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AMERICAN.
BUSINESS CARDS.
Al
ATTORNEY
.A.T LAW
Sorth Side of Public Square ono door east of the
Old Bank Building.
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
Collections and all Professional business promptly
attended to In tho Courts of Northumberland and
adjoining Counties.
Sunbury, Sept. 15, IBM. ...
0. t. BnCKER. x-'11'
Altomrya nisl Osinsicllorii nl I.nM,
Chcsnut Street, west of the N. C. and P. & E. Rail
road JJepot, in the building lately occupied by
V. Laiarus, Ewp,
BTJNBTJBY PENN'A.
Collections and all Professional business promptly
attended to in Northumberland and adjoining Conn
ties. "P'JL
C3-. W". HAXJPT
Attorney nnd 7osinwrIlor lit
OfSoe on south side of Market etrcot, Bvo doors Knst
of the N. C K abroad,
SXTJSrBXTR"V, PA.
Will attond promptly to all professional husiness
Entrusted to bis care, tho collection of claims in
iorthuuiborlnnd and the adjoining counties.
Kunbury, April 13, 1H57.
II. II. Ai'.tt,
Attorney (it I.nw, Pl'XIiUKY, PA ,.
Colloolions attended tn in tho counties of ir
thumborland, I'uion, Snyder, Montour, Columbia
and Lycoming.
IIKFEIIKSCLS.
Jlon. John SI. Reed, Philadelphia,
A. U. Cattell Co., "
Jlon. M m. A. Porter. "
Morton McJIichnol, K.q.. "
E. Keteham A Co., Pearl Slrcot, New York.
Jnhn W. Aslimoad. Attorney at Law,
?intlhews Cox, Attorneys ut Law, '
Sunbury, March !i'.'.18S:J.
JACOB SIliPMAN.
FJF.E AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENT,
fSUXHL'Ki', PKX.VA.
HKi'iir.;
fru4-ir Mutual Fira fjt.uraneo Co., York Pa.,
uuibwliuid Valley Mutual Pivjte.-Hon Co.,
,r York Mutual Mfa.Oirurd Lifoo! I'liil':.. i llait
ord Conn. Uoucnd Accidentc.
uul;uty, April 7, ly.
W. J WOLVERTON.
ATHiULY AT I. AW,
Mmkel Street, J doors west of Ir. Kyster's Slurc.
SUXlit.'KY, PENN'A.
All professional business in this and adjoining coun
ties promptly attended to.
t-uuuiiry, November 17, ISotJ. ly
J. R. IIJiLBUSH ' ;
SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCS. i
AND I
.71 TICK ' THE l'FA CIJ. j
!nlif!, X'lyliiitiiibt fluid Cmni!;. Pthii'n
Office in Jackson township. Kiiginfempnts ran
bo made by letter, directed to the above address, j
All business entrusted to Jibj earn, will be promptly ;
attended to.
April 11. lSti7.-ly
Wi.ai.RockKKBLt.Hn. LlovdT. Rourbach'. :
BOCKEFELLER & R0HRBACH.
MIM1I IIY,
"vFKICli the same that has been heretofore occu.
J piBd by m. M. Kojki'reller.hsij., nearly up
polite tho rcideuee of J udtfc Jordan. ,
fcuubury, July I, IsOj. ly j
Jkukgk IIii i., Simon 1. Woi.vriiTox.
HILIi & WOLVEU ION.
Uorin'.vw "ml 'oii:-Ir' ni l.uxt.
t IT ILL attend to the collection of all kinds of
cl..;m., including Uuck Pay, Bounty und Pen
ious "l'l- '
EDWIN A- EVANS,
ATTORNEY AT T, A.W
Market Square, near the Court llou-e,
SUN HUB Y, Northumberland County, Pa,
Cdlectiona proaiptly ntteuded to iu this and adjoin,
lag Counties.
April Kt. lo7.
JEREMIAH SNYDER,
A I tor ' A 'isimf llor sit Btii.
i AKil KY, .
iuu-li-l -UtoriM- ror.ortliiini-
Sutlxiry, March 31, laGfl.-'.y
&'Jvty'b or soldiers.
I iW.VK uiflo airangcnients in Washington Cily,
for the pnuupt o'lllectiuu of Bounty under tho
ialo Aetot Congress. ' ,m,,c," " . '.. V
,,er biauluMio pre . loo cia.un
. ... ...1,1 I.I.H V III. Ml
Soldiers entitl
:o tins llountv u..uld apply Immediately, as it is es
timaied lhu. it will req.'iuo Unco years lo adjusl a. I
tllAIl soldi'eis wb e'.H'tc 1 for Ihreo years and who
have iwtrci .ed mure than HIU bounty are entitled
to tho henelilf of this AM. as w ell as soldiers who
have enlisted lor tJiroe ye.ws and discharged alter a
service of two y..rs, by ro. son of wounds received,
v"'"1 10 "T. VrKOHKUACU:
Sunbury. Aug"'. IS. Hif
jacob o'zbzecir:
MEKCHANT TAILOR,
Aud Oeulcr ill
ri OT11S. CASSlMKlfLS, VESTING, Ac.
O'uviu s.trft
hwulll of
Wravw"
UoU-l,
Q XJ KT "Q U 3 TT 1 A
Maath SI J3 .. .
t iHSUOLTi, C. WOLVIK-TCK, C. P. fl.A.-UOLTJ
COAL! COAL! COAL!
f lVIE subscribers reslicctfuriy infytta tbecilut ns of
1 Sunbury and vioiuity, tiial they b.vo opeued a
COAZi YARD
nt J. Haas A Co s Lower Wharf, fsisi lmi-T. la.
where they are prepared to supply all kinds ot Mm
iuoUin Coal, at cheap rat.-, iamilies and others
;,.oilv supplied. Country curtouirospeeifully
Punbury, Jan. 12, 1S67.
JN0. KAY CLEMENT,
Tiusinesaiu this aud adjoining counties carefully
and promptly utttendod to.
J'ai in Mirkot BUeat, Third door west of Suntb
A Oeuther's Stove and Tiuwure Suae,
Kl'lll K' riWVA.
COAL ! COAL! ! COAL ! ! !
G-B A.
ll'rsi
T A BR OTtt
& WholcHMlo At Itetuil
Will II
Jt Ki:i ASH i' Al.,
In avnrv varlfit 9.
BoU Agents, westward, of the Celebrated lloury
Clay Coal. .
LOWKR WllARK, SusiBUKY, PA.
Eunbury, Jau. 13, 1666.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER
in every variety ef
ANTHRACITE COAL,
n. Wharf. SDNBDHT. Fano't.
Order! loliollej and tUUd with rromrtaesi and
T. 11. Pcanr, J. D. James.
& JAMES,
ATTOKNEYS AT LAW, Sl'NBUKY, PA.
Office Market stroot, 4 doors west of the railroaj,
lately used as a Post Office.
Will attend promptly to the collection of claims
and other professional business intrusted to his care,
in Northumberland and adjoining counties.
Norcmbor V, 1867.
C. A. REIMENSNYDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, SUNliUHY, PA.
All business entrusted to his care attended to
promptly and with diligence. sept. 14.
S. 8. Weber, Joii.i Rcnki.e
ARCH STIIEKT, between Third and Fourth Street
imi.Air.i.iEiiA.
WKI1KH i. ltl'NKI.K. Proprietors.
June 29, 1I7. ly
ADDISON O MARR,
A T T O R N E Y AT LA W,
SHAMOKIN, Noi'thumborlnnd County, Pa.
4 LI. business attended to with promptness and
J. diligence.
.'hamokin, Au. I0,18t!7 ly
Dr. CHAS. ARTHUR,
?lo m cropatfjic 13 fjjnst r i an .
Oradttate of the Ilomooopathia Medical College of
j Pennsylvania.
(Vkick, Market Kiiuaro opposite tho Court House,
j MMIl'HY. PA.
Offiee Hours 7 to 0 morning : 1 lo 3 afternoon;
7 to U evening. May 18.
! AUGUSTA HOTEL,
I S UII i:i, J1A.W IM-opi-ictor.
, (Formerly of the Mansion House, Mahonoy City,
Schuylkill county. I'a.)
I In Cuke's. Addition, near the Machine Shops,
, S "CJ 3ST 33 TJ n Y , PENN'A.
Transient aud permanent boarders will find this u
; most vomt'ortablc bouse and possessing the ndvan
! taes of convenience totlic railway and husiness part
'of the town, licin newly furnished with all the
1 modern household improvements, there is every fa
'. eility for tho convenient accommodation of guests.
(iiHid stabling and experienced hostlers in altcn.l
: ancu.
J Sanitary. June 22. IHrt7.
; DR. J. S. ANGLE,
G RADIATE of Jefferson Medical College, with
live years practice, offers bis professionul ser
j vices lo the citizens of Suubury and vicinity will
j attend alt calls promptly
i OFFICE over Thacher's Store, in I'iensnuls' build
ing, Market Square,
i Office Hoi ks troinH to 10 A. M.
1 ( 2 to 6 P. M.
Punbury, April 27, 1M07.
j AMBR0TYPE AND PHOTOGRAPH
I Corner Market A Fawn Street, SUNBURY, Pa.
S. BYEHLY, PnontiETOH,
Photograph, Amhrotypes and Mulainotypes taken in
the best style of tho art. apt. 7, ly
UNION HOTEL-
I'EIAS. ITZICIi. ltOii i lor.
In Cake's Additic n to SUXBUHV, near the l'enn'a.
Kuilrnad Company's Shops.
PERMANENT AXD TRANSIENT HOARDEHS,
kept who will find amnio accommodations. Good
cooks aud waiters, boarders can enjoy the quiet coin
forts of hoiuu with fare equal to the best hotels.
11 is Liquors aro of the choicest kinds,
Suuhury, Juno 8, l.st7.
Mount Garmel Hotel i
MX. CAR MEL, Northumberland Co., Pn., j
THUS. BL'UKKT, I'homiiktou.
This larire c.iiun odious Hotel is located near the
ilejls of the Mnamokin Valley and the Quakake A I
New Vork Hailroads. Trains arrive and depart daily. .
This bouse is located in tho centre of tho Coal He-
gion aud atFords the best accommodations to travelers
and permanent customers. jay 5
G-I?kA?wD ECTJSS. "
CIIKST.M'T ISTKKHT, PlIILAIlULPm A.
rpllIS well known Hotel, situate near the corner
I of Ninth A Chesuut Slrects, Philadelphia, is. on
account of its superior location nnd excuilent aecom
niodatious, ono of tho best and most dcsirnble stop- I
pun' places in the ell v.
II. W. KAJCAtlA, Proprietor.
February 16, 1SI17. Hm
HOOK BINDERY.
JOHN HERIVTAN
North Mill street, DANVILLE, PA., .
JS prepared to Hind Hooks, I'apers, Magazines
Music, Ac, in any stylo that may be desired, at
cheaper rates than cau bu done iu thu cities.
IV Orders loft ut this Ollioo, will receive prompt
' uttenlion. vct.rj, 'b7
I '
I 'I'oys :iuil J'jsiK-j- taootlst I
.1 O II N DOLL,
No. :a' Market Slreet, I'hiladeliihia, Importer of
lii-rman and French 'IOVS AND FANCY AH'J'I-Cl.l-.
just nuvivvd a vtry Inro aaeortment of uli
kinds of
'JVy, Chiiei-Ware. Canes. I'ipos. Harmonicas, Mar.
Mr.-, .-'tales, 1'encil', Masks, Baskets,
and also, a v'arii-iy of II A.MKS, Ac, Ac.
I'ff Country .Meiclino? will please examine my
St.K-k.
Mctohcr 5, 1m'i7.' :iiii
JIKRDKJ IIOUSK, "
i:. a. i I'so.x, wmi'i,
WXLLIAMSPOHT, VK.
May -', I St7 . fnu
V I.KAM.INKSS IS NEXT TG t.OULI
NESS."
Al'ACT which isdviuoustrated ai Ol'XNISON
A CO .,
I'ii-Kt t'luKM fehutiii; lluir Ciitliir;-;
lll !lllllllOOIillX IIuusuh.
Two Crsl-clusa 1IAUBKK.S always in attendance.
Particular utleutiou to cutting Ladies and Children's
bair. iive its u cull ut tbe New Kooms over tbo
Post Oflico.
Sunbury. Auuusl J. liu7 tf
SUOEMrVKEHs!
THE best qualities of Sole Leather, French Calf
kins. Morrocoos, Liuinus, Lasts. Nails. Pom-
fools of all kiuds, and every thing used by tbe trail o,
for sale low by
J. II. CONLKY A CO
GROCERIES,
Provision, and Flour
& Feed Store.
J. A. til.XUY fc CO.,
Iu Vt'oi mar's Building, Water Street, near King at.,
NORTHUMBERLAND, PA.,
INFORM their friends aud the public generally
that they have a large assorlmeutof Urooerica
Provisions. Ac , all fresh and of tbe best quality, cou
sisting of Teal, Coffees, fcugau, and Spices.
Dried and Canned Fruits, Prunes, Raisioo, Cheese,
and Crackers, ana in laoi everyming usually
kept Id Ibe (Irooery line.
Thev would also eall attention to their large and
cheap lot of Uood FAMILY FLOUR, UreooTea,
Hams. Duouiaers, o. , wuiuu wiumuuv kv uu
band. Also, au aiuua m kioiw, j , v.
Uivt thorn a oall and l tut younalf.
yurUiBibarland, bopt. U, 1887.
CARrENTEHS,
WILL tai la our ostabluhoioDt a superior stock
of Planes, Paws, Augers. Hatobsu, Hamuiers, jrn
CkUels, ..,.. for -'' H C0!fLEyA0()
POETICAL.
WOUNDED.
Let me lie down,
Just here iu tbe shade of this cannon-torn tree,
Here low on the trampled gross, where I may see
The surge ol tho combat, nhcro I may hear
The glad cry of victory ! cheer upon cheer
Let mo lio down.
Oh, It was grand !
Like the tempest we chnrged, in tbe triumph to
sharo ;
The tempest its fury and thunder wcro there.
On, on, o'er intrenchtnents, o'er living and dead,
With the foe under foot mid our flag overhead
Oh, it was grand !
Weary and faint.
Prone to tbe soldier's coueb, ah, how can I rest
With this shot-shattered bead and sabro-picrced
breast t
Comrades, at roll-call, when I shall be sought,
Bay I fought till I fell, and fell where I fought,
Wounded and faint.
Oh, that last chargo !
Right through tbe dread bell-fire of scrapnell aud
shell,
Through without fultering, clear through with a
yell,
Right in tneir midst, in tho turmoil nnd gloom, '
Like heroes we dashed at the uianduto of doom.
Oh, that last charge !
It was duly !
.Some things arc whrthless, and some others so good
That nations who buy them pay only ill blood,
tor freedom nnd I inon each man owes a part,
And here 1 pay my sharo all warm from my hoart. t however, follow that pluin girls UIO not ler
It is duty ! ' ' riblv weifhted in 1 1... ru,-n
P.ving at last! j
My mother, dour mother, with meek, tearful oyo,
Farewell ! nnd (lod bless you. forever nnd aye !
Oh, that 1 now lay on vour pillowing breast
To brcatho mv Instated on tho bosom first pressed !
X'ying nt lest !
I nm no saint,
But, boys say n prayer. There's one that begins
"Our Father," and (.hen fays. 'Forgive us our sins."
Don't forget that purt ; ay that strongly ; and then
r 11 try to repeat it, and you'll say Amen.
Ah, I'm no saint '.
Hark, there's a shout !
Raise mo up. comrades; we have conquered, t
know !
Up r,n my P et, with uiy face to tho foo ;
Ah, there tlics the tl ig. w ith its star spangles bright
The prounsu ot glory, tho symbol of Bight !
Well may '.hey shoul !
I'm mustered out !
O Und of our fathers! our freedom prolong,
And tread down rehell ion, oppression, and wrong'
0 land of earth's hope ! on thy blood-reddened sod
1 die for the Nation, the Union nnd God !
I'm mustered out '.
TALES AND SKETCHES.
Il.At. ,ilUI,i.
It is beyond all question the tendency of
modern society to regard marriage ns the
L'reat end am! justification of a woman's life.
This is perhaps the single point on which 1
pructieul und romantic people, who differ in
so many tilings, invunahly agree. I'oels,
novelists, natural philosophers, fashionable
and unfashionable mothers, meet oucunother
on the broad common ground of approving
universal matrimony ; and women from
their curliest years are dedicated to the cul
tivation of those feminine accomplishments
which are supposed either to be most seduc
tive before mart iuge inn draw in" room, or
most valuable after marriage iu the kite lien j He is not a man of great rauk, greut promise,
und housekeeper's room. It is admitted to j or great expectations. Had it been other
be a sort of half necessity in any interesting w ise, he might possibly have flown at higher
work of fiction that its plots, its adventures, game, und set his heart on marrying leinale
and its eatu.strophies should all lead up to ! loveliness rather than homely " excellence,
the marriage of the principal vountr lady, i choice, if it is nothing else, is an index
Sfineliiiies, as iu the casu of the Celebrated
Lilly l)ule, the public tolerates a bold execp
t'ou to the ordinal y iu!e, on account of the
cNtremu piquancy of the thing; but no wise
novelist futures hubituully to disregard
the prevalent opinion that the heroine's
mission is to become :i wife, befoie the end
of the thinfvolunic. The one ideal, accord
ingly, wl.it.li romance has to oiler woman is
omnia;;!' ; und luo.-t novels thus make life
end with what really is only its threshold
id iiciiinuuii'. l lie mule no ilouut savs
that it is not go. id lor man to live alone. ,
What the llil.le says of mun, public ojiiuiou
as unhesitatingly asserts ol woman ; and a
text that it is not good !or woman to live
alone cither, though nut Canonical, is silent
ly udded by all domestic commentators to
the S.iriptural oiiginul. Those who pretend
to be best acquainted with the order of na
ture and the mysterious designs of Provi
dence iisMiue us with cnnlideucc that nil this
is as it should be ; that wnmuu is not meant
to grow and llouiis-h singly, but to hang on
man, and to depend on hi in, like the vine
upon the elm. II' wu remember right M.
Comclu cnlet tains opinions which really
come to ptetty much the sume thing. Wo
man is to be iiiaiutaiueil in case and luxury
by the rougher male animal, it being her
luty in return to keep his spiritual nature
j up lo the mark, to quicken und to purity
I his affections, to be a sort of drawing room
J religion iu the middle of cvtry-duy life, to
j serve as an object of devotion to the reli
gious Comtist, und to lead him through love
of heisulf up to the love of humanity id thu
abstract, (.'ne dilliculty presented by this
matrimonial view of woman's destiny is to
know what, under the present conditions
which society linds itself placed, ia to become
of plain girls. Their mission is a subject
w hich no philosopher as yet has adequately
handled. If marriage is the object of nil
feminine endeavors and ambitions, it cer
tainly seems rather hard that Providence
should have condemned plain girls to start
in the race at such an oovionsuisuuvantugf.
liveu under -M. C'ouite's system, w hich pro
vides, for ulinoot everything, aud which, in
its lar sightedness and thoiightluluess lor
our good, uppeurg utmost more benevolent
thau Providence, it would seem us if hardly
sullicient provision hail been made for them.
It must bo dithcuit lor any one except a
really advanced t'omtist to give himself up
to the worship of a thoroughly plain cirl.
Filial instinct might enable us to worship
her as a mother, but even the noblest debire
to serve humanity would scarcely be enough
to keep a husband or a lover up to his daily
devotions iu tho case of a plain girl with
sandy hair uud a freckled complexion. The
boldest ellort to rectily the inequalities ot
the position of pluiu girls, has been made of
lute years by a courageous school of female
writers of fiction. Lvery thing has becu doue
thut could be done to persuade mankind
that pluin girls are iu reality by fur the most
attractive of the lot. Thu clever authoress
of "Jane Eyre" m arly succeeded in tho for
lorn attempt for a few years; and plain girls,
w ilU volumes ot intellect speaking turougu
their deep eyes and from their massive fore
heads, seemed for a while, ou paper at least,
to be carrying everytuing Detore them.
The only difficulty was to get tbe male
cx to follow out in practice what they so
completely admired in Miss Bronte's three
volume novels. Unhappily, the male sex,
beiug very imperfect and frail, could not be
brouebt to do it. Thev recocnized the
beauty of the conception about plain girls,
they were very glad to see them married oil
in secret to heroic village doctors, and thry
quite nilmittetl tlmt occasional young noldo
men might be represented in fiction na be
coming violently attached to young creatures
with inky fingers und remarkable niintla.
But no rent change was brought about in
ordinary lite. Mun, sinful man, rcud with
Iilenpure about the triumphant' the snncly
laired girls, but still keep on dancing with
aud proposing lo the pretty ones. And nt
iHSt authoresses were drivtn back on the old
standard ot beauty. At present, in the pro
ductions both of masculine und feminine
workmanship, the former view of plain girla
has been resumed. They are allowed, if
inorougniy excellent in other ways, to pair
oil' with country curates and with devoted
missionaries; but the prizes of fiction, as
w ell as the prizes of reality, full to the lot of
their fairer und more fortunate sisters.
Champions of plain girlsare not, however,
wantiug who boldly take the dilliculty by
the horns, and deny t' loto the fact that in
matrimony nnd love the race is usually to
the bt'tiutilul. Look about you, they tell us,
in the world, and you will hr often as not
find beauties fading on their stalks, and
plain girls miirrvinu on evcrv side of them.
! And no doubt plain girls ilo'marry verv Ire
iquently. Nobody, lor instance, with" half
jan eye, ran fail to be familiar with the
I phenomenon, in 1j is own circle, of astonish
ingly uyly married women. It docs not.
There are several reasons why women who
rely on their beauty remain, unmarried nt
the lust, but tho reason that their beauty
gives them no advantage is certainly not
one. The first reason perhaps is that beau
ties ure inclined to be fastidious nnd capri
cious. They hnve n. notion of billowing
the advice of Mrs. Hannah More, aud being
.contented with the hist good, sensible,
I Christ inn lover who falls in their way ; nnd
I they run, in consequence, no slight risk of
overstaying their market. They go in for a
j more splendid sort of matrimonial success,
i and think they can afford to play the more
j dating game. Plain girls are providentially
jpreseived from these temptations. At the
close of a well spent life they cun cousei-
etitiof.sly look buck on a cureer iu which no
j reasonable opportunity was nrglcctcd, and
sny that they have not broken niuny hearts,
i or been sinfully und distructingly particular.
Ami there is the farther consideration to be
remembered in the case of plain girls, that
fortune and rank are nearly its valuable ar
ticles as beauty, and lead to a fair number
of matrimonial alliances. The system of
Providence is lull of kindly compensations,
and it is a proof of the universal benevo
lence we see about us that so many heiresses
should be pluin. Pluiu mils have n riuht
I to be cheered nnd comforted by the thought.
1' teaches them tile happy lesson that benu
tT'. n9 rnmpared witli a stltled income, is
skin-deep and valueless; and that what man
looks for in the companion of his life is not
so inucli a Iinglit cheek or blue eye, ns a
substantial nnd useful amount ol this world's
wealth.
1'luin girls again expect less, und are pre
pared to accept less, in a lover. Everybody
ki lows the sort of useful, admirable, pructieul
mun wno sets inmseii to uiatrv a uluin uirl
; oi a cnntetiled and modest disposition. He
j is not vain enough to compete in the great
1 race for beauties. 'VYhut be looks for is
: some one w ho will be mother of his children,
: w ho will order his servants duly, nnd keep
; his household bills; and whose'good sense
will tench her to recognize the sterling
. qualities of her husband, and not o'.je.ct lo
his dining d'tily in his slippers. This is the
sort of parlucr tLut plain girls may ration
ally hope to secure, und who can sny that
they ouuht not to be cheerful anil limine in
their lot ? For a character of this undeniable
sobriety there is indeed n positive advantage
in a pluin gill us a wife. It should never be
forgotten that the man who marries a plain
gill never need be jealous, lie is iu the
Arcadian and fortunate condition, of a lover
who has no rivals. A sensible unambitious
nature will recognize iu this a solid benefit.
Plain girls rarely turn into fiisky mutrons,
nnd his fact renders them peculiarly adapt
ed to be the wives of dull and steady me
diocrity. Lest it should bo supposed that the above
calculation of what plain girls may do, leaves
some of their power and success still unac
counted for, it is quite right uud proper to
add that the story of plain girls, if it were
carefully written, would contain many in
stances, not merely of moderate good fortune,
tint ol splendid and exceptional triumph.
Like prime ilonimn, opera dancers, und lovely
milliners, plain girls have been known to
make extraordinary hits, and to awaken
illustrious passions. Somebody ought to
tuke up the subject in a book, and tell us
how they did it. This is tho age of Golden
Treasuries. We hpve Golden Treasuries of
English poets, of Fnnch poets, of great
lawyers, of fanirus battles, of notable beau
ties, of Knglish heroes, of successful mer
chants, nnd of almost every sort of character
ami ccieinity unit can lie conceived. hat
is w anted is a Golden Treasury containing
the narrative of tho most succe-slul plain
girls. The book might be called the Hook
of Ugliness, and wo see no reason why, to
give reality to the ftory, I lie portrait's of
smi'C of tiie most remarkable miuht not be
appended. Of course, if ever such a volume
is compiled, it w ill be proved to demonstra
tion thut pluin girls have before, now arrived
ut ureat matrimonial honor and renown.
There is, for example, the sort of plain
girl who mirses her hero (perhaps in tho
Crimen) through a dangerous attack of ill
ness, und marries him ufterwanls. There is
the class ot those who have been married
simply from a sense of duty. There is tho
class that distinguishes itself by profuse
kindness to poor cottagers, and by reading
the Intilo to LilitKl otu women; uu occupa
tion which, as wo know from the most ordi
nary works of tiction, leads directly to the
promptest and speediest attachments on the
part ot the young men wno Happen to drop
in casually at the time. Tho catalogue of
such is perhaps long aud famous. Yet, al
lowing for all these, allowing for everything
else that can be adduced in their favor, we
cannot help returning to the position that
plain girls have an up luil battle to tight.
No doubt it ought not to be so. Cynics
toll ut that six months after a man is mar
ried, it makes very little difference to him
whether his wife's nose it Koman, aquiline
or retrousse ; and this may be to. The un
fortunate thing ia that most men persist in
marrying for the lake of the illusion of the
first six months, and under the iufluence of
the anti-nuptial ana cot the post-nuptial
sentiments ; and as tbe first six months with
a plain girl are confessedly inferior in attrac
tion, the inference is clear that they do in
effect attract less. Plainness or loveliness
apart, a very large number of womankind
have no reason to expect any very happy
chance in married life ; BDd if marriage is to
bo set before all women ns the one ideal, a
number of feminine lives will always turn
nut to have been failures.
It may lie said that it is hopeless to at
tempt on this point to ulter thu sentiments
of tho female sex, or indeed the general
verdict of society. We do not quite see tl e
hopelessness. A considerable amount of tho
matrimonial ideas of young women arc pure
ly tho result of their education, and of the
atmosphere in which they have been brought
up , and, by giving a new direction to tlieir
early training, it might not be altogether so
quixoticul to believe that we should niter all
that is the result of the training. At any
rate it has become essential for the welfare
of women that they should, as far as possi
ble, be taught that they moy have a career
open to them even if they never marry; uud
it is the duty of society to try to open to
them ns many directs of the sort as are not
incompatible with the distinctive peculiari
ties of a woman's physical capacity. It may
well be thut society's present instincts as
regards women ure nt bottom selfish. The
notion of feminine dependence on man, of
the want of refinement in a woman who un
dertakes any active business or profession,
und of the first importance of woman's
domestic position, when carried to nn cx
treme.ure perhaps better suited to the caprice
nnd fanciful fastidiousness of men than to
the real requirements, in the present age, of
the other sex. The throng of semi educated
authoresses w ho are now llncking about tho
world of letters is a wholesome protest
against such exclusive jealousy. The reul
olijectiou to literary women is that women,
with n few notable exceptions, nrc uot yet
properly educated to write well, or to criti
cise well what others write. Remove this
objection by improving tho curriculum of
feminine education, and there is hardly any
other. There is none certainly of sufficient
consequence to outweigh the real need
which is felt by giviug those women some
thing to live for (apart from and above ordi
nary domestic and philanthropic duties,)
whose good or evil fortune it is not to be
marked out by Heaven for a married life.
MISCELLANEOUS?
A Three Hours' 'onilat wills tin
i:iiisiiit.
Mr. Hyntt Frost, of Van Amburgh's me
nngerie,gives the Cincinnati C'umuurciul the
puiticulurs of a terrible fight with Tippoo
Siiliib, the well known elephant, which oc
curred at CoiinersvilU, Indiana, recen
tly. The menagerie had gone into winter
quarters at that place, and the colossal utii
nuil is chained in a suiall building, where
he w ilt be kept until the show season opens
ucxt enr. Tippoo Sahib, by the way, is
now t lie largest elephant in America, lie
is thirty six years old, and weighs ten thou
sand pounds.
' The buttle with Tippoo resumed from n
change in his keepers. Frank IS'ash, his
keeper for ten years, was recently supplant
ed by Charles Johnson, formerly of Iiaruuin's
menagerie. The elephant will not accept a
new muster without a battle, aud Mr. John
son prepared himself for an exciting en
counter. The elephant was in particularly
bud humor with all mankind. lie would
allow nobody in his quarters, striking at
every intruder with his trunk und tusks most
viciously.
On Tuesday morning last, at ten o'clock,
the combat opened. The new keeper, with
nine i s -if nuts, had fully equipped themselves
with chains and cables for tvintr. and spears
nnd pitchforks for subduing Tippoo. The '
first thin" done was to fasten a brickbat to
the end of a rope, and throw it over the end
of tho tusk chain, which latter is fastened
to one leg und one tusk. By means of this
rope, it twenty-one cuble chain (formerly
used to subdue tho famous llauuibul) was
slip noosed around the tusk. Next, un ex
cavation three feet deep wus mai'.u uudcr
the sill of thuhouse, und w hile the elephant's
attention wus attracted to the other, side of
the room by a pail of water poured into his
trough, the cable chain wns pussed through
the excavation aud fastened to heavy stakes
outside. All this time the infuriated mon
ster struck all around him with ferritin fero
city, und tugged ut his chuiu with incredi
ble momentum.
The next thing accomplished w as the snar
ing of his hind legs. This was consumma
ted bv the slimline of fresh ropes around
those two stately pillars of elephant flesh,
bone and muscle, and finally by the stealthy
strategy of the keeper and another mun,
these ropes were fastened to stumps outside.
The elephant was now sutlicicutly pinioned
to al low the ordet, "chargo pitchforks," to
bu given. Ten men, armed w ith these ugly
implements of offense, plunged them into
the rampaging beast, taking care, of course,
to uvoid penetrating his eyes or joints. The
tcndei est spot in an elephant is just behind
the forelegs, and that locality was prodded
unmercifully. Iiy means of a hooked spear
sunk into his back, Tippoo wus brought to
his knees: but he surged up again with
such awful strength that ho swept his tor
mentors oil' their feet, nnd made his chuius
whistle like fiddle stiings.
After an hour's fighting he was brought
down on bis sidebut for two hours longer
he tugged ot his chains with fren.ied olati-
r.aey. lie pnl'cd so hard at times that hi
hinil legs were straight out behind him, aud
three feet oil' the ground.
At the cud of the three hours, the giant
gave iu by "trumpeting;," which is tho ele
phant way of crying "enough." The mo
ment this peculiar cry was heard tho battle
ceased. Tho keeper made Tippoo get up
and lie down a number of times, and he was
as obedient to the word of command
centlo nniiv. The animal was then groomed
and rubbed off with w hiskey. Ho allowed
all manner of liberties without so much as
flapping an ear. lie was a subjugated ele
phant. At one stage of the fight the dog "Jack"
(a companion of the elephant) thought some
of the tyiug business foul plsy. He flew
upon Johnsno's back and tried to sink Ins
fangs into his neck, but was pulled off and
dragged out of the room. "Jack" evident
ly sympathized with his big friend.
One hundred and forty-three members of
the Smith family Lave giaduated from Yale
College.
Eleven of the New York churches buve
boy choirs.
A llev. D'Orscv is lecturing tbe Cambridge
(Englaud) undergraduates, ou the art of
reading aloud, lie boiits that tbe next
generation of clergymen will read tbe ser
vice more naturally and lu'prcisivcl; than
ins present.
Why is love like duck's foott Pccauo
it oltvn lies bidder, jn the breast. '
From the N. Y. Eun.
Sew Vork CaUitiltliiiK llouneit.
A commendable t'Uort was made last
spring, by a society organized especially for
the purpose, to suppress the crime of gam
bling in this city. A. vigorous crusade was
commenced against gamblers, und tor a timo
there was some promise of success. Latter
ly, however, the society has not been heard
from, while the gamblers flourish os before,
the inference being that the crusade was a
failure. The gambling influence is so strong
in this city, having its folds around the
very men whose duty is to inflict punish
ment for the crime, that it seems almost im
possible to reform the evil under the present
laws. These laws are stringent enough in
respect to pcnulty, but the very fact that tho
gamblers pay no attention to them is the
best evidence of their defeat. In the most
promincut purts of tho city gambling dens
ure open night and day, without any at
tempt at concealment. On Ilroadway, be
tween Fulton street nnd Union Square,
there aro over fifty of these establishments.
There ore perhaps, fifty moro within a ra
dius of five hundred yards from tho City
Hall, nnd a largo number ore scattered about
in various parts of tho city. There are the
proprietors, who pocket the lion's share of
the gambling proceeds ; the accomplices,
who win large sums of money in the pre
sence of snsceptiblo greenhorns; the "stool
pigeons," "llyers," and "drummers," who
go abort among the hotels nnd other pub
lic places, and pick up victims for the gambling-dens
; and also the "dealers" and other
employees w ho do the routine work of theso
places.
The extent to w hich this species of crime
is carried in New York may be inferred
from the lact that the gamblers excel all
other classes in cxtiavagant living. They
wear tho best and most fashionable clothes,
display the largest and most costly diamonds
smoke tho choicest Havana segars, drink
the most delectable of imported wines, and
cat nothing that is not fully up to the stan
dard of their epicurean tastes. They have
no regard for money. Acquiring it, as they
do. without effort, they spend it recklessly
und never stop to iiiquire the cost of any
thing. It is a shame and disgrace to Xew York
that this class of flagrant crime should be
permitted to go on without restraint. There
is hardly a gambling place in tho city that
is not vi ell known to the police. It is known
that men aro daily swindled out of their
money in these places, and yet they go on
unmolested. Occasionally a victim, ruined
and desperate, blows out his bruins as a
consequence of his losses, but tho business
of the gamblcis goes on without interrup
tion. Tho police, however, oro not to blame
for this state of things. Their power ex
tends only to mnking arrests on complaint
of others. They ought, however, to be
clothed w ith power to arrest the gamblers
and break up their dens, whenever such
dens are known to ext. In this way only
can gambling bn suppressed in this city,
aud in view of its pernicious influence, we
hope, that the Legislature, in the coming
session, will clothe the police with ample
power to completely root it out.
4 'on vernation.
This is an ort in which the French ladies
excel ; they are always light, agreeable, gay,
witty, and entertaining; without wishing
that American ladies possessed altogether
qualities of French women, we may desire
for them n little mote of the French facul
ties of making themselves agreeable.
Too many of them, when called upon to
entertain strangers, sit cold, dull and stupid,
unuoie to start a topic ot conversation or
answer a question except in monosyllables,
Item ember, the art of conversation can be
cultivated, und that it is one of the duties
of women to cultivate it, in order to give
the proper tone to society aud enliven the
domestic circle.
In selecting a subject for conversation
choose something that will iutcrest your
companion. There is nothing inure ill-bred
than to talk much of yourself, your own
plans and projects, and above all, of matters
w hich tend to exult your own importance.
Listen well ; that is to say interestedly to
whatever is said to you ; a good listener is
ns valuable us a good talker, nnd never in
terrupt persons when speaking to commence
repeating something calculated to tletruct
the attention from what he or she is saying.
Avoid subjects in society such a politics
or religion, upon which persons nro most
likely to ditfer. It is bud taste to assert
one's opinion against that of another per
son's, und tho yielding of it through polito
liess might be misconstrued.
It is us ill-bred to use foreign terms in
your conversation as it is to whisper to one
person when there are others present.
lie careful how you encotuago a reputa
tion for saying smart, sharp, or sarcastic
things; it will make you both uiicharitablc
aud unpopular.
If you venture on a story in company, be
sure thut it is sharp and to the point.
Never talk upon subjects with which you
are ouly slightly acquainted, such as art and
artists tor instance. It is easy to betray a
great deal of ignorance without knowing it.
Make yourself ucquuiutcd with current
events, current literature, and the topics ot
. the day, in order to couvcrse understanding'
1 ly about them.
1 --
Tin; Fash loss. Kyes continue to bo
worn on each side of the nose aud immedi
ately under the brows. There has been some
talk of substituting a single orb, of increased
size and biilliaticy, iu the centre of the
brow ; but ul'ter all our achievements iu
lightning speed the world moves slowly,
and thu idea of a change in tho number of
eves to be worn has not been favorable re-
ctived, notwithstanding its niuny advan
tages; but the color is varied to suit the
occasion, and just now the prevailing tiut
is green a line pea green. I his shade can
bu best acquired iu Ludcn -Baden by cou tin
lied contemplation of the delicious toilettes
of tho tlemi mode, .but muy be obtained iu
Paris, Sural oga, or ou lJroadway. Uluck,
blue nnd gray aro still worn in the home
circle, ami are found very U'comiug in the
nursery, at the fniuily tea table, aud social
i evening gatherings.
Nose' maintain their position iu mi
tre of the face. The Grecian or aquiline is
generally preferred, but the snubs have held
their pluees on very prcny iucc, m m-m---of
a mort determined opposition, and at
present, writing are looking up. a very
prettv article of the Greciau type w now
furnished bv Goodyear, and it is not impro
bable that in time all other varieties may
disappear.
Lips are midway between tbo nose and
poiut of the chin, and are a palo pink. Tbe
coral variety is uo longer tolerated except
in girls not yet come out.
Teeth will bo jomtwbat larger, and of
blueish tint, to correspond with the cent
plexion, which must be a dead white and
inngentu red.
Kara are worn one on each side of tho
head, with tho hair all carried up so as to
give them a peculiar appearance ot alertness.
There is some prospect of having thcut
pointed, as the mistress of tho Grand Duko
ofD has a pet rabbit which is very
much admired in European court circles.
A clergyman who believes in amusement
if properly conducted, says it is curious to
note how many people attend the circus
"ouly because they want to plcaRe tho chil
dren," but still more curious to observe that
in many instances it takes two or three ablo
bodied men with as many strong women to
look after one little boy or girl.
Littlo girls believe in the man in tho
moon ; big girls believe in the man in the
honey-moon.
AGRICULTURAL, &C.
From the Uermantoirn Tolograph.
Ntublius lor Block.
As tho season has now arrived in which
it has become necessary to remove tho stock
from their exposed situations in tho fields to
more comfortable quarters, and to furnish
them with that food and shelter which thev
aro no longer able to obtain out-of-doors, I
tuinK that a lew words concerning the
management of them while in this situation,
would not be amiss.
Since there are so many different kinds of
stock, it would be impossible to give any
one rule which would embrace the completo
management nt them nil ; still there aro
some points which may be observed with
advantage in thu care of all kinds.
One of the most important of these is
warmth, nnd this is a subject of much more
importanco than is generally considered by
furmers. I do not mean to say by this that
the stock should be so closely confined as to
render them tender, but that tbey should
have shelter sufficiently capable of protecting
them from the inclemency of the weather.
While it is extremely desirous that wu
should furnish our stock with good warm
quarters, wo should be careful not to go to
the other extreme and exclude the air alto
gether, but should endeavor to aid the escape
of the gases which emanate from tbo man
ure and the lungs oi the animals, by ventila
tors and other means.
There is another poiut to which I would
call attention, and which is very much neg
lected, aud that is tleanline. Many farm
ers are in the habit of allowing tbe manure
to remain in the stables for days together,
just as it is deposited, and tho gases arising
from this cannot fail to be otherwise than
injurious to the animals.
The excuse often urged for this is, that
they have not time to remove it cuch day as
it should be done; but I very much doubt
the efficacy of this excuse, for ut the ruoBt it
would require only a few minutes each day ;
but wheu allowed to remain for several days,
so largo on amount has accumulated that it
requires considerable time to remove it.
The health of the animals nud the clean
liness of tho stables would also be greatly
increased by suitable draining.
From tho Uermentown Telegraph.)
lHoiiiCHtic "Jllutcliery."
A correspondent asks us to reprint tho following
which was written for the TtUegrapk some yesrn
ego. We comply cheerfully, as it contains excellent
suggestions. hD.J
Killing bogs is a business in which ths
whole farming community is interested, nnd
perhaps a small proportion fully acquainted
with. It is termed "butchering," and often
carried on in butchering style, while it is n
business worthy of being conducted in a
deccut nnd scientific way. I do not propose
going into a long programme of telling how
to catch a hog, and how to hold him, etc,
but to throw out a few hints ouly.
Do not suffer the hog to be run and wor
ried by men, boys and dogs, getting Lis
blood and flesh heated, just before be is kill
ed. I believe this is one cause of meat spoil
ing. Sometimes we drivo a hog or two to
a neighbor's, so as to "kill together," ns it
is termed, making use of the same force,
same fire and other fixings ; and we have
knowu tho bams and shoulders of hogs thus
driven to come out a littlo "short" before
the next summer was over.
Let the hog be killed with as little noise,
uud worriment and excitement as possible.
iv dcrscyiuuii uus ouu uiuu iu go into iuu
pen, selects his first victim, and shoots him,
i T.. ,. . j. . 5 .
or with a broad-fuced hammer, (like a shoe
maker's hammer,) knocks down the hog,
when other meu come immediately and stick,
others drag out, and go to scalding. Aud
so on, with a large number of hogs.
"Scalding machines' havo becoruo very
common, and are a good institution ; out
everybody has not got one, and still use
ubs. I like I Uc nil', and waut notlung Det-
ter for ordinary times : lint 1 want a ropo
and tackle, aud one or two bunds to help to
work tho hog. 1 would uot allow a nog
put into hot water while there is a sign of
life iu him ; but when dead, make an open
ing to the gambrail sitings and hook in,
hoist the hog and dip In in liead and suoui
dcrs into the scald ; do cot let him remain
more than a secoud or two, lest his hair
"sets ;" hoist him and air him, and if need
ful, dip hitn again and again till tbe bair
comes off freely ; theu hook luto the lower
jaw, andscaitl lue a:nuer pans, i nn.u iw
'. . . . l-l-. I . 4,.n. .1...
scalds the best, as less iihciy ii ecu
bair." While the hind parts are getting
scalded, the faco may be cleaued. Too littlo
attention is generally given to cleaning the
head, as also the feet, leaving them for tho
women to worry over by thu hour in some
cold out-kitcheu. As soon as the hog is
hung up and washed off, let the head bo
taken off, and set upon a barrel or block,
and regularly shaved aud cleaned.
Aud now, while speaking of the head, I
want to say how I cut up a head. I lay it
on its side und take off the jowel (or lower
jaw,) I then saw down across the face, just
above the eyes, but careful to run into thu
eye sockets, and on through, leaving tho
eyeballs without gouging the eyes out of tho
fuce-piece; then without farther separating
of the parts, starting between the ears ; saw
ur and down wise, not carinc to extend
farther down towards the snout than to tho
saw mark across tho face, but clean through
at the other end. Kow, having dono with
thn cars for handles, I tut them off, then
take nut the brains for pickling skin the
tr.out, and take off the flesh for scrapple, aud
throw the nasal organs away. Thu faces
are to be corned. I use a saw but never ait
I axe in cutting up a hog, consequently tbo
meat is clear of spliutcrs aud chips or bones.
In "chiuiug a bog" to cool, I saw dowu the
ribs instead of backing them with a hatchet
or cleaver. A small sued bog hook, flatten
ed, answers very well for taking off tiut hoof
and toe nails of a porker ; or yoii may un a
' pair of pinchers.
gnnbury, May 12, IBM.-y