L. .L XX 1 •
FICERS OF COLL3IIBI t CO.
idea Judge—Hon. William Elwell.
itiato Judges .— Trm " err '
l'eter K. Ilerbein.
and Crk of Courts—Jese Coleman.
ter and Revorder—Jiihn U. Frdsza.
( Allen Mann,
tnissioners— -, John F. Fowler,
Montgomery Cole.
iff—Sumnel Snyder.
sorer—John J. Stiles.
Mini( Snyder,
litors- L. 11 Rupert,
John P. Hannon.
imissioner's Clerk—Wm. Krickhaum.
minis-loner's Attorney—E. 11. Little.
'ream ile Appraiser—Capt. (leo. W. Utt.
unty Surveyor—lsaac A. Dewitt.
strict Attorney—Milton M. Traugh.
rover---William J. 1 kyles.
my Stiperint.onlent—Chas. G. Barkley,
. r Internal Revenue—lL F. Clark.
John Thomas,
I
staid Assessor— S. J. H. Ikeler,
.1. S. Woods.
olleetor—Derdamin F. Hartman.
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'No Warm. %In , re• 110 is 11f0pnred to tI , RiIN op ro , vk
wing,,r •ict do rrpolr•
k with follorfor nod florp drO, nooff iho hoof! rod.
noblo lorfor, Mato° krep4 In bond BTiIVP,4 of
'mow loOtorfor and rtf,lt r, »fort* he will 1,0;i1 1111011
tk, COI Wltellit.,l-4,
1,, I a rani mechanic, and ite
IVotir4 It* uvh kpattoliage
Diuom*b4.s Rep , P. ISe4.—ly
JEW LIAM DIiLSSING SALOON,
A New flair Ato.t*thg, anti Ovine t 4 ttiohn.
t o oth opened to f 4.• tr 'row•
pow, yyb,..r.. Ail kings or work iu
1 , iotriletl.ift hue wlil ie• urxltY ;toot prikinittfy
nt-
Novo to It.littl.".l the ymthe Wfde 0( Ow Klte'et WWI
'I tl. (!( , tutu, thore is Iv) ri tho otrttot.
.trotttlit the to to, to et.t. to the ..hop,
Pair wok lototortettir , tl to t.rl• r. 1 tAitot wittlittot
hew boir dusted to Vi Ater tot . or otherwise, Witt
r withotzt r Mott, Witt bo ..ittettJell to by tt tatty, to
trotroto .Ipirtttoot
ryt. 11.1114.01.Wr the p'toth, M.llll Stott'', roar n r
tunzbrrger's 7obarrorttoto
Nuv.'44,1866.
ESPY HOTEL,
Espy, Colombia Co. Pa.
ha undoroigneil having beeottio onie proprietor et
'Oil. ireti known IMO efillvent, , tly trwtted !Wilt
pgpreathly Itatinft4 ht. frlenfio. 11/14 the pitittic fn
emtral, that in , ha, put too hou-e to complete order
er the ura unimoilation of iiiiiirdern, and for the ',cop.
ton and voi,riaotit , ` lit of trite. Tern who may feel
ispietiot to nivor it with their rilotoio. Nit ed 114.0..
11(16 been owed nt propurioe toot ITToI for tho opt«,
teinmcnl of etwo,to t fnn waffle* ohnii be woottpg, on
Ilk pit, to to their pr(Hatili C.10106 1 1L The
'newton no well an the building. t• a good one, and
alt tovstvt in amity urvwg-d to phqt”, Ih hoolie
MALL. :tII:3ILY.
ropy. April 11. lea ---tt
pLASTER FOR SALE.
The sn,!ersiguieJ is 001,3 fitting up a
it the PENN FURNACE MILLI, o wl unr to
IP. , put: tic ON iII:NPRIA) TONS LEST
Nelda Seelig" While rimier
pfnparnd malty far 111 , P to nunntitinf, to putt puffbal l
ere, at any t i me from tan tuut of Attrrb next
J.B. Nk.SINCII.
eatavvium, inn. 23. PIO
BOOT AND SHOE 6JlOl'.
OSCAR P. GIRTON',
Reapertfully informs the loathe that he is now - pre
rued to nwntiCidnin all kinds of
ftBOOTS AND SHOES,
a t d i p LOWEST 11,:m . blo: Pries
Cl short notice and in the very bent a n d Intvnt olvf«,
Mr. (WWII, in* 11. W*41400,0.11 in 414.,0ut,.b0rt0
had many yarn of liner....4(til rsiwri. net with a reis
otittion for good work, 1o:ropily and 11..110t4111e 4.1.!;&
mit tinoutpawd.
MP rive 011 Sollik kaet Comer of
Main and ovr.ir J. K. thrum . ' Stow.
11101 411 610 44. 11 0. Ni. lorA —tho
FORKS HOTEL
GEO. W. MALGER, Proprietor.
The ohcve welfk 'town lintel has recently under
gone radical changer, in it. Internal arruop4rneut•,
and Ira proprietor ontionores to bie former cloture
and the travelling public, tine lit* neriturindatirri
for the entiltort Or Ins Motel* ore a , raad to none iii
the country. Hie tante will alwaye ho found row
pried, not only with aulortantial food. but with al
the &Ileum, of the nea.on, ttu wine oarit ihpriirr
(alma, toot yalotear two-rade known an . .tictirery,'
purchaaed direct front the tumor:toe linnee , , are en
tirelv port., awl free ftt to polortratala artipt, He
is thankful for a iih , tal V:04'01444. 61i the OW, and
will continue to deserve it in the future.
IMMME=
Jun,: 13.10i-4—tr.
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31ACIIINE AND REI'AIIt SHOP.
TUI undersigned wand wort rerpertruhr so.
nouticto Ir, the ptl l llla genere , l,E. that he is prepared
to eseent , 1111 Hod,' of 11 Mil I Mt V, itt .11 100 . 1 i
SHARMA:SS' PoUNDIt V • IPoonletiorg, where he
ran el vests he toned reedy to do all tondo or 111/1111'.
in. in t i ' 0,111 0: `meshing ATi . hines, nod to *toot, nil
WWI , nl Fornitur, Vtenetl, A 1.: 40 . TOR VINO NO
SITING t't . cArlrtNo AND MACHINERY.
done on rhort notir , , in it good wort.iutoinhe woo
1101,. Upoll 1:111 most (4,41m(1111014 itlrtif r{.
ezperl , •neo 111 MI bari ,,, ll .00 fr/Tl l llllllllll
the shop oi lAwis N. Molls or this plum, for aver
nine yesr , ,, wer , wits bell In *tying that he ego give
eattre ratisf6r.tion to nit who 1110) tovor hint With
thigh work.
GLURGE lIAS2ERT
Bloomsburg, N0v.21,,
INVENTORS' OFFICES.
& EVANS,
Civil Engineers and Patent toolicitnra,
Nu, 435 W .11.". CT B'f 1114:T , Pn.t.aaairma
PATENTS solo ite..l—nere vele eit ion 8 on Coll neer int
Itrpott;tt iut and ttatclirs, Hotlet4 anti Madtitwry
11( atl ktatl, atitott .1(.11.1111y attended to Srai al
attmitton given to It EJLCTIII) CAtIES and I sTrit•
Aotrwiller copies of all DOCUIllentP
NOM rtkiettt. erffi re
N. h.--Save eisitte,it tt , ttiltle and trait'
glint eXttft.io.ts..t% t" , •rt, w o" nctuai need for person.
at %oh t 1.4. Alt bonnet.* with liittatt
cita eau be trim »a rt,..1 in wrsttae. For farther lorqr•
)nation 01 , 0 an above., with stamp eucluted for eir •
Olaf wtth rt.krette,ti.
April lei, l ,—ly.--J W.
FALLON HOUSE.
purchßsed 1h•
LOCK 11/114:31, Pa.,
tlPosty of r.. W. Moony, Esq., would sky to the
deaf the Howts, hos sequslotattotto, had tho pot)
ponitolly. that he toot nos to "twit ot litetsit t t
tto stossontwistions and comforts of a Honig
a antear aultrite attar patronage.
J.MIRK.
, Late of the Ntaalsort House O ,
rr
Ph tads pitta.
WI Haven, Ilse, *h. JOWL
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NISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
lea/ 11,1 w, late qf Centre num
' , fdtl,
o , llmlnletretion on the eetele of Leah
t:etitre Townitip, Columbia Gnat
an grunted by the itrelrter of
ph robe, roehlhon In the tosvnehlp
Selled. All pore.ne having Online en
%me 'lied 1u yreaent thomooloaa for
those Indebted to the eltete Mill
. VIM Wills iWaguilitutew.
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milere due niter the tirrt tit.wrigon,
tr 7. tWVICE.—in Mover Murk. COL ht SUMS and
Lon Streets,
Address, W. 11.14riltlY.
Mootreiborg, COI/01bn Ceitiity, Pa
Tine little fortn4 in the twilight grey,
Seanning the shadows neru 4 the way,
Six little eye,—lnur Llie..k. two 1,111.1-
1 rimful o r and hat.pineb.:, too,
fin. pa.
May, with her plapi , l and thoughtful brow,
fluvtlo fare beniiiiny viith brie just nu
Willie. the rogue. w loving and gay,
!....tetti.ilig 8 kiss from his sister May—
Wa telling for pa,
J !Mut: METZ
Sallie, with her ringids of sunny hue,
Cosfly nestled bast woi the two,
Pr''4lig Lureluaik against the window pane
Wishing the td, , ,ent one Wine again,
Watching. ho pa.
How they gaze at th pnrs by
''lles coming att last r they gaily cry,
'Try 11 , 3i11, my pet=, - eXatilllS
AlltiNt7llie add, -Piety's the ttilight 4tar,
Watching' for pa."
Jack nods and smile., a4z with bui feet,
Ile liglits the lamps in their quiet street ;
That sweet little grunp he knows full well,
May and with golden haired Sell,
Watching fur pa.
Soon joyous rhout ,, from the win,low Feat,
And ea,:or Vat* r fet.t ;
Gay tow-ival chime* ring through the hall ;
A manly eniee rwTotl , . to the call,
"Welcome, pa !"
triESTION3 FOR TILE VERI-
The following series of questions, taken
from the Pittsburg hat, are so poittted A tuni
pregnant with until, that see publish them
entire for the benefit of our I adital ('riend,..
Let all think:ng men read awl ponder :
Will a clear strk am flow from a nonhly
fountain? Will intelligent representatives
be chosen by ignorant ne , , , roes?
Do the people rule in this country ? Is it
necessary that rulers should know anything
either of political or moral duties?
Did the slave holler who drew the Dec
laration or the slave
holders who adopted it, think of ;legroom as
"men created their e q uals?" Did they not
omit, the word - white, - for the carne reason
that the liontans omitted front their laws
punishment of parricide ; because they never
thought of it, owing to the aboesniable na
ture and absurdity of the thing?
Does it requite any capability, to hear the
excitements, and wield the powers, and ex
ercise the responsibilities of self-govern
mutt? In answering this, does a constant
sense of the general corruption and weak
ness of white human nature from an essen
tial element? If so, is not the mental dif
ference in races also t o be taken into ac
count?
Is the negro equal to the Canoussian,
why has he always failed to profit bycontact
with advanced society,'and remained a bar
barian through more than three thousand
years intercourse with the highest civiliza
tion?
Is there not a natural law that prevents
the amalgamation of the black and white
raves ; which prevents propagation beyond
four or live generations; which also dhows
its forte in the feeble constitutions of the
hybrids?
Does not the brain rapacity of the skull
of the negro average 14 cubic inches less
than that of' the white man? Is not the
size of the brain the usual measure of men
tal strength ?
Did St, Paul contemplate the wiry, crisp
wool of the uegrem, when he aohmadshol
the women to let their hair grow long as a
coverinit and an ornament?
Did the Prophet, when he told men to
blush for their sins, have in mind the black
face of the negro which cannot blush?
Are not all the colored races upon earth
inferior to the white; and, of these races i s
not the negro the lowest ? Ts it not our duty
to use the reason God has given us, to judge
of the fitness of things—to ascertain the
groat moral and physical laws pertaining to
races, and when ascertained to respect them?
If it were intended pat the white should
mix with the black race, why was the one
made offensive to the se n ses of the other,
and why is the offspring incapable of per
petuation Y
When the negro is with the white man,
does he not fall naturally into the condition
of a servant? Is he not contented with it
Why then try to force him out of his natu
ral place, and shatter society in attempting
to do what is impracticable and rginous to
both races?
If the negroes of Alabamalnd Mississip
pi were transferred to Massachusetts, so as
to make them more humorous than the
whites, would the "pastime' surrender
their rights to the keeping of a negro ms
BLOO
THE
WATCHING FOR
'tik 4
SBURG, COL
jorky ? tho "pilgrims" like the odor of
negrues in hot weather, no that they would
wiA to mingle with them as social equals?
Woro not the Southern States loyal,
!modul i and prosperous, until annoyed,
persecuted and tormented by abolition ngi•
tutors from Now England 4 , 461 d would
they ever have thought of secession, but for
the long trespusses upon their constitutional
right ?
Is there such a thing as retributive justko
in the moral government of the world ? If
there is, is there not a long and fearful ac
count to sPttle with New Englund
it Stl
..o
When New England holds her political
advantages over the other States through
their reverence for the Constitution, is it
wise iu her to set aside, or to teach men to
du so, for any purpose whatsoever? If re•
speet for that instrument is lost, what guar
antee have we for the presrvation of any of
our rights? Dues not the whole strength of
our government consist in popular affection
and confidence? Can these be maintained
in any other way than by a strict observance
or the fundamental law; the careful main
ten:ince of every right guaranteed by it;
exampl e of obedience rot of by all in an.
th , oity ; and the c o e vi e t;., n , p roven by ex .
perienue, that the f4utelations of our tswial
system are laid on the broad basis of general
welbmeaning, without cetioual partiality?
Is it discreet ha those who live in glass
houses to throw stones at their neighbors ?
Should men with beams in their eyes occa
sion perpetual agitation about mutes in the
eyes of other peupla ?
As New En:rival ha. , run the u hole eoun
try wail alsou le .ro; involved U 3 in a
bloody war aliont him ; bolded. the nation
with de,it :on't Mtn; destroyed hundreds
or thousand+ of lives on hi:, ne:ount ; more
than doubled the cost of every neeeisary of
life in the same e..use; and uses hint as an
excuse for ktatnpiwr the Constitution in the
dust awl introducing every sort of danger
ous innovation in tioveriaiwnt, we res;,eet
ley call opal some of her modest unassum
ing tooth to give a candid answer to these
questions,. Will ti.intnet do it? Will Ban!,
do its Will Ben. Butler do it'? Will
nor/demi Bock-u-iwiow St, rens do it
Thwe are important questions—the whole
country would he glad to have them gravely
and :,atklltetorily ;towered that we may see
what we have la, tietiwt about, and for
whit our tight, and are still Pot
ardizeth
Suns of New England !" Pious de
seeirlant hof the rim Fathers!" MO-
D.,Fol;st, of all tnmality and political wis
dom ! step forth and true answers make;
enlighten the darkilt, of the other States.
We arc earnest in the call. We confide in
your wis4thort and rive due credit to the ND
rorial brow, to the broad phylacteries, and
to the itni osing gravity of your magisterial
rabbins and doctors in the cabala of negro
polities, negro rights and "great moral
ideas.'
Chips of the "Plymouth Bock r Ye
who arc so fond of reconstructing others,
beware that you do not, through slight or
our roques", bring reconstruction upon your
selves! Look to it--look to your twelve
Sonators representing no more people than
give us but two in Pennsylvania. You held
them under the sumo Con.titution you have
taught us to despise in running a muck for
the negro. Now show us that the negro is
worth all this sacrifice of constitution, blood,
tears, substance and taxation, or the hour
of your — reconstruction" is not far off.
As passion subsides and tempestuous war
feelings grow eaten, men begin to chafe un
der the burtheus they feel weighing them
down, and to enquire, who and what has
caused them. This gives rise to retrospee
tire views which fix the wilt upon New
England. tier propagandists of sedition
and disobedience appear first in the political
horizon—turning their back upon abound
ing domestic vices at home, rind iutermed
idling in others of lesser magnitude else
where. The result of their mischievous
work was the war and all the consequent
woes. Most of the missionaries of evil hail
ed from Boston. The outbreak of resent
ment was at Charleston.
Which is the gooier sinner of the two,
the man who ewers into a compact with
another, stipulating the guarantee of certain
rights, then interfering in the exercise of
those rights, &nonliving it as man-stealing.
barbarous, disgraceful, infamous, and mur
dering the agents in their pursuit; or the
other,.who resents this wanton disregard of
a solemn agreement, this violation of a
written compact, by such means and iu such
manner as he can command ? If the peo
ple of Boston believed in an overruling
power, who deals out rewards and punish•
meow to men on earth, with an impartial
hand, they would fear and look for Maud
ties worse than those which bad Charleston.
We, in Pennsylvania, occupy the ground
between those who provoked and those who
resented. If they alone had been the suf
ferers, we tshould have not a word to ray.
But none have suffered more from the mur
derous contest than we have. No state inv,
lost more of her sons; no one has wasted
wore of her substanou ; no ono is more
crippled in her business, and no one is more
heavily taxed, than Pennsylvania in con
mice of ate late Puritan crusade against
.. We wore drawn into the tight, ba
it became necessary in order to save
a Wulf, endangered by the mul•contents
k. anti south of us. We now have a
:ht to know who caused the war—to have
its guilty authors brought into the broad
light of day. If our questions are fairly
answered, the responsibility will be fixed in
the right quarter,
BIA CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1867.
The Brave novo In Ulue.
We all remember I
It seems but yesterday, that all over the
land hereaway newspapers were praising the
Brave Heys in Blue, while children, min
strels, 4leacons, divines, rich and !icor, were
loud in their professions of love to the de
fenders of their bone's,
When irod-shoil and catiponlodching war
held the country in a Niel', the Brave Boys
in Blue, were all the rage. They were feast
ed, toasted, iiradottl, kissed, caressed, eoffeed,
and decked lambs the sacrifice.
Flid the sobs of women, wives, mothers,
sisters, and sweethearts, they were sent to
the front, escorted to the ears and boats by
bands of music, and promised all sorts of
honors on their return.
Every Brave Boy in Blue was a shield to
the loyal stay-at-home agitators. Every one
sent by money, entreaties, appeals to patri
otism, or ether lingual device, was a safe
guard to those who remained behind. Whin
ing canters, pulpit-routers, stay-at-home
bowlers of loyalty, molibers of Democrats
and Dettiocratie minting offices, negro loving
old maids, and others of both sexes, bad
touch to say for the Brave Bo„}-. in Blue, and
42.0110' the shoddy-cum-shoddy over the
tints they had dressed for mutilated honors
to a wonderful extent. lie who would not
join the blue mass was called a traitor, cow
ard, and hater of his country. Ile who
would flirsake friends, property and ,the
eeniferts of the family hearth to join the
abolition crusade for power, cotton, negroes,
mules, and other disguised ob
jects of the late war was hailed as a brave
OWE
He was to he loved and honored.
Ilis family was to be eared for.
Ills children were to he educated.
His wife was to be waited upon to the re
plenislaine of larders, and a fuel pile.
Ills entre, if he fell, was to be decked
with flowers at all seasons of the year.
His stumps were to be supplied with
wooden limbs.
His hospital bcd was to be .supplied with
lic as to be welcome,' home by girls with
Littocis and wrouthe:. of rop...A.
111 ttas to be nustduated for offke, and
voted
Ile was to let the returned fern—smiour
of his countly, and tha chief among ten
thou.-and abolitionist-i. And we remember
that dw , who questioned the honesty of
those who made all these professions of
goodness, and who a-hel respectfully that
the war be hurried to a dose, were denounc
ed as towards, traitor 4 and enetel.-s to the
soldiers. When we chided those who pro
longed the war and turned it from its origi
nal course when we oNected to having
thousands of brave men slain by i neom p e .
tent officers, in raids for property, and who
said the object of the war waist to divide
rather than restore the Union, the Brave
Boys in Blue were filled with lies and evil,
spirits, and urged to destroy at once those
who were their best friends.
The past came and went.
Thu profwed patriots swept the hind of
volunteers. The Brave Boys in pl oe h ave
returned; but they come not as the con
ilmnror tames. They were not welcomed
back—no aims of girls, garlands of
faney halls, avalanches of kisses greeted
them. One by one, two by two, well and
kick, whole and shattered, lame and dying,
they came to their homes es stragglers in
blood go to the rear of the agony of battle
The loyal shouters have forgotten the
Brave 11oys in Blue. They have no Aloes
flit. them. They have no votes to them.
Officers rich front their stenlings, who are
able to buy and control delegations, receive
nominations. They are tiiverites of the
ranters and the canters and the Itumpites ;
while the true Brave Boys in Blue, who
fought the battles are forgotten already.
They are nut wanted now. The negro and
the bondholder are now worshipped, and the
soldiers of the land can work with one leg
or two, with one hand or both to redeem
their farms from taxes heaped thereon by
the stay-at-hinnes, while they were fighting,
and to support the negro, the bondholder
and the thieving officer, who enriches hhn
self and relatives at the expense of the
blood and brat ery of the country.
Brave Boys in Blue, as you gather your
halrelail little ones about you—as you labor
to pay taxes—as you go steadily to your
graves with heavy hearts and calloused
palms—think of these things, and tell us
if those who -made you such specious prom
ises have kept faith with you or the peo
ple !
Bravo ]toys in Blue—soldier—working
man —tax-payer—think of these things, and
I think of them well.—gin. ;Haft ti inquirer.
TIIE WARM HAND OF
we have reflected on it, we are scarcely
uware how much the sum of human happi
ness in the world is indebted to this one
feeling—sympadw. We get cheerfulness
and vigor, we scarcely know how or when,
from mere association with our fellow-men,
and from the looks reflected on us of glad•
ness and enjoyment. We catch inspiration
and power to go on, fromJ►aviug others by.
The full family eircle has a strength and a
I:te peculiarly its own. The substantial good
and the effectual relief which men extend to
one is trifling. It is not by those, but by
something fur less costly, that the work is
done. G. has insured it by a much more
simple machinery. He l►as given to the
weakest and poorest power to contribute
largely to me common stock of gladness.
The child's smile and laugh are mighty
powers hi the world. When bereavement
I)EMOC AT.
has left you desolate, what substantial ben
elk is there which makes condolence accept•
able? It cannot replace the loved ones you
have lost, It can bestow upon you nothing
that is permanent. But a warm hand has
touched yours, and its thrill told you And
there wan a living response there t-, ;our
emotion. Ono look, ono human sigh, has
done inure for you than the costliest present
could confer.—Thoughts fur Weary flours.
Live Withiu Your Means.
We don't like etimtiness. We don't like
"economy" when it . - tea down tai rags and
starvation. We have no sympathy with the
notion that the poor man should hitch him
self to a post, and stand still while the rest
of the world MOWN forward. It is no man's
duty to deny himself of every amusement,
every luxury, every recreation, every cum
! fort, that he may get rich. It is no man's
1 duty to make an iceberg of himself —to shut
his eyes and ears to the sufferings of his
fllows---antl to deny himself the enjoyment
that results from generous uetions--merely
that he may hoard wealth for his heit's to
quarrel about.
Dot there is yet an economy which is ev
ery nian's duty, and which is especially com
mendable in the man who struggles with
poverty—an economy which is consistent
with happiness and whieli must bc practiced
it' the poor man would secure independence.
It is every man's privilege, and it becomes
his duty to live within his means ; not up
to, but within them. Wealth does not
make the ICAn, WC adroit, and should never
he taken into the account, itt our judgment
.1' men. 11.1trOI1IIctecr0 should be sjured
wlwit it eau 1 ; and it almost always eau be,
by the practice of economy a n d self-dcnial
to only a luktUbli. extent, It should be se
etmel, not so much for others to look upon,
or to raise us in the estimation of others, as
to secure the el or indepe n dence,
that is derived front acquirententi and pos
session.
We would like to impress this single fart
upon the mild of every laboring HISCIA who
may peruse this short artier:—that it is pos
sible for him to rise above poverty, and that
the path to independence, though beset with
toils an 'l self- savrilkes, is each more pleas
ant to the traveller, than any one he can
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enter upon.
The WWI who feels that he is earning
something more than he is spending, will
walk the swims with a much heart,
and enter his home with a much more cheer
ful countenance than he who spends as he
10.4, or falls gratin:Ally behind his necessities
in lettniring the m ea ns or ►neetie g them.
Next to the .4avery of intemperance, there
is no slavery on earth more galling than that
of poverty and indebtedness. The man who
is everybody's debtor, is everybody's slave,
and in a mull worse em.(Ltiun, than he who
serves a single master.
For the sake of the present, then as well
as for the oake of the future, we would most
earnestly urge upon every working man to
live within his means. Let him lay by some
thing every day—if but a penny be it a pen
ny—it is better than nothing ; infinitely Let
ter than running in debt, a penny a day, or
a penny a week, lf he can earn a dollar,
let him try fairly and faithfully, the experb
went of living uu ninety cents, lie will like
it.
-People will laugh." Let them laugh.
"They will cull me stingy." Better call you
stinzy than say you do not pay your debts.
'They will wonder why I do not have bet
ter furniture, live in a finer house, awl at
tend concerts and the play house." Let
them wonder, tbr a ,vhib , ; it won't hurt
them, and it certainly won', you. By and
by, you eau have a fine house, awl fine fur
niture of your own ; and they will wonder
again and aroma billing and cooing around
you, like KW many pleased tools, Try the
experiment. Live within your means.
The Taxes on Farmers.
The following is very important to farm
ers, and the decisions have recently been
given by the Commissoner of Internal Itev.
enue at Washington :
I st. Farmers will not be required to make
return of produce consumed in their own
immediate families.
The flirmer's props from the sale of
live stock are to be found by deducting from
the gross receipts for animals sold, the pur
chase money for the same. If animals have
been lost during the year by death or rob
bery, the purchase money paid for such ani
mals may be deducted from the gross income
of the liu•m.
3d. No deduction can be made by the
farmer for the value of services rendered by
his minor children, whether he actually pays
for such services or not. If his adult chil
dren work for him and receive compensa
tion for flair labor, they are to he regarded
as oilier hired laborers in determining his
income.
4th. Money paid for labor, except such as
is used or employed in domestic service, or
in the production of articles consumed in the
family of the producer, may be deducted.
6th. No deduction can be allowed in any
ease for the cost of unproductive labor. Ir
house servants are employed a portion of
the time in productive labor, such B 3 the
making of butter and cheese for sale, a pro
portionate amount of the wages paid them
may be deducted.
6th. Expenses for ditching and clearing
new land are plainly expenses for permanent
improvement, and not deducted.
7th. The whole amount expended for fer
tilizers applied during the year to the farm
er's land, maybe deducted, but no deduction
is allowed for' hrtilites produced oe the
farm. The cost of seed purchased fur sow
ing and planting may be deducted.
Bth. If a persor► sells ti►uber, standing,
the profits are to be obtained by estimating
the value of the land after the removal of
the timber, and from the su►n thus obtained,
deducting the estimated value of the land
on the first day of January, 18112, or on the
day of purchase, if purchased Nino: that
data.
911. Where no repairs have been made by
the tax-payer upon any building owned by
hint during the preceding five years, noth
ing can be deducted during the year for
which its income is estimated.
farmer should make return of all his
produce sold within the year, but a were
executory contract tiara rate is not a sale;
delivery, either actual or constructive, is es
sential. The criterion by which to judge
whether a sale is complete or net is to de
termine whether the vender still retains in
that character a right over the property ;
if the property were lost or destroyed, upon
which of the parties, in the absence of any
other relation between them than that of
the vender and vendee, would the loss fall?
Pennsylvania Legislature.
Maeshane. the Harrisburg correspondent
of the Cambria Freeman, makes the follow
ing references to the members, hi his last
letter
Our African friends, or the sons of Ham,
are getting in better odor every day. This
has been literally demonstrated in the fact
that for President, in 100, Abra-hung Lin
coln and Hannibal Hamlin were duly elect
ed. The former was re-elected, but the hat- I
ter was dripped, and Andrew Johnson with-
out a ham elected, and the rads suffered
terribly by it,
Allegheny County is represented in the
lleoate by Bigham and Graham, and be-
firecn the hams she is well talon care of
former has been elected twice, wide!)
subjects his constituents to the charge 41
E. L. Jones, son of Hon. J. Glancy
Jones of Beading, is the youngest member,
and, by the way, a young man of.auell I
promise. Morrow B. Lowry is the West
member. Ile is always calm, and yet al
ways ruffled. lie is eccentric in his move•
!mints, and nu man knows what the —mor
rew may bring fiirth."
Samuel C. Wingard, Esq,, of Lyemning,.!
formerly of Cambria, is regarded as the ' I
most eloquent man in either branch, and
Peter F. Collins, of Cambria, is the best !
looking man in either branch. By the way, I
Schuylkill county bas the
!lowest represen- !
balm', her three members in the House
measuring eighteen feet SIX. inches. Dr.
of Schuylkill county. has thelung
e-t nose of any member and John J. Glass,
of Cambria, had the shortest seat.
William A. Wallace, of Clearfield is the
hest Parlinientarian, Mr. William Jenks, of
Jefferson, the best logician, and Mr. Davis,
of Berk•, the most ready debater. Mr. Pil
low, of Butler, is the softest member, Mr.
Mann. of Potter, the talkiest member, and
Rev. Mr. Kennedy, of Wyoming (and Sus
quehanna) the greatest humbug.
Ilan. Louis W. hall, speaker of the Sen•
ate is quick, but always trunk and candid,
and i, considered the Han of the Senate,
Mr. Glass, speaker of the House, is active,
and energetic, but one of the members from
the same county is called Sloe!:.
Neck-twisting In Church
A good story is told of an eccentric old
parson, who was sorely annoyed by a habit
his rople had acquired (and which prevails
by-the-way, in all other churches, even now
and hereabouts to some extent) to twisting
their necks around every time anybody en
tered the door, and passed up the aisle of the
meeting house, to see what manner of per-
Eon it might be.
Wearied with the annoyance, the old man
exclaimed one Sunday:
"Brethren, it you will only cease turning
your heads round whenever the door opens,
mid will keep your attAntion on me, I will
promise to tell you, I's I preach Who it is
that comes in."
Accordingly he went on with the services
and presently made a stop as one of the dea
cons entered, saying—
" That is Deacon—, who keeps the gro
cery opp
And then he announced, in turn, the ad
vent of each individual, proceeding the while
with his sermon ascomposedly as the circum
stances would admit, when at last a stranger
came in, when he cried out—
"A little old man in green spectacles, and
drab overcoat—don't know bim—you can all
turn round and look for yourselves this time."'
It is hardly necontry to add thatthe good
man carried his point, and there was but lit
tle neck twisting seen in his congregation af
ter that day.
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When Franklin was ambassador to
the French court, a lady, who was about be
ing presented to the king, noticed his exceed
ingly plain appearance, and asked who he
was. On being told that he was Dr. Ben-
Jan►in Franklin, the American ambassador,
she exclaimed,—
"The North American ambassador so
shabbily dressed I"
"Hush, Madam, tbrheaten's sake," whis
pered a friend, "he is the man that bottles
up thunder and lightning."
aS A Smith, who was *sod from a
New York and Albany steamboat for selling
his state room at a premium, has midis.
ad in law his right to do so, and gat a var►
diet of 14,400 for Wag put of the boat
Inhabitants of the Unman Body.
Whet think you, reader, of your body be
ing a planet inhabited by living races, as we
inhabit the earth? Whatever may be your
thoughts on the eubject it is even so. Your
body is but a home for parasites, that crawl
over its surface, burrow beneath its skin,
nestle in its entrails, and riot and propagate
in their kind in every corner of its frame.
The sensation in regard to trnehina iu swine
flesh has set the scientific to "knocking their
heads together," and the result is the fol
lowing facts : Parasites not only inhabited
the bodies of all animals used by it as food,
but they are also limed in abundance in our
own organization. The species trachina
spiralis, of which so much has been said,
and whose existence has been discovered in
pork, is found in almost every muscle of the
human body. It lies along the fibres of the
muscles, enveloped iu little cysts or sacs
about one-limrth of an in:it in length. It
can be distinctly seen and examined only by
the use of rho microscope. Pruluesor Woud,
of Philadelphia, says : "No evidence has
;et been produced of any morbid influence
exerted by the traehina upon the system
during life. They have been Lund in sub
jects carried off by sudden death (accident)
and in the midst of health." An English
authority raye : "It is a notorious fact that
the numerous parasites do crawl over our
surface, burrueeLeneath our skin, nestle in
our entrails, and riot and propagate their
vuoic.i iii every corner of our frame. Nearly
a score of animals belengieg to the interior
of the human body have already been dis
covered and described, and scarcely a tissue
or an organ but is occasionally profitned by
their inroads. Each also has its special or
favorite domicil. species of strangle
chooses the heart for its dwelling placer,
another inhabits the arteries, a third the
kidneys. 3ljriads of minute worms lie
coiled ue in the voluntary muscles, or in the
snider tissue that mimeses tiei fleshy fibree.
The guinea worm amid the chi e ue bore
through the skin and reside in the subjaceut
vertieular membrane. Ilyatids invest vari
ells parts of the body. but especially the
liver and the brain. A little fluke, in gen
eral appearance much like a flounder, liver
steeped in gall in the biliary vessels. If you
squeeze front the skin of your nose what
is vulgarly called a maggot=-the euntents,
namely one of the hair Wicks—it is ten to
one that you will find in that smell sebacious
cylinder several auinsileelie, exhibiting un
der the microseope, a tali it/11.'311d complicated
structure. Even the eye has its living in
mates. With this knowledge uS our emu
ee-ition, it matters bet little how many en
niza we consume, so long as we do not see
them ; it is nothing more than all ages have
done before us. We might with as much
propriety refuse to drink water, which, how
ever pure, is fairly alive with animaleuke, as
to refuse to eat meat because it exhibits,
under the microscope, omen.
Swallowing an Eye.
A country gentleman with only one natu
ral eye, the other being a glass one, happened
to arrive in St. Louis some time last week,
and registered himself at a small lodging
house not far from the Pacific Railroad
depot. Being very tired from travel he
went to bell early. carefully taking out his
glass eye anti putting it into a tumbler of
water on the washstand to keep it bright fur
the next morning. Later in the evening,
while our friend was cond4tubly snoring,
another traveler arrived, and the house be
ing very full, was shown into the same room
which our country friend occupied. This
new corner had drank a great deal of wine
during the eight, and soon after having
blown out the candle and retired to bed he
felt an unquenchable thirst. Su lie got up
as well as he could, and groping his way to
the washstand filled up the tumbler to the
brim and swallowed it at a gulp—glass, eye
and all. Early in the morning our one-eyed
friend arose, and to his mat astonishment
found his glass eye missing. Be was euro
he had put it into the tumbler. Rat it evi
dently was not there. It never occured to
him that it might be in his fellow lodger's
stomach. So he dressed himself, took his
breakfast, paid his bill and went up town 'to
purchase a new eye.
Meanwhile the other lodger tossed uneasily
to and fro in his bed, groaned heavily, and
felt decidedly uncomfortable. About nine
o'clock he awoke with a decided bellyache.
He rang for the servants and ordered a
doctor. The doctor came and suggested,
"Drank too much !" Lodger looked guilty
and agonized. Meanwhile the symptoms
grow worse, and the doctor ordered a pint
of purgative seltzer water, and went after
some other patients. Our unhappy friend,
however, found the pains in his stomach in
crease to such a terrible extent that he grow
half crazy. Half the hotel rushed up into
his room, and after a general consultation,
a neighboring barber was called in to admin
ister a *sten The barber, after a careful
etamination of the patient, concluded that
he had swallowed some hard substance. An
emetic was administered, and lo and behold I
the glass eye was thrown up, to the yell
astonishment of' the traveller.
sir We have hoard of the w4ty reply
of a slave who had stolen and eaten one of
his master's turkeys, when he was accused
of the crime. He repelled all idea of wrong
saying that "mma's property only changed
form ; he has less turkey, but more
or A widow lady sitting by a.ohoerthl
Eire in a meditative moo& shortly after bet
usload's decease, sighed out: Poor fel
low—bow he did like a good Are I I hops
be has gone where they keep good fires."
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