&l!t founts coipto. FRIDAY, MARCH' 20. 18G9 FOR OOVEHNOIt. JNO W GEARY, Subject (o (he deoiaion of the Republican Slate Convention. 1HE KW FOSTAGE STAMPS. Preparations are now being made? for the introduction of the new series of postage-stamps. The one'cenl stamp is headed with the vignette of franklin, fbo first Postmaster General under the Colonial sys tem, as well as. the first under the con. federation preparatory to the Federal Union. In the two, three and twelve. cent stnmps there is an illustration of the improve, ments in mail transportation, from the pri mitive rider on horseback. to the raihoad train for the land service and tho steam ships for the ocean service. Tho remain ing six stamps of the set form a scries of their 00, beginning in the six-Cent stamp with an accurate copy of the face of Wash ington, as shown in Stuait's picture at the Executive Manshion, and ending in ninety, cent stamp, with the hjad of Lincoln, as significant of a new era of universal free- dom. Two others of this national series, fifteen and twenty-four-cent, respectively, have miniature copies of the Landing of Columbus and of tho Declaration of In. dependence, in the rotunda of the Capitol. In the ten cent stamps the American eagle appears resting upon the American shield, and in the thirty-cent stamps are compris ed in one group all the national ctuble.us of toe engle, the shield and tho flag, and pre senting, also, the national colors, red, white and blue. NEWS HEMS. Gold closed in New Yoik on Saturday at 131 J. Ihe steamer Union has arrived i" New York from Liverpool, bringing 73, 000 sterling. tf Lato Culiforniu advices say that the Indians are committing outrages on the lronticrs. The Mexican General J.osida has re Signed his command and appointed Domin go Iluva his successor. All the schemes to securo Slate aid for railroads in Ohio has been defeated. The Legislature adjourned on the 24th inst. -Lato Cuban advices say that in a skirmish near Villa Clara, the insurgent Moya was captured and Subsequently shot. A steamer has. arrived at Havana irom Rpain wtxh a thousand soldiers. Gen. Samuel Fcsseden died at Port land, Me., on Saturday tiilit, aged eighty, five years. lie was the father of Senator Fesscdcn, who was his oldest son. It is sta'ed that thirty deaths from typhoid fever occured during tho past two months in a single block of (ilihy tene ments, on Thirteuth street, between aveuue A and Fist aveuue, New Yoik. Health officers have commenced clcaniug that lo cality. At a meeting of the City Council of Cincinnati on Friday afternoon the ordi nance compelliug commercial travelers to pay license for selliug goods by sample or othewise, was unconditionally repealed. Niemeicr, Treasurer of the St. Pauls German Kvangelical I'rotestant Church, arrived in Cincinnati under nrrest Friday night, from Detroit, lie absconded on Now Yrear'a day with several thousand dollars of Church money. Henry 51. Bra:rg, of Haverhill, near Jioston, said to be one ot tho most notorious swindlers in the States, was arrested there Friday night on a charge of forgery, pre ferred by detective officer Hunt, of Boston. A resolution was offered by a Repub. lican Senator authorizing Governor Bullock to call upon the President of the Uuited States for military aid in the counties where the sheriffs make oath that they cannot protect life by the civil force, but it was voted down by the Democrats. Mr. Cudlcy's action in moving the annexation resolution in the New Bruns wick House is unamously condemned there. It appears the House refused to allow even a notice of the resolution to appear on the clerk's brok. Navigation is open in the upper part of the Bay of funday. In the Senate ot New York on Friday, on the reconsideration of the voto which indefinitely postponed the Fifteeeth Amendment, the Democratic members voted almost solid against it, only four of them voting in favor of it. It therefore goes over to the next session, At Oxford, in New York State, a large number ot laborers employed on the Midland Railroad, engaged in a fight on St. Patrick's day, and were driven out of town by the citizens, several of the laborers being seriously, and ouie fatally injured. It was feared that they would return to Oxford, largely rointorced, and burn the town, as they had made threats to that effect. An inquest was held at Staten Island on Friday, on two niorj of the crew of the fever ship James Foster, Jr , who had died at the Seamans' Betreat. The evidence re peated the old story of ill treatment, and showed in addition that the two men left Liverpool strong and hearty, and were re ceived in the Betreat so emancipated that their skip was shriveled unlike parchment. A thousand and forhrdollars in gold pieces of lbs year 1705, or thereabouts, were recently disposed of in Trenton, New jersey, alter having beeB boarded for seventy fuur years. The loss of interest in that timo was somewlat over f 1,0'JO. i HEWS ITEMS. In the Khode Island Hcrasa recently the womin suffrage proposition was re jected, 1G to 88. A man in Michigan lias been lined $5 and costs for calling his neighbor a " liar." The " costs amounted to $90,G0. It is stated several boxes of guineas of the coinage of George the Third have been recovered from the wreck of the British frigate Hassar, sunk in East river in 17S1- Tho South Carolina Legislature, on the 11th inst., passed a resolution ratify ing the constitutional amendment. The Georgia House passed a similar resolution by a vote of 74 to 69. Thomas Button, of Aston, Delaware oonnty, celebrated the one hundredth an niveisity of his birth on tho 2nd inst., in which his posterity and relatives, to the number of 250, paiticipated. The State of Virginia is in a bad way financially. Tho total debt of the State is $42,455,803 94, tn which sum is to be added the outstanding two per cent, on the interest paying debt which is unpaid and unlundcd. A St, George, Utah, dispatch says that a large body of Navajo Indians are on the south side of the Colorado mer, said to be aided by white reneirades, well supplied with arms and provisions. They have whipped several small bands south of tho Colorado, and now threaten the settle, ments of Southern Utah. It is understood that 5r. Hooper, the delegate from Utah, intends at t.n early day, to have that polygamous community received as a State in the Union. A draft of a bill for the purpose has been drawn, in which it is provided that the laws of tho United States shall be enforced in the new state, " except where obedianccis rendered impossible by local customs. Snug fortunes have been trade by en terprising Northerners during the past two years from the culture of oranges in Florida. Two brothers from New England, without funds, who rented a grove on -hares, have realized 7,000 during the past season above all expenses. This is a branch of trade which will bo largely de veloped during the coming few years, and furnish employment to many Yankee wutcr eraf-t. The Tcnsaoola & Georgia Railroad, and the Talluhasso Bailroad wcic sold on vSautrday at public Sale. The first was knocked down at one. million two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and the- lat one liuudred and ninety five thousand dollars, to Dibble & Associates ; sixty tliuu-snd dollars to be paid on taking pos session, and the balance as called for by the Trustees of the Internal Improvement fund. Socr Growixo os Trees. Soup ber ries are to be found in immense quantities throughout Alaska. The grow on a bush about the same in appearance as whortle berries. When ripe they are red of a juicy and quinine taste, and general bien. nial. One quart taken and pieced in a tub the size of a bushel, when stirred, will completely fill the tub with froth, and the more it is stirred with the naked hand snd aim the stiflorit becomes, until you can cut it with a knife.. It is eaten with horn or wooden spoons, all the family sitting around the tubs. It is undoubtedly an ac quired taste, but the commodity is much nought for. The froth is of a beautiful pink color. Green berries will make nearly the same amount of froth, but is of white color and is not so bighlp flavored. Foreigners stir it with port or sherry wines, and add sugar, in which case it is a deli cious luxury. Large quantities are dried, by being placed in a tub with their leaves, orming a cake, which is placed on wicker tables, with lighted fires under and the sun overhead. When dried they will keep in a dry place forsome years. The dried ber ries are black and look dirty. A piece two inches square, beaten in a water pool, will fill it full of froth of a dark pink color. Old Bread. A curious discovery was just made at Pompeii. In a house in courss of excavation aa oven was found, closed with an iron door, on opening which a butch of eighty-one loaves, put in nearly eighteed hundred years aco, and now some what over done, was discovered ; and even the large iron shovel with which they had been neatly laid in rows. The loaves were- but slightly over baked by the lava heat, having been protected by a quantity of ashes covering the door. 1 here is no ba' ker's mark on the loaves ; they are circu lar about nine 'inches in diamater, rather flat, and indented (evidently with the ba. ker's elbow) in the centre, and are slightly raised at the sides, and divided by deep lines radiating from the centre into eight segments. Inew are now ot a deep brown color, and hard, but very light In the same shop were found 5G1 bronze and 52 siiver coins A mill, with a great quan tity of com in excellent preservation, has also been discovered. A WESTER!! engineer tells the following story about himself : One Dight the train stopped to wood and water at atnall station in Indiana. While the opcratiou was going on, I observed two green lookiug country men in " homespun," curiously inspecting the locomotive and occasionally giving vent to expressions of astonishmet. Finally one of them looked up at me and said : " Stranger, are this a locomotive f " "Certainly Didn't you ever see one be fore ? " " No, haven't never saw one afore. Me'n Bill come down to the station to-night purpose to see one. Them's the biller, ain't it ? " Yes, eertainly." " What yr call that you're in ? ' " We call this the cab." " And this big wheel." " That's the driving wheel." " That big thing on the top is the chimhly, I sup pose ? " Precisely." " Be you the engineer whot runs the machine 1"' "I am the engineer." " Bill," said the fellow to his mate, after eyeing me a few minutes, " It don't take ncuob of a man to be an engineer, do it J " All aboard ! " Rem ember be Printer. ' Whom do Great Men: Marry, Women of course. But thev show the same diversity of taste that is. seen in the lower ranks, and on the whole make worse tnutukes. They, however, generally show the same sense in choosing wives that they show in managing other people's affairs, whether it be good or bad. John Howard, the great philonthrophist, married his nurse. She was altogether be neath him in sociel life snd intellectual ca pacity, and besides this, was fifty-two years old while he was but twenty. five. He would not take " No" for an answer, and 'they were married, and lived happily to. gethernntil her death, which occurred two years afterwards. Peter the Great, of Russia, married a pcasntit girl. She made an excellent wife and a sagacious enipre s. Ilumboltd niar, ried a poor girl because bo loved her. Of course they were happy. ohakespeare loved and wed a farmer s (laughter, one Was taithtul to her vows, but we ould hardly say the same of the bard himself. Like most of the great noets, ho showed too little discrimination in bestowing his affections on the other sex. Byron married Miss 5Iilbank to get money to pay his debts. It turned out a bad shift. Robert Burns married a farm girl with whom ho tell in love while working to. gcthor in- the plow field. lie, too, was irregular in his life, and committed the most serious mistakes in conducting his domestic affairs. Milton married the daughter of a country squire, but lived with her but a short time. He was an au'tcrc, exacting, literary re cluse ; while she was a rosy romping country luss that could not endure the re. straint imposed upon her, and s-) they sep arated. Subsequently, however, she re turned, and thev lived tolerably happy. Queen Victory and Frince Albert were cousins and about the only example in the long lino ot English mnnarchs wherein the marital vows were sacredly observed and sincere affection existed. Washington married a widow with two children. It is enough to say of her that she was worthy of him, and that they lived as married folks should, in perfect h.rrmony John Adams married tho daughter of a Presbyteriau clergyman. Her father ob jected on account of John's being a law yer ; he had a bad opinion of the morals of the profession. Thomas Jefferson m&rrlcd .ilrs. Martha Skelton, a childless widot, but she brought him a large fortune of real estate. After the ceremony she mounted the horse be hind him and they rode home together. It was lute in the evening, and they found the fire out. But the great 8tatc3iiinn bustled around and rebuilt it, while she seized the broom and soon put things in order. It is needless to say that they were happy, though Jefferson died a poor man on account of his extreme liberality and hospitality. Benjamin Franklin manicd the girl who stood in her father's door and laughed at him as he wandered through the streets of Philadelphia with rolls of bread under his arms and his pockets filled with dirty clothes. She had occasion to bo happy when she found herself the wife of such a great and good man. It is not generally known that Andrew Jackson married a lady whose husband was still living, bhe was an uneducated but amiable woman, and was most devoutcdly attached to the old warrior aud statesman. John O. Calhoun married bis cousin, and their children were neither diseased nor idiotic, but they do not evince the talent of the great States' Rights " advocate. Edward Lytton Buhvcr, the English statesman and novelish, married a girl much his interior in position, and got a shrew for a wife. She is now insane. Uen. earn Huston lived happily with a squaw wife, while Gen. Ben. Butler was divorced from an accomplished lady. Ed. win Forrest, tho great tragedian, married a beautiful actress from whom he was di vcrced. Gsn. Fremont married a daughter of Thomas H. Benton against tho latter's wish, which obliged him to elope with her on a stormy night. Ihe union proved o happy one in spite of he squally beginning Horace Greeley married a schoolmistress whose beauty was questionable, but whose sense and goodness satisfied one of the greatest men in his time. General Sherman married the daughter of Thomas Ewiog, of Ohio, who was member of Gren. Taylor's cabinet. This alone would have been a good start for any young man. Jeff. Davis, for his first wife, won the band of Zachary Taylor's daugh ter; aud Gen. Grant married a Miss Vett, ot ot. .Louis, bhe apparently has more sense than show, and is therefore fit for President's wife. Phrenological Journal, YfttlTlt. Who wastes bis routb. be gars himself for life. Youth Is the time to store the intellect with knowledge, and whosoever iails to lav the foundannn for scientifia and Iiforarv nttninmenta thpn if j , -. he has the opportunity, is never likely to do so ; or, should he attempt it, he never can make up the loss lrom early negligence. loutn is time totorm a virtuous character. The mind is then onen : ihe heart is then reoeptivej all the affections are in a plastic state to be moulded by tbo influence of Leaven and earth, given by divine provi dence to elevate and save ; and whosoever does not then lay up the " rewards ' through which God may be present in the inmost of man. is not like) v to do so after ward, or attempting it must come far short oi what it was bis privilege to become. An Iowa exchange, in order to be even with a contemporary who told a marvelous story, vouches lor the truth of a statement that a lady in that village, when quite a child, accidently run a splinter in the thumb of her left band, and was aston ished the other day by having a saw. log, ten feet Ions and twenty-three inches in circumference, jump from her heel. A statistical connoisseur calculates that only one woman oat of ninety-five, u New Yoik, cau be justly called pretty. Horace Greeley's Mawuicript. Horace Greeley's manuscript is notori ously barrf and it is said to require a printer of no ordinary skill to set up his copy if he happens to write u in a nuasy. J he recent newspaper anecdote of an article headed " Wm. H. Seward," which Mr. Greeley had returned to him set np " lliohard III.," is fresh in the minds of all ; but an occurrence still more funny is related which happened in the Irwune omco, some years since. A compositor bad made so many errors n setting " the philosopher's " copy, that it irritated him to such a degree that he wrote the typo a letter, discharging him from further duty. The compositor, being unable to decipher the contents of the note on receiving it, took it to the foreman, who explained to him that it expressed that he was " not a careful man, and 51 r. Greeley dispensed with bis services." The man laid down bis stick, put on bis coat and. left, lae next day he applied for a situa. tion as assistant foreman in a large printing office in the same street. 1 tic proprietor inquired if foe could bring a recommendation from his last employer. " All I have is this letter from Mr. Greeley," said the young man, boldly pro ducing the documeut. The worthy job printer scanned it some moments with a perplexed air. " II m m careful, man services signed, H. Greeley yes, that will do; wo wil! en gage ynn." And he did, and never learned till two years afterwaids that the " letter from Mr. Greeley " was one of dis creili., instead ot commendation, as bo had supposed. . M&dVup Liquors. One is impressed to seek a reason for the' number of murders and sudden death which ure now no frequently reported, and in do- ui g so there is one li ightiul source to which to trace the cause of the evil, and that is the amount of made up and poisoned liquors nuwsold to the public as a beverage. Iu a very large majority of the cases of murder reported, the murderer has been found to bo laboring under a species of in- sunny, produced by the hery poison of a made up stuff called liquors. At any cor- uer you may find a compounder of poisons. and it is too tempting a business to be easily prevented. Ten cents worth of strychnine or o'.hcr . poisonous drugs wili impart to a barrel of beer double the strength of that value of hops, and with tnc present skill in chemical preparations, hardly a gallon of pure liquor is necessary to produce thousands of gallons. The city is noodcu with these poisons, called by all sorts of names. The best brands of champagne are wholly produced in this country :n such perfect imitations, that the genuine connot be detected if perchance a bottle should be mixed with it. '1 ho Uuliloruia wines offered for sale are very large, but the ruado up manufacture of certain establishments in this city. So with other wines and liquors. Nor are these exaggerated statements ; they can be verified any day by the assessors of in ternal revenue, and the examination of the liquor. But can nothing be done to stop tins wholesale poisoning of the community ! Must every man who takes aglassof wine become a posible murderer, an insane homicide 1 The evil is one which caunot be evcrlookcd. X. Y. Common wculrh. " No Room for LoxrEus." An ex. chanue says : " These words recently met our eyes as wo passed a workshop. No room for loafers.' Pure enough, there is no room for loafers anywhere 'in this working world. They are uot wanted in the busy woikshop, nor in tho .editor's sanctum ; they are a nuisance in the store " spitting " and spewing about the stove, and at the post oflico and street corners are in every, body's way They are forever out of place except when in the almshouse r jail. A dead weight 'upon society, they are a hindrance and a bore. They form no part of nature's plan ; it abhors them, as it does a vacum. While all the world arouud them is going forward, they are standing still, or rather gliding impercepti. bility backward into seedy vagabondism. A loafer soon grows rusty. It is only use which keeps our faculties bright, and idle meu get dull, stupid, stolid, and muddy." A Well Spent Life. Ah ! how sweet it is when manhood's summer is merging into the glorious evening of old age, to look from tho shadow .of tho dark valley, which will scon be dispersed by the sun of morning in a glorious world, and coutemplute a spent life where no inten tional mistep can be recalled and when we can remember no time when we have stood between the sun and those we love ! Then will the rough and uneven places in our pathway look less uniuviting u, the twi light of life, and tho bright, sunny spots sparkle as so many diamonds in the crown awaiting us. Iluppy indeed, are those whose intercourse with the world has not changed the eourse of their holier feelings, or broken those musical chords of the heart, whose vibrations are so melodi ous, so tender, aud so touching in tbe even ing. Trade at Home. Every man's inter, est is consulted by encouraging his home trade. Supposing he can as well supply his owa brants in bis own city, county, or State, as elsewhere, he wrongs himself when he goes elsewhere to spend his money. When it is known that this is his lule ot action every fair dealer will aim to trade with him so as to enable him to real ize the worth of bis money. It is an in jury to the place in which you live, to use your spare money for the benefit of a place elsewhere, and thus create a rival. Build up your own home interests, thereby you increase the valuo of your own prop erty. You will share in the profits if you want to sell and remove at any time. A lively, thriving town, invites new settlers, enterprise and capital, which are but ad ditions to the aggregate wealth of our home. If one is to enjoy life, and is fit for it, be must desire to see those around him prosper. 1IU law is "live aud let live." W. S. SERVICE. -yy s. service, Will from '.his data be 'prepared to sell at the lowest prices. STOVES.FOR PARLORS, STOVES FOR KITCHENS, STOVES FOR HALLS, STOVES FOR BED ROOMS, STOVES FOR STORES, STOVES FOR MILLS, STOVES FOR IIOTEL3, STOVES FOR OFFICES, STOVES FOR CHURCHES. Anl in fact for all places whore stoves are needed. Give him a calll. TIN WARS AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JOBBING IX ALL ITS BRANCHES, ROOFING AND SPOUTlNG, HOUSE rURNISIlINQ GOODS, TOTS, BIRD CAGES, TUMI'S, I'lPEIXQ. Ridgway Nov. 13, 1S68, vlnltf. A CARD TO THE LADIES. Dr. Dtipou co's OOLDEN l'EIUOUIOAL 1MLLS 101 females. Infrill'blo in correcting irrfg. ulnrities, Removing Olsmiclioiis of Monthly Turn-, from whatever cause, ami always successful t9 a prevoiitwo. One Pill is n dose. Females peculiarly situated, or those supposing llicmsulves so, uro cnulioned against using these 11 lis while in that condition, lest they invite miscurriiisse, after wliioh ad monition the Proprietor assumes no re sponsibility, although their mildness would prevent any mischief to health: olrerwis tho Tills are recmnnien ded as n Most Invalii (ibio Remedy for the alleviation of those ."ultcrmu from ony lrrPEiihirinos whatever as well as prevent an increase of faniilv when health will not permit it ; quieting llm nerves and bringing back the "rosy color of Health to tho cheek of the most uelicaie. Full nml explicit directions accompuny eacu oox. i'rice;?! per box : ti boxes, 5. ). Sold in Riilgwny, l'n., by O. 0. Messenger, Druggist, sole agent for Kiilgway. Ladies, by sending him $1 10 tho Uidgwny V. O. can have the Tills sent (confidentially ) hy mail to any part- ot the country, .rce ot postage. Sold also by Sway n j & Reynold, St. Murv;n. and by one Druggist in every Tillage in the Union. S. V. HOWE, my2 06-ly. Sole Proprietor, N. T. Special gtotirfjii. A New RESir.ny is f!nvsi'ii-r nw A Diysiciun who bid Consumption for seveial yenr, wiui i.equem uieeumgs ct the lungs cured himself with medicine unknown ti the profession, when his case appeurcd hope OSB. He is tllA Olltv nllVflipinn whn ltna iiuar it in his own person, or who lins nnv knnwloilr of its virtues ; a d ho cau ascribe the degree of health he now enjoys to nothing but tin use of his medicine; aud nothing but utter despair anl entire extiuction of all hope ot recovery, together with a want of confidence in all others induce J him to hazard theexner- imont. To (hose suffering with any disease of ihe lungs ho proffers a treat nieul he con fidently believes will eradicate the disease. Price SI. 50 per bottle, or $8 a Vnlf dozen, sent by express. Send fer a circular or call on Da. E. Hoylston Jackson. 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DRIED FRUIT, BUTTER, EGGS, FORK, HAMS, LARD, FLOUR, COEN MEAL. AND EVKRTTIIIG ELS 7 20 inch shaved shingles talen for goods at tbe market price, at loth stores. -Abo meet other kinds of country jr duoe taken at the market valuo vlnltf.