ADVERTISING RATES: 31. I mu. I mos. 1 mos. 1 .r. I.GO 1.75 3.50 0. U 3 10.41 3.W 9.90 1.60 10.01 IS. 00 4.3 0 6.00 8.00 11.03 _9OO 8.03 11.00 23.03 40.03 10.01 31 W St 03 60.01 13.03 92.60 60.00 80.03 'A 00 W.OO 80.03 1.5.00 Ina Square rwo Squares Three Square. Six Square', . Quarter Colonia Half Column One Column Pretensions' Cards 111.00 per line per year. Adruluistrater'• and Auditor's Noticen; City Notices, 2)cents per line Ist Rtortion, 15 cents per lino each nubsequent Innerthm. Ten lines agate constitute a square. ROBERT IREDELL, JR., PUBLISHER, 13= Life I:mance THE MOST SUCCESSFUL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY CMEEIMMEIM THB •A NATIONAL. LIFE INSURANCE CO., EMZI UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. CHARTERED BY SPECIAL ACT OP CONGRESS. CASH CAPITAL, 811 ANCH OFFICE PHILADELPHIA OFFICERS CLARENCE 11. CLARK, Philadelphia, Prexidout. JAY COOKE, Philadelphia, Chalrinan nuance and Ex oeutl•• Com. 1. RINEY D. COOKE. Wit,oblmitun, Vice-President. EMERSON W. MEET, PlONdelphla, Secretiol .md Ado FRANCIS 0. SMITH. M. D., Philadelphia. Medical 111 rector. Thin Cmnlmtp Imnkacd. In the Ilott TEN 310NT119 of Ile existence. 5,395 POLICIES, INSURING $15,142,800. TI t. Commt3,ffrrs4 to Itx Polley-Holder. PERFECT SECLI RI T 1 by It. Comb paid up Capital of One Million Dollarg, an trusrouteen to the in.ured, by It. 0 111 I? ales of Pr eln nil LAItOE DIVIDENDS IN ADVANCE; Or e Haverslottery DIYItIre.I of UM per cent, by Its RETURN PREMIUM PLAN GENERAL AGENTS L W. CLARK St Co., hauler., No. 33 South Third Street. Philadelphia, general Ages. for Pounaylvaniu and Southern New Jen.ley,. 11. S. 1tc.a1.1., Manager. Charlet. W. Cooper Allentown National Bonk, Nel,ll Weiner, Republican, Book Soul% Ageut, for Lehigh and adjoining Comfit,. Jacob A. Blunter t4tecial agent. Sept 1.5.11 THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY OF SENNA Principal Mice, Allentown, Pa Oreirane : 31/11N C. ANEWALT, PRP.SIDEXT. Wu. 11. DESHLER, SHCRETAILY. MARTIN SEIPLE, TRMAIWRCR. Board of Dfrerforo—John C. Anewalt, Wm. 11. Deelt ler, Martin Selple, Dr. Z. F. Laßoche, lir, A..ririaiiiimee George Selple, Ephraim J. Enema, Cherie h , A. Heist, C Sell, !Alvin C. Huber, Wm. 4rnes, Peter J Romig. This Society In virtually • Life Insurance Company on a pl. by which person of the smallest dea t h .eau procure its protection to his family In rase of his It does not accumulate millions of dollar. of the men. bore money, an do other Life Insurance Companies, but each member can retain his moony until called for in the cane of the death of aur member. There is no possibility of thin Society felling on the funds are all to the hds of the members thennteleres, and the 11001.ty p•rely an mutual. Members have u right to vote at all elections for officers. WHY BECOME A MEMBER • It is no more the moral dutyof a man to provide the daily bread for his family while be liver, than it is to pro vide against their being left penniless in theevent of his death. A POLICY IN TIM SOCIETY is the CHEAPEST and SAFEST mode of making a certain provision for sorb • calamity. YOITNO MEN are an liable to lake leav% of life as the aid. Death in uncertain. We sink VOll. therefore, to con •lder the CHEAPNESS and SAFETY of Insuring in this Comma and be assured that in case of death you will . leave behind y you a blessing ton widowed nwther or de pendent slater. Clive the subject your thought, send to the Secretary for our circular, consider lie cheapness and we are sure you will at once take out a policy. AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, South East Cor. Fourth and Walnut Streets =I THE AMERICAN offer. low rate. of immaugn. It offers more Intl./Yee for the same money than other lontpany• It • Home Company. ' Its Politica are all nun-forfeitable: • . It pays life•polieles at death, or at the age of ISO yearn. On the reducing•prenthun plan, the Insured pars his lar gest premium the nest year—which is the nine an paid on the tautual-ordluary•life-plan—and earl, tubsequput year It l• Ira. and lets; and •t. the cud of twenty years become. paid UP and thereafter &pmanent claim OR the COMpßtly. On the return premium plan, the insured la credited all. really with all he hat paid to the Company, an that his lateral.° coats only the Inherent on the amounts paid In. On the income•producing plan, the insured may reedit 10 per cent. Ott the amount able policy. "INSURE IN TIIE AMERICAN LINE." • • =1 1312= WM. J. ROMIG, 31. D., Agent, SO EAST HAMILTON ST., <ce• 4S I VARK4 BANKERS, L° /1 Q 0 No. 35 SOUTH THIRD STREET, -PHILADELPHIA. • C.OYERNMir E N .Rs siCURITIES, STOCK, COLD AND NOTE BROKERS. Attattata of Banta nous, mat Individuals ratettsJ, tattled L. mallet at tight. INTEREST ALTAI WED lIN BALANCES. qEN ERAL AGENTS, FOR Co i? PENNS A Y N I6VANIA v/ WZRN OF THE (.. 5\ VE !Nilo likl oll OF THE etes) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. • rho NATIONAL LIIIM /I.III3IIANCY. COMPANY 121 , ~,,atlo Julyn chartered by e peeist Act of Congress, 81 , " S ed 23, laci with CASII.CAPITAL, $1,000,000, ENLI., PAID. t: aersl terms offered to Agents and Solicitors. who •. invited to apply nt our °nice. iparticulars to be had on application at °credos. i.l In the second story of o.lLS...thing House, •ro Circuital and Pamphlet , . NW` describin the • nitinges uttered ny the C. ornottay; may be bad. E. W. c7.Ana et t•U.. • 'll Ainith Third SI B. S. RUSSELL, Manager, Charles W. Cooper nd Nelson Weiser, Allentown N t lowa Bonk. Agents for Lehigh & Carbon Counttee, Po. c`'be 3,ltbiob VOL. XXIII. THE VERY BEST THE CHEAPEST, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND MOST DURABLE CLOTHING, KEYSTONE HALL BALLIET & N AGLE Have the 'argent, beet and •ehrapeet etock of CLOTH INU ever lot mein this elty.and neII Goode to their line, mob am COATS, ttad all other (louda ilertalalng to MEN'S W EA It FOR LESS MONEY, $1,000,0e0 (lien you can buy elsewhere In Eastern Pennsylvania No Slop Shop made Goode sold. CLOTHING MADE TO ORDER. We keep constantly on hand a largo and elegant nnsort nient of 00008, from which cuntomern can make their aeloctions and have them made up en short notice. Their Cutting Department le under the supervinlon of GEORGE K. REEDER, et nn. and krald bad many b y e e ;lea e sCrtO e A c e e sl:a th the al C:ll: g o i rttle former patron.. sir All work warranted to be of the very beet. Call and eon our new STOCK, received at the KEYSTONE HALL, No. 24 West Hamilton Street text door to the Oormou Reformed Cherch. ALLEN TOWN, PA. A full snoorlment of Gent.' Yornlnklng 0 oodn always on band. AARON BALLIRT, mny 12-lf GREAT ATTRACTION I NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS! CLOTHING! CLOTHING GRAND SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES T. osmuN & Co., Roc.— to iktt g tr d 0„,„,,„. 13ARGA I NS GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIMI =I NO. 43 EAST HAMILTON STREET, We would Inform the citizens of Allentown ■nd tiot,sur modlng country that we are prepared with a large stuck f goods fur SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR, nd offer them to the public. at reasonable price.. Toth. ho buy their Clothing ready-made, they are prepared t .ffer BARGAINS. W HOLE SUITS MADE TO ORDER COATS, PANTS AND VESTS ut itia c ulade le the latest style, nod by the best workme CLOTHING, CLOTHS AND CASSINIERES, le larger than It has been before. arid we blend to very SMALL PROFITS. and give our cootoinery the ben fit of our low purehaves. Orent quantities •nd varlellex of NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS, Aud everything In the tlne of GENT'S FUR.NIMIIING GOODS MEN'S, YOUTHS', BOYS', and CHILDREN'S htEADY-MADE CLOTHING CONSTANTLY ON HAND. Don't forget the Ogee, Nu. 43 Ea4t Hamilton utreet, third dour •Lore 811th avert. T. Osrun, JAColl 11. 8,1101.1., MARTIN LYNN lintr 24.0 __•, fliterbanics. CONSIIOIIOCKEN BOILER AND COIL WORKS. JOAIN WOOD, lt., MANUFOCTCII.IiII OF TUBE, FLUE AND CYLINDER BOILERS, BATH AND STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS, All kinds of Wrought Iron Coll., 'Foyers for mast Per ch, Gasometers, Smoke Starks, Blast Pipes, Iron Wheel. B 'barrows, and everything In the oiler and Sheet Iron line. Also, all kinds of Iron and Steel Forgings and Blacksmith work, Miners' Tools of all kinds; such as Whew Buckets, Picks, Drills, Mallets, Sledges, Ac. Having n Steam Ilanuner nod set of tools of sll kinds, and skilled workmen, I fl atter myself that I can turn out work with promptness sad dispatch, all of which will be warranted to be tirst.chiss, Patching Boilers, and repairing generally, strictly at. tended to. apr IMMEE STRATTON'S PORTABLE AIR GAS MACHINE. PATENTED MARCH 31ST, ISSS, SA YE HONEY Br .V.4ICING TOUR OWN OAR. THE CHEAPEST LIGHT IN USE. Stratton's flan Machine fur Illuminating Hotels, Private Ilenidencen, Store., Minn, etc., in nitriple COURMICtIOO, consumes ail the material us er In the 111.11faCtlirf. of IVO, and in so cheap an to bring it within the reach of all. It In free from explosionn, can be managed by any pers.., and produces •y • bu pe n r i i n o g r glagsh. t N e OlFolß tErsB. A at P o PL e- IhEalT tire cHosE •PPARATUB. t It can be attached to ordinary gas Pipe.. and fixture., the only varintion being in the enlargement of the burner jets. All parts of the apparatus are made in the meet thorough and workmanlike meaner. Superiority over all machines In claimed in the following particulars : First, Cost of Construction. Second, Illuminating Capac• sty. Third, Compactness and Simplicity,. and consequent impossibility of it. getting out of order. F ourth, Economy In one of materiel. A machine capable of supplying ten burners costs VA. Any furtherlnformation will De given and the workings = of the chine explained by calling upon the agent for Lehigh county. C. W. STUBEII, WALNUT STREET,, CORNER OF PENN, (ABOYS MLIILIOIBLIOI COLUMN. ALLENTOWN PA 11321BECE/ Secretory E21=13! Votrto. THE. POPULAR SE 5151E11 RESORT • TFIE SLATE EXCHANGE HOTEL, WALNUTPORT, LEIIIOII CO. • WILLIAM KUNTZ, PROPRIETOR. • The beautiful sod haled grounds of this hotel have been fitted upltapeclally for the accommodation of rotor mien parties. TIIII TABLE of the hotel Is supplied with the ehllest luxuries and the most tempting meets and vegeta les. Everything In season always cooked In the best manner and served In the most Inviting style. THE SLEEPING APARTMENTS are commodious and well ventilated, nod are ample for the accommodation of gnests who may wish to remain over night, or take board ing by the week or for lie season. Special arrangements made with excersion parties. For further Informntlon address WILLIAM KUNTZ, 1778 Sistine. P. 0., Pa. KAMINSKY 1t ALBERT, BOOKBINDERS, ODD FELLOWS' HALL,.. • • ALLENTOWN, PA. We take pleasure In a...1u to the public that, hav ing established s or. sr llookbledery,we now fully Prepared to promptly execute all orders for binding honk, o are r all Curt.. 11114111110.. p•per•, pamphlets, etc. We guarantee our customer/. eubstaullal work and 'handsome of every design. aun 11-131 n IMPORTANT TO smrrEns DENNISON'S AND LOCISMOOD'S TAGS AND SHIPPING CARDS lIEGIS7'ER OFFICH Qtlatbing PANTS, VESTS I=l =Z! =I 1I AT MANUFACTURERS' Hues.; tIIDITAD AT TUC ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1869 Goobs FOR DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, AND CARPETS, GO N FOSTER'S NEW YORK CITY STORE, ALLENTOII I , PA. We have inaugurated a new era in the Dry Goods business in Allentown. "Get as much as you eon," has too long been the motto of our merchants here. "SELL AS LOW AS YOU CAN" is the motto we sail under. For the best and latest styles of alt kinds of Dry Goods, Fancy Goods and Carpets, if you would buy them at reasonable rates, you must conic to us. WHITE GOODS. BELOW REGULAR' RAMS PLAIN. PLAID AND STRIPED NAINSOOKS. PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIPED WWII:MIES. VICTORIA AND 5151101' LAWNS. PEKIN FORTES. Nee• Slylr, and Choke for Dronmem HOFT AND HAIM FINISIIED CAM lIRICS. SHIRRED 311'SLI NA. A CIII.ICI . Stock. =2 VINE NEEDLE WORK El/GI:WS nud INSERTIMIS ONE-lIALF VALVE. II AMBUROS, in SWISS .1111 i CAMBRIC. A Full Stork MUFFLINOS all kinds, it% MAGIC, EMPRESS, &c. MEE REAL awl IMITATION 61'11'PRE,_ TII REA nod ALLI.I A. EOM:VETS and WASH BLONDS. O HEN ADIN Ea FOIL VEI L 5, ThP New LADIES', MISSES', and BOYS' CUFFS and COLLAR LEM.AISTRE ROSS, 212 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, PRILADA. July 7-.(0. 6 SUDDEN CHANGE WILL LOW PRICES INFLUENCE YOL OLD TIMES AGAIN IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICES I THE OLD CORNER Jupt opened nit eunnnuu• STOCK OF SPRING GOODS, I=l STYLE, VARIETY. .1 ND LOWNESS OE PRICE lilt All and rail - riot Ln surpuneed r4l Competition defied with any other Ertahtiehment outride of the larger cities. SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT OP NAMING mach an ha mar= ntuehof gouda, but let It eaMee to any that we have the mu. COMPLETE ....oatmeal of LIUIIOPC Deese (Mode, Dream Wks, Pontine, Shawl, Balmorale, Ronan Furnish ing Goode, Ladling' Cloaking Cloth, Men's Wear In Cloth, Cemelmeres, he., and everything that a kept In a FIRST. CLASS ORE GOODS SORE Iu ruffle. variety. Ido unt "QUOTE PRICES" no come h0u.,4 do, but will guarantee ASTONISII ING FIGURES The difference inprices 0f guru. to•daY, ettil u month ag. la really painful for three who Lave nevi% caught with large Mucks on Land at high, price., 1)111 that le not the cage with me. I an heretofore make OW OLD COIL. NEIL TILE GREAT PLACE OF INTEREST AND HEADQUARTERS for the mossen to get their goodo at the LOWEST MARK ET PRICES.. I fully realize that no ermanent wore,. enn be achieved utile. the PRIMIXPII held oat by lulvertleentento ore found to be fully',t anotalthell on 0 ',loll to the whore. Nor ran It be a large hroe!xx without rerupulounly TPIIIIIIIO and fair dealing nt all time. and uniform rourthwy to every cunto• mer, and the endenvor to rook° every buyer a eourtant dealer. All 1 ark la Amply to derldo by actual trial whether nr not It la to your advent:loo tat heron. , a ethnic , Incr. • Itempectfully Your,. M. J. KRAMER, "OLD CORNER," OPPOSITE THE EAGLE 110 TEL •~dl H earint,s anb Cloth TIRE CARPET ANTI ' OIL '''' EMPORIUM OF E. S. SHIVER & ,CO., NOS. 5 AND 7 WEST HAMILTON ST, ALLENTOWN PA. REPLEN'ISHED In all Its latest varieties, atyles and patterns. PRICES .REDUCED ! 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Prlre, Ina The celebrated na'n'tiltendr."llrat"l onl y fe e ' e t many, demonstrates from • thirty years' auccessfulpreCtiCe. that the alarming cousequencea of oelbebuon ma y be radically cured without the dangerous use of Internal medicine or the application of the knife; pointing out a mode of cure at ores simple, certain, and effectual, by foraa of which , aver? sufferer, no matter what his condition cony be, may . corn himself cheaply, privately, and radknity. 1111....Th1s Lecture should he lu the hands of every youth and every man In the land: Bent under seal In a plain envelope. to any eddrevs , postpaid, on receipt of nix cents, or two poll lumps. Also, Dr. Culverwell'• "Morrie. (inide,"price 2.5 ctn. Address the Publiohers. CIIAS. Lig) hLINE ft CO.. - .jy2l-ly 127 Bowery. New York, I'. O. Dos 4,/SG. T 61. WATERMAN, oPreprlelor of WATERMAN'S COCKTAIL AND TON• IC BITTERS Wholesale and Retail, No. liod Market St.. The tonic properties of these Illtte:s have beencollided to by tome of our moat eminent I'lact..ina VTalclatm, n. the best tonic uow am on g and the o fockutil Mery Is the universal favorite i n Kea a IMad ten or whisky cocktail. OLIVER HUNT'S GREAT PLEA When Oliver Hunt was twenty-one, he de cided to study law. He was it good looking, pleasant fellow, of fair ability . The young ladies thought hint handsonis and talented. The more enthusiastic ones ptonounced him. " splendid." He certainly hid a great deal of money, and spent it very freely, points on which all were agreed. When Oliver announced his determination to study law, many opinions mere expressed on the subject. Ile was the cenre of an admir ing circle of friends, who, of Co me, did not all think alike. The older ladies, among whom was his mother, hoped that le would be n clergyman ; while the youngir ones, with charming wordliness, thought the would make a mngniticent lawyer. i There was, however, one notable exception. Fanny Shaw said one day : " Oliver Hunt will never makes successful lawyer t . he is to fanciful." Oliver heard the remark, and remembered In due time he was admitted to;the bar, but as this honor is conferred on all 'young men who have gone through the studbs and pre sented themselves at the proper the and place, his admission signified nothing, e cept that he was ready to improve himself. • ' Privately, Oliver had no especlt liking for the profession, nor did he need 1 fees. lie reasoned thus : "By studying fSithfully for two or three years, 1 shall add greatly to my stock of knowledge, make myse! a stronger man. Moreover, it' this fortune of mine should some day take to itself wings, anti that other plan should fail, I would still hava something 'to rely on." After his admission, he said to himself : " Now I see that everybody is expecting me to do sometning in the professional line. I haven't the least idea of doing an thing, but I shall hang out a shingle, just for appearance." So he caused a wing of his mother's house to assume a legal air, and placed a sign on the door post. It rend after this fashion : OLIVER HUNT, ATTORNEY AND COI:NFU:LOU AT LAW. " Now, said he jocosely, "I naist wait for a client." Ile did not "wait" by sitting in his office until the client came ; "that" he said, "would be conducive of dyspepsia." Accordingly he exercise•l and refreshed himself by such gentle stimulants IL S croquet and pic-nics with the ladies, while with his rougher companions he boated, fished and hunted with a zeal that made dyspepsia a slicer impossibility. Indeed, when I say that three months faded away without bringing a client, the assertion is fo un ded on my own observatiou, for that personage might have knocked six days in the week and Oliver would have been unconsci ous of the fact. On Sunday only did he honor his sign by getting behind it. Between church hours lie diligently read the magazines, retir ing to this uncongenial region lest he should worry his mother by a display of literature not appropriate to the day. Had he by chance seen a possible client coming up the gravelled path he would have summarily locked the door. His friends were troubled by such strange conduct. It became the general Impression quit though Hunt was a clever fellow, he was altogether too easy for a lawyer. Not content with astonishing his friends by neglecting his business during the day, he occasionally per plexed his mother by sitting up half the night. What could he be doing alone in his room ? Oliver took remonstrance in good part, but did not profit by them. " Why," he would say, " how can I do anything until I get client r—a consideration which seemed to satisfy himself if it failed to quiet the appre hension of his advisers. One morning, about three months after that one which wittnessed the adjustment of his sign, Judge Shaw, nn old family friend, said to him : ••I am disappointed in you, 'Oliver; disup pointed." He spoke with some warmth. •• Why man, how do you expect to do any thing unless you are In the proper .place to do it ? His office is a young lawyer's proper tar rying place, whether anybody comes in or not. We are losing confidence in you, Oliver. If you don't do something to show yourself in earnest, we shall conclude you're not made of the right stuff. Get Into court. I don't be lieve you have seen the inside of the court house this term. Bring a suit against some body. Make a plea. Go it strong on any , thin , ' or nothing. rut the Judge you know. Tit help you along. I thought too much of your father to let his son fail the first thne he conducts a suit. Take my word for it; you'll succeed." . "Thank you Judge, thank you." said 0: ver. " I'm glad to hear you say so ; the fact is," he continued, with some hesitation, "1 have a suit on hand--a very important one. Indeed, though I have said nothing about it, it has bothered me a good deal of late. I—l think I shall bring it before the court in a day or two." • " Bight, Oliver, right," said the judge, greatly pleased. "Cautious, I see, you don't want to be over confident. It looks well." Then, in a more confidential tone, "Is the case an important one ? Any money in volved Y" " Twenty thousand at least," replied Oliver. "If I am successful it will be the making of me, while if I fail—" " Oh, you won •t fail—the word isn't in the book. Didn't I promise to help you. When do you bring it in In a day or two you say'. Suit your convenience. Docket's full but we'll crowd it in, if we have to be irregu lar and crowd something else out." I " Let me see," said Oliver, with an air of deliberation,'" you musn't do anything irregu lar on my account. Besides, the defendant is a Person who might object to having any more stir made than is necessary. This is Monday. I will bring the nuttier before Your honor by Thursday. " Good," returned the Judge ; " keep up your courage ? " and walked away briskly. TweMy tlmusand, at least : something worth while," he soliloquized. "Oliver is a deeper fellow than I took hint to be. lie knows how to keep his own :counsel, too." Meanwhile, Oliver had looked at his watch, ordered the carriage, and was ransacking the garden for a gorgeous boquet. Ho did look rather deep, and there was an odd expression on his face which the keenest observer would have been at a loss too Interpret. He arranged the flowers with the utmost nicety, and then bestowed an equal amount of care on the adjustment of his neck tie. The carriage being ready he took a final survey of himself in the glass and drove away. Ile drove directly to a large house, situated In the midst 'of spacious grounds. It was evidently the residence of a man who pos sessed both wealth and refinement. The house was substantial, the surrounding ele gant. • Ile gave the bell a business-like pull, and waited. Soon a Jight step and rustle were heard. " Alt, the defendant in person," be thought. "I am honored." A young lady appeared, and greeting him pleasantly, and said : " You see lam ready. I shan't keep you waiting a minute." " And hear is your reward," said the law yer, gallantly tendering the boquet. " Beautiful•l" tier eyes danced. " You have arranged them with exquisite taste—for a lawyer," she added, archly. "1 tried tomake it presentable," was the response. They were now in the carriage, and the gentleman drove on in dogged silence. The lady glanced at him timidly and said : "flow anxiously you look to.day, Mr. Hunt, and how silent you•are. Are you en gaged in a suit at last ? I don't .believe you are, for I am at a loss to know where or when a client would catch you. Papa is quite con ' corned about you." Ills daughter also looked quite concerned, though she spoke lightly: She was evidently a friend of long standing, who tried to dis guise her own anxiety, and at the same time give a Mild reproof. - Oliver felt the repro I f, for his color rose. I After a long silence he said : , " You are right. I ought to be ashamed of myself for not pushing things more. But, ; Fanny, Litany am engaged in a suit. •It Is a very important one—against a lady too, or rather the defendant Is a lady. In fact, so much is the stake, that I cannot conceal any nutsietv as to the result. and am not surprised that my :ace betrays it." Fanny was penitentia an instant, but only said—. "Who is the plaintiff'?" " I am." " Who Is the defendant ?- " You are." She started. "You are mysterious—explain yourself." " When I first became interested in this suit," said Oliver; " I hardly know. I sud denly found myself prosecuting it with -the greatest ardor, though in a quiet way. I have been both client and lawyer. You have un consciously been the defendant. Hitherto, I have pleaded my cause by actions only, which I acknowledge was not business-like, in so much as my actions were not calculated to in spire, and, as it appears, have not inspired confidence in breasts of either Judge or jury. But now I shall put my plea in words and ad, dress it to the judge himself. Will the defen hant appear in Judge Shaw's library this eve ning at eight o'clock precisely F' The defendant's face was hidden by the baguet, but she said,— ' I will be there." "Good," rejoined Oliver in a lawyer-like voice. Then it suddenly became very unlaw yer-like. "My dearest gir)," he said, "don't make a strong defence. I know' my, course is weak enough, though believe me, it seems weaker than It really is. 0, Fanny, if I had the as surance that your heart will plead for my client, even though your judgment compels you to make n strong defence, I would take courage." "It does—it will. But you know, Oliver, that your client's inattention to his profession is not in his favor, and has already prejudiced the judge against him." " If lie is against the client he is for the lawyer," rejoined Oliver, laughing. " Ile told me as much this morning. Ile said he would do his utmost to help me. I doubt, though, Hite would have spoken so encourag ingly had lie known the nature of my suit. But I hope, nevertheless, to prove my client not altogether so thoughtless a character as he has the credit olbeing." " I hope so," said Fanny, earnestly. Oliver whipped up his horse and they were soon at the gate again. Ile assisted her to alight in profound silence, anti she hurried In. He drove slowly home. Precisely at eight, Oliver presented himself at Judge Shaw's door. Being ushered into the library, he found Fanny all ready. She looked up brightly and sullies', but said no• thing. The Judge immediately referred to the morning's conversation, in part recorded. "I was a little hard on you, Oliver, this morning—a little too hard, I fear. I thought you had nothing on hand, and as a friend of your late father I took the liberty of saying a word to his son. But it seems you've had an eye to business all the while, though, I must say, nobody would -have known it," and the judge smiled blandly at his own learning, probably. Who's your elient ?" Now Oliver had been expecting this ques tion„ but: its abruptness startled him. "I am." The judge's eyebrows suddenly lilted. " I expect to plead my own cause," Oliver continued. " Hunt, elm ? versus whom r inquired the judge. " Shaw." " hunt versus Shaw ?" It was the judge's turn to start. "Yes," said Oliver, " Miss Fanny over there is the defendant." The judge looked sharp at Fanny, who didn't look at him at all. " Look here, Oliver," he begun at length, his warmth rising, "this won't do. You have been trilling with me. What do you mean, sir ?" The judge was getting Into a heat. Oliver cast a despairing glance at Fanny, which seemed to give him courage, for he immedi ately said— " Ahaw , " Well sir,' waiting for ?" "May, It please the court I" said Oliver. The court looked more mystified than pleased, but contrived to nod, in so curt a manner, however, that Oliver derived little encouragement from it. "I told your honor, this morning," Oliver continued, "that I should bring in the matter by Thursday. On consultation with the de fence we deemed it expedient to present our cause to-night, provided your honor would grant us a hearing. " We have no witnesses to examine on either side, and whether the defence will hove any thing to offer remains to be seen. , " In the first place, sir, I must state that I love your daughter devotedly, and have sonic reason to believe that she is not wholly indif ferent to me." The effects of this idiot were immediately visible. The judge looked harder than ever at Fan ny, while that young lady showed evident signs of consternation. Oliver resumed : "I am aw,sre that any career as a lawyer lies not been such its to justify me in asking :the priceless gift other love. Even had I the as surance to prefer such a claim, 1 know both her and your honor too well to think that it would be regarded with favor. "I began the study of law, not because I liked it, but because I hoped to gain from it strengths of mind, clearness of thought and soundness of judgment.. My tastes have ever been for literature and even in my college days I wait, a furtive contributor to 301110 very • respectable journals. I have continued to write more or less ever since, and so well have my efforts been received that I tun determined to devote my attention to-literature exclusively. "A short time since I was offered a share in the management and editorship 01 the 'Uni. cereal Eagle. I accepted the situation without hesitating longer than was sufficient to con vince me that the terms proposed were reason able. And now I only desire an assurance from your daughter that she will accompany me to the scene of any labors, and your own approval. I-have kept my literary proclivities a secret, partly because of a dislike to have my productions recognized and criticized by friends, and partly' because I knew that an editorial life was among the last things which my father would have chosen for me, and I wished to fully demonstrate my abilities and aptitfide before saying anything. " In view of these considerations, I entreat your honor to give that confidence to my cli ent, which I am sure he will never forfeit." The plaintiff sat down, wiping the perspira tion from the lawyer's face with tlw client's pocket handkerchief. ' The judge had by this time cleared his some what mystified wits, taken a rapid but careful survey of the situation, and formed his de cision. He said . ; " Has the defendant anything to offer ? Come, nnny,. what can you say for yourself and against the plaintiff? Can you prove that Oliver oughtn't to have you ? I must say that, safar, the suit is in his favor, and sinless You make a pretty strong defence, I shall be obliged to render a decision for the plaintiff." " May- it please the court," said Fanny, "I fear I can make uut'a weak defence. Oliver already knows that my heart pleads for him, and thy reason says. nothing against him. "And while I honor him fiir not asking me to be his wife while his character seemed un stable and his life purposeless, I am glad that lie has been able to clear away all doubts and show himself so worthy and noble, for, dear papa, I love hint better than all the world be-• sides, and would a great deal rather lie should be an editor than a lawyer, I am sure." This unlawyer-Ilke speech caused Oliver to make a very unlawyer-like movement, and the defence was so defenceless that she came very near disappearing in the plaintiff's arms. "Hey, hey," said the judge, "a pretty .ar gament, surely. Why, Fanny, you give up without a struggle. I decide for Oliver--4or the-plaintiff; I mean. Really, now, Oliver, ou were deep, weren't you," pursued the Judge. "You rascal. But what aboht the twenty thousand? Alt, Oliver !' Well, well, we won't quarrel about it.nosv She'll have that much at least—thirty, likely 'enough." Then again— "An editor, Is It ? I'd rather y - nu'd been a lawyer ; but it's hard sailingagninstlhe If Fanny's suited, it doesn't matter. God bless you both," and the judge retired precip itately. When they were alone. Oliver said: " Do YOU remember once saying that I was too fancthl for a lawyer?" "Yes," returned Fanny, "and l•think so ' said the judge, "what are you yet ; but I did not say you were too much so for an editor." " At any rate, I have been successful once," said Oliver. "Entirely," rejoined Fanny. " You out witted the judge." . LETTER FROM CAPT, JENCICES, Mr. Editor:—As I have never seen myself in print, save in a scurrilous song, in which I am falsely accused of feeding my horse on pork and beans, it occurred to me to write you a letter front the Profile House, White Moun tains, where I ant detained by the weather. (The true pronunciation, as I ant assured by the stage-driver, is White ,linuntings.) These hills should be approached by easy stages— those made at Concord being the easiest. As We were cooling to the Glen llouse, ourffriver —who was intoxicated, as is customary hero —drove the stage against a boulder on the side of the road. I was sitting on the top of the coach on a trunk, and having nothing to hold on by, I was violently thrown forward, and turning a somersault in the air, alighted on the back of the " nigh" wheel-horse. Being lbr tunately considerable of an athlete, I immedi ately turned a "backward flip-flap" on to my seat again, and the stage went on as if nothing had happened. I could see, however, that by this feat I had won the affections of a young Yankee woman of middle age-who sat by the driver. She had with her a little boy, who, Yankee-like, was forever asking questions. Pointing to a tall plant with a yellow flower by the roadside, he asked me, " What is - his name?" ".Mullen. my dear," I replied. " And is that little one a mullen, too 1" " No I that fellow's name is Mac Mullen." Rather smart for the horse-marines, wasn't It, Mr. Editor ? I found the ascent to the summit of Mount Washington quite easy, and the exercise not being as much as I wanted, I rambled down Tuckerman's Ravine about three thousand feet and back again, bringing to the ladies a snow bail weighing forty pounds. It is not every body, however, who can even walk up the "mounting." There was an old man of forty five, fat and with a bald head, who undertook the job. lie went very well to the foot, but when lie had walked up hill about three hum dred yards, he suddenly recollected an import ant business engagement, and turned back.to fulfil it. 1 guess his engagement was with the barkeeper. lie estimated that it was one hiln- dred miles to the top, and about a mile and a haw to the bottom. • In coming to this hotel, we passed the re mains of the Willey House, the terrible loss of whose inmates first suggested the idea of ' Whittler's bacchanalian song, "Oh, Willey, we have missed you." lint I must close, having just been stung by one of the black-headed flies which abound here. These insects are of enormous size, and a good many of them would weigh a pound. They have annoyed me very much during the past ten days, during which I have been fish ing in the Lake some live tours each day, which, at forty cents an hour for the boat,— S'2o. .My success has been moderate, having caught but one trout, about three Inches long, which weighed at eighth of an ounce. I put ) hint back in the Lake. More anon, CAPTAIN JENCKES, (4 the Horse Marines.) —Lippineott's Magazine. MAKING GLASS EYES It is asserted in a New York paper that there are in this city at least seven thousand people who wear thlse eyes. There are two or.three places where false eyes are made and inserted. One house informs the public 'that "persons deprived of an eyo can have this deformity removed by the insertion of an ar tificial une, which moves and looks like tho natural organ. No pain when inserted. Pa tients at a distance, having a broken eye, can have another one made without calling per sonally." The manufacture of these eyes is done en tirely by hand. A man sits down behind a A of gas flame, which is pointed and directed af he wishes by a blow pipe. lie takes what is called an optic, or the white of the eye, ' which has been blown from the end of a glass tube, and looks very much like a half-open white rose-bud with a small hole at the top of it. This optic is made of a peculiar white , enamel, which looks so atiltr the color of the white of the human eye that it is difficult to I tell the artificial from the natural. As Bois sonneau says in his book, "The eye artificial I is composed of enamel, and modeled in the Ilamp of the enameler." The optic is held and turned in the flame until it becomes red hot, the glass being almost in a state of fusion. At this point the iris is introduced into the open , ing in the end of the optic, being melted in from the end of a small stick of glass of the color or the eye which it is wished to imitate. If the eye is brown, brown glass is used; if blue, blue glass is used. 'Hie pupil of the eye is always made with a drop of black glass in the centre of tae iris. The bided vessels seen In the white of the eye are easily put in with red glass while the optic is glowing with heat like a ball of gold. Tho whole eye can be made inside of an hour, and is sit once ready to put in. The reader should know that ills simply a thin shell, which Is intended to cover the stump of the blind eye. After being dipped in water this shell is slip , ped in place, being held by the eyelids, The secret of imparting motion to it depends upon working the glass eye so that It shall fit the stump—if it is too large, it will not move ; if it tits nicely, it moves in every particular like the natural eye, and it is quite impossible, in many cases, to tell one from the other. The operation is not In the least painful, and those who have worts them a number of years feel better with them in than when they are out. A glass eye should be taken out every night and put in in the morning. Im +three or. four years the, fuse eye becomes, so worn that a new one lass to be obtained. Seine ladies, who live at a distance from the manufactory - , keep a box of glass eyes on hand in case of accident. ACCOMMODATING In the . yvild Western neighborhood the sound of a church-going frell had never been heard; notice was given that the Hew. Mr. A—, a distinguished Presbyterian divine, would preach on a certain day. The natives, who consisted mainly of those hardy pioneers who have preceded Civilization, came to hear hint. They had an indistinct idea that " preaching' was something to be heard, and all attended to hear it. After the service hail begun, a raw-boned hunter, with rifle in hand and all the accoutre ments of the chase about him, entered and took .the only vacant sent—a nail-keg without either bead. The current thoughts of the preacher led him Into a description of heaven and its inhabitants. With great power he had drawn a picture of the habitation of the blessed, and was assigning each of the patriarchs, apostles and prophets his appropriate place. Ilia Cal ' vinistic tendencies led him to reserve the Apostle Paul for his climacteric. With his eye fixed upon the highest point, and with an upward gesture that seemed to be directed to the loftiest attitude of the heavenly places, he said— " And where, my brethren, shall we seat the great Apostle of the Gentiles ? Where, I say, shall we place the Apostle Paul 4" Then Pausing,.lo give the imagination time to reach the elevation designed fur the Apos tle, lie tired his eyes upon thr. hero of the rifle. Ile, therefore, thinking the trildrcsv personal, rose instantly and replied— "lf he can't do no better he can lake my beat." It is needless to say that climax wait never reached. • A MI:s3STEII of Indianapolis proposes thnt he'reatter, Instead of saying, "Let us sing the Doxology," the minister says, "Let no put on our over.coats, adjust rums, slip on gloves, grab our hats, look. to the Lord, and he MI -1116F! d." 'A CONNECTICUT farmer's y!fe, who WII3 noted : for n ,teen eye to the titiaretal, on heir z t l.i by Mr litis'oand, its cr•.ne case (march in,!, , uf, t'oat he had been electel deacon, eagerly laquired : "But how much money will you get by it r ROBERT IREDELL, JR., :Vain anb ifttito2 21ob hinter, No. 47 EAST HAMILTON STREET, ELEOANT PRINTING , ' NEW DEMONS, LATEEN STYLES Stamped Checks, Cara, Circulars, Paper Books, Coned lotions and By-Laws School Catalogues, Bill Heads Envelopes, Letter I tende Bills or Lading, Way Bills, Taga and Shipping Cards, ter. of any size, etc., etc., Printed at Short Pos Notice NO. 37 GIVE WILLING BOYS A The lesson inculcated in the following brief sketch is worth studying : A green, rustic lad came years ago to the metropolis from a Connecticut village. At home ho had done well in an honorable way, but he had read and heard of the wonderful city. lie made up his mind lie could do some thing in it. When he reached the city no place seemed open to him. Day after day ho hunted for business. Want stared him in the face. He would not go back to his friends. Dropping into a large dry goods house ono day in thesearch for work, ho chaticed to come face to face with the proprietor. " We have nothing for you to do, sir ?" this great business man said in reply to his inquiry " but stay, what can you do l" he continued, " you seem to be an honest looking lad." " Oh, sir, I can do anything—only try me. Only give me a chance to do something !" And the tears came out and trickled down the checks of the almost discouraged, forlorn boy, though lie tried as hard as he could to repress them. " I will take the poorest place and do my best." He was engaged and set to work. He was sent down to the cellar and commenced his business career in New-York by pounding,bent nails,, which had ben thrown in a pile beside the packing boxes, so they could be used. This was his work for two weeks, and he barely kept body and soul together on the pay he received. Then he was put in a better place. Then he rose to a clerk, and no clerk was so bard-working, so faithful, so interested In this great house as himself. He saw Ins chance and counted up in his own busy brain every point in the game. In live years from that time he sat ou the manager's seat and hammered the crooked ins and outs of the business straight. During his clerkship he never missed a day; and no morning went by without reporting promptly at seven o'clock. He saved money and prospered as the years went by. Go up Broadway to-day, and you will see his name in golden letters over the entrance to one of the finest establishments In that building there are seventeen million dollars worth of stock. His trade extends an over the land. Ills fortune is princely. And even now, though the great merchant is getting gray, and the old time energy is waxing slow, a new light will come into his eyes, and a new life to Ins form, when he tells of those . past days of striving, and says to the young men around dm— " Work, if you would succeed. Be a true, aithful, earnest clerk, if you would become a nerchant of position and importance." ED PEPPERS AND REGIMEN TALS. The following good joke is told by the /4- coming Gazette on Col. Levi Tate, editor of the "yearning Standard. Both papers are of the Democratic persuasion. The incident is s -said to have occurred about the year 1840, at the town of Berwick, at an old fashioned mil itary training. The war-like steed the Colo marode on the occasion carried his bead and tall both down, and amused the spectators by Its awkward movements : During a brief interval in the exercises of the day, the Colonel had his charger hitched to a post in front of the village inn, (though:, there was about as much danger of him run ning away as there was of the post to which he was hitched,) whilst he was inside forming the central figure of a group of officers that had congregated In the old fashioned bar room. The column was to move in a few minutes, not to the field of carnage and blood, but to the parade ground, where intricate military evolutions were to be performed and fierce though bloodless charges made by the corn stalk hrtgade. A number of wags were look ing at the sleepy old horse and deliberating what could be done to infuse a little life into him. At last a genius among their number, without the fear of the Colonel's wrath before him, advanced with a monstrous red pepper, about the size of a goose egg, and gently ele vating the animal's sirildter, deposited the fiery vegetable underneath it. The tail came down with the spring of a rat trap and held it firm in the proper place I At this moment the Colonel was seen advancing, and in a jiffy he "vaulted into the saddle." The horse soon inaugurated a series of movements of such a' character as to justify the supposition that he was suffering from a serious fire in the rear. During his eccentric gyrations he suddenly elevated L s latter end to such a fearful angle that his rider came near being unhorsed. The Colonel, however, quickly regained his equi librium, and casting a look of great compla cency upon the crowd, exclaitued : "Really, I believe Dobbin knows that I haremy regimen tals on!" At this juncture another terial ex ploit was performed, and so.suddenly, that off came both Colonel, and regimentals It was a sublime instance of christian fideli ty on the part of the Colonel thus to humble himself In the dust ; but whether.he or the horse should receive the credit Is a mooted poiht to this day. The riderless steed tore frantically round the field. The soldiers gazed in mute aston ishment, whilst some graceless scamps—the red pepper man among them—began to sing the following words to the tune of Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines : The Kernel he went out to drill, The bugle sounded and nil was well, But his horse for reasons couldn't bland And that wouldn't do for the array. Chorus.—The boys they all cried out • They all did shout • They all cried out, The hoes they all did ',heat, He'll lever do for the army. This terrible mishap in the military 'career of the Colonel broke up the drill. As might have been expected', he was indignant. The miscreant who placed the red pepper under the tail of his horse was mint discovered, or he would have been tried by a drum head court martial and shot. PROOF POSITIVE.—The following anecdote is told of the late .1. F. herrings the animal painter. A dozen years ago he painted asniall Picture, and received a check in 'payment. The check was written on a slip of " Pay Mr. J. F. Herring," and duly signed, but without the insertion of the words " bearer" or "to order." The clerk at the bank looked very doubtfully, first nt tt, and then at the person presenting it. The artist noticed the .h esitation, and demanded what was wrong. The clerk explained. "Don't you see it's payable to J. F. Her. ring I" " I do," said the clerk. " Well, I ant lie." " How do I know that ?" said the clerk. "Do you know what J. F. herring is ?" • ''Rather,'' said the clerk ; " I've got Three Members of the Temperance Society' at home." Herring was delighted. • Ile seized a pen, and, on a sheet of blotting-paper lying on the counter, flashed of a sketch or the horses' heads drinking front a trough, which com posed the picture. "What do you think of that?" said he, handing it across. The 'clerk paid hint at once. Muss; MEN:—lnsh Billings don't appear to Have a very good opinion of horse traders in general. Be says that the men who have a great deal to do with horses demoralize faster titan horses . do, and adds: "I know lots of folly WHO are real plus, and who arc honest cutoff to work up into United States Assessors, and some good moral chunks left, but when they kum to tork. boss, they want as much looking after as a case of dipthery." THE Vice-President, President of the Sen ate pru km., Secretary of the Senate, anti Speaker and Clerk of the house at Washing ton, were all editors. A LEr7EII was- recently received at the Boiton Pm•. , :iree. the address noon which rye the c!er;ci. was decipi:ered as ".Tcamkey 13:aine' . (Jamaica Plain), and it was forwarded to that place. ALLENTOWN. PA CHANCE
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