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BOLTON HOUSE.
IIAKHISIH lid, I'MWA.
The undersigned having lately purchased the
' BUBBLER HOUSE " property, has already cora-
Bcuoed such alterations an 1 improvements as will
seoier this old and popular House equal, if not supe
rior. to any Hotel in the City of Ilarrisburg.
A -oatinuance of the public patronage is refpeet
felly solicited.
GEO. J. BOLTON
WALL'S HOTEL,
LATE AMERICAN HOUSE,
TU N'kil.W SlOth, UYOMIJit; ft)., I'A.
rillS establishment has recently been refitted an
famished in the latest style Every attention
wiil be given to the comfort and convenience of those
who patronize the ll>ue.
T. B. WALL, Owner an 1 Proprietor".
Tunkhannoek, September 11, 1961.
WORTH BRANCH HOTEL,
MESIIOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA
IVM. 11. COR TRIG lIT, Prop'r
IT WING resumed the proprietorship of the above
■ 1 Hotel, the undersigned will "pare no efforts
"•nder the house an agreeable place ol sojourn to
•11 who may favor it with tficircustom.
Win II CORTRIGHT.
J*, 3rd, 1963
MEANS' HOTEL.
TOWARTDA, RA.
P- B. BARTLjiT,
[Late oft. "KRAINARH lIOI'SK, ELMIRA, NY
PROPHIETOR.
The MEANS HOTEL, i-one of tne LARGEST
•CD BEST ARRANGED Houses in the country — lt !
•I fitted up in the most modern anil unpruved style
•ad NO pains are spired to make it a pleasantand j
•greeable stopping pjace for all,
V3A2I-ly.
REVOLUTION IN TRADE.
Greater inducements than ever before offered to
persons getting up clubs in our
One Dollar Sale.
?end for NEW SPRING CIRCULAR.
Ji.KEK A CO., W A 60 Federal SL, ikartw), Mase
TIJNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA.-WEDNESDAY, APR. 8. 1868.
1c THA peculiar taint or
1 Infection -which we
call SCROFULA lurks
jv f' in the constitutions of
multitudes of men. It
.] either produces or is
"55- - produced by an en
feebled, vitiated state
j| of the blood, wherein
lluid becomes in-
JF&i competent to sustain
y vital forces ill their
vigorous action, and
j "" the system to
fall into disorder and
decay. The scrofulous contamination is va
riously caused by mercurial disease, low
living, disordered digestion from unhealthy
food, impure air, filth and filthy habits,
the depressing vices, and, above all, by
j the venereal infection. Whatever lie its
| origin, it is hereditary in tiie constitution,
descending "from parents to children unto
the third and fourth generationindeed, it
seems to lie the rod of Him who says, "I will
visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their
children." The diseases it originates take
various names, according to the organs it
• attacks. In the lungs, Scrofula produces
tubercles, and finally Con.-umption; in the
glands, swellings which suppurate and be
come ulcerous sores; in the stomach and
bowels, derangements which produce indi
gestion. dyspepsia, and liver complaints; on
the skin, eruptive and cutaneous affections.
The>e. all having the Same origin. r< quire the
fame remedy, vi/ . purification and invigcra
tion of the blood. I'inify the blood, and
these dangerous di- tempers leave you. With
feeble, foul, or corrupted Hood, you cannot
have health; with that "life of the lb-It"
healthy, you cannot have scrofulous di-ease.
Ayer's Saraapnrilla
it compounded from the most effectual anti
d-ae* t it iocd I science l:-s distort r d for
this nfiiii ting di.-tenqwr, and f r llie cure of
the di.-irder.* it emails. 'That it is f r supe
rior to any other remedy yet devised, is
know n ly all who have given it a trial. That
it docs combine virtues 4ruly extraordinary
in their effect upon this class of com; Lints,
is indisputably proven by the great multitude
of pui-lii ly known and renin: kai.le cures it
lias nu de of the following d -easts: Xlßg's
Evil, or GlondnPr Sv/eliiugs, Tunic-3,
Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches and Sorc3,
Ei 7 tb- -. •-, .lv..v cr E.. Ant.. O.i s A 1 ii'©,
S-i.lt Rheum, Scald Head, Coughs from
tuberculous deposits in tho lungs, Y/hifco
Swellings, Debility, Dropsy, Neuralgia,
Dyspepsia cr Indigestion, Syphilis and
Syphilitic Infections, Heron rial Diseases,
F-. ITHie Weaknesses, an '- itiwci (1, the whole
furies of complaints thatari c fro i i purity
erf the blood. N'inute reports of im'.-, ideal
cases may be found in Ami's A . i.ai AN'
AI.VIANAI . which is furni.-licd to thodii. L-:s
for gratuitous distribution, wherein may be
b an: I the directions for its u.-e, and some
of the remarkable cures which it lias made
v hen ~U otl i-r remedies bad failed to : fiord
ri i-f. '1 iio ! ca-e-s are purposely I: bin
from all auction* of the country, in < dor
that every reader may have access to some
one who can speak to him of its 1 cm-fits from
P< rsonsl t xpcricncc. Scrofula dcpri. si s the
vital energies, and thus leaves its victim - far
more subjc t to disi ase and its fatal re.-tilts
tl an are healthy constitutions. Jler.ce it
ti ads to shorten, and does greatly shorten,
the average duration of human life. The
v ast importance of tin -e considerations has
led us to spend years in perfecting u remedy
vliicli is adequate to its Hire. This we row
other to tl:c public under the name of Av i it's
FAR- U-VRII.I A, although it is composed of
ingredients, some of which cxcied the best
ot S<ir><iparilla in alterative power. liy its
aid you may protect yourself from the iliir
ing and (larger of these di-orders. I'urge
out the foul corruptions tln.t rot and fester
in the 1 lot il, ] urge out the < auocs c f disease,
and \ iyorouA i.-. alth will follow, l'y its pt< u
li„r virtues this ri mtdy stimulates the vital
fundi. ns. an-1 thus o.pds the di tempers
which lurk will a the sv.-tem or burst out
on any past of it.
We know t'o public '• vo keen deceived
by many rcmpoxntff* of SfcrsapuriUm, that
promised n ui h PI D did nothing; but tliey
v iil ncilia rbe d<-( • ived nor di appointed in
this, lis virtues have been proven by abun
dant t: i J, and tin re remains no question of
its ru passing excellence for the cure of the
p.filictiiig disease* it is intended to reach.
Although ur.ih r the same name, it is a vcrjr
diff-rt r.t lUI-I'..- ine from any other vvi.it LI has
l,i-i n l-ifire the people, awl is far more ef
fi-cual thau any ctiicr which has ever been
available to them.
■A-YEXt'S
CHERRY PECTORAL.
The World's Great Remedy for
Coughs, Colds, Incipient Con-
Gumption, and for the relief
of Consumptive patients
in advanced stages
of the disease.
This has Leon so long ucd and so uni
! versal'y known, that wo need do no more
' than as ore the public that its quality i- ki |>t
uj> to tiio In -t it ever has been, and that it
may be relied on to do all it has ever done.
Prepared by DR. J. C. AVER & Co.,
Practical and Analytical
Lnwt 11. Mass.
Sold by all druggists every where.
Fur sale hyßunneli k Bannatyne, and Lyra in A
Whlls, Tonkbiinnock. Sterling <t Son, Meshoppen
j Stevens A Acktey, Lnceyville, Frear, Dsnn A Co J
Factory ville, and all Druggists and Deulsis in ined- ;
| nines, everywhere.
THE HEALING POOL,
AND HOUSE OF MERCY,
ft oward ASMICI at lon Reports for YOUNG!
MEN on the CHIME OF SOLITUDE, and the ER- j
KOKS, ARI SES a id DISEASES which destroy the
i manly jiwers, and create iin pediments to MAR
HI AGE, with sure means of relief. Sent in sealed]
letter, em elopes, free of charge. Address Dr J. '
SKILLEN HOUGHTON, Howard Association, 1
Philadelphia. Pa.
6n44-1 year
THE XT TNT XO INT
STRAW CUTTER,
MANUFACTURED BY
William Flickner,
At 1 UATA'ZIAWOCA', Tenn'a.
Who has the ezelusive right for Wyoming county, is
i.ne of the very few Machines that wilt cut Hay.
Straw. Stalks, ate., better than the old fashioned
Cutting boxes, used by our grandfathers.
Those who value tune and labor: and would avoid
a nee Iles I'.ss of both, in feeding their stock, should ;
get one of these improved Cutters.
No man ever found anything better ; or ever went
back to the old machine after a trial of it.
A Supply Constantly on Hand
and for sale.
WM FLICKNIR.
TtmkfcauLr.-Af, Do* X IOT-. TnlfM,
THANATOPSIS.
BT WH. CILLE* BRYANT.
To bira who in the lore of natnre holds
Communion with her risible firms, she speaks
A various language ; for his gayer hours
She has a roice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, witb a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness ere he is aware When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
AnJ breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
M 'ke thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart; —
rto forth, under the open sky, and list
To nature's tea,-kings, while from all around —
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air—
Comes a still voice—i'et a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more,
In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocoan shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, sUTenderiag up
Thino individual being, shalt thou go,
To mix forever witb the elements,
To be a brother co the insen.-ible.rock,
And to the sluggish clod which the rude swaiu
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Fhall scud his roots abroad, and pearce tby mould.
Yet not to tLinc eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alono—nor couliist thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings,
The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre.--The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun—the rales
•Stretching in pensive quietness between ;
The venerable woods—rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and poured round
all.
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, —
Are bnt the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun,
The planets, all the infinite host of hea/en,
Are shining on tho sad abodes of death,
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
'Wis globe are but a handful lo the tribes
Tiiat slutubor in iis bosom.—Take the wings
Of morning—and the Barcan deserts pierce,
Or loose thyself in tho continuous woods,
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound
Save his own dastungs —yet —the dead are there :
Anl millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone.
So shalt tbou rest— and wbat if thou withdraw
I'nhecded bv the living—and no friend
Take note of thy departure 1 All that breathe
Will rh ire thy destiny. Tho gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Hod on, anil each one as before will chase
His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their einployments.and shall come.
And make their bed with thee. As the long train
Of ages glides away, the sons ot men,
The youih in life's green spring, and he who goes,
In the full strength of years, matron and maid,
And the sweet babe, ami the gray-haired man
Shall one by one, be gathered to thy side,
liy those, who in their turn shall follow them.
So life, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan that moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
IDs chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night.
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and
soothed
By on unfaltering trust, approach thy grave.
Like one who wraps the drapery of liis couch
About bitn, and lies down to pleasat dreams.
A POET.
I have in my employ an Irishman, who,
I fear, will be the means of killing me yet,
for already he has caused me so many
stitches in the side, that a few more and I
shall be served up.
A few days since, having some altera
tions and repairs made to my dwelling, I
set Pat to tend the masons, who were en
gaged in carrying up a brick wall. As he
was ascending the. ladder, with a hod filled
up w'.lh brick on his shoulder, a carriage
drove by. Pausing in his ascent, and
eyeing the carriage, he exclaimed,
' The rich can ride in chaises,
But the peor may walk, bejasis !
Instantly throwing his hod, with its load
of brick, to the ground, he came down the
ladder and hastened to where I was stand
ing, an amused listener and observer of his
words and movements. As be approached
he doffed his hat, and, with a bow and
scrape, said,
"Begging yer Honor's pardon, I would
be much obleeged to ye fur me wages :
I'm going to lave yees uow."
"Why, Pat, what is the matter ? Why
do you w:sh to leave mc ?"
"Airah ! yer Honor, I have mishtaken
me avecation. It's a born poet lam ; an'
it's beneath me dignity to be carrying the
hod and the likes."
"What ! you a poet, Pat ? Is it possi
ble ! Have you ever madeany poetry ?"
"Troth an' I have, Sur ; and I'll be af
ter astonishing the wurrld yet. I jist now
on the ladder bevant, made as swate a bit
of rhyme as was iver printed, intirel)."
"You did, indeed ? Well, just repeat
it to me now, and then I can judge of your
poetical abilities."
"Sure an' I will, yer Honor and he
commenced :
"The rich can ride in chaises,
But the poor—but the poor—"
Here he stuck fast, but commenced
again :
"The rich can ride in chaises,
But the p -or—but the poar—"
He could get no farther ; but, scratch
ing his head, he exclaimed :
"Sure, Sur, I bad it all right a bit since;
an' I'll give it to yez now, and again be
began :
'The rich can ride in chaises,
But the poor—but the poor—
Bfjatis they can walk !"
" To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Eight. "
HETTY'S VICTORY.
BV MRS. WILKINSON,
,! Ah me! how the systematic house
keepers in this busy, bustling world of
ours manage to get along I should like to
kr.ow !" said Mrs. Hetty Gay, the bride of
a year, while a scowl gathered and settled
upon the white forehead and spread itselt
down to the sweet mouth, chasing the dim
ples all away and leaving an ugly frown,
almost the first in all her life, in their
stead.
" I declare its just enough to drive one
mad—this housekeeping—indeed it is!"
and the sweet voice quivered just a little
at first, then a great sob welled up from
the inexperienced little heart, which flat- '
tered and beat like n frightened bird's, and :
at last the tears would and did come as the
red lips murmured between the sobs : i
" And dear Alf is so particular, and such j
an epicure, and likes so imny dainty things, j
Oh ! what shall Ido ? What shall Ido?" ;
and Hetty sunk down in dismay in the
old kitchen chair which Bridget had so rc- {
ccntly vacated.
There were all the breakfast dishes to |
be washed—not so many to be sure, for
only two had breakfasted from off the
dainty china which looked such a prodig
ious pile to the blue eyes—the whole house
to be swept and dusted (Hetty had tbree
rooms besides the kitchen,) dinner to get J
(for two.) " And oh dear ! the mercy on
ly knows what all! I never can, indeed I
never can!" she sobbed over and over
again.
Now, Hetty Gay was not a footlsli,weak
minded little woman, as perhaps the read
er will imagine, but quite the contrary. —
Never in all her life, had such a weight of
care rested upon her young shoulders ; and
as it rose up before her in such prodigious
proportions, sfre did what many another
would have done in like circumstances.
"If I conld only learn," she at length
whispered through her tears, " hut how
can I ? There is no one here to show me,
and then dear Alf will see how awkward I
am. That is worst of all!"
There was a ring at the door, and Het
ty sprang up, bathed her eyes, gave one
dubious look back at the huge pile of chi
na, and brushing away the golden mist of
ringlets from her face, prepared to obey
the summons.
"Oh ! I do hope it is only the butcher
with the roast," she murmured, giving a
hasty glance at the 1 ittlo mirror in ttie din
ing room, where a pair of swoolen eyes and
a troubled face confronted her.
" Oh, Lou ! where did yon come from}?"
cried Mrs. Hetty eagerly—the dimples all
coming back and the tigly scowl vanishing
like a dream when she encountered the
smiling face of Lou Burton at the door
The friend of all others whom she wished
most to see at this particular juncture was
this same Lou Burton, and she had tho't
of her at least a dozen times since Bridg
et's abrupt leave-taking, but then she
lived so far away, and it was no use, she
thought.
" But, dear Lou, how did you happen to
come just now?" she said. "My good
genius must have sent you here to-day,
I'm sure, for I was so wretched. Bridget
left this morning, you see, and I'm alone
and have been crying like a great baby
this half hour ! I'm so stupid, you know,
and s ignorant of housekeeping matters
as a two days-old baby, which I wouldn't
have Alf know for all the world. Lome
with me, Lou—that's a dear—right out to
this awful kitchen, and give me my first
lesson in housekeeping !"
" But you are not going to work in that
elegant cashmere wrapper are yon, Hetty?"
said Lou Burton, the practical little house
keeper and economist that she was.
" Oh, it won't hurt it, just this once,
you know, and—"
" But it will, Hetty," persisted Lou.—
" Now, you go and slip on a plain calico,
while I go to the kitchen and commence
operations."
" But will you stay a whole week, dear,
and help me through?" said Hetty, im
ploringly, as she turned to obey,
" Certainly, T will," answered Lou. in
spite of herself, at Hetty's beseeching
look,
" Now, mind you don't do* a thing till I
come there ; for I must learn, you know,"
called out Hetty after her.
Dinner time came, AD<J with it " dear
Alf," as " hungry as a bear," he said, for
he had been out on a collecting tour, and
was ready to " devour a whole regiment."
After a hearty welcome to Hetty's friend,
he led the way to the little dining room.
" Whew, Iletty !" he said, after survey
ing the appointments with a critic's eye ;
" I do believe you beat Bridget after all.
Just look at this roast, now ; it suits me to
a charm—just brown enough, and done to
perfection ; and these rolls are as light as
a feather. How splendidly the table looks.
Everything just where it belongs ! I de
clare that Irish girl had away of mixing
up things that I didn't just like, after all.
Hetty, this salad's prepared just as I used
to like it when a boy—l tell you it's deli
cious,—and a prince might covet that des
ert on the side table yonder, lieally, Miss
Burton, I never knew until to-day that my
little Iletty was such a model house wife !"
Lou was amused. Hetty sat smiling
through the tears—a slight quiver about
her sweet lips and a deep flush on either
cheek, but very busy with her thoughts.
Days and weeks passed. Lou Bnrton
was a constant at the Gay's, where no
Bridget had as yet taken the place of her
predecessor. By-and-by the weeks glided
into months, and Lou only came occasion
ally, for Hetty had graduated, and Alfred
Gav never knew until years afterward bow
bravely she had won"
, THE VALL KOF A SCRAP-HOOK—Every
| one who takes a newspaper, which he in
; the least degree appreciates, will often re
gret to see any one number thrown aside
for waste paper which contains some inter
esting and important articles. A good
1 way to preserve these is by the use of a
scrap-book. One who has never been ac
customed thus to preserve short articles, can
hardly estimate the pleasure it affords to
sit down and turn over the pleasant, fa
miliar pages. Here a choice piece of
poetry meets the eye, which you remem
ber you were so glad to see in the paper
but which you would long since have lost
had it not been for your scrap-book.—
. There is a witty anecdote—it does you
, good to laugh over it, though for the
; twentieth time. Next is a valuable recipe
you had almost forgotten, and which you
found just in time to save much perplexity.
There is a sweet little storv, the memory
of which has cheered and encouraged you
many a time, when almost ready to de
spair under the pressure of life's cares and
trials. Indeed you can hardly take up a
single paper without reperusing it. Just
glance over the sheet before you, and sec
how many valuable items it contains that '
would be of service to yon a hundred j
times in life, A choice thought is far I
more precious than a bit of glitti ring gold.
Hoard with care the precious gems, and
see at the end of a year what a rich treas
ure you have accumulated.
The Alabama Constitution.
This prodnct of African geuius for
scrcial weeks boa oooupied a largr abaTO
of public attention. Though defeated by
the people, every Radical journal from the
Tribune down to the smallest Bxlo sheet,
have gone into ecstacies over its perfection,
and have insisted that it should be consid
ered as adopted in open violation of the
law under which it was framed. Even
Thad. Stevens, acting as he boastfully de
clares " outside of the Constitution "
could not swallow this dose. By reference
to the recent proceedings in Congress we
find the following:
"Mr Stevens ( Rep. )of Pennsylvania
sitting at the Clerk's desk, said : Mr.
Speaker, after full examination of the re
turns frotn Alabama lam satis fied that to
force a vote on this bill and admit the State
ay a ins t our own law, while there is a de
ficiency of twenty odd thousand against it,
would not be doing justice in legislation as
would be expected by the people. That
being the case I move that the bill be re
committed. The motion was adopted."
DEATH. —We have never read any
thing more beautiful than the follow
ing from the pen of Geoige D. Pren
tice :
'• There is but a breath of air and a
beat of the heart betwixt this world and
the next. And in the brief interval of
painful and awful suspense, while we feel
that death is present with us, that we
are powerless, and the all-powerful, and
the faint pulsation here is but the prelude
of endless life hereafter, we feel in the
midst of the stunning calamity about to
befall us, that the earth has no compensat
ing good to mitigate the severity of our
loss. But there is no grief without some
beneficient provisions to soften its intense
ness. When the good and lovely die, the
memory of their good deeds, like the
moonbeams on the storm sea. light up
our darkened hearts and lend to the
surrounding gloom a beauty so sad, so
sweet that we would not if we could dis
pel the darkness that environs it"
QUARRELIXG. —If anything in the
world will make a man feel badly, except
pinching his fingers in the crack of a door,
it is unquestionably a quarrel. No man
ever fails to think less of himself after it
than before. It degrades him in the eyes
of others, and what is worse, blunts his
sensibilities on the one hand, and increases
the power of passionate irritability on the
other. The truth is,the more peaceably and
quietly we get on, the better for our neigh
bors. In nine cases out of ten the better
course is, if a man cheats you, cease to
deal with him ;if he is always abusive,
quit his company ; and if he slanders jou,
take care to live so that nobody will be
lieve him. No matter who he is, or how
he misuses you, the wisest way is to let
him alone; for there is nothing better than
this cool, calm and quiet way ot dealing
with the wrongs we meet with.
The McArdle Case.
Contrary to expectation the McArdle
ca6e did not come tip in the Supreme
Court for final disposition on Monday, it
not having been reached in regular order.
It is reported that the two dissenting jus
tices, Judges Grier and Field, who insist
upon an immediate decision, have drawn
up a protest, which they will ask to have
put on record. It is to be hoped this will
be done, and that the country be informed
of the determination of the Court in regard
to this important case If it be not done
the Supreme Court will stand before the
public in the light of a tribunal, not as it
is supposed to be, entirely free from polit
ical bias, but as one, which, after having
formally gone through with the testimony,
listened to the arguments, and arrived at a
decision, withheld that decision in conse
quence of the disturbed political condition
of the country. The excuse is not a valid
one. The Supreme Court is not to know
political parties. Its duties arc to deter
mine the law, and not to ask what may
! possibly be the result of a decision which
: has been arrived at in full accordance with
I the legitimate rules of law and justice.—
!We hope the dissenting Judges will prc-
I pare and present their protest.
A London Street Singer.
Some years ago a mysterious paragraph
i went the rounds of the press to the effect
that a young and beautiful woman made
her appearance every right at 10 o'clock
j in one of the West End squares, and that
after a superb tocal display she disappear
ed, no one knew how or where, exactly as
the clock struck 11. The Sunday Times
j professed to give special and exclusive par
ticulars of this anomymous nightingale, as
j she was termed, and even went so far as
jto hint broadly that she was a celebrated
! vocalist married to a penniless lord, who
; took this novel mode of enlarging an in- |
j sufficient income. Of course this piece of!
family history proved to be an invention.'
I had the good fortune to hear her once j
[in Berkcly square. Seeing a large crowd :
waiting in expectant attidude just where
| a fashionable hotel is located, 1 inquired
j the cause, and was told that the mysteri- j
I ous vocalist, the nightingale, was about to i
j show herself. As the clcck struck 10, a
lady dressed in deep mournimg, and hav- |
ing the upper part of her face concealed !
by a thick black veil, glided forward i
and took her place in the centre of a space
| purposely kept clear for her. I decided
I from noticing the beautiful formation of
I her month and chin and finely rounded
! fair throat, that she must be young and
| more than commonly attractive. She was
j accompanied by a little boy, also in deep :
mourning, who carried an open reticule, j
Without delay, the nightingale commenced I
a ballad, and sang with such surpassing i
taste and feeling as to hold the miscellane
ous crowd tn mute and rapt attention. :
The song was followed by several favorite
scenas from popular operas, all exhibiting
the talent and culture of an accomffffshed !
artist. A collection was made; few gave
coppers—all who could afford it gave sil
ver. The littls boy sent in his bag to the
hotel, the balcony of which was crowded
with visitors, and it was returned apparent- ;
ly heavy with precious coin. The sum j
total must have been considerable, and
this I was informed was the usual reward
of the hour's work. When eleven struck,
the unknown stopped her song, made a
slight courtesy, and threaded her way
through the crowd. Her real story I
afterwards learned was s painful one.—
She was the daughter of a celebrated i
teacher of music, and had been educated
for the stage ; she married, against the j
wishes of her parents, a e.lerk iu the Post- j
office, who beinor detected in tfie men one I
unpardonable sin of uttering a forged bank :
note, was tried, convicted, and hanged.
Y\ ith three helpless infants and no means
of earning a sufficient income, the bereaved i
young wife adopted the plan of making!
her fine voice and scientific attainments
furnish the means of subsistence. The
close of this sfory is more hopeful. Her
beau^ r , misfot tunes, and accomplishments
attracted the attention of a clergyman in j
one of the eastern counties. lie married I
her, and she disappeared forever from
public view.
MODEL VILLAGES. —The future model
village, as I see it, shall have for the use
of its inhabitants not merely a town lyce
nm hall and a town library, but a town
laundry, fitted up with conveniences such
as no private bouse can afford, and paying
a price to the operators which will enable
tliem to command an excellence of work
such as private families seldom realize.—
It will also have a (own bakery, where the
best of family bread, white, brown, and of
all grains, shall be compounded ; and lastly
a town cook shop, where soup and meats
may be bought ready for the table. Those
of us who have kept houses abroad, re
member the ease with which our foreign
establishments were carried on. A suite
of elegant apartments, a courier, and one
female servant were the foundation of
domestic life. Our courier boarded us at
a moderate expense, and the servant took
cafe of our rooms. Punctually to the
dinner hour every day, our dinner came
in on the head of a poiter from a neigh
boring cook shop, A huge chest lined
with tin, and kept warm by a tiny char
coal stove in the centre, being deposited
in an ante-room, from it came forth, first
soup, then fish, then roast of various names,
and lastly pastry and confections—far
more courses than any reasonable Chris
tain needs to keep him in healthy condi
tion ; and dinner being over, our box,
with its debris went out of the house, leav
ing a clear field. — Mrs. Stowe.
A good joke is told on the radical
del* gates to the Indiana State Convention
at Indianapolis. At one of the stations
some waggish democrat called out, "Twen
ty five minutes for supper." The delegates
rushed into the bar room and the train
struck out for Indianapolis, leaving them
behind, with no prospect of supper or
another train that night.
President Johnson, does not 6eem to be
much concerned about the impeachment
trial. At least it does not interfere much
with his sense of duty. On Wednesday
last he returned the bill, depriving the Su
preme Court ot jurisdiction over cases un
der the reconstruction acts , with his veto.
ARKANSAS. —Arkansas has voted down
the new Constitution. This is the worst
cut of all. After the defeat Alabama, Co
ngress changed the law so, as they thought,
to be certain, hut this last dodge has failed
the Rump.
The articles of Impeachment are just
ten in number, the same in that respect as
the ten Southern States pushed oat of the
Union by traitors in Congress to tbe Con
stitution and liberties of tbe couulry.
TERMS, $2.00 P ef. ANNUM, in Advance.
TOfisr anli o(hnbiiE.
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it from him.
...
A Gloucester paper says there is a young
lady in that town So modest that she will
not alow the Christian Observer to remain in
her room over night.
A boy at school, when called to recite his
lesson in history, was asked :
"What is the German Diet 7"
"Sourkrout, schnapps, and sausage?/' he
replied.
A beautiful woman, tufning offe day to her
homely daughter, said : "Annette,what wo'd
you give to have my face V
"The same price, mother, that yon wonld
give to have my youth."
A Leavenworth paper says : "A Kansas
City editor went skating the other day, ami
slipped into an air hole. His ears caught on
the edges of the ice, the hole not being big
enough to let them through. They partially
froze and will be amputated and used for
door mats."
Concerning "hollering" in meeting, Aunt
Judy stid to one of her colored sisters: "Tain't
the rale grace, honey—taint sure glory. You
buttons tuu tuuii. wtiun _jou get ae a eve in
your heart an' de lamb in yoar bosom, you'll
feel as efyou was in aat stable at Beth'lem,
an' the blessed virgin had lent you de sleep*
in' baby to hold."
"Shut your eyes and listen # to tfio. Veil
de first night Ijopen my store, 1 counts the
monies and finds him nix right. I count
him and there be tree doller gone, and wat
you tink I does den 7"
"I can't say."
"Vy, I did not count him any more and
he come out shoost right ever since."
Suppose a man owns a skiff: he fastens
the skiff to the.shore with a rope made of
straw ; along comes a cow ; cow gets into
the skiff ; turns around and eats the rope;—
mo -sKtcr tnus iei loose, with the cow on
board, starts down stream.and on its passage
is upet ; the cow is drowned. Now, has the
man that owns the cow got to pay for the
skiff, or the man that owns the skiff got to
pay for the cow ?
THE CLERGYMAN AND HIS SON "What
thou hast to do, do with all thy might," said
a clergyman to his son, one morning.
"So I did this morning," replied Bill with
an enthusiastic gleam in his eye.
"Ah, what was it darling 7" and the fath
er's hand ran through his offspring's curls.
" Why, I Walloped Jack XJwards till he
yelled like blazes : you should haw heard
him holler, dad."
Dad looked unhappy, while he explained
that the precept did not imply a case like
that, and concluded mildly with
"You should not have done that my
child."
"Then he'd a , walloped mc," retorted
Bill.
"Better," expostulated his sire, "to hare
fled (rum the wrath to come."
"Yes," urged Bill,by way of a final clinch
er, -'but Jack can run twice as fast as I
can."
The good man sighed and went to his
study, took up his pen snd endearored to
compose himself and a sermon reconciling
practice and precept.
A GOOSE.—A gentleman, in pursuit of a
goose for dinner, was attracted by the sight
of a plump exercised one."
"Is that a young one 7" said he to a rosy
cheeked lass io attendance,
"Yes, sir, indeed it is."
"How much do you ask for it 7" asked the
gentleman.
"A dollar, sir."
•'That is too much, say five eighths, and
hcie's your money,"
"Well, sir, as I would like to get you as a
steady customer, I'll take it."
The goose was carried home and roasted,
but found to be 60 tough as to be uneata
ble.
The following day the gentleman accosted
the fair poulterer:
"Did you not tell me that that gooss,which
I bought of you, was young 7"
"Yes, sir. I did, and it was."
"No it was not."
"Don't you call me a young woman 7 I am
only nineteen."
"Yes, I do."
"Well I have heard mother say many
times, that it was nearly six weeks younger
than mc."
The clerk of a store carried to a lady's
house a package of goods which she had bo't.
On ringing the bell he heard a sharp and
nasal vo ce ask, "Who's there 7" "It is I,
madam. I have brought the piece of Bilk
you bought this morning." " Who's there 7"
asked the voice in the same tone. The young
man repeated his answer impatiently. "Hare
you been to dinner, Polly." continued the
voice. The clerk was having a that with a
parrot that-bad been left alone in tbe bouse.
NO. 35.