue to live there. Be sides, I should be always meeting Nelly, perhaps lurking about her mother's cottage, and making her as miserable as myself. Why shouldn't I go away, to Yorkshire, or Derby shire, or to the diggings in Austra lia, for that matter f The notion, if it was good for nothing more, gave me a little spirit. I turned my thoughts, and I stepped out brisker, going straight home. I hadn't much to settle there, only to bid good-bye to the folks I lived with, and I soon came out, pack on back, and began my tramp. I stopped at the moor, and looked back, remembering I might never see the place again, and, dismal as I now thought it, with its gaping walls and shaken roofs encumbering the blackened ground, I had been happy there. Not one of those tumbling cottages but would open its door to me ; not one where I wouldn't meet a friend. And there I had been born ; it was the spot on earth that, even in that hour of bitterness, I loved best, and I didn't turn away without dash ing my had over my eyes. REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., MAY 9,1867. I was walking on, when suddenly the air rang with a crash which shook the ground. I knew what it signi- Qed ; such sounds denote but oue re suit iu the black country, and, throw ing down my pack, I darted off to the pit, with the feelings that ani mate every miner on such occasions. I didn't seem a minute before I came to the dust-heaps, rouud the pit's mouth, but some were there be fore me, and the off-men and the wo men were rushing up from the vil lage iu a stream. The smell from the pit almost knocked me down as 1 came up, and I had to get my breath a little when three or four of us crept ou to the mouth, aud looked dowu. The explosion had destroyed the cage, not leaving a stick of it, hut it hadu't injured the signal rope ; hence a meaus of communication re mained for any oue immediately be low. As soon as 1 saw this, I set to work to rig a cross-bar, aud present ly had it ready. "Just lower me gently," I Baid to two bauksmeu. " I may pick up one or two, if there's any near." " You can't go dowu yet 1" cried the viewer. "How many are in the pit ?" " Half an hour ago there was fif ty," replied the timekeeper ; " but I am thankful to say they all came up but ten." " And they are all lost," said the viewer, " for there will be another explosion directly." " I'll go down, anyhow," I said, doggedly ; " and if nobody will low er me, I'll jump down." A good many were on the heaps now—men and women—some of the women crying, and some praying ; but when I spoke out that way,there was a dead silence. Then two or three called out" Good-bye, Charley. God bless you, brave lad." The banksman lowered me down, and I sank through the pit's mouth. A Davy-lamp was tied round my waist, and I held a rope in my hand, so that I might signal to be hoisted up, if the air became too foul. But I had no intention of going back till I had searched the pit, and seen if there were any alive. Oue thing, I didn't care about my life ; aud another, I would have been ashamed to face the folks above without doing something so I felt impatient that they lowered me at such a snail's pace, and I kept looking up and down to measure the distance yet to be traversed. The shaft had never seemed so deep to me before. I strained my eyes into the darkness below, and I saw no bottom ; I glanced up, and the gleam of light grew smaller and fainter. I scanned the walls of the shaft, and marked only their black bound. But my progress notified by the increas ing density of the air, which began to affect my breathing ; and, as I went on, I had to shift my face from side to side to make a little current. At last my feet touched ground. I looked round, as I jumped off the straddle, and saw the furnace was out, which put a stop to the ventila tion of the mine, as far as it depend ed on the brattices, and no air enter ed but by the shaft. The stench was overpowering, and, from this and the silence, I guessed the worßt. It was plain that the explosion had killed the horses ; for not a sound came from the stables, which were close to the shaft ; and what hope could there be for human beings in a dist ant part of the pit ? You may be sure I didn't stand to make these re flections ; they floated across me, and I was working forward before they had got through my mind. I knew the old mine blindfolded ; but what with the foul smell, and what with the gloom, and my shortness of breath, I was some minutes scramb ling to the top of the incline, keep ing my arms stretched out, as I went along, to feel for anything in the way. And it was lucky I did, or I should have dashed my head against some empty trucks, aud in the state I was in, that would have finished me. Thus I reached the first gallery which you could only enter stooping. 1 pushed open the trap, and went on a few steps, though my Davy-lamp was what pitman call " afire " —the flame being all blue—and I knew that the atmosphere was so much gunpowder. But I stumbled along ; if I wasn't to save any oue, it didn't matter what became of myself, and I pleased myself with the thought that Nelly would hear that I had died in the attempt. And then, all at once, it came into my head what she had said about her brother Jack be ing in the pit. This gave my heart such a turn that I quite staggered, and the perspiration poured from my forehead like water. I rushed for ward as if I was mad ; my foot struck something ; I bent down over what seemed a corpse, aud the gleam of the lamp fell on its face. It was Jack Glover. I didn't know whether he was alive or dead, but I caught him in my arms,and with the strength of a giant, and the speed of a deer— hardly conscious, hardly breathing— I made a dash for the shaft. It was easier work going back, when yon were once in the main or horse road ; for now the shaft was before you, instead of behind ; and, though you wouldn't think it, this made a wonderful difference in the light. Dark as pitch it still was, though not to a pitman's eyes, and I had found out that Jack breathed when I reached the shaft. The dis covery nerved me afresh, and kept all my senses at work, without my seeming to know it. I only felt that there would soon be another explo sion. So I placed Jack on the strad dle, and, taking the cord from my Davy-lamp, tied him hand and foot, then pulled the signal rope, and as the people above hauled the tackle, and lifted the stradle from the ground I hung on by my arms ; thus we be gan to mount the shaft. It wasn't till we had got twenty feet up that I felt the strain of stand ing on nothing, but, from that mo ment, it became just terrible. My hands seemed ready to snap ; the ache in my arms spread through ev ery muscle; my head spun round, and my feet kicked about iu an ago ny. I watched the mouth of the pit till my eyes swam, and as 1 reckoned the space between, while my strength waned, and my misery deepened, I thought 1 must drop before 1 reached the top. Then they began to hoist faster. I mustered all my strength ; I tightened my grip ot the straddle, though my fingers were growing numb ; I steadied my feet, and hard ly trusted myself to breathe. I could see the walls of the shaft ; I could leel the purer air ; I heard voices ; and presently the tackle swung ; strong arms caught me round, and I was landed on the bank. They had Jack Glover off the straddle before you could look round, and he was carried away, while they raised my head, and poured a little brandy in my mouth. I called out for the viewer. " What is it, Charley Batsou ?" he asked, bending over me. " Everybody away from the pit, sir," I said. " You are right," he answered ; "it will come in a minute or two." They got me to the top of the bank, when I hewrd a scream, and there was Nelly, trying to throw herself on her brother Jack, but kept back by the other womenfolks. She never glanced round at me ! I wished then that I had stopped in the pit, or let myself drop from the bar, as I came up, aud so escaped seeing her again. But I made up my mind that I had looked 01. her fur the last time. I told iny helpers that I could walk now, and when they let go my arms, I turned towards the moor, intending to pick up my pack and drag on at least to the next village. But I could no more walk five miles than I could fly. When I came to pack I sank down by it, and felt that 1 must give up. I was so beat, and though there was now another ex plosion at the pit, as I had expected, and though it shook the ground un der me, I didn't lift my head. All I thought of WHS stetching out my arms aud legs and lying quiet. How long I lay there I never knew. But, by degrees, I recovered a little strength, and my thoughts took more shape, when I decided to return to my old lodging, and have a day's rest before I set on my wanderings. The day passed, and the night,and the next day, aud I was still in bed, the good folks tending me like a child. My limbs, which had been racked with pain, now felt easy, aud I was ready for a start again. But I thought there would be opposition,so I got up very quiet, and was putting on my things, when the room door opened, and to my wonder in came Jack Glover. " Hilloa, Charley, here we are 1" he cried, seizing my hand, and giv ing it a hearty squeeze. " Who would have thought of us two being alive to-day?" "Well, Jack," I answered, "I am glad for you, but I shouldn't have cared for myself." "How's that ?" he asked. " Because I have something on my mind." " You !" he said, laughing, aud giving me a little push. " Here, sit down aud have a pipe, aud it will go off like the smoke." " I don't care if I never smoke a pipe again." I said savagely. "Now, I'll tell you what it is," said Jack ; "you have been having a tiff with our Nelly." "I haven't" I answered, my cheek burning. " Well, you know best about that," continued Jack; "but it's what I guess, because you were seen talk ing with her, and she had a crying fit directly after. And when she heard from me that it was you brought me up from the pit, she fell on my neck and fainted." "Didn't she know it before?" I asked, relenting. " No," "Then I'll just tell you all about her and me," I said. I was a long time telling it, but Jack set up as if he was listening to a play, or a sermon at chapel. I gave him a description of Nelly that would have done for the Hue and Cry; went into all the feelings she had raised in my breast, told him how I had watched for her, thought of her, and dreamt of her ; and, finally, recounted our last colloquy. Jack never moved a muscle, and sot till I stopped for breath did he put in a word. "Don'tyou think you've been a little fast, Charley?" he then said, dubiously. " How do you mean ?" I answered. "Why, in giving up so. Suppose when Nelly said she could'nt have you, you had put your arm round her waist, and said she must ?" This view had never struck me, and rather took me aback. " But there was her promise to you and her mother never to marry a pit man," 1 urged. "So there was. But did you nev er hear that promises were made to be broke ?" "I can't say but I have," I mutter ed, clapping on my hat. " Where are you going ?" said Jack. "You wait here a minute," I re plied. With that I took two strides down the stairs into the road and hurried off to Mrs. Glover's cottage. I stood outside a minute when 1 opened the door, and the fiist thing I saw was Nelly, sitting by her mother, aud looking like a ghost—only ghosts never look pretty. She gave me one look, then started up and sprang in to my arms. My heart was so full I couldn't speak at first, but I thought I must do something, so I slipped my arm round her waist, as Jack recom mended. Now I felt sure of her, and of all the happiness the world could give,and,as my breast swelled proud ly, I began to bear a little malice. " Ah, Nelly 1 if you had only loved me!" I said. Nelly tightened her arm round my neck. " How happy we might havo been!" I continued. "Then we can be, Charley," she murmured. " How Nelly ? "We can uever marry, you know." The little fingers unlocked, and I felt Nelly falling away, but I*remem bered Jack's counsel, and held her by the waist. " There's your promise to your mother aud Jack," I continued ; "how are we to get over that ?" "I forgot that," faltered Nelly, as white as a sheet. "Aud what do you say to it moth er 1" I cried to the old lady. Mrs. Glover got up,aud took Nelly's hand and pnt it in mine. "That's what I say to it," she said, heartily; "and I know Jack is of the same mind." " And this is what I say to it," I cried, giving Nelly a kiss. You won't be surprised to hear that we were married the next week. And now I am the viewer of the colliery ; aud as for Nelly, she will tell you that, though she has married a pitman and has her roughs aud smooths, like other women, there is no happier woman in the kingdom. DRUGGING WITH ALCOHOL.—The Buff alo Express has a protest from Dr. R. R. Gregg, of that city, against "the too common" custom of physicians prescribing ardent "spirits for medi cal purposes." Of this custom, he says : "I have always, since I entered up on the practice of medicine,protested against it as both a physical evil to the patieut and a great moral wrong, creating appetites which were certain to carry many victims to a drunkard's grave. "To say nothing of the moral issues at stake, I have thought, and still think, there are the strongest possi ble reasons to be found, boath in pa thology and physiology, for condem ning this practice. I have only time now to mention one among many of these ; but that one, it appears to me, shows the absurdity of the posi tion occupied by the profession upon this subject. That reason is as fol lows : All must know th it whisky is almost universally prescribed in consumption, by the great majority of physicians of whatever school ; yet who does not know that wounds aud ulcers upon drunkards are far more difficult to heal thau they are upou those who ate temperate. Then how can it be possible that whisky can have or excite a healing action upou ulcers iu such delicate tissues as those of the lungs, especially when all of this that is taken into the stomach must first go to and through the lungs before it is distri buted over the system ? Aud how whisky or its equivalent can have a healing effect in convalescence from any disease, when its direct action in the same quantity greatly retards the reparative processes of Nature, surpasses my comprehension. When seen in its true light, the whole theo ry of benefit from such agents is too absurd to be tolerated. And a little reflection must satisfy all intelligent people how difficult it will be to have a lastiug benefit wrought by the tem perance cause, until this root, among others which sustain intemperance, is reached and destroyed." SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF. —The Irish papers contain a roman tic story, substantially as lollows : About twelve months ago,a gentle man who resides in the country of Galway, dreamed that he had been instrumental in saving the life of a lovely and accomplished youug lady, who would have been dashed to pieces had it not been for his timely aid.— The fair one was so deeply engraven on his mind, that, when he awoke,be ing a tolerably good artist, his first impulse was to make a sketch of it, which he improved from day to day, until it was rendered as perfect as possible. On a bitter cold night,some months subsequently, while the drea mer was comfortably ensconced in an arm chair before a blazing lire, he was started by the scream of a fe male. In a moment his overcoat was hurried on and he shortly arrived on the spot whence the cries proceeded. In a deep ditch by the side of a road, a horse was kicking and plunging in a fearful mauuner,attached to a jaun ting car, which was turned upside down. Three persons were quickly rescued from beneath it, and convey ed to the house, where they soon re covered from the effects of the acci dent. The gentleman who had saved their lives appeared all at once struck with one of the party, a young lady, whom he felt certain he had seen be fore. The dream was brought forcibly to his recollection, and on entering another apartment, his visitors were more than astonished to perceive the portrait of one of themselves suspen ded from the wall. The mystery was soon explained, and in two months from that date the dreamer and the fair young lady were married in Dub lin. THE human voice has nine perfect tones, but these can be combined into 17,- 592,044,414 different sounds. A remarka ble scientific fact which probably accounts for the amount of discord there is in the world. A GENTLEMAN, in the spring time of life, when walking with a lady, stumbled and fell. On his resuming his perpendicu lar, the lady remarked, " She was sorry for his unfortunate faux pas. " " I didn't hurt my fore paws," said he, " I only scraped my knee." per Annum, in Advance. From the Toledo Blade. HAS BY. The Russian Purchase—How it was done—Mr. Nasby really the origina tor of the Speculation. Washington, April 14, 1867. —It's done ! Seward did it —him and me ! The Amerkin Eagle hez coz now to scream with redoubled energy. Ef the Naßhnel bird wuz a angel,l sbood remark to it, "Toon yoor harp anoo," but it ain't, and, therefore, such a re kest wood be ridiculous. This rap sody hez reference to the Rooshen purchis. The idea originated in these mas sive intellek. .When I wuz here afore, the Blairs, all uv em, wuz a crowdin the sainted Johnson for a mishun ; Cowan wanted a urishun, and so did Doolittle, and that day pretty much all uv the delegates to the Cleveland and Philadelphy Convenshuns hed bin there wantin some kind uv a place ; wat, they wuzu't pertikeler. Oue gen tleman whose uose (wich trooly blos somed ez the lobster) betokened long service in the party, urged that he hed bin a delegate to both Conven shens. "Thank God 1" sed Johnson. "Wood that them Couveushens bed biu made up uv the same men. I wood then hev bin bored for places only half ez much ez I hev." I wuz a helpin him out in my weak way. When the crowd wantin pla ces become too great for human en doorance, I would say, iu a moderit tone, "let's go out and git suthin," and to-wunst fully half wood exclaim, "Thank yoo, I don't keer ef I do." It wuz a great relief to Johnson, but wuz pizen on me. With the most uv em,the gittiu uv offises and free drinks wuz about an ekal thing. The offises they wanted wuz merely the means to the pertikeler end, and so long ez they wuz gittiu the latter without the trouble uv the former, they wuz con tent. A good constoosheu and a cop per lined stumick carried me thro this try in ordeal, until I came across a Boston applicant, who, iu consekeuce uv the perhibitory law, hed biu ful some time ou short rasheus, and wuz keen set. Napoleon lied then met his Wellington, and I succumed. The man's talent wuz wonderful. Sekretary Seward wuz in trouble about the Blair family, pertikerly.— He did his level best for em. He bed appiuted em to Collekterships and fnrrin mishuns, but the crooel Senit, which bed no respeck for us, took de lite in fastcniu uv em onto us by per petyooally rejectin em. Jest after a long seigo by Montgomery and the old man, I sejestid the purchis uv the Rooshen Territory, to which not only they could be sent, but a thousand uv others wich we had on our hands, and the Sekretary wuz so pleased that he wept like a child. With a vigger wonderful in one so old,he set about gittin testimonials ez to the valyoo uv the territory, to inflooence the Senit in ratifyin the treaty he wuz agoin to make. And he wrote to a naval offiser about it, who answered more promptly than I ever knowd a naval offiser to do, ez follows : "It's trooly a splendid country.— The trade in the skins uv white bears kin be, ef properly developed, made enormous. There is seals there, and walruses so tame that they come up uv their own accord to be ketched. "P. S.—lu case the purchis shood be made, a naval stashen will be nec essary. May I hope that my long services on the Floridy Coast would prove suffishent recommend ashen for the command uv the depot ? May 11 "I hev the honor to be," &c., A distinguished Professor wrote : "The climate is about the style uv that they hev in Washington. The Gulf Stream sweeps up the coast, causing a decided twist in the '-'oth ermal line, which hez the effeck uv making it ruther sultry than other wise. Anywheres for six hundred miles back uv the coast strawberries grow in the open air. I recommend strongly the purchi6. "P. S.—lncase the purchis is made, a explorin expedisheu will be neces sary. May I hope that my scientiffik attainments are suffishently well known to yoo to recommend me as a proper person to head the expedish en ? May I ? "1 hev the honor to be," et settry. The President wuzn't favorably in clined. He wuz full uv the old fogy idea that it wuz rather chilley there than otherwise. He hedn't faith in the isothermal line,and wuz skeptical about the Gulf stream. It wuz his experience that the further North yoo got the colder it wuz. For instance, he rexnarkt.tliat while the people wuz warm toward him in Virginny and Maryland, last fall, they became very cold as he got North ! Where wuz the isothermal line and the gulf stream then. Randall, who will hev his joke, re markt that the isothermal line twis ted. He notist that the people made it ez hot for em ez he wantid it ez far North ez Clevelaud,to which Seketary Welles replied, that it only confirmed him in the opinion that,for platin ves sels uv war, iron wnz preferable to pine plank any time. Seward removed the President's objection to wunst. He read his let ters which set forth the beauties.— Here wuz whales, and walruses, and seals, and white bears, and pine ap ples, and wheat, and sea lions, and fields uv ice the year round, in a cli mate as mild and equable ez the mer idan uv Washington. The isothermal line wuz more accomodatin there than in any other part uv the world. It cork screwed through the territory so ez to grow line peaches for exporta tion to the States and ice to the Sand wich Islands, side by side. He drawd a picture of the white bear a rushin over the line and disportin hisself in fields uv green peas. Imagine, he remarked, the delicacy uv polar bear meat fattened on strawberries—think UY the condishn the sea lions must be in wich leave their watry lairß to feed on turnips which grow above the GOth parallel —think uv— "lt won't do," sed the President. "Think uv," retorted the Sekretary with a quicknis uv intelleck remark able "Think uv gittiu rid uv tin- Blairs forever." "Will the Abilishu Senit ratify the treaty ?" askt Johnson eagerly. "I converst with many on the sub- I jick, and they sed ef we cood promise that the Blairs wood accept posishens there, they wood do it cheerfully.— For sich a purpose, sed one uv them to me, $7,000,000 is a mere bagt<-lle." " I'll do it," sed Johnson. "1 agr< <1 with the Senators for once. Bather than hev it fail I'd pay it out uv Mrs. Cobb's share uv our jint speculations. Freedom from the Blair family ! Good Hevings ! kin one man be so blest?— Is ther sich in store for me ? $7,000,- 000 1 Pish !" NUMBER 49. My opinyun bein askt, I giv it. Ez hefty ez the vencher is from a com mershal stan-pint, in a politikle pint uv view the advantage will be still heftier. The Rooshu territory will fiually be the choseu home uv the Dimocrisy. Ther is a populasheu ther already adapted to us, who kin be mauipulatid without trouble, and the climate is favorable to a strickly Democratic popalashen. The trouble with us here is, the amount uv lik ker necessary to the mauufactur uv a Democrat kills him before he hez an opportoonity to vote many times, wich keeps us in a perpetooal minor ity. Our strength is, for climatic reasons, our weakuis. Far different is it in Roosha. Ther the happy native may drink his quart per day —the bracin atmosphere makiu it ab slootly necessary for him. Ther is the troo Dimocratic paradise. How offen hev I sighed for sich a country. Then, agin, ther are posishens uv profit. The delegates to Congriss will, ef I hev figured it ritely, draw about $15,000 per session mileage, wich is $30,000 a year, $OO,OOO per term. He cood afford to serve with out the paltry $7,000, wich wood be cheap legislation indeed. And so it was agreed upon, and the treaty wuz made by telegraph at an expense uv—l forgit eggsackly— but I think it wuz somewher in tin neighborhood uv $20,000. Before it wuz finally conclooded, some other incidentals wuz included by the Zar, wich run the price up to $10,230,000, but that wuz no thin for us. Seward went at his work with great energy. The purchis wuz divided up into six territories—(for the number uv dele gates to our convenshuu wuz large and they all bed to be provided for,) wich wuz named respectively, John sou, Seward, Cowau, Dolittle, Ran dall, and Welles. For the oue in the extreme North,the furtberst off, Frank Blair wuz appiuted Governor; for the next Montgomery, and the next, the old man, and the other three wuz hold in reserve for the pure butMin fortunate patriots wich might be hereafter rejected for the Austrian mission. A list wuz prokoored uv the delegates to our various couven shuus and them ez bed bin martyred by the Senit, ther names wuz put in to a wheel ez at gift enterprizes, and the Judgeships, Marshalships, Clerk ships, et settry, wuz drawed by lot. This ijee wuz sejested by Postmaster General Randall, ez bciu the easiest way uv doin it. He statid that the appiutments from his department lied alluz biu in this manner, ez it saved time in eggsaminin petitions, cirtifi kets, testimonials and sich. In this way about ez near ez 1 kin estimate, two per cent .uv those claimiu posish eus at our hands hev bin provided for. The idea is capable nv unlimited extension. The administration, feel in the relief it hez experienced, are already negotiatin for the British Provinces. This territory kin, by makin uv them a little smaller, be di vided up into, say fort}, wich, by makin a few more offises for each, and bein liberal uv explorin expedi tions and sicb, will be sufficient to give places to all who really have claims upon us and who are pushin us. The President breathes easier, and the Sekretary is placid ez a summer mornin. He hes cut the Gordian knot; he hez releeved hisself uv the boa constrikter wich wuz erushin him in its folds. Happiness prevades the White House. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M. (Wich is Postmaster} and likewise Profess, >1 uv Biblikle Politicks in the Southern Cla sikle and Military Institoot. AN editor at a dinner table being asked if he would take some pudding, re plied, in a fit of abstraction, •' Owing to the crowd of other matter, we are unable to find room for it.'' A LAZY fellow lying down on the grass said, " Oh how I wish this was called work, and well paid for." A NEW England paper, quoting Drjrden's line—" None but the brave de - serve the fair," says, "No, and none but the brave can live with some of them." A WOMAN in St. Louis advertises for a girl who "knows a llap-jack from a boot-jack," and who will not "wash litr feet in the dish-tub instead of the wash tub." A MAN with a turn for mathemat ics, has figured up the weight of snow which fell in our three heaviest snow storms this winter. The result is, 3,510,- 000,000 tons. THE man who couldn't stand it any longer, has taken a seat, and now feels qnito comfortable. A LITERARY man, on retiring into private life, said his connection with the press had thawed and resolved into udr IT has been asked, " When tain falls does it ever get up again r' Of course it does, in dew time. EDGARDO EGREMONT, the dark-eyed demoniac lover, who carried oil' the fair and fond Felicia Fitz Follausbee, while the livid lightning, etc.. ud lib. HENRY WARD BEECHER say* that to love ho must have something to put Iris arms around. Quadrat thinks that is cer tainly a pleasant way of loving. A BOARDER at one of our city board ing houses on being asked how they lived there, replied that the hash was rather doubtful, but the beef was "bully." Ilio dubious indorsement failed to attract a new boarder. OUR most intimate friend is not LM to whom we show the worst but tbe bestot our nature. MOST persons perform the greater part of the voyage of life before taking in their ballast; hence so many shipwrecks. THE fact of next year being a " leap year " has added $13,000 to the esti mates for the British army. That is one day's pay for the forces. REV. J. J- West, of Winchelsea, England, has refused to read the burial ser vice over the body of a man who was w "sh ed up at sea, because "he did not know whether he had been baptized!"
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