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Tost Offices. rost Masters. Districts.
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CEirnCI2ES, 3IIXISTER3, iC.
rres'iterian Rev. D. IIaebIsox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning rt 10J
o'clock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock. Sab
cai'u School at 9 o'clock, A. M. Prayer rneet
. is" every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock. .
Uhodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. S. Lem
as, Preacher in charge. Rev. W. II. M'Bride,
Assistant. Preachingevery nlternate Sabbath
corain", at 10 o'clock. Sabbath School at 0
o'clock? A. M. Prayer meeting every Thursday
evening, at 7 o'clock.
Wtlch Independent T.zv Ll. R. Powell,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
10 o'ciock, and in the evening at G o'clock,
sibbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
cttiing ou the first Monday evening of tach
month "and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the Cist week in
tich month.
CP.i-idrtic JfethoJlstTv. Morgan Ellis,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and C o'clock. Sabbath School at K o'clock,
A. M. Prayer meeting every. Friday evening,
tt 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock. '
Disciples Rev. W. Llotd, Pastor. Preach-
:.j every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular JiaptislsRzv . David Evaxs,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
I o'clock. Sabbath School at at I o'clock, P. M.
Catholic Rev. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
Services every Sabbath morning at I0h o'clock
r.l Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
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COUXTY OFFICERS.
Judges of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Taylor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W.
Easley, Henry C. Dcvine.
Prothonotarti Joseph M'Donall.
Register and Recorder James Griffin.
Sheriff James Myers.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commissioners John. Campbell, Ed
ward Glass, E. 11. Dunncgan.
Treasurer Isaac Wike.
Poor House Directors George M'Cullough,
George Delany, Irwin Rutledge.
Poor House Treasurer George C. K. Zahm.
-4" liters William J. Williams, George C.
k. Zahm, Francis Tierney.
Couiity Surveyor. Henry Scanlan.
Coroner. -William Flattery.
Mercantile Appraiser John Cox.
Sup't. of Common Schools J. F. Condon.
tncsBsrnc con. officers.
AT LARGE.
Justices of the Peace David TI. Roberts
Garrison Kinkead.
P'urycss A. A. Parker.
School Directors Abel Lloyd, Phil S. Noon,
Joshua D. Parrish, JJugh Jones, E. J. Mills,
Lavil J. Jones.
EAST WARD.
Constable Thomas J. Davis.
Arvj Council J. Alexander Moore, Daniel
vans, Richard It. Tibbott.Evau E. Evans,
William Clement.
Inspectors Alexander Jones. D. O. Evans.
f udge of Election Richard Jones, Jr.
Aisexsor Thomas M. Jones.
sistant Assessors Ddwid E.Evans. Wm.
v' Davis.
WEST WARD.
William jniS jr,
wwn Council John Dougherty, George C.
anm, Isaac Crawford, Francis A. Shoe
' atker, James S. Todd.
npectors G. W. Oatman, Roberts Evans.
J"dge 0f Election Michael Hasson.
Anesior Jame3 Murray.
1 C z'T A"et,ort William Barnes, Dan-
EBENSBURGr, PA., THURSDAY,. FEBRUARY 2, 1865.
Snow Flakes.
Out of the bosom of the air,
Out of the cloud-fold3 of her garment Bha
. ken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
OTer the harvest fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and Blow
Descends ths snow. '
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even a3 the troubled heart doth make
In tha white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveal3
The grief it feels.
This i3 the poem of the a?r,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded ;
This is the secret of despair,
. Long in in jt3 cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
The wood and field.
Longfellow.
A DAY IN PETTICOATS,
BY A 5IODEST YOUKO MAX.
"I couldn't think of such a thing."
"But you must. My happiness depends
on it. Here, put ou the thingumbobs, and
the what's his name."
And my friend, .Cob Styles, held up he
tore ray hesitant gaze a suit of feminine
apparel.
Ilis idea was that I should personate his
lady-love for one day, to prevent anybody
from suspecting the truth namely, that
she had joined him in a runaway marriage
party until it 6hould be too late for in
terference; that is, until the minister
should have tied a knot between them
that nothing hut a special grant of Legis
lature could untie.
This scheme was not actually so absurd
as it appeared at first sight. Maggie Lee
was a tall, queenly woman, with an almost
masculine air, and, at that time, I had a
very slight form almost effeminate so
that, in fact, there was really but little
difference in that point. Part my hair in
the middle and put a bonnet on my head,
and few persons would have suspected but
that I was really one of the softer sex.
These accessories also gave me quite a
decided resemblance to Maggie Lee, es
pecially when, as in this case, the disguise
was her own.
Then the day. chosan for tho runaway
matcn wa3 an auspicious one.
Maggie's
papa was to drive her to D-
a small
village near Whcre.she lived, and there 6be
was to join a sailing party down D
river, to the grove three miles below, from
which the party wa3 to return ia the even
ing, in carriages.
Our plan was, that I should be in wait
ing in the village, and should go on the
I boat with the sailing party, while Maggie
' after leaving her father, should slip off
with iob btyles, across the country.
At last 1 got dressed, and presented
myself before Maggie Lee, blushing a great
deal, I believe, feeling very much pinched
about the waist, and with an uncomfortable
consciousness that my my shirt sleeves
were too short, or wanting altogether.
Everything finished in the way of toilet,
Bob Styles took me into his light wagon,
droe me over to D , by a. secluded
route, and left me at the hotel where the
sailing party was to assemble. Several of
the picnickers were already there, and
they greeted my cavalier cordially, (every
body knew I3ob Styles,j asking if he was
goiDg with them, etc. lie told them he
was not.
"Pressing business . engagements, you
know, and all that sort of thing. Deuced
sorry I can't go. though. I just had time
to bring Miss Lee over, and now I'm off.
Mr. Limby, this is MissLee. Miss With
crgall, Miss Lee," and he rattled off a long
sring of brief introductions, which con
vinced me that but few of the company
were acquainted with the young lady whom
I was thu3 personacing a very fortunate
thing for the preservation of my disguise.
Mr. Limby, a tall, legal-looking man,
with a hook.no.se, an eye-glass, and puffy
hair, seemed, to be prepossasscd with my
personclte, and I overheard him whisper to
Lob Styles, as I13 went out:
"Nice looking girl, that Miss Lee."
"Yes," answered Hob, with a mischiev
ous glauce at me, "she is a nice girl, tho'
a little go-ahead sometimes. Keep a little
look out on her, will you," then, lowering
hi3 voice, "not a bad match for you, old
fellow, she is rich."
"Is she?" said Mr. Bimby, his interest
deepening.
"On my honor," replied Bob. "Forcy
thousand dollars in her own right. Day
day !'' and he was gone.
Maggio Lee, artful creature that she
was, had told her father that the sailing
party j3 to assemble at. another hotel, and
thither he had taken her. Having busi
ness in D , he left her there, merely
saying that he would send the carriage for
her at eleven o'clock. She, like a dutiful
daughter, kissed him, and bid him good
bye, and before ho had gone a hundred
rods, took a seat in Bob Styles' light
wagon, which had driven up to the back
door as old Lee's drove away- from the
front, and the old story of headstrong love
and prejudiced age wa3 enacted over once
again.
As for us of the picnic excursion, we
had a delightful sail down to the grove,
but somehow I could not enjov it as much
aa-I ought to have done. Vhen I walked
on hoard the boat, I felt awkward, as it
everybody was looking at me. I found
Mr. Biniby, as I had suspected, a young
and rising lawyer, mighty in Biackstone
and his own opinion. He insisted on pay
ing for my ticket, (the boat was a regular
excursion packet,) and purchasing enough
oranges, pears, and car,dic3 to set up a
street stand. Four or five times I wa on
the point of swearing at hi3 impudent
ofaeiou3nes3, but bit my tongue just in
time to prevent the exposure. But it-was
not with him I found my role the hardest
to play.
No; the young ladies were the difficult
ones to deceive. For instance, there wa3
one among them, a beautiful girl of seven
teen, just returned from boarding school,
who had not seen Maggie Lee for three
years. Of course she was delighted to seo
me, when she found out that I was Mag
gie, which, by the way, did not occur till
after we had started. She threw herself
into my arms, pulled ray veil aside, and
kissed me half a dozeu times, in a manner
that made my fiuger ends tingle for an
hour. It was all very nice, but if I had
been in propria persona, I would havo
liked it better. As it wa3, I felt as if I
were "obtaining goods under false preten
ces," and the lawyer Bimby might isme a
warrant for my arrest on that ground at
any moment.
A whole knot of crinoline then surroun
ded me. on the upper deck of the boat, to
the utter exclusion and consequent disgust
of Mr. Bimby aad the other gentlemen. I
kept very quiet, only speaking monosylla
bles, in a falsetto voics; but the other3
Lord bless you! how they gabbled! Un
der a strict promise of sccresy, the little
boarding school maiden, who had kissed
me so affectionately, revealed all her love
affairs, and also became unpleasantly con
fidential about other matters innocent
enough in themselves, but not customarily
talked of between ladies and gentlemen.
I was terribly embarrassed, but it would
not do to give it up then. A? soon as my
trick should become known, Bob Styles'
trick would also come out; and as news of
that kind travels fast in the country, he
and hi3 lady-love would he telegraphed and
followed before they could reach Philadel
phia, where the Styles family lived, and
where the knot was to be tied.
The river hreeze was very fresh where
We sat, and I noticed that several of the
ladies were glancing uneasily at me. I
couldn't divine tho reason, until Jennie,
my little friend from boarding school, laid
her face dangerously close to mine, and
whispered: "My dear Maggie, your dress
is blowing up terribly high your ankles
will be town talk with the gentlemen."
Now I was consciogs of having a very
small foot for a man, and had donned a
pair of open-worked stockings which came
up nearly to my waist, with a pair of gait
ers, borrowed from a servant girl, in all of
which toggery my "running gear" looked
quite feminine and respectable , but the
idea'of the gentlemen talking about my
ankles, and of being thus cautioned by a
young girl who would have been frighten
ed to death if I had told her the same
thing yesterday, was too much for me. I
burst in a sort of strangulated laugh, that
I could only check by swallowing half of
my little filagree lace edged handkerchief.
The young ladies, all looked at me in
apparent astonishment at such a voice and
I wanted to laugh all the more. Fortu
nately, Mr. Bimby came to my rescue at
that moment, and edged himself in among
the crinoline.
"May I sit here ?" he asked,, pointing
to a low stool near me.
"Certainly," I simpered ia my hih
falsetto.
"Ah, thank you," said Bimby with a
lackadaisical air which nauseated me, as
coming from one man to another "you
are as kind as you are fascinating."
"You flatter me !"
"I? No, indeed; praise of you cannot be
flattery, Miss Lee."
"Oh, sir, really you are a very naughty
man," I said, in the most feminine tone I
could command.
He cast a languishing glance at me
through the black lace veil, and I fairly
began to fear for his "fuelinzs."
. Wo soon arrived at the grove, and found
our band engaged beforehand awaiting
us. .Of course dancing was the first amuse
ment, and lawyer Bimby led me out for a
schottische. It was hard, at first, for me
to take the lady's part in the dance, but 1
soon got accustomed to it. A waltz was
proposed. I resolved to have a little
amusement at tho expense of the unfortu
nate Mr. Bimby.
I had first made him purposely jealous
by dancing with two other young fellows,,
ono of whom I knew in my own character
but who never suspected me as Maggie
Lee. This young man was a great woman
killer a sort ot an easy, devil-may-care
rascal, .who made the ladies run after him
by hi3 alternate wrath of action aud cool
ness of protestation, I selected to "play
olF' against my legal admirer. I allowed
him to hold me very closely, and looked
at him occasionally with a half fascinating
expression. "When we stopped dancing,
he led me to my seat, keeping his arm
about my waist, and I permitted it.
Having thus stirred Bimby up to feats
of wrathful valor, 1 asked one of the gen
tlemen to direct the musicians to play a
waltz. Bimby came immediately.
"Ahem a Miss Lee, shall I a have
the a honor of a trying a waltz with
you?"
I smiled a gracious acquiescence, and
we commenced.
Now, I am an old stager at waltzing. I
can keep up longer tnan any non-professional
dancer, male or female, whom I
over met. As long as the Cachuca or
Schounebrunnen L3 ringing in my ears, I
can go on, if it is for a year.
Not so Bimby. He p!cad waut of prac
tice, and acknowledged that he soon got
dizzy.
"Aha, old boy !". thought I, "I'll give
you a turn then."
But I only smiled, and said that I sho'd
probably get tired first.
"Oh, yes V he exclaimed ; "of course ;
I can waltz .as long as any one lady, but
not mueh more."
. For the first three minutes, my cavalier
did well. He went smoothly and evenly,
but at the expiration ot that time, began
to grow warm. Five minutes elapsed,
and Bimby's breath came harder and har
der. On we went, however, and I scorned
to notice his slackening pace at every
round when we passed my seat. After
some ten or twelve minutes, the wretched
man gasped out between hU steps
"Ah, a arc you not get getting
tired?" . .
"Oh, no!" I burst forth, as coolly as if
we were riding around the room ; "oh,
no, I feel as if I could waltz all-night."
The look of despair he gave was terrible
to see.
I was bound to see him through, how
ever, and we kept at it. Bimby stagger
ed, and made wild step3 in all directions.
His shirt-collar wilted, his eyes protruded,
his jaw hung down ; and, altogether, I
saw he could not hold out much longer.
"This is delightful," said I, composedly,
"and you, Mr. Bimby, waltz so ecstati
cally I"
"Puff puff ah puff yespuff oh
puff very delightlul I" gasped he.
"Don't you think we ought to go a lit
tle faster?".
lie rolled his eyes heavenward in ag
ony. "Ah puff I don't ah puff don't
know."
When we neared the musicians, I said,
"Faster, if you please faster;" and they
piajred a la whirlwind. '
Poor Bimby threw his feet about like a
fast pacer, aud revolved after the manner
of a teetotum which ia nearly run down.
At last, hrt staggered a step backwards,
and spinning eccentrically away from mc,
pitched headlong into the midst of a bevy
of girls .in a corner. I turned around
ccoliy, walked to my seat, and sent the
young womau-killcr for a glass of ice
water.
The miserable lawyer recovered his
sensea just in time to see me thank his
rival for tho water. :
I got some idea from this of the fun the
girls have in tormenting us poor devils of
the other six in a similar manner. '
At this juncture, and before Mr. Bimby
had time to apologize for his accident,
little Jennie came running into the pavil
ion which served for the ball-room. As
she came near, I perceived that her hands
were clutched tightly in her dress, and I
positively shuddered as she whispered to
mc
"Oh, Maggie ! come and help me fix
my skirts; they are all coming down."
What should I do? I was in agony.
A cold perspiration broke out upon my
forehead. I wished myself a thousand
miles away, and anathematized the mas
querading project of Bob Styles, inwardly,
with fearful maledictions.
I said I was tired out couldn't some
body else go ?
No ; nothing would do, but I must ac
company her to tho house of a gentleman
who owned the grove, and assist her to
re-arrange her clothing.
So I went.
"What if it should be necessary to remove
the greater part of her raiment ? What
if she should tell me to do some sewing ?
What if, in the midst of all the embar
rassments of being closeted with a beauti
ful girl of seventeen, in a state of compar
ative freedom from drapery, my real sex
and identity should be discovered by her ?
I felt a3 if I could welcome a fit of apo
plexy. However, I nerved myself for the task,
and accompanied Jennie to the house des
ignated. An old lady showed us into her
chamber, and Jennie, heaving a siah of
relief, let go her drcs, As she did so
pardon my blushes ! a petticoat fell to
the floor. She was about to proceed fur
ther in the mysteries of her toilet, but I
alarmed her by a sudden and vehement
presture.
"Stop!" I cried, frantically, forgetting
my falsetto; "stop ! don't undress, for
God's sake !"
She opened her great brown eyes to
their widest extent.
"And why not ?"
"Because I am I am a can you
keep a secret V
"Why, yes how frightened you look!
Why, what is the matter Maggio i
you why Oh ! oh ! ! oh ! ! I"
And she gave three fearful screams.
"Hush, no noise, or I am loitl" I ex
claimed, putting my hand over her mouth ;
"I swear I mean no harm ; if I had, I
would not have stopped you. Don't you
see ?"
She was all of a tremble, poor little
thing, but she saw the force of my argu
ment. "Oh, sir," she said, "I see you .are a
man ; but what does it all mean ? "Why
this deception ?"
I told her the story, briefly as possible,
aud exacted from her a promise of the
most sacred eecresy. , -
I then went outside the door, and wait
ed till she arranged her dress, when she
called me again. She had heard of me
from Maggie and others, and wanted to
know all the particulars; so I sat down by
her, and we had a long talk, which ended
in a mutual feeling of friendliness and
old acquaintanceship, quite wouderful for
persons meeting for the first time, and
under such peculiar circumstances. '
, J ust as we started to go back to the pa
vilion, I said that I must relieve my mind
of one more burden.
"And what is that ?" she asked.
"Those kisses. You thought 1 was
Maggie Lee, or you would not have given
them. They were very sweet, but I sup
pose, in fact, I know I must give them
back."
And I did!
She blushed a good 3eal, but didn't re
sist only when I had got through, she
glanced up timidly, and said :
"I think you are real naughty."
When we returned, I found lawyer
Bimby quite recovered from his dizziness.
All hands were shortly called to supper,
and I had the felicity of sitting between
Bimby and Jennie, and of making love to
each iu turn to one as Maggie Lee; and
to the other as myself.
After supper, at which I astonished
several by eating rather more heartily
than young ladies generally do, we had
more dancing, and 1 hinted pretty strong
ly to Mr. Bimby that I should like to try.
another waltz. -
He din't take the hint'.
Finding it rather dry amusement to
danco with my own kind, I soon aban
donedthat pastime, and persuaded Jennie
to stroll off into the moonlight with me.
We found the grove a charming place, full
of picturesque iiitle corners and rustic
seats, and great gray rocks leaning out
over tho river. On one tide of one of
these latter, a little bench was placed, in
a nook sheltered from the wind, and out
of sight. - '
Here we sat down, in the full flood of
the moonlight, and having just had sup
per, I felt wonderfully in need of a eiar.
Accordingly, I went back to a little stand
near the bail-room, and purchased several
of the wondering woman who sold refresh
ments. Then returning to my seat by the
rock, I gave up all cares or lears for niy
incognita, and reveled in the pleasures of
the romantic prospect of the moonlight
of little Jennie's presence of my high
flavored cigar.
How long we sat there, heaven alone
knows. We talked, and laughed, and
Fang, and looked in each other's eyes, and
told fortunes, and performed all the other
nonsensical operations common amongst
young people just falling in love, and
might have remained there in blissful
ecstasy till doomsday, for aught I know,
had not the carriage been sent to convey
U3 home, when the rest of the company
began to wonder where we were. 1
NUMBER 17.
This wonder begat questions, the ques
tions fears, and the fears a search, headed
by the valiant Bimby. They called,
looked, and listened, but our position down
in the sheltered nook among the-recks
prevented them from hearing us, or we
them.
At length they hit upon our path, and
all came along, single tile, until they got
to the open space above.
Then they saw a sight.
I was spread out in a free and easy po
sition, my bonnet taken off, ar.d my hair
somewhat tousled up. One foot rested on
the ground, and the other ou a rock, about
level with my head, (regardless cf ankles
this time,) and there I sat, pufuing away
in very unladylike style at my prTncipe.
Jennie was sitting close beside me, with
her head almost on mv slirmWir r.n1 t,
small wait almost encircled by my arm.
Just as the parry came alour above. I
laaneu our, in a loud, masculine voice
"Just think of poor what's-his-name,
Bimby! If he only knew he had been
making love to a msn "
"lluab!" cried .Jennie; "look! there
he is and, oh, my gracious! there is tho
whole company !''
It was no uvc for me to clap on my
bonnet and assume fclctto again they
had all beard and seen too much for that.
Besides, by this time Bob Styles and Mag
gie Lee had doubtless been made "ono
flesh," and my disguise was of no further
importance. So I owned up and told the
whole story.
Lawyer Bimby went off into a towering
rage, lie vowed to kill me, and even
squared off for that purpose, but the rest
of the party laughed at him so unmerci
fully, suggesting that we should waltz it
out together, that he fiu?lly cooled, and
slunk away, to take some private convey
auce back to D .
Bob Styles and I are living in a double
houso together. "lie often says that ho'
owes his wife to my masquerading, but,
then, he doesn't feel under any obligations
to me, for he knows I owe my wife"to tho
same thing.
P. S. : 3Iy wife's name is Jenuie.
: o m : :
Rebel Contrast between Lincoln
and Davis. -After the perfect deluge of
detraction and abuse which has been bhow
ered upon President Lincoln by traitors
and secession sympathizers North and
bouth, it id peculiarly refreshing to find
one of his most virulent dclamer3, the
Charleston JJacurr, under date January
10, thus grudgingly admitting that he
possesscss all the qualifications of a chief
among ten thousand :
"When Abraham Lincoln took the
chair of the Presidency of the United
States, he promised to 'run the machine
as he found it.' Whether he has strictly
kept his promise, those may doubt who
choose to consider the subject. It ia
cuuugu ior us to Know, that whether 'run
ning his machine' in the pathway of his
predecessors or not, he has run it with a
stern, inflexible purpose, a bold, steady
hand, a vigilant, active eye, a sleepless
energy, a fanatic spirit, and an eye single
to his end conquest emancipation. He
has called around him, iu counsel, the
ablest and most earnest men of his coun
try. Where he has lacked iu individual
ability, learning, experience, or statesman
I ship, he has sought it and found it in the
I nrklr mail nhM?if 1 .- a i
..uiriti iiiu, vnuu.-i; iisisiacce no
unhesitatingly accepts, whose powers he
applies to the advancement of the cause
he has undertaken.
"Iu the Cabinet and in the field he ha3
consistently and fearlessly pressed on the
fccarch lor men who could advance his
cause, and has as unhesitatingly cut off all
these who cbgged it with weakness, timid
ity, imbecility, or failure. Force, energy,
brains, earnestness, he has collected around
him in every department. Blackguard
and bulfoon as he is, he has pursued his
end with an energy as untiring as an
Indian, and a singleness of purpose that
might almost be called patriotic. If be
were not an unscrupulous knave in hU
end, and a fanatii iu his pclitic;il views, ho
would undoubtedly command our respect
as a iuler, sr far as we are concerned.
Abroad and at Uome he has exercised alike
the same ceaseless energy and circum spec
do;!. "Wo turn our eyes to Bichnvjtid, and
the contrast js appailin-' sickening to the
ncart.
JCS? Contraband Tom. who hi in
come into Sheridan's Hues, save the rebels
aro having a "right smart "talk" about
arming the negroes, and tho negroes talk
about it themselves, but the blacks are
about equally divided oa the matter. Tom
says: "'Bout half de colored men tink
dey would run directly over to de Yankees
wid de arms in dere hnds, an toder half
tink dey would jist stand an fire a few
volleys to de rear fust, fore dey run dat'a
all de difference."