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They will be entitled to i column, confined exclusive ly to their business, with privilege of change. :Sr Advertising in all cases exclusive of sub-cription to the paper. JOB PRINTING of every kind, in Phiin and Fancy colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Handbills, Blanks, Cards, Pam phlets, Ac., of every variety and style, prin ted at the shortest notice. The REPOBTEII OFFICE has just been re-fitted with Power Presses, and every thing in the Printing line can be executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. (Sarbs. fjUIOMAS J. INGHAM, ATTOR JL SKY AT LAW, LAPORTE, Sullivan f.iuuty.Pa. /GEORGE D. MONTANYE, AT \J TuIISEY AT LA IV —Office in Union Block, formerly occupied by JAMACFARLAKE. \Yf T. DA VIES, Attorney at Law, TT • Towanda, Pa. Office with Wm. Wat kins, Esq. Particular attention paid to Or p!iausr Court business and settlement ot de: e deuts estates. \I ERCL'R A MORROW, Attorneys A'L. at /.ate, Towanda, Penn'a, The undersigned having associated themselves together in the practice of Law, offer their pro te-isional services to the public. ULYSSES MERCUR, P. D. MORROW. .March 0,1865. T>ATRICK A PECK, ATTORNEYS AT L LAW. Offices In Union Block. Towanda, Pa., tormerly occupied by Hon. Win. Elwell.and in Patrick's block, Athens, Pa. They may be consulted at either place. li. W. PATRICK, apU3 W. A. PECK. ÜB. McKEAN, ATTORNEY MEEKS—AUCTIONEER. Hj All letters addressed to him at Sugar Run, Bradford Co. Pa., will receive prompt amotion. LHIANCLS E. POST, Painter, Tuiv i- anda. Pa, with 10 years experience, is con fident he can give the best satisfaction in Paint ing, Graining, Staining, Glazing, Papering,,4c. 89-Particular attention paid to Jobbing in the •nntry. April 9, 1866. I K. VAUGHAN —Architect and fj • Builder —All kinds of Architectural de -igns furnished. Ornamental work in Stone, Iron and Wood. Office on Main street? over Russell 4 Co.'s Bank. Attention given to Ru ra! Architecture, such as laying out of grounds, 4c. ,4c. Aprill, 1667 ly. I J. X TWWIT L~R COUNTY SURVEYOR, >rv> ell, Bradford Co. , Pa„ will promptly attend r all business in his line. Particular attention given to running and establishing old ordispu ted lines. Also to surveying of all unpatented 1 mils as soon as warrants are obtained. myl7 \\ J IIKKAy WAT KINS, Notanj ' T • Public is prepared to .take Deposi -•us, Acknowledge the Execution of Peeds, M rtgages, Power- of Attorney, and all other instruments. Affidavits and other pipers may be sworn to before me. Office opposite the Banking House of B.S. Russell & U*., a few doors north of the Ward House. Towanda, Pa., Jan, 14,1867. D? K X A P P~ 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 (lines, and other goods belonging to a Jewel ry Store. Perticular attention paid to Repairing, at his old place near the Post Office, Waveriy, N. V. Pec. 3,1866. —tt. JOHN MORAY, ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER. Will promptly attend to all business in hi 3 line. Special attention given to landscape and Stere - opic Photography. Views of Family Resi iences,Stores. Public Buildings, Animals, Ma bines, etc., L,keu in the best manner. Particular attention given to the novel and -eautiful stere-copic representation of objects. Orders received at Wood 4 Harding's Photo rraphic Art Gallery, Towanda. Towanda, April '23,1867.—y1. rpHE UNDERSIGNED HAVE -L opened a Banking House in Towanda, un b r the name c. G. F. MASON 4 CO. They are prepared to draw Bills of Ex- Uange, and make collections in New York, Philadelphia, and all portions of the United states, as also England, Germany, and France. I'-- I .can money, receive deposit. , and to do a general Banking business. G. F. Mason was one of the late firm of l.aporte, Mason 4 Co., of Towanda, Pa., and nis knowledge of the business men of Bradford ud adjoining Counties,and having been in the hanking business for about fifteen years, make ibis bouse e. desirable one, through which to make collections. G. F. MASON, Towanda, Oct. 1,1866. A. G. MASON. \ CHOICE SELECTION OF Mis cellaneous and Javenile Books at RIDGWAY'S DRUG 4 BOOK STORE. PAPER, ENVELOPES, "BLANK Books, Writing Fluid, Ink, Pens, Pencils, ■-dates, Paper slates, Visiting Cards. Reward Cards, Writing Desks, 4c., at RIDGWAY'S DRUG & BOOK STORE, ■ " t.y -'-A giftf* f ..-'.Mb n4 ic ifa'ai* #ti{ v.& ,-r | ~, h . *, &■t E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. hotels. WARD HOUSE, TOWANDA, PA. On Main Street, near the Court House. C. T. SMITH, Proprietor. Oct. 8, 186(5. HOTEL, TOWANDA, PA*., Having purchased this well known 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 a'greeable. May 3,'66.—tt. J. S. PATTERSON, Prop. Q N YDER HOUSE, a four story brick VM edifice near the depot,with large airy rooms, elegant parlors, newly furnished. ha 3 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 an ! express. Also for sale of Western Tickets, and ia Canada, on Grand Trunk Rail-way. Fare to Detroit from Buffalo, $4, is cheaper than any other route. Apply for tickets as above to C. WARFORD. Bar Stabling aud care ol Horses at reasonable r Waverly. N. Y., 0ct.26,1866.-3m. C. W. UMITHBORO 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 haw a la ge Hall at tached, suitable for lectures, dances, &o. Pass engers carried to any point by applying at the Hotel. No pains will be spared to make every thing agreeable aud comfortable for the t ravel ing public. J. B. VAN WINKLE, Jan. 10,1867. Proprietor. Ulillinerß ant) Press making. GRIFFIN, Would respectfully ask the ladies to call and examine her stock ol Spring Millinery Goods, just received from New York. Every thing beautiful and new, in the line ol 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* MISSES WOUGHTER A SHIP ±Y_L MAN, DRESS .MAKERS. Rooms over Bramhall & Cowell's Store, Main Street. Second Door below Beidleman's Block. Towanda, Pa., April sth 1867.—3 m. I L L I N ERY" MRS. J. C. FIERCE, Would announce to the citizens ol Towanda, and the public generally, that she has just re turned from New York with a well selected as sortment oi 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 ot one ot the best Milliners irom the City, she believes that she can give entire satisfaction. Particular at tention given to STRAW WORK. Come and see us. Don't forget the place, over Shlam's Clothing Store, next door to if "rear's Store. Towanda, April 3, 1807. jjjiss M. A. BUFFINGTON, Would announce to the ladies ot Towanda and vincinity, that she is now prepaTed to give her time and attention to DRESS MAKING, And solicits a share of their patronage, All or ders will be promptly attended to. Rooms at the residence ot N. :J. Keeler, (up stairs) two doors east of Dr. Pratt's office, on State street. Towanda, April 15, 18>!7. E W MILLINERY AT MOXROETON. Miss EMMA SILL & Miss MAKION S. RIDOWAY, Having just returned from New York with a fine and well selected assortment of MILLINERY AND 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. Particular attention given to Straw Work. April 17.1867. fttiscellancous. T O. OF O.F.—BRADFORD LODGE X No. 167,1. O. of O. P., meets at Odd Fel lows Hall, every Monday evening from the first Monday in April to the first Monday in October at 7i p. m., from October to April at p. m. J. S. CAREY, Sec'y. April 23.1567. PUBLIC DRAY.— The subscriber has had made a new and convenient DRAY and will hereafter be prepared to do hauling for all persons 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 public is respectfully solicited, as by prompt attention to orders, and , by punctuality and low charges, he is determ ined to merit a share ot custom. FRANK STEPHENS. Morch 28,1867.—3 m* GtRIST MILL.—I have purchased T the grist-mill known as the Hale Mill, sit uated near the moufh of Towanda Creek, and about two miles south of Towanda Borough. I take this method of notifying my old friends of my location, and am in hopes to gam many new friends and patrons by strict attention to my business. All I ask is a fair trial, as I am well satisfied that I can suit my customers . WM. bA Hill South Towanda, April 23,1867. E W ASBANGE M I X T AT THE NEWS ROOM AND BOOK STORE. The undersigned having purchased the BOOK STORE AND NEWS ROOM of J. J. Griffiths, respectfully invite the old patrons of the estab lishment and the public generally, to call and ex amine our stock, ALVORD 4 BARBER. S. W. ALVORD. F. E. BARBER. WENTY-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 Waveriy, N, Y., where he has been in the practice of his profession for the past lour years. He would say that from his long and successful practice of 25 years duration he is familiar with ail 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 '.hat 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 gam. It is more durable, more natural in appearance, and much better adapted to the gum than any other kind of work. Those in need of the saaie are invited to call 'and examine specimens. Teeth filled to last for years aud olteutimes tor life.— Chloroform. Ether, and " Nitrous Oxide " ad ministered with perfect safety, as over four hun dred patients within the last four years can tes tify. 1 will be in Towanda from the 15th to 30th of every month, at the office ot W. K. TAYLOR, (formerly occupied by Dr. O H.Woodruff) — Having made arrangements with Mr. Taylor, I am prepared to do all work in the very best style, at his office, April 23, 1867. THE ENGINEER'S STORY. "Going up to-night, Frank?" How quickly a man discovers the friendly outlines of a familiar face, even amidst the confusion and tumult of a crowded railway depot ! I had fancied myself uurecoguized, as I leaned against the arched brick door way nearly shrouded in shadow, watching the hurried, anxious faces that came and went, under the glit tering gas lights ; yet here was Ca rew's hand on my shoulder, and Ca rew's genial countenance looking in to mine. We had been close friends and allies two years ago, when he had been conductor aud I was engi neer on on the same train. Tempted by a more liberal offer, I bad left my post on the " Lady Franklin " and undertaken the supervision of a large machine shop ; yet I had recollection of my railway days, and to night, as I stood on the old familiar ground, with the well known sights and sounds around me, aud the " Lady " gliding out of her place of shelter" with burnished sides and flaming headlight, I almost wished myself back again at my old post. " Yes, I thought I should. How's the old ' Lady ' ? Holds her own pretty well ?" " Better than the new one a deal !" said the conductor, enthusiastically, viewing the fiery-throated monster as she pulled and groaned, ran back ward a few steps, and then darted forward, in a manner entirely enig matical to any but our initiated selves. " She looks as trim as a city belle." "Yes ; McLeod keeps her well up. I say Frank, McLeod's wife is going through to-night." I know he was looking closely at me, scrutinizing my countenance ; but I managed with an effort to say, quite carelessly and unconcernedly : " Is she ?" Carew had known all about the one disastrous love affair of my youth; he knew perfectly well that pretty Isabel Martin had suddenly turned round and married John McLeod af ter encouraging my suit for nearly a year ; and he knew also how sen sitive I still was on the subject. I had not blamed Isabel so much as some might have been disposed to do ; she was very young, and en tirely under the influence of her fath er, with whom McLeod was a great favorite. But none the less I had re ceived a great and enduring shock. " Poor little Isabel," said Carew, as he reached up to turn down a long jet of gas that threatened to crack its glass globe—" I rather think she pretty well sick of McLeod by this time." " Why ? Does he ill-treat her ?" " Well, I don't suppose he either locks her up on bread and water, or beats her ; but I do suppose that in every other particular in which a man can neglect or ill-treat a woman she is neglected and ill-treated. " The old brute !" I muttered, be tween my teeth. "Well—l shall see you again," said Carew, vanishing into the crowd with a sinuous ease and swiftness peculiar, I believe to the race of con ductors. It was a tempestuous night in March—the wind howling and shriek ing like an infuriated demon, and the rain heating a stormy fugne on the depot roof, as I advanced to help a woman in with a heavy basket. " Excuse me, madam, but that is too heavy for you to lift 1" She looked up to thank ine, but the words died on her lips as her eyes met mine. It was Isabel McLeod, the lost love whom I still cherished in my heart, and the wife of the en gineer of the Night Express. I was the first to recover my composure ; for this, be it remembered, was the first time we had met since her mar riage, more than three years before. " Here is a vacant seat, Isabel ; do you wish to sit so near the stove?' " It makes no difference," said Isa bel, hurriedly. " I am very much obliged to you, Mr. Atwater." " How does it happen that you are going through such a stormy night?" I asked, unmindful of her evident anxiety to be left alone. " I do not know myself, except that John wishes it." Still I lingered. "Is there any thing more I can do for you Isabel ?" There was no answer. I stooped my head a little lower. " Isabel, you are crying ! What has grieved you ? Isabel tell me what the trouble is ?" " Nothing —nothing," she sobbed behind her veil. " Only—l had not seen you in so long a time, and it was like old days once more ; and— and lam very foolish. Please leave me now, won't you ?" I obeyed her, puzzled and indig nant. Oarew was right. A happy wife does not burst out crying when ■he meets the friends of her girlhood; a happy wife's look is far, tar differ ent from that pale, frightened face. I felt strongly inclined to go straight out to John McLeod's post on the " Lady Franklin," and administer a summary thrashing then and there. But I checked my rising choler, and contented myself instead with a leisurely saunter through the train now under full motion. It was very pleasant to find myself once again on the old familiar ground. The brakemen all had a word of respect ful greeting for me, the baggage master insisted on ensconcing me in the single arm-chair which graced his car, while he himself sat on a pile of trunks and asked more ques tions thau I could have answered in a week ; the Express Agent issued from his deu and demanded to know " where i had been larking all this time," and even the newsboys grin ned as they slid past and accosted REGARDLESS Or DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., MAY 30,1867. me with "How d'ye do, Mr. At wa ter ?" . But all at ouce our train slacken ed its motion, moved more still, and came to a dead stand-still. I knew we were an express that stopped but twice before we reached our fiual destination, and this lonely pine-bar ren was certainly neither of onr stoppiug-places. " What is it, Carew ?" I asked, swinging myself on the ground where j the conductor stood with his lantern in hand looking under a car. " Only a journal box heated. Con found that Warren 1 what made him report " all sound " with such a worn box as that? These pateut boxes are continually getting hot in the shortest runs, aud ain't fit for ex presses at all." " We can cool it in fifteen minutes sir," said one ot the brakemen, who had his tow and water all ready for packing it anew. " Fifteen miuutes ! and we were just running ou time with the Light ning to catch us at B." " It's too bad to get iu behind the Lightning train," I said. " Worse for me than McLeod ; for, though Warreu's to blame, I catch the curses. Well, Truefit, do the best you can !" In spite of Truefit's sanguine pro phecy, it was full twenty-five minu tes before we were again under way. I had gone back to Isabel McLeod, whose dilated blue eyes were glanc ing from ouq to another in the ap prehensive agony of terror that no one but a nervous woman can fully appreciate. "Frank—Mr. Atwater? do tell me what is the matter 1" " Only a ' hot box '—there is no occasion for uneasiness." " Upon your sacred honor ?" " Upon my sacred honor. Why, Isabel, how frightened you are ! I can see you tremble,even here. What is the matter, child ?" " Sit down and I will tell you," she said, hurriedly, motioning me to a vacant seat directly back of her.— " I know it is a piece of mad folly a—a delusion ; but I must tell some body, or I shall go mad !" I sat down, leaning forward with my elbows on the top of the seat she occupied, so that my face nearly touched her heavy black veil. " First promise never to tell him— John." " I promise." " Well, then," she went on, speak ing in a husky, nervous whisper, "he is very peculiar—full of the strangest fancies. When I first mar ried I thought it was merely super stition—now—" She paused. " Well, now ?" I questioned. " Now, I do not know what to think. Oh, Mr. Atwater, I ought not to say so, 1 know, but I am the most miserable creature in the world ?" " Isabel !" "lam ! He threatens sometimes to shut me up in a mad-liouse, and perhaps I should be happier there than subject to his whims and cruel ties. Why do you suppose he bro't me here to-night ?" " I am sure I do not know." "He told me," she whispered, clasping her hands tightly together as siie spoke, " that we were coming to death to-night, and that we must come together ! Oh, Frank, what do you suppose he means?" " Only to terrify you,"l said, sooth ingly. " He is a bundle of old Scotch superstitions, and always was." " And, Frank, once when I thought I heard footsteps close behind us, and turned my head to see he jerked my arm and told me not to look— that—oh, Frank, it makes my blood run cold now—that it walking at our side 1" " But, Isabel, surely you will not allow yourself to be influenced by such folly as this." "I told you it was folly," she an swered, dejectedly ; but—" A hand was laid on my arm at this moment—the hand of Carew, the con ductor. "Frank, look here, I want to speak to you," he said, hurriedly. "Come here—out on the platform." I followed him out into the stormy darkness of the March night, where his la tern gleamed like a sullen,shif ting eye. "What is it ? Anything wrong ?" "Yes, and no. Of course you know we're nearly half an hour behind time, with not quite thirty minutes between us and the Lightning." "Yes. What of it?" "Well, that old fool McLeod has turned crusty, and says if we don't run out on the side track at Speeds ville, the next station and wait for the Lightning to pass he'll not be answer able for the eonsequencee." "Who wants him to be answer able ?" I demanded, with considerable acerbity, not to say disdain. "Well, he says it's a bad night, track slippery, and all that sort of thing ; and I suppose its all very true. But you know the 'Lady Frank lin, of old. She'll keep the thirty minutes between us and the Light ning won't she ?" "I should say there was no kind of doubt as to that. Ain't you going to mak' up that lost time 1" "Thai's just the trouble. That crack-brained old Scotch foal wants to stop and lose another half hour which we may just as well gain, and run into B on time, as to come trailing along behind the 'Lightning.' But McLeod refuses to run her unless I consent to his conditions. Frank, why can't you take the old 'Lady' into B ?" "I'll do it with ali the pleasure in life." Carew's face brightened at once. "What a lucky thing it is you chanced to be on the train f" he said. "I should have been entirely at Mac's mercy if it hadn't been for you.— Come on there's no time to be lost." I followed him through the long train to engine, and entered the little inclosed compartment were McLeod sat amgng his screws and valves and dials, like some magician of old sur rounded by the abstruse implements of of his art. How like home this tiny place appeared to me ! It seemed almost as if the "Lady Franklin" shot more swiftly over the track as I step ped upon her. McLeod inclined his head stiffly in answer to my greeting. He was a tall, spare Scotchman,with deep-set blue eyes thatched with shag gy brows, aud hair already thickly sprinkled with gray, though he could scarcely been more than forty years old. His face was cold and repulsive, and his manner forbidding in the ex tremest degree. Moreover, he had a way exceedingly unpleasant to the spectator, of continually looking over his shoulder with a sort of spasmodic motion, as it he had suddenly seen or heard something close behind him As I threw myself down beside him he suddenly pointed to the place be yond "Sit there, if you please, Mr. Atwa ter." I wondered, but complied, and Car ew spoke pleasantly. "YVell, McLeod, shall we put on steam, and drive her ahead ?" "No, Mr. Carew," said the Scotch man, coldly and firmly. "Either we run out on the side track three miles ahead, as I have explained,or I leave the engine." "Bat why are you BO determined ?" I asked. "I don't conceive it my business to answer any of your questions, Fran cis Atwater," said McLeod, "but I have no objection to gratify your curiosity. lam so 'determined' be cause I see further than you or Mr. Carew here, and 1 see danger—dan ger !" "How ? -and where ?" "You a practical engineer, and ask where is the danger on such a night as this, with the 'Lightning Express' close behind, and we twenty-five min utes after our time ? Boys, do you know that we are responsible not only for At water and Carew and John McLeod,but for all the passengers on this train ? Do you wa it the sin of murder on your soul ?" He spoke in a sharp voice that was almost a scream. "That is not the question," said Carew, "and all nonsense besides. — Isn't the light hung out behind, and can't you tell when we are gaining or losing time ? Once for all, will you or will you not do your best to gain time and keep ahead of the 'Light ning V " "No ; I will not !" he answered, sullenly. "Very well, here is a substitute that will. Make room for Mr. Atwa ter !" "He can do as he pleases," said McLeod stilHy, rising to yield me his place. "I wash my hands of the whole thing, now and hereafter.— Bear witness, Carew and Atwater, that I protest against this rash and foolhardy thing !" Not a word more did he utter, but sat down silent, and rigid as a galva nized corps, watching me with his deep set eyes until the very con sciousness of that steady surveilance made me uncomfortable. Uncomfor table, but not nervous. I never in the whole course of my life,was more entirely in possession of all my facul ties, or more composed than at that moment, as I mechanically examined screws and valves and satisfied my self as to the correctness of every de tail. All was right ; McLeod was a good engineer if not an agreeable companion. • "Now then, my 'Lady,'" I said to myself "we'll see if you keep up a!! of your old pluck !" I turned to give some directions to the fireman, and when I was about to sit down McLeod seized my arm. "Not there ! I tell you not there !" "And why not there 1" I deman ded, with a momentary fear crossing my mind that the man was deranged. "Because another already occupies the place," he cried in the skill,shriek ing voice he often used when much excited. "Death is a passenger on this train with,us and death sits there ghastly and still 1 No, I know you don't see him ; but second sight is a gift in the family I come from, and I see him.— I would have warded off his fell errand, but you—you and that cursed Carew wouldn't let me. Now go on your own mad reckless way, and see where it will bring you. And remember, Frank Atwater, that it's not your own worthless life that hangs in the balance but the lives of all who travel OH this train." Argument with a man in in this excited frame of mind would have been but folly. I sat down without a word, smiling in spite of myself, and resumed my intent supervision of the engine while McLeod sat silent ly by witli folded arms. Never did the "Lady Franklin" show finer mettle than on that night. The machinery was perfect,the crank well oiled,the heat steady and intense. The fireman worked in conceit with me, fully comprehending my inten tions, and the "Lady" rushed over the rails like a living,breathing thing. "How are you getting along, Frank ?" asked Carew, coming for- | ward with his lantern, as we left our first stopping place. "Oh, splendidly !" I answered. "I have just telegraphed back to Feldtown ; we have gained five min utes on the 'Lightning' already." " I thought we were gaining," I replied, quietly. But I was very much excited. The idea of pressing this magnificent piece of machinery to her utmost speed ; of eluding the lightning pursuit of the express train which followed—pursued us ; of iden tifying my own nerves and sinews with the iron and steel of the "Lady Franklin," was exciting in itself; nor had McLeod's wild talk been entire ly without effect on me. I was not superstitious ; but we all know the mesmeric effect which the strong be lief of another person, however ill founded that belief may be, invaria bly exerts on the mind. That Mc- Leod firmly believed that he and 1 were not alone in this little glazed compartment I entertained no doubt, and his horror reacted upon me, base less though I knew it to be. " I wish we were at B ," I thought, leaning my elbows on the wood-work aud gazing out into the stormy night, athwart which our huge head-light threw a streaming banner of lurid light as it rushed along. At that instant my shoulder was touched. " Atwater," said McLeod, in a hus ky, uunatural voice, "if you have any prayers to say, say them now. Death is very near to you !" A cold chill ran through me. " I am always prepared to meet death," I answered, trying to speak composedly. " Death ? yes, but not death by suicide. You will be a suicide, Fra ncis Atwater ; nor do I wish longer to interfere. The hour of grace is past." " Oh, McLeod ! don't talk non sense. Go back in the baggage car and sleep the liquor oft"." "Liquor? You think I'm drunk. You think I'm mad. You take me to be superstitious. I heard you—l heard you talking to her. You best keep clear of her, young man. You see this, eh?" and he drew a huge knife from his bosom. "Yes, I see it," I answered laying my hand on the brake, as if I could use it for defense. " With this I could have silenced you long ago, and saved the victims you are sacrificing. But I prefer not. What is to be is to be ; as well might I attempt to stem the current of the Mississippi with a straw as to check the tide ol Fate with my feeble hand I Only 1 would warn you to say a word or two of prayer before the fatal mo ment comes." My heart seemed to stand still with deadly terror. Was I indeed shut up in this narrow spot with a maniac? Would I be muidered before I could call for help ? But I remembered that in coolness and presence of mind lay my only chance of safety, and resolved to abide the result. We were now putting on brakes for the second and last stopping place ere we reached B . McLeod sprang out upon the platform as we stopped, and went into a bar-room adjoining the station. 1 went back and spoke to oue of the brakemen, an athletic Maine man, with thews and sinews of iron, the stature of a giant. "Jim," I said in a low tone of voice—his name was Jim Torrance —"I want you to come on to the lo comotive with me. lie talks and acts very strangely to-night; and he may attempt some violence." "I saw him draw out that out landish knife o' his, sir, a minute or two ago," said Jim, shrewdly. I could easily jerk it away from him when we're movin' again." ' " No, I do not wish you to use loroe of any kind unless it is abso lutely necessary. I think he is harm less, but it is just as well to keep a little watch over him." "He's queer," said Jim. "I'll keep an eye on him." Once more after a ten minutes' stop the little signal-bell sounded " Go ahead !" the brakes moved nois ily, and the wheels began to revolve. McLeod had not returned to his place by my side, and I began heartily to hope that he designed to favor me with no more of society. I was over joyed to feel this, and in much lighter spirits than usual I let on the steam and was soon going at a rapid rate. Three or four hundred yards from the depot the road ran through a deep cut, and just beyond it was a corres ponding "fill" or embankment about ten feet high. The engineers, that is the "surveyors" as we mechanical engineers insist, half-sneeringly, in calling them,had with very bad taste made a "compound curve" here, so that before entering the "cut" I could see nothing in it, and when I was in the "cut" I could see nothing beyond it. So, of course, we had to go through with whistle blowing and usually at a slow gate. But feeling in good" spirits at McLeod's absence, the prospect of a good ruu, having the "Lady" in fine condition, with the trains we were to meet reported "all right" and the track clear, I "let the dogs loose," opened valves, dashed through the cut and— Very, very nearly into eternity 1 Danger is said to be fascinating ; it is particularly so when you see it coming, have time to reflect upon it and plan and execute a rescue or what you hope to prove so. I saw it plainly this night, the rail half re moved, the figure of the madman still bent on his hellish work. I saw him as he completed it, saw him shake his fist savagely at me and jump aside to watch the slaughter he had plotted. I was not a second in sounding "down brakes," not an in stant in reversing the engine, but nothing could have saved that train excepts the madman's "lack of meth od," or want of the skill of the des pised surveyors. For want of this knowledge, perhaps for want of time, McLeod had removed but one rail, and that the inside one of the curve. I knew if I could check the "Lady's speed she would not leave the track, as the outside rail is the one which guides the train on a curve, and this was iu-tact. Jim Torrance had come on the locomotive with me, and I turned to tell him to jump for his life when I saw him standing upright in the center of the tender, grasping a huge block of wood and his eyee gleaming like coals. It was no tigic to look after his safety ; I saw bin hurl the stick of wood at McLeod as he ran down the embankment, anc #3 per Annum, in Advance. the next minute we struck the ground, plunged into the break. My calculations had been correct. Jolting violently over several cross ties, shattering "cowcatcher" and "headlight," the baggage and first passenger car ; throwing Jim Tor rance with great violence from the tender on to the locomotive, leaving him senseless by the shock, and near ly throwing me on to the boiler, the "Lady" struck and stopped without leaving the track exeept upon the side wh&re McLeod had removed the rail. We were disabled for the time, with nobody but Jim seriously in jured. Except McLeod. Jim's aim bad been too true, and the block of wood hurled with all his force, gaining double velocity from that of the train, bad struck McLeod as he ran and felled him senseless—the fact is, as we soon found, dead. The billet had struck him and killed him. Jim Tor rance was never tried for it on earth; poor fellow, he's gone since, and 1 don't much think they recorded any verdict against him in heaven. After Jim was taken care of, the lanterns put out ahead and behind us to warn approaching trains, and the disabled train was gone through to see after the wounded, John McLeod's corpse was taken up and carried back to the station which he had iust left. " Frank," said Carew, when mat ters were slightly settled again, 44 who is to tell this story to Mac's wife ?" " She does not suspect anything— that is, she don't know how it occur red." " She knows there has been acci dent, but she doesn't know that Mac was thrown out of *the locomotive and is the only one killed." Good 1 Even Carew did not BUB pect how McLeod had been felled by Torrance's blow and killed. . " I will tell her," I said, determin ed that she sheuld never know his crime, nor learn how he had been suddenly and terribly punished. Her grief was terrible to witness. She lay on my shoulder and sobbed half the night away, but it was less from love of the man—.who had al ways been cruel to her—than from her woman's nervousness. At the inquest, next day, when she identi fied hia body and told the story of his misanthropy and superstition to the jury, she was more collected, and surprised me by her calmness. The jury thought its course in the matter plain sailing—no suspicion of the man's crime arose; Torrance and myself were not examined ; we kept our secret to ourselves, and the jury brought iu a verdict of " Death by accident." They knew nothing of the incentive to the crime—the chief cause of his death—jealousy. I have told the story of my mid night trip on the " Lady Franklin." Is it necessary to tell any more ? Sudden transitions from death scenes to marriage ceremonies are always offensive in the telling as in the hearing ; and therefore I think it useless as well as in bad taste to waste further words in saying that just one year and a half after the fa tal accident I took Isabel home as my wife, and that ever sinee, by God's help, I've made her a happy wife, and repaired the wrongs of her youth bj' being a good and kind hus band to ber. For the Reporter. EDUCATIONAL. Below will be found interesting ex tracts from an article on the " In struction of the People in the 19th Century/' by M. E. de Leveleye, pub lished in France, translated for, and published in the American Educa tional Monthly. The article presents many facts worthy of the consideration of the American people. It is perhaps too flattering to our national pride, but being written by a foreigner, it af fords us an indication of the views entertained abroad of the results of the general education of our masses —indicating the silent yet powerful influence our example is exerting abroad, and affords us encourage ment to persevere in building up the cause of common school education. The after speaking of movements in progress made by sev eral governments to effect reforms in education, says : "In fact one must be blind not to see that the future of nations depends upon their intelli gence." " While education is indis pensable to the increase of wealth it is no less needed to teach its prop er use." " A nation must be intelli gent to produce largely and dispose wisely of those multiplied produc tions." " Equality is making progress in monarchies as well as republics, in Russia no less than Switzerland."— " Already universal suffrage has been established by several nations." " This democratic movement depends upon causes so profound and so gen eral that no sovereign, no party, no coalition, can arrest it." We must then make the best of it, and to this end each extension of suffrage should be the consequence of an advance of public intelligence, men should ad minister the affairs of society only when they are capable of wisely managing their own. Give the bal lot to an ignorant nation, and anar chy will result to-day, despotism to morrow. An enlightened nation, on the contrary, will soon be A free na itiou, and will preserve its liberty by I knowing how to use it." " A great danger may threaten modern civilization. If, at the same time, that a general desire for im proving their condition pervades the people, intelligence and morality are diffused among all classes, so as to inspire justice on the one hand, and on the other the patience required by peaceful reforms, steady progress is insured ; but if we maintain cduca* tion, wealth and selfishness in the upper classes, ignorance, poverty and envy in the lower, we must expect bloody reve'utions." 44 What has been said may seem common-place, for scarcely any one now boast 3 the advantages of ignor ance. Ministers and deputies, book . and journals, proclaim with one ac cord the absolute necessity of edu cation ; but it is doubtful whether men's minds are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices to accom plish the work. That we may not deceive ourselves in this matter, it is profitable to study the methods adopted by those nations that have most nearly approached the cud in view. A single example will show at what cost education has been dif fused among a people. 41 There are, I think, four nations that can say with laudable pride that all their citizens can read. North Germany, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States, but only in the last one named does every one read for information, for diversion, to be come better acquainted with public affairs, to find out how to conduct business better and earn more money or to learn more concerning the great truths of religion. 44 There is twice as much printing there as elsewhere, and the Union alone consumes as much paper as France and England together. Ac cording to statistics, the number of subscriptions to journals divided by the number of inhabitants gives more than one subscription to a fum ily. NUMBER 52. " Daily papers are issued by the hundred thousand copies, and some weeklies have a circulation of four - hundred thousand. All travelers who visit America are impressed with the fact that everybody—the com mon people as well as others—is oc cupied in rea ling. " In the spring of this year I visi ted the noble .'ederal frigate, the Ni agara, which lay at anchor in the harbor of Antwerp. Every sailor who was not on duty had a book, a magazine, or a journal iu his hand. In Europe on leaving school, or when a young man enters the army, the statement is made that he can or can not read a few lines ; but this su perficial knowledge of the printed letter is generally of little advantage to him ; he does not use it. In A raerica reading is a daily habit, tlx source of public prosperity, and the essential condition of the permanence of republican institutions. " The common school, all Ameri cans confess, is the foundation of the state—the true bond of the Union. Free to all, open to all, receiving the children of all classes and all faiths, it obliterates social distinctions, soft ens religious animosities, eradicates prejudices and antipathies, and in spires each heart with a love for the comman country, and a regard fur free institutions. It is amazing to see the mass of foreigners annually introduced by emigration so soon ab sorbed into American nationality. It is the school which, from the first generation, imprints upon them the seal of national manners, imparts to them the prevailing ideas, and ren ders them capable of exercising a citizen's rights. Without the school the Union would long ago have ceas ed to exißtj rent by factions, ingulfed beneath the waves of ignorance con tinually flowing into it from Germa ny and especially from Ireland. lie cent calculations show that if all immigration had ceased in 1810, tin; free population of the United States, instead of amounting in January, 1804, to 29,902,000, would have reached only ten and a half millions. The immigrants and their descendants constitute then two-thirds of the pop ulation. It is due to education that this primitive stock, so inferior in number to the foreign element, has been able to assimilate them and communicate to them the peculiar characteristics that distinguish tlx; old Anglo-Saxou and Puritan race. " How often during fhe late civil war was it predicted that the West would separate from the Atlantic States, and that California would form an independent republic on the shores of the Pacitic ! Iu fact the friends of the North were not with out fear #f this result. " Those distant States might have deemed it an easy way of escaping the fearful sacrifice of blood and trea | sure demanded by the war ; but they ah* not even think of it. The school masters, either natives of New Eng land or imbued with her spirit, had already awakened the sentiment of nationality in these newly-settled communities, and the school was the strong bond that held together all parts of the stately structure. Eu rope has justly admired the energy of this young nation which in four years could furnish, in defense ot a just cause, two million men and four billion dollars It is an unexampled proof of power and wealth ; but it is still more remarkable and com mendable that this nation /" the midst of heavy taxes to which it ' was wholly unaccustomed, has sup ported a government demanding ■ these sacrifices which only victory could justify. It is an indication of great wisdom and foresight of which ' an ignorant nation would be incapa • ble. The school has proved the sal ivation of American Democracy. 0. J. c.