. FRIDAY, JUNi!, 4 1809. .
FOR OOVEllNOIt.
JNO W GEARY,
Subject to the tleeision of the Republican
fetnte Convention.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Several ,'caJing journals have severely
criticised the management of the Ccntrnl
Pacifio railroad. While present regula
tions may serve to give point to their stric
tures, it ia fair that a record cf the com
pany's intentions should go before the pub"
lie, so that the proper allowanco may be
made for the hardships and confusion in
cident to starting so great an enterprise,
nnd that tho management may be held pro
perly responsible if time fails to correct
present evils. The intention, then, or
gathered from San Francisco papers, is to
open negotiations with the Union raciGc
for an early reduction of first class fares to
$100 in currency to Omaha ; second class
.fares to be reduced in a corresponding
ratio. As first class fares from Atlantic
cities to Omaha do not much exceed an
Average of $10 in currency, a through
ticket, then, ought not to cost more than
$140, or if it be reduced to a gold basis
ior the purpose of accomodating tho
Pacifio end of the route, 8100 in gold
would seem to be a fair price. lTor the
transmit of three thousand miles in six
days, this would not be regarded as cxhor.
bitant. Tho company express a dosiro to
.so adjust both passenger and freight latcs
'as to attract population to the capital of the
Pacific. There is certainly a greater in
ducement for. tho Central Company to adopt
'liberal fares than the Union Pacific, since
the country their road traverses is to be
built up, aDd the sooner they will reap a
harvest of permanent business, not only on
the trunk line, but along tho feeders they
have bought or intend to construct. We
quote from tho speech of tho General
Superintendent at the Sacramento celebra
tion : " Now, I wish to say one thing in
regard to this question of low freights
This question has been urged upon us, and
wo have replied : Let us build the road
first ; they are coming to Ma with giant
strides from the other side, and we want to
meet them. Wo said, when tho road wos
built wo will attend to these matters. And
mow I wish to say to you and to our friends,
sthat wo will put the rates down so as to fid
his country full of people Just as fast
. Jis we can get the cars built wc will bring ;
4tem hero and fill your valleys and mount- j
niusfull of people." If the company is in
carnestin these expressions, there is suffi
cient ground for hoping.that a satisfactory
fichedulo will soon bo adopted.
Russell's description of tho manner in
which (he Prince of Wales was entertained at
Constantinople leaves the Arabian Nights out
jn the cold.
A DEALER in musical instruments, in
one of his advert isemenls, declares that his
drums, among other articles which he has for
nolo, "can't be beat." Vill he be kind enough
io tell us what they arc good fcr, then !
A colored lady, boasting the other day
of the progress innde by her sou in arithmetic,
exulting y Baid, lie is in do niorti6catioi.
table,"
A LADY said to her husband, in Jerrold's
presence : " My dear, you certainly want
some new trousers." " No, I think not," ro.
plied the husband. ' Well," Jerrold inter
rupted, ' I think the lady who wenrs them
ought it know."
A DANCER oneo said to Socrates, " You
can not stand on one leg so long as I
can." "True," replied the philosopher,
" but a goose can."
TriE Country Gentleman says : " We
have heard of protecting. strawberries' from
birds by placing a. stuffed cat on the beds."
We would like to see this idea put in practice.
It looks very possible and will doubtless be
beneficial, as even if it shouldn't frighten the
tirds away it will b3 of incalcnable good in
disposing of surplus cats. We hope the taxi.
ticrmists will urge this idea until they get
four-fifths of the caterwaulers skinned and
crammed with straw.
A NoRwicn man has whittled out with
a penknife a curious and most perplexing bot.
tie punle. He has taken an eight ounce vial
end set up in its interior a perfect keg about
two inches long, with four hoops on it and
both heads in ; and he has stopped the bottle
with a woodea plug which fits perfectly tight
and is keyed inside, the key pinned and the pin
toggled. The workmanship is excellent, and
the way it was done a mystery.
The lion. Josiah Adams, now deceased
was one of the best know legal gentlemen of
the Middlesex (Massachusetts) bar. lie was
more remarkable for wit than for personal
beauty. A correspondent once remarked to
him t ' Mr. Adams, hoy are you t you're
looking first-rate." " Yes, yes," said the old
gentleman, "just what one of niy neighbors
Baid to me a short time ago- I met," con
tinued he, " one of my neighbors, and he said
to me how are you t you look very well ;
Jn fact you grow handsomer every day,'
Ah,' said I, how is thatt' Why, to tell
you the plain truth, you can't grow any other
way ! ' " Mr. A. questioned pot the premises,
but made a profane expression about his contusion.
: NEWS ITEMS.
, Velocipedes are paging out.
Nap. is to change his cabinet.
--DickenB is to be sued for libel.
Victoria Is fifty years old.
Rouner circulates 300,000 LcJgi.ru.
The llocsao tunnel will cost $1G,000,
000.
Gov. Ucfiry has pardoned Hester
Vaughn.
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iiomccpainy is luiiy established in
Brazil.
Minister Motley took thirty trunks with
mm.
The California crops are damaged by
rain.
i'copio nogin to cue oi sun stroko in
New York.
Russcl Young goes to Europe for Jay
The Emperor of Austria sanctions
publio schools.
The gold fields of South Africa are
unproductive.
Colfax will soon visit Newport, and
iMcwport will Do happy.
W hite Pino has twenty.flvo banking
houses cxclusixo of faro banks.
T1 1 i .Art fri .
i ncie are lu.uuo.uuy Clover seeds in
a bushel, some lazy fellow tells us.
New lork masticates fivo hundred
barrels of potatoes daily.
The capital of Wvominr? Territnrv is
. i .j . '
iv uo luiuuuu to vucyenne.
-Risuinrck's sister is the hnnrl
lady of tho Prussian nobility.
ihe Union Pacifio Kail Road bridcro
at Omaha will cost 2,000,000.
Duxbury, Mass.. is to bo tho landincr
place of the French cable.
New York cab drivers are now rrO'
bibitcd from leaving their cabs to solicit
passengers.
The Druid Lodges of Wisconsin pro
pose psiaDiisiiing mutual ate msurance
companies.
Indiana has finally ratified tho Suff
rage amendment.
Paregoric weddings come off at the end
of the first year.
Gas is to high for the Yankees ol
New London, Conn.
Maryland and Delaware will give us
lo(3 of peaches.
Victoria's soldiers in Canada take
Trench leave.'
Tho current revenue of the General
Government shows a largo increase over
the corresponding time last year. So much
for Grant's administration.
Another great railway intended to
unite Chicago and New Orleans is being
projected in Illinois, the directors of which
were elected on Wednesday last.
Hon. Den. Wade has a life office as
government director of the Pacifiio Rail
road not a temporary one as com
missioner. So much the better for honest
Old Ren.
Scientific men say that tho time of
tho diurnal revolution of the earth is
gradually being shortened, on account of
the shrinkage of the earth by cooling in
tho interior.
In Maine, Iowa, Wisconsin and Min
desota the Temperance men are s.iid to have
orgauizcd a distinct political organization.
They proposo to run independent tickets
this fall on a total abstinence platform.
A New York lady of intelligence and
culture ' has such a passion for eating
slate pencils thi.t her husband buys them
for her by the gross" Of course, ns soon
as one gross is devoured she begins to ci.
phcr sura more.
In Poughkecpsie, N. Y., a couple
were married last Wednesday over tho
coffin of the bridegroom's father. When
asked why ho insisted upon being thus
married the happy husband replied that a
spiritual commun'cation from his father
demanded it.
Overwork. There was William Pitt.
dead at iorty-nine, carrying the Briiish
Empire on his shoulders for a quarter of a
century, a til attempting to carry a pint of
pott wine daily and a pinch of opium in
his stomach, and foundering in mid-ocean
.rom this over.cargo What a wreck was
that when Brinsley Sheridan went to pieces
on the breakers of intemperance and over
work 1 There, too, was Mirabeau, that
prodigy of strength and health, of versa.
tility ana splendid talent, killed by the
overwhelming labors and excitements of
tho tribune and the orgies of Cyprian hells.
Sergeant S. Prentiss attempted the double
task; and if ever a roan might with im
punity, he could, with Jconine health and
marvelous mental gifts. Said a distin.
guished Missippi lawyer to- roe, " Prentiss
would sit up all night gamblog and drink
ing, and then go into court next day and
make a better plea in all respects than I
could, or anybody else at the bar of our
State, even though we studied our case
half tho night and slept tho rest." He
tried it, and iu the trying burned to the
socket in fortyone years the lamp of life
that had been trimmed to last fourscore.
A draft upon the constitution in behalf of
appetite is just as mnch a draft as in behalf
ot work ; and is both aro habitually pre
ferred together, kankruptcy and ruin are
sure and swift.
One of the dryest humorists I ever
met," says Sala, ' is P. T. Barnum. On
board the river steamers in the Western
States they feed you at a moderate outlay,
very sumptuously, but the portions sup
plied aro usually ot mioroscopio dimen
sions. Barnum had taken passage on one
ot these stately Noah's Arks. He called,
at tea time, for a beef steak. Tho negro
brought him the usual shrivelled mite of
broiled flesh, certainly not sufficient for
more than two mouthsfull, Barnum noised
the morsel on his fork, scanned it critically
as though it were a sample pf t teak sub
mitted to his inspection, then returned it
to the waiter, saying, ' Y-e s, that's what
I nieau. Bring me Bomo of it' "
the Rational Peace Jubilee
Tho National Teaca Jubilee, which is to
commence in' Boston on the 15th of June,
and to continue five days, will, withoutdoubt,
be the great musical event of the century.
Tho mngnitudo and costliness of the en
terprise places it fairly ahead of any de
monstration in the department of music
which the modern world has witnessed.
What happened in tho timo of the ante
diluvians, when men lived to be nine hun
dred years old and had plenty of time to
perfect themselves in music what "grand
concerts were given in the days of Prof
Jubal, " the father of all such as handle
the harp or organ," wo are unable to'say,
having no newspaper files at hand of that
early dale, and being unable to obtain any.
reliable spiritual information on the sub
ject Nobody renl'y Irnows what was done
in the way of musical display in the
lft J. r v n i 3
v"jT3 ui mo jYpiiuns, ureeKS a:"
ixomans ; though in the land of Judea. l
the time of King Solomon, when th
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icmpie was aeaicaiea, tiiere was unques.
tionably a vocal and instrumental combina
tion of tho most magnificent character.
anu me musical portion ot tne services on
that grand occasion probably surpassed in
sublimity anything tho world has sinco
heard. ihosncied writings contain allu
sions, aiso, to otner great israelitish must
cal demonstrations on different important
occasions, ana it is expressly stated in th
Chronicles that King David had four
thousand instrumental performers.
In these latter days, however, no musical
performance has anywhere been heard
wnicn, in point oi magnitude and rjower
nas equalled tnat wnicr. is promised at th
ixationai reaco jucuce in Jioston, in
June. Mammoth musical festivals have
been repeatedly held in England and on
the continent. One of tho largest wes that
held in England in 18G8, when the choral
and instrumental force numbered over five
th ousand. Something pretty extensive in
this way has also been done in our own
country. In New Oileans, in March, 1804
on the occasion of the inaugaration of
Governor Halm, a concert of really mam
moth size was given in Lafayette Square
unaer ine direction ot the very mau. Mr,
P. S. Gilmore, who is at the head of the
Grand National Peace Jubilee now in
prospect. A chorus of no less than ten
thousand voices, with an orchestra of five
hundred pieces, accompanied by artillery
and all the church bells,, thundered "the
anthem of tho free " over the redeemed
regenerated and disenthralled people of
the Crescent City. But something far be
yona mis iar ocyona wnat Jingiand or
Germany or America has yet heard i
promised at the colossal festival at Boston
Virginia Politics. Trustworthy ad
vices lrom V lrginia, says an apparently
well-informed Washington correspondent.
snow mat tne political campaign there i;
becoming exciting. Gov. Wells, tho Re
publican candidate for Governor, aod ex
District Attorney Chandler, left Richmond
Monday morning to canvass the western
portion of the State, and Mr. Walker, the
Conservative candidate for Governor, is
already on the stumointhe southwestern
counties. It is conceded that tho Consti
tution will be ratified by a large majority,
and that the separate clauses submitted
will bo defeated. The Conservatives
which is the modern name of disguised
Democrats and rebels claim that the re.
opening of the registration will add thou.
sands of white voters to tho lists who will
vote their ticket, and they arc also hard at
vork to get a good negro vote. Tho Re
publicans, on the other hand, are sanguine
that Wells is to bo re eloctcd. They say
that he will get nearly the entire npgro
vote, and a good share of the whites, as
the extreme secessionists will not counte.
nance negro suffrage by voting. They an
ticipate a Republican triumph and the re
election of Wells by 12,000 to 15,000 votes.
Good Friday. An exchange says that
the legislature, by some unaccountable lm
pulse, declared Good Friday (a moveable
least, observed by Roman Catholic, Piotest.
nnt lnispnnn! find Tnrtinl1tr Kd I.iil.An
I f-', - f iuvuviu,
German Reformed, and some other German
denomination,) to be a publio holiday
Grateful as the enactment may be aod will
be to large bodies ot our Christian citizens,
it is clearly in conflict with the genius and
theory of our political system, and betrays
on tne part or the Legislature, an utter igno
ranee of our history and institutions. It
the denominations may have Good Friday,
or Holy Week, declared a estate holiday.
tho Presbyterians, Methodists, Congrega-
tionalists, and other lesser denominations,
emracing an equally large and influential
body of Christians, are entitled to the polit
ical recognition of their sacred festivals.
The fact is, these days are ecclesiastical, Dot
political creations, and their observance
should be brought about by the force of
publio opinion, not by statute.
i
Birds the Farjiee's Friends. An
intelligent farmer boy in Illinois observed
a small flock of quails commencing at
one side of a corn field, taking about five
rows regularly through the field, scratch
ing and picking around every hill, then
returning and taking five rows, till thinking
they were pulling up the corn, shot one,
and then examined tha field. Oa the
ground they had been over he found but
one stalk of corn disturbed, but in the
quail's arop he found one cut worm, twenty
ono striped vine bugs, over a hundred
chintz bugs that he could distinctly count,
and a moss apparently consisting ot hun
dreds of chintz bugs, but one kernel of
corn. During the past five years the quails
in that vicinity have been increasing and
the chintz bug decreasing..
Beautiful River. Sabbath is the
beautiful river in the week of time. The
other days are troubled streams, whose
angry waters are disturbed by the count
less cralts that float upon them j put the
purer river1 Sabbath, flows on to eternal
rest, chanting tne suoiimo musio ot tne
silent, throbbing spheres, and timed by
the pulsations ot the everlasting lite.
Beautiful river, Sabbath, glide on. Bear
forth on thy bosom the poor, tired spirit to
the rest which it seeks, and tho weary,
watching soul to endless bliss. .
Ihe Han who Palled Old Hickory's Tfoie.
Robert Li. Randolph, whose death at
Washington has just occurred, was the
man, , He was of the Roanoke stock, was
a lieutenant in tho navy, and, for being
dismissed tweaked tho nose of Andrew
Jackson, his dismisser, and thet? President
of tho United States, thus, as stated by a
Washington correspondent :
Not long after his dismissal, while Old
Hickory was passing down the Potomac on
a steamer, in front of Alexandria, and
during a pause ot the boat at that place,
Randolph came ou board and delibeiately
and- most effectually wrung the nose of II is
Excellency. Let any one imagine the
anger of the old hero of New Orleans.
No wonder that Randolph bad to dodge
from place to place for two years to avoid
arrest. Finally, it is reported, than an
officer now living, was authorized to inform
Randolph that if ho would apologize for bis
insult to the President, he would be rein
stated This Raudolph declined to do
until the President had first apologized.
It is hardly necessary to say that no apology
came. After twenty-three years of service
in the navy, and much gallant conduct,
Randolph without much property-and with
out a profession, was turned adrift upon the
world. During the administration of
James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, then
Secretary of War, gave Randolph the po.
sition of Superintendent of the armory in
Washington, but he only held the place a
short time, as Buchanan, hearing of the
appointment, ordered it to be revoked for
reasons best known to himself.
Randolph entered the navy at the age of
sixteen, and had command of a division on
tho quarter deck of the frigate Constitu
tion under Decatur, in her action with and
capture of the British frigate Macedonia.
He was also in tho President when that
ship was captured by the Endymion, and
other British vessels, and was carried a
prisoner to London, where he eowhided
a British officer for using contemptuous
language concerning America.
" Sam, did did you (.hie) see anything
of my wifo ? "
" I have not tho honor of knowing
your wife, sir."
" uon t apologize, Sam, don t aponpo-
hie ! ligize. 1-i-it s no honor whatever,
Didn't see her ?
" I did not."
" How yer know yer didn't? She
she's as tall as a (hie) meetin' house and
broad as a lamp-post, a-and sho wears
gingum umbcireller nnd ono eye out, and
(hie) her nose was done up in a pair of
specs. Uidn t see her ? "
" No, sir I (emphatically.)
". That's all right, Sam, that's all right,
M-mcrely asked frinfamashun. She,
(ma ! ) she said sho was gom to join
Sory.ory sis, add if she does I mean to get
stavin blind drunk. H ouldu t you f
W . S- SERVICE
f)00,GOO CUSTOMERS WANTED.
At tho new Masonic Hull
Building.
STOVES at prices that will please of all de
siraljlo kinds.
TIN-WARE of every kind on hand at all
times.
Special attontion given to Wholesale orders.
Price list furnished to dealers on application.
SU LET-TIN AND COPPERWARE.
House furnishing goods a great variety.
STEAM AND WATEIt PIPEIXO,
TUMPS, FISHING AND HUNTKrO
TACKLE, such as RODS BAS
KETS-, SEINES, FLIES, HOOKS,
CAPS, POWDER, Slc. J-c.
BHD CAGES A NICE VARIETY.
ROOFING, GUTTERS, SfOUTS.
of Tin, Galvanized Iron and Cepper and every
kind of
HOUSE AND JOB WORK
done on short notice and warranted.
AGENCY of Henry Disstons celebrated
ws. Orders for saws at factory prices so
licited, also for repairing. Information and
price list furnished on application.
PAPER RAGS, OLD ROPE, OLD
COPPER, BRASS, PEW
TER, LEAD, IRON,
BEESWAX, HEAVY niDES, DEAKON
SKINS, SHEEP PELTS, GREEN
BACKS, NATIONAL BANK
NOTES, V. 8.
BONDS &e.
taJcen in txchange for Good pr Work.
InSOtf. w. 8, 8ERYICE.
TANNING & LUMBER CO.
EYSTONE STORE
WILCOX. PA'
ATTENTION EVERYBODY
SPRING OPENING I
The largest store in North Western Pa., lit
terally filled to overflowing.
WINTER GOODS closing out regardless ef
value.
We are opening the spring campaign with
the largest and most attractive stock ever
offered in this market.
We shall endeavor to keep eTery depart
ment well assorted the year round, Oar
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT
will alwnys contain a large and weB elected
stock of Cloths Cassimers & Cloakiaes Black
nnd Colored Silksk. Seasonal)! dress eeods in
great Tarioty. Table Liacrn, Xnp&ina Towels
&c, white goodsof every description, Ucached
nnd brown sheetings all widths.
GLOVES A HOSIERY
TRIMMINGS ond NOTIONS
CARPETS ond OIL CLOTHS
WALL and WINDOW PAPER,
BOOKS AND STATIONERY, CLOTHING,
HATS and CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES,
DRUGS 4 MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS &
DYE STUFFS,
LEA 1DER, dr SHOE FINDINGS,
HARDWARE,
STOVES TIN-WARE,
IRON STEEL,
NAILS A BUILDERS
HARDWARE.
NUTS & WASHERS, HORSE SHOES
& NAILS, WAGON SPRINGS,
PATENT AXLES .f- BOXES, CROCK
ERY and GLASSWARE,
STONE WARE, FLOUR,
FEED & MEAL, CORN and
OATS, FURNITURE
OF ALL KINDS,
SASH & DOORS
COFFINS,
MATRASSES,
BEDDING,
&c,
TOBACCO ft CIGARS,
TRUNKS, YALISES ft CARPET BAGS,
RUBBER BELTINO.
CLOCKS io GREAT VARIETY.
Agents for Hoy Bros. Celebrated Leather
Belting.
With our superior facilities for obtaining
heavy goods, in large quantities, from first
hands we defy competition in
aroceries & Provisions.
We invite particular attention to our ehoiee
brands of extra and double extra flour, w get
direct from mill, at the west thus .aving te
customers tha profits usually pocketed by
middlemen.
Our flour is always fresh groan 4
and
we guarantee m(lr
- ..Mv.iwu v 'in
every barrel
TANNING ft LUMBER Co.
vln21tf.
POWELL & KIME.
QOODS FOR THE MILLION.
POWELL & KIM E,
At their capacious stores both in
RIDGWAY
ANP
CENTEEVILLE,
Hare on hand, splendid asswhata-rs ol
all seasonable Goods adapted to the wants
of the people of Ml and adjoining
counties, which they are telling at j rices
that defy eompetUtoa. They would siaiplj
state here, that being rery large dealers',
heir facilities for purchasing are un
'quailed by any cstahlishuent in th
county. They buy dircttly front mann-
facturee and on ii
Another advantogo. Yon eaa always
ict whnt yon want at their stores, hkaco
you will save time by going diraetly to
them and TIME IS MONET. Wo
have no space her te enumerate alt the ad
vantages you will have in patronixing thesa
establishments. Rut cll and see, ami
reap the advantages for youiskea.
Among their Goods jou will find
DRY GOODS In enifess tarieties,
GROCERIES choice and fresh
CLOTniNG of best material superior
cut and finish,
ROOTS & SBOES of the besi
stock ant makt
CROCKERY for newly arriel
uiddk aad elderly.
DRIED FRUIT,
BUTTER, EGOS',
rORK, HAMS,
LARD, FLOUR,
CORN MEAL.
AND EVERYTHING; ELSE
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vu ta mo tuui act j mi
Wilcox Pa.
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