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VOL. 11.-N0. 34.
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TP.VIX BROTHERS, Dealers in Square A Sawed
i Lumber. Drj G.ods, Groceries, Flour, Grain,
it, Ac, BurnsidePa., Sept. 23, 1963.
tREDErTcK LEITZIXGER. Manufacturer of
V til kinds of Stone-ware. Clearfield. Pa. Or
sr! solicited wholesale or retail. Jan. 1, 1S63
RANS BARRETT, Attorneys at Law. Clear
field. Pa. May 13. 1363.
j.j.rini. : : : : .: : waltsr Barrett.
ROBERT J. WALLACE. Attorney at Law. Clear
field. Pa Office in Shaw's new row. Market
nreet, opposite Xaogle'a jewelry store May 26.
TT F. NArGLE. Watch and Clock Maker, and
XX. dealer in Watches, Jewelry. Ac. Room in
Graham's row, Market street. Sov. 10-
HBUCITER SWOOPE, Attorney at Law. Clear
field, Pa. OEct inGrahani's Row. fourdoo s
west of Graham A Boynton's store. Nov. 18-
ARTSWICE. A 1IUSTON. Dealers in Drags,
Medicines. Paints. Oils. Stationary. Perfume
tt Fancy Goods, Solions. etc., et-s., Market street.
OWfleld, Pa June, 29, 1S64.
J P. KRATZER, dealer in Dry Goods. Clotb
. Ing. Hardware. Queensware, Groceries. Pro
Tliiscsle. Front Street, above the Academy,
Cleai field. Pa. April 27.
--txt LLIAM F.IRW IX. MarketstreeU Clearfield,
Y P Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Mer
ebamtise. Hardware, Queensware, Groceries, and
family articles generally. Jiov. 10.
JOHN GUELICH. Manufacturer of all kinds ol
Cabinet-ware. Market street. Clearfield. Pa
Ha also makes to order Coffins.
short notice, sec
attends funerals with a hearse.
AprlO.'ii.
-pvR M. WOODS, Practicisq Physician, and
j Examining Surgeon for Pensions.
Office. "South-west corner of Second and Cherry
fctref t. Clearfield. Pa. January 21, 1&G3.
riW'MAS J. M'CULLOCGn, Attorney at Law.
X Clearfield. Pa. Ofiice, east of the ' Clearfield
e.B&kk. Deeds and other legal instruments pre
pared with promptness and accuracy. July 3.
JB M'EX ALLY, Attorneyat Law, Clearfield,
Pa. Practice in Clearfield and adjoining
eeantias. Office in new brick building of J. Boyn-
n, 2d street, one door sooth of Lanich's Hotel.
1) ICUARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreign and Do-
mestio Dry Goods. Groceries, Flour. Bacon,
liqaors. Ae. Room, on Market street, a few doors
west ot JaumalOJlee. Clearfield, Pa. Apr27.
LARRIMEB, A TEsT, Attorneys at Law.Ciear
teld. Pa. Will attend promptly to ail legal
and other business entrusted to their care in Clear
field and adjoining counties, t August 6. 1S56.
"I7af. ALBERT A BROS. Dealers in Dry Goods,
C roceriet. Hardware, Queensware. Flour.
Baeon, etc Wood! an, Clearfield county. Penn a.
Also, extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lum
ber, shingles, and square timber. Orders solici
ted. Woodland, Aug. lith. IS53.
TEM1 EKA.NfE nOTSE. The subscriber
won d respectfully inform the citizens of
Clearfield county, that he has rented the -Tipton
Hotel.' and will use every endeavor to accommo
date thoss who may favor him with their custom.
He will try to furnish the table wi:h the best the
country e in afford, and will keep hay and feed to
aeeomtnv) ate teamsters. Gentlemen don't tn-get
Ue'-Tipf.n Hotel." SAMUEL SMITH.
Tipton. Pa , May 25, 158t.
-IIJIIISKEKS! WHISKERS: Doyou wanj
V Whiskers or Moustaches? Our Grecian
Compound will force them to jrrow on the smith
es! face or chin, or hair on oald heads, in Six
Weesg. Prioe, S1.00 Sent by mail anywhere,
closelv sealed, on recrtot of price. Address,
WARNER A CO.. Box 133, Brooklin. X. York..
March 29th. Ia55. -
NOTICE.
TREASTRY DEPARTMENT, 1
C ice or the Comptroller of-the CrnRESCY,
WAsnissroM. Janruary 3uth, 1S5. J
l HEREAS.EY SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE
presented to the undersigned, it has been
nia e to appear that ' TUE FIRST NATIONAL
BASK OF CLEARFIELD," in the Borough. of
Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield, and State
? runsylvania, has b.-en duly organized under
. l according to the requirements of the Act of
' ucgress, entitled "An Act to provide a National
Currency, secured by a pledge of United States
t' zli and to provide for the circulation and
demption tbeieuf." approved June d, lst4. and
has complied with all the provisions ol sail Act
required to be complied with befc-re commencing
the business of Banking under fail Act ;
Now. therefore, I, Hugh McCulloch. Comptrol
Jer of the Currency, do hereby certify that -THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK UF. CLEARFIELD,'
in tbe Borough of Clearfield, in the coutty of
Clearfield, aad State of Pennsylvania, is author
lied to commence the business of Banking under
the Act aforesaid
v. In testimony whereof, witness my
( SEAL, ihand and eal of office, this 30th day of
V-NJanuary, A. D. 1S65.
HUGH McCULLOCH.
Feb. S, 1S55. Comptroller of the Currency.
b-a.:n"b: notice.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Orrtca crras Comptroller or the Cfrrexct, ,
WASHtTO, March 5th. 1665. )
IT fl E RE AS, B V SATIS FACTO RYE VI
t dence presented to the undersigned, it has
btenmad to appear that '-THE COUNTY NA
TIONAL BANK UF CLEARFILD," in the Bor
ongb of Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield
an4 State of Pennsvlvania. has been duly organ
iied under and according to the requirements of
tfce Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide
National Currency, secured by a plrdjie of I ni
U4 States bonds and to provide for the circulat ion
and redemption thereof." approved June 3d.
and has complied with all the provisions of said
Act required to be "complied with beforecommen
eing the business of Backing underf aid Act;
Now, tberfore, I, Hugh McCulloch. Comptroller
f the Currency, d hereby certify that -THE
COUNTY NATIONAL BANK OF CLEARFIELD,''
n the -Borough of Clearfield, in the county of
Clearfield, and State of Pennsylvania, is author
ized to commence the business of Banking under
tbe Act aforesaid.
v In tettimony whereof, witness my
KALhand and seat of ofice. this 21 day of
HUG II McCULLOCH.
Mir .1Ml oBj(eUw of tsjeCawesey,
THE ASSASSINATION.
ITS SECRET HISTORY.
THE DEVELOPMENTS.
Developments are being made hourly,
showing the plot to assassinate the Presi
dent and Cabinet was planned long ago, and
that the conspirators were only waiting for
a favorable opportunity to carry out their
designs. That the Knights of the Golden
Circle were the originators of the conspira
cy there is no doubt, and it is also assured
that the 4th of March- was fixed for the
commission of the deed.
The assassination of the President throws
light upon much which had been strange in
the conduct of Booth during the past win
ter, and there is good reason to believe that
in murdering Mr. Lincoln he was complying
with an obligation of the order of which he
was a member, and which obligation has fal
len to him by lot.
During the past two months he had seem
ed to be completely absorbed in some pro
ject, which none of his friends could fathom.
In the midst of associates he would frequent
ly, remain silent; or, if conversing, would
talk iu a pointless, way, as if thinking of
some great trouble.
On the 4th of March his conduct was
particularly noticed as being unusually
strange. During the morning his nervous
actions at tract eil considerable attention a
mong his acquaintances, from among whom
he suddenly disappeared, and was not seen
arain until a friend found 1 im standing on
the embankment at the north wing ot the
Capitol, near which spot the President
would necessarily pass. Booth vas dressed
in a slouch suit, with his pants tucked into
the tops of his boots, and an old felt hat
drawn over his face. His friend hailed him
two or three times, receiving no reply, and
finally went up to where Booth was standing,
when the latter for the first time manifested
his recognition of the gentleman, his man
ner conveying an iuipresMon that he did not
wih to be recognized. As the President
passed he turned away with his friend as if
disappointed by the absence of some one,
and preserved throughout the day a moody
silence.
On Friday last he was about the National
Hotel as usual, and strolled up and down
the avenue several times. During one of
the strolls he stopped at the Kirkwood
House and sent into Vice President John
son a card, upon which was written :
""I do not wish to diturb you. Are vou
in? J. Wilkes Booth.''
A gentleman of Booti 's acquaintance at
this time met him in front of the Kirkwood
IIoue, and in the conversation which fol
lowed made some allusion to Booth's busi
ness, and in a jesting way asked. '"What
made hint so gloomy? had he lost another
thousand in oil?" Booth replied that he
had lost considerably by the freshet ; that
he had been hard at work that day, and was
about to leave Washington never to return.
Just then a boy came out and said to
Booth: "Yes, he is in his room."
Upon which the gentleman walked on,
supposing Booth would enter the hotel.
About seven o'clock on Friday evening
he came down from his room at the Nation
al, and was spoken to by several concerning
his paleness, which he said proceeded from
indisposition. Just before leaving, he ask
ed the clerk if he wa not going to Ford's
theatre, and added, l' There icilllesome very
fine acting there to-nffht." -.
Mr. Sessford. ticket agent at the theatre,
noticed Booth as he passed in, and shortly
after, the latter entered the restaurant next
the theatre and. in a hurried manner, called
tor ik Brand ! branli ! Lrftndy!'' rapping
at the same time on the bar.
The Murderer's Arrangements.
The State box occupied by the President
was formed by removing the partition be
tween two of the upper Boxes, thereby leav
ing the two doors opening into the double
box thus furuie 1, one of which was locked.
In the rear of the box, aud between the
walls of the theatre, was a narrow passage
with" a door at the entrance leading from the
dress circle. During the day Booth had ev
idently visited the box, as is shown by the
preparations made for the assassination.
Behind the door of the passage a hole had
been made in the wall, in which at night
locth inserted the end of a board as a brace
against the dior, thereby precluding any
one from fallowing him from the dress cir
cle. " The screws were next removed from
the lock ot the farther door opening into
the double box, the thread of the screw
holes broken, and the lock and screws re
placed, so that should the inmates of the
box fasten the door by which they entered,
the other door might be easily pushed open.
Judge Olin and others on a visit to the
theatre, satisfied themselves by actual ex
periment that the' door ostensibly locked
could thus be pushed in with the greatest
ease. The aperture in the panel of the
door, which was thought to have been a
bu!let hole, and thus formed a contradictory
feature in the chain of evidence, it now ap
pears was made with a knife, and was de
signed to enable the assassin to survey the
position of the occupants of the box previ
ous to entering himself. The large arm
chair always used by the President at the
theatre had been removed from its usual
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infirm pnnhUng' the murderer to carry out
his design more readilv as he passed through
the box. A pocket knife, the one probably
with which the hole was cut in the door,
was found Ivine on the cushion of the bal
ustrade when Mr. Lincoln's party entered
the box. .
Much of this work of preparation must
have been done previously by the assassin, or
some confederate knowing the premises, and
was probably done during some portion of
th day when the theatre, or that portion of
it, is unoccupied. It would appear, too, from
the ease with which the somewhat difficult
jump and rebound was made a leap for-
ward and obliquely to the right that it had
been practiced previously, at some favorable
opportunity by the assassin. :
"vThat an Eye-witness sap.
Mr. James P. Ferguson, who was pres
ent at Ford s oti the night of the assassina
tion, makes a statement to the following
purport :
lie went to the theatre rith a lady on
Friday night for the express purpose of see
ing General Grant, who was announced to
be present Mr. Ferguson saw the Presi
dential party enter the box, but of course did
not see ths Lieutenant General He, how
ever, continued to watch the box, thinking
the General might intend to slip quietly in,
in order to avoid the demonstrations that
would attend his recognition.
When the second scene of the third act
ot the play was reached, Mr. Ferguson saw
(and recognized) John Wilkes Booth mak
ing his way along the dress circle to the
President's box. Of this box Mr. Fergu
son had an excellent view, being seated in
the dress circle just opposite to it, next to
the private boxes on the other side of the
circle. This scat he had purposely chosen
to afford his companion a good view of the
Lieutenant General, and. for the reasons al
ready stated, was narrowly watching the en
trance to it.
Mr. Ferguson and Booth had met in the
afternoon and conversed ; and were well ac
quainted with each other, so that the for
mer immediately recosmized him. Booth
stopped two steps from the door, took off
his hat, and holding it m bis Jert nana, lean
ed against the wall behind him. In this at
titude he remained for half a minute, then,
adds Mr. Feriruson, he stepped down one
step, put his hands on the door of the little
corridor leading to the box, bent his knee
against it, the door opened, Booth entered,
and was for the time hidden from Mr. Fer
guson's sight.
Mr. Ferguson watched for his appearance
in the box, de-iring to see who in that party
the actor could be on such intimate terms
with, as to feel warranted in taking such a
lifcertv. Whether Booth shut the door of
the little corridor or left it open behind him.
Mr. Ferguson fears to state positively; but
from what he observed of the door, believes
he did shut it. The shot was the next thing
Mr. F. reme mbers. He saw the s noke,
then preceived B-ioth standing upright with
both hands raised, but at that moment saw
tio weapon or anything else in either. ' Booth
then sprang to the front of the box, laid
his left hand on the railing in front, was
checked an instant evidently, by his coat or
pant being caugt t in something, or held
back by somebody. (It was- by Major
Rat bourn. )
A post in front obstructed the view of
Mr. l'erguson, Booth soon changed his po
sition, and again was clearly seen by Mr. F.
He now had a knife in his right hand, which
he also laid upon the railing, as he had al
ready his left, and vaulted out As his
legs passed between the folds of the flags
decorating the box, his spur, which he wore
on the richt heel, caught the draper', and
brought it down, tearing a strip with it.
When he left go the railing he still clutched
the shiui ig kirife. He crouched as he fell,
railing on one knee, and putting forth both
hands to help himself recover an erect posi
tion, which he did with the rapidity and
ea-y agility of an athelete.
Having recovered his equilibrium, Booth
strode across the stage to first entrance, pas
sing behind the actor on the stage, (Harry
Hawk.) When he reached the other side
of the stage, just ere he became invisible by
passing into the entrance, he lxkedup, and
Mr. Ferguson said he heard him say, "I
have done it," and then he lost sight of him.
Mr. Ferguson visited the theatre, and,
with Miss Harris, the lady who was in the
box with the President, her father, and
Judge Olin, of th Criminal Court, and
Judge Carter examined the box. The puz
zling hole in the unused door of the box was
closely scrutinized by the light of a candle,
and was found to possess indubitable marks
of hiring been ichittled tcith a knife. The
ball extracted from the head of tbe Presi
dent is of much larger diameter than the
hole. The edsres of the hole show the
marks of a knife blade very clearly.
When the shot had been fired Miss Har
ris rose to her feet to call for water for Mr.
Lincoln, and distinctly noticed a bar ot
wood placed across the door of the little
corridor, one end resting against the wall in
to which it was partially let by a cut, or rath
er an indentation, seoored in the walL The
other end was braced against the opposite
side of the door frame. This bar, as the
door opens inward, would effectually delay,
if not wholly prevent, all ingress into the
box from the dress circle, and would also
detain the egress of any one in the box.
The Bible tite Key to the Heart. If
I had a lock of very complicated construc
tion and there was only one key that would
unlock it, I should feel very sure that key
was made by one who understood the con
struction of that lock. So when I find that
notwithstanding all the windings andmiste
ries of iniquity in the human heart, the Bi
ble and the BiWe only, is adapted to it
throuffhout, and is able to penetrate its most
secret recesses, I am constrained to believe
that the Bible was made by Him who ''alone
knoweth the hearts of the children of men."
Webster.
"They talk of running old Pete for Pres
ident next time," remarked Jenkins to
Muczins, in front of the Tremont House,
the o her day, with a knowing look. "Pete
who?" "Pete Roleum," answered Jenkins,
walking off at a rapid pace.
A recent rebel letter found in a Southern
Post office says: "After the war I don t
know which will sound worst to say. I wasm
the penitentiary four years or that I belong
ed to Wheeler" s Cavalry.
THE OLD CASTMAN.
About five years ago,or thereabouts, John
Ainsly or Pap Ainsly,' as he was fami
liarly called was the owner of a hand cart,
and earned a living by conveying miscella
neous parcels from one section of the city to
another, and receiving therefor the reasona
ble remuneration ot fifty cents per load.
To designate the occupation in the prosiest
language possible, he was a hand man, and
when not employed, could always be found
during working hours at the corner of
Montgomery and California streets. His
hair and long beard were quite gray, and his
limbs feeble ; and if he could not shove as
heavy a load through the deep sand or up
the steep grade above him, as the stalwart
Teuton on. the opposite corner, thereby los
ing many a job and many a dollar, all the light
loads in the neighborhood fell to his lot, and
kind-hearted men not unf requently traveled
a square or two out of their way to give an
easy job to 'Pap Ainsly.'
Four years ago last September, (I recol
lect the month, for I had a note of four
thousand dollars to pay, and was compelled
to do some pretty sharp financiering to meet
it,) having two or three dozen volumes to
transfer to my lodgings, I gave 'Pap Ainsly'
the tack of transportation. Arriving at my
room just as he deposited the last armful on
the table, and observing that the old man
looked considerably fatigued after climbing
three flights of stairs two or three times, I
invited him to take a glass of brandy a
bottle of which I usually kept in my room
for medical and soporific purposes. Al
though grateful for the invitation, he po
litely declined. I urged, but he was inflexi
ble. I was astonished.
"Do you never drink?" said I.
"Very seldom' he replied, dropping in
to a chair at my request, and wiping the
perspiration from his forehead.
"Well, if you drink at all," I insisted,
you will not find as fair an excuse in the
next twelve months for indulging, for you
appear fatigued and scarcely able to stand.''
"To be frank," said the old man, "I don't
drink now. I haven't tasted intoxicating
liquors for fifteen years, since "
"Since when?""! inquired thoughtlessly,
observing his hesitation.
The oil man told me. Sixteen years a
go he was a well-to-do farmer near Syra
cuse, New York. He had one child, a
daughter. While attending a boarding
school in that city, then a girl of fcixteen
years of age, she formed an attachment for
a young ptrysieian. Acquainting her father
of the circumstances, he flatly refused his
consent to a union with a man whom he had
never seen, and removing her from school,
despatched a note to the younggallant, with
the somewhat pointed informa ion that his
presence in the neighborhood of Ainsly farm
would not meet with favor. The reader of
course surmises the result, for such a pro
ceeding could have but one effect. In less
than a month there was an elopement. The
father loaded his double-barreled shot gun,
and swore vengeance ; but failing to find
the fugitives he took to the bottle. His
good wife implored him not to give way to
despair but he drank the deeper, and ac
cused her of encouraging the elopement.
In three months the wife died ; and at the
expiration of a year, when the young peo
ple returned to Syracuse, from Connecticut,
where they had remained with the parents
of the husband, they learned that the old
man had sjld his tana, squandered the pro
ceeds, and was almost destitute. Learning
of their arrival, Ainsly drank himself into a
frenzy, and proceeded to the hotel where
they were stopping, attacked the husband,
wounding him in the arm by a pistol i-hot,
and attempting the life of his daughter who
hapily escaped uniujured, through the inter
position of persons brought to the spot by
the report of the pistoL. Ainsly was arrest
ed tried and acquitted on the plea of insanity.
The daughter and her husband returned to
Connecticut, since which time the father
had not heard from them. He was sent to
the lunatic avylum, from which he was dis
missed after remaining six months. In
1851 he went to California. He had follow
ed mining for two years, but finding his
strength unequal to the pursuit, he return
ed to this city, purchased a hand cart and
the rest is known. "Since then," continu
ed the old man, bowing his face in his hand
in agony, "I have not tasted liquor, nor
have I seen my poor child."
I regretted that I had been so inquisitive,
and expressed to the sufferer the sympathy
I really felt for him. After that I seldom
passed the corner without looking for 'Pap
Ainsly,' and never saw him but to think
of the" sad story he had to telL
One chilly, drizly day in the December
following, a gentleman having purchased a
small marble ton table at an auction room
opposite, proffered to the old man the job f
or carrying it to nts resweuce, uu eiwuwu
street. Not wishing to accompany the car
rier he had probably selected the face giv
ing the best assurence of careful delivery of
the purchase.
Furnished with the number of the house,
the old cartman, after a pretty trying strug
gle with the steep ascent of California street,
reached his destination, and deposited the ta
ble in the hall. Lingering a moment the lady
did not surmise the reason, until he politely
informed her that her husdand (for such he
supposed her to be,) had probably by acci
dent omitted to settle for the carriage.
"Very well. I will pay you,' said the la
dy, steDping into an adjoining room. She
returned, and, stating that she had no small
coin in the house, haaded the man a twenty
dollar piece. . ,
He could not make change. "Never
mind, I will call to-morrow," he said turn
ing to go.
"No, no !" replied the lady, glanein? pi
tyingly at his white locks and trembling
limbs. "I will not put you to the trouble,"
and she handed the coin to Bridget, with
instructions to see if she could get it chan
ged at one of the stores or markets in the
neighborhood.
"Step into the parlor until the girl re
turns ; the air is chilly, and you must be
cold," continued the lady. "Come," the
added, as he looked at his attire and hesi
tated ; "there is a fire in the grate, aud no
one there but the children. "
"It is somewhat chilly," replied the old'
man, following her into the parlor, and ta
king a seat near the fire.
"Perhaps I may find some silver in the
houe,," said the lady, as she left therooni,
"for I fear that Bridget will not succeed in
getting that twenty dollar piece changed."
"Come I love little children," and the
child who had been watching him with cu
riosity, ran behind the large arm chair, and
hesitatingly approached. "What is your
name, my dear?" inquired the cartman.
"Maria," replied the little one.
"Maria," repeated he, while the great
tears gathered m his eyes : I once had a lit
tle girl named Maria, and yoa look very
much like she did.
. "Did you?" inquired the child with
seeming interest, " and was her name Maria
Eastman, too!"
"Merciful God!" exclaimed the old man,
starting from the chair, and dropping into
it with his head bowed upon his breast.
"This connot be, ard yet, why not?"
He cought the child in his arms with an
eagerness that frightened her, and gazing
into her face until he found conviction there,
suddenly rose to leave the house. "I can
not meet her without betraying myself, and
I dare not tell her that I am that drunken
father who once attempted to take her life,
and perhaps left her husband a cripple,' he
groaned as he hurried toward tne door. The
little ones were bewildered. "You are not
going," said the mother, reappearing, and
discovering the old m..n in the act of leav
ing the hall. t
He stopped and apparently turned his
face, but seemed to lack the resolution to do
aught else.
"He said he had a little Maria once, and
that she looked just like me, mother,"
shouted the child, her eyes sparkling with
delight.
The knees of the oil cartman trembled,
and he leaned against the door for support.
The lady sprung toward him, took him by
the arm, and attempted to conduct him to
a chair.
"No, no!" he exclaimed, "not till you
tell me that I am forgiven.
"Foziven for what?" replied the moth
er in aTarm.
"Recognize in me your wretched father,
and I need not tell you, he faultered.
"My poor father !" she cried, throwing
her arms around his neck, "all istorgiven
all forgotten."
All was forgiven, and the husband, when
he returned late in the afternoon, was
scarcely less rejoiced than his good wife, at
the discovery. Whether or not Bridget
succeeded in changing the double eagle, I
never learned ; but this I do know, it took
the honest female all of two months to un
ravel the knot into which the domestic fam
ily had tied itself during her absence.
'Pap Ainsly' still ke?ps his cart, for mon
ey would not induce him to part with it. I
peeped into the back yard of Mr. Eastman,
one dav- last week, and discovered the old
man dragging the favorite vehicle round the
inclosure, his four grandchildren piled pro
miscuously into it.
The Bank of America.
This institution is not in Wall street. Its
area is co-extensive with that of the land
we live in. Geologists differ as to the date
when its foundations were laid, and how
deep they reach, nobody can tell. The
Jiunk of America is its marvelous soil, sur
charged with undeveloped deposits. Mil
lions of fortunes in the rough lie in its vaults
and crvpts, and rock-ribbed strong boxes.
All the drafts that enterprise and industry,
directed by science, can make upon it for
centuries to come, are as cure to be honored
as the sun is to shine.
No paper currency, however, "redun
dant," can represent its reserved capital, for
the amount transcends all estimate. Talk
of a soil that when tickled with a hoc laughs
a flower. That's a trifle. Tickle California
with a pick-ax, and she laughs gold. Give
Idaho a dig in the ribs with a shovel, and
she smiles silver. Probe Pennsylvania with
a big auger and she spouts oiL Perforata
the earth almost anywhere between Maine
and Mexico, and you will get some cheering
news, pocket-filling, mineral manifestation.
We are incurring an enormous debt, no
doubt, but we have only to bore. and dig,
and pulverise, to liquidate it. War cannot
bankrupt us while we can sink wells at two
dollars a foot, that will produce from one
hundred to three thousand dollars a day.
If we are a little extravagant, who can
blame us. with solid fluid treaures cropping
out and bubbling up in almost. miraculous
profusion in twenty Staces and Territories of
the Union ? A fig for Alchemy ! Nature
herself is in the act of " project ion." Iler
crucibles are full. All ve have to do is to
break through tae roof of her grand labora
tory, and help yourselves.
Nevertheless we would not advise our
moneyed readers to invest their all in "un
developed oil lands," or in "mining claims,"
the profits of which are as yet prospective.
The general principles we have laid down
do not apply universally. Advertising com
panies are somewhat to exaggeration ; and
though truth is said to have a frog like pro
pensity to make her home in the bottom of
a well, Sathanas, vile toad as he is, not un
frequently takes up his abode theiX.
A man of the world may have enough of
the world to sink hira ; but he can never
have enough to satisfy him.
It is an error to think that a long face is
essential 'to good morak, or that laughing b
an unpardonable crime.
What He Thinks of Traitors.
On the announcement of the capture of
Richmond, in Washington, President John
son was called upon by a vat concourse of
people, who were rejoicing over the eveDt,
when he made the following pointed re
marks :
"As I have been introduced I will maka
one or two remarks, for I feel that no one
would be justified in attempting to make an
address on such an occasion, when the ex
citement is justly at so great a hight.
"We are now, my friends, winding up a
rebellion, a great effort that has been made
by bad men to overthrow the Government
of the United States, a government founded
upon free principles, and cemented by tha
best blood of the Revolution. Cheers. J
You must indulge me in making one single
remark in connection with myself. At the
time that the traitors in the Senate
of the United States plotted against the
government and entered into a conspiracy
more foul, more execrable, and mure odious
than that of Cataline against the Romans,
I happened to be a member of that body,
and, as to loyalty, stood solitary and alone
among the Senators from the Southern
States. I was then and there called upon
to know what I would do with such traitors,
and I want to repeat my reply here. 1 said,
if we had an Andrew Jackson he would
hang them as high as Haitian. As humble
as I am and have been, I have pursued but
one, undeviating course. All that I have
life, limb and property have been put at
the disposal of the country in this great
struggle. I have been in camp, I have
been in the field, I have been everywhere
where this great rebellion was ; I have pur
sued it until I believe I can see its termina
tion. Since the world began, there never
has been a rebellion of such gigantio pro-
toriions, so infamous in character, so dia
iolical in motives, so entirely disregarded
Cf the laws of civilized war. It has intro
duced the most savage mode of warfare ever
practiced upon the earth.
"One word more, and I have done. It is
this : I am in favor of leniency ; but, in my
opinion, evil doers should be punished.
Cries of ''That's so." Treason is the
highest crime known in the catalogue of
crimes ; and for him that is guilty of it
for him that is willing to lift his iuopiou
hand against the authority of the nation
I would say death is too easy a punishment.
I Loud Cheers. I My notion is that treason
must te made odious, that traitors must bo
puni.-hed and impoverished, their social
power broken, though they must be made
to feel the penalty of their crimes. You,
my friends, have traitors in your very midst,
and treason needs rebuke and punishment
here as well as elsewhere. It is not the
men in the field who are the greatest trait
tors. It is the men who have encouraged
them to iraperd their lives, while they
themselves have remained at home expend
ing their means and exerting all their pow
er to overthrow the Government, Hence
I say this "the halter to intelligent, influ
ential traitors." Loud cheers. J But to
the honest boy, to the deluded man, who
has been deceived into the rebel ranks, I
would extend leniency. I would say,
return to your allegiance, renew your sup
port to the Government, and become a good
citizen ; but the leaders I would hang.
Great cheering. J I hold, too, that wealthy
traitors should be made to remunerate those
men who have suffered as a consequence of
their crimes: Union men who nave lost
their property, who have leen driven from
their homes, beggara and wanderer's a
mong strangers."
A Curious Centrfc Table.
A Milwaukee mechanic has presented to
President Lincoln a handsome centre table,
of octagonal form, which is composed of a
bout twenty thousand pieces of wood. The
top has a beautiful and graceful border,
made of black walnut and white holly, about
three and a half inches wide. Within this
are perfect representations ot our most beau
tiful birds, faithful likenesses of Lincoln,
Johnson, Grant and Butler, baskets of the
rarest flowers and fruits, and other designs
in most excellent taste. Six months labor
was required to complete it, and it is valued
at f 1,000. The same person presented
Mrs. Lincoln with a work-stand which he
got tip with similar elaborateness. It con
tains one thousand pieces, is finished with
every conceivable convenience, and cost two
months of patient labor.
Un'RAVELINO. A man coming home late
one niffht, a little more than "half seas o
ver," Feeling thirsty, procured a glass of
water and drank it. In doing so he swallow
ed a small ball of silk that laj in the bottom
of the tumbler, the end catching in hi
teeth. Feeling something in his mouth and
not knowing what it was, he began pulling
at the end, and the little ball nnrollmg, he
soon had several feet in his hands, heshout
at the top of his voice, "Wife ! wife ! I say
wife, come down here! I am unraveling 1"
Slaxdeo. Some people there are in r
ery community who had rather retail slaa- .
der from door to door than feast in. a palace.
Such unhappily-organizedjcreaturea deserre
rather the amplest pity than the slightest
censure. The peace and quiet they would
destroy in others finally becomes a millstone
about their own necks, sinking them into
perdition.
Our Devil has been dreadfully shocked to
read the news reports that Sherman has
not only been "hanging about Augusta, "bat
has actually been guilty of "attemrnne to
strike Charlotte," and "throwine his right
wing around Florence." . Poor girls! what
a terrible time they must have had ! ,
Simkins says it is the privilege of hoops
to surround the loveliest of thin?, amonj
which are girls and whiskey." ; '
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