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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JULY 2, 1874.
NO. 7.
njjijjhrd by Theodore Schoch.
T" a year in ndvanco and if not
'm-vp tlx- i'"'1 ,,f ,lie car' ,wo dollars and fifty
" " s,i i'i'iT lNoiitinutM until all arrearages are
!" ','.., :'t ilu' jiti'Mi of llio Editor.
J'-r T J v r r i in o ii t - l' one square of (eisht lliie or
' " Mir three insertions SI "i. Kaeh additional in-
.'""'.'j'nK. Longer ones in proportion.
JOB I'KIXTIXG
OF ALL KINDS,
tNlin tlx 'ii-,l,'st y1' of ,,ie -Art, and ou the
' iiidM reasonable terms.
ickershain Normal School.
5B0I.HEADSV1LLE, MONROE COUNTY, TA.
Fall 1 174'' Term of this Svliool will begin in the
I' ',... il ll.msi'.at i;rlhedsville, on tliesecond
F-1'-1,'' j.iiv 174, and C'lUtinuc twelve weeks.
TtKMS :
I,,,-, for the t.TTii $3 00
,any lime
. s..-inliii''. in private lamilies, per inontli 12 00
li-ss UiHIi ine wiKiitf iitiii. pur wt-ufc. i
.'. ,i,r.r,.'s for the higher branches.
.We S ho .l House bai been enlarged and tbor-
. -hiv nfpairetl. . , .,
f3i.lii'il for past patronage, I subscribe myself,
I. 11 SCCERLER, Principal.
174. Ct.
DR. J.LANTZ,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
has liis ntT.ee. on Main street, in the seeond xtory
f'i'r S Walton's brick building, nearly opposite the
'-mi i-'iiir House, and be Haters himself that by eigh-
" ..... . . . . i i . n .i . 1 ihn VM.wt .n rni.jt n n.l
an Vt'tVS - '"'S'a 1 (iiai.iiv-r " ' .. ......i. ......... .-v ni.v.
a'teniioii to an niiuit-is. jjvi laiimm iu ma 'nr
i . i. . A. 11.. ol.lrt . irfimi oil niipmlintic
ir;L iK-nVal line in the most careful and skillful nian-
n tn:a is nm. ... ........... .... .....
jil attention civen to savin? the Natural Teeth ;
; J),,, insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
?ilver. or Continuous Gums, and perfect fits in all
ttjTt i 'ns know the jjreat folly and danger of rn-.-..'I'thi
ir work to the inexperienced, or to those liv-brii'adinu-.
" April 13, lS74.tf.
)
R. II. J. FATTEKSO.Y,
UFLRATINS AXD MECHANICAL DEMIST,
!,-.;- 1 K-stc.l iii EaM Sirouuslmre. Pa. announces that
l,o i tiir jrepared to inert artificial teeth ia the most
tvi -.nii: and life-like manner. Also, preat attention
ri'rti to filling and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth
i;-a'"d without pain by the ufc of Nitrous Oxide Gas.
All o'.lu-r 'irk incident to the profession done in the
Gl (.kiliful and approved style. All work attended to
j.rorap'.ly and warranted, ( barges reasonable. lat-reiia.-f
'if the public solicited.
ulr-in A. Il -rs now building, opposite Analo
mict Hniiie. East Stroudsburg, 1'a. " july 11 ''3-
D
n. X. L. I'ECSi,
Surgeon Dentist.
Ann"'.inres tliat bavin? just returned fronj Pental
fi':l-cs. b ia ftiliy prepared to make artificial teeth in
ii"-t Lea ;:i;'ul and life-like manner, and to fill de-
Mfiltein aerorrimti ic ine most nuprovei mcinnu.
Ii-f.li ex:r:iettil without pain, when desired, by the
W"f Nitrous i xide ias. which is entirely harmless,
fi-aairinc'.if all kind neatly done. All work warantod.
Oba--n tvaft.na'ole.
o5'V J. (,. K-ikr's now brick building. Main street,
ftnuiistmr.', I'a. Aug. 31 '71-tf.
Can yon tell why it is that when any
tsfcmes to Sir-v.id'hurs to buy Furniture, they al-
m jiiirf lor 3lcCartv 1 urmture J-tore :
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
RealiiJstate Agent.
'ans, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
0:Ti.e next c.oor above S. Rees' news Deoct
and 2d d or below the Corner Store.
March 2D, l S73-tf.
Jyi. HOWARD PATTEUSOX,
Pajsician, Sargeon and Accoucheur,
(Successor to Geo. W. Seip.)
street, .Strourlsburg, Pa., in Dr.
!'? building-, residence ifarah street, next
friends new meeting house. Prompt attention
to calls.
f 7 to 9 a. m.
v-ice Lours i 12 " 2 n. m.
( 5" " 9 p. m.
April 1C 1S74-1V.
J. 12. S II I LL,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
'FrICE &. Kr.?ir;EXCT, AT INDIAN QUE EX IIOTET
All cases promDtlv zltrnArA to. Ofto
iirs from 9 to 12 A. M., from 3 to 5 and
Charts moderate. ConBultations free.
fflTSICIAX, SURGEON AND ACCOUCIIEIR.
Ic 'the old office of Dr. A. Beeves Jackson,
ra4i, corner of Sarah and fanklin street.
i STROUDSBURG, PA.
Pn 8,'72-tf
J0MV ifwHlW-JER, 31. I.
p2YSlCIAx AND ACCOUCHEUR,
1!,. i, o, MOUNTAIN IIOMK. PA.
CSUCAX HOTEL.
rieLie iUWriber would inform the public that
,. UJ ltised tl, Inner. r,.-,u.. i
4idh'--ln ,Iie Iioro11'1 of Stroud.4urg, Pa.,
'liVlBW rCDailltpd -ir-.rl rornmlcli tbocoma
u- l? enterlain all who mav jiatronize
i'iijim e a,iiu of t,ie prorieto"r, to furn-
r,d will ""aons at moderate rates
of tl are r, l,a'n'' to promote the cotn-
NrM,a fc,. . A "oeral snare ot public
-vrr Ml
D. L. PISLE.
Jv,,,u;
hol.se,
HOXTESDALE, PA.
antral location ot any Hotel in town.
,f'SM- R- W- KIl'LE & SON,
srmky Proprietors-
H. WALTOX,
0?. AttorBeyatLaw,
V llr e builaiog formerly occupied
Wp l Uw on aQd opposite the Strouds
i l',; 'Ia'1Q Etret. Stroudsbur-, Pa.
THE ORPHAN.
She pat upon the mourner's seat
And wondered why they wept;
Her mother looked so kind and sweet,
She thought she only slept.
. She wondered why dark drapery
Was hung around the coffin,
"Why those she lored should gaze on her
And say, " God bless the orphan."
But when the choir's solemn strain
Fell on the mournful air;
When something whispered, "Xe'er again
You'll know a mother's care."
Upon her mind a new light dawned,
In tears she .'bund relief,
She wondered not why others mourned,
Her heart felt its first grief.
As from a distance o'er the sea
She heard a mournful song,
Becalling back to memory
Griefs, thoughts forgotten long;
So to her mind recurs again,
Still laden with its woe,
The burden of that mournful strain
She heard long time ago.
DeMirecourt.
Xcwark, y. J., Dec. 23. 1S72.
CURRENCY BILL.
IT IS SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT.
The Bill a Law It Gives General Satis
faction Except to Extreme Hard
Money Men Endorsed by Financiers
in New York-
THE FINANCE BILL.
Washington, June 22. The President
has signed the currency bill reported from
the .last committee on conference and it has
therefore become a law, and it gives very
general satisfaction, except among the
extreme hard-money men, like Jones, of
Xevada. There were many of the opinion
that the President would pocket the hill, if
he did not veto it. These gentlemen based
their hopes or fears upon the statements
contained in the President's memorandum
to Jones. They did not see how he could
consistently sign the measure if he was
sincere in hi3 pronuneiamento. It appears
that he was strongly advised to sign by his
financial friends in Xew York. Some of
them, it is alleged, have as a consequence
made large gains by the advance in stocks.
The following is the bill as passed by
Congress and signed by the President :
Section 1. The act entitled "An act
to provide a national currency, secured by
a pledge of United States bonds, and to
provide for the circulation and redemption
thereof," approved June 3, 18G1, shall be
hereafter known as the National Bank act.
Sec. 2. That section 31 of the National
Bank act be so amended that the several
associations therein provided for shall not
hereafter be required to keep on hand any
amount of money whatever, by reason of
the amount of their resjective circulations ;
but the moneys required by said section to
be kept at all times on hand shall be
determined by the amount of deposits, in
all respects as provided for in the said sec
tion. Sec. 3. That every association organized
or to be organized under the provisions of
the said act, and of the several acts
amendatory thereof, shall at all times keep
and have on deposit in the Treasury of the
United States, in lawful money of the
United States, a sum equal to five per
centum of its circulation, to be held and
used for the redemption of such circulation,
which sum shall be counted as a part of
its lawful reserve, as provided in section
two of this act, and when the circulating
notes of anv such associations, assorted or
unassorted, shall be presented for redemp
tion in sums of 61,000, or an)- multiple
thereof, to the Treasurcre of the United
States, the same shall be redeemed in
United States notes. All notes so re
deemed shall be charged by the Treasurer
of the United States to the respective as
sociations issuing the same, and he shall
notify them severally on the first day of
each month or oftener, at his discretion, of
the amount of such redemptions, and when
ever such redemptions for any association
shall amount to the sum of 500 such as
sociation so notified shall forthwith deposit
with the Treasurer of the United States a
a sum in United States notes equal to the
amount of its circulating notes so redeemed ;
and all notes of national banks worn, defaced,
mutilated, or otherwise unfit for circulation
shall, when received by any Assistant
Treasurer, or at any designated depository
of the United States for redemption, as
provided herein ; and when such redemp
tions have been so reimbursed to circulating
notes so redeemed shall be forwarded to the
respective associations by which they were
issued ; but if any such notes are worn,
mutilated, defaced, or rendered otherwise
unfit for use, they shall be forwarded to the
Controller of the Currency and destroyed
and replaced as now provided by law.
Provided, that each of said associations shall
reimburse to the Treasury the charges for
transportation and the costs for assorting
scuh notes, and the associations hereafter
organized shall also generally reimburse to
the Treasury the cast of engraving such
plates as shall be ordered by each associa
tion respectively, and the amount assessed
upon each association shall be in proportion
to the circulation redeemed, and be charged
to the fund on dejwsit with the Treasurer ;
and, provided further, that so much of sec
tion 32 of said National Bank act recogniz
ing the redemption of its circulating notes
elsewhere than it own counter, except as
provided for in this section, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. That any t association organized
under this act, or any of the acts of which
this is an amendment, desiring to withdraw
its circulating notes, in whole or in part,
may upon the deposit of lawful money with
the Treasurer of the United States, in sums
of not less than 9,000, take up the bonds
which said association has on deposit with
the Treasurer for the security of such cir
culating notes, which bonds shall be assigned
to the banks in the manner specified in the
nineteenth section of the National banks
act, and the outstanding notes of said as
sociation to an amount equal to the legal
tender notes depsited, shall be redeemed at
the Treasury of the United States and
destroyed, as now provided by law ; provid
ed that the amount of the bonds on depsit
for circulation shall not be reduced below
50,000.
Sec. 5. That the Controller of the Cur
rency shall, under such rule and regulations
as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre
scribe, cause the charter numbers of the
association to be printed upon all national
hank notes which may be hereafter issued
by him.
Sec. G. That the amount of United
States notes outstanding, and to be issued
as a part of the circulating medium, shall
not exceed the sum of 382,000,000 which
said sum shall appear in each monthly
statemcnt of the public debt, and no part
thereof shall be held or used as a reserve.
Sec. 7. That so much of the act, enti
tled an act to provide for the redemption
of the three er centum temporary loan
certificates, and for an increase of national
bank notes, as provided, that no circulation
shall be withdrawn under the provisions of
section G of said act, until after the $54,
000,000 granted in section 1 of said act
shall have been taken up, is hereby repealed,
and it shall be the duty of the Controller
of the Currency, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Treasury to proceed forth
with, and he is hereby authorized and re
quired, from time to time, as application
shall be only made therefor, and until the
full amount of the 54,000,000 shall be
withdrawn, to make a requisition on each
of the national banks described in said sec
tion, and in the manner therein provided,
organized in States having an excess of
circulation, to withdraw and return so much
of this circulation as by said act may be
opportioned to he withdrawn from them,
or in Jieu thereof to depsit inthe
Treasury of the United States lawful
money sufficient to redeem such cir
culation, and upon the return of the circu
lation required, or the deposit of lawful
money as herein provided, a proportionate
amount of the bonds held to secure the cir
culation of such association as shall make
such return or depoit, shall be surrendered
to it.
Sec. 8. That upon the failure of the
national banks upon which requisitions for
circulation shall be made, or of any of them,
to return the amount required, or to deposit
in the Traasury lawful money to redeem
the circulation required within thirty days,
the Controller of the Currency shall at once
sell, as provided in section 49 of the
National Currency Act, approved June 3,
18G4, bonds held to secure the redemption
of the circulation of the association or as
sociations which shall so fail to an amount
sufficient to redeem the circulation required
of such association or associations, and with
the proceeds which shall be deposited in the
Treasury of the United States so much of
the. circulation of said association or associa
tions shall be redeemed as will equal the.
amount required and not returned ; and if
there be any excess of proceeds over the
amount required for such redemption it
shall be returned to the association or as
sociations whose bonds shall have been sold;
and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer,
Assistant Treasurers, designated depositaries
and national bank depositaries of the United
States, who shall be kept informed by the
Controller of the Currency of such asso
ciations as shall fail to return circulation
as required, to assort and return to the
Treasurer for rodemption the notes of such
associations as shall come into their hands
until the amount required shall be redeemed,
and in like manner to assort and return to
the Treasury for redemption the notes of
such national banks as have failed or gone
into voluntary liquidation for the purpose
of winding up their affairs of such as shall
hereafter so fail or go into liquidation.
Sec. 9. That from and after the passage
of this act it shall bo lawful for the Con
troller of the Currency, and he is hereby
ordered to issue circulrting notes without
delay, as application therefor are made,
not to exceed the sum of 55,000,000, to
associations organized, or to be organized,
in those States and Territories having less
than their proportion of circulation under
an apportionment to be made on the basis
of population and of wealth as shown by
the returns of the census of 1 870, and ev
ery association hereafter organized shall be
subject to and be governed by the rules,
restrictions, and limitations, and posses the
rights, privileges and franchises now or
hereafter to be prescribed by law as nation
al banking associations, with the same power
to amend, alter, and repeal provided by the
National Bank act, provided that the whole
amount of circulation withdrawn and re
moved from the banks transacting business
shall not exceed 55,000,000, and that such
circulation shall be withdrawn and redeemed
as shall be necessary to supply the circula
tion previously issued tohe banks in those
States having less than their apportionment ;
and provided further, that not more than
30,000,000 shall be withdrawn and re
deemed, as herein contemplated during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.
A MODERN BLUE-BEARD.
A Man Who Tickled Two Wives into the
Grave and the Third into Idiocy.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The following aecount of the manner in
which a doating husband contrived to amuse
himself with his wives (for he was three
times married) is one of the most extraor
dinary pieces of cuelty that have ever
came under our notice. What pleasure
the demon could have taken in the ecstatic
agonies of a lovely woman, no human mind
can fancy ; but he did revel in them the
narrative renders too certain. On the
banks of the beautiful Cumberland, between
Nashville and Sniithland, iu the year IS ,
there resided a man, forty, rich, and great
ly respected. lie was possessed of large
lands and numerous slaves ; and though
courted and flattered by his neighbors he
lived in great seclusion. Iu a short time
he buried two wives they dying within
one year of each other and both quite sud
denly. So highly was he respected, how
ever, that not even the slightest breath of
suspicion was whispered against him. In
the following summer, after the burial of
his last wife, he visited the White Sulphur
Springs in Virgina, where he met with a
lady who mixed with the fashionable world,
and who was accompanied by a lovely
daughter. Young and beautiful, and high
ly educated, the latter was an object of
general attention and universal admiration.
She had received man' advantageous pro
posals for her hand, but, as her heart re
mained unaffected, she selected none from
the crowd of her admirers until the hero
of our story stepped upon the field of ac
tion. Him she chose as the one best sui
ted to gratify her amour pmpre. She
made a confidante of her mother, who could
not avoid expressing surprise at her selec
tion, as there was a great disparity in their
ages, and she felt an invincible repuguanee,
for which she could not account, to the
union. The daughter thought so good an
opportunity for securing a rich establish
ment might not again present her
mother yielded, and the marriage was con
sumated. Some time after a cousin of the
bride, who had been a suitor for her hand,
urged her to frankly confess to him whether
she had realized the happiness which she
anticipated from the union. "I have, in
deed," said she, :my husband anticipates
my every wish and would render me fully
happy, but for a singular request which he
has made, and which, as I cannot under
stand the object, troubles me, and I have
to re-fuse it." '"It must be very serious,"
said the cousin. '-Oh, no ; it is very silly,"
replied the bride ; "you would never ima
gine what. Only think of a request to
bind myself with linen banages from top to
toe in a word, to be a living copy of an
Egyptian mummy.
II is curiosity was too strongly excited to
be spent in imaginings, and he urged his
cousin, the bride, to yield, but with the
condition that he should, unknown to the
husband, be stationed, during the opera
tion, in an adjoining room. Thus placed,
the wife informed the husband that she
had determined to yield to his request.
Wild with joy at this information, the hus
band found no words to express his grati
tude, and promptly commenced his opera
tions. The cousin listened attentively. Pro
found silence reigned for some minutes in
the room. The bride broke it by saying,
in a trembling tone, "and the arms too
"Yes, my dear,,' replied the husband, gay
ly ; "I beg you head and feet only free ;
just like a mummy; you know." All was
quiet again ; the silence lasted so long as to
again frighten the cousin, and he was upon
the point of entering the room when the
bride commenced laughing most immodera
tely. lie felt assured and listened. The laugh
ing ceased, and all again was silent. This
tomb-like silence, broken by loud and im
moderate laughter, was alarming. He knew
not how to unravel the mystery, and burst
into the room. At his appearance the
bridegroom fled, and the cousiu found the
unfortunate bride stretched on the floor
cold and inanimate. Her husband had
bound her that he might freely tulrfc her
feet. Another fit of laughing, and she
would have followed his other two wives.
The best medical attention recalled her to
existence, a perfect idiot, the nervous sys
tem being entirely destroyed. The fiend
who commited the deed left the country
and has never been heard of to this day.
This adventure, kept sacredly secret by the
family, has reached us in such a way that
it cannot be doubted. We suppress the
names solely out of regard for a highly re
spected family connection.
Stop Us.
A man in a western town had a pet calf,
which he was training up in the ways of
an ox. The calf walked around very pea
ceably under one end of the yoke, while
the man held up the other end. But in
an unfortunate moment the man conceived
the idea of putting his own neck in the
yoke, to let the calf see how it would seem
to work with a partner ; this frightened
the calf, and elevating his tail and his voice,
he struck a "dead run" for the village, and
the man went along with his head down
and his plug hat in his hand, straining
every nerve to keep up, and crying out at
the top of his voice. "Hear we come !
Head us somebody ?"
The pride and boast of Butler county,
in this State, just now, arett hen egg, sixty-seven
and one-half inches in circumfer
ence, a chicken with four legs and feet, and
a heifer with nearly a hundred horns.
From the Advance.
Mr. Editor : When in your city last
week I was telling you something of an ex
cursion party from this place Stroudsburg
to New York, in which our better-half
had taken some stock, and now we give
you some of the particulars. Stroudsburg
proper is an old settled town, three miles
up from the Delaware, and on the Broad
head creek, where the Delaware river at
some unknown period of the world's history
has forced its way through the Blue moun
tains, where the two ends but right up to
the river, one end in New Jersey and one
in Pennsylvania, so vast and perpendicular
that it was with much difficulty that a
travelled road could be made along the
river side. Afterwards, when the Dela
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
was built through there, the carriage road
was sent over the brow of the mountain.
On the road, high up, and overlooking the
Delaware, was built a spacious hotel, called
the Kittatinny House, for a fashionable re
sort. Now, far above that, there is another,
called the Mountain House, of wonderful
dimensions. To these two houses a rush
is made each season by the denizens of
New York and Philadelphia as a summer
resrjrt, it being about an equal distance from
the two cities some eighty-seven miles
some paying as high as fifty dollars per
week for room and board. The grandeur
of the scenery is unsurpassed in the States.
From these elevated positions, where
nature has lavished her grandest and wild
est designs, the visitor has an ample op
portunity of satisfying his romantic mind,
whether in looking down upon the rolling
Delaware, and wondering how and at wliat
distant period of the world's history it
forced its way down through this everlast
ing giant's causeway, or resting his mind
upon the rock-ribbed towers on the Jersey
side, or tracing the steam cloud for twentv
miles or more far up the Pocono, only to
return with its long train loaded with the
glistening anthracite from the rich valleys
of the Lackawanna and Wyoming coal
fields, to say nothing of the romantic hills
and the beautiful lawns of the Delaware
valley, and such has become the contagion
for these romantic scenes that for miles
around the houses are occupied through
the summer as places of resort, people com
ing here from New York and Philadelphia,
and also from Scranton. Stroudsburg is
an old town, three miles from tho Dela
ware river, and was formerly settled by the
Moravian Quakers. When the railroad M as
built through here it left the beautiful old
town one mile in the distance, and the de
pot was a nucleus around which another
important town or borough has sprung up,
called East Stroudsburg, from which a
street car plies regularly.
Although the people here are of the Ger
man Quaker descent, and of industrious
habits, they have an eye to economizing their
well earned dollars. To dothis and meet
the wants of the multitudes that flock in
here through the summer months many of
them make their purchases on the larger
scale in New York. To do this some one
charters one or more cars, as needs may
be, to New York, and back, going one fore
noon and rcturing the next evening. For
last week's excursion two cars were brought
into requisition at one hundred dollars
each. The number of excursionists was
one hundred and ten, so that the fare wTas
only about one-third the regular rates. At
New York between seventy and eighty of
the party put up at the Commercial Ho
tel, kept on the European " plan, while,
others went among their friends, or where
they chose. Ihis was the eighth semi
annual excursion, and from the pleasure
and success of the past it promises to be
come a settled and regular institution.
J. 11. Dlrfee.
Lawn Cottage, May 21, 1874.
Congress has adjourned finally, much to
the relief of the country, and has accom
plished nearly- all the business it under
took. The Civil Bights bill failed to be
come a law, but is in good shape to be tak
en up and acted on at the opening of the
next session. The Currency bill, such as
it is, has become a law. The Revised
Statutes have been adopted. The Appro
priation bills have .ill been passed. The
new Revenue bill has been adopted, leav
ing out the tax on sales of stocks and bonds,
much to the relief of the stock-jobbers, who
were too many for Congress to grapple
with. The taxes have not been increased
or reduced ; but the newspapers of the
country have been saddled with the pre
payment of postage, whilst Congressional
documents" may go through the mails with
out being prepaid, which is a half-in-half
restoration of the Franking Privilege. The
Geneva Indeminity Fund is to be distribu
ted to the extent of reimbursing those
hose claims are undisputed, leaving to the
Insurance Companies the right to resume
their importunities next winter, for the
share they claim. They will be on hand,
promptly. The Moiety system of rewards
for detecting frauds on the revenue has been
abolished, and a system of small rewards, the
highest limit being 5.000, substited in its
place. The Sanborn Contract bill was re-
pealed, and the present government of the
District of Columbia abolished, but no pro
vision was made for putting down Poly
gamy. There were no railroad grants or
subsidy bills passed, nor has there been any
serious change in the laws, other than as
we have noted. The session has done but
little harm, and about as little good ; and
it is much more remarkable for what it has
not done than for anything it has accom
plished. Pottsville has already had peaches and
apricots of her own raif mg.
By reason of Pacific railroads and ths
general opening up of the plains and the
Rocky Mountain regions to civilization, thi
murderers, horse-thieves and various re
fugees from justice who used to find safety
and a precarious existence in the vast spaces
lying between our western frontier and
California or Oregon, have been compelled
to seek retrets iu more northern latitudes.
A colony composed of such worthies was
formed, some -ears ago, in British Ameri
ca, and has at length become so large ami
formidable as to demand the attention of
the Canadian government. This com
munity of desperadoes occupies a beaut if uf
and fertile valley at the foot of the Rocky
Mountains, and is believed to consist of be
tween five hundred and six hundred men,
many of whom have been joined by
thoir families. They neither are or pro
fess to be agriculturists, and their regular
or irregular occupations render them very
objectionable residents near the main route
between the eastern and western settle
ments of the Dominion. They plunder
and even murder emigrants and other
travellers, and there is no doubt that they
have been the perpetrators of many atroci
ties for which Indians have been hold re
sponsible. As may be taken fijr granted,
their influence on the neighboring Indians
is very bad. They manufacture a kind of
strong whisky for which the Indians ex
change valuable peltries and even their
wives, who thus become slaves. Moreover
the ruffians without pretense or form of
bargain and sale seize whatever they covet
of Indian property, and in case of resist
ance or offensive remonstrance, brutally
murder the owners.
Some time ago, the Dominion govern
ment organized a mounted expedition of
three hundred men for the purpose of break
ing up this flagitions colony. The expedi
tion seems to have been prepared and de
spatched with as much quiet and secrccy
as possible, in the hope of taking the scound
rels by surprise. This was desirable, as
they are known to have a sort of entrench
ed camp in the mountains near their se ttle
ment. Among the means of defending tins'
position are said to be several field-pieces,
which they succeeded in carrying off from
a raid into American territory. At anv
rate, they are well armed with Spencer i -"riles
and may be expected to make a desperate'
fight. The expedition sent against t hem
is commanded by an English Captain of
known skill and courage, and it has been
joined by a number of young Englishmen
of good social position w hose object is ad
venture. It is expected that Certain In
dian tribes will unite with the expedition
as allies to take vengencc upon the rogues
who have wronged and oppressed them.
About the first of Jul)-, if all goes well,
the first blow will be struck, and there will
be nothing surprising in the fact, if Ameri
can territory in the region of the Rocky
mountains soon receives a considerably ac
cession to its ruffianly population, lliiven
from their northern retreat, the rogue.-:
who escape their pursuers
seem likely to
return to their former haunts
The effect upon business of the new
Currency bill is thus pointed out bv the
New York correspondent of the Philadel
phia Ledger :'
The President's signing of the Currency
bill has produced a f avorable effect upon
business circles.- The- long prevailing feel
ing of depression has given way to confi
dence that we have reached the po?nt f.r a
new departure, which will lift the material
interests of the country out of the slough
of despond in which they have been floun
dering ever since the panic of September.
The fixing of the legal tender circulat k. n
at an invariable point, will enable the mer
chant to say what his goods will be worth
a month or six weeks hence, and with tl;
removal of that heretofore great element
of uncertainty, a freer and more confideiit
movement must follow. At any rate, that
is the view that is generally entertained
among the leading merchants, not les? than
in Wall and Broad streets, and the buoy
ancy in the stock market, is accepted lis
but the foreshadowing of a like improved
feeling in regular trade vhich will ooit be
manifest.
Preventing Flies from Annoying Horses.
According to Rochard, a French vetei in try
surgeon, a simple method of preventing tins
from annoying hordes consists in painting
the inside of the ears,, or any other part es
pecially troubled, with a few drops of empy
reumatie oil of juniper. It is said that the
odor of this substance is unendurable to flies, -and
that they will keep at a distance from the
parts sx anointed. If this treatment should
accomplish the alleged result, it may jvrhaps
be equally applicable in repelling mosquitos
from the faces and hands of tourists and
sportsmen, when passing through woods or
meadows.
Possibly there may be some anxious and
aimless ones in this neighborhood to whom
this advertisement of a Florida affinity may
offer encouragement : "Any gal what's got
a cow, a good feather lcd, with comfortable,
linens, 500 in good, genuine slap-up green
backs, that has had the small-jox, measles,
and understands tending children, can ibid
a customer for life by ritin a small wiUia.n
ducky, addressed X. Y. Z., and stickin a
crack of Uncle Billy Smith's barn, inin
the pig-pen, where Harrison Reed is now
planning for future operations."
Iirge number of sailing vessels, steam
barges, tow barges, and other description
of craft, are laid up on the lakes on account
of the hard times. Several large steamers
have also succumbed to the pressure.
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