OP AIVJEITISI.
1 The following are the ratee for advertising In the
Ambricax. Those having advertising to do will
ind it convenient for reforenoe :
Jll. It. luJmL0in ly.
1 ,on,f 1 ,50 f 2,001 ,oni n,nn;9 i u.irn
fiBrs from the offioe to which they are dirooted, they
irresponsible until they hay settled the bills and
ordoroa them discontinued.'-' I . vi
Pottmarteri will please aet m ear A gen U, and
Irk letter! containing subscription money. The
uepermittod to do thu undor the Poet Offioe Law.
1 JOB PfllUTINO.
We have oonneoted with our establishment a well
tolooted JOB OFFICE, whioh will enable u to
exooute, in the noateet style, every variety of
Printing
J,00
3,00 4,5V
4.501 r.ool
12,110
i e,voi
'10,00
-;I6,00,
20.0U
85 00
60, 0Q
14,00 20.00
2o,Ul, 35,011
Ten lines of thil sited, type (minion 1 make ouo
Square.
Auditors', Administrators' and Exooutors' Notices,
(3,00. Obitunries (except the usual announcement,
which Is free,) to be pniil fnf at advertising rates -
Looal Notices, Society Uosoiutions, Ac, 10 eenta
per line. '
Advertisements for Religious, Charitable and Edu
eational objocts, one-half the above rntos.
Transient advertisements will be published nntil
ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly.
PUBLISHED: EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, , BY- H. B. MASSER & CO, SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, l'LNWA.
NEW SERIES, YOL. 2, NO. 42.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1866.
OLD SERIES, YOL. 26, NO. 42.
tEUn or TUB AWtEKlCAJt
TERMS TWO DOLLARS par Annum. . 12 (0 If
ot paid wlthla the yew. Ne PP 41eone
actll all arrerges BrepsJd. . -, f ...
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rr ...hanritMM nealootor refuse to take their newe-
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BUSINESS CARDS.
OEOnOKlIlLL, SlMOB P. WoliVKRTOK.
niLL & WOLVERTON.
Allornrvs and Coiiniclori nt 'law,
SXT3SrBTJPlZ". PA. .
riLL attend 1 tho collection of all kinds of
claims, including Baek Pay, Bounty and ren
JACOB SHIPMAN
FIKE AND.LIFE INSURANCE AGENT
SUNBUUr PENN'A.
KBFBBSBXTS,
i'.'mera Mutual Fire Insurance Co., York Pa.,
Cuniherland Valloy Mutunl Protection Co.,
Kew York Mutual Life, Oirnrd Lifo of rhil'fc. 4 Hart
ford Conn. General Aocidcnta.
fiunbury, April 7, ly.
Dr. CHAS. ARTHUR,
il)omcropatijtc VbL'stctnu.
'Jrndunto of tho Ilomccopathlo Medical College of
Pennsylvania.
OpnoR, Market Square opposito tho Court IIouso
jUNBURY, PA. i .
Mnrch 81, ISOfl.
Olllf jOWEN, LEVI IBESUOLTZ.
Bowen & Seesholtz,
M'HOLESALK & RETAIL DEALERS
in every variety of
VWrnRACITE COAL,
. Hnns A Co's Lower Wharf, Niinbury, I a
Orders solicited and filled with promptness and
.'spntvh.
tiinbury, June 2, 1BR6.
SOLOMON MALIC K,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
JNBTJRY, Northumberland County, Pa
'FICE in East end of Weaver's Tavern, Mnrkot
Htreot.
Ml holiness entrusted to him will be careful y and
lctually attonded to. Consultation iu tho Kng
i ' M (iormnn lnnuagos.
iunbury, April 3. 1865.
IBR0TYPE ANDPH(5T0GRAPH
jicr Mnrkot & Fawn Street, SUNBURY, Pa.
S. UYERLY, PnoriiiETon,
lsrni.h, Ambrotypcs and Melaiuotypes tnken
bi'."t stylo of the nrt. apl. 7, ly
j7ll. HILBUSH
TRVEY0R AND CONVEYANCER
AND ,
JUSTICE Ob1 THE PEACE. . j
onoi, Kortiiumlierfrtnd County, PenrCa
jce in JackBon township. Engagements can
be mude by letter, dircetcd to tho ubovo address,
usinoss entrusted to his euro, will bo promptly
ted lo.
ril 22, 1866. ly
VI. Rockefeller. LLorn T. Rohhbacu.
jCKEFELLER & R0HRBACH.
si;.ii( KY,
'ICE the sumo thnt has been heretofore ooeu
iid by Win. M. Hojkefoller, Esq., nearly op
:Iie residonce of Judgo Jordan,
mry, July 1, 1S65. ly
7.IKGLER. 1.. II. CASK
IEGLEB. & CASE,
rTORNEYS AT LAW,
SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA,
'lions and all Professional business promptly
1 to in the Courts of Northumberland and
S Counties.
Iso, S)ociul attention paid to the Collection
ioii, JSountiua and Back Pay for Widowu
mid Holdiors
ry, March 11865.
II.
It.
.TIAMSr.lt.
rnoj lit I.fivr. SUNBURY, FA
I,iivr, SUNBURY,
ictioiis attended to in tho counties of Nor-
uiiil, Union, Snyder, Moutour, Columbia
lining.
DEFERENCES,
ulin M. Reed, Philadelphia,
lattell A Co., "
'in. A. Porter, "
McMiehacl,Kwi., "
hum A Co., 2S9 Pearl Street, New York.
. Ashiuead, Attorney at Law, "
vs Jc Cox, Attorneys at Law, "
f, March 2, 1802.
J9
LEGALE AND RETAIL DEALER,
In every variety of
rilRAGITE COAL,
or Wharf. 8UBBUBY, Penn'a.
trssolioited aDd filled with promptness and
Jlny 1 2,Jl80-y
3. C. QOBIN,
y mid 4'ounMolloi- at Ijim ,
'ILLE, CCOPER CO , MISSOURI,
ay taxes on lands in any part of the
. Buy and sell real Estate, and all othur
ustud to uiui will roccivo prompt uttcn-
65 oct 15, '61. . '
is. i:T i. i.ujii.uv,
CIAN AND SURGEON
RTHUMBERLAND, PA.
LEY has opened an oflioo in Nortbuin
oilers hi. services to the people of that
) u,l joining townsLips. OUico next door
s Mioo IS tor o, whoro ho can found at all
irland August 19,1865.
FISHEK'8
& LODGING HOUSE!
H !orth ol'lhe l pol,
AT ALL HOURS, DAY AND NIGHT
in. 20, 1886. '
IREMIAH SNYDER,
y 4'ounisellor at .
41 .MIIHV.
is-t Attorney for Korthuiu
wis iity.
iruh 81, 1866 ly
77". haupt;
it nd t'ouusrllor at Inw(
side of Market street, (our doors wost
of Eyster's Store,
iromptly to all professional business
d and the adjoining Bounties.
ril 7, 1866.
is care, ino coueouuu u. hwiu. ut
S. WILDER,
'.XJI3L.3DEPI,
JRV, PEN IT 'A.
, llrls'k aad tJari''""
uuvutiHK usitl ltMJriiig,
n done in the most modern styles and
nor at short notioe, and at prices to
. 17, 1866. '
DBO. BE OK
HANT TAILOR,
And Dealer I , it i . ..
ISSIMERE3, VESTXNO, c.
Mt, imwI1 vl" Wa-er'
llotfl,
XJ B "3T , 3E A.
. .
UOES for 1,00. at
WSMMM &o E0))Ma
Bricklayer and Builder,
Market Street, 4 doon Bast of Third St.,
STJNBtlBT. PENN'A
1. It. All Jobbing promptly at
irnii io,
Sunbury, June 2, 1866.
GEO. C. WELKER & SON,
FIBE ft LIFE INSURANCE AGENCY,
Offloe, Market Street, SUNBURY, PA.
Risks taken in First Class Stock and Mutual Compa
Dies. Capital Represented (114,000,000.
Sunbary, May 12, 1866 y
COAL! COAL!! COAL!!!
GRANT Oe BROTHER,
Shipper & Wliolennle & Kctall
lealera in
1VII1TK &. KEII A 11 COAL,
In every varictv.
Solo Agents, westward, of the Celebrated Ilcnry
Lower WnAnr, Sunburt, Pa.
Sunbury, Jan. 13, 1863.
Sending; ICallrond.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
i June 11th, 1866.
PI REAT TRUNK LINE from the North and
VA North-West for Philadelphia, Now York, Read
ing, Pottaville, Tamaqua, Ashland, Lebanon, Alien
to n, Eas ton, Ephrata, Litis, Lancaster, Columbia,
Ac, Ao.
Trains loave Harrisburg for New-York, as fol
lows : 3.00, 8 10 and 9.05 A. M. and 2.10 and 9.15
P. M, connecting with similar Trains on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, and arriving at New York at 6 00
and 10.10 A. M. and 4.10, 6.20 and 10.45 P. M.j
Sleeping Cars accompanying tho 3.00 A. M. and 9.15
P. M. Trains, without change.
Leave Harrisburg for Reading, Pottsvillo, Tama
qua, Minorsville, Ashland, Pine drove, Allentown
and Philadelphia at 8.10 A.M. and 2.10 and 4.10
P. M., stopping at Lobanon and principal way sta
tions ; tbo 4.10 p m. Train making oonneotions for
Philadelphia and Columbia only. For Pottsville.
Schuylkill Haven and Auburn, via Schuylkill ana
Susquehanna Railroad, leave Harrisburg at 3.20 p. m.
lioliirnin!; : Leave Now York at 7.00 and 9.00 a.
m., 12:00 Noon and 8.00 p. m.; Philadelphia at 8.15
a. ni. nad 3.30 p. in. Way Passenger Train leaves
Philadelphia at 7. .10 a. in., returning from Reading
at 6.30 p. m. stopping at all Stations ; Pottsville at
all Stations ; Pottsville at 8.45 a. m. and 2.45 p. m.;
Ashland 6.00 and 11.30 a. m. and 1.05 p.m.; Tama
9.45 a.m. and 1.00 and 8 55 p. m.
qua at 9.45 a m. and 1.00 and 8.55 p. m.
Leave Pot-ville for HarrUburg via Schuylkill and
Susquehanna Railroad at 7 00 a. m.
ReadiDg Accommodation Train leaves Reading at
6.00 A. M. returning from Philadelphia at 5.00
Columbia Railroad Trains loave Heading at 6.45
A. M., 12.05 noon and 6.15 P. M. for Ephruta, Litis,
Lancaster Columbia, Ac.
On Sundays : Loave New York at 8 00 p m., Phila
delphia 8.00 A. M., and 3.15 P M. the 8.00 a.m.
train running only to Reading, Pottsville 8 00 a m.,
Tamaqua 7 30 a m, for Harrisburg, 9 05 a m, and
Reading at 1 33 a m, for Harrisburg 7.30 a. in. JO. 50
a. m. for New York, and 4 25 p m. tor Philadelphia.
Commutation, Mileage, Season,' and Exoursion
Tickets, at rcdueod rates to and from all points.
Baggage chocked through : 80 Pounds Brggago al
lowed each Passenger.
O. A. NICOLLS,
General Superintendent'
Northern Centrul Itailwuy.
FOUR TRAINS DAILY to and from Baltimore
and Washington city.
TilltEE TRAINS DAILY to and from the North
and West Branch Snsquohanna, Elmira, and all of
Northern New York.
ON and after MONDAY, MAY 21st, 1666,
tho Pawcngcr Trains of the Northern Central
Railway will run ns follows :
SOUTHWARD.
Mail Train, leaves Elmira 4.45 p.m.
" Harrisburg, 1.35 p.m.
err. at Hnltimoro, 6.30 p.m.
Elinira Express leaves Elmira, 5,30 p m.
" Harrisburg, 2.50 am.
arr at Baltimore 7 00 i in
Fast Line, . ' leaves Harrisburg, . 8 45 p m
arr at Bultimoro, 12 30 p m
Harrisburg Accom. leaves HarrUburg, i 05 p m
arr at Baltimore, 0 37 p m
Erie Express leaves Erie, . 4 45 pm
arr at Uurrisburg, 8 33 a m
NORTHWARD. i
Muil Train leaves Bultimoro 9 15 am
" Harrisburg, 2 05 p m
arr at Elmira, 10 45 p m
Elmira Express loaves Bultimoro, 9 45 p m
" HarrUburg, 2 05 a m
arr at Elmira, 1 1. '15 am
Fast Line, leaves Bultimoro, 12 10 p m
arr at Harrisburg, 3 50 p in
Erio Mail arr at Baltimore, 7 20 p m
" Harrisburg, 12 00 am
arr ut Erio. 8 55 p in
Erio Express, leaves HarrUburg 4 10pm
arr at Erie 0 30 a m
Harrisburg Acc, leaves York, f III tin
arr at Harrisburg 8 40 a m
Erie Express North and HarrUburg Aocommoda
tion South run daily, excopt Sundays. Elmira Ex
press North duily, and South daily, except .Sundays
Fust Line North and HarrUburg Aooommodation
North arrive daily, exoept Sundays. Elmira Ex
press North arrives and Fast Line South loaves duily
Mail North and South runs daily, exoept Sundays.
Erie Express South arrives daily, exoept Mondays.
For furihor information apply at tho Ticket Otlice
in the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot.
For further information apply at the Office.
I. N. DpBARRY Uen. Supt.
lSSUO. ! IWttO.
Philadelphia A. l?rle Hullrond.
rrUlIS great line traverses the Northern and North
JL west counties of Pennsylvania lo tho city of Erie
on Iiako Erio.
It has been leased and u operutcd by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company.
Time of Passenger trains at Sunbury,
Loave Eastward.
Erio Mail Train, 11 .45 p. m,
Erio Express Train, iUim.
Elmira Mail Train, 10.85 am.
Leave Westward. -
Erie Mail Train, 4.50 a m.
Erie Express Train, 6.45 p m.
Elmira Mail Tram, 4.45 p. in.
Passenger ears run through on tho Erie Mail and
Express Trains without chaugo both ways botweea
Philadelphia and Erie.
Kew York Connect ion.
Leave New York at 9.00 a in, arrive at irio 9.30 a.
m. Leave Erie at 4.45 p in., arrive at New York
4 10 p.m.
ELEUANT SLEEPING CARS on all Niht Trains.
For information respecting Passenger business
apply at Cor. 30th and Market St., Philadelphia.
And for Freight business of the Company's Agents,
S. B. Kingston, Jr., Cor. 13th and Market St.,
Philadelphia,
J. W. Reynolds, Erio. f
William Brown, AgontN. C. R. R., Baltimore.
. II. H. Houston,
Uen'l Freight Agt. Phllada.
JI. W. GwiNMBR,
' Uen'l Ticket Ag't, Fhilada.
A. L. TYLER,
-. , Qan'l Manager, Williamsport.
June 2, 18M. , .
Lurkawaaua Ac Uiooiubnr; ltull
road.
ON and after Nov 27th, 1865, Paasengor Trains
will run as louows :
SOUTHWARD.
A. M. P. M. P. M.
Leave Soranton,
" Kingston,
Rupert,
5 50 10.05 450
6 55 11 15 6 20
9 15 868
9 50 ' 9 30
Danville,
Arr. Northumberland, 10 80 ' 10.16
, , , NORTHWARD. - '
Leave Northumberland, 8.00 8.06
v Danville, , , ,. 8.40 ' 8.40
" Rupert, Ui ! 9 15 , A.M. 4 16
Kingston, J 35 8.30 66
Arr. at Soranton, 46 B 35 8.10
Tr.h laavinff Kingston at 8. SO A. M. for Seran
to, oonnect with Train arriving at New York at 6.20
l.M.!nfr Northumberland al 8 .00 A. M. ana Bisn-
ton 1 80 P. M. oonnect with the Train arriving at
New York at 10.66 P. M. , . k
Passengers taking Train Bouth from Porantoa at
6 60 A. V. via nortnumberlaua,' reacn narrmourg
12 30 P. M., Baltimore 6.30 P. M., Washingwon 10..
00 P. M via Rupert reach Philadelphia aw uu p. m
r II. A. FONDA, Bup't.
Kingston, Nov. 25, 185. ' ,
TALES & SKETCHES.
A Jersey Atonement.
1 BY BRICK TOMEHOY.
i -. 1
I'm like a rosebud suMrowned in honey.
Yea. In your ptiper mine optic beheld
lines saying, black ink on white paper, a
contrast like snow flakes on a nigger, that
A WIDOW OF GENTLE DISPOSITION WANTS
L some one to love wants to marry a congenial
gentleman not over sixty, with a desire to improve
ment. Address, Ao.
Just my age to a duck's foot. Rather
ambiguous, .ut means well, saycth I to I.
Desire to improvement was good, blow
work for a man of sixty to greatly improve
a woman, unless she be well down the steel
yards of years. I went. Quiet home-charming
widow had seen forty winters somcwhercs
know not where. Handed her your pa
per with the delicious advertisement therein,
like a raisin in a kettle of beans. She wi
dowed. She smiled over her fan. She
scooched her head gently, thus. She gently
bit her upper lip and prayed, that is, she
prayed mu to be seated. I was fresh from
tho districts of ruralism. I had hoed the
calves, milked the bees, fed the growing po
tatoes, built sweet cider, and quenched my
thirst with rail fences, and was just the
rooster for the blooming widow's perch.
I sat iu the spontaneous dcliciousness of
the affectionate intercourse of that enthusi
astic explorer of masculine hearts five hours
that night. I was like a humming bird in
a fanning mill. I squozed the widow the
widow squizzencd me. I leaned my thinking
box against her maternal instincts, and look
ed into her eyes as a burglar looks around a
corner. And all I saw was love. Says I,
"shall we?" Says she "shan't we J" We
went to a minister five dollars and all was
over.
Llow I reveled. Sixty years- of bachelor
days in New Jersey had floctened over my
head and things. I was a freshman. I was
a icicle, only waiting for tho sun of love to
thaw me out. She thawed me 1 We began
to live. I tried to improve tho widow. I
spent all my ovenings in improving her.
She improved. Wo were wedded in April.
April the onest. With the vigor of a spring
chanticleer did I prove my devotion. Like
tho first violet of vernal did I watch our &c,
increase. " One day when I came homo to
our cot in the mill, I saw spread out on the
floor a fourteen year old lump of a ragged
boy. 'Twas ragged Pete, of the Newsboy
Brigade. lie wns on a lark. He'd been
slashing about and had becomo hilarious.
Ho showed - surface indications 1 being
drunk. I wanted to know why he earnest
thus upon us. lie said he wanted the old
woman to give him half a horse. That was
Pete's idea of a $5 bill. That cherubim was
tho child of my adored. . I gave him the lu
cre. He went I wanted to caress him with
the toe of my boot, but ha looked too detri
mental. I spoke gently to my wife about
Pete. Sho said she meant to, but forgot
when she saw mc, I ws so enticing she for
got it. She said I mude her forget it. Pretty
complimcut, wasn't it ? I told her that her
Peter niusn t be a re-peter or I'd peter. She
said fivo dollars a week would keep him
away. I told her I was just in from the
country, 6cc, but she did me five dollars,
and I saw no more of Peter. She Baid sho
had atoned for all that who could doubt
her we went on smoothly.
One day when I came home, two half
breeds were on tho family bed, playing with
a shaggy-eyed dog. The half-breeds were
brothers. They were twins. They were of
eleven years of duration so far. They wero
in the boot-bhick business at the Eastern
Market, and lived in a dry goods box there.
They had dark features, and a peculiar kink
to their capillary. They call my consort
"mother." She had bore them. They bored
mc. Words failed to relieve me. I spoke
of Pete. She said these were her atone
ments ! I asked if these had been atoned
for. Sho said no. I felt better, for if they
had I should have looked for four of an age,
and all four clear black. I settled five dol
lars a wock on the young Washingtons, and
was again happy.
.;. '
This is the second of Juno. I've been a
father for a week. Says I, bully for New
Jersey. Was married April first. Never
knew an instance where improvement went
on so rapidly. Age tells, blood is nothing.
Aud such a buby. Will be a man if it
grows up. It was like a newspaper that is
well read. It has tho strabismus. It has
red hair. I have written to my father to
know if I had red hair. Mine is like tho
driven over snow. Have written to my
original doctor, who I used to term a cow
catcher, to know if I had the cross-eyed when
first borncd. Am waiting for a reply. Wife
says it is because wo live at the forks of the
road, opposite a red barn. She may be
right. I hope she is right. If I had been
ninety years old wo should have had this
help to our census a mouth ago. That is on
this principle. I have givcu up business.
Thu loving disposition is proving too much
for me. I sold my steers, corn stalks, and
cow pasture to come to New Yoik to live.
I sold them that I might bo here continually
und improve the widow.
Now look at mo. I'm clad in a pea-green
dressing-gown. It is four o'clock in the
morning. I have been walking tho floor
three hours. This thing now asleep in my
arms is our baby. Our flmt hahy. That is
to say, on my part. It is our last atonement.
I like baby. It's better than lobster salad.
It's a vigorous baby. It never sloeps. I feed ,
it on paregoric and such stimulants. I am
its nurse. It eats from a bottle. I walk the
floor with it. It don't seem to like me. It
yells as if its father had been an auctioneer.
I never auctioneered. It kicks as if its pa
ternal derivative had at Borne time of life been
yackass. I never was a yackass. It squalls
as if its philoprogenitor bad been a storm at
sea. I never was one of them. Its mother
is of loving, gentle disposition. She loves
gin, and after drinking two buttles full, or
empty, becomes gentle. She is gentle now 1
I have tied the cherub's legs together with a
piece of wire so he can't kick. . I've put a
court plaster over his mouth so he can't
squall. I've tied a piece of paling to his
back so he can't squirm, and sit down to
write bow this affair is culminating. I've
got Pete and the two "atonements" out of
the way. I've got a sure thing on the wi
dow, while the gin hold out. And I've
got a tight thing on out cherub, if (Lbe
court plaster don't burst So now I'll let
him sleep in my arms, lying like an infant
on IU father's lap. while I write. Egad I
I've got 'cm all tight, and tow to my letter.
I feel a little dry will Uiue some ice-aatex
and go to work. '' i -;i " .'
"-."...
Don't answer advertisements inserted by
loving widows. I have tried it and after a
few weeks of
Confound that young one ; how it per
spires I Oucbs I won't finish this articlo till
I've tried on those new pants, for they may
not fit, and I may have to send them back
for alterations t
1'inety Cents Saved.
Old Bogo was a miserly old fellow, who
had accumulated great wealth by life-long
penuriousness. But even misers have to dio
sometime, and Old Bogo was at leueth call
ed on to pay that debt which all must pay,
and which is paid as easily by the man who
hasn't a cent as by the possessor of millions,
Old Boge was sick unto death, finding a
partial recompense in his sufferings from tho
itneeuuu mm us ns euuiu uoi eat anyiiuns
suiiivLuuiK "us uuinjr . saveu. xns pny
sician told him that his end was approach.
ing, and ns ho felt within himselt that he
was rapidly approaching his end, it wns
evident to Old Bogo that he must meet his
end very soon. "How long have I to live 1"
bskcu via uogo, in u laint voice.
"Only half an hour," said the physician,
taking out his watch in a business manner.
and added, "is there any one you would like
to send for a clergyman, for instance ?"
via Boge mused iu a lethargic way for a
moment, then started up as with a sudden
thought, raised his feeble band and felt of
his emaciated chin, upon which two weeks'
growtu ot gray and stubbed beard had
grown, then whispered hurriedly, "Quick
bring me a barber."
The barber came with his kit. and old
Boge said, in a voice that was rapidly grow
ing wcoKer :
"You charco ten cents to shave live
men f
"Yes. that is our Drice." renlicd the bar-
ber.
"What you
chargo to shave dead
men V.
"One dollar." said the barber, wondering
what ho meant.
"Then shave me ouick." said Old
Boge, nervously eying tho watch which tho
doctor held in his hand. lie was too weak
to speak further, but tho doctor interpreted
aright tho question that wns in his eyes.
"Fiffnnn mtmitpa " rn,ii;rl fl,a nM
J.i.ktl kill. uuui,
Old Boge made a feeble motion as with n
lather brush, and tho barber was at his work
in a jiffy. Ho performed his task with dis
patch, and although tho sick man had se
veral sinkiuc spells of an alarniin? nature.
yet ho bore up to tho eud. Old Bogo whis
pered in tones of satisfaction : "That'll do
ninety cent naval;" and immediately ex
pired. MISCELLANEOUS.
THU WAK I K.UAV.
Xhellaltlcat INmIoII Ilride Urn.
ftltlc Account of lbe SlanKktcr on
tlsc l'irst lny.
(From tho military correspondence of the London
Timus.j
H-ADtiUAHTEIiS OF FlltST PllUSSIAJI Alt-
my, SciiLOBS ok Sicmtow, June 27. Tho
railway and high-road which lead down the
valley of the lser from Tnrnau to Muuchcu
gratz, run for a distaucc of about five miles
from the former town on the north side of
the river, but on reaching tho village of
Podoll cross to the south bank by two
bridges, which ore about two hundred yards
distant from each other, that of tho railway
beiug on the right, and that by which tho
road crosses on the left, of a person looking
towards Munchcngratz. Tho railway bridge
is constructed ot iron ; that w hich carries
the road across the stream is made of wood,
and lies on a level with the causeway which
is raised on an embaukmcut about ten feet
above the flat meadows lying along side ot it.
The lser at Podoll is nearly one hundred
yards wide, aud runs with a deep but fast
stream between steep banks, which only rise
about four feet above tho level of thu water.
By tho side of the road and on the banks of
the stream grow large willow trees, planted
at equal distances from each other, and
about ten yards apart. Three roads lead
from the plateau of Sichrow to the high
road that runs down the valley of the lser.
That on tho east a country road which leaves
the plateau near the Schloss of Sichrow aud
joins the highway near tho village of
Swierzin, almost at sn equal distance be
tween Turnau and Podoll; in tho centre the
chausice from Licbcnau strikes into the
high roud half way between Swierzin and
Turnau, and the road from ticnt&chowitz on
the west joins it closo to this town.
Last evening Prince Frederick Charles
threw a light poutoon bridge over the river
a little below the broken bridge of Turnau,
and occupied the town with a small force
without opposition, '
Home's division marched at tho same time
by the country rond on the east, occupied
the village of Swierzin, and pushed its ad
vanced guard towards Podoll. The troops
directed on this point consisted of two com
panies of the fourth Jager battalion, the
second and fusilecr battalions of the thirty
first regiment, aud one battalion of tho
seventy-firs. Tho Jegers, who were leading,
got to within three-quarters of a mile of
Podoll bridge before they came into collision
with Austrian outposts, but here they found
the enemy, and a sharp action ensued, for
the Austrians had six battallions iu the vil
lage, and meant to hold the place and cover
the passage of tho river. . ,
orEKlKO FIIiE.
It was about eight o'clock, and the dusk
of tbo evening was rapidly closing iu, when
the Jagers first felt their enemy. On the
right hand side of the road, about halt a
utile before the bridge, stands the first house
of the village. It is s large square farm
house, with windows without gloss, but with
heavy gratings. The Austrians had occu
pied it in force, and their puttying pickets,
as they retired before the advancing Prus
sians, formed a line across the road beside
it. As soou as the Jagers came within sight,
the garrison of the farm-house and the
formed-up pickets opened a bitter fire upon
them.' From the 'grated windows and from
the line of soldiers in the road there came
one rapid volley, which told severely on the
Prussian riflemen, but these went quickly to
work, and fired about three tunes before the
AustrisnB, armed only with mottle-loading
rifles, were able to reply. Then the noise of
musketry rose high, occasionally swelling
into a heavy roar, but sometimes falling off
so that the ear could distinguish the sepa
rate reports." ' But this did not last long.
Major Von Hagen, commanding the second
battalion of the thirty first, which was fol
lowing the Jagers. ou the first sound of the
firing had put his troops in double-quick
time, and was scon up to reinforce the rifle
men. It was now nearly dark, and the
flashes of the rUles, the reports of the shots,
and tho shouts of the opmbatants. were al
most the only indications of the positions of
the troops ; yet it could be seen that the
rapid firing of the needle-gun was telling oa
tho Austrian line in the road, and the ad
vancing cheers of the Prussians showed that
they were gaining ground. Then, while the
exchange of shots was still proceeding ra
pidly between tho window gratings of the
farm-house and the Prussian firing parties
who had extended into a corn-field on the
right of tho highway, there was a sudden
pause lu the firing on the rond, for the .la
gers, supported by the thirty-first, had made
a oasii, ana were bearing the Austrians back
beyond the farm-house to where the cottages
of tho village
road, and win
closed on each side of the
hern tlm !ifnrwli.ra 1,n1 ln.,;ln
thrown some hewn-down willow trees as a
barricade across the way
, THURIBLE FIOUTINO.
Then the tumult of the fight increased.
Darkness hail completely closed in aud the
moon had not risen ; tho Prussians pressed
up to tho barricade, tho Austrians stoutly
stood their ground behind it, and, three
paces distant, assailants and defenders poured
their fire into each other's breasts. Little
could be seen, though the flashes of tho
discharges cast a fitful light over the Bar
ging masses; but in the pauses of the firing
tho voices of the oilicers were hoard encou
raging their men, and half-stilled shrieks or
gurgling cries told that the bullets were
truly aimed. This was too severe to endure.
The Prussians, firing much more quickly,
and in tho narrow street, where neither sido
could show their whole strength, not feeling
the inferiority of numbers, succeeded in
tearing away the barricade, and slowly
pressed their adversaries back along the
village street. Yet tho Austrians fought
bravely, and their plans for the defense of
the houses had been skillfully though hastily
made; from every wiudow muskets flashed
out (iru, and sent bullets into the thick tanks
of the advancing Prussians, while on each
balcony behind a . woodeu barricade Jagers
crouched to take their deadly aim ; but in
the Btreet the soldiers, huddled together and
encumbered with clumsy ramrods, were
unable to load with ease, and could return
no adequate fire to that of the Prussians,
while these, from the advantage of a better
arm, poured their quick volleys into an al
most defenseless crowd.
FIOHTINO IN TUB STREETS.
As the battle in the street was pushed
inch by inch toward the lser, tho Austrians,
in every houso which the foremost ranks of
the Prussians passed, were cut off from their
retreat, and were sooner or loter made pri
soners, for tho houses of the village do not
join on to each other, but ore detached by
spaces ot a rew yards, and mere is no com
munication from one bouse to tho other
except by tho open street. The whole of
the Piussian force was now up, and, extend
ing between tlio douses which the tirst com
batants had passed by, cut off tho escape of
.ncir garrisons, and exchanged shots with
mo ucienders..
1101UU11LE MIDNIGHT SCENE.
With shrieks and shouts, amid the crash
ing of broken windows, tho heavy sounds
of falling beams, and the perpetual rattle of
the brearms, tho battle was heavily pressed
down to the narrow street, aud about lmlf-
pnst eleven the moon enme up clear and full
to show the Austrian rearmost ranks turn
ins viciously to bar the Prussians from the
bridge. The moonlight, reflected in thu
stream, told tho nssailunts that they were
near the object of their labor, and showed
the Austrians that now or never the enemy
must be hurled back. Both sides threw out
skirmishers along the river batik, mid thu
moon gavo them light to direct their aim
across the stream, while on the first plank
of the bridge the AuRtriaus turned at bay.
and the Prussians pausing some short paces
lrom them, tho combatants gazed at each
other for u few moments. Then they began
a fiercer fight than ever. The discharges
were moro frequent, and in the narrower
way the bullets told with moro severe effect,
llerr von Drygalski, leading the fusileer bat
talion of the thirty-first, a lieutenant colonel
ot only two days standing, went down with
two bullets in his forehead, and a captaiu ut
tits sido was shot in botulegs; many men
tell, aud the ijray liorso ot a 1'russiau held
officer, with a ball iu his heart, fell heavily
against the wall, kicking amid the ranks;
but he was soou quieted torever, ana ut the
moment men regarded but little such wounds
as could be mulcted by au iron-shod hool
even in the agonies of death. The Austri
ans stood gallantly, aud made an attempt to
set fire to tho bridge ; but the difference of
their armament again told upon them ueru;
and it is said that, galled by their hard for
tune, they charged with the bayonet, but
that the Prussians also took kindly to the
steel, and this charge caused no change in
the fortune ot the tight ; certain it is that
tho defenders were ultimately obliged to re
tire across the bridge.
RETREAT OP THE ACBTlU.UtS.
While this combat was proceeding slowly
along the street, another fight .was carried
on upon the railway almost with an equal
progress, and witu an almost similar result.
A party of tho Austrians fell back from tho
point where Bliots were first exchanged, aud
where the railway crosses the roud, along
the line. They were pushed by some Prus
sian detachments, but neither sido was here
iu strong force, and tho principal fighting
was done upou the road ; but Here, too, tiie
needle guu showed its advantage over tho
old-fashioned weapons of thu Austrians, for
the. latter fell in the proportion of six to
one Prussian. The railway bridge was not
broken, but tho lines were torn up by tho
retiring troops, aud tho line is not now pas
sable by traius. The Prussians pushed over
both bridges alter tue retreating Austrians;
the latter threw a strong detachment into a
large unfinished house, which stands by the
chaussee, about a quarter of a milo beyond
the bridge, and again niado a stand, but not
of lung duration; they had lost many killed,
wounded, and prisoners; many of their offi
cers were dead or taken ; but they stood till
they could gather in alt the stragglers who
had escaped from the houses of the village,
and, harassed by the pursuing Prussians,
drew up sullenly by the muiu road to
Munoheugratz. Thus terminated a contest,
which, fought upon both sides with the
greatest of vigor and determination, yet re
sulted in a clear victory lor the Prussians ;
for when the last dropping shots ceased
about four o'clock this morning, there were
no Austrian soldiers within three miles of
Podoll bridge, except tho wounded and the
takeu. There was no artillery engaged en
either side; it was purely an infantry actiou,
and the Prussians derived in it great advan
tage from the superiority of their arms over
their opponents, not only in the rapidity
but in the direction of their tire, for a man
with an arm on the nipple of which he has
to place a cap naturally raises the muzzle in
tho air, and in the hurry and excitement of
action often forgets to lower it, and only
sends bis bullet over the heads of the oppo
site ranks, while tho soldier armed with a
breech-loading musket keeps his muzzle
down, and if in haste he fires it off without
raising the butt to his shoulder, his shot
still takes effect, though often low, and a
proot of this is that very many of tho Aus
trian prisoners ore wounded in the leg9.
SCENES ON THE ROAD.
The road to Podoll was this morning
crowded with hospital wagons and ambu
lance cars bringing in tho wounded; every
cottago in the way was converted into a
temporary hospital, and the little village of
Swierzin was entirely filled with stricken
men. Tho sick bearers, ono of the most use
ful corps which any army possesses, were at
work from tho very beginning of tho action.
As the combatants passed on, these noble
minded men, regardless of the bullets and
careless of personal danger, removed with
equal hand both friend and enemy who
were left writhing on the road and carried
them carefully to the rear, where tho medi
cal officers seemed to make no distinction
in their care for both Austrian and Prussian.
Not only was it those whoso Bpccial duty is
the care of the wounded who alono were
doing the best to caso the sufferings of those
who had suffered in the combat; soldiers
not on duty might be seen carrying water
for prisoners of both sides alike, Mid gladly
affording nny comfort which it was in their
power to give to those who over night had
been firing against their own hearts. Nor
is this wonderful, for after tho flash of the
battle is over, and the din of the musketry
has died away, the men of this army cannot
forget that one common language links
them to their adversaries, and that, after all,
it is probably German blood which, flowing
from tin Austrian, trickles over tho white
livery of the House of Hapsburg.
In tho village the utmost disorder cavo
evidence of the severity of tho contest.
Austrian knapsacks, shakos, clothes, and
arms were scattered about in wild confusion.
Dead horses lay in the ditches by tho road
side. White coats and cloaks, which had
been thrown off in a hurry of the Dght, lay
scattered along tho road ; the trees which
had formed tho Austrian barricade were still
on the sido of the street, and held many
a bullet. Tho cottages had been rausacked
of their furniture, and their beans and roof
trees had been torn down to form defenses
for the doors and windows ; while along tho
street and upou the banks of the river lay
objects which in tho distance looked like
bundles of untidy uniform, but Vhieh on
nearer approach aro seen to bo tho bodies of
slain soldiers. Sometimes they lie in groups
of twos or threes, twisted together as if they
had gripped one another in their mortal
agony, and sometimes single figures he on
their backs, staring with livid "countenance
and ball-closed hazy eyes straight up against
the hot morning sun. The dark -blue uni
form with red facings of Prussia and tho
white with light-blue of Austria lie sido by
side, but thu numbers of the latter much
preponderate, and on one part of the rail
way three Prussian corpses opposito nine
teen Austrian form a girlish trophy of the
superiority of the needle gnu.
THE NEEDLE-Ol'N.
Close on five hundred unwouuded Aus
trian prisoners have this morning been
marched up to head quarters aud tho Aus
trian loss in killed and wounded is very
considerable. The Prussians have lost two
otlicers dead and seven or eight wounded.
Tho medical oilicers have ollieially reported
that the proportion of wounded Austrians
to wounded Prussians is as five to one. Thus
has the needle-gun told both ou the battle
field nnd in the hospital.
To-day head quarters have haulted here.
There has been no skiruiishiug. The Aus
t rains appear to be in full retreat, for while
I writo white smoke curlings up from be
yond some far woods beside tho lser tells
that tho bridge of Mohciiutz, about five
miles below Podoll, which they have set
on nru to obstruct pursuit, is burning steadi
Tho overflow of the Alabama river is said
to have cost the planters three thousand
u.iies or cotton.
Tho St. Clair farm, at Hampton, Va., upon
winch I,d00 frcedmen aro quartered, has
been restored to its owners.
1 he "Greasers ' have struck oil. It is re
ported that the oil wells at Tehauutepec,
iucAiuu, iu yieiuing enormously. '
Garibaldi is represented to bo in excellent
health. Ho is culm and cheerful ; ho walks
several mnes every tiny, in order, as he sovs,
to accustom his leg to long marches. His
brother died recently.
Farmers in the Northern nortion of Ohio
suffered heavily from the storm of Sunday
aud Monday, in loss of stock. An estimate
made iu Huron countv. fixes the number of
suecp lost within a circle often miles at ten
thousand.
A. C. Robinson and some of his friends.
near Oskaloosa, Iowa, indulged in the pas
time of hanging a negro, whom thev sus
pected stealing a pair of pants. Tho uegro
iiung tlireo minutes, w hen he was rescued by
some JM.TBOUB who uau passed that way, and
A. V. ilobiuson is m jail, and with a fair
prospect tor tho State prison.
A child was kidnapped in New York, on
Thursday, aud when found was in a house
ot mdustry, w here it hud been placed by au
unknown woman. From descriptious given
ot tier, uowever, sue was arrested, and is
now iu prison awaiting trial for child steal
ing. It turned out that sue bad a mania
for that sort of thing.
Among the sad occurrences incident unou
the late Portland fire may be mentioned the
fact that an old gentleman, 74 years of age,
who, on the 8d mst., was worth at least
140,000 in real estate, is now one of the
daily applicants tor rations, which he ob
tains tn a tin pad. He wears to the eitv
delivery tho only suit of clothes which he
has iclt.
George Pcabody has accented an invita-
uoii io visit anesviue, Uliio, before he re.
turuB to Europe. Amomr his latest brncvo.
lout deeds, is the gift of $50,000 apiece to
each of his four nephews in this country, one
oi tncm. Mr. Arthur Pcabodv. was formerly
tho "loud" of the Zanesvillo Courier.
The gold fever is creating some excitement
in Georgia. A letter from Dulton says oue
company took out enough, on Saturday, to
make over 910,000. Tbo mines in orsytn
aud Carroll pouutius are being worked vigor
ously. . . ; . .
The closing ceremonies of the American
Sharpshooters' Association at Chicago took
place on the 17th instant. ' Tke number of
members is 1.S00. Fourteen States are rep
resented in the Association. The total num
ber of shots fired during the present meeting
was 87,906. The total amount et prises was
18.890. Not a single arrest was made by
the police during the four days of the festival.
They have big snakes In Texas. One of
them, measuring fourteen feet seven inches
in length, entered a house near the bay shoro'
at Galveston, and, finding a leg of mutton,
swallowed it. The inmates of tho house
were in bed, but awakened in time to scp
this gnstronomicul feat. lie was pursued fo
the water's edge, and killed.
J. C. Breckiuridgo is residing in tho town
of Niagara,; Cuuada West, where he has a
fine view of the United States territory. Ho
expresses the opinion that "everything will .
come out right." Let him continue to look
upon the land of Canaan, but we hope ho
will never be allowed to cross Jordan.
Two Fools. Last Wednesday at Bedford
Springs, Pa., Richard W. Tyson, of Balti
more, wheeled John Savage, of Philadelphia,
on a wheelbarrow, from Bedford Springs to'
Bedford City, on a bet of f 300, in one hour
and twenty minutes,
The FritsT Overt Act op Treason, '
The cannon, from which was fired the first
shot iu the rebellion, at tho steamer titar
the West on its entrance of the harbor of
Charleston, on January 0th 1801, has reach
ed Washington, guarded by four regular
soldiers.
Tho Portland Prent recounts a singular
incident. At the burning of Portland by
the British during the revolutionary war, an
infant of but few weeks of age, was removed
from a house on Fore street, and taken out
of the town for safety. The houso was burn
ed clown. During tho conflagration Wed
nesday night, that same infant was removed
from a house erected on the spot where
stood tho one burned by Mowatt, from
which ninety years ago she had been re
moved, and sho was once more taken to a
place of safety. It was tho vcncrablo Miss
Hannah Thorlo, the daughter of Cant. Peter
Thorlo.
Some public-sprrited citizens of Philadel
phia have established a freo bath house in
that city for the general benefit.
A woman was found lying drunk iu tho
doorway of a drinking saloon iu Troy, ono
night last week aud was arrested by the oili
cers. The saloon keeper appeared as a wit
ness for the defence at her trial, and bad the
impudence to swear that ho kept her as a
sign to attract customers, aud to show the
cllicacy of his liquors.
Jenny Lind is soon to sing for tho last
time in public, nt Dusseldorf. Jenny's voico
is somewhat cracked.
Mrs. Havilaud, a spiritualist, has been
sentenced to be huug in Michigan, for thu
murder of her three children.
Olo Buil was fiddling, with great success
at St. Pptersburg, when tho papers killed
him at Quebec.
Seventeen lottery policy dealers were ar
rested in Philadelphia on Thursday.
iii:ciii:s, ac.
I From Uermnn'iivn Tulcgrnpli
To JUuku Itliickbcrry Wiue.
The following careful receipt for making
this excelleut ami wholesome wine, we find
in the Country Gentleman. We reprint it
in full season that the readers of the Gu
mantoirn Tdtymjih may have at onco the
benefit of it.
"Have ripe fruit mash it into a pulp with
a heavy wooden maul, and throw this into
a vat (a tight barrel, with tho head out,)--and
contituo adding ucw pulp till the bar
rel is lull. This may occupy u week or ten
days. The fermentation will throw the
fruit pulp to tho top, while the seed that
have been separated w ill sink to the botti-m.
When this occurs draw off the clear liquor
from the vat, by a faucet, a few inches from
tho bottom, into tho barrel you inteud to
keep tho w ine in. Then, to tho pulp that
remains in the vat. add one half tho mn-
suro of water that there has beeu pure juico
drawn oil. Mix nud stir this, aud leave it
till the pulp rises again, und draw off the
clear liquor into the barrel. Put the pulp
into a course crash bag, and press it as dry
as possible, and add the liquor to thu barrel;
which should now be full. Add to each
gallon of liquor, two or thrco pounds of
light yellow or white sugar. Two pounds
will make a wine about the strength of claret;
three pouuds makes it strong wine, which, at
two years old, will pass for good port.
The wino is now making itself, and will
throw off nt tho open bung, all the impuri
ties. The barrel should bo kept full by the
addition of liquor kept for that purpose, anil
if that gives out, 6wcetcned water will do.
When the impurities are all thrown out, put
the bung in tightly, and boro gimlet hole
in it or the burrel, at the highest poiut, to
allow the escape of the gas. This cau bo
kept plugged, if euro is taken to open it
once a day to relievo the pressure ot gas.
When the fermentation has goue far enough,
that is when tho wiue is of the projier flavor,
which the maker must judge by tho tusto-r-rack
tho wiue off into a barrel perfumed or
steamed with sulphur, and bung it up tight
ly, and let it stuud to ripen. The fermenta
tion is now stopped, und tho wiuo should
remain undisturbed for several months. It
improves by age iu strength and flavor. It
may be drawn off again if uny uuw fermcu
t at ion sets up: aud the barrel a 'iiin fiuliihiir.
cd ; but that seldoui occurs.
As tho bitter priuciplo of blaekberries is
in tho seed, care should bo takeu at the first
drawing off, to get as few as possible into
the barrel. However, ul-o remedies that.
and if the wiuo is for medical use, the bitter
principle had best be left iu it. Au ordinary
cellar is cool tuouuh to keep wiue iu. Thu
syphon Is not necessary."
IHdcrberry lViue.
To make this wine the berries should be
gathered when perfectly dry, and if one is
very particular in regard to flavor, tue ber
ries separated trom tue stems, mosu tine,
then add two gallons boiling water tuonenf
pinnace, and let it stuud uulil it begins to
ferment. After pressing out the juice, add
three pounds sugar to each gallon j put into
clean casks, jugs, or deniijolius, till them
full, and keep them full as it tends to fer
mentation ; then cork up air tight, or bottlo
off. It will be tit for use in four to six
mouths, but will improve with ago. If tho
quantity to bo made is small, it mar bo
pressed in a coarse strsiuer, or a piece of
coarse cotton or flannel, or, what is better, a
strongcask with holes thickly bored through
it, aud put under a band cider-mill or cheesc
prees. Oa a winter's night, when one has a cold
and feds wheezy generally, we should like
to know sny physio that is equcl to elder
berry wine. : As an article to have in the
house, not to be used constantly as a beve
rage, but occasionally as a gentle stimulant
a sore of medicine when one does not
want physio, there are not many things
equal to the juice of the elderberry. Both
these statements are to bo qualified with the
proviso that it must be good and pure.
W.YV.Apsley'i.