Sisif SI fCOlT lirTClltffSOX. Kdltor. - - - -I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Hexhy Clay. TDnuo f!l3.001r.K 1WI1M U2.00 IX ADVANCE. r0LUME 8. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY; OCTOBER 24, 18C7. NUMBER 40. 1 ..,jT VTTfV.T.T. AHnrnrv at f JJ-i-1-'1 -i . . - , j Lnw, Ebensburg, Pa. , V-.,;ry 2t, LS7. r55n:NLOX, Attorney-t Law, I1 Ehensburg. Pa. .ii1 r.,-f-Ol!;oe opposite the P.auk. jan24 'vTy. KEADE, Attorney at t Law, Ebcnsbnrjr, Pa. r.- OC'xc in Colonnade Row. jan24 n 1 tIeRNEY, Attorney at Law, El. I'nsburjr, Cambria county, Pa. f-yOrice in Colonnade Row. jan--t TORN STO N AN LAN , Attorneys j at Law, Ebensburg, Pa. L-;- Dfflrc onnositc the Court House. i -- " r - . i- 4 a: r 1 V JOHNSTON. fj.JiK-tj o - MK5 C. EASLY, Attorney at. Law, i" Carrolltown, Cambria county, Pa. --. Architectural Drawiners and i?pecifi- ,i''le- fjan24 ' T n Tl T-T 4 T"1"f A 1 - A. IMlUi'iiUArv.XiH, viiuruey ah ' Law, Ebensburg, Pa. fjrtioiuar attention pmu iu cunciuvug. ja? Ofiice one door cast of Lloyd & Co.'a .:k.G2 House. . jan24 iTmTTkL SINGLETON. Attorney at L:tw, Ebensburg, Pa. Office on High "-cet, west of Foster's Hotel. Hill practice in the Courts of Cambria and .'yininjr counties. r.-.v Attpn.1-! also to the collection of claims ulditra against the Government. jan-4 KORGE W. O ATM AN, Attorney at T Law and Claim Agent, Ebensburg, -.iria county. Ph. I ,;f Pensions, Hack Pay and I'ounty, anl . V. 'itary Claims collected. Hnl Estate v .mil oId, huiI pi.vnifnt of Tnxcs nt- t 3. i J en. ILvok Accounts, rotes, Due Lills, &e., collected. Deeds, Mortga-.i.-.-.r-ients, Letters of Attorney, Ronds, r. ..'.y written, nd all legal business attended, to. Pensions increased, iLVialued Bounty collected. jan24 7) DEYEREAUX, M. I)., rhysician il and Surgeon, Summit, Pa. Office east of Muns;on House, on Rail ,ii strict. Night calls promptly attended . at his office. may23 DR. 1E WITT ZEIGLEU Having permanently located in Ebens- offers his professional services to the :r:is of town and viciri'y. i'eeth extracted, without iain, with Xitrous A', or Laii'jhitig (. kfllooms over R. R. Thomas' store, High eft. SCpl'J Y.STISTRY. The undersigned, Graduate of the Bal- .rcwcto'.Iege of Dental Surgery, respectfully . bis profe3sional services to the citizens f .' ( T..-lurg. He has spared no means to u-rnughly acquaint himself with every im :jvtr.Hiit in hi3 art. To many years of per- al experience, he has sought to add the :.: irted experience of the highest authorities : I;v t: ta 1 Science. He simply asks that an rortuuity may be given for his work to ck its own praise. SAMUEL BELFORD, D. D. S. R-f-rrnee: Prof. C. A. Harris ; T. E. 3ond, ::'V. II. Handy; A. A. RJandy, P. II. Aus f fil.e IJ.i.t irnore t'cllege. Jrj'Vi:l beat El.-tusburg on the fourth ' .'U l.-.y month, to stay one wjek. 1 b O 4 . 'CO., Ji '.inkers EuFSMsfRfj, P.v. Silver, Government Loan 3 and I uii r'it anil soi l. Interest 1 i n.e 1' v; .: -i. Cc!'. t tior.s made in t!.e Tniled States, ijciiic-s tr.i.:.tat ted. i ' :u i . l I'.u.i.'w. . - rv l - .-,. l. LLC, li) A ;.7 sx. Pa. s r,r. t:. i r;::.-i.-l cities, .-.nd Silver .1 I t . i!.'. ( '( k l :o!:r: t:i.ide. Mon-f.v-.I i n .; ; u-it, .:iy:ii.!e on demand, i i:.!crc.-t, cr upcu time, with inte'.t jan2i -!"Vii 1'rtx't. Jv.:i lloyd. Cashur. 1 :a;-r national uank OF ALTOONA. co vr.RXMnxr a gexgy, A N I ION ATF.D lV.t'usiT()nY OF THE UNI TED STATES. Corner Virginia aud Annie sts., North Altoona, Pa. T'.iouized Capital $.100,000 00 mi Capital Paid ix 150, oOO CO I'.l lusiness pertaining to Hanking done on '''iraUo terms. hi'truai Revenue Stamp3 of all denomina- i (5 av nn l!.irw7 0 I'U'.vliAKrs of Stamn?. nercentflfo. in -"nn1 3 W alIow e,1 a3 follows : $50 to Vu. ' ",frnt.; $oc to $200, 3 per cent, -w and upwards, 4 per cent. jan24 J. LLOYD, ouccensor oj jc. uunn, , Dealer in r-KDrj:r,s and medicines, paints, WLS, AND DYE-STUFFS, VEUFUME- HV AND FANCY ARTICLES, PURE IXES AND 11 HAND I ES FOR MKDI d PURPOSES, PATENT MEDICINES, ic. Also: ''fr, Cap, and Note Papers, Feus, Pencils, Superior Ink, And other articles kept Til" niivrri'era rv.n annlltf ' prtseripHon, carefully compounded. Ofl.ce on Mam Street, opposite the Moun a .louse, LLcnsburg, paU rjan24 SIIARRKTTS Dl'SHIlT, House, blazing and rai.rr ir.,r.;.. k-if Work done On slinrt iff,?a?nteCtd- SiP IU dement of ,-IIall, Ebensburg, Iq. myO-Cm it a . . 777Z r. . V1C1,L MNGLETON, Notary Pub- on nigu street, west of Foster's Ho- it ah24 AVE YOU SIIHaSnnntF.n tor "THE ALLEGHAMAN?" !LT";;' Pop! And there they sat a popping corn, John Stiles and Susan Cutter ; John Stiles was stout as any ox, And Susan fat as butter. And there they sat and shelled the corn, And raked and stirred the fire, And talked of different kinds of ear3, And hitched their chairs up nigher. Then Susan she the popper shook, Then John he shook the popper, Till both their faces grew as red .. As saucepans made of copper.- And then they shelled, and popped, and ate, All kinds of fun a poking, And he haw-hawed at ber remarks, And she laughed at his joking. And still they popped, and still they ate, (John's mouth was like a hopper,) And stirred the fire, and sprinkled salt, And shook and shook the popper. The clock struck nine, the clock struck ten, And still the corn kept popping ; It struck eleven and then struck twelve. And still no sigus of stopping. And John he ate, and Sue she thought The corn did pop and patter, Till John cried out, "The corn's afire I "Why, Susan, what's the matter?" She said, "John Stiles, it's one o'clock, You'll die of indigestion j I'm sick of all this popping corn Why don't you pop the question !" A ROMANCE OF THE VICE-ROYALTY. Ismail Pacha is the fifth in succession from Neheruet Ali, the founder of the dynasty in Egypt. Ilia urbanity and in telligence during hia recent visit seem to have woa for him the good will of the people both in Paris and London, ahho' he- somewhat amused the populace in Paris by his alarm when a pistol was fired during the performance of the opera of "Don Carlos." He evidently thought that he had been fired at and speedily left the theatre. His accession to power wa3 marked by circumstaoces sufficiently cu rious in themselves to merit narration. Said Pacha, his predecessor, was known to be very ill, and Ismail, the heir appa rent, was hourly expecting intelligence of Sjaid's decease. iSaid was in Alexandria, aud Ismail in Cairo, bo that the first in telligence would be conveyed by telegraph. It is usual in Egypt to reward the indi vidual wha first announces the accession of the Paoha to the supreme dignity by creating him a bey, if lie bo a commoner, and pacha if he be already a bey, Pacha being the highest title of nobility confer red in Egypt. The superintcnder.t of the telegraph iu Cairo, awaro of the hopeless nature of SJaid's complaint, aud hourly expecting news of his demise, toik up his abode at the telegraph oCice, in order that he might Le the lirat to communicate the intelli genca to the new Yiccroy. He waited aud. waited, but Lour after hour passed away, and the expected news did not come. caid was evidently au unconscionably long time in dying. At length, tired of waiting, after more than forty houis of wakefulness, Messy Ley called a young man, as assistant iu t i c department, in whom he hoped he could confide, and told him what he ex pected. "I am about to lie down," paid Uca'V Ley to him. "They have made me a couch u the next room. Wake me the UiomeLt the telegraph cunies from Alex andria." The young mau promised obedi ence. Put before lying down,-Uesy Ley said further to him, "lie faithlul in this matter and you shall have from me. five hundred france" (20,) and so saving the Ley resigned himself without fear to his repose. The telegram came while he slept, three hours after. Said Pacha was dead. The young man, the Bey's assistant, reflected that by communicating the news himself to Ismail, who was anxiously expecting it, he would get more than five hundred francs. So leaving his master asleep, he posted off in hot haste to Chougrah, where Ismail was then residing, with the tele gram in his hand. He was admitted to an audience without delay. Ismail made him a ley on the spot, but gave him no largesse, such as ho had expected. Iu his excitement, however, Ismail had dropped tho paper containing the an nouncement of Said's death, and the young man picked it up, and as soon as he got leave to depart from the palace, he took the telegram to his master, Bessy Bey, whom he roused from slumber. Bessy Bey was delighted at being able, as he hoped, to communicate the news first to the future Yiceroy, and gave the order for five hundred francs there and then to the young man. Hurrying off to the palace, Bessy Bey was quickly undeceived. His news wa. already known. The Pacha received him coldly. He got no honor. He soon found out by whom he had been forestalled, and returned to the office to abuse his assis tant in good set terms and dismiss him. "Speak to me with more respect, my brother," said the young man, "for I am Bey as well as you, and cannot bo dis missed from my post under government without his highness' sanction. Let us go to him together."- But Bessy Bey was by no means pre pared for this, and, on reflection, thought he had better be quiet, and let the matter drop. The young man who exhibited such, "smartness," as the American would call it, is now governor of a province, a favorite at court, the ' companion of the Pacha in Paris and London, and a much greater man than Bessy Bey ever was. The accession of Said, however, the uncle and predecessor of the present Yiceroy, was marked, by a much more extraordi nary and characteristic event an event that would be considered horrible any where else except in Egypt. . The head of the family, the oldest male within certain degrees of affinity, succeeds to the government of Egypt; not the eldest sou. Abbas Pacha, predecessor of Said, was hated for his cruelty. He seemed to think no more of human life than we do of ca nine life, and he thought less of murder ing and torturing a human being than most . men would think of putting a dog to death in the least painful manner. As an example. He was walking in the grounds of his palace on the banks of the Nile, when a new breach-loading gun, a fowling-piece, was brought to him. He was a good shot, and ordered it to be load ed with ball, which was done. At the other side of tho Nile, a poor peasant-woman had just filled her water pot at the river, aud was walking up the bank with the water pot on her head. Abbas presented the gun at her and fired. She was wouuded in tho back and fell writhing to the crround. The courtiers applauded the accuracy of his highness' aim, and the Yiceroy himself returned the weapon to the attendant who brought it, sayiug that he was satisfied with it. No one paid the slightest attention to the poor wretch who had been wounded. She died that night. It is not wonderful, then, such being the character of Abbas, that he wa3 mur dered at last. It is sail that those who did it, his own servants, were instigated by members of his own family, whom he had outraged, so to do. Abbas was living at the palace of Be- nia, near Cairo, when he was murdered, and the chief eunuch, who discovered the matter in the morning, before any one else knew it, called Elfi Bey, the Govcr nor of Cairo, to the palace, in order that they might together concert measures for their own benefit, before the event shouldj become generally known. They decided that they should put Elami Pacha, son of Abbas, on the throne, and not Said Pacha, who was then at Alexandria, and who by the Alahomniedan law was the rightful heir. Had Elami been on the spot they might have succeeded, but unfortunately for them, he was then at sea, haviug set out in a steamer, two days before, to go to France, intending to make a tour of Eu rope. If they could succeed in kcepiug the Yiceroy's death a secret till he be re called, the two friends, the chief eunuch and the Governor of Cairo, doubted not that their enterprise would be successful, and the new Pacha would do anything they pleased for them afterward. The difficulty was to keep the death a secret. A telegram was sent to Alexandria forth with, in the name of the Yiceroy, order ing the swiftest fcteamer available to be scut after Elami Pacha to recall him. Said was him?elf Admiral of the fleet, and therefore the necessary orders had to be issued by him. Carefully as Elfi Bey and the chief eunuch took their measures to conceal the Yiceroy's death, whispers were soon spread from the palace in various directions that all was not right; and Halim Pacha, a friend of Said, having heard of the order, sent to Said, and having heard likewise the whispers alluded to, sent another mes sage to him by telegraph, stating that the house he desired in Cairo was empty, and begging of him to come himself and oc cupy it, and not to send for any other tenant. Halim was afraid to speak .more explicitly. Said understood him, and did not send for Elami. The expedient which Elfi Bey adopted in order to conceal the death of the Yice roy, wa9 one which probably only would have entered into the head of an Oriental, and which an Oriental only would have had the hardihood to execute. It was this. He got the dead body of the Yiceroy, Abbas, already more than unpleasant, dressed up in the ordinary clothes, ordered one of the Yiceroy's carriages, had the corpse lifted into its accustomed seat, and took hia own scat, as he had often done during the life of Abbas, at his left hand. It was given out that the Abba3 was going to the palace, which he had himself built in the Desert, ten miles from Cairo, the palace called after him, Abbassieh ; other carriages followed, and, during tho horri ble drive, he, Elfi Bey, lifted the arm of tho dead man occasionally, as if replying to the greetings of the multitude. Was it not horrible? In this way the drive was accomplished. The Yiceroy had gone, as on former occasions, to bury himself in the Abbasieh, and there to celebrate his usual orgies, remote from public business. Nothing more. But the truth had got wind. It was known that Abbas was dead, notwithstand- ing Elfi B.ey's horrible drive. Said had pome tp. Cairo, and had sent a message to Constantinople to announce the fact of Abbas' death and of his accession. Elfi still had his own guards in tho citadel of Cairo." He daily expected the return of Elami. It was not until eight days after the death of Abbas that he became con vinced that Elamt wa3 not coming, that the country had accepted Said as their ruler, and that there was no hope for him. Shut up in the citadel, he trembled as he thought of the revenge which Said Pacha would take on him, and he finally became convinced that there was no more hope for him. Sail, in the meantime, sent to him to eay that he looked with leniency upon his transgression, inasmuch as it resulted from too great a devotion to his lato mis ter, and his family. But K!fi judged Said by himsslf, and believed that the direstj.ortures would be his fate when he gave Himfelf up, so he destroyed himself with poison. "What a fool!" said Said, when he heard;, the news; "had I not promised to forgive him V Such is Egyptian life in high place?. Ismail Pacha, the present ruler of Egypt, is about thirty-nine years of age, with a mild expression of countenance, a yellowish or carroty beard, usually dyed, and an inordinate passion for amassing money, lo this last passion every thing else seems subordinate with him; and, with a monopoly of cotton and sugar in Egypt, he has contrived to render himself the richest individual, privately, in Eu rope or Africa. Joe Snillli, the ITIomioii Leader. The Ilochcster Union and Advertiser publishes the following account of the peculiarities which marked Joseph Smith, the founder of Alormonism, previous to the publication of his lievelations : I knew him well before his book was pub lished. He was then a wood-cutter on my farm, more willing to live by his wits than his ax, and worked through the win ter in company with some twenty or thirty other rough backwoodsmen. He and his two associates built a rude cabin of poles and brush, covered with leaves and earth, in the woods open to the south, with a camp-kettle in front for cooking; and here, at night, around a huge fire, ho and his companions would gather, ten or a dozen at a time, to tell stories and sing songs, and drink cheap whiskey (two shil lings a gallon), and although there were some hard cases among them, Joe could beat them all for tough stones and im practicable adventures, and it was in this school, I btlieve, that he first conceived the wonderful invention of the golden plates and marvelou3 revelations. And as these exercises were rehearsed nightly to his hearers, and as their cars grew longer to receive them, so his talcs ,grew the more marvelous to please them, until some of them supposed that lie also believed his own stories. Bui of this lact there is no proof. He was impudent and assuming among his fellows, but ignorant and dishonest, plausible and obsequious to others, with suilicicnt low cuuoing to conceal his ignorance, but, in my estima tion, utterly unqualifipd to compose even such a jumble of truth and fiction as this book coutaioed. Tho most probable theory of its origin that I remember to have heard is that it was the strange work of an eccentric Ycr mout clergyman, writteu to while aw.iy the tedious hours of long confinement by nervous debility, and that this idle pro duction, after his decease, fell into Joe's hands, and that having learned something of the gullibility of his cronies, this in cidental matter incited in him the first idea of turning his foolish stories to account, and thus enable him to make the surrep titious manuscript the text book of his gros3 imposition. I speak undcrstanding ly in saying he was shameless as well as dishonest, and I relate a small matter to prove it. During the winter he was chop ping for me, I was iu the habit of riding through the clearing daily to see that the brush was piled as agreed, the wood fairly corded, and no scattering trees left uncut, and in this way became well acquainted with the conduct of every man; and on each Saturday took an account and paid the hands. My mode was to ride around while each party measured their ranks and turned a few sticks on the top to show that they had been counted. In this way I one day took Joe's ac count, he accompanying me aud removing the sticks on the top of each rank. After thus going the rounds and returning to the shanty, he said he had another rank or two that I had not seen, and led me in a different direction in a roundabout way, to wood that I had already measured, but the sticks on top had all been laid back to their places. I saw the trick at once, and could only make him confess his at tempt to cheat by remcasuring the whole lot ; and all this ho thought would have been a fair trick if I had not found it out. So much for the man in small things. After he left in the spring I lost sight of him uutil my friend Judge Whiting (long since deceased), of the very respec table firm of Whiting & Butler, attorneys, who was then loaning money on mortga ges for a trust company, asked me if I knew anything about Joe Smith. I told him that I knew him for a great rogue in a small way, when ho informed me that he pretended to be aprophet, and was about publishing a Book of Revelations ; and had induced two credulous men in Palmyra to" apply to him (Judge Whi ting) for money on mortgage to publish it. 1 learned afterward that Joe and an associate had prevailed ou a worthy citizen of Waterloo (Colonel C ), who was then in a state or great uepression iroin the re cent loss of his wife, to join their frater nity and cast iu his lot among them ; and that while they were at his house taking an inventory of his effects for the purpose, hisson, a spirited young man, came in, and on finding what they were about, threatened them so strongly with a prose cution as swiudlers, that they left for a time, until his father had recovered from his delusion, and thu3 escaped them. I know nothing further of bis doings here, but after his removal to Ohio, wheu he established a bank that failed, I was shown one of his bills, and I recollect that on examining it I thought the device on the face of it was most admirably ap propriate, viz : A sturdy fellow shearing a sheep. Horace Greely's First Entrance into Xew Yorlt. In the last chapter of his autobiogra phy, Mr. Greely describes his first entrance into New York city. We quote : "It was, if I recollect right, the 7th of August, 1831. I was 20 years old the preceding February ; tall, slender, pale, and plain, with ten dollars in my pocket, summer clothing worth perhaps a3 much more, nearly all on my back, and a decent knowledge of so much of the art of prin ting as a boy will usually learn in the office of a country newspaper. But I knew no human being within two hun dred miles, and my unmistakably rustic manner aud address did not favor that immediate command of remunerating em ployment which was my most urgent need. However, the world was nil before me ; my personal estate, tied up in a pocket handkerchief, did not at all encumber me ; and I stepped lightly off the boat and away from the sound of the detected hiss of escaping steam, walking into aud up Broad street in quest of a boarding house. I found and entered one at or near the comer of Wall ; but the price of board given me was $G per week ; so I did not need the giver's candidly kind suggestion that I would probably prefer one where the charge was more moderate. Wandering thence, I cannot say how, to the North River side, I halted next at 1GS West street, where the sign of "Boar ding" on an humbler edifice fixed my attention. I entered, and was offered shelter and subsistence at 2.50 per week, which seemed more rational, and I closed the bargain. "My host wa3 Mr. Edward McGoIrick; his placj was quite as muchgrogshop as boarding-house ; but it wa quietly, de cently kept while 1 stayed in it, and he and his family were kind and friendly. I regret to add that liquor proved his ruin not many years afterwards. My first day iu New Yoik was a Friday, and, the family being Roman Catholic, no meat was eaten or provided, which I under stood; but when Sunday evening was celebrated by unlimited card-playing in that same house, my traditions were deci dedly jarred. I do not imply that my observances were better or worse than my host's, but that they were different. "Having breakfasted, I 'began to ran sack the city for work, and, in my to'al ignorance, traversed many streets where none could possibly be found. In the course of that day and the next, however, I must have visited fully two-thirds of the printing offices on Manhattan Island, without a gleam of success. It wa3 mid summer, when business in New York is habitually dull; and my youth and un questionable air of country greenness must have told against me. When I cal'ed at the Journal of Commerce, ils editor, Mr. David Hale, bluntly told me I was a ruu-a-way apprentice from some country office, which was a very natural, though mista ken, presumption. I returned to my lodging on Saturday evening, thoroughly weary, disheartened and disgusted with New York, and resolved to shake its dust from my feet next morning, while 1 could still leave with money in my pocket, and before its alms-hou.se could foreclose upon me. "But that was not to be. Oa Saturday afternoon and evening, several young Irishmen called at Mr. McGolrick's, in their holiday sauntering about town ; and being told that I was a young printer in quest of work, interested themselves in my effort, with the spontaneous kindness of their race. One among them happen ed to know a place where printers were wanted, and gave the requisite direction, so that, on visiting tho designated spot next morning I readily found emyloyment, and thus, when barely three days a resi dent. I had found anchorage in New York." A new suspension bridge is being built over Niagara Falls. When comple ted, the towers will be 105 feet high, the span 1,250 feet, and the height above the water 175 feet. Talleyraud forbade the publication of his memoirs for thirty years after his death. . The time expires next summer, when they will appear. The miners iu California arc washing out diamonds. Electioneering Circular. Considerable curiosity having been manifested to learn the contents of the libelous circular scattered broadcast throughout Cambria couuty just prior to the late election, we subjoin the document entire : "AN INSIDE VIEW OF POLITICS. 'THE WAY THK MOSEY CVOES. " 'Tis a true saying, that if the people knew how their money was spent, taxes would not be easily collected. This say iug applies just now, with peculiar foroe, to Cambria county. Look for instance at your Poor House, where about fifty per sons are indifferently supported at a cost of 10,000 a year. Of course no sane man believes that this sum is .spent for the. benefit of the inmates. Tho present Steward, having made as much money as he is likely to need, has kindly consented to withdraw, remaining a silent partner. The present County Treasurer being at last settlement a defaulter, in the sum of near 1,000 00, and the leading politicians of town being his security, the candidato for V ooi House Director, a brother-in-law oi the lieasurer, who has enough of the County's money to start a Shoe Store, is nominated, and the Treasurer, being a cousin of another Director, and a cousin of the candidate for Sheriff, is to be ap pointed Steward of the Poor House, 90 that these worthies can get their money back, cx necessitate. This is the plan, it may be altered as to form, but not as to substance. But bad as this is, the oper ations of your Commissioners' offico is far worse. Think of paying your Commis sioners 2,400.00 for doing the business which a good business man can do in forty days. Think too of paying 2,000.00 for the support of about, on an average, six person3 for a year iu your jail. But you may ask, havo we not Auditors to settle all these accounts yearly. Un fortunately the Auditors seldom know anything about their business. They come to town, and the first persons with whom they confer are the Commissioners. They tell the Auditors they must have a Clerk, and that the Commissioners' Clerk is tho proper person ; he is employed, and as one ot the Auditors is always to bo Commissioner next year, any and all bills are soon passed. "They then go to the Poor House, where the Directors Clerk and the Com missioners' Clerk soon settle the accounts and cover all tracks. This is the system, and it is time the people knew it. Tho papers will never say .1 word, because they almost live by receiving exorbitant bills for public printing. People of Cambria county, whatever, denial of the above may bo made, you may rest assured that tho half has not been told. The remedy is iu y-iur hands, and if you do not use it, you deserve to be taxed to death. Break up these camps of dishonesty, the Commis sioners and Poor House Directors, aud your burdens will be lightened, otherwise those burdens will bo doubled within a few years." M;t. Bonner's " Dexter." Wilkes' Spirit of the Times says that the famou3 racing horse Dexter, which was bought by Bonner of tho Lcdjcr for thirty-three thousand dollars, was the cheapest horse at that money that was ever purchased. In estimating his value, we must consider what he was worth to horsemen. He was the means of acquiring boundless fame and of earning money enough for the full enjoyment of it. The year he was pur chased by Trussell, his earniugs, clear of all expenses,, amounted to 23,000. This year, up to the time ot his delivery, ho had earned 20,000. His owner received two-thirds of the last, clear of all expen ses. It appears, then, that the net incomo derived from Dexter in about a year and a-half was 37,00i. Now, we should like some of the tine old capitalists and cun ning young financiers who think that Dexter was a dear horse, tu take a slato and pencil and calculate whether a sourco of income amounting to more than 20,- 000 a year, and likely to endure for at least half a dozen years, was worth 33,-" 000. Mr. Bonner wanted Dexter, and tho worth of the horse to the man that had him is to be estimated in considering tho price. The truth is that this hor.e occu pied a position no horse ever, attained to before in regard to money value. To own the generality of trotting horses for pub lic purposes is enough to break a bank. To own Dexter was to gain money enough to start one. Says a California letter writer : Maine is noted among the Eastern States for her tall pine forests, so much so that sho has the soubriquet of the "I'irie Tree State." Yet during a sojourn the past summer upon the headwaters of the Penobscot, the tallest tree I saw or heard of had a height of only 157 feet. This really is a tall tree for the Atlantic coast. But when 1 told the Maine lumbermen that I had seen scores of redwood cedar in Klamath and Del Norte counties over 300 icet high, and hosts of pine and spruce 230 feet high, they looked upou me as one whose lot was sure to be in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. The lightning melted a ring from the finger of a young lady in Massachu- ' selta tho other day.
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