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EI47L . IiVEET, Proprietor,
Corner of Third St., and Market Square,
SrSBUBT, PA.
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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.
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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.