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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1867.
NUMBEI
7cILLIA:
issary L .',
KITTELL,, Attorney at
w, Ebensburg, Pa.
U:.' i ; :: XON, Attorney at Law,
Ebensburg, Pa.
? C.w r -osite the Dank.
jjan:
oiigi: :i. READE,
x ttorney
at
Law, Ebensburg, ra
OI!!ce ia Colonnade Row.
jan24
T. TIEIINEY, Attorney at Law,
ri.nrUirg, Cambria county. Pa.
0 v Colonnade Kov.
:jan24
iHNSIOl." & SCANLAi, Attorneys
' ' :. I rt Ebensburg, Ta.
7 0 c: c site the Court House.
, joita, .'. fjn24J J. 1. ECAJiLAN.
.HULL ;,I;;GLET0X, Notary Pub-
11c, Ebensbnrp. Pa
ke ca I.Tk'h street, v est of Foster's Ho-
kMES C. EASLY, Attorney at Law,
' CirrolIlo. n, Cambria county, Ta.
J" Architectural Drawings and Specifi
cs made.' ' jan24
J. W'ATERS, Justice of the Peace
, .. , and Scrivener.
CZice adjoining dwelling, on High St.,
;urg. Fa.
feb.
Cm
KINKEAD, Justice of the Peace
and Claim Agent.
0 -ce removed to the office forraerlj
c 1 ' r Ilasson, Esq., on Hirh street,
Pa. I jan31-hm
A. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at
rtieular attention paid to ccVictions.
j" UCce cr.e door tast of Lloyd k Co.' 3
ilBSllous?. . fn24
.MITEL SINGLETON, Attorney at
Law, I! he-hurp; l'a. r !ice on High
t, west of l uster's Hotel.
U practice in the Courts wf Cambria and
ninn coun:ies.
7- A tter.ui aI?o to the collection of claim.? ;
liiera a rains i. the Government. jan2l
CORGE W. O ATM AN, Attorney at
Law and Claim Agent, LbersLurg,
ria county, Pa.
Pensions, Back Pay and Bounty, and
rj Claims collected. Ileal Estate
I sold, aud payment of Taxt-3 nt-
r.
Ar
Book Accounts, Isotes, Due 11K3,
&c, collected. Deeds, Mortga
ijnts, Letters cf Attorney, Bonds,
. written, and na legal business
.I'j attended to. Pensions increased,
Iquallzei ilounty collected. jan24
G.
sVILSOIt, M. !.. o.Ter8 his ser
vices, s Physician and burpeon, to
citizens of Ebensbur-; and surrounding
itry.
iviufc Ljen, appointed 'omining Sur
, he is prepared to rxuuainc all l'trnsion
and applicants lor Pensions who may
fcij errices
7 Cilice ca High Bt., three doors east of
'church, ia ollice formerly occupied by
?ae3. Piesidenco immediately adjoin
.'.ce. ji'.n24-3ra
.Z&3i LLOYD,
; JSvcerssor of It. S. Lunn,
Dealer in 1
:Da73 AND MEDICINES, PAINTS,
: A": DYE-STUFFS. PEKFUME
.1 AND VANCY ARTICLES, PURE
Nliri A: BKNnit: i"t)Il MEDI-rUEl'i-ilZS,
PATENT MEDICINES, &c.
Per.", Pencils, Superior In?-,
' And other articles kept
by Druggists generally.
: ' ( rcteriplions carefully compounded.
t . .Ain Strert, opposite the Moun
, Ebensburg, Pa. rjan24
, : " iersigncd, Graduate of the Bal
' . ,.-3 of Dental Snr rery, respectfully
rofc38ionol services to the citizens
irg. ; He has spared no means to
acquaint himself with every im
, ,. i a his art. To many years of per
! . t mnce, he has sought to add the
rt ed experience of the highest authorities
Cental Scl ir.ce. He simply ask3 that an
irtunity t.:ay bo given for hi3 work to
k its c sn praise.
; ?!UI.I. BELFORP, D. D. S.
fferencet: Ir.f. (J. A. Ilarri3 ; T. E. 3ond,
W. P.. lie,:., v ; A. A. Blandy.P. H. Auf
of l.l.e pHtti: -.are College.
-y vrr.I be i-t Ebensburg on the fourth
day of each month, to stay one Wiek.
.auarj 2i, H'Si.
-OYD
CO.,
Hankers
Ebensbteo, Pa.
'lver, Government Loans and
bought and ;old. Interest
Deposits. Collections made
points in the United States,
ill access
a
General Packing Pusines3 transacted.
-iuary
21, 1567. .
. LLOYD & Co., Bankcrt
Altooxa, Pa.
in the principal cities, and Silver
for pale. Collections made. Mon
ca deposit, payable on demand,
-. it, or upon tiu're, with interest
jan24
.31 BLAINE, Barber
Ebexsbcbo, Pa.
;Rnpoo"r'g, and Ha:r-dressing
."5i srtistic stvle.
(Tree:'" opposite the "Monn
" 11 jan21
CE AGENCY.
trrfe, agent for the Blair county
'utual Fire Insurance Com
tov. n, Pa.
ttend iromptly to making insu
7s part of Cambria county vuoa
y 'eUer or in person. jan24
ALLEG II ANI AN"
PRINTING OFFICE.
in E. Hughes & Co. 's Store
y Etairs, third door back,
of all kind done with. ncatneS3
To My Wife.
By josErn li;k5Van.
Come to tne, dearest, I'm lonely without thee,
Day-time and night-time I'm thinking about
thee,
Night-time and day-lime i elreams I behold
thee,
Unwelcome the waking that ceases to fold
thee.
Come to me, darling, my sorrows to lighten J
Come in thy beauty, to bless and to brighten ;
Come in thy womirhood, meekly and lowly;
Come in thy loveliness, queenly and holy.
Shallows will flit round the desolate ruin,
Telling of spring and its joyous lenewing ;
And thoughts of thy love, with it3 manifold
treasure,
Are circling my .heart with a premise of
pleasure.
Oh, spring of rcy spirit I oh. May of my
bosom!
Shine cut on my soul till it bourgeon r.nd
blossom !
The past of my life has a rose-root within it,
And thy fondness alone is the sunshine can
wi it.
Figures that move like a song through the
even
Figures lit up by a reflex of heaven
Eyes like the skies of poor Erin, our mother,
When shadow and sunshine are chasing each,
othtr.
Smiles coming
EclJom. but childlike aud
simple,
Opening their eyc3
from the heart of a
dimp'c :
Oh, thinks to the oavior, that even thy
Beeming
Ii left i i the exile to brighten hi3 dreamirg.
You h:..e been glad w!.cu you knew I was
rladdened ;
Dear, nre you sad now, to know I am ?ad
deued? Our heart3 ever answer in tune and in time,
love,
A3 octave to octave, and rhyme unto rhyme,
love.
I cannot weep, but your tesvra will be flowing ;
You cannot smile, bdt my cheeks will be
glowing;
I would not die without you at my side, love,
Yoa will not linger when I shall have died,
love.
Come to mc, dear, ere I die of my sorrow ;
t Pisc on my gloom like the sun of to-morrow;
Strong, swift, and fond, as the words which
I Fpeak, love,
With ?. song onyourlip3 and a smile on your
cheek, love.
Come, for my heart in your absence 13 weary ;
Haste, for my spklt si' led and dreary ;
Come to the heuit that is throbbing to press
thee,
Come to the arms that would fondly caress
thee.
THE DOCTOR'S STORY.
-
"And now we'll have a cozy, comforta
ble evening together,' said my wife.
"And but what'. that, Irving V
My wife started nervously, us a sharp
peal from the bell interrupted our brief
interval of domestic quiet.
"Only the surgery bell, my dear.
Somebody wanting me, I suppose."
And I went down stairs, 6ecretly won
dering to myself if, after all, -there was
such a very wide difference between a
galley slave and a country doctor.
Tho surgery door stood wide open, but
nobody was there, and through the blind
ing darkness without I could discern the
dark outline of a clo&e carriage, and a man
standing at the horses head.
"Who's there 7 what's wanting?" I
akcl, coming to the threshold and in
stinctive!) buttoning up the overcoat 1
Lad hurriedly thrown on.
"You're wanted, doctor," said tho man,
ppeaking indistinctly behind the muffling
that surrounded his face
"Yes, but what for ? Who wants me V
"I am not at liberty to tell
I had already entered the carriage, but
this suspicious answer inspired me with
distrust. I made a step to descend, but I
was too late. The vehicle was already in
motion.
"It is quite unnecessary to alarm your
self, doctor," said a quiet, measured voice
at my side. "Believe roe, you are quite
safe ; and I trust you will ieel no uneasi
ness when I tell you vou must be blind
folded' . ..
At the same instant a folded bandage
was deltly slipped over my eyc5.
"Heidi" I ejaculated. , ."It strikes me
that this is rather superfluous. Tho night
is dark as Erebus, and you have no lamp!
Possibly," returned the dry voice;
"but it is best to rua do risks."
And then ensued a silence of. some ten
or fifteen minutes, while tho carriage
rolled 6wiftly along, and the low, mea
sured breathing of my unknown compan
ion kept time to pay own uncomfortable
thoughts. '.
At length my companion spoke again
in tho same soft, modulated tones.
"Doctor, one more little precaution is
necessary your promise never to divulge
to human soul a word of this night's
visit."
I hesitated.
i(i cannot bind myself by any such
covenant. The relations between physician
and patient are of course confidential:
but"
The carriage paused abruptly here, and
the door was swung open. At the same
instant something cold touched my temple.
It was the muzzle of a pistol. I recoiled
in horror.
"You surely would not murder me V
"You promise, doctor 1" -
"I promise 1" I gasped, recoiling once
more 'from the chilling touch of the cold
steel at iny temples. ' i
"Vcrv well : come I" -
1 was led up a narrow walk, through a
doorway, into a room, where the bandage
was removed suddenly from my eyes.
Tho spot was very familiar to me a
ruinous cottage, long since abandoned to
decay, in the very heart of dense, swampy
woods; IIow the carriage had ever reach
ed it I was at a loss to know. Upon a
pile of straw, hurriedly thrown into the
corner of the mouldering flcor, lay a pros
trate figure; moaning at ever breath.
His face was concealed bva handkerchief,
and the blood was slowly dripping from a
gunshot wound just above tuo ankle a
wound which had been clumsily bandaged
by some unskilful hand. Moreover, there
was a dark red stain on the straw where
his head lay, and his light brown hair was
matted with coagulated drops. Two or
three men stood around, with rudo masks
of black cloth drawn over their faces, in
which three slits were cut for the eyes
and mouth ; and a female figure knelt
behind the heap of straw, veiled closely.
The men silently made way for ma
as I advanced into the apirtment, and
held their lanterns fo that the lurid licrht
should fall upon my strange patient. As
silently, I stooped and examined both
wounds.
"Well?" askedjny carrIa; companion.
"I can do notb
1 ; ..
"Xonso. ' A. i ...
the leg what doe3 that
uuiiei. through
amount to
huniedly gasped the man.
In
lu-elf, not much : but that blow
Uf a the skull must prove fatal."
A low, half-suppressed cry broke from
the woman opposite. She tore the veil
from her face, as if she "could not breathe
through its heavy folds, revealing features
as white and beautiful in their marble
agony as so much sculptured stone. iShe
did not seem more than thirty, bat I
afterwards knew that she was indeed more
than ten years older. But in spite of her
present anguish, how crandly beautiful
La
1 w.
3 ii0,
re
dark
eyes hatr like
roid, catching strange gleam?
from
thft Miiltiner lanterns and a broad,
si--eth' brow it was a face you see but
once in a lifetime.
And yet, in the midst of her distress,
she never spoke.
"At least you can do something for
him, doctor V said my interlocutor, impa
tiently. "Doa't let us wa3te time here."
As 1 proceeded in my ministrations,
the moaning grew faint and faii ter, the
convulsive movements became scarcely
perceptible. A faint gleam of hope light
ed up the face o? the woman opposite ; she
looked appealingly at me.
"He is better he is surely better I
''Tic will bo soon," I answered, moved
to piiy ia spite of myself. "He cannot
live half an hour longer.'"
The horror of that sepulchral silence
that fell upon us as my accents died awny
shall I ever forget it ? Five minutes
afterward, the breathing," spasmodic and
painful to hear, died into eternal silence.
The woman lifted "the corner of the
handkerchief, and gazed into the ghastly !
face. It was that of a young mau of about
twenty-two, who had evidently been mar
velously good looking.
"Oh, heavens, he is dead 1"
Her clear, agonized voice was ringing
in my ears as they led me back into the
darkness of the night. I felt a bank note
in my hand as I entcreel the carriage once
more. .
"Doctor, you hav done your best ; it is
not your fault thut your efforts have not
been more successful. Ilernember, you
are pledged to secrecy."
: The next moment, I was whirling
swiftly through tho November midnight,
with the strange, unquiet feeling of one
suddenly awakened from a startling dream.
Yet it was no dream alas 1 it was a start
ling reality.
The carriage stopped at a cross road
near the village.
"Please to elight here, sir," said the
driver. ' "You are not far from home." ?
I obeyed, and stood listening in the
middle of the road while the carriage
wheels died away, losing their distinctness
of sound in the shriek of the restless wind.
The clock in the village church tolled out
the hour of one.
Late as it was, however, my surgeTy
was still open and lighted up ; the servant-from
Haddenleigh Hall had just
ridden up to the door.
: "If you please, doctor, you are wanted
immediately at the Hall. The Colonel
6aid you were to ride my horse if your6
- . 1 1 ins i.r 1-
was not aireauy saetaica, anu a cau wui,
so there will bo no tinxo lost." - 1
I mechanically mounted tho noblo ani
mal that stood waiting for me, and rode
off, rather glad of an opportunity to re
volve in my mind the singular adventure
that had befallen mc during the evening.
Haddenleigh stood a little back from
the road, on a magnificent knoll crowned
with century-old chestnuts and beeches,
and I reached the broad stone steps in
about half an hour by dint of rapid
strides.
, As I entered the vestibule, Colonel
Iladden, who had been pacing up and
down the Hall in a perfect agony of im
patience, came to meet me.
"Is that you, Dr. Meller ? I thought
you never would come. We're in a pret
ty state of confusion here. Burglars in
the house my wife's set of diamonds
gone nobody knows whit else but old
Hopkins left his sign manual upon one pf
the fellows. They must be caught. They
can't escape. For you see "
"Yes, but Colonel Hadden-
"Oh, aje I understand you you want
10 see your patient f It's Hopkias, the
butler ) he got nn ugly blow on the left
irm and afterward my wife went herself
for Dr. Maynard no oifence, Mel!?", but
lie lives nearer thnc you; but was out.-
'3he has only ju?t returned, and I couldn't
very well leavo iiopkius; and Mrs. Had
den is such a kiod, good soul, she insisted
cn going herself to fetch Dr. Maynard '
. "But, my dear sir "
"Ah, true I Come along to Hopkins'
room."
Hopkins, the butler, was as voluble as
his master, and ten times as circumstan-
tial ; and by the time I had set his broken
forearm, I was pretty well in possession
of all he particulars of the attempted
burglary at Haddenleigh. And thinking
of my midnight patient, whose life had
ebbed out upon the pile of straw, I felt a
s trange guiJtine? as I listened to Colonel
lladden's ?er conjectures a3 to the
whereabout of the desperadoes who had
led.
"And now, doctor, yctt'll take a glass
of wine," said the hospitable old gentle
man, ushering me into his library.
It was brilliantly lighted, and warm
with the crimson glow of a genial fire,
before vrhieli, wrapped in the gorgeous
folds of an Indian shawl, stood a beautiful
woman.
"My wiie, doctor. Isabel, my
lovcyj"
this is Dr. Meiicr.
"NVe stood Lcf3re one another in silence.
I could not speak, fcr I knew that I was
looking into the startled, agonized eyes of
the wornaa who had knelt scarcely an
hour ago by the dying couch iu the deso
late cottage Colonel Hadden's new wife,
of whose beauty I had heard so much.
The Colonel talked on, but I heard not
c, word that he said. I could not but
marvel at the wonderful self-possession of
the woman,' as she smiled and looked grave
and said "Yes" and "No" in the
rigut
places.
"To be sure," the Colonel was saying,
as I wcke into a sort of consciousness of
his voice, "the loss of Isabel's diamonds
? sometbn'' serious, but of course we
shall recover them again. Only, my love,
it was rather careless of you to leave
them on the drawing-room table."
"It was careless," replied Mrs. Hadden,
calmly. "Doctor, you are not going 7
Colonel, you have forgotten that curious
old book you were wanting to show Dr.
Meller." '
As the door closed behind the honest
old gentleman, Mrs. Iladden glided up to
me and placed her cold hand on mine; it
was like the touch of an icicle.
"Doctor, you havo my secret you
surely will not betray it?"
"I am pledged to silence, madam," I
returned, coldly; "but this deceit "
"Is not my iault, doctor," wailed the
wotnau,
it is
:uy fate.
How I endure it
I can scarcely tell; were I to pause and
think, I should go mad. The man who
died to-night was my son I Colonel Ilad
den knows nothing of my first marriage,
nor of this dreadful secret of my sou's
criminal life, that has weighed nie down
for years. Over and over again I .have
thought to escape it, but it has followed
my footsteps like a doom. To-night closes
that chapter of my life oh, heaven! how
dreadfully ! But my secret is safe the
diamonds provided for that !"
"But your husband, Mrs. Hadden!"
She covered her pallid, beautiful face
with her hands.
"I know what you would say, Dr. Mel
ler. I love and honor him beyond all
men ; out wnat can 1 ao r iseueve me, 1
have never willingly wronged or deceived
him. I never dreamed of "
She paused abruptly. Colonel Iladden
was entering the room, and the smiling,
casual remark she addressed to him filled
my heart with amazement almost admi
ration. . , ...
. I rode heme ttr my blue-eyed little
.Eleanor, feeling as 1 entered the sitting
room a? if I were returning to the homely,'
happy atmosphere of every day life, out
I rdvor forgot the terrible excitement,
the fearful suspense of that November
ni2;ht.
Tle desperadoes who had attempted to
t'p Haddenleigh Hall were never detec-
t i . r taken all trace of them seemed to
have utterly vanished out of tho earth.
Aud were it not tor tho bank noto
which most liberally recompensed my
services,1 and the everlasting witness borne
by Mrs. Hadden's lovely face, I should
almost have been tempted to fancy that all
all the events of that marvelous Nbvem
ber midnight were the ; fragments of a
dream. " : ! " :
Tiic rff. X. Tribune.
The first number of the New York
Tribune was issued on the 10th of April,
1841, with Horace Greeley editor, and
Henry J. Baymonel first assistaut. Mr.
Raymond began his journalistic career at
ten dollars a week. At the outset, the
staff was made up of five or six men j now
the Tribune writers, home and foreign,
number nearly three hundred.
It .was started a3 a one cent piper
There were then twelve dailies, and but
one hundred periodicals, published n New
York. At present, the whole r.auiler cf
periodical about, two hundred and fifty.
Mr. Greeley, had acquired considerable
reputation aa a political writer through
his Neio Yorker. No prudent journalist
would now undertake to found in New
York a new morning daily with less thau
half a million dollars ; but only one thous
and dollars borrowed by Greeley from a
friend) were required 4or starting the
Tribune. It began with five hundred
bona fide subscribers, and the first mor
ning printed five hundred copies. At
the end of the week, the expense were
So25. which was thought a!
was thought altrmiugand
During last f iaaaor, in a
extravagant.
single day, the Tribune's telegraph Villa
(only one of many expenditures) have
run up to 31,500.
At the end of three months, Thomas
M'Elrath took charge of the business de
partment, and for several years the paper
continued to be published by Gieeley &
M'Elrath. In 1846, it was changed to a
joint stock concern of 109 shares, with a
par value of 81,000 each. These shares
now sell at from $G,000 to $G,500. In
1365, (the most lucrative year ia newspa
per history,) the Tribune divided the sum
of vl05,000 among its stockholders, be
siu cs setting aside a considerable amount
cl. its earnings for the purchase cf mate
rial and tho payment of an old mortgage.
The editorial department expanded so
greatly that Greeley was unable to attend
to its details. Accordingly, when it y,hs
changed to a stock concern, Charles A.
Dana took ten shares, and assun .d the
managing editorship, a position vh: 11
he held for Lttccu years. Under Dana,
thcrTribune had a shining staff. George
Ilipley, one cf tho best book reviewer m
the United States; Wm. H. Fry, onj of
the most brilliant journalists of the day ;
Richard Hilareth, the historian : Cha.
T. Congdon, the humorist; Bayard Taylor,
J. S. Pike, (now abroad in our diplomatic
service,) Samuel Wilkinson, a writer of
great strength and picturesqueness ; Mar
garet Fuller, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Sidney H. Gay, and many other able
authors and correspondents, helped to fill
its columns. -
Its attaches have contributed largely to
permanent literature ; over two hundred
volumes have been published from their
pens. Greeley's "American Conflict" is
reaching a sale of two hundred thousand
copies, and wi'l bring its author filty
thousand dollars. Dana and llipley's
"New American Cyclopedia," published
by the Appletoos, is also a great x-cess.
Bayard Taylor has received from his dzen
volumes and for lecturing, something over
ninety thousand dollars. The sale of
Richardson's "Field, Dungeon aud E.--
cape nas nearly reacnea one uunarea
thousana copies.
Dana, who left the managiug editorship
in 18Q2, was succeeded by Sydney How
ard Gay, one of the most accomplished
editorial writers in the country. He held
the position until last May, when his acalth
brcke under the heavy burden. Hi- uc-
cessor is jonn ivusseu xoung; uorn in
Pennsylvania and educated in New Ur-
leaus. For several years he edited hor-
ney's Press; and before taking the Tribune
helm, was one of its editorial writers. His
tyle is strong, simple and picturesque ;
his reviews of Buchanan's history of his
own administration, aud Greeley's "Amer
ican Conflict" are noticeable specimens of
newspanorial composition. Young is onlv
twenty-six years old, and promises to
become one of the most successful writing
and managing journalists in the country.
George Ripley still conducts the liter
ary department; Clarence Cook is the art
editor, and William Winter has charge of
the dramatic. Some of the Tribune'sbczi
work has been done by women. Mrs. L.
G. Calhoun, nominal fashion editress,
but attached to the general sjtaff, writes
upon all subjects, as required. Her "let
ters from the watering places ia&t summer,
and her articles upon cookery and other
topics, have excited great attention. Miss
Kate Field's recent criticisms upon Ris
tori were widely copied and noticed
throughout the country. For several
years the BosUn Transcript was edited by
aiady ; and now the Springfield RepnU
can, Chicago lepulucan and some other
leading journals, have ladies upon their
stans. it is oecommg more ana more
apparent that in some departments of the
greatest and most exacting professions of
our t lores women excel men
Greeley was born iu Amherst, Hills
borough couuty, New Hampshire, and is
now fifty-five years old. He i9 a member
ot Dr. E. II. Chapin's (Universalist)
111 1 1
cnurcn, wnere ne may vo foen reguiany
sleeping almost every Sunday in the vcar.
Probably he ia not ' always slumbering so
goundly as he seems. On one occasion,
after nodding all through a sermon by the
J famous Chaiming; he went immediately to
his office and wrote cn abstract of it,
nearly a column ia length, which proved
an exceedingly graphic, spirited and
faithful report.
Cotrcsjerer.'ce of The Al!ctiiflc'. J
JLctter frum Kau$i!:.
Leavjcxwortit Cut, Kansas,
7
Feb. 20, 18G7. k
When I left the Mountain Village, I
premised, should your ''ephemeral con
cern" be resuscitated, to post you and the -readers
'of The Alieghanian in regard to'
events transpiring in and around the Jay
hawker State.
The most important topie now agitating
the press and the people, outside of recon
struction matters, is the Indian question.
The East, I fea"r, has imbibed some very
romantis notions of the Ind!?n. tt ap
poars to have grown enthusiastio iu praiso
of the "noole red man," and looks with
horror upon the eggrievnnce heaped by
the white man upon the race of which ho
is a representative: That the Indian was
once possessed of some very good quali
ties, will hardly byloubted ; but the In
dian of one hundred years ago is not tho
Indian of to-day. They hare been thrown
into contact with the worst diss of whites,
and have learued'all their vices, without
at the same time acquiring any of their
good qualities. They have had great in
justice done them, it is true, and have
been unmercifully swindled by agen in
the distribution of annuities and presents,
but no rose-water poliey can convert a
savage into a oivilized being or prevent
the wholesale massacres by them of peace
ful citizens, so prevalent on our borders
for some time past. The "Indian War"
on the plains has been going on sinco
1864, and d.ring that time 2,000 persons
havo been sent to their long homes, un
numbered houses have been burned and
families broken up, and several hundred
thousand dollars' worth of irierchandisa
has bec-n destroyed by the red men. A
residence in the West soon dispels any
romantic idea3 learned from Cooper,
Longfellow, and. others,' respecting tho
Indian. The sight of a lazy, half-starved
Camanche, Arrapahoc or Apache, as wc
see him on the plains, is well calculated
to suddenly chatige admiration into pity
nnl disgust. The coming summer prom
ises to be more sanguinary tban ever, un
icsi thee savages arc. mide to feel tho
force of the military atm of the United
States. A large force of troop3 have been
and are being 6ent to this department,
a?d when spring opcus, it is the inten
tion of General Hancock to bring the
Indians to a distinct understanding of
what is required, namely, a surrender cf
their tribal organization and their assent
to removal to the Indian Territory, under
one supreme head;
The Pacific Railroad, east division, is
progressing admirably, the bed of the
road being graded to Fort Ellsworth, 1 10
:nile3 west of this place, and to the point
where the Great American Desert com
mences. It is estimated that the road
will be completed to Denver in Januarys
1860, 700 miles west cf here This,
when the bridge across the Missouri at
this place (the charter and "grant for
which have been obtained) is completed,
will make a continuous chain of railroad
from New Ycrk to Denver, a distance of
some 2,300 miles, and with but one change
ot cars.
Leavenworth has Improved arid is im
proving rapidly. She now counts a pop
ulation of about 28,000 souls. Over 400
buildings were .erected in 186G, and it 11
asserted by those who ought to know that
at least tOO or 800 will be put up this
summer. A large amount?" of business,
both wholesale and retail, will be transac
ted the coming season. The large migra
tion that will take place toward the interior
part of the State presents superior induce
ments to locating permanently in some of
the interior towns.
The weather is and for two weeks past
has been splendid, and the groups of mar
ble players on the streets, the universal
longing ior ice water, ana me warming ot
bluebirds, are forcible reminders that sum
mer ia here. "KAWi"
An Unpublished Incident. It is
stated that a few months before the fall
of Richmond, while the rebel Cohgress
was deeply concerned about the cruelty
and barbarity of the Norlh, a woman ci
that city walked into the House of Rep
resentatives aud attacked three merubcrs
with a cowhide, castigating them severe
ly. She announced it as her intention to
chastise the entire body because of their
abuse of -the North, and certainly made a
very good commencement, but she wa3
stopped before ehe Lad finished the job.
The House patted resolution that thai
body recommend to the press the impro
priety of 'making p ibHc the incident, as
ic was a matter calculated to bring re
proach upon the dignity of Southern leg
islators. The Richmond papers never
mentioned it. and onlv recently was .the
story told 1
the defunct
v a reconstructed member of
House. - ''
The United State i have greater
length of lu'.lruad lhau all othei countries
combined.
Gei
Tubal . TIarly ij talked of as' :i
fjr Governor of 'the S'ate .'t
candidate
Virginia.
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