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1. Bi JOSIAH SING.
T. P. HOUSTON: • N. P. REND.
' Editors and Proprietors.
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THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1869.
PAINT on th 4 indide payee of
Shia morning's Gazarrrz—Beeond page:
poetry "To a Paiticai Priend, ll Mphem.
aria, Laying of the Last Rail, Cunning of
the Fox, MassrzehusetteMlopentent. Third
page; Live Stock, Petroleum and Tele
eraph Markets. Sixth page: .PYrtattee and
Trade, Pittsburgh Prmittee Market. Sec
lelth page: Astute and Art, and Abroshl.
Saks, TRAts, Amusements.
PitntoLEtnt at`Antwerp, 51/f.
II: 8. Bonne at Frankfort, 84i
I 1 GOLD closed in.liew York yesterday .
sit 187/.
THE anthracite coal miners of Penn.
yyivania have inaugurated only a partial
strike. The Lehigh and Schuylkill men
are out, but , those of Luierne deelille to
participate. If the latter iihiruld continue
at work, the strike elsewhere must aeon
terminate. -
Ws Aim indebted to cite of the most
etillihl piroidans of this city for the
-contribution, which we print elsewhere,
affording trainable popular information
as to the prompt treatment of cases of
poisoning by belladonna'or istramonium.
The article is suggested by a recent mel
ancholy occurrence in Allegheny.
nom Philadelphia, we hear that Ca
bin filibusters have bought the old rebel
ironclad steam ram Atlanta, from our
lloverratent, and that she hoofbeat re
moved from the League Island anchorage
to `a city dock for needfhl repairs. Hav
ing fair notice of the fact, Our authorities
cannot permit this formidable craft to go
to sea, without a palpable violation of
their own orders as now enforced at New
York.
- Rums is considering a plan for the
reorganization of the Roman Catholic
Church within its boundaries. It is not
Improbable that the Greek Church will
be met in the spirit of conciliation by
that of Rome, and that the faint line of
distinction which divides the two great
religious bodies will be wiped out, and
the former communion absorbed in the
latter. This is an end devoutly hoped
for by Roman Catholics, and we would
not be surprised should It be : consum
mated..
Ilt Pnovnmics., Rhode Island, the
faritantmfitock went down in, low that.
- the candidate for Mayor representing the
little Semitorial monomaniac's peculiv
- politics was compelled to withdraw from
- the field, fearing that he could not obtain
a - corporal's guard •in his support.
8P3th.0137. will soon realize that he mitt
ltaies his strength in the plantation he
represents in the United States Senate.
Henceforth he is a cipher in the political
circles of his - State, and once out, of the
iereice, will never again Ate ; to the ex
alted position he =deur' tedly' now 'en
' joys. • -
finds.
SIMATos 13rititotot S his contract,
to run the State of Rhode Island, alto
gether in his own interests„ a larger and
moritroublesome business than he had
anticipated. His man Friday, candidate
for re-election as Mayor of Providence,
:was forced to aba4don the track on
Tuesday—arid that was only the first of
the disasters which are accumulating
over the foolish Senator's head. His
scatutaloui lawman:tent of the valor of
the Rhode Islanders during the rebellion
hasowskeried V general - rdsolidlon to
-
make, of the coming memorial day, a fa
ncied deraixianyiviicki Shall fores* bary,,
in a political death, the libeller of thd
fallen bed(' His friend
Josossosr can do the Senator no good by
hastening to his relief. The unfortunate
man's case is past all hope.
Fos no small 'share of 'the &triage in-
Aided •by the - Alabama and other rebel
privateers upon Americanpmmerce dur;
ing thelate country was indebt=
ed to the stupid-Ignore:tee and official
:sluggishness of the Tito, Barnacle who
riled the Nevi Depsztiminti": More tban
Once, information Was laid" befOre Mr.
Wszca.us which would have 'enabled any
13ecietary ofordliary discretion and energy
to have headed off these cruisers, and es
pecially, the Alabama, by- despatching
last.sailing steamera, to the points for
which that sea-rover wa s known to be alm-
Ing. The Beeretso did send several ves
sels to intercept heiy but (demi, too'iate.
Zeseomed to know Spilling of navigation
IficitraPbY,.or even that the world was
'round,' and its daily official career
• throughout the rebellion was an endless
Aeries of blunders, which neutralized the
andyeler of our sailors, made the
vice contemptible, and inflicted a
loss.anon our kMiiitime interests which
the youngeiiiif tttr May . not Uve to see
NballytieSege""lt;saePTLO no one
40 -0,1 4. - -•: - :', 1,1 0 -A:VAAA*4 - * -- ' •
11:14114WA,V.544,-**-A---
to learn that he blotted his official expeii
ence with sending a public ship, drawing
eleven feet' of water, to transport his
household effects to his home on the Con
necticut river—with a l bar at its month
carrying only six feet of water at the top
of the tide. It Was irf the same skillful
way that he suffered this Alabama to cop
somebody an hundred million of dollars.
RAILWAY 'ITEMS.
On the Sunday which witnessed the
completion, of the .Facitic- Railway - Con.
nection, a second line of rails was finished
between its eastern terminus, at Omaha:
and ChicagO. the' Rock Island road
now competeCtilth the North Western
for the through business across the conti
nent, each of them making the five hun
dred miles of, distance, from Chicago to
the common point at Omaha, in eighteen
hours. Nor'will railway rivalry be sat
isfied with the two lines. The public
will require, and will secure, the early
construction of additional connections
from Omaha eastward, and without the
needlesi detonr towards Lake Michigan.
By the proposed Southern Railway the
Cincinnatian can reach Dalton, in Geor
gia, by way of LtubsAle, in 406 miles, of
which only 162 are to build; by way of
Emory River in3B6 miles, with 203 miles
to build; by way of Chattanooga in 893
miles, with 246 miles to be constructed.
Dalton is adinitiediale a.t riramod
to be arrived at in whatever decision.
What is known as tbe.milltary line, that
by Emory River, is regarded with the
most general favor, and its • c,onstruction
1 !I quite within the control of the city—
'Provided the course of popular and legal
opinion Shall run smoothly.
The new consolidated "Lake Shore
and Michigan 'Southern Railway -Com
partyr has a total alignment of 845 miles,
including the main line ftom Erie to Chi
cago and branches. • The thirteen directors
of the company are to be chosen at
Cleveland, June 2d.
The Dunkirk and Warren road drags.
The New York end is nearly graded, but
our Warren County friends are doing
nothing for their 'ten miles. There can
be no State aid from New York, and the
project wears, nOW, the look of an indefi
nite suspension.
Canadian Engineers have recently given
the most flattering testimony as to the su
periority of American re.rolled rails, over
the new English;importations. ,It seems
that Canada shares alike in the complaints
now universal, against the English arti
cle—and in . the equally general impres
sion, that a better article is always to be
had from a near-by •manufacturer, other
things being equal. _ _
MY PASSENGER RAILWAyS
The Philadelphia inquirer has a" long
and interesting . article on this subject,
from which we glean the follewing
In 1829 Mr. Robert A. Raman obtain
ed a charter to run a line of railroad from
the Delaware to the Schuylkill along the
line of Willow street in the city of Phila..
kelphia, for the purpose of transporting
passengers and freight. The carriages
for passengers were like the old fashioned
stagecoaches, we* drawn by horses and
were for - some time very popular, but
the no4elty more off, and the line was
not quick or regular, for the freight cars
Interfered and the passenger traffic of
the road was finally dropped. Thy pas
senger horse railways werejegun in the
same year that the first steam locomotive
drew trains in England, and six or seven
years before the Introduction of the less
convenient omnibuses, which for a
while reigned supreme.
But Mr. Parrish did not give up the
idea that street horse-railways were
bound to be a useful and available inven
tion; he exerted himself again and %tin
but in vain to get legislation to empower
him to carry out his plans. In ieso he
applied for the first time to the Philadel
phia City Councils.for permission to build
what is at present - kno vu as the Second
and Third !Erect road. Every species of
objection were thrown in his way; others
seized his idea, and two roads were built
in New York, and one actually in Phila=
aelphia before he was enabled to realize
his ownplaps.
Thinls'atshort, and we believe an accu
rate history of the conception and intro
duction of that useful adjunct to modern
American civilization; and now there - are
probably at "least 5100,000,0.00 of capital
.in this cctiritry ,Inifpnted in . them. In
Philadelphia the. tales of; the coMpanles
altinP c tizenint mrird:than 46,000, and
it, film- been -...estimated • that outturbein
real property in that vity•musfhaie lieen
enhanced at least $100,R002. Here, In
Pittsburgh, their valnePhad been y#s ,
grest;l:atidt those of
Philadelphiaaor inlhatlevelcity.ofrigitt
-angles their Amitstruction la easy, And the
cost of t4eir support much let's than here; ;
but nevertheless Mane-heater,. LawrenPl
ville and'
much of their gre‘thto their ease of ac
cess from the central Portioits of the city.
REPUBLICAN PROGRESS.
We had occasion, yesterdiy, to speak
of the growing inclination of - the friends
of the Union, in all of the late rebel.
States, to relax at the earliest practicable
moment, the restrictive power which the
success of the Federal policy enabled,
them to apply, notivithont the temporary
justification, of; necessity, to the con
quered ehemies of the Union, at the ter
mination of the war. In Virginia, Mts.
soul and Tennessee, as throughout
1 ;a11 the South, the wisest' of our friends
;bite Dome to - ,:sgree re
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PITTSBURGII GAZETitE• THURSDAV, MAY 1869.
the policy—the effectual exclusion of the
traitorous element from any participation
in the work of repairing the mischief
which they• were wholly responsible for
inflicting upon the Reptiblic. It was very
naturally and properly held, in- 1885,
and for the three subsequent years, to be
right that the business of reconstruction
should be wholly incumbent upon the
l4al portion of the people of those
States, and that such citizens as had been
prominent in resistance to the Federal
authority should be content for the pres
ent with back seats. And this policy was
effectually enforced by depriving the latter
of all political rights whatsoever.
The policy of exclusion has accomplish
ed all that we expected from it, and it
should end with the causes which existed
for its justification. Reconstruction is
complete, in• every political 'sense, in
eight of the eleven States which attempt
ed secession, and it only remains to re
move theme longer needn't restrictions
to which we alluded. to perfect the entire
popular restoration to the legal and orig
inal Status of full civic rights. In a
ninth State, Virginia, the delay of re
construction , has resulted at last in
an absolute certainty of its ea com
pletion,- by the consenting aid of all class
es of its people, who are to decide for
themselves,- at the same time, for or against
the continuance of the present Political
disabilities of a part of them—and they
are likely to discard the restrictive policy
altogether. In.two other States, Texas
and Mississippi, the same issues ate likely
to be decided, during this year, in the
same year. The States of Missouri and
West Virginia were not participants in the
rebellion as States, but their populations
were divided by the most hostile animosi
ties, and their territories were the theatre
of many of the sharpest conflicts of the
war. These States, with Tennessee,
maintained their practical relations tothe
Union, as States, unbroken, and that
.necessarily means that their governments
were controlled by the Republican adhe
refits to the Federal government. With
these States, the shirpest and most strin
gent policy,in excluding the rebels from all
political rights whatever, was justifiable as
a war-measure, if upon no other grounds.
We need not say that it was adopted ac
cordingly—and to the uttermost extreme
of which the situation admitted. Yet these
three States are at this moment ready to
recognize the progress of events, and to
meet the growing loyalty of• feeling told
the heartiness of submission to the greater
results of the conflict, among their lately
rebel citizens, by abrogating, at tbp earli
est possible moment, every invidious dis
tinction of political status among
their populations, and, by restoring an
equality of citizenship to all,
irrespective of race, color or past
ill-deserts. We know that Tennes
see would do this to-morrow, if some of
the embers of the rebellion's baleful fires,
were not still fanned alive by a few mis
chief-makers of the Johnson type. In
Missouri, the movement toward an uni
versal amnesty has already enlisted • the
goodwill of the wisest loyalists of that
State. And now comes West Virginia,
with its best friends of the Union urging
the immediate need for a policy of liberal
conciliation, upon the people and the
State authorities. The question, says
the Wheeling Inteliigeneer. can not
be ignored; itpresses,and must be met—
and without From 10,000 to
25,000 of their citizens are at present
under politicardisabilities, for their share
in the rebellion. The rebel power is
broken, not only politically but morally;
it can never be revived, because it Is ai
-1 ready dead at the heart. The need for
these disabilities exists no longer, and
every consideration of a wise public
poli
cy requires that they should be swept
clean from the statute-bnok. Statesman
ship is but an elevated and broad reccig
' nition of the dictates of a plain com
mon sense. And the, popular com
mon-sense, in* all of these States,
' points with an unerritig unison pre
cisely in that direction, the removal
of the last needless trace—and any trace
whatererls now a needles! and unitise
liable source for irritation;-of a great
struggle, which nothing but its,own rich
political 'and social results can prevent
the toyer of his cotintry from mourning
forever.
In West Virginia, and perhaps in other
gtates, the day of amnesty can Onlylbe
preilded for by an amendment : of the
lit -- ;Nthateior.lt
may be sepured,ltlsteyident that the popu
• let feeling suppoiiii the neVrpolley , ,Which
is certain to be inaugUrated, in each and
all of thosel,3tates whichwere touched
with the'lwitherinteurse of a fraternal
strife,' before the close of- Gen: GBANT's
administration. • And that, will Im the
*est snccesstul stitesiianelliipthe wisest
and; q SePublimMism, which shall
hit upoiCthe ; shortest. OPeedlist:and most
:effectual way of 'Beittlitig once morn the
politldal brotherhood of every citizen ,
alike.
Pennsylvania ironinaliters APPointed•
The following additional POPtoffice BP
,
politments' in Pennsylvania Immo been
announced: •
Sideling Hill, Fulton county—J. H.
Martin, vice 0. Shill, removed.
Warfordeburg, Fulton county—W. It
Briggs, vice A. Clevolt, remoied.
Hostontown,' Fulton county-Q. ,
Ilinnts, vice W. Leighty, removed.-
Allenville, Mifliin county.—Ed_Ward
Wheaton, vice W. PoWell; re"
Beneaett, Elk 11)Outity—Winhi l v :2 '
JohnOop, vice Win..A. Ply, ,kemoved.
•-'"ioinfibria: ,00nntyJA • Ire
t3litfock,"%ce J. McGolgan s remotes "'
Washington items,
Senator Trumbull left - for Illinois to
day a dissapointed man. He has secured
little or no important patronage from the
Administration, and attributes I the fact
to his vote against the impeachment of
Andrew Johnson. The President is in
exorable on that point, and favors no
man who held office under Johnson or
voted against his impeachment.
Itis belleired that Senator Sumner and
others have finally influenced the Presi
dent againstthe spit:ointment of Glen. Sick
les as Minister to Spain. The name of Wil
ham Cullen Bryant has been mentioned
for the place, but if the President appoint
ed him it is doubtful if Mr. Bryant would,
accept.
The Secretary of the Treasury has pre
pared a statement of our public debt on
the first of March, similar in form to those
issued for April and May. It shows that
the debt when Grant's administration
came into power was $2,525,463,266, and
that in one month it has been reduced $6,-
665,869. Nearly the whole of this re
duction was in April, and the present in
dications are that the reduction in this
month will be more than in both the pre
ceding months.
Mr. Motley, the new Minister to Eng
land, is, it appears, to receive some writ
ten-instructions of a general character in
reference to the resumption of negotia
tiona for the settlement of the pending
questions betwEen this country and Great
Britain. It is stated that they will be
very brief, and cover not so much what
the present Administration would be wil
ling to consider satisfactory of the Ala
bama difficulty, as what it would be sure
to reject Mr. Motley will sail :rom New
York on the. 19th inst.
Secretary Boutweil desires it to be un
derstood that in issuing - the order for the
purchase of bonds, the bonds so pur
chased are not to be set aside as a sinking
fund, and that it has no connection what
ever with that matter. His purpose is
simply to use the surplus money in the
Treasury to purchase the six per cent
gold bonds in order to stop the interest.
It is not his intention to cancel the bonds,
but to allow them to remain in the Treas
ury. It may become necessary for the'
Department to dispose of them again, if
there should be a falling off in the re
ceipts. Respecting the carrying out of
the Sinking Fund law, no conclusion has
yet beeti Leached.
When that excellent gentleman, the
Hon. Gideon Welles, retired from the
govemment of the Navy, he was a good
deal bothered about the expense of mov
ing his furniture and baggage back to
Hartford. The franking privilege not
being quite elastic fnongh to cover his
case, he was permitted to take one of the
Government vessels. Who permitted
him—whether he did it himself, or his
successor—we aro not informed; but the
vessel was. loaded, and off the gallant old
salt sailed for the Connecticut ,river.
When he got there he found that vessels
drawing, more than six feet of water
could not get into the Connecticut river,
whereas his drew eleven l Mr. Welles
had never been so much astonished
in his life. His chagrin was only
equaled by the Vicar of Wakefield's when
that delightful person found that he had
ordered a portrait so big that he could not
get it into the house. The result of it all
was that Mr. Welles had to go beating
along the coast until he found water
enough at New London to float his goods,
and thence he sent them home by rail, at
jest double the cost of shipping them from
Washington in the regular way. It may
seem rather singular that a geneinan
who had been eight years Secre ry of
the Navy should not know somiething
about the depth of water on . Saybrook
bar, and still more singular that he should
send a vessel on a voyage without inquir
ing whether she could possibly get into
her port of destination. But then Mr
Welles always was a very remarkable
Pacific Raltread Finances.
The paid and accrued j Interest, up to
the first of this month, on the Pacific' I
Railroad bonds issued by the. Govern
-
ment was $44.40,411, of which amount
the roads had refunded $1,380,488, leav
ing $8,050,088 charged against them on
the books of the Treasury. The original
railroad act of 1802 gave the Govern
ment o first lien on the road for bonds
and interest, but in the act of 1888 this
was changed, so that the Government gets
only a second lien. Not one of the
roads has paid a cent of money as inter
est, their entire credit being ter mail
service, transportation and other work-
They rendered their accounts, and the
amount found to be due to them is credit-
ed as reirabursement of interest -The'
figures show that the 'Union Pacific lug;
reimbuised but, about one-third of its
interest ; the Eastern Division about two-:
thirds; the California Pacific only about
one•twenty-fifth, and the Sioux City only
sixteen dollars out of over $80,000: The
law provides that all companies shall re
imburse their interest, ; but falls to prol'
vide any way for its -immediate collec
tion if not paid, thongb It could probably
be' obtained ,by stilt in Court. Most of the
roads now , have:accounts against the
Government passing through the Audit
ring oilicee cot the Treasury, and when
these- ere up to the various roads,
the sbowing against them will not be so
bad as it is:now. •
Au English Journal contains thefollow
,
ing commentarron the fate of greatness:
"The Countetta of Mornington, widowor
ihe,notorione William Pole Tylnev Long.
Wellesley, Earlof Mornington who:Ailed
recently her 70th year, adds an hug
dent to -the romance of the peerage. After
, the ruin-into which the reckless Earl's
idfairb tell, some forty leers ago, this lady
was for a bilef time an inmate of St.
George's workhouse, and more than
I once. had to apply at police courts for tem.
porary.rellef. Yet she might have called
monarchs "cousins " She was descended
front'the grandeit and greatest of all the
Plantagenets. tier mother (wife of Col.
Patterson) Ann Porterfield, of that ilk,,
came through Boyd, Cunningham, Glen
cairn and Hamilton, from Mary Stuart,
daughter of Xing James the, Second of
,Scotiand, and seventh in: descent
,from
Edward the First of England. The earl
dom of Remington, extinct= in the elder
line of the Wellesley', has lapsed to the
Duke of Wellington.
To, Cults me Toarttacm—Saturate
a piece of clean cotton; cool with sarong
qolutiorOfaintagaln, AA apply itomedl
tttbilhe,llooed t9oPLThe4ell er
Isiiiiims,i,au&Amilca, 'he .pekleint
ikput itmcdoPiktOtAirar toAfrAegkte
or bliss, Remenber it I
• Enterprise vs. Luck.
When allusion is made in our social
circles to those who have risen .through
their own individual exertions to posi
tions of honorable eminence and wealth,
how apt is the expression, "It was good
luck." Without regard to what may be
the many flue qualities, the indomitable
perseverance and determination of cha
racter, or the thousand and one struggles
and failures to obtain a foothold on for
tune's road, future success and prosperi
ty is invariably attributed to that "luck."
Never was a word • more grossly
,misap
plied—man may have luck in specula
tion, in the barter of goods or In the in
heritance of a fortune, but to the young
beginner with scanty means, unknown
credit, and few if any friends, luck
would indeed be a sad and fatal depen
dance. If after a brief struggle his ef
forts should prove in vain and he should
quietly await fortune to favor him, the.
'result is easily imagined. It is not luck'
that enables such a one to prosper. It is
pluck, energy and unswerving deternii
nation to succeed and triumph in spite
of Obstacles and discouragements. Dis
appointed to-day he tries again to-mor
row, and the next week and the next
month, and even for years he may toil
and battle 'ere he achieves victory and
wins success.
As an illustration of fortune honorably
wonthrongh continued perseverance and
industrious application, we can instance
a ncemore marked case than that of Dr.
J. H. Schenck, of Philadelphia. All our
readers are fully aware of the well de
serVed popularity of his "Seaweed Ton
ii," his "Pulmonie Syrup," and his
"Mandrake Pills, "
but few are probably
acquainted with their early history and
the .discouraging failures and repeated_
attempts to introduce them to the public.
Thirty years ago, Doctor Schenck, a lin
gering consumptive on the borders of the
grave, given np to die by his attending
physician, discovered his wonderful rem
edy, the Plilmonic Syrup, which saved
him, restored his health and " made his
life strong and earnest to save others from
the samidestroyer ; and it is a vital, liv
ing, experimental truth wita him to say,
that "consumption can to cured." After
his, as it seemed elmost miraculous re
covery, beiurth.er tested and proved the
saving efficacy of the syrup by adminis
tering it freely and gratuitously to his
neighbors, and it is safe to say that dur
ing these thirty years, hundreds of pre
cious lives have been delivered by it. It
stands to-day the champion remedy of
the world for Pulmonid Complaints, es
peelelly whin Wei in connection with
his Seaweed Tonle and Mandrake Pills.
and is a proud end •noble monument to
the indomitable -perseverance,. industry
and energy, that has successfully intro
dimed it into the markets of the world,
and made its virtues available to so many
thousands of sufferers. Before this de
sired- end was accomplished, however,
great were the trials and disappoint
ments encountered. Being possessed of
a' very small capital, limited' acquain
tance, and few, if any friends, who were,
willing to aid. him in what they predict
ed would result unprofitably, the Doctor
commenced his work alone. And
no ioeagre task was before. him. The
preparations being unknown were suspi
ciously criticised and dasaed among the
many worthless and injurious drugs,
which at that day, like the present, were
imposed upon the public. The sales
were few and the expenses many. The
present was discouragement, while the ,
future seeth ed dark and uncertain; and
to those w it h less energy, the work would
have beenbaedoned in its unfinished
state. Not so with the Doctor. Knowing
the usefulness and efficiency of what he
offered, be labored with renewed energy.
Disappointment and ill-success only
nerved him to the battle stinger. The
demand fur his wares slowly increased,
their virtues were discovered by the few
who gave them a trial, and after years of
labor, d n
disappointment and determined
persistence, "Schenck's Preparations"
have become a familiar word
nearly every home throughout the land.
'The sales have • increased with such re
markable rapidity, that the contrast,
when the articles were first manufactured
thirty years ago, in a small, narrow and
contracted apartment, and their manu
facture of to-day in the present large and
'commodious structure. is 'most striking
!indeed. And even the present mem
\ moth laboratory, handsomely construct
_id, huge tanks. improved machinery and
'numerous devices to supply the hourly
increasing demand,. is not sufficient to
keep pace wittethe growing popularity of
these remedies. and is to be supplanted
by a huge marble building at•the North
east corner of Sixth and Arch streets,
which, when erected, will rival in ap
pearance any similar establishment in
America.
The efforts of the Doctor have been
"Crowned with reputation and wealth, still
in unaffected simplicity of demeaner and
true manliness of character,. he is the
same man of a year ago. With the ben
fits of a larger experience, he demon
strates more successfully than ever, the
curability of that fearful disease, Con
sumption, which annually sweeps away
so many valuable lives, and which , so
nearly terminated his own. One day we
hear of him in this city, another day
in that, always administering to the af
flicted,,who anxiously await his coming.
He has now, arrived at thatage, fifty
' five, when he can and does rationally,
enjoy the sweets of a fortune accumula
tea by his own hands: Siirroundsd by
his family, he has contributed every
thing that comfort and happiness require.
His handsome city residence is the seat
of luxuriance and pleasure, while his
country retreat, the favorite resort of the
DocioNis Unsurpaseed,; both as regards
natural scenery and; the, many artificial
e the e maements, completed at a vast , out
a money. The buid is beautifully lo
cated at Elefienck'eStatlim; in Bucks coin
ty, about fifteen miles from Philadelphia.
To enter Into a description of the farm,
which comprise) some three hundred
acres,,Wocild etquire several columns of
of this paper,. lithftriely "cultivated fields
.m
are odcili firimfroVand the taste and .
Web With.whieli •• they . Ore surrounded
pleae the eye of 'every beholder. The
manaioift bylhe Doctorli family
"duringt summer months, has all the
"improvements' a modern city real
deuce; the 'walks are beautifully laid out
and the groMids handsomely decorated
flowers 'and' shrubbery ; a boat
house, 'a' room, a private fish
'pond and'e,hatidscitim yacht are among a
U•se or thceattractions. - The barns are
well filled with the products of the farm,
which issuperintendea by the most com
petent hands, arid has been *nought
to a high state-of productiveness.
As in the management of bis bubiness,
So in the management of this fine place,
improvement is the 'order of the day.
Only the choicest breeds of stock, the
moat improved and desirable machinery
for the culture of the land, and the beat
grain, most tempting fruits and' rarest
flowersare to be fonnti.. 'lmprovements
never cease. Workitteu ;are _ , constantly .
1 1 engaged in building new structures or
improving the Old onet,lor it must be re
membered thatthiDoctir can eaelly de
vote afevetteres of his oxtail:live gronnds
to improvingerhat liniw knowlif as the
'gladden,* tut *defeated ere - lons, we
predict, •to be called' •Schettaksvllle>"
Au. that, nue mOnieritif of the Doctor,
snfi.n ;it* clotted
at his piles of, bwduele, finds tam
at the farni"surrounded by his work
man, taking an active part in all that is
being done. He studies the comfort and
convenience of hls fellow beings as well
as his own. One t noticeable feature
among others, illustrative of this strikes
the visitor, is the large clock er ted at
great expense on the cupola of 01 harm.
the four large ' faces looking fro each
point of the compass, render this in al
most indispensable conveniencethose
residing i n that locality. Thus ;is the
time or this man employed. He has no
idle moments, hie labors are ,incessant,
and it was only, rr
such labors, such'pers
Tercnce, such' energy and not that
"lock , ' so often attributed, that; made
this - self-made man what he is to.day,.
and his memory -ever hereafteri to be
cherished by those - who are so fOrtunate
as to be classed among his friends'.
Pittsburgh Church quild•
•
The folloiring is an abstract, of the re
ports of the Cominittee on Education, of
the Pittsburgh Chuich Guild, kindly
furnishettby Wm. M. Metcalf, SecretarY.,
, ,
At the Guild rooms there were ten
evening classes, taught by different
gentlemen, viz: _
Natural philosophy, anatomy; three
classes of drawing; lectures on steam
engine, arithmetic, geography, German
and commercial forma.
One hundred and eighty-four scholars
entered, and the average attendance
through the Winter was seventy-seven. „.
The scholars varied In age from Bixteen
to forty-three ycars„ represented thirty
.c,
two different trades and occu tions,
and came from all parts of then ty and
neighborhood, some coming six and
others eight miles. ..
The classes were not .as large as on- the
year before, owing to the fact' that•the
presidential election prevented many,
who otherwise would have joined the
classes.
The Committee has every reason i c tib e
satisfied by scholars and teacteis in this
work,•and is determined ta push it along
still more vigoroniil9 text year. , •
The ladies of the qulld opened a class
in St. Peter's, Church school rooms for
the benefit of glris. Thirty-eight girls,
avia from sixteen to t*enty-two years,
entered the classes nightly and the night
ly attendance averaged twenty. •
The girls maul! ested the greatest inter
est in their studies and were taught
reading, writing, Spelling, arithmetic,
geography and sewing. All but two of
them worked for their living and yet
were glad to come after their work to try
and improve themselveS. The ladies feel
this work to be of 'the' 'greatest impor
tance; for to improve thhgirla is to ad
vance the whble race, 'and' they appeal
earnestly to the cOmmunity to help them,
so that they may ultimately have read
ing room, library and classes ft:IF-girls as
well as for • young men. This WO4i; - so
well begun, will be pushed on in therfall,
with, it is hoped, much larger defies.
, '
—The annual. meeting of the National
Temperance Society was held at New
York, yesterday afternoon, thePresidertt, ••,
Wm. E. Dodge, presiding. The Treasurer
•reported the total receipts of last year Up,- 1 ,
282, expenditures 616,2 r. Total receipts
since formation, „three years and five
months, $128,951. The following officers
for the ensuing year were elected: Pres
ident, Wm. E. Dodge, and eighty-three
Vice Presider:o, comprising prominent
personages representing nearly every
State in the Unton and Canada: Treitsur
er, Thos. T. Hulßeld: Board if Managers.
for three years, Bev. Dr. W. W. Newell,
Peter Carter, J. N. Stearns, Rev. Mason
Gallagher, James Black, T. T. Sheffield,
T. P. Norton, John Falconer, A. S. Hun
ter and J. R. Sypher. , •
—There was a meeting of Californiansat •
the Astor Rouse, New York, yesterday,
to celebrate the completion of the Pacific -
Railroad, at - which Senator Nye 'of Ne
vada, presided and congratalato,ry reso
lutions were adopted; . .
THE [MASON WHY 1 . •
Dr. Revsees Blood Searcher Is the best. yt le '
„
computed that a inart`s system undergoes three
times a year, that le every foiirmouthe; a tidies]
and thorough change, that is,that at theeid'of
that time nothing remains 10 the syttetn' of'the
material of which It was composed befcire titer.
-time. ; The eliminating organs carry ° . out the .*
wort:emit and used-up material. - and new matter
is made to take its place and carry on the work- .
Inge of the human organism._ The costa four
months treatment in this way would
. not at the
outside be more Shan ten dollars, and freqeently
the funetlons of life have an activity and vigor
,mpartcd sufficient to renew theni by the 'nee!
one bottle, costing only one dollar.. No organ of
the body but will be benefltted by sash a proems.
The liver, the stomach, the kidneys, thethin.
the lungs, are all. as It were, made over again
by the impetus given to the stomach and diges
tive system—old and prostrated people whose
systems bid begun tO - languish and decay. have •
been restored by DR. KEYOSILtd BLOOD
SEARCHER to youthful health and'
Especially-is this medicine suitable at this
season of the year, when ' the • dormant
powers of life, Ills all the rest of nature are
emerging from the chilling and torpid state
usual to the cold and wintry months. We
know very well that all advettised medidnei are
apt to be regarded as neelesi and nuaatorri but
with DR.. KETFOCH*I3 BLOOD SEAR.CHERItte
feel perfectiy secure In the promise that It most •
do good. Country merchants and those who sup-
ply others with needful things for their wants
cannot confer a greater service than to keep a
few bottles of this valuable medicise on their
shelves to supply their wants.. Dr. geyser will
take back every half dozen that remains unsold.
It at the same time. affords the merchant C' t
good profit.' and to those who need it, it is of
4
more value than diver and gold, for what can be 11,
of more value bin= than a medicine which car;
ries health and Dili to the suffering Invalid? .
Wa earnestly entreat all who read' thhito try
one bottle of pr. Keyser , . Blood Searcherfirthey
need such &medicine, and We will gguargOtee;stlt
isfaction. • In ordetc . "hoireier, not. tn„be
potnted, tit Wein buY none but that which'haiDy•
Nevsees name over .the 'cork and' 'in the ;sf!:
bottle, andin that way the DOctor Will hold Idhl
- self rceponsible_forlts results Mien the directioiur
are closely followed. • ' ti:. • 1 1 ,•
SOLD A.T: THE DOCTOR'S da>tiAT 'NEW
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certainextent,istlMufarifj4 idimulaitt,'unitkitt•
tied by anivaidicihil substances; is not ieUrb.
but A tistatiaity. In IiuBI I IIITEWS
BlTltlfilla there is istleiblatidgeleMent Of
the purest grade niantifeeturid fitll4*.t Unit
other country: . Every Ilene and .Otl or
acid which contamibitestnebrdluary liquors of
commerce, Isespelled fromihe rye sbittoirbtch
forms the altribolic . buts'Or the BIITIMti by
'careful and roueated rectilleition. Thecluices el
the valuable roots; balks abd herbs, %fated into•
this whoiesonitettroduM of : the finest 'grain; stilt
further modify its nature: • inittat ittetichtts, to
fact, a Hinkle dilluslve Intent !phial ail the-beefy
and brain exalt ing properties*htoli tieldothMore
or Its*, to alt liquors in a raw state: 'lt finterely
the safe and turnaleas vehicle whlch , renalere' the
medicinal victims of ; he ; Prvltufdlildft i•lleetivert.
Increasing their ao ire power, and thgtieingthem
through tut 6 strut: - Hence the..yteassat and
plate woe whirh is experlenord ARM': taking a
dose of the BITTIs/Pt.., Instead of oi Hub); head-.
;vibe. as m medicated rimulauts. apt -to do,
this salubrious to is the best•kersini , temeay
tir that complaint:;lt admitted iouttisis cerebral
exch. ntent.
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