ADVERTISING RATES. 1 ma. 3 mon. 6 me.. lyr. 1.50 1.73 3.30 6.50 12.131 3.00 3.50 6.50 9.03 2100 4.&0 5.23 9.00 17.00 25.00 11.30 17.01 25.00 43.00 13.60 22.00 40.00 00.00 20.00 40.00 00.00 110.01 30.00 00.130 110.00 210.00 3ne Square l'wo Squires Three Squares Six Squares, Quarter Column Half Column . One Column Professional Card' MAO per line per year. A.lminidrator'■ and Auditor's Notices, City Notices, cent, per line let Insertion, IS cents per t Ins each subsequent Insertion. Ten Ruae agate constitute a sqpare. ROBERT IREDELL, JR., Punususu, ALLENTOWN, PA Cod anb Lumber. ER OW, I= ROUGH & WORKED LUMBER, SASH DOORS AND BLINDS, I= Ear Orden from the trade • °Haled • VILBSRT. ILOTTO. U. N. OTTO. O. W. YILLIR F ILBERT, OTTO olc MILLER, I= LUMBER, WILLIAMSPORT, PA MILL ON.CANAL, WEST OF MAYNARD STREET, OFFICE AT TUB MILL W. F. CRANE, A010(.1.. REMOVAL! SMITH & OSMUN'S COAL AND WOOD YARD I The above Coal and Wood Yard ho, been removed to the east end of the Jordan Bridge, SOUTH SIDE, where will be eonetantly kept a Iluo and full supply of Egg, Stove Nut and Chestnut Coal eateeted from the beet mine@ lu the country. OUR COAL • muter cover—add It I• to the Interest of •very uu to Purchase DRY AND SCREENED COAL RYA large stock of all kinds of good Wood constantly on hand. and delivered to all parte of the city at the lowest rearket r mlfe?. vll l ll l 4. Depot, A known p A ' t n h c e h T:r e rd t; kepte g 1 ' 1! f Loots the L ehigh Hecker. AQI-TIII2I IS TIIEPEOPLE'S COAL YARD.-Ell Our Coal In selected from the best mines in the Lehigh region. and knowing thin to be the fact and that it will gins perfect satisfaction, there is no use in offering to refund the money. All we ask is a trial. Orders taken at Desb: lees hat stare. FRANK LIN SMITH, WILLIAM OSUUNI • jut,. 11th COAL CONSUMERS, LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST! P. H. STELTZ Flereby Informs the citizens of Allentown, sail the pub lie In general, that be Is prepared to furnish all kinds of Co A L , from hi. well stocked Yard, formerly 11. Guth & Co.'., at tho Lehigh Oman, In the City of Allentown, where he will constantly keep on hand a full supply of all kinds of Coal, at the very lowest market prices. Ills coal Is nice and clean, from the very heat mines, cud In quality superior o any offered In Allentown. Ile will eel! Coal by the CAR LOAD, at eery .mall pro Ate, as ho intend. to do buelneen upon the principle ° •• Quick Salem nod Small Prollts." him ■ call, and upon comparing prices you can Judge for youraelyee. Ile w 111 deliver Coal upon call . to any part of the City upon order. being left at the Yard, or Welu.heimee■ Gore P. 11. STELTZ. MEM REMOVAL. TREXLER & BROTHERS, DY•LYY! IX ♦LL SIXES O• LUMBER, Hereby announce to their friends and patrons that they harejuet removed from their old stand to their NEW YARD sear th• corner of Tenth and Hamilton street., formerly occupied by Beaune & Miller, as a •Lumber Yard, where they will constantly keep on hand a large and soaeouod stock of LUMBER, such Li all klrds of PINE, HEMLOCK, CHESTNUT POPLAR, SHINGLES PICKETS, LATIIS, A, In fact ifeerything nasally kept by the trade. Ifir All kinds of lumber cut to order at short notice. Thankful for pail favors, we trust our friends, as well as the public In general, will ire g u• a call at our New Yard. where we will use our best endeavers to render sat• eactlon both as regards quality and pries's. foci M'al.tf o CONTRACTORS AND BUILD -Ikalene nlined Is prepared to contract for tarnishing SASH, BLINDS, WINDOW FRAMES, DOOR FRAMES: SHUTTERS. And ►ll kinds of building lumber Agent for HOPE ELATE COMPANY'S LEHIGH SLATE Wholesale mud retail dealer la th• CELEBRATED CUCUMBER PUMP Orders left at the EAGLE HOTEL will recel•e promp •tteulloo. Post othco address. Wu. 11. BERLIN Quakertown, Quakertown, Bucks Co., a. sew Z!-IT MEM REVIVAL•I I The subscriber. having leaned the "Old Hope Cu Yard," would respectfully anuounce to the cltlacnit • Allentown and the public in goueral, that they hav•ju lot I= COAL Consisting of Stove, EFL Cholituut and Nut from lb M MUCK MOUNTAIN INES. oi.dera left •tellb A. A. lltiber, Steger & Ito tele the Eagle [Wel Hope Rolling or the Ya ti r e relll b .Headed to In BUSINESS like manner. • Orders fur Coal by the ear tilled if avidee and the lowest price.. Alwq■ on baud a largo stock of BALED HAY, which will be mold at the lowest market price. L. W. KOONS & CO., •t Me' Old Hops Coal 'lard Hamilton Street, corner of Lehigh Valley flathead •LLENTOWN, PA L. W. Noolio oct27 STANDARD NOVELS OF THE BEST AUTHORS IN PAPER COVERS, FROM 15 CENTS UPWARDS JUVENILE AND TOY BOOKS AMERICAN AND LONDON, FROM FIVE CENTS UPWARDS Writing Desks EVERY STYLE AND PRICI A. NEW' STOOK OF Pocket Knives OF VARIOUS PRICES ''BEAUTIFUL PORT-MONNAIES, POCK ET BOOKS, LADIES' WORK BOXES and COMPANIONS, and evcriimagl ankle article kept In a fancy goods and stationery store. AT IREDELL'S BOOK STORE 45 EAST HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA. A RARE OPPORTUNITY. T. C. 1C...1m of the old Allentown Chios and Olase• ware Store. finding la le health requires a release from th cares of Matures urns his stock and fixtures for tale, •nd stone and dwelling for mot. T.• 10..".. I. lir d • with an establiehed, profitable. nod increasing sash Sri nes.. which would not be parted with but for the oboe reason. Thie le a chance seldom lobe met with for total ri g I t s , a oafs, profitable, establiebe4l littrainAeinix. VOL. XXIV &curio, Probtoiono, THE RIGHT PLACE TO BUY E. FENSTEIIMACIIER, CORNER OP TENT,' AND HAMILTON STREETS he place to boy all kinds of PROVISIONS, ITIZI I=l ORANGES AND LEMONS POTATOES, SALT, Alao, all kinds of MPORTED DRIED FRUIT, such PEARS, PRUNES, RAISINS, CHERRIES, &0., Always on hand a good onnortment of the heel quality of ORDCLIIIES of all descriptions. Do not olno the phtce, curuer of Tenth and Hatulltou, to hop good. thin. at reasonable prices. aug 25tf E. FENSTERMACHER. 4, au[ ta 1/ NEW GROCERY Provision Store! SAVE YOUR MONEY ! OUR MOTTO: TO PLEASE ALL I TROXELL STINE, No. 73 Haat Hamilton Street, Allentown, Pa., WOULD hereby announce to the public that they have just opened In the Grocery and Provision trade In connec tion with the Confectionery, Fruit and Toy business here• Wore carried on by the senior partner of the firm, and hereby Invite an Inspection of their goodsand prices . Theluntock.of family supplies Is entirety fresh, and ent• braces everything usually kept Ina well regluated Groce ry Store, such as Flour, r Feed, . , Crackers, .„ Cheese. Peas, Coffees, , Sugar., Spices, "jitt'. Moinnsex, Salt,. Ilam, Beer, illideicles.Sauce, Soda, Catsup, Nutmeg., Canned Fruit, Starch. S to vs Poll.h, Pepper, Ahopice, Dried Fruit, Salwratu., Corn Starch, Cinamon, Rice, Clove. Brooms, Bockeie, Tuba. Brush..., Cordage, Candle., Soapb Ba.kets, Twine. Coal oil, Vinegar,__ Blacking Cedar Ware, Willow Ware Butter, Egg, Potatoes, Bar dine.. (linger, Lernone, Olawerare, Tobacco, Cigars Bean., Notions, Extracts, &c. They aloe offer the most approved ENGLISH SAUCES CATSUPS, OLIVE , OIL PURE PICK I,ED In.eves, MUSTARDS, AND OTHER APPROVED RELISHES FOR THE TABLE, ALL OP WIIICII MAY RE IMPLICITLY RELIED UPON FOR .THEIR PURITY .11WCORN MEAL, BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, FEED i 1 a full iiesortinent of articles usually Seat in • aria asa Grocery and Provision Store. CANDIES, TOYS, NUTS, FRUITS, &C VIE newt OF GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS The highent market price paid fur COUNTRY PRODUCE, all-We study to please. •ud bops, by atrial attent lon to burinese and ladling at low prices, to merit a liberal snare of public patronage. SIMON TROXELL.) [WILLOUGHBY STINE. nor 3.3 m Minboln Sbabro IL A. STEEL, UPHOLSTERING, WINDOW SHADE & BEDDING STORE, No. 46 North Niuth Street, 'WINDOW SHADES, With fixtures complete. from $2.00 a pair, LP . WHITE HOLLAND SIIADES AT ALL I'RICES. SIIADES OF ANY STYLE AND COLOR MADE TO OR STORE SHADES MADE AND LETTERED I= ALL KINDS AF WINDOW DRAPERY PATENT MOSQUITO CANOPIES. GILT. ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT CORNICES. CURTAIN BANDS. TASSELS, CORD. kc. FURNITURE STRIPS CUT AND MADE. STAIR AND VESTIBULE RODS. FURNITURE RE-UPHOLSTERED AND VARNISHED. Carpels and MaLtlngs, old and now, made, altered and put down. UPHOLSTERERS' MATERIALS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AT 'WHOLESALE A NEW TIEING. BILK FINISHED WINDOW SHADES. oce nay I . E. WALRAVEN, MASONIC HALL, NO. 3 CHESTNUT STREET, Is now ref:riving his Pall Importationg, con.l.llui In part of CURTAIN MATERIALS, In Bilk. Mohair, Worsted, Linen and Cotton, embracing many novelties. Lace Curtains Parisi., St. O►llen alld Nottingham make. CORNICES AND DECORATIONS K. K. Deuvoo7 of new and original ands.. WINDOW SHADES by the thoueand or eines one at manufacturers' prices MUSQUITO CANOPIES, MEI TABLE KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS COFFEE MILLS. hr., M C. Y. WOLFEETZ'S Store, No. M East Unmllloo Street. y For Pure Water, thlicelebtated Put entirely tasteless, durable and relic. WE equal to the good old•faehlonee wooden Pump, at wet less than hell manly Emily art eo at to be nou•I and in conetructic that •n y, en. Can keep It In repair. THE BEST ANT AGENTS WANTED. AGENTS WANTED. *76 to 1100 D per month, male and female, to sell the celebrated and original Common Besse Family Sewing Machine. Improved nod perfected; It will ham, fell, stltcla , tuck, bind, braid and embroider In • most superior manner. Price only 415. For simplicity and du u rability, it has nu rival. Do nut bny from auy parties hmelling machines under the mane name as ours. unless having • certineate of Agency signed by um, am they are worthless Cast Iron Mackin.. Fur Circular. sod Terms, letSt r AW l Vitb & CO. °ml . /0.3m 40 Chestnut St., l'hilad'a, I t s. R. M. ROBINSON dc CO., IblPOßTittl. r•nurac T 8888 /11 /1111(11111121107 3ULITARY, CHURCH, SOCIETY, THEATRICAL GOODS, FLAGS, BAN NO. 131 NORTH THIRD STREET, I= &c., &C., At cheap prices, such as AND ALSO, IN CASH OR TRADE =I Closing out at reduced prices (9uccmors to I'm. 0.. MlLtaar.) NEM, BADGES, ETC =I c.bt .. .....•Vrbich'' .. ../1 - ,:i.i.olt_f+. japer anti Stationtru. scHoi..Aus, ATTENTION: PUPILS, PARENTS AND ALL OT111;,'IIS W ll° NEED BOOKS Olt STATIONERY Are Invited to cull nt No. U Went llotnlltou Street, (Wolk old cwod, not completew Eighth Street, where you will Sod large stock of all ttltple of School Books used In this county, at tbo limext casb prices A full line of LATIN, GREEK, OLIIMAN aud FRENCH books for Colleges, Academies aud Schools. always on hand, at the lowest rates. A full assortment of Stationery, Blank Books, Memo. random., Pocket Books, Combs, Albums, Pictures, Ster eoscopes and Views, Window Paper, ftc., sold at tho very lowest cash prices. English nod Oerma pocket and fatally Bible.. Prayer Books aud 11 1 e l m Bust s. A large aud splendid clock of Miscellaneous Books Itt Prose and Poetry, and Sunday School Books. All the rn quisltes for Sunday Schools always on hand at Philadel phia Prices. We are cloning oat our stock of WALL PAPER at cost. Agent for the lotto or BRADBURY'S CELEBRATED PIANOS pl ea ,,, ,N 0 mu a call when you wish to rurclustiol E. MOSS, au 18.6m3 llamllLoo Iluntown, Pa. 1-869. PHILADELPHIA. 1809. WALL PAPERS. HOWELL & BOURKE, PAPER HANGINGS AND WINDOW SHADES, SALES ROOMS, Cur. FOURTH nut! MARKET St.., PHILADELPHIA. • Esetory, Cur. Twoulv•third and Sansom NEW STYLES EVERT • DAY, OF OUR OWN MAKE. eel 0-31.1 earprts anb Off FLOUR UIL CLOTH, 4-4, 5.4 and 9.1 lu New and Elegant Designs //Hi/ Lower its Price. , KRAMER'S "OLD CORNER." RICH AND ELEGANT . CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &c. S. C. FO ULK Ms resumed tie CARPET BUSINESS AT .19 B—SECOND ST., PHILADELPHIA, (Between Market and Chestnut Ste., ) NVOis a full assortment of VELVET, BRUSSELS, THREE .Pl.lt, INGRAIN and VENETIAN CARPETS, Oil Cloth, - Window Shades, he., at reduced prices. cep 15-1 y Plumbing anb eas ifixturco. 6 is rxxTuitEs. ADDIS & ROBERTS, y , PLUMBERS AND GAS FITTERS, NO. 136 WEST HAMILTON STREET, GEORGE lIAAS' NEW BUIT,DING), ALLENTdWN All klurls of Oas Fixtures of Um best makers, Ilydrauts ydraullc Rams, Lift and Force Pumps, DEEP WELL PUMPS, Datil Tubs, Water Clonetit Circulating Boilers. he., ho. Special attention given to putting up Portable Clan Work.. In town or country. All work warranted. apr 7-17 GAS FIXTURES AND KEROSENE LAMPS. A GREAT. VARIETY Ur NEW RTYLKS. MERIDIAN BURNER, Went and Beet In the market. It given the largest light . of nay burner made. COULTER, JONES & CO., • MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS, 702 ARCH BT., PIIILADA. jet-ly QTItATTON'S PORTABLE AIR GAS L. 3 MACHINE. PATENTED MARCH HST, SA I'6 MONEY BY MA KING TOUR OWN GAS. THE CHEAPEST LIGHT IN USE. Stratton's One Machine for illuminating Ilotelv, Private Residences, Stores, etc., in oimple construction, c ad s all the material uso , d in the manufacture of gar, la so cheap as to bring it within the reach of all. It le free from explosions, can be managed by •ny person, and producer a superior light to all otherr, at one-half the coot of ordinary burning gay. NO FIRE IS APPLIED TO THE APPARATUS. It ran be uttu.hed to ordinary gas pipe. and fixtures, the only variation being in the enlargement of the burner jets. All piton of the apparatur are made In the moat thorough and workmanlike manner. Superiority over Cost Is claimed in the following particularn First, of Conortictiou. Second, !Omni:luting Capac ity. Third, Comp:trine. and Simplicity. and conmequenr impeaelbility of its getting out of order. Fourth, Economy In use of material. A machine capable of supplying ter .burners cert. VA. Any further Information will be given and the working,. of the machine explained by calling upon the agent for Lehigh county. C. W. STUBER, • WALNUT STREET, CORNER OF PENN, bIIAILENDERII ALI.ENTOWN PA • coNsitionocALEN BOILER AND COIL WORKS. JOIIN WOOD, J R., MANCYACTU.IO. OF TUBE, FLUE AND CYLINDER BOILERS, BATH AND STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS, kinds of Wrought Iron Coils, Toyer. for Blest Fun nave, Gasometer., Smoke Stack, Blast ripen, Iron Wheel harrow.. and everything In tlit. Boiler and Sheet Iron line. Also, all kind. of Iron and fiteel Forging% and Illackxonith work,lfiners' Tools of all kinds, each as Whem Buckets, Pick., Drilla, Mallets, Sledge., &r. Baying a eam Hamer and bet of tooln of all kinds, and skilled workmen, Im flatter myself' that I can t ur n nut work with prompineas end dispatch, all of which will be warranted to lie Orst•clas.. Patching Boller., and repairing generally. et a r:ctly •t -tended to. or 4 1 TOIIN A. STAMBACII, MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' FANCY FURS, 826 ARCH STREET, I=! A large assortment, newest styles, lowest prices, and all FURS GUARANTEED go be as represented. non 17-It W . J. EVERETT'S NEW PATENT SCAPULAR SHOULDER BRACE AND STRAP SUPPORTER. No straps ender the arms. Perfectly comfortable, ana tomically made, and highly beneficial. 60 North 7th St., below Arch. Philadelphia. Tresses, Supporters, Eitudic Stockings. Crutches, Ac.. lowest prices lu the city. Lady attendant. sop 111 • • CANDY AND FRUIT. GEO. W JENKINS Butee.or to RUDICAN & SELLERS, irt 1 I I lifacturer of SUGAR, MOLASSES AND COCOANUT CANDY, FRUITS, NUTS, FIRE WORKS, ♦ND CHRISTMAS GOODS 161 NORTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA deo U•l7 =CI ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1870. a 13ru 41500b0 gmgg; SEASONABLE • SPECIALTIES BLUE AND COLORED DRESS SILKS, PLAIDS, POPLINS, PLAISEY AND meocHA ,sTrATVLS, BLANKET SHAWLS, WATER PROOF, FOR SUITS, WHITE AND COLDRED BLANKETS, &C., &C., &C Embracing the most complete stock of Dry Guods at POPULAR LOW PRICES It will halo your interest to examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere. M. J. KRAMER, " OLD CORNER." IMEI SE.AIII A N & TRA EG.EIt, SOUTII MAIN STREET, BETHLEHEM BLACK Oros Wean SILKS, BLACK DRAB D'FRANCE SILKS, BLACK TAFFETA SILKS. The largemt and cheaptel assortment or SILKS we hareever had the Wee ore Ut utferiug the Public. SEAMAN & TRAEGER. e1101(.!1: NE IV 8 TYLEhr FANCY SILKS, SEAMAN Sz TRAEGER FRENCH SILK POPLIN, MARBLE POP LINS, PLAIN POPLINS. SEAMAN & TRAEGER. ,i ll . l ll 4 er c . • e t:l4 riredes, from the lowest to for SEAMAN fi TRAEGER. uoLORED ALPACAS, all Prke.. MY cheap. SEAMAN & TRAEGER DRESS GOODS in every variety of Plain and Fancy Style.. SEAMAN & TRAEGER. pLEApnEp SHEETINGS nd SHIRTING'S in very large abboruneut CHECKS: TICKINUS and DENIMS. SEAMAN & TRAEGER. SH AWLS. Large and extenelve assortment of BLACK TIMMY, BItOCHE and PAISLEY, BLANKET, CHE NILLE. MISSES', lu great variety of sire and color, SEAMAN A; TRAEGER. SPECIAL. ATTENTION Is requested to our elegant nodcomplete line of LADIES DRESS TRI M. MI S. consisting in purl of BUELIOA and TASSELS, FRINGE, REAL GUIPURE toad BRUSSEL LADE, GIMPS, BRAIDS, NEB' STYLE FLUTED TRIM -311.0G, &c. uurrozis lu severs! hundred different styles. SEAMAN Sz TRAEGER. • 'HOSIERY, GLOVES, UNDER CLOTH I NG for LADIES', CHILDREN and GEN FLEMEN. WOOLEN YARNS, &c. SEAMAN & TRAEGER. FLANNELS, all widtlus, Red, Blue, HAM ud Plu in. Real Genuine Rune-mode Flannel. SEAMAN & TRAEGER. ZEPRYR ITORSTED, GERMANTOWN WOOL, CASHMERE YARNS, EMBROIDER ED WORSTED WORK, and a full assortment In that line. BY MAIL we tend samples of any goods capable of bo ng seta by sum e through the mail with price. attached o each piece. We god title to be a great convenience to tactics unable to personally visit us. • SEAMAN & TRAEGER. • FAMILY GROCERIES, Staple and Fancy,. nicely kept, euiptingly gotten LIP I,llld of tin Beet Qualities. • SEAMAN Sc TRAEGER CROCKERY, emythtogrequired In that line forhotme keeping Puri.... BEAMAN & TRAEGER. u4 TAlr o , Lay4 ;k l:: . l p c i k n e i L.. at al! surto of Wooden . Ware SEAMAN & TRAEGER. All kind. of Country Produce taken lu exchange for good. at the higheat SEAMAN & TRAEGER. We are endeavoring to keep a foil line of every article o the may of Dry Goods, Small Ware,. Notion.. aro tele,. Crockery. Wooden Ware. and in fact everything except Carpets) to he found in a retail store. SEAMAN & TRA EG ER, MAIN STREET, •ep 2] N EW FIRM ! NEW GOODN! FRIEDENSVILLE AIIEAD! SHELLY AND WHITNER, ngslng purchased the Frledrosville store. have opened an entire new mock of goods which will be sold as low am the lowest. NO USE NOW TO 00 TO TIIECITY Foll ANT THING. for you can get thre. DRESS GOODS, PRINTS. DELAINES. MUSLINS. SIIk:RTINGS of all grades and at all prices. Tho Biloxi. stock of Grocarlem In the country. Hardware In Its variety. China, Glass and erockeryware a large assortment. • We have employed the services of • FIRST-CLASS CITY TAILOR, and as we have an extensive stuck of Clothe, Camlineres and Vestings all bought •t the. lowest wholesale prim, we are prepared to manufacture BUITS TO ORDER. in ma In good style and styl e and is es low Prices they can bought for P airnnv GOODE RECEIVED DAILY...IEIR ex= REPPS, Respectfully, SEAMAN & TRAEGER BETHLEHEM SHELLY & WIIITNER 71111111ENBVI LLB. PA DON PEDRO'S STORY Imagine to yourself a tall, spare, elderly man, with dark-gray hair, fiery black eyes,ra largo Boman nose, and a finely-cut, firm and expressive mouth, whose walk is slow, proud and erect, and you will have the picture of Don Pedro, de San Montanjo, a Spaniard, whose acquaintance I made, now long years ago, during a short sojourn at a German watering-place. A trifling incident that oc curred one morning on one of the public prom enades served to bring us. together. From that moment we met frequently, and In the course of a few days we came to spend much of our time together. die was a man of high culture, had seen much of the world, and pos sessed in an eminent degree that dignified ur banity of manner so characteristic of his race. One evening the dining-room of our hotel, which served also as a cafe, being so full as to render an interchange of confidence impracti cable, Don Pedro said to me " Senor, if you arc not to appear under the window of some lady with your lute,and have no other engage. ment to prevent, I should be glad if you would join me over a bottle of genuine Ximenes in my apartments." " I shall be most happy," I replied, "as I have no appointment to fulfill. I know no ladies here ; besides, it is not the custom in Germany to play the lute in the street, or to communicate with on&s mistress nt the win dow. I will accompany you with pleasure." " Remain here, then," said he, rising, "for a few moments, till I with Diego" (his servant) " make some little preparation, when I will send for you." Now it occurred to me for the first time, that I had never seen Don Pedro's apartments. We had always met in the public rooms of the hotel, where the guests were accustomed to assemble. A quarter of nn hour had hardly elapsed, when Diego appeared with a silver candlestick, bowed respectfully, and begged me to follow. At the head of the first flight of stairs, Diego opened a door and motioned me to enter. I halted at, the threshold sur prised. The black coat my old friend usually wore bad been changed for a velvet doublet trimmed with yellim sills, and a red mantillo that fell gracefully over his Shoulders. At his side he carried a sword with a golden hilt. He advanced ceremoniously to receive me, extending his withered hand from the ruffles that almost concealed it. " You are welcome, Anor," said he. "Do not let the simplicity of my apartments surprise you ; when we travel, you know, we cannot have every thing as comfortable as at home. My salon nt Madrid presents a somewhat more Inviting appearance, and my divans are of real Moor ish workmanship. But be seated on this little thing called a sofa. Thexines, at least, of our host are pure and good. Be seated, I pray you." With these words, hp led me to a sofa, before which stood a table well supplied with wines and delicacies. Diego filled our glasses, brought cigars, n light, and retired. As I sat down and took Is hasty survey of the room, I observed that the walls were naked, with the exception of a single portrait that hung direct ly opposite me. It represented a young lady in Spanish costume. A cheerful, blooming face, with clear, loving eyes, n finely-cut mouth, and a soft round chin, stood out life like from the canvas. Luxuriant dark hair, and a little hat, ornamented with a white bushy feather, shadedlTETHilooth brow. Her rich robe—which left her finely-moulded neck exposed—and her ornaments of massive gold, discovered alike the lady's refined taste and high social position. I venturer" a remark to tile extreme beauty of the portrait; and could not refrain from evincing a deseire to know whom it repre sented. " Ah !" said the old don, "thereto hangs a tale; it is a long story, and with it is inter woven the Most important event of my life. I cannot tell you who the lady is, but I can tell you who she was, if you choose to listen. I shall, however, be compelled, at the same time, to tell you something of myself." I assured him that that would only increase the interest "But," said he, "you do not drink. This is genuine Spanish wine, and you must drink of it, if you consent to accompany me to .Va- lencia." We drank of the inspiring Ximenes, lighted our cigars, and Don Pedro began : " Senor, I was born in Granada. My fa ther commanded a regiment, and he and my . mother were connected with the oldest fami lies of the kingdom. I received a liberal edu cation,'and was taught the accomplishments flint adorn a nobleman. When rreached my twentieth year, possessing a strong and vigo rous constitution, my father decided that I should enter the army. But being a stern man and a severe disciplinarian, and fearing that my mother's influence might induce him to spare me in the performance of my duties, he decided that I should enter another ,regi ment. llis choice fell on Pampeluna, where my uncle commanded. There I became a thorough soldier, and, in the following ten years, rose step by step to the rank of cap tain. Wheit I was thirty, my uncle was or dered to Valencia, and, through his influence, I was, in a few months, enabled to follow him' as his adjutant. On my arrival in Valencia, I found that great changes had taken ,place in my uncle's household. For some years before leaving Pampelunn, he had been a widower•. In Valencia he had 'become acquainted with a rich widow, whom he had married a few weeks before my arrival. You can imagine my astonishment when he presented me to an elderly lady calling her his wife ; my surprise, however, was more than equalled by my de light, when he presented me to a young girl, beautiful as the rising sun, and called her his daughter, my cousin. "Until that day I had never loved ; and tor that reason my comrades often called me Pe dro to piedrie ; but the stone incited like wax in the sre of Laura's bright eyes. "You see her there, senor," he continued ; that portrait represents her divine features as nearly as it is possible for art to copy the wondrous works of Nature. It was thus she wore her hair, thus her little - hat, with the waving plume, sat lightly on her brow I And when she opened her dark eyes, bordered with her thin, ong lashes, it seemed as though some celestial being looked down smilingly upon you. "My love, senor, brought me only pleas ure ; I could he with its object daily. Those barriers that in my native land usually sepa rate lovers, for us did not exist. And when I looked into the future, how bright, how smil ing was the prospect 1 MY , uncle loved me as a son, and, if I rightly interpreted his man ner, he was not displeased in witnessing my growing attachment to hie daughter. There were no objections to ha feared on the part , of my father, for Daiwa was •of a noble house, and the wealth of her mother was well known. You can form some idea of the depth end sin cerity of my attachment, when you reflect that 1 loved where there were no obstacles to overcome. As fire under a roof progresses slowly until it hi arrested j y a wall, when it bursts fprth Into a conflagration, so with love, when it meets with obstacles. Difficulties that scent insurmountable only increase its ardor ; we are a prey to a flame that we Imagine can only be extinguished in tile arms of the loved one. We speak with the lady nt the lattice, we send her tender epistles by her maid. By day and by night our imagination pictures a being endowed with eve charm that adorns her sex, for until now we have only seen her cloaked and veiled. At length, either by stratagem or by force the difficulties are over come. We fly to her side, lead her to' the church, and—afterward look at the paragon more carefully. "Look at the beautiful. meadow that covers a swampy moorland, and that breaks under your feet at every step, making openings for the mud that purl' up from below, so here. Daily you discover in the lady some new ca price ; daily the mantle that concealed her from your view Is drawn aside, until at last you wish yourself once more at her lattice, singing a lover's lament for—the last time." " I fear you are a little cynical, Don Pedro," said I ; "what you say is sometimes true, no doubt, but is it so in the main? I think not, for then that divine spaik which penetrates the innermost recesses of the heart, and joins two existences in one, would be a wicked de lusion. I must believe in its heavenly origin." " I understand what you would say," re plied Don Pedro. "That supreme moment, when a second suffices to establish perfect sympathy between two settle, is divinely beau tiful, but it is too often followed by bitter dis appointment. Listen to me further. No bar riers restrained, no obstacles animated me, and yet no cavalier in Spain loved more ar dentlyinn did I. It was now only in Laura's heart that any hinderance could arise, and— her glance had often confessed to me that it did not meet mine unwittingly. All of those little attentions by which, under such circum stances, we evince our attachment, seemed to afford her pleasure, and three months had scarcely elapsed when she allowed me to con fess my love. Her parents had long been aware of my affection for their daughter, and my uncle informed me, when he gave me his approval, that, as a reward for my services, lie had begged the ministry to advance me to the rank of major. On the receipt of my com mission I was to acquaint my father of my love, and ask his consent to my marriage. I joyfully acceded. Ali, why did I? Should we not always think ourselves led by a demon, who lures us on with visions that, if followed, suddenly vanish ?" Doss Pedro had become so much absorbed with his narrative that he had allowed his ci• gar to go out. Ile relighted it, drank another glass of Ximeues, and continued : "Soon after my happiness seemed thns in sured, I made the acquaintance of a captain in a Swiss regiment, to whom I became at tached, and daily, invited to our house. He was a handsome man, with clear, blue eyes, a fair skin, and florid cheeks. He would have appeared somewhat effeminate, perhaps, had he not already distinguished himself on the field by gallant deeds. This made him all the more dangerous among the softer sex. His appearance was so new with us, where the warns sun gives the skin a darker hue, and where blue eyes and light hair are seldom seen. And, when he Spoke of the avalanche and eternal snow of his native land, he was listened to with eagerness, and many was the fair ht ly who essayed to melt the ice df his Northern heart'with the fire of her Castilian eyes. "One morning a friend, who knew of my love for Laura, eame . to me, and gave me to understand, by intimations and much circum locution, that I had better be on my guard, and not wait for my major's commission;li . , in the meantime, events might transpire that. would be as disagreeable as they would be unexpected. I was astounded, questioned my friend further, and learned that Donna Laura was in the habit of meeting, at the house of an intimate acquaintance, a man, who came and went closely enveloped in his man tle. I thanked my friend, and he left me. My faith was unshaken, but the seeds of jeal ousy and distrust had been sown. I recalled Laura's manner toward me; it was unchanged. She was as kind and friendly as ever ; she allowed me to kiss her hand, nor did she deny 'me her lips, but there she stopped. Now, for the first time, it occurred to me that she never responded to my caresses, never pressed my hand, or kissed me in return. " Doubts tortured me. My friend came again, and, with more certain intelligence, fanned the fire already kindled. I determined to watch the steps of the lady more closely. We usually dined together, my uncle, my beautiful cousin, and myself. On the evening of the day on which my friend warned me the second time, my aunt, on leaving the dinner table, asked her daughter if she would not join her on the balcony. " Laura replied that she bad promised to spend the evening with her friend. I must have involuntarily looked at her sharply, for she dropped her eyes, and the blood mounted to her temples. An hour before nightfall, she went to keep her appointment. It was scarce. ly dark when I followed stealthily, in order to watch the house. hardly arrived at my post, I suiw a form, enveloped in a mantle, ap proach cautiously. My jealousy and rage knew .no bounds. I stepped before the door of the house ; the form advanced, and tried to crowd me gently aside, but I grasped it firmlyrsand cried : Senor, whoever you May be, I am willing to belicie I have a cavalier before me; on your honor as one, I demand that you give me answer.' " At the first sound of my voice, I saw him start: lie was silent for a moment, and then asked calmly : The meaning of this d' ' Swear to me, on the honor of a cavalier,' I continued, ' that it is not on Donna Laura de Tortosi's account you visit this house.' " ' Who dares thus to question me r he cried, Ina sleep, feigned tone. In his accent I de tected the foreigner ; a fearful suspicion pos sessed me. ' Captain de San Montanjo,' I replied, and, tearing the mantle from his face, I beheld—my friend Tanneniu, the Swiss cap tain I " There he stood, like a criminal, unable to utter is word. I had drawn my sword; and, speechless with rage, motioned him to do like. wise. lam unarmed,' he replied. • I was tempted to run bins through, but he stood so calm and motionless before me, that I could not do the deed. I retained sufficient com posure to demand that he should meet me the following morning, before the nearest city gate, and give me"satisfaction.. He assented, and, as I still held the door guarded, departed„, " For two long hours I watched, until the chaise came for Laura, and I saw her enter it; then I followed slowly home. The mental torture I suffered prevented my sleeping. Soon after midnight I heard steps approach ing . rny room ; then came a gentle rap. I arose quickly, threw my mantle around me, and opened the door. There stood . Laura's old waiting-woman. She handed me a letter and quickly disappeared. " Senor, may Heaven preserve you from ever receiving such a letter I She told me that she loved Tannensu long before I knew her ; that, fearing her mother's anger, who had an aversion for all fprCigners, the had kept her attachment secret, and that her moth er's threats had induced her to receive my addresses. She took all the blame on herself, I swearing solemnly that Tannensu had often insisted on confessing all to me, and had only been deterred by her prayers, and her fears for the consequences. She hinted at a horrid secret, that would.endanger the honor of the family, If I did not assist her and the captain to make good their flight. She implored me to avoid the Impending duel, for, said else, 'lf he should fall, nothing would remain to me, his wife, but death.' Then followed'a touch, In! a cal tom nantrult • and aluiclosed by saying that she would forever respect, but could never love me. " You will understand that such a letter would suffice to extinguish the most ardent love ; it even lessened my anger and thirst for revenge. But my honor forbade my forgiv ing so deep a wrong ; I, therefore, at the hour appointed, repaired to the place designated for our meeting. Tannensu evidently felt how deeply he had injured me. Although he was the more skillful swordsman, be remained on the defensive, and it is no fault of his that I ran my hand here, between the thumb and forefinger, against the point of his sword, causing a wound that rendered me incapable, of resuming the combat. While my hand ' was being dressed I gave him Laura's letter. He read it, and implored me to forgive him. I did it with a heavy heart. "Here the story of my lovo ends, Senor, for, five days after the incidents I have just related, Donna Laura and the Swiss captain disappeared." !' And with your assistance I" I asked "I did what I could, and what I thought for the best. Of course, the grief of my aunt was very great, ,but It was better that she should never see her daughter again than that she should bring dishonor on our house." " Ilow noble I What this must have cost you I" . I exclaimed. L'was, indeed, a severe trial," replied Don Pedro, smiling bitterly. "At first I thought the wound would never heal, but time, time, my young friend, cures every heartache. Since then I have never seen her, never heard of her. " Mier Brienne, the French journals made honorable mention of a General Tannensu, who greatly distinguished himself in that bat tle. Was it the same Tannensu ? Does Laura still live? lam unable to answer." Such was the story of Don Pedro do Sin Montanjo's love for his cousin, Donna Laura de Tortoni, as he told It me long years ago. STORY OF POC4H.ONTAS Romantic Legend of the Virginian Prineese— The Illusion Dispelled—Who she teas, and What she Was—" The Naked little Savage Who played Cart Wheels." (From the Spectator.) It is a habit of the English people, one of the many characteristic habits which have made them so loved throughout the world, to forget the very names of the races whom, in the course of their destiny as God Almighty's ploughshare, they plough up into the soil. Not one in ten thousand of them has the faint est recollection.of the name of any Irish sect, and it seems to them quite ludicrous that the representative of an Irish chieftain should call himself The O'Donahue. Welsh pedigrees are satirized by every cockney, and none but Anglo-Indians have an idea whether any fam ily in India is Ilincloo or Mohammedan— the names are quite as unlike as those of the Jews and Christians—while no Red Indian, or Australian, or Tasmanian, or Dyak name is so much as pronounceable. A sort of a legendary halo has, however, preserved the word "Pocahontas" as the name of a Red Indi an lady who did something romantic and who became the founder of a great Virginian fami ly. The kind of idea afloat among almost ed ucated men is, we believe, that there was once a Virginia princess, belonging to a native tribe and named Pocahontas, who married an Englishman under most romantic circumstan ces, came over to England, and died of a broken heart for love of an Englishman other than her husband, whom she believed dead, but found to be alive. With the legend there has floated down through two centuries an idea of the lady, the gentle savage—the "blessed Pocahontas, and great king's (laugh ter of Virginia," as Ben Johnson does not call her, but says somebody else does—who was the embodiment in some way of the melon chop natural to her race, who was so beauti ful and so refined, and from whom sprang one of the few aristocratic families of America, the Randolphs of Roanoke, Mr. E. Neill, now United States Consul in Dublin, has been at some pains to examine the ground-work of this legend, and has written a monograph upon it, which is, we fear, conclusive, and which will destroy in the minds of most men the illusions which have hitherto surrounded the name of the " Indian Princess." She was Just a savage of the ordinary Indian kind who ran naked in the woods till she was twelve, lived at thirteen with an English col onist, and was married at fifteen by an ambi tious settler named Rolfe, for the good of the colony,.and from a secret hope of getting a good bargain out of her father's lands. Po cahontas, otherwise Mateo, was born in 1598, daughter of an Indian chlorin Virginia, named Powhatan, the sachem of a tribe very much dreaded by the early settlers ; but she was, In our English sense, neither princess nor queen; and the effort to exalt her rank was, to all ap pear:num, part of a well-planned fraud upon the British Government. The popular story. that while still a child of 12 she saved an Eng lish settler, Capt. Smith, by taking his head in her arms, just as his brains were to be beaten out, and that she died of love for him, is an invention of the said Smith, who had origi nally written a very different report of the affair, given by Mr. Neill, in which he describes Powhatan as extremely kind to him. The truth scents to be that her father, Powhatan, a chief who cultivated the English, used to send her in token of friendliness into the English fort, where William Btrackey, secretary of the colony, saw and described her in 1610. "Their younger woman goo not shadowed amongst their owne companie until they be nigh eleavon or twelve returnee of the leafe old (for soe they aecompt and bring about the yeare, calling, the fall of the leafe taquitock) ; nor are they much ashamed thereof; and therefore would the before remembered Poe hahuntas, a well-featured but wanton young girls, Powhatan's daughter, sometymes re sorting to our fort, of the age then of eleaven or twelve yeares, get the boys forth with her into the markett place, and make them wheels falling on with their hands, naming up their heeles upwards, whome she would follow and wheele so herself, naked as alio was, all the fort over." The young lady who thus antici pated our city Arabs, was, we should men tion, under 12, after which time Indian eti quette imposed some measure of decorum, in the shape of A leather apron like those worn by blacksmiths, or at that time other English handi-craftsaten. It is probable, from a casual notice by the same Stmckey, that she lived for a alien time as wife to a " private captain named Kocourn," that is a volunteer captain named Kciokliam, it being for the moment a part of Virginian policy to encourage such unions in order to populate the colony, but there is beyond this casual notice, no distinct proof of the fact. In 1618, when Pocilliontas was 15 years old, Powhatan bad, for reasons unknown; quarrelled with the settlers, and held certain of them prisoners, and a Captain Argall, a bold and unscrupulous man, con sidered that the easiest way of recovering the men, and obtaining some quantity of corn for the colony's relief, would be to seize Pocahon tas as a hostage t and he accordingly coerced an other chief, Patowomke (Potomac?), into be traying her into his hands,which done,he sent a messenger to PoWhatan demanding the priso ners and a "greatjquantity of come." Pow hatan at once yielding, sent in the seven prhso ners, a broad axe, a long whip saw—both_ of them stolen—and "one canow of corn," and Captain Ar: .11 It is clear con: tulated him- ROBERT IREDELL, J R., Pain anti !fanny .11ob Vrinter, No. 45 EAST HAMILTON STREET, al ',LENTO WN. PA. ELEGANT PRINTINGS NEW DESIGNS LATEDT STILES Stamped Cheeks, Cards, Circotare, Paper Bpd)te,CoFtstt lu eads g:el ‘ 4, B l:ett n ergar l ßVlT l :oradl i ;t i g n , ,nefeß.,hirgg'eriircVeNocacrY NO. 3. self on a very bold and successful man euvre. The betrayal was effected by enticing her on board to see the ship, and bribiqg her guardian, Potomac, with "a small copper 'kettle and other less valuable stores, so highly by him esteemed that, doubtless, he would have betrayed his own father for them," par ticularly to Captain Argall, whom he esteemed his " brother" after the Indian fashion. Pochahontas, however, was not restored, but retained by Sir Thomas Dale, the Governor of the colony, as a means of extorting still better conditions, which ho was explaining to Powhatan, when it was suggested to him by Mr. John Rolfe—a person apparently of some ambition and few scruples, who thought, to. judge from the narrative written by Ralph Hamor, Secretary to the colony, " one of rude education, manners barbarous, and cursed generation," he could advance the " good and honor of the plantation," and who, from his subsequent proceedings, entertained an idea that he might through her put in a formidable claim to the lands over which her father hunted—that the best way to secure Powha tan would be to marry his daughter to him self. Sir Thomas Dale seems to have thought this a rather noble act of self sacrifice, and Powhatan,who had just sold Pocahontas' sis ter for two bushels'of bends, entirely consented to the marriage, and sent witnesses to see the ceremony, which, it appears, greatly scandal ized the English, whether because they dis liked such unions, cannot now be made out. Nor can it be ascertained whether any legal marriage ever took place, though Pocahontas was undoubtedly represented in Europe as Roll's wife. At all events, it appears to have struck him and others that the " Virginian Princess" could be used with effect to induce the British Court to advance more !honey to the plantation, and she was sent by the Gov ernor, Sir Thomas Dale, to England in the following year, where she created no small sensation. It was the interest of the settlers to exalt her dignity, and they did it so effec tually that, although sometimes described as "the woman Pocahontas," the Privy Council held a meeting to discuss whether Rolfe ought not to be tried for high treason in marrying her, and Simon de Passe, the artist, wrote under her portrait, " Matoaks ale Rebeoca (her native and Christian names), daughter to the mighty Prince Powhatan, Emperor of At tanoughkoronouck als Virginia." The picture represents a thorough Indian woman, with high-cheek bones, gloomy face, and lanky hair, some thirty years of age—she was only eighteen--and who never can have been beau tiful according to English ideas of beauty, dressed in a high felt hat, such as is now worn in North Italy, and a broad white ruff. She appears to have remained in England but a few months, and was returning homeward when she died at Gravesend, on 21st of May, 1010, and was buried in the chancel of Grave send Church, as "Rebecca Wrothe," wife of " Thomas Wrothe, gent, a Virginia lady 'borne." No traces whatever of her conver sation or her character can be recovered' nor is there any evidence that she was re garded in any other light than a converted Tasmanian or Maori would be, tliat is, as a subject of intellectual curiosity, but little ad miration. Her husband, John Rolfe, returned to Virginia, and was appointed secretary to the colony, and apparently made a grand spring at Powbatan's territory, for the Virgi nia Company in 1618 sharply rebuked him for reporting that the natives were reserving the country for his own child, "which we do suppose to he a device of your ewn to some special advantage for yourself." They bad a habit of speaking plainly in those days, es pecially to servants. Pocahontas lied one son by Rolfe, who returned to Virginia, and seems to have been recognized by the Indians as a connection, and it was through this son that the Indian blood entered the Virginia plant ing families. An "esteemed and industrious mechanic," named Randolph, settled on the James river, and his son Richard married Miss Jane Bolling, great grand-daughter of Poca hontas and became the grand-father of John Randolph, of Roanoke, the well known Vir ginian, who it is said, considered this descent the proudest among his endless claims to the reverence of his countrymen. The whole story, we fear, is essentially unromantic and commonplace; but there is little harm done by telling it. AT an enthusiastic meeting among the ne groes in Blount county, N. C., last week, the mourner's bench was crowded with penitents when one of them, a sable damsel of elephan tine proportions, sprang to her feet crying, " If die nigger had do wings of a June bug she'd fly. right to lleaven." Iler enthusiasm was checked at that Juncture by a matter-of fact sister, who raised her head and brought the new convert's thoughts back from the ideal to the real, thusly : " You fool, what do you mean ? If you had a June bug's wings don't you know a- woodpecker'd gobble you 'fore you got half a mile !" A DEAit Springfied, 111., last week, Jacob Smith married a girl of 13, named Harriet Gould, daughter of a free-love writer, the father stipulating that Smith, be fore wedding the girl, should agree that he would forever abstain from the use of tobacco and profane language, and that Ile would treat hie wife as his equal, disclaiming all owner ship in her exclusive property. The clergy man was also to perform the nuptial ceremony without requiring the lady to promise to obey her husband ; and this condition was observed. .Fr's a queer way sonic women have babies. Up In Maine a woman couldn't think of qny other way to get up a little ex citement, so she drew the cradle containing her favorite baby up to the table, on which was a kerosene lamp. It wasn't five minutes after she left the room before the child had the table-cloth and the lamp In the cradle, and then they had a funeral, and they say the be reaved mother looks splendid In mourning. Oh, no, kerosene is not dangerous. AT what time of life may a man be said to belong to the vegetable kingdom ? When long experience has made hlm gage. A MAN was lately sent to the lunatic asylum for persisting in planting horse•chestnuts in expectation of raising sorrel colts. Soma "horrid man" says, that in the pres ent style of dressing young ladies' hair It is hard to tell which is switch. THE housebreaker who broke into a natur- alist's, the other night, came off with a flea in his ear I ' WIIAT animal has the greatest amount of brains ? The hog, of course, for he has a hogs-head full. WHY Is twice ten.like twice eleven 1 Be cause twice ten is twenty, and twice eleven is twenty-fteo. WHAT noble work have our railroad com pany done? - Distributed tracks about the city. IF a man puichase the Pickwick pens, does he have the Dickens to pay? And if he buys the Waeerky, does he get them Scott free ? Ix is proposed to call Fort-Sunder St. Sum. ter, It Was so thoroughly canonized during the war.' Tits man who was "torn by cohflictlng elements," hasbeen sewed up. THE sieve through which the man strained every nerve, is for sale. Lucy Stone likens boys to vinegar—The more "mother" In them the sha •• r the Ire
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