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I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN. PRESIDENT. Hejibt Clay.
FBENSBU11G. PA . THIXRSDAY, NOYEMBER 2,8, J867.
NUMBER 45.
70LTJME 8.
T7"ILLIAM KITTELL, Attorney at
. 9 LawEbensburg, Pa.
January 24, 1SG7. - . -
OHN FENLON, Attorney at Law,
' Ebensburgv Ta.
27 Office opposite tte Bank. jan24
EORGE 51. READE, Attorney at
JX. . ' Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
"iS OSce in Colonnade Row. ' jan24
V p. TIERNEY, Attorney at Law,
Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pa.
3". Office in Colonnade ROW jan24
JOHNSTON & SCANLAN, Attorneys
at Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
02ice opposite the Court Douse
s.V. johnstox. jn24 J. E. scanlax.
"VMES C. EASLY, Attorney at Law,
I " Can olltown, CRtnbria county, Pa.
Architectural Drawings and .pecifi
c, 4 3 made. fjan24
:7T SHOEMAKER, Attorney at
Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
' articular attention paid to collections.
3 Uflice one door east of Lloyd k Co.'s
juking House. jan24
SAMUEL SINGLETON, Attorney at
: . Law, Ebensburg, Pa. Office on High
-et. west of Foster's Hotel.
Vill practice in the Courts of Cambria and
Avjoitii: counties.
Attends also to the collect'on of elatms
of8odiere against the Governmeut. jan24
O EORGE V. O ATM AN, Attorney at
O" , Law and Claim Agent, Ebensburg,
CnibriH county, Pa.
- Pensions, Back Pay and Bounty, and
- Militarr Claims collected. Real Estate
ght sdJ sold, and payment or laies ai
t led to. Book Acccrats, Notes, Due Bills,
J nients, tc, collected. Deeds, Mortga-s-
- .Agreements, Letters of Attorney, Bonds,
lc.'r neatly written, and all legal business
carefully attended to. Pensions increased,
and Equalized Bounty collected. jan24
DEYliREAUX, M. D., Physician
and Surgeou, Summit, Pa.
Office east of Mans;on IIoue, on Rail
toad street. Night calls promptly attended
to, at his office. uiay23
TU. DE WITT ZE1 G LE It
jj Having permaneiu'y located in Eber.s
l;rg, offers hia professional services to the
iliilens of tow a nd vicin'y.
Teeth extracted, ultficul pain, with Kitrous
Czide, or Lavghing Cat.
grKoonii over II. R. Thomav store, Hiprh
street. f-seP19
ENTISTRY.
The Mudersined, Clraduatc of the Bal
timore College of Dontni Surgery, re?pectaii!y
o:!Vrs Lis professional services to the citizens
cf Sbeusburg. He has spared no menns to
thoroughly acquaint himself with every
croTtment iu his art. To many years of per
sonal experience, he has sought to add the
arted experience of the highest authorities
la Dental Science. He pimply ask3 that an
epportunity may be given for hi3 work to
ftak iu ownpr,ii?e.
SAMUEL BLLFORD, D. D. S.
' Reftrenets: Prof. C. A. Harris ; T. E. Bond,
Jr.; W. R. Handy; A. A. Blandy,P. U. Aus
tea, of the Baltimore Coilege.
Will beat Ebensburg on the fourth
i' "aday of each 11s o nth, io stay one wek.
January 24, 1SG7.
'KhOYP k CO., Haters
j EiiENScunc, Pa.
J Gold, Silver, Government Loans and
- r ?ier Securities bou.,ht. and sold. Interest
9ved on Time Depot-it j. Collections made
c all accessible poitis in the United States,
1 .2 a General l'liul-in Business transacted.
. January 24, 180?.
T M. LLOYD Co., Bankers
j V Auoosa, Pa.
Prafts or. the principal cities, and Silver
r--.l Gold for sale. Collections made. Mon-
3 received ou deposit, payable on demand,
hout interest, or upun time, wilh interest
t iir rates. jan24
i. M. lunvn, 1'res't. joiin llotd, Cashier.
"CIRST NATIONAL HANK
Jj..i- OF ALTOONA.
. -; t GOVERXXlZS'T AGLXCT,
AND
DESIGNATED DEPUSITOBY OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
ZiS7 Corner Virginia and Annie Bts., North
" "ard, Altoona, Pa.
"thouized Capital $.100,000 00
4su Capital Pa ii in 150,v00 00
.AH business pertaining to Banking done on
Torable terras.
Internal Revenue Stamps of all denomina
lon always on hand.
To purchasers tf Stamp, percentage, in
ilmps, will be allowed, as follows : $50 to
100, 2 per cent.; S.10C to $200, 3 per cent.
200 and upwards, 4 pi;r cent. jan24
EKS J. LLOYD,
- Af ' Svcssor of R. S. Burnt,
Dealer in
: "RE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PAINTS,
OILS, AND DYE-STUFFS, PERFUME
RY AND FANCY ARTICLES, PURE
Y7INES AND BRANDIES FUR MRDI
CAL PURPOSES, PATENT MEDICINES, &c.
Alio:
iter, Cap, anl Note Papers,
Peas, Pencils, Superior Ink,
And other articles kept
by Druggists generally.
1 '.ticiani' pretcriptions carefully compounded.
Office on Main Street, opposite the Moun
t. la House, Ebensburg, Pa. fjan24
T7LBIUDGE STILES,
Erevkwit T
Manufacturer of Barrels, Kegs, Tubs, and
oden-wnre generally. Meat stands and
llr. ut etimda on band, and for sale.
J jy Itff airing done cheap for cash.
Orders from distance promptly attend-
t0- Vor. 7, !867-3m -
1 AMUEL SINGLETON, Notary Pub-
lie, Ebcnsburg, Pa.
Oflic on High street, west of Foeter'a IIo-
v . - r' (jan2i
.TItc Lotus Planter.
- BY THEOTMJRE TILTOK.
A Brahmin on a lotus pod -Onc
wrote the holy name of God. .
Then, planting it, he asked in prayer
For some new fruit, unknown and fair.
A slave near by, who bore a load,
Fell fainting on the dusty road.
The Brahmin, pitying, straightway ran
And lifted up the fallen man.
The deed scarce done, he looked aghast.
At touching one beneath his caste.
"Behold !" he cried, ;I stand unclean ;
My hands haTe clasped the rile and mean!'
God saw the shadow on hi3 face,
And wrought a miracle of grace.
The buried seed arose from death,
And bloomed and fruited at His breath.
The stalk bore up a leaf of green,
"Whereon these mystic words were seen:
Firtt count all ren cf equal caste,
Then count thyself the least and last.
The Brahmin, with bewildered brain,
Beheld the will of God writ plain I
Transfigured in a sudden light,
The slave stood sacred in his sight.
Thenceforth within the Brahmin's mind
Abode good will to all inankiud.
4 t
BETWEEN THE ACTS.
r i
"What a glorious creature !"
We were at the llajniarket, in London.
Titiens was playinjr "Norma," as uo other
living woiuau can play it; but the curtain
hid ialien between the acts, and, with a
loog-drawu breath, people began to look
around.
1 had expected to bo in Winchester
that evening; but walking down 'icca
dillv, in the moraine;, I had met my old
clarss-mate, Charlie Neville, who had bid
den nic good-by in Paris, a month before,
on his way to America, iie saw my sur
prise, and putting his arm within mine,
proceeded to explain.
"The tact is, Ual," he said, "I'm the.
victim of one of those horrid match-ma
kin" riot?, which even the best of women
will iudul-re iu. Now, there's my bister
Eliecs, a sweeter creature never breathed,
but she's takeu it into her head that her
huibaud'ti niece, a rav chit, I'm told, just
Irom b'oardiug-pchoo!, id the very giti fur
itio to marry. 'Our mutual fortuiits,' &he
write, 'are precisely what they ought to
be; and Clara haa the sweetest or tern
t crs. is heart-free, has heard a creat deal
ot me;' aud ail euch jargoii. l'shaw! it
is enough to disgust one with matrimony
altogether. Put the long and the short
of it is, that Miss Clara is to t-pend the
summer at Newport with my sister, and
that they look fur me to fpend it there,
too. Do they think I am Koine: to walk
into their trap? I was on my way home,
aa you know; but I've changed n.y mind,
and I only wih I could fall head over
cars in love with Eome pretty Euglih girl,
so as to have an excuse for never return
ing stall. What are your plans ? Going
to make a tour through England, this flue
weather. Well, dine with me to-day, aud
go to the opera, atid then I'm your mau
for a couple of months, or longer."
Thus it was that I camo to be at the
Haymarket that night, and to hear the
exclamation with which I have begun my
f-tory.
Charlie, as he spoke, had significantly
glanced up at a box in the dress circle.
L looked, too, and did not wonder his
enthusiasm. There were three "nojaen
there, all lovely, and oue of them pr- -eminently
so.
"I wonder who she is," continucJ Char
lie, in a whisper. "Py Jove! that's a girl
to love."
Just then, a young guardsman, who6at
next to u, turned around, and I recogni
zed Capt. Co'dstrcaci, whom 1 had met at
several fashionable houses during the past
two month. He saw, directly, what had
attracted i:y cruriosity.
'Lovely girls, aren't they?" he eaid,
dropping his eye-glass. "The youngest,
Lady Louisa, in a regular charmer. She
is just out. The family are late in com
iujj up to town, delayed, I believe, by
sickness. Ah ! Ludy Emily recognizes
me ; I must pay my respects."
"Put who are they ?" I asked, as he
rose to go.
'l thought I told you. The Ladies
Vavasour, daughter of Earl Vavasour j
came in with the Conquest, and all that
fort of thing, you know."
I believe Charlie did little else for the
rest of that evening but bteal glances at
the Yavaiour box. I am sure he heard
very little of the music. Even the last
scene, which absorbed everybody else,
failed to interest him.
All the way to Windsor, tho next day,
Charlie talked of the Lady Louisa. At
Winchester it was the same thing. I be
gan to think wc had better give up our
excursion and return to London, for we
had invitations to several houses where I
wa sure we should ect the Vavasours;
and Charlie was desperately in love.
Of .-air detestable inns, the "White
Hart," at Saliebury, is the most detesta
ble!.' But tourists, who would Eeo the
beautiful cathedral therr, or, 7is:t ths fa
rnous Druidical iuins at Stonefeeitga, afe
compelled to put up with its inconveQien-
eesi, because, after all, it is the best in the
place. Ave had great dimculty rn hrfing
even a proper-vehicle to convey xis to
Stonehenge, and were forced finally to
take a huge, clumsy wagoner, which is a
peculiarly English invention, a sort of
omnibus without 8 top. . ' .
We drove for miles over the dreariest
plain in the world, without seeing a house
or a human being, and had just caught
si;ht ot the mighty stones of the old
Druidica! temple ahead, when it btgao to
ram. it was a bne, drizzly rar.n tnat soon
shut out everything from view, except ob
jects close at nana. budJenly there
loomed through the rnii-t a carriage. In
another moment we were by its side.. It.
was stationary, having broken down.- The
driver, aud a man-servant out of lirery,
stood stupidly regarding the shattered
wheel, while a lady looked out ot either
window.
"We must give tip Stonehenge," eaid
Charlie, "and take those ladies back to
Salisbury."
"Certainly," I answered.
By this time we had alighted. What
was my surprise to recognize in two of
the ladies, Lady Emily and Lady Louisa
Vavasour I There was a third, who was
older, and was evidently their mother.
Charlie had advanced, hat off, to the door,
to offer our assistance; but when he saw
the. Lady Louisa, ho colored to the tem
ples, aud was so embarrassed that I bad to
come to his relief.
The counters was profuse in her thanks.
She alighted at once.
"We had expected to. wait here, in the
rain, till the coachman could tide oue of
the horses ii.to Sali.-bury," she said, "aud
that, 3-ou know, wuuid have taken hours.
Come, girl.s. If I am not mistaken," 6he
added, addressing mo, "you are Amer
icans." I bowed assent.
"I should have guessed as much, even
if I had not known you. You iook sur
prised. But Capt. Coldstream, at" the
opera, mentioned you to us the other
night. And nobody but an American,"
she continued, with a charming smile,
"would have offered aid so graciously.
I am ashamed to say it, but our English
men, generally, are the most seta.h, the
worst bred of all travelers; while you
Americans are exactly the reverse." " '
This was v?ry plea-ant, and put me in
quite a good humor witn mystlf, atjd with
the countess also. rcareluiJy arranged a
seat fur her; Charlie brought up her two
daughters; and what with umbrellas and
wraps, without which nobody ever travels
in Eughud, our pirty wa3 Eoon quite
comfortable. The man-servant jumped
up on the box, the driver turned the heads
ot his horses, and we were off for Salis
bury, leaving the other coachman to get
home, with his broken carriage, the best
way he could.
"We were only in London a few days,"
said tho countess, resuming tho conversa
tion. "We are on our way to the Isle of
Wight, for the health of my other daugh
ter, whom we have left at the hotel.
Emily," arul she turned to the oldest of
the two girls, "thsse arc tho American
friends of Capt. Coldstream."
The couutess aud I kept up a brisk
conversation all the way to Salisbury, in
which the Lady Emily occasionally join
ed. Charlie had managed to get along
side of the Lady Louisa, whom he monop
olized as much as possible; and to judge
from the lively way they were going on,
he had quite -recovered from his embar
rassment. Few men could make them
selves a agreeable as Charlie; he was one
ol the beitt talkers I ever knew.
"This is a dismal place at best," said
the countess; "the worst inn in a cathe
dral town in all England; and I fear you
gentlemen are not too well accommodated.
We arrived here before you, yesterday, I
find, aud secured the only tolerable parlor
leit. It is quite a barn, but better than
the coffee-room, which looks absolutely
intolerable. Do dine with us!"
We were only too glad to accept the
invitation. I had already discovered that
the Vavasours knew a great many people
that we knew; indeed, the second son of
the countess had been ia America, and
both Charlio and I had met him. So we
were at once on comparatively intimate
terms.
The next day we devoted to the cathe
dral, aud to a drive to Wilton House.
On both occasions I atteuded the coun
tess, while Charlie devoted himself to the
girls. But he managed, more than once,
to get the Lady Louisa for half an hour
to himself, leaving me to entertain the
Lady Emily and her mother. I must
confess I abetted him in this maneuver.
I said to myself, "Charlie is better-looking
than any London swell, and quite as rich
as most of ihem why thouldu't he go in
and win if he can ?" '
And it began to look as if he could. If
be had fallen ia love at first sight, I was
not so sure but that the Lady Louisa had
done it, too. At any ratej I was resolved
to give Charlie a chauce, whenever I
could. The counters did not seem to sus
pect the state of affairs. But once or
twice I thought the Lady Emily did.
Be this as it may, she was too loyal to
betray her sister, or even to interfere.
It was a moonlight evening ; so, an
hour- or twv after diuner I proposed a
Stroll .in. the Cathedral Close. The coun
tess assented, and. we set forth. At first
Charlie had the two. girls. But when we
had walked slowly around the gray, old
pile, and stood looking up at the lofty
jpire till we were nearly dizzy, I turned
to the Lady Emily, and called her. atten
tion to some details of the north porch.
I think she understood my motive, for
she immediately took my arm, and for the
rest-of the evening Charlie had her sister
to himself We were to part in the mor
cing, they to go to the Isle of Wight, and
we to go to Chichester and Arundel.
The countess had insisted that we sho'd
tftakfast together on the last morning.
The ladies appeared in traveling costume ;
the Lady Louisa in a most bewitching hat
and feather. She looked, I thought, con
scions through the entire meal. Her
eyes hardly ever ventured to meet those
of. Charlie. On his . part, Charlie also
was embarrassed, buc less so than the La
dy Louisa. Evidently he had determi
ned, if ad Opportunity offered, to put all
on "the hazard of a die'
JThe opportunity came. The man-servant
of the countess entered aud asked
her a question in a low voice. It was
probably something in relation to her bill,
for she looked significantly at her elder
daughlcr, . and the two withdrew to the
other end ofthe vast apartment, where
tbey conversed in. a low tone. Charlie,
not minding me, seized the chance.
"Her Ladyship was so good a3 to ask
its to call on her in London," he said to
his fair companion, and his voice, notwith
standing his effort to appear calm, trem
bled. "May I hope that the invitation
is yours also, Lady Louisa?"
The color rushed oyer the fair girl's
cheek and . brow. She tried to speak,
failed, blu.-hed deeper than ever, and
then, with a great effort, went on. But
she spoke so low she could hardly be
heard.
f'But I am not the Lady Louisa."
"Not Lady Louisa V
"N). . I am an American."
Her eyes were downcast; she was fum
bling with her watch-chain.
"An American 1"
"Yes. Hut I thought you knew. I
ought, perhaps, to have explained before
But somehow. indeed, it was no inten
tional deception don't you really know
"jKnow you ?" 3Iore bewildered than
ever.
"Yes ! I'm Clara Vernon 1"
I rose hastily. This was a denouement
I had not looked for; and a third party
was altogether in the way. How would
Charlie take it ? How did it all come
about ?
Charlie took it very well.;' A minute
after, I heard them laughing togeth
er. Then came explanations, of which I
was toid in due course. While Charlie
was staying in England, in order to avoid
Clara, she, with an equal horror of match
making, had run away from Newport to
avoid meeting him. She had an uncle
living iu Loudon and thither she had
fled. He owned a place in the country
next to the Vavasours, and thus she had
become intimate with that family, and was
now traveling with them.
Capt. Coldstream's mistake was a natu
ral one. Ho had heard much of the Lady
Louisa, but never seen her, supposed she
was out, and had fancied Clara must be
she. If he had returned to his stall, he
would have told us of his error.
To make a long story short, the Vava
sours aud we did not part company, but
went together to the Isle of Wight. "I
thought all the time," said the countess,
"that your friend knew Miss Vernon. I
never heard him call her Lady Louisa.
We were her confidants, for Clara told us
why, silly thing! she had come to Eng
land. But'ali's well that ends weH'--isnt
it?"
Charlie and Clara were married that
very autumn, her uncle giving her away,
and tho Ladies Vavasour acting as brides
maids. The ceremony took place, "more
majorum," as the old Uomaus used to say ;
that is, at St. George's, Hanover Square,
in the very odor of fashionable sanctity.
Noco ot this, you see, was part of the
play, as either Charlie or Clara had plan
ned it. It came about, so to speak, "Be
tween the Acts."
Some time aro the Ilov. .Mr. Spurgeon
preached a sermon on the text "And
Mary Wept." In the midst of a stream of
earnest eloquence that drew tears from
many cf those present, in describing
the character of the tears 6hed by Mary
over the feet ot Jesus, he broke suddenly
off, and turning to his congregation, ex
claimed : "The tears which Mary shed
were not such tears as many of you pour
out when ym come to this altar. They
camo from her heart they were tears ol
bloCd aud not the poor stuff that you pre
sent as an offering to an offended God."
Then, leaning over the pulpit, and look
ing earnestly in the seaot upturned faces,
he- exclaimed : "There are some of you
for whose tears I would not give a jar
thing a quart I"
"Sam," said one little urchin to anoth
er, "does your schoolmaster ever give you
any reward of merit ?" "I suppose he
doe," wa the reply; "ho gives me 'a
lickiu' regular, every day, and eavs I merit
two."-
From the Freeman.
Tiie Poor llousre.
. Munster, Nov. 18, 18C7.
H. L. Johnston, Esq Dear i'ir I
propose, with your kind permission,
through the columns of your paper, to say
a few words concerning the treatment
which I have received lately at the hands
of the Directors of the Poor, of Cambria
county. On the 29th of September last
the Board of Directors met at the lJoor
House and appointed me Steward of that .
institution. ' Sicce the flou-e has beeu
opened the appointment of officers was
always made at the September meetiug.
Well, on Monday, Oct. 28th, the Board
met at the Poor House, and after reading
the minutes of the previous meeting, Mr.
Byrne said: "I move to set these appoint
ments aside." Mr. Thomas : "I second the
motion." Now these men had a legal
right to do this, and I have the samo right
to deal with them with just as little cere
mony. I shall do so ad seriatim.
Mr. Byrne, who proposed this outrage,
is the same person who was elected to his
office in reward lor his services in Canada
during the late war. This may be ex
cused, being the effect of a constitutional
delect for which a man is not strictly ac
countable. But there is a moral coward
ice which neither the laws of God or man
will excuse, which deters men from per
forming their sworn duties wheu theve is
danger of giving offence to some one to
whom they owe some little political favor,
which strikes down the integrity of men
when opportunity offers to profit by dis
honest gain.
A great deal ha3 been lately said by
Mr. Byrne's friends in Ebensburg about
his honesty. Is he an honest man, or is
he the moral coward above described?
Let us see. lie was elected ostensibly to
put things right about the Poor House.
Very well. He was scarnely warm in his
place of honor until, at his instance, a
visit was made by the entire Board to
Johnstown. On this occasion all expen
ses were paid by the coutrty. The party
went upon a regular spree. They did,
I believe, hire a Doctor nothing more.
Mr. Byrne came next day to the Poor
House and coolly issued an order in his
own favor for tue sum of tea dollars a
small sum, but the priucipb is tho thing.
An arrangement was made to meet again
during the next week, at least Byrne said
so. One evening during the ensuing week
he arrived at the Poor House and ordered
out the team to go to tho Station to meet
some frieud, as he eaid. The friends ar
rived, and alter spending the night, one of
them presented a bill to the Board for
something over forty dodars. An officer
of the House took Mr. Byrne out of the
office, and told him he did not believe
the bill was just, aud warned him not to
pay it. "Oh ?" says Mr. Byrue, "don't be
uneasy, I will never sign it." Mr. Byrne
and the person who presented the bill
then started togother to town. What
passed on the way is known only to them
selves, but before many days Mr. Byrue
returned to the Poor House and signed an
order for the bill, without inquiry. His
moral cowardice was further displayed by
his absenting himself from the regular
meetings of the Board, in August and
September, thus neglectiug duties which
he had sworn to perform.
His attendance, I am informed, has
since been ample. At whose command he
thus evaded hia sworn duties, you, sir,
well know. Iu the face of these charge3,
which I dare Mr. Byrne to deny (it he
denies them access to the books of the Poor
House, if refused tc'dlbc enforced, will he
continue to occupy the office which he has
thus disgraced ? If he does, he exhibits
a degree of moral turpitude of-'which
political depravity exhibits few parallels.
Had one 3uch charge been made against
me, and substantiated, as the above can be,
I would have quietly wilted under tho
indignity which lias been perpetrated upon
me, and would have been perpetually ci
leut. Ou the contrary, no pretext what
ever was offered lor this high-handed act.
'Twas not even alleged that my family
was large, expensive and idle; neither
was it asserted that I was a gambler, in
temperate or lazy. But when it was sug
gested that this orocceding might be the
subject of political scandal, being as it
was a family arrangement, Mr. Thomas
answered " Were a yuin to do it." It might
have been urged that I was not a resident
of Ebeusburgh, nor the incumbent of a
good county office, nor the willing tool
ot a set ot politicans. But these statesmen
appear to have overlooked all these things
iu their vigorous pursuit of a favorite family
object, "i'is accomplished. For the
present I have done with Mr. Byrne. Let
him answer if he dare. Mr. Thomas may,
lor the present, rest upon his laurels. But
the entire Board, high and mighty as they
are, will fiud that bclore the bar of public
opinion they shall come and answer lor
their official doings. A. D. Ckiste..
Tuos. K. Beeciieu, the eccentric cler
gyman of Elmira, holds forth in a column
ot the Elmira Advertiser every week, say
ing many things sharp aud quaint. Two
weeks ago ho got off tho following :
"The less a man knows, and more li
quor he drinks, the more determined he is
to make this "a white man's government."
That strikes us as being oue of tho borne
truths of the age iu which wo live.
A Xcw Slory of Mr. Lincoln
Times were gloomy then at Washington.
The army was intrenching or intrenched
burning to advance, but held back alter
nately by i!s leader and the autumnal rains,
and little substantial advantage- had been
gained. The men were suffering" greatly
from low fevers and chronic .dysentery,
and its unsatisfactory conduct impaired
confidence. As we sat insilcnee, partaking
of the general gloom, Abraham Lincoln,
the emancipator, the houest patriot, the
Christ like man, entered. His brow was
deeply furrowed, his face oppressively sad,
his" form slightly bowed, and his steps
feeble. lie seemed to be literally stagger
ing under a nation's burden, aud we sur
mised had just left a perplexed and -depressed
meeting of the Cabinet. As wo
rose to greet him, he shook each one'
hand, with hi3 awkward but touching
cordiality, as Mr. Olmstead introduced us
one by one. When he took his scat, Mr.
Olmstead remarked we were a company of
women, representing the patriotic benevo
lence of various sections of the country,
and had come to pay our best respects to
our honored chief magistrate, and receive
words of encouragement from him that
would stimulate home effort. His fac
did Dot relax, and a pause ensued. I
then said : "Ladies, no one has tbSinter
est of the army more at heajnln J have.
I always rejoice to..kjir that they are
remembered and cherished; still, great
care must be taken not to tangle the lines
of the bigteam. You know, when a coach-and-six
runs off down hill, 'tis a desperate
struggle to stop it ; still one hand must
hold the reins." We said we tvere well
aware of that ; and were happy to say we
represented an organization that depreca
ted any interference with government.
We afterwards learned that so great had
been the tears of intermeddling entertained
by the Medical B ureau, that even our good
President had imbibed the doubt, which
was afterwards dispelled. After this wise
caution he proceeded to talk most kindly
of the humanity, energy and perseverance
of good women all the world over. I said,
"Mr. President, have you not an encour
aging word as to our country's prospects
that we may take back to the Northwest ?
A token from you would inspire the peo
ple." With the sadness deepening on
hi3 woru face lie replied, "What if I have
none to give ?" A silence that might be
felt followed these ominous words. A
lady of the delegation broke the stillness
by asking : "Mr. President, what is the
most fruitful source of discouragement?"
The President replied, "Desertion."
"And what is the penalty of desertion ?"
"Death !" he answered. "Why not en
force it ?" "Why not enforce it V H
hesitated, looked weary, and with the sim
plicity of a child said : "I don't like to !
1 can't."
It Didn't Affect Him. Not long
ago, a politician entered the private office
of the editor ot the New York Tribune,
in a great tate of indignation at some
article which Greely had written. II. G.
was sitting at hi? desk, scratching away,
and, though violently accosted, never
looked up. The irate politician roared
out, "Horace Greely, I charge you with
betraying the best interests of yourpsrtj.
You are a secret foe to radicalism. You
do U9 more harm than you do us good.
Confound it, if you'd go over to the Dem
ocrats, body and soul, it would be the best
thing you could do. You stay with tho
Republican, and stab them in the dark,
You are the worst enemy radicalism evor
had in this country. I or.ee thought you
honest, though I knew you to be a fool.
Now, I'll swear you are a scoundrel ani
an idiot !" Here he paused lor want of
breath, expecting H. Gr. to make some de
fense, or at least reply to tho ferocious
charges. But he Was disappointed. The
veteran journalist remained at hij desk
apparently unconcerned, and kept on wri
ting at his editorial. The politician at
tempted to give vent to another burst of
indignation, but was so mad that he could
not speak, and after a sputter of epithets,
he hurried to the door. The philosopher
then lifted his head for the first tim, and
called out :n bi3 high, ehrill voice, "Dou'fc
gooff iu that way, my friend. Comeback
and relieve your mind I"
Some curious statistics have been col
lected illustrating the risks of mercantile
life, from which it appears that in a sin
gle department that of dry goods the
average rate of success within the last fifty
years has been as follows : Ninety mer
chants in every hundred have failed ; fiva
in every hundred have made a living and
saved money, arid one io a hundred ha
made a fortune. It will thus be seen that
the path to ultimate success in thii direc
tion is extremely hazardous
TrtE original cost of the capitol t
Washington was 1,400,000. The addi
tions to the building, now nearly comple
ted, will cost $12,000,000 more.
Five hundred and ten miles of th
Union Pacific Railroad are now opon, and
tho. cars are runniug from Omaha to
Cheyenne.
A quick way to make a fortune is to
marry a fashionable young lady and thn
sell her clothes. ' ' -
The population of Ireland h&3 decreas
ed pearly one million in fifteen years,
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