IHTTCIIINSOX, Editor. g. IHITCIIIXSOX, Publlslie OLUME 8L 0 5! V )0 YTl Wtt KITTELL, Attorney at 1 iatp, Ebensburg, Pa. '' oi 1S67. liBAlJ- TfJfiNLON, Attorney at Law, uu Ebenaburg, Pa: jrQftce opposite tbe Bank. " jan24 2 . , vypj M. KEADE, Attorney at C ' Law, Ebensburg, Pa. OrEce in Colonnade Row. . jan24 rpTriERNEY, Attorney at Law, 30 CD OtJ I ,f i 14 t e t I tyOce in Colonnade Row. jan24 QNSTON & SCANLAN, Attorneys at Law, jjueuiuuif;, Lr Office opposite tbe Court House. rioHSSToa. jan24 J. s. scaslAs. UUEL SINGLETON, Notary Pub lic Ebensburer, Fa. JLceeaHiga street, west of Foster's Ho- 1V AJESCFASLY, Attorney at Law, Carromon-n, Uimoria county, ra. J. WATERS, Justice of the Peace anil Scrivener. L-Olce adjoining dwelling, on High st., ;:burT, I'll- - KINKEAD, Justice of the Peace and Claim A cent. fc-Office removed .o tbe office formerl.) r' . . T I .-. n n T7 r- ii rr TTJnrTi ctrpft. Surs", .Jan316ia rjTsnOEMAKEK, Attorney at Law, Ebensburg, Pa. irticular attention paid to collections. Office otic door east ot L.loya to. s '3 UtoUoase. UQ- 3JUtL SINGLETON, Attorney at Law. Ebensburg, Pa. Office on lligb weft of Foster's Hotel. il practice in tbe Court3 of Cambria and nil'!? counties. W-AttenJs also to the collection of claims ;dirj against the Government. janl EOKGE W. O ATM AN, Attoruoy at livr and Claim Agent, Ebensburg, :r:a county, Ta. Pensions, Back Pay and County, and I'itary Cldini3a collected. Ileal Lstate y.to. Look Accounts, Notes, Due Bills, ire-its, &c, collected. Deeds, MortgA- Jgreenients, Letters ot Attorney, isonds, D?Auy written, and all legal business ;"y attended to. Pensions increased, Equalized Bounty collected. jan24 G. WILSON, M. P., offers his scr- is J'li -!ci!n and Surgeon, to jUVtena of Ebensburg and surrounding a At 7 . iiTicj leer. nppcint?d Examining Sur 1. Lei prepared to examine all l'ension- iiaJ applicants for Pensions who may t services. LTOiTice on High St., three Joor3 east of church, in ofilec formerly occupied by .ones, ilesiacace lmmediatejy ajjo.n- '.".ce. jan24-3m KES J. LLOYD, ' &.iceet3or cj 1?. 8. Uunn, Dealer in : DRUGS AXD MEDICINES, PAINTS, '.LS. AM) DYE-STCFFS, PERFU.MK ?.Y AND FANCY ARTICLES, PURE .wn pmvniP; Tm? iPl'RPOrfES, PATENT MEDICINES, &c. I Also : iTvi ycte Papers, Wtcils, Superior Ink, J Au'l other articles kent 8 by Druggists generally. yiar.s' -e??r,';ions carefully compounded. -c-t oa A'in Street, opposite the Moun--r'-'c, Ebensburg, Pa. jan24 The undersigned. Graduate of the Bal- "eCol'ejni of Dental Surccrv. respectfully ' his prcfe2?ional services to the citizens tnslurg. He has spared no means to ;iny acquaint himself with every im--tnt in his art. To many years of per- "perience, he has sought to add the "ei experience of the highest authorities 1 Science. He simply asks that an "tuiiity nay be given for hi3 work to i its c-R-n praise. .SAMUEL BELFORD, D. D. S. Prof. C. A. Harris ; T. E. 3oni, 'JP.. Handy; A. A. Blandv.P. H. Aus- Baltimore College. ,v'l be at Lbensburtr on the fourth aJ of each month, to stay one wjek. hOYD 5c CO., Hankers-. 9 I pel Ebexsbceo, Pa. cecuritiea boucrl.t nn.l L f acrt 'robiu. Collections made U Pn,r PV,'lQU iQ U United States, fa General liking UU3ineai. tniP,!1 :4, 1SU7. M. LLOYD & CoTTto,,- ;,'! : t "" 'ai ciues, and Silver h'-l for sale. Collection.. ..'.-.i- .... itirtrn.t ' aDie on uemand, h rates. T WitU 5ut.er --ie.i on iioro; i. Uan- TP!l?' V"'- p- T- Caldwell, Ca.V f fcl .NATIONAL BANK e lit.' OF ALTOONA. ERXMEXT AGENCY, AED DEPOSITORY OF THE UNI- 5, El es lt.U STATES. AUr. rginia and Annie sts.,T6rth "J A ja:2En p. Capit., Tp 5300,000 O0 APITA1.PAID I2J 150.000 00 rVj! terms E banking doners Saea.ae t&mpa of a11 cenomina iWa.rs on hand. . ' iihiaur30f StaP'. Percentage, in ;t' AC "Prds, 4 per cent. run? Waiting. An old man in an alms-house was asked what he was doing ; he replied, "Waiting I" Only waiting till the shadows . . Are a little longer grown ; Only waiting till the glimmer Of the day's last beam is flown ; Till the night of earth is faded From the heart once full of day; Till the stars of heaven are breaking . Through the twilight soft and gray. Only waiting till the reapers Have the last sheaf gathered home, For the summer-time is faded, And the autumn winds have come. Quickly, reapers I gather quickly . . The last ripe houra of my heart, For the bloom of life is withered, And I hasten to depart. Only waiting till the angels Open wide the mystic gate, " At whose feet I long have lingered, "Weary, pocr, and desolate. Even now I hear their footsteps, And their voices far away If they call me, I am waiting, Only waiting to obey. Only waiting till the shadows . Are a little longer grown ; Only waiting till the glimmer Of the day's last beam i3 Sown j Then from out the gathering darkness Holy, deathless stars shall rise, By whose light my soul shall gladly Tread its pathway to the skies. 3VXVUi.c3.o'fi 0:kc3Lo.1. It was a rather embarrassing thing to do, but Charley May had done it well and bravely, like a man. He was nothing but a dark at eight hundred dollars a year, nevertheless, he had boldly craved audience of the portly old millionaire and asked him for hid daughter, as ho might havo asked lor the milliner girl around the corner. Mr. Bryant coolly wiped his pen and laid it in the carved rack ; he then mo ved back his chair a pace or two, looking Charles May lull in the face as he did so, with a curious, mocking light in his cold blue eye. "So you want to marry my daughter, do you V "I do, sir," said Charley. Very handsome he looked as he stood there, with the reddish brown hair throwu back from his Equare, white forehead, the hazel eyca clear and cor.Sdent, and the perfectly cut lips a little apart. Some how, ia the midst of his wrath and deri sion, old Ttichard Bryant could not help thinking that were he a girl of eighteen, he might possibly have fallen iu loe himselt with just such a youog man a3 Charles May. ul3 there any ether little trifle I could let you have V sneered tha caustio old man "a block of houses, or a Broadway lease oriso, or auy other small favor?" "You are laughing at me, sir," said Charley, coloring, yet speaking with a certaiu quiet dignity. "I have asked you a simple question j surely I have a right to a frank answer." "Then listen to me, young man," eaid Richard Bryant, with abrupt sternness ; "you are aspiring altogether too high you can not have my daughter Maude. Now, you have your answer go 1" Charles May stood for a moment like one upon whom a thunderbolt had fallen with sudden and blighting power j then he turned and walked quietly out of the handsome Gothic library, where tbe blue and gold circles of light from the oriel windows quivered over the deep crimson of the Wilton carpet, and the pure mar bie faces of Pallus and Venu3 watched him as he went. "Maude, my little darling, what is the matter?" The red glow of the November sunset could scarcely pierce the folds of r:iby velvet that hung over the plate-glas win dows, yet in the odorous twilight Mr. Bryant saw his daughter with her face hidden in tho satin sofa-tillows, and the heavy, LiuisJi-blaok curls drooping low over the carved rosewood. "Tell me, little daughter, what troubles you," whispered the merchant, bending fondly over the girl. Maude had never known a motherland there was a tender ness in the old man's tones at that instant that was almost maternal. She looked up with a stain of fresh tears on her crimson cheek. "He has gone, papa he has gone and left tnel" "He! Who?" "Charley May." And Maude Bryant, who had spoken all her life long to her father as if he had been a loving mother, bid her face on the kindly breast and cried afresh. "v hew !""was the merchant's softly breathed comment. "I have been trying to convince her how very absurd all this is," said Aunt Eloise, a portly widow, in garnet silk and carbuncle jewelry, who sat by, alternately quoting truisms at her neice and snuffing at a gold cassolette that hung at her waist. . "Maude," said. Mr. Bryant, gravely, "do yon mean to tell me that you actually care for that young anip of a clrk 7" I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT, Het Ciay. EBENSBURG4 PA., THURSDAY, APRIL Maude sat up Indignantly, with light ning in her black cye9. "Care for birn, papal 1 lofe bim 1" "Very improper!" groaned Aunt ElrisB. "Aunt, I wish you'd hold your tongue I" sputtered Maude, growing prettier every moment in her bright indignation. "I do love him,' papa, with all my heart and soul!" Aunt Eloise uttered a hollow sigh, and Mr. Bryant looked at his daughter with a face that was halt troubled, half amused. "My little lily-flower," he said, gently, "all this sounds ' to me like a girl's ro mance. Maude Bryant is scarcely fitted to bathe wife of a young man like Charles May." "But why not, papa?' pleaded Maude, piteously. "I love him, and I I think he loves me." Very probable," said Mr. Bryant, smiling. "But did it never occur to you how very unsuitable a wife you would make to a man who has his own way to win in the world?" "No, papa," said Maude, eagerly, "I can dust furniture, and I can make jelly cake, and once 1 baked a cranberry tart." "Most important qualification?, yet not quite all-sufficient," said her father, with the utmost gravity. "But just consider, my dear; here, on tbe one hand, is a sala ry of eipht hundred dollars a year, or nine, we'll say. It's just possible that out in Chicago, where he has gone, they pay nine hundred dollars a year, and here, on the other, U Miss Bryant, with her little, white, useless hands, and her luxu rious ideas, and her diamond, and her silk dresses. Why, my child, I don't suppose you know what calico means." "Yes, indeed, papa," interrupted Maude, earnestly. "I had a pink French calico, once, with pink coral buttons that- were three dollars each don't you remember ?" liYou a poor man's wife," went on her father, patting her little, fevered hand. "Maude, it would be like taking cne of the white japonicas out of the conservato ry, and planting it on a bleak New Eng land hill. What idea have you of tho triah and sacrifices of life, my little, petted child?" . . "Papa!" sobbed the young girl, pas sionately, "I am ready to endure any ordeal to make any sacrifice.' What do I care far diamonds and dresses ? Papa V' she exclaimed, suddenly starting up with an emphasis thai made Aunt Eloise drop her gold eence bottle; "you rhirffc-me a mere butterfly that cares for dress and jewels only - Now listen to me. For one year from this time for cne vear. mind I pledge myseif to wear no silks or jewels. Will you believe me at the year's end?" ... "I shall :hink you a very extraordinary young lady, Maude, but excuse me, dar ling I have no very strong faith in your persistence." "You will see," said Maude, shaking her curls triumphantly. "And oh, papa "Maude," said Mr. Bryant, with quiet decision, "I have already answered you -my decree admits of no appeal." She would not. cry any more, th:3 haughty little girl he was too proud to cry ; but she rose up and went away with compressed lips and eyes whose glitter was sadder far than tears. "I won't be discouraged for all this," she thought. "I will show papa that I am somethieg more than a doll." "Maude, you are not going to Mrs. Ilemmiugway's in that dress !" Mrs. Harrington, buperb in wine-colored velvet, with garnet blaaing round her plump throat and at her wrists, stood horrified as Maude came tripping down stairs. - "Why not, Aunt Eloise 1 I think the dress is very neat." : Mr. Bryant looked up from his evening paper at the slender figure in white, float ing muslin, with white roRes hanging in among tbe blue-black curls that touched her shoulders. "I think so, too," he said, quietly. - "Stuff and nonsense !" angrily exclaim ed Aunt Eloise. "Richard Bryant's daughter in white muslin, with paltry roses in her hair ! You should have worn pink satin and diamonds." . a "I shall wear no more silks and jewels, aunt," said the little lady, very decidedly. "Now, Iiichard," said Mrs. Harrington, turning to her brother, "are you going to allow this? She will set half of New York talking!" "Maude shall do as she pleases," said the mercnant, quietly, and Maude gave him a bright, grateful glance as she flut tered away like some snow-white bird. - The next morning a small triangular casket of amethyst velvet lay beside Maude's plate at tho breakfast table. She took it up with an inquiring look at her father. . ' " Yoar birth-day, lay child," he eaid, simply. She opened the casket with a low ex clamation of delight as her eye fell on the white gleam of a magnificent pearl neck lace. ; - ' , - . "Oh, papa ! how splendid this is ? Don't they look like drops of frozen moon light 1 And I have always so longed for pearls V .M rs. Harrington looked complacently oni "They will be the rery thing to wear to-nigbt with your white silk dro." My white silk dress 1" Maudo nanacrl abruptly, while a deep crimson flash Etole over her fair forehead. She rose and Crept softly around to her father's side. 'Papa, I am very much obliged to you but but I had 'rather not take the pearls." j i "Not take them, Maude ?" - "No, papa you remember my resolu tion." . . ,' "Maude I" exclaimed Aunt Eloise, "you will never be so absurd iLs to reJuse that pearl necklace that a royal princess might be proud to wear, just because of a little wmm i ' 'It is not a whim, Aunt Eloise. And no amount of coaxing or bantering could induce Maude Bryant to take the pearls. "Give me a bud from the conservatory, paa," or a bit of a book, such as I used to have wh.en I was a wee thing, . aud I'll value it for your sake as long as I live; but I cannot take the pearls." So the merchant, with a curious mois ture in his eyes, gave her a kiss and told her "that would have to do." : The weeks and months passed on, and Maude, surrounded by temptation on ev ery side, thought of Charley May and re mained firm. "Maude," said the old manj suddenly, one day, "when did you last hear from young May V "Last hear from him, papa? Never since the day he went away." "Do you mean to tell me that you do not correspond with him ?" "You told me not to writa to him, papa, and I have obeyed you." "And he has never written V "Never, sir." .Then most probably he has forgotten you?' "No, papa I hnov) he has not forgot ten me." "You're a curious girl, Maude," said the father, caressingly stroking down her bright black curls. "Never mind, pet wh$n your year of calico is over, I'll give you a present that shall please you pas sing well." - "I don't want any present, papa," said Maude, wistfully looking up into his face. "Oh, papa, there is only one thing in the world that I do want." "And that, you know very well, you cannot have," said the merchant, sturdily. And, o the colloquy terminated. "Oh, Aunt Eloise, what a magnificent silk! Peal gold color, isn't it !" " "Yes, I think it is rather handsome," said Mrs. Harrington, complacently. "I ordered it imported myself. See it shines like a ahectof gold in thegas-iiht." " Who is it lor 7" "You, to be sure, child for Oriana Sykes' wedding reception." Maude fhook her head demurelv.- "Why, Maude, what will you wear? You must have a new silk." Maude caught l.er father's eye fixed earnestly upon her. In an instant, her resolution was taken. "I shall wear calico. Aunt Eloise." "Calico ! To Mrs. Sykes' wedding re ception I" "Why not, aunt?" "You dare not thus defy society." "Dare I not V "That was all Maude said. The year of the ordeal was up that night, and she had stoctf bravely to her colors. Mr. Bryant did not often attend parties, but he went to Mrs. Sykes' that evening, though without his daughter's knowledge, and stood leaning against a door casing watching the brilliant devotees of fashion as they entered in throngs watching them with an anxious eye. Would Maude waver now ? Was her will no stronger than that of five hundred other women ? ' Presently she came, as lovely as ever, the throng parting on either side as she advanced up the room at the side of her portly, vexed Aunt Harrington; What waa the murmur that reached his ears? "Pink calico I Calico Iimpossible ! Miss Bryant wear calico, indeed! Glace, more likely, or moire antique ! Actually calico! what a strange whim I But Maude Bryant looks lovely in anything!" Lovely she did look lovely in the soft folds of the French calico, with her sweet eye full of liquid light, and her cheek glowing with soft scarlet. Mr. Bryant drew a long sigh of relief, and then ordered his carriage for "home." It was late when Maude returned, but nevertheless she took a peep into the library to see if her father was still up. "Papal" "Come in, Maude. Do you know, pet, your year of probation is up to-night ?" "I don't call it probation, sir." "Perhaps not. Well, do you remember my promising you a present if you adhe red to your odd notions?" "Ye?, papa; but I told you I did not want a present." "You'll find it in the drawing-room, child." - : ' "I won't take it, papa' "Won't you. Suppose you just take a look at it first." And Maude went slowly up stairs, obe dient to her father's gesture. - "I will not take it, whatever it is," sho thought, as she optned the door "for my goodness J Charley May !' . "Maude my own true Iotc I" a" 4, 1867, And Charlev'a bright hrnwn re wava looking into hers Charley'3 chestnut mustache was close against her cheek. "What do you think about taking rnv present now, Miss Maude?" demanded Mr. Bryant, rubbing his hands gleefully. "I've sent all the way to Chicago for it, and I think you seem rather pleased with it than otherwise. I tell you what, Char ley May, you may imagine that you ha7e been" working hatd for my daughter all these months, but s7ie has not been idle. Maude has well earned the happinas3 of this hour." And Mr. Bryant went down stairs to explain it all to Aunt Eloise, who was highly mystified as to the state of afiairs. This was the solution of the enigma that o puzzled the fashionable world a few days subsequently, when they read in the - papers that Maude Bryant had married a no more distinguished person than Charley May. Tlie Trutti of History- ColTax at Lincoln's Ileath-Ded. A paragraph having been extenpively published stating that the figure of Mr. Colfax appears in Carpenter's picture of President Lincoln's death as a substitute for that of Mr. Johnson, although the latter was and the former was not present, the editor of the Utica Herald addressed Mr. Colfax on the subject and received the following reply : "Washington, March 4, 1867. "Dear Sir : I have been surprised at the article going the rounds of the prcs3 to which you draw my attention, which states that I was not at Mr. Lincoln's death-bed. The facts were published extensively at the time. I had a Ions interview with President Lincoln on the morning of that sad day, at which he consented that Hon. W. A. Howard, of Michigan, who had been waiting ia the ante-room, should be present, and at which Mr. Lincoln discussed at sotne length the policy he inteuded to pursue in regard to the rebel leaders. He closed this deeply interesting conversation by urging mo to accompany him to the theatre that night, which I could not do, as I expected to leave the city the next day to prepare for my trip to California, and he then gave rae a message to be delivered from him to any miners I might see on my journey. He insisted that I must return that even ing, and see Mrs.. Lincoln and himself at the parlor of the White Honse before they went to tbo theatre, and before I should go to the residences of two of the Cabinet, with whom I was to have some conversation that night. I did so, walked with hiui to the door, and jut aa he was stepping into tho carriage ho gave me his last good bye cn earth, and his wishes for a pleasant journey, adding in a sad and weary tone, that 'he would , ba delighted to accompany m, but that hi3 public duties chained him down here.' He turning from the other interviews to iny lodgings, I heard, on Pennsylvania avenue, of his assassiuation, about ten minutes after the fatal shot was fired; I went immediately to the White House, and ihenco td tbe room where he was dying. From that moment until 5 o'clock iu the morning I was at his bedside. Mr. Johnson was also present, coming In at about 11 o'clock at night, and remaining there some time. At 5 o'clock the Sur. geon General slid that though the Presi dent had been utterly unconscious during the "ix or seven hours he had been there, he thought he inijjrht not pxpirc till noon. his strong constitution giving way so slowly. Secretary M'Culioch.i'j company with myself and others, left at that hour, intending to return at about 8 o'clock, but on the way back I learned that he had died a few miuutes previously. "As you desired all the facts, I give them to you, though Very much pressed for time, by multiplied duties incident to the day. Yours, very truly, "Sen uyj.sr Colfax' An Incident at' Fort FJslier. A person who was in Fort Fisher during the bombardment, tells the following Story in an English magazine : "Oh ! the agony of despair to see ball and shell falling harmless from those turrets of iron, or rolling like pellets along the low decks, while the gallant defender of Fort Fisher were falling in sheaves within a fortifica tion which would, four years before, have defied the efforts of any navy 'a work,' as Porter says, 'stronger than anything Sebastapol could boast of One day a happy shot from the fort cuccecded in findiug its way into a weak spot of a two: turreted monitor; a piece of iron evident ly wa? turned up, and jammed the turret. Hurrah ! one at least disabled, thought the poor Confederates. By Jove ! see two sailors quietly walk out, and set them selves down, the one holding a chisel, the other striking with a hammer. They were cutting away the obstruction j and so secure was the monitor against any vital injury being inflicted on her, that although silenced, she would not retire from her position. A swarm of Southern riflemen were thrown out to slay the bold Federals ; but no one hit them, and they worked On calmly, until General Whiting generously interfered, and said 'such gal lant fellows deserve to live; cease firing, my lads, at them So the iron was cut awy.' IS2.00 IX ADTAXCE. NUMBER XL Tnc Sew iltsas !La-T. Following 13 the law lately pased bj the State Legislature regulating the jjrani. ing ct licenses to eating. and drinking houses : , r A further supplement fo an acidrthsr io reguiaie me granting of . hcen'bes td hotels and eating houses, approved March thirty-first, on6 thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. SEtrriofr i. Be it exacted by the SeH&ii and House of Representativet of the' Com monveolth of Fennaihania in General AssemUt met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the eatn.e, That when an application is made to any Court of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, for licen; ses to sell intoxicating drinks, it shall be lawful for said court to heir petitions, iu addition to that of the applicant, in favor of, and remonstrances against the appli cation for such license, and in all cases to refuse the same whenever, in the opiuiou of said court, having due regard to the number and character of the petitioners for and against such application, such license is not necesary for the accommo dation of the public and entertainment of strangers and travelers, and upon sufficient cause being shown, the said courts shall have power to revoke any license granted by them, and all laws inconsistent witH this section are hereby repealed : Provided, That the sureties in the bond, required of the applicant for license shall be signed to his petition. Sec. 2. That replications for license to keep an eating house, beer house or res taurant authorizing the sale of domestia wines, malt arid brewed liquors, shall hereafter be made in the same manner and to the same authority as application for license to keep a hotel : redded, That the regulation in relation to bed room3 and beds shall not apply to appli-i cants for an eating house, beer i;ouse and restaurant license, and the tenth section of the act of twentieth April, ona thouiiul eight Hundred and fifty-eight, authorizing county treasurers to grant an eating house or retail brewery license, is hereby re pealed. Sec. 3. No license to keep an eating house, beer house or restaurant, undjr the provisions cf the second section of this act, shall be granted in any incorporated city for a less sum than filty dollars, nor elsewhere; for a less sum than twenty dollar. . Sec. 4. It any person, after the pasiage of thu act, shall sell spirituous and vinous liquors, domestic wine3, malt or brewed liquors, without having obtained a license authorizing him so to do, such person shall, on conviction in the court of quarter sessions, be fined, for the first offense, id any sum not less than fifty, nor more thaa two hundred dollars; and for the second, or any subsequent offense, ?ch persou shall be fined not less than one hundred dollar?, andj in the discretion ci the said court, be imprisoned in tLs county jsil nut less than thirty du3s, nor more than ninety days: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal the provisions.of the act of Assembly passed March thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, relating to salesby drusgists and apothecaries. Sec. 5. That the provisions of the first section of this act shall not apply to tho city of Philadelphia or to the county of Allegheny : Provided, That nothing in this act shall authorize the crantino- of licenses to hotel and inn keepers to vend vinous, spirituous and malt liquors, and to license beer houses, eating houses end restaurants iu any locality where licensing of hotel?, inns, beer houses, eating houses, or restaurants is no pro hibited by law. A IVoblc Ungineeri President Tuttle, of Wabash College, In a lecrure on Heroe3 of the Locomo tive," related the following incident: "During the war, sn incident occurred On the Pennsylvania Central, which was related to me by an eye-witne.s. My in formant Was with a regiment of soldiers going from Pittsburg to Harrisburg in a special train. Between Johnstown and. Gallitzin, (Cambria county,) they were delayed by a freight traiu off the track. This they learned at one of the stations,' and remained there Until they should be informed that the track was clear. It was in the night, and most ot the thous and men on the train were asleep. Four heavily loaded coal cars belonging to train ahead had, by some accidcut, become detached, and begun the descent of the heavy grade at a speed which soon became, terrible. The engineer of the special train heard the rear of the descending cars, and eurmised what wa3. the matter. In an instant, he detached hi engine from the train, and put on steam to meet the runaway cars, and, if possible, break their force and save his train. His loco motive was a large freight, and ho had moved several rods ahead when the coal cars struck him like a thunderbolt and crushed his engine back on the traiu.- The engine was utterly demolished, and many of his cars were crushed; but he had so broken the force of the shock that no lives were lost. The engineer' name was Story. His grateful beneficiaiies pre sented him with a service of silver." T