ti I I TOLXJME I RIDGWAY, ELK CO. PA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 18G9. NUMBER 26. ts h'JUFLANJ'S GERMAN BITTERS tmd HOOFLANO'S GERMAN TONIC, i 'UK i -a jam sr iit. c. u. jacksox, PhILAIIXI.I'UIA, Pa. The greatest hnonvn rtmtMti for Liver Complaint, DYSPEPSIA, ' ' ' 1 Nervous Debility, JAUNDICE, Diseases of the Kidneys, ERUPTIONS of the SKIN, And nil DIstAsr arlftliis; from DIs t-tli:i-(l llrri, fetoinacli, or imi'Viiitv or tiik nnoon. Ht id tht ftitlotriii'j ymtorriir, and if pott find thit y"fr mtttm it 'iJfccUd tiy an tf thrm, ymi miiy reft n..nvi that dittait hat annmnited it attack on tin tntd important orittn itf fnar body, and unlet iwl ch'flctd by tht '" potrrrut rfnut'ltrt, a miftrabtt iife irm terminxting in .fcifA, will bt th retidt . Constipation, Flatulence. Inward Piles, fulness of Blood to tti Head, Aoidity of U19 Hlomnuh, Miiuaea. Heart burn, DisRUst tor Fond. Fulness or WoiRlit in the Sromayh, Sjur JbJruotntions, Sink ing of r'liittoriiiK at the Fit of i ho blo"inou, Bwiinmine of lie IIjuiI, Hurried or D.lncult nrmt!iiu(C. 1'lutt-irins: nt the Honrt, C.ikinn or Hull uHtln Soiisiitious when in M (jyiPCP-jturo, DnnneN of Vision, Dili or Welis botoro the bight. J3 ;li Piin in the Head, oin y nt furrfpiratiofi. Yel lowness of the bkin nnd Evos. Pnin in the Bile, Biu'k, Chest, Ijiinbs, etc.. Bud din Flush? of H-nt, Binning: in the B'lesb, OJ.i'limt Imaginings of Evil, and Ureul D?ni esHion of Spirits. AH Vv,r iulifn't d'f: 'ttf fi.7i" hiftr or IH-jtttirr itrjatu, ccfii'tr. d with imyuif blovd. fpofl;tyj S:rmin Dittrn entirety vi'grf tti!e, iMintnlm no lliiri', 1 tii u coiiipotiv'il of Flnhl Ki H MCtit. Tar ItorM , II r. tin, n ml ll:irk from whlcii I lie ho fxAritet are mnile nrv f n i Wvrrct I n rt rmait f All I tie Kirillfiual vlrlu ftrr rui" . fl from tiiein liy m wvlriitlflc cli j.fyt. These rxli't4'M nt'f thru forwurrtcil tn lhl ciiuiui')- to u'il t ii-ftil' fir tlie iniijt'Kitvltirr iltcwr iiitl rri, , There I no ult'oliollc! u!t:iii'e of any kind iikt J I ft v uni pomtrii itfx tlie fill irrn, Inner il fi !r only )i.M'i (tint cnn ha itnl liirtumn lxrr aluiluiie tim ulaitta urc not nil vlublt- ij.ioflani's enmut Conic a c mb-H ttivn uf al' tit iintrdu'ttU ' Ihr JlttUrti, kV( ivz ttitu t'rnr t'im. Ortuw tie. I' if used fur tht I'tmr ii'.-hjc" il t'if HUter, in u-hrrt t'hlt ft-irr uiWi -''? ttittiuhix (f rifiirftl. ) m tmlt bear in iit'.td I tt t-ttf i-riu-fift r mtin-ly iiifffn-nt from oi'-Hft Uir-rO'j'rf f'tv tht one vf tfit fiifftjfr$ ft tUtrr iKiny ci'iHiti-: tirtfxtnt'.innt ' mrriia'nal t.clrJ.iu tc't.7 fnr af'irr: .n m-'te ff.icUtts of rut ii ik--. ' ' ' nnr rf the nmst p fiifiifj ftd GfjruttiiU rtnfii-'f rver offered to tht y. (m'jV. ; t'i U it s':i.-iie. It it a pU-uurt to take ( , '.. its Uj t?'n','., ejciiilitritlivQ nd medicinal f t ttili, t A i re earned it l ti krtvwn a U gratst of CONSUMPTION. : TIifMittftiid f rii6, when the p . fleitt friitriiai'tl he o flllrl-il wllh hln itri-rt )! tllHCHke. have fect-ii rureil li liie ti r vf Ue. it-nirtlin lijXtreine riuiuMii:iiui, flfchllliyf nl tonsil ure lie u sit ul nueiwlHiitu ;o -rvfie mmc'h ily(n piH or HeHc of Che t( 4t' ivr oi-'HiiVi K veil In ne of H mi u I tie 'ot ii mjilloii, i time rented tr he found vf lite grra(4-t luntfll, (rc-gtlriilng and Invtgoratini;. DEUILIT7. Tr it nn nudli'H rji-d to AjjTit'V ffrrm-Tii B '.v or iV ii rafts f h-l-iti';. ' TUi'j impart a (,! til J ctif to tht u-U"U $jftemt slrettylhen the ap-f-i7f, ci an ftjymid of the. f, cnoMr the t' t iui-h t' dient it, purify the. lUwi, ptre a goiit . $n..tldt healthy tnm).lexi,in. erudi-nte the vrllmn ting ff iin V-e. impart a Ulnum to the chec ks, and change in patimt from a hoit-Oreuthdt tinaciut'd utak. Weak and Delicate Children nre tnndr kiroii by usint; the III Una or 'loiilt. ia tact lh-y ere Family JUifliriiM-. 'J'lu-yi'uii be uilmhiim ered irl.li per feet unfety lo a child three moiilu old, the mot dellrale female, or a mait of n I nely fitst HcmtUits are tht best JUood XUirlAers ter Niffit, and will atre alt dtrcaset resulting from lad idt-.d. K-fpyitr U'ifid wit. kep your Lierr in order A". pp I'uitr dipettnt vryunt in a t-und, healthy condi tion, J.y tUe of tUtt rmieuirt, and no di teats will tter iiui7 yen, I,((ies wUn whh a fair kln and to H romp lexlou. free from a yellow t.U iii;e and all other il i ui nut nt, b iiMilti u t lime remedlre (Htentiloii ullv. Tht l.lvct lii perfect order and llir lilood pure, will result In .)ftik liny rje and blooming theeki, CAUTIOS. llir-ftiuur Vrrnmn itemed ies art emii?erf ited, 1e fi&miue hart the tirihit nre of f MI. tiuvhson t'n lae fnmt of ihr outndt ivri'fprr of tarh t'Ot'l, (fJfd thr wnii" uf tite vrtidt blown in tuchbaUie AUoiUtrt hrt wttittrfeit, Thoiuaurl of letter have been re cel vrd, tecttttylnn: lot he lrl ue of tbei nmrdifi. READ TEE RECOMMENDATIONS, JjKOM HON. tiKO. W. WOODWAltl), Chii'f Juil' -uf (tikSi.pivme Court of Pvimirania. TuaADKLPHU, March lOtli, HO". i find "v;Tati Cr::itt Bitter" it tint tin infafr iruting btverufft, lnt it a rini, useful in 'itnr tiers of t'14 di:j'tirt oryanf, nm, nf great h.nrfl in cue's of d'tiliy and want of nrrout aclutn in tht t'jttrm, J'ir ch'v, UKO. H. WOODWARD. FROM MOX. JtMKS TIIOMI'JOX, Jiiile uf the Hupi erne Court of l'fiiiwylviinfa, l'im.M:i.ini, April -Srli, 1SC3. I efMis'Hir IIooiiHiid'H German If tt lent" a r'tiinthia tm-dirinr lit vane uf at t acki of Indigent I on or Iypeplaa J run certify tkii from my experience) fit Youi-m, with rsp-ct, JAaIIKS 1 IIO.Ml'SO.V. From RKV. JOPKPII II. KKNAKT, P.D., r:ist'r of the T.tnih BiptM Cliunli, l'liiliMlt1lil.i, I..1acicso' lh'.AR Sir : I hire hern fr wunt1yr LU'Steti to cf-nnrct wv name with reromiheudotimis of . ti lf'lU kintll of medicine, bU regarding the practict 04 nut of my appropriate sphere, I hare, in all rates de tlined ; but with a clear prwf in various intances tmd pnrtirulartu in my wn family, of the u ftdner of In: Jiitfiind's O'erman Hitters, idejutrtfur once fruit mis VtiuU conrs. In jrpt f.n wu nut cnnrltin thai ;tiit'riil i-lilily i-f tlie nvHtoui, Had iwin)y ff Liver C it: 'ninl, it ittk.ni"tt and vulunuU iiuiiiriiii"n, t.. Mir cases it moi fait ; but v.t v, Idotdd utt it will be my beneffial to those, who sutler J rum the abort Uiuft. loitrt.rery rric.r J. ii. KKXXAHtK ' f.iyltthi btluw OuaUt St, rici of the Bitters, $1.00 per bottlai ' Or, a half dozen tor $5.00, I'rice of the Tonio, $1.50 per bottle; Or, a half dosen for $7 50. 1'h. Tmiii' te init up in nmvrt lotlIu. BerotWl that it is Ihr. ifwftantfi German Remtdie that are so univei sally Used and so highly revommniar ft; and ttu n4 alUao tht Vrutj'jist to induct you to t ike anu Ihiiut eJxe that he man sat it inst as Q'lod, b tminc Ue. niaket a lorger profit on it. These Hentediet l 'ill lit ttU by express to any locality upm application 0 lit PRINCIPAL OFPfCK, AT THE GERMAN MEDICINE STORE, ARCH HTHKKT I'hiladttphia. CHAB. M. EVANS, Proprietor, , Formerly a M. JACKSON 4 CO. j The Remedlee 'era for lale by lrup;(l0ttiv b fort beeper, mfl Medi etna Oealer f rywLrii, ( - t'o wX f rget tc e?w,tiut wff the m tit'j JN ayt M THE TYPO. BY A. A. BOPKCB. The typol a singular creature is he A bit of a wizard I take him to be, I A paradox ever,. I stoutly apsert, A fancy ihe statement yon can't controvert: He "takes" a great deal, and he "proves" all ho gets, And he "sots" while he stands, and he stands while ho "sets A magical power there is In his hand, As swiftly the types marshal in at command; The art of a painter ho has to portray The incidents many that make up to-day. A wedding ho pictures: "click, click," and 'tis there, The glad, merry party, the just-wedded pair; Tou see the young wife in her garments of white, (You have gone to the wedding without an "in vite, ') And fancy you hear the good wishes of friends, And thore the bright picture unwittingly ends. For the typo paints all kinds ofeconos in a breath, lie spelled you a marriage -the next is a death; I And low in the collin you see a dear face All silent nnd cold, that was full of rare grace; A sorrowing circle that tenderly kiss The lips whoso sweet prcfsure they ever will miss; And sonly the tear-urops creep down o or your lushes, As sadly you echo the "ashes to nshos."' . "Click, click" now he's spelling a railroad dis aster, And fast ' -click'' the types, and still faster and faster, And horror is seen in each one of il r 'r fi ccf. As quickly ho ranges them into their places; "A tefrible slaughter," you shudder, then laugh With hearly good will at their next paragraph A joke of three lines, or n dozen as brief, Dono up a rich bundle of fun in a sheaf! Then follow somo '"ad's"' patent bitters and pills. To cure every one of molality's ills; ;'Click, click," and just under his fingers they go fourth "None genuine unless signed 'John Jones,' " tcl ' Now 'tis an "Klixir." and now a "Hair Dye," (To color, of course, for its spoiled with y.) 'Cough Syrup," perhaps, or Vufer,''or "Motion," (A humbug, condensed to a good "Yankee no tion!") A something, in short, for all human diseases- You pays in your money and takes what you pleases!-' . . . 1 Variety tinly gives living lie spic". i . And typos can present it to yon in a trice. From gravest to gay,. every mood of tlio mind Is by them each hour completely defined; One moment they laugh, and another they weep I fancy their sorrow is not over-deep But be their expression whatever it may, Tho will of the typo they only obey; To all his commands they respond with a'click," Ho rules whh a slout littlo "lulo" and a "stick!' CAUGHT IN A TK.U BY ARTHUR L. MESKRVE. It was in 1819, began bam. uson, an old hunter, who for twenty years had made his homo on the plains aud among tho lust nesses of the nock v .Mountains, also spenu- ing a portion of his time in the Golden btate of the Pacific, 'that I started with my party to cross the plains, in hopes of making my fortune a digging for the shining dust that neonle said was to be bad lust tor the picK- ins un. There was a dozen of U9, nil firsrate iovinl fellows: all of them having had more or less experience iu ruuuuiua it uu iuo . . ... I Prories of tbo West 'We had no woman-kind amoug us to hin der our progress, and as we were in a hurry 1 . . It A .1 I I to commence making our ionium, anu wouiu like, as well, having the name of crossing the n a na n the best time that nod yet neon I made, we cot over the ground pretty fast, aud reached Salt Lake several days before we had expected to when we set out. We were all well and hearty and in the best of snirits: aud after spending three lnvs with the saints, and getting a view of some of the ladies claimed by Urigham and his elders, who didu t eeem at all averse to our company, we turned our backs upon them and our faces toward the setting sun. 'The plains were no longer before us; but a country filled the deep valleys, and steep. rucrsid mountains. There were not then, as now", wido, broad trails to follow, selected with the greatest care, with an eye to the sneed and ease of travelers: then each one that had gone toward toe w est, cuoose nis own path, although, to be sure, care was ini.-m. tn Loon in sin-lit. of the trail that seem u.l t.- nnint. not. that, the greatest number had gone that way. Yet, did we chance to leave it, we made no exertion to recover it, but i kept od. coDfideDt that wo Bbould Btnue it i atraio soinewbere iu advance, and if we did not. we had the same to guiue us us iuosb that first passed that way. The third day alter entering npon mm ruggid tract of country, we encamped tor the night on the bank of a wild mountain torrent that was swollen by recent rains. It had been with great difficulty that we had got safely across; and, although it was but the middle of the arterreon, we concluded to go no farther thatljight, as ono of our party complaiued of not feeling well. 'Alter the arrangements for camping bad been well nigh completed, and the sun was still some two bours high, anu not leenug very much fatigued, I threw my rifle over my shoulder, and told my comerads that 1 wag I going to take an hour's tramp up the stream where a dark gorge opened among tuo moun tains, in hopes to get a chance snot at some thing that would help us to make ap a sup per. N ot one of the boys ottered to accom pany me; and after receiving caution not to wander too far, and to return to the camp be fore nightfall, 1 set out. The way was rougher than 1 expected, and more than once I had half a mind to turn back; but I persevered, aud for half an hour nicked my way no the rough valley, which, j as 1 nave oeiore saia, was nemmttu iu yy ragged mountains, or, rather by high cliffs r -. . , , . 1 that; owing to soma eoavuision 01 caiure, had cast huge masses from their sides, almost , blocking tip the narrow spabe thnt existed between their bnso nnd tho bonks of the can on, and in some plnces partially filled tho bed of the stream, over which the water rush ed with a noise almost denfoning. Loo before this time, I hnd lost sight of the smoke thnt arose from our camp fire, ow ing to the course of the stream that conform ed itself to the valley; and nil this time I had seen not hint: l liulyould rieign to waste powucr nnu ounei on, nna begun to itunK that I should be obliged to return to cump as empty-bnuded as I went out. 'I toiled on, perhaps nlty yards tanner, clambering over the judged rocks that block ed up the way; and at lust, discouraged at my want of success, I was on the point of turn ing back, when I espied, but a short distance before me, close to where a few bushes grew out from a cliff, a small creature, though from the glimpso I got of it, I could not dis tinguish what it was. Glad of the chance for a shot, I scrambled along over tho rocks to a position that I coveted; but, before it was reached, the creature, whatever it waH, had disappeared, and no trace of it could I find, after searching several minutes where I was Bare I had seen it. 'Disappointed, and cursing my ill-luck, I was on tho poit)t Of turning back, when a loud clup of thunder, resounded through the sky, and the next moment lnrre drops of rain began to lull, (startled nt, the sudden ap proach of the storm, thnt I had been unmind ful of, I glanced upward and - saw Unit a heavy shower was risingifiove the cliffy, that had been the moaus of rny not preceiving its approach. . I know full well thnt one of these sudden storms was no slight thing to eucounter nnd that, unless 1 coiild find some place ol shelter nmong the rocks, I must experience a thorough drenching, us it would be impossi ble for me to reach the camp before it would break iu all its fury. 'It suddctily occured to me, that a 6bort distnnce back, I had seen what, appeared to bo the eutrnnce ofa cavern. . I hud noticed it tiartieularlv. from the fuct that a large rods huna over the entrnuce, wnicn looKeu to me as though the slightest jnr would dis place it, nnd send it crashing dow n over the aperture. I hastily returned to this spot; but upon reaching it, 1 besuatoil about entering, lue great boulder, lvirig nnnn a mass of crum bling rock, looked won more threatening than when I had passed it. 'J'hon I thought I was childish in my fears, ns the rock had doubtles remained for aires in the same po sition it now occupied. Another clap of thunder, nnd a deluge, of rain descended, which decided mv action, and 1 entered the cave ou all fours, but not until I had tried the boulder with all mv strength, though then I conldn't heln thinking.how foolish 1 was iu thinking that my feeble strength could move it. Appearantly I might ns well' hove at- tempted to snake tue enure cnn. as lar us ui- fecting any result was concerned. 'I found the cave to be about ten feet in length, half as mnny in width, and perhaps four leet in height. It was lighted toils farthest, exteut. nnd there was a narrow pas sage extended from thence faither into tho mountain, though so obstructed by sand and lursro rcicka that the uperture left, would hardly admit of the passage of a fox. 'All this I noticed, ns I sat with mv back against tlie wull, I listened to tho ring of the tempest without, the fury of which I do not remember to have seen equalled. ttip., imim nooafMl-nnd Mm ctnrm instpml of abating teemed to increase in fury, nnd 1 bes-nn to think 1 should have to pass the night where 1 was. 1 kuew, by the thunder ing of the water in the canon, thut it was fast r sing. From where 1 was sitting, in deed. I could see the torrents, in miniature cataracts dashing down tho face of the cliffs on the opposite side of the stream. It seem ed. I fancied almost as the flood must have appeared at its commencement. 'I had begun to feel secure In my place of I wiuuu VI. ing akove my head no longer trouWnU , "'c; J wnnn Buuueuiy, iu inj uoiuiiiai.nn.ui, ouu uoi- ror, 1 aw a huge rock washed from its sandy base, and go p hinging into the canon. Hor- " 1 V . 1. . , ...... rorSl WllUfc II H u uciuio iii biiuuiu iuii In 1 WapW mo inl I seized mv rifle, and snran-r . , ur. .A . toward the out ct. The storm wus prplera- f 1 J ble to mv place of shelter. -God hnve mercy!' I cried, as I felt tho movement of tho cliff above me: and then, to my great horror and despair, the great boulder, loosened by the torrents of rain, slipped from its resting place and ere I could escape, hemmed me in dark- n-i. v.. r ness. 1 sas cutomoea anve. . 1113 UU.1UI V. my situation came upon me with such a force thut I did what I never did before nor since, I fainted away. 'How long I remained insensible, I know not: but when 1 recovered my senses, 1 thought it was a terrible dream. But the il lusion soon wore off, and the stern reality was before me. and I began camly to think what chance I had of escaping. it.iAAH ! t hnra ,m iiAno in irnn thnsn which bold me back from ihfi Tirosncct beioro me. ISO prisou ours were t 1 .. .illl 1 1 r tuo outer world, that I had never prized so highly as I now began to do. '1 here seemed to be no possible nope; lor man, wuu uis un aided streuetn. couia never move me nuge rocks that sealed the entrance of to my sepul- chere 'A faint ray of light came in on on side .ot mT prison door, and through the crevice came tho sound of rolling waters, swollen to double its usual volume down in the bed of tho canon. . TLat crevice would give me air, and tell mo when night came, aud went, so loug as' life remained to me. My com panions would doubtless search long for me; and could I not make myself heard should thev pass near by? This gave me a ray of hope, that I hugged to my heart as drown ing man will, tney say eaten at it straw. This for a moment gave me a ray of hope; but ray heart sank within me as the roar ot the cateract filled my ears. No human voice could be heard above that terrible roar. 'I threw myself on the bottom of the cave, and all was darkness. ' Night had come npon me in my tomb, bb dark and terrible as til ough I was surrounded by scores of moul dering dead. As time must seem to the spirits of the lost, so that hovrable night seemed to me. Morning came at last, and airuin a little hope came back with a ray of refuge, and the fact of tho huge boulder beP- A yP light that fonnd its way into me, as if to say A boarder at one of the hotels was re that I was not entirely cut off frora the out- I centlv observed to shed tears when the cheese ward world. The roar of the torrent still sounded in ears, bat not so load u it bad done. If comrails should come up to seek for mo, it might be possible thai 1 might ninko mysell heard. But how was I to know when they had come? Try ns I would, I could not gaiu a position whore I could get a glimpse of the outward world, ft.y only chance was to call a'ud nt tho top of my voice, and bour after hour I did bo, until my throat was so honrse that 1 could hardly speak; but 1 iienrd noth ing from without to repay me for tho exer tion I had made. My despair was terrible, and in my agony I threw myself on my face, npon the floor of the cavern, and with one action a new hope sprnng into my heart. 'I of the nrst time since my imprisonment the thought came to me that a possibility of escape lay at the back end of tho cove. If I could but remove the obstructions that niocK- ed up the passage bo that I could pass through it might possibly lend to daylight in another direction. Caves ofteu have more than one outlet or entrance. 'Faint as this hope was, I clung to it, and went to work with a will. The rock I found I could easily remove, nnd the snnd I scraped away with my hands, and soon had a place large enough to force my way through. Kn couraged by this, I did so, nnd after crawling nlong some fifteen or twenty feet, I. found myself in a largo apartmeut of a height that would admit of my standing erect. Another passage led off to tho right from this, and I nt once entered it, although it was so dark that I had to feel my way along.' The way was crooked, turning sharp angles and .long curves, and I could form no idea 'of the di rection in which I was going. It seemed almost interminable; but at last, to my great joy, 1 saw bright light ahead, and in a lew moments 1 stood in the bright sunshine that I neTer expected to see again. 'Tou can imagine the state of my feelings tte I made my way down the bank of the stream, after casting one look up to where tho grent boulder wob lying thnt bad sealed my tomb. It was larger than I had thought and the strength of our whole flarty could not have moved it. TfAere was great joy at tho camp over my return; my companions had spent tho night, and all the day thus for, in looking for me, nnd had come to the conclusion that I must have fallen into the canon, and been washed awny, and in a half-hour more would have beeu ou their way, leaving mo to my fate.' Earthquake Experience. It has been often asserted, and is largely believed, that atmospheric and other meteo ric phenomena often prognosticate the ap proach of earthquakes; and it is alleged that animals ami men uave uu uuscuru piuuepuuu nnd foreboding of them, mauilested by a feeling of anxiety and restlessness, shudernig and trembling of the limbs. Von lechndi, a good authority.affirms that ho several times experienced thm wnsation while in Peru, jiiBt before the occurrence of earthquakes. My own experience of several years in countries subjected to these phenomena, dui wnicu, however, is entirely ot a negative cnaracter, does not confirm these statements aud by notheses. It was confind to a residence of a year on the coast of Peru, and to three rather decisive shocks. 1 do not mention those slight tremors of the ground, which, during the day, nre seldom to be distinguish ed from the vibration ot tho ground occa sioned by carriages, and are mostly apprecia ble at night. The first of the three to which I refer occured November 23, 18C;", at about six o'clock in the morning, and lasted about ten Eeconds. It was preceded by a distinct rumbling sound; continuing during the move ment, which was of the ordinary undulatory kind. 'The shock was felt along the whole nnnut fpim Affinn. llOt-lllWftrd. (loinGT llttlfl damage, however, except in the city of Truxille. Tho second I experienced a few weeks later, at about two o'clock ,n the nft-rnoon, while engaged in niukmg a survey of tho ruins ot Amacavilca, near the village of Chorillos nine mi es south of Lima. 1 hnd just exposed I , . . ..-J ,., n'";t.rbv 60un( frora tho southward, . f i.nrT ,ofl w ava cu . ue y . J1"1"'- ul "lu' "u . ;j I In a nutainail nnntiminna ronr. I recognized . . -,.1 . 1 a 1 .. U tt BUblUIUtu. CUUkluuuua iuuii vvv.km.. , , . . . - . the sound, and carefully noted the t.me.that I ..nnn.1 Kniii'flnn ita lirat Ptlfllnn7 TTI V PftP ftnfl "l"" JC,-"l'-u "'" ' r the commencement of the earth movement. It was five seconds a fact of valuo as bear ing on the rapidity with which earthquake shocks are propogated. The movement was not very severe, although suuicientiy great to ruin my photographic negative, which I pre- served as probably the only example of pho- I . - , , TT' i 1 tographing au eariuquniie. in j-iiina 11 caustn some alurui, but little damage. Mv third aud last experience was when de scending to the coast from the lofty table lands of lluanoavelica, through the valley of the river Pisco to the sea, in the succeeding month of November. We wero just emerg ing from tho mighty walls of rock and bare, lofty mountain that shut in the upper wafers i nt t int ftTrPftm. una were enienuir uu iuu uu- i i.i.i.' j.nA.r A..nH,iitiM f Knn thA mniiniaiii t uuiatiuir uwri cavuuuiu uum l it n C n hnanl 4 It A AminAIIB to the sea. when wo again heard the ominous sound approaching, as before, from the south. My m mula pricked up her ears and stopped on tho instant, in a tremor, as if smitten with sudden airue. It was tea, seconds, not count- in? the time this meneuver ocupied, before the movement commenced under our feet Th shock lasted seven seconds, and was a severe one, being the combinatioa of the un dulatory and salatory movements. It was als wide spread in its range, anu in any country except Peru, where man has taken almost every possible precaution against tuo . ... A IL. effects of earthquakes, would have been de structive. And here I have to account a circumstance interesting in itself and to science. In gazing to'the southward, and listening to the ad vance of the shock as it approached with constantly increasing noise, we distinctly saw the vibration ot the mountains in tnat direction for four seconds before those nearest us began to bow to each other. Assuming that the movement of the mountains could . . . ... j l .u. j;..t,. oe oetecieu uy iuo uuacu cio a. a ui.iui .. -. .. . two miles, we have the means of an-approxi- mate estimate of the velocity ot the shock in question. It was about thirty miles a min ute. f B. G. Squire, ia Haiper's Magazine. I was passed. Uoon inquiry as to the cause my of this agitation, he replied that 'the cheese mv was moveing sigat. The Spirits of Discontent. IIow universal it is. We never yet saw the man who wonld say "I am contented." Go where you will among tho rich or the poor, the man of competence or the man who earns his bread by the Bwcat of his brow you hear the sound of muttering, and the voice of complaint. Tho other day we stood by ft cooper, who was playing a merry tune with Lis adze around a cask. "Ah!" said he, mine i a hnrd lot; forever trotting like a dog, driving a hoop." "Jleighol " sighed a blacksmith on a hot summer' day, as ho wiped the perspiration from bis brow, white the red hot iron glowed on the anvil, "this is life with a vengence, melting and frying one's-self over a fire." "Uh that 1 were a carpenter! eiaculnted a shoemaker, as he bent over his Inpstone. Here I am, dny after day, wearing my soul away making ioles for others, cooped np in this little Beven by nine room ho num. "1 in sick of this out door work, exclaim ed the carpenter, "boiling under a sweltering sun, or exposed to the inclemency of the weather I wish I was a tailor. "This is too bad." perpetually cries the tailor, "to be compelled to sjf perched up here plying the oeeulo all the t:me. Wonld that mine were a more active life." "Last day of grace banks won t discount customers wou't pay what shall I do?" grumbles the merchant. "I had rather be a truck horse, a dog, or anything else." "Happy fellows," groans the lawyer, ns he scratches his head over some dry, musty record, "happy fellows. I hnd rather ham mer stone than puzzle my head on this tedi ous, vexatious question." And through all the ramihcations ol society all are complaining of their condition, find ing fault wi'h their particular calling. 11 it were only this, or that, or the other, I should be coutentud, is the universal cry anything but what I am. So wags the world, so has it wagged, nnd so will it wag. Decline of the Knee Course. It seems to be generally accepted that tho race course improves horses and demoralizes men: and among the professional horsemen Hiram Woodruff is pointed to with pride as the man who was honest. I hope, however, for the credit of his noble animal, and of our own race, thut ho is not the only exception; and I further hope that the tendencies will grow stronger and will prevail. The tenden cies are shown in that such men as Mr. Bon ner aud others keep in their own stables and for their own uso some of tho fastest horses in the world, which are never used as decoys for the betting ring. These tendencies are also shown in thut this class of horses is more aud more in demand for gentlemen's uso solely; as it is to be seen on the fine autumn afternoons by tho hundreds or thonsnsds, on the broad avonne which leads to Macomb' Dam. It is estimated that thero are, ia New York alone, over ten thousand horses noted I . 1 4 .1 I for speed, which are worth from Si, 000 up ward o $33,000 the price of Dexter. Hut it may be well to caution young men and old ones against a vice which boBets some, and may easily spread. It is tho ma nia for buying trotters, in the expectation that now and then they will prove a prize like Flora Temple or Dexter. This is worse than useless. It con be shown, as I believe, that these horses, which once might have been bought for a song, have cost, somebody all they at last brought. It has tuken five or more years of constant training and outlay, and a vast deal of time and thought to make snch hoises what they are: nud only 0110 of a hundred of those so treated is a great prize. A young man who begins to act upon this theory is almost sure to bo ruined. No; gen- tlemen must amhwiii own tins nue quality tlemen must nmkwitl own this hue quality of horse but as gentleman, not as jockeys; if. by chance, such a one finds himself the " " 7. J ' " - --7".; possessor of a prize, let him call it a piece of luck, and not try it again, and not expect , , . , '., ,, , ' t a teJmau ;.in enjoy ,li9 ,lotfiei ' . , n... it at all. A gentleman will enjoy his horse, not the money he can make out of it. But is rtanSer too for tl,e farmers the I IJOl lUC niOUey IIU CUU lOUIVO out Ol Jb. WUI ordinary farmets-,n this ma ter. borne of I I IH7IU UIO BUCOUl v nun ss, "nuoi, mora uro uirenuy pwiHu iui a uuus u"- ing to gratify it, they may neglect tho real I . h. b . y. . . ..J e . .- . business 01 their rarms; they may get into habits of lounging away from their homes, and they may fall into grog-shop society. fThe : llorse Growers, by C. W. Elliott, in March Galaxy. The Old Hymns. Fanny Fern asks: 'Did vou ever know any person who wns brought up on the good 01a zion nymns, whom they ever failed to.move to the founda tions when heard? The "feet moving on un holy errands lingering on their way past the church door, as the melody flonts out npon the night air. That man who has wasted life, nnd energy, and taleut wnicn might nave blessed monkind, to reap only the whirlwind he is back again with his little head upon i uih muinur b iu i wui.u euo emuo man pumw m wuivn ... ' , - iimn uiUwih will navnt frrnw mil 44 iwiui. hi 1 knnn T 1 fil I PIVDr " I I 1 a Pt'Pfl mOlrit.Pn BH lift beautiful river." II is eyes moisten thinks now pa.nea Bne wou u no, wr .u. living, to know him now; the uymn ceases, . . . ,. , anu the low benediction follows, and as the "tincts of immora ity. so eloquently utter worshipers emerge, he recollects himself, and ed by the death devoted Greek, finds a with au impatient pshaw 1 passes on. What! deep response in every thoughtful soul. he moved ut a "conventicle nymni ue, wuu for years has never crossed the threshold ot a a8 a gaeritice to fate, his beloved Cleman church. He, who believes neither in prayers tho a8k -j , , t - to nor priests. Bib e nor suudaysr lie wno , nai out tr row 11 all maw au uu& uu uuau He can't outgrow it it is there. n wm .... . ;x 1 . como, whether ne uesires 11 or uu. uiuu unite of all his efforts to laugh or reason awav. Come, tho'ugh he live in open deri 8ioo and mockery of that religion whose di vine precepts he cannot eflace troin uis nnna. Come as it did to John Randolph, who; after years of atheism, and worldltuess, anu ambi tion, left en record that "the only men he ever knew well and approached cloBely whom he did not drscover to be unhappy, were siu- rer believers of the Uospel, who eonlormeu - - . . ihir lives, as tar as the uature 01 man can r.r nm t. to ita precepts." "Uften, ne says. w. 1 r -. . - j : i.a mnn nF liu i-hi i hnnil wpre banished im. -. . : . -. ,i,r.iio hi hnuinosg or bv pleasure :but after while they came more frequently, aud staid loncer. until at last they were nis . . . 1 . thouohts on waking, and bis last before ing to sleep." Bald be, "1 couia not uuqibu them if I would." - .. . . ... i A mad dog made bis appearance in Dan ville, the other day, and was killed after haying bitten several other dog. The Capture of Petersburg. On the night after the battle of Fiv, Forks, Grant sat outside of his tent, about twenty miles west of the James, waiting fr news from Sheridan. Mead's army ard Old's stretched in front of the long lines around Petersburgh, which liad withstood tnem so long Another flank movement was making, but thus far with littlo success. The weather had been miserable; the rains were violent, the roads almost impassable 5 horses and caissons and army wagons floundering in the quicksands. A3 far as Grant's left Htrelched out, so far Lee still confronted him. Sheridan had b;en fighting nt Dinwiddie. and Lee had reached around almost to Giant's rear to strike at Sheri dan, had, indeed dealt him a heavy blow. But to do this, the enemy had to divide his own force, hoping to get back before Grant could nttack the broken front. Grant, however, sent an addi tional corps to the support of Sheridan, and, at nine o'clock in the evening, was waiting for details of the battle. lie sat wrapped iu the soldier's blue overcoat, which he wore in that cam paign. Two or three staff officers were near, gathering round a camp fire iu the wet woods. Two had remained all day with Sheridan, so as to report to the Gen-eral-in Chief the result of the fight at the earliest moment. One of them had already returned, bringing worflVof suc cess how complete was not yet known. Finally, the other arrived with a full re- . port from Sheridan. He wns in great excitcinentj having ridden hard, ten miles or more from the field of victory. Five Forks was won. Grant listened calmly, only now and then interrupting the officer to ask a question. When all was told, he rose, without saying a word, entered his tent, where a candlo flickered on the table, invited no one to join him, but wrote a dispatch in sieht of the oflicers out side, nn,i v u t0 nn orderly. Then comint? out to the fire again, he remarked, as calmly as if he were saying, "It is a windy night," " 1 have ordered an at tack all along the lines to morrow at day break " When one romombevs what that meant, how many such attacks had been made nnd how often with littlo re sult ; in what light the North had come to regard these assaults upon fortified work j how disastrous , repulse would have been at that juncture to Grant, with a part ot his army ten miles away, the promptness of the decision can be better . - rt . n , . . appreciated. But Grant felt the hour and the opportunity had arrived ; he had that intutrive sympathy with his .soldiers which every great commander feels; he knew that they must be inspired by Sliiri dan's victory as- much as the Rebels woild be depressed, and now was the time to take advantage of his feeling, and make the final assult. At four o'clock next day tho works of Petersburg were carried. From the Atlantic Monthly for May. Shall we Meet Apaiiif A Beauti ful Extract. The following waif, afloat on the " sea 0f reading," we clip liom an exchange We do not know its paternity, but it con tains some wholesome truths, beautifully set forth "Men seldom think of the great event f ,iii, .,;i i.Q cl,n,l.a ,.,.0a. their own path, hiding forever from their I ui ucuui mini uiu dii.iuvh o mil v,i von cye9 the traces of the loved ones whose I lll'inff Cnil flfl TC.Vn T 11 ft H 1 1 1 1 1 1 CY 1 1 1 HI infl F Dth is the 7 .... , , ... . , 0 , I nt lifivnnrl tho villi tlmnorlit. nt ihfi tAinn - -- - - w the skeleton at all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley, al- though its passage may lead to Paradise, and with Charles Lamb we do not want to lie down in the muddy grave, even with kings and princes for our bed fellows. But the fiat of nature is inexorable. There is no appeal of relief from the great law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and we fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flower that blooms and withers in a day has no irailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps Gen erations of men appear and vanish as tho crass, ana tne countless and the countless multitudes that ujiuml; uiu ut in iu uuy, i t i, .. ... i .1 n. rinn throncr tho world to day, will to-morrow I T il.. J?- - x a il l. . , beriutiful dram of Ion lhe ; v nen aoout to yiem ins young existence h- , fc , j h dreadful v, i . , . t-, , T A , ; ; I m ton fitara amnncr ivhriRA npliw fit flznrfl iu - ? , ------ it my raised spirit bath walked upon thy - living face. I feel that there ia something in the lovo that mantles through its beauty that catinot wholly perish. We shall meet again, Cleraanthe.' " Till Shootino. A gentleman remarked in a tavern that he had shot a hawk at ninety yards with No. 6 shot, another replied: "Must have a good gan, but Uncle Dave here has one that beats it." "Ah!" said the first, "how far will it kill a la hawk with No. 6 shot?" I "I don't use shot nor ball either," answered nrai uncie uave nimseu. t 1 go - "Then what do vou use, Uncle Dave?" "I shoot salt altogether. 'I kill my garni so far with my gun that the game would Bpih before 1 could get it." .A pew Temperauce paper, called the II er ald, haijust been started at Mi Hon.
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