ADVERTIBINOR ATM ilt 1 mo. 9 moe. 6 moe lyr. One Square . . 1.60 1.75 3.60 6.59 1202 Two arrest . . 3.00 3.50 6.60 0.00 '402 Three quaros . . 4.60 5.23 0.00 .17.00 23.0 0 81x Squares, . . . 11.50 17.00 25.50 45.(0 Q flirter Column . .• 13.60 15.1.03 40.00 60.00 11 elf Column . . 20.60 40.03 60.00 110.0 Cie Column : . 90.00 00.00 1.10 00 200.0 Protesslonal Cards 61.00 P or line per year. Administrator's and Auditor's Notices, 63.00 City Notices, 20 cents per line let insertion 15 coats per Ina each subsequent Insertion. Ten lines agate constitute a square. ROBERT IREDELL, JR., PUBLIIIIIER, I=! Coat anti Lumber. CHAS. W. ABBOTT SAE. M. RITTER, Union Street, near Lehigh Valley Depot, Allentown RITTER & ABBOT MANUFACTURERS OF Sash, Doors, Outside Blinds, Inside Blinds, „Ilnuld• fags, Brackets Balusters, Pickets, Stair Rail ings, SVlndoto Frames, Door Frames, Sc. SCROLL HAWING TURNING, FL/NINO. AIATCIIINO. FLOORING and 11l I'PING, DONE AT THE RHOR TEST NOTICE. ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done and HAND RAILING made to order. Having now had almost five yearn' possession of tho Mill, refurnished It almost wholly with now and improv ed machinery, and having none but experienced work- men, we are prepared to defy competition from at home mud abroad, both In price and work inanship. Do you contemplate building I Call at our Factory and satisfy yoursol r with s personal examination. Drawings for buildings, brackets, patterns for orna mental work, scrolls for perches, can be neon at all 'times by calling at our °Mc, Any Worm/Mon to the builder famished cheerfully and freely, by calling at the Manu factory, on Union street, at Die Jordan Bridge, Allen town, Pa.. or by letter through the post office. • twig 3-Iy] RITTER & ABBOTT. FILBERT. B. OTTO. H. M. OTTO. 0. W. MILLER FILBERT, OTTO dc MILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN . LUMBER W L GIANTS PORT, PA. MILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARD STREET OFFICE AT ME MILL • W F CRANE 4 RUK 7019 Carpct3 anb elotij RIEII AND ELEGANT CARPETS, OIL cLofrus, &C. S. G. FOULK. NO. 19 S. SECOND ST., PIIILA., (First Carpet Store below Market, East side.) • a lnns m att i e c n , tlon7 t lMglo w npl i assil l r i tw . nn ,, t of lmporte d y a . small American CA Goods warranted ( te ' d w an pros%te a tl so tll2t all can buy with coulidence and n mat Istaction. nov 2l' .tf • Spertacico. , SPECTACLES I SPECTACLES I I EYE GLASSES, Ac. Sp t c l i a a r c tr os a . og y c o onaleZ e. a . soLr . t . m: t ot of all kinds ofigX, , CHAS. S. MASSEY ' S, NO. 23 EAST HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA. Having devtded a great deal of care and attention to the Spectecin business for then. last few ea, thatd that my business in that Mohan increased no n fe ll I have de termined to 11110(0 it a SPECIALTY. There is no article manufactured in which there is nu much deception prac ticed an thorn is In Spectacle Masse, Knotting that the public have been frequently It umbnaged by parties pre tending to have a superior article of lilannen. and charging exorbitant prices for them, thereby tratficing upon the no• cessitles and Infirmities of age, I have taken pains to se lect a large and complete assortment all s finest and hest Glasses ever manud, thus affordin needing Spectacles an fa cture opportunity or Parcha g alagall persons at roe nonabto prices. Portions having any difficulty in being suited elsewhere will do well to give no a all, an I feel confident that no one will fail to he nulled. Remember the old stand. No. Ti East Hamilton street, opposite the Ger man Reamed Church, Allentown, Ps. tun Ti 'CS if aLotliug, GREAT ATTnACTION NET FIRM! NEW GOODS! , CLOTHING ! CLOTHING GRAND SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING• 'GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE 'q T. OSNIUN & CO., Succearrore to Metrgar k Osmun BARGAINS GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM IN REIIIIEIVB BUILDING. NO. 605 HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOIVN, PA. We would Inform the office°, of Allentown and the en, wounding country• that we aro prepared with a large Nitta .ot goods for _ FALL AND WINTER WEAR, and offer them to thilpnblic at refl.:wide price.. Tit tbotte who boy their Clothing ready - made , they aro prepared to •offer BARGAINS. WHOLE SUITS MADE TO oRDERI COATS, PANTS AND VESTS Cut and made to the latext xtile, nud by the best workmen OUR STOCK OF CLOTHING, CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES it larger than it bile been before, and we Intend to Pell at very SMALL PROFITS, and give our maternal, the hese at of our low purchayea• • • • . . Orent firmtltlen and Verletlen or NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS, And eyerythlng In the line or GEN,T'S FURNISIIINO GOODS, MEN'S. YOUTHS', DOTS' and CHILDREN 8 READY-MADE CLOTHING; CONSTANTLY ON BAND. Don't forget the place, No. 60.5 Hainllton street, third door above idlx th etreet. T. Ornivn. t ./ &COD 11• SCROLL MARTIN /MIN mut 24 t HUTTON 8: ACCONNELL, FURNITURE WAREROONIS, NO. 800 MARKET STREET, W I North Side _Fr PHILADKLPII lA. PARLOR, DINING-ROOM, VAIAMBER FURNITURE diXithe Latest Stylea and Beat Manufacture ALSO, Feather Beds and Mattresses-. sepNi3m (CONSHOHOCKEN • .I.3OII,ER.AND COIL. WORKS, jOW,Lq WOOD, JR., =I TUBS. FLUE AND CYLINDER BOILERS BATH • AND STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS. All kinds of Wrought Iron Coil., Toyer., for Blast Far once. tlasurnetere, Smoke. Stacks, Blast Pipes. Iron Wheel barrows, and everything In the boiler and Sheet Iron line. Also, all kinds on end kinds rcings Whom ackmit worlr, Miners' Tools of all such as Baskets, 'Pinks, Drills. Mallets, Sledges Ac. liar Inge Sloan, Hummer and set of tool. of all kinds. . and skilled workmen. I flutter myself that I can turn out work with promptness and Ilimpatch, all of which will he • warranted to to nnit.chiss. . . . . . Patching Holton!. and repairing generally. !strictly at ended to. XVI' 17 - . 3TORE Popular than any Other I ALWAYS ON THE' LEAD, The Glory of the Morning and Any Other Time. The Celebrated Molt:dug Olory Stoves are manufactured Ode year In greater peal titles than ever before, to, meet the great •emand fern gret•clasa slur. filmy are mold by WM.. G., RITTER, DEALER ID STOV ES & TI \NA RE, 831 Hamilton St:, Allentown, Twelve hundred of these Stoves have hero SON iv Ode co u n ty during the pest five gears, every one of which has elven unlimited tttlxfsolon. which Is the best recent- InenOstioo they need have. Always on hand all bands of B toves,llanges, Fnr n s,eg. Orates, Tin and Obeel-Iron Ware. • large variety of modern Cook Stoves, sorb as THE REGULATOR, with Revolving Top, HOT BLAST EXCELSIOR COOK • SPEAR'S ANTI -DUST COOK. ALL RIO HT COOK , , HOLD AInUAL, ETC. s t V :2 .: n a large vatlety of the moat aPProaeo eattog 3 i v Adana,.—A good'agiel to do gen. 11Janc r.""'""""' ° "%AVALNUT STREET. VOL.. XXVI THE Kramer FALL OP' 1871 I WITH ONE OF TILE LARGEST AND CHOICEST STOCKS OF DRY GOODS ! To he found in the City embracing the Latest cud Newest Novelties of the Season,adapt ' fibre 'for Ladies' and Men's Sußings, guaranteed to be sold at BOTTOM PRICES EMMEN TEE ATTENTION -or - :11 A NUFACTURERS, DEALERS & IMPORTERS Iron, Steel, llnstrware. Ilaitei ltea Lead u Supplies, Lubsieut lug Oils, Wh, Els., =I IRON WORLD AND MANUFACTURER, THE Largest Metal Price Current IN TUE WORLD. . The hoolive: journhle or the e, , untrP and Europe r. Cog It , hLo liepresto.tellve Vapor of the Amer .:a. 1101.11 'l' ratios. The publiAler. have over since thin tem nal was te•talt - Unlit d, • toplet vii the able..l, to b.. rreetti ; eXio1,111111: MO, 1110 e) for their .11ttrieti Mout. than the ettiire eXIII . II watt) . prentinent ttewa paper eauhlish per vetr Ix paid tilt f. r anginal watt,. 'the eirettlatien of the IRON \V or Id I. far greater than that et any similar public:Wm. la Chia country. I!llt=ttl=M=2ll=l MM=Mll=l Tie hest Forpbrytd, and irt Conti tits, 1',11,0 and Tylpouroithit,ll pirr,rr“ ell tO Located In the very centre of the metal Interests of the United states. with correspondents at the leading cities of the East, W es‘and Saudi, tee do not err In claiming that it is the 11EPRRAF.NTATIV JOURN AL of the Metal Manufacturers, %Vorkers and Dealers of this country. As a journal for machinists nod instal stockers it has no rival and contains every week the choicest selections front engine. ring, mining and sclentilic publications of this country and Europe. Its motto Is "Drouress, and it has compelled oilier iournals,or similar cbaracter,iro FOLLOW to ITA LEAD. Its readers comprise Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Machinists; Founders, Ilardsvarn Dealers sad Provers, GIIONMItIOL P1111111)01 IL Cutlery Manufacturers, File Manufacturers,Elaw Manufacturers, Boller Manufacturers, and leading Railway Officials. U.%LY $4.00 PER AN NUM: II you are in the tonalelal trade, take a :octal paper. It W 1 1l yo u you more than its cow . If you are o nufac• turer take the journal that advocates your Interests I=l From A large number of noticen from iho press, wo se• leer the following : [Front the Chicago Journal of Comsneree.) Tile loon WORLD AND ISIANVPACTU.K.—A Ilepresen tally° of American Metal Manufacturers, Workers and Dealers.--This Is the title and doscriptitro character of a Ready printed and profusely Illustrated folio of thirty-six colossus. puollehed by lbs 11:05 WORLD (:(01PANY, The item, before IS VU1:11110 No. 11. fin editorials. deecripsions'ol manufactures, roe smut improyeinoute. correepoodence, market reports.OlC• • laidicatea industry and abiiity. It dem,. Om patron• ago of all loterosted in the prosperity of AMOriCall11.1111• factures in general, It will. however, b, 111010 particu larly luteresting to those engaged in the Iron and hard ware trado, linch trill )velcoino lis weekly mum. as an essential Aid to every sigpartment of their Imola.e. Fry the Cincionaltrlderchants' and Manusablusere • A BOCCEBPPCL NRWSPAPER.—We are pleated to Dole the evidences of eucceet to the Inert I.Voat.n. of Pittsbutgh. 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JORDAN Proprietors Of 010 Gallery of Anatomy and Museum of Science 807 CHESTNUT BT., I'UILA. • flavejtmt published a new edition of their lectures,cou• lathing must veluisble luformatlou on the CoUses..7ollllo• queen. and treatimmt of dbmaxes of the reproductive ystem. wllh xF.NAtI oo ON bI•RRIAOR DUI the • ArtOtle of (L 101.040 161•SlItiOD, with hill lu.tructious for its complete rentoratio..; also 0 chapter on V0N1111.13•L HICTION, nod the us,4 up rice. being the roost Com• Paattermi v.; WOW( oil the 'elect ever yet P.l)/i.bed— comprining pave. Made free to any address for Tweet y-eve cents. Address Drs, JORDAN & DAVIESON, CONSULTItin OFFICE, 1625 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. sop 36ay (law JOHN GELLER, NURSERYMAN AND FLORIST, 430 GRANT STREET, BETWEEN GORDON AND LIBERTY. • All kinds of BIM ME= AND GARDEN SEEDS. tdcn Te ' d " . ' 1‘1! We ' a gi,Vde l eo P iro l gr i NA l t i )Voi and fre !Il y a e l f 4 no 3 Clod 'fcbiob 'Vtrol,6ttt. CLEAR TRACK in the Field FE THE FOR d\l) FURS .. ! LADIES, If yon want to boy Fero, go to the well-know and wont rottable Store of W. KEINATH, Importer and Exporteir of Furs, 710 ARCH STREET, (OPPOSITE ST. CLOUD 1I0T111. 3 ) PHILADELPHIA, Where you have Hai selection from the most extensive assortment of all descriptions at the lowest mann facturi g prices. Sots from $5.00 up to the most Costly Russian Crown Sable 'HUDSON BAY and MINK SABE. ERMINE, CHINCHILLA. SQUIRREL. and every va• rtety of tho latest etyles SA. QUES of Seal Skin. Perslana and Astrachan. ALL KINDS OP PUR TRIMMING, Also the fillOgttment of FANCY ROBES, WHIT E FOX, BEAVER, W HITE POLAR and BLACK BEAR, HUDSON RAY WOLF, Sc. ALL 0001)5 WARRANTED AS REPRESENTED. CALI. BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. Vi M. K EI N ATJI , 21'n. 710 Arch Street, Philadelphia. uovls.3mu, ALLENTOWN ROLLING MILL C 0 Su cctootorx THAYER, ERDMAN, WILSON ok CO STEAK ENGINES AM) BOILERS, RAILROAD TURN TABLES, MILL GEARING, SIIAF PING, Fvrnare, Rolling li, and Mining Work N. o.—All work gourauteed tknd 4lolivery prompt. L. H. GROSS, Sup't I=l WILMINGTON AND READING SEEN PER CENT. BONDS We ore offering the Second tdoitgage bonds of Ms Com rIY AT 85 AND ACCRUED INTEREST, Interest Payable January and July. The coal. miscellaneous, freights and passenger busl• ness are constantly increasing. The receipts for the year ending wend. 31.1571. worelait.77B led mere than theyr ending October ill Ihl . o. The Increase for Novernber,/h7l ea . over November, 1670. was $1.1W1.74. Iloutl., Pamphlets and loformation can be obtained of deC2l.ly NV MILS. GULDIN'S Ladies' Trimming Store, ALLENTOIVN, PA. The trade at thls old and well known eetahllehmeat Is conetantly Increasing, owing to the fact .hat NEW 000 D 1 are being Constantly received of the LATEST STYLES and always callable to the wants of her numerous! Casio• roam People ahonld alwaye go where they are sure to be netted at low Ettore, , an 18 ALLENTOWN, PA.: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1.7, 1872 WINTER - FURS =1 BRIDGE CASTINGS, &c., &c., &c HAII.IIOAD . Free of Taxes Tho Bondx aro In 1000 s, 500 s, and 1000, And CAO be REGISTERED free of expense DE HAVEN & BRO., No. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA LIKE A WOMAN The men's eves met for a moment as Medic spoke, and in that moment each read that the other knew all about It. "Ho knows I love her," poor Theo moaned In his heart, and "He sees I know It," Mr. Bligh thought, with not one whit less pain. And a silence fell on them and in that silence. Madge saw things clearly at last. TO recognize the love of a man In the pros ence of another who has a right to feel jealous of it, is to be in a position of the greatest dan ger, and delicacy, and difficulty. Poor Madge flinched for the first momeht when she found herself in it, but the next Instant she recov ered herself, and, with the generosity of a woman; sought to put them well with one another without regard to herself. "It was selfish of me to say I wouldn't spare you, for it must be dull for you here ; but the fact is, Theo has spoilt me,. just as my brothers do, and I have fallen into the way of ordering him about as I do them, forgetting he isn't a brother. What a lovely piece of turf Shall we canter?" She went off as she spoke, and they fol owed, Theo spurring his horse rather reek essly by way of a diversion, and Mr. Bligh bewildering himself with his endeavors to distinguish which would be the right course for him to pursue. "I'll put it to her plain- iy," ho determined at last, "and if her heart Las turned to him. God bless her, 13'..0 shall never suffer for it." Fate seemed to be against things righting ernselves in the original way. They rode fast and far, and when they thought of turn• ing homeward Miss Dundee's horse had cast a shoe, and they were obliged to wait In the first village they could find, while a black• smith was sent for to put it on again. It was terrible trying work fur them all hat sitting in the room at an inn, weighttd with the discoveries they had recently made about each other. It became insupportable to Mr. Bligh after a short- time, and so' he sauntered out into the garden, and Theo and Madge were alone. Her spirit rose with her sense of danger, as does that of all finely-organized natures, am she turned to him bright and bravo at once though he had grown to he very dear to her and though she knew that he was suffering horribly on her account. "It seems to me," she said " that we're all very weak and wrong to let a shadow settle over the last ride you'll have with us, until I am an old married wo man, with household cares on my shoulders, that will crush down my love of horses." "This will be my last ride with you, ➢Liss Dundee." "Theo I" She threw such a world of re proachful tenderness into the tone in ,which she uttered that one word, that the man she addressed trembled visibly- Ells resolve when spoken coldly and harshly, shocked and sur prised her, out of the brightly prudential tone she hag, fully intended to adopt. Why had Mr. Bligh gone away, leaving them the prey of this mischievous opportunity ? "Yes ; for Heaven's sake don't speak to me in that way, or you'll drive me mad !" and then he got up and went to the window ; and poor Madge saw that his face had grown very pale, and that an expression of hopelessness had settled upon it. She could not bear it. He had been so thoughtful for her always—so gentle, and devoted, and sympathetic—that she felt as if she must comfort him, let what might come of it. " Theo," she said again, with that sense pa thetic cadence In her voice, " you have been so kind to me always; I can't bear to see you so. Can't I make you happier, Theo ?" .He turned round quickly and caught her bands, as she was standing near to him. "Madge, do you love my uncle ?" • Half frightened, she drew back from him and "I am engaged to him," she stammered. " Yes, but you have made me love you ; you knew your chance, and you have used it. If you love him, let me go without another of those appeals that you know how to make so maddening ; if not—Madge, Madge !" He had taken her hands again, and was looking down Into her face with a gleans of such intense pleading affection that fora me ment he was the world to her. "If I pad known you flret," she sobbed "but I didn't, you see; and we Dundees never break our word. And—oh 1 you had better go after all ; but forgive me l" Forgive her. It was easy enough to say he would, and to make au end of this miserable scene, but it was very bard to do it. Had she not spoken his name with all her heart in her voice only a minute ago, leading him on by the tone she used to tell his secret to her in the hope that she would be brave, and avert eventual misery from them all ? And now she was telling him that if she bad knoWn Lim first she would Lave loved him best, and that she could not for her name's Sake break her word to Lis uncle. It was a ghastly state of affairs, and as soon as he could, Theollligh made an end of it by going away. The two men had no verbal ex planation on leave-taking, but they parted as comrades who bad been wounded in the same fight might part. And then Theo fou . nd that, though existence was not embittered to him, the savor bad gone from the old pleasures. It was decidedly not worth while now, he felt, to try and do anything good or definite ; for he could never find a wornan to share his glory or smile upon his success, who could put Bonnie Dundee out of his mind ; after her other women did and would always appear to be wanting in something. She had the trick of making others appear lame and pale, and insufficient, and—well, the mon who has been shone upon by a star, never feels that there is much warmth in a taper. He banished himself so effectually that he heard no tidings from the Chase for six months and then he ventured to Bend his address to his banker, and to have letters forwarded to him ; but before these letters are read, a re trospective glance at the Bonnie Dundee must be given. She bore his departure very bravely. Re member how many other interests were claim ing her attention at the time, and remember the ardent, impressionable, changeable nature of the girl. There was a good dent of the chameleon in Bonnie Dundee, and a dash of the peacock, and an Immense deal of the wo man. She had the faculty of feeling intense ly for the time, and of getting over things. Is not that last characteristic the secret of many women keeping right and of many oth ers going wrong I • It brushed the bloom of the peach roughly when he went away, fur that veiled idolatry of his bad been very pleasant to her ; never theless she bore it bravely and made the best of that which remained to her. "I sin so sorry for I was so fond of him," she said to her lover with that disarming frankness which women of her calibre know so well how to use and Mr. Bligh hearing her, did not won der that his nephew had been scorched by the fiery ordeal through which lie had passed. There was this about it,too, that it was such clean fire that oven her, own sex could not despise and condemn and prophesy evil things concerning Miss Dundee's warmth. Just as she loved light, and dancing, and flowers; and sweet sounds, so did she love to be loved ; and though It made her dangerous, It never made her despicable. And somehow men understood Thin, nod so fostered ber oth- or foibles, because of their gladness that she was free from greater ones. It was only about a week before the day fixed for thalr marriage, that Mr. high ven tared to speak decisiVely to her. Very earn Cathy and gently be spoke, beseeching her to open all her heart to him, and to tell him if any other image had ever displaced his. And Madge listened to him thoughtfully, and ann. lyzed her own emotion, and finally answered him. "If ho had come first I should have . loved Theo desperately ; as it was, I didn't dare let. myself. You're not afraid, are you." "Only for your happiness, my poorchild," he said, " not for my own honor," "I like you so much, you know," she said, energetically—" It dues seem so hard that 0.. e can't express all one's little gradations of feel log in words—l like you so much—but it's dark to me now without him," she added, with a sudden passion that carried her out of herself, and convinced hint that she could never be his wife. "Ile is the younger man—and you are right." Ile tried to say it calmly, but it was an awful blow ; and again, ns the strength of his manhood was shaken, Madge wavered, and strove to comfort him. " Let things go on and 1 shall forget hicti,or grow indifferent to him ; I know myself—l shnll live it clown." " You need not, poor child, for he low s you too." "Yes, I know that," she answered with the reckless openness that rnade her what she was. After that, so much of the world as knew the Blighs and Dundees had a fresh and de• lightful source of wonderment for . a time. The marriage between•the owner of the Chase and Madge was broken off,, and still they were friendly: and still neither would listen to one Word agninst or comment on the conduct of the other. Time would tell, people said sapient ly, reserving their belief as to what time would trill to themselves. 'ix months passed, and then Theo Bligh receives those letters of which mention has been made. One was from Madge, and con• tamed words:. "Your uncleTh promised to explain every thing. I need only say that I shall always be your faithful friend, Madge Dundee." The other was from his uncle, and contain ed a free fotgiveness, (this was only implied, not coarsely volunteered,) and a full account. "Come back and win what I have lost, and as I love you as my son, so will I love her as my daughter : r That was something like an invitation from a defeated to a successful lover! Once more fate was against things righting themselves in the clear and good way that was made so open. Then had by this time taken a situation In a mercantile house in New York—a situation of trust, which he could not hastily quit, or place another man in rashly. Great interests were involved in it, which he could not endanger by his absence for a year, at least. But life was bright to him again, and he bore the delay bravely, having illimita ble faith In the girl he loved and himself. Had she not gallantly won this faith by avow ing her love for him, and losing the richer man and the better position by the avowal ? Had she not, of her own free will written to him those few sweet words of promise? Small wonder that he could live contentedly through the present, when such a future loomed before At lasi be wan free—fret to go home and win his Letle, and obtain personal absulu• tion from his uncle for those sins which love had made him commit. Fate favored him now. The steamer was a fast one, and in a fortnight he was down at the Chase, grasping his uncle's hand. "And now you know what my next move will be," he said, when' the greetings were over, subduing his own gladness as much as he could, out of respect for the sorrow by which his uncle had bought it. "What is the matter?" he added in alarm, seeing a change in the kind cordial face that was bent on him. "You know I have come to ask her to be my wife." "I have borne an awful grief and dtsap. pointtnent,.but I'd bear it again rather than have to tell this to you, any boy.. Yon have stayed too long." "Great Ileaven! is she (lead?" "Not dead, but as lost to you as if she were; and you must go back, "and she must never hear you have come, or she will be true to herself, pitiftil and over-kmd, and— like a woman generally, shall I say ? She is married; you have stayed too long." It did not kill him, and It did not send him to the bad, a convenient locality to which tic tiorowriters frequently consign their jilted heroes. But it dulled his life, and robbed him of his belief In the goodness and fidelity of women. Notw ithst and Mk which he forgave he r, and was friendly with her in after-years; and though her fickleness had earned his 'contempt he never paid the debt. And so poetical jus tice was not awarded to the "flagrant flirt" Bonnie Dundee, who would have been a bet ter woman if she had not been so thorough a ' SymyroamMi.—Aleporler—Can you induce some of my dead folks to cotnmun:eate with me? Medium—What do the spirits say ? Rap, rap, rap. The elate was placed against the under tilde of the table•leaf. The reporter held his left hand tight upon it. In a moment ho felt the slate bearing down upon his hand, and heard the pencil driving over the smooth surface, dotting and crossing, and scraping ns though for a wager. When the presence was removed 100 raised the elate and rend : " He is an irrational man, who does not be lieve that he soul is immortal." This communication,was signed with the name of a deceased relative whom the reporter had never seen. His last name, the. same as that of the reporter, wasspelled as by one wino had heard It for the first time. '" If the ghost of my deceased relative, who was a very learned man in this life, does not improve In his orthography," said the reper ter sadly, "I fear that his celestial school• marm will be forced to flog him." THE plogress of the times Is illustrated by the vote of the New York Senate last week on the ratification of 4 the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Gonstitution.. All the Senators but one—a Democrat—voted In the affirma tive. This Amendment was first ratified by the Legislature of New York about three years ago. Subsequently the Democrats obtained control and repealed the ratifying resolution. tow it has been again affirmed, almost by genoial consent ; and as the principle of equal suffrage has been Irrevocably attached to the Constitution, the action just taken will doubt less be allowed to rest undisturbed through the changing fortunes of political parties. Benoni 'Howard, a wealthy match mantifad turer of New York, has been under indictment for a long time In the United States Circuit Cotirt, on a charge of counterfeiting internal revenue stamps, many thousand dollars' worth of which; it Is alleged, he used on match boxes. Hie trial has been frequently postponed, on application of his counsel, Judge Fullerton, and now another Indictment for substantially the same offence has been found against him. SPRINGING A MINE OF FIRE The, llnrni• ampler, by Drnppiny a .137. r nf Mho- Innn —.4 Drug Stor•o fu n Nbeet of Flrtntvm Pc•I•S011,1 Riurnfr•rl fn Denth, I=l About three o'clock Saturday afternoon, it young man named Stewart, employed in the laboratory and wind. tide dint store of Fred erick Stearn., at 89 no iward avenue, was instructed to entry into the basement a box containing tuelve b;ml,4 of rhigolene, fluid used by dettnsts, and which quickly explodes when brought into contact with flame. In descending the stairs the young man mode n misstep, it is supposed, as he dropped the box on the stairs, and the next moment the whole basement was a sheet of (loin. It was not an explosion, as powder or steam explodes, but it was A TERRIBLE HISS, a noise which was heard a block away. The vapor, of the rhlgolene reached the flames un der the steam boiler In the basement, and a sheet of flame covered everything and rolled up the stairs as if a mine had been sprung. One of the employes was at the head of the basement stairs when the box dropped, and he bad no time to turn away before IDE FLAMES LEAPED Cl' to 1111 D, singeing his hair and badly scorching his lace. lie states that he heard no loud re port,. but there was a " s-s sish !" a slight crackling noise, and he had only time to leap out doors when theAdunes swept up the stairs, up, up, and in less than two minutes were in the laboratory in the fourth story. Some one ran and gave the alarm from the box at the corner, and three teamsters were on hand within five minutes, and the great clouds of black smoke pouring out brought hundreds of people to the spot. As the flames burst out of the rear and front of the long building al most at the same moment, the firemen wire puzzled for a momerh how to divide their force. As the ladders wer.3 being taken from the trucks, I= front the crowd as a man, one James Green, mule his appearance at the second-story win dow. Ile could be..seen fighting away the smoke and flame which surrounded him, and it was seen that he was going to jump. Shout. ing to him to wait a moment, a pile of blank ets was snatched from a box in fr.tnt of Nall's store and thrown down for hint to alight on. lie made the jump, and cheers an I shouts greebd •the act. Green sustained quite severe Injuries to his feet and legs, but will not be crippled. Green had hardly been carried off before another employe, named Mace, appeared at third.story window, a cloud of flame close after him, and he leaned far ont'and held by ffie sash to escape the heat and smoke. 'lle saw that the firemen would have a ladth r to him In a moment, and coolly waited until it came. =1 The smoke was now leaping from front and rear and the water from the steamers was aid ing to make the volume of smoke denser and blacker, when a groan was uttered by the hun- Orcos of men looking up. A man in his shirt sleeves made his appearance at the front win• dow in the fourth story, with the flames above and below him, and he acted as if determined to leap down. " Don't jump—for heaven's sake, hold on I" shouted live hundred men, and they waved their hats and hands in hopes to add emphasis to their words. The man, whose name is Lodge, heard the shouts, and as the smoke parted for a moment, he saw the firemen splicing a ladder. The flumes were scorching his hack, the smoke was stifling him, but he hung to the sash, leaned out over the dizzy height, and waited. The first splice was too short, and a shudder went through the crowd as the firemen took the ladder down to put on another. " Hold on ! hold on I don't jump!" was the constant shout, and then the ladder went up again. The end struck at.the man's feet, he stink down and grasped it, and the next moment came DOWN THROUGH. THE SMOKE AND FIRE to the pavement, amid shouts which were heard half a mile away. Mr. Stearns, two you ig women, and two or three men were employed In the laboratory on the fourth floor when the flames caught. They hI and the loud hiss, but had scarcely time to pass a word of comment when the flames shot up through the floor. 'Retreat by way of the staircase was im• possible, and Mr. Stearns shouted for them to make their way to the roof. After the fire which nearly destro3ed h:s establishment early last summer, he constructed a fire-escape to the roof, and up this they all rushed, one of the girls being pushed up and the other drawn up by Mr. Stearns. Troth the roof they passed over to the roof of No.. 91, and descended through . the scuttle. But for the fire-escape, sonic, if not every one on the fourth floor wou'd have lost their lives. , THREE MEN IN TILE FIAME9 As soon as Mr. Stearns could reach the street, ho immediately began searching for his employes; to see if any lives had been lost and it was soon ascerluined that three of the men had undoubtedly perished. Patrick Mc Namara. porter and engineer, was in the base ment attending to his duties, assisted by a young man, named Alfred Boeninghausen. The young man, Demi Stewart, was last seen on the stairs, and it was soon known that not one of the three bed escaped. The statement of the man Joseph, who stood at the head of the stairs, was sufficient to show that the poor victims had met and awful death even before the alarm was sounded. The crowd was wild with excitement, and, forgetting that a quarter of an hour had pass. ed since the flames appeared, a rush was made fir the window gratings in front and rear. Axes, hammers, crowbars—anything which could be seized upon—was used to force up the gratings, but the work had not been ac• complished when great sheets of flume rolled out and •trove the men away. They say that the bodies must have burned to a crisp long beffire, and no further efforts were made. The firemen went at their work systemati cally and determinedly. Ladders were mist d to the various stories, front and rear; hose were taken up end streams poured in, and four steamers worked their brat to quench the flames. But the oils, chemicals and other combustible articles kept catching fire and ex• plodlne, and, when the flames were conquered one floor, they burst out above or below, and water had lout little eff.ct. An hour went by, and then another, and an other, and it was nearly six o'clock before the flames let go of the upper stories and were confined to the basement. There were large quantities of whale oil, turpentine, chemicals, acids, and other such articles in the basement, and for two or three hours longer, until the cellar was nearly full of water, the flames kept shooting,up and destroying whatever would burn. FIEDINO TILE EDDIES About haltpast 7 o'clock the, [lanes were sufficiently extinguished to permit the firemen to descend iffilugh the front gates. They had not been down long before word was passed up that the bodies were all floating under the sidewalk. In a moment more, word was given that there were four bodies, Instead of only three, as had been for several hours supposed, and there was Intense excitement to know the names of the four victims. Doeuinghansen's body was the first ono brought out, and was taken into Nall's store and laid on the counter. The clothing was not' ven scorched, and the blackened face told that the boy had met his death by suffocation alone. He had apparently fallen to the floor, stretched himself out, and died without much struggling or suffering. McNamara's body Came next, and it pre• seated a most horrible sight. The hands were tightly clasped,•as If in prayer or great agony, and there was hardly a spot where the body had escaped the flames. The face was crisped and burned, the knees were drawn up and shriveled, and the flesh burned front the arms. Stewart's body wits next brought in, and there was everything to show that he died of suffocation. Not a scratch or burn appeared on the body, or its clothing, and the poor boy looked as if death had come without pain. On!) , a few days ago his father was stricken with disease and died, and lids new grief will rest heavy on the hearts of family and friends. THE FOURTH BODY was brought in at length and deposit 2d nn the long counter, and for some time no one could recognlzg it. The dames had spared form and clothes, as with two others, and the two score of own in the store drew back and waited At length an old man half frantic with fear and excitement was admitted, and he at once rushed to the body. He c, old not recognize the features as those of his son, though he looked again and again, and he was turning away with a great burden lifted from his heart, when a thought suddenly came to him. Ile rushed back, threw off the sheil, rolled up one of the pants legs until he could se4 the boot top, and then he fell back with a shriek and a groan which brought hears to many eyes. Ile had made the hails for his son, and some mark enabled him to recognize them. For some moments lie WAILED AND 5 BISI.n LINE A CHILD, and the sight of the gray.headed old man, wringing his hands in anguish, sent more than one from the store. The name of the boy was Henry Geiger, his age about 18, and his home was on Catharine street. lie was the order clerk. Mr. Sterns had a stock in store amounting to about $05,000. He says his Insurance amounts to $40,000. The damage to the store will amount to $3,000 or $4,000 more. Nall's stock was somewhat damaged by smoke and water but not sufficient to delay business.; HANDWRI7'INI4 AND CRIME Of late years a new mid curious profission has come into vogue, that of " experts" in handwriting. These gentlemen's services have for some time been repeatedly called in requ( st it England, esecially In disputed will cases, but they seldom made much impression either on judge or jury until there arose a master in the craft, Mr. Chabot. It was through n case whleh occurred a few years since In the Lon. don Probate Court that this gentleman was brought into the first rank of his very limited profession, of which a Mr. Netlierclift had up to that time been the chief. The ground of dispute was in relation to the will of a wealthy old yeoman. One side claimed that the will was genuine, the other that it was n forgery. When the turn came for Mr. Chabot's ( vidence to be given, the counsel for the will gave a contemptuous smile as the expert ascended the box, apd my load leaned back in his chair in a, manner which indicated I know how much this sort of testimony is worth." By degrees, however, matters underivent change. Counsel against the will became par ticularly assured in his bearing. Counsel for the will fhlgeted in his seat, and, what was more important, my lord aroused himself and began to take notes. When Mr. Chabot de scended from the witness-box he had br.•ken the will. The judge, in summing up, said that he must confess that previous experience had not disposed him to place meek reliance on testimony of this description, but the pr's• eit case was an exception. Mr. Chabot's evi ; deuce was certainly most remarkable. The point to which the accomplished gen tleman drew special attention was the fact tint he had examined page after page of writ ing which was admitted by either side to be that of the deceased, and In no case had he found the vowel "0" connected with the other letters in the word In which it occurred; whereas, In the document alleged to be forged, "O" sometimes stood alone, sometimes was jcined on to .the neighboring letters. Mr. Chabot's services are now in constant demand, and he ought to lie making a very large income. The Tichborne case must alone have put a great ninny pounds ini his reket. Quite recently he has been employed in tiro notable stilts. One of tins,—" Firebrace vs. Firebrace"—is a divorce case. A maid ser vant, as often happens in such suits, is a profit . inept witness. She, It appears, kept It diary, In which she recorded suspiciouscircumstauces in her mistress' conduct. This diary the mistress got hold of, and, the servant alleges, interpolated passages which reflect sadly on the morality of 'the servant herself, and are thus calculated to weaken the effect.of her evidence against Mrs. Firebrace. Mr. chai)! is of opinion that the alleged inter polations are not in the handwritinz of the servant. The other CRSC ,WIIS 0110 of libel, In which a lady named DiHa WWI plaintiff and a Mr. Shepherd defendant. In January, 1870, a Mr. Ilirket, to whose son the plaintiff was engaged, received a letter, imputing to her improp. r conduct. On the 11th of February. Valentine's day, plaintiff herself rec2lved two letters, one containing sonic indecent verse's, and the other some lines Cann Chaucer. The experti differed strongly in regard to the sim ilarity of the writing with that of Mr. Shop herd. In summing up, the Lord Chief Justice pointed out that the great merit of Mr. Chabot in such cases was that he gave cogent reasons for his conclusions, and was not content merely to state that he was Of such 1111 d such an opinion. The Jury found for the tb•yend 7 ant. Mr. Chabot lately brought his ingenuity to hear upon the vexed question of Junius, and has helped to strengthen the already over whelming evidence in favor of fir Philip Francis's authorship of the famous letters. FItANCE, like Englund, says "Once a Week," may, we suppose, be diVided into the Wise and the Foolish. The former are occupied incessantly in trying to discover the causes of defeat, the latter in finding ex:uses for It. Among the wise men, M. Jolly lies read a paper before the Academy of `Medicine, in which the substance of his remarks are as fol lows Tobacco costs Paris 200,000 francs a day ; enough to find bread for 2.000.000 peo p le The wild saturnalia of blood and de struction.wldch has been held In Paris is only the natural result of the double intoxication of nieohol and nicotine. These two plagues have beCn more disastrous to fair France than war Itself, and have contributed largely to the de feat of her armies. French soldiers, muddled and blinded by drink and tobacco, have fallen easy victims to the hardy Teutons. Wounded drunkards cannot be cured ; all, or nearly all, die, whilst sober individuals with graver in juries readily recover. France," rays Dr. Jolly, "has cast off all restraint. She has found It simpler and easier to poison herself freely." But this theory will not answer every objection that can be raised to Its disadvantage. TU wit: Whese is the man that can smoke and swig beer with a German 4 If a woman were to change her sex, ehe would be a he(a)then. ROBERT .IREIELL, :IR. Vain anb ffancu 3fob Printer, No. 603 HAMILTON STRIMT, El ELI3OAN NO. LATEbT STY LBS Stamped Cl...eke, Cards. Circolare, Paper Hooka, Cons tutlotia and By-Laws, School Catalognea„l3llll l eads Envelopes, Letter Heads Bills or Lagos', WILY Stile, Tags and Shipping Card., Posters of any lee, etc., etc., Printed at Short Nalco NO. 3 THE ORGAN-BLOWER HT OLIVER WENDELL lIOLIIEB Devoutest of my Sunday friends, The patient Organ—blower bends ; I see his figure sink and rise, (Forgive me, Heaven, my wandering eyes!) A moment lost, the twxt half seen, Ills head above the minty screen, Still measuring out hie deep salaams Through quavering hymns and panting psalms No priest that prays In gilded stole, To save a rich man's mortgaged soul ; No sister, fresh from holy vows,— So humbly stoops, so meekly bows ; Ills large obeisance puts to shame • The proudest genuflecting dame, Whose Easter bonnet low descends With all the grace devotion lends. 0 brother with the supple spine, • Ilow much we owe those bows of thine ! Without thine arm to lend the 'breeze, How vain the finger on the keys Though ail unmatched the player's skill, Those thousand thro to were dumb and still. Another's art may shape the tone, The breath that fills it Is thine own. Six days the silent Memnon waits . Behind his temple's folded gates ; oto Bat when the seventh day's sunshine fulls Through rainbowed windows on the wa}l, Ile breathes, he sines, ho shouts, ho Nis The quivering air with rapturous thrills ; The roof resounds, the pillars shake, And all the slumbering echoes wake! The Preacher from the Bible-text With weary words my soul has vexed ; (Some stranger, fumbling far astray . TO find the lesson for the day ;) He tells us truths too plainly true, And reads the service all askew,— Whr —why the—mischief—can't he look Beforehand in the service.book? tl on, with decent mien and face, Art alnays ready in-thy place; Thy strenuous blast, whate'er the tune, As steady as the strong monsoon ; Thy only dread a leathery creak, Or small residual extra squeak, To set d along the shadowy Males A sunlit wave of dimpled smiles. Not all the Preaching, 0 my friend, rows from the eburch's pulpit end ! Not all that bend the knee and oow Yield service half so true as thou! One simple task performed aright, With slender sklll, but all thy might, Where honest labor does Its best, And leaves the player all the rest. This manyAlaprisoned maze, Through which the breath of bet ng strays, Whose music makes our earth dlvitie, Iles worked for mortal hands like mine. My duty lies before me. Lo, The lever there ! Take hold and blovl! Arid lie whose hand Is on the keys Will play the tune as He shall please ! —Prom Old and New for January. MA RN TWAIN tells a capital story. Here is ,one of his hest; One day when I and my brother went into the woods, he shot a chicken hawk and a crow, and while lolling in the shale under a tree, he pulled the tails out of the birds, and then fooling round and talking lie finally built the crow's tall into thechicken hawk's transom. When we saw what a neat job it was, we thought we would keep it., When we got home we were late for supper, an I w no just dropped it turtle pain and rushed in. We had a sort of a meal:frig hope that the old man and our uncle would get bit with it anyway, because 'they were always potter ing over geology or natural history, or some tiling they came along and found the bird, and we braid them discussing it and talking all kinds astonishment. Directly the old man came in, having the bird by the leg, and said: "130 s a, where did you set this bird?" "Shot him in the woods, sir." "Did you ever come across any other birds like this, here?" No, sir, this is the first." "Boys, do you know what you have dune 1 You have discove ed something that will make you 'known every where. The bird is a new species." And lie walked out, and we heard him and uncle conclude tl.at they would label it with their own nemee, and send it to Professor Hagen haunt, at Albany. Pretty soon, though,lhe old num took held of the tail and pulled . it out and w e heard both of them swear a little. Whi n we came out the bird .was lying on one side of the fence and the tailon the other. We did not dare to laugh, nor to let on abaut overhearing their bilk, either. But about a menth after this, there came along one of the saltiest specimens of a boy you ever saw, and wanted to stay with us. Ile was all rage and tatters, and tired out with running away from his master somewhere. his shirt was hang ing at half mast through his troweers, and twit thirds of the tail of it was a piece of blue flannel that had been sewed on. While the poor fellow was eating his dinner, uncle and the old man were studying what they had better do with him. And finally they said: "By George ! they did not know what to do with him." Just then the boy rose and swung his colors into view, and brother Bob sale: "Father, you might send him to Professor Ilagentmin, at Alginy." If was the first time the old man knew we had overlumd the talk, and so lie whaled us both. Ho said: "I will learn you to play j Ikea on your ()Id father," lira al Treatment of a Child A shocking case of brutality has corn% to light at Adrian, Michigan. It appears that Mrs. Louisa Lowing, who had in charge her nirce, a little girl named Emma Lowing, beat the child in a horrible manner because she could not eat fast enough at the table to please her aunt. In her testimony before the Justice of the peace the child says : "On Monday of last week I got upend my aunt was real cross; she scolded because I did not eat breakfast faster ; I was eating akfaStACJl,C,9,9ld.C z *.g. said she would feed mo if I did not eat faster ; as soon as Uncle William left she commenced feeding me, taking a large piece of bread and forcing it into my mouth ;. I Chewed as fast as I could, and she•eald she would whip me.if I did not eat faster ; I could not eat faster, and she took me into the bedroom, stripped me and whipped me with a whip about as big as your finger; front an apple tree, and about a yard long ; she struck me about a hundred blows and then said if I would not make any noise she would stop whipping me ; I could not help crying aloud,"and then she choked me ; then she whipped me again, and at last, when I could not keep still, she put a towel into my mouth ; she had me in the bedroom about an hour I should think, and struck me, I should think, about two hundred blows. After site teed •got thteugh whipping me I went back to the table, and she made me eat. a great deal more than I wanted ; did not want to eat anything; site made me eat about enough for four or five meals at that one time; I kept asking her to let me stop, and she said she Would not stop •until I had commenced eating fast ; the loaves were large loaves of baker's bread, and. the slices were thick ; she would not let me drink anything.'' Several witnesses testified its to the brutality of the treatment which the girl hail received, and it was shown that in addition to the hor rible punishment of cramming, red pepper had often been forced int , her eyes and mouth. The perpetrator of the outrage was sentenced to pay ti One of $lOO and confinement 'in the troit House of Correction for ninety days. A Cincinnati paper says that In the present • condition of the Ohio, a small and very flee strainer, worn inside the mouth, may be of service in preventing death by Dtrangulation. Mrs. Partington entered the office of the Probate Judge (called " and b. quired In her blandest tope " Aro you the civil villain ?" "Do you wish to insult me, madam I" said the Judge. "Yee,!' replied the amiable old lady ; "my brother died de tested, and left three infidel children, and I'm to be their executioner ; so I want to Insult the civil villain about it." . Y.LEIY TIJIVN.. PA NEW DESIGNS