VOL XXXI.
OFFICERS OF COLCSIRIS CO.
President Judge—lino. WiDiem Flirty.
Inn Dm,
"ftellit° ' l9 * 2-- I Peter K. lierLeln.
}'rot y awl qk of Courts—J..sv Colrineu.
Replan. awl 11.c:order—John U. Freeze.
( Allen Mann,
Commimtuners—John P. Fouler,
Sheriff—Samuel 11 5'°n in
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Treasurer—John J. Stiles.
IDauiul Snyder,
Audited—L. D Rupert,
John P. - Hannon.
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cessllitorney—E. IL Little.
Ma privfmr---Ce pt. Geo. W. Um
{Nutty Surveyor—isaau A. Duwitt.
Diarist Attrunuy—Milton M. Traugh.
Coronor--Williatn J. lkeler.
(\witty Superintendent—Chas. G. Barkley,
Adsesor4 internal Revenue—R. F. Ciark.
(Julio Tlvons4,
. li. Dietnex
Assistant AV. 33 or — ' ' J. If. Ikeler, '
,J. S. Wood?.
Collector —Denjarniu F. IlartioA.
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9 ti WUM of 111 kinds in btu DuN and '4n repair•
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SPLAK :KINDLY To TUT Will:.
S i v , ak Os to thy Rife,
she ittn,w,4 elouttlytt* sorrow ;
Oh week not trout ent h petty ill
Flu 3 1 1.4 q word to burrow,
rt , t .1 her heart there 'b. treasured love,
I lit : p h:, its golden worth;
One gentle eon', one Full! of thine,
Can ever v:sil it forth.
Wtti, thou, ast hai,tl4. and stern anti iti.
Aid thilie own dear home,
-tot,h..re of tionit,titt hive
n G.trow :•eelts to roam ;
Up MI her hotit thy nob' worth rail
At.l chi!' u tta .k r lire ;
Than, oh ! amidst thy trials
I . indly to thy wife.
17intily to thy wire ;
r.,:tt, hart? left .t lintlty
Of and tt, iltint• (Alt
lint , t , .. nreo ft y-.lr have ;
"ihro:4 fit titu have told tho titres,
1!“.3 hest shstetl its tt r :it'et
Wi,, , te ' , Li thy kott•tenshonnvarti turn,
t.) thy wife.
Sp.ktit tv thy vie- ;
its prty gr , winz uft
sfon y& hoth to:ty gartvred lip
itf Jo.lv Or thy tioutht
neat yetaty. she ha.: krciu Orhi
To .4) , +1.1,, the e ut Erct
01.! thet4, Is bon trial , t•tott
kitt;Ey to t 1 wife t
The ti hole Country on Flrc.
4 SL•oilug. Irmadu emtAzurafirm--
mu. 4 mul iltre4l, FUla's mut tenca,
I%:', 1 .1%4 fi- Ture'ous Ibunts..
A It *Titer itt!-i.is. mid
that the &Ige wai tai.lA:4l
I,y Gr the rov...ine, of.ttn A rricalt
with ~ 1 t..C.1
1.14 7 e thm the ti.:st?tiction of the
te"
Mime.. in! sr.reoflitv
uver 1:4:!rt ;I'o4lrtcrrit4r,..., oft I .I.qvie, Ii avy.,
a 1, 3 .1, ttpun
the couwiv
I , l* 3 at.t71 , 1r. , of tmely a ~:at Mile!.
11,,Q t1 , 11t131 111 -. 1 threagle ,
uttt a l:! )r...1111 t., A • 1.1 1 11 , ..1 411t1
1 1 .2 . •at.•, a`!..l a of south
r.t : its I„,,reFt :•a ;, !lurk and
b*,' t':, el.en,..se is stecepit,s.
i tr , has been abk tey it.
.Lt coos: of awl'ul rtr.m.icar. Thu
1.1,...ht II : 1.1 t..! Irra''',%.2l•4l
01 . 11,i, 1 , 0! v•".. ;Val tttt!'.!a s,t th e f l ews,
:11„.: th e giaet tr. o, and roaring
..,'. t o the very
tle; sta-vp
....1.. .a e.stroas set
yents of tire, stretohilq front plain to hill
; the crash of faliing limbs and trees is
heard en every hand, giving out by their
fell a million sparks that gem the dense
block smoke like diamond sparkles en a cur
twin of jet.
In the central portion of 01;st:entity mach
damage has been dome. Fences anti barns ; I
Pine timber and smelts of grain, hare bee,'
destroyed, aryl fit power seatus snairient to
check the OP rip.bing destroyer.
In south east Missouri "Negro Wool
Swamp," or the dead grass and timber
therein. are in a mass of flame and a bulk of
fire.
fly found iii Mot rifts.
of the hest quaiey .
_unt , :n..a.fulot lathe
yourvelves.
,wh
nude mtiAst
or r..paire+l.
below the *We of
The woels in Union county are al,o being
ewept by the iloutiable devourer. In the
night thu.. the ~c e ry~ is foedully gian,l.
Tne till troJs glealuing through the dark•
flees, like colanto4 el burnished gold. All
'trowl ienc. , n the crackling, raging Cunt!,
leaping flow II ub to lint b, following the
tortuous winding!, of the long worn fences,
and cowing the earth with a gleautiog
Ili mak tird,
MI
is twig elini
A pod uatt.
,
IMF ~,
'fhu daiusges sustained already can not
estimated. where the farriers are
balk the fire ; but whia
breaking, the 7 z7n`sr hi this place, arc flanke
l a 6, 1 1; while making headway hero, are
!bele.
Thu Dui irs of the tire is vaaii) accounted
fur, Hunters and matket men camping iu
crk have theughtlossly left the embus of
• camp fires to be scattered among the
eaves by the first breeze. In this way
wide spread conflagration originated.
di entirely powerless, and we look for
only when the Heavens open their
, 8 and SCIPIS a drenching IShower,
toes net occur soon, the flames %oust
Lit they die fur the want of fur.
feed upon,
enveloped in smoke. The
rivers is rendered difficult
b 7, and eyes and lungs
The "burning of the
• paiedieel
Mayor'
Thu
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PI:111.141111) EN TAY WKIRIDIDAY IY
PA" BY
WILLIAMSON U. JACOBI%
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014,anit6 fa, emarniii% County.
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BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1867.
[Por the Democrat.)
THE Oil) BCIIIIOOII.4IOVSE.
The WOO of this article is not remark
aide for its architectural grandeur, or the
high position it has occupied as a literary
institution, It is an old weather-beaten and
now dilapidated building, soon to give way
for a structure now suited to the purposes
for which it was created, Being acquainted,
and somewhat identified, with its history
since it was built, I could nave it mune
ed without paying my respects to it ore it
pass away forever.
It is located on the Bast bank of Fishing
creek, beside one of those beautiful "Still
waters" that grace this delightful stream.
A fine covered bridge spans the creek,
crossing whieh, from the little town
of Stillwater, you immediately pass the
obi sehool-house, %joule sugar maples
spread their friendly branches over it, and
frier the green lane, that extends POW ilk
tanee down the stream. This beautiful
play ground, with the quiet waters, the
grateful shsde, the singing birds, and a
score or more Of laughing, romping, happy
children; present a summer picture, not
everywhere to be met with. It is well
known to many of my readers, that this
stream, usually so dear and beautiful, some
times becomes a turbulent and destructive
current. From some peetillar formation of
the Mountains, where it heads, or as, Nome
suppo.o. sonic powerful mineral attraction,
the clouds congregate there, in dense masse s
comentrate their raining powers and pour
dawn, not drops, but sheets of wayr min
gled wish flame, for, with the ‘lesending tor
rents, the vivid lightnings fl Ish Mee, •antly,
and the than !erg keep up a perpetual war.
tit eat masses of earth slide from, and huge
teas roil down the Monto...in uproot
ing and I,, , arim; down laity trues in their
deeemling v mrse. The spring that hubbies
op out 01' the Nets are lost in the swelling
n :veld, and the music of the little rills, is
drowned by the roar of the mi g hty cataract.
The head-:raters, no longer putt' and lim
pid, rush into the main channel. C.. 1 'wr
ing its t.miendotts the stream
and r onward, bearing with it, in
it's de ,tru..tboi ...weeps, trees, cone. s, bridges,
mills wad trly the while valley is
inundated ati looks like 3 great muddy
sea.
Snell was the 'Jot flood Ils4s. The
bridge at Stillwater was carried away and
the Ida sAvoll.s,use wtt..= borne down on the
tlurreht, about a quarter of a toile, where,
when the waters abated, it was found high
and dry, very little the: worse of its perilous
ride, the stove ronaiuin4 still is its place
tk, furniture bet little injured. By a
go.eival of labor it was brought back to its
old foundation and there it has stood until
BE
this old house was new, many
changes lime ovearreil in this settioneot,
1 en—sts hay" been turlesi into fruit rid fields
spacious nunisions have taken the place of
the ill dwellings, and wealth has brought
mere taste and refit:gine:it. but perhaps not
more hapithicto, than existed thhty years
ago, N one b u t 0 0 4 0 , who, have been ac
quainted nith the place for that many years
can believe bow great the change has been.
The election el this 'a ,11..! WO an imp it.-
Lint overt in the history of the pottlent mt.
The nearest sato oilioitse was two miles ills
fun, consequsatiy, now., but the larger
children, enjoyed the privilege of attending
sehool. The uld inhabitants being very
prolific, their families %Nero large, Three
acme of children were looking forward with
pleasing anticipations, to the twipletion of
the house, e hero they could attend sghool
and receive instruction. Thu writer of this,
well remembers, with what hopeful glee they
assembled there fair the first time, livery
hum was lit up with pleasant smiles and
every eye beamed with anticipated delight.
How studious they were to improve and
eager, to master the fast principle of an
edooatioo.
Ilat thirty zvur hays , pas4cil sine," then,
end vthero are tlecai children ? The mounds
in they gave yard, where Iheal^ls or affection
blown to their mentor:, tell where nun ut
them aro, others have ma lip their loon,* in
distant plats! tr tut which, no doubt, when
7,611 evening tone , on, and their thowyhts
flan back to this 'Jaya of their childhood,
when the events or their pett tinter are
brouilit vividly to view, they r, m e mber
with ploaetrithi 4ean e 4 of the oki school
house on the hank of the creek, yet others,
have taken the iilitets of the generation that
preetsedeti theta, and are performing the
duties of parents and citizens, with honor to
themseltes and to those whuru they have
laid in the quiet grave,
But the auction of this house was en be. ,
event for anethcr teut,ou. There
was no house built owes* fur religious
ourship, at that time, in the township awl
we might adf', in Bernal, 14150, mid tut one ,
in Sugarloaf, th old log house, St.
Church in the wools," Having nu where
to meet for worship but in the old uncomfort
able log houses, a great way off, it was quite
a pleasure to have a good convenient
house in their midst in whioh to meet and
offer their devotions to their faker, Here,
on the Sabbath, they met and listened to
the first principles of the duutrino of Christ,
or joined their sweet voices in the holy har
mony of spiritual songs, uutil the mind was
borne away on the wings of Gospel faith
and the soul felt all the subduing yet mieer•
ing influena of a rational Religion. From
this house, too, many a solemn procession
moved to the Baptismal waters, in which,
hundreds have Vl homed their !Nth in the
BY ILiN EN. -
Resurrection of Jesus, and their own, con
sequent Re motion at the 'sat day. But
where ore the crowds that gathered in, and
about the obi school-house thirty years ago?
Where are the old men with their cheerful
times and honest hearts? Where, the old
women, with their modest manners and
sterling virtues? Gone, nearly all gone.
Here and there is one, whoas a ands of life
have nearly dropped away, yet they love to
recall and spsak of the pleasant times In the
old schoolhouse. But the earthly house of
their tabernacle will soon be dissolved, and
as the old school-house is to give place to a
better structure, so they, we trust will have
a house nut wade with hands Eternal in the
Heaven.
IM That AD t
Forney concludes his letter to the Pees: on
the failure of impeachment in the following
words
Specie payments•will finally supplement
whole by so rev a process, that our happy
people will everywhere cherish a greenback
as the symbol of the vindicated credit of the
grandest Government on earth ; and for.
cl imers. captivated by the spectacle, will
Listen to prefer our kinds to their own, or
will coma to live among us to share the
blessings of a Republic which, in less than a
decade, has solved the two grandest prob.
lents of politics and finance by giving the
ballot to four millions of Maple, who had
been two fyttturies owl rt half in slot erg—
by igen rring ct cot.ssal debt to prosecute a
coilossal mtr, and by prot,io t t their readiness
ttr PoP if of donor fir dollar. prinet'pal and
interest, ira their men gold. Ann this will be
the hterve4 sr id.: slash; sown by Repubh
ean soldiers siol :Statesmen.
The italie3 are Forney's. As Iv. real
that paragraph we are forced to ask r is that
ull ? Did the waste of war, and the drain
of the nation's best blood brings us Whirar,
bettor than the ballot for four million bar
barian negroc:,, and a huge debt which is
to he paid in gold and kept standing, f:r to:
indt.dinite period, at a rate of interest which
will f.utwe rich and mercenary foreigner, to
prefer oar bonds to their own, or to come
and live among us on the interest which is
to be annually wrung from the sweat and
toil of the loboring masses of oar country ?
Li that all ? lif Forney is to believe, so it
is. That is the grand boon conferred on the
peop:e of this country by the Republican
p art y. i•V(4/1 mr• is sown by Be
pothlieln abstumn.o wet soldiers."
What do the V, hice. wen of the North
who wiled rai4ethh, Ipt a v o t thi n k of t h e
result of their labtoe ? % V 1 it for such put
po.es the private soldier shed his blosd ?-
1m them unmver hi,neellnth ttt they
boa !- blell7yriterr,
IMITORS.
An exchange draws the I . ..incising vivid
Omuta. a an editor
An editor's qualifications arc various. It
is to work harder, more hours in the tidy,
with loss recreatien, on leas sleep and pourer
pay than any of our fellow mortals. It is
to be bill when your neighbors arc idle,
busier when they sleep, and busiest when
t hey are enjoying a pad time. It is to be
always in a hurry, always under a press of
basins:Ls, always "setting up" when others
are lying down, and always charitably "dis
tributing" the results of our daily labor,—
It is to have your opinions always put to
"proof," and t4l,hen into practice. It is to
alvertise other people's wants, wishes, and
Wart: ; to announce facilities for pleasure ;
to herald the approach of diseases and the
invention of cures thr them ; to make
known who has bean robbed, how much,
where. who is the robber, his personal
history, his trial sentence, and itis execution.
It is to roceivo nice limit and notice it, to
be shown natural curiosities and describe
them, to be everywhere at all tittles, and to
be, able to answer all questions on all sub
jects, It is to publish too much sentiment
for one, too much politics for another, and
too little news for all. It is to make a dozen
enemies to one friend, and to be pitched in
to by anybody who chose to consider him
elf aggrieved. It is to take complimentary
tickets to everything and pay for them in
complimentary notiocs. It is to be bored
ny friends suggesting bow you should carry
on your business, and bullied by those whom
you have hit in vulnerable spots. It is a
;111' of mingled good and ill, trial and tri
son ph, never end! nu toil and never hmiinning
felicity, wherein you work out your allotted
ti m e with the "devil" always at your elbow,
f.Ar sole end in this life—a little more
copy,
Tate MAT riffs is OF A LOCAL—The Cab'
Ifqrlag?! contains the fblloning particulars
as to the death of a "local" reporter, in
MIA the ideaof the "ruling passion strong
in death" is pathetically illustrate.]
"But at last his own time came, and Jim
Duffy was about to die. He wasn't a para+
elc all aid, notwithstanding all his falsehoods,
I he knew it would help the local column
so he sent all his relatives down stairs, and
got his assistant reporter to stand by him,
and made him swear that he would not give
the item to any other paper, and then, with
a serene smile on his thee, he yielded up his
life, and Jim Duffy was no more. His will
was full of item, one of which provided
fluff hn should be bulled in Philadelphia,
because it was in Pennsylvania ; as a pencil
(without a ' , anis,' however,) bad been his
favorite tool, Ile desired that they should
put the last edition of the izaggereror in
his coffin, and bury hint with the church
'that had the most adjectives to it."
re,.. A gentleman giving a leoture to
tome hue was explaining how no one could
live without sit• "You haves!! hoard of a
man cirownig, low does that happen r'-
The ready answer WW', "Cause be can't
twins,"
mtSSISUPPI.
A Startling Event—eirmed Negrnm March
Into a Mississippi 'fawn and ilenumakd
Bread.
For some time a great deal of dissatisfac-
tion has existed among the freedmen in the
neighborhood Columbus, Mississippi. They
had quit work, and left the fields white
with cotton, and would not pluck a boll, the
reason given fa such action being that
their share of the crop would not pay their
expenses for the year, owing to the tax on
the staple and the low price to which It had
fallen. As soon as they refused to work as
a matter of course they had to leave the
plantation and give up their houses to other
laborers who would work. They then took
to the woods, and commenced a system of
indiscriminate pilfering and stook-killing.—
About two hundred of them have been as
ectubled in the heighborhood of Columbus,
Miisis4pi, since the beginning of the elec
tion, and had become a perfect nuisance mil
terror to the neighborhood,
At the request of the citizens a eempany
of United States troops have boon stationed
at Columbus, for the protection of the lives
and property of the people. When this
hand of vagah:ulized negtues had ethansted
the country of eve r ything that was stealabje
they determined to matzo a raid on the town
of Columbus in full f)ree. They were all
armed and, procuring a fife mini drum,
marioni into the town, detnandln,; bread.—
Not one of them a,ked fur work, they did
not want that. Bread ,%as all then' cry,
and they were about counnewting an indis•
criminate robbery, when the United States
troops appesrod on the ground and divartn
ell them tint and then dispersed them--
The rite l:Adurs were taken icto eu-tody.
What a come of bloodshed and roll ry se
would have to relate had it not been for the
I;,rtanati3 preacace sAthe trooP6, w:Lhudj , te
to thillit QC
This is the first attempt at a dread riot
which has ever occurred in the South.
but how long it will be until they , he.suutt
common it takes no far-set:ink prophet to
foretell. The negroes all through the coun
try arc becoming thoroughly demoralized
under the teachings of the Radical h,!•erias,
who counsel and insite them at every fence
corner, to their ovin destruction. They
now positively, in many localities, rectke to
work; will make nn contracts wit la the planterz
fully expecting the divison of land so long
promised them by their Radical loaders.—
Bands or from three to forty am roming
through Mississippi in every direction, a
terror and a nuisance, not only to the planter
but to the imlu.stromt of their own color.
How long this state of affairs can continue
without scenes of riot and bloodshed de
pends upon the forbearance of the white
man. A spark may ignite the train which
will redden the horizon with the blaze of
burning houses and initiate a conflict be
tween the races bloody and remorseless.
A Curious Story-fact or Fiction'
The Paris Singe. publishes a curious story
concerning one Crew Moreno, who is said
to be an Italian, a native of piedmont, and
speaking forty-two languages. lie was re•
eently sent for by Victor Emmanuel. As
you are acqnainted with every known patois
you-can talk to my Ethiopian.," said the
King ; the said Ethiopians having been sent
over by the Viceroy of Egypt with a pre.•
ent of Arabion horses. The blacks were
sent for. 'Norms, to their amazement, ad•
dressed them in their native idiom. What
did they say to you'" inquired the Kink,
sdler the 'segues departure. That your
Majesty was wrong to have them baptised,
because they have remained Musselmen in
heart and soul. Blessed water lest sir I"
The King laughed.
In his youth Moreno went to India and
became aid•de-camp to Nana Sahib. At
Cawnpore he had a duel with an English of.
flair, who laid his head open with his saber,
on which Moreno levelled his revolver, and
while quoting frosu "Riehlud 111," "despair
and die," shot his adversary dead. After
the defeat of Nana Sahib, Moreno went to
Singapore, where some Malays tell hie► of
an island where rivers of gold and mines of
diamonds are in abundance. Moreno ac
cordingly freights a schooner, and, assisted
by his Malay &lends. arrives at this Eldora•
do, which is inhabited by a diminutive race
of blacks, who look upon bins much as the
Aztec did on Cortez, and he is forthwith
led before Weir chief, whose palace is form
ed of interwoven branches of a palm tree.
Moreno makes himself so agreeable that no
less than three of the ehict's daughters are
bestowed on bins as wives. Meanwhile he
explores the island, draws a soap thereof,
and having obtained his father.in• law's leave
to pay a short visit to his white friends, he
neelves at Florence where he obtains an an,
dienco cif Victor Emmanuel, and urges him
to lit out as expedition to take possession
of this nitriferts island. The King. how
ever, what with Cnibahli and Bismark,
has enough on hand juss, r•ow, Moreno, cen•
skierably disgusted, starts fog Paris, where
ho now is, awaiting the arrival of the Em
peror and au audience which ho has golitai
ted.
If he finds his proposal to extend the
I?reneh posseteions in the Eats rejected by
t►ie Cabinet of the Tuileries, Moreno starts
for New York, where he Batters himself be
will form a company, in whose name he will
take possession of the Island, dethrone his
fhther•in•law and establish factories, whence
the neglected wealth of this Eldorado Fill
Bow in ship loads of gold and pnohma
stoats to the shores of Europe.
Mr Bituminous coal ins boco hand iv
Chios•
A Startling Story.
An Alleged Haunted lbw—Some Huge
Statement,.
There is a lonely house situated neartrlist
is known no "Upper Crow Creek," in this
country, that just now bears the unenviable
notoriety of being haunted. We suppress
the locality out of regard to the interests of
the proprietor, who is anxious to effect a
sale without a sacrifice. It is a lonely, un.
painted two story structure, standing by it
self away from the road, and whore dark
deeds could be perpetrated with little risk,
and is what is termed a "renter's" house.
Some time tact spring a fatuily came to
the neighborhood, and, leasing the adjoin
ing gmund, moved into the benne. The
first night of the arrival was signalized by
mysterious noise:, groans, etc, proceeding
from a certain unoccupied room, attended
by opening and rhuttiugof deers, etc. The
neat night Was even noisier than the tirst,
and glimpses were had of a shadowy fhrm
pawing swiftly into the rocro and out of the
doors, which open and shut of their own ac
cord. They remained a week, Leering their
own counsel, and imparting their ftnrs to
the proprietor alone, who bought their
silence and rel.:and them front all engage
ments. Two weeks later another tenant ar
rived and moved into the house, wholly un
cewriemt of its gostly visitors. The first
and secend nightt l assed without any d:a•
turbance ; on the third, whilzauundly .'.etT
ioc:, they were awekened by a teest hrart
rendine. scream hem the Now before allud•
end to, followed by heavy thews, ant then a
wild, haegerd looking pet lon came nut pee
sed through the door, which seemed to be
npen and Ant of it own accord, and disap
pearedin the d4rltrit
The occupant of the house wa' no cow
ard. and 1116 EISt inipcd.e was th a t ro bb ers
were at work; but he seemed n;
and male to move himeelf. ievera
niehts pri=ed with more or less alarm:J.-
Ilb , ftwiee [new nervous, and declared they
would not remain; but he, still believing
that something more tangible than spirits
produced the mw, determined to watch the
next night in the room rdjoining the small
apartment flew which the not el came.—
Some time between twelve and one o'clock
the door opened, and the nine. tiguro ap
geared, making directly tor the spot where
the watcher ANA, It was a fearful moment
hut ghost or no ghost, be was not to be
frightened, and, as the intruder pas..erd,
dealt it a blow which seemed to pass clean
through the intruder. There were the
same heavy blows and shrieks, and then a
livid human head, driping with blood, rolled
nut upon the floor. The house was vacated
the next day, the owner purchasing his si
lence with means eufLiet to carry him to
Kansas.
Now for an explanation of thia strange af.
fair. Last wimter the house wee occupied
Per a eetteon by a rough and sinister looking
family of ``refugees," who arc believed to
have murdered a peddler traveling about the
country carying a pack. Ile visited most
of the Fannon through the neighhorhoed,
end was hit ,icett just at nightfall in the di•
reJtion of the house, ishich it it believed he
never left alive. Shortly after they ruttier.
ed no torte knew whither, and took with them
a beerel of salted pork, though neverknown
to fatten or purchase a nig. Readers of
newspapers at tide time will remember the
arrival at Louisville, Kentucky, of a barrel
which, exciting eueeLtion from its sickening
stench, was upend. and found tocontain hu
man remains, by whom shipped has never
yet been (hemmed, though detectives arc
at work upon the subject.
An examinatioa of the Boor shows dark
leaking stains, partially eradicated with a
plane, and there are certain auspicious , spots
upon the wall. In corroboration, the Net .
York Herald of two weeks ego, in its colum n
of "personals," had a notice asking informa•
don concerning one Juan Native, a Neap -
htlin. last heard from through a letter, mica.
ed at Lavon in December last, wherein he
Stated that he was meetint: with very good
suttees. The iafigtnation herein eantained
was gained from the metre of the premiece
in pe r s o n, and, except thee supernatural pert
l'or which he cannot amen!, is fully credit.
ed by the writer.—Leme (EL ) %buena/.
One Italian brigand makes a modest
demand accompanied with the necessary
dinette upon a land owner for watches etc.
Among other things ho wants ten muical
snuff boxes playing twenty tenv each. An
other playful bandit tome time since sent a
letter to Baron de Rothe de Ronne, de
manding a Sum of 500 ducats. M. de
Rosin took no notice. A few days since
Palma went to Fore-ta, where the haronhao
a country house, set fire to it, and when be
saw the home well aliebt, he e E nt away,
taking four of the baron's men with him as
hostages. Ile then went to the limns of 31.
jet , sp ruiftroll and, collecting the cattle,
shot liiiteen cows.
Viir The bride's veil originated iu the
Anglo Saxon %.ustom of performing the
marriage under a piece of cloth, held at
each corner by a tall wan, over the bride.
groom and bride, to conceal their blushes.
Such a precaution is wholly unneeemary in
Chia age of brass ! Who by lota a blush
for the last quartos of a watery ?
!!!!=EI
Brigbern Young minims to mere
aU the young woman who 11'04 weer after
next spring's matrimonial 0410141111....
°thing mid about, old mail .
air The Sallow who wroto "aek eo Do
wore," Iv fit, problily "fa."
(From tho &man MOW.]
oinewstre 01 the floinen.”
MR. EDITOR : last week's Register
you trunedr from the Davenport (TOWS)
Gazette to your columns under the above
Auggextivu caption, the adventure* of do
lowa citizen, :teemed by it lady in the ears
of stealing her pocket book. I on railing
it, was "flreibly reminded" of a `lame"
so strikingly similar in all its parts, and in
which I wa4so prominent an actor, that I
will, if you give the necessary space, give it
to your readers.
In January, 1596, I took the 6 A. M.
train at my hmne station on the L. & B. R.
R. for Harrisburg. The single yriotnre:
car wee full, every sett apparently oocupieil
by two. Ou St/ to ti e middle cf the
car, haTcover I raw by the dim ileht shed
by the tlk.er ofa sent.;;, lamp in
3no NAT ( , ar tht h2d Lot
a sin f ;!,l coel i .ant, an a °loch: at shat I
politely grid to her, v 1:i ;au
low mo a Isere proheing to the end
of the scat next,,t: the "On, ecrtain
ly," ; the iJitine time t4l:iti; in
reef, ~ I:.•inilitoe to give Lie room
un the rest r,be occupied. I thanked her
both orally and tunntary, L• at e not easi
ly tea c h or tat.° off my - :tovc, pipe. - both
hand+ being necupied by Latehel and um
brella, I eves,: roy,elf and tw.n fe:l into a
sort of ah , ,tractcri, moody 17,t:f Meer., the
weight affairs of :.t.itn and the hitolysts of
my "dear constituent," no doubt oc,',opyinz
tay cranium to it. full e.ipaoity.
New for the. "ecenc." On leaving the
station this "lady" euVenly gave me a vie,
lent nudge itt the ribs, (if Adam had never
parted with one I should have camped the
Nome trial I am about to relate.) and
A:reamed oat "o,d feller you better give me
my poocket book," and before I was fairly
:vowed to the "situation" she bad repeat
ed the demand on me tome three to halt'
loxes timea lbr her pee.itet boll:. Add t)
my greater horror I saw my i„bier pa,
..engare streining, peeping arid staring to
lark me in the face. Ny eivaeer Ling a
ly," of couraa I could not put ne,,eelf on
my -mlisc u r' and viirlhate myself a.l Titer
teeter in that way. I essayed a wordy de.
tense, but was so effectually floored ii: this
that I gave up in despair. I thnu c ht of
my col leaguee, con tti tuen ts, co v n try-- v, ire
sad children whom I had but Lai an hour
texe bid an affembenate good-bye, What
could Ido ? I could not "get a mird in
edgewise," et> thick anti faa did the "lair
rain upon me accusation and threat, of at
rest• By this time the %hole car was
aroused ; most of the people on their feet.
There I stood "the observed of all
w
ere," and "Who is he ?" fell oirea , ionaly
upon thy ears, es the "lady took breath
fora fresh onset. "I am a poor woman, -
rho sereanacd on. Here I attempted to toy
"It ItleaL.C2 no difference whether you are
rich or poor," but got may as far ate "uo."
I could not get in "difference" or the free,
syllable of it, for "Yea it dots, I work herd
for a living," shekel me off. Meantime
several of my - dear conetituent.i" drew
near, and from them I expected help and
sympathy, instead of' whieh they pitched in
in this style for the purpose of keening up
the fun as the called it. "Now, Dave, give
the poor woman her pocket look." "0,
Squire, it's too bad to keep it," Sze. I called
conductor Mein; he told the "lady" she
must be tuittaken, and told her to feel in
her pockets. She feels, but no pocket book.
Summoning a little courage I roared out to
her, "Get up and dust yourself." Che
duettd. On the middle of the seat lay a
little red plush wallet "Here it is," W 2.1
said by several. I felt better. The "lade"
to, I suppose. On asking her if she 'al
e:etiefied that she had amused rue wrongfully,
she answered in a loud voice, "0 you put
it back on the seat old feller, when I 'cused
yon." Can anything more devilishly twah•
ious be imagined. Het e was a fresh thrust
to the very hilt of a keen, long, brig;it
dagger into the wound note partially healed
up, already intioted on my not orar-ectti
tire feelings, at which sumo of nir efortere: I
con-titutn:s gave a cue laugh "to keep the
futt gains.,,
I took my alt with het again, thinkins
that when thinp :,iulraered down, the
"lady" included, I would try to get her to
conrem her fooli,hue4: - , or mistake, tut eLa
useunted laity -sulks," al if aho had been
the injured party and refused even to give
me her name. I finally got from her that
she was going to Wile.l.Barra, and I wrote
my name on a card and offered it to her to
how tit,: people who she had charged with
picking her pockets LW, eLe would not touch
the card
At Kingston Senator S. Joined me and I
slated at once to him the great tribulation
I had paused through. That gentleman was
the ftrut or human kind that see►ued to
tytripathize with ►ne, at leapt I thought he
by pathized until he caked use why I did
not t.ll the mien I wee a member of dm
Legislature. 1 told him I au afraid it,
would only °Darin the accuser in belief, if
the had any besides, which, there well some
stranger/ in the car. The Senator did not
argue the queetion with min.
She was a "widd►'r as I sieve learned." K.
Mr A eery smart boy on his return front
college, attempted to trove that two were
equal to direr. Pointing to a toasted
on on the table he mid "is noli that cot
And than pointing to moth', t "iirnot Ott
turn ? And do notorinand tworn*Pllol l l
Whereupon hir old Da AA:. 'Aft you
take one and ra takt* z z. 4o* and
war t boy , 0. 4 a bait" fbr his oat
nor
N. 42.