il Os *Ash* &Ott.' ,MIDNIGHT MANS FOR .TIIE DYING - . . . _ . -,.. irrarar R. LoiraVaLhoW. - . , 'yes, the , Tear is growlag old, And-his eye•la pale and bleared. Death with frosty hand and cold. Pluck , the old =Ruby the beard boreiyrely 1 • The leaves are falling, falling. Solemnly end slow. ---. Ca* , MINT tbe rooks are calling, it lam sonad of woe sound • • A of woe! , • 4flrnega woods and mountain passes • -. The winds; like anthems, roll; ' 1 - They are chat time solemn masses, hinging, "Pray for efts Poor soul, ' '• . . - ..-.PInY,-17r$7 t'? And the hooded elands, like friars., ' Tell their beads in drops of rain • 1 1 And patter their doleful pralersl. ,I But their prayers a all in vain, 1 • • ' All vain! I There he stands In th foul weather, The foolish. fond 0 4 Teat. Crowned:with wild were and with heather Like Weak, despised Lear,- a. - A)lring.,— king I - Then comes the inflamer-like day, Bids the old man rejoice I . • fits 301 t his last: 'O, the old man graY,i; Lovett that ever sett vo and , ' ' Gentle d low. To the crimson woods im saith,— To the voice gentle and low, - or the soft air, like a daughter , shremb ,— , Pray do not mock me not sol • Do nlaugh at' me:" Arid now the sweet day is dead; Cold to hts arms It ilve• No stain from Its breath is spread Over the glasyy skies, , • • ' •N u mist or stain! • Then too the Old Tear dieth, And the .forests utter a moan. Like .he voice of one who crleth; • in the wilderness alone. - —Veznot Ids ghost:" • • Then comes with awful roar, datberine and sounding on, The storm-wind from Labrdidor, The wind Znroelthe st don. • - T orm•wind I Bovril howll and from the forest Sweep the red leaves away! Won d,-the sins that thou abhorrest. ,- .. , 0 soul! could thus decay. • , And be swept aWay. , . . For there phaU come a mightier - last, There shall be a darker day: - , And the stars, from Heaven downcast, • Like red leaves be swept away! -'? - - - K*rie eleystml - , Christie elerrosit KPBEIEBUIS. --St. Lords had-but Bix lights on Chris --Eastern swells, sport gold" rnounted • —New Jersey has produced a steam ve locipede. ' • —There are said to 1.2',0,519 00431011310ns in Denmark —There are seven. Smiths in the English Parliament. - _ • peseliansps is aiiid,to have become ,..-Whale as beverage is by no means despised in Aleaka., - • • —Marty of the lobsters eaten in England are American born. ti 1.7,000• English Walnut trees - are flour ishing in California. • • • —The man that travels in the canoe Rob Roy is at Suez now:1 - -New York rejoices in the roenee of p ..Parells and Ole "UAL-. ..5 The new skating r nk in BiooltiO ltss been formally opened. —Booth, in. BuffalO, bagged. more than seven thousand dollars. —New Orleans has a French circulating library; so has Philadelphia. —The Maine luinbermen are having an unusually successful winter. -416,000 worth of handkerchiefs formed cart of the trotumact of a Paris bride. —Convicts' in the Maine penitentiary made 46,000 worth of carriages last year. Charles Dickens' admirers in Liver pool are about to give him a public banquet. John Morrissey is reported-to have - made $150,000 in the recent N. Y. Central man , iptdations. Missouri:has a neigets who claims to be 120 years old. She has evidently lost her I:armory. —Nearly every proreinent American newspaper prints a- coluinn of short pais inaphs now. - Pickled California salmon can now,ne found in the markets of the Eastern sea board cities. ; • —Earl Derby gave $lOO,OOO, to support , the conservative party in the recent Eng lish elections- - —An exchange says: "When were eggs first laid in England? In - the time of Hen. I, 'of course," —The working men of London have de 'Ocled that they will not give Reverdy John son a banquet. • ~—Stammering can be cured. A stammer .ing boy in Iowa; after becomi.ng insane, ceased to stammer. —On Christmas Eve and the day follow ing: 244 persons were fined for getting drunk in. Baltimore. —Queen Isabella has purchased a mag -nificent residence on the Boulevard du Roi de Rom for $860,000. „ • , —The ladies of Lowell,Mass., are ravine - themselves much trouble by giving private Verdes in public halls. „ —A practical man says he thinks that at the present rate Of,bouse rent, the deoresi spot on earth is horie writer in t recent New Orleans paper • asks, "Why is Nita England considered the Athens of Amerfaif" —3ladeline -Henriques thinks her hus band's temper is incompatible, and, there fore, she has come back to the stage. Famine continues to, spread in the Red River country; the, past season being bad for fishermen, farmers and trappers. —All of Mr. George Peabody's gifts, when • added together and reduced to a jireetback basis, amount to $10,560,000. —New Orleani has had exciting rumors that a $200,000 prize front the Havana lot tery had been drawn by a party in thatcity. L.—NoW York is dreadiag an inundation of country editors, following in the footsteps of Mr. Bowles and seeking fitment' Ludlow —Louis Napoleon "squelched" the Prin `teas MetteniickreCentlyi by saying that she was Created to prove that beauty is not ne. —Mr. George Peabod 's gifts to the poor of• London. and Baltimore have, by latest accounts, amounted to two and one half millions of dollars. Stanley; before his resignation, divided $45,000 among three of the Abys „,ifinlan prisoners as a _sort of compensation ..,,, I 111111 I 're I, I .• • 1...• - , I ME NE EMIE ME =Ell MBE for their suffering& when in the power of Theodonts. • she can -Asurgeon at Fort Randall' say. play brass binds in half a' 'dorm different cities at once, merely by using an electric invention of -Five gentle ladies 'of Ali, Prance, are now being tried on a charge of having made themselves' widows and poisoners at one and the same time. —On the 2nd of December two prominent surgeons, professors of the Clinic in Paris, fought a duel, in which one was severely wounded in thetreast. • ' —An American gentleman writes from tinnion--American 6rn cobs London axe sold in the streets of that city as "patent fire-lighters—eight for a ny." ---Philadelphia letter ere don't seem I I to have gotten their unit' s yet. Pitts burgh, New York and ilmington, have taken the lead in that way. —At last a practiCable use for Alaska has been found. Somebody Proposes that it shall be made a penal settlement, and the propositionaeems snail& enough, —A workman in an English mill was seized by the machinery and drawn through an aperture three inches wide t with great detriment to his personal appearance. —A newly invented velocipede is being manufactured in Atchison, Kansas. It has three wheels, but can be changed to the or diva-5% two-wheeled velocipede in five min utes. —The wife of the Rev. B. R. Romaine, formorly thd editor of a paper in Albany, bat now a clergymnn in Columbus, hanged herself, last week, in oansequence of the death of her child. -Two women are in gaol in New York, one of whom bowled her husband into the next world with a rolling pin; and the other assisted her beiter half 4o the same bourne with an iron poker. —St. Louis has a new patent velocipede. The back of the, xider_is supported by a clamp which acts ,As a tiller. It his two back wheels five feet in diameter, and is moved by both the arms and legs. ' • --Kamehameha V.; King of the Sand wicli Islands, is jet black =direr,' fat. Be_ hates the United States because when he was here many years ago he was treated with disrespect on account of his color. —Perhaps the highest mines in the world are those at Elizabethtown, 'New Mexico. They are 9,000 feet above the level ot the sea, and it is claimed that $200,000 worth of gold has already been taken from them. —One Paris correspondent says, owls' heads and sculls are, the neatest and most fatihibnable styles for jewelry- Another Paris correspondent says, sculls and owls' heads are worn only by persons of vitiated tastes - -In Petersburg, Va.,:lives a negro, who has a full growth of "beardnon his forehead. It grows. down to within half firkin& of his eyebrows, and he is compelled to use a razor frequently iv' order to make any show of a forehead: - -It is said that one cause of the decay of trees in cities arises from the constant trem bling of the earth from rapid locomotion. The effect of this trembling . is said, to'be a disturbance of the earth around the roots of the trees. • --Jolly, pleasant, joking English grocers get off a practical pun on their credulous customers`by grinding up old coffins and selling them with gronnd coffee. The gro cers say the change from one to the other is an ee-sy matter. —An Ohio gentleman is ambitious to far-• rash the'towns and cities of Amerida with motive power, obtained from compressed air. Be proposes to distribute his power through ordinary service pipes, as gas and water are distributed, with a meter for con sumers. -A well in California had. dried up and the country in the neighborhood was very dri, until the late earthquake, which caused the deep well to fill to the top and flooded the farm on which it was:situated so that it mat be ditched and drained before a crop can be put in. ' —All of the inhabitants of Slam had to have their heads shaved or be flogged,when their King died- The shaving was proba bly desired by the.royed family, because If; tel that operation had been gone through with no Siamese could claim to have any heir apparent to the throne. , I • . - rOur country is Soon to be honored by the presence of an aboriginal Hawaiian gen tleman, Mr. J. Iloithaull, which is, being interpreted,,Blue Ocean. Hg is rich, Intel .lignt, educated, and a. patron of native -Hawaiian literature. He will make an ex tended tour of the 'United States. —The famous Schneider received a brace let valued at $15,900, from an English lord, during her visit to Baden-Baden. The donee's name and title were set in diamonds. "What, a , pity," exclaimed the actress„ when she received it, "that he is not a Spanish nobleman-'-his name would have been so much longer."' —"Friend Mallaby, I am pldised that thee has got ditch aline organ in thy church." "But," said the clergyman, "I thought you were strongly opposed to having an preen in a church." "So I am," said Obadiah, "but then if thee will worship the Lord with machinery, I would like thee to have a first rate instrument." : —ln spite of their proverbial and actual hospjtality and good sense, the Swedes, have a good deal of common human nature, as is shown by the recent riot ,in Stockholm, which was caused by the indignation of the people being aroused because some choice seats, on the occasion of the inauguration of the statue of Charles Xl'l., wore teemed by the authorities fer persons whom the populace, delighted not to hOnor. , successful French "operator" is about to visit this country. A short= time ago he was merely the confidential,. clerk in a wealthy hause in Rouen._ With one admit, ahle coup he achieved fortune and renown. He took three million francs belonging to hidemployers and abiconded. will ar rive in this country with more than half a million of &Alan. Speculators In Wall street will find him a dangerous rival and a manwho has shown i such abilities in 'that lino may even'aspire to dabbling in Erie. • , . prrtipsvw 6A.ZETTE i 111141.8,DAY. DECIEMB o • J 1 • C T ED 10171° 'kitten - , . , ileralAnal C11A 291 31111.1111 APB" TEXTU Alta7 o3 - AT . DIL_SWITEL "255_ ,157BErr. ap_.DOOS ABM' . _ NAM) , ALLVer k Olaial raa WailstiWawsZX; - GAS McTiMD3 INIMP WELITN & KELLY, _"3lanut WAcelewile Evilest in Lamps, Lanterns, Chandeliers AND LAMP GOODS. Auo, autscer AND =BEWARING ma N 0.147 *rood Street. se9n22 Between stti and 6teAvennes. PIANOS. ORGANS, &O. DAM THE BEST AND CELEM".. I EST MIND AND ORGAN. Sehomackec's Gold Nodal Piano, AND ESTEY'S COTTAGE ORGAN. The SOROMACKZE PIANO Combines an , the latest valuable Improvements Inown In the con struction of a lilt class Inurement: and has always been awarded the MOW premium -wherever ex hibited. Its tone Is full, sonorous and sweet. The workmanship. for durability and bunt% surpass all others. Prises from 650 to $l5O. ftl style and finish.) chug= than a/1 o th er. clued irst dais Pluto. ESTEDS COTTA.OB OBOAD Stands at the bead of all reed Instrunlellie. In pro ducing the most perfect pipe quality of tone of any similar Instrument In the Unite& Mates. It is aim. pie and compact in construction, and not liable to get out ol order. , CLIEPENTERII PATENT "VOX HUNANA TREMOLO" is only to• be found In this 0111 1 0 • Price from $lOO to 6550,, All guaranteed for eve Years. BAB% PAIGE Ss IMIMIZE, No. IA ST. CLAIB STREET. PIANOS 'AND ORGANS--Au en tire new stork of SNA.BE'S lINRIVALLZD rum; HAW ES BROS.. P1A2105: PRINCZ & CO'S ORGANS AND XELODICOsS and TREAT, LINSLEY & CO'S MOANS AND TiLELODE.OIIB. gSUB, Practical Coo ep s estfully announces to the public that Ite*wil On Saturday and Monday Next, Op= to the public the DELNIONICO RESTAURANT TOE GOISTLIKER ONLY. - It will be his earnest endeavor to, furnish ale pa trols at all thins with the most palatable viands which the market or the season , affords. Tie LIQUORS. WINES of various dates, ALI, BEIM, , will be their own recommendation. ete Orders for due Cooking for Weddings. and oiler Festivals, will, as heretofore, be . promptly sad cheaply attended to, requesting Pntronsie• odiya u. Malt. p r EORGE BEATEN, swrinmonnizu ca GRIMM Wilk= AND Terrum, Arid dealer la ellktadilotlrillllTll, NUTS, PICK. 8A11015,, JELLI. usa raDisAL or.. Ailigattear. TIEGEL, • (Lauf:roar •n* Ifespenbside No. 53 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh 5e26:01 NEW FALL GOODS. N EW oplenddd new Men of CLOTHS, CASSEknesnEfe,ao Jut raw-trod DT HISILY 31E12E6 AIIIMUCAN MATtot li q BEMON4IOLE OYEBEMUUNG AND SEWING MACEEDM rups mitru, sam A]LlCi taspliiim AlarApcsio wintod so rail tttlrlifootibm - CE4A/9. ,C. 134WErLalThrg • tor liftltfni replek_raidi. Orter Bmzs, • . - ^•-• ;‘ , ZiY • &o. 45 71114 avenue. Bole &Wm • • il + •9 MBROEANT TAILORS. TALIL4:Orif Xerdiant nalor.:l3l3Alihtleld street. EMI SEWING MACHINES. W 9 a PAPERS. N" WALL PAPERS, Per HaUs, Parlors alscaChambers, 210 W OPZIFI2f4I. AT 101 Market St., near Fifth Aire" JOS. it. HUGHES & BRO. DYER AND. SCOURER, itJ. JLANCE, DYER AND SCOURER. No. 8 avr. az.410:0 , smut= Ana Nos. 188 and 131 tea;Street. IITTSBUBOII. PA 0 - CIA L AND 001131 0111AL1 COMM cow:: DICKSON, STEWART & CO, Raving removed their Odlee to NO S 1167 LI:1311111M1C STRIZIVrt (Lately Clay rour)3W) 81COOND 2LOOII. Are now prep ared to runlet' gopil YOUGITIOOBI I . NT LUMP, - NUT qUAL 01111LAOX. at the lowest morket price. All orders left at their *Moe, or addressed to them through the miol. willbeattended to promptly. TOBACCO ANDVIGABB. EICMILSIOR WOlllll6. U. of w. .7xErratmerori , Inapk4Minn and Peelers Tdbettol Snuff. Cigars, Pipes, &oi l , ot eg: 6 TXDZRAL ALIXGRXInt IP.W•j:t . O 91 • 4:11 rewt mono, sitenim-Exe, nurr noun AssocLiTiox 3IIILDTEMISI 3101. sad St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh. Pe. , Special etteatton given to the destgattog sad bull4ing al COWAT 1101713 ZS ind PUBLIC! auustorses. AT WILLIAM SEEP 180 and 182 Federal street, AT l'Age.. YARD WID BLEACHED SHIRTING GOOD QIIALII?Y• AT 123 i CENTS, TAIID 'TDB OY UNBLEACHED MUSLIN. AT 28 CENTS, BED, YELLOW AND WHITE ALL WOOL FLA7NELS AT 25 CENTS, ALL 700 L CREIrj TWILLED FLANNEL FULL ASSOEVMEN Blankets, Cassimeres, AT LOW PBil WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, WILLIAM SE 180 & 182 F e edeial St, !MUM C NO. 19 FIFTH THE NEW ..sat rAisrans rzuracnox. ,, "THE TA.VORITE." "Tat rortrtAß," "THE RECEPTION,' THOMPSOIVO TWIN SPRING, "WINGED ZEPHYR," LOVE PITTING," CA?ItSETS AND PAT ENT "PA:NIERS." THE NEW BORED OVER SKIRT, "BELLE HELEN'S," richly embroidered; an elegant street RlCHSkirt. RIBBONS TOR BOWS, SCARPS AND S E I SUSAN STRIPES AND mans. SATINS all shades mindwidths. rLowElts. PLUM' ,WJIATS AND BONWITTS. LADIES AND CHILDnnriItINIEEINO UNDER WE T AR, he richest and latest loreltles In DINTS, PILING ES AND BUTTONS. We especially direct atten on to the great exsel [ Ivies or the HAzitus tszemt.F.ss Monition) AID I GLOW ES" over all others. am i d for which we are the Bole Agents. A complete glee of GENTLEMEN'S "STAR', SHIRTS. SUSPENDERS, GLOVES, HALT HOSE, UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAW ERs. SELLING AGENTS FOR LOCKWOOD'S PAPER. GOODS, and all other popnl maker. • . Mint & CIRLISLE 9 50.19 FI•FT a 05 MERIV 91RISTILiS ! NEW GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. DENNISON & BURT, NO. 27 FIFIE AVENUE, E ive ltat received lu g and l adle.loulv mUitorted LACE GOODS, HOSIERY, Sid gloves. Mandkerekleb, Slipper pottery.. Zephil , goods. Scarfs and Gents Faraldling and Notions generailv.: '• i ts i lTill o i l d selection is creed to special novelties st HOLIDAY PRESENTS, . , l a dy to which the attention et l c readers is specie4v Called. • , DENNISON $, HECKERT, • _ _,,,; . an . NO. $1 'Flinn AVE/. u'll.• EMBROIDER'S% TIWOMNOB, • pnicEs EIFIDOWM: • BARGAINS IN ALMOST EVERTTEINS. BEAL REM STITCH, all Linen. ORIEFS,I7 e;loc,BEe and upwards. • TAPS BO EVERY , LINEN NAB DltEßOßtailt fla to 50c. -7 " All our Head at one-tall' - regular prtees. . All _ _ • the new BALMORAL SKIRTS and, Brsotera latest_ Wigs oll_goor BEIBTO. - at tie Lowest ARE SUP E RB . I ,OT riar ThrTSIS OTWITILIVATIO4 111:Trllfr BII&1 BODE OBBAIt, bovivEll and I.4lmatr Fa Sale by EverY•Groeer in the City. Bakery, Na. 81 Libertsr non • 'alas .......... MILL SINGERLIC CLE1111; B UCCBIBBO7B to Goo. 7. sottuozoto Co. rnAoriosi. LUSO° TO* only Edema Idthogesphlo Esubliihineht, Wed of the Mountains.' Bu sser Cardih Tenter Heade, Ronde Legate, Otronieg,f-fiekow adds, D ads , roettets„Niaws, Qtrusestes Depodu, Irma gm it., . l Fop, 7A laid 15 Tkird Alm% Puteours a, 31, 1869.41, A T LEI SEIIPLE'S, E'S, 'lBO and 182 Federal Street, Allegheny- lleghen • X 1,12 i Blaek, Brown and Gold "alLaed WATERPROOF CLOTHS, GOOD VERITY HEAVY 'WIDE POPLINS, in ebole4i colors; GORED B91:1111MARD FELT BRUITS, Same u sold early In the season at $4,00 GORED BOU I LEVABD FELT SKIRTS, sane as sold early In the season at 16,00 =I Flannels, Jeans, &c. DRESS GOODS. SW:Ma, ke. at very low prices Wholesale and Retail at cEs, WILLIAM SEMPLE'S, PLE'S, Allegheny. 80 and 182 Federal St., Allegheny: 54r - AVENUE, KIRT, Barred Flannel, NOW c>rrerea, AYENITE , \_. ' . - y ;::.mow--'" LT 31 CENTS, $ 2 , 50 AT $3,00, Fall assortment of CLOAKING , KITTMNG EXTRA HEAVY A VERY LAME STOCK, IN GOOD STYLES. NELROY, DICKSON & Co. WHOLESALE 31:11"L'Ir rgrcocroroses WOO : m w; 0 0 ro 0 5 : rn 611 m .1 a : t:4 ~. 121 m ~ 0 PI VA Ea 1 C4 _. a , Ds E 4 tea, Z W E-1 ,v 2 AigPli 0 124 km loi .I " . .i k Id Pi a 2 - , 2 ‘lO 0 z , 4 12 t"a: i Pm = . • CD g ra! _..„Eli .0 0 ' • - • . • :.o z. ...... NEW GOODS. NEW ALPACCAS. - NEW. MOHA I R. BLACK • BILKS HOSIERY and GLOVES. 540104:51r, torso. D3B Wylie Street...a 168. • 16S. 01141 , DicCANDLESS (Lite Wilson, - Carr & C 0..) WHOLEadtr. WALES& 111 fozeign and Domestic Dry Goods, O. 9* WOOD ESTRIZZ. Third door *bore Diamond allay, - pirrestates, /I,ED 1:70r10111. OUR t3 BE9IILAB DROWare. CLICANtes SAUL now insagßTAted. at .wices care BETTZS BAEGMAIS TELILIC, IVES - An. TUBE, in CAI- P 1 OIL. CLOTHS, MATTINGik &C., tr.C., SIC A, Good Carpets for 25 cents a lard. OLIVER 31'CLINTOdK AND comPAyri . ;. o. 23 Fifth Street. tr4o9L - accrki CARPETS, CXMOXJADI r L I MCIE I ‘. . . tea.; '4lo°- We offer our stock at reduced - 1 prices for a SHORT TIME before commencing to taker stock. Now is the time to buy. BOVARDI ROSE & CO., • 21 FIFTH ATENITE.. de4:dasT7 51. FIFTH AVENUE. M'CIL.LIIMBROTORk .... m. J GRAND CLEARING, SALE OE 40.AL3EUE :v V 4063 . TREMENDOUS REDUCTION; Picm Cash, Lair= WE TABS STOCK. WCILLEII BROTHERS. DECEMBER, IS6B. FOR THIRTY DAYS ONLY. CARPETS AT MAIL I LESS THAN WHOLESALE PRICES-.• We offer FOR A FEW WEEKS - ON, our goods at a large reduction from regal lar rates. Our stock is full and coinpletei in all departments, and we shall mllOl4 best qualities and styles of Carpets it prig . ces at which •we cannot replace them, giving our customen opportimitY 01 obtaining bargalits-- ! ..,_: ; Army never be ofs fered again. This special sale will eons tinite only until t,heilme of taking our an. nual Inventory of stock at the end of:.thia month. . tionitLAND •Si COLIINF . Nos. 'Ti.and '73 Fifth. Avenue: A des , GLASS, CHINA. gIITLERY: BOUM GINS, MEM BOHEMIAN AND CHINA, DWI= SETS, TEL SETS! SILVER PLLTED GOOD WEST COllOll • „ ~ ... ,... 1 'Meelams Stone Workth..,._„ .. „ . ',-"-•„ Northwest corner of West . Common, Alledrolg.r.: ,r S 3 SPILIZDYN. A.II,YAMICLB, 3 CO: : —l . -... tisiOe os bead or prepare on shoo ti He fi re tt and Step Stones, 71sim for - Side __ 1 Vaal Is, sec. Reed arm Tomb Stones. a*. tool Orders promptly eXt=tod. Priou read. se : . , . . , . . . .. , —; — ;:,7' . ; _ :fr. ...,:''''s::-.::.- - -! " : ,1 • ,:::1 .....r.L....e..... .. ,:,,,,...L......±-, ME WM 51 51• 100 WOOD STSEET• FINE VASES, - ,1 - . • NEW WITLES; GIFT CUPS, SMOKING SETS, A large stock of of all desariPatona =MEM Call and examine our goods. sad. Cluck &Waded no one need fall to be waited. .. R. E. BREED BC. ,CO. 100. WOOD:, STREET. STONE. II 10