ADITERTIBING• : RATES. ' 31. 1 mo. Swam. moo. 1400 1.80 • 1.70 3.00 MOO 3.00 3.00 400 10.00 10.00 LIP &go 8.00 • 1400 2100 • 8.00 15.03 2403 40.00 10.03. MOO 00. 00 '15.03 32.180 • 00.00• 8400 25.01 30.00 80.0) 130.03 One Benase, . Two Squares . Three lates . Biz Squares, . . eitrzoilTsr"! One Column : Protessional Cards $Lt per line per year. . ...Administrator's aid Auditor's Noticei Lt City Notices,' Se cents per lino let insertion, LS cents per line each subsequent Insertion. Ten lines agate constitute a censer. WILLS & IREDELL, PunuenEns. ALLENTOWN, PA r EWE, Goabo re SUDDEN -CHAN6iII".i,--' WILL LOW PRICES INFLUENCE YOU! OLD TIMES AGAIN ,IMMERSE, REDUCTION. :lIRICES THE OLD CORNER .Inst opened an enormous STOCK OF SPRING GOODS, MM=!CI IiTyLE, VARIETY, AND LOWNESS OF PRICE "Odhina c'ticinot bo ;urine oed. . . rlf Competition deed frith any other Establishment outside of the: larger cities.] SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT OF NAMING such au Im mense Mock of goods, but let It suffice to our that we have the moot COMPLETE assortment of Ladles' Dress Goods, Dress Bilks, Poplins, Shawls, lialluorals, Matto Furnish ing Gooda, Ladies' Cloaking Cloth, Men's Wear in Cloth, Cassimeres, Am, and everything that kept Ina FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS STORE la oodles,, variety. Ido not "QUOTE PRICES" as somo houses do, but will automated ASTONISLIENG Fictußgs. The difference Inprices of goods to-dan and a month ago, la really ualuful for those Who have beee h e Largo goats ou how u rat lat high price., but r the cue with me, I dull as heretofore mako Ole o OLD COlt- THE GREAT PLACE OF INTEREST AND HEADQUARTERS for the Blames to get their goods at the LOWEST MARKET PRICES / I tally Qiiie; that n 1 trofdi6uentnalcA~i ,. can be atldeecd unless the promises held out by advertisements are found to be fully sustained on a visit to the store. Nor can It ho a large convene without scrupulously reliable and fair dealing at all times and uniform courtesy to every custo mer, sod the endeavor to make every buyer a constant dealer. All I ask Is simply to decide by actual trial whether or net it tato your advantage to become custo mer. Rempectfully Your, J. IT,II.AALEA, " OLD CORNER," OPPOSITE THE EAGLE HOTEL &pail 14 'GREAT REDUCTION OF PRICES WOOLEN GOODS. =I FANCY SPRING CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, JEANS, CARPETS, &C In consequence of the abandrace and over stock of the above Goods in the City Markets, they cannot at present be disposed of except at moss to the manufacturer and many Woolen Mills coo either closed or working on half time. Under these circumstances. triable:: to keep his mill running, HENRY GABRIEL, MEM A L.I 4 ENTOWN. WOOLEN MILL, SSD OP SOUTH BOTBSTH STSEST Having a largo and flue stock of tho best styles of Fancy Cassie:ems for :non's and boy's wear, as also a variety of other Woolen Goode and Carpets suitable for the season and desired in every household, has concluded to RETAIL =I WHOLESALE PRICES Ills entire stock of Woolen and other Goods, among which are several huudred pieces of ALL WOW. D ()Mitt AND TWIST 1 • CASSTMERES, FLANNELS, Of all grades, and pit prices greatly reduoed• Also a spleudld usofimeat or INGRAIN, LIST, RAG, AND, OTHER CA,R,FITS, As . low as GO tents w yard IfALIkI9RAL CHEM WOOLEN CARPET YARN, all coloia. Bost quality reduced to Do cent.. BD •.00VE'R:LETS, All hinds. White or Fancy. at greatly minted prices." It It lERS, or those haying - Wool to exchange, will certainly and It to their Interest. In examining the (foods at his house or factory, where ho has fitted up several rooms fur showing the same. and respectially leelt" the ram. to call and }Lida° for themselves. " ATENRY G ABRIEL, EOM 'ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL, South End Of Wienill Stieet,'Allont6ttn:Ps. ma= 1115 HOOP SKIRTS. 1115 • WAL. T. - HOPKINS. floe Removed Lla Manttractory and Salomon:la to • NO, 1115 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, in wi gigtia"p?,7o 7 l4 l :47.g. c ivazi. H a TiN DO found to embmee the most extensive assortment In the Union, and all the latent andmoet desirable Styles, Shapes. Lengths and StSeW, 2, 2.'4. 2M yards round. of Plain and tiered Paulen, Walking Skirts, Recepti on T ra il, &c., &c., together with over ninety different varieties of Apnea and Children'. Skirts , all of which for symmetry of style, finish, 'badness elasticity. durability and real Cheapness, are unequaled by any otheryoods In the mar ket. and are warranted In every reaped. Shirts made to order, Altered and Repaired, Wholesale and Retail. Full line of Low Priced Eastern Redo Skirts. 13 Springs 33 Ulnas A ., 20 Br tS , s rs B E:tar , Cents; 35 Sp C ri GIMITS C I en COATETS ? 5 T r ' EflitiiliTS i /37 different NVlley an , •troigE:i c'r.u.P.a.7:riangs7,4llideanoggilgy% Corset Skirt Supprirtere, Mrs. Moody's - Patent ”Self-Ad lusting Altdetninel ' Corsets, French, English and Domes j2ttNinttigett*NVlTilirgdAglree.l'llivilke..laire(lNf especial attention. Completetusortmeut of Ladies' Under (torments, at very AGENT for die DARTRAM & FANTON FAIIIILY SEWING AIACHINES, superior to any other be fore the public. Fifty-two of these No.l Machines, Pried 153 each, are being give* away to our customers, In order to get them Introduced. Every person In want of articles In onrline, should examine our goods before_ platinising elsewhere. Caller send for circulars, at our Idanufantory and Salesrooms, No. 1113 Chrstriut St.. Philadelphia. MarSi-Smo. • . • • .W2d. T. HOPKINS. PENNSYLVANIA • ' COIL 7th AND LINDEN AM ALLENTOWN. ' PA. The nnderairnedhaa taken this well-known Mead. The Dar, Table cad Dada have all been newly furnished. le ale. well aoPalled With .table room. Seal attention will be be M smi owed upon the le to make t em feel at hole. feep 1-43(1.tf MOB a VW. voL. xxm. -- t6ttOw E, CROWD. THE RUSH TREMENDOUS! OUR STORE BLACK WITH CUSTOMERS! WE CARRY EVERYTHING BY STORM! ' A CLEAN CUT THROUGH THE DRY GOODS TRADE! 111011-PRICED MERCHANTS PANIC-STRICKEN! SOME SAY WE WILL NOT STAY SOME SAY WE ARE LOSING MONEY NOT SO I WE INTEND TO STAY. NOT SO! WE ARE MAKING MONEY. • HOW THEN CAN WE SELL SO CHEAP ? BECAUSE DRY GOODS ARE WAY DOWN BECAUSE OUR STOCK 18 ALL NEW BECAUSE WE CHARGE BUT LITTLE "PROFIT BECAUSE OUR STORE IS ALWAYS CROWDED! WE ARE CRUSHING OUT 111011 PRICES! WE SELL EVEN LOWER HERE THAN IN OUR NEW YORK STORES! GREATEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED! DRY GOODS DOWN ONE-HALF IN ALLENTOWN! PEOPLE COMING IN FROM EVERY DIRECTION. EVERYBODY PLEASED WITH THE NEW YORK STORE NO ONE COMPLAINS OF 111011 PRICES THERE. We are selling Coats & Clark's cotton at 7c,' others charge 10e; French Woven Whalebone Corsets 00c, others charge $1 to; Paper Hustles 124 e others charge 46e; Double width alpacas 37,94, other charge 65; Fringed Towels 12!4c, ethers charge 25e Splendid Table Diaper 50c, others charge SOc; Splendid Linen Napkin. 4160 per dor., others charge, 4100; Splendid yard wide Muelin 1214 c, others charge lie; Merrimack Prints 12!6c, other. chargoloe; Bost DoLaines He, others charge 25e; Ladies' Cotton Hose 12.!4c, others charge ISc; Blair Carpet. 25e, other, charge 45e; All Wool Ingrain., yard wide, Si. others charge $1 &a; Hoop Skirts 65c, Others charge 41 2.1; Irish Poplins 61 00 andsl Six, other, charge 4160 and 4221. Also, Trimmings, Laces, Kid and Silk Cloves, Sheeting', Ticking', Denims, Check,. Casel mores, &c., &C., &c., at equally low prices. Some merchants do not always Roll as they advertise. WE DO. When you coma bring this advertisement with you. and It We do not moll as we state, don't buy a cent's worth ore, FOSTER'S NEW YORK CITY STORE, FIRE I FIRE! FIRE! HO! HAVE. YOU HEARD THE NEWS ! 0, NO! 0, NO! NOT SO! The Corner Store and others can't Nell cheaper thane SCHREIBER BROS XO. 10 EAST HAMILTON ST. ♦4006' To Torn INTERE.T, INRCRIBE ON TOM BANNER GOOD GOODS ,S: CHEAP PRICES Let les hove Pram i n nther words go to Schretber Pro's for DRY GOODS. Iles, ye I Take notice old and youni male and female, rich and poor, high and low , bond a n d free all are sum moned to appear to render good "a they ahOuld not maim their MI1" why FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DRESS GOODS Or SCHREIBER BROS A failure to appear and answer is a forfeit of $lO to your pocket. But we call your attention to our assortment of BLACK DRESS SILKS, all qualities, MAIN SILKS, all ealoro; MISR POPLINS, FRENCH POPLINS, • ALPACCAS, PLAIN AND STRIPED MOIIAIRS. •. The very largest assortment of shawl. that webs, opened—all the new all kinds, Sackings of all kinds, both plain and figured, at all price.. Balmoral Skirts the cheapest ever brought to Allentown. DOMESTIC GOODS, euch as bleached and unbleached sheeting muslin*, bleached and unbleached sheeting tick ing, cotton and linen table diaper, giughates, check. mad calicoes, as low as the lowed. /darsalllee quilts and cotton covers of all desolations. Our clock of Mourning Goods in such endless variety that It would be imponeiblo to enumerate. e would reepe Invite attention to the fact we ar W e deterthined not toctfull beundersold,and will .11 cheaper than any establiehment to Allentown. Ladies of Allen- town and adjoining cOllOllO,l you aro paying too much for your goods. Study your interest, and make up your mind, and go to.Behrelber pro's for bargains In dry goods.; We have marked our goods down and pronoun to 'do a Cash business. Our tootle In " A nlmble penny is better than a slow chilling. " A call Is all we sulk—you will leave eatisded. Your, respectfally. mar 17, 'fo SCHREIBER BROTHERS. JEANS, &c., IMPORTANT TO BUYERN OF THE " BEE -HIVE,". - THE POPHTAR DRY GOODS STORE, 920 CHESTNUT STREET, For many years conducted an dm PARIS CLOAK AND MANTILLA EMPORIUM" Will offer the coming season at POPULAR PRICES YOU CASII, •ri entirely New Stock of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS Including Spring and Summer Dress Goods, lo the largest • variety. Black and Colored Silks, Laces and Embroideries, Linens, White Goods, and Domestics, Hosiery. Gloves of Goodss, Mourning Dress CLOAKS. SACQUES. 3e..lUthls department au unrivalled 11411101i111.1e, at Prices from $5 upwanls. SHAWLS OF ALL KINDS, ,ainit. a d o ptedLaroks e Saopea and Points , sod will •anon . r to ho I•opular Trade, winch 'ECONOMICAL PRICES. ful y aollelt an examination. Our r r = i aretuarked in plain flittivaa — no deviation J. W. PROCTOR & CO., THE "BEE HIVE," mar 94-3 m 212 MOUTH :3,VIDISIT,AfitE. HAMBURG EDGINGS AND INSERTINGS, Together with a full supply of goods in their line just re mimed at LitIIAISTRE & Rosa • Plain, Plaid and Striped ORGANDIES. i NAINSOOKS. Smix. Tarlatan.. Tucked " NainsooksWlSS ' , and French &fueling. Soft and hard tininhed Cambric. and Jaconeta. Bobinets, Wash Blonds. lihnion• for Bridal Volts. , Lace and Embroidered Curtain, and cattaiu lace from auction. and VERY CHEAP . A 'meat of Linen Handkerchief. fo j t ll7l ::. l lrOt re illese e a rr and Boy.' wear. and at pa-' usually low Store.. Lanes of all kind. as Crochet. Valencia. English and ' (Unman Titrefa and OuiParo,inrealand MR/. Black and wait° Slit, lane., ate. Fine Linen and Lam Co llars and Coffa In all stile.. Pique Braid. Dala77 Dlmlt7 Magic and Coventry. uf•• El l s. Empress "d rt: ' ,V t 3llTrAt e. d Neirldihme Loon Jaeouet o yards at SR ID and *:;• tent. Puffing. Linen, hined hluallus. Plain and Linen Shirt Pronto. ifandsoMe and cheap Embroidered Infant Welet.. apr lily • • ..•• . • • . I*3ll , Opp°.Re Oarmau Reformed Church, ALLENTOWN, PA SHAWLS! SHAWLS! DRY GOODS PHILADELPHIA, or J. W. PROCTOR & CO., NO. 920 CILEEITNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA A DEW AND BLEOAXT LOT or ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1869. A SPRING CAROL = A little bird under my window, Prisoned, nod curbed of his wing, Is waking my spirit to gladness, Trilling his song to the spring. Trilling! Trilling! Trilling hie song to tho spring ! Ile knows not of streatns that have riven Chains of the fierce winter king, And, filling the groves with their laughter, Sparkle a welcome to spring. Sparkle! sparkle I Sparkle a welcome to spring! He sees not the sweet, fragile flowers, 'Rich In the graces they bring, Now coyly unveiling their beauties, Blushing a welcome to spring. Blushh4l Blushing! Blushing a °me to spring! Ito hears not the grand Joyous nnthems Songsters of freedom now sing, • While forest and meadow are smiling, Wavina welcome to spring. Waving.! waving! Waving a welcome to spring. lie sees !rut the walls of the city, Hears but the hum and the ring Of the mart and the loom and the anvil, Grimly saluting the spring. Grimly! grimly! Grimly saluting the spring! Yet the little bird under my window, Prlsoned, and curbed of his wing, Is thrilling the air with his carols, Trilling a welcome to spring. Trilling! trilling! Trilling a welcome to spring ! THE LUUR I was traveling late one summer evening through one of the most lonely and pictures que valleys of the western coast of Norway. It was impassible for all save the sure-footed mountain-pony of that country, so that I pre ferred often to trudge a few miles on foot, my luggage, rods,. &c., being strapped on the pony's lack.' It - was one of these delicious evenings that are to be found, I think, only in northern latitudes ; for, though it was close on midnight, the sun still shone on the tops of the mountains that hemmed in either side of the narrow valley ; while below was -quite light enough to read the smallest print with ease. My guide and pony were about a couple of hundred yards in front of me, for I loitered behind every now and then to admire the grandeur of the scene, or to watch the ever shifting light on a distant glacier, which looked more like a sea of opal than anything else to which I can Compare it. Indeed, every yard advanced, there Was something fresh to Wonder at. Now it was a torrent falling per pendicularly downward from the heights above, and losing itself long ere it reached the bottom in masses of feathery spray, affording a wondrous display of aquatic fire-works ; now it was a grand waterfall, leaping and dashing down the field side in impetuous haste to reach the river, that fretted and chafed along like an angry serpent at the bottom of the valley. And yet, with all the din and noise of the roaring flood, there was a deathly, oppressive stillness. Not a breath of wind stirred, not a sound of animal life was heard, save here and there the tinkling of a distant cow-bell, the whirring of a goatsucker on the wing, or the splaslk of a salmon in the river below. , All at once, however, I was startled by hearing a loud though melodious sound far above my head among the rocks. It remind ed me More of the Alpine horn than anything I. had ever heard. • " What is that?" I inquired as I hastened onto patch up to my guide. "It is a hear!" was the reply. A line• I must inform my readers, is a long horn made,' of birellon bark, which the prusauts use to col lect their cattle. It struck me at the time as being strange for people to be out at that time of night.so late with tlieir cattle ;. but my at tention was soon diverted to other objects, and I daresay I dismissed the strangeness of the in cident from my thoughts with the reflection that nothing could in truth be strange in a country where day and night were one. Before long, I arrived at the farm-house where I was expected, and where I intended staying a few weeks salmon-fishing. Late though it was, my host was waiting to receive me. He was a middle-aged man, with long flaxen hair flowing down to his shoulders, and was dressed in full national costume. He greeted me in true Norwegian style, and after expressing his fears that I must be weary, led the way into the house, where an ample sup per was laid out.for me. I had an introduc tion to him from a friend of his in Christiania, who promised me some excellent fishing, if I would consent to put up with a rough life for a few weeks. Ingebnet—such was the name in which my host rejoiced—was a tall, broad-built man. His features were finely chiselled ; in fact, he was a person who could not fail to attract at tention wherever ho might be. Ho Was a' widower, but his only daughter, Ingelelv, lived at home with him, and managed his do mestic affairs for him. These two, with some half-dozen farm-servants and their families, who lived in huts close by the farm-house, formed the whole population to be found for a distance of several miles. Ingeleiv was a true specimen of a Norwegian mountain beauty ; tall in figure like. her father, with the , same hubinziltair, and blue Melting oyes, she. Ares ' ented a picture that an artist would loVed to paint: • 'Twos beauty truly Went, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. There was something, too, about her that at tracted my attention ; perhaps it was her bearing, approaching almost to stateliness, that struck me. At all events, she seemed im measurable superior to what a Norwegian farmer's daughter usually is. , Btit before retiring to bed, my host informed me, to my surprise, that he' was a lineal de scendant of the great Harald Haarfager ("fair haired"). His family, he said with an air of conscious , dignity, had never mingled with any who were not of royal blood. He was the last of his race, and before he died, he hoped to sec his daughter married to a cousin of his, who lived I forgot where. Dow strange It all seemed to me I There, amid the fastness of the mountains, to meet with a man who could trace his descent from kings whose names have left a gaup on the page-of history. Turning these things over and over in my mind, I soon fell into a peace ful slumber. How long I slept I know not, but I was awakened by hearing the same plaintive sound of the luur on the mountain side oppOsite: r spnsng out of bed, and throw ing the window open, distinctly heard a voice calling or rather singing in a melodious key : "How IS And hero followed a word I could not catch ; and then another voice at e long-distance off took up the strain, and made some reply in the same harmonious key: I listened to hear it repeated, but all was still ; so again seeking my couch, I resumed my dream about monstrous salmon and countless hcrdp of reindeer. Next morning I was soon down; and as Ingeleiv was laying out breakfast for me in the large kitchen, her father came in from seeing afterbis farm, and made earnest and polite in quiries about the way in which I had passed the night. ':' Fathously I" I' answered; " but some of your people were early astir, for I could hear two voices on yonder mountains as if after the cows ;" and putting my hands to my mouth Limitated as well as I could the sound I hail heard. "Strange l" ho answered, "for I have no cattle on the mountain this summer. Did you hear it, Inge I" turning to his daughter. But • Inga's averted face, which was the color of scarlet, plainly showed me. that she did know something more about it than her father knew. Bo thinking it might boa lover, and that they were obliged to, adopt this method of courting, or of "Inuring" each other, I quickly turned the subject and spoke cf other things. From that day, however, Ingeleiv avoided me, and thus depriving mo eTaliropportunity - of findin`g old the mystery of the leer.' ' ' I will not fatigue my reader by dwelling on the sport Iliad with the salmon, nor yet on the excursions I made after reindeer in com pany with my host, who was a clever hunter and capital shot ; suffice it to say, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. But alas tlt was time forme to think of leaving ; and I was the more sorry, because I could see that Inge was evidently unhappy, and wore about her pretty and formerly cheerful face an air which hetolcened great mental suffering. It was late in the evening when I bade my kind friends adieu, for I wished again to trav erse that mountain valley by night. My skyta boy (they call them all boys in Norway, whether they be old men, or oven of the oppo site gender,) or post-boy, was an intelligent youth of two or three and twenty years. We soon became great friends, and in less than half an hour he bad communicated the history of his life to me. "lie had been educated as a schoolmaster," he' said, "but was now only a laboring servant on an adjacent farm." "Everybody seems to fall instead of rise In these parts," I thought to myself, when he had conclude& his tale. Our road lay up a steep rocky path. Carl—such was the lad's name—was lending the pony in front by the bridle, while I as usual was sauntering behind to catch a last long look of the lovely scene, when again I was aroused from my reverie by seeing him place his hands to his mouth, and directing his voice toward the mountains, send forth a plaintive sound. In a few seconds I heard it thrown back from the rocks, and should doubtless have thought it was but the echo, had not the waving of a woman's gar ment two hundred feet above my head attracted my eye. " I will find out this mystery before I go," I said aloud, for, indeed, so engrossed had I been with fishing and shooting, that it had quite escaped my memory. "Carl," I said, "what Is that ?" Be seemed quite taken aback at the sudden ness of the question, but laughed it off by'say ing he was only calling for amusement. "But I tell you, some one answered you up yonder ; and see, she Is waving her hand towards us. I will go and see , do you wait, below." And in a few moments I had clambered up the hillside to where I had fancied I had seen the woman standing. She was no longer vis ible ; but I observed a low hut built of leafy boughs, a few paces off, nearly hidden behind a rocky ledge. Carl now caught me up, and tried to dis suade me from entering ; but the despair de pleted on his face only made me the more resolved to carry out my determination, so, pushing him back, I opened the door and en tered the hut. A stiange sight met my eye. On the mid dle of the floor was a little cradle, in which a rosy-checked baby lay sleeping, while kneel ing down by its side, as if keeping guard over her child's slumber, was its mother. She raised her head on my approach, and I saw, to my astonishment, that It was none other than the pretty daughter of my host. "Ingelciv I" I said, "you here I" as the whole mystery now lay open before me. "Oh, tell him, Carl !" she answered, bow ing her head down, as if Amid to look me in the face—" tell him ! I kdow he is a kind man, and may help us I" Thus solicited, Carl narrated to me the fol lowing touching talc : They had been brought up together, he said, from childhood, ruld what wonder if they be came all in all to each other. He knew ho was not worthy of her, and that Ingebrwt would never give his daughter to him—a com mon farming-man. But he would make him self worthy of her ; and so he studied hard at his books, and with the help of the good pas tor, had hoped to be able to take a post as schoolmaster (nn office held In great respect among the peasantry.) But It was all in vain ; he had no royal blood in his veins ; and neither prayers nor entreaties could move the stern old man from his purpose of wedding his daughter to one of the same family with her self. "Then," said Carl, "I was miserable, and thought I had better leave the world as quickly as I could, for there was nothing in it worth living for now. But she came to me, just asl. was about to—" and•his voice failed an Ilga 41..0 40 41.4 e pam4 of .hip ono promised to share weal or woe with me, and In a weak moment I consented._ And now— now—she is made as wretched as myself ; and I—l alone am her destroyer." Words would fall me were I to attempt to describe the scene that followed the conclusion of his simple but touching tale ; indeed, I was so moved myself at the distress of, the two young people, that it is best to draw a veil over it. "But where has the child been all this while ?" I inquired. " Here, sir l" answered Carl. " I built this hut, and Ingeleiv and I take it in turns as we can to be with it." " And how far is this from your father's houSe ?" I inquired of lugeleiv. "About three miles ; but Carl has twice that distance to go ;" and the tears rolled fast down her cheeks. "You see, sir," added Carl, "as yet during the summer we have been able to 'nonage ; but now that the days are becoming shorter and shorter, and winter is coming on, God above only knows what will be the end of it." And here Carl followed Inegleiv's example, and cried like a child. "Well, cheer up, my friends; I'll do what I can to help you ; but you must agree to act according to my directions. Let us wait till to-morrow, however; it is too late to think of doing anything at this late hour." So spreading my rug down on the ground, and making a pillow of my knapsack, and lighting that unfailing source of consolation, a good cigar, I lay down and smoked, thought over the best plan to be adopted to make things smooth, and then fell asleep. Next morning we all set out for Ingeleiv's house. I need not say how surprised my old friend was to see m' return so quickly. " What I you couldn't leave the salmon then ?" he said. Meanwhile, Carl had taken tho child, and loitered a little behind on the road, while In geleiv slipped into the house unobserved. " Yes," I said, entering the house ; and then after a few commonplace remarks, I led the conversation to a topic on which the old man never wearied of hearing himself or others talk—namely, the old kings of Norway. But I was determined not to humor him to his full bent this time; for when he got on his favorite hobbyhorse, it was difficult to stop him ; so I turned the conversation to hard hearted parents and ill-assorted marriages, and told him about Philip of Spain, D'Aguesseau, and others ; and then, when I saw I had made some impression—for the old man received any historical fact, especially when It related to the great of the earth, with implicit confi dence—and had excited his curiosity, I con cocted a little history exactly.similar in all re spects to that of Ingeleiv and Carl ; and when I had concluded, I took down two books from the book-shelf, which gave evident signs of having been well studied. " Here, Ingebrtet," I said, taking up one— It was Ids favorite book—the History of the kings of Norway—" hero lea hook which tells you all about the lives and deaths of royalty, but here is a book" (it was the Bible) "which teaches us that in God's sight, who is King of all kings, we are all equal. Humility, for giveness and love are the lessons it teaches us." And then running out of the room, and fetching back the infant in a trice, I laid It in his arms, saying "And here is your daugh ter's child, Ingebrmt, and it prays through me that you will not repulse your own blood from you; remember too, that the blood of old Harald Ilnarfager is flowing in Its veins." It was a strange way of breaking news, dear reader, you may perhaps say and you are quite right. But still I think It was the most' effective way I could have adopted. That last touch about the child being of royal descent was, I have ever since thought, the most masterly and diplomatic thing I ever did in my life. A death-like paleness came over the old man's face. I felt it was a critical mo ment, and did not keep silence. Never, lam sure, did I talk so fast, beg, pray or entreat so hard as I did then. At last he began to re lent ;.for at first he was all - for driving his daughter out from home and hearth. Not that he would have done it., I am sure, for ho loved her dearly. But by degrees, when the first shock was over, and when Inge had thrown herself down on the floor, and had embraced his knees, begging for mercy for herself and helpless babe, the rigid muscles of his face began to quiver, and he burst into I tears. ' " Nothing llke a' goiod cry," I thought to myself, as I hurried out to fetch in Carl ; " it does raps and woman good when practised in moderation." Carl was not slow to follow Inga'a example and at last, when I fairly saw the baby still in the old man's arms, while Inga and Carl were at his feet, I thought the tableau did not require the addition of myself, so I retreated and had a pipe over, it. How fragrant that pipe of tobacco tasted for had I not made pence—had I not brought joy to two sorrowing hearts ? Going-away next day, or the next, or the next to that, was quite out of the question. I was obliged to complete what I bad begun ; so I spent my time till the wedding-day, fish ing and shooting, and otheryiso amusing my self, happy in the consciodifiess that I had at last really done a good thing in my life. I was Carl's best man ! What a wedding dinner we had I---and what speeches I Of course my health was drunk ; and• if only Carl had not dwelt too much on my extraor dinary virtues, I should have said he had made a most aproposipeech for a bridegroom. I often go to see my old Norwegian friends and to fish. The old man has gone to his fathers ; but Carl and Inge, and a whole tribe of olive-branches, look for ''my coming regu larly when the salmon begin to run up the river. NASBY THE CORNERS OUTWAGED—THE GUILLOTINE AT WORE—CAPT. M'PELTER DECAPITATED AND A NIOCER MADE ASSESSOR IN 1118 PLACE. POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT X ROADS, (Wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky,) April 9; 1868. Ef the Dimocrisy uv the North arn't satis fied by this time that the ultimate intenshen uv the Ablishnists is to subjoogate em and re dooso cm to the level sty the Nigger, the voice uv one risin from the dead woodret avail noth in. Yesterday the last outrage wich a chival rous people has been compelled to bear, wuz perpetrated onto a citizen uv the Corners. A Nigger is now an offis-holder at the Corners .1 I 51101 state the case calmly : The posishen uv Assessor uv Internal Rev enue for the Deestrick uv wich the Corners Is the centre, bee bin held sense A. Johnson bee bin President by Captain Hugh McPelter, late uv Morgan's Cavalry, C. S. A. That he hez filled the posishen to the satisfaction ttv the citizens uv the Corners,.no one denies. Ile is a distiller, in fact he and Elder Pennibacker run the two distilleries in town, and they hey did a thrivin biznis. McPelter wuz Assessor and Pennibacker Collector, and ez a .conse kence none uv the capital up the Corners hez bin substracted and carried to Washinton to feed the Ablishen theeves there. Ez no tax has ever bin paid on tile whisky at this place, Bascom hez bin enabled to continyoo to sell it at five cents per drink, while everywhere else the regler price is ten and fifteen. There wuz other advantages in havin the Assessorship and Collectorship in their hands. By simply hintin to cm that it wus my dooty ez a Fedral °Ms holder to investigate their modes uv doin the Government biznis, I hey not only bin the happy recipient uv scores uv two-gallon jugs, but I hey bin enabled, at divers and sundry times, to prokoor loans uv em uv various amounts, the lowest bein $1.75, and the high est reachin $2O. 'This happy condishun uv affairs is bustid. Gabrel Babcock, a nigger—that is a half nig ger, formerly the property of Deekin Pogram, and who looks enuff like the Deekin's oldest son Jeltiel to be his half-brother, wuz last week appinted, and confirmed Assessor in the place of Capt. McPelter, and imejitly lie entered onto the discharge uv his dooties. Them are many feecliers pekoolyerly aggra vatin in the appointment. To begin with, this Babcock wus notoriously obnoxyus to the Corners doorin the late onpleasantnis. At the beginning thereof he run away from Deekin Pogram and entered the Federal Beryls. He was pertikerly activ and cussid. His knowl edge uv the country made him yooseful to the Federal officers ez a guide and scout, and at least one Fedral victry is chargeable direct to 1/11.117 wuz known to hey hid five Fedral Bolgers who hed escaped from Andersonville. Wkan Ito final ly fell into the hands spi Capt 141ePelter at Fort Pillow kin it be wondered at that he wuz left for dead ? or kin it be wondered at that the people uv the Corners wuz surprized when he appeared among ens at the close uv the war with one leg off and one arm stiff? Not much. Capt. liferelter wuzn't in the habit uv half doin his work, and the appearance uv this nigger who had passed through his hands rather astonished the Captain. Doorin his absence he hed learned to read and write, and he wuz made a teacher in the Freedmen's Skool wich wits establisht in this place, and now ho is Assessor, with Pollock on his bend. Ez a matter uv course we despair uv the Republic. Wet freedom kin there be for us with a nigger in offishel posishen to tyranize over us? Wat man uv culcher, uv edjucashen, uv refinement, kin afford to live in a commu nity where a disgustin mulatto is made not only our ekal, but our sooperior ? Deekin Pogrom said this indignantly to Joe Bigler, who immejitly askt the Deekin whether or not he didn't count Babcock's mother his ekal thirty years ago? Wich question wick wuz askt in the presence uv the Deckin's wife, whO hez a temper, wuz the occasion uv severe remarks between the worthy pair. Joe Bigler delites openin old sores. The first act uv this Babcock in his °Mehl capassity wuz the shuttin up itv McPelter's and Pennibacker's distilleries, and Bascom's bar, on the skore that none uv them lied never taken out licenses, or even paid any taxes 1 Thor wuz the most terrific ebulishn uv feelin at this act uv tyranny that it hez ever bin my lot to witness. "Kill the d—d nigger I" "Hang the black cuss I" " Down with the Afrikin despot I" Shouted the enfuriated citizens. With a refinement uv cropelty' wich cood only be the offspring uv a most depraved and vishus mind, he shut up these places at 7 o'clock in the mornin', before one uv the citizens lied lied his mornin bitters ! lied he postponed it an hour we might hey fought it out, for some one else wood hey prokoored a supply before noon, and things wood hey gone on normal. But here wuz the entire populashen uv the Corners at seven A. M.., with throats like lime-kilns, and nary a drop to belied for hive or money. The siceem wuz well considered and success ful. The citizens cood hold out but fifteen minutes, and they surrendered. They gave bonds to wich they all appended their marks to indemnify the Government for the back taxes, and compelled Bascom to take out license. This done, the nigger, whO wuz backt up ,by Bigler and Pollock, opened his doors and the multitood surged in and wuz satisfied. To think uv a nigger holden the destinies uv the Corners in his hands ! Ez a matter uv course, Elder Pennibacker will follow next; indeed, he wants to resign now, forez he, " with the Assessorship In hostile h ands uv wat avail is it to be Collec tor ?" And then, how long will my head stay on my shoulders? Is a nigger to take my place I Already Bascom hez raised his price to 10 cents per drink, and notified ins that llkker from this time out is cash, and already hez Pennibacker and McPelter refoozed to lend me a cent I My Kingdom is crumblin. The decksen uv Grant wuz the wedge wich is rivin me from stem to stern. I Ethel be com pelled to go hentz a broken man. Good Hey ings, why coodn't I hey died while Johnson wuz still President I . . . The blindness of this present Administration is trooly astonishen. Things wuz sottlin rapidly at the Corners. McPelter wuz be comin pacified and Deekin Pennibacker like wise. They wuz not satisfied with the Gov ernment, or did they approve uv anything it did, but they wore passive. Now the old sores is opened. Now McPelter is breathin slaughter, and Is for lettin slip the dogs nv war. And what hez Grant In return ? Why, a nigger who wuz already hizzen, and the two whites at the Corners who voted for him last fall and will agin, anyhow. General Grant ovidedily don't mean to pacify us—ho ain't on the soothe, nor hez ho a clear Idea uv wat Is needed to conciliate. I allot go next. There Is to be a meetin held next week to protest sgin these changes, but it won't avail nothin. We are all marked. PETROLEUM V. NABBY, P. M., (Wich is Postmaster.) —A. Georgia paper knows a man who went all the way from Cassville to Atlanta, some twenty miles. On his return he looked solemn with the weight of garnered wisdom, and said: "If the world was as big Vother way as it was that, it was whopper I" THE CONSERVATION OF BEAUTY. "There's the remains of a fine woman about Sairy," was the remark of Bailey, Junior, as he gazed upon the venerableTeatures of Mrs. tamp. Ali I what would Mrs. °amp have been then if; she could lavelivailed herself of the resources of modern science—if she could have been dyed a 3 to her hair, enameled and rouged as to her cheeks, with the triumphs of a fashionable dentist in her mouth, and the padding of an artistic dressmaker in all the proper places I Beauty need no longer sigh over suspicious silver in the flowing tresses, over the wrinkles which time has been wont to write upon the snowy brow there is grace and brilliancy for saki in the shop, and an "outline' to be purchased as graceful as that of Mad Mantilini. To be sure, there is a dif ference between Norah's gown which "wan ders in the mountain breezes," leaving "every beauty free to rise and fall as nature pleases," and that thing of silk and stuff and buckram and whalebone which is called "a dress." But artificial manners and customs demand artificial expedients. The little girl cries when mamma sternly insists upon the first corsets—but mamma knows best, and is wiser than nature, and the time comes, alas I when the little girl cries no longer. If she liveslong enough she. ill have all manner of washers and eradicators on her dressing-table, and then, in due succession, will follow the more recondite mysteries of rejuvenation. She will read, with more than curiosity, advertisements like this one now before us. It is that of a miracle-worker in Boston; who promises to restore to the belle of the period every charm which has flown, and every beauty which has faded. No matter though a face may be as ugly and wrinkled as any which ever grow in deformity and decay upon the easel of Den nes i Madame P- of street, Bos ton, has rare secrets which will make the roses and the lillies of a second Spring bloom there in more than pristifie freshness, She addresses herself "to the elite of Boston and of New England generally." The climate of New England, we are told, is a great destroyer of female beauty. The young India" there are the most charming in the world, hat the cli mate is well known to be implacable. The cast wind has a way of its own of imparting it certain rosiness to the nose, and a kind of pallid delicacy to the cheek—a most unfortu nate distribution of color I There is apt to be a great precocity of wrinkles, and for wrinkles Madam has what she is pleased to call "Destructeur des Rides," or " Wrinkle De stroyer." All seams she speedily obliterates —all corrugations disappear after "two slight applications of the Destructeur." " Under the eye, on the brow, around the mouth," they are no longer to be observed by the most fastidious connoisseur. "Madame' addresses herself especially to "the daughters of for tune" who languish tinder the effects "of fre quent rounds of gaiety, and the ennui which so surely follows." These, when "the mirror has notified them of their altered features," are invited to call upon "Madame," and to test her "chemical triumph." It is thus that she puts out her " Card to the Fashionable," and invites them to conic and be beautified. All this is evidently an improliement upon the process to which the daughters. of Polies subjected their reverend but wrinkled papa. There is no cutting up, and no dangerous boil ing, in the establishment of "Madame." Under the benign influence of her "Destroyer" a marble smoothness returns to the counte nance, and it becomes at once "polished after the similitude of a palace." One rubbing may accomplish the wonder, but two will be found infallible. A. woman may go in a witch, a crone, a beldam, a hag, and come out a nymph, a Cleopatra, a fairy, and a form of life and light 1 There is only ono objection to this great process. It will make beauty too com mon. Wrinkles, as -...woopbtovf-TrITI w-w -aritnirefi v and some other "Ma dame" will set up an opposition establish ment, and advertise herself as a "Wrinkle Restorer." We trust that "Madame" will not be ton extensively employed. We hops that some dear old venerable faces, with a beauty in their decay which "the fair, fallacious looks' of Delia never knew, will be left us to love and reverence. We hope that there are young ladles still who will be persuaded that cold water is the best cosmetic, and a cheerful, well-occupied mind the best " Destroyer of Wrinkles." Would that women could be made to understand how little these arts avail them With men whose admiration is worth having Tiibune. THE CROPS OF 1863 Throughout the West, the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, lowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, &c., a larger breadth of land than usual has been sown in wheat. In all respects the winter ,sown promises well, while a considerable spabi of new ground has been broken up and sown with spring wheat. In Missouri there are a few complaints, while from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee the reports are most encouraging. In some parts of North Carolina, as well as in Virginia, a large share of attention is being bestowed upon the raising of early garden truck for the North ern market, but not to an extent to interfere with the great staples of those States—corn, cotton and tobacco. From the interior of New York, as well as from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, • Delaware and Maryland, we have satisfactory accounts. The planters in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkan sas and Texas are recuperating their energies, and from every 'section, with the exception of a part of Texas, where the grasshopper pest is again disturbing the corn and cotton fields, and a part of Alabama, whence complaints of damage by . unexpected frosts reach us, we have cheering accounts. But it would seem from all reports that Georgia gives promise of being more fortunate the coming than In the past year. The accounts of the growing wheat in that State are glowing in the extreme—ono field of a thousand acres in fine condition beMg among tlpleasant sights recently witnessed by a Geoita cotemporary. Larger quantities of land than usual have been planted in corn and oats, while the.cotton breadth will be fully up to the standard. • It is estimated that in Georgia fifty percent. of the laud will be planted in cotton, forty per cent. in corn, and ten per cent. in oats. Ten nessee will have a larger breadth of land in cotton than ever before. Louisiana is rejoic ing in a promis ng and much augmented crop of sugar cane, and a generally, revived condi tion of agriculture within her borders, which may be said with truth of every other Southern State. Even South Carolina begins to express herself contented with the new order of things in regard to labor, and her fields aro showing their wonted fertility. In Florida a number of Northerners have commenced the cultiva tion of fruit on in extensive scale, but Florida is naturally a great cotton growing State, and as such is destined to become one of the richest in the cotton growing States. —Characteristic stories are told of the men tal obliquities of Irishmen. Some people call them by a harsh name, others good-humored ly put them down to "blarney." Sheridan Knowles was one day walking with a friend —a well-known Loudon actor—ln the Strand. Knowles suddenly detaches himself from his friend's arm, and pours forth a volume of hearty salutations on a gentleman passing by, whom ho button-holes on the spot. The gen tleman, instead of reciprocatinvlooks some what stilly and aggrieved. "No doubt no are glad to see me, Mr. Knowles," myrtle, "but I hardly think you have treated mo with very great courtesy. When I met you last I asked you to dinner. You fixed your own day and you own hour. We waited for hours. You never put in an appearance, and sent no apology whatever." "Why bless your soul," answers the Irish dramatist, "ye don't say so 1 But I've such a memory. A thousand pardons, a thousand pardons Como now, my friend, when do you dine at home again I" " Wednesday, and wo shall be delighted to see you I" • ".At what hour?" "Six o'clock." . Six o'clock, done—l'll be with ye, my boy. God bless you I" The gentleman walked off. Sheridan Knowles joined his friend. Says Sheridan to his friend a minute afterwards, " I'd give a thousand pounds, me boy, if yo'd tell mo who that man Is I" WMLS & IREDELL, Vain anb Sang gab Vrintero, No. 47 EAST HAMILTON STREET, ALLINTOWN, PA ELEOANT PRINTING NEW DESIGN% LATEST STYLES Stamped Checks, Cards, Circulars. Paper Books, Corlett (Minns and By -Laws School Cottalognes,_ Bill Heads Envelopes, Letter Meade Bills of Lading,. Way Bulls, Tag. and Shipping Cards, Postern of any else, etc., etc., Printed at Short Notice. NO. 18 THE SIAMESE TWINS Appleton's Journal gives us a brief glimpse of an account of the Siamese Twins, which will be found very interesting, and correct the opinion too generally believed in regard to them : "The Siamese Twins,Messrs Chang and Eng Bunker, who have ong resided in North Carolina, and lost their property during the war, have gone to England to make a little money by exhibition. The question of a surgical separation of the brothers has been submitted to some eminent physicians, and results of recent examinations' of their condi tion have been published. They are fifty-eight. years of ago, short in 'stature, En. , being five feet two and one-half inches in 'height, and Chang an Inch shorter. The band that unites them sprang originally front the lower portion of each breast-bone, and at first hold them face to face, but by efforts in childhood, they were enabled to stand nearly shoulder to shoulder. Their inner arms are usually crossed behind each other's backs, but they can bring them forward over each other's heads, which is quite a curious movement, and are thus enabled to use all their hands, as at meals. The cartila-' ginous band which. joins them is about four inches long, and seven in circumference, at the center. The nerves of each extend a ttle beyond the middle of the band, so that a touch about an inch on either side of the center is felt by both. There is, of course, a slight communication of the . blood-vessels, lint no in terchange of blood, and no mutual dependence of circulation or respiration. They are, there fore, independent in personality, and are simply two persons tied together by a living knot. But although their mental operations are entirely distinct, their life-long similarity of experience has brought them into an extra ordinary concord in thought and action. "The relative positions of the twins have produced an inequality in the action and effi ciency of their organs : those turned toward each other, and therefore less used, being weakest. The adjacent eyes are in this way enfeebled, and the adjacent legs measure an Inch less in circumference than the external ones.. "The Messrs. Bunker married sisters, and have nine children apiece, Mr. E. Bunker hav ing six sons and three daughters, and Mr. C. Bunker six daughters and three sons. The cousins do not get along together as well as the fathers, and there are times when each family wishes to have a father all to itself. The question of their separation has been raised on this ground rather than because the brothers desire it. The surgeons think that there is probably no anatomical Impediment to their separation, but that the moral shock to two not very robust men,•advanced in life, which would follow the breaking of the chain of life-long habits, would prove serious if not fatal. "They are reported as having educated them selves fully In the language mid literature of this country ; to be intelligent and agreeable companions, and to have won the respect and esteem of their neighbors." HUMOROUS SPECIMENS The use of big words either seriously or as a more or less consciously absurd piece of ex travagance, "is not the really characteristic part of American humor. There are, indeed, two ways of producing a comic effect which may be considered as the inverse of each other. An absurd over-statement or an ab surd under-statement may be equally effec tive. When Falstaff tolls Bardolph that his face is an ' everlasting bonfire light ; that he has saved him ' a thousand marks in links and torches, walking in the night betwift tavern and tavern,' he gives a good specimen of the first. A well known,a rpnriran ova mnlinin o .n0.2'1011 - 01 110 Dtternesippl captain, that i ii s boat could float wherever the ground was a little damp. To Illustrate the second we might quote the American who had managed to quote something in his native country to parallel all the wonders of Europe. At last, he was asked if he had not just crossed the Alps. Well,' he replied, I guess I passed some risin' ground.' The philosophy of the two methods is perhaps the same : but the second is commoner among the genuine American humorists. When Artemus Ward describes his courtship, ho begins by inform ing his beloved that she was a gazelle, which, he remarks, I thought was putty fine.' He goes on : I wishthar was winders so that you could see some of There's tire enough in her to bile beef and turnips in the neighborhor vitas and the critter Ain't a circumst all of Which the lady replies, after eloquence on the approved modeli rite strait out what you are drivin' mean gettin' hitched, I'm In 1"1 taken as an illustration of the m real popular humor. It is to a extent a protest by shrewd commonsense against the bombast which is so prevalent, but does not quite succeed in passing itself of for genuine. When a man naturally acute has sat down to hear orators spout nonsense,he is sometime, sufficiently awed to accept t. for genuine,—he feels that he is not entitled to be a critic ; but his native sense enable him to have occasional glimpses of its absurdity, and ho expresses himself in rather course but very terse condemnation.--From "American Wit, in Phrenological Journal. —A. liEw VEILICLE.—The latest invention is an India rubber carriage. The patent has been obtained, a company has been organized and the first vehicle has been turned out, and is now on exhibition at an up-town manufac tory. This use of vulcanized rubber promises to work a complete revolution in the manu facture and cost of carriages. The body, dash and seat are all made of rubber, at perhaps one fillh of 'the cost of long•seasoncd, expensive wood usually employed. The rubber for the body of the carriage on exhibition costs only $lO. It requires no painting and is so polished as to shine like a mirror. Three months' thus of a competent workman, which are now fre quently given for the polishing and 'finishing of a single carriage is here superceded by the work of two or three hours, in which a beau tiful surface is produced which does not soil by ony amount'of handling. The inventor Is a Jerseyman, who has sold. the patent to a company organized under the laws of this State, with a capital of $500,600.—N. Y Com. Advertiser. —REMEDY FOR COLIC IN 1101113.E.0.—M1. 12. Howell, Shiloh, N. J., says : " I will give you an unfailing remedy for the cholic in horses. I have seen it tried in the worst cases, and never saw it fall to give instant relief. It is simply the application of hot cloths. Take a piece of carpet, blanket, or any thick material, largo enough to cover the horse from his fore to his hind legs, and from the spine to the floor as ho lies ; wring it out of hot water as hot as you can possibly handle it. You need not tear scalding the animal. Apply tills to the horse, and cover it. with a similar dry cloth. As soon as the heat diminishes much, dip the wet cloth again in the hot water. This plan will within an hour cure the worst case of colic. .—The eccentric revivalist, Lorenzo Dow, once preacheda sermon on the text from St. Paul, "I can do all things." "No, Paul," he said, " you are wrong for once.. I'll bet you live dollaris you can't," and ho laid a five dollar bill on the desk. He continued to read,• "through Jesus Christ our Lord." "Alit Paul," ho said. " that's awry different thing ; the bet's off." ' —A. character which combines the love of .enjoyment with the love of duty, and the ability to perform whatever belongs to , Its province in life, is the one whose unfoldings give the greatest promise of perfection. Such a character, though rare.by original organiza tion, may be approximated to by earnest col pure. —At Lynn, Mass., a school teacher asked a little girl who the first man was. She an swered that she did not know. The question was put to the next, an Irish child, who an swered loudlY, "Adam,, sir," with apparent satisfaction. " Law," said the first scholar, "you needn't feel so proud about It ; he wasn't an Irishman." —"Married couples resemble a pair of shears," says Sydney Smith, " so Joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in op posite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them."
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