ADVERTIBINGR ATEB St 1 mo. 9 mos. 6 mol' lyr. O n e Be a une. . 1.50 1,75 3.50 6.50. 12.0 0 Two stares . . 3.00 3.50 6.50 9.00 0).0 Threes venires . 4.50 5.25 9.00 17.00 25.0 SIX ['Quinine, . . . 11.50 17:90 25.00 45. (P Cinarter Column . . .• 13.50 22.00 40.00 60.0 1 2 half Column . • • 20.00 40.00 60.00 110.0 0 Oae Column : . 30.00 60.00 110 00 9)0.0 Professional Cards 91.00 per line per year. Administrator's anek,Auditer's Notices, 53.00 City Notices, 93 coal per lino let Insertion 15 cents per I ne each subsequent insertion. • • Ton lines agate e °militate • square. • ROBERT IREDELL, JR., Pummonsni ALLENTOWN, PA Coal anb .3Lunther. ♦ FILBERT. B. OTtO. B. M. OTTO. 0. W. MILLTM FILBERT, OTTO Qt MILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN L TIMBER, WLLIAMSPORT, PA. MILL ON CANAL, WES T T H OF MAYNARD STREET MICE A TE MILL auttxL. • • 4 aUff 70-1 t JAB. M. RITTER, CIIAS. W. ABBOTT. OWEN RITTER JORDAN STEAM PLANING MILT , SASH, DOOR, AND BLIND MANUFACTORY, Union Street, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown, RITTER. ABBOTT & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Sash, Door*, Outside Blind*, Inside Blinds, Mould• toga, Brackets Baluster*, Picket*. Stair Rail ings, Wfttdolo Frames, Door Frames, Claud IVindotoe, Black Irctinta Moulding*, &c. SCROLL RAINING, TURNING, PLANING. MATCHING, FLOORING awl RIPPING. DONE AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done nod HAND RAILING made to order. Having noo n had olmont three yearn' posnennion of the Mill. refurnished It almost wholly with new end Improve ad machinery, and having none but experienced work men, we areprepared to defy competition from at home and abroad, both In prier and workmanship. Do_you contemplate building t Call at oar Factory and satisfy yoursolr with a personal examination. Drawings (or buildings, bracketn, patterns for arm mental work, Herold, for porches. can be seen at all Warn by calling at our ofece. freely msin to Um Imildor furninited cheerfully and . I, y calling at the Manu• factory, ou Union street, at tiro Jordan Oridgc,.Allon. town, Pa.. or by loiter through the post Waco. augSsly] RITTER. ABBOTT .1: CO REVIVAL 2I The subncribern Laving lensed the "Old Hope Cool Yard," would respectrally announce to the eltllens of Allentown and the public In general, that they havejuld got a superior ainortinetit or COAL Connlntlag of Stove, SsF, Clmtuut and Nat from tue MICK MOUNTAIN - Orders jell with A. A. Huber, Sieger & llotteneteln, at the Eagle Hotel, Mope Rolling NIII , or the Yard will be attended to In a BUSINESS Hite manner. Orders for Coal by the ear filled at s hors no lice the lowest prices. Al waye on hand a largo stook of BALED HAY, which will be cold at the lowent market prices L. W. KOONS & CO., at tho" OIS Hope Coat Yard." Elarglllaa Siroet, earner at Lehigh Railroad I==! 4, W. Roue gat ...i A NEW FIRM NEW LUMBER YARD TO BUIDLERS! TREXLEIt & WEAVER Would hereby announce to the public that they havo Just opened a new Lumber lard on the spacious and con venient grounds so lout occupied by TREE LEI{ BRO.'S on Hamilton etreet, near Tenth, north aide, whore they are DOW prepared with a full assortment of everything pertaining to the business, coinprlniug In part YELLOW PINE, WHITE PINE, SPRUCE and HEM• LOCK FLOORING, WHITE PINE HOARDS, SCANTLING and PLANK of all nixes and well seasoned. FRAMING TIMBER, Superior HEMLOCK JOIST and SCANTLING of assorted sires. CEDAR, CYPRESS AND WHITE PINE SHINH LES of extra quality HEMLOCK and SPRUCE PLASTERING and sinsa• LINO LATHS. end a largo assort trot of Wg4THERBGAIIDINO. also W lIITE :lAN PLANK and BOARDS of all thicknes.es. WHITE PINE and SPRUCE PALINGS and PICKETS, WIIITE PINE and LIZIVII)E t tre WHITE 0 and CHESTNUT POSTS, be., All desirous of porchaslng Lumber to aa good advantage as is offered at any other Yard la the county, are request ed to call and examine our stock before purchasing else where. Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price. The Senior member of the Arm would hereby expre, his thanks for pant favors while a member of the grin of Trex ler Bros., and respectfully solicits n continuance of the lame, promising to apply his best endeavors to reader aatlsfaction to all patrons of the New Yard . Respectfully, ED. W. TREXLER. august SI Carptt3 anb Oil Cloth RICH AND ELEGANT CARPETS, OIL CLOTITS, &C.! S. C. FOULK. NO. 16 S. SECOND ST., I'IIILA., (First Carpet Store below Market, East side, I t L i eu t I oai t I e nil ~ , 1 1 4 8, 1 , 1 Mtres t o ? S 1 rojt . t r ,l ad , email aga c trc ' e. Goods W - itr W ra ' re;wesente k l 8 0 0 Lit all one buy with couflth uce an d n eatisfaet cloy 23.tf Spectaelez. SPECTACLES! SPECTACLES ! ! EYE OLASSES. Ac. st;'ek.rAn:,°;',',`',WlV.e4;"V . !;":t" of alt ki'" of CHAS. S. MASSEY'S, NO. 23 EAST HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA Having devoted a groat deal at tire and attention to the Spectacle business for these last few years, I and that tap but:lncss in that line hex intro:wed nu tench that I have de termined to make it a SPECIALTY. There is no article manufactured In which there la au much deception prac ticed no there la In Spectacle Glasses. Knowing that the public have been frequently hen:bagged by parties pre• trading to have a Nuporior article of Olato.es, and charging• exorbitant price. for them thereby ft:it:Being upon the no ceseltlea and infirmities oeltge. I hare taken pains to se lect a large and complete assortment of the finest and bent Ols.ees ever manufactured, thee affording ell per.. needing Spectaclea an opportunity of purchasing at reit sonsble Prices. Pert•atos having any difficulty in being Nulled elsewhere will do well to give me a esti, ex" I feel confident that no ono will fall tube nulled. Reteember the old stand, No. :23 East Hamilton :tweet, opposite the man Helot toed Church, Allentown, Pa. junta tf lec]jautcs, CONNp[OHOCKEN 801 LER AX!) COIL WORKS, JOHN WOOD, JR., TUBE...FLUE AND erLr.vnEß BOILERSBATII AND STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS. All kinds of Wrought Iron Collo, Tnyero for Blaet Fur nace, Oosometem, 'smoke Mackellleat Plre.e, Iron Wheel barrows, and everything In the Boller and Sheet Iron line. Alan, all kind, of Iron and Steel Forotturs and Blackmon'. work, Miners' Toole of ell klndo, buck no Whom Buckets, Mica, Drills. Mallets, Sledges, dm. 'laving a Steatn Hammer and Bet of tool, of all kinds and skilled workmen, I Satter myaelf that I ran turn out Work with promptness and dispatch, all of which will be warranted to be lirst.class. Patching Buller., and 'repairing generally, strictlY ot ended to. • err 17 pANCONNT at MAME, THIRD AND PEAR STREETS, PIIEL ELPIIIA, PLAIN ANC) GALVANIZED WROUGHT IRON TUBES, Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, Bran atev l gg al irUe d .j , 'S r Ati „ My. g rtfzVn, te " Bath Tab. eu aigllng= W Stands. etc., Culls of Tube; Stennaliettles “'h and Traps. Pipe of all Sizes jilted to Sketch. Eueceteore to MOlttliti, TALKER & Co., its CONTRACTORS For th' l l l l o r t a Wa r tel, ei t i l l ' a tr ui:La r ti a t. l ng i l i t t ene r al t 2! "" Eatimatea Furnialled Gratis„ VOL. XXV Kramer is FALL AND WINTER DRY Gat.DS.! To be found in the City embracing the Latest and Newest Novelties of the Season,adapt EIRME R. E. DON...COURT -.11, ... - GREAT ATTRACTION I NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS! CLOTHING ! CLOTHING GRAND Sr RING AND SUMMER OPENING GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES! T. OSMVN & CO., fPreceßsora to Met:gar k Osmun BARGAINS GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM IN REIMER'S BUILDING. SO. 605 HAMILTON STREET ALLENTOWN, PA. We would Warm the clthon , . of Allentown and the nor rounding . country third we are prepared with a Ineite ntonk of goods far - - • FALL AND WINTER WEAR, and etfer &onn to On public at reneenabie price , To thous who boy 1b.,. Meth ing r.•ady.made, they are prepared I. otter I.IA L;1111 Ns. 1V7101.1i SUITS NAPE TO ORDER! co,\T:A, PANTS AND VESTS the style, awl by the bog workmen OUR STOCK OF CLOTHING, CLOTHS AND CASSINI ERES In law, b has bees before, oral tro Intend to tell al very our LI. PROFITS, and g've our CI the bone- At of our low I nrchatos. Grant unsulltlea and VllOOllO4 of NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS, Anil everything In the lino of TIIOS. WEAVER -tr GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS, MEN'S, YOUTILY,BOYS' nod CHILDREN S READY-MAD.E CLOTHING, Don 'ow;ot the p'otro, No• ll:on'Aton •tre.l, third door oLovo T.Osmrv. $ S Ii• ItvLL J4nns Ll,ll, • tnurl:4 tt I it' ITIIIM i 'I iv! (14 , pio, tti American Ari ALDINE! UNIle " 01v , t•, tv.,14111,1 of TIIE A LDI NE tt.V It oriby , if nd• I. 1. It 1,..e,1 Ile.. —ll. ii y War./ THE ALPINE. Aviv:, L•ond with nll the regolarity.has none 01 the temporary in Ifrn , Iv intere+t chdractoristlc of ordinary perdollaals. It in elegant miscellany of pure, light, and erns d i nt litermoredod II collection Of phial., the ran, •pealmen+ arthale skill, In black and white. Although oaril .11OCOP , 11 g thunder affords a fre+h ure u , it- films!, the row value nod beauty of TUE Al. • DINE will he 0.0.1 aindeciated after It ho. boon hound np at dm rinse or the year, Willi.' other Pubiroati us May clulm superior clomptows u+ compared with rivals of a xhnllnr class, Tll E ALAIN E is It “11111110 nod original cow ceptiou—alone and unnoprodched—alomintely without competition In price or character. Th., posaessor of the olumejust completed cannot dot/Pc:Po the quantity of floe papa , ' and engravings in any other shape or number of voluine.fur fro tioax cox. b or The laof gaffing THE Al, DI NE rawly on the pre. , is ao great that rowel/ling is out of the gnestion. With Oa tuthoption of a number eapeclaily reserved (OH/inn ing the edition of 1',71, Is already exhausted, uud it a scarce Ile Well KM VOIUIII./10 bunk. EMMMIHIES=I The enthusiastic supportsn crudity accorded to their enterprke, wherever ft has been Introduced, hats cou• vi , ced publishem of THE ALDINE of the soundness of their theory that the Anterlean public would recognize and licartily support any .torero effort to olovato the lone and snandwd on illustrated publications. That so weer week ly wicked ehrets exist and thrive is not evidence that there in 11 ,, Plolkot for anything better—indeed the success of THE A I.DINE from the start Is dire rt proof of the contrary. With a population to vnet.and of much v , - Med tilde, 0 tublii•her can choose his patron, and Ids ther Is rather inditatlve of of iIWII thou of the taste of court try• s a guarantee of the excellence of this de- Penmen% tim Intb:b.hers wool t beg to announce daring the rooting Year , specimens trim the following eminent Anteria m Artist, W. T. BICIIIRDA, ORANVILLEPEnxisa, 4111:3 SMILES, WK. HART, F. 0. C. lIARLET, B. F.. Pluncr, WK. Pgnßn, VICTOR Natima, FRANK BEARD, O ItOROR SMILES, WK. It. WILCOX, DIXON. Aril. WILL, JANKE , 11. DRAM, J. iloWd. There 'acumen are being reproduced without regard to expens.• by the very best engrave:li in the countr and will boar the scv..rost. critical comparison with th y. e beat foreign work, beiRK the determination of the publi.there that ALPINE shall ho r. euccopeful viudi.atiou or American taste In competition with any exhaling publics• that in the world. LITERARY DEPARTMENT The editorial mensstoment of THE ALDINE hoe boon INtrosied to el u. RICHARD HENRY tiTODDARD,. who hoe received neroirancon ..ststiteco from host of the must Popular writers and poets of the coutdry. will contalo nearly 300 Pave., awl tZr.) Ono engraving 4 Commencing with the number for January. every thir number will contain a beautiful 'Mimi picture on pint ' l l l ll7..dia‘.;:rit,',', a .."'"l,` . ..rit'4:'r u r",,lr'i'4;:i, will to a spientiql vol nolo coutaluing fifty cogravltma, (blur to (lull HOE N1111 . .1411 rnltilled ill 41 Will let auntnuu, without extra chum to all y ly multscrlbem. t Chronio to every Subscriber was a very bobniur feature last year, and will be re- Peal , 'it ith the present volume The pubitehem have purchasael and teprmittred, At great ex pauses 11. It:';ibll* tut oil yaltiong by trEIR.• entitled — Whist NATURE, 1. 4 C11.1411.. I The chromo 1411.131.11er, and It an exact ra , .t.ote. sito and alltearaure. of the original pic ture. Ise Americas chrome. which will at all compare Ito It. et ham; elfered attail for to,, than the price I”.kod tar MAIN K sand re It together. It will nutstven d free, with tile January number, to every ibor who pa) for 1111.3 year lu advance. '1•11INIS 1:(,)11 1872 : One Cebu, one year,. toy!! Oil rhromo , . b;!0 Fire Copts . . 1.1.1 Any Imralin aendinu 1 0 nal.. and 440 will rec. Ito a extra copy Kr.tllo making 11 cotter for Ike looney. Any p, rape wtr tin¢ lo Work fora premium, cin hay our pimultillt'clrculxr on application. We glye boouttlal awl iblityible brllclati offered by no Whorl-tape, Any p r-ott to act, permanently, one ugen Will roll! reic re ace, .I.log 41 for outfit. WANTED.FEW FIRST-CLASS Ant NTS, node sod fenwile, for the bent e Illy hook. told.slied. heod for rttrolors. 51111. t: w rMeecker Street, nor door west of {Treadway, N CLEAR FOR OP' 1871 I WITH ONE ill•' THE LARGEST AND CHOICEST STOCKS OF able for Ladies' and Men's Suitings, guaranteed to be sold at BOTTOM PRICES! Clothing, I= I= !lb tb be tot t Vapor ill th, ART DEPARTMENT THE VOLUME FOR 1872 JAMES SUTTON & CO., PUBLISHERS, 23 Liberty Street, New :fork. 3f , . , 4 . u 1 , 11 17 ., in THE Nctu Rbi3rrtotincitts. CUNDURANGO ! 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REEVES, 78 II II I t wifli r lift 1 IN THE TREATMENT OF Chronic and Sexual Diseases A PHYSIOLOGICAL 1143 11' OF MA RRIA GE. • The cheapest' book ever publlshed—contalulug. nearly three handred page:, and on' hundred and thirty flue platen and mita livings of tho anatomy or the bumau or• glues In a ststo of lisalth sod dooms°. sr Ith a It outline on early errors, deplorable consequences upon the mind and body, a ith tbo author's pinu of treatment—tite only rational and sercessfultionle ut cure.im shown by re port of cases treated. A truthful adviser to the married and those coutemplatlng marriage, WllO ontertuln doubts of the trphysicel condition. Sent freo of postage to any whites,on receipt of tiveoty-Ilvo rents in statopr or postal urrency by addresalog On. LA CROIX, No. Cl Malden Lane. Albany. .Y.'l he author may bo consulted upsa any of the diseases upon which his book treats. either personally or by mail, and modichs suet to any part of the wor LIQUIDATION SALE OF DLTILMER IMPORTERS OF. Toys, Dolls, China and Fancy Goods, 15 Park Place, near Broadway, New York. On ecrount of the meld., death of Mr.' 11. Dlltaner the nth do so t. k be , to be sold old el coot pri , 4 all Janu ary. 072. Jabbersltst slier. wilt fled It In their In tetest c. , ft:non:to the stock before porchastaX pan - title boxes et Cat, ?hi awl 410, sent C. 0. 1)., to any part of the country. leepla.2adiar ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1,1871. When I was in the south of France I made the acquaintance of a dear, old, fat, comforta ble English lady —fat, comfortable, and good, inside and out—who brewed capital tea and told capital stories. Ono of these was about a parrot, whose eminent graces and virtues won for him the title of "Apostlo Paul." The story was a translation of a French poem and its pathos and bathos must have been ex tremely touching and ridiculous in the origi nal ; posessessing withal the unusual flavor of a delicately insinuated moral, for the benefit of those, in convents and out, who spend their lives in useless tattle, or teaching poodles with unpleasant-looking noses to stand on their hind legs and beg for a biscuit, or in coaxing parrots to talk. Here is the story in her own words, as far as I can remember them. The good old lady talked fast, and snipped off the parrot's name; thus, after a fashion, removing the shock and smoothing down the irreverent edge. Yon will admit that "Possle Poll"—thus pronounc ed—is not an inappropriate appellation for a bird of his species. "About ten or twelve years ago the nuns of a convent just out of Bordeaux were pres ented with a young parrot, who developed such wonderful graces, such fervent piety. who was besides so intelligent r handsome, and brilliant, so candid and amiable, that he rivall rd the confessor in the respect and affection felt for him! indeed, it is left on record that in more than one heart the bird hail the ad. vantage of the holy father. All the house adored hint, save a few old nuns, whom time and the toothache hind rendered cross and captious ; and the 'Possle Poll,' for that was the name given to hint, ate sugar and cake, said and did what he pleased, pulled the veils of the pretty young nuns, pecked at their soft cheeks, and was perfectly happy. "Twenty tongues were incessantly asking Field him questions, and hell replied to all with justice, clearness, and elegance. Thus," in terpolated the old Indy, "Caesar of old, and in our own day Mr. G. P. R. James and your American, General B. F. Butler, dictate to two, three, or four persons at once, with equal justice, clearness, and elegance. "The parrot went everywhere about the convent. lie dined with the nuns in the re fectory, but having an indefatigable stomach lie amused himself in the intervals between meals with pocket loads of sweetmeats which the nuns always kept for him. At night he slept in any cell he chose, and happy was the one whose retreat it pleased him to honor with his presence. Hcalways preferred the novices, and seemed to take great pleasure in witnessing their fresh,littic toilets; for let me whisper in your ear, nuns, have toilets; plain veils required careful setting as well as lace ones. Sackcloth Itself may bejauntily arrang• ed, and huckaback have an air. The Possle Poll had witnessed many a piquant twitch given to a nun's tucker, and many a parting glance in the glass before she came down to the grate in the parlor to entertain company; but this is in confidence. "So the parrot lived, petted and happy, the undisputed lord of all hearts- For him Sister Harriette forgot her pigeons; three canary birds died out of pure rage ; end two big, jealous French , cats, of or lighting hint on then mauling each other fearfully, took their respective cushions, and never after held np their heads. Yet, alas! a day was approach ing full of crime and astonishment, when the Possle Poll would be only an object oi min ed pity and horror; his morals ruined ; the idol of so many hearts debased, degraded, and de posed forever. Prepare for tears. Come they must; but let us delay them for a 'While if possible. " You may believe that In a home like this our hero's conversational talents were cultiva ted to the highest pitch. The nuns never ceased talking except when they were eating, and Pestle Poll, with praiseworthy emulation, never stopped at all, edifying and delighting the sisters at the table with remarks which were always pickled and preserved in the very unction of propriety. He was an Juno-, cent and a beautiful fowl ; he bad no knowl edge of evil ; he knew nothing about the equally depraved science of thimble-rig and political economy ; he never uttered a bad word„ but, on the emitlary, could tell you all about the winking pictures, and the solid chapels flying in Rome through the air. He was even with the oldest and most devout nun of them all in canticles, Oremuses, and Pax vobiscums. For the delectation of the younger nuns he would recite some of the most touching of the " Confessions of Lamar tine," that sentimental work having been smuggled Into the convent by a giddy novice. " The old nuns and holy mother taught him Christmas carols ; and,Possle Poll,shutting up his eyes, would give them w ith all the pious lengthiness, holy sighs, and languishing ca dences of his instructors ; grcaning, sniffing, and croaking in such pefection, that they would tall upon him in n sort of rapture and enfold him to their hearts with such tender en ergy that he would wriggle like a tadpole out of their caressing hnuds,ruftled tip and breath- ess " You need not suppose that the knowledge of a wonder like this could long be confined within the gates of a convent. The fame of the wonderful parrot spread far and wide. People came from Bordeax to see him, and Possle Poll, carried into the parlor by Sister Agues in her best veil and tucker, graciously displayed his accomplishments. Polished, dignified, brlinful of the,holy gentilities which the•younger sisters had taught him, the illus trious bird would commence his recitations. Canticles, mysticals, `Confessions,' and pray ers followed each other in rapid succession ; and what was remarkable, nobody fell asleep; they wondered ; they applauded ; they clam ored for encores. But the Possle Poll, as if impressed with the emptiness of this world's approbation, and convincent of the nothing ness of earthly glory, would bow himself out with a solemn air and a few words of blessing uttered In a low tone. "Thus he lived, fat as a monk, and quite us reverend : handsome and learned ; loving and loved ; petted, perfumed, cockered up, and, in short, the pink of perfection ; and all this would still have been his, with perfect happiness, if—he had never travelled. "0 cruel recollection !- 0 fatal Journey I Take warning, my, friends, and atay at home Let this unhappy example show you that too flattering a success is dangerous, if not loin oua to one's morals. "The Bcuow•n of our hero's achievements reached at last to a convent at Brest, a meek fold, but one where the ladies were by no means reluctant to ask for whatever they wanted. To hear of the parrot was to desire to havehim. The desire soon became devour ing. Fifty heads were hopelessly turned at once; fifty hearts would have been consumed at one fell swoop, if fifty tongues bad. not prevailed upon the holy mother to write and beg that the wonderffil bird might be allowed to pay them a visit. • "The letter was sent, but oh I when will come the answer ? There is no more sleep in the house. Sister Agatha will surely dle of it I " In duo course of time this dreadful epistle reached Bordeaux, and was carried out to the convent. Awful business! A. chapter is held upon it A jury of the older nuns sat upon it, so to 'meek, and, with many reluctant sniffs STEW A RT'S Marbleized Slate MANTELS; Very large aneorttnent Includlog It groat enrlet of elvg.,ot, new en °rig Infild ,tigne. I. STEW ART & CO. om 3 Sixth A V 1... be. :15th end Mal etreet• New Yorlc. tl=M3 TIEDEMANN POBSLE POLL BY FANNY BABLOW and accelerated toothaches, determined to let their (holing of the convent go for two weeks, as they were far too prudent to embroil them• selves in a quarrel with their sisters at Brest. Consternation followed. Tears and lamen tations were the order of the day. The pretty little vestry, nun turned pale and cried, heavens ! bettor die at once I' The !Mr young sisters who kept the refectory in exquisite neatness sighed, wept, gretMed, and fainted respectively. The whole place was in mourn ing. They sat out in the dew ; they caught cold ; they lost their voices and gained rheu matism. Suffumigations of sulphur, Metallic tractors, Holloway's pills, and other medical cures founded upon pure bosh, were brought out of the cupboards, and adMinistered by the Old Mother Hubbards of the . convent ; who, instead of telling the young novices the inno cent legends of that immortal friend of child hood, spent their time In gravely telling how St. Patrick swam across the Channel on a paving-stone ; or solemnly held up for imita tion the example of St. Simeon, who stood on the top of a tall pillar, anl bowed his head to his feet $ll,OOO in a year—guity a useful pil lar of the church. "At last' the fatal moment arrived, and the . sisters crowded around Possle Poll to bid Min adieu. They nil groaned like turtles ; like a ship in a hurricane ; litre a cow when her calf is torn away ; like I don't know wind. They kissed him ; they bathed him with tears; never wag he so charming, so precious; and and—be was gone I "The rascal °fa steamboat which was to carry him 'from Bordeaux to Brest contained three slashing, swearing dragoons two saucy soubrettes, a monk, four wild young Ameri cans just graduated from Harvard College, and a wet nurse—pretty society for a young innocent thing just out of a convent ! The Possle Nit concluded that lie had gone to another world. II was no longer canticles and orisons, hut words which he had never heard. The dragoons sang roystering songs in honor of Bacchus, a deity of whom he was utterly ignorant ; the soubrettes kept up a constant chatter in broken English—full of sparkle, animation, and vulgarity—with the young Americans ; and the boatmen swore with vigor. Poor Possle Poll, unhappy and frightened, crouched in a corner, heaving dismal sighs, and turning up his eyes like a duck In thunder. "In the course of the voyage the young Americans determined, as their vernacular has It, to trot our hero out,' and Brother Jean Baptiste the monk was deputed to in troduce himself and the company. He asked the bird some questions, which I regret to state were not of a strictly sacerdotal nature ; but the benign fowl, assuming his most saintly manner, shutting up his eyes and heaving a solemn sIA, replied, Flail, sister.' " You may guess if they shouted with laughter; and they poured out compliments with such an avalanche of vitlianous words that the parrot, listening in amazement, thought within himself that the good sisters were an ignbrard set, and probably had not taught him • the true verve and beauty of the French language. Accordingly he set him self to learn them with all his might. Ile did not speak much, but oh, how he listened and studied I for in two dayS (such is the terrible progress of evil in young minds) he forgot all the canticles, I'ax vobiscuma, and prayers, and in less than no time was as off-hand a swearer as the fast young Americans, es the dragoons. as the very worst of the crew. Ile exhibited the verse and beauty' of the French language, as shown in this connection, with an intense vim and relish, irresistibly and, if I may so express it, awfully funny. He swore worse than an imp at the bottom of holy-wa , er box. " We have heard, and we believe the char itable apothegm, that 'nobody becomes nhan• dotted at once' ; but dear me Pussle Poll ut• terly scorned thislmaxim. His amazing tal ent was apparent in wicked courses as in good•, he had a contempt for mediocrity in anything, and breams a blackguard in the twinkling of au eye: When he did speak, he swore sound ly ; the company applauded, and he swore again. A great vanity seized him ; drinking songs, course Jests, and clang were learned and repeated with avidity- The young Amer-. traits and the soubrettes, who perhaps were the most innocent of his instructors, taught him to sidle up to the priest, and, with his head very much on one side, to troll out to the tune of Jullien's Prima Donna Waltz this elegant stanza : "Jean Baptistn, pourquoi, J-an Baptiste, pow (111°1, J••an Baptiste, pourquot sous grease MI kale dog's tall inn tar 7 " During these terrible, these deplorable scenes, the nuns at Bordeaux were praying and submitting to all manner of penances, worthy of the Hindoos, to insure the safe re. turn of this vagabond, this wicked, swearing wretch of a bird ; while the sisters at Brest were half crazy with impatience and longing for the advent of—as they were led to believe —this tender, polished, edifying fowl, almost an angel in feathrrs. "At last the boat arrived. A sister stood on the dock. She had been there over and over again since the letter was sent. Her ea ger eyes saw the vessel and our hero afar off. ne, too, saw her and knew her at once. The great flapping white cap, the big cross, the sanctimonious side glances, the white cotton gloves, and, above all when the boat touched the dock, the sound of her drawling, snuffling voice exasperated Possle Poll, and we have rensou to . believe that internally he gave her over to warm regions. He infinitely preferred the slashing dragoons and the laiighing sou brettes to any more litanies or canticles. lle refused to go with her ;be barked at her like a three•headed dog, putting her into a horrid and unspeakable fright, and assailing her with such a shower of vociferation that the poor nun was thin to turn her hack and her flap ' pers until it was over, as a donkey turns his back and ears to a hail storm ; then 'seizing him in a lull, she flew back to the-convent. "It is reported that lie bit her in going ; but be that as it may, he made such noise on his arrival that though all the nuns were at pray• ere they jumped up and set the bell ringing fin. joy. They alio sang, or shrieked with ecstasy, clapping their hands and crying to each other, ' lle is come ! he is come ! 0 sister what joy V • " The great parlor was fulled in a twink ling. The young nuns flew ; the old ones hobbled and stumbled in their baste ; It is od record that Mother Celestine, who was enormously fat, rah for the first time in forty years. " the blessed spectacle !' Mr pitiful as the thought of it is, one Is not less handsome for being less virtuous. His grand military strut and petit maitre airs only made him more irresistibly charmthg. 1 here the little scamp stood, ogling the nuns, hut not deigning to speak. Certes, he rolled his eyes so impu dently, that the rlovcces felt themselves blush ing Fearlet ; and when mother Celestine, with a majestic air, came forward for the purpose of interchanging II few pions sentiments with Possle . Poll, this unfeeling villain, with blaz ing contemptuous effrontery, sang out, 'Zounds I, what a pack of fools you nuns are!' " History records that t he young Americans from Harvard•taught hitn these words: which caused Mother Celestine to exclaim, For shame,my dear brother I' But the dear brother had no shame in him ; for like an utter re probate he began to dance and sing, and end edwith this love ditty also taught to him by the Harvard graduates: "Oh if I had a lumty-tutu, tumty-tum too, Iu tho land of the olive and lig, • ' I would sing on the lumty-tum (unity to you, And play on the tblngumy-jig. " And oh ! If In lumty-tuni battle I fall, A tnmtydim's all thnt I crave. Oh bur, In.. 0 , - 1. In the n!rttlyou-may call, And plum tl,lagninhohs over my grave. " It is impossible"to give any imitation of his nasal drawl and the half shutting up of his eyes duri n g this ridiculous performance ; but, ob I what wide(' borrt.r and fright seized the trembling, shrinking nuns when he ended it with a frightful oath, and thundered out a thousand horrible words which he had learn ed on board the vessel. He raged like a pi rate ! Heavens ! what words foamed out of hist beak—words never to be mentioned before cars polite I The sisters flew out of the parlor, thinking the end of the world lied come. Poor Mother Celestine, in unwieldy haste, tumbled over her nose and broke out her last front tooth. They fell tip stairs and down stairs, crying, Saint Barnabas have mercy on us I Is this the way the sisters talk at B or- &mix Is this the. blessed, holy bird, or is it the ievil incarnate? What a heretic I what a detestablc,nhominable creature ! For heaven's sake let us get rid of him, or we shall all go to the had place together " With difficulty Possle Poll was put shrieking and biting Into Ills cage, all the nuns weeping•at their bitter disappointment, while they found it impossible not to admire the beautiful exterior which hid such a depraved heart. As to Possle Poll, whets he found he was going back, he grew exceedingly benign all at once. and with a sudden effort of memo ry, expanding his chest like, an afr•cushion, he poured Out a blessing upon the sisters, but ended it, I shame to state, with the word SapriAte which means something fearful, though what I do not know. "But who can paint the despair of his old adorers, the nuns nt Bordeaux, when he com menced immediately on his return to serenade them with a draAoon's song? Another chap ter was held by nine old nuns, and, in spite of the intercessions of the younger sisters, he was sentenced to a week of solitary confine ment. Then they told their bends from•morn ing till night in hope's of his conversion. It was useless ; it•was hopeless. `i At last came the end of it all. One morn ing there was beard such an accelleration of frightful sounds that the holy mother and all the sisters rushed in a body to the dingy little prison cell, full of fear and grief. What a sight they beheld One of theenormous cats, remembering his wrongs, had jumped from a neighboring tree through the high window, and, never stopping to count the cost,' had clapper-clawed Possle Poll, tearing out his best feathers, hissing like a whole nest of rat tle snakes, and spitting like an American, while the enraged bird had nearly bitten off the cat's ears, which were bleeding profusely ; and now, with yells and screams, he was sav agely picking out his eyes. There stood Orb malkin, back and tail up in two tremendouti arches, all four sets of claws flying out at once. while Possle Poll was dancing a frenzied rig adeon, ducking, Swooping, doubling, biting, sparring, and sometimes sprawling, rending the air with his screams, until breathless and exhatisted he rushed up to the holy mother and gasped out, 'Oh ! oh ! I'm havin a h-11 of a tithe r* " This capped the climax I The holy moth er was struck dumb! Like Sant Johnson, that precious vaingloryosopher, the occasion and her dignity demanded the use of com pound words a mile long ; and for a moment all words failed. With dilated eyes she stood there stiff and grim, like a rusty conductor waiting fora Rash of lightning to come—an inspiration. At last, with a sort of hiccough of majestic indignation and an ultra-tragic expression of countenance, she uttered these remarkable words: " Wretch I this is uninonebreathut tenthly uninshortendurable I Apagc Satha nas ! ' "Thus, Dies Illu w as changed into Dies fine and halt au hour thereafter Possle Poll was in his cage and out of the convent, covered With shame and green baize, " I was told that an American sea-captain bought him in Bordeaux for ten francs,anying that he would make a nice present for his (the captain's) wife. If they were utterly !gnorant of the verve and beauty' of the French lan guage, perhaps he would. This was to be the captain'svaledictory to foreign lands and faith less oceans ; .so when his ship sailed away Pos sle Poll bade farewell forever to convent life, to slashing dragoons; and to.la belle France." * * * * Thus ended the old lady's story, to which I bog to add a short appendix. And first I desire to make a solemn remark or two, so startlingly not original that it may cause this paper to be "declined with thanks." But• 1 on irresistibly impellitd to observe that this round world is very small', or'else most un looked-for chances bring people to the knowl edge of each other, to say nothing of parrots. If a traveler in the Desert of Sahara were to meet another, an utter stranger, coming in the opposite direction, and the two were to stop and ask questions, - twenty to one that they had acquaintances in common, perhaps' were distantly related. And so pray believe it when I declare that I have seen the veritable Possle Poll In the flesh and feathers. The sea-captain who bought him was as thorough a Yankee as ever covet ed his neighbor's goods, and is at this moment a member in good and exemplary standing in the quaint old town of Newhuryport, from whence Timothy Dexter upsetting all rational theories, made a fortune, as noodles will some times, by sending warming-pans to the West Indies. Captain Josiah Brick—that is his name,and a tight little four square icrick be is—owns a pretty place just out of the town. It is kept like a ship of war, as neat as a phi. Of course from all the front windows there is a full view of his beloved Atlantic Ocean, smooth, treach erous, smiling back to a smiling heaven, or heaving wild and black against the stormy clouds. A flagstaff in front of the house is decorated with the national bunting; one mall room is fitted up with berths, so that ho can "turn in" at any "bells" he chooses, day or night; and a "lookout' or observatory, al most as high as a mast's head, at the top of the house, is fOrnished with charts and a telescope. As Captain Brick did not understand the French language, he busied himself on the smooth and prosperous voyage homeward with teaching Possle Poll English ; and as the good man allowed no swearing which he under , stood as such ou board the vessel, the bird en tered at once upon an ethical course of studies. He had forgotten most of the wickedness by the lime the ship, which was a sailing vessel, reached home. Some of the bad English words taught him by the fast Harvard boys clung to him, as poverty will to a poet ; but if by any chance they slipped out, ho got a sound box on the side of his head ; which discipline proved so effectual that very soon he would give utterance only to the first syllable, cut ting off with a loud and very gruff " hem!" all superfluity of naughtiness. Possie Poll was welcomed with delight by good Mrs. Captain Brick. Theirs was a child less house, and the bird was again in danger of being spoiled with indulgence. The only other Inmate of the family is Beppo, a =gni, ficent Newfoundland dog, who lives in lazy majesty harmony with Possle Poll, or rather • Although this desperate battle le au absolute fact. I hesitated long about putting It In print. on account of the shocking hopropriety of the expression with which It culmlostod. idea a faithful record. A mare euphemistic word might have been substituted. but uty fidelity as 'a historian would then bate hien walked. Bob. for that is his now name, though if you ask him lie will say it is '>Posslo Bob," evi dently admiring the dlgpity of a title, as would be natural to one lAought up with Eu ropean prejudices. The kind. good-hearted captain Is perhaps a little eccentric. He found upon his return home permanently, after trying it faithfully, that he must give up going to church. It was "anchored so tight ; there was such a dead calm." He missed the breeziness and the exhilarating roll of the Atlantic. The want of motion gave him a headache, and then sent him to sleep. He began to "enjoy poor health" on Sundays. and "he took with dread ful cricks in his back." But my reverend cousin has wonderful good sense, and he met this difficulty with an origi nal display of the same. Ho caused a chair with very large rockers to be placed In the middle of the broad aisle, and smilingly pre senting it to the good old sailor, said, " There, Captain, rock away like a ship in a high gale, while I lecture you upon your sins." Headaches, and sleepiness, and "cricks" in the back vanished under this sensibly and (I submit it) truly Christian treatment. Of course such an unheard-of innovation created a tumult in the congregation. Well-meaning old ladles wept and prayed ; sharp-nosed young ladies—who had torn the records of their births out of their family Bibles—were shocked and scandalized ; and Deacon Snipe resigned. But my reverend cousin's thougnts about this time were so set upon things above that apparently he had not the faintest idea of the metaphysical rocking going on In the church below. He accepted, almost with pleasure—such a contented mind as ho had— the resignation of Deacon Snipe, who knew rather less than the man in the moon about broad Christianity., The sharp-nosed young Indies and well meaning old ones subsided, it is to be presumed, for like the star spangled banner they are "still there" ; and now any one who chooses to make a pilgrimage to the church may see Captain Brick rocking for dear life, perfectly happy, thinking himself In " the cradle of the deep" and under the drop pings of the sanctuary at one and the same time. My visit and self. introduction to Mrs. Brick was rather damped at first by Possle Bob strutting up and assailing me with " Nobody wants you here ; good•by"; but I put my mortified feelings into my pocket, especially as he mounted upon a table near me the next moment, and began to sing' in a stentorian voice, enough to awaken the Sphinx, this clas sical ditty ; " ills rod was of the staunchest, sturdiest oak, Ills line a cable which the sea ne'er broke. Ills hook lie baited with a salmon's tall, And sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale. Then changing his tune to a nasal drawl, irresistibiy cimic, he sang : " Beneath We stone and mound of clay Lies Araminty Young, Who on the twenty-Muth of May Began to hold her tongue. "Poor dear ! 800 hoo ! boo hoo !" (pre tending to cry). The bird's beauty was now a thing of the past. His feathers were ragged and his head quite bald. Curious to know if he were really a venera ble patriarch, I said to Mrs. Brick : " A wick ed young man, who was quite bald, once told me that baldness was always owing to one of two things, early piety or old age. Be made a bow at this point and left me to draw the inference. Is Bob's correct life at the convent the cause of his baldness I" "Oh no," she answered laughing ; " it came upon him quite suddenly. 'One morning about fouryeara ago, Captain Brick was la the kitelt" en cutting up some meat for Beppo's break fast, and Bob stool on the table closely In specting the operation. Putting the plate down on the floor, the Captain called. Bob, saying, Well, if you eat all that, you'll cat enough.' "Bob hopped from the table repeating, Well, if you eat all that, you'll eat enough,' and standing close to the plate ho watched with absorbing Interest the one gape and the one swallow with which every, piece went down the dog's throat; and when the plate was licked clean, which it was in about two minutes, Bob sailed away repeating under his breath in a tone of intense disgust, ' Well, if you eat all that, you'll eat enough.' " At this moment the cook, who had just poured some hot spiced vinegar on a dish of stewed cockles, left the kitchen. Bob, who never let a chance escape hlm, seized the op portunity to hop up on the table and Inspect the cockles, while Hippo stood below. His longing eyes and wagging tail said, as plainly as words, ' Come Bob, give us a cockle, that's a good fellow.' So the good fellow began to twitch the hot cockles out of the dish and throw them at Beppo, who snapped them up with more gape and swallow, to the mingled delight and disgust of the bird. But all of a sudden the fun was stopped by the Irate book, who rushing in, caught up a dipper of scalding water and threw it upon Bod's head, scream ing, Steal hot cockles, will you ?' Then bringing the back of the dipper down with a sounding whack upon Beppo's nose, and screaming again, 'Steal hot cockles, will you ?' she drove them both howling out of the kitchen. This is how he canto to be bald, for the hot water shaved poor 'Bob's head as clean as a door-knob." "It was a week after," said Mrs. Brick, " that the late excellent Rev. Dr. Cleuceland of New Haven and another clergyman, whose head was quite bald, and whose name I can. not now recall,came he re to see Captain Brick on some missionary bust ness. The Captain unfortunately had gone to Boston for the day but I made them heartily we!C )me, and bogged them to remain to dinner. " Bob, as usual,had his place at the table ; a round piece of oilcloth does duty as his plate from which I assure you he eats very dainti ly, and I never doubted but that he woul•.1 be have beautifully on this occasion. "I asked Dr. Cleaveland to come, and we sat down. Dr. Cleavelaod asked a blessing, during which Bob helped himself to a sweet pickle, and not liking the taste popped It into the gravy•boat, but I got it out without Its be ing observed. "The good doctor gave use a piece of roast beef, helped his friend, and then took a very modest portion upon his own plate ; but no sooner had be begun to cat than that good for-nothing Possle Bob sidled round to him, looked attentively down on the plate,then up at the good minister, and then In a scornful, withering tone observed, ' Well, if you eat all that, you'll cat enough !' and waited gravely to see him do it. • . "The confusion of the reverend gentleman was prodigious. He dropped his knife and fork and sat speechless. To be thus accused of gluttony was crushing ; 'hut as soon as I could speak I explained. Bob's rudeness, and harmony was restored.. "Not for lorig, though. Bob pecked at his lettuce and sponge cake only fora moment ; then turning the side of his head ho regarded the other clergyman with his 'piercing and Unfathomable eye.' The bald head of the good man awakened some memory. AU' said Bob to himself, it must be so.'. Gravely picking his way across the table, he got close to the venerable and reverend object of his scrutiny, walked up his arm to his shoulder, with the air of a shoulder leading a. forlorn hope, stretched his neck to the utmost, and taking a grim survey of his victim's bald and Initiated cranium, suddenly screamed In his ear, 'Steal hot cockles, will you I' Up jumped the minister two feet in the air, upsetting his ROBERT =DELL' alt. • . . filain anb gancp 3ob lOrinter, No. 6013 HAMILTON STREET, LLSNTOWN, PA.' • - /MOAN ^ NO • NEW DESIGNS LATEbT STYLES Stamped Cheeks. 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But before ho departed he sat for his portrait in oils, and also in what Fanny Fern most deservedly calls "a worsted abomination," which has cascades of tears or lilies of the valley, I don't know which, in white floss solk, all round the margin. Ins mausoleum is at the foot of his favorite cherry tree, and for his epitaph we might appropriately alter his own song thus: Beneath this tree, as cold as clay, Lles Fossle Poll so young, Who on the twenty-fourth of May Began to hold his tongue. And lest you shciuld say that his soul and his tattle have already transmigrated, I have finished.— Galaxy. SOJOURNER TRUTH. HER STORY AS TOLD BY HERSELF At the emancipation celebration in Boston on the Ist, the well known negress, Sojourn er Truth, was among the speakers, and her remarks are thus reported by the Boston Post: Well, chilern, I'm so glad to see so many together. Ef lam 83 years old, I only count my age from the time that I was 'mancipated. Then I 'gun ter live. God Is a fulfillin', an' my. lost time dab I lost bein' a slave was made up. W'en I was a slave I hated de w'te pe pul. My mother said to me when I was to be sole from her, " I want'to tole ye these tinge dat you will alters know dot I have tole you, for der will be a great many tinge tole you after I stir% out oh dis life inter do world to come." An' I say dis to you all, for here is a great many pepul, dat when I step out oh dis existence, dot you w•tll know what you heerd old Sojourn' frute toll you. I was boun' a slave In the State of Noo Yo'k, Ulster county, 'along de low Dutch. W'en I wee ten years old, I couldn't speak a word of Ing lish, an' hab no eddication at a11.,' Dere'e wonder what thy has done fur me. As I tole you w'en I was sole, my master died, an' we was goin', to cab a auction. We was all brought up to be sole. My moder, my fader was very old, my brudder youngor'en myself, and my mother took my Iran'. Doy opened a canoby ob ebben, an' she sat down an' I an' my brudder sat down by her, en she says, " Look up to do moon an' stars dat shine upon you' father an' upon you' mother, mhen yo sole far away, and upon you brudders an' sis ters dat is sole away," for dere was a great number oh us, an' was all sole away befo' my metnbrance. I asked her who made do moon an' do stars, and she says " God ;". an' says I, where is God?" "Oh," says she, "chile, ho sits in de sky, an' he hears you w'en you ax him w'en you are away from us to make your =rater and mistress good, an' ho will do it." When we were sole, I did what my mother tole me ; " Oh, God, my mother tole me of I asked you to make my marster an' mistress good, you'd do it ;" an' fey didn't get good, [Laughter.] " Why," says I, "God, mebbe you can't do it. Kill 'em." [Laughter and applause.] I didn't link he could make dem good. Dat was do idee I had. After I made such wishes ray consceuce burned me. Then I wud say, " Oh, God don't be mad. My marster made me wicked ;" an' loyal thought how pepul can du such 'homlnable wicked things an' dere conscience not burn dere. Now I ouy made wishes. I used to tell God this—l would say, "Now, God, of I wasyou, an' you was me [laughter] and you wanted any help I'de help ye ;—why done you help moo" [Laughter and applause.] Well, ye see I was in want, an' I felt dat dero was no help. I know what it is to be taken In the barn an' tied up an' de blood drawed out of yere bare back, an' I tell you it would make you think 'bout God. Yes, an' den I felt, " Oh, God, of I was you an' you felt like I do, an' asked me for help I would help you —now why won't you help me ?" Trooly I done know but God has helped me. But I got no good master until de last time . I was sole, an' don I found one an' his name was Jesus. Oh, I tell ye, didn't I fine a good master when I used to tell ye didn't I fine a good master when I used to feel oohed, when I use to say, " Oh God, how can I libel I'm sorely 'press both widen and widout." W'en God gi' me dat marster he healed all de wounds up. My soul rejoiced. I used to hate de w'ite pepul so, an' I tell ye w'en do lo:te conic in mo I had so much lobe I didn't know what to lobe. Dee de w'te pepul come an' I thought dat lobe was too good fur dere. Den I said," Yea, God, I'll lobo• ev'ybuddy an' de w'ite perm' too." Ever since fat, dat lobe has continued an' kep' me 'mong do w'ite pepul. Well, 'mancipation came, we all know ; can't stop to go trot - ) de hull. I go fur adgltotin'. But I believe dere is works belong wad adgitatin', too. On'y think ob It I Ain't It wonderful dat God gives lobe enough to do Ethloplns to lobe you. Now, hero Is de. questin dat I am hero to-night to say. I been to Washin'ton, an' I fine out dis, dat de colud pepul dat is in Washin'ton Din elide gobern ment dat de United Staas ort to gi' 'em lan' an' move 'em on it. Dey are tibia on de gov'ment, an' dere is pepul takin care of 'ens costln' you so cinch, an' It don't benefit him 'tall. It degradeshim Warta an' wuss. There to' I say dat these pepul, take an' put 'em In de West, where you ken enrich 'em. I know .no good pspul in do South can't take care of do negrocs as•cley ort to, case de reblls won't t 'em. How much better will it be for to take 'em culitd pepul an' give 'cm land ? We've aint lan' enough for a home, an' it would be a benefit for you all, on' God would bless de hull of ye for doin It. Doy say let 'em take keer of derselves. Why you're dat all away from 'cm. Aaint got nuffin leP. Get these culud pepul out of Washln'um off ob de gov'ment, an' get de ole pepul out and build 'ern homes In do West, where day can feed 'emselves, and dey would soon be able to lie a pepul among you. Dat is my com mission. Now agitate 'em pepul an' put 'em dere. Larn 'em to read one part of de time an' tarn 'em to work de udder part ob de time. , LIFE IN New YORK CITY.—Of families that spend between $25,000 and $BO,OOO a year, there are about a thousand in New York. It would be impossible to ascertain the exact figures, but the above figures are the result of considerable research, and to be relied on as approximating the fact. Easier it Is to give a close figure as to the families spending between $50,000 and $OO,OOO a year. There are about sixty or seventy such, families. Our figures would stand thus : 10,000 or 18;000 families that spend $lO,OOO a year; 1,000 spend $20,- 000 to $30,000 a year ; and 'sixty or seventy whom it costs $50,000 a year to live. On Filth Avenue it costs $25,000 to live respectably. In this sum, we do not include tho rent of the house, which would certainly swell the amount to $90,000. A first class establishment on Fifth avenue has eleven or twelve servants ; a man cook, with three female assistants, scullery maid, etc. ; a man that waits on the table ; a laundress, a coach man and a footman—the latter may helpvtalt ing on the table, as his duties on the hot. arc not very arduous—a stable man, two or three girls for up•stalr work, and if there are child ren in the family, a nurse. The outlay in carriages and horses alone amounts toslo,ooo a year.
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