ADVERTISING .RATES. • . Hl. 1 220. 32031. 6 tc3o. 1 ♦r. 1.10 1.76 3.60 6.00 10.06 3.10 3.60 6.00 10.00 10.00 4.66. 6.01 6.01 ' 1000 21 00 8.10 16.03 21.03 60.03 10.03 2100 93.00 60.01 16.03 2260 5003 EA 00 MO) MOO 60.03 160.00 Cone Square, Two Squares Three Squares Nix Squares, . ?Tr zro lumn olumn * ne Column Vrofesslonal ?Cards $l.OO per tine por year. :Administrator'. and Auditor's Notices, $O.OO. City Notices, 23cent. pet lino lst insertion, 10 cents per , ineexch subsequent insertion. • Tea lines agate constitute a square. • ROBERT IREDELL, Jn., Punvisuun, ALLENTOWN, PA Drn Gootio. 6 4 SUDDEN MANGE." WILL LOW PRICES INFLUENG'E YO U 7 OLD TIMES AGAIN IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICES I THE OLD CORNER Just opened an enormous STOCK OF SPRING GOODS, Pirhictina usual (or STYLE, VARIETY, AND LOWNESS OF PRICE shall and cannot be aurnaseed lar Competition deed with any other Eetablishment outside of the larger eities.ja' SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT OF NAMING such an Im mnmsosattCOMPLETE! assor tm e n t Mc Le a o d l ma . y ' Dthaotn W G G o ode, Dress Dress Sllke, Poplins, Shawls, Dalmoruln, Mom Pura',M ing Goods, Ladlos' Clonklng,Cloth, Mon'. Wear In Cloth, ,A d d n j 171 A dd 0 ` l4 ;31 " 07{11 '' i n . g oVig.::/.71 t 11. ° FL ' Voi •. QUOTE PRICES' . a. Immo houses do, but will guarantee ASTONISHING FIGURES. The difference In price. of goods to•day, and a month ago, I. really painful for nom lobe have boon caught with large stocks on hand at high prism, but as that Is not tho Oa. with me, I shall ne heretofore make tho OLD COR DER TEE GREAT PLACE OF INTEREST AND HEADQUARTERS for the mattes to get their geode of the LOWEST MARKET PRICES I (ally realize that no permanent Herren can be achieved unless the promises hold out by advertisements are found to be fully costumed on a Holt to the store. Nor can it be • large success without scrupulously rellablo and (air dealing at all times and uniform courtesy to overt' curio moo, and tho endeavor to muko every buyer a constant dealer. AU I ask Is eimply to decide by admit that whether or not it la to your advantage to become a M.N. 100 r. Respectfully Yours, M. J. KitAMER, " OLD CORNER," OPPOSITE THE EAGLE HOTEL april 14 GREAT REDUCTION OF PRICES WOOLEN. GOODS I=l FANCY SPRING CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, JEANS, CARPETS, &C In consequence of the abundance and over , clock of the above Goode In the City Markets, they cannot at present os be disped of except at a loon t o the manufacturer and many Woolen Mills are either cloned or working on half time. Under "these , circumstances, wishing to keep his mill running, HENRY GABRIEL, ITEM ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL END Or 1100 TO BOVIINTIT 81.1111 IT nST log a large and lino stock of tho bost ‘ ale(Of Fancy Casslmeree for mon's and boy's wear, an e a 'variety of other Woolen Goods and Carpets suitable for too season atukdoelfed In every household, has concluded to RETAIL AT THE PRESENT LOW WHOLESALE PRICES Ills entire stock of Woolen and other Goode, among which are /lateral hundred pieces of ALL WOOL DOUBLE AND TWIST CABSIMERES, FLANNELS, Of all trades, and nt prices greatly reduced• Also a splendid assortment of INGRAIN, LIST, RAG, AND 'OTHER CARPETS, IoW as 60 cents yard BALMORAL SKtRTS, at 75 cants. WOOLEN CARPET YARN, all colon!. lied quality reduced to PO cants BED COVERLETS, Alljtiada,Whlte or Fancy, at greatly reduced Nicol (74811LiffYERS, or (how haylng - Wool to exchange, wit certainly find It to their interest. in exemining the flood at his bonne or factory, where ho hao fitted up tenon roomy for showing the name and reepectinily Incites th Publio to call and judge fur iherarelyes. • • HENRY GABRIEL, ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL, South Eud of &month Street, Allentown. Pa ETIMHZ3 1115 HOOP SHIRTS. 1115 WM. T. LEOPKINS Has Removed his Manufactory and Salesrooms to NO, 1115 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Where his "Own Make: of Champion Hoop Skirts, N. Fealty adapted to Firet.claas 'Wholesale and Retail will found to embrace the most extensive assortment in the nion, and all the latest and mostdesirable Styles, 81111pos. Lengths and Sloes, 2, 24, 234. 2M yards round, of Plain and Oored Peelers, Walking Skirts, Reception Trails. &e., &a., together with over ninety different varieties of Missom andChildren'a Skirts. all of which for symmetry of style, Petah, lightness eluticity, durability and reed Cheapneu, are unequaled by any other goods in the mar ket, and are warranted in every respect. Shirts made to order Altered and Repaired, Wholesale and Retail. Full lino of Low Priced Eastern Made Skirts,_l3 SPringe, 32 Cents ; 20 Spring:, 45 Cents; 21 8 prings, Centel 3D BP AYgOB C l " glit ' SE l TlTT rh ahag . mi 27 different "I t la r i e ley a , nlp H rates 'Fr°. Oloc.7l;ttru r s7 , indeauditT i gy l 4 Cornet mart Supp o rter., Mra, Moody s Patent "Self-ad justing Abdominal" Corsets, French, English and Domes tic Hand-made Corsets, and superior French Pattern. of Cotell Corsets, "Our Own Make." to which we invite esPecial attention. Completeassortment of Ladies' Under Oarments, at very biweiirii, AGENT for the BARTRAIf & PANTON FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, superior loan other be. fore the public. Fifty-Mato( these Igo. 1 Mach ines, nes, Price tiff seek, aro, WM/ Irite3 4 .WAY to our mutomors, In order a get them introduce.. Ever, Person In want of articles In earthy,. should examine our geode before_ purchasing elsewhere. Call send for circulate, at our Manufactory and Salesrooms, ,N0..1116 Chestnut St, Philadelphia. mar 31,1M0i • NYM. T. HOPKINS. PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL, COIL 7th AND LINDEN 11113., ALLENTOWN. PA. The undersigned has taken this well-known stand. The Dar, Table and Beds have all been newly furnished. Its Is also w M l supplied with stable roam. Everrn f at y attenti on will be bb or make d up.. the guests to the bone (sop 1- 01141 9109118 OUT . VOL. XXIII. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY OF US! We have good news for our readers this week. One of the celebrated Foster Brothers, the great dry goods merchants of New York City, la coming to do business ,among us. They promise us a New- York stock of goods at New York prices. Read their advertisement. It has the true ring about it. We believe they mean what they say. We welcome them among us, and promise them our hearty thanks If they will persist in the war they have declared upon high prices.—Allentoten Democrat. Foster had a big rush at his opening on Monday. The whole population seemed to be there to secure the greatest bargains ever before offered. Enter prise Is stamped everywhere and he is sure to suc ceed, though he sells goods at smaller profits than they do anywhere this side of New York. The rush still continued yesterday, continues. to-day, and will ever continuo so long as people have a chance to get so much for Shah* money. Every thought is of Foster, and no man in Allentown Is more talked of by the fair sex. Goods sold for greenbacks at gold prices.--Lehigh Register. We advise our readers to go to Foster's for their dry goods. They are New York mon and will sell you goods at New York prices.—Allentown densbote. "I saved seventeen dollars on one Poplin dress I bought at Foster's the other day." So we heard a lady saying recently.—Lehigh Patriot. lltary Ward Beecher once told a gentleman to " foliew the crowd" if he desired to find his way to his (Beecher's) church. The way to Foster's Now York Store is found in the same way.—lnde pendent Republican. FOSTER.—Foster bas made good his promises. HO has most decidedly "revolutionized the Allen town Dry Goods trade." We are just finding out what exorbitant prices we have been paying for dry goods in Allentown. Foster actually sells many goods for half the price we have been paying for them. The crowd at his store is as great as ever, and of all who have been there to trade we have yet to bear of a single person. In any way disappointed with his purehase.—Attentotm Demo crat. We hear that there has been a tremendous ex citement in the Dry Goods trade In Allentown, during the past week. Foster's New York City Store, just opened, has been fairly packed wlh people. They aro selling goods at about half the prices other merchants charge for them. Ono of two things is true ; either our merchants in this locality have been charging ns outrageous profits, or else Foster, nt Allentown is selling less than cost. As be says he is making money even at his low prices, wo are forced to accept the first conclu sion, and we think It but right to advise all our people to go to Allentown to trade with Foster—at least till other merchants conform to the new order of things which this New York City Store has es tablished there.—Carbon Democrat. We wish to say to our readers that they need have no fear of being deceived by the advertise ments of Footer's New York Store at Allentown. They will always sell as they tidvertlse.—Stat Mg- ton News. We don't wish to flatter Mr. Foster. We have no "axe to grind," for ho advertises with us al ready. But we cannot help saying that be is ben efiting every kind of business In Allentown. He is bringing the people in from every direction'. Ills store is literally packed much of the time.--Lehigh 'Register. On our own account we wish simply to say that every article we sell we warrant to be as low, and in ninety nine cases out of a hundred lower than it can be bought for elsewhere. FOSTER'S • NEW. YORK CITY STORE, . Opposite German Reformed Church, 21.2 NOUTII 11111DREIMET, HAMBURG EDGINGS AND INBERTINGS, Together with a fall supply of goods In their Rae Just re calved at LaMAISTRB & ItOSS. Plaid and Sqlped ORGANDIES. •• • NAINSOOKS. 64 46 BWIES MULL. Tarlatans, Tacked Nalimooks, and French Muslin.. Soft and bard finished Cambric. and Jaconete, Bobinots, Wash-Blonds. Illusions for Bridal Veils. Lace and Embroidered Curtains, and Curtain lace from auction, and VERY CHEAP. for A Irrgt::l c flOTt u Misses assortment t ßly i ;l n ivlgra d n k d e i r it h lefs u tic l e ly s all figur es.l e. ax Crochet,Valencia English and German Thread and Gulpuro. realaud imit'ation, Cluny, Black and White 1111 k laces, &a. Fins Linen and Lace Collars and Cuffs in all styles. Pique Braid, Daisy, _Dimity, Magic and Coventry Rat ings, Empress and Metternich Frillinge, &e. gi A largo and moat , select stock of Linen and Nottingham Tidies, Toilet Mats in sets. at 31 cents. Loon Jaconet Edgings. 3 yards at 20, 23 and 30 cents. Pairings and Shined Muslim,. Plain Linen, and Linen Shirt Fronts. Handsome Lad cheap Embroidered Infant Waists. apr It-ly IMPORTANT TO FARRIERS 2 CALIFORNIA AND OREGON SEED WHEAT AGENCY JEANS, Ov., BEST SEED WHEAT IN THE WORLD Perfectly froo from Insectlform or other Impurities, grown from AUSTRALIAN and CHILI Seed, yielding... good 8011, 83 POUNDS TO THE MEASURED BUSHEL The Ears o( Wheal, when mature, are usually eleven or vrolio Inches long. /Sir Put pp and aocurely tied and sealed In linen bags, and soul by mail froo to all parts of the country, on re. colpt of Price. SAMPLES' 10 CTS. EACH I DAOB 500. and M EACH El2E11:1 CALIFORNIA AND OREGON SEED WHEAT AGENCY, BAN FRANCISCO, el 10- 4:11•If BOWER'S COMPLETE MANURE, Super-Phosphate of Lime, Amonia and racial WARRANTED FREE FROM ADULTERATION. • This Manure contains all the elements toproduce tart crops of all kind.. mud Is highly recommended by all who used it, also by distinguished chemists who ham by an &Ira., tested Its qualities. Packed in Bags of 200 lbs. each. 80 South Water and 40 South Delaware Av., Par sale by WILLIAM REYNOLDS, 7D South Street, Baltimore, Md. For Information, address Hoary Dower, Philadelphia. fob lO.'oli-ly COMMISSION & SHIPPING MERCHANT No. 215 South Water St., Chicago. /11 airrarticular attention given to Eastorn shipments. REVERENCES: O. W. Butts & Bro., ettleago;Sarger & Allentown. Pa. t CAPt. Erdman. Centro Valley. Pa:; Wm. Hackett, Cashier Easton 0... )llank ; Bonnet, Dusesbury & Co., 7 50 West-st., New Irork; Hushong A Bro.. Basihers, Read ing, Pa.; B. G. UnangeL_Bethiehem, Vs. t John Boger. oproshors, Pa.; John gahnstock, igillway. Lancaster county. Pa.; Joseph Helder. Sweetland Centre. lows. Aug 94.1 y FUIaiOIJR INUNIMER FARMS FOR SALE, ranging in price from SBtc Winer am, nocord to Improvements, location dm. hood soil, genial climate. and near market.. These farms are situated In Vignola and If aryland, some In the Immediate vicinity of Waiik ilig"flitgalierglue.7.°e.g. Vag g8112.Z12: setts Avenue. nese Sixth street, Washington, D. O. Iltotter. erg Gpobis. ALLENTOWN, PA ♦ NEW AND EMI/NT LOS 01P agrinaturat. We Wulf& Parents with the SIXTY BUSHELS TO TILE ACRE And weighing MEM Or la larger quantities at raasonablo rate. 133313=112 MAIIIITACTITIIRD /ST HENRY BOWER, Chemist, C=! Mario from DIXON, SHAMPLESS & CO., AGENTS, PIIILADF.LPULA. ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1869. LIFE AT WHITE PINE THE NEW SILVER MINES OF NEVADA-GRAPH -10 PICTURES ON THE WAY AND THERE-A GENUINE GLIMPSE AT LIFE AND DEATH, VICE AND VILLAINY, FUN AND FROLIC IN A NEW MINING TOWN. r 0.7 The Overland Monthly, of Ban Francisco, for march, has an admirable story of winter life at White Pine, whither all the roving speculators, and hopeful miners of the great West are now rushing. The new mines, so wonderfully rich in silver, are located in south eastern Nevada, not far from Utah, and 140 miles south from Elko, thonearest point of the railroad lino in the Humboldt valley. The point is about 000 miles duo east from San Francisco, 1,000 duo west from Bt. Louis. We quote the Overland writer, who brings the scenes'of fresh and furious mining life most vividly before the reader: Across the wide, treeless Mirage valley, over the low Pancake mountain, across another and narrower valley, and we enter at last the long winding canon which leads up into the White Pine mountain range and terminates at Hamilton, where we found ourselves, tried, weary, worn out, half disgusted, and just a trifle homesick, soon after noon. Long lines of mules, and oxen drawing heavy wagons, laden with supplies of every kind, mill ma chinery, whisky, provisions, whisky, hard ware, whisky, mule feed, and whisky again: mine owners, or those who had but recently sold mines, and were flush, on horseback ; Lull-whackers, in soldiers' coats, with whips a dozen feet in length on poles lo'nger still, just in from Austin or Wadsworth ; honest miners with salted claims, ready to sell to the newly arrived greenhorns ; foot-packers, with out a cent, who had packed their blankets and luggage all the way from the railroad at Elko, sparing their meals and sleeping in snow drifts if they slept at all ; painted Jezebels from every mining camp from Idaho to Sono- ra; Shoshone Indians, Chinamen, and " cap- Mists," who in San Francisco wero never known as men with plethmic bank accounts, crowded the streets of llamilton. All was bustle and hurry, noise, excitement, and con fusion. The stores and saloons were crowd ed with men in huge overcoats, the pockets of which were filled with big specimens, small silver bars and rolls of location notices and assay certiffcates, buying selling, and talking mines, and " bummers" of the seediest class, who drank at the expense of every stranger who approached bar—swore, talked, fought, and "swapped" filthy lies from morning to night. In the evening the streets were de sorted, but the mad excitement indoors was as great as ever: The bartenders were kept in incessant motion in their frantic efforts to sup ply the demand for drinks which poured in from every direction. The express office was crowded with men * writing letters, or sending off packages to their distant friends. The dance-house was filled with half or wholly tipsy miners, with a sprinkling of abandoned women, whose smiles and favors were so ea gerly sought for and as jealously observed by the unfavored as were ever thosc.of the most gifted and virtuous of their sex in the abode of wealth and refinement at the East on a gala I night. In the rear of every bar-room was a door bearing a sign inscribed " Club Room," through which was heard the strains of dis cordant music and the chinking of coin. These club rooms were crowded to their utmost en- pacity, and the tables were piled with coin and checks, while hundreds of men who had made lucky strikes at finding, working, or, more frequently, selling mines, were betting away in a single hour what might have kept them, for years in comfort, or served as 5 foundation for a collossal fortune. Every five or ten minutes the dealers would pause in their work of turning cards and raking down the coin, to ring a bell, when a bar-tender would enter the club room. " Gentlemen, what will you take ? You drink with me, you know I" said the smiling dealer in pasteboard and other people's hard• earned coin. " Whisky toddy whisky straight whisky ~ hot 1 whisky sour I whisky and gum 1" repli ed the crowd; the fiery liquor was swallowed, and the game went on. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, came from the fandango room. The players at the gaming table remarked that there was fun / going on there, • but were too busy to go and see what it was. A man told us the next morning that he believed somebody was killed, but he was not certain ; and another man, who was there, and, knew all about it, but had no time to go into details, corrected him by saying that "there wasn't nobody killed, and the affair didn't amount to much, anyhow. Only ono man was hit, and he an outsider, who had no part in the affray, of course ; only got a bullet through the shoul der." We found a place to spread our blank ets at last, and from the bottom of our hearts echoed the pious remark of good Sancho Pan za,, " A blessing on the head of him who in vented sleep." " All aboard for Treasure City ! Carry you right up the hill for three dollars," was the, first thing we heard the next morning as we stepped forth from the canvas-walled and saw dust-floored restaurant in which we had obtain ed our dollar's worth of slaughterhouse steak, North America hash saleratus biscuit and fri jol° coffee. The distance was two miles, the ascent fifteen hundred feet, the road slippery with ice, and the wind sharp and strong enough to make sitting still in a sleigh any thing but fun, and we concluded to foot it and save our money. Up, up we go. We are al ready eight thousand feet above the sea, On air is becoming every moment more highly rarefied and electrical, our breath becomes short and quick and sharp, and still the sum mit of Treasure Hill is a thousand feet above us. Jolly old jokers are these Po-go-nippers, and calling this a "hill" is one of their best efforts. A long, crooked street, rocky and ungraded bordered by one-story shanties, of rough boards, slabs, cedar posts, stones, and mud, with vacant lots fenced in with little narrow strips of raw-hide, led us on into Treasure City, the business center of the White Pine Silver Mines. The four-horse sleigh which had started from Hamilton with a load of pas- Imagers just as we left ithere, arrived at the usual stopping place in front of Wells, Fargo & Company's in Treasure City, a few minutes behind us. There was a female dressed in moire antique and furs, painted like the bar racks on Alcatraz, and glittering with cheap but gaudy jewelry, in the sleigh, and when the vehicle stopped, two six-foot gallants, bearded like the the pard costumed like esqui manz, sprang out simultaneously and offered, their hands to assist her to alight. She had but one band free, and cold of course give that to one only. Which would it be ? Neither gallant would yield the point—both were in blood earnest. A. shove, a push, a stinging blow and out came the revolvers of course. The combatants were so hampered with their heavy clothing they could tako no accurate aim, and fired at random. A few of the bystanders, seeing the unsatisfactory re sult of the fight, throw in a few spare shots at random, on the principle adopted by the old lady out 'West, who, having no idea whatever of the nature of her husband's malady, pro scribed calomel, and ipecacuana, paregoric, salts, Swain's Vermifuge, camphor, opodeldoc, quinine, Bmndreth's pills, tincture of ammo• nia, croton oil, Godfrey's Cordial, and a few other trifles which sho had in the house, 'pious ly trusting that in the multiplicity of remedies, with the blessing of Providence, some one of them would reach theright spot in his system, and help him out of his misery. The bullets hummed like bees through the sleety .mist, causing the crowd to scatter right and left, but nothing practical came of it until ono of them struck ono of the horses In the head, cut- ting an artery, and giving him a death wound from which the blood spirted in a stream over one of the combatants who sto d partially un der him. The blood-covered combatant, sup- posing himself shot, threw down his revolver and ran down the street, groaning and crying murder alternately, and the fight was ended. The woman meantime had been sitting quiet- ly in the sleight an impartial spectator of the conflict, and patiently waiting to see which gallant would kiss the snow-drift, and which, as the survivor and winner of he tournament would have the honor of helping her out. It is gratifying to see that amid'all the rush, ex citement and struggle for wealth, our people do not wholly forget the chivalrous deference which, above all other nations, it is our proud privilege to pay to the gentler sex and still find time to indulge in the small courtesies of civilized life. What other people can boast as much Pious, too, as well as courteous, in a certain rough, off-hand sort of a way, are the dwellers in the Po•go•nip. They will put themselves out of the way sometimes to give a friend a cheerful and pleasant burial. Instance a case which came under our notice while coming up here on the railroad. One of the seekers after sudden wealth sickened and died by the way- side, and his companions desirous of bearing • testimony to his many good qualities, decided : to do the handsome thing by him in the way of respectable obsequies. They accordingly went around taking up a collection, and in due time succeeded In getting together enough boxes and bits of lumber to make a sort of rough box resembling a disproportioned hen coop, in which to bury hfm. "Sardines a Phuile" and "Deesiccated codfish at the head . and foot ; Peach blow" and " Private Cuvee" on the sides, with "glass with care" on the top—will be likely to puzzle the antiquarians of 1069, who may chance to light on his grave, as badly as did the inscriptions on the earth phagus of Gliddon's mummy the learned se vens of Boston. They wrapped him in his second-best pair of blankets, placed him in the box, and consigned him to the bosom of mother earth. Then they tossed up to see who should read a chapter of Scripture over his grave, and the lot falling on one not well versed in such matters, he opened the book at the story of Susannah and the Elders, and read it through from first to last, with solemn unction. Then they dumped the earth and rock upon the packing box, and were prepar ing to leave him alone in his glory, when it occurred to somebody in the crowd that there should be something to designate his resting place. So they drove an old pick handle down into the dirt at the head of, the grave, and nailed a narrow slip of a soda-cracker box horizontally across it. The cross was now two-thirds complete ; but the lumber was ex hausted. A lucky idea occurred to help them out. One of the party had a bottle about half full of whisky. They finished the whisky, tilled the bottle with sand and gravel, to keep the wind from blowing it away, and set it up right on the board ; the emblem of the faith was complete. But there should be some in scription on it. Oh, yes ; that is so I 3. H. S. or INRI, was proposed ; but the learned man of the party, Who took some pride in his scho lastic attainments, thought it beet to write the inscription out in full, which he did, after his own ideas—and the label now read: "J. H. Cutter's old Bourbon whisky. In Hoe Sign° Visas." It was such a capital joke on Cut ter, they said ; it would be a pity if the dead man could not see it. Passing on down the street we met an old San Franciscan, now a real estate and mining broker, who was standing in' front of his place, bantering with the proprietor of two diminu tive jackasses, and ono pack load of wood, weighing about ono hundred pounds. " What is the least you will take for the load ?" " Wall, sec'n it is you, I'll take four dollars and a half; I wouldn't let anybody else have it for less than•flve dollars." "Four dollars and a half? Why, I bought two loads for that yesterday, and you haven't packed this over forty rods." "Two loads for four dollars and a half ? Well, if you want wood given to you, you had better patronize somebody else. I sell my wood—l do. alt up 1 Yamos The man with the jackasses waved,his hand in supreme contempt, kicked oneof the ani mals with all his might and a number twelve pegged boot, and started off in disgust. The jackass which caught the kick' being without a load, went off with a jump, and as he passed his loaded companion caught the iron hook of the aparejo in his tackle, and supposing him self suddenly loaded, doubled down like a wood-chuck to his work. Ice on the road and a descending grade favored him, and the last that we saw of the party, the heavy-burdened animal was spread out like a turtle, vainly en deavoring to regain his grip, while the other was towing him at a "two-forty" gait down the road toward Silver Springs, his owner, fairly turning the air blue with curses and anathemas of everything bipedal and quadru pedal meantime, as he vainly endeavored to cast off the entangling alliance, and reduce things to a normal condition once more. "This is a pretty fair room you have hero, as things go in White Pine." "Well, yea;" said the ex-San Franciscan, meditatively ; "but I came mighty near not getting it. You see the gentleman from south western Missouri who owned the shanty, had rented the basement for one hundred dollars per month, and asked the same for this part of it. I wanted him to put a roof on it, and after a time he agreed to do it if I'd pay in advance. I agreed to this, when ho remembered a trans action with another party, and said ; 'Come to think about it, stranger, I'M too fast. I'm afear'd after all that thar room is rightly let. I told t'other un that ho might have it, and dog-gone him I wish I hadn't. He's ono o' them bilks as parts his har onto the middle on head, and talks like a preacher. When ho started to go he shaked 'my hand like as if he'd known me from a baby, and was sweet on my sister; and, says he, ".Good bye, Mis ter Smith, God bless you.' Now, that may do for Yanks ; but it don't take with me, I'm right smart dubersome, and I've a good mind to shako him ; but I allownfter all I'll have to let him take it.' " We remarked that ho seemed to have got It after all. "You bet that I did," said our friend, with emphasis. "I had him down to a dot in my measure book at once. I turned as If to leave. J and then, whirling around, held out my hand and said Well, good-bye, old Persimmons, d—n you l' throwing my whole weight (one hundred and eighty pounds) on the d—n. That got him. The words were not fairly out before he slapped me on the back and Bung I out, 'Now, old hoes, that gait suits me. You can have the room, and if that thar long-haired God-bless-you customer comes foolin' around ' with any more of his scripter, we'll make him roost mighty high, or leave Treasure Hill in a 1 hurry ; let's go and take 'pizen, then we'll sign the lease.' So I got the place, and the other fellow had to roost on a snow-drift, until he got frozen out and left." Now faces at every turn, strangers fill every street. The crowd which we met sixty days since has hardly a representative left. One sold out a claim for a fortune a hundred times greater than he ever had before in his life, and left for the States ; another kept drunk until his friends, from motives of economy, made up a purse and sent him to San Francisco ; an other is dead ; another gone down to the new districts to the southward ; another gone cast, and another west, lo sell their claims, and spread excitement far and wide. Nothing save the mountain has stood still, and change is written all over that. Even the dead man rested not, for they moved him twice already, on account of new discoveries, and chlorides have been struck again in the vicinity of his last location during the week. The Eberhardt is the representative mine of this wonderful district, and seeing it we have 'seen all the rest concentrated in one. At the door a pack train of Mexican mules are being loaded with the precious ore for the mill, two miles to the southwest, and two thousand feet lower down. In the shed, men are busy at a great pile of brown, blue, red, green and black rock, breaking it to pieces and sorting it, the richest being thrown aside for the crucible s , and the rest going into the sacks to be packed away to the mill. There is a princely fortune in this pile of ore, which to the uninitiated eye is but a heap of broken rock, fit only for building walls or macadamizing public streets. Over one of the hoisting shafts there is a large wooden bucket with a rope and rude windlass, such as you *might see on the pro specting shaft of the poorest miner. It has served for hoisting all this wealth to the sur face. In this bucket we descend into the mine. A long, narrow chamber, with dull, dark walls, and a few men at work with pick and gad, were all that the fini glance revealed and there was a momentary feeling of disap pointment. A closer inspection showed that the walls, the ceilings, the floor, were silver ; even the very (lust on the floor was silver. This lump will yield five dollars a pound, this six, this seven, this, eight, and this, which will flatten like lead under the hammer, is worth within a fraction of ten dollars . a pound. They tell us that there is s a million 'of dollars worth of silver piled up before our eyes in this gloomy cavern, and such is indeed the fact. Talk of the power of gunpowder, of steam, of the whirlwind, of the earthquake ; here is a power which Is greater than all 1. There oper ations are but local, partial and temporary ; this can replace what they destroy—this can rebuild what these have hurled down ; all save "The touch of a vanished band, And the sound of a voles that Is still." can this bring back to its possessor. Back in the sunlight once more, we look down the steep declivity of Treasure Hill stretching away to the southward and west ward. Hqndrede of prospecting shafts dot the face of the hill ; men busy "developing the rescources of the country" are running about the country like ants. Blasts, or "shots," as they term them here, are being let off in the prospecting claims every minute. With lum ber at four hundred dollars per thousand, it won't pay to cover the shafts when blasts arc being let off, even if there were time to be spared—so they are let of at random ; heads at the risk of the owners. When the fuse is lighted, the owners calls out "shot l" antyets' under cover of the nearest rock, well satisfied with himself for having shone so much regard for public safety ; a careless fellow would not have called out at all. One passer-by runs ono way, another the other; bang goes the blast, up goes a volley of rocks, some of them weighing perhaps a hundred pounds each, and then they come ratling down on everything in the way. "Why, you have filled up my house plumb full of rocks," exclaims the pro prietor of a cabin, with sides of cobble and mud, the cloth roof of which has been riddled like a cullender by the flying missiles, as he rushes out in breathless haste. "Yes, you were In big luck to get out alive I" is the good humored reply. Both parties consent to adopt this view of the cause as a finality ; they take a drink together, and the owner of the cabin goes back to finish mixing his biscuit, and the miner gets ready for the next shot, which may have more serious consequence. THE JURYMAN'S STORY BY JUDGE CLAM{ We bad been out twenty-four hours, and stood eleven to one. The case was a very plain one—at least we eleven thought so. A murder of peculiar atrocity had been com mitted ; and though no eye had witnessed the deed, circumstances pointed to the prisoner's guilt with unfailing certainty. The recusant juror had stood out from the first. He acknowledged the cogency , of the proofs, confessed his inability to reconcile the facts with the defendant's innocence, and yet, on every vote, went Steadily for acquittal. His conduct was Inexplicable. It could not result from a lack of intelligence; for, while . he spoke but little, his words were well chosen;' and evinced a thorough understanding of the -..- Though still In the prime of manhood, his locks were prematurely White, and his face wore a singularly sad and thoughtful expres sion. lie might be ono of those who entertained scruples as to the right of society to inflict the death penalty. But no, it was not that ; for, in reply to such a'suggestion, be frankly ad mitted that brutal men, like the vicious brutes they resemble, must be controlled through fear, and that dread of death, the supreme ter ror, is, in many cases, the only adequate re straint. At the prospect of another night of fruitless imprisonment wo began to grow impatient, and expostulated warmly againstwhat seemed an unreasonable captiousness; and some not over kind remarks were indulged in as to the imo.3priety of trifling with an oath like that under which we were acting. • "And yet," the man answered, as though communing with himself rather than repelling the imputation, "it is conscience that hinders my concurrence in a verdict approved by my judgment." " How can that be 4" queried several at once. " Conscience may not always dare to follow udgment." . "But hero she can know no other guide." " /onco would have said the same." "And what has changed your opinion 4" "EXPERIENCE." The speaker's manner was visibly agitated, and we waited in silence the explanation which he seemed ready to give. Mastering his emotion, as if in answer to our looks of inquiry, ho continued : " Twenty years ago I was a young man just beginning life. Few had brighter prospects, and none brighter Lopes. An attachment, dating from childhood, had ripened with its object. There had been no verbal declaration and acceptance of love—no formal plighting of troth; but when I took my departure to seek a home in the distant West, it was a thing understood, that when I had found It and put it in order, she was to share it. • " Life in the forest, though solitary, is not necessarily lonesome. The kind of society afforded by Nature, depends mucli on one's self: As for me, I lived more in 'the future than in the present, and Hope is an ever-cheer ful companion. At length the time came for making the final payMent on the home which I had bought. It would henceforward be my own ; and, in a few more months, my simple dwelling, which I had spared no pains to render inviting, would he graced by its mistress. "At the land-office, which was some sixty miles off, I met my old friend, George C. Ho too, had come to seek his fortune in the West ; and we were bah' delighted at the meeting. He had brought with him, he'said, a sum of money which he desired to invest in land, on ivhich it was his purposd to settle. "I expressed a strong wish to have him for a neighbor, and gave him a cordial invitation to accompany me home, giving it as my belief, that he could nowhere make it better selection than in that vicinity. ". He readily consented, end we set out to gether. We had not ridden many miles, when George suddenly recollected a commission he had undertaken for a friend, which would re quire his attendance at a public land-sale on the following day.. "Exacting a promise that he would not do- lay his visit longer than necessary, and having given minute directions as to the route, I con tinued my way homeward, while ho turned back. I was about retiring to bed on the night of my return, when a summons from without called me to the door. A stranger asked shel ter for himself and his horse for the night. "I invited him in. Though a stranger, his face seemed not unfamiliar. He was probably one of the men I had seen at the land-office, a place, at that time, much frequented. "Offering him a scat, I went to see to his horse. The poor animal, as well as I could see by the dim starlight, seemed to have been hardly used. His panting sides bore witness of merciless riding, and a tremulous shrinking, at the slightest touch, betokened recent fright. "On re-entering the .house, I found the stranger was not there. Ills absence excited no surprise ; he would doubtless soon return. It was a little singular, however, that he should have left his watch lying on the table. "At the end of half an hour, my guest not returning, I went again to the stable, thinking ho might have found his 'way thither to give personal attention to the wants of his horse. "Before going out, from mere force of habit —for we were as „yet uninfested by either thieves or policemen—l took the precaution of putting the stranger's watch in a drawer in which I kept my own valuables. " I found the horse as I had left him, and gave him the food which he was now sufficient ly cooled to be allowed to eat, but his master was nowhere to be seen. "As I approached the house, a crowd of men on horseback dashed up, and I was com manded, in no gentle tones, to 'stand/ In anothermoment I was In the clutches of those who claimed me as their 'prisoner.' "I was too umbh stupifled at first to ask what it all meant. I did so at last, and the explanation came, it was terrible " My friend, with whom I bad so lately set out in company, had been found murdered and robbed near the spot at which I, but I alone, knew we had separated. I was the - last per son known to be with him, and I was now ar rested on suspicion of his murder. "A search of the premises was immediately instituted. The !etch was found in the drawei in which I bad placed it, and teas identified as the property of the murdered man. His horse, too, was found in my stable, for the animal I had just put there was none other. I recognized him myself when I saw him in the light. • " What I said, I know not. My confusion was taken as additional evidence. And when, at length, I did command language to give an intelligible statement, it was received with sneers of incrdulity. "The mob spirit• is inherent in man—at least in crowds of men. It may not always manifest itself in physical violence. It some times contents Itself with lynching a character. But whatever its form, it is always relentless, pitiless, cruel. "As the proofs of my guilt, ono after an other, came to light, low mutterings gradually grew into a clamor for vengeance; and but for the firmness of one man—the officer who had me in charge—l would doubtless have paid the penalty of my supposed offence on the spot. " It was not sympathy for me that actuated my protector. Ills heart was as hard as his office ; but he represented the majesty of the law, and took a sort of grim pride in his post ' lion. "As much under the glance of his eye as !icier° the muzzle of his pistol, the cowardly clamorers drew'back. Perhaps they were not sufficiently 'numerous to feel the full effect of that mysterious reflex influence which makes crowd of men so much . worse, and at times so much better, than any one of them singly. * • * • * * • • "At the end of some months my trial came. It could have but one 'result. Circumstances too plainly declared my guilt.' I alone knew they lied. " The absence of the jury was very brief. To their verdict I paid but little heed.. It was a single hideous word ; but I had long antici pated it, and it made no impression. ," As little Impression was made by the• words of the judge which followed it ; and his solemn invocation that God might have mercy upon me which man was toofust to vouchsafe sounded like 'the hollowest of hollow mock- . cries. ' It may be hard for the condemned criminai to meet death ; it is still harder for him whole ROBERT IREDP , Lis JR, Plain an Jfantg lob Vrinter, No. 47 EAST HAMILTON STREET; ELEGANT PRINTING • LATEST ETYLES; Stamped Cheeks, Cards, Circulars. Paper Hoolis,_Conatl. lotions and By Laws School Catalog - am Bill Heads Envelopes, Lettor Meade Bills of Lading. Way , Mlle. Tags and Shipping Cards, Poste,. of any sire, eta,, eta., Printed at Short Notice. NO. 22 innocent. The one, when the first shock is , over, acquiesces in his doom, and gives him self to repentenco ; the heart of the other, filled with rebellion against man's injustice, - can scarce bring itself to ask pardon of God. " I had gradually overcome this feeling, in spite o: good clergyman's irritating efforts, which was mainly directed towards extractifig a confession, without which, he assured me, ho had no hope to offer. "On the morning of the - day fixed for my execution, I felt measurably resigned. I had so long stood face to face with death, had so accustomed myself to look upon it as a merely. momentary pang, that I no longer felt solid tons save that my memory should ono day be vindicated. " She for whom I had gone to prepare a home had already found one in heaven. The tidings of thy calamity had broken her heart. She alone of all the world believed me info cent ; and she had died with a prayer upon her lips, and that the truth might yet be brought to light. "All this I had heard, and it had soothed as with sweet incense my troubled spirit. Death, hoWever unwelcome the shape, was now a portal beyond which I could see one angel waiting to receive me. " I heard the sound of approaching foot steps, and nerved myself to meet the expected summons. The door of my cell opened, and the sheriff and his attendants entered. Ho held in his hand apaper. It was doubtless my dcathwarrant. He began to read it. My thoughts were busied elsewhere. The words 'Pow, AND PRIEg 'unwire were the first to strike my preoccupied senses. They affected the bystanders more than myself. Yet so it was : / had been pardoned for a crime I had I never committed. "The real culprit, none other, it is needless to say, than he had sought and abused my hospitality, had been mortally wounded in a recent affray In a distant city, but had lived long enough to make a disclosure, which had been laid before the Governor barely in time to save me from a shameful death, and con demn to a cheerless and burdensome life. " This is my EXP ' ERIENCE. My judgment, as yours, in the case before us, lends to but one conclusion, that of the prisoner's guilt; but no less confident and apparently unerring was the judgment that falsely pronounced my own." We no longer importuned our fellow juror, but patiently awaited our discharge on the ground of inability to agree, which came at last. The prisoner was tried and convicted at a subsequent term, and at the last moment con fessed his crime on the scaffold.—New York Ledger. A BASHFUL BRIDE ON HER WEDDING TOUR. While we were making arrangements to pass the night (we cannot say sleep) in the sleeping car which carried us from Macon to Montgomery, Alabama, and just as we bad begun to wish fora better bed, the cars stopped at a smallstation, and a blushins couple, "hold of hands," came into the car. Their appear ance as they stood hesitatingly in ..the door= way meant "mischief," and were just starting out on their wedding tour. " Would you like a berth, sir 1" said the lively, jolly-faced conductor of the miserable sleeping car. "No, sits—l reckon—as may be—that aint what we want," stammered the bridegroom. " Haint you got no bridal chamber on this ere hear ?" "Oh, the bridal chamber 1" exclaimed the conductor. "Come this way, sir." The couple went tremblingly through the car to the " state Aom," which looked about as much like a state room on a Northern sleep ing car as a cell in the county jail appears like the Parker House parlor. '• Does that door shut up'?" anxiously in quired the bridegroom. • "Oh, yes. See how it slides," said the con ductor. "But I'm dogged If I see any place to sleep," suggested the applicant for the chamber. "Oh, we'll flx that, if you will be seated," said the conductor, pointing to a low, hard sofa on the opposite side of the car, close to the headof our curtained couch. "I don't like it ; so there—," 'whispered the bride. '• Don't like what ?" said her partner. "I won'tso no further, I won't, if you keep talking so." " What have I done, I'd like ter know 4" " You told him you didn't see no place to sleep, and I don't think it was usin' me right." " Well, I don't see no place now, neither. If we've got to be tucked away in that little hole, we'll haf ter stand it all night, that's sartin." "Let's go back, Johnny; I'm afraid to go any Further." "Oh, no, don't let's go hack. Let's stick er eout." "I can't, I won't, I don't like ter. I can't stay hero. There's lots of men behind those curtains. I'm sick. I won't go no further. Bay, Johnny, let's do go home. Do, I want ter so much." And the fair ono began to weep as though her heart would break. "Wall, don't cry, Mollie, we'll get right eout at the next place. But you hadn't orter be so 'fraid 'o folks, now we,.'re married." This seemed to quiet her grief, and at the next station the afflicted cipple left the cars, having paid for the "state room," and wo heard him, as he stood on the platform out side, remark that : "That ar sleepin' kear was ,dog-gonned small quarters for married folks." —A fellow who has been shaved in China says that the barber first stropped the razor on his leg, and then did the shaving without any lather. The customer remonstrated, but Was told that lather was entirely useless, and had a tendency to make the hair stiff and tough, and was therefore never used by per sons who bad any knowledge of the face and its appendages. After the beard had been taken off—and it was done In a very short time—the barber took a long, 'gbarp, needle shaped spoon, and began to explore his cus tomer's ears. He brought up from numereua little crevices bits of wax and dirt that bad been accumulating since his childhood. The barber suddenly twisted his subject's neck to ono side in such a manner that it cracked as If the vertibrce had been dislocated. ". "Hold on I" shouted the party, alarmed for the safety of his neck. " All right," replied the tensor, "me no Mit you ;" and he continued to jerk and twist the neck until it was as limber an old woman's dish rag. He theri fell tybeating the back, breast, arms, and sides with his fists, and pummeled the muscles until they fairly glowedwith the beating they had received. He then dashed a bucket of cold water over his man, dried the skin with towels, and de clared that his work was done. Price two cents. UPBTAIfts, ALLENTOWN. PA NEW DESIGNS.
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