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Oilh founts gduocate,
FRIDAY, APRIL lb:. 1809.
FOR GOVEltNOR.
JNO W GEARY,
Subject to the decision of tlio Republican
Btate Convention.
HUDSON BAY 1EBBITOBY.
j 1 ho cession of the Hudson Bay Tcrri.
tiry to tho British Government ia a fixed
fact. As wo once before observed, this
will open the way for a Pacific Railroad
through tho country just to the north of
our territory a rival to our proposed
Northorn Pacific Railroad. Wo don't,
however, believe such a lino is seriously
contemplated, though tho . Scnite Pacific
Railroad Committee's report professes to
beliavo it probable, and though it is possi
ble that English enterprise would attempt
it when it finds that our Pacific Railroad
is taking the commerce of tho East from
tho Euglisb grip. It is, morcver, said that
the country along RcJ River, Kootenai,
etc., is ns capable of sustaining a dense
and thrifty population as Minnesota or
Montana, and that it only needs a railroad
to develop it. Thcro is no doubt that the
Hudson Ray Company, wishing to retain
its title to it, and wishing, also, to dis.
courage settlement upon this fur-beaTing
wilderness, has systematically depreciated
its capabilities for tho uses of civilization.
After all it matters little to us whether
this railroad bo built or not. If it be not,
our own" Superior and Pugct Sound line
will be built some day as soon as it is really
needed, and if this British load bo built
wo shall get hold of it, and all tho popula
tion it develops, iu that not distant future,
when our country shall be an Ocean
bound Republic"
NEWS HEMS.
Gold clo:cd in New York Saturday at
ooh.
-lhe steamer Rising Star,
Aspiuwall, has arrived at New York
frou
Colorado advertises for 1,000
married women.
In Cincinnati, tho stage-drivers
uniformed.
un-
arc
George II. Pendleton is proposed
for
jruvernor oi unio.
A. Korfolk, Virginia, girl of twelve
years of ago, is a mother.
The Vatican Palacs at Rome contains
thirteen thousand chambers.
Gambling has been licensed by the
Nevada Legislature.
A Shanghai rooster killed a small
child in Kentucky the other day
Jesse R. Grandfather of Ulysses
Grant, is Postmaster at Covington Ky.
rittsburg has a man with a beard
eight leet long.
Dan Rice will scon make bis tenth
annua) larewcll tour.
Hie M vital Rase Ball !!ub of New
lork pays its " citcher " 1C00 per annum
Mew Orleans has over three hundred
(Juban refugees.
Portland Maine, has ados that dras a
sled up a hill, gets on it, and then slides
uown.
Japan has model dentists who loosen
the teeth by blows from a mallet, and then
pull them out with the fingers.
; ui jasion, nas lallen
cir to SDU.UUU. She- is believed to be
wiucu Handsomer than formerly.
Sheward who murdered bU ;fa
1851 at Norwich, England, has confessed
v ; i-. j a .
in
mo gum, uuu receiveaseetcnee ot death.
lhe decrease of specie in the Bank
of Franco for last week was seven millions
mncs.
In tho Brooklyn Court of Srasmna nn
April 8, Thomas McCann was sentenced to
twenty years at Sing Sing for highway
. several companies of the 18th
United btates infantry arrived in St
.Louis, from Omah, Saturday.
Wm. Scott, a nephew of Sir Walter
iscott, died at the St. Andrews House
..Montreal, April 8, aged sixty.four years,
-About a million and a half of dnllnra
liave been remitted from Cuba to a private
in iiun j.uia, luo luieresi on wnicil
is to be devoted to the sick and wounded
ot the patriot army.
lhe jury in the case of Kaufman
the barber, oa trial in Pittsburg for the
murder of the little boy, Edward Miller,
.on the fkb of February, after deliberating
over seventeen hours, returned a verdie
of murder in the second degree.
ft TT I .
a iiavana aispatcu says: lhe pro.
-posed system of confiscation was before
the Administrative Council yesterday, and
saving ueen uao.areu unprecedented and
unjust, it was tabled
rm. i... i j
.mo imiers seui w tne uovernor on
in m i ii
:Denau or jiwitcneii were irom the utmost
variety of sources. Some were sentimeutal,
iBopo legal and quite a number gave the
History ot cases in which innocent men
had been hung on circumstantial evidence.
A dispatch from Gold Hill mine,
California, of Saturday, says : Twenty
eight bodies have been recovered. The
.fire is still burnjng on the eight hundred
fjot level at Yellow Jacket, jffhn effects
of the cave this morniug was removed, and
a stream of water was thrown on the flames
about four o'clock this .afternoon. It is
expected that the fire will be entirely sub
dued before morning. It is now stated
that at least forty men perished hy the
awful .calamity. The bodies recovered
present a horrible appearance, and indicate
desperate efforts to eecupe the intense
.suffering before breathing teased.
For nan do Po.
, Tho island of Fernando Yo is situated
on the western coast in Africa, in tho
Bight of Biaira, which is tho extreme end
of tho Gulf of Guinea. .Its southern ex
tremity is situated at throe degrees twenty
five minutes north of the equator, and its
longitude is c:ght degrees thirty-hvo yiin.
utcs cast of Greenwich. Its nearest point
to tho mainland is about forty-five miles.
The highest point of the island is a .little
nioro than 11,000 feet, while its rival, the
Cameroon Mountains, situated four degrees
north, is more than 13,000 feet. The
Cameroon Mountains were ascended by
Captain Burton, the distinguished dis
coverer of Lake Tanganica, a few years
ago.
The Cameroon and Fernando are de.
cidedty of volcanic origin, and so aro two
islands of Princess and St. Thomas, which
are not far distant.
Tho Island of Fernando' Po
covered by tho Portuguese in
1171, who ceded it to Spain in
1778. No European settlement
was div
the year
the year
was ever
made on the island till tho year 1782, and
this was made by tho English, who at that
time knew not that that tlio cpauiaids had
the right, of possession.
In tho year 1827 tho English established
on the island a coalinc; station so that their
war ' steamers, rhioh were engaged in
prosecution of thp prevention of the slave
trado in tho Jiiglit ot JJiflira ruigiu cooi
there mid get provisions. Tho settlement
was called Claronce, and the bay was
called by tlio same name. Part of tho
liberated slaves captured from slavers, and
other liberated slaves fiom Siena Leone,
were brought there, and when 1 visited the
islaud tho first time tho popula
tion of Clarence might have been a thous
and. There was a good deal of sickuess
among tho negroes. A few traders made
the headquarters of the establishment
thorp, fcr Clarence is an excellent port for
shipping palm oil, tho water being deep
and well sheltered from tornadoes. Vessels
cau almost touch the shore, Clarence was
at that time considered a kind of cutrcpoi't,
to store palm oil till it was shipped home.
,One of the traders was named Governor of
the colony by the EuglUh.
The freed slaves began to plaut orange
and lemou trees and other fruit trees, which
were brought from the West Indies, and
they made a living by selling them to the
numerous men-of-war which came to coal
at tho island ; and bananas, pineapples,
sweet potatoes, ground, nuts and yams were
also products which met a steady sale.
The colony went on ; the blacks were some
what prosperous, at any rate far more so
than the natives living on the continent.
The Spaniards, some ten years ago
thinking that the English were doing well,
claimed the island, took possession of it,
signalizing their appeoracco by bringing a
largo number of monks aud sisters of
different orders, who began to die very
shortly after their arrival. Soldiers were
also sent and a Spanish Governor ; then a
penal settlement was formed. The lib
erated Africans, who had been somewhat
Christianized by Protestant missionaries,
began to perceive that they could not
worship God according to their own consci
ences. Their meetings in their churches
were forbidden, though they were allowed
to retain their Bibles and meet in their
house.
' The convicts are employed to make
roads, cut tioes, work hard iu the hot sun,
and of course the" climate makes short work
of them. Nothing can be more picturesque
and beautiful than the island of Fernaudo
Po. Ililis after hills are coftred to the
very summit with magnificent trees,
which come down to the sea, and the little
streams of most delightfu water pur down
from the mountains, and Fernado Po would
be a most charming island to live in if it
was not on tccount of tho deadly qmate.
Tho natives of the island number about
five thousand, and are called Boobces. The
malaria causes fever, and many die of it
The rains aro heavy and continuous, the
heat is very great, dysentery and liver
complaints are also common, and the no.
.grocs will bo able to live on tho island ior a
long time to come The great number of
graves testify to tho great mortality among
tho whites, and tho transportation of these
political prisoners to Fernando Po is an
outrage against humanity and a d'sgtaco
to civilization.
Nicknames of Cities. The following
is a list of nicknames of a number of
cities of the Union :
New York Gotham.
Boston The Modern Athens.
Philadelphia The Quaker City.
Baltimore The Monumental City.
Cincinnati The Queen City.
New Orleans The Cresent City.
Washington The City ot Magnificent
Distances.
Chicago The Garden City.
Galena The City of Hills.
Detroit The City of Straits.
Portland The lrrest City.
Pittsburg The Iron or Smoky City.
New Haven- The City of Elms.
Indianapolis The Railroad City.
St. Louis Rhe City of Mounds.
Keokuk The Gate City.
Dubuque The Koy City.
Louisville The Falls City.
Nashville The City of Rocks.
Quincy The Model City.
A man is by hothing so much himself
as by his temper and the character of his
passions and affections. If he loss what
is manly and worthy in these, he is as
much lost to himself as when he loses his
memory or understanding.
Capital punishment in Arkansas to
be locked up two days with eleven pretty
girls in a jury box. Oh my 1 who would
ever find a verdict ?
William, thee knows I never call any
body names ; but. William, if the Mayor
of the city were to come to me and say,
Joshua, 1 want thee to find me the higgist
liar iu Philadelphia, I wound come to thee
od put my band on thy Bbouldcr. any say
to thee, William; the Mayor wants to see
thee.
A' Singular Hermit Scad.
William Knight, a notable hermit, has
just died, near llockiogham, Iowa, aged
scvcnty.five years. Thirty years ago, he
left Eugland, without a word to his rela.
tives thcro, and, going direct to Iowa, re
sumed bis business as an attorney, rapidly
Winning fame in that capaoity. His friends
in Eugiand advertised descriptions of him,
with jffers ot rewards for tidings ot his
whereabouts. For years their efforts were
fruitless. Knight possesscsscd a heavy
gold wotch, of peculiar construction. De
scriptions of this wati-h were sent to the
lending watch dealers in America.
Knight's watch was out of order. . lie
sent it to Philadelphia, to sr. establishment
in which a description of the watch was
posted. Tho proprietor wrote to London
parties that ho had received tho watch.
Overcame Knight's .friends, making their
way to Davenport as rapidly as the meager
traveling facilities would allow. They
found the runaway. They held confer
ence after conference with him' to induce
his return to Eugland. They resorted to
strategy, and endeavored to secure his
arrest for some offense, that ho might be
sent back as a prisoner. All in vain.
From that time forward until his death, on
Sunday last, Knight was a changed man.
He bought a small farm near Rockingham,
a heavily wooded tract, erected a sort of a
shanty in tho forest, and thcro, alone, with
no companions but his pipe, books and
papers, ho spent his time. He received
papers from Eugland regularly, and loved
to read of new and noted books and their
authors. Ho cooked his own food, washed
his own clothes, cut his own wood and was
his own servant generally. He rarely re
ceived callers. Sometimes he would be
seized with a letter writing fit, and a letter
to his lawyerr every duy for a fortnight
would be the result an answer being ex
pected by him as fully as though the
matter of correspondence was of the ut
most importance. And thus ho lrved
the life of a hermit, save in rclati on 'with
his attorneys alone. Why he, who was so
gitted by uuturc, and so splendidly edu
cated, chose to abandon his luxurious home
and wealthy friends, ma!:? his way. to the
Ironlies of tho American wilds for a !"sk
dence, and then, when discovered by" his
friends, resort to the life of a hermit, is
explained only by an admission in one of
his letters to his legal lriends, wherein' he
admits haviug been hopelessly cast down
by disappointment iu a love affairhe
wooed, won, and lost a loyely English 'gjrl
lost her because she preferred a " belted
Knight " and a castle to a young barrister
who, being a younger son, bud to make his
own way to fortune aud to fame.
The SrnYxx. Tho great face was so
sad. so earnest, so longing, so patient.
There was a dignity not of earth in its
mien, aud in its countenance a benignity
such as never anything' human wore. It
wus stone, but it seemed sentient 1 If ever
image of stone thought, it was thinking.
It was looking toward tho verg of the land
scape, but looking at nothing sothiug but
distance and vacancy. It was lookiug over
and beyond everything of the present and
far into tho past. It was gazing over the
ocean of time over lincs of century
waves, which further and further receding,
closed nearer aud nearer together, and
blended at last into one unbroken tide,
away toward the horizon of a remote an
tiquity. It was thinking of the wars of
departed ages j of the empires it had seen
created and destroyed ; of tho nations
whose birth it had witnessed, vhose pro
gress it had watched, whoso annihilation it
had noted ; of tho joy and horrow, life and
death, grandeur and decay of five thousand
slow revolving years.
It was the typo of an attribute of man
of a faculty of his heart and brain. It was
memory retrospection wrought into tangi
ble law. All who know the pathos there
is in the memory of days that aro accoln.
plished and faces that have vanished, albeit
only a trifling score of years gone by, will
have somo appreciation of the pathos that
dwells in those grave eyes that look so
steadfastly back upon things they knew
before history was born before tradition
had being things that were and forms
that moved in a vague era that even poetry
and romance scarce ktew of and passed
one by onj away, and left the stony
dreamer solitary in the midst of a rtrange,
new age and uncomprebrnded scene ! '1 ho
Sphynx is grind in its loneliness it is im
posing in its magnitude it is impressive
in the mystery which hangs over its story.
There is that in the overshadowing raajosiy
of this eternal figure of stono, with its
accusing memory of the deeds of all ages,
that reveals to one something of what he
shall feel when he stands at last in the
awful presence of God. X'a -h Twain.
TniRTY Centuribs Old. The oldest
relic of humanity extant is the skeleton of
the earliest Fbaroh, incased in its original
burial robes, and wonderfully perfect eon
sidering iis age, which was deposited
esghteen or twenty months ago in the
British Meseum, and is justly considered
the most valuable of its archajological
treasures, lhe lid of the cofiin which
contained the royal mummy was inscribed
with the name of its occupant, Pharoh
Mykerimus, who succeeded the heir of the
builder of the great pyramid, ten centuries
before Christ, Only think of it ! The
monarch whose crumbling bones and
deathly integuments are exciting the won-
dea of numerous gazers in Locdon, reigned
in Egypt before Solomon was born and
about eleven centuries or so after Misraira,
the grandson of Noah and the first of the
Pharohs, had been gathered to his fathers !
Why, the tide.raark of the deluge could
scarcely have been obliterated, or the
gopher wood knee-timbers of the aik have
rotted on Mount Ararat, when this mac of
the early world lived, moved and had his
being ! His flesh and blood were content
porary with the progenitors of the great
patriarch ! His bones and shriveled skin
are contemporary with the nineteenth
century and the date of the Crucifiction isH
onlytbout midway between his era and
ours. , "
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Don't forget to pay that printer' bill.
The C nice Seeker.
The following is an 1 old story, by J. K.
Paulding, the novelist, and first went tho
rouuds of the press thirty yeais ago. It
represents a conversation between a mem
ber of tho Cabinet and a hangcrron for
office, and is suitable for the present time.
The Secretary was called from his bed
one cold winter morning, to attend to busi
ness of .the " utmost consequence." lie
found a queer long-sidod man, at least six
feet high, with a little opplo head, a long
queue, and a face critically round, as rosy
as a ripe cherry ; and tho following con
versation ensued :
" Well, my friend, what situation do you
wish?"
" Whji anJ I'm nt very particular, but
somehow or other, I think I should liko to
bo one of them Ministers to foreign parts."
" I'm very sorry, very sorry indeed,"
there is no vacancy just cow. Would not
some other place suit you ? "
" Why-y-," answered the apploheaded
man, " I wouldn't much mind being a
Comptroller, Auditor, or somethihg."
" My dear sir, I'm sorry' very sorry in
deed, but it happeus, unfortunately, that all
theso situations aro at present filled.
Would not you take something else ? "
My friend stroked his chin, and seemed
struggling to bring down tho soarings of
his tigh ambition to the present crisis.
At length he answered
" Why-y-y, yes ; don't care if I ,et a
good Collectorship, or Inspectorship, or
Survcyorship, or Navy Agency, or any
thing of that soit."
" Really, my good sir,' said the Secre
tary, I regret exceedingly that not Only
all these places, but every other place of
cousequence in the Government, is at
prcscut occupied. Pray, sir, think of
something else."
He then, after some hesitation, asked
for a clerkship, and finally the place of
messenger to one , of the public offices.
Ending no vacancy here, ho seemed in vast
perplesjty, and looked all around the room,
fixing his cje at length on me, and measur
ing my height from head to foot. At last
putting on one of the drollest looks that
ever adorned tho face of man, he said :
" Mister, you and I seem to be built
pretty much alike ; haven't you some ohl
clothe? you can twtrc ? "
Marriage and Death. Why is it
that the marriago announcements aro
immediately followed by obituary notices
in ail our papers 1 Does death follow so
close ou the footsteps ot marriago 1 Is
giief tho page that carries the train of
happiness ? Does the tomb open wide its
dark and ponderous jaws beside tho nuptial
eoueh ? 'Tis the plan of life. We read
to-day of our friends marriage, aud wish
themjny; to-morrow we see their deaths
recorded, and say, " peace to their ashes."
Our merriest songs are timed by foot-falls
of death, and the " silver chord " i3 as
fragile as a spider's thread, and the " golden
bowl " is more brittle than glass.
W. S- SERVICE
T)00,000 CUSTOMERS WANTED.
At tho new Masonio Hall Building.
STOVES at prices that will please of all de
sirable kinds.
TIX-WAUE of every kind on hand at all
times.
Special attention given to WUolosalo orders.
Price list furnished to dealers on application.
SII LET. T1X AXD COPPER WA RE.
House furnishing goods a great variety.
STEAM AND WATER riPEIXO,
PUMPS, FISHING AXD HUNTING
TACKLE, such as HODS BAS
KETS, SEINES, FLIES, HOOKS,
CAfS, POWDER, &o. J-o.
BIIiD CAGES. J. NICE VARIETY.
ROOFING, G UTTERS, SPOUTS.
of Tin, Galvanized Iron and Copper and every
kind of
HOUSE AND JOB WORK
done on short notice and warranted,
AGENCY of Henry Disstons celebrated
saws. Orders for saws at factory prices so
licited, also for repairiug. Information and
price list furnished on application.
TAPER II AGS, OLD ROPE, OLD
copper; BRASS, TEW
TER, LEAD, IRON,
BEESWAX, HEAVY HIDES, DEAKON
SKINS, SHEEP FELTS, GREEN
BACKS, NATIONAL BANK
NOTES, U. S.
BONDS Ac.
taken in txcliange for GooJtor TForZ:.
vlo20tf. W. S. SERVICE.
TANNING & LUMBER CO.
K
EYSTONE STORE WILCOX PA
ATTENTION EVERYBODY
SPRING OPENING!
Tlio largest store in North Western Va., lit--tcrafly
filled to overflowing.
WINTER GOODS closing out regardless of
value.
We are opening the spring campaignwith
the hirgcst and most attractive stock ever
offered in this market.
We shall endeavor to keep every depart
ment well assorted the year round, Our
DRYGOODS DEPARTMENT
will always contain a largo and well selected
stock of Cloths Cassimers & Cloaking, Blnck
and Colored Silks. Seasonable dress goods in
great variety. Table Linens, Napkins Towels
&c, while goodsof every description, bleached
and brown sheetings all widths.
GLOVES "& HOSIERY .
TRIMMINGS and NOTIONS
CARPETS and OIL CLOTHS
WALL and WINDOW PAPER,
BOOKS AND STATIONERY, CLOTHING,
HATS and CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES,
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS &
DYE STUFFS,
LEATHER, d- SHOE FINDINGS,
HARDWARE,
SI OVES it- TIN' WARE,
IRON A STEEL,
NA ILS-tis B UlL DER S
HARD WARE.
NUTS k WASHERS, HORSE SHOES
& NAILS, WAGON SPRINGS,
PATENT AXLES & BOXKS, CROCK
ERY and GLASSWARE,
STONE WARE, FLOUR,
FEED & MEAL, CORN aud
OATS, FURNITURE
OF ALL KINDS,
SASH & DOORS
COFFINS,
MATRASSES,
BEDDING,
&e.,
TOBACCO & CIOAUS,
TRUNKS, VALISES & CAP. PET BAGS,
IiTJBBER BELTING.
CLOCKS i GREAT VARIETY.
Agents for Hoyt Bros. Celebrated Leather
Belting.
With oiir superior facilities for obtaining
heavy goods, in large quantities, from first
hands wo defy competition.
Groceries & Provisions.
We invite particular attention to our choice
brands of extra and double extra flour, we get
direct from mills at the west thus saving to
oustomers the profits usually pocketed by
middlemen. Our flour is always fresh ground
and we gnarantee entire satisfaction with
every barrel
TANNING Si LUSfBERCo.
U2ilt Wileorm.
POWELL & KIME-
QOODS FOR THE MILLION-.' ,
P O AV ELL. & K I M E
At their capacious Btorcs both in
MDGWAY
AND
CENTKEVILLE ,
Have on hand, splendid assortments ef
all seasonable Goods adapted to the want
of the people of Elk and adjoining
counties, which thry are selling at pices
that defy competition. They would sisiply
state here, that being very large dealers,
their facilities for purchasing are n
equalled by any establishment ia the
county. They buy directly from mast
facturet and on the
Another advantage. You oaa always
get wh;t you want at their stores, hiB
you will save time by going dirotly to
them and TIME IS MONEY. We
have no space here to enumerate all the ad
vantages you will have in patronizing thesai
establishments- But call and see, and
reap the advantages for yourgelvSs.
Among their Goods you will find
DRY GOODS in en Bess variofuw,
GROCERIES choice and fresh
CLOTHING of best material superior
cut and finish,
BOOTS & SHOES f the beet
stooic and wake,
CROCKERY for newly married,
leiddlo aged aud elderly.
DRIED FRUIT,
BUTTER, EGGS,
PORK, HAMS,
LARD, FLOUR,
CORN MEAL.
AND EVERYTHING ELS El
20 inch shaved shingles takeB iorgooda,
at the market price, at both stores.
Alto most other kinds of coun try pro
dueo taken at the market TaW
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