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All letters should bonddressed to SI'CLURE & STONER, Publisher& Coat, number, str. CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS! A EIV T 1.0 N! , • ' 'The undersigned have now on hand, at their PLANING AND FLOORING MILL, a large supply of Sash, Shutters, Doors and Blinds for sale, or made to order. Mouldings, of all descriptions, from half inch to A inches, on hand. Plain and Ornamental Scroll Sawing neatly executed. Also—Wood 'ruraing in all its branches. Newel Posts, Banisters, Bed Posts, de.e„ on band.. A large supply of Dressed Flooring for sale. Also—Window and Door Frames on hand or made at short notice. HAZELET, VERNON & CO., ' febl tf Harrison Avenue, Chambersburg, Pa. N OTICE TO FARMERS c wo TOSS OF TDIOT/11: HAY Wanted by GEO. A. Dbrrz LNZO WALNLIT LOGS Wanted by GEO. A. DEITL. 100 ASH LOGS Wanted by GEO. A. DEII2. 100 LARGE EnERRY LOGS Wanted by GEO. A. GEITZ. WHEAT, RYE, CORN, OATS and all kinds of Produce bought by GEO. A. DELT; at his Warehouse above the Railroad Depot. STOVE AI.:E LDLE COAL for sale Cheap, by the ton or halt ton OAK AND HICKORY WOOD by the con! or half cord. OAK ANT:I HICKORY WOOD, sawed and split for stoat use, by the cord or half cord. - WIM3O7.AND DOOR SILLS, of oa,lititlntil and Pine, ilw-ays on hand. WINDOW' AND DOORFRAME STUFF, and all kinds of LD3IBER, such as Oak and Pine Plank ; Oak, Walnut, Pine 'and Hemlock Boards; Flooring Boards, Joie* Scantling, Shingles, Paling, Laths. Sio. BEST OF ROOFING SLATE always on hand, and - roofs put on by the best Slaters, who have drawn medals for their superior workmanship. CALL AT DEITZ'S 'WAREHOUSE, above the Railroad Depot. and bey cbrap. ideal LEONARD EBERT & SON, COAL AND LUMBER MERCIJANTS. We have on band all kinds of Coal and Lumber, and are prepared to furnish Bill Lumber to order at short no, tee, all at the most reasonable terms. Oar stock of Lum. bar coradsta of White Pine 2 inch Plank, " " 14 " select Plank. " " P ark. " I Wert and Culling Boards, - " I " Boards, " 4 " Siding (6 inch,) " Best River Shingles, " Worked Ftoring, " " Siding. " •Joist and Scantling, all sizes, Hemlock Joist and Scantling, Boards. Tillcia Pine Boards. Joist and Scantling, Palling and Plastering Laths. We have Also always on hand a good supply of all. kinds of Coal for stoves and brue.burning. Also a sups.. rior article of BruadtopSkral for blacksmiths. The pub tic are Invited to give us a call, as we will endeavor to give satisfactia' n to all that call. Coal and Lumber furnished on the ears to any station on the Franklin Railroad. larOtlice on Second St, in the rear of the Jail Yard, Chambersbnrg, Pa. LEO. EBERT & SON. july27-tf. MB SMALL, BENDER & CO., Yank and Goldaorough Pa., LUMBER DEALERS AND MANCFACTIMETLS OF • SA,..SH, DOORS SHUTTERS. BLINDS, DOOR AND WLVDOW FRAMES, Az, Keep constantly pa hand a well selected stock of seas onable Lumber, viz:—Joist and - Scantling, Weatherboard ing, dressed Flooring, Siding, Laths, Shingles, Palings and Fencing. at White - Pine and Oak Bills, sawed to orderat the shortest notice. All communications should be addressed to YORK, PA. isept.,sly BIIIL D IN G LUMBER.—The under signed is prepared to saw all kinds of Building Lum ber at the lowest market price. R. A. RENFREW, GREENWOOD Idrus. Faiattecille P. O. dediii-ly trces, Vim anb ,erebo. FRANKLIN NURSERY.—Desirous of Occultly part of toy yround,s, I offer for rale, 30,000 APPLE TREES. These Trees are grafted with the best and most appro• ved varieties of Apples. and are grown on gooe,sands loam. They base an abundance of fins fibrous routs, and can be removed without risk. They can be furnished from five feet to nine feet in laeiglith, with proportionidely heavy stalks, and are well worth the attention of persons wishing to plant orchards. I will sell them at froth $lO to 814 per 100, according to size and quality of Tree,: when ordered in quantities of ICO and npr.nrds. PEAR, CHERRY and PEACH TREES for fall plant ing also on hand. EVERGREEN and SHADE-TREES in variety, with a general assortment of SFIRUBBEITY. GRAPES.—I am prepared to receive and fill orders for Grapes tar fall planting, such as Concords (the best dark now cultivated.) Diana, Itetteeca, Delaware, T. Kelm), and all the latest varieties offered. -.- A moderate charge to cover expenses fon - tacking% All Koodsdelitsered in Chainhersburg or at the Rail Road it desired. rie Orders addressed to the undersigned will receive prompt attention. S FitIYSER, Agent, may3l4m• Franklin Nursery, Chambersburg Pa. ,forlmarbing Pougeo. • -wr UNDERLICH NEAD FOBWARDINo AND COMMISSION MEM - MAN - VI North Second Street, Opposite the Condlerland Valley Railroad Depot, ChamberMarg, Pn, Cars run regularly to and from Philadelphia and Bahl , more. AGENTS.—Peacock, Zell & ilinchinatZ No. SOS Mar ket St, Philadelphia. Lykens Valley, Broken Egg and Nutt COAL, (ditect from the mines). Wilkesharre and Pine Giove FOUNDRY COAL, LUMBER, SHINGLES, S.U.T. PLASTER and Hancock CEMENT, kept constantly on hand. FLOUR, GRAIN and PRODUCE of all kinds porehnsed at the highest cash prices. Sept 9, WUNUF:ItLICII & NEAD Taos. L. G ,JACOB ZELLER. GILLESPIE, ZELLER & CO., ' PRODT:CF, AND PROVISION MERCHANTS, AND IVHOLESALE GROCERS, . - - _ North• West corner of Sixth and 3larket Streets, Phila delphia. [nine;, G3-tf. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL! ROPES & TWINES. The undersigned having purchased the entire Stock and Fixtures—uf the Hope nod Twine Manufactory of J. P. Grey, deed, resp,ntfully announces to her friends, and the limner patrons of the establblunent, that she will continue to carry on thebusiness, in all its various branches, at, THE OLD STAND, , on Trminlin street, Chambersburg. here sbe will be pleas ed to receive the calls and orders of [he public,. All kinds, sizes,- and qualities of ROPES. CORDAGE, TWINES, &C., always kept on hand or made to order of the best material, and ftrnised at reasonable prices. In connection with the above business, she to also prepared to manufacture HAIR, HUSK, AM) OTHER biATTRKSSES, as well as Horse Blankets and Fly Nets of superioi qua' itv and style. Persons in wont of superior articles in the above linear(' requested (oust!, orsend their orders, u blob will be attended to promptly, de y WANTED! -DISABLED SOLDIERS And others out of employment to eunvtiss for OUR GREAT NATIONAL WORN, Just published, "THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABRARAMLINCOLN," By Frank Crosby, of the Philadelphia 'Bar. comprislng one large octavo volume of nearly 500 pages. This is the only work of the kind published ; it is en. tirely new and original, containing his early historv t Po* 'Weal career, speeches, messages, proclamations and other official documents illustrative of his eventful administra• • lion, together with the scenes and events connected with his trngic end. It Will •be sold only by one atnholized travelling agents, to whom exclusive territory in g i ven, and liberal commissions paid. Send for a circular nod terms to "American Publishing Agency, Box 217, No. 600 Chestnutfitreet, Philadelphia." Jnnot4-4t . . • - - - -- - - : k _ - . 441eP1 .- _ 7 O -L4r ( Kt 4 i t e' al us , xlt - L., Al y - BY M'CLURE & STONER. ,Silbcr4ftirting grompanr. THE McCLEAN SILVER MINING CAPITAL. $1,000,000. 109,000 SHARES AT 810 EACH FELL PAID LT e 5 EACH COI. S. McCLF.A.i, Montana Territory WELLIA3I M. Besum, Philadelpbla. EDWARD E. JONES, Philadelphia, COL S. MCCLEAV, Montana Territory, JACOB-HAY, Easton, Pa, GEORGE - EL ROBERTB, WILLIAM W. LEDYARD, Philadelphia, J. G. GILL, Montana Territory, J. C. DELACO . UIt, Camden, N. ,I OFFICE, 429 CHF,ITNIA` STREET, PICELADELPHLL The Eaton and Aurora Silver Lodes, the properly of this Company, are situated on the Rattlesnake Creek, a never failing mountain stream, which 'empties into the Beaver Bead River, a tributary of the Jefferson Fork of the Missouri, in Bearer Head County, in the Territory of MontamL, and contain twelve bundled feet each. The width of the Eaton Lode is five and one-half and of the Aurora three and one-half feet, running to unktumn depths, andincreasing in richnesins they go down. These tyro lodes are only forty feet apart, and probably run to gether at some distance from thJ surface. An estimate hereto appended. based upon - actual assays made in the ordinary form. and in bulk, trill show the im mense et these mines and their great value an Silver producing,l.,stos. These assay:. were made by Prof.A. K. Eaton. l'rof. Forrey of the New York Assay Office. and Prnf. (;until, of this city: Sample No. 1 5 Silver per ton 5102 33 Gold Sample No. 2 Pet ton ' 93 75 4 P i ''' i Gold ' " S 1 T. 2, Sample No. 3 Silver per ton 46 ~ .n Trace. Sample No. s }. Silver per ton ' 1,677 70 ' ( Gol d " 1,251 35 ; . Sample N. 1 5 Silver Per too 5.125 21 / Gold Trace. Sample No. 2 1 83 /Yer Per ton -73 2.0 Gold " • 21 10 sample . 50. ., 5 Silver " t-• - - 201 10 " / Gold Silver " Trace.. 5 .., Sample No. 4 314-C£ / G01d..... small quantity PROF. A.'S. EATON :—DEAR The sample of ore that you left with me, marked "Discovery g" gaco by assay, in Silver 8164 56.100 Silver per ton. PHILADELPIILt, April 3, 1365.—The sample of silver ore from Montana Territory examined at your request, contains 172,92 attunes of Silver in 2000 Ibq. of ore ; value e`M4,2.”. Gold per ton. The above ore is said to come from the Eaton Laic. X. A. GEFIII. Memrs. Adirte and Raymond..mining Engineers. l`iery York, Ihrty We aastinne that the Lead ore n-111 yield 675 in Silver to the We, and the Silver ores $5OO. These figures are moderate enough, since, according to our assays, the Sil -ver ore contain from 8913 to $3llO spec i 6 value From the above assays, some idea may be formed of the immense value of this property, and of the certain*. of a large.yield. But even that idea Kill rte merely approx. [unitive, without a tine consideration of the following facts The celebrated Comstock Silver Lode, in Nevada, wor ked by the "Gould and Curry," "Empire," "Yellow Jack et," "Ophir," "Crown Point," "Savage" and some other companies,.l4d on the Bth of April,lB6s, at prices avers ging over Tim; Thousand Do:lars per foot. The;etinines yield an average of about e 65 to the ton, which iiicludes first, second and third classes of ores. Now, the average yield of the three classes of ore of the Eaton and Anthra Lodec Mill certainly he mere than $63 per tor!: bide. d, from the large number of assays thus far made, not only here, bu , in the actual workings of the • tome, it n ill probably ri•neli Fi.-75 or ... 7 4 , 0 per ton. The 2400 fret oo lied by the Company would, therefore, be worth, at go , price of the Comstock Lode; nearly Fire Mi!lions op Dollars The'Company have gent a mill of tweotyfoar laampa to the mines, end eepea returns in silver in September. This IN ill be able to crash thirty Was of ore per day, at an ex pease for mining, erushing - and smelting of ten dollars (SIM per ton. Then, taking the yield at only ,860 per too, the result would be as follows 30 tone per day, at 860 Cost, 810 per ten - Net daily profit or £450,1100 per annum, payable, not in =Ten cy, but to the coin itself. The property at the Company la amply rufielent for a dozen companies, and einid not be exhausted in a lifetime. Prospectors/ire also engaged by the Company, talting up MARY E GRAY other Lodes for them. The Operations at the mines are under the euperinten deuce of the Hon. Samuel McLean, Delegate to Congress from the Territory, whose thorough acencintnnce with mining•rendere it certain that the interests -0 f the Comm. ny will be pushed in the most energetic manner. Only Twenty Thousand Shares for sale Inayl7Ati Agent for Franklin County Wvieinity COMPANY OF MONTANA President, EDWARD E. JONES, Philadelphia. Vice President, SerZflary an d Treaturrr, Diteckirs, EATON LODE I= NEW FORE, January `.21, Join: TORREY. Yours truly BAILLOVir, Secretary & D. B. OAKS. /Legal ffl,ottces. ELLEN GOINS, BY HER NEXT Priem), Samuel Seller, vs. George Goins—ln the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin comity, No. 67, Jan nary Tend, 1565. Subrsena in Divorce. Returnable to the . January Term. Returned ME/ habit. Alias subpce na to April Term, and game return. Noticeis hereby given to George Goias, the defendant above named, to appear before the Court of Common Pleas of said county, on the Attend Afonday of August = 1, 4 to answer the complaint Of the plaintiff above,. or be proceeded against according to law. - pinel4 -St SAMUEL, BRAN - DT, Sheriff. IiISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. _Li —The partnership heretofore existing between Da• vid C. Brant and Samuel Dotrich, under the style, firm and same of Brant & Detrieb, was- dissolved by mutual ebosent on the first day of May. The Books ut the late firm are in the hands of David C. Brunt All per ons knowing themselves indebted are requested to make Mu mediate payment. DAVID C. BRANT. SAMUEL DETRICII. The business will b?continued by the undersigned. innyl7.6t DAVID C. BRA 'T. ESTATE OF DAVID LYTLEI—The undersigned, appointed Auditor to make distribution of the balances, in the hands of J. M. Lytle. Executor of David Lytle, deceased, to and among the heirs and lege teetrof the said dectased, will for that purpose meet at his office, In the borough of Chambersburg, on Thursday, the 15th day of June at 1 o'clock, P. M., all persons who may think.proper to attend. GEO. W. BREWER, may 24 Auditor. EXECUTOR'S NOTIC E.—Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary to the Estate of Samuel DJ Johnston. late of Southamptan township, deed, have seen granted to the undersigned. All persons knowing themselves indebtedto said Estate will please make immediate payment, and those having claims present them properly authenticated for settlement. june7 C. 3CLEAN CULBERTSON, Ex'r. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE,-No tice is hereby given that Letters of Administration on the Estate of Rev. Joseph Clark, late of Chambers burg. died, have been granted to the undersigned. AllArsans knowing themselves indebted tosaid Estate will please make immediate payment; and those having claims present them properly authenticated for settlement. junel4 6t A. K. aI:CLIME, Adm'r. ADMINISTRATOR'S 'NOTICE,-No tice is hereby given that Letters of Administration or the Estate of Daniel Gehr, late of Washington town ship, deed, have been granted to the undersigned. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment ; and those .having claims present them properly authenticated for settlement. fune7 •JACOB S. GOOD; Adler. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTlCE.—No tice is hereby given that Letters of Administration on the Estate of Jacob Smith, late of Antrim township, deed, have been granted•to-the undersigned. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said Estate will please make immediate-payment ; and those having claims present themproperly authenticated for settlement. may2l JACOB R. SHANK, Adm'r. elaniibates' earbo. COUNTY TREASURER.-3IAJ. JOHN HAsst.Eit, offers himself as a aindicrate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Unita Nominating Convention. St. Tnom.,ts, March t 3 1865. COUNTY TREASURER.—At the solie itation of a number of my friends, I announce my self a candidate for the Officeof County Treasurer, sub jest to the decision of the Union Nominating County Convention [QuiNcY, March 22.] Wlt. FLAGLE. AM. eRiswELL will be a candidate J_ A_ . for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Union Nominating County Convention. GnEEN l'owszsitty, iklay 341 1E4,5. TIZEASIIIIER.—SamueI F. Greenawalt offers himself a Candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the decision of Oat Union Sorg-Ma ting. Cum...4i.. Crwrise.muntc., March 15. M. H. BROTHERTON WILL BE A candidate for COUNTY TREASURER. subject to the decision of the Coven Nominating Convention. WAYNESBORO, J une 7, 1865. HERIFFA_LT Y.—At the solicitation of a number of my friends, I offer myself as a Can didate for the office of Sheriff of Franklin County, subject to the decision of the Union Nominating Convention. GLILFOHD ToWNSUIP, 3farch F. W. DOSIf. HERIF F ALTY.—Encouraged by a k.) number of my friend 3. I offer myself as a Candidate am the .447“. urSticrilE dubJect•to the de,tsion of rho Union Nominating County Convention. DAVID EBV. 11.thivrox Towssme, March 21 SHERIFFALTY.-4 offer myself as a Candidate for the office -o‘f Sheriff of Franklin county, subject to the decision Of the Union Nominating- Conven• tiou. - THOMAS M'AFEE. 31ERCERSDLT:c. Pa., March:a 156,5` SHERIFF,ALTY.—Encouraged by a LlUmber of my friends, loffer 'myself as a candidate fur the office of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Union Nominating County Convention. LF:ISHER. CILAMBERSBURG, 'Starch 15. SfIERIFFALTY.—Capt. NO. DCEB LE R, /..) of Chambersburg, will be a candidate for the °dire of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Union Nominating County Convention, • marchls. DISTRICT ATTORNEY.-SNIVELY - STRICKLII . R will be a candidate . for DISTRICT Ai- ImINET. subject Wthe decision of the next 'UMW County Convention. Freencestle Jut.e 7th, 1865. DVATSON, ROWE WILL BE A . ;candidate for the office of DISTRICT ATTOR NEY, subject to the decision of the next Union County Convention. . mayal. 3i) 01115. EASTERN INS.—The undersigned ha ving lately purchased the large and commodious Brick Building of Rev. S. R. Fisher, in connection with his present place of business, on the corner of Main street and Ludwig's Alley, is prepared to avemumodose BOARD ERS by theday week or month. He is amply . provided With STABLING to arcommadate the traveling public. Having a large LIVERY STABLE connected with the Hotel. guests and the pubho generally gun be furnished with Horses and Carriages at any moment. Persons visit ing, Chambersburg with their families will find this th e most comfortable Hotel in the county, as it has been re fitted with entire new' Furniture, and the rooms are large and well ventilated. The TABLE is amply supplied with all the luxuries of the season, and the BAR, which is de tached from the Brick Building, will always be furnished with choice and pure liquors. Every attention paid to the Zoinfort of guests. [octl2[ S. F. GREENAWALT. BROWN'S HOTEL.—This Hotel, situ ated on the corner of Queen and Second Streets, op. posite the Bank, Court Room. and County Offices, and tu the immediate neighlairhood4 Stores, Shops, and other places of business, is conveniently situated for country people having business in Cbambetsbarg. The Building has been greatly enlarged and refitted fortheaccommmia tion of Guests.- THE TABLE will always be furnished loth the best the Market can produce. THE BAR will he supplied with pure and choice Li quors. THE STABLE is large and attended with a good and careful Ostler. Every attention will be rendered to make Guests corn fortable while sojourning at this Hotel. febl JACOB S. BROWN, Proprietor. ITNION HOTEL:-:-This old and well Li established hole] is now open for, the accommodation of Guests Pbe Proprietor bavlng leased the three.st,:ryy block of buil. dings on Queen Street, in the rear of bin former stand, in prepared D, furnish (001) 11003.1 S for the tuts sling and transient I 11410111.- HIS TABLE w it sustain its limner reputation of being supplied o oh the best the market can produce. HIS BAR, detm hell tram the main building, will al war base choice and pure Liquors. Weal norm STABLING for fifty barges, With careful ostler. Every attention will he mode to render guests comfort able while sojourning at this Hotel. janlS JNO. FISHER, Proprietor. THE OLD WHITE SWAN.—The sub scriber would respectfully announce that he has so -far completed his Hotel building us to be enabled to open hill BAR which he has supplied with a stuck'of fine and choice Liquors. s He hue Apse erected in connection with the Hotel n large and convenient STABLE, and is now prepared at furnish Stabling and Provender for any number or Horses. Attached to the Stable (under cover) are a pairof HAY AND STOCK SCALES, to which the especial attention sum I of Farmers, Drovers and'Butchens is In. ited. june7 - DANIEL TROSTLE. 300 DAVID H. HUTCH.ISON has become the Proprietor of the UNITED STATES HOTEL, near the Railroad Depot at HARRISBURG, PA, Thispopalar and commodious Hotel ibas been newly refitted and furnished throughout its parlors and cilium bers, andls now ready for the reception of gismos. The traveling public will And the Hotted States Hotel the most convenient, in all particulars, of any Hotel in the State Capital, on account of its access to the railroad, being immediately beta ern the two great depots to this city. [Harrisburg, Jnae 17, 0-tf. $1,500 STATES UNION - HOTEL, OPPOSITE the Lebanon Valley and Pennsylvania Railroad Do pots, Harrisburg City, Pa. This convenient and pleasant Hotel is now kept by the undersigned, late of the Indian Queen In Chnmbersburg, and he Invites the patronage of kis old Mends and the public generally. Terms moderate. octs.4f JOHN W. TAYLOR. TO DYSPEPTICS.—Having been afflic ted for a number of years with Dyspepsia. 1 was advised to try DR, WISHART'S MEDICINE for that disease. I derived greet benefit and recommended it to quite a somber of my friends and who were also much benefitted by it, and whose testimonials can be had if nee. unary. I have been appointed by Dr. Wlshart us Agent forthe Sale aids Medicine, wholesale orretall. W. G. REED, nov.T.l Repotitm7 office, Cbambebbarg Pa, CHAMBERSBURG, PAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1865. gninklin F?pzitvrg. And there they sat, a popping eon!, John Stiles and Susan Cutter; John Stiles as fates any ox. And Susan fat as-butter. And there they sat and shelled the coin, And raked and stirred the fire, And talked of different kinds of ears, And hitched their chairs the nigher. Then Susan she the popper shook, Then John be shook the popper, Till both their faces grew as red - As saucepans made of Copper. And then they shelled and popped and ate, All kinds of fun a poking— While he haw-hare'd at her remarks, - And she laagbed at his joking, And still they popped and still they ate— John's month was like a hopper— And stirred the fire, and sprinkled salt, And shook and shook the popper. - The clock struck nine, the clock struck ten, And still the corn - kept popping— It - struck eleven, end then struck twelve, And still no sign ofstopiking! And John he ate, and Sue she though; The corn did poiand patter, Tin John cried out. " The eortis afire Why susan, what's the matter Said she, "John Sti les, it's one o'clock, You'll die of indigestion ; I'm sick of all this popping corn— Why don't you pop the question?" A DEAD SEA APPLE. "Pat not your trust in Prinoes,"—Psaim• 46, iiL Miss Imogene Fraser pined for a Prince. I don't mean a common prince, like that snuffy old Russian fellow we used to see about town, wearing a greasy fur collar, partaking of garlic and brandy three times diurnally, and growling at everything American in the most detestable Erglish. Nothing of the kind. She pined for a prince such as we read about in the fine old bentimental novels that amused our fathers and mothers in the flower of their youth; a Thaddeits of Warsaw, all talent, and pallor, and tenderness, and musical yoke, and fine roll ing eyes, and pedigree, and that sort of thing. • For my part, I don't believe in such princes. The Prince of Wales wasn't one of that species; and•l fear they have gone out with the old senti mental novels. Nothing else, however, would suit Miss IMO-- - gLne Fraser. Being not totally unlike other fair damsels of twenty or thereabouts, she desired to experiment upon the estate matrimonial, and had plenty of excellent opportunities, but no mortal of common clay would do. A prince she must have, or single she would remain. Now, a real good writer of sentimental stories could create such a being especially for the emer gency, and after the customary amount of tantili zation, through the medium of an obdurate pa rent or what not, marry off Miss Imogene to her prince in the most satisfactory style. But I never was good at sentimental creation. I must write' about the kind of people I know and see, I am sorry for the Imogenes; I've seen plen ty of them, but what sort of princes did they marry 1 One now pours tea fur a little grey fa ced exchange broker. Another is the spouse of a strapping farmer, with large yellow teeth like ancient grave-stones. Another wedded a small subdued Gerinan, who- plays a clariouet in a cheap orchestra, and has to move monthly be csto43 he can't pay his rent. Another—but the catalogue grows melancholi. Thus with allthe Imogenes. They go on pin ning for princes who never come-; marrying all sorts of people instead; and, dying, give way to a fresh generation of Imogenes, who follow in their mammas' footsteps with a disregard of ex perience that savors of the sublime. One of the nicest watering-places in the world is that para disic spot known as Bello Lake. It is'roniantic and comfortable at once, two qualifications rarely found together. Thereis delightful pathing, row ing. sailing and fishing in the lake itself, and the shady groves that line its shores are cool and green and mysterious, suggesting dryads and nymphs and fairies and things. - That is, if you happen to have a poetlb turn of mind. If not, they only suggest flirtation. I will not-farther expatiate upon the delights of Belle Lake, lest you should fancy I have lots for sale in the vicinity; whereas I have none any where; not even a burial lot, and that, I believe is the common lot of all. Neither did Imogene Fraser have any real es tate to dispose of, but she thought just as I do, and passed much of her time every summer in the demesnes that lie smilingly adjacent to the Belle Lake Peillion. She-dressed with charming simplicity for break fast, and strolled listlessly in the umpletined ave nue till bathing time. Alter bathing a trip to the island, in coins jaunty little sailboat, whiled away the hours till the dinner toilet. After dinner a siesta ; making end receiving calls till tea, and af ter tea, the Pavilion Informal Hop every eve ning. Then gossip, and finally bed. ' Such was the round of pleasures that my hero ine—l suppose she is "my heroine"—pursned ; but they could not stifle her inward longing for the music of a princely voice, the glance of devo tion from princely eyes, the touch of a princely hand in the dunce, and the sweet envy of all mai dens who had to go princeles through hfe. She sighed often, and began to think the great world a cold, hard unromantic sort of arrangement. Of course, you mid I know better. I never wrote a ramance half so wonderful as the simp lest life would make, were it truly told. The only trouble is, that even the simplest life cannot be truly told. It seems easy, but you just try it once! Though there was no prince among the guest& of the Pavilion, there was a poet. Fay Somers' was there. Perhaps Imogene might have fallen in love with him; there is something very fine, and—pardon the vulgarian—hyfaluten, in a young idea of a poet; only, unhappily, Somers was no more like the ideal poet than our snuffy old Rus sian friend is like the ideal prince., Au contraire, he was a rattle-headed, jolly soul, who loved rowing and romping, and gossip, and euchre playing, and made fun of his own pathetic poems, parodying them, and singing bite of them to comic melodies. Everybody liked :him, but everybody said, twenty times a day, "0, Fay ! will yon never be quiet !" or, "0, Fay! were you ever in earnest?" No: be would never do for the beau ideal rhy-tn ster, pale and heart broken. Ile didn't know how to roll his eyes in a fine frenzy, and, when Laura Crane 'once told him, in her high tragedy manner,, that she had "too much soul to live in this hollow world," he was actually rude enough to laugh in her face. • In a word, Somers knew the world too well to behete in its hollowness. Ile had found it, in fact, most decidedly solid and stubborn. I notice that men w ho have really been shaken up a bit in the merry-go-round we call life are not apt to pre serve the outside show of sentimentality much. We all start off, some time or another, with our long hair, our sable suits, our turn-down col lars, our brigand somberos, and our little hidden sorrows; but when we have cut our wisdom teeth, and learned something about other people's trou ble, we 'always come back to reason, to figured ties, to stove-pipe hats and the barber. Though Fay was far too matter-offact for Im ogene, and she far too sentimental for him, from any hymenial point of view, they became, some how, excellent friends, and passed much time in each other's society. . Thus, one moonlit evening found them together on the shore of the lake, seated upon anenormous boulder, vine clad on the one side, and washed by the clear rippling waters on the other. They had strolledilown to the shore with a merry par ty, which had divided itself up and sorted itself out, as walking parti6 will, into little groups of two or four, according to social affinity. Imogene was gazing at the moon, of course. Sh3Tras one of that kind. Fly was tapping his large boot with his small cane; and whistling very, very softly. - "(),?Fay I" suddenly burst out Imogene, "I want something to live furl - I want a grand pas sion?" • "Don't," said Fay, choking his whistle, and leaving the first half of "Bonnie Doon" to wander unfinished forever upon the winds , of heaven; "don't you do it. Grand passions aren't nice. They tire a lellow so." "How should you know T You never loved anybody, except Fay Somers!" POP "Pshaw! I've loved forty girls." • "0, yes, in yourflippant way. I want a life long passion, a heart-history, ta absorb my whole existence." "0, iy! will you ever lie in eainestr doesn't seemlike it." Notwithstanding this somewhat discouraging reception' of her confidence, Imogene went on, somehoW or another, to tell Fay what kind of a hero she had imagined for her heart-history, and described the prince, with his melting eyes and musical voice, his generous nature, and maguil cent air, his mild melancholy and inexhaustible affection, his irreproachable , morals and aristo cratic birth. Fay listened with due gravity, but with a half smile under his mustache, till she bad finished., " Why don't you take me ?" said he. " I am not very rich, you know, but poverty is romantic, they say—though Lord knows I never found it so. How does this do for the pensiveexpression t"—he made a hideous grimace—" and I'm sure my voice is musical. I can't play the guitar, but I•know fellow who is splendid on the banjo. As for a fine antique family, lay father, you know, was Mr. Somers, son of old Somers; I believe he never went to State prison------" "Now, Fay, yon are too bad!. You make fan of everything." " Well, (D.; be seriousmy child, you'll never find your prince." - ::B A e n ca d w us h e y th n e o y t make'em. Most men are tolerable human, mid humanity is not•perfection. If a man has no other small vices, he is sire to chew tobacco, or write poetry, or keep a dog. We are fair but frail we men." " You have no faith in human nature, Fay." "I), yes, I have; but your hero isn't human. Re is moonshiny and unsatisfactory. I tell you I know a good deal about men, and such people as ,Charley Saxton and Torn Clavers and those fel lows are about as near heroes 'as you'll end. They are by no means perfect, bat they compare very well with the average.", " Charley Saxton ! Tom Clavers!'" "Well, you needn't speak so scornfully. They're good fellows, and if you turn your•nose up at all such you'll either stay single or marry so that you'll wish you were'single. 4 ' " Ah, Fay; what a world ! I wish theie might be some place where one couldgo and hide away to- dream in peace." " There is, and lam going there now. I refer to my bed." They cross from their picturesque• seat; she with a little contemptuous expression, and he with the complacent oddity that adorns the features of a min who feels that he has said a humorous thing ; and both went slowly and silently up to the hotel. The next morning the belles of Belle Lake were in something'of a twitter, to uses woman's word. The late train had brought a new young man, and young men were not any to plenty at the Peril ian that summer. The latest comer bad taken the finkesuite of rooms in the wing known as Bachelor's Hall, and a great pile of trunki. tearing his initials, stood in the vestibule, where they were jealousy regarded by the other young men, heart-broken by the con sciousness of having brought but a portmanteau, or one small trunk at most. Next appeared on the scene a tall, slim, dignified mulatto,`answering to the name of Wilson, and claiming to be the new young man's'valet. Increased twitter on the part of the belles, and deeper jealousy on the part of the beaux. The cause and origin of these emotions did not show himself at- once. He ordered- breakfast in his apartments—recklessly disregarding that clause of the " Rules of this House" that read: " V. All refreshments furnished to guests in their rooms will be charged extra"—and only made Ins appearance in public at '2 o'clock in the afternoon. When it became known that he was actually risible, and smoking a cigar on the eastern piazn, it was wonderful to see the straggling procession of young perions that passed that way, all look ing extraordinarily demure and unconscious, but all taking a good square look at the hero of four trunks and a yalet. . . Fay Somers was about the only young man who did not join in thiaprocession. He honestly did not care two-pence for any new arrival. Im ogene Fraser was about the only damsel who re frained, and she - said she thought it was an exhi bition of brazen ill-breeding in others. Truth, however, compels me to say that her room was in the rear extension of the building, and so situated as to command an excellent view of the piazza where the new corner sat. She could stand quietly at her window, unseen, and scrutinize hire through the blinds, much more et fectively than those who wandered so nonchalent ly in front of him. At a watering-place like Belle Lake, where the `household assumes almost the air of a huge, and not very well assorted family party, the business of making acquaintances presents no great diffi culties. The new young man played billiards, and marvellously, with Tom eleven, and ex changed cards with him. Then he took a row on the lake with some friend of Tones to whom the latter had introduced him.- Then, at the "In formal" that evening these youths found him wil ling partners for a dance, and in three days he knew every lady worth knowing. , Edward Dewey—that was the name on the card—soon found himself a favorite with the la dies. He was of the conventional type ,of mag nificence; the brown-eyed, curly-headed, red and white cheeked, round built type, with small hands and feet, a very black .moustache and the flattest of all natty habiliments. These in singu lar profusion, too. He had coats for breakfast, coats for walking, coats for riding, coats for sail= ing, coats for dinner, and coats for idling in his room. Ttowsers, Waistcoats, and boots likewise abounded with him, all kept in scrupulous order by his slim mulatto. In the matter of scarfs, and neck-ties, with the jewelled pins thereto devoted, he was truly gorgeous, and perhaps a little to pronounce. If a man has the least faint of vul garity, let him beware of his neck. It is his vul nerable part. If he err not in his tie,tior in his watch-guard, he does nobly well. Nobody could say, absolutely, that Dfil. Dewey's ties or chain were vulgar, but Fay Somers's first criticism, when asked his opinion was sufficiently just. "Too much thoracic decoration," said he. The valet came one day with a vary polite note for Miss Imogene Fraser. " Would dins. F. be so very kind as to land Mr. Dewey her guitar for a few hours T" Here was now a new re%elation. Dewey play ed with great• cleverness, and was unanimously invited to entertain a booting-paity, the following evening. He sang, also, ptettily, and the his dark eyes pensively the moon. At the close of the song, Fay Somers gently nudged Imogene, who sat near him, breathless and delighted. "There's a poor prince, Imogene," he whis pered. She blushed so rosy and red that he saw it in the moonlight, and laughed. . Mr. Dewey is a very entertaining gentlemen." said she, a little severely. " You gay that," ,replied Fay, " just its you might say, The Apollo 'Belvidere is a very pleas ing figure. Why don't you call him splendid,' and done with it 1" " Hush r he is going to sing again." Thereafter it became evident, to Somers, at least, that Imogene bad something on her mind, as the saying is. She was a trifle stormy at mo ments, and given also to sudden fits of inexplica ble.gayety. Dace or twice Fay caught her cry ing, for which crime she hated him., There isno use'in dodging the fact any longer. My readers have all guesed it. She was in love with Ned Dewey. Her prince bad come. As the summer days passed an, this regal per son developed. He not only gave delightful breakfasts and suppers in his apartments, over which all the young bloods were loudly enthusias tic, but organized, also, many picnics in the an cient woods thereabout, which made the belles of Belle Lake,quite miserable With happiness. To Imogene's intense delight, he evinced an idea of making her in some sort the central charm of these charming affairs, and held mighty and pro found consultatioit with her concerning the de tails. • They thus became associated, in a certain de gree-, before the public eye, and when Madame lininor-significautly, .whisperiql of a most porteu tious flirtation, not to say engagement, between them, Imogene'ilid little more than to blush, and stammer a denial that sounded like a confirma tion. Meanwhile t Dewey held his r popularity with the rest, Integene was the cynosure of it hundred en vious eyes ' Nobody could teach a lady the radi' meets of swimming like Ned Dewey. Nobody could watch over a companion on a horseback ride 4 vvith the same skilful care. on_ could dance so elegantly. Nobody disylayed the same grace in leathering an oar. Nobody wore such splendid a ire. VOL. 72....W1T0LE NO, 3,71 ----- The young men joined faintly in these ' n i comi . - ums. They didn't especially seelhy all he girls should rave about him, but allo . ed that he was a wonderful player, and could mi punc s, cob blers, and other constructive b verag better than anybody else. Farther, tha he would drink (. more of them when mixed, and show it less. No mean accomplishment among young men about town, this last._ _ • ' - Fay Somers did . tot like Dewey. "I know a gentleman in the prize-fighting pro. fession," said he, ironically, "who can bqat him of sight at rowing and swimming and such. A friend of mine in the gambling interest can give him fifty points at billiards. My poor old French dancing master is far better posted in redows and galops. My cousin, Kate Rutherford, has a groom in livery who makes a much superior horseback cavalier. Jim, the bar-keeper of this hotel, is equally learned in the noble art of mixing liquors; and, finally, any tailor's dummy wears as fine an assortment of Clothing as Dewey. But while he rivals all these I have mentioned, he doesn't rival any intellectual wan I know, at all. Nobody ev er heard him say a word worth remembering,Mad his whole conversation, among women, is the flattest sort of platitude. Among men it is a good deal worse. He boasts - of his conquests, and Claims to be a ,ort'of Don Ciovanni redirirus !" Fay had too much sense to say all this publicly. He didn't-consider himself censor of social mo rals for belle Lake. But he told it privately to Imogene Fraser. And that is where he made a great mistake in spite of his good sense. It a women fancies a man, you can, make her love him by abusing him in her presence. If she already loves him, you only make her hate you. - '' (At this point I am int;terupted by an Obdurate Parent, who says, " zounds; sir, what am I to do then ! If my daughter hackers after a good-for nothing scrapegrace, what am I to say to cure her?" And I answer the obdurate one very meekly, "Sir, that is just what r should like to know.") The result of Fay Somers' well-intended ex pression was that Imogene at once thought him a little soft about herself, and jealous,.tlierefore, of Ned Dewey. The whole-souled manner in which he made love to Lottie Saxton, in- order to con fute this idea was highly creditable to him. He, was Byronic for a week. As for Imogene, she gave herself entirely over to a sort of blind thloration of Dewy. She made a prince of him, and put all her trust in princes. He told her of his ancient ramily, of his late fatti er, Judge Dewy; twice Senator, and son of Capt. Dewy, who commanded a ship of war in 1812. The Captain's father, he said, was Gen. Dewey; of revolutionary fame ; and brother to Governor Dewey, of one of the colonies, under George IV. -He farther spoke of the magnificent old country seat his father had left him, with its picture gal lery.full of the portraits of the worthies just men tioned, and their wives, all uniforms and brocades, - and gold braids and laces; of the long drawing rooms, the grand dining-ball, the library, the grounds, all in true old baronial style, till-Imo gene, rich and luxuriously reared as she was, be gan to look up to him as a being of almost a dif- ferent social sphere. ' Their talk together was of the most audacious ly aristocratic nature. They foster&l in them selves and encouraged incach other that wretch ed contempt for " common people" upon which much of our parvenue aristocracy rests. I must acknowledge that I don't like common people myself, but I "find mine, most frequently, among the neh and intolerant exclusives. I knew far mers, merchants and book-keepers who are worth city full of: club loafers and opera habitues. The canary bird couple, hoWever, by " common people,' meant all those who earn their living and • respect the future more than the past. " The sere, the yellow leaf," came in due form to Belle Lake, much as it tomes elsewhere, and warned the pleasure-seekers there assembled that it was time to return to city comforts, for lotus eating-was at an end. Fay Smilers packed his modest baggage in sor row, for the poet bide of his nature had revelled with great joy in the merry green wood and upon the clear blue water,.and he felt a natural dislike for the compulsory tasks and mechanical routine ofjournalitnt, to which he looked forward. Luogence Fraser prepared for her exodus more hopefully. If Ned Dewey admired her en eam pagne, how she would astonish him in town with her rich toilet for the carriage, the opera, the ball-room, the thousand and one appliances of art, that are appropriate to the social round of a metropolis, but not to the simplistic ease affected by the transient sojourner of a watering place ! So these birds of passage parted, twittering many promises of future meeting, and flew away in different directions. As Imogene was await ing the stage which was to bear her to the rail road depot, Dewey came Whirling around in an elegant light Mintage with two handsome bays, dud begged the privilege of driving her himself. His trunks were to followthat afternoon, and he might not see her again until his return from Europe; for he contemplated a few ~months abroad At this news, Imogene's count4nanee fell.— She readily accepted hie invitation, and nerved herself for the parting words with u mingled sen timent of joy and fear. . These curds contained, as she had expected, a declaration, which she was willing enough to ac- . cept. They farther contained a proposition which made her hesitate. Dewey wished her to marry him instantly, and set off for a European wedding tour, all without consulting her guardian or friends. • ,This puzzled her., She thought that such a trincely person could not fail to delight all who wished her well, and that the marriage would be considered as extremely fortunate one fur her. She demanded time, therefore, 'to consider the question. Arrived at the depot, a short stoutish person in a grey suit, wearing a glazed cap and a thick black beard under his chin, came up and nodded to Dewey, saying, "I want to say a private word to you." The young man went aside with him, and was favored with a glance at some legal looking pa pers, immediately after which the stout person" took him firmly by the arm, and said aloud, "You're my prisoner, sir, in the naine of the law !" Imogene felt very faint, but controlled herself. Dewey turned pale, laughed a little gasping, ar tificial laugh, and endeavored to say that this ri diculous mistake could be easily explained:: The remark, however, was a dead failure. "I wish this person to explain it first," said Imogene, faintly. - "Why, Miss, you see I'm a detective officer, and I've been lying for this gent for some time. Mr. Squires, who keeps the Arizona hotel, in Cal- Horny, sent me a description of him and his carte de visit, Miss. I've got it here.'.' And the wretch produced a photograph, the very twin of one thut Imogene had, stowed away among her treasures. "There ain't any miatake about it's Laing hint," continued the detective. "But for what—for. what is he7-is—he-:--ar rested I" faltered the poor girl. "Why, Miss, for leaving Californy too sudden,- with Mr. Squire's money—eighteen thousand dol lars—and a matter of seven thousand more in jewelry and such." "But, Mr. Dewey—" "Dewey; Miss ! That's his swell name and he_ ain't a swell no longer. He's plain Ned Mama, defaulting barkeeper of the Arizona hotel. Come along,. Duncan, we'll go by this train, I guess. There's a Californy steamer day after to-morrow, and I want to send information by her of the ar rest. I'm very sorry Miss, for you; I don't sup pose you had any idea of who you was with.' Good morning, He touched his hat'and walked away with the . - rueful DelVey, whose courage and presence of mind were entirel3 gone, and who accompanied his man with an air of dogged submission. Imogene gave op searching for princes, then and there.,The shock made her very ill, and when she eeovered, it was observed that she was not quite so aristocratically exclusive in her tendencies. Fay Somers was not the man to tri umph over a fall of any kind, but his remark was* c haracteristic. ; that felloW a runaway bartender!— Well, I thought his c.obblers and billiards had a P r°fessional excelleitceabout them."—Boston Sun,r day Leader. - ' WANTED—A boy to learn the printing •trade. A boy that "knows a B from tv bull's toot" arida( willing to.work.withont owning an intere4 in the office, and does nut require too inue . h . Waiting on, can have a chance in' the Journanifice. Raisin hot be expected to take the whole chatge of thb business at first—Exchange. Gnus souielimee pit their lips out beano% they are angry, and sometimes because they are disposed to meet yours half way. , . 1 1. 110Mit - Surikliikocf - IN 71TE - Stnini objection that liege sitffrage implies negro social equality, the.Fmnkfort;.Coramoutoecdth promptly responds: Negros have voted in the south, and yet were in no sense advanced to an equality with the whites, -In every southern. State, eXce . pt South Carolina, the right of suffr age wag originally ex ercised by " freemen." The original Consti tutionoVlDelaWerre, Maryland, Northliarolina, Virginia and Georgia, make no mention of color, or fiistinCtion between white and black, in their provisions• as to wlio may vote. Till within com paratively- few - years, negroa voted in Tettnesiiet. In Maryland they voted until 1833 rand in North Carolina as late as l 8 &. Now, Aid this advance them at all in the scale of equality? Were the schools in -those- States thrown open to Ahem ? Did ,they visit in .gentleman's parlors? Was amalgamation any more common in those daps than it is now? We hopenot. Was there, in any senso; - the "equality" of which the opposition is now so offensively talking, and with which they are as pertinaciously insulting the common sense and decency of the people? Not a bit'of it. In Pennsylvania colored people voted until l 8&. Yet inthat State a negro . has not the same Kir. Hears that he has here in Kentucky. In Coo n • tient the negro voted till lal7, and yetlte bad not - attained an equality sufficient to preserve for hinasclf the privilege. In New York the negro, if he-has the requisite property qualification, may vote now, but he has scarcely advanced one step in the scale of equality. Not even near enough to have the property - restriction removed in his case, when it was removed in 1g36, as far as , it applied to the white voter. SHERMAN'S MODESTY.-It eppears that Phil. Sheridan, who is ailion in battle, is , the timidest of men among the ladies. A writer in Hours at Homo giies some reminiscences of Sheridan as Quartermaster of the Army of the Soutkivest, operating under Den. Curtis in Missouri find Ar, kansas, at the beginning of the war, and among other things tells the folloWU4 : lifeheridan's modesty amounted to bashfulness, Tally in the presence of the gentler sex. His eying been passed on the frontier s among In. di or at some solitary post, it was not at all surprising that our""Quartermaster Should hesitate . when urged to go where ladies might be eipected. .If by he found himself in each a gathering, he was sure to shrink into an obscure corner and keep intent. We remember an amusing incident of this bashfulness. He became attracted toward ayoun.lady at Springfield, where he was engag ed in forwarding supplies fo the army. Desirous of shoiving her some attention, ho was' altogether too modest to venture on such a step. 'Finally he-hit upon an expedient. He had a .fflxy young clerk, Eddy, in his office, whom he induced to take the young lady out riding, while he (Sheri dan) furnished the carriage and horses. The modest little Captain could often be seen looking, with pleasure on this arrangement. Courting by proxy_ seemed to please him as much as if it bad been done by himself.. What the result was we never learned. We think it mostprobable Eddy carried off the prize." .A2s APPRECIATIVE NEGRO.—Ltid summer, - Henry, a contiabind, pitia - a vixit to the 'City of. Philadelphia; and onhis return to the army was in the habit of giving a daily account of the won ders be had seen in that place. One morning his master happened to ask him if he had been to the theatre during his absence. "Oh, yea, salt," was the reply: "la'aleen to the theatre a•good many times. Still I don't like the theatre as well as the-opera." • This was said with a sentimental air that re flected infinite credit on the speaker.. '"Do you admire the opera very much?" said the lieutenant. • "Very much indeed," • answered Henry. "I goes everynight when I possibly can." "Which sort of piece do- yon_like:best,—the German or the Italian 7" was the next inquiry. - "Don't know sir," was the answer; "but I al ways likes that kind of pieces where de young lady jumps through de hoops." It was evident from this, that Henry had con founded the opera with the circus. HErtE is'a snake story, located in Brazil, which rather " take down" anything of home manufac ture:—lt is wellknown that snakes are fond of milk. There was once a snake not exempt from this weakness of its fellow-reptiles. which hit up on the following ingenious expedient to gratify its taste :—lt visited a room in which a black nurse and her nursling slept, and every night his snake-ship would Creep_ Ito the bed, cunninzly insert the tip of its tad into the bays mouth to amuse it, and prevent its crying, while the hide ous reptile substituted itself for the infant, which it thus deprived of its natural food,, the nurse sleeping on, unconscious of having such a mon strous nursling. -This went on for some time, an. til the infant, being thus cheated of half its allow ance of food, became so thin that suspicion was excited, and an old negress was set to watch the nurse at night—the delinquent was caught in the act, and expiated its offence with its life, while -- the poor ,baby being no longer kept on " short commons," recovered its strength, and grew fine • and fat as before. 'THE LAUGH OF W0314N.-A woman hhs no natural gifhmore bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is Ile the sound of flutes on the water. It leads from her in a clear, sparkling rill; and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in the cool, 'exhilerating spring. Have yen ever pursued an unseen fugitive through trees, led on by a fairy laugh—now - here, now there, now lost,'-now found? We have; and we are pursueing that wandering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes tO us in the midst of care, or sorrow, or irksome business; and then we turn away and listen, and bear it ringing through the room like a silver bell, with power to scare away the evil spirits of the mind. How much we owe to that sweet laugh! It turns the prose to poetry ; it flings showers of sunshine over the darkness of the wood in which we are traveling; it touches with light even our sleep, which is no more the image of death, but is consumed with dreams that are the shadows of immortality. AT a Union meeting held in Guntersville, Mar shall county, Alabama, on the 16th of May, Major A. C. Baird, late of the rebel army, made the following speech: "We have Met to bury the tomahawk—to smoke the calurnht of peace. All of us ought to reverence that government which we could not destroy, and to which we have been compelled to submit. ' I shall do it cheetthlly." He was succeeded by Colonel A. L. Sheffield, lato of the Forty-eighth Alabama regiment, who said: "I have done all I could to establish the South ern Confederacy. I carried a musket for three years! lam whipped. I have been whipped for twelve months. The Southern Confederacy does not exist. I stand to-day like an erring child who has been whipped by his father.'.! bonus.—There is a new guide to the inter pretation of dreams. An English paper thus puts ' To dream of a millstone round your neck is a sign of what you may expect if you get an extrav agant wife. , To see apples in a dream betoken a wedding, because where you find apples you may expect to find pears. To dream that you are lame is a token that you will get into a hobble. When a yogng lady dreams of a coffin, it be tokens that s 1 should instantly discontinue lacing her stays tightly, and always go warmly and thick ly shod in wet weather. To dream that your nose is red, at the tip is an intimation that you had better leave oft' brandy and water. CONUNDROIS.—Wby should the ram be re garded the principal animal of the dairy 7 Be cause he Is the butter; of course he is. Why are suicides the most successfid in the world 1 - - Becaaae they always accomplish their atm ends , " Why does a person that is poorly lose much of his sense of touch? Because he don't Seel well. What musicalinstrument has had an honorary degree conferred upon it I "Fiddle, D. D." o wh y Brid g et," said a• lady' who wished to rally her 'servant girl, for the amusement of com pany, upon the fantastic ornamenting of alarge pie, " did You do thlif You're quite an artist. Pray how did you do it 7" "Indatie, mum, it was myself that did it," re. plied Bridget. Isn't it pretty t r did It with your old false teeth, mum." A Yousu lady was told by a married lady that - iibe had better precipitate berseU'ortb_e Nisera Falls info the basin beneath than warm The yotiog lady replied—" yrouil NI thought...lomM find a husband at the botttun." T4F,iumitlB wi t i ) ofided th e stroogefft . for the burnt of old aiihn' 7 "Pown - five years ago, are now. the moat - anstoui that , Jeff•Daviaind his tonfereres should escape. •