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HILL & WOLVERTOK,
Cttornej nnd t;ounelorsi at latT.
W1
rlLL attend to the eolleotion of all kind of
olniani, ineluding Back Pay. Bounty and Pen
loni. api. i, oo.
- ! ; 3-. H. EASE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
: "Two doort east of Friling'i itore, Market Square,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
; fiuslnesa promptly attended to In Northumberland
' and adjoining counties. Is also duly authorised and
xjiceiueu viaim Ageni ior av ouiiuuiiun ui iwmmw,
' qualiiation Bounties, Pension, and all manner of
- oinims against the Uovernmont.
Sunbury, Sept. IS, 1808. .
ATTORNEY A.T LAW,
North Side of Public Square, adjoining residence of
Ueo. Hill, c.sq.
... SUNBURY, PENN'A.
' Collection and all Professional business promptly
attended to in tha Courts of Northumberland and
. adjoining Counties.
Sunbury.Sopt. 15, 1866. '
JACOB SHIPMAN,
. riEB AND LIFE INSUBANCB AGENT
SUNBURY PENN'A.
nSPRBSEKTS
Farmers Mutunl Firo Insurance Co., York Pa.,
jumborlnnd Valley Mutunl Protection Co.,
ew York Mutual Life, Oirard Life of Phil',. A Hart
ord Conn. OonerRl Accidents.
Sunbury, April 7, ly.
Dr. CHAS. ARTHUR,
iradunta of the Homoeopathia Medioal College of
Pennsylvania. .
Officb, Market Square opposite the Court llouse
BUXBURY, PA.
March .11,
' SUNBURY BUILDING LOTS
IN J. W. CAKE'S Addition to the Borough of
Sunbury, for Sale on reasonable terms.
Apply to lr. R. II. AWL nnd,
SOL. BROSIOUS,
Sunbury, Pa.
Or P. W. SIIEAFER.Pottsville, Pa.
Not. 21, 18M.
AMBR0TYPE AND PHOTOGRAPH
GALLERY.
Corner Mnrkct A Fawn Street, SUNBURY, Pa.
S. BYERLY, PnorniETOR,
Photograph, Ambrotypcs asd Alelainotypcs taken in
the best style of the art. apt. 7, ly
J. R. HILBUSII
J5URVEY0R AND CONVEYANCER
AND
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Mahonoy, Kvrlliumlerland County, renn'a
Office in Jackson township. Engagements can
be made by lotter, directed to the above address.
All business entrusted to his care, will be promptly
attended to.
April 22, 1806. ly
Wm.M. Rockefeller. Llovd T. Rourdacu.
ROCKEFELLER & R0HRBACH.
U.MItUKV, I'BI.Vl.
OFFICE the same that hns been heretofore occu
pied by Wm. JI. Rockefeller, Em., nearly op
hite the residence of Judge Jordan.
Sunbury, July 1, 1S65. ly
4 tloruey nt Ijiw, SUNBURY, PA
7X Collections attended to in the counties of Nor
inmberland, Union, Snyder, Montour, Columbia
nd Lyeoming.
REFERENCES.
Hon. John M. Reed, Philadelphia,
A. U. Oattoll A Co., '
Hon. Vim. A. Porter, "
Morton McMichael, Esq., '
E. Kctchain A Co., 289 Pearl Street, New York.
John W. Ashmcad, Attorney at Law,
Matthews A Cox, Attorneys at Law, "
Sunbury, March 29, 1862.
HULl'.SALK AND RETAIL DEALER
in every variety of
ANTHRACITE COAL,
Upper Wharf, BUN BURY, Penn'a.
Orders solioitcd and filled with promptness and
spatch.
Sunbury, May 12, 1866. y
E. C. QOBIN,
ttornvy and Coismttcllor at l4iw,
BOONVILLE, COOPER CO, MISSOURI.
(TILL pay taxes on lands in any part of tha
V State. Buy and sell real Estate, and all other
tiers entrusted to him will receive prompt atten
1. uly8, 1805 oct!5, '64.
IHt. I'. I. LIINLEY,
JYSICIAN AND SURGEON
NOETHUMBEBLAND. PA.
iR. LUMLKY has opened an office .in Northum.
land, and oQ'ers his servioes to the people of that
e and the adjoining townships. Omoe next door
lr. Scott's Shoe Store, where he ean.faund at all
rs.
orthumberland August 19,1865.
0UlT& FEED STORE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
BE subscriber respectfully Informs tha publie
that he keeps oonataully on tand at his new
REUOUSE, near th Sbauobio Valley Railroad
ot, in SUNBURY, Flour by the barrel and sacks
11 kinds of Faed by the ton
M fcbove is all munnfaotured at his own Mills,
will be sold at the lowest cash prices.
J M. CA1WALLADER.
nbury, April 1, 1861.
JEREMIAH SNYDER,
ttorney Ac Counatellor at Law.
KL.-VIIUKV, H.
Uititrlct Attorney ltr Avrlbum.
land County.
ibury. March 81, 18M '.y
Or. "W. HAUPT,
orney and Counsellor at sLa-vr,
. on south aide of Market street, four doors west
of Ey iter's Store,
BTJNBUB-Y, X.A
.11 attond promptly to all professional batines
.sted to bis care, the collection of claims in
.number land and the adjoining oountica.
.anbury, April 7, lt66.
ricklayer and Builder,
Carket Street, 4 door East of Third St.,
UNBTJKY, PENN'A.
I. II. All Job bias promptly at
vd to.
frinbory, June I.18M. '
)AL! COAL!! COAL!!!
3RANT SB BROTHER,
ipperai St tVholraale A lletall
assasalaiVI ftaan
WIIlTi: A REU Alll COAL,
in avery srarietr. . I
Agent, westward, of tka Calsbrated Henry
Lowia Wsuar, truirnr, P.
ibury, Jan. 11, I8.
.., ., ... . ... ,.. ,r
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY
NEW SERIES, VOL ,3, NO.
J -A. OOB Oi BEC !EC
MERCHANT TAILOR,
., And Dealer In
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTING, &6.
I'iiwb tret, nth of Weaver
' 1 Hotel,'
STJNTJB BY, PA.
March 81, 1866. r
GEO. C. WELKER & SON,
FIBB LIFE INBCJBANCH AGENCY,
Office, Market Street, SUNBURY, PA.
Risks taken in First Class Stock and Mutual Compa
nies. Capital Represented 14,000,000.
Sunbary, May 12, 1800. y
W. J. W0LVERT0N,
ATTOIMEVATLAW,
East end of Pleasant 's Building, Up Stairs,
: SUNBURY, PENN'A. :
All professional business in this and adjoining coun
ties promptly attended to. ....
Sunbury, November 17, 1886. ly
Pensions Increased.
Tho late Act of Coneress eires additional dit to
the following Pensions, vis :
1st. To those who bare lost the sight of both eyes,
or both bands, or totally disabled se as to require con-
stunt attendance, the sum of $25 00 per month.
2a xo mose wno nave lost ootn teet, or are totally
disabled in the same so as to require constant attend
ance, the sum of $20 00.
8d. To those who have lost one band or one foot.
or are so disabled as to rendor them unable toper
form manual labor $15 00 per month, and other
oases in proportion.
The subscriber is duly prepared for tha Immediate
procurement of these cluims.
e. IS. UOl fcK, Att'y at Law.
Sunbury, June 16, I860.
-Jim rmrm or.
nIIE following persons are entitled to receive an
J increase of Bounty under the Act of Congress
passed July 18C6, to equalise Bounties.
1st All soldiers who enlisted after the 19th dnvof
April, 1861, lor 3 years, and sorved their time of
enlistment and hnve been honorably discharged, and
have received or uro entitled to receive a Bounty of
$100, are entitled an additional Bounty of 100.
2d All such soldiers who enlisted for S vears. and
have been honorably discharged on account of
wounds received in the line of duty, ara entitled to
an additional Bounty of glOO.
3d The Widow, Minor Children, or Parents of such
soldiers who died in tbo service of wounds or disease,
are entitled to an additional Bounty of ftlOO.
By application to 8. P. W0LVERT0N. Esq.. of
Sukduhv, Pennsylvania, who is an authorised Claim
Agent, all such claims can be speedily collected.
cunpury, Augusta, iboo. tt
EQUALIZATION OF BOUNTIES.
L. II. KA8E,
Attorney ai Lair, Sunbury, Pa.
I S duly authorized and Licensed by the Govern
1 merit to collect all Military Cluims against tho
United States. Bountv nionev due soldier, under
the lnte Equalisation Act of Congress, and all mili
tary eluims against the State, due soldiers of 1812,
fur Pensions and Gratuity. Claims due soldiers of
tho Pennsylvania Reserve Corps from enlistment to
the duto ot muster, promptly collected.
puuuury, AUgU3l4, louo.
lloisnlicsi Collected.
G. W. IIAUPT. Attornev at Law. Sunhurv. Pa
offers bis professional services for tha collection cf
bounties due to soldiers uudor the lato Equalisation
Act passed by Congress. As an authorized claim
agent he will promptly oollcct all Bouuties, Pensions
and Gratuities due to soldiers of the late war, or the
war 01 101.
Sunbury, August 18, 1SG6.
Sheet Iron and Stove
Market Street, near Engel's Store, SUNBURY, PA.
AN immense stock of every kind of Tin Ware,
and Sheet Iron Ware of all descriptions.
STOVES,
COOK, OFFICE and PARLOR STOVES of the best
Brands which ore unsurpassed for beauty of finish.
simplicity of arrangement, combining cheapness and
durability and eaub stove warranted to perform what
they are represented.
Coal Oil, Coal Oil Lamps, Lantern,
bodes, Cbiuinye, and all article usually kect in an
establishment of this kind.
COPPER, BRASS aud IRON KETTLES, of all
sites.
FRUIT JARS and CANS of tha latest improved
styles.
lie is also prepared lo do all kinds of Spouting and
Roofing, Range and Furnace Work.
Repuiriug, cheaply and neatly executed.
BEN J. ZETELM0YER.
Sunbury, July T, 1866. ly
i BOUNTY FOR SOLDIERS.
I HAVE made arrangements in Washington City,
for the prompt collection of Bounty under the
lute Act of Congress. I have also received the pro
per blanks to prepare the claims. Soldiers entitled
to this Bounty should apply immediately, as it is es
timated that it will require three years to adjust all
the claims.
All soldiers who enlisted for three years and who
have not received more than $100 bounty are entitled
to the benefits of this Aot, as well as soldiers who
have enlisted for three years and discharged after a
service of two years, by reason of wounds received,
disease contracted in line ofduty, or re-enlistment.
LLOYD T. ROHRBACU.
Sunbury, August 18, 1806.
MUSGR0VE & 6HAFER,
. Wholesale Dealers in
FLOUR & FEED,
Manfaeturers of
CANDIES, BREAD, CAKES, &c,
Three Doors East of P. A E. R. R. Depot, Front St.,
NORTHUMBERLAND, PENN'A.
Tha Baker Wagon will run daily to Sunbury and
Selins'Urove, to serve customers. Orders eolioited.
Northumberland, Nov. 17, 1660. ly
Support Home Industry
Huta of Every Deicrlptlon!
A FULL ASSORTMENT Jist ormxo by
SAMUEL FAUST.
Two doors weal of Bennett's Drug Store, Market it
BUNBURY, I E KTltf-'.A..
CALL and examine tba Urge assortment of tha
latest New York and Philadelphia styles of
Iliamark, Warwick, Tudor.
Half-Dress, Resort, Planter , Half-Planter, Driving.
Silk, Quaker and Brush t
am a. rac mm 9
BOY'S HATS and CAi'S of every style and variety.
These styles of Hats which for beaut v and H.
rability eaouot be excelled. Being a practical HaU
fcor, ue niUl.U!t wai Bis SLUCK QU neon SOlOCU
ed with mora ears than any aver before brought to
thia place. ;
ue also manufactures lo order all kinds of soft
Fur H.ts, all of which will be sold at wholesale anil
retail, at reasonable rates.
Dyeing done at short notioa and at tha lowest rates.
Sunbury, Not. 84, lo.
NETST HARDWARE
m0N STORE.
THE subscriber having opened In SUNBURY,
Pa., anew large, and well assorted stock of all
kinds of HARDWABB, CUTLERY, OOACHWARg
SADDLERY, SHOE FINDINGS, IRON, NAILS,
As., laid in at lowest New York and Eastara uua
which they wUl bo pleased to aaU fcraab at sue
lowest Eastern prieea.
i Intending to do business la the honest principles
,f lllUll DMll. Mi .,il.k Ml. b. Iluk
J. U. CDNLKT CO.
Sunbnty, Jane It, HUM.
18.
POETICAL.
, WHERE ABB THEY t
. .... " . .
Where are they with whom I started,
Travelling o'er life's joyful way ;
Years have vanished since we parted,
I am here but where at e they T
.-. 0 the blissful hours that blest us, 1
. 0 tha friends that once caress'd us
Bosom friends that fondly presVd us.
Where are they ?
As tha early crystal dawning,
Heralds in a glorious day ;
So with lifo's enraptured morning,
Bright with Hope's delusive ray ;
Scenes of Heavenly brightnen seeming-
Scenes with fadoless lustre gleaming :
. Lit with smiles of Beauty beaming.
. Where are they ?
As the stars In clustering bands,
Sweotly smiling, smoothly roll ;
So with clasped hearts and hands,
Full of bliss we sought the goal ;
Pleasure's radiant sky was o'er us,
Hope on gilded pinions bore us,
Love in angol guise before us,
' Woo'd the soul.
As the stroamlets danoing by,
Joyful ever over sings ;
As the crystal'd evening sky, .
Gems of beauty ever brings ;
So the years in bright appearing
Ever glowing evor cheering,
Wrapt our souls in love endearing,
Life the spring.
They hare gone whose hearts were lightest ;
They to whom I fondly clung,
They whose buoyant hopes were brightest ;
They who sweetest smiled and sung ;
Fairy forms in grace arrayed,
Checks where Beauty blushing played,
Eyes where Love L is' oonquesu made.
Hearts among. ,
Why, ah ! why, this mournful feeling,
Wby should tears embittering flow f
Tears in silent swiftness st on ling,
Meet where flowers of glory grow ?
There, I'll meet the buoyant hearted,
Thoso with whom in life I started
Those from whom 1 weeping parted,
Long ago !
MISCELLANEOUS.
Society lu WnNlaiaig'lon.
GE25. GKANT'S ltLCEl'TIONS RECEl'TIONS OP
THE PRESIDENT, MR. COLFAX AND MR.
8TASTON CDNTEltSAZtOKES FASniON AND
RELIGION rEltSOKAL.
A Washington correspondent of the Now
York Iribune gives the following sketch, of
society in that city :
It is very difficult to stop long enough to
sketch life in Washington. It is ns much as
one can do to live it. Event follows event,
scene follows scene in such rapid succession,
like the pictures in phuntnsmugoriu, one can
scarcely mime them us they puss. One slips
into the tide goes with it, tind wakes up
some morning so tired. Yet the human tide
rolls on tho same; and watching it from
one's window, say, is decidedly pleasant.
It is a reception day. All cquipuges move
toward tho West Enrl. The enumelcd conch,
the liveried driver, the thoroughbred horses,
the Due ludies in ermine, velvet, and jewels,
all movo on towurd tho West End. The
'"hack," with its tattered trappings, its
shabby driver, its dilapidated horses, and
its ladies in second rate, "Hxed up," finerv.
jolts on toward the West End. Why not '
I his is a democratic country, or ought to
be ; and if Mrs. Clerk wishes to delight her
eyes with the sight of Mis. Cabinet's latest
costumes and refurnished talons, has she not
as good a right, pray, as Mrs. Congress?
As these rights are necessary to her peace,
happy for her Ihut tho Government of her
country gives her the privilege of enjoying
them, otherwise society would not. Human
nature is the same in Washington os in Lon
don, and yearns to exalt itself bv u privi-
leilged order, by the escutcheons of nobility
and tho itnpnssublc bars of caste. These
yearnings are manifested by a "superior !
utr," ana an exclusive devotion to the torjm
Vijilomutiqne. i
bucu aspirations are very amusm" to im-
fiartial beholders, and tempt one to probe a
ittlo below the surface, to see in whut man
ner ot sou the family tree took root. Tho
"humble individual'' is not the only one of
our public men w fio from the smallest be
ginnings has worked his way to place and
power, n is me giory oi ineir country in at
tbis is true. We doubly honor tho man
who, against the odds of fate, has struggled
up to success, until he begins to "put on
airs;" then it is human nature also to begin
"to take him down." The Hon. Mrs.
taught a district school once. And now in
her high estate she scatters the sifts of af
fluence and of fame with a lavish hand.
Simple, sincere, loving-hearted, her blcssiui's
fall upon lowly and lofty, and if she is not
reverenced it is because she is so beloved.
Another Hon. Mrs. was a chmbcrmaid
in her youth. Now this delicately nurtured
creature is unuble to dress or undress her
self, or even to hang up her own clothes,
although perfectly able to endure any amount
ot dissipation, blie is very aristocratic, bhe
appreciates liveried coachmen and coats ol
arms. We object to neither. Only give the
real family insignia. Let the scissors, the
shoe-last, the broomstick, flourish where
they belong I
Among the most popular of the day-receptions
aro those of Mrs. Grant. Carriages
crowd the street tor a block from the house,
and gay cavalcades of ladies are seen alight
ing and returning through half the hours of
every Saturday. Tho spacious parlors are
thronged with beauty, fashion, and youth.
People like to come here for they are certain
of a kiudly welcome. No matter how great
the crowd, nor how brief the space allotted
for words, they are sure of rcceiviug some
thing more than a merely conventional wel
come. .Mrs. Grant does not "receive" with
the air of a martyr, or aa automaton. She
evidently enjoys it, this elegant crowd of
bright faced women, all lavishing sunshine
and kind words on her! Sbe is pleased
with so much attention, and natural enough
to show it, in an unaffected womanly way.
Everybody feels kindly toward the Grants.
An unwonted state of mind for everybody
to be in toward a family raised from poverty
and obscurity to affluence and power. Yet
this It true, the spacious house, tho costly
library, the showy coach and horses, gifts as
they are, seem to stir neither envy uor ma
lice in anybody's heart. The secret of this
good will does not lie wholly in the fact of
Geo. Grant's military renown ; that, if he
were selQsh and exclusive and "set up,"
would not make bim socially popular. But
the Grants have a pleasant way of sharing
their good gifts with others. If you see the
carriage on the avenue it is 11 lied as full as
it can bold, and is evidently rolling about,
not lor stale, but for a good time. You go
to the house t that too is full to overflowing.
and whoever chooses to come, is certain aot
of aa ostentatious, but a sincerei welcome. A
lady said the other day t "I don t see bow
Mrs. Grant can open her uouss to everybody,
aaa receive rteopie promiscuously."
.
II. B. MASSER & CO.,
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY
The lady's feelings were natural, but in
connection with the Grants she forgot a
number of facts. The house they inhabit,
its very furniture, is tho gift of the people.
With unstinted hands others pour -out for
thera the wealth and luxury of life. They
have the good sense and the kind hearts to
remember this. If they receive largely, they
share as well, and make munv neoJlo hannv.
If they intrenched themselves in exclusive
state to receive the elect and elegant few,
no doubt their carpets would last longer,
but not their many friends nor their grow
ing prospect of still greater honors.
The second of their three evening recep
tions to bo given this season occurred Wed
nesday evening, and was even more crowded
than the first. A mass of splendor, it was too
vast to be individualized. The Corpt Diplo
matiqa in glittering court costume, o dicers
of army and navy in full uniform, women
resplendent with jewels, music and dancing,
warmth and cheer, crash and suffocation,
fading flowers, robes despoiled, tho old
story, you know it nil if ever there once ; if
not, I can't tell you.
Speaker Colfax's weekly receptions hold
their wonted sway. Like the Presidential
levees of palmy days they include everybody,
from the Chief Justice aud Cabinet Minis'eis
to the poorest clerk who rooms in an attic.
No stranger visiting thecopital is content to
leave it without attending one of these
popular receptions. Mr. Colfax is emphati
cally a man of the people. Struggling up
from a fartherless boyhood to his present
eminence, through nil the way he has kept
with the people. Ho has not grown away
from them, nor striven to rise above them,
lie is with them in sympathy, in aspiration,
in principle. Tho people know it, and re
gard it accordingly. The President's recep
tion was given the same evening, nnd called
outran array of Southerners, such as the
White House has not seen since the days of
the old regime. This fact was cheering to
the heart of the "humble individual," who
observed that he wa3 "very glad to see so
many of his friends, as just at this time he
felt the need of sympathy." Nobody doubts
that, Andrew.
. Besides the public receptions, elegant par
ties have been already civen by Gov. Mor
gan, Admiral Dahlgren, Chief Justice Chase
and Secretary Stanton. The latter issued
a00 invitations, limiting the hours of festi
vity from 0 p. ui. to 1 o'clock a. m. Noth
ing could have been moro recherche than
this entertainment. The costumes were su
perb, and there was space in which the reg
nant truins could move, and in which we
could behold them. The Secretary, terrible i
to lavor-seekers and to offenders in his office,
is the most genial and cordial of men at
home.
The house of Gov. Morgan, one of the
most spacious and elegont in Washington,
hus beeti made more delightful by the addi
tion of a splendid library, built during tho
past year, lined with books, and furnished
with crimson leather and black-walnut. A
very select party was given at this mansion
not long since. It was odd to see, even
here, how religion and frivolity meet, if they
do not mingle. "Pray for me '." said a lady
of high ton (a Catholic) to , a young
and haiKhomc attachee of a Foreign Embas
sy. "I w ill," was the reply ; "I see your lit
tle light burning every morning iu the
church." These pious devotees of fuahion
and religion, after dancing all night, go to
mass at 0 in the morning, and as the priest
will not allow them gas at that hour, each
kneeling holds a candle over their book,
that they may see to say their prayers. Hav
ing said them, they are once more ready for
all the flirtations acd frivolities of the even
ing. There is at least one exception to the mere
ly conventional, fashionable party, which
has so long reigned supreme in Washington.
This is found in the conversazione of Mrs.
Charles J. Karnes, a lady of talent, of posi
tive intellectual tastes, and ot elegant cul
ture. Mrs. Eatnes is the daughter of Judge
James Campbell, once Surrogate of the City
of New-York. Her soirees revive in this
utilitarian capital something of the former
hureuux W esprit of France, where women
kindled revolution and inspired men to he
roism, and where men buried old theories
and philosophies and built up new. These
"evenings" of Mrs. E. are given to free
thought nnd discussion, and call together
the most gifted and cultured men and wo
men of the country who may chance to meet '
at the National Capital.
XI UK ATT l.M14"ri:i.
On Monday afternoon, at Washington, the
grand jury, through their foreman, presented
an indictment against John H. Surratt. The
luuictment is accompanied by a presentment
charging John Wilkes Booth with the mur
der of Abraham Lincoln, and John H. Sur
ratt, David E. Harold, Lewis Payne, and
George A. Atzerott for being present, aid
ing aud abetting, on or about tho 14th of
April, 1865. The indictment is fur murder,
and in the first couut charges that John 11.
Surratt, on or about the 14th day of April,
did murder Abraham Lincoln. The second
count charges that John H. Surratt and John
Wilkes Booth did murder Abraham Lin
coln. The third count charges with the
murder of Abraham Lincoln, John H. Sur
ratt, Lewis Payne, John Wilkes Booth,
David E. Harolu, George A. Atzerott, and
Mrs. M. E. Surratt. The fourth count
charges that John Wilkes Booth, John
II. Surratt, David E. Harold, George A.
Atzerott, Lewis Payne, Mary E. Surratt did
conspire and confederate together to kill
and murder Abraham Lincoln.
Successful Editors. A good editor, or
competent newepapcr conductor, is like a
general or a poet, born, not made. Exercise
and experience give facility, but the qtiuliti
cation is innate, or it is never manifested.
On the London daily papers all the great
historians, novelists, poets, essayists, and
writers of travels, have been tried and nearly
every ono has failed. "I can," said the late
editor of the London Time, "And any num
ber of men of genius to write for me, but
very seldom oue man of common sense."
Nearly all successful editors are of this
description: A good editor seldom writes
much for his paper; he reads, judges, solocts,
dictates, alters and combines, and to do all
this well be has but little time for composi
tion. To write for a paper is on thing, and
to edit a paper is another.
1t patty of New Mexican miners pros
pecting in Montana, and supposed to have
been murdered by the Indians, have arrived
at Salt Lake City. They report the discove
ry of new aud very rich gold mines.
The war debt of Massachusetts amounts
to fifty millions of dollars.
The people of Gettysburg are petitioning
the Pennsylvania Legislature for 1300,004,
indemnification for war losses.
They ara blasting tha ice io the Allegheny
river with gunpowder.
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SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY,; PENN'A.
,10, 18G7.
OLD
lite Great Coaled loaer of Pari.
The Paris correspondent of tho New York
Pott says; Among the most celebrated
shops in the Hue de la Palz is that of tho
great confectioner, Girandin who is called,
not a confectioner but an artist, , The inven
tion of bonhn, tho perfection of chocolate,
the preparation of a nougat, preoccupy him
as much as if the question concerned the so
lution of a national problem. Between the
conception of his ideas and their execution,
days, nights, weeks, months even, sometimes
elapse. Ho almost forgets to cat or drink :
he entera, like Archimedes, into a state of
sublime mental absorption. At last the great
day arrives when his idea is completely de
veloped, and may be given to tho world.
He arouses himself and exclaims "Eureka ''
Then follows the second Herculean labor
that of finding a name (or the new creation,
and all the quarters of the world, all tho
epochs of history, all the vicissitudes of pol
itics, are ransacked for this purpose. A
Choiscul, an Emillie, a Mont Blanc, aConde,
an Aboukir, a Maltese, are some of the titles
applied to his cakes and pralines nnd pud
dings and tartlets.
HOW BONBONS ARB HADE.
M. Girandin's palace of sweet delights is
built over deep cellars, where myriads of
workmen, with naked arms nnd faces illum
ined by the glare from the furnace fires, ex
pend Btrength suited to the forges of Vulcan
in manufacturing bonbons for women and
babies. Progress and science nre invoked
in aid of this manufacture as strenuously ns
forothers of more importance. Various meth
ods of candying have been invented, popu
larized, and then thrown aside. Great pains
have been expended on the accurate sculp
ture of moulds for imitations of fruits and
figures. Complicated machinery for the pre
paration nnd sugaring of almonds has been
brought iuto service. The liqueur bonbons
are made by n special process. The moulds
are tilled with a syrup, whose cryetalizablo
constituents are precipitated upon the per-
lpucry or ttie mould ; a solid exterior is
thus lormed, while the interior remains li
quid, and guarded lrotn evaporation. Dur
ing the last mouth the Muison Girandin
manufactured one million four hundred and
forty-tour thousand bonbons, exclusive of
all other contectii.nery.
One kind ol bonbon, invented by Giran
din, named "les ephemeres," has become
especially famous. "Sir," said an epicure
who tasted this chef decuvre, "your achieve
ment is nota bonbon, it is a caress I" "L'pon
my word of honor," said another, "one
might swear that he had all the flowers of
Paradise in his mouth !"' "For my part,"
euid a youth, timidly, who had been present
at the trial, "when I tasted it for the first
time, I could hove believed that Theresa
But tho highest art of the master is not
expended upon the sugar plums. The
boxes that hold them furnish a field for in
finite ingenuity. The paper bag has been
replaced by a box of enamelled pasteboard,
white, blue, rose, or magenta colored, tied
with a ribbon of the of the same shade. Tho
Lancret basket is composed of a handker
chief of point do Alencon, the four corners
of which are rniscd by four bouquets of
(lowers, and are held by two handles covered
with satin. The Tiianou basket is coquet
tifhly pretty, made of rice straw, garlanded
with branches of roses or of straw of gold,
lined with white satin ornamented with
grapes made of pearls. Tho Mignon box,
oramer.ted with a portrait of Ary Shaefler's
Miguon, is called, next to the Lanccrt
basket, the great success of the season.
Tun Language of Animals. A whim
sical French writer pretends that he has dis
covered that every animal, bird, and even
insect, to which voice is given, has its lan
guage; and that if great pains be taken, he
has no doubt but that men could learn to
interpret these languages, and even con
verse with the brute creation in his own
tongue. He cites the fact that nearly every
animal, bird or insect when suffering hns a
peculiar cry dcuoting the fact. "Who,"
says he, "ever doubts that a dog or a cat suf
fers pain when they give tongue to those
peculiar cries familiar to all? And again,
does not the growl of these animals denote
anger aa plainly as do the oaths aud excla
mations of men? Tho peculiar whine of
the dog when he meets a friend expresses
joy, as is well understood by any one who
has owned one of those faithful animals,
and may not the caterwauling of an enor
mous Ihonius while watching bis inauinrate
from the tiles by uight be love songs which
are asintellii'iule to tier cars as the sereuades
of men to some fair one behind a lattice?
May not the carolings of the mocking-birds
bo songs celebrating some great event of
their tribe I or the nightingale s be songs ot
love addressed to his uia'.cl More wonder
ful things than tbis have been discovered iu
nature, but man in his egotism cluims that
he alone can convey his ideas to his fellows,
and never dreams of investigating any theory
which might upset his boasted pre-eminence.
although he has an enormous amount of
data always within bis reach. I ask," con
tinues M. de Carnadon, "if a Frenchman
who first hears German or English can easily
convince himself that he could ever come to
understand those tongues which sound so
harsh, so guttural to his ears ? Yet to a
Dutchman or an Englishman these sounds
are familiar aud musical.
Unfortunate Stbanoek. "Can you tell
me, sir," said a stranger to a gentleman in a
ball room, "who that lady is near the win
dow, that very vain looking lady?"
"That is my sister, sir," replied the person
addressed, with a formidable look.
"No, no, I don't mcau her." said the un
fortunate interrogator. "I mean that ugly
woman leaning against the piano, there's
about as much expression in ber face as in a
bowl of bonny clabber."
"That, sir, is my wife."
"No, no," gasped the miserable stranger,
the prespiratiou starting from every pore.
"Good gracious! I wish I could uiake you
understand me I 1 mean tuai blear eyed ob
ject iu pink silk, the one so awful homely.
I should be afraid she would splinter a looking-glass
by looking into it, There, she is
looking at us now."
' "That, sir," said the gentleman, with
fierce calamets, "is my eldest daughter."
The stranger darted from the room and
cleared the premises as though he bad been
struck with a presentiment that a powder
magazine was going to explode in less than
three seconds. .-.
President Lincoln's old home at Spring
field, 111., is occupied by a "family who keep
things as nearly as possible as they were
while be lived in it." it has been visited
by over fifty thousand people since the assas
sination. A gold mint shaft (KM) feet deep and 100
feet tunnel, bas been sunk at Gold Hill, Ne
vada. It is the deepest gold mine in the
Great Wc.t.
MB"
SERIES, VOL. 27, NO. 18.
Mark X walls' Ylew) of Chamber
maid.
Against all chambermaids, of whatsoever
age or nationality, I launch the curse of
uachelorclom I '
Because :
They always put the pillows at the oppo
site end of tho bed from the gasburner, so
that while you read and smoke before sleep
ing (as is the ancient and honored custom of
bachelors,) you have to hold your book aloft,
in an uncomfortable position, to keep the
light from dazzling your ejes.
When they And the pillows removed to tho
other end of the bed in the morning, they
receive not the suggestion in a friendly spirit,
but, glorying in their absolute sovereignty,
and unpitying your helplessness, they make
the bed just ns it was originally, and gloat
in secret over the pang their tyranny will
cause yon.
Always after that, when they find you
have transposed the pillows, they undo your
work, and thus defy you, nnd seek to em
bitter the life that God hath given you.
If they cannot get the lights iu a conven
ient position auy other way, they move the
bed.
If you pull your trunk out six inches from
the wall, so that the lid will stay up when
you open it, they always shove that trunk
back again. They do it on purpose.
If you want tho spittoon in a certain
spot, where it will be handy, they don't.
And bo they move it.
They always put your other 'ooots into
inaccessible places. They chiefly enjoy de
positing til em ns far under the bed as the
wall will permit. It is because this com
pels you to get down in an undignified atti
tude, and make wild sweeps for thera in the
dark with the bootjack, and swear.
They always put the match box in some
other place. They hunt a new placo for it
every day, and put a bottle or other perisha-
oie glass tuing, where the box stood before.
This is to cause you to break that glass
thing, groping in the dark, and vou get your
self into trouble.
They are forever and ever mo vine the
furniture. When you come in in the night.
you can calculate on finding the bureau
wnere tne wardrobe was in the morning.
And when you go out iu the morning, if vou
leave the slop-bucket by the door and the
rocking chair by the window, when you come
in at midnight, or thereabouts, you will fall
over that rocking chair, and you will proceed
toward tha window and sit down in the
slop-tub. This will disgust you. Thoy like
that.
No matter where you put anything, they
arc not going to let it stay there. They will
take it aud move it the nrst chance they get.
It is their nature. And besides, it gives
them pleasure to be mean and contrary this
way. They would die if they couldn't be
villine.
They alwavs save up all the old printed
rubbish you throw on the floor, and stack
them up carefully on the table, and then
start the Are with ycur valuable manuscripts.
it there is any particular old scrap that you
aro moro down on thuu another, and which
you are gradually wealing your life out try
ing to get rid of, you may take all pains you
possibly can in that direction ; but it won't
be ot any use, because they will alwavs fetch
that old scrap back and put it in the same
old place agaiu every time. It does them
good.
And they use up more hair-oil than any
six men, If charged with purloining the
same, they lie about it. What do they care
about a hereafter? Absolutely nothing.
it you leave vour key in the door tor con
venience sake, t'.icy will carry it down to the
office and give it to the clerk. They do this
under tho vile pretence ot trying to protect
your property from thieves; but actually
they do it because they want to make you
tramp back down stairs after it when you
como home tired, or put you to the trouble
ot seuding a waiter tor it, which waiter will
expect you to pay him somcthiug. Io which
case 1 suppose the degraded creatures di
vide. They keen always coming to make your
bed before you get up, thug destroying your
rest aud iullicting agony upon you ; but
after you get up they don't come any more
till next uuy.
They do ull the mean things they can
think of, aud they do them just out of pure
cussedness, and nothing else.
Chambermaids are dead to every human
instiuct.
I have cussed them in behalf of outraged
batchelordom. They deserve it. If I can
get a bill through the Legislature abolishing
chambermaids, I mean to do so.
llrandy and llralna.
From Ohio comes a capital temperance
story. Judge Quap, the temperance lecturer,
in oue of his effort there got off the follow
iug: All of those who in youth acquire a habit
of drinking whisky, at forty years of age
will be totul abstainers or druukurds. No
one can use whisky for years with modera
tion. If there is a person in the audience
before tue whoso own experience disputes
this let him make it known. I will account
for it, or acknowledge that I am mistaken,
A tall, large man arose, and folding his
arms in a diguiflcd manucr across his breast,
said ;
"I offer myself as ono whose own exper
ience contradicts your statemeut."
"Are you a moderate drinker V said the
Judge.
. "I era."
"How long have you drank in modera
tion ?"
"Forty years."
"A Bd were never intoxicated V
"Never."
"Well," remarked the Judge, scanning his
subject closely from head to foot, "yours is
a singular case, yet I thiuk it is easily ac
counted for. I am reminded by it of a little
story. A colored man with a loai of bread
and flask of whisky, set down to dine by a
bunk of a clear stream. In breaking the
bread some of the crumbs dropped into the
water. Tiiese were eagerly seized and eaten
by the fiU. Thut ciicum.tuuce suggested
to the darkey the idea of dipping the bread
in the whiskey and feuding it to tbem. He
tried it. U worked well. Some of the fish
ate of it, became drunk, and floated helpless
ly on the water. In this way he easily
caught a great number. . But ia the stream
1 ,1.1. nnlilfA tl.a r.iat T
partook , freely of tbo bread and whiskey,
without perceptible effect It was shy of
every enort ol tue aaraey io tatte it. ne
resolved to have it at all hazards, that be
in in lit learn its name and nature. Me pro
cured a uet, and after much effort caught it,
carried it to a colored neighbor, and asked
his opinion of the matter. The other sur
veyed the wonder a moment, and then said:
'Sambo, I understand dis case, Dat fish is
a uiullcthead. It bsint got any brains.' "Ia
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' A"d"r'i Administrators' and Executors' Notices
1, J . 0bl,ul,r'" (except tha usual announcement
whioh la free,) to b paid ft at advertising rate
Local NoUoes, Society Resolutions, o-, 10 tenia
per line.
Advertisements for Religious, Charitable and Ed a.
eational objeots, one-half tha above rates. .
Transient advertisements will be published onlil
ordered to be discontinued, and oharged aooordlngly.
other words," added the Judge, "alcohol
effects only the brain, and, of course, those
having nono, may drink without injury."
The storm ol laughter that followed drovo
tho moderate drinker from the house. '
Mrs. Geysel, a lady of Philadelphia froze
to death on a door step In that city recently.
A worthless fellow in Chicago stole the
funds his mother had appropriated to at
tend the death-bed of a daughter.
At a boys' school in Lexington, Ky.,
nearly every one of the scholars carries a
pistol on their persons. They Till even
tually prove . worthy ornaments to the
chivalry of the South.
AGRICULTURAL, &C.
Sowiso Winter Wheat in SrRiso.
John Oilman, of Minnesota, writes us, that
the crop of spring wheat in 1865 was very
heavy and badly lodged, and in harvesting,
several bushels per acre were shelled out
and sprouted, and grew on the ground.
There was a heavy full of snow, which re
mained ail winter and until the 1st of April.
The spring wheat which came up tho fall
previous, did not winter-kill, and manv
farmers left a few acres to see what it would
come to. Mr. G. savs his wheat was cut
with a "header," leaving a very high stub
ble, which ho burnt, then harrowed the
ground once aud left ten acres to grow to
wheat. He bad 120 bushels of uncommonly
tine wheat. He asks the opinion of tho
AijricuUurUt whether it will be safe to use
this wheat for seed the coming sarins- f .
We should be afraid to risk too much of it.
Spring wheat can be obtained by sowing
winter wheat in the spring, and continuing
to do so until tho desired habit is estab
lished. But until this habit is formed,
there is danger that a good portion of the
wheat would not mature. How fur thia
spring variety has been changed into a win
ter wheat, by once sowing in the full, is un
certain, und wo weuld not like to risk sow
ing a large area. Sow a few acres, as early
at pottibln, and if the season is favorable, the
probabilities are that you will get wheat of
better quality than the proper spring varie
ties will yield. American. Agriculturist.
Orchard and NfitsEity. The principal
items of out door work were indicated last
month. As the severity of tho u i r.thpr mnrl.
crates, the knife may be used in shaping. .
Young Trees. Cut them back to secure a
stocky growth, and a well balunced form.
uo not cut so close to a bud as to endanger
it, nor so fur above as to leave a stub. The
treatment of young trees that have been
badly formed is noticed on page 02. Though
February is not the best possible month for
Pruning, there are many who are obliged to
do it now; select a tki.e when the wood is
not frozen, and observe the precautions men
tioned of page 62.
Old trees und neglected young ones may
have a wash of soft sonp, mixed with water
enough to apply with a brush, 11 there is
much loose bark, or a great accumulation of
moss, a blunt semper may be used. Some
are made for this use. Every cluster of Cu
terpillnr's Egg removed now is cleor gain ;
the Tent-caterpillar's were described iu Jan
uary. Cions are to be cut on mild days, and
kept in saw-dust or moss until wanted.
Earth or sand will keep them as well, but
they are less pleasant to use than when pre
served in moss or saw-dust.
Grafting should be deferred until the
buds of the stock begin to swell which
they will do this month income parts of tho
South. Hoot grafting ought to be finished
up, and the grafted roots ready to set out.
Manure may be spread iu the orchard
wherever the ground is not frozen. Ameri
can Agrirulturint.
Meat for Fowls to make tuem Lay.
One subscriber asks, what food will induce
fowls to lay ? another asks about scrap cake ;
auother about hogs' lights and similur offal.
To those we would say ; It is the nature of
fowls in good health to lay, aud they can
not help it the eggs will come. Scanty
fare will reduce their laying propensity, and
on very short commons, eggs cease alto
gether. Hich food promotes the tendency ;
certuin seeds, like buckwheat, sunflower and
hemp seeds increase it, and meat of any
kind docs the same. All this, however,
forces the fowl iuto an unnatural state, and
ordinarily shortens her life. The eggs, be
sides, have often a poor flavor. Occassional
feedings of fresh meats, like the lights of
hogs chopped fine, are very good in winter
when the fowls Cud no insect food. They
need, besides, hearty food in cold weather,
especially if they are not kept in warm
houses. In very cold weather, hens running
about and roosting in exposed places, will
not lay, though richly fed ; their food goes
to keeping them arw.--Aurican Agricul
turist. S. P. Snow, of Blakesburgh, Iowa, uses a
cheap corn shelter. Bore an inch and a half
hole through a two-iuch plank ; put legs to
the plank, making a stool of it about as
high as a chair. Over the hole in the plank
firmly nail a plate of iron about an eighth
of an inch in thickness, aud with a hole
through the centre of the plate, just large
enough to admit the passage of a corn col).
Through this hole, with a small wooden
mallet, the ears ot corn are to be driven.
This machine, simple as it is, will shell very
clean, and with double or triple the expedi
tion ot hand-sliclling.
ItlOl llM'.K, Ac.
How to Make Cork Bbead. We find
the follow ing receipts iu the Prairie Farmer,
for makiog Corn Bread, etc., snd we reprint
them io the hope that housekeepers generally
will resort more liberally to this most whole
some of all grain for family consumption :
"Scald tho corn meal in boiling hot water,
just as much as will barely wet it, make up
the dough with sweet, rich milk, and work
it well and put it to bake in a hot oven or
stove; it is impoitant that tho stove be hot,
snd the baking done quickly, or the bread
will have a dry and iusipid taste. The
dough should be formed into what the old
Virginians call "Dodgers : 5 inches loop,
1 1 wide, i indies thick, or it is excellent
baked on a griddle in cakes three inches iu
diameter. The milk has the effect of brown
ing the crust handsomely."
Another. "Stir boiling water into sifted
meal till every part is wet; add half as much
shorts, a cup of molasses, teaspoonful of
salt and skim milk enough to mix; bake In
cheap pans iu a brick oven and if it re
mains So all night it is good enough to eat."
Corn , Hukad Hwektemko. One quart
sifted weal, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls
molasses, on teaspognful .salt, one cup oi
lard or drippings, one aud a ball teaspoonful
saleratus. Mix thin with sweet milk and
bake in shallow yxtDt. Osrmantwn Tls-graph.
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