The Sinbury American Rates of Advertising. One inch, twelve Hnea or its equivalent in Honpareil type) one or (wo inaertiona, f 1,30 ; tune insertions S2.ua. Spaci 1m. 2m. 3m. m. it.' 2M "?" - ru $4.00 6.uo tio.oa Two inches :i.oo 6.oo T.00 .uu IS.O Three inches 5,t(t 7.00 9.00 12.00 is a Four inches 7.00 8.00 11.00 17.00 3S.W Quarter Column 10.00 12.00 14.00 30.00 30 00 Half column. 15.00 W.oo at1jo 30.00 S0.00 One column au.OO 36.00 40.00 60.00 100 00 i early adrertnwmenti payable quarterly Transient advertiaementa minit be paid beiore insertion, exceut where parties have accounts. Local notices twenty cents a line, and ten cents for every subsequent insertion. Cards ia die "Business Directory" column tiOO per yesr for the first two lines, snd 11.00 for each additional I CD EVEET TKinAT, BY EI47L . IiVEET, Proprietor, Corner of Third St., and Market Square, SrSBUBT, PA. At One Dollar and Filly Vents It paid Rtrii-tly in adv sue; f l,T."i if puid within tlicywirj or $2.00 in all caaen when payment in delay .'d till tirr expiration of the ye-vr. No sulwriptiou 'discontinued nutil mil rrrKi lire ( aid uah-.' ai the ojition of the publiKber. Thki-etkhms auk i.h.idi.v ahuki.i i h. All new aubKciipti.iiis u ;. Au.r;ci.i 1. i-ersju- h.i::g ouixideol tue Couuyof Nii-.iiiinili'.-la.'id, limn: be. ci inpauied tin; i'ak. Tii b :s in in- n'vowiry liy the d:tncuiy rxjt riraa- t '.u is:i-c mi m:!.-.'.-.-tiona ut a dl.-Ui.c . Istal)IiHliel in 1S40. I'KIt'K 91 SO IX AOVAXCE. , SUNBDKY, PA.. FRIDAY MORMG. MARCH 27, 1874. ( New Series, Vol. 5, Xo. 52. I Old Series, Vol. 34, Xo. 53. AMERICAN. JJrcfrssional. Wn. A. SOU Kit. ATTORNEY AT LAW iND COUNTY SOMC1TOK. Office ou Front Street below Market, Sunbury, Ta. Collectious aud all leHl business promptly attended lo. JAMES KEIBI), ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Haupt'a buildins;, South East Corner of Market Square, Sunbury, Pa. Si-eciac Attention Paid to Collections. JA.MFM II. JleDEVITT, Attornet at Law and United States Commissioner. Ollioc with S. B. Boyer, Esq., in Briht's Building, Stiuburv. Pa. Autf. 22. '73. l.v. it it h e, il ATTORNEY AT LAW, and acting JUSTICE or THE PEACE. Next Door to Judijc Jordan's Residence, Chest lint Street, Sunbury, Pa. Collections aud all legal matters promptly at tended to. JEREMIAH SNYDER, ATTORNEY Al LAW, AND ACTIXU Jl'STU E OF THE I'EAC'E. Conveyancin;.thc collections of claims, writings, and all kinds of ietral business will be attended to carefully and with despatch. Can be consult ed in the English and German language. Olliec formerly occupied by Solomon Malick, Esq., op posite City Hotel, Sunbury, Pa. March 29, 1873. ly. G A. BOTOOKF, Attornev-at-Law, GEORGETOWN, Northumberland Co., Penna. Can be consulted in the English and German languages. Collections attended to iu North umberland and adjoining counties. Also Agent for the Lebanon Valley Fire Insu rance Company. uihl5 Til. B. KIKE, Attorney at Law, SUN- BURY, PA. Office in Market Square, (adjoining the' office of W. I. Grecnough, Esq..) Professional busiuess iu this and adjoining coun ties promptly attended to. Sunbnrr, March 16, lt72.-ly. w. c. packer' Attorney at Law, Sunbury, Pa. November 9, 1S72. tf. SB. BOYER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Rooms Nos. 23 Second Floor, Bright Building, SUNBURY, PA. Professioua business attended to, in the courts of Northum oer'.and and adjoining counties. Also, in the Circuit and DMrict Courts for the Western Dis trict of Pennsylvania. Claims promptly collect ed. Particular attention paid to er hi Bank ruptcy. Consultation can be had in the Ger man language. ni.ir2.V71. T KANE, Attorney at Law, SUN JJe BURY, PA., office in Masser's Building i near the Court House. Front Room up stairs above the Drug Store. Collections made in Nor thumberland aud adjoining counties. Sunbury, Pa., June 8, 172. GB. CAIHt AELAOEIt.Market StreiT, fcl'NBURY, PA. Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, Pocket Books, Dairies, Scc. Sr. WOLVERTOX, Attorney at Law. Market Square, SUN"BURY,PA. Profession al business in this aud adjoining counties prompt -.y attended to. HB. NASSER, Attorney at Law. SUN- BURY, PA. Collections attended to in the counties of Northumberland, Uuion, Snyder, Montour, Columbia and Lycoming. aplllM'i'. S OLOMOX MALICK, ATTORNET AT LAW, Office at his residence on Arch street, one square north of the Court House, near the jail, SUN BURY, PA. Collections aud all professional business promptly attended to in this and adjoin ing couutics. Consultations can be had in the German language. Ju!y27-172. a. w. MECI.EK. L. T. ItOIIIjr.AC'n. ZIEULER A ROIIRBAC'II, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office in Hanpt's Building, lately occupied by fudge Rockefeller and L. T. Rohrbaeh, Esq. Collections and all professional business jr-mptly attended to In the Courts of Northum berland and adjoining counties. Dec. 2. 1H71. DR. V. ti. MARTIX, Office in Drug Store, Clement House Block, Office hours : "rom 11 a. m., to 1 p. ro., and from 6 to 'J p. m., it all other hours, when not Professionally en gaged can be found at residence, corner of Front ind Penn street, SUNBURY, PA. Particular tttention piven to surgical cases. Will visit 'atients either in town or country. Srrftls nxtb iUcstartranfs. CKAWFOICI IIOINE, Cor. Third and Mulberry, Business Centre, Williamsport, Pa. D. B. ELSE K CO., Proprietor. June Ut, 1873. UXITEO STATES HOTEL, W. F. KITCHEN, Proprietor. Opposite the De tot SHAMOKIN, PA. Every attention given to ravellers, and the best accommodations givcu. ipril 5, 1873. tf ITJASIIIXtiTOX IIOFSK. C. NEFF Proprietor, Corner of Market A Second trects, opposite the Court House, Sunbury, au May2S,'7Q. X LLEGIIEXY HOI SE, A. BECK, t. Propriet.ir, Nos.S12 and M4 Market Street, bove eighth, PHILADELPHIA. Terms, $2 er day. He respectfully solicits your patron ge. Janti?72. TATIOXA L 1 1 OT E L. A U (i U STl S JN WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown NorthM ounty, Pa., at the Station of the N. C. R. W. Choice wines aud cigars at the bar. The table is supplied with the best the market (Tords. Good stabling and attentive ostlers. IM.MEIS R EST A I RAXT, LOUIS HUM M EL, Proprietor Commerce St., SHAMOKIN, PEN'.VA. Having just refitted the above Saloon for the ceomodation of the public, is now prepared to rvc jis friends with the lest refreshments, and esh Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, and all other ma it nors. '. 8. KHOADS. J. PACKKK HAAS TTT S. RIIOAOS A" ., W KETAIL nEAI.EliS CP NTHRACITE COAL, SUNBURY, PENN" A. Offic with Haas, Fai.pi.t A Co., Orders left at Scasuoltz & Bro's., ofliee Mark, t reet, will receive promjil attention. Country istom respectfully solicited. Feb. 4, 1871. tf. ANTHRACITE COAL ! TALEXTIXE OIETZ, Whoh-ale and f Retail dealer in everv variety of ANTHRACITE COAL, UPPER 'WHARF, SUNBURY, FEN'-VA. All kinds of Grain taken in exchange for (al. rders solicited and filled promptly. Orders left S. F. Nevin's Confectionery Store, on Third ret, will recievc prompt attention, and money eelptedfor. the same as at the ollice. BEXTISTRT. GEORGE M. K EXN, t Simpson's liuildimj, Market .Syicor, Si-.n-iu-rt, Pa., prepared to do all kinds of work pertaining to Dentistry. He keeps constantly on hand arte assortment of Teeth, and other Dental tterial, from which he will be able to select, j d meet me wants of his customers. All worn warranted to give satisfaction, or cie j ' money refunded. The very est Mouthwash and Tooth-Powders ; pt on hand. 1 lis references are the nutm-rous patrons for torn he has worked for the last twelve year". ; iunbury, April 21, 172. j lOAL! C OAL! FOAL! GRANT BROS., : Shippers and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in j ilTE AND RED ASH COAL, SUNBURY, PA. j (lower wharf.) j rder will receive prompt attention. ! SEW COAL YARD. i 'HE undersigned having connected the Coal I business with kisextennive FLOUR A GRAIN I le, U prepared to supply families with the :R BEST OF COAL, CHEAP FOR CASH. , Stove aud Nut, constantly on hand. Grain a in exchange for Coal. J. M. CADWALLADER. iubnry, Jan. 15, 1870. if. ilcto bbrrtisciucnts. ili vntiTi: V r i-iXx ixVT wriis. Th'wd Street, adjoining PliH.u fc Erie R. K., two Squares North of the Central Hotel, SUNBURY, PA. lit A T. CLEMENT, 15 prepared to funiisli every description of lum ber required by the demands of the public llaviim all the latest improved machinery for inaiml'aetHrinir Lunber. he id now read v tn till nr. ders f all kinds of FLOORING, SIDING, DOORS SHUTTERS SAbU, BLINDS MoULDIN'tiS, YE- i:a.MAS, BRACKETS, and all kind- of Ornamental Scrow 1 Work. Turn Also, nig ol every description promptly executed A LaliCE ASSORTMENT OF BILL LUMBER. HEMLOCK and PINE. Also, Shingles, Pickets, Lathe, tc. Orders promptly filled, and shaped by Railroad or otherwise. IRA T. CLEMENT. dcolii-C-vlr machim: siioi axi iicox FOFXMRY. ;eo. roii reach & sons, Suuliury, l'eiui'a, INFORM the public that they are prepared to do all kinds of CASTINGS, aud having added a new Machine SIiod in connection with their Foundry, and have supplied themselves with New Lathes, Planing and Boring Machines, with the latest improvements. With the aid of skillful mechanics, they are enabled to execute all orders of NEW WORK OR REPAIRING, that may be given them, in a satisfactory man ner. Crates f o suit any Stove. IRON COLUMNS, for churches or other build ings, of all sizes. BRAisS CASTINGS, &c. Ornamental Iron Pencinsr ! ruiv uiuvt i AKU t,UTS; VERANDAHS, FOR YARDS AT RESIDENCES, AC, AC. Ti... ri Mfj t . . ... . . i in.- iwno, uireaay ceicDratca lor tneir su periority, have been still further improved, and will always be kept on hand. Also, THRESHING MACHINES. Sunbury, May 20, 1S71. WIiou, Jauuitry! COME OX EI COME ALL ! ! THE subscriber having erected a Blacksmith Shop, on the lot adjoining the Oil Mill, formerly owned by Morgan t Masser, on Fourth St., Sun bury, Is prepared to do General Klncksmil hing, on the shortest notice, and in the best manner. Custom work promptly attended to. IIORSES1IOEIXG mane a speciaay. l he patronage of town and country is respectfully solicited. PETER WILVER Sunbury, Nov. 7, 1S73. tf. 1307. RIGHTER fit GASKILL, 1307. UtALfcHS IX ericen ani - WMU I I AU1AU II KM 1 LA I J Ala Crystal sheet. Rough Plate, Colored, ;L'nincltd and Ornamciit.il tiling, 1307 Market Street, Philadelpliia. January 11, 1S73. ly. bepotF EATIXCJ iKISE. S. E. Corner of Arch and Third Streets, Opposite the Depot, S U N B U R Y, P E N N ' A . Tomas JlcGan, rroprietor. 0t-lh.l, Hot Coffee, S.itidwilchcs. Bread Butter, Ham, Ac., served up in. the best style. Passengers leaving in the early trains will be furnished with refreshments, hot coffee. Ac. The eating room will be conducted on strictly temperance principles, and every cllort made to keep it neat and at tractive. LADIES nre invited to call. Refreshments and hot meals furrislieu to lesl dents as well as travelers. The patronage of the public is respectfully so licited. THOS. McGAW. Sunburv. Dep. 10. 1S73. U. fttillh cm. "WI1STTER ON EAST MAKKET ST.. NFAR THE C1TT HOTEL, St NIU KT, PA., now open, all the novelties of the season iu RIBBONS, VELVETS, SILKS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, ETC., trimmed and untrinimcd HATS AM) BOXXETS. Notions in every variety, call and examine the fine assortment and learn the low prices. Also, Drcwwmakiiig of the latest and most fashiouable styles. MISS AMELIA HANCOCK, Sntihnry, Pa., Oct. 17. 1V73. EARLY FALL STYLES. A fnll line of Millinery ol from New York and Philadelphia, now open at MISS M. L. GOSSLFR't 51 1 1. 1. 1 EICY STORE, t rimed and untrimed BONNETS AN D H ATS, Flowers, Ribbons Collars, Culls, Haudkerchiefs, Neckties, and a general variety of MILLINERY GOODS selected with great care from the leading im porting houses iu New York and Philadelphia, at MIPS M. L. GOSSLER, Fourth Street, below the S. V. R. R. Every effort will be made to please those w'ao favor her with their patronage. October 3, 1S73. FALL SEASON", IS73. i MILLIXERY AXD FAXCY GOODS, now open. FALL STYLES. Trimmed Hats and Bonnet, Plumes, Feathers. Ribbons, Crape Veils. Crape, Crape Hats and Bonnets, Bridal Hats and a full as sortment of the Inlet stvles in MIMUFRV. TRIMMINGS OF ALL KINDS. Gloves, Collars. Cuffs, aud every fashionable article of ladies' wear. CjII and see the new styles of Goods at V1SSL. SIIISSLER, Market Square, Sunbury, Pa. Ocnber 3, 18; 3. FALL .TIILLIERY GOODS From FROM NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, BONNETS A HATS, TRIMMED AND UN'TRIM MF.I). an cxtcu-ive ns-ortmcnt of Fancy Good at MISS L. WEISER'S MILLINERY e'I'ORE, Market Street, Srnu rv, Pa. My stock of Spring goo !s is unusually larjie and varied, comprising the latest and most at tractive styles, selected with care from the lead ing importing hoti-"'sand adapt for the prc-ent season. October 1ST! MISS L. WF.ISF.R. CS. WISTEU 'vW a a a. a..-,. Jw?VA MAGNIFICENT STOCK yM gW of Trimmed Hats and Bonnets, y 1 Plumes, Feathers, Ribbons, Crape y Veils, (j '.9 It. rape, Crape Mats snd IJoa- 1 ' in Is. Biidal Hals and Bonnets. and a full assortment of the latest styles in M ILL I N E R Y AT Miss M. L. GOSSLER'S. Fourth St.. below the S. V. R. R. Every el'nt will be made to please those who favor her with their patronage. Sunbury. Nov. 7. 1M73. IJEW GOODS for FALL AND WINTER Rt iK KHte Blaek'M, Market Square, Sunburv, Pa. LADIE'S DRESS GOODS of every style and qnalitv. WOOLEN GOODS f every discription. Fancy Goods, Notions and Trimming a specialty. TOILET SOAPS AND PERFUMERY. The finest assortment of Ladies' foods. Everybody is invited to call and see them and buy cheap. October SI, 187R. Miiery. ..iriAiatA printing. rIIE SUNBURY AMERICAN The Largest and Most Complete Estab lishment IN THIS SECTION. NW TYPE, NEAT WORK, IMPROVED PRESSES, SKILLED WORKMEN. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. i-PRICES MODERATE.- BOOK, CARD AND JOB TRIXTIXG EXECUTED IN THE BEST STYLE. BUSINESS CARDS, WEDDING CARDS, VISITING CARDS, SHOW CARDS, BALL TICKETS, BLANKS, HANDBILLS, MERCANTILE LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS, BILL HEADS, ENVELOPES, I'AKDS, 01ECKS AND DRAFTS, PROGRAMMES, DODGERS, PAPER BOOKS, MANIFESTS, CIRCULARS. Everything that is needed in the printing de partment will be executed with promptness and at low prices. All are invited to call and exa mine our samples. No trouble to give estimates and show goods. We shall cheerfully do thi to all, who call for that purpose, without charge. !Orders for Subscription. Advertising or Job Printing, thankfully received. Address EM'L WELVERT, Proprietor, SUNBURY, PA. 1 m T rplIE KUXBUKY AMERICAN IS THE BEST A D VERISIXG MEDIUM In the Central part of the State, IT CIRCULATES In one of the Most Thrifty, Intelligent and WFALTHT SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Sample copy of paper sent to any address tree of charge. Nauhosd t How Lout, If ow Rest ored Just puMishrd, a newt4itioa of Pa. Cei.vfa weli.' Celebrated Kmat en tbc radiaal rur (vithout nivli ctne) of Hjrrrmatorrboaa, or arninal wnknraa, ii itoIuii tar, ammal loaaua, impotancT, M'ntal and I hyl leal in capacity, impedimenta to marnat, etc., also Cor ium! tiun, Epilepay and tis, indueod by arlf-iudulfa uco or final extravagance. I eI'rice in ended eavelope only six rente. The celebrated author, in this admirable eeeay, dearly demonatratea from a thirty year eneceaeful pr ectiee, that the alarmin( eoneeqeencea of eelf abuee may I radically ruiedwitboat the 4nron nee of ia tenia! medicine or tbe eppbeatkiu f thekuife; iintii if out aniodeof cure at one (laple, certain, ana el"e ttual, by means every caterer, no matter what hie com 'jtion may be, may care blmeelf, privately end radically. Thie lecture ehoald be in tbe hana of every youth and every man in tbe lent. Sent under seal. In plain envelope, to any add re, post-paid, on receipt of six rente, or two Itacr etflmi. Addreea tbe Publiehrre, niAi T r VT TlYF i-fi 127 Bowery, n. t. Ho.t ono ux, 4so ja., -m. W74-1T. elect jjoctrii. THE LITTLE WIFE. IIV II. A. MOUItlSON". The little wife laid her sewing down, And looked at the clock and said : "It is time that I put the kettle on,' And the cloth on the table spread, For the clock is near to the stroke of six, And I've hardly time to see That the kettle boils and the toast is made-, Wheu John will come home to tea?' The table she drew to the cosiest nook, And she laid the plates for two, But they were plain delf, thcra was silver none, And the dishes they were few, But butter and bread and some cake and fruit, All dainty as Ikcy can be, And the cloth is white," said the little wife, "That is what John likes to see." The little wife took out a dressing-gown And spread ou a cushioned chair, And before it a pair of slippers placed, Far too large for her to wear ; And she patted the gown and softly said : "Lie there, that you warm may be, For tho night is cold for John to put on. When he shull come home to tea." The little wife smoothed and braided her hair, And put on a pretty dress, A bit of soft lace and a knot of gray silk, To finish it at the breast. Then she looked in the glass and blushed and smiled. And she was a fair picture to see ! And excused herself "John will be so pleaBed With the dress when he comes home to tea." But it must he late, the kettle has bailed, And the toast is getting dry ; It is growing dark, and the street-lamps shine, But the footBteps all pass by. The little wife peeps out the front hall door, Then runs to the garden gate ; But he does not come, aud "Oh dear," she sighs, " Tis a tiresome thing to wait." Then she tries to read, but whether or no The tale was gloomy or gay She could not have told, for her restless thoughts, ith her heart, are far away. Again and again to the front hall door, She goes to look up the street, Each far away footstep making her heart With a hope to faster beat. 'Why it must be hours," said the little wife. With a pout and an ugly frown, 'I'd like to know what, at this lime of night, John can be doing down town ? j If he cared for mc he would surely come, But I've often heard it said And I half believe it now that a man Loves only till he's wed. "But he shall not know, if it breaks my heart, I will have my tea so there !" Her cheeks are so red, and her eyes are so bright; She looks at the vacant chair, And her knife falls down, and "Oh, dear," she says, And then she begins to cry, "I wonder ams ever a six months'' w':f.; So miserable as I .' 'John never would stay if he was alive," The little wife sobbiugly said, "And so all this time I've been blaming him It may be that John is dead." "Why blc:-s mc what's tlais " says a manly voice, 'J ender as tender can be, And the clock is just pointing to half-past six, And John has come home to tea. iiilV 15" EXPERIEXCES IX THE CITY. IIV JOSEPH W. SNYDER. Young man, resident of country, hamlet, town, or smaller city, please give me your attention for a few moments while I detail some of the experiences of one who, like yourself, perhaps, had for a long time har bored Ihe idea that the best place to de velop his particular faculty for business, and to achieve that position in life, which he felt by natural right belonged to him, was New York city ; and let mc say right here I am not writing this article to make a good story, but shall stick exactly to the truth in every particular ; and if such simple relation of my own true story will serve to deter any young man from taking the step which might result in placing him iu circumstances equally as bad, if not ex actly the same as mine are, I shall feel I was about to say fully paid for the trouble of this writing, aud under ordiuary circum stances, that would be true ; but just now I am inclined to think the hope, destined quite likely to disappointment, of receiving some remuneration of a material kind lias quite as much to do with the motive that prompts this article, as has the wish to do good to others. In the spring of this year, after quite a number of applications and negotiations by a busiucsss man, who took some inter est in me, aud who occasionally visited New York, I was at last, through his in fluence, provided with a situation as a sort of tuau-of-all-work iu a w holesale provision btore, at a salary of $8.00 er week, which I have since found was very liberal for a new man, who knew nothing of the busi ness. Arrived iu the city, I found that board iu a respectable place would cost about six or seven dollars a week, aud iuasmuch as that included only two meals a day, ou the ground of economy, I concluded to do as very many other young men are doing, that is, hire a furnished room, aud take my meals at a restaurant ; but it is a lonely, joyless manner of existence, aud I pity any poor human being who has any social cle ment in his nature, who is obliged to live so. I paid S2.50 per week for my room, and thought that with the remaining So.oO I could get along very well, and perhaps lay up a dollar or two a week towards buy ing clothing w hen needed, but I soon found one unfortunate enough to possess as good an appetite as 1, could easily expend SI. 00 every day at even the cheapest eating saloon in the city, and not be extravagant iu the matter either : aud that the half a dollar a day, which I had calculated for the purpose, I could live on but unsatisfac torily, so at the end of the first week, after paying room, board, washing, and a few incidental expenses, I found that I had spent S3.82. This, of course, would not do, so I gave up my rooai. and took one at vl.75, which was more gloomy and cheerless than the other, which was bad enough in that respect, certainly, for it must be remembered that good, plainly furnished rooms, in a respectable location, with nothing elaborate in their appoint ments, cost from SI to $0 a week, so high is the price of real estate-and consequently of rents in this great city. So you can imagine what mine was ; enough to say that it was up stairs, and the bedstead was short and narrow, and tho bedclothes few 1.1- 1 ill a anu nun. a tueu iook tame ooaru at a place kept by a German, near my place of I buaineso, at S4 a week ; but the food was cooked in a way I was not used to, and did not well like ; however, I was living with in my iueoroe, and looking forward to bet ter times. But my great hardship during this time was want of society ; for a young man of any refinement of feeling, and not possessing to any great degree that quality denominated "brass," might live in this city for years without being brought in that friendly, neighborly contact with peo ple congenial to him, without which exist ence becomes little better than a blank. After a few months, a change occurring in the firm that employed me, I was told that. not doing the amount of business they an ticipated, they should decrease store ex penses by reducing the salaries of the other clerks, and as I was the last employed they should get aloag without my services ! not that they wv.ro dissatisfied with me would recommend me, etc. l telt very sorry for this, for I had got used to my business, and could perform it without fear of not doing it right, that I had at first, and I liked my employers very well, and did not like the idea of having to begin in a new place ; however, I did not think it a very serious matter, for supposed I could easily get a situation be fore the end of the week (this was on Wed nesday) by personal application, or by an swering some of the many advertisements which I had noticed in the papers under "help wanted." I looked in the papers in which the wants are principally published. and selecting two or three which I thought I might perhaps be successful with, I wrote the advertisers in the best manner I was capable of, and was somewhat surprised as the next day passed, and the next also, at not receiving any reply. However, I looked ever the papers again, aud selecting some nvjre promising looking offers, au swered them ; some of them by letter, as directed, and others iu person, at time and place specified ; and although, at the first one I visited, I was on hand before the ap pointed time, I found twenty applicants ahead of mc, which number was consider ably augmented in the time I stayed, which was not long, for as soon as the merchaut arrived, he said: "Geutlemen.are there any among your number who have ever occu pied a position of this kind in the city ?" naming a vacancy he wished to have filled, "if there are they will please come in the office." Five intelligent looking young men immediately stepped forth from whom to select ; ol course, the rest of us had no chance, and a repetition of this is what occurred every day, for business is done here in New York in specialties more than any where else in the country ; thr.t is a firm does business iu one or a few separate articles, and the employ ment runs in the same way. If a mer- I chant wishes to engage an entry clerk he j not only wants one who has served in that capacity, but if he is a dealer in fancy goods, he wants an entry clerk who has been employed in that particular branch of business, and in this city ; or if he docs not make this last condition absolutely essential, he will give the preference to such au one certainly, and so it is iu all brauches of business, whether wholesale or retail. avenue advertiseu ioi u -., . , . man with whom I become acquainted ap plied. The dealer naw that the young man understood the business thoroughly, but told him he had an application by a clerk from another store on the same avenue, and he thought he might intlueuce some trade ; at any rate, other things being equal, he must of course give him the pre ference. Before the end of two weeks' fruitless search for employment, my money was ex hausted, and I had done what cost me a great mental effort, applied to my former employer for the loan of two dollars, which was given me, but in a way which I con strued to meau it must be the last. I still had shelter for another week, but noth ing more. I received answers to some of my communications duriug this time, but they all euded in nothing. At one place where a gentleman had ad vertised for a rapid penman, good at figures, I was well received, and the gen tleman seemed to take quite an interest iu me. N'W my penmanship could not be called cl.-gant, though good enough for or dinary purposes ; as an accountant, I am correct. I had strong hopes of getting employment here, but when he showed me samples of penmanship that had been sub mitted by other applicants, my heart failed me ; one man in particular had left a sam ple of writing which I have never seen ex celled ; it was like copper-plate "the cor responding clerk," tho gentleman said, "of a large house, been affected by tiie panic, he wants to earn S10 per week, but would work for less." I had now been unemployed for three weeks, duriug the last of which, to satisfy the cravings of hunger, I had sold a few articles of clothing that I could possibly get along without, and now had come Sat urday, when the rent of my room for the ensuing week must be paid. I dreaded asking for trust in a matter of this kind, especially from a lady ; but the thought of being turned into the street at length over powered other considerations, so, putting on an indifferent air, I carelessly remarked to my landlady that 1 did not get any money that day, but would pay her the first of the week. She looked at me won dering!', but answered mc kindly. Monday I renewed my efforts with re doubled earnestness, but it was of no use. There are places where agents are wanted to sell superfluous articles by canvassing city or country, and the most glowing in ducements are held out, but eveu these require the investment of some capital. The business is very dis'.aslcful lo me, but I resolved to try iv if I cjuld get a chance. I found a man who was williug to let me have a sample of his wares without paying for them until sold. At first 1 did not think very favorably of the article he had to sell (patent razor strops), but after hearing him explain all the qualities and advantages of his strops over all others, in au argument of a quarter of an hour's duration, backed up by his statements of what agents had actually done and were doing, was led to believe that I could sell at least one strop in every barber shop iu the city. Enough to say 1 did not sell any strops that day, and at night went creeping to my room like a condemned criminal, hungry and faint. When I came down the next morn ing my landlady was waiting for mc. "I had been thinking," she said, "that per haps you intended giving up your room, aud if so, I should like to know it." I acknowledged I had thought of so doing, find miaht v well leave that dav. Again I tried the razor strops, but they would not sell ; weak and discouraged I relumed to my employer ; be thought perhaps I was not adapted to that particu lar business ; I thought so too. Finding I had no money, he handed me a ten cent stamp, and the nearest baker sold one more loaf of bread than he otherwise would. After quite an extended experience amongthem I am forced to say that many of the concerns who make promises u "agents" are what might be termed hum bugs. And now the "hades of eve began to come slowly down. How e'.all I describe the feeling of desolation !liat began to come over me : no money, uo friends, no home. I envied the brute beasts, the truck horse with his dray, as he contentedly wended his way to his stable up town even the dog that followed behiud ; then came a feeling of angry rebellion against the laws of society and of God, followed by one of despair. Oh, the misery of that long night, walking, walking. I could not stop long to rest the policemen seemed to be every where present, and loiterers at night are looked upon with suspicion, and closely watched. When you see a short item in the newspapers to the effect that a stranger, name supposed to be so and so, last night committed suicide, probable cause, pover ty, do you ever think of the hopes formed only to bo broken, the yearnings, the long ings, the expectations never realized, the long continued mental agony that preceded the last desperate, fatal, mad, resolve ? have never thought seriously of ending my own life, but I can easily see how people of a certain temperament and disposition can be brought to take such a step. I next tried the book business, and the first day was fortunate enough to sell one ; that night I procured lodging but the next day was not successful, and, of course, out auam ; iuj so time passed on sometimes with fchrlferat night, but oflener without; sometimes going a whole day with absol utely nothing to eat. And now cold wea ther bad begun to set in, and it was not until nature had become exhausted I could manage to sleep in some unfinished build ing in process of erection, or covered wa gon in the street, and then the sleep I got under such circumstances was not of that refreshing kind that you are accustomed to reader ; besides, there was the continual fear of being molested in my wagon by po licemen, iu my house by those having charge of it. One night, in a new build ing on Hudson street, I had just composed myself in a corner of au up-stairs room for a little rest, when I heard the heavy tramp of a man hurriedly approaching ; in a mo ment he angrily appeared at my door with a big club in his hand, and I was ignomi niously expelled ; but iu my nightly wan derings I soon found on arriving at what I considered the most eligible spots for re tirement, that they were preoccupied by some poor unfortunate like myself ; indeed, if it were not so, I should hardly have courage to pen this sketch, for I should consider that my luring reduced so low must be owing to s -.true fault or deficiency peculiarly my own. I had been informed Dy a fellow cosiiitv.u':'.t. .. i - " luruisotu aw lue station houses gratuitous ly to homeless wanderers, but there was something in the idea that made me re coil from making the trial. But one night when the sleet was coming down, half rain half snow, I concluded any shelter prefera ble, and walking into a station house on east side I made knows to the officer in at tendance what I would like. He remarked that it was rather a late hour to come for lodging, but I told him that in my igno rance I did not know that it made any dif ference ; he then inquired my name, age, occupation, and where I was born, my an swers to which were all recorded in a book. He then turned me over to the door-keeper, a rough, surly fellow, who con ducted me to the den. One glance was en ough for me to decide not to accept the proffered hospitality, but I begged the doorman to allow me a moment for obser vation. To give an adequate description of the scene I am not able, nothing but the pen of Dante, or the pencil of Doro, could do the subject justice. The stench and mixture of stenches that rose on the air, the jibes and blasphemies, prayers and curses from many of the half drunk or cra zy inmates, the occupation of one or two in the coi-icr picking the vermin from their bodies, aud the general appearance of ex treme filth, the yells aud moans of the wo men iu the next room all these made au impression on me which I shall not soon forget. On the. street I again met the policeman who had directed my way to this place ; he kindly loaned me a quarter. Lately I have staid for a few nights at a place in the low er part of the city, which is maintained for the aid of the homeless by the munificence of a well-known citizen of this city. At the present moment 1 imagine my prospects for the future are a little brighter than they have been. I pray it may not be only imagination. And in closing I have only to say : young man, unless you are possessed of money enough to be indepen dent, or have a positive engagement with a responsible firm, don't come to the great city. I arrived at this conclusion not only from raj own experience, but from that of many others whom I have either come in actual contact with, or had knowledge of; men who have been merchants and lawyers, as well as clerks and artizans, aud men of all degrees of ability, from low medium to high, don't come here to wait for something to turn up. Wood's House hold Magazine. Ucccher ou the Temperauec .tlove meiit. Rev. II. W. Beecher, in his address in the Plymouth lecture room the other even iug said : "We see iu nature two modes of action one the giadual, steadfast motion; the other a climateric motion. So we have nightly dews and gentlo rain, and the other hand mighty outbreaks, storms, both ad mirable ; it would not be enough to have the gentle influences alone, and it certainly would not be desirable to have perpetual storm, and so the ordinary mode in nature is what may be called the quiet one, and the occasional one the tempestous. There seems something like this iu human socie ty. Beyond all question the moderate is appointed to be the ordinary, and just as little question that at times comes natural upliftings to a higher scale. We have a re markable instance now going on in the West in the effort to suppress drink. I don't know as history will show its paral lel in the past, and I don't know anything was e?r more needed than the suppres sion of dra-,Q drinking, considering that there are other tTns9 worse in the speciali ty, but not so unive an( tn'8 dram drinking is the scourge of hoiMehould, and it comes with special wei'j'6 oa w0" men, as being least able to "take re oT. themselves. It is a kind of evil that h. defied legislation ; we have made laws re- striding it, and we have lost in some re- rv,uv(i , uu Uiere na8 arisen a moral cyclone, a perfect tempest of influ ence. It IS One of the fmiU of - ttIM- tion of the auestinn nf wnmanv r never trouhV.l w .,v. ,v.: ..t!. ' o ii-iivo. ; . "viv.n uu u.i auujeca, niougn i am devoted at first, middle and last to the cause of rising woman, and she is coming on a line of ennatitw ponni. say. What have vou sained hv it v ti,;. ,..,.. , , . - movement could newer have tai-on only for the agitation of this question. nnu uiacc l am not sure but we are soin to have mis wniriwmd come here and rbne. th crop,! nf i it,. . creed of those who do not believe in wo- mucii morai power as oeiongs to a woman has a right to be heard even in orhpr nW.o i.., , It ia tniB tKn .u " ruis iui mc lauuie 19 ID me o-,llo:,.l, .1 U- auu tuts piace to snea its iigbt is m the room ; but if the window be open snau tne light not go out to gladden some poor wayfarer ? So woman', place first is i. ... in her family, but if she has no family Is sne to stand m everlasting waiting ? Is she to be a gun forever loaded and ..,... o it . "7" . . lugnter.j xne nrst SDhcre we admit tn ho tho f,rviicv,i,l uvuauviu) am han It. 1. nl 3 1 , .. , "uvuiukuc uuuocuuiu uer aomestic re la- tions require her to be public, has she not richt tn Ka on 9 r :. .it ....! , , . is conceueu a woman may say all she wants "nu" ""i fo mi i uariaeeiHm. il to, but she must not say it with her toDcue. I tell vou if Ttante hnrl i;r.i ;n our time, amomr the nunishmenta h wo,, have invented for the demand, he would have thought of a sensitive, pure, proud, hish strun? nature. berailed with the wm- blance of love into wedlock, see her idol .r a. 4 - h CUsed io , L oic niLu ucuu, ii uog, ween auer weeK, month after month, year after year. I tell you there is no other hell needed. You can't imagine suffering greater than that ? Have they no right to destroy the destroy er. Ihis was not a thousht of beforehand : it came by inspiration. There never was - i thing more noble than this. Everybody ought to pray that there shall be great good done. I observe that all great unac customed movements, acting from enthu siasm, die away. It is a certain kind of exaczerated faith, that sees no r.hhclp but all this power tends to be excessive and exhaustive. Now it is a great pity that his nower could not he Pr-nnnmi! nnri last a longer length of time. I am afraid it will be like a fire on the prairie, burn away and leave no sign. It is different with re vivals of religion (in which I most heartily believe,) philosophers may criticise as much as they please, but at the bottom therc is philosophy in a true revival of reii- gion. ihe divine influence rolls through a community and spends itself, but while the parks are gone, the embers are left, to aklTaTeVi'vL0,11 for anotner Maze. Now, ing behind it ; it is rauUo fflV fire, I greatly, fear ; for want of some or ganization it would be liko tbe aurora light, unless it be transferred. If it could be put into churches theu you will have associat ed it with a great permanent religious or ganization, and I think it much to be de sired that such a movement should be as sociated with churches. But there is ano ther point to be considered the right of a woman to pray down a man's liquor. The question is this have women who have mother's hearts in them, sisters' hearts in them have they not a right to beseech, with all entreaty, to lay aside the infamous traffic ? You must not suppose the evil is going to be stopped ; it never will be. Eve ry man has somewhat in his nature of a lion and of the swine, and it stays : you have cot to lkht man by man. Whether that benign influence will come hither I cannot say. If done, it must be done from the soul. We must not do it here because they are doing it out West. But you can't labor for that without laboring for a revi val of religion, for temperance is John the Baptist and after him comes Christ. . Dipsomania. Some valuable and interesting informa tion on the subject of dipsomania or drunk enness as a disease is given in the first an nual report of the New York State Inebri ate Asylum, which has just been published. It seems to be established that inebriety, like other disorders of the human system, can be corrected and cured by proper treat ment ; that the lost self-control can be re stored, and tbe unfortune victims of a ter rible vice returned to lives of usefulness and respectability. Many eminent men, includ ing Dr. Bush, have from time to time, dur ing the last half century, given testimony in favor of medical treatment in the man agement of drunkenness. When the public come to understand that the medical pro fession regard drunkenness or inebriety as a disease, literally a crazy thirst inherited, or begotten of excessive indulgence, and that intoxication is the immediate or re mote cause of this disease, the subject will not be treated id the flippant or noisy de nunciatory style that is too frequently in dulged iu by the press and pulpit of the day. The physician of the New York State Inebriate Asylum classifies the difkrent forms of drinking as accidental or social, habitual and periodical. An accidental or occasional drinker is a sound man, and has the power of restraining himself ; but the habitual drunkard is an unsound man mentally, physically, and morally. He is lost to self-control. The appetite grows by what it feeds upon, and as a rule, habitual drinkers as they increase the amount of stimulation, take correspondingly less food. Not a few patients have been reportsd as having taken from forty to fifty glasses a day for as many days, with scarcely any food, until poisoned and exhausted, the cul minating point is reached, and under pros tration, with or without convulsions or mania, or it may be death, follows. If they recover, such persons soon relapse again, and gradually the whole-being, moral and physical, is changed. Slowly, insidiously, but surely the brain and nervous centres have been poisioned. The tissues are in flamed, and hardening or softening may follow ; then comes confusion of thought, blunted perceptions, and conscious or un conscious moral obliquity. Such persons seldom see themselves as others see them. Tbey will, with apparent earnestness, deny the fact of their drinking. In fact, as they frequently go for days without reeling, even their intimate friends may be deceived. They say and do all sorts of absurd things, for which in the restored consciousness of sobriety they are deeply penitent. A majority of the persons who drink ex- cessively have estimable qualities. They are ordinarily of generous impulses, and with not a little manlv Dride and delicntA sensibility. Letters from friends furnish ing the physician with brief bio-rranhpipa of patients usually refer lo the "only one fault." That ono fault is a vice ; but at the same time a disease from which th vie. tim is as powerless, unaided. In rill him. ell' as the fever patient crazed with the I C'100 of malaria is to restrain his frenzy Jh? amfm of alcohol with th. the iant.,1 ., C V loatlied. A man iii - this condition shoul4 "garded as we I would rao-nrrl a. iwimm Who, intent Onlv I O n , ,. r on the pleasures of a bath. .nnd Himself in X I ii " , J .V1. M-"8 current; oi an unaertow an.- uu-uie recaia the shore. In both cases "be need of a.Ritane nrnon Hr.m.r,,w da- mands that we promptly provide for tJtf I perishing the means of rescue. u.be? ""wren "om dipsomania have I reacuea me piteous condition described I i .i . , excusable neslect bv their friends. Throno-h ntif ivf i.iifv nro rnn nrron r raa T.i tr if k "Snorance aud prejudice they have left to -a uu am iu me aiougn, wiiu mat i "Jotacry oi consoiauon ma. iney nave only to stop -drinking and they will certain ? i recover, jjui no mistaKe could be more I ,alaI to them. Ordinary observers can I iorm no conception of the weakness tn which socb. persons have become reduced. I llaroful invnolimllAn irt V, va..3..u UW tuc VUUU1UOU OJ patients coming under charge of the State Inebriate Asylum has led to the conclusion I M..4 .P l a -a . fc oue UI lU08e wuo Daa aran to ex- I Ah complete emancipation from the effects of I nconol in less than a year ; and some I ca?es. re1uire a much longer time. I It is eratifvinfr to be informed that num. bers go Trom the institution really cured ......i , . v .meu, tcoiuicu, auu reiormed as mucn as is dos- I -." V. I I . . I oc u unman nature, xne svstem irion hi D0,t dred a failure if these persons i voluntarily or carelessly relarjae. The e - , . r. -r- i caaea hi complete restoration, as shown by official statistics and letter on file from I various parts of the county, demonstrate I satisfactorily that there ia no reason for ae8Ir "here there is no genuine coopera- SSftS&SL SS& and physical health has been accomplished even when the rebukes of coDscienn. the ??rce 01 puDuc ppmion, the admonitions of ZtSZZSXSSSrlZ i oi no avail. JSexo York Sun. battle by .tioonligiit VIVID DESCRIPTION OF A NIGHT SCENE AT CHANCELLORSVILLE. From the Columbia (Pa.) Spy. At the Campfire in Odd Fellows' Hall, on the 21st ult., Maj. Norris delivered what we pronounce the snost vivid descrip- of a night attack we ever heard. Numbers I e i . . 01 our . rave P wm recau tnat moou-ht P"ay gni so ncniy and truthfuUy pictured by the elolueilt Morris, and we are happy la,, we caD n?w feaeem our promise made '"" " S1 our readers, it will rank high among the poetry and literature of our civil war : Many of you, fellow soldiers, remem ber those terrible nights when Hooker was contending with Lee in the wilds of Chan- cellorsville. How full of peril and slaurh- ter were those niShts and tow beautiful, too, they were I Even yet I can see the tremulous, shimmering beams of the moon stealing down through the boughs of the trees, affording, here and there, a glimpse of the anxious, expectant faces gathered the night te'a'sigat of the foe, while out upon the open field in frost, where the moon's pale light lay in silvery silence, its rays glance from the glistening arms of that foe keeping the same quiet watch. Our Major is at my elbow, and asks if I observe how peaceful and calm it is. Lyings side by side, we commune together in whispers, afraid to hear the sound of our voices now pointing to the delicious Iigbt as it trembles on the leaves ; now startled by the shrill cry of the whippoorwill as it breaks upon the death-like stillness, and now watching the shadows as they wierdly ? dance over the ground to the music of the breeze sighing in the trees overhead. It is a lovely, peaceful scene, where all nature seems in sweet repose, and yet here are gathered two mighty armies, with all their cruel enginery of war shotted and ready, standing like two huge mastiffs, with nerves strung, teeth set, and the eyes glaring into the uncertain light, waiting for a chance to grapple with each other in a death strag gle. Suddenly the sharp report of a musket awakens the echoes around. A strange ' quiver thrills our frame ; the 'poorwill stills its notes ; the shadows seem to cease their play, and the winds to be hushed ; and then there bursts on the night a wild, de moniac yell, Hi ! hi I hi ! "Heavens, you know what that is," almost hisses the Major into our ear ; tbe enemy are moving on us ; it is tneir terriDle nattle cry." ill I hi 1 hi ! the earth seems to have opened to let forth a legion of Cends, so unearthly is that cry and, to accompany it with a fitting chorus, a score of cannon join the tumult and swell the awful din. Shouting and yelling, we hear them coming, while the earth shakes beneath their hurried tramp. At this instant the moon peeps from beneath a passing cloud, and a flood of light reveals the grey lines sweeping madly over tbe field, their eyes ablaze, their bayonets poised, and their hands on the fatal trigger. "Steady, men ; ready, but reserve your fire," shouts the little Major, as we spring to our feet ; and the sharp click, click of the gunlock is the quick response. "Lie low," rings from behind, and as we hug the earth again, a lurid blaze lights up the woods and field, and from six iron throats is hurled, hissing and screeching over our heads, a storm of shot and shell that, plunging, plowing along, open great, bloody gashes in the coming columns. Still the hi I hi I hi ! rings unbroken and defiant, upon the night; but then tbe raised muskets are leveled, a gleam of light flashes along our prostrate lines, the grey ranks melt before the withering lire, and, with loud cheers, regiment after regiment leaps from its cover and flings itself, in solid lines, npon the foe. There is a short, sharp, bloody strug gle, and the yell is heard no more and all is still again. The moonbeams flit about as if naught had disturbed their play, while the melancholy sighing of the wind sounds more sadly still as the music of its plaint mingles with the groans and melting cries of the wounded and dying. Three times in one night did that dread ful yell herald the coming of the foe ; three limes did they sweep over that field ; and three times, like as phantoms at the ap proach of day, did they waste away before " tbe scathing, consuming fire of our guns. How many young dead heroes were strewn in that field and woods on that fatal night, lying thick together, with the moon's cold light tenderly kissing their pale, ghastly faces, upturned to the sky ; and as each succeeding May moon darts its penetrat ing rays through the thick foliage of the same wilds, and summons tbe shadows to their selfish sport, they hold their midnight revels over the straight, green graves of scores of these dead heroes, who, unknown and forgotten, quietly sleep, awaiting the final muster on High.
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