Taw Commas is published every Monday
sa•rning, by Hunt I. Stints, at $1 75 per
state if paid strictly tx ADYI3ICII-42 00 per
annual if tot paid In advance. No sibocription
discontinued, alley; at the option of the pub
lisher, until all arrearares are paid.
ADVIITISEIIIITS inserted at the usual rate*.
Jot PIL1371)10 done with • neatness and dis
patch.
Ouecs in South Baltimore street, directly
•pposita Wamplers' Tinning Establishment
44Coarstse on the sign.
D. McConaughy,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, (office one door west
of Daehler's drug and book store, Chem
ersborg street,) ATTORXIY AID SOLICITOR ISOR
PATS.IIII AID PEISIONS. Bounty Land War
rants, Back-pay suspended Claims, and all
other claims against the Government at Wash-
I agton, D. C.; also American Claims in England.
Land Warrants located and sold, or bought, and
highest prices given. Agents engaged in lo
cating warrants in lowa, Illinois and other
western States. )' Apply to him personally
nr by letter.
Gettysburg, Nov. 21, '53.
Edward B. Buehler,
LA
TTORNEY AT LAW, will faithfully and
promptly attend to all business entrusted
o him. He speaks the German language.—
Office at the s.tme place, in South Baltimore
Street, near Forney's drug store, and nearly
opposite Danner k Ziegler's store.
liettystwg, March 20.
J, C. Neely,
ATTORNEY AT 1,4 W, will attend to c'ollee.
Lions and all other business hitt-toted to
hts care with promptness. (Afire nearly opposite
Fabnestock's Store. Baltimore etreet,
Gettysburg, April 11, 1859. tf
A. H. Dill,
Alll.l.
TTORNEY AT LAW, will attend ip . rolni t'y
to collections Anti all business entrusted to
°Mee betwpes Fetine4toelts' and banner &
Ziegler's Stores, Baltimore et., Gettysurg, Pa.
Nay 9, 1559. Lim
-- -Wm. B. DicClellan
A TTOIINEY AT LAW.—Otti
1 - 1 .. side of the public square,
Lae Seatiu.l office.
Gettysburiggestl.l,
Dr. A. W. Do.
ORMERLY of Carroll cuu..
permanently located in Gettysht
tis professional Cervices to the citize
town and surrounding country in the
the various branches of his prufeasia
and residence, Baltimore litztet. next
Compiler office, where be may Lit
all times when nut profeseioutdly enga
Prcrt)rs.than R. Smith. ISAltimore,ll
Rey. Augu.ittis Webster, D. D., !Mil
1)r. J. L. WArfield, Weatizioster, 11,1.
Dr. W. A, .11.tlailts,
teob fee e , E.q.,
.1 ulin K. Longwell, Esq., "
I leo. F.. W.unpler, "
!Ivy. Thomas Bowen, Gettysburg.
Oct. 25, 1858. Gin
S. Lawrence Hill, H.
HAS Hi office one
door west of the
toeran church in
Ch.trubershur g street, and opposite
store. where those wishing to have
coperation performed are respectfully i
4' al. Rarest:fess: Drs. Horner; Ri
Eranth, . Rev. R. L. Baugher, D.
Prof. M. Jacobs, Prof. M. L. Stcaver.
Gettysburg, April 11, 'fa.
Change of Hours
ON THE GETTYSBURG RAIL; OAP I
Samiivr ArrangPsneat.—On and a r Thurs
d. April 21st. tkie MORNING TRAIN ill leave
I.lettyshura ti.:3o M., coaniectlng At
Pullover Junction with E%preas train i ts Balti
more at 9.32, and )fail train from Baltimore at
0.32, returning to Gettysburg at /2.30 noon,
with Imi:4i:tigers from Baltimore, York, Harris-
Low. Philadelphia, and the North and West.
The .-I.I:TERNOON TP.AIN will have Gettya.
burg: at 1 o'clock. P. connecting at Hanover
Junction whit Mail train to llaltiniore at 3.37. rt..
turuin to Getty.burg about 6.10 P. k, with
pi , ...eugestfrom York, Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
and the North and \Ve3t.
girlty the &belie arrangement passengers
ela go either North, or South ou the Northern
C , ..utrul Railway both morning and afternoon.
IL M'CUILDY, President.
pr 11 25, 1859
A Word to the Wise!
-I)IN'T FAIL to call and see SAMSUN'S New
Goods—a large and splen lid a.“.ortnient
iti t,
4i I \I EN"S A.N IS BOY S C BING and Furnish
ing Goods—Au exten.th of all kinds of
3I'ATS. BOOTS. SIBIF:i A ITERSt—an un
rivalled assortment of T "S nod CARPEL'
SACKS, same cerr haaci.ome ittiil in a etyle4.—
Al , O, a large and spiel - laid variety of Setts,
Bre 1.,t Ping and Ear Rings . WATCHES. MUSI
CAL INSTRUMENTS. tc.. kc. A very hand.
some and new Ayle RAILROAD TRAVELLING
13AG. In •liort, erg thing In his line.
After all said and done. SAMSON'S IS THE
SPOT to buy your goods at the right prices. A
word to the wise is sufficient.
Tlio.;e who wish to buy to Roll main will do
well by calling, as I can and will sell them goods
cheaper than thug can buy them in the City.
April 18, 1853.
The Latest News !
Ft ilk. latest news, in which all are interested
is The arrival of a very large and superior
Ft ck of HATS. CAPS BOOTS k SIiOHS. at
the cheap and fashionable store of It. F. Melt,-
JIENI, at the N. E. Corner of Centre Square,
aettysburg. His stock of Hats is tery exten
rave, cornpricing all the various styles of Silk
lists, Gent's black and colored Soft Dress lists,
Men's Ril3Sil% lists. (broad.ritn.) and all kinds
of pea's and Boy's Slouch Hats and ('ape, of
the moat fashionable styles—all of a hich are
unsurpassed for beauty of style r.nil elegance of
liiiish. BDOTS AND SliGF.S.—lle has also re
ceived a very large rt.sortment of Boots and
tih u es, consistiuz of Men s French Calf Boots,
}lea's Freueb Calf Congress Gaiters, Patent
Leather Gaiters and Potnps, Oxford Ties and all
kinds of Men's and Boys Dress and Coarse
1-;hoes, Ladies and Children's Shoes and Gaiters
of every style. The public is very respectfully
int ited to call and examine these goods before
purchasing elsewhere, as it pill certainly be to
their advantage. R. F. IicILIIF.NY,
April la, 1859.
Woodland
T PRIVATE SALE.—I will sell at private
sale 32 ACRES OF LAND. on the banks of
lar.h creek, near Bream's Mill, 40 Acres of
which is heavily timbered. &not sold prior to
the first day of July it will then be laid out in
lots to suit purchasers and sold at public sale.
May Lo, 1859. GEO. ARNOLD.
New Grocery.
TEAS WAY FOR BARGAINS.—The sub
-1 scriber respectfully informs the citizens
of town and country, that be has opened a
Grocery, Confectionary and Notion Store, on
York street, two doors east of St. James'
Lutheran Church, where he has now on
hand a general assortment of goods in his
line—such as : Syrup, from 40 to 70 tents
per gallon; Sugars, all kinds ; Coffees, dif
ferent kinds; Vinegar, Salt, Fish, Cheese,
Scotch Barring , ground and unground Pepp--
per, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mustard,
Soda, Ginger. Starch, Rice, Teas, Candles,
Extract Coffee, Chocolate, Concentrated
Lye; Broome, Buckets, Candies, all kinds :
Figs, Walnuts, Palm Nuts, Almonds , Ground
Nuts, Layer Raisins" Lemons. Oran, Fan.
ey C a ke s , Crackers of all kinds, le., ate.
Butter and Eggs bought and sold. He in
vites the calls of the
_public, convinced that
hie assortment will 'please, both in quality
and price. Ho le determined to sell cheaper
than the cheapest.
WM. E. BITTLE.
GettiOurs;
110NNJITS:RIbbonsirloireq, and Roches for
sale,st *emir cheap store of
iy Id. A: SCOTT it SON;
BY 11. J. STAIILE
41ST YEAR.
We bear no more of the clinking hoof,
And the stage.coach rattling by ;
For the steam king roles the traveling world,
And the old pike's left to die.
The grass creeps o'er the flinty path,
And the !stealthy dairies steal
Where once the stage-borse,day by day,
Lifted his iron heel.
No more the weary stager dreads
The toil of coming morn ;
No more the bustling landlord runs
At the tossed of the echoing horn.
For the dust lip deep upon the road,
And the bright-eyed children play
Where once the clattering hoof and wheel
&titled along the way.
No more do we bear the cracking whip,
Or the strong wheel's rumbling sound ;
Ah, no 1 the water drives las on,
And an iron horse is found I
The coach stands rusting in the yard,
- And the horse has sought the plow
We have spanned the world with an iron rail,
And the steam king rules us now!
e south
treat of
The old turnpike is a pike no more,
Wide open stands the gate ; •
We have made a road for our horse to stride,
And we ride at a Hying rate;
We have filled the valley and leveled the hills,
And tunneled the mountain's side,
And round the rouglicrag's dizzy verge
Fearlessly now we ride.
baritrg
rg offira
it ufale
artice of
Office
door to
fouo4 at
ed.
Oh! on with a haughty front!
A puff, a shriek and a bound—
While the tardy echoes wake sib late
To babble back the sound.
And the old pike road is left alone,
And the stagers seek the plough ;
Ire hare eircled the world with an iron rail,
And the steam king rules us now.
ore Yd.
-
Once two ministers of the Gospel were
conversing, on estatupovaneous preaching.—
; " Well." 'mid the old divine. waxing warm.
I " you ere ruining yourself by writing your
sermons and reading them off. Your coo
-1 gre4ntion cannot become interested in your
preaching,. and if you were called upon to
preach uneetwetedly, unless you could get
bold of an old sermon, yuo would be cow
-1 plistely confused."
I l'he young divine used' all his eloquence,
but in vain. to convince the old gentleman that
the written sermon expressed his own
thos.ghts and feelingss, and If called upon could
' pretudi extemporaneously.
" As we are of the same faith." said the
voung minister. " suppose you try me neat
Psalsbath morning. On ascending the pulpit
von can band me a text from any part of the
bible. and I will convince you that I can
,
preach without having looked at the text ha
: fore Ist sod up. Likewise I mu.t be allowed
the same privilege with you. and see who will
make the best of it."
icking's
l y Deutal
cited to
C. P.
a, Rev.
Thy idea seemed to delight the old gentle.
man. and it was immediately agreed upon.
the following Sabbath, on mounting the
pulpit, his senior brother handed him a slip
of paper,' on which was written—" And the
ass opentd his mouth and spake:" from which
he preached a glorious sermon, chaining the
attention of his delighted hearers, and char
ming his old friend with his eloquence.
In the afternoon the young brother, who
was sitting below the pulpit, handed his slip.
After rising, and opening the Bible, the old
man looked anxiously around—" Am I not
thine ass?" Pausing a few minutes, he ran
his fingers through his hair, straightened his
collar, blew his nose like the last trumpet.,
cud re-read aloud—" Am I nut thine ars?
"
Another pause, in which a deadly silence
reigned. After reading a third time—" Am
I not thine ass ?" he looked ,wer the pulpit
at his friend, and in a doleful voi..le said—
'• / think lam, trotiter "
iterWelgqcr had an anecdote of old Father
Sear!, the mtnister of his boyhood, which has
new been in print, and whiel is too good to
be lost. It was customary to wear buckskin
breeches in cold weather. One !..unday morn
ing in the autumn, Searl brought Lis down
from the garret; but the warps had token
porsesrion during the rummer and were
baying a nice time of it in them. By dint of
eTort, he got out the intruders and dressed
fur meeting. But while reading the scriptures
to the congregation, he felt n dagger from one
of the small waisted fellows, and jumped
around the pulpit slapping his thighs. But
the more he Slapped and danced the inure they
stung. The people thought him crazy, and
they were in cunauluti.on as to what to do, but
he explained the matter by saying, "Breth
ren, don't bo alarmed, the Word of the Lord
is in my mouth, but the Devil is in my
breeches!" Webster always told it with glee
to the ministers.
Siar•We complain that we have nc time.
An !radian chief of the Six Nations once said
a wiser thing than any philosopher. A white
man remarked in his hearing that he had not
time onougb. " We'd," replied the Indian,
I suppose you have all there is !" He is
the wisest and best man who can crowd the
most good actions into now.
yam" Talking of getting a good deal out of
a little piece of land," said Sinison, " why,
I bought an acre of old Mr. More, planted
one acre of it a ith vitutoes and the other in
oorn."
"I thought you said you only bought one
acre. Simson?" remarked the listener ; " how
could yen plant tito r
" Very easily, sir; I stood it up ou the
end, and planted both sides of it."
IA country editor, speaking of a mem
ber of the New York Assembly, says: " The
first year he went to Albarky he was so con
scientious as to utterly refuse to receive his
allotment of stealing, in the shape of books
and stationery. The next year he did not hesi
tate, and finally came home unable to tall the
troth under the most favotkble eirmuustaa
ces."
par The Uniontown (Pa.) Standard says :
Our county prison was awn relitrred of its
surplas population on Friday night amt...
Four wisoners, Matthew Hisao, J. W. Aston,
W.*M'Gee, and a Mr. Washington alias Cart
wright, escaped by burrowing through the
foundation, by means of an iron bar, used as
uwe Wail which. they had broken front its
fasiesupp.
mer.A writer in BliaskwoOd says the pecu
liarity-of Louis Napoleon is that he eoasults
everybody and Adiows his own advice.
THE
Poet'sCornier_
THE OLD ruzimpsu
Miscellaiaecylis_
Extenaportraeows Preaching
tmorratir, gems and 'amilt NJ:total.
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, JULY 11, 1859.
How to Meet a Duelist.
A few years since, as a New England gen
tleman, whose name we shall call Brown.
wna passing a tew days at a 6, tel in one of
our cpties, he had the ntisfortnne to uninten
tionally offend the gusccptible honor of a tall
Indiana Colonel, who was one of his fellow
boatders. llia apoh.gies not being satisfac
tory, a challenge wa; sent him, which. how
ever, he declined on the ground of scruples.
The Colonel, who, by the way. had won, in
two or three encounters, quite a reputation as
a duelist, at once conceived the idea that hie
opponent was a coward. and resolved to dis
grace him b . 7 flogging hint in the face of the
assembled wisdom of the house.
decerdingly, the next day, at dinner time,
in marched the duelist, armed with a formi
dable cowhide, and advancing to Brown's
chair proeteded to dust his iaeket for him in
the most approved style. Brown was aston
ished. Luckily he had been a lieutenant of
militia in has native State, and knew the im
portance of incommoding the enemy by a di
version. So. seizing a my, tureen, he
tossed the contenta into the belligerent Colo
nel, and before the hero could recover from
the drowning sensation thus occasioned, he
sprung upon the tel.lc. and bean to shower
upon him, with a liberal hand, the contents
of the dishes around.
" You green infernal—"
"Coward," the Colonel wan about to an♦ .
but at that time a plate of areent s truck full
upon his month, tu,d the word was blockaded
and Lett furecer.
" Ha!" cried the little New Englander,
whose blood was now up, “fond of greens,
are you ? take a potato, too?" and be burled
a telling Tolley of hard potatoes at him.—
" Excellent eggs, here ; capital things with
calf's bead!" and crash came a plate of
soft boiled emma against the side of his cra
nium.
The blows of the cowhide, which had hith
erto descended upon the Yankee's head and
shoulders, now begun to full more weakly and
wildly ; and it became evident that the as
sailant, half stunned, choked, and partially
blinded, was getting the worst of it. His
courage was fast oozing out.
" Take a turkey," shouted Brown, as a no
ble old gobbler descended fairly upon the
Colanel's head. and bursting. filled his hair
and eve -4 with delicious looking stuffing.
•' Here's the fixing!" he continued, us the
*gnash and jolly followed after.
By this tinie the Colonel was irretrievably
defeated; and as his merciless opponent
seized a huge plum pudding, steaming Fitt,
sad holding it above his head wish both his
hands, seemed about to bury him beneath it,
be quailed in terra?, and throwing down the
cowhide, turned about and made a rush for
the door.
"Stop fur the pudding, o.lonel, stop for
the pudding!" shouted Brown.
"Pudding, Colonel, pudding P" screamed
all his fellux-hoarders, amid convulsions of
!auzhter.
But the Colonel was ton much terrified to
listen to their kind invitatiuns, and did nut
cease running until he had lucked himself into
his room.
But. slthnngh the Colonel escaped from the
plum-pudding, be could not escape from the
ridicule which the affair occasioned. He
subsequently challenged four persons, against
whom his ire was excite.l.'ani they all con
sented to fight; but, availing themselves of
the privilege of the clutllen:ed party, appoint
ed pudding bags fur their weapons. At
length, the unhappy duelist, finding no one
who was willing to shoot or be shot at, was
obliged to leave the State.—Pbryolio.
Why did Jacob Cry ?
Jacob kii.ed Rachel, and lifted up his voice
and wept.—Scropurc.
If Rachel was only a pretty girl, and kept
her face clean. we can't see that Jacob had
lunch to cry about.—. New Fork Globe.
Why. he wept teen of joy, Mr. Glube.—
Yrm never kipsed a pretty girfor you wculdn't
wonder a hit. We have been in the same
boat with Jacob before now, and we blubber
ed right out.—Lyan News.
How d.) you know but she slapped his face
for himf—N. O. Delta.
Gentlemen, the cause of Jaeob's weeping
was the refusal of Rachel to allow hinvto kiss
her again.—Flag.
In our opinion, Jacob wept because he
hadn't kissed her before, and regretted the
time he had lost. —Age.
Green—all of you. The fellow boo-hooed
because she did not kiss him.—Muscheskr
Advocate.
An Aspiration.
" Silly, I've g. 4 n sweetheart ; such a nice
Young Limn Ite'm in a profeasion."
"Oh Jetnitna! Don't use such wicked
words !"
•' It oinnit wicked word at all, Sally ; it's I
busi new."
" Business. Jemitna. what business?"
" Guess, Sally, what it is ; it begins with a
ho."
" I know, Jemima ; it's a hofficer."
"No, it ain't, though; it's something much
better thin a hosiffer."
"Then it's a hortoge-Lnerehant. That's it,
Jeminia :"
"Oh, you hateful thing, to think of any
thing so Tulgar ! Ile's a hoctiuneer l"
the Raus Mal Butted the Crowbar.—l was
once stay iug at a farm in Berkshire county,
the owner of which was sadly troubled by
his dog Wolf killing his sheep. I determined
to cure the dog. There was a ram on the
fa.r:n as notorious for butting as the dog was
for sheep-stealing, and who stood in as much
need of mural 'suasion as the dog. I shut
Wolf up in the barn with this old fellow, and
the consequence was that the dog never look
ed a sheep in the face again, the ram literal
ly breaking every bono in his body. Wonder.
fully uplifted was the ram aforesaid by his
exploit; he was sure to ritch into whomso
ever went nigh him. " I'll fix him," said I ;
and so I did. 'I rigged an iron crowbar, out
of a hole in the barn, point foremost, and
hung an old hat on the end of it. You can't
always tell when you see a hat whether
there is a head in it or not ; how then should
a rain? Aria modest it full butt; but being
a good marksman from long practice, the
bar broke in between his horns, and came
out at the end of Us tail. This li ale admoni
tion effectually ethed him of batting.
NIT Some editor says that the destiny of
the world often bangs on the smallest trifles.
A little miff between Charles lionaparte and
his love Letitia, might have broken offs mar.
risge which gave birth to Napoleon and the
battle of Waterloo. To which the Chicago
Advertiser says:* "Yee, that it a fact.—
SuppoMo ' a little miff' had taken place be
tween Adam and Eve? What then ?"
lifcrYork is getting to be An extensive cher
ry market. Up to Obi thine probably three
hundred bushels hare been carried to ii single
establishment in the city, of Baltimore-4
preserving and pickling 'howl.
lierA polka and flrtmilarin telegraph has
bee* put in operation in ,Baltimore,
COMPILER.
"TRUTH I 8 MIGHTY, AND WILL PREVAIL."
Bather Complimentary.
We have a blind phrenologist in town, who
is great on examining bumps. A wag or two
got one of our distinguished judges, who
thinks a good deal of ltim.4elf, and has a very
bald head, which he generally covers with a
wig, to go to his rooms the other day, and
have his head esamined. Wage and Judge
arrive:
' Mr. 8.,' says one, ' we hare now bro't you
for examination a head u is a head ; we wish
to test your soienre.'
' Very well,' said the phrenologist, 'put the
head under my hand.'
' lie wears a wig,' says one.
' Can't examine with•that on,' replied the
professor.
Wigwag according) removed, and bald head
of highly expectant Judge was placed tinder
manipulations of examiner.
'What's thisf what's this ?' said the pro
fesenr ; and pressing his hands on the top of
the head, he said, s3.newhat ruffled. 'Gentle
men, God bas visited me with an affliction ; I
have lost my eyesight, bat I am not a fool ;
you can't pass !Ilia off on me for a hood! ! I'
" Wangdoodle" Hard-Shell preach
er wound up a flaming sermon with this
magnificent peroration : "My brethern and
sisters I of a man's full of' religion you can't
hurt him I There was the three Acclaim;
ollildren; they put 'em in a fiery furnace,
betted seven times better than it could be
het, and it didn't singe a bar on their heeds!
And ther was John the Evangeler, they put
him—and where do you think,brethering and
sktern, they put him I Why they put him
into a ealdronic of bilite le, and biled him all
night, and it didn't faze his shell I And
there was Daniel, they put him into a lion's
den—and what, my fellow travelers, and re
spected audinories, do you think he was put
into a lion's den for? Why, fur praym'
three time, a day. Don't be iduruied.brether
ing and sietern : I don't think any of you will
ever get into a lion's den."
Know .Nolhingisin lklow Par.—Some gen
tlemen traveling in a stage coach near Aus
tin, Texas, had fur a fellow paysenger a talka
tive lady, who soon informed them that she
was on a visit to one of her neighbors to con
gratulate him upon having recently used up
a Knew Nothing in public debate. Seeing a
chance fur fun, one of the gentlemen at once
begged permission tointroduce the other as
Lieutenant Toy. the leadiqg spirit of a Know
Nothing lodge don't. in the country.
" A Know Nothing, is he?" questioned the
ladv.
" He is."
" Well, if ever I should catch him in' my
house, courting one of daughters, I'd run
him out with the dogs, and send the niggors
to dig the tracks out of the yard. I acorn
'em !"
A Good Ilhutration.—ln a time of 'much
religious excitement and consequent discus
sion. an honest Dutch farmer on the Mohawk
was asked his opinion as to which denomi
nation of Christiana were, on the right way
to Heaven. " Yell den." said La, " van we
ride our wheat to Albany, some say this road
is the best, and some say dat—but it don't
make much difference which road we take.
dey never ask us which way we come—and
Ws none of their business—if our wheat is
good!"
Kew Mess iltdomiton..—Thcre is a new
chess automaton in - nw York, which is rap
idly taking the wind glut of Morphy's
He played with Ileilbuth. on Tuesday night,
and beat hint fairly, atter a closely contested
game. The automaton is a Turk, i with a
highly consumptive look, an uneartbly‘whistle
for a voice, caraderotorlooking eyes, cleck
wheels fur intestines, and no place within his
body large enough to hide alive player. How
the game of chess gets into the defunct Mos
lem, is the wonder of the day.
A Religious View ofthe frost.—Tbe roiled
Presbyterian. in s7eaking of the late frost,
says : " This stroke of Providence has been
already greatly abused. We deserved it, and
uught not to try to mike gain out of it. We
were boasting of our fine crops, and were
Flossed with the ides of a European war, as
tt would make fine prices for our grain. Clod,
in his Providence, has made us to feel 'our
heartlessness, and instead of cocoplaining q let
us kindly submit to his rod and trust llim
who has never forsaken those who trust Him."
Igil"Perley" writes from Washington to
the Boston Journal: The pistol with which
Sickles shot Key; and which Le was not, of
course, disposed to claim in Court, was sold
by disponi:, officer who picked it up, and has
been resold fur $25. At, i. recent sale of
Key's personal effects, the limas barreled
bolster pistols used by his father in the last
war, and which were nn the t.,ble when be
wrote the "Star Spangled Banner," were
sold at $2, and bought fur a .Massachusetts
bar Mr. Dodge, ex-minister to Spain from
the United States, has puLlished a leiter, in
which he says that while the prospect of ac
quiring Cuba by purchnse under present cir
cumstances is inauspicious he has never even
intimated that the proposition in any way in
volved the honor of Spain. or that the pur
chase might not at a future period be enraged.
He believes that the course recommended by
the President will lead to the consummation
of that object by an honorable negotiation,
ifirAlmost all the arms and uniforms col
lected on the field of battle at 3lontebollo are
to be brought to Paris. Several of them are
destined to Horace Vernet, who has already
received the imperial command to paint the
second battle of Montebello fur the galleries
of Versailles.
parlt is reported that Mr. Perry Rigly,
formerly a citizen of Macon, Georgia, has
lately been garroted in the city of liamann,
on a charge of carelessness or'negligence in
running a train, of which he was the engineer,
by which a ran off occurred and sezeral per-
SUDS lust their lives.
OffirThe women of Blisfield, Michigan,
have organized a lodge of the "Daughters of
Malta," and are holding their mysterious
meetings two or three eveniogs in each week.
The men have thus far failed to aaceriaiwthe
object and manners of the new society.
par A now trial has been granted to Xr.
Henry Shaw, the old gentleman in st. Louis
against whom a verdiot of one hundred thous
and dollars was rendered fur rofusing to mar
ry Miss Effoa earatang,after he had promised
to do so.
afi'The Watt and most wonderful OM*
effected by patent medicine recorded, is tithe
fallowing: -
A boy had swallowed a silver duller. An
how cards the boy threw ap the del*
all in small chang3, principally in five cant
pieces.
StirY.gp are selling in Minnesota at' .5
cents per dos., and potatoes at 40. cents per
1440,
M. Blondin's Tight Rope Feat.
It has been briefly announced by telegraph,
that M. !Condit', a Frenchman, performed the
daring feat, on Thursday week, of walking
across Niagara River, a short- distance be
kw the cataract, on a tight rope. A special
reporter thus gives the particulars of the
performance :
At precisely half pact four o'clock 31. Blon
din appeared in the pleasure garden, where
the American end of the rope was fastened.
There was a short tight rope erected herein,
upon which the daring Frenchman mounted
and went through many of his most graceful
and pleasing feats. to the great admiration of
the spectators. lie was dressed in a dress
similar to the one frequently worn by acre
bats and ' professional gymnasts, viz: pink
tights, buckskin moccasions, and spangled
tunic of yellow silk ; he was bareheaded,
without even the fillet of white satin that Is
frequently worn
At 15 minutes past 5 he stepped upon the
large rope, where he conversed &few minutes
with his friends in the most cool and-uncon
cerned manner, having apparently no more
doubt of his successfully accomphshing this
undertaking than he had of attempting it.—
As he stool for n minute on the rope, before
stepping out, he addressed the crowd as fol
lows :
•• Gentlemen, any one what please to cross,
I carry him on my hack."
No one seemed disposed to accept the kind
offer, an& having joked a few minutes longer,
he at last started on his perilous journey. He
walked rapidly and firmly. as if he had been
on a bridge, until he chose to stop to indulge
in some gymnastic evolutions for a few min
utes. Hi balanced himself on one leg, sat
down,and laid down on the rope at full length;
then recovering himself, he walked to the
middle of the river, where he again stopped
to accomplish yet another feat not down to
the bill.
Here, standing on the rope, with as such
indifference as if it was a solid platform,he de•
liberately lowered a small line to the little
steamboat. the "Maid of the Mist," that bad
steamed out to that point; to the line was at
tached a bottle of wine by the captain of the
boat, and the bottle being drown up by the
adventurer, he opened it, and, making a com
prehensive bow to both crowds on the sides of
the river, he drank the health of all present;
then throwing the bottle Into the river, he
walked on, stopping co more until he reached
the Canada shore. He was exactly nineteen
minutes cloning the river, including stops.
On his arrival on the Canada shore he was
cheered vociferously. Ile waited there about
half an hour, when he prepared to return.—
At 6:42 he stepped on the rope to commence
hie return passage. He rested but once, ly
ing down on the rope fur two minutes, and
accomplishing the return trip in eight min
utes,
As soon as be reached the shore, the cheers
and shouting were almost deafening. M. Blurs =
din, baring been permitted an instant for re
freshment, was seized by the enthusiastic
crowd and placed on their shoulders and borne
about in triumph. Ile wits then placed in a
carriage and escorted through all the princi
hal streets of the village, the crowd thronging
im on all sides, and cheering in the wildest
manner. He did not appear very much ex
boosted, and manifested no more fear or ner
vousness than any ungymnestic novice would
at eating his hteakfast. Ile announces his
determination to repeat bits feat at interraLs
through the summer.
Thus was successfully accomplished one of
the most daring and useless feats that even
Last age has ever witnessed.
SfirAmong the touching incidents of the
late Railroad accident in Michigan, we have
the following:
"One gentleman of this city had sent his
wife, three children, and sister eastward on
the fatal night. He was an early inquirer.
The obliging operator despatched a message
of inquiry, and he stood by the instrument a
picture of woe, awaiting an answer. In re
ply to a question, he said that be put his
family in the forward car. Ile was told to
ezpeet the worst, because the de.truetien of
life in that car was fearful. Ile trembled
like an aspen leaf, and the sweat of agony
stood like rain drops on his brow.
" In reply to another question, he said that
his wife was going only as far as Kalamazoo.
Ile was told that Kalamazoo was on the
Michigan Central, and that his precious ones
could not he ins olsed in this catastrope at
all. The relief came tut P widen] v. The re
vulsion followed like a water-fall, and the
happy and thankful man threw himself into
a chair and wept like a child 1 A rough
bearded customer who relates! the incident to
ants that he also cried as he witnessed
the thrilling scene.
"One woman, who was on the train with
her husband and five children, ran wildly
about all night, seeking her family, hut with •
out suecesu, until morning, when she found
them all dead. She then went to a farm
house a few yards off, where, after sitting
some minutes, the wretched wife and mother
expired."
A Finger Cvt Off and lira Back.—A gen
tleman named Rix, employed at N. B. Lee's
stables, cut off his left fore-finger in a straw
cutter on Thursday. Mr. Rix walked down
stairs and left his finger up stairs among the
straw. Mr. Loe went ut immediately, found
it and applied it to the stump, where he held
it until Dr. Galt arrived, who dressed the
wound end secured the finger in its piece,
where it has subsequently grown, and with
the exception of the one stitri“int is likely to
be as good as ever.-21 - oi folk Day Book.
A Formidable .Sake.—Toro Men Whipped.
—The truth of the following snake story is
vouched for both bv the Cumberlaud Tele
graph and Bedford inquirer :
A few days ago,ar the mail hack from Cum
berland to Bedford was passing along about
one mile south of the Half Way Ilouse,ii large
snake of a dirty black color was lying across the
road. The driver, Mr. Samuel Bagley, drove
the hack swiftly, both wheels running OT(.r it,
but without apparently injuring the snake.—
The driver and Mr. A. B. Cramer, of this
place, then got out and fought it with a rail;
it ran inn fence corner, and raised its head on
the fence, the other part of its body being
*oiled op. Mr. Bagley got on the fence and
struck it on the body with a stone of 25 or 30
pounds weight, which bounced off, apparent
ly not injuring it. They not caring to risk
thetnselves in any more danger, let the snake
elide across the gelds at the rats of 2:40. The
snake was as thick as a man's leg, and from
10 to LS feet in length.
ilfirA man was found lying in one of the
patine streets in Norwalk, Conn., one day
last week, with tombstones at his head and
feet. 01% altalailliatiati it was diseorered that
he was deed drunk, and some wag, on discov
ering his shameful state, bad erected these
misountents to the memory of departed man-
11111rNoisy ebildrest are &and to be extreme
ly nettlal, i 3 is said, in preventing one from
bearing the ringing of the door-bell when one
&wet wish to see tisicors.
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR
From the Cincinnati Ermoirsr, June 5
Singular Case of Hydrophobia.
A Man Becomes Had abnotf Daily fiw nearly
Twenty Years—Discovery of a Prerentire
of the Disease.
A remarkable case of hydrophobia came to
our knowledge a few days azo, and may be
of interest, inasmuch as it suggests the pos
sibility of a core.
Almost twenty years ago, a man reined
Clarke, who resides in Jamestown, Ky.. a
little town about three miles from this city,
was bitten by a dog which proved to be rabid,
and in a short time afterward@ lie was taken
with the most violent symptoms of that ter
rible disease.
The malady which, as is well known, some
times exists in the system a number of years
—one or two cases are known of twenty years'
standing—before it makes its appearance in
all its violence, did not, in this instance, prove
immediately fatal, end by the exertions of his
physicians and his friends, the spasms were
for a short time delayed, and the patient re
gained a good degree of health.
A few days, however, only elapsed when
be again perceived a recurrence of his dispo
sition to bite and snap, together with the
hatred of water, and a spasmodic contraction
of the throat by which the disease is charm,-
terised, and looked like a severe and much
more violent attack than the first, during
which even the physicians who attended him
gave up the cue as hopeless, and left him to
die.
By some means, however, this fact came
to the knowledge of some person who had
heard—from what source we cannot tell—
that a medicine known to Botanic Physicians
as the Third Preparation, had been found
beneficial in such cases, and he was recom
mended to try it. His friends, who had no
hope that he would Le saved. at first thought
it would be kindness to allow death to end
his misery, and refused to make an attempt
to farther prolong 'an existence which, if
preserved, could only keep all by whom he
was surrounded in constant fear of being con
taminated, and in danger of violence from
their parent and friend.
After much deliberation they at lengtlicon
eluded to try the experiment, arid pro4ured
some of the medicine we have named, Which
is composed of capsicum and the tincture of
lobelia aLd myrrh, and making it very strong
of the tinctures, gave it to him in sufficient
doses to produce a thorough emesis. He
threw from his stomach a large quantity of
frothy mucus, and from that moment the
spasms ceased, and there was also a relief
from the other more prominent symptoms of
the disease. He gradually grew better as
this treatment continued, and at length be
came able to attend to his duties, which he
has done with but slight intermission ever
since.
Almost every day. although we believe he
has not been at any time confined to his bed,
there . has been a recurrence of the disease.
which, however, has been promptly chocked
by the same means which wrought such a
miraculous change in the first instance. Ile
now attends to his business daily, and 'when
the controstlion of the throat makes its ap
pearance he doses himself largely with the
preparation,which he continually keeps about
him, and immediately upon tile discharge
from the stomach, tecornes well.
Among The numerous cases of this terrible
disease, which occur. every season in large
cities, where no prospect is - left for the escape
of the sufferer, from what is even more to he
feared than death itself, if one could be thus
saved all the writhing agony and pain of
even one day which is spent at the mercy of
those spasms, which are its peculiarityour
purpose in making this publication will ' have
been attained.
This story, its we have related it, is strictly
true in every particular, and, as the medicine
may be obtained in almost any drug store in
the country, its use may prevent n great deal
of suffering, and probably save many a life.
At all events the case is worthy of note, as
showing that although the tiros may not be
entirely eradicated from the system it at lent
may be controlled in its effects.
An Old Superstition Revived.
We stated in our last that a Mr. Mallory
and Mr. Ward of this city, had been bitten
by a mad dog, and gone to try the virtues
of a "rundatone" in the central part of this
state. The parties returned on Monday even
ing last, having applied the stout., and have
every reason to believe they are cured. Mr.
Mallor called at our (Ace un Tuesday, and
gives t he following account of the operation:
" Ile found the 'med.:tone' in the possession
of Mr. J. P. Evans, Lincoln. Logan county,
and describes it as a small, flesh-col wed stone,
about two inches broad, half au inch thick,
and very porous. The stone wag first placed
in warm water for an hour. and applied to
the flesh wound, when it adhered firmly, for
several hours, all the time apparently draw
ing, with a strong suction, the blood from all
parts of the body. After remaining on seve
ral hours, the stone, as it became charged
with the poison, became of milky whiteness,
as also did the flesh immediately about the
wound, when all at once it tell o 9 and being
placed in warm milk emitted a strong, offen
sive odor, and gradually discharged its con
tents into the milk, and assumed its natural
color again. It was then again applied,with
the same results several times, until filially it
would adhere no longer, and the patient was
declared cured. The parties have all confi
dence in the freatrucnt, and Psel an assurance
that they have at erteal an awful death, par
ticularly as it has since been ascertained that
the dog that bit them was in reality wad, and
a mare belonging to Mr. Beckerman, which
was bit the same day, has already been at
tacked with hydrophobia, and is probably
dead by this time.
Mr. 'Mallory ftater that there were several
other patients from various parts of the
country waiting at Mr. Evans to apply the
stone, and that it had never been known,
when applied in time, to fail in effecting a
cure.—Marshall co., !moil, Courier.
Speaking of the verdict recently ob
tained by a Miss Carstang from a St. LOCIId
merchant, an exchange says : We hope never
again to hear the old or young maids speak
disparagingly of the men—of their worthless
ness, and how they hate 'eat. Just think of
it ; if a maiden lady of thirty years values n
worn-out old buns of 65 at $lOO,OOO, what
value would a girl of 18 place upon a lusty,
prompt, robust young fellow of twenty-five.—
Th‘t's the question—what would she ?
*WA traveler says that if be were asked
to describe the fain sensations of a camel
ride, be would say :—" 'fake a music stool,
dud having wound it up as high as it would
go, put it in a cart without springs, get on
top, and drive the cart transversely across a
plowed field, and you will then form some no
tion of the terror and uncertainty you would
experience the first time you mounted a
camel."
glirThe Columbus Fact *mks of a rat be
ing earglit in that eity hub measured two
feet six Inaba. from** tip of the tail to its
DUSe. May be It was u wok-rat.
Thriiidast Stititianel "fig
One of the Wubington oo:respondents of
the New York Tribune gives the folkwing fts
to President Buchanan's Towles of life at
Wssitingtorn:
exacting in the department' of (Moir-
Ilea, and, like Nelson, expects every men to
do his duty. Ile works systematically after
his fashion ten or twelve hours a day, and is
by no means pleased when members of the
cabinet are absent. No former Presiding ev
er explored details in the same manner, and
this may be one of the reasons why he is
subjected to so many small annoyances, and
hears so much personally that had better
come through a preparatory channel.
The door of his reception room is thrown
open regularly nt one o'clock, except on cab
inet days, and then a promiscuous crowd, by
a sort of conventional courtesy of precedence,
tell their griefs, expand upon their services,
and submit their applications. The scene is
generally amusing. but some sad episodes of
privation and distress often tinge these most
unceremonious receptions. la-which everybo.
dy walks in unannounced, end waits For his
turn as in the line at a poetoffice. No intro
ductions are required, and no formality is
observed, except when the gentler sex appear,
when Mr. Buchanan rises-to offer civilty.—
Otherwise be is seated with a sort of Dion'r
sius's ear to receive everything that may be
thrown in. Ilz is a man of methodical habits,
of C o nestoga constitution, and robust health.
Ile rises early, breakfasts early, reads the
papers, and then sits down to work more
methodically and laboriously than any one
thousand dollar clerk in the depertatents. It
is to Le said that he reads every paper con
nected with the public business which may
be submitted to his inspection, and very oftem
dissents from the reports made by his secre
taries, and even the legal opinions of the At
torney General. His exercise is taken in the
evening, after which he returns to his office
or the drawing-room, and either fulfills pri
vate appointments or receives company until
Ou o'clock."
NO. 4L
The Detroit Free P r ess contains s well
written and comprehensive review of the
policy and measures of President Buohanan's
Administration, showing that theyare enti
tled to the applause and approval of the peo=
ple of the Union, and summing them up as
1. The Administration has produced a set•
Clement of the Kansas question and establish,
ed perfect order in that long distracted Ter.
Timm,
2. - It has pnt an end to the fillibustering
expeditions of Walker & Co.
3. It has put an end to the rebellion is
Utah, and established order and pesos in that,
Territory.
4. It has prosecuted the war against the
hostile Indians with redoubled force in Wash
ington Territoryand compelled them to one
"\ lii
fur peace on its o n terms. •
5. It has dune t same in Oregon. and
forced the Indians to relinquish hostilities
and sue for peace.
6. It has dune the same in war with the
Indians in New Mexico, and in like manner
compelled them to sue fur peace.
7. It has made n new and highly advan
tageous commercial treaty with China.
8. It has made a new and advantageous
treaty with Japan.
9. It has obtained a most important diplo•
matic victory over England by extorting from
her an abandonment of the long assumed
right to search American vessels.
10. It has established an overland mail to
California and the Pacific coast.
11. It has admitted two new free States into
the Union, and thus secured a large extension
of the field for " free labor."
12. It has sent a naval expedition to Para
guay, and obtained an apology fur insults to
the American flag, indemnity for injuries re
ceived and grants of new commercial privile
ges and rights of navigation.
13. It has paid nff more than nine millions
of public debt, at a time of pressure in the
money market and general embarrassment in
the business of the country that is without
parodied in our history.
14. hills reduced the expenses of the gov
ernment from eighty-one toWlons to less than
seventy millions, awl will ^oon have them
graduated to a scale of about fifty millions.
15. It is engaved in the negotiation of
treaty with England hq. the settlement of the
difficulties and disputes that hare arisen nn
der the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, with every
prospect of success.
16. It is engaged in the negotiation of a
treaty with Nicaragua, for the right of transit
of American citizens and property across the
Isthmus, and for the payment of American
claims, with encouraging prospects ofsuocess.
Such is. the record. Now why i 3 not this an
Administration that the whole Democratic
party of the Union can rally around and sus
tain and encourage?
The Ruling , Passion.—A case occurred last
week out West, which proves that the "rul
in,
passion" k as strong in a railroad smash
up, as in death itself. An excursion train
went from Chicago to Cincinnati over the
new route. One of the fair excursionists, a
very pretty young Illinois wife, purchased a
"lose of a bonnet" at Cincinnati. On . the
return trip, some fiends placed rails across the
track, and the train was thrown off, the En
neer very badly injured, and several ofte
passengers smashed and bruised. One of
those taken out, considerably crushed and al
most stunned, ICAB the young lady alluded O.
On recovering her senses, the second question
she asked was "Is my husband safer —this
first having been, " Where is lay bonneif"
.I Drink of Beer Forever.—Mr. Emersan,
in one of his lectures, tells a story to exem
plify the stability of things in England. If.
says, that William of Wyckham, about the
year 1130, endowed a house in the neighbor
hood of Winchester, to provide a measure of
beer and a sufficiency of bread to every one
who asked for it, forever; and when Mr.
Emerson was In England he was curious to
test this good man's credit, and he knocked
at the duur, preferred Ms request, and re
ceived his measure of beer and his quantum
of bread, though its donor had been dead RR)
years!
My-Little Johnny was the pride and pet of
his parente—a bright, blue-eyedsix year-old.
llis father, one morning, after reeding a
chapter in the Bible, asked him what a famine
was. His quick reply was, " a cob without
any corn on it."
llar" Maas Tom ! 3lass Tiittl Oh, Mass
Tow! howse Fgerine to get dowailjtekadder
" Come down the same way ysta4rent up,
you blockhead 1" replied the m ring
up to see what wns the matter.
" Do same way as I come up, M .
" Yes, ennfuund you! and don't me
any more."
• Well ; ill must, I mast!" and down came
the little darkey hettd-furemost.
Cannibals in the Frenrh Army.-:—A Novara
correspondent of die London Telegraph SST
that the Turcos, the African savages in the
French arwy, "make no prieouers; neither
take nor give quarter; use not only the bay
onet, but the teeth ; for some of the wretches
love to suck the blood of their foes. With my
own ears I heard one of the barbarians declare
that he liked the taste of Austrian bleed."
Wouldn't Part *With iler koopit.:•- • i e
Terre Haute (Ind.) jail was emptied of *hie
prisoners on Tuesday evening. Thy' dug
under the foundation of the jail and-tinkapat
out. A girl named Jane Waldron mae,the
only oaf ten who remained, and sho .
that else conld bare got away as - ettii
rest, but wouldn't gn because of the
of taking of her hoops to do it.
Itfirda. Mamma, Wag atm* by 1444127
tor, cri Out l • • ,„ 1 -
" Divil ed
take sae if am ea giafairiatithe
bat kilt ma or abl.tairiflais tilt, it af
ford ma great aasisfltetkon to hear thaellittio4
ita9 leamjetiforlgetw." : :
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of Ida.
Mr. Buchanan's Administtation. -
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