TKHni OF APT-BHT1IWJ.
Tba following ara tbs rates for sdvertWcftn the
Abibioab- Those baring advertising to do will
And it convenient for referent i
URIU-TWO DOLLARS er'.anaata. laietf
o r Mt paid wlthla the year. . i No paper AtoeoaUnuesl
;(l nnUlslt arrearage! ara paid. , . , "';,,.,!.
Thesa term will ba striotly adhered to hereafter.
, , - If anbeoribnnet;leetor refuse to lake thalr saws
' pepenfrnmUit ones to which they are directed, they
are reepetsribls until they have settled to bills Bd
. : entered them doa tinned. -
Postinsattcr will pleas Mt M eat Agent, Ml
. frank letters containing eubseriptlon money. . Thay
art permitted to do this aader tlio Fort Otne Law
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square..
Auditors', AdoinUtralon' and Kieefltors' Notloea
3,00. ObituariM (.io.pt tho amial announaamanl
whleh li free,) to ba paid for at advertising ratal
Local Notices, Booi.tr Resolutions, As , 19 oonio
par lino.
Advertisements for Rellciom. Charitable and Edu
eational objaeta, one-half tba above rates.
Tranalent advertisements will ba publUhad antll
ordered to be discontinued, and ebarged accordingly.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY II. B. MASSER & CO., SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENN'A
: teleoted JOB OFFICE, whisk will enable u to
execute, la the aaatatt . style, at try variety of
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BUSINESS CARDS.
. J. BBUKBB.
t. . EASB,
Attorney- amd t'onnaellori at In r,
Chesnut Btreet, wait of he N. 0. and P. B. Rail,
road Depot, in the building lately oooapied by
F. Laaartu, Eq.,
BTT-M-3XJPIY, 3?3NNA..
Colleotlonl and all Profwrlonal barinaM prorapUy
attended to in Northumberland and adjoining Conn
tite. P'
Jlttorucy and Court aellor at Law.
CSoe en aouth ride of Market itreet, Ira doon Eait
ofthiN.C. Railroad,
STJJKTBTT-E-0EA..
tTllI attend promptly to all profoaiional bniineai
ntrntted to hii care, the collection of elaimt in
Slorthamberland and the adjoining oountief.
Banbury, April H, mt.
EDWIN A- EVANS,
ATTORNEY AT X.A.W.
Market Square, near the Court Ilooje,
BUNBURY, Northumberland County, Pa,
ColleotioDi promptly attended to in thii and adjoin
log Ceuntiea.
April 13,1867.
J. Re HIIiBUSH
8UBVEY0E AND CONVEYANCE
AND
wv v - JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Jlahonoy, Northumberland County, Penn'a
Office in Jeekeon towmhip. Engagement! oan
be made by l.ttor, Jireotod to the abore addreai.
All businen entruated to hit oare, will ba promptly
attended to.
April 22, 1868. ly
Wm. M. ROCKErBLLBR. LuOTD T. ROBBBACB.
ROCKEFELLER & ROHRBACH.
U.IIUR', PU..-VVa..
OFFICE the tame that baa been heretofore occu
pied by Wm. M. Rockefeller, Em., nearly op
posite the residence of Judge Jordan.
6unbury, July 1, 1864. ly
JOBOBlllLL, 6IM0B P. WotYBRTO.
HILL Sc WOLVEBTOW.
attorney and Counselors at Law.
8UNBUBY, DP .A..
w1
rlLL attend to the collection of all kindi of
elaiui, inoluding Back ray, Bounty and f an
ion!. api. i, oo.
ATTORNEY AT XiA-W,
North Bide of Public Square, adjoining reeidenoe of
Geo. Hill, Eeq.,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
Colleotioni and all Profesrional bunlneai promptly
attended to in the Couru of Northumberland and
adjoining Countiei.
buobury, Sept. IS, 1869.
' JNO. KAY CLEMENT,
Business in thia and adjoining countiei carefully
and promptly atttended to.
Office in Market Street, Third door weat of 6mith
A ttenther'i Stove and Tinware 'Store,
II. II. . IlIABNIilt,
Attorney at Iair, BL'NBURY, PA.
Collectiona attended to in the eountiea of Nor
thumberland, Union, Snyder, Montour, Columbia
and Lycoming.
BBFBRBKCBB.
lion. Jobn M. Reed, Philadelphia,
A. Q. Cattail A Co., "
Hon. Wm. A. Porter, "
Morton McMichael, Eaq., "
E. Ketcham A Co., 284 Pearl Street, New Tork.
John W. Ashniead, Attorney at Law, "
Matthewa A Cox, Attorneya at Law, "
Sunbury, Moroh 2i), 1862.
" JACOB SHIPMAN,
FIBB AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENT,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
BtrRBSBMTS
Farmera Mutual Fire Inauranoe Co., Tork Pa.,
Cumberland Valley Mutual Protoction Co.,
.aw York Mutual Life, Oirard Lifeof Phil'a. A Hart
ord Conn. General Accident!.
unbury, April 7, ly.
Il. C. 1. LII.VLEY,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
NORTHUMBERLAND, PA.
DR. LUMLEY hai opened an offioa in Northum
berland, and ofieri hi. lervicei to the people of that
place and the adjoining townsLipi. Office next door
to Mr. Sootl'i Shoe Store, where he ean found at all
houri.
Jiorthumberland Auguit It, 1865.
JEREMIAH SNYDER,
Attorney Connaellor at iMyr.
SI.MIIHY, 1A.
CTDI'trlt t Attorney for niorthum
bet-land County.
Sunbury, March 31, 1866 ly
.
L. IBAIBOLTt, 0. B. WOLVBBTOB, C. T. IBIIBOLTI
COAL ! COAL ! . COAL !
THE aubecriben reapeotfully inform theoitiaena of
Sunbury and vicinity, that they have opened a
COAL YARD
at J. Haaa A Co 'a Lower Wharf, Nnnbary, Ia.
where they are prepared to lupply all kinds of Sha
Oiokin Coal, at oheap ratea. Familial and other!
promptly lupplied. Country custom respectfully
aelicited. SEASUOLTZ A CO.
Sunbury, Jan. 12, 1867.
WlMilhW. ho E0)0)M9
Bricklayer and Builder,
Market Street, 4 doors Eaat of Third 8t
J3 TJ 1ST B XT I 5T , iiaisr3jA..
N. II. All Jobbing: promptly at
tend to.
Sunbury, June 2,1866.
COAL! COAL!! COAL!!!
OBANT Oe BROTHER,
Ablnpeti A Wholesale V ltetall
lealers la
WII1TG fc KMI AS II COAl
in arery variety.
RoU A genu, weatward, of tho Celebrated Henry
Clay CoJ.
Lowbb Wainr, Subidbt, Pa.
Sunbury, Jan. U, 1869.
WUOLESALB AND RETAIL DEALER
la arary variety of
ANTHRACITE COAL,
Upper Wharf, BTJNBUBY. Ponn'o,
iOrdanaoUoitad and nllad with promptaaii and
despatch.
SunburT. May 12, I8&6 . y
BOTOTT FOB SOLDIERS-
I HAVE made arrangement! la Waahlngton City,
fur the prompt aoileotion of Bounty under tho
late Aot of Congreei. I hare alio rewired the pro
per blank! U prepare the claim!, ooiaiera anuuea
to thu Bounty abould apply immadiaUly, aa It ia aa.
Umated that it will nxjuue inraa yean wi euju mu
tna oiaimi. . . .
All aoldien who onlUtad for three yean and why
hare not rewired mora thaa 100 boanty are entitled
to the oenefita of thii Aet, as well aa aoldien i who
hare euliated for three years and dlaohargad after a
aarrioe of two yaara, by reaaoa of wouada raoeired,
4-ee.e aontr-Ud ia SSuStcu:
Hnbury, August II, IS.
Dr. CHAS. ARTHUR,
IDomcropatljt'c musician.
Oradoate of tho Uomowpathio Medioal Coltegs of
, , Fennayiranta.
Orrics, Market Square opposite the Court Uouas,
SDNBURY, PA. . '
Office Hoari 7 to ft morning ; 1 to afternoon ;
T to erening. May 18.
JACOB O. BECK,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
And Dealer la
CLOTHS, CA8SIMERE8, VESTING, Ac.
Favrn street, sonth of Weaver's
Hotel,
BTJ NUB StTT,
March 31, 186S.
W. J. WOLVERTON,
ATrOBilEY AT LAW,
Hut end of Pleasant 's Building, Up Stain,
SUNBURY, PE.NN ' A.
All profesaionat buelneaa ia thia and adjoining scan
tier promptly attended to.
Sunbury, November 17, 1866.-Iy
IB-WHAM hotse,"
ELEVENTH A MARKET SIS., PEILADEL'A.
fTWIS new and elegant Houae la now open for the
JL reception of gueata. It baa been fitted up in a
manner equal to any in the eountry. The location
being central makea it a very desirable stopping
place, both for Merchant! and parties viiiting the
oity. The parlon are spaoloua, and elegantly Turn
lined. The tablea will be supplied with all the deli
eaciea the market will afford, and it ii the intention
of the Proprietor to keep ia every reapeot a Firat
Claaa Hotel.
Terma$3 00 per day.
CURLI9 DAVIS, Proprietor.
February 2, 1867. 6m
DR. J. 8- ANGLE,
CI RADUATE of Jeff.raon Medical College, with
T fire vean nractloe. offera hia vrofeaaional aer-
vicea to the oititsna of Sunbury and vicinity will
attend all call! promptly.
OFFICE Market Street, opposite Wearer' Hotel -
Orrica Hours 1 from 8 to 10 A. M.
" 2 to F. M.
Sunbury, April 27, 1867.
AMBROTYPE AND PHOTOGRAPH
GALLERY.
Corner Market A Fawn Street, SUNBURY, Pa.
8. BYEBLY, Proprietor,
Photograph, Ambrotypes and Melainotypea taken la
the beet style of the art. apl. 7, ly
33. C. QOBIN,
Attorney and Counsellor at IntT,
BOONVILLE, COOPER CO , MISSOURI.
WILL pay taxes on lands in any part of tba
State. Buy and aell real Estate, and all other
matters entruated to him will raseivs prompt atten
tion. July 8, 186S.-oetl, '64.
DOTTIEST HOUSE,
J. H. I1AL.L, Proprietor,
Corner Sunbury and JioeJe Btrteti,
SIIAMOKIN, PENN'A.
T
HIS HOUSE ia now open for the reception of
guests, and being new, spacious ana attractive,
haa all the facilities aod advantages of a FIRST
CLASS HOTEL. The aleeping apartmenta are airy
and comfortable, and the furniture entiiely new.
The Bar and Table will be aupplied with the beat in
the market.
The patronage of the publio is rolicited.
April 13, 1867.
Mount Carmel Hotel.
MT. CAEMEL, Northumberland Co., Pa.,
TIIOS. BUKKET, Proprietor.
Thia large comnrodions Hotel ia located near the
depot! of the Sbamokin Valley and the Quakake A
New York Railroads. Trains arrive and depart dnilr.
Thii house is located in the centre of the Coal Re
gion and affords the best accommodations to travelers
and permanent customers. jay s.
THE following persona are entitled to receive an
increase of Bounty under the Aot of Congresa
passed July 1866, to equalise Bounties.
lat All aoldiera who enlisted after tbe ltn day or
Anril. 1861. lor S veara. and served their time of
enlistment end have been honorably dlaohargad, and
have received or are entitled to reeeive a Bounty oi
100, ara entitled aa additional Bounty of 100.
2d All such aoldien who enlisted for S yean, and
have been honorably discharged on account of
wounda reoeived in the line of duty, are antitled to
an additional Bounty of glOO.
3d The Widow. Minor Children, or Parents of auch
soldiers who died in the servioe of wounds or disease,
are entitled to aa additional Bounty of s)100.
Bv annlioation to 8. P. WOLVERTON. Em , of
Bdkbobt, Pennsylvania, who is an authorised Claim
Agent, all auoh olaima can be apeedily oolleoted.
eunbury, August , iboo. it
CLEANSE THE BLOOD.
WITH corrupt, or taint
ad Blood, you ara lick all
over, it may bunt out
In Pimples, or Sores, or in
some active disease, or it
may merely keep you list
jleaa, depressed and good
tor noiumg. But you can
not have good health while
your blood is impure.
AXBB'B babssparills
Jpurges out these impurities
it expels disease and restores health and stimulates
tne organs or lite Into vigorous aouon. ilenoe It ra
pidly oures a variety of complaints whioh are caused
by impurity of the blood, suoh is Scrofula, or King'!
Evil, Tumors, fleers, Sores, Eruptions, Pimples,
Blotches, Boils, St. Anthony's Fire, Rose or Erysi
pelas, Tetter or Salt Khsum, Scald Head,. King
Worm, Caooar or Cancerous Tumon, Sore Eyes, Fe
male Disease, auoh a Retention, Irregularity, Sup
pression, Whites, Sterility, also Syphilis or Venereal
liiseasea, Liver Complaint!, and Heart Diseases.
Try Aria's Sarsapahilla, and see for yourself the
surprising active with which it eleases the blood and
oures these disorders.
During late yean the publio have been misled by
large bottles, pretending to give a quart of Extract
of barsaparilla for ooeaollar. Most of these have
been fraud! upon tho alek, for they nut only oontaio
little, if any , Sanparilla, bat often BO ourative in-
Kedient whatever. Hence, bitter dissppointment
a followed tbe use of the various extracts of Sana
parilla which flood tbe market, antil the name itself
has become synonymous with imposition and cheat.
Still we call thia compound, "Saraaparills," and in
tend to supply auch a remedy as sbstl rescue tho
name from tho low! of obloquy which rests upon it.
Ws think we have ground for believing it has virtues
which are irresistible by the elsss of dinsssas it is in.
tended to sure We esn aasura the sick, that ws
offer them the beat alterative we know kow U cro-
duce, and wo have reason to believe, it is by far tbe
most effectual purifier of the blood yet discovered.
Area's Cherry Paotoral is so universally known to
surpaas every other madiotne tot ins euro oi Uougbs,
Colds. Influenia, Hoansneaa. Croup, Bronchitis. In-
oipient Consumption, snd for the r.lief of Consump
tive Patients ia advanced stages of the disease, that,
It Is useless hsrs to recount the evldenoe ol lis virtues.
Tbe world khowa them.
Prepared br Da. J. 0. Araa A Co . Lowell. Mass.
and sold by ail Druggist! and dealer la medisina
everywnere. .
April 20, 1867. 2a
Uonatlew Collected.
Q.W.HAUPT, Attorney st Lsw. buobury, Pa
often nil professional ssrvioas for the oolleotioci of
bounties due to soiaien anaer we late cquaiisau
Ast naased bv Cona-rass. As aa authorised ola
agsnt h will promptly oollsot all Bounties, Psnsiens
aad Gratuities da to aoldien of the late war, or the
wareribll.
Sunbury, Aagust II, ISM. ...
PIAJ0 FOH BAIJB.
H
AKDBOlfS, Boe-sened, aaw, and prisa lew.
iaqairs at this Of ea.
P 0 E T I C A L,
THB WORLD FROM THB SIDEWALK.
Dave yon ever stood In the erowded itreet,
In the glare of the fitful lamp,
Aad marked tbe tread of the million foot
In their quaintly muaical tramp?
As the surging throng moved to and fro,
'Tia a pleasant sight, I ween,
To mark tho figures that ooma and go
In the ever changing scene.
Where the sinner trends with the publloaa proud,
And the priest In hia gloomy cowl,
And Divea wslka in the motley crowd,
With Laiarua check by jowl ;
And the daughter of toil, with her fresh, young
heart,
Aa pure aa her spotless name,
Keeps atep with the women that make their mart
In the haunts of rin and ahams.
How gaily ateps the oountry lass
In the midst of the city's ills,
Aa freshly pure aa the dasied grasa
That grows on her native hills ;
And the beggar, too, with hia hungry eye,
Aud his awl, wan faoe and crutch,
Gives a blessing the same to tbe passer by,
An' he give, him nothing or muob.
When night haa beaten the world's tattoo,
And, in dusky armor delight,
Ia treading with eoholesa footsteps, through
Tbe gloom ol the silent night,
How many of these shall be dnintly fed,
And will sink to slumbers sweet ;
Tet many shall go to a sleepless bed,
And never acruin to eat!
Ah, me! when the houn go joyfully by,
How little we atop to heed
Our brothers' and sinters' despairing cry,
In their woe and their bitter need !
Tet, such a world as the angela sought,
Tbia world of oun we'd oall,
If tbe brotherly love that tbe Father taught
Were felt by each for all.
Yet a few snort yean and thii motley throng
Will all have passed away,
And the rich and the poor, and the old and young,
Will be undistinguished olay;
And lipa that laugh and lips that moan
Will in ailenoe alike be sealed,
And some will be under a etately stone,
And some In the Potter'a Field.
But tbe sun will be shining just a! bright,
And so will the silvery moon,
And just such a crowd will be here at night,
And just such a crowd at noon ;
And tbe men will be wicked and women will sin,
As ever since Adam'a fall.
With the same old world to labor in,
And the same God over all.
MISCELLANEOUS.
JOII.X II. fi;ItA'lT.
A M011KIKO WITH HIS COLLEGE CIIUM.
From the New York Tribune.
Philadelphia, May 18. Convalescent
after acbronic attach of Centrifugalism, that
rheumatism of tbe bones tbat compels one
to uo somewhere, for tbe sake of tbe go
rather than of tbe tomeuhere, I had got hack
the other day, fat and scant of brent b, and
was regaling mvRctf with a walk on Cbesnut
street. Suddenly I passed a round-bellied
young man with eye glasses over bis nose.
It was plain to me that I bad gone to school
with him, though who be was I was indif
ferent about remenilerinj. During my pu
pilage at the Philadelphia High School
about 1000 youths had entered and departed
from it ; and while, apart from my own class,
I knew not a dozen of them by name, I bad
hardly forgot a tingle face. So I swung my
hat promptly :
"Uood day, sir I Uiad to meet you again."
The other hat came off in response, and I
walked a full -block, forgetting, meantime,
all about the person, when I beard a quick
root behind me, telt a tap .on the arm, and
tbe cye-glassea bud got around to my front
again.
"1 beg pardon," satci tne young man, "out
you went to the High School, lour name
is ? Exactly I I have long wanted to see you..
You know Weicbmanui"
"Certainly 1 that is, not altogether."
"Lewis Weichiuann I"
"Lewis t" .
"Tbe boarder at Mrs. Surratt's."
I felt newsy and centrifugal at once again,
and diew him to one side. In three min
utes I had him promised to come to my
bouse the next morning.
Out ot bis laoe and voice and the new in
terest in him, I summoned, meantime, the
whole memory of the man again, lie bud
been in the next class behind me, and his
round, chubby, red-tipped checks reappeard
as wheu he climbed into bis bench in the
lecture-room, and bummed, with tbe rest of
tbe boys, disapproval of some dry volumi
nous orator, or peeped at his lesson and got
"noted'' for it during the reading of the
morning Scripture. An ordinary fat boy I
considered him, whose definition of school
was a place to get fun out of; and be was
of mixed religious origin, his father being
Protestant and bis mother Roman Catholic,
lie went to the High School three years, and
left it in 1859.
Next morning after meeting him was Sun
day, and into mv room the junior school
mate was ushered at 10 o'clock. When be
put by his hot, gloves, and cane, I saw him
crown up to be a young fellow of twetity-
t'our, brown hair, with dimples and tints all
over bim, a moustache tbat will never come
to much, a nose with a good deal of bridge
to it, clear light eyes that do not strain by
their near sinbteduesa, and tbat bodily pre
maturity which makes bim "waddle" some
what in gnit, aod was expressed by Surratt
in the nick-name of "Fatty."
His address was singularly intelligent and
pleasant, and be has more than average in
dependence of opinion. I compared bim,
for tbe first few minutes, to Snodgrass, the
juqior boarder at Mrs. Cunningham's where
Dr. Iiuruell was hoarded the young leiiow
who waltzed with Augusta and played the
banjo in his cell, sublimely indifferent to the
great tragedy be lived so close to ; in half
an hour 1 found that Weicbmaon wss alto
gether a graver man, sobered, practicalizerf,
even religiously affected by tbe part he bad
unwittingly played in the direot conspiracy
of our times.
"I believe, sir," ha exclaimed, in the
pitch of tbe narrative, "tbat I was provi
dentially thrown in the way of those people
tbat I was an instrument- prepared to
convict tUrn. Look I it was I that intro
duced St. Maurie to John Surratt two year
before tbe asassination; bow did I know
that one was to be tbe man who should
chase the other found the world and bring
bim home I Look again I on Good Friday
an arder cune from Mr. Stanton to tbe de
partment in which I was clerk, giving only
tbe Catholic employees holiday for the after
noon, lint for tbat holiday I should never
have driven Mr. Surratt out to Surratteville
four hours before the murder, and it was
that drive tbat banged her."
I asked him to go back to the beginning
of himself, and tell me all that had not been
evidence on the trial whatever inferential,
and domestic, and characteristic bad marked
his acquaintance with tbe Surratt; fori
bad been collecting data upon the great
rrima. and had been d re sent in all it scenes,
rash after thai temnjemcratioBS ; the thea
tre, the Surratt House.the Maryland swamps,
the route of Booth escaping, the barn whare
he died, tbe scaffold. I admonished Weicb
tbat as John Surratt was shortly to be tried,
I might print this conversation, and here I
set it down in running order, and it makes,
unless I am over-sanguine, the straightest
story ef the conspiracy against the Govern
ment's preservers, yet rolated :
WKlCrtMAKN's HAlWATTVR.
In 1859, he began, I left the High School,
where you had known me, and In Fehrtiory
of the same year I entered St. Charles1 Col
lege at Kllicott's Mills, near Baltimore. A
considerable number of students were pre
sent, and the Principal was the Rev. Father
Jenkins. About six months after my ad
mission Surratt came there to study for the
diocese of Florida. He attracted no atten
tion, either by his talents or prowess, being
one of the most sober and obedient scholars,
and winning the commendation of all the
professors by his tractable bearing. He was
then a fresh-faced fellow of sixteen, straight
and thin, with a good, broad forehend, and
deeply sunken eyes. We were not allowed'
to sleep with one another, the monaatic sys
tem being enforced, and, although I talked
often with 8nrrott, I recall nothing now that
showed him to have any depth of character,
nor pointed ever so remotely to this crime.
When the war broke out the whole school
was, with few exceptions, favorable to the
success of the Rebellion. The teachers
seemed to have little enthusiasm for the
liberty of opinion, the secular education,
and the republican civilization of tbe North,
and most of the students either came from
slave States, or meditated ministering in
them. We were kept ignorant of Union
victories ; the newspapers were prohibited ;
and when I emerged I found mvself as mis
informed as if I had been in jail. Surratt,
with the rest, sang secession songs very fre
quently, and he left school the same day that
I did, in July, 1802. Ho bad previously
satis6ed himself that the priesthood was not
Ins vocation, and at leaving was so much
affected that he wept.
Tbe President held bis hands over him,
and said : "John, you have been a good
boy. Do not feel disappointed. You will
always be remembered here." Indeed, Sur
ratt belonged to a Students' Society, called
the Society of tho Angels, very pious in its
nature, and I was altogether too wild to be
admitted to it. Surratt had often spoken to
me of his home in Maryland, and some
months after I left the school he wrote me a
letter, inviting me to visit him. Meantime
I accepted a tutorship at Borromeo College,
Maryland, and. after four months, went to
visit a friend at Ellangowan, familiarly called
Little Texas, a small limekiln town on tbe
Northern Central Railway, and here I helped
him teach a small Catholic school for a few
weeks. In the meantime Surratt, between
whom and myself several letters had passed,
wrote to me to ask for a teacher's position
in Borromeo College ; his father had died,
and his family were involved. I failed to
get bim an appointment , but when, soon
afterward, I chansed to teach in St. Mat
thew's College, Washington City, Surratt
called upon me, and we personally renewed
our acquaintance. He spoke enthusiastically
of his home, and invited me down to see it
w henever I chose. I observed that be was
still a persiste nt Rebel, but I bad seen so
many ot bis class in Washington, that I took
no personal offense at what he said, having
already made myself obnoxious by political
arguments.
Meantime the life of the country tavern,
and the entire change in his ambitions, had
given Surratt a brusquer and more worldly
manner. IIo talked variously of teaching,
farming, or entering the Rebel service. His
mind was unsettled. I saw him several times
at school nnd in town.
It was on a Friday afternoon in March,
rainy and dreary, when at last I went down
to Surrattsville with John. He came for me
in a buggy, and the road was so rutty and
miry that we were four hours on the way.
On coming in sight of the house I was mis
erably disappointed. The tbeme of so much
panegyric was a solitary frame tavern at a
cross road, a few sheds and barns around it
and a hitching stall, and a peach orchard
reaching behind. The furm consisted of
800 wires, and it was afterwards let, with the
tavern, for fOOO a year.
A small porch stood in the middle, on
which opened a'hall reaching qnite through
the house. At the foot of this hall, to the
left, was the bar room and Post Office, with
a door opening upon one of the cross-roads,
and to the right were the parlor and dining
room. Altogether there were eight rooms
comfortably furnished. Mr. Surratt received
me pleasantly. And we had a good warm
supper, after which I went awhile to the bar
room, where there were some of the Rebel
farmers of the neighborhood, come to get
their letters, to lounge, and to play cards.
John kept tbe bar, and we had a game with
two Jewish persons who had carpet-bags
with them. Tbese carpetbags Mrs.
Surratt came in and removed. Their
owners left before daylight next morning,
and one oi'them named Jacobs was arrested
crossing tbe Potomac with $50,000 upon
him.
Mrs. Surratt was proud, and counted her
beads a great deal. She was a convert, and
not an original Catholic, and her husband
was a Protestant till his death, which hap
pened of apoplexy in August, 1863. There
were three or four negroes abont the place ;
it was a dull, cross-roads' existence, but
pleasant for a day or two te a stranger. Next
morning, at day-light, we were awakened
by very beautiful music. It was a brass
band, come out from the Washington Navy
Yard, to serenade the Democratic county
officers just elected. , Among the hangers-on
was a seedy, frowsy, monkey-faced boy,
whom Surratt introduced to me as Mr.
Herold. Ho came in wiib the rest, took a
drink, and went further up tbe road with
them. I left tbe house on Monday, pleated
with my viait, and we (topped at a drug
store by the Navy Yard, Surratt and I, to
get a cigar. The boy, Herold, was olerk
there. Surratt told me on the way that his
brother, Isaac Surratt, an engineer, had left
bis borne on tbe 7th of March, 1801, at the
news of Lincoln's inauguration, and gone to
Texas, where be had been ever since in tbe
Confederate servioe.
I got to consider Surratt an intimate friend
after thia visit, and he bad good points of
cuaracier; uut uiaianiaieu mem luecoumry
kept me from knowing of more than the
directer concern of our friendship; while
meantime tbe war -went' on more bitterly,
and his home was probably a convenient and
constant resort of secret spiel and trader.
But in Easter, 1868, w agreed to visit an
old school friend at El lionet ' Mill, and
front there I took; Surratt to Ellangowan
to tee my friend, the . school
taar.her ' Ttpfnra wa atartad a nrieat aakad
me to deliver a newspaper to . St Maorie,
whom I found to be my friend' assistant,
aod lowborn J introduced John Surratt.
He was a French Canadian, black-eyed and
black-haired, aged about thirty, very fasci
nating in his manners and accomplishments,
a linguist and adventurer. He was teaching
for bis board and spending money only, be
ing entirely needy, and he amused himself
by giving concerts in the village, where he
was in love with a virtuous aud beautiful
young lady.
When I left Ellangowan St. Maurie asked
me to get him a teacher's place in Washing,
ton, and soon after he came to ray room
there, saying that be bad left his place, dis
gusted with its littleness, and was without
a meal, a bed, or a penny. I got bim a po
sition in Gonzaga College, and when he
came to sec me once or twice I found bim so
unprincipled tbat I wrote to tbe lady he ad
dressed at Ellangowan, bidding her beware.
He would tell me in a breath that he had
fled from Canada to avoid the consequences
of a most heartless seduction, and at the
same time put his new sweetheart's bouquet
under his pillow. His stories of himself
were that be bad been a member of tbe
Canadian Parliament, a Federal prisoner of
state, etc. But, at any rate, be decamped
from the College after a month, leaving me
to pay his board, and enlisted for the boun
ty in a Delaware regiment, deserted, fell into
Castle Thunder as an object of general sus
picion, was released by reason of playing
informer upon bis comrades, escaped by a
blockade-runner to England, returned to
Canada, and bearing of tbe 135.000 reward
for Surratt, pursued him to Rome; enlisted
with him, and gave him up just too late for
the reward, which had been already with
drawn. I was now weary of teaching for insuffi
cient pay, and sought a Government clerk
ship, which I obtained in the office of the
Commissary of Prisons in January, 1804.
In September of tbe same year tbe Surratts
moved to Washington to keep a boarding
house and get John something to do, and to
help them along I moved in almost iuime-,
diately. John was engaged by Adams Ex
press Company, and with the exception of
the arrival of a blockade-runner or two,'
little happened until a few days before
Christmas of 1864-5, when by auothcr of
those providences or coincidences to which
I have referred, I was walking in the street
with Surratt when Jobn Wilkes Booth was
introduced to him by their common friend,
Dr. Mutld.
After this the manner and nature of Sur
ratt changed. He became, grade by grade,
a loiterer and a spendthrift, subject at times
to fits of despondence ; and I have no doubt
that Booth was his absolute master, de
bauching him with his horses and loans of
money, and by bis stronger worldliaess and
magnetism controlling him altogether. I
used to wonder what affinity such unlike
men could have; but bitter as the secession
ists of Washington were, oo idea of conspi
racy, particularly against personages so bigb,
ever occurred to me. And it was only in
tbe head of a monomaniac actor, used to
rehearse Brutus, that so desperate a crime
could bare been conceived ; his means were
just considerable enough to purchase such
poor instruments as John Surratt; and his
own character was so impracticable that no
body ever fathoned his plot. In Mrs. Sur
ratt's house he was altogether the most tal
ented visitor. The mistress of it culled bim
"Her Pet," in his absence.
During all these days tbe plot was ripen
ing : dirty fellows like Atzerott, boys like
Herold, and searching-eyed, mysterious per
sons like Payne, began to visit the bouse.
I felt that in my friendship with Jobn,
never very well founded, I was supplanted.
Jobn Surratt began to be a bird of passage,
riding to and fro from Montreal to Rich
mond. I was only puzzled by tbese things,
but never alarmed, and set him down as a
mere "sponger" or parasite upon Booth,
who was never free with me, and on whom
I looked aa a man of accomplishments and
genius that liked the company of bis in
feriors. Iu all this there were interludes of
drunkenness, as when three or four of the
subsequent assassins burst into my room,
saying that they were ruined men and that
all was lost. Thia was afterwards demon
strated to be Booth's failure to capture the
President at the Soldier's Home.
And this brings me to the crisis of the
narrative ; the interest of the bouse was
gone, its peacefuluesa and charm, I was
thinking to myself on Good Friday, as I re
turned from my office to Mrs. Surratt's, re
leased for a holiday on account of my re
ligious belief, that perhaps I bad better
seek board otherwheres. At that moment,
as if some providence had satisfied me with
these aimless companionships so long that I
might observe their complicity and convict
them, if not defeat them, Mrs. Surratt asked
me to spend the afternoon in taking her to
drive. As we started out, I saw Booth in
tbe parlor, leaning on the mantel, paler than
usual I have since seemed to recollect, hi
hand to bis moustache, his eyes upon the
floor. We talked pleasantly on the way,
aud once Mrs. Surratt stopped to ask about
the pickets in the fields, and when they
were to be removed at nightfall.
She died for that ride. I, who had made
her son's acquaintance so unwittingly, and
slept under ber roof so long without unkind
ness given or received, do not shrink to say
that I have never been sorry that I accom
panied her. Aud when she dipti I felt sad
dened but not self-accusing ; for if there ia
a doubt that she wfs & principal in tbe mur
der, there it no doubt, to my mind, that she
knew enough to prevent it, to save the
President, tho Secretary of State, Booth,
and, perhaps, her own son.
That night I was weary, and read myself
to sleep. At 8 o'clock in the morning, called
from my bed by loud hands upon the door,
I beard the challenge of "Officers of tbe
Government. Open at once."
"What is it all for, gentlemen I" I said.
"The President aud the Secretary of State
are dead 1 We want Booth and Sunatt to
surrender if they are here."
I do not remember what I exclaimed ; tbe
officer say it was : "My GodI I see it all."
Then at daylight I hastened to read tbe
particular "A tall man in a white coat
stabbed Mr. Seward" that must he Paynel
- 1 hurried to tbe police station at once.
Directly I wa off with the detectives on
tbe road to Surrattsville again. We caught
ahorse. "To whom did you hire it t" we
say to the livery man. "To a monkey-faced
chap named Erail, I think." Tbat most be
Herold. Away we go to the widow Harold's,
pavid ba been away quite two day. "Let
os see your album." 11 is picture is secured.
I knew where Surratt bad photographs
taken ; w obtain a dozen copies. Then I
am carried before Mr. Stanton. He looka at
u savagely for baviog been one of hi
clerk aad keeping such company. I am
rdered to Old Capitol HilL Front, tbe jail-
yard I see Mr. Surratt at tbe window. . She
klssea ber band. A man ootneaaytome with
a message on ber behalf: "You are to say
nothing of anybody ef the female gender
when asked." It is too late, if I could have
had such a wish. Tbe past is too vividly
illumined by this fresh crime to be forgot
ten. This is the story of a school friendship
and boarding-bouse acquaintanceship.
lie closed and shook my hand. I
wondered if there were boys in other gener
ation with the experience of this boy in
ours. o. a. t.
A Ship of Itoaih Flossie late a Port
or the Shctlstnd lalastdt).
Since the time when the Ancient Mariner
told the terrible tale of the curseladcn ship
with her crew of ghastly corpses, no more
thrilling story of the sea has been related
than that of tbe whale ship Diana, that re
cently drifted into one of the Shetland It-
lands.
A year ago she left the Shetland on a
whaling voyage to tbe Artie region, havintr
on board fifty men. From tbat time noth
ing more wss beard of her. Tbe friends of
tboso on board became alarmed. Money
was raised and premiums offered to the firat
Vessel that would bring tidings of the mis
sing ship, but all to no avail. Hope was al-
. a. . I 1 a
uiuBfr lunauonea.
On tbe 2d of Aoril the neonle nearPnnn'a
Voe, in one of the Shetland Isles, were start
led at seeing a ghastly wreck of a ship sail
ing into the harbor. Battered and ice-crushed
sails and cordage cut away, boats aod
spars cut up for fuel in the trrible Artio
winter, her decks covered with dead and
dying, the long lost Diana sailed in like a
ship from Deadmans Land. Fifty men sail
ed out of Lerwick in her on a bright May
morning last year. All of the fi'lv came
back on her on tbe 3d of April, this year;
tbe same but now different.
Ten men of whom the captain was one.
lay stiffened corpses on the deck; thirty-five
tay neipirasiy sick, ana some dying ; two
retained sufficient strength to creen aloft.
aud the other three crawled freely about the
deck. Tbe ship was boarded by the island
ers, and, as they climbed over the bulworks,
tne man at tne wneei tainting trom excite
ment, one of the sick died as he lay, hie
deathbeing announced by the fellow oc
cupant of his berth feebly moaning, "Take
away mis neaa man." un tbe bridge of the
vessel lay the body of the captain, as it had
laid for four months, with nine of his dead
shipmates by bis side, ail decently laid out
by those who soon expected to share their
fate.
Tbe survivors could not bear to link the
bodies of their comrade into the tea, but
kept them so that when the last man died
the fated ship that bad been their citmmon
home should be their common tomb. The
surgeon of the ship worked faithfully to the
last, but cold, hunger, scurvy and dysentery
were too much for him. Tbe brave old
Captain was the first victim, and died bless
ing bis men. Then the others full, one by
one, until tbe ship was tenanted only by the
dead and dying. One night more at tea
would have left tbe Diana a floating coffin.
Not one of the fifty would have lived to tell
tbe ghastly tale.
. Bromide of Potassium for Hydro
phobia. The Indianapolis Journal contains
an account of Miss Selvia Eller, of Beck's
Station, Hamilton county, Indiana, who
was bitten by a rabid dog about two months
ago. The wound was a very slight one,
and giving uo alarm, was, unfortunately,
allowed to heal without being subjected to
treatment, one was attacked by hydrop
hobia. Opiates proved of little use. Final
ly the physician administered bromide of
potassium, increasing the quantity to about
two ounces per day. For three days there
was no change perceptible, tbe disease then
abated its violence, and the patient has
since recovered.
On Friday night last, six car loads of oil
took fire on a train which was coming down
the mountain near Kittanning Point, on the
Pennsylvania railroad, and about two hun
dred barrels burned up. The flame illumin
ated tbe whole valley between the Allegheny
and Brush Mountains, and formed one of
tbe most beautiful sights imaginable.
Great wrath has been excited among the
old bachelors of Jersey City by tbe publica
tion of their names in a New York paper.
HUM O ROUS.
Tho i'ore Shoes).
Colonel F., a very irritable and impatient
man, bad occasion once, while passing on
horseback through a small town in the
West, to patronize a Dutch blacksmith.
"Are you the smith!" he asked of a stout,
black-bearded, smoke begrimed old man,
who came out of tbe shop to look at the
horse's defective shoes. "Yes, I be der
smidt," replied roein herr, striving bis
long pipe with his left hand, as he lifted
one of the horse's feet with bis right hand.
"You wish to have de new shoes put ont"
"No, sir," replied the Colonel, in his quick
way. "Set the shoes of his fore feet, that's
all." "I set de shoes on de four feet yah
I now onderstan. I will have him in one
hour sboed." Tbe Colonel wont away and
returned at the appointed time, and found
the blacksmith ttill at work on hie horse.
He was very wroth when be saw tbe state
of affairs, but he went away again with tbe
promise tbat in 'von half hour the shoes
wold be set. After dinner, in no very mild
nuuior, he made bit appearance again at tbe
shop, and asked what was to pay. "Four
shillings," was the reply. "Four shillings 1
what an imposititiou I" exclaimed the fiery
Colonel. "I never paid over sbi ling for
setting a shoe in my life. "Very well,"
nodded mein herr. "Von shilling for the
von shoe I aet de four sheet dat ish four
shillings-nichts," "Nick I tbe old Nick 1"
roared tbe excited traveler. "Who told
yon to set more than two shoes?" "By
doonder, you tell me yourself," said the
smith. "II 'Tis a falsehood 1" answered
tbe traveler: "iu a liea-" "Mein Got I
You aay, de shoes on de four feet!" "So I
did." said the traveler ; "the two shoe on
tbe fore feet." "Got in Uimmel I two shoes
on the four feet I Von hat oo dree beadt
so much." "You eternal f-lool I" exclaimed
the colonel, who ttuttered when ba wa ex
cited "I taid set the fore boe on those
two f feet, you b-blundering Dutchman."
"You Yankee goose t monkey, you tarn jack
aet, fool." Tbe colonel replied, stuttering
worse than ever. The smith struck his fist and
jabbered Dutch, his knowledge of English
being exhausted; and they had it back and
forth until a mutual friend came up and
explained the matter. Tbe colonel paid the
charge, langbiog at the mistake, while herr
smoked fiercely, cursing copiously that
which made four feet two feet and two feet
four feet, any way but the right wy dpn
ntr tad blitzes !
An Irish hostler wa tent to the stable to
bnngoutatraveler' hore, but not know
Ing which of the two horses in the stable
belonged to the traveler, and wishing to
avoid tbe appearance of ignorance in his
business he saddled both animals, and
brought them to tbe door. Tbe traveler
pointed out his own horse, "That' my
nag." "Certainly, yer honor, I know tbat
very well," taid Pat, but I didn't know
which wa the other gentleman'." -
Ah Ordihart Licknsk. A neat little
girl, apparently about nineteen, says the
Frederick Uerald, a few days ago entered
the clerk's office, and removing her bonnet,
inquired if Dr. Bradely was in. The doctor,
who wa present, promptly and politely re
sponded in the affirmative. "Are you,"says
the lady, "tbe gentleman we are to bave for
Governorr "Why, madam," said the doctor,
with modest confusion, "there has been
some talk on that subject." "Then you are
the very gentleman I want. Have yon any
licenses to dispose of?" "Yes, madam ; will
you have a retailer's or an ordinarv licenser'
"An ordinary will do, doctor ; 1 am only
going to marry a little Dutchman."
Sarcastic-Tbe following hit at the ore-
pailing style of bonnets is exceedingly sar
castic, and we shall wonder if the style sur-
! I.
vives it :
"A picture In the late number of rukeh
represents a fashionable and affectionate
couple, tbe husband searching vigorously
in his vest pocket. The young wife in
quires : 'Have you lost your watch love t' "
"And he replies : 'No, darling, 'twa a
new bonnet I had-for you somewhere.' "
An eagle, which had been captured in the
wilds of Vermont and taken to Boston, waa
set free by some patriotic individuals in that
place, recently, and, amid tbe cheers of a
large crowd, he sailed away, lighting first
upon the "Cradle of Liberty."
Why is a young man's arm like the
Gospel f Because it makes glad the waist
(waste; places.
A poet has nndcrtaken to immortalize a
recent flat-boat calamity on Oil Creek. The
following melancholy stanza tells the whole
story :
"She heaved and sot, anrl sot and heaved,
And high her rudder flung ;
And every time she heaved and aot,
A worser leak she sprung."
Madam, your boy can't .pass for lydf
fare he's too large," said the conductor of
a railway train, which had long been detain
ed on tbe road by the snow.
'He niay be too large now," replied the
matron, "but he waa small enough when we
started." Tbe conductor gave in.
"Who is the first boy mentioned in tho
Bible?" Chap 1.
To which might be added, "Who is the
first girl mentioned in the Bible?" Jtnny
tit. An editor out West bas married a girl
named Church. He says he has enjoyed
more happiness since he joined the church
than he ever did in his life before.
Young limb of the law lately married to
his wife: My dear, here is to-night's paper:
I am tired, if there is any news, please read
it. Wife An exchange paper says: "The
girls in some parts of Pennsylvania are so
hard up for husbands that they sometimes
take up with printers and lawyers.
(From the American Agriculturist
KUCiriilS, Ac.
Websteiis Cake. Take 1 cup butter,
Cup molasses, J cup sugar, 3 cups flour, 1
gill eweet milk, 1 teaspoon salcratus, S eggs,
add currants and citron, aud spice, clove
and nutmeg.
Silver Cake. Take the whites of tiz
eggs, two and one-half cups of flour, one
and one half cups of sugar, hall cup of but
ter, two-thirds of a cup of cream or sweet
milk, half teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
and a little toda.
Corn Cakk. Three cups of corn meal,
one cup of wheat, two teaspoonful of sugar,
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tarter, one tea
spoouful of salt. Mix well together ; while
dry, add one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved
in warm water. Mix the whole to a thin
batter with milk or water, and bake in a
quick oven. t
Tapioca Puddiso. Four tablespoonfula
of tapioca, 1 quart milk, 4 eggs (leaving out
tbe whites of two for icing) ; sweeten to
taste and flavor with vanilla. Souk the
tapioca over night in a UttU water, boil the
milk and pour over tbe tapioca; when it ia
lukewarm, add the sugar and eggs, well
beaten. Bake about one hour ; ice it when
cool.
BitowN Bread. 8 small pints of corn
meal, 8 small pints of bran flour, 1 pint of
molasses, 1 tea spoonful of salt, 1 tea spoon
ful of salcratus, 1 quart of milk, pour into
three quart bucket with tight fittng lid,
which has been well greased, and set it into
a pot of boiling water, and boil four hours.
Ginoek SHAra.-tOne cup of molasses, one
of sugar, one of shortening, one egg, one
tablespoonful of ginger, one of vinegar, one
teaspoonful of saleratus.
Molassks Cookies. One cup of molasses,
one of sugar, one of shortening, one egg, one
teaspoonful of sa'.eratus.
Lemon Butter for Tarts. One pound
pulverized whith sugar, whites of six e'ga
and yolks of two, three lemons, including
grated rind and juice. Cook twenty minute
over a low Are, stirring all tbe while.
Tomato Vinegar. No great skill is re
quired to make tbe article. Express the
juice, and put in any clean vessel exposed
to tbe air iu a warm place and it will toon
become vinegar. It will make a stronger
viuegar if molasses is added to the juice.
To Preserve Fur. Wrap them in pa
per of several thicknesse or in cotten cloth,
early in tbe spring, before the moth miller
begins to fly. It is only necessary to to se
cure them that no - moth can get access to
them. A tight box, with paper pasted on
where the lid cover it, U equally effective.
To Remove Tea Stains from Table
Cloth. Lay the cloth in an earthen crock,
or procelain kettle, and cover with clean,
cold, soft water. Put the kettle on the
back of tbe stove, where it will heat slowly
to a scald. After an boar or more lift out
you cloth and wash with soap ia the usual
manner.
Best Kino of Cuccmbbrs fob Pickiahg.
Ws have never been able to detect any
difference in tba flavor of cucumber after
they were pickled. They are mainly a
sponge to hold vinegar, and tba beat kind
ia the most fruitful. The White Spine ia
good enough, but in tbeckle districts they
raise their own eed, .nd improve toeta by
selecting U.' fruit of th third or fourth
blet0P;, ,rom tb. loot.