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.
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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
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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