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,y Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
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fngS FEiLON, Attorney at Law,
! . Eben?burer. Pa.
035-e opposite "th e Bank. jan24
EORGE M. READE, Attorney at
Law, Eensbure. Pa.
.-Office in Colonnade Row. jan24
p. TIERNEY, Attorney at Law,
Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pa.
V-03i!e in Colonnade Kcnv. jan4
ilNSTON & SCAN LAN, Attorneys
1 at Law, Ebensborgr, la.
t Office opposite the Court House.
, rjOHSSTO!V JD24 J. K. 6CA5TLAH.
Mi3ELsTnGLET()N, Notary Pub
( lie, Ebensbnr, Pa.
kce on Uigb street, we.t of Foster'! Ho
I jan24
AMKS C EASLT, Attorney at Law,
r".i'tn-n. Cambria county. Pa.
5-Architectural Drawings and Suec-.fi-
,na made. uxu-
J. WATERS, Justice of the Peace
' and Scrivener.
vr OSce adjoining dwelling, on High st..
nsbur-, fa. Lieo-oui
K1NKEAD, Justice of the Peace
and Claim Agent.
v Office removed to the offi.ee formerly
n:el by M. ilasson, Esq., on High street,
fbur'g, Pa. uandi-m
TTs H U E M A KER, Attorney at
Law. EbeiuburR, Pa.
i.r.kuUr attention rai to collections.
iZ:zo one 'loor east cf Lloyd Co. s
in: Poue. (jan-
3IUEL SINGLETON , Atnruey at
L:w. E"n:.'v;-?, Pa. UEic on liigU
it, vest of i otter j How!.
ill practice n tb.; Courts of Cambria aud
inini; counties.
A ttends also to the collection of claims
jidien f.gaiast the (jovernuieaU rjan4
LURGE W. O ATM AN, Attorney at
Law end Claim Agent, Ebensburg,
:ria county, Pa.
j-Fensiona, Back fay and Uoumy, ana
itary Claims coJIectea. lioal instate
i;aadccld, and payment of Taxes at
ito. Dook Accounts, Notes, Due Bills,
sents, &c, collected. Deeds, Mortga
A2reemert3, Letters of Attorney, Bonds,
i-patiy writtrn, and all leal business
rji! "attended to. Pensions increased,
Equalized. Bounty collected. r r-':ia.-4
VJ. nV.LSON, M. D., oilers his per-
v:es, as Ph-siciar. And Surgeon, to
citizen of Ebenxbur and surrounding
'i try.
iviD been appelated Examining Su-
, Le is prepared to examine all rersion-
and applicants for Pensions who may
1 his services.
Otlicu on High St., throe doors east of
i. church, ia oAloe formerly occupied by
caes. Residcrn.e immediately adjoin
ilre. j'.n24-3m
ZEtf J7 LLOYD,
S'tctessor of It. S. Dunn,
Dealer ia
t DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PAINTS,
LS, AND DYE-STUFFS, PEUFUME-
?.Y AND-FA.NCV ARTICLES, 1'UKC
VES AND BRANDIES FOR ME J. I-
VM?.?0SES, PATENT MEDICINES, 4c.
Also:
fcr, Cap, and Note Papers,
lens, i'eocils, Superior Ink,
And other articles kept
' by Druggists generally.
WW?' prescriptions enrefuHy eompoundtd.
-c? on Mftiri Street, opposite the Moun
3ouse, Ebensburg, Pa. jan'i4
NTISTRY.
Jh; undersiined. Graduate of the !a!-
College of Dental Surgery, resptotfuj-
" profc3sional services to the cuiv n
ourg. Me has spareu no nicai.?- to
V" :-.-"uamt unn?eU with cvtr; ro
nv mi nis arl. To T.inny years o; ptr-
yxpennce, hv b.A nought tfr aiid the
i iperiencf -it iLe highest authorities
fi;-M Science. He simply asks that an
Y J v- avv-4
y'4 5vn praise.
I. SAMUEL BEI
.?? Prof. C. A. 1
Wity mav be triven for bil work to
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BELFORD, D. D. S.
. Harris : T. E. !?nnrl.
Urtndy; A. A. Blandy.P. II. Aus
!,e Brtitimore College.
1 leut Ebensburg on the foarth
i)' tadi month, to stuy one w;ek.
: '. ft lftiJT
1 r.nrrnw.B'i, i A.
Tr i '.Tr,fJ .-.r-nnt Loans aud
ex on 1 , Dcuos4. evictions made
: cce!i,J.,e po.ats in the United States,
i General Latking Business transacted
M. LLOYD & Co., Ba7ctr
n l-TOOSA, FA.
's on the principal cities, and SilvVr
' 'Itl for slo Pn UiIa. ...j.
- - w...Tnui.s umae. Mon
Wei on deposit, payable on demand
11 interest, or upon time, with inu-ren
te3- - Dan2
4 .i
AllAM BLAINE, Barber
. ' Ebenpbcbo, Pa.
' f Sbarapooing, and Hair-dressing
ttost artistic style.'
o. '.a Ulrcctly opposite the "Moun-
jan24
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ka.vce AGENCY.
tr.oj r . -
w ..iVJI Itil J x .
I'urse, agent for the Blair county
f --0-.lUai rue -zisrance Com
Johnstown, Pa..
fin
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in . ttllcnu promptly to making insu-
(; l amoria county UDon
by letter or in person. jan24
JE ALLEGIIAN1AN"
'Off . PRINTING OFFICE..'
.J? ":E "u?h.e8 Co.. Store
rlT vir, iQira aoor back.
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EBENSBURG, PA., T.
To The Alley hanian.
At the Ball.
BT . T.
I toyed with her wavy ringlets
Lon acquaintance with Blanche gar me
carte ;
From h?r lips I distilled sweetest nectar, .
Fast straining her form to my heart.
Outside were the gay masqueraden
'Twa3 Christmas, with revel and song:
We fat in a dirn, shadowed alcove,
Myself and fir Blanche was it wrong?
I toyed with her wavy ringlets, . ;
M.isses of golden tress ;
I biut?red her hand with caresses,
.And prayed her to answer me "y?"
Her heart belt a muffled reveille.
Her blushes were rose-red, eweet maid;
She answered, as late answers cymbal,
'I am yours for the next gallopade 1"
MRS. JORDAN'S LESSON.
Mrs. Martin sat in the office at the
terminus of one of the street railroads.
A car was expected to move off in a few
nii;uie.'. It was a clear, frosty .morn in q
in December, and bitter cold. Eut she
did ik t mind the cold just then, bundled
up 9 ehe was, and the file burning so
briskly in the office.
A door, opening !nto a drinking sa
loon, w.fs ajar. -Two men were at. the bir,
leaning lazily aruiust it, ct-eh withaghss
in his hatid. One of the',, was a young
man of her acquaintance, Ci ty Jordan by
name, lie was a worthier, dissolute
youif fel'ow. lie had broken over the
barriers of rt liiou- trainiir and religious i
coa.punionhip, fearing not the threats of
his father, turning a deaf ear to the en
treaties ot his mother, and ftcn bringing
the blush of phame to the cheeks of his
lovely, sweef tempered fclster. His eyes
were bleared, his face bioated, his clotiiea
shabby. His hair had dropped over his
forehead, his beard was tangled, and his
hands shook nervously.
"O, Clay Jordau
sa.u Airs. iMartin to
herself with a sih
"A mere wreck in
life, losing about upon the
billows of
sensuality and pas?ion ; no pride, no
hanie, no mauliuess. How strange it is
that feom? JjT'iunj; mu "jrill th:.; throw
themselves awuy, sacriQciog all the social
and educational advantages of the put,
aud all the brilliant prospects in the fu
ture !"
''Say, Clay, how did you make the
raise?" asked young Jordan's companion.
'Yesterday you were dead broke."
"So I was, Mus.-er. I got hold of the
old woman's watch and chain, and 'up the
spout' it went. It's at Brasier's, in Ninth
ftreet."
Clay Jordan caUd for more liquor; the
cir was starting out, and Mrs. Martin took
a seat in it. -. " i.ough not familiar wi.
the slang of tlnj brothel, she cor '
Eurmisei that to "put a thiu .F
spout" meant dipoiug of it at the pawn
broker's. When Mrs. Martin reached her home,
he went to her room to lay aside her
bonnet and furs.
"Ma' said her little daughter, opening
the door, "a woman is waiting fur y( u in
the kitchen. She came about aa hour
ago. She is in search of a place."
"I will be down directly," said Mrs.
3Iart:n.
T5he found the applicant l j be a young
woman, tidily dressed, with ruddy cheeks,
clear eyes, and honest looking face.
"What is your name if" asked Mrs.
Martin.
"Rachel Pierce," anwere 1 he girl.
"Have you any rectirrnjcndations 1"
"No, ma'am."
"Why is that? With whom did you
live last r
"Wifh Mrs. Jordan."
"Why did you leave there ?"
"I was dismissed."
"What for?"
"I was charged with theft.-
The blood for a moment colored the
chc-fks of the vouo S'rl, and her eyes
moistened.
''You are candid,"-said Mrs. Martin.
''I wa alwjy taught to be."
"And, after suoh a oniession, you ex
pect me to hire you?
"I did not make any confession. I did
not steal anything."
"There must have been some jjrornd.i
for the charge.'' .
"None, beyond the fact that the article
was missed. I did not take it. I do not
know who did."
"What was missed V asked Mrs. M.
"Mrs. Jordan's gold watch aud chain."
"And you do not know where it ia?"
"I do not : indeed, I do not. Pray,
iurs. iUartm, give me a place, it but for a
while. Please do. This is the fifth
p-ace I have applied at to-day, each time
teiling my jtory as I have told it to you,
and each line quietly dismissed."
The young girl bravely crushed back
the struggling Mba Rnd tears.
"Are you badly io want of a place ?"
asked Mrs. Martin.
"1 am. My reputation is to re-established,
my character to be re-tored. .
Tiaie will do that. Thea we ce- dis
tress. 3Iother ie au invaomptly stten
winter ia her. It ia as r J
arid T can do to support V
i - -
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Hukby Clay.
raURSDAY
''Your air, your appearance, your Ian-
guage,
betray that you have seen better
circumstances. " .
"I have, indeed. ' Reverses 'wilf come
and sometimes in spite of watchfulness,
economy, and integrity of purpose." I
might have taught school, or turned gov
erness; but too many seek those avenues
I hired out as a domestic; such hlp i3
constantly needed ; I had no pride to be
wounded, no fal.se ideas of conventionalism
to be shocked. I took up my new duties
as a woman should have taken them up;
I do not fetl that I have in any way dis
graced myself or my family. I do not
wish to be anything more than you ensage
me for a hired girl, with stout heart,
strong arm, and a will tu wdrkat'lfitipv
ulited price per week."" ' .
"You may stay, Itaehael," said Mrs.
Martin kindly. "I am pleased to. "ay that
I am in possession of facts that will thor
oughly vindicate your character.". ,
A bright light flooded the young girl's
eyes! She brought her hands quickly
togeiher -"What are thry? How did
you learn them ?" she a-ked. ,
"Mrs. Jordan's watch was stolen by her
worthless son and pawaed. I overheard
him tell as much to a companion, not
more than two hours ago. This evening,
I shall write to Mrs. Jordau about the
matter."
Three
called on
friecuj.
weeks afterward, Mrs. Martin
Mrs. Jordan.' They were old
The latter wore her watca and
chain.
"You have found your watch, I see,"
said Mrs. Martin.
"Did you know that it had been lost?
I I recovered it the next dav." '
"Who had stolen it ?"
"Oh, I had mi-laid it."
"31 rs. Jordan!" gaid Mrs. Martin re
provingly. Mrs. Jordan colored. ''How much do
you know about the matter ?" she asked.
"I know all about it," said Mrs Mar
tin. "It was I who sent you the unsigned
note, informing you where the property
was." ;
"You make me blush for the shame of
my son, Mrs. Martin. To shield him, I
departed from the truth, wben Itaid that
1 had miulaid the watch."
"I have something else to say in con
nection rj-rh thi matter,. Mrs. Jordan.
Yoj will not taka oFence ?"
"Ve are old Irknid. You have spoken
plainly to me before."
413ut net vaiogloriouslynot in the
spirit of Belf-righteousness. You charged
ltdchael Pierce with the theft of the
wateh?" '
"I did."
"Aud dismissed her?"
"I did."
"After you found out -almost the next
day that she was innocent, what steps
lid you take to vindicate her character
lot'oo her wounded spirit to remedy
, "tog you had dono her?"
y v. Jordan bowed her head. Her
"hc;ks tingled with mortification. "To
toy shame be it said, I did nothing. I
bava grievously wronged the poor giri."
"Indeed you have. A-watm-bearted,
honest, sensitive girl, she was thrown into
the channel in which she moved by a
current that may sometime carry our own
children thitherward. Peremptorily dis
missed, without recommendation her
character seemingly disjjraoed, she repea
tedly ar;lied for a situation and wa.-?
repeatedly refused. Driven to dv"?nu;r,
crushed y the necosity of circum stances,
fair in lace aud fine in form, what was to
sav. her from dahing headlong into the
li-c'y.i of wretchedness aud shame? Per
haps the strength of integrity within her
uwa -oul ; perhaps th r igiuu training
of her youth ; perhaps the prayers of a
righteous mother; perhaps nothing but 4
direct interpositiou of the pnmdeuce of
God."
Mrs. Martin paused. Her friend was
weeping bitterly. Her repentence was
sincere.
"At eleven o'clock last night," resumed
Mrs. Martin, "alter the adjournment of
the lecture, I passed a drink ing-saloon.
Some men rudely thrust a girl out of it
upon the pavement. The light from tho
window streamed upon her. Sho was
fctaggeriug drunk. A horrid imprecation
burst from her crimson lips. She was a
mere wreck of a once superb loveliness
now devoid of virtue, shame every re
deeming trait It made me shudder I"
Mrs. Jordan got up from her chair in
her excitement. There was aa expression
of horror 00 her face. Her hands worked
nervoujly. "Whs that Ilaohael Pierce?"
she asked, huskily.
"o it was not."
"Tha'nk God !" cried Mrs. Jordan, sink
ing back into her chair.
"It might have be6r. her."
"Oh, do not mention it, Mrs. Martin !
Oh, how I have wronged tha poor girl !
How shameful and neglectful has been my
conduct ! I will hunt her up at onoe."
"She is safe," said Mrs. Martin.
"W'here?" '
"With me. She .has been with me
since the day that she left you that you
seut her away. Had I not been aware of
the true facts connected with the theft
of the watch, I, too, perhaps, would
have sent her away. That knowledge
may have . been her . salvation. I have
J found her to be a most excellent girL"
, FEBRUARY 21, 1867.
"That shjo was, and is, Mis.IartiD. 1
have learned a bitter lesson. - I ahall make
Rachnel Pierce the fullest amends that I
can.;' ,
; On the Sabbath following thi inter
view, Rachael Pierce called on her mother,
She was a pale, intellectual woman, con
fined to tho house, and much of the time
to her bed, by a diseased ipine. But she
bore her affliction patiently, never com
plaining, and generally in good spirts.
''A gentleman called yestprday, Ra
chael," said her mother. "A dark, stern
feafared .man. It was a Mr. "Jordan,
quite likely the one at whose house you
liv;i a while. He will take Charlie in
htVre Dext week, at very pood waecs.
He 3lso said that wa must remove to one
of his houses one more comfortable than
this one, and nearer to the store. We are
to 'ive rent free."
"God is very kind to us, mother," said
Rachael. "Mrs Jordan is at he bottom
of this. She wishes to make reparation
for her false accusation against me."
"So I upeeted, dear. That note on
the table is no doubt from her."
Rchael Pierce took up the note and
opened it. It read as follows
'Miss Rachael Pierce :.' I-confess,
in deep humility and shame, that J have
giivou-ly wronged you. I chargf.J you
with the perpetration of a criu?o of; which
you were innocent. The injuti' Jv;ard
yoa wis visited upon ny oiv. ! oid in
biUeruess and tears in the hoir when I
Wivered the thief to be of my own flesh
and blood. For my further injustice to
you (inasmuch as I did not forthwith
seek you out and make puch redress as
uight have been possible) I have no
excuse to offer but that of sheer thought
lessness. Is your Christian charity abun
dant enough to be satisfied with an excuse
so fliiusy ? Rachael, forgive me all, every
thing ; the fale charge, the biting words
accompanying it, the subsequent neglect.
I have been sufficiently punished. I will
make such reparation as I can. .
'Yours respectfully,
.'Catharine Jordan."
Rachael Pierce galled o Mrs. Jordan,
pardoned her freely, and ever afterwards
found in her a true friend.
An Old Document,
fne following is 2 copy, rerbatini, of a
treaty cf peace, and the appointment of a
commissioner by Willia.u -Ponn, to 'treat
with the Governor of Canada to establish
a system ot trade by which the people of
the Province of Pennsylvania and those
of Canada could be provided with suoh
commodities of traffic as might be desired
for the comfort of both Provinces. The
original copy was written by William
Peon, a:d addressed to the Governor of
Canada, io June, 1G32 (185 years ago),
and is now neatly framed, nd adorns the
walls ot the Surveyor General's office.
In siza it is 30 by 24 inches, and is writ
teu in the old English style. In the same
office may be seen many other valuable
old documents, some of them written over
two centuries ao. Tho novelty and sin
gulsr styltj of writing are worth the time
occupied in their perusal. The first let
ter of the first word is about four inches
long, and is ornamental in it? appear
ance: "The Great God that made thee and
me arid all the world Incline oar hearts
to peace and justice that we may live
friendly together as becomes the work
manship of the Great God. The Kinsr
of England who is a Great Prince hath
for divers Reasons gr ped to me a large
country in America 'which however I aui
willing to Irjoy upon friendly terms with
ihcc. And this I will say that the people
who comes with me are a just plain and
honest people that neither make war upon
others nor tear war from others because
they will be just. I have set up a Soci
ety of Traders in my Province to traffick
s ...
-with thee and thy people for your cmi
atodities, that you may be. furnished with
that which is good at reasonable rates.
And that Society hath ordered their
President to treat with ab ut a fu
ture Trade and have j :nnd with me to
send this Messenger to the, with certain
Presents from us to tejfy our. willingness
to have a fair correspondence with thee.
And what this Agent shall do io our
names we will agree unto. I hope that
thou wilt kindly Receive him and comply
with his desires on our behalf both with
re.-pest to Land and Trade. The Great
God be with thee. Amen.
"Philip Theodore Lehnman,
"Wm. Pexn. Secretary."
A story is told of a soldier who,
about one hundred and fifty years ago,
was frozen in Siberia. His lad expres
sion was, "it is ex -." He then froze
stiff as marble. In t'e summer of IStiO.
pome Freneh medical men found him,
afttr he had lain frozen for one hundred
and fifty years. They gradually thawed
him, and upon animation being restored,
he finished his eeutetice with ceediuc
ly cold." .
A certain Mr. Coffin being blest with
a son, a friend offered one hindrtd dollars
for the privilege of uamitg. him. The
offer was accepted, wheu the friend named
the child Mahogany .
The Kentuckiass want to make J.
G. Rreckinridga Governor.
The Culver Case Interesting
History.
A correspondent "of the New York Tri
bune, writing from PranUlin, gives the
following interesting st-.'ement of the
causes which culminate! in the failure of
the firm of Culver, Penn & Co., aou
which led to the prosecution of Mr. Cul
ver on charges of a criminal nature. Wo
quote :
The history of Mr. Culver in his con.
nection with this region for the last six
years, of his unparalleled success and ol
his failure, h the history ct the rise, de
ciine and fall of the empire of Petroleum.
Suffice it to t-ay that in IS61 Mr. ulvcr
opened a banking office in this town on a
small capital, and subsequently others at
various points ia this region, all of which,
very soon, from the exigencies of busi
ness, became incorporate banks, under
what was known as the Free Ranking
Law, he retaining the general financial
management, and dispensing Presidencies
and Directorships as Andrew II. dispen
ses Con.-ulates and Collector&hip of Cus
toms, and probably with quite as large a
seuse of the "eternal fituess of things."
0 these, the Venango bank at Frank
lin, and the Petroleum bank at Tituville,
had a circulation, the former of $G00,000,
the latter of 8900,000, eecun.d by the
deposit of a like amount of Gc7ernmtnt
bonds with the Auditor General at Har
risburg. Aud when Congress passed an
act iorbtddmg a re-issue of the notes of j
State baqks alter July 1, 1SGG, these!
banks about to become National bank.-s, '
it became necessary to retire their circu
lation, and to do this gradually was a
measure of prudence. Mr. Culver accor
dingly made arrangements with a Nation
al bauk at Pittsburg in May, 1S65, for
the redemption and cancellation of the
notes, the funds required to be drawn
from Culver, Penn &Uo., (the New York
branch), and the-respective banks certifi
ed by drafts on them, which, wheu for
warded to. Culver, Penn & Co., were
charged to .tho.se banks. The Govern
ment bonds released by the return of the
raiicellod circulation were to be sent to
Culver, Penn & Co., and placed to the
credit of . the banks.
In the meantime, in tun year 1S64 and
18G5, the oil fever had reached its cri-is ;
a:id p-culati rushed to the cocaoes
ot madness. This atate of things inevi
tably led to accommodation loans, from
he various banking institutions under
Mr. Culver's control, secured in ihe usual
manner; and when, in March, 1S65, the
terrible flood destroyed pioperty in the
valleys of this regiou to the value of mil
lions of dollars, followed immediately by
the close of the war, and the -jonseque'it
chock of all speculation, by the?e com
bined causes the firm of Culver, Penn &
Co., lost very' heavily.
Shortly prior to this time, the firm be
came largely interested in au enterprise
called the Reno Oil at.d Lied Company,
with the object of maki'jg Reno the depot
for the oil-producing district!; and when
the oil bu-iuess had somewhat recupera
ted, a railroad was balk ;o carry the pur
pose into effect, in I ho faee of a deter
mined opposition from rival interests,
which made it necessary, at a heavy ex
pense, to choose a circuitous rute, and
overcome seiious engineering difficulties.
By the energy and tact of Mr. Culver,
however, two rival railroad companies
were consolidated wiih this, under his
; control, in the winter ct ISbo-O; and
nothing -.as required but a final meeting,
which was appointed fur March 29, 16GG,
to approve the consolidation. In a few
days, as he alleges, he would be entitled
to receive a large sum, sufficient to meet
all hi immediate liabilities, in the form
ot the first mortgage bonds of the consoU
dated road; but he claims that unscrupu
lous men, opposed to this project, creaed
a run upon the New York house at this
critical period by malicious rumors that it
had failed, or was about to fail ; and bur
thened beyond their capacity to bear, on
the 27th of March they failed wih liabil
ities estimated at 5.000,000. The con
sequence was, of ourse, th; failure of the
coiiMjIidation, and therefore, of the Reno
enterprise, to which all Mr. Culver's ener
gies had been lent, and that with whiuh
w are more immediately interested the
closing of n.11 the banks, which had been
controlled by Mr. Culver among them
the Venango National Bnk, whose capi
tal, as I have shown above, had passed
into his hands during the progress of the
retirement of its circulation.
Mr. Culver was soon after arrested at
the instance of Mr. lloe, Vice President
and Director of the Venango Rank (a
member of the Pennsylvania Senate), on
a charge of cdnspiracy to defraud Mesr..
Myers and Kinear, the latter the Presi
dent and both Directors of the bank join
ing in the charge all three having made
private loans io Mr. Culver to further his
railroad enterprise. This arrest was fol
lowed by others, on the same charge,
but bail to a very largei amount was ob
taiued and he was discharged. ; He was
also arretted on a charge of obtaining the
bonds deposited at Harrisburg under false
pretences; and after giving, the required,
bail was immediately re-arrested upon the
application of Mr. Myeri, charged with
making false representations iu regard to
Venango Rank stock given that gentle
man as collateral security for bis lean.
- ftt.OO Iff ADVAKCC.
NUMBER 5.
Despairing in regard to fighting off these.
1 a . .
ana otner arrests, wnicn tie understood to
bo impending, Mr. Culver went to jail ia
June of Ust year, where he remained
until January last. The quiet little vil
lage cf Franklin wes astounded by si vwt
from the Serjeant-at-Arms of the Nation
al II ouse of Representatives with a jioae
comitntus ; and the prisoner was liberated.
With characteristic pneriry Mr. Culver
pushed the matter to a trial, and on the
eveoing of Thursday, Jaouary'3V, h
ptared with counsel to answer ?ha com
plaint of Thomas Ilogeood John DufSeld,
in the case of The Commonwealth against
C. V. Culver and James S. Austin, (Cash
ier of the Yenaug Bank,) in the Court
of Quarter Sessions of Venango countyj
before Judgo TrU.ikey and Associate
Judges Lambert on and McCormack, on s
charge of conspiracy to defraud the Ve
nango National Rauk, John Duffield, and
"divers persons to the jurors unknown,"
in which matter the Grand Jury had found
a true bill.
The result of the trial has already beeu
announced the jary finding verdict of
not guilty, and that the prosecutor, John
Duffield, (a wealthy citizen of Franklin)
pay the Cut3: ..
A Kouiatite Itudely Dispelled
The remorselessness with wbich modern
critici-itn is sweeping away some of the
most pop.ilar historical traditions, finds a
tr?-.ih iliutration iu tbe famous story of
Pocahontas saving the life of Cap(. John
Smith, which for two hundred years has
txcited the wonder aud admiration of the
world. A Massachusetts antiquarian,
Mr. Char!e3 Deaoe, in some recently
published works, of which the Xcrth
American Revieus for January gives, a
summary, comes to the conclusion thai no
such occurrence ever took place, and thst
the whole fctory was invented by Captain
Smith himself. Tnc incident is alleged
to have taken place in D.uamber, 1607 r
yet in a bistoye written by Smith, and
published in London in i6u3, called the
Ti-at Rdatim, though the account of bis
captivity and release by . Powhattaa is
given, not a word is said of Pocahontas ;
nor iu all the histories ot the colonies
published afterward one written by
Wingfield, ihe deposed Governor, in 1G0S,
anorher written by a Dr. Simons, Vo
accompany a map of Virginia, by Smith
him.-eif, and published in 1612; nor a
third, by Tuuiuas Spaehey, in 1015; a
fourth by Raphe Hamor, one seire'ary of
thj cjiony, in 1G15 ; and a fifth by Pura
pas, detved from Smith himself, in 1817,
is there the slightet motion of the cele
brated incident iu question.
Rjth Hamor aud PnrapDS gave full
accounts of Pocahontas herself, of her
capture and detention as a hostage by tha
coioniats, ct her conversion to the Chris
tian faith, her marriags to Captain Rolfa,
her visit to England aud the interest she
excited there ; but not a word of her hav
ing interposed to save the life of Captaic
Johu Smith. The first hint of that story
seetcs to have been given in a pamphlt,
published by Smith himself in 1622, its,
whichr peaking ol hi captivity, he sys,
"God made Pocahontas, the King's daugh
ter, the means to deliver me ;" and tho
full account as it has ever sinei been
received, is fmnd in auoiher publication
made by Snath in 1024, sixteen years alY--t.he
a.leged occurrence, untitled ,4Geaer.
all Ijisto;ie." In both these iait woiks
i!r. Dt;aae detects suudry instances o
exaggeration and mendacity.
Tif eem to have own writ :-c, by
Ssi-i'Ii mainly to enlist public scntiujeut
and sympathy in his cluiu.s,to reinstate
mv.it in the colony from which he had
beet; depo-ed and it is pujriresrpd that
ttai nction was invented as likely great ly
to enhance his own importance, alter the
romantic viait, reception and death' of
Pocahontas iu England. To those who
know the Indian maiden only through the
poetry, painting aud sculpture ot which
she was made the iubject, this picture of
her, when a child of ten or twelve years
old, g'ueu by Strachey, may be curious.
"Pocahontas," he says, "a well-ieatured
but wanton young girl, Powhattan's
daughter, sometimes resorted to our fort,
of the age then of eleven or twelve years,
would get the town boys forth into tha
market place, and make them wheel,
laliii.r' on their hands, turning their heels
upw;.rji, whom she would follow and
wheel so herself, naked as she war, all
the fort over." This is not the attitude
which has generally been selected by the
artists wh) have employed their genius ia
illustrating her histry and character.-
The London lurich is very 'anxious
always to record in au appropriate man
ner charges of fashiotv The very .latest
uchievemeut is a picture 'representing a
fashionable and affectionate couple, the
husband searchingvigorously i t his waist-coat-pockets-.
The yorog wife inquires,
"Have you lost your watch, love?'' and
he replies, "No, dariing, 'twhs a new boa
net I had ijr you somewhere."
Rarrium v.-ants to go to Ccogrest. A
Connecticut paper says, thai "sewing a
monkey's head and fishes tails together, ,
to make a mermaid, is a performance well
calculated to make a man notorious, but f
it affords no evidence of statesmanship."
New York is going to ha a Univer
sity for Jews.
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