The Sunbury American
la PrBi.initKO Emr Fsidat, bt
EBTL WILVEET, Proprietor,
Corner of Third St., and Marlet Square,
" -SCNBURT, TA.
" At One Dollar and FIttjr Venim
If pttid etrietly in advance; tl.751f paid within the year;
or $2.(10 in all caw when payment la delayed till after
expiratien of the ywir. No subscription discontinued
ntU all arreara-ee ere paid Unless at the option of the
pubuahar. TiitsnTESMs as bimjlt tuiutD ro.
All new aubacriptiOBa to the American by persona living
outside of the Coatuty of Sorthuiuueriand, tnunt lie ao
compauiMi with the Caaa. Thia M made uennwary by
the dilbcnlt? experienced in ooUeotiug a:ild suhecriii
limn at a distance.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL
J-R. JOHXSTOX,
Physician of thia celebrated Institution, bus
discovered the moss certain, speedy, pleasant and
cnectnsl remedy ia-the world lorall
DISEASES- OF IMPRUDENCE.
. . Weakness ot the. Back or Limb, Stricture
Affections of Kidners and Bladder, Involun
tarr Discharges, Impotency, General Debili
ty, Nervousness, Dyspepsy, Lanruor, Low
Spirits, Confsslon of Ideas, Palpitation of
the Heart, Timidity, Treniblinirs Dimness
of Slirht or Giddiness. Disease of the Head
Throat, Nose or Skin, Affections of Liver, Lungs,
Storacch or Bowels these terrible Disorders
arising from the Solitary Habits of Youth those
secret and solitary practices more fatal to their
victims than the song ot syrens to the Manners
of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hopes
of anticipations, rendering marriage, Ac, impos
sible.
I OU NO MEN
especially, who have become the victims of Soil
tary Vice, that dreadful and destructive habit
which annually sweeps to an untimely grave
thousands of young men of tba most exalted
talents and brilliant intellect, who might other
wise have entranced listening Senates with the
thunders or eloquence or waked to ecstacy the
living lyre, may call with full confidence.
MARRIAGE.
' Married Persons or Tonng Men contemplating
marriage, aware of Physical weakness, (Loss
of Procreative Power Impotency), Nervous Ex
citability, Palpitation, Organic Weakness, Ncr-
vous Debility, or any other Disqualitication,
speedily relieved.
He who places himself under the care of Dr. J,
may religiously confide In his honor as a gentle
man, ana confidently rely unon bis skill as a ru v
sician.
ORGANIC WEAKNESS.
Impotency, Lots of Poser, immediately Cured
and full uror Restored,
This Distressing Affection which renders Lire
miserable and marriage impossible is the penalty
paid by the victims or improper Indulgences,
Young persous are too apt to commit excesses
from not being aware of the dreadful conseqences
that may ensue. Now, who that understands
the subject will pretend to deny that the power
of procreation la lost sooner by those falling Into
improper habits than ty the prudent I Besides
being deprived the pleasures of healthy offspring,
the most serious and destructive symptoms to both
body and mind arise. The system becomes de-
run ped, the Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Loss of Procreative Power, Nervous
Irritability, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart,
Indigestion, Constitutional Debility, a Wasting
of the Frame, Cough, Consumption. Decay and
Death.
A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS.
Persons ruined in health by unlearned preten
ders who keep them trilling month after month,
taking poisonous and Injurious compounds,
should apply Immediately.
DR. JOHNSTON,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon
don, Graduated from one of the most eminent
Col'eges in the United States, and the greater
part of whose Ife has been spent In the hospitals
of London, Pris, Philadelphia and elsewhere,
has effected some of the most astonishing cures
that were ever known many troubled with ring
ing in the head and ears when 'asleep, great
nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sosnds,
bash fulness, with frequent blushing, attended
sometimes with derangement of mind, were cured
Immediately.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE. "
Dr. J. addresses all thoi who have injurrd
themselves by improper Indulgence and solitary
habits, whichruin both body and mind, unfitting
them for either business, study, society or mar
riage. .
Tbbbk are some of the sad and melancholy
effects produced by early habits of youth, vli:
Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains la the
Back and Bead, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Mus
cular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsy,
Nervous Irritability, Derangement of Digestive
Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Con
enmption, etc
Msxtaixt The fearful effects on the mind
are much to be dreaded Loss of Memory, Con
fusion of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil
Forebodings, Aversion to Society, Self-Distrust,
Love of Solitude, Timidity, etc, are some of the
evils produced.
Tbocsakdo of persons of all ages can now
judge what is the cause of thetr declining health,
losing their vigor, becoming, weak, pale, nervous
and emaciated, having a singular appearance
about the eyes, cough and symptoms of consump
tion. TOCNG MEN
Who have injured tn mselves by a certain prac
tice Indulged U when alone, a habit frequently
leaned from evil companions, or at school, the
effects of which are nightly felt, even when
sleep, and If not cured, renders marriage Impos
sible, and destroys both mind and body, should
apply immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hoie ef his
country, the darling ef his parents, should be
snatches, from all prospects and enjoyment of
life, by the consequence of deviating from the
path of nature and indulging In a certain secret
habit. Such persons atrsr before contemplating
. MARRIAGE,
rr lect that a sound mind and body are the most
neeessarv requisites to promote connubial happi
ness. Indeed without these, the Journey through
life becomes weary pilgrimage ; the prospect
hourly darkens to the view ; the mind becomes
shadowed with despair and filled with the melan
choly reflection, that the happiness of another
becomes blighted with our own.
A CERTAIN DISEASE.
When the misguided and imprudent votary of
pleasure finds that be has Imbibed the seeds of
this painful disease, it too often happens that an
Ill-tuned sense of shame, or dread of discovery,
deters him front applying to those who, from
education and respectability, can alone befriend
him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms oi
this horrid disease make their appearance, such
as ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, noctnral
pains in the head and limbs, dimness of sight,
deafness, nodes on the shin bones and arms,
blotches on the bead, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the
palate of the mouth or the bones of the nose full
in, and the victim of this awful disease becomes
a horrid object of commiseration, till death puts
a period to his dreadful suffering, by sending
him to "that Undiscovered Conntrv from whence
no traveller return."
It is melancholy fact that thousands DIE
victims to this terrible disease, through falling
into the hands of Ignorant or unskillful PRE
TENDERS, who, by the use of that deadly Poi
son, Mercury, Ac, destroy the constitution, and
incapable of curing, keep the unhappy sutlerer
month after month taking their noxious or in
jurious compounds, and instead of bring restored
U a renewal of Life Vigor and Happiness, iu des
pair leave him with ruined Health to sigh over
his galling disappointment.
To such, therefore, Dr. Johkkto pledges hiiu
self to preserve the most Inviolable Secrecy, and
from his extensive practice and observations in
the great Hof piuls of Europe, and the first in
this country, vis : England, France, Philadelphia
and elsewhere, is enabled to offer the most cer
tain, speedy and effectual remedy iu the world
for all diseases of Imprudence.
DR. JOHNSTON.
OFfJCE, NO. 7.
S. FREDERICK STREET.
SaLTtMOftK, M. D.
Left band side going from Baltimore street, a few
doors from the corner. Fail not to observe name
and number.
(s7No letters received ualeas postpaid and
containing a stamp to be used on the reply. Per
sons writing should state age, and send a port ion
of advlrtisement describing symptoms.
Thre are so many Paltry, Designing and
Worthless Impnsters advertising themselves as
Physicians, trie lag with and ruining the Lealth
of all who unfortunately fall into their power,
that Dr. Johnston deems it necessary to say es
pecially to those unacquainted with his reouta
tion that bis Credentials or Diploma alwaj.
bang la his office.
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS.
The many thousands cured at this Establish
ment, year after year, and the numerous im
portant Surgical Operations performed by Dr.
Johnston, witnessed by the representative of the
press and many other papers, notices of wlsc-h
have appeared again and again before the pubBr,
besides his standing as a gentleman of character
and responsibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the
afflicted. Shin diseases speedily enred.
April 3, 1874. ly
LUMBER AMI PLAKIXU MILES.
Third Street, adjoining Phila. A Erie R. R., two
Squares North of the Central Hotel,
SUNBURT, PA.
IRA T. CLEMENT,
IS prepared to furnish every description of lum
ber required by the demands of the public
Having all the latest improved machinery for
maautacturing Lunber, be is now ready to fill or
ders ef all kinds of
FLOORING, SIDING, DOORS SHUTTERS,
SASH, BLINDS MOULDINGS, VE
RANDAS, BRACKETS,
and all kinds of Ornamental Scroti Work. Turn
ing of every description promptly executed. Also,
' - A LA ROB AMOMTVTKT OF
' BILL LUMBER.
HEMLOCK and PINE. Also, Shingles, Pickets,
Lathe, tc.
Orders promptly filled, and shipped by Railroad
or otherwise. IRA T. CLEM ENT.
drcl-S:lj
X:etalll8lied In IS JO.
PRICE $1 50 IX ADVAICE. )
professional.
M. A. SO BE It.
ATTORNET AT LAW
AND COCNTT SOLICITOR.
Office on Front Street below Marlet, Sunbury,
Pa. Collections and all legal business promptly
attended to.
JAMES ItEAKD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Hanoi's building, South East Corner
of Market Square, Sunbury, Pa.
Special Attention Paid to Collections.
JAMES II. MeDEVlTT,
AtTORNET AT IiAW AND
United Status Commissioner. Office with 8.
B. Boyer, Esq., in Bright' Building, Sunbury
Pa. Aug. Z3. '73. 1JT.
A.
X. BRICE.
ATTORNET AT LAW,
and acting JUSTICE or the PEACE.
Next Door to Judge Jordan's Residence, Chest
nut street, Sunbury, ra.
Collections and all legal matters promptly at
tended to.
JEREMIAH SNYDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND
tCTIXG JUSTICE OF TIIE PEACE.
Con veyancinfr.the collections of claims.writlngs,
and all kinds of Iegal business will be attended
to carefully and with despatch. Can be consult
ed in the Enirlbih and Oerinan lantruajre. Office
formerly occupied by Solsmon Malick, Esq., op
posite City Hotel, Sunbury, Pa.
March 2H, 1873. ly.
G.
A. BOTDOKF,
Attorney-at-Law,
GEORGETOWN,
Northumberland Co., Penna.
Can be consulted la the English and German
Untrue "d. collections attended to in ivonn
umberland and adjoining counties.
Also Agent for the Lebanon Valley nre inu
ranee Company. mhl5
rp H- B. KANE, Attorney at Law, SUN
X BURY, PA. Office in Market Square,
(adjoining the office of W. I. Greenougb, i.sq.,)
Professional business in this and adjoining coun
ties promptly attended to.
Sunbury, March 16, 1 872.-1 y.
W. C. PACKER,
Attorney at Law,
Sunbury, Pa.
November 9, 187
!.-tf.
O B. BOYER, Attorney and Counsellor
0 at Law, Rooms No. 2 a 3 Second Floor,
Bright' Building, SUNBURY, PA. Professions
business attended to. In the courts of Northum
oerland and adjoining counties. Also, In the
Vircuii and Dutriet Courts for the Western Dis-
trict of Pennsylvania. Claims promptly collect
ed. Particular attention paid to cattt in Bank
ruptcy. Consultation can be had In the Ger
man langust-e. inarz-vvi.
L.
II. KANE, Attorney at Law, SUN
BURY, PA., Office lu Masser's Building
near the Court House Front Room up stairs
above the Drug Store. Collections made in Nor
thumberland and adjoining counties.
Sunbury, Pa., June H, 187a.
S-a n. Tl nWS I.l.inr.R.VrM Rlnwl
VT. SUNBURY, PA.
Dealer In Drags, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars,
Pocket Books, Dairies, Ac.
SP. WOLVERTOX, Attorney at Law.
Market Square, 8UNBURY,PA. Profession
al business In this and adjoining counties prorapt
y attended to.
HB. MANSER, Attorney at Law, 8UN-
BURY, PA- Collections attended to in
the counties of Northumberland, Union, Snyder,
Montonr, Columbia and Lycoming. apllO-69
gOLOHOX MALICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office at hit residence on Arch street, one square
north of the Court Hoose, near the jail, SUN
BURY, PA. Collections and all professional
business promptly attended to in this and adjoin
ing counties. Consultations can be had In the
German language. Jaly7-1873.
I T- lOXMtCI.
ZIEGLER KOIIRBACH,
- - ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office In Haupt's Building, lately occupied by
Judge Rockefeller and L T. Rob roach, Esq.
- Collections and all professional business
promptly attended to In the Court of North am-
berland and adjoining counties.
Dec 2. 1871.
DR.C. MARTIN, Office In Drug
Store, Clement House Block, Office hours :
from 11 a. m., to 1 p. and from 8 to 9 p. m.,
at all other hours, when not Professionally en
gaged can be found at residence, corner of Front
and Penn street, SUNBURY, PA. Particular
attention given to surgical cases. Will visit
Patients either in town or country.
ottU anb iicstanrants.
CRAWFORD HOUSE, Cor. Third and
Mulberry. Business Centre, Williamsport,
Pa.
D. B. ELSE A CO., Proprietor.
June S9, 1873.
TTNITEI NTATE.1 HOTEL, W. F.
U KITCHEN, Proprietor. Opposite the De
pot SHAMOKIN, PA. Every attention given to
travellers, and the best accommodations given.
April 5, 1873. tf
WANIIIWGTOX 1IOUNE, C. NEFF
Proprietor, Corner of Market A Second
Streets, opposite the Court House, Sunbury,
Pa. May28,'70.
ALLEGI1EXY IIOUNE, A. BECK,
Proprietor, Nos.812 and 814 Market Street,
above eighth, PHILADELPHIA. Terms, S3
per day. . He respectfully solicits your patron
aire. Jan6'73.
ATIOXAL HOTEL. AUGUSTUS
WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown North'd
County, Pa., at the Station of the N. C. R. W.
Choice wines and cigars at the bar.
The table is supplied with the best the market
afford. Good stabling and attentive ostlers.
IMJIEL'S RENTAURAXT, "
LOUIS HUMMEL, Proprietor,
Commerce St., SHAMOKIN, PENN A.
Having just refitted the above 8aloon for the
accomodation of the public, Is now prepared to
serve Ills friends with the best refreshments, and
fresn Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, and all other malt
quors.
Snsiness iTarbs.
W. B. KBOAD8. 1. FACKEK HAAS
WN. KIIOADN 4c CO.,
RETAIL DEALERS OF
ANTHRACITE COAL, SUNBURY, PENN'A.
Officb with Haas, Faoilt A Co.,
Orders left at Seasholtc A Bro's., office Market
treet, will receive prompt attention. Country
ustom respectfully solicited.
Feb. 4, 1871. tf.
ANTHRACITE COAL !
VAEEXTIXE DIETZ, Wholesale aud
Retail dealer in every variety of
ANTHRACITE COAL, UPPER WHARF,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
All kinds of Grain taken In exchange for Coal.
Orders solicited and filled promptly. Order left
at S. F. Nevin's Confectionery Store, on Third
treet, will recleve prompt attention, aud money
rcceiptedfor. the same as at the office.
IiEXTISTRY.
GEORGE M. REXX,
In SimpMin's IiuiUUng, Market Square,
Scnbcrt, Pa.,
1 prepared to do all kinds of work pertaiuiug
to Dentistry. He keeps constantly on hand
a large assortment of Teeth, and other Dental
material, from which he will be able to select,
and meet the wants of his customers.
All work warranted to give satisfaction, or else
the money refunded.
The very best Mouth Wash and Tooth-Powders
kept on hand.
His references are the numerous patrons for
whom he has worked for the last twelve years.
Sunbury, April 21, UTi.
OA EI COAL! COAL! GRANT BROS.,
Shippers and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
WHITE AND RED ASH COAL, SUNBURY, PA.
(lower wharf.)
Orders will receive prompt attention.
" SEW COAL YARD.
TIIE undersigned having connected the Coal
business with bis extensive FLOUR GRAIN
trade, is prepared to supply families with the
VERY BENT OF COAL,
CHEAP FOR CANII.
Egg, Stove and Nut, constantly on hard. Grain
taken In exchange for Coal.
J.M. CADWALLADER.
Sunbury, Jan. 15, 1870. tf.
SUNBURY
Hit Q
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Everything that Is needed in the printing de
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a
EJPL WILVERT, Proprietor,
SUNBURY, PA.
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IT CIRCULATES
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Sample copy of paper sent to any address Iree
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SUNBURY, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1874.
eto Sbbtrtisements.
7r
THE NEW IMPROVED
REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE.
AWARDED
The "Medal for Progress,
AT VIEtfXA, 187S.
The Highest Order of "Medal" Awarded at the
Exposition.
No Sewing Machine received a Higher Prire.
A Few Good ReaMonst
1. A new invention thoroughly tested and se
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2. Makes a perfect Lock Stitch, alike on both
sides, on all kinds of goods.
3. Runs light, smooth, noiseless and rapid
but combination of qualities.
4. Durable runs for years without repairs.
5. Will do ill varieties of work and fancy
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G. Is mo6t easily managed by the operator.
Length of stitch may be altered while running,
and machine cad be threaded without passing
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7. Design Simple, Ingenious, Elegant, form
ing the stitch without the use of cog wheel gears,
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stitch at any speed. Has onr new thread con
troller, which allows easy movement of needle
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8. Construction most careful and finished. It
is mannfnetared by the most skillful and ex
perienced mechanics, at the celebrated Reming
ton Armorv, Ilion, N. N. Philadelphia Office,
810 Chestnut street. mayl,1874.-2m.
TOY CONFECTIONERY STORE.
Everybody is invited to come and buy of .the
handsome assortment of
TOYS AND CONFECTIONERIES
at
SAMUEL P. NEVIN'S STORE,
in frame bulldinjr, adjoining Moore Dlssinger's
building, THIRD STREET, SUNBURY, PA.
Justopeued a fresh supply of Confectioneries of
every description.
TOYS OF ALL KIXDN
constantlv on hand. The best RAISINS, FlfiS,
CURRANTS A DRIED FRUIT.
PURE RIO COFFEE, TEA & SPICES,
fresh Bread, Buns A Cakes, every morning
FANCY CAKES, BISCUITS, CRACKERS, &c.
ORAXGERM, LEJIOXN,
FRESH FISH EVERY DAY
will be sold at the lowst rates. The best of
Albeinarl Shad will be delivered at the residence
of purchasers in any part of the town.
Call aud see the excellent assortment of goods
and ascertain prices.
BAKM, FL0UR & FEED STORE.
THE Undersigned, having taken Steel's Bake
ry, in PURDYTOWN, has secured the ser
vices of a Firit Class Baker, from Philadelphia,
and is now prepared to furnish the citizens of Sun
bury, every morning with
FrMh Bread, Rolls, Blncnltn, Bum,
Cakes, Ae
made of the BEST FLOUR in the market. He
also has on hand a general assortment of
FLOUR AND FEED,
which will be sold at the lowest market prices.
Alt order promptly fllled, and the articles deli
vered free of charge in any part of Sunbury,
Caketown and Pnrdytown.
Orders left at Steel's butcher shop, on Market
street, will receive prompt attention.
WM. L. MOORE.
April 3, 1974. S mos.
MACHINE SHOP AND IRON
FOUNDRY.
GF.O. ROIIRBACII & SONS,
NaabHtry, Penn'a,
INFORM the public that they are prepared to
do all kinds of CASTINGS, aud having added
a new Machine Shop 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. Grate ta aalt any Stove.
IRON COLUMNS, for churches or other build
ings, of all sises.
BRASS CASTINGS, Ac.
Ornamental Iron Fencing
FOR GRAVE YARD LOTS ;
VERANDAHS,
. FOR YARDS AT BE8IDRNCES, AC, AC.
The PLOWS, already celebrated for their su
periority, have been still further improved, and
will always be kept on hand.
Also, THREMUNG MACHINES.
Suubury, May 20. 1871.
C
ARRIAGEM, BL'GGIEN AC.
H. K. FAGELY Sc CO.,
reipectfiilly inform the public that they have
commenced the manufacture of
CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES, 40,
at the new shop recently erected by J. F. Lerrh
Corner of Fourth aad Chentunt fits.,
SUNBURY, PA.,
and solicit a fair share of Patronuge.
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AIEEICAW
GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY.
She stood at the bar of Justice,
A creature wan and wild, . .
Iu form too small for a woman,
. In features too old for n child ;
For a look fco worn and pathetic
Was stamped on her pale, yonug face,
It seemed long years of suffering-- '
Must have left their silent trace.:
- "Ton name," said the jndgs, as he eyed her
With kindly look, yet keen,
Ig'WMary McGulre, If you please, air."
"And your age V "I'm turned fifteen."
. "Well, Mary," and then from a paper
'. . He slowly and gravely read,
.' "Ton're charged here, I am sorry to say it,
With stealing three loaves of bread.
, "You look not like an offender,
And I hope that you can show ,
The charge to be false. Now, tell me
Are you guilty of this or not V
A passionate bnrst of weeping'
Was at flrrt the sole reply,
- Bat she dried ber eyes tn a moment.
And looked in the judge's eye. ;
- ' "I will tell you how it was, sir ; "
My father and mother Is dead, - ''faf t
And my little brothers and sisters
Were hungry and asked me for bread.
At first I earned it for them
By working bard all day,
But somehow times were hard, sir,
And the work all fell away.
"I could get no more employment ;
The weather was bitter cold,
The young ones cried and shivered
(Little Johnny's but four years old)
So what was I to do, sir T
I am guilty bnt do not condemn,
I took oh was it stealing ?
The bread to give to them."
Every man in the court room
Gray beard and thoughtless youth
Enew, as he looked upon her,
That the prisoner spoke the truth.
Out from their pockets came 'kerchiefs,
Out from their eyes sprung tears,
And out from old faded wallets
Treasures hoarded for years.
The judge's face was a study
The strangest you ever saw,
As he cleared his throat and murmured
Something about the law ;
For one so learned in such matters
So wise In dealing with men,
He seemed, on a sin.ple question.
Sorely puzzled just then. -
But no one blamed him or wondered,
' When at last these words they heard :
"The sentence of this yonng prisoner
Is, for the present deferred !"
And no one blamed him or wondered
When he went to her and smiled,
And tenderly led from the court-room
Mary, the "guilty" child.
iStsrtllaneons.
EGYPT REVISITED.
The romance of a visit to Egypt U sadly
marred by the report of railway, iron
bridges orcr the Nile, and broad carriage
roads to the very base of the Pyramids.
The railway to Upper Egypt will soon take
one from the Mediterranean in the morning
almost to the Capitol of Upper Egypt in
the evening.
Bayard Taylor has again visited the Py
ramids, and In his letter to the Tribune,
describes new wonders. lie writes from
Cairo, bis present headquarters, and tra
vels, March 25, so far into the forgotten
past, that he leaves his progressive friends
of Kennett, (who have gone back to the re-1
gular connection), entirely in the rear. He
says :
"We engaged an open carriage 20 francs
for the day, provided ourselves with lunch,
and set out at 9 o'clock. Just above Bou
lax the Nile is now spanned by a splendid
iron bridge, beyond which a broad highway
has been built, leading to the very base of
the Great Pyramid. This is certainly bet
ter than the former approach by ferry-boat
and donkey-patb, for it reduces the practi
cal distance from three or four hours to one
and a half.
The. way was crowded with camels and
country people, the former bearing huge
but not very heavy burdens of freshly-cut
clover. Women and donkeys bore loads
of vegetables, and the boys ran yelling alter
them. Our dark footman, in his white cap
and shirt, ran in advance of the carriage,
parting the multitude to right and left with
his long stick, aud crying out : "Take care,
there I Take care for your legs ! the
strangers are coming !" Thus we passed
over the bridge, entered the avenue of aca
cias leading to Gizeh, and saw the Pyra
mids flushed with a faint rose-color against
the gray sky.
I found the Sphinx buried under ten or
fifteen feet more of sand than when 1 saw
him last. The face was evidently intended
to be seen from below, for its expression
becomes almost grotesque when the sjiecta
tor is brought so near its level. About
eight years ago M. Mariette discovered a
very ancient temple, although lying wholly
below the surface of the desert, has been
kept tolerably clear of the drifting sand.
I have seen nothing in Egypt which seems
so old as this temple. It is built mainly of
rose-colored granite, the pillars simply
square mouoliths, roof aud doorways of the
same, and no sign of inscriptions or decora
tive sculptures. It is certainly older and
who shall say how much older ? than, the
Pyramids. In some sepulcharel chambers
lying back of the pillared court the roof is
made of huge blocks of alabaster. The
whole edifice, in its bare and massive sim
plicity, suggests Stonehenge rather than
the later architecture of Egypt.
A small fee opened for us one of the low
er rooms of tho Khedive's house, and we
lunched in coolness and quiet. One of the
native bangers-on, after looking at me for
some time, said :
"You were here a long time ago."
"Yes," I answered.
"Twenty years, or more ? "
"Yes."
"And there was a gentleman with you
a Temtzoiree (German), I think ?"
"Yes'
"And you had trouble with the men who
went up the Pyramid ? You went to yon
der village pointing toward it called the
Shekh, and had the men punished ?"
"Yes."
"And there was a boy who carried a
water-bottle ; and the shekh of tho village
told him to bring coffee for you ; and there
was no coffee at first ; and the shekh gave
the boy a slap, threw him out the door, and
told him not to come again until he brought
it?"
"Yes : well ?"
"I was that boy."
I questioned Achmet, to Know whether
he had the story of ray first visit, with lta
seriocomic interlude ; but he had not. : The
man's astonishing memory, after so many
years of touriets, had recognized me and
reproduced the, incident with all its minor
details. . r . -. i ('..'." -
By this time, several other carriages had
arrived from Cairo. : Parties were lunching
on the cold steps, bargaining tor . modern
scaralxeu strolling toward the Sphinx with
.a crowd of Arabs at their .heels, or climb
ing the steps of the Great Pyramids with
many, an awkward straddle, shoved from
above. -There were tweed coats, eyeglasses,
canes, chignons, fans, parasols rbut let not
the r oman tie reader suppose that the sub
lime repose of the old Egyptian world, was.
in the least prejudices by these objects.
They were bat as drift-wood or sea-weed
surging around the base of mightier natural
pyramids, along the shores of Norway or
Maine. ; One is carried so far back set in
the presence of such imparious human will
and unhindered power that the real and
far more permanent greatness of our age
fades, away, and its careless representa
tives become, for the time, mere stinglcss
insects, that hum and buzz for a few min
utes, to be earrled away by the next breeze.
No ! you might pack billiard rooms, lager
beer saloons, cafs diatants, stock-broke's
offices, and Free Trade Leagues, around
the pyramids, hold political meetings with
a speaker standing on the Sphinx's head,
or make the adytum of the old temple be
low resound with revival hymns, and you
could not diminish the impression which
these wonderful monuments exact and
compel you to feel a dead faith a lost race
a forgotten power-a half-recovered his
tory, names and glories and supreme hu
man forces become as shadows yet what
tremendous overwhelming records they
have left behind.
As I rested in the shade, looking up to
the gray pinnacles, so foreshortened by
nearness that much of their actual height
was lost, yet still indescribably huge, I
could think of but one thing : we must have
a new Chronology of Man. There, before
me, the Usher-Mosaic reckoning was not
only antedated, but a previous growth, of
long, uncertain duration, was made evi
dent. There, in stones scattered about the
Desert, were inscriptions cut long before
any tradition of Hebrew, .Sanskrit, Phoe
nician, or Greek clear, intelligible words,
almost as legible to modern scholarship as
those of living languages. This one long,
unbroken stream of light into the remote
Past lights up darker historic apparitions
on all sides, and sweeps us, with or with
out our will, to a new and wonderful back
ward starting point. Of course, the learn
ed in all countries are familiar with all our
recently acquired knowledge on this point ;
but is it not time to make it the property of
the people everywhere to discard the un
manly fear that one form of truth can ever
harm any other form to reveal anew,
through the grandeur of Man's slow de
velopment, the unspeakable grandeur of
the Divine Soul by which it is directed ?
I would not venture to say that even the
English tourist who addressed me with :
"Is there aw anything particular to see
here ?" was not touched somewhere in the
roots of his externally indifferent nature.
I an quite sure that eold chkken was Dot
the only thought of the young ladies who
sat launching on the steps. When I find a
gay young Irishman, to whom snipe and
wild ducks are a prime interest, neverthe
less going out to see the Pyramids by
moonlight, and then again at 2 o'clock in
the morning to climb them for the sunrise,
I am convinced that Cheops builded better
than he knew, and that the pile of stones
means much more to tho world than the
depository of his royal carcass.
Well : I meant to send you practical, re
alistic reports of Egypt, and this letter will
be sure to bring down upon me the wrath
of Mark Twain, and all who distrust
urnest impressions. I plead guilty, how
ever, and confess that I do not wholly be
long to the age which makes jokes of acci
dents aud murders, and finds materia! for
laughter in classic art. B. T.
II Im tor leal Nlteteh vfthe Ieanylva
ilia Railroad.
Pennsylvania embarked in the work of
constructing ber public improvements in
the year 1822, when an act was passed au
thorizing the construction of the Pennsyl
vania canal at the expense of the State.
In 1827 the Canal Commissioners were au
thorized to make examinations for a rail
road to connect with sections of the canal
already partially constructed. In 1828
they were directed to locate and put under
contract a railroad from Philadelphia
through Lancaster to Columbia. Millions
of dollars were spent on the canal and rail
road improvements, the expenditure being
made necessary by the Erie canal, which
was taking the commerce of Philadelphia
to New York, In 1832 portions of the Co
lumbia railroad were completed, and cars
were run upon it. In 1834 the entire line,
partly canal and partly railroad, between
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, was opened to
trade and travel. It consisted of the rail
road from Philadelphia to Columbia, 82
miles ; the eastern division of the canal
from Columbia to Ilollidaysburg, 172 miles;
the Portage railroad from Hollidaysbuig
to Johnstown, 36 miles, and the western
division of the canal from the latter place to
Pittsburg, a distance of 104 miles, making
an aggregate length of 394 miles. Horse
cars were foreveral years run over the Co-
lumbia.road, occupying 9 hours in travel
ling 82 miles. About 1836 locomotives
were regularly put at work on the road to
the exclusion of horse power. The cost of
the line to the State was nearly fourteen
and a half million of dollars. Several
abortive attempts were made towards the
construction of a through railroad from the
Ohio to the Delaware, but it was not until
1846 that the project assumed tangible
shape by the incorporation of the Pennsyl
vania railroad company. The charter was
granted on February 25th, 1847, and the
law granting to the Baltimore and Ohio the
light of way to Pittsburg was abrogated in
August following. Mr. J. Edgar Thomp
son prosecuted the work of building the
road from Harrisburg to Pittsburg with
energy. On September 1st, 1849, the first
division from Harrisburg to Lewistown, a
distance of sixty-one miles, was opened to
travel ; a year later the road was opened to
the Mouniin house, one mile east of Holi
daysburg, and on the 10th of December,
1852, cars were run through from Philadel
phia to Pittsburgh, connection between the
eastern and western divisions being form
ed by the use of the Portage (state) road
over the mountains. The Pennsylvania
company's road over the mountains was
i
-ill
t New Series, Vol. 6, Jfo. 11.
I Old Series, Vol. 83, IV
11.
opened early m 1854. In 1857, after a long
discussion", a law for the sale of the State
works was passed, and the Pennsylvania
railroad became the purchaser of the
"main line," and was thereby released
from the payment of tonnage, freight and
oilier, specified : taxes. .The section of the
law releasing the company from the pay
ment of taxes, was decided by the supreme
eouri to. . be unconstitutional, and in 1861
an act was passed "for the commutation of
the tonnage tax." .
.'. During the years immediately following
the' comption of the road it was greatly
improved the .tracks doubled, other lines
leased ? pVyfought, depots and extensions
built, and more, recently almost the entire
Kne haV beea. relaid with steel rails, tho
Una straighted and regraded During the
war the Pennsylvania railroad was largely
used for the transportation of troops aad
supplies, and its vice president, Cot Scott,
was charged -by the government with the
special duty of furnishing transportation
for large bodies of troops and Immense
quantities of army supplies..
.Twenty years ago the Pennsylvania rail
road was but a link between Philadelphia
and Pittaburs extending from Harrisburg
to the latter city now it has its eastern
termini at New York, Philadelphia, Balti
more and Washington, and unites them by
its direct lines with Pittsburg, Erie, Cleve
land, Toledo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Indian
apolis, Louisville and St. Louis. Connec
tions are also made with St. Paul, Doiuth,
Omaha, Denver, the cities of California,
and with Memphis, Mobile and New Or
leans. To transact its extended and diver
sified business, the company owns and runs
upon its own lines eleven hundred locomo
tives, one thousand cars devoted to the
passenger traffic, and twenty-ix thousand
in freight service. It owns two thousand
miles of completed road. Its workshops
cover an area of more than five hundred
acres. It employs an army of men, many
of whom are mechanics and experts of the
highest skill. It has two hundred and
twenty-two foreign ticket offices and agents
(independent of those at its own stations)
established in thirteen different States.
Along with this great extension of the
road there has been a great improvement
in the rolling stock of the company and its
bridges. Its chief officers have been civil
engineers, and they have employed in the
service of the company some of the best en
gineering talent.
Where doe (he Water Come From?
How natural for a child, standing by the
banks of a river to inquire where all the
water comes from ? To inquire why grass
is green ? What makes it grow f how is
it that birds can fly ? why fishes are not
drowned in the sea ? or where ad the sand
comes from they see on the shore 7 They
will ask also, where the rain ov snow
comes from ? what is thunder ? what are
clouds ? or how is it that the grass is so
wet with dew ? Thousands of questions
like these are asked by thoughtful children,
and what parent would not wish to be able
to give them satisfactory answers. But
to answer these questions satisfactorily re
quires a knowledge of natural phenomena,
and tba causes producing them. If any
one of whom the child asked, while stand
ing by a river's bank, "Where does all the
water come from ?" were to take him to
his home, however humble, and show him
the vapor arising from the water boiling
for tea, and ask him to put a cool plate or
glass in the path of the vapor for a few
moments, and then look at it and notice the
drops of water condensed upon it, and
make him understand that these drops
were formed by the vapor. -
Then explain to him that a great part of
the earth was covered with water from
which vapor was always rising, and that
when it rose to the utmost regions of the
air, it was condensed into drops of water,
just as the vapor bad been by the cold
plate, and that when thus condensed into
drops of water, just as the vapor had been
by the cold plate, and that when thus con
densed it fell in rain. That a great part of
this rain run the surface of the ground,
forming little streams aud brooks, which
were gradually joined by others, till those
united streams formed rivers which by the
ceaseless flow, which has led to his ques
tion, gave back to the ocean the waters
which had been raised from them in vapor
by the heat of the sun, just as the vapor
had been raised from the water boiling for
tea, by the heat of the fire. What child
would readily forget such a lesson ? Or
what child, constantly so replied to, could
fail to grow up an intelligent observer of
the natural events occurring around him.
Ilome Again.
One starry winter night in the near past,
I first heard a band of musicians singing
feelingly, the words of a then popular song:
"Home again, home again,
From a foreign shore,
An O, It nils my sonl with joy,
To greet my friends once more."
It was on the occasion of and honored
relative's return from a somewhat pro
longed visit in the land of the stranger.
Tell me, who knoweth what it is to be
coming back to the old homestead after
tried absence, all the pain and blessedness
of the works, I will-arise and go unto my
Father !
Who knows ?' It is the deserted wife
with her unfortunate child pressed closely
to her aching bosom. Husband false to his
vows in love, peace, gone, all gone. No,
she has yet one ray of light, one present
hope to sustain her, it is the thought of the
Father's house.
.Who knows ? It is Magdalen the peni
tent, with no wedding ring ou her finger.
heart broken, shunned, accused, tottering,
crawling, fallen on the threshold of the
household door, to die.
Who knows ? It is our first-born son
come to himself, who had wasted his heri
tage in riotous living,beseeching for pardon,
and admission beneath the parental roof
although it be only as one of thy hired ser
vants, Father, O, my Father ?
My soul, thy Lord bath so lately ex
claimed 'it is finished,' and afterwards, 'I
ascend unto my Father.' The years of
pilgrimage in travel of body and soul. Pas
sion Week, Good Friday's agony, and three
days dead, amongst the dead, ended.
Whither goest thou, my risen Savior?'
Home again at Home again ! I am inex
pressibly glad for his sake who became vol
untarily heaven-exiled for love of me.
Let us endeavor to see how they kept that
gala-day in the city of our King. There
was (he trumphial procession of the arch
angel, cherubim, seraphim ; there were the
chapter leaves of a silver palm and golden
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laurel, the never-withering, ever-perfumed
flowers divine. There were the orations,
anthems, psalms ; there, too, the waiting
throne, the place of honor, 'my Father's
bosom,' restored. There will be the con
queror point to the old marks of wounds in
hands and side, with holy exultation in his
father's approving, admiring sight ; then
display before all the worshipping intelli
gences His trophies. What? The souls
I would die to save.
Who has an only son returning home ?
Doth not such a parent light up the ances
tral hall for him, deck it with evergreens,
ornamental inscriptions, banners ? Fill
it with life, warmth, beauty, chivalry,
feastings, as evidences of fond proud wel
coming ?
. What must it be when there is a home
bringing gotten up for the only begotten,
well-beloved of God, at once the Iamb slain
and lion invincible of his tribe. . '
We wish with John Banyan as he wished
with St. John, when I essayed to behold
the scene in spirit, to be with them.
To this end I will go the way He some
time trod, as I most if I am Iain to arrive
at the same destination. And I may have
one little carnival of revelry, but I muat
experience my season, of ashes, fasting,
penance, crucifixion, longest, if not latest,
before I realize smilingly, who now anti
cipate freely, home again UThe Luther.
Expulsion ot Jews fbox Spain.
Unshaken in Jheir faith by the rage of ty
rants. or the malice of the people, the Is
raelites prepared to abandon forever their
luxurious homes, their lands, and their
rich possessions, and go forth once more
to some distant and anknown refuge. Dur
ing the short time allowed them for their
departure the roads of Spain were filled
with the emigrant throng hastening to the
coast to seek a passage over the sea. They
had sold their property for whatever they
could obtain for it ; they were permitted to
carry no gold or silver with them ; but ma
ny hid money in their clothes, which was
often stolen from them by prying inquisi
tors ; some had even swallowed coins of
gold. The misery of the wandering mo
thers bearing their infants in their arms
starving children and the feeble and aged,
sometimes touched the pity of their foes,
and generous Christians ventured to offer
them shelter or refreshments. The Jews
were connected by intermarriage with the
noblest families of Spain, and the great
estates of its fierce hidalgos had often
sprung from the dower of a Hebrew heir
ess. These ties were now sundered forever.
At the sea-ports there were scarcely ships
enough to bear away so groat a multitude.
It is variously estimated that from two to
eight hundred thousand Jews were banish
ed by the fatal edict What woes they
bore in their flight, bow they were crowded
in comfortless vessels, racked by disease,
famine, pain, what insults they received,
what outrages they endured, history al
most refuses to relate. 2for is it possible
that any large proportion of the exiles sur
vived the dreadful flight. Many were
seized by the Arabs and sold into slavery -in
the harems of Cairo and Constantinople.
Many killed themselves in despair. Et7
GEXK Lawrznce, in Harper's Magazim
for June. '
H yd ROPBOBLi. e do not remember
when rabid dogs were as plentiful as sow.
Scarcely a week passes that we do not read
of some person or animal dying of this
dreadful disease, and in case thai any of
our readers should be unfortunately attack
ed by it, we submit the following cure clip
ped from an exchange, which is said to be
effective : The time between the biting of
an animal by a mad dog, and the show
ing signs of hydrophobia, is not less than
nine days, but may be nine months. Af
ter an animal has become rabid, a bite or
scratch with bis teeth upon a person, or
slobber coming in contact with a raw place,
would produce hydrophobia just as soon as
though he was (bitten. A dose for a horse
or cow should be about four times as great
as for a person. It is not too late to give'
the medicine any time before the 'spasms
come on. The first dose for a person is 1J
ounces elicampane root bruised, put in a
pint of uew milk, reduce to pint by boil
ing, then take all at one dose in the morn
ing, fasting until afternoon, or at least a
very light diet after several hours have
elapsed ; the second dose the same at the
first, except 2 ounces of the root ; third
dose the same as the last, to be taken every
other day. Three doses are all that are
needed, and there need be no fear. Thia
cure has been known forty years and never
known to fail Yort Daily.
A strong decoction of the leaves of the
black ahh tree is also not only an antidote
for the virus of tts bite of a rabid animal,
but has actually been efficacious in curing
hydrophobia,
Avehsiox to Manual Labor. The
practice of educating boys for the profes
sions, which are already overstocked or for
the mercantile business, in which statistics
show that ninety-five in a hundred fail of
success, is fearfully on the increase in this
country. Americans are annually becom
ing more and more averse to manual labor;
and to get a living by one's wits, even at
the cost of independence aud self-respect,
and a fearful wear and tear of conscience,
is the ambition of a large proportion of our
young men. The result is that the mecha
nical professions are becoming a monopoly
of foreigners, and the ownership of the
finest farms, even in New-England, is pass
ing from Americans to Irishmen and Ger
mans. Fifty years ago a father was not
ashamed to put his children to the plow or
to a mechanical trade ; but now they are
"too feeble" for bodily labor ; one has a
pain in bis side, another a slight cough,
anotlier "a very delicate constitution,".an
other is nervous ; and so poor Bobby or
Billy or Tommy is sent off to the city to
measure tape, weigh coffee or draw molas
ses. It seems never to occur to their fool
ish parents that moderate manual labor in
the pure and bracing air of the country is
just what these puny, wasp-wasited lads
need, and that to send them to the crowd
ed and unhealthy city is to send them to
their graves. Let them follow .the plow,
swinx the sledge, or shove the foreplane,
and their pinched chests will be expanded,
their sunken cheeks plomped out, and their
lungs, now "cabined, cribbed and con
fiend,"will have room to play. Their nerves
will be invigorated with their muscles ; and
when .they shall have cast off their jackets,
instead of being thin, pale, vapid cox
combs, they shall have spread out to the
size and configuration of men. A lawyer's
office, a counting-room, or a grocery is
about the last place to which a sickly
youth should be sent.