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VOL. XXXI.
OFFICERS OF COLUMBIA CO.
President Judge-111m. William Elwell.
Associate Jud , ert— bin I " T '
Peter K. Delimit,.
Proth'y and Cl' k of Courts—Jerre Coleman.
Register and nettorder—Jelm G. Freeze.
( Allen )Irma,
Commissioners— ) Jelin F. Fowler,
Montgomery role.
Sheriff—Samuel Sityder.
Treasurer—John J. Stiles.
I hulk! Snyder,
Auditors— B Rupert,
dolin Hannon.
Colllllllitsioner's Clerk—SVui, Kt kg:llama.
Commissioner's Attorney—E. 11. Tittle.
Mercantile Appraiser—Capt. Oen. W. Utt.
County Surveyor—lmac A. Dewitt.
District Attroney—Milton M. Traub.
Coroner—William J. Ikeler,
County Suptwintendent- -Chas. G. Barkley,
Asttesort Internal ReVvilit—ii. F. Clark.
John Thomas,
As,istant Absosur—' "• "oiler)
11.1keler
I J. S. Wood:.
Collector—Benjamin F. Hartman.
NEW STOVE AND TIN SlioP.
oval AI v ATP CCM(LP,A 1Z V OPPoS
id I L LEH'S STo C.) IMU NI Is I.; It PA.
THE undersigned itus j•iet fitted tip, and opened,
his naa
STOVE 111 N TI N '41101",
in 004 on, WllerellB 111 prepared to make up new
Ttr. W4itr. kinds itt Ms line, and do repair.
with neatioani nut ilinviteh, amu the most tea.
sonithle rams. Ile also keeps Col hand Ml 4 IVES al
tarious pattern* and style*, which he will sell upon
term* to suit totrehawirs.
thy, tJ4b H. lb, is a gno4 Meefltitik, and del
orving of du toihtte indroinle.
JACOU METZ.
Mown4tritrt, Sept. S,
1/LISTER FOR SALE
The undorsigitett {IA alto% fitting 41 , , a,
PLASTLZ gAll
at the PENN IlittNACI: X 111.! S, ortl tall utr,t to
the public I 'll.lN$
Novia Sr°lia l'lnoster
prepared ready r ii r iise in In «nit purvii3s
en, yt any imp! filet .4 Awl* nett.
J. S. 1.,;.,41tiei1.
4.ll,tawiqout, inn...l. 1807
BOUT A:NJ) 61101,;:i1101'
OSCAR P. fall/ x,
nr‘pocifolly Worms fho pihhc tlmt its is POW prc
pureed to notooliwure all !iia* of
sm BOOTS AND SHOES,
rah. at the LO WEST ;
in short tot Ire and in the very beat and latent atvt.n.
sit. Girton, Oa to well.k now n in tnnoweitre.) ha
bad many 'enrol et inteeea4fol elperh Ore with a rep
utation for tool( work, integrity and lemorahle deal.
uta tincirpanaed.
Lir Marn bu.invia on South linld Corner of
Math and Iron etremr, over J. K.liirton's Store.
Uloontsbarg. 00. 10. lean
1' OltX ll YFEL,
GEO. W. MAUER, troprietor.
TO ' Whore well 11111.WO 11001114 N feeollitY under
iNtle Indic - at chtlheue in iI I internal urrutututut,ut.,
and 114 In f Trft'i ., r ettoooneee to his runner eitt , tutt:
and the ttavellitig public that time areouttaitlutiuu4
for the cootlortof bier plug* are ...Tuna to u,mn tu
the country. lib+ tattle Wilt at Wye tot thutut 11141
plied, not owl) with ellesimitial Owl, but wile 31
the dollen...tee of tiot eeeolo, itta tv,rtu ae,l 11,140 rt
(creeps Mot ' , fernier Ouvuuligll k :tow u 'JP
petetiewull dints thou Cm 1111110001 e %loose, i4te
fr , to ell poitrntona drugs, flu
thaulaut for e lieu rat to!I :Image in the h:111, au.:
wilt centime to Jest:feu, II to The totore.
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June: 11.
AND Sllol'.
THE underpinned walla most reopectfully an•
nonce to the pnhttn eenernils, that he is prepared
to execute nit Minh; of MACHINE:UV. at JOsiTil
titlAftfi.Uto CGVAINtY .is thooniehurg. where he
tan Own} s be foiled read) , to do ait kinds of repair
ing. iiieluding Threshing dtu. Mime, and in short, eft
mode of ruining 1.1. 'wile. ALSO. TritNlNit AND
rills(' Ur OF CASTING ANS MACIIINI ST
Sow, shirt notice, in a Bond work inautiau wan
tier, upon the most renennithiu terms.
Hie long experience in the business, as foreionn lu
the ono of Level* 11. Maus of tinepisee, for over
nine ram warrants him sly log that he can cite
entire satisfaction to till who inty testa hint tvdb
heir work.
Blonnishurgr. Nov 111, MAP,
crvilmr, lIASsMIT
FALLON HOUSE.
Ttlt Pulwriber having' put clia4vd the —rano:,
Muie." In
LOCK VIA VIL 111, Pa.,
property of R. W. Manny. 14n., woold any to the
'frothier ttte Homo., tua iiegUnillttitlCCP.llllo put)
he generally, thes he amen& to Ozer* it How,
With the acemotoodetiont nod comforta of n
Witt humbly #oltrits ttwir putrortsw.A.
J. t) MAK IRK.
Late a the hin.tinott itilqAtt, Ph Oath:loin.
Loek 'lnnen, Dec, Itt,
MISS LIZZIE PETERMAN,
w.mtd otiononet to Ut' Imhof art Ittnnitt.burg nn
the public ivootolly, that Ate has just teemed from
the eastern epees her
Spring and Summer
Mock of
MILLINERY GOODS,
eorsisting of all artirie s isotropy found in first elas4
finery Stores. Her goods are of the y
among the mind handsome and aharapext to the
et. Cell and examine thi, youi or M.
7 111 rim
ohnlty should pmehase !Ismehme trimm eXHalin •
two peteriona's stock 01 gond*. nonnete made
*AT. on the shortest notice. or repaired.
ern Stain street. 3,1d0t below the store of
Metidewhall 4: Rupert.
alltiphaharg, May ill, unz,....tf,
EW TOBACCO STORE.
11. 11. 11UNSBERGER,
Main Strait, below the "Anon-icon M o use,"
Where he ki th * on hood, end ternimiss is, the hom e
vaid coral? stude, a t (lowest) prices,
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WAND PLUG TOBACCOS,
IMPOKTRDCIGAR all kinds of
N G TOD 4CCO,
and Briny Wuod Pipes, and all
An his *rude.
l'lArtil dealers in cigars and chew.
Ito well to its e hint n ran, in
cities for every tinkle they
Noe country pedlars.
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IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY IN
IIImoBSIIVRIL PA., BY
WILLI tiIIISON ii. JACOBI%
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11;3'• No Pop , ' oli.relltitotietl.ilinll all littlettagee
etc pale eXrelot at the oplott tor the editor,
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Contrt^t,
tittrittess Notre -Pr, without advertisement. twenty.
cells per
Er ' , sleet advertisements payallin in ads once MI
nth., tine otter tits• arra norertinn.
11-7/. • wrii:E: —ln gkilivu' Moe*, Cut. of Won dun
lrep nr..psp,
Addreg•, W. H. JACOUY.
cHnoutohoig. (Wow,' Cu DIY. P 4
'm growing. oil ; I cm growing
Long years of meniorie deviate,
As plain a, trial- was ever told,
I've ..pent or lire my lariroq share ;
limo plows his I'o !Tows on my thee,
And makes his wrinkles on my brow.
Faeh year seems gone with swifter pace,
And se mts but a short season now.
I 'in growing old; I'm growing' old,
My litn;”: twivc slower than beihre,
My Jones their strength no longer hold ;
No re.t, tor ett ,, e, can e're restore,
Tin' failittx eye, the hiltering tread,
The si:ver threads amongst my hair,
And hairless spots upon ner 11? ad,
I. 'ln I.:nwing old they ali declare.
I'm growing. : in growing olds
The child that sits upon my knee,
Around my neck his arms enfold
And calls tuts hi- own tirand-PaPY,
A wah,m up the startling truth,
That. I ant growing aged fw.r.
And with tow childhood and my youth,
M 1 manhood, too, will soon be past.
I ' lll growing old ; I in growing obi,
I•that will Et ach my journey's viol,
110 r tiniuk lv have the seasons rolled ?
II ,w unlit of liro I might amen 1.
Yet still mu* hope is left for we,
()He consolation still is riven,
Though I am growing old I see,
If right with Gml, I'm nearer !leaven
diffklu of "
The Egyptians adored the eat as a divin
ity, and the Swis ,, has chosen it as the sym
bol of liberty. History rarely condescends
to mention it, and po, , ts in general i g nore it,
for, however vahml,le it, fi n alities, the eat
i- n«t p , wrieal. Yet tlohl,mith has given it
a plat.," in hi, "Hermit."
tuned ~ ,yurplthetie mirth,
Its tricks the kitten tries
The cricket eltirrupo in the hearth ;
The crackling fagot flies.
It is a common thing enough to call men
''tlogs,'' but Volumuilt
calls them "eats." In speaking, of her son
she says
'Twas you incensed the r a hlde ;
Cats ! that can judge as fitly of his worth,
As I can or those mysteries which Heaven
Wiil nut hate earth to know.
As to the "brindled cat'' that mewed
thrice Is..l;tre the three witches in `'Macbeth"
entered the ewe, we em only applaud
Shakespeare's goad taste in giNing her the
precedence in that grand scene.
For neatly a thousand years Western
Clr:•;tetelom searoely know the blessings of
OAS ; 1101 V the tats and mice were kept
down when no fuerfoo,ed policeman patrol
ed the kitchen is IninT 11/11 we can guess.
I n th e tenth ;tad eleventh centuries very
high prima were given 14 good mousers.
They were of Nubian origin, and descended
from those domestic eats which the Egyp
tians ecria:nly possessed, which exist in our
own clay in the form of mummies, and are
r: presented on many monuments of Thebes.
No one knows how they found their way in
to Europe ; but there is reason to b e li eve
that the liOntans imported them front the
banks of the Nile in small number.; and at
rare intervals. Our ancestors had so high
a sense of the I;sefulness of this animal that
newel Alta, Or !towel the Good, inserted
among his laws one expressly concerning it.
The price of a {titling harem it could see
was to be a penny, and when it had killed a
mouse, twopence• ll' its hearing or seeing
was imperl'ext, it' it had not whole claws,
did not go on killing mice, or proved a bad
mother, the seller was to forfeit to the buy
er the third part of its value. If any one
stole or killed the eat that guarded the
princes granary the fine he bad to pay was
a mileh ewe, with her lamb and fleece, or as
much wheat as would cover the cat when
held up by the tail with its head touching
the floor. No reduction was to be made.
The very tip of pussy's tail must becovered
with tae culprit's wheat. Thus, the price
given for eats was high, considering the
value of specie at that period and the fact
of laws being made to protect the breed of
en animal which multiplies so fast, shows
that in the Middle Ages it must Lave been
scarce in wales.
Stir A man habitually finding fault, ha
bitually on the alert to detect folly or vice,
without ever bestowing a thought on what
soever things are true and lovely and of
good report, is as nobody would choose to
deny, morally halt and maimed. One half
of his faculties and that the most powerfW
half, is paralysed and useless. He is like
land wbioh produce nothing but thistle and
bramble'.
VasaNaos, always on
than at any tabor
NTERD.
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at Moyer's Drug
od Liver 011,
' Moyer's Drug
call it NNW'
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RATES ('F MM . :1111MM).
lAA LINE A CoIASTIIIITE A Aht7 ARV
11,r the Daniaywit.
I'A G 2011 IN OLD.
Y RAVEN
same+tlWW About bunker.
There FCCIIVI to be an unusual abundance
of snakes in all parts of the country this
year. For several weeks past we have hard
ly taken up a rural exchange without finding
mention of the killing of ono or more rep
tiles, or an account of persons being bitten
by them. We have already an account of a
huntsman fight with ``blue racers' on
South Mountain, Maryland ; of an attack
on mother and child in Marion County,
Ohio, by snakes of the same spcuies ; of
the death of a child not far front Terre
Haute by a snake bite ; of' the killing of a
largo rattlesnake in West Springfield, 314:41.,
and other instances of the name kind. A
few days ago a child, while picking berries
near Cleveland, Minn., was bitten by a
rattlesnake, and died soon afterwards ; Mrs.
Judge Corwin, of Urbana, while at a pie
nie the other day, was bitten by a rattle
snake, but recovered. On Wednesday of
last week a rattlesnake measuring fuur feet
and a half in length was killed at Pithole,
Pa. The reptiles are said to be numerous
in that vicinity during the present summer.
The Lanark B rano. says that tw ►
snakes were killed recently at that place, by
raiilroad haiols. One was a rattlesnake,
with eighteen rattles ; the iglor a blue ra
cer, five feet lung and the thickness of a
man's wrist.
Near Lacon, 111., 31r. Samuel Bickel saw
a rattlesnake four feet long coiled up in the
gras4, which he sought to capture by catch
ing it by the tail, but in the effort got severe
ly bitten in the hand. A neighbor fartun
ately had a supply of whiskey, of which be
drank three quarts befOre feeling its effect•
Ilia entire arm was b►dly swollen, and turn
ed black to the shoulder, but no other ill of
followell.
The Convord (N. II.) Stalemate says
that a snake, four and a half feet in length
and with cloven rattles, was killed on the
23rd ult., in Allenstown, N. 11. A black
snake six feet in length, as we learn from
the Layfayette (ha) ju ffeivii i was
in the !Midi part of Ihat city on Saturday.
We learn, also, that some or the residents
of the outskirts of Loveland, twenty-three
miles front Cincinnati, on the Little Aliaira
Hadrin], have been greatly pestered with
black snakes during the present summer.
The Greek Bed.
I do not know that there is any form of
, bedstead, from the four-poster to the French
which may not be Ibund described by wri
_
term or represented in works of art. Ulys
ses manufactured one for himself, of olive
wood inlaid with gold and ivory. The bed
rested sometimes on boards laid across the
frame, or thonzs of oxhide stretched over
low a trAlwr, or in a network. Plato speaks
of bedsteads made of solid silver : Athe
wells describes them as made of ivory and
embossed with beautifully wrought figures ;
and Lucian has them veneered with Indian
tortoise shell, inlaid with gold. In Thelmaly,
beds were stuffed with fine grass. Accord
ing to Authemouq, effeminate gentleman
sometimes slept on beds of sponges. Fash
ionable people in Athens slept under cover
of peacock skins with the feathers on.
Clean+ 11A, the author of a treatise on sleep,
describes the bed of a Paphian Prince in
such a way that one can hardly keep his
eyes open while reading it. "Over the soft
mattressesses, supported by a silver-footed
beAstead was flung a short-grained Sardian
carpet of the most expensive kind. A cov
erlet of downy texture siteeceileJ, and upon
this was east a costly counterpane of Amor
ginian purple. Ca-bions, variegated with
the richest purple, suppor led his head ; while
two soft Darian of pale pink gently
raised his feet."
One of the greatest improvements intro
duced by the Greeks into the art of sleeping
was the practice of undressing before going
to bed—a thing unheard of until hit upon
by their inventive genius. Bed coverings
were often perfumed with fragrant CASCIICC9
from the East. Counterpanes were not on
ly perfumed, but embroidered with figures
of animals and men. The luxury of lazi
ness was celebrated by Ephippus :
"How I delight
To roll upon the dainty coverlets,
Breathing, the perfume of the rose, and
steeped in tears of myrrh !"
Theners it us speak of
1 1',.rpets of purple, softer far than sleep,
Woven in 3ldesiun looms."
NEARLY A V!CTIM. —A fashionable young
lady of Milwaukee, who was ambitious to
shine as the belle of.ht r circle, nearly fall a
victim to her vanity, last week. She had
heard that arsenic was a beautifier, and rc•
solving to be an arsenic-eater, she procured
a supply of the poisonous drug. Not
knowing the quantity that could be safely
taken, however, she used too much for the
first dose, and her friends were alarmed by a
supposed attempt at suicide until the victim
in an interval from violent siekne&s, was en
abled to give an explanation. A fatal result
was averted by the skillful attentions of the
physicians, and the patient is in a fair way of
recovery'
ter Old Cooper is a dutchman, and, like
many other men, of whatever nationality,
has a wife that is 'some'. One day the old
man got into trouble with a neighbor, which
resulted in a Eight. The neighbor was get
ting the old man, who resisted his antagonist
to the best ability, when his wife broke out
with : "Lie still Cooper, if he kills you,
VII Rue him for damages."
11111. Why Is a man wending Vesuvius
like an Irishman trying to kin a pretty girl?
Became he wants to get at, the crater's
math.
More than fifteen years ago, the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts commenced its sew
14011 R, early in autumn, in Lenox, Berkshire
Comity ; thence, the arrangements were, to
hold 4essions in al the counties eastward,
terminating at Nantucket and Dukes County,
embraeing nil or Musuchusotts proper.
This was called "the Fall Circuit." In the
succeeding spring. the circuit of the District
of Maine was hold, thus completing the
circuit of the year.
At this early ire riod , the late Judge P—,
one of the Court, invariable traveled on
luorsfrback. On one occasion, preparatory to
the meeting or the Court at Lenox, Judge
I , —, jogging along, not knowing exactly
the localities of Berkshire County, fell in
with a buxom New England girl, on horse
back, and inquired of her if she knew where
he should turn off the main road to get to
Lenox.
"Certainly," said she. "I know every
inch of the way, and can guide you,"
"Well," said judge P—, who was not a
little eccentric. and withal somewhat re
nowned for his gruffness and coarse man
ners, "it' you arc going that way, I will e'en
jog on with you, finr poor company is better
dian none."
They did jog en, entered into enny , rsation
and had a pleasant time or it, which had the
effect to do troy the ennseinu-tiess of dis
tance. At length the judge felt that it was
time to have arrived at the point where she
said he must turn off, which, at the time
of his inquiry, she had stated to be about
two miles,
"Madam," sahl l►c, "have we got,'near the
place T ant to turn off?"
"La, yes," said she, " ►re jn►sresl about
a miff , and a half back."
"You hussy," said the Judge, "why
didn't you tell me ?"
"La, sir, the reason I didn't, was that I
thought with you, that poor company teas
Getter doll. IW:.
Tim Pam DoN'T fewevcnings
ago, farmer Slocum was reading au account
ur a amoral accident which had occurred
at a factory' in the next town, and which
the villag.• editor had described in a great
many hard words. "I declare, wife, that
was an awful accident over tew the mills,"
said Mr. S. "What WU it about, Mr. Slo
cum ?" read the count, wife, and then
you'll know all about it,'' Mr. Slocum be-
HORRIBLE AND FATAL. ACCIDENT.-It
beemncs our painful duty to record the par
ticulars of an neeident that occurred at the
lower mill of this village yesterday evening,
by wide!' 11. human being in the prime °I'M
was bullied to that bourn e f r om which, as
the immortal Shakeveare has said, 'no
traveler returns.'---j'llo tell !' exclaimed
Mrs. S.] Mr. J ohn Smith, a workman
who has but few superiors this side of the
great city of New York, was engaged in
adjusting a belt upon one of the large
drums, [I wonder if 'twn.; a brass drum,
sueh as has E. Ploribu • rniarn painted on't
said Mrs. Slocutu,l when he became cutan
glco, l l is arms were drawn around the drum,
and finally his entire body was whirled over
the shaft at a fearful rate. When his situ
ation was discovered, ho had revolved with
immense velocity about fifteen minutes, him
head and limbs striking a large beam a
distinct blow at each revolution." ["Pour
erecter! how it must hare 'urt him !"I—
"When the machinery had been stopped, it
was found that Mr. Smith's arms and legs
were mareerated to a jelly," ["wonder if he
killed him," said Mrs. "his skull was
fractured, his spine dislocated." r"Wellolid
it kill hint 7" asked Mrs. S. with increased
interest. j "Portions of the dura matter,
cerebrum, cerebellum, in confused masses,
were scattered about the floor—in short,
the gates of eternity had opened upon
him,"
"Was the man killed ?" said Mrs. 8. "I
don't know—havn't come to that yet—
you'll know when I've finished the piece."
And Mr. Slocum continued reading.
"It was evident, when the shapeless form
was taken down, that it was no longer ten
anted by an immortal spirit—that the vital
spark was extinct— rwas the man killed?
that was what I want to come at," said Mrs.
8... 1 extinct."
"Do have a little patience old 'oman,"
said Mr. Slocum. "I presume we shall
come upon it right away."
"This fatal casualty has east a gloom over
our village, and we trust that it may he a
warning to persons who are called to regu
late machinery in our mills."
"Now," said Mrs. Slocum, "1 should
like to know whether the man was killed or
not?" Mr. Slocum looked puzzled. Ile
scratched his head, scrutinized the article
he had been reading, and toot a general
survey of the paper : "I declare, wife,"said
he, "it's rather curus, but realy the paper
don't eay, ll •
feltoli'B Grate.
WIT Epigram written on the chamber
door of King Charles 11., by the Earl of
Rochester :
Here lies the mutton-eating king,
Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said a tbolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.
A couple of neighbors became so inimical
that they would not speak to each other;
but one, having been converted at a camp
meeting, on seeing his former enemy, held
out Ida hand, saying, "How d'yojin, /Amp
1 am humble enough to shake halide tiith a
dog."
A disease Wed the "black tongue" was
prevalent is the lut Rump Owns"
Anecdote of Old Timm
Iloanc TodMoony Agulugg Judge
IME=I
The Pittsburg Repuhtie (National Repub
lican) refers to Judge Williams and the re
pudiation of the Alleghunysbonds in the
following style
"Judge Williams has a very heavy load
to carry in thu odium of repudiation and
the Williamsport platform. The friends of
Judge Sharswood come squarely up to the
issue and defending hint for his opinion in
Iforie vs. Trott, and in this wo are satisfied
they are correct. Repudiation of' a con
tract payable in gold, by paying it in promis
es to pny is clearly unconstitutional. The
Rads do not on the other hand fairly meet
the issues upon the question of repudiation
nor upon harmonizing his views and decis
ions with the clamors of a Radical major
ity.
The Pittsburg Post put the following
question in relation to Judge Williams'
share in that grows act of bad thith :
"Now during this trying and deep agi
tation (repudiation,) without making any
"insinuation" or ehatge we inquire, as we
have a right to do, where was Judge Wil
liams? Did he step into the little band
arrayed agithist repudiation, bear his share
of the odium cast upon them, and as•ist
them by his counsel and the weight of his
min.! and position ? Did he join.the repu
diators in their folly, and unite with the
mithitudo to do evil, presuming on the im
mensity of the crowd for escape from res
ponsibility should the movement finally be
come unpopular? Or did he choose the
timid, unworthy position of a neutral, when
a great moral, political and pecuniary ques
tion was shaking the society in which he
resided from its centre to its circumfer
ence?
It is not to be wondered at, however that
Judge Williams could be silent when the
honor of his country was involved or that he
could be closely and heartily identified with
t.l►at local act of repudiation, since he is now
th e candidate of those very persons who in
augurated and carried out,two years ago, en
act of a State repudiation, by whi.ll the
holders of a State loan were defrauded of
their legal right under special contract, of
receiving their interest in coin or is equiva
lent. What security, under these circum
stances, the holders of United States gold
interest bearing bonds can have, should Wil
liams be elected, we cannot imagine. The
only nets of local and state repudiation yet
perpetrated have been by .the part* -whose
nominee he is, and Hite was not individually
a participant in the Allegheny repudiation,
he was at lew.t a silent endorser of that as
well as of the repudiation of the coin interest
upon the State loan. lie is not pledged
upon this subjuct, and he stands unquustion
ed as a candidate upon the question of re
pudiation, local and general. If elected, he
stay cite both the Allegheny and State act,
of reptulito ion as precedents for his own gov
ernment upon the Supreme Bench, and
then what security will the holders of pub
lic securities have? None whatever.
In nothing and nos+ here is Judge Will
iams pledged to the inviolability of spacial
eontmts, either between individuals or b e .
tween eorporators and individuals. Besides
this, he is bound by solemn pledge to his
party to reject the rules of court, the obliga
tions of custom and requirements of justice,
and to decide all cases and questions accord
ing to the partisan views of those who elect
him. It is unsafe, therefore, to elect such a
man.
On the other hand, Juice Sharswood is
solemnly pledged to the maintenance of
every contractAum that which exists, as a
Constitutio%between civil liberty and an
archy, down to the smallest business trans
action between persons in daily life. His
record upon this subject is clear and distinct,
and the very Ihets that Lis opponents (Will
iams' supporters) wickedly oppose him be
cause ho decided as a judge that special
contracts must be maintained, should gain
for him the support of every honest business
man in the State. And we have uo doubt
that that fact will gain for hint enough votes
from the opposite party to render his election
sure.
Mir Somebody says that the best way to
get rid of weeds is to always put your cigar
ease and its contents at the service of your
friends. Jones says that the most effective
means be ever tried was by squeezing the
hand of a plump young bereaved in black.
The next day she was in half mourning,
and a second kindly pressure resulted in a
pink gown, with a white bonnet. Farmers,
i&ase notice.
I When Onslow was speaker of the
House of Commons, he maintained the dig
nity and authority of the chair by exclaim
ing, "Take care or I'll name you! as a last
resource. This always bad the desired ef
fect, till ono day nn unruly member, not
much frightened by the threat, cooly said,
"And suppose you do name me, what will
be the consequence ;" replied Speaker On
slow, "God only knows!"
onex vou CORANCTION.—An Editor,
in a complimentary notice of a valiant gen
eral, was made, by the omission of a single
letter, to call him a "battle-scared" vete
ran. The poor man hastened to make
amends in his next issue by saying he meant
"battle-scarred," but the minim sitor put it
"bottle-scarred."
An old toper's conundrum "If water
rots your boots what effect :not it have up
on your atouumb ?"
MIN Lestweek the victims to yellow favor
la Gelvestort, Texse. numbered 241.
r* 9IS 1867.
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TUE nimuE AND THE GRAY.
Or M. E. P. PINCH.
By the flow of the inland river,
IV bonen the fleets of iron havo fled,
Whore the blades of the grove•grans quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead;—
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day ;
Under the one, the Blue:
Under the other, the Ciray,
These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-Idood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet;—
Under the soil and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day ;
Under the laurel, the Blue ;
Under the willow, the Uray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike fur the friend and the fue ;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;—
Under the roses, the Blue ;
Under the Mks the Gray.
So with an equal splendor
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blo-some blooming for all ;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment dav ;
Broidered with goltl, the Blue ;
Mellowed with gold, the ()ray.
So, when the summer called',
On forest and field of grain
With an equal murmur l'alleth
The eeoling drip of the rain ;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waitio r t.he judgment day;—
Wet w ain, the Blue;
Wet with rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done •
In the storm of the years now fading,
No braver battle was won ;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day ;
Under the blossoms. the Blue,
Under the garlands, the (hay.
No more shall the war-cry sever,
tn. the winding rivers he red ;
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of ourAoad !
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;--
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the bray.
Septrinber.
The Light-Fingered Gentry of'
Paris.
The ambition of (hut is boundless.—
_ Whatever =bother Call do he can do, and,
if possible, do it better. Ile is a renowned
adopter of and improver uyan the inventive
genius or other nations. This anbition
seems even to extend to such arts as picking
pockets. if credit may be given to an ac
count in a French review, this felonious art
has been carried by the Parisian thieves to
a degree of perfections leaves the rascality
of the. "rest of mankind" far behind.
The operation is thus described as per
in a French omnibus:
"The thief of course well dressed, enters
the omnibus armed with a very small morsel
of lead attached to a very flue thread of Mack
silk. The extremity of this thread he holds
botween his forefinger and thumb, and as
soon as h:s newest neighbor takes out bisor
her portmonniae for the purpose of paying
the fare—which is paid in Paris on entering
the omnibus—the thief, his eyes of course
apparently fixed in contemplation of some
far off object, dexterously launches the bit
of lead into the portmonnaie just as the
owner is closing it. The purse is then re
turned to the pocket of the unconscious own
er, who never sees the thread, by which he
is now in the power of the thief• As soo n
as an opportunity occurs, or is provided by
the thief himself, who tumbles apparently
clumsily against his neighbor at the first
?toppage of the omnibus, the purse is gently
drawn from the owner's pocket, and trans
ferred to that of the rogue,who, as soon as
possible leaves the conveyance, with a po
lite salutation to his victim and the rest
of the travelers."
Here is juggling that throws the dexterity
of Signor Blitz hCo , into the shade. A
fellow who could successfully perform a feat
of such delicacy and skill would almost
deserve the reward of genius• And if ho
was caught he would be very likely to get a
reward not whole unlike that which genius
too often receives at the hands of an unap
preciative community.
In— When the great Richelieu died his
head was separated from his body and pro
sorved. After several months of research
the head has at length been found in the
possession of en ancient family in Bretagne,
and forthwith sent to Paris to the Minister
of the instruction Publique. Those who
were present at the opening of the box de
scribed the head as in a wonderful state of
preservation. The eye-brows, whiskers,
imperial and moustache are of a reddish
color, and quite perfect; one eye-lid was
closed the other open ; the flesh, of coarse
was black. It bore something of the ap
pearance of a mask, but not at all unpleas
ing.
Vs. A Welsh girl once applied to a cler
gyman to be married. The clergyman ask
ed her what property her husband possemeed.
The answer was
'Nothing."
"And are you any better off ?" he ask.
ea.
The reply was in the negative.
"Then why, in the nataeof common sense
do you dare to marry ?"
"Your reverence," said the girl, -`l, have
*blanket, and Jack has a blanket ; by put,
dug them together we shall both be gainers,"
The clergyman had nod* tom to my.
How SDI Got hint.
"Bill, don't you know dad don't allow you
to buy shot?" asked a young urchin of a
brother somewhat his senior who was mak
ing a purchase of that article,
"You just never mind me, I'll thank
you to attend to your business, Mister Bob ;
don't care what dad allows ; I'll buy what I
'demo.
Little boy slightly agitated. "I'm going
to tell dud," he said, rushing out of the
room where the old man was quietly reading
the morning paper.
"Bad, dad, Bill's went and got shot. „
"Good Heaven I" cried the old man,
dropping the paper in consternation, arid
bolting for tho door, "Where is he?"
"Down to Thompson's store," :wpm&
Bob,
In his excitement the old man forgot to
remove I►is reading specs, and in going down
the steps misjudged the distance to the
pavement, stepped off too soon and canto
sprawling on all fours.
lie gathered himself up, and started far
the store. The pavement appeared to ho
about the level of his knees, consequently,
in his violent efforts to keep it under him,
Le cut a very ridiculous figure, and drew
frog► the astonished bystanders such a roar
as was never bestowed upon a single indi
vidual since the world began.
At length his tedious run was brought to
a close by arriving at the store where Bill
was stretched out taking it easy. The old
man supposing him badly hurt, rushed
frantically up to him, exclaiming—
"o, William I Williauol where are you
wounded?"
"What's the matter, dad! Are you
crazy ?" asked Bill, raising on his elbow,
and casting a look of astunislunont at the
old man.
"Why, Robert said you'd got shot!"
"So I did—got half a pound of the best
buck shot in the store.
The old ►uan left amid noise enough to
drown a thunderclap. As might be sup
posol, Bob got the flozgin4 and Bill didn't
JOHN VAN Bras:N.—Mr. Van Buren was
trying a cause between the Croton Aque
duct Board and the St. Nicholas Hotel. It
appeared that the water did not rise of it
:elf to the upper stories of the hotel, but.
was carried up by means of forcing pumps.
The board demanded extra payment for the
additional water used by these means; anti
the only question really at issue was, as to
the third floor, whether it was supplied by
the means of the forcing pumps or by the
natural rise of the water. The evidence on
the point being somewhat conflicting, the
judge (Roosevelt) jocosely suggested that
the counsel on both sides should visit the
hotel, and ascertain the true state of the
case I y otular
Mr. Van Buren—"May it please the
Court, I greatly fear that if my learned
brother and myself should visit the St.
Nicholas Hotel in company, neither of us
would find his way above the ground floor."
We de not know whether the judge was
aware that the bar is situated on this ground
floor.
A certain lady of Albany was said to
have imbibed a feeling of dislike towards
Mr. Van Buren ; and an aequaintanco of
that gentleman rallied him about it anti
claimed he should toll the cause. With all
tho seeming truthfulness of manner possible
and in his passible anti in his passive,
pleasant, off-hand way he, no doubt invent
ed the following
"It dates back to my childhood, when I
refused her a ride down hill on my sled."
Sr. A little girl, just past her fifth year,
while chattering about the beaux that vis
ited two of the Km in the same house, of
more mature age, being asked. "What de.
you mean by beaux Annie?" replied:
"Why 1 mean men that have not got much
sense."
ter To plunge a young lady six fathoms
deep in happiness, give her two canary
birds, a half dozen moonbeams, fifteen yards
of silk, an ice cream, several rose buds, a
squeeze of the hand, and a promise of a
a new bonnet. If she won't melt, it will be
because she can't.
ASOTIIER UM, OF SNAKES.—On Sun
day last as some of Mr. Finton's workmen
were out on the hill near his will, they dis
covered a lot of Rattlesnakes basking in the
sun. The men armed themselves and • 'went
in," killing twcuty all told, while several
made their escape. The reptiles wore all
of medium size, and of the "simon pure"
species.—EmporAon independcnt.
Z€ A Fanner in Missouri, on being ask
ed the number of his children, hesitated,
and referred the gnestioner to his wife, and
she replied "ten ;" but when in the course
of conversation, the farmer was asked as to
the number of hogs he possessed, ho replied
promptly, "seventy-one."
How TOUCIIINCI,--"You have played the
duce with my heart," said a gentleman to
a lady who was his partner in a game of
whist. "Well," replied the lady, with an
arch smile, "it was because you played the
knave."
CINCIER Sumntae.—Take one cup of but,
ter, two cups of sugar, one oup of molasses,
ow cup ormolu, one toaspuou ful of saleratus,
one tablespoonful of ginger two eggs, and a
glass of wino ; flour sufficient to roll the
out.
WAMt—Take ieven eggs, one half
pound of butter, mid pound of sugar, one.
half mud of currants, enough flour to make
as stiff as pound cake,
NO. 29.