dHIt founts $ dilate. FRIDAY, MAT, 14 1809. FOll GOVERNOR. JNO W GEARY, Subject to tlie decision of the Republican State Convention. J0ITXWU'S I0LICT. A financial policy has at Inst been de. cldcd ou, Spcretary Boutwcll lias deter mined to abandon tlie no. policy of hoard ing the gold accumulations in the Treasury and to use the surplus for the purposo of buying up Government bonds, at the rate for the present of a million per week lie announces that he will con tinue to do this as long as the state of the Treasury will warrant him in so doing. This is what Horace Greeley has so strenuously advocated for years, and is in deed the true policy. Every bond bought in diiuinishea the interest on the national debt, and consequently lightens tho burdejis of the people. This policy, however, should be coupled with a diminution of taxes by the next Congress. The amount of bonds Boutwell shall be able to buy in should .bo the measure of the diminution. For true policy dictates that our surplus revenue ehoujd be applied not to the reduction of the principle of our debt, but to the light, pning of the people's burden. NEWS ITEMS. f Gold closed in New York on Saturday at 137. The California State Treasury has a surplus of &1,400,000. A. New York policeman has been discharged because ' ho cheated his wash, erwoman. The Charleston Courier thinks that the Southern cotton crop will not exceed 3,000,000 bales this year. Local annals, it is said, mentions sixty one earthquakes in Massachusetts during the past 231 years. A" soilder organ grinder," in Boston, is said to make forty dollars a day at the business. One farmer in Texas has fenced in a pice little pasture of one hundred and thirty thousand acres. What Spain wants of tho Anglo Saxon nations England to give it a loan. America to let it alone. -Mayor Hall of New York, is quoted as refering to quack doctors as fillers of the constitution. There are eight tunnels on the Peon eylvania Rail Road, ranging from two bun peed to tli re o thousand six hundred and Jwelve feet. The Massachusetts Legislature pro poses to prohibit card-play iua on railway trains, and gives the conductor power to eject all players. New York presents a Bourbon can didate fur the Spanish throne, the same gentleman who was recently married there to h (Juban lady. Gen. tackles is retired with the full pay of Major General, not of Colonel a: iias Deen erroneously puiiiisned in some papers. A rumor comes from Berlin that Msr. Abraham Linooln is to marry Count Schmidtswill, Grand Chamberlain of the Puke of Baden. The Louieville Journal soys thai Spain lately vot rid of one Queen. Isabella and is likely soon to lose another, the S It . .... ' mu.een oi ma Antilles. As Grant won't say much about thing? a great many tnings are said about him about half of which are incorrect and tt rest are not true. "I r . .a m - uov. v,urtin is the lourtb Minister to Kussia from Psnnsylvania. His prcdo oessors were Wm. Wilkings, James Buchanan and George M. Dallas. -A New Orleans blind bet car aroeared In court the other day and went security r (.: j i . r iui a iiicuu, Bwudring nirnsci: to De worm ,820,000 in proporty. A physioiun boasted at dinner that he ured his own hams, when one of hie guests remarked, " Doctor, I would sooner be your ham than your patient." The New York Exprent suggests, now that the Odd Fellows' jubilee is over, that the " odd girls " get up a celebration, ana get even with the men by marrying. It is interesting to learn .that" Mum-, tazamu-Moock-aiohsumoddow-cah-fureed ponjah-sound-Munzoor ali.khan.Bahadoor- Musrutjuog," nabob of Bengal, has arrived at rans. A clergyman in Virginia, -writing to some mends, ays : " I preached the fuceral sermon oi a man yesterday, and to. day, at the same tour, I married his widow to another man. A woman who for eighteen yeaw past nas peauiea maicoee tu the streets of De troit, has reared and .educated three chil dren, all of whom have good trades, .and .nas paia lor a none, Sentimentalists sing, " Give me .cot in the vallev I love." li ill: npNnm r.F more practical turn would prefer a walnut r rencn Deusieau. .A Doa fight is the only event at which .real cur-rage is exhibited, The favorite tuno of the milkmen is said to be " Shall we gather at the river?" ' The difference between a fish aal the -husband of a vixen, is that one lives in cold water and the other in hot. In Oregon, drinking ig said to be a pre Tentative against smallpox, and the present tylaf invitation is, " let disinfect," Awful Famine in tlie North of Europe. The letters of Ircnncus from Finland have spoken of tho prospeda ot famino in tho countries neaf the Baltio Sea. Ac counts now reach us that are truly appall ing, and the evident helplessness of the caso renders it doubly distressing. We were told in Finland that the crops' hud tailed for several successive years-, that the peoplo in the interior were eking out their lives by consuming everything from which any support could be drawn, even the bark ot trees, and that another failure of crops would be the utter ruin of thousands. We find in the World a statement that the worse fears are made real, and dire famine, with all its horrors, is now reign ing there. Tho same report comes from Fiulaud, Livonia, Esthonia and Courlund, from tho shores ol the Gulf of Bothnia and Lake 1'eipus, from the lowlands of Poland, and from the densley peopled towns aloug tho Baltio coast. There is no seedcorn to be had for the crop of this year ; bread, having long been obtained at famine prices; has now become unobtaina ble at any prioe ; pestilence has made its appearance, and is adding its horrors to the overflowing cup of misery pressed to the lips of the stricken people of those ua happy lands. Here is a picture of the scene as described by a writer at St. Peters burg : " Fields lying waste; villages de populated ; private houses turned into hos pitals j lover-parched skeletons tottering from the doors of overcrowded places ot refuge ; ohildren wandering over the country in gaunt and squalid nakedness; crowds of men, driven .to desperation by long misery and ripe for any outrage, roaming the streets night and day " There is no exaggeration in this fearful description ; it is only loo well supported by official accouuts transmitted to St. Petersburg from the afflicted regions. In Esthonia, Livonia and Courland, three provinces of vast extent, there is n population of 1,804,-135 souls ; in Finland, where there are immense tracts ot barren and irreclaimable soil, there is a population -of 1,706,000. These countries are reached but by a single line of railroad, and the greater portions of them arc almost as in. accessible as are the mountains of Abys sinnia. The soil is thin and rocky and wretchedly cultivated, and the people are never secure from the terrible evils that are now exterminating them. A letter from one of the central districts of Estho uia says that the distress this year is sorer thau ever The harvest of 1807 was a bud one ; but there was a little corn stored up, and there was hope of relief in 1808. Hut no relief came. On the contrary, Irom the 23d of May to the 18th of August, lust year, no rain fell, and the summer crops were scorched up. Bread can now be scarcely got, even at the most exorbitant prioes, and as the roads are im passible by reason of the extraordinary wet winter, no Lelp from abroad can reach the people, and their herding together in the larger villages in the hope of getting food and shelter, has engendered disease, which ie making fearful ravages. " All heart for work is gone out of the peasants," says this letter ; " their once fresh and hopeful faces show only the blankness of despair. Children are deserting their parents, parents their ohildrec ; some wan iler about the country, became and plun dering ; others flock into the town to ewe'.l tho aggregate of want and misery already gathered there, and perish ia scores by famine and disease. Crowds have to be turned away for want of means to supply their need, and their imploring faees haunt me night and day. The inhabitants of St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well aa the government, are doing what they can to alleviate this dis tress ; but the difficulty of reaching the sufferers i so great, and the transportation of supjjies to them is attended with so much loss of time, that it is feared they will be relieved iv death before the assi tance provided for them can arrive. JV. i. voter vcr, One's Mothih. Around the idea of one's mother the mind of man clings with fond affection. It is the first der thought stamped upon infant hearts, when yet soft and capable of receiving the most profound impressions, and all the after feelings are Tjore or less in comparison. Our passions, and our willfulness may lead ns tar from the object of our filial love : we may be come wild and headstrong and angry at their counsel or opposition ; but when death has stilled her monitory voice, and nothing but calm memory remains to re capitulate her virtues and good deeds, afl'eotion, like a flower beaten to the ground by a rude storm, raises up her head and smiles amid her tears. ilound that idea as we have said, the mind clings with fond affection ; and even when the earliest fteriod of our loss forces memory to be si' enL fancy takes the Dlace of remembrance and twines the image of our departed parent with a garland ot graces and beau ties, and virtues, which we doubt not that she possessed. To Make Uomb IlArrr To make home truly happy ; there should be no concealments ; that is the canker worm. Let a woman tell her troubles and follies freely to her husband, and ho will assist her out ot them. He is her other self, not her judge ami master. If a man con fide iu his wrfe, her penetration aod quick wit will often see things that escapod him. We are in the woild all day our minds are occupied by many details ; but ehe safe at home, often alone or with but an infant com pa u ion ; she thinks over what you have told her, and sees it in many lights ; she has bad the time you wantod. The discovery that there has been a secret excites a jealousy, and loosens the ties ot affection, on either side. Without "perfect and entire confidence, married hap jjiuets useiaotn lasting. " Mother." said a little bnv thA otbr day. " Why are orphan'- the happiest children on earth ? " " They are not. mv child: whv d vhu ask?"' ' ' ' " Because thev have no mother to ahn them." r Old Home, A writer in Putnam's Magazine thus describes the ruins of Ancient Rcnie : " Ruius to day mark the scat of old Rome's wonderful power ; and such ruins I Read about them, talk about them much as one may, they must be seen to be com prehended ; indeed, seeing is hardly enough ; they must be studied, and gazed, upon . time after time, till, as in ex periments in chemistry, or discoveries in astronomy, light breaks upon the gazer, and their immensity is realized, couipre hended, appreciated' " Here is the Coliseum. Many of our New York dwelling houses are twenty feat wide, and average porhaps forty feet in depth. Three huuArcd such houses, wiih alloys between, could stand upon the ground covered by the ruins of tho greal amphitheatre. Place three of your four story houses on top of each other, and the roof of the topmost one would not be higher from the ground than is '.he top of the outer wall of this pile, that has been laughing lit Time for eighteen centuries. Close pajking and hird squeezing will put about four thousand persons id the great hall of Cooper Institute, if all tho aisles and lubbies are filled. Mote than twenty times four thousand persons could be seated in the Coliseum Great care is taken to preserve it as it is ; for an old superstition proclaims the downfall of Rome with the downfall of it. Our first visit to it was on a bright day ; and as we roaryed about its six acres of walls and arches, the birds were singing merrily in thosunshiue, seemiug to bid us of the New World welcome. Our next visit ws by moon light ; and as we passod along the corro dors, and undei the firm old arches, torch in hand, the owls whose premises were thus rudely invaded, hoarsely screeched their oidcrs for our departure ; and as the pale light of the moon shone on the crumb ling scats, it seemed us if the shadowy forms of those who ouce filled them were again in their places. And as we emerged beyond the onter wall, the far off hooting of the angry owls sounded like- the dying groans of a gladiator, who had fought his last battle in the old arena. " The Forum, with its broken columns, the Patheon oblisks, Cesarean palaces, baths, Pagan temples, the tomb-lined Appian Way, are all wonderful. So aro the Catacombs, and the remains of tho old Aqueduct ; and very remarkable are the great detached masses of cemented brisk work seen outside of the walls' of the city, standing all alono, hundreds of yards from any building or arch or structure of any kind, looking as if they had been broken from some great temple wall, or other huge building, larger than auy now known, re. sembling, as thny loom up from the great plain, enormous solid towers, grass wreathed, and bush cTowned. " Old Rome, the city of the children of the she-wolfs sucklings, contains more ol these children's work than I Can describe more even than I have time to see." Impure Water Few of us are aware of the deletrious effects of impure water, or how prone water is to imbibe impurities of the air. Many of us think if the water is clear and cold it must be perfectly pure, though it bad stood in a close bedioom twenty-four hours; but this is far from true. It a pitcher of water is set in a room, for only a few hours, it will absorb nearly all the respired aud perspired passes in the room, the air of which will have become purer, but the wrtcr utterly filthy. The oolder the water is, the greater the capacity to contain the gasaes. ' At ordinary temperatures a pail of water can contain a great amount of ammonia and carbonic acid gas j and its capacity to absorb" these gases ia nearly doubled by reducing the water to tho temperature of ice. This plainly shows us that water kept in a room over night ia totally unfit for drirjikng pur poses, and should not be used to gargle in the throat ; also that a large pail of water standing in a room would help to purify the atmosphere, but should be thrown away the next morning. It also teaches us the reason that the water from a pump should always be pumped out in the morn ing before any of it is used. We are la mentably ignorant of many of the proper ties ot air and water, two of the most im portant elements of our nature. " Mt Fathtcr'b Cummin." A young urchin, before the new act, was employed to sweep the chimney of a house in Macclesfield, and having ascended to the " summit ot hie profession " took a survey. This completed, be prepared to descend, but, mistaking the flue, he found himself, on his landing, in the office of a limb of the law, whose meditations weie put to flight. The sensation of both parties it ia impossi ble to describe the boy, terrified lest he should be punished, stood rivited to the spot, and the lawyer, struck dumb, started from his seat the very image of horror, but spoke not. Sooty, however, soon found a tongne, and in accents which only increased the terrors of the man of law, cried out " My father's cummin' directly." This was enough. The presence of an equi-vocal being, so introduced, unnerved his heart ; with one bound, the affrighted lawyer flew" down stain, and Bought refuge in the street from the enemy. Lawyers take warning ! Luck. " I don't have any erood luck." Fudge. What do you expect, you mere grumb.'er ? Is the world to turn from its way aod business to sweeten you up, put you on your pins, and then return to its own affairs ? Nit if it knows itself, and the popular prejudice is that it has some experience in that line. If you ex pect " luck," as it is termed, without work ing like a good fellow for it, you will simply be disappointed. And you ought to be. It would be nothing else buc a swindle. Luck is a product, not a chance. It is born of toil; does not fall ready at hand. It comes to those who work and win, and not those who lazily wait. There is noth ing more foolish thau for young men to believe in luck. It is a faith without foun dation, and sadly ruinous ia. its coose quenccs, Mr. Claj and the Coat. In one of our exchanges, we find the following capital Btory of an old he goat, which almost everybody in Washington city remembers as having formerly in habited Nnylor's livery, Pennsylvania Avenue. This animal was probably the most independent citizen of tho metropolis. He belonged to no party, though he fre quently gave passengers most striking proofs of his adhesion to the leveling principles, for whenever any body stopped in his vicinity, " Billy " was sure to drive at him horns and all. The boys keenly relished the fun of imitating old long beard, and frequently so annoyed him that he would " charge bagnet " at lamp posts and trees, to their infiuite merriment aud satisfaction. It so happened tlat one day the grand luminary the west, Henry Clay, was Dossing down the avenue, and seeing the boys iutent on worrying Billy into a fever, stopped and with hisoharactcristio humani ty expostulated with them on their cruelty. The boys listened in silent awe to the appeal of the great statesman ; but it was all Cherokee to Billy, who the ungrateful scamp arose majestically on his hinder legs, and made a desperate plunge at his friend and advocate. Mr. Clay, although he had not " slain a Mexican," proved too much for bis assailant ; he seized both horns of the dilemma, and then came the tug of war Greek had met Greek. The struggle was long and doubtful. Ha ! " exclaimed the statesman, " I have got you fast, you rascal t I'll teach you better manners. But boys," he con tinued turning to the laughing urchins, ' what shall I do now ? '' " Why, trip up his feet, Mr. Clay," said they. Mr. Clay did as he was told, and after many severe efforts, brought Billy down on bis side. Here he looked at the boys and imploringly said : " I never was in such a fix before." The coaibatants were nearly exhausted but goaty had the advantage, for he was gaining breath nil the while that the states man was losing it. " Boys," exclaimed he, puffing and blosyng, " this is rather an awkard busi ness, what am I to do now ? " Why, don't you know ? "said a little fellow making preparations to run, as he spoke ; " all you have got to do is to let go and run like blazes." The World's Madness. WThen I look around upon a busy, bustling world, eagerly pursuing aud courtiug disappoint ment, nezlcctin" nothing mo nuch n th one thing needful ; and who, in order ti. fVldiw M-V,-ti. n tl.fa llTj. 1 i. ......... u. ! ..utv uiuil 'll.iwu 111 11113 I11U, UnitMl tho vwld to oome, and only treasure up wrath, it makes me think of a farmer, whi- should. with vast lnhrir. Riilrivutw hw l:in.U and gather in hi? crop and then thrash ii uui, auu men separate tne corn irora tnr chaff, and thon sweep the corn out upon the dunghill, and carefully lay by the chutj Such a person would -be supposed mad ; but how iaint a shadow would this be o! his madness who labors for the moat thai perishes, but neglects that which endureth unto everlasting life f It is a madnesi the whole race of men labor under, uulesa, and until, the divino grace works the cure. 1'hos Scott. A Moment or Thought. Fort) years ouce seemed a long and weary pil griinago to tread. It now seems but a step. And yet along the way are broken shrines where a thousand hopes have vastcd into ashes ; footprints sacred under their drifting dust ; green mounds whose grass is fresh with the watering of tears ; shadows even which we could not forget. We will garner the sunshine of those years, and with chastened step and heavenward hope push on toward the even ing whose signal lights will boou be seen swinging whore the waters are still, and the storms uever beat. The WnEKLBARROW. Tom Hubbard, ot the Logan Gazette; gfta off the follow ing " original sentiment : " " Here is to tho wheelbarrow : For simplicity of con struction, strength, courage, and general moral character, it is the superior of tin velocipede, and ought to be cucouraged. This is a voluntary tribute to modest worth : and an unobtrusive gentleness ol character. Finally, we exclaim, put a wheelbarrow in out'n." Alaska a Thousand Years Lao. The Mining J'rest says : Professor Carl Ncuman, of Munich, i dilligeut student of Chinest antiquities aod bibliography, has discovered from the Chinest y eat -books that a company oi Budhi.st priests entered this country,' via Alaska, a thousand years before Columbus They explored thoroughly and intelligently the Pacific borders, peuctrating iut3 the " land of Fusung " for so they called the Aztec territory, after the Chinese uamc of the Mexican aloe. The collection ol antiquities recently rtado by Captain Fast irora graves, etc, in Alaska, consisting chiefly of carved ornaments and weapons, resembling those now made by the Chinese, and apparently belonging to a race totally distinct from the present Alaskans. Austin Reieille. Grace to live from dav todav a chris- tian life, without bcinor inordinately nni. Ljous about to morrow; faith in Christ as the only and ail sufficient caviour for us ; and more success iu imitating the example ot him who is Lord and Master, are, must be, the great aim of every Christian, and if ever reached and iea'ized will prepare him equally for death and life. The benevolent man loves mankind ; the courteous man respects them. He who loves men will be loved by them ; he who respects men will be respected by them. A MAN recently poked bis head out from " behind the time," when it was taken off by a" passing event." The poetry of mo:ion elating witU a pretty girl. TANNING & LUMBER CO. gEYSTONK STORE WILCOX PA- ATTENTION EVERYBODY SPRING OPENING I The largest store in North Western Ta., lit ter nlly filled to overflowing. WINTER GOODS closing out regardless of value. Wo are opening the spring campaign with the largest and most attractive stock ever offered in this market. We shall endeavor to keep every depart ment well assorted the year round, Our DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT will, always contain a large and well selected stock of Cloths Cussiiners & Cloakings, Black and Colored Silks. Seasonable dress goods in great variety. Table Linens, Napkins Towels &o., white goods of every description, bleached and brown sheetings all widths, GLOVES & HOSIKItY TRIMMINGS and NOTIONS CARPETS and OIL CLOTHS WALL and WINDOW PAPER, HOOKS AND STATIONERY, CLOTHING, HATS and CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES, DRUGS 4 MEDICINE PAINTS, OILS & DYE STUFFS, LEATHER, A SHOE F1XDIXCS, HARDWARE, STO VES .( 77V- WA RE, 1R0X6 STEEL, NAILS A BUILDERS HARD WARL NUT3 & WASHERS, HORSE SHOE. k NAILS, WAGON SPRINGS PATENT AXLES & BOXES, CROCK ERY . and GLASSWARE, STONE WARE, FLOUR, FEED & MEAL, CORN aud OATS, FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS, SASH & DOORS COFFINS, MATRASSES, BEDDING, ic, TOBACCO & CIGARS, TRUNKS, VALISES 4 CARPET BAGS, RUBBER BELTING. CLOCKS in GREAT VARIETY. Agents for Iloyt Bros. Colobrated Leather Belting. With our superior facilities for obtaining heavy goods, in large quantities, from first hands we defy competition in Groceries & Provisions. We invite partioular attention to our ohoic brands of extra and double extra flour, we got direot from mills at the west thus aaving to customers the profits usually pocketed by middlemen. Our flour is always fresh ground and we guarantee entire satisfaction with every barrel TANNING & LUMBER Co. ln21tf. WileoxPa. POWELL & KIME. G' OODS FOR THE MILLION. P O W E L. L. " & KIM At their oapacious atorea both in RIDGWAY- AND CENTREVILLE nave on hand, splendid assortments all seasonable Goods adapted to the wal of the people of Elk and ndjomii counties, which they are selling at prices that defy competition. They would siaiply state here,- that being very large dealers, their facilities for purchasing are i equalled by any establishment ia the county. Thny buy direotly from maau fucture and on the advantage. You aJwal Another advantage. Xou aJway ct wlmt you want at their atores, kites you will save time by going dirottly te ihem aud Tl.ilK IS MONEY. VY. have no spaco here te enumerate all the ad vantages you will have in patronising these establishments. But oall and see, an4 v reap ;ue advantages lor yourselves. Among their Goods you will find DRY GOODS Iu en iless rarietioa, GROCERIES choice and fresh cut and fiu'mh, BOOTS & SHOES of the teal tock and make, CROCKERY for newly married, middlo aged aud cldeily. DRIED FRUIT, i. . BUTTER, EG 08, rORK, nAMS, LARD, FL1 CORN MEAL. AND EVERYTHING ELSB Alto most other kinds of country pro duce taken at the market value- . laltfc
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