RI OE ItittgrUtO 4 i.tit*, - TilE - WITCH . ..TOWER. FROX THE uzamAN-Br J. A. ADLER. Near Colmar stood In days of yore.•• A tower so sombre and So hoar . Of aspect, which the land appalled, And it was the witch-tower called. • There carried on weird work • The wizard and the witches, With bosom and with fork, With gold and magic switches. . , . The tower hang since has disappeared. - Nor are the witches now much feared: ; Yet bft, kvhirtforrdear midnight's sake, 1, Thin calm fait-moth alone's awake,. —There rises on the strand - Arushingandarattling. ~A4rampinlyon the sand • ".k.liastling-and a prattling. And lo iamott, like rocket-flre, ' -*The tower starts up, and the wild ehoir With hurried dance surround the fort, *Midmusic, song and maddening sport; - They ride upon their brooms, - ' Fast belter-skel ter prancing, Clattering like mills or looms, Humming as they're ads:lrwin . And ever louder swells their song, • And ever madder leaps the throng, Troughout the whole of livelong night • Until the sun shows broad daylight; , Then they hush up anon, Diving and disappearing, 1 And are now seen by none TM the next full-moon's near' ' [New York Ilventny oat. EPHEMERIS,- —Opium is to be, raised in France. • —Rabelmann; the tenor, is very poor. =The belle of Portland, Me., is a cook. m —There are 40 woolen mills Wiseon- sin. —Trails are no more, just the thing_ in Paris. - • —Grass billiards is the newest name for croquet. —An Ohio widow aged 103 died a few days-since. —Bristol, R. 1., has a successful blind Ship builder. —Nectarines and apricots are killed by the frost in Kansas. —Several cases of hydrophobia are re ported - in 'lbw Orleans. -, . —The lato Gen. Veazie, of Bangor, Me., left $1,500,090 to his heirs. —Strawberries and ice cream are sold in the streets of Mobile, Alabama. . 1 - The State capitol building at Tapeka, Kansas, is being rapidly put up. —Mrs. Emma Waller, the renowned tragedienne, is said to be bankrupt. ' -4;500 tons of lumber were made into • matches last year in Roxford, Mass. —There are 103 agricultural societies in New York besides the State Society. ` —Nashville street cars provide all of the daily papers on files for the passengers. —6,203-dogs were killed by order of the proper authorities in St. Louis during 1867. —Cincinnati and Chicago have Yale Clubs, composed of ex -students of that city. .--Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is a flourishing town, 29 years old and with 14;000 inhabi tants. .—During the session just closed the State Senate took action on 1860 bills, the House on 2,0„" 0 . . „ , _ The international bridge across the - straits of Dover is again spoken of as a pos sible event . • - —What did the spider do when he came out of the Ark ? He took ally - and went home. --Ex. ' hours work and a full -day's wages is the proposed platform for the; orking men's party. • —The deep snots has' kept the wheat and winter grain in Crawford county in excel lent condition. —Mrs. R Cady Stanton's paper The .Rencf _ . iution claims to havealready-alcirculation of 10,000 copies. :--Timothy Titcomb's income is $7,315. The great original Tupper'e income is larger than that. • , —Wallace's opera old Luriine his been successfully brought out in Pike's .Opera :Mouse in NOW York. • . —There is said to be a blue heron eight feet high In West Virginia, and the sports men are on the,gui vice to bag him. • —Castle, the tenor, has purchased a coun try seat near that of Misißichings, between Philadelphia and WilmingtOn, Del. - —The guerrilla General Morgan's re , mains have been exhumed for transfer, and found in an excellent state of preservation. --Carpet-weavers in Williamsbrirg, New York, are striking. They say that their wagei are sufllcient, but they want shorter time. , -Last year's tobacco crop in Kentucky is just coming into the market, and it is large, In quantity as well as excellent in --Victor Emmanuel has- been bled two hundred, tunes in - the course of his life,,los ing royal bl6oa every, time, and , still he is • apoplectic. —The peaches in several of the counties of Missouri have been destroyed by frost. .others, though injured, there will be small crops. The-Fenian are agitating the propriety of giving GenlndNagle and other returning Fenians reception on their arrival. • New' York; • ,Terry Black is calle•:1 the hero of great Exnectorations, and -it has been asserted that he used up eighteen spittoons during the McAndle vise. , . —Horice: , ,GreelY is reported to have a new, $lO • hat. Reports are,' however, so Unreliable thit perfect - confidence cannot be Placed in this one Dumasa bas the tapestry mania and pays fabnlons prices, for the oldest of car pets if h‘ottly thinksthat they were mann- - iactured at Poollio• - —ln.llo9 • _uo situps' expenditare of Bos ton Was $50,000: The prouress of tl*git3r hravbeen so great : that in taro utlYa.lhey spend that much new. . • - Nevrburyport, Massachasqloi a stage • driven died the other day aged 80rapi• retired from business seven years oi 4 ?;Pu!. Arfven for sixty years, California, and Nevada are the : • largest States in the Union.. They enibrac4+ -an ,aggregate of 5 00 3 37 square Miles; 274,- 937 of which are In Texas. t ,„ > —lt is hard to believe that the Enigmas Eugenie - was once: cOntdderiA th e worst dressed woman Europe- Now 8 4e 19 considere4 she beet An3oBo one. • —T he t r irlpg house altac4Ledts the Ooltol mills of ^Cfienersl Fi4tersoit' was, with a quantity of material, completely destroyed by fire on Thursday last —Leonard Jerome, although not as' rich *as he lia.s been, is not bankrtipt yet. He is is said to have a million or two left out of the debris of his fortune. —Glasgow, Mo ; has 11KII-K1027E1111. - What has become of the- iiittsburgh Mitt? Does it still hold Its orgies, or is it already undergoing the tortures of the defunct ? —One hundred-and fifty thousand :copies of the song "yramp, tramp," composcikby Mr. Itoet,,2f the Chicagomusic publishing firm of H & Cady hay en sold. -A spring gun; in a hen roost near Nash- . ville, killed enegro who, unaware of the presence ,of the fire aria, intended in defi ance of the laws tc‘help himself to poultry. —The Champion of the Waters is well named; it being the fastest boat on the Miss issippi. It carries gallantly_ on its pilot_ house the deer horns, emblems, of victory. —The third party who was supposed to be a survivor of the Bea Bird disaster, - and who reported the heartrending loss of his wife, hulls out to be a sharper and impos ter. —Evarts, of Rogerhe President's counsel, is a grandson of g Sherman, of Decla rationa of Independence fame, andtherefOre a connection of General and Senator Sher- man. - -Ernest Henan is creating a sensation in the European political world by his new work, the Philosophy of Politics, which is said to be as able as any of his polemiCal —Chicago and. Cincinnati are congratu lating themselves on Brick Pomeroy's asser tion that he will move his Democrat estab lishment neither to the one nor the other of those cities. • - -Last summer the Missouri River made a big cut and left. Hamburg-landing away out in the country. Another • big cut has put Hamburg-landing back again, but such a precarious post is certainly unreliable. —The blowers of the Constitutional Flint Glass Works in Brooklyn are on "a strike for higher wages. They have 'been receiving 83.50 per diem. The proprietors refuse peremptorily to comply with their demand. —Whitworth, the English gun man, has offered to found thirty scholarships of $5OO each annually, for thipurpose of promoting technical instruction. For this purpose lie has invested £lOO,OOO in the English 3 per cents. -v-Tbe brig Almon Rowell, from Segue for New York, lost a deck load of 150 bar rels of molasses during a fearful gale on the 7th inst. All vessels arriving in New York report terrifically rough weather on the coast. —The Brooklyn Academy of ,Music was gratuitously - given for a benefit for Max. Maretzek on Saturday. Mr..M. might with propriety pay off a few of his mitstanding debts throughout the country with some of the proceeds. • —An serial bird to carry, passengers and a forty horsepower steam engine through the air at a rate of _forty miles an hour • has been inVented by a man from the "Land 'o 'cakes," and will be tested by the English: 2ffrommtic Society. - ' —Corgate, whose name became familiar to most users of soap, is dead. We believe he was a very respectable man and one highly, esteemed, though some men who are - neither one nor the other glory in the fact that they are soap boilers. —Bishop Stevens has so far recovered as to be able to lenve Wilkesboro on his way" home. Hehopes and expects to be able to officiate again by the first of May. Bishops Lee, Kerfoot and Odeiffielmer are perform ing the duties of the - Bishop of ,Pennsyl yania during his illness, • —A pair of pelicans six . feet high. was killed'near:Glasgow, Mo.'; hist week. Their legs were three'feet long, and the Glasgoii- TimesielliXlollB to know how a bird with such ImmOderately long legs . can sit on a nest. 'We suppose it doubles them up=it is not difficult.when one's accustomed to it. —Theistateinent, Made very, generally in „the' papere throughout the country, and copied from the New York Post,. that "mass has been said:in Latin by Protestant Episco pal priests in Trinity Chapel, New York,'t is said to be utterly false. The statement probably arose from the ' fact that, to many persons pure English, as _used -by educated men, is perfect Greek'or Latin, or anything else that is unintelligible; —General Joe Hooker and his wife pre seated the Giveridoline Doria, wbo -was recently Merited to Count Somaglia, of 'Milan, with a. beautiful and unique bridal Present;the following description of which we clip *Om the • Nets , - 'York Herald: "A very elegant testimonial of esteem and friendship' was offered by Mr. and Mrs. Hooker in the form Of a galley. full 'of camellas. At the prow were doves with olive branches in, their beaks-- 7 the family arms of the Paraffil-Doria .family; :from the mast-head streamed. a flag with.the name of Andrew Doria,:- the historic head of the house. - The Main-sail bore a portrait of the bride, with the cupola of St. .Peters in the, background; on one fdde, and the 'dome" of - Milan; her (attire - residence, on the :other.. Other allegorical allusions of great taste : : completed the fancy- filbrle,.., which was re celved with evident surprise an • adiniration‘ bi.the Prince and ids fondly." . , ._ , Clux, , . Jonz O. lemrstonir is . . • in Wash ingtOnt piing to advocate ' . ore Con gress the passage of the bill !. • . ting public lands to the Memphis , El-, ' aso and raattiP Railroad Company ;, ! of 'Tema; ~ ilialialTg a loan of Unitedfitates bonds' to laid' in,,,non:, structing a _continuous line of Iraihmidand telegraph from Jetierson,N4 Taxa., to - Bate : Diego, in California, by twat' °PEI Paso, with. authority to make: sucli railroad con neutrons As teach Ban Prinsciseti !'Guaymas, ‘l3Ain or ' cf!.y•-la Oa:harbor *!o'f./Cortblir,. Vii ', Ol-111 7= 6 .PTItalat 4;40110, AthlLlfiC roast, so iti of WalAingtoA city , under the title of -.Ake Southern . ; T Rail w a Y. ',/ Vaglu s t/bleataadlig than& a.moderate SAW. ttOPI Tegkill t 111 destined' t o complete, success. And' detretvei the VP- Dort of • all PrlrEresalve • alaw4- 4vrtladarPhia p m .. ••• , ,'"" '' , " " r ~ A .ritle concert. in, tW-Xidieries, the Eiti~ 'ore* p*iii black robe . 'Trlufwigi t stitikaii lier-trtdia iiiallinich shiirietthaii' usual; PrgiliaVlat fit, 4r. W!all n her hair . ii... V -417 , , iPinft4. l e , PAllPkiell'et ,E. Plikori' i ll/IY* ' o . ' „I' «:,.,•:.• ri '• ' - k- - ' ' , nMfic; hung spenzr. . . , if. , - , • PITTSBURGH GAZETTE.: MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1868 DENTISTRY • . _ . • A rum SET OF ARTHFICIAL TEETH FOR EIGHTDoLLA.RS. . FULL IfPrER AND LOWER SET FORAM. TEETH ExTRAIMD.WITHUT NO CHARGE FOR EXTRACTING taAr.l:l. FICIAL TEETH ARE ORD ERED:__— ALL WORE WARRANTELLFOR FIVE YEA.I26 LAUGHING GAS PBXs OF CHARGE. AT ..• • Steam Dental Eattibllshinent ! sTS" TENN STBEET,RD DOOR ABOVE HAND. B.—As DR. SCOTT 1.1 illieensee 'undo , the Goodyear Petente, he will nova:Lake any "new lbe.. 41168)enbber , 1 •• -se lekamtiviaeouthaue,eo.selnaletye 1 - the genuine sitiole - WOLCANITH. mhshd T LezAzL. t;;;IN I GAS MTITBES. Cha 32. 4:1_011eo r FOR . 04.44iND on. Just received, the . tincitand tailed assortment ever opened la this city. WELDON & KELLY 147 WOOD STREET, edit 171DGIN A4LEY. mh24:1.0 DRY; GOODS. •,. - r ri ' * 0 - 0 m c.) 0 c) 0 , E 1 M 7 P 4 1 Z i ti 4 l , °I Po rr4 -.E Gle pq 0 ry: ir. r 4 0 Z E-1 w 0 ° 0 0 c) .-4 r k Ei w ri r i ii , § ‘• d " Z $ - 87. SPRING OPENING I At T 11[OHORE F. PHILLIPS', (Silures/icor fo 3t. Burchfield & Co.) SPRING DRY ,GOODS. ' SPED* DRY GOODS. SPRING DRY GOODS. . MR. PHILLIPS reamtfully announces that the 'extensive alterations to his ,RE'LLIL DRY , GOOD: STORE Are completed , tine! his eetahlis entas NOW OPEN. He offers an enttrc • New Stock of grtprtnittinnmeresi. at the ;lowest Etat mce AT DENNISON & ETICILIERAVS, 27 Fifth Street. PLAIN flN ' Llmmareeitzes, e cents - ALL LIM monTord itAleser etmaritci"lWerm*iATce or3g rrtee ,IDNlSitry In atitial& and aiallpticeS. MORRISOWS-STAR SHIRTS, • AT REDUCED PRIM i Jun GLOVES, COItALTS,IIOOI'`SIIIIIIS, &c. 11 • Gobi AT LOW PRICES. fele ", CRACKER Uri!II I B'PAIPEINT ,,,,3 .' 7 4,7A.,.,f_i..,. : , - 7. ~..-,::,..--...: _• Li ItuzlicattAar.Em:: FRENCH °BACKERS FRENCH CRACKERS, FRENCII C4ACHERB. FRENCH CR4CHERS,:.. FRENCH cnAcxztts.-,,,. And every vinietiq ' - SUPERIOR CRA.CII4ERS. • 111.112,1* iditm4l7 series, Blrt ESTABLISHED . SHEPHARDPC StoigeSteamkir - and thetittaiory,l4: ..313 ,t,bErn traiMiriTtO Maaufaqayar Val,4loaler is all kinds or • • 41 X7ONZ I ECMIONELiio,' TOiEktlf'lsoLltgaiKfloilthil4 041.3.40, OUSEii.EEPEIL9 ) , 1170381• vvinjEalt.„ , . QUEEN OR THE WASH-TUB. A HOUSE CLEANER; A CLOTILEIS WABRER;, A STAIN RE3rOVEIq , • A SPOT ERADICATOR; A CO LOR TORP3I; Lhall B oaP. Sold Bottlstli tisrel• ablelirocers. Indorsed try the ars gtieur county. Illanulbetare