VOL XXXIL
GREAT CLICARIEG OUT SALM
TO MARS ROOM FOR THII NSW TOWN HALL,
to be eroded ea the corner of Winn fir Nobel Ow.
L. T. SUMPLE.9B
Now ollWe for Cub or Reedy Pay—
niesco al IN Si.
SLACK ALPACAS at OS sod NI sta.
AMER IVAN AINIRINOKI et 40 ete.
1101/1111D rf)1 1 1.1191 tCA et,. worth PO rte.
ALL THIC ABUVE. from I S so 110 per WM. below
she roplor pea&
CALMAR from 9 etc for Mel.
11114CHTi& BROWN INUSLIN69 to HI etc best
GOOD bloorboll'end brown Noolloo it Mk.
All wool Ceirlwores st 1111.09t011199 k 11.75.
/loop chime, Cornets. & notion@ low down!
NATI, 0 CAP* at burials*.
110411 di IMO= for Men. Women.
& Children at greatly redoeed prices.
lOr lot Goiter, 4 Pim% r oar chisel, at it W. worth
OM. Line lot Ladies' Olove.bad Ilaloswolo sod
'ashore et VAL wort& VA&
'(.'ogees, Teas, Sugars and Syrups.
'VW balance of our Noels contorts's/ all hinds of
'LIoODS,CARNITII he., at preportioosbly low pricer.
Conon, produce wasted. Comb paid Ihr bettor and
lido. More on Nolo Streit below Market.
Jimmy 111118.-91.
Ail BOLLEDER'B
ROOT AND SHOE STORE,
pewits Tne sruicerAL cuvacci,
On Main Street, Bloontebluryg.
llip subscriber takes pleamme la anaminelng to
Its WPM 01l plownsharil, and vicinity. that he has
on baud a Imp mid gut, asoottmeed of
1100T8 AND SHOES,
1 111
• I.dle. and gentlemen's WOlll. to wit all Mach%
Dig My work le of the best quality, and lees its
noel reliable mansfuturers ; hi Wag a practkal
mu and a mood Judge of
tRTEI O 2I.)4I:BLEts
hp I. not likely to be imposed epos by receiviag
inortblees material badly made op.
I b. es desiring anything in his lies would do well
la phi him a call, before purchasing elsewhere. Ile
fil 4
GOOD ARTICLE ,
Ritd at prices to pelt perehuers.
All persons who desire light or busy work made
14 order can be accommodated at his establishment.
0 Also, repairing will be dons walk neatness and
&Ao ep och.
slew% areortment of Ladies Spring and Plum
in.st *boss Pa hand. A. 15ULI.EDS11,.
Almil 3. Ind?.
Ij. BROWER, (Cor. Malts & ben sec)
In now Writing to the FaWe too STOCK OF
SPRING GOODS
•rosWig lo part of • roll lime of
INGRAIN, WOOL a RAG CAIIIPETS.
Vino elute' red riftalerpre for Ladles' emit'.
teedsoin• Urea Mends of all Fettered andqualities.
htiMitill end Prints of varier • if ualitier end priers,
lOW bad awl Brawn Marilee, Ladies France Verret.
end
BALMORAL SHIRTS.
0 r n d aseoriment or Ladies •ad children.' Oilier.
mud Boots,
It reel Groceries and Spices. New assortmeat er
Cass sal Qateaswars.
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'Row if tio Was to sate poor oeloctlooo, so 1 am
ottoriwg goods It vary low ru Woo and nor !untie la
“If /adios to all, and oat to be tioderoold by any.
J. J. CROW CR,
Mronsberg, April 30, W 67
FIVINII ARRIVAL OF FAMILY
GROCERIES, AT
JOHN L GIRTON'S STORE,
111001115111/RO B PERNA,
'OW labeeriber Ma Joel returned from the tamer.
Moe with a lam sod choice stock of first Case
Groceries and Dry-Goods,
which he offers to the Misses of Olooinsberg and
•teisity as low as can be hod of toy dueler b this
oreeleo of the County.
Ls sloth eonsiste of the beet verietles of
corrals, 1110LAINIES,
ilt7U AN, Y TI A,
Flan (of Inc gesiiii.) OPIUM,
DII RH MEATS (so their season.)
soerrom, AND eYrurat camatuita,
80AP do CANULOB, Ike., he., CHSEBO,
COALYW.rSIEDOILA.
a leo a nice assoriettet of Dry Goods and Hosiery.
and a fell variety of good, of the anov• class, and
01 other bind,. In addition to which he has recently
added to hie stock a One aseortessat of
CEDAR WARE AND
WILLOW WARE ;
fn Ivrhiclt variety of goodie be bas several new
ortisies of modern inventing, antensi•elly used
when. keow•, and which must cowo into au bare
De ales has a doe 'apply of
French Moroccoeu ;
be aloe of Morocco Linings fot tibriemaker's
work , arid a good enactment of
Queensware.
to- Coll and ezawles.
3011/1 R.OIRTox.
S. R. Corner of Main and Iron Streets.
Mom/burg. Nov. SO,
NEW BAKERY AND COINFEC
TIONERY
738ioCticattaaGDLICLUMIcioCiatt
ON TRIM) STREET,
BRLOW MARKET.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
J. P. FOX, Proptietnrof this establisbisailti would
rempeethilly inform hie old and new easter:ere, than
he has everything fitted up at hie now wand In en
able bile in farniell tbena with AHEAD, CAKES,
AND CAINPECTIONDAINA. a• hereitnlore.
rr Hereafter all persons. who have been furcieb
dni with Ale, Lager Seer, and Porter, by the *hide,
Belt, or quarter barrel, will call upon WILLIAM
IiILMOHN, at his Daiwa to
Phives' Block, Mein Street,
"'be bee beta autborised by tbe uaderatieed to sett
%he nue. Ile ileilleon wittily have a supply no bud,
Wild will be mild at the luvress marital r-tei.
Mr, r. bu is 41011Rie o tett!' tile Mk- y as/ Coe.
siottery., Otte) r Use isle 01
ICE CitE4lsl,
to all whin way flew him with their COMM Re
le Ilea prepared I. retake lee ()filial in ligge quaatl
tie' for perinea, piWle or social 'mho Hags. as the
ease may he. 12verythieg pertalolng to hie floe el
hotline's will VIVO'. ean.fial aid doll/eat attention.
7 - He is thankful to his customer. far past fa
•ers, and wool cordially sulltiLe a continuance of the
ONAWI. J. P. PDX.
April 2, 1167.
NEW RESTAURAN'T,
In Man', trildhis. on Mrl■ amt.
WM, GILMORE,
IlararsB MI shaman of Bloomsburg sad 818184 taw
641 Y6B opened a Now
RENTAVIRANT,
of this phi*, where he intetril is *id friends sad
eirWewere to tall and partake of Ms rafrisbassals.—
Is is MI lassalloa to Lily the best
LAGER BEER AND ALL,'
'wassail ma hand ; A Perot. Waresparalla.
•rel taw tameoades, anspberty and tArn
iwillyraps, ea* always ha had at his Ilsolaaram.
In the sails,/ Ilse ha preasais
~„4 sussiasaad l this plate ; Pickled Oysten
Claws, hardly's*. a
Fish. Ihistmessed Chicken. Pleatai
'rrtps aid Ms( Toniyas. he.. ha. Hs also has a goat
orto Is or
Cigar* and Owing Tobncen
f mairternert (17' a hla PI cull.
Itlovnisburg, Pine 13, Ten
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PUBLIIIIIED EVERY WEDNIDIPAT IN
ELOOMSHORG, PA.I or
WILLIAMSON U. JACOIIT.
Ttlibla.-01 00 la advance. If aM held entble
112 MONTHS. be caste add's' awl *III be • anted.
Narropor. Olecoatlaued until art err orates
aro paid except et the optic,. of the *alter.
nArrm OP ADVERTISING.
IU LIMP COOPTITOTII 1100/1111.
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Auditor's Notice it sp
01Mir advirtisemeats imeerted setordind to special
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enslners notices, 'Obeid advertisement, twisty.
teas pet line.
Transient advertisements payable la imitate" all
ether. due after the Arq tetsrtlon.
Printed in dare's Black Main Street by
SMIBRACE TOUR MOTHER.
Love tby Mother, little one,
Kim and chap her neck again;
Hereafter she may have a eon
Will kilo and elmp her neck in vain.
Love t y Mother, little one.
Gaze upon her loveing eyes,
And mirror bnek her love for thee;
Hereafter thou may'st shuder sighs
To meet them when they cannot see
Gaze upon her loving eyes.
Press her lips the while they glow
With love that they have often told;
Hereafter thou way'st press in woe,
And kiss them till thine own are cold.
Press her lips the while they glow.
•
revere her raven hair,
Although it be not silver gray;
Too early death, led on by care,
May snatch save one dark lock, away.
0 revere her raven hair.
Pray for her at eve ind morn,
That Heaven may long the stroke defer ;
For thou may'st live the hour forlorn,
When thou wilt ask to die with her.
Pray for her at eve and morn.
The whole population of the neighbor
hood resort to it with regularity—all the
loungers, all the idlers, all who have done
up their weary day's work, all the town gads
and gossips in trowsers, as well as those who
go for molasses in jugs, for nails, tobacco,
and raisins—loiter, and talk, and listen in
this most convenient place of public recep.
Lion. And if store and post office chance
to be combined, the flocking of the sover
eigns, with wives and offspring, fairly puts
one out in any attempt at description. Be
sides the sugar, nails, tea, codfish, soap and
brooms, their lie all the letters that are ad
dressed personally to the men and women
of the tow.
Truly, an item to be thought of. The
sum total of all their correspondence with
their strayedgmay cousins, nieces, nephews
and children. Therefore at this little hive
the swarm collects. Therefore do they come
hither, evening after evening, picking up
waifs of news, and watching like paid de
tectives the post master's distribution of the
letters. Therefore do they hustle and bus
tle around that funetionery's person when
the mail-bag is fetched from the coach, and
proffer their atristanee in assorting the
miscellaneous newspapers which he:empties
over the counter. Offering advice, when it
is needed and when isn't. Submitting corn
menta—origional and assorted--on all class
es of topics, with such sly foot-notes as one
may not at first understand.
Then a country store is a strangely quiet
place of an afternoon, whether in summer
or winter. Save when, perhaps, some little
girl patters in to exchange a skein of thread,
the flies and the rural merchant have it en
tirely to themselves. If the place is in charge
of a spruce young clerk, in lieu of the mas
ter, he employs himself with the brush and
oils at the little cracked mirror behind the
high desk, and lets the flies sun themselves
in sleepy knots over the floor.
It is not less a realm of doziness either in
planting time, and through the sweaty spell
of haying. In the former season, the men
are about their gardens and off over their
farms, and a fox might leisurely take a trot
through the town street without attracting
the eye of master or hound. Perhaps an
enterprising peddler, atop of a bright red
wagon, trundles up to the doorstep, and
from his canopied box, "passes the time of
day" with the prompt clerk, asks for the
latest news, and offers essence at the very
lowest "rigger." Or a stray cow comes
tearing off the suoculent grans like silk near
the door, perhaps with a bell strapped about
her neck and putting the town more com
pletely to sleep with its somnolent melo
dies.
This is the store in the country town, or
the village. It sometimes stands, however
away by itself at the crossing of two roads,
with the proprietor's dwelling in close pro
pinquity ; its entire front proteeted from
burglars by an ancient swing shutter, and
barricaded with boxes and buckets, half
filled with beans dried apples and oats, that
are tilted on a board shelf just under the
window ; I do not believe a lonelier spot
can be found in the whole range of Puritan
New England; a mill-pond in a faded De
cember afternoon is the play of resort by
oompsrison—a hemlock thicket at sunset is
noisy in oontrast with its sepulchral deso
lateness.
But when farming does not drive and
leisure is to be bad in solid junks by all who
want it, the store is not altogether so bare
of interest to the casual observer. Ilud
,lled, as the talking population love to be
found, their portraits, or full•length ,, , may
FRANK R. SNYDER.
The Country Store.
BLOOMSBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20,1868.
then be readily taken. The men and the
boys perched on barrels or the counters,
either swing their feet and gossip, or swing
their feet anOpit. If it is winter, they bud.
die up to tho dull box-stove, and polish the
long pipe with their hard palms es coolly
as if they were salamanders. They are
stowed in unseen corners, too—the young
fellows in particular—where they work over
colorless, but sometimes rank, Jokes in half
whispers, and snicker in nasal unison over
their old confidences about the girls. The
small boys drink in what falls, pinning
bashfully while the larger ones laugh ; they
are taking their early lessons faithfully and
well.
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Of winter evenings, the stove, crammed
with seasoned sticks, roared like any me•
nagerie lion. No January winds without
can drown its growling sound. The long
era are gathered in a great open circle, each
with a hand erect for a screen. There it is
the affairs of a nation are sifted; there
each town sovereign closes and grapples
with his dissenting neighbor, and finds his
own personal niche among those occupied by
the local worthies. The minister's last ser
mon comes up for analysis at this rustic
round table ; when the astonishing fact is
revealed that they are all not less profound
theologians than marvellous masters of
State craft and civil polity.
To the store flock the farmers, in earnest
with their spring work, after seeds and ma
nures and agricultural implements. Boys
run there on errands for their mothers,
their sisters, and themselves. Thrifty house.
wives drive up before the door et an early
forenoon hour in the summer time, and go
in to make barter of eggs, and cheese, and
stocking yarn, for cotton cloth, or calico, or
new shoes with a proper "power" to squeak
in them. The girls flock, with red blushes
burning on their cheeks, to see if' anything
lies over for them in the mail, or to exchange
a few words with the sleek haired clerk, or
to finger for the twentieth time the limited
stock of bareges, prints and muslin delainea
which he ever stands ready to spread about
the counter.
You will see a whole carivan of old fam
ily cows about the premises, some with bob
tails and some with switch, holding down
their heads and drowsing away the hours
as if they had cropped poppy-heads, instead
of green clover, for their Summer morning
repast. And elderly females are visible,
too, climbing friskily into and out of their
open wagons, the day's successful barter
giving them the nerve required to keep them
from falling.
As politicians, the men who gather stated.
ly at the country store strain the limits of
COI4IIIOII comprehension. On city rostrums
it is thought the political notorieties some
times give a start to the public pulse; but
at the store, the work is personal nod strik
ing and thorough beyond example. They
make it their grand point here to corner a
man ; after which operation it is thought be
is not worth putting forth much strength
upon. It is held to be the ooronal feature
of argumentative skill and power, to get an
opponent "where he can't get away." And
so it is, according to Socrates himself, who
had an awful teasing way of putting ques
tions—or agreeably to Father Aristotle, who
led by the nose the rest of the dialecticians
of his day, and impressed his system on all
the schools of Europe after him. To "ar
gue the point" is esteemed one of the di
vine rights of man ; and no government or
authority shall dare to take it out of his
hands.
YOUTIIFUL INVLUINCL-M en are accus
tomed to look upon the excesses of youth
33 something that belongs to that time.
Men say that of course the young, like colts
unbridled, will disport themselves. There
is no harm in colts disporting themselves,
but a colt never gets drunk. Ido not ob•
jest to any amount of gayety or vivacit that
lies within bounds of reason or of health,
but 1 do object and abhor, as worthy to be
stigmatised as dishonorable and unmanly,
every such course in youth as takes away
strength, vigor and purity from old age. I
do not believe any man should take the can
dle of his old age and light it by the vices
of his youth. Every man that transcends
natures laws in youth is taking beforehand
those treasures that are stored up for his
old age ; it is taking the food that should
have been his sustainance in old age and ex
hausting it in riotous living in his youth.—
Becclrtv.
low To SToP Tus FLOW 01+ BLOOD.—
Howekeepers, monhanies and others, in
handling knives, tools and other sharp in
struments, frequently receive severe cute,
from which blood flows prothsely, and often
endangers life itself. Dr. Keyser tugs that
blood may be made to cease an follows :
Take the fine dust of tea and bind it close
to the wound—at all times ac:oessible and
easy to be obtained. After the blood has
ceased to flow, laudanum is advantageously
applied to the wound. Due regard to these
instructions would Ave agitation of mind
and running for a surgeon, who probably
would make no bettor prescription if he
wore pretent.
EX-PILESIDENT hi:Annan oompleted the
lieventyeerenth year of his age on the 23rd
of April. We are mare that it will gratify
his friends to hear that the 77 anniversary
of his birthday found him in elOO lieu
health.
TWo boys fought out a quarrel the other
day, and the bigger proved the "beet man."
"Darn yo," said No. 2, when he found be
was used up—"darn ye, if I can't lick ye,
I'll make mouths at your sister."
Judge W..dw*M•s
While our government was administered
by honest agents, its machinery seemed to
be perfect in all its departments, because it
always worked well. Governmental oppres
sion and individual wrongs were unheard of,
and not until the political buzzards who
have for seven years past, controlled its aft
faire was it ever dreamed that both the
Constitution and the laws made in accord
ance therewith failed to accomplish their
legitimate purposes. When, unfortunately,
the President and the infamour Congress
assumed belligerent positions and warted
upon each other, it was discovered that
there was no law upon the statute books to
control them and keep them within legiti
mate bounds, hence Judge Woodward has
introduced the following bill, which will in
the future settle such miserable conduct as
we have beheld at Washington for the past
two years. Had such a law been in exist
ence, the whole of the present difficulties at
Washington would have besslobviated, and
the conflict, which is distracting the entire
nation, stagnating business, destroying eon•
Odor° undermining the whole structure of
our Government, and threatening its over
throw, would have been avoided. It is to
be hoped that Judge Woodward's bill will
receive at the hands of Congress the atten
tion it deserves, and:that, instead of depriv
ing the Supreme Court of its constitutional
functions, Congress will enlarge its jurisdic
tion, and thus Ptremetheu this grestbulwatk
of our national liberties;
Sac. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and
[louse of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,
That whenever any sot of Congress shall
hereafter be voted by the President on the
ground of the :unconstitutionality of any o
its provisions, and shall afterwards be en
acted into a law by a vote of two-thirds of
both houses,:Uotwithstanding the executive
veto, it shall be lawful for the President to
order the Attorney General to draw up:sod
fle on reord in the Supreme Court of the
United States a feigned issue, with snob
pleadings as shall be necessary and proper
to raise the constitutional questions suggest
ed in the veto message of the President, and
to test the constitutionality of sneh parts of
said enactments es were specially objected
to by him on constitutional grounds, but
which issue and pleadings shall be so drawn
as to put in issue no other questions what
soever.
Sts'. 2. And be it further enacted, That
immediately on filling said issue and: plead
ings of record in the Supreme Court, a
certified copy thereof shall be served by
the Attorney General or by some person
appointed by him, upon the Speaker of the
House of Representatives for the time be.
ing whose duty thereupon it.shall be to ap
pear on record by himself or enamel, to de
fend the constitutionality of said enactment,
and thereupon the Court shall, on applica
tion of counsel, make all necessary orders
for advancing said issue to argument and
for hearing argument thereon at the earliest
practicable period of their session in bane,
and upon entering judgment in said issue
the Court shall file their written opinion
upon every constitutional question therein
raised and each and every enactment of
said act of Congress which shall be adjudg
ed unconstitutional shall thenceforth be
held and taken to be null and void ; but
until such judgement is pronounced, the
same shall be deemed constitutional and
valid.
Su'. 3. And be it further enacted ; That
it shall be lawful for the Attorney General
in preparing said issue, to use the names of
real parties, if any such have an interest in
the questions to be hied and decided, or
fictitious names at his discretion ; and all
costs, free and charges attending said pro
ceeding, including those of the Speaker of
the House of Representatives or Ma coun
sel, after being duly audited at the Treas
ury Department, shall be paid upon war
rants of proper officers out`,.of any moneys
in the Treasury of the United States not
otherwise appropriated by law.
lili:C=M1=1:1
Brazilian Colt..
Brazil has also had her peaceful triumphs.
In the great exposition held at Paris, ki
1867, Brazil attracted much attention by the
display of her meterial resources. She suc
ceeded in obtaining a number of prises•
To the uninitiated it may seem strange that
from all the oountrieu—Arabia, Java, Ceylon
Venezuela, toe West Indies and Central
Ameaiea—contesting for the production of
the best coffee, Brazil bore away the palm.
But it has long been known to dealers that
toffs does not depend upon where it grows,
but upon the length of time it remains up
on the tree upon the manner of its curing.
The southern and the eouthwestoren states
became acquainted with coffee imported
from Rio de Janeiro, fifty years ago, at a
time when Boasilians did not know how to
cure coffee ; but the taste of the South and
West has alone kept up the demand for the
green, poorly owed coffee known in (km
memo as "Rio." The Brazilian. themselves
never use "Rio," and althonh threes !berths
of all the ooffeesimported Into the United
States come from Brazil, yet much 01 it it
sold as Mocha and Java, or under any ask.
er aim than "Rio." The English, Amni
ons sad Germans make the peered drink
ooffeein the world, while the Latin nations,
who never boil their coffee, make the bed
beverage.
IN order to get dear of his creditors, a
Detroit man transferred all his property to
hia with. Tho latter has now died, leaving
a will which leaves the poor man penoilee
unless he marries bin ecrvant girl.
The Volley of Dose 6
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, with Gen. Palmer's engineer eorps
of the Keane Nilo Railroad, writing
from Camp Cody, on the Mohave river,
California, gives the following description
of a remarkable valley in that region ;
Eighty miles northwest of this map is the
well-known sad muchalreaded "Death
Valley." It is said to be lower than the
level of the sea, and wholly doodles of wa
ter. Mr. Spears, our intelligent guide, who
visited this temarkable valley several times,
gave me the following account of it, with
the reason for its terrible names The val
ley is some fifty miles long by 30 in breadth,
and save at two points, it is wholly encir
cled by mountains, up whose steep sides it
is impossible for any but expert climbers to
ascend. It is devoid of vegetation, and
the shadow of bird or wild beast never
darkened its white, glaring sand In the
early days, trains of emigrants bound for
California passed, under the direction of
guides!, to the south of Death Valley, by
what is now known as the "old Mormon
road." In the year 1860, a large train,
with some 300 emigrants, mostly from Illi
nois and Missouri, came south from Salt
Lake, mided by a Mormon. When near
Death Valley, a dissent broke out in a part
of the train, and twenty-one families came
to the conclusion that the Mormon knew
nothing about the merry, so they appoint
ed one of their number a leader, and broke
off from the main party. This leader de
termined to turn duo west; so with the peo
ple and wagons and flocks be travelled for
three days. and decended into the broad
valley, whose treacherous mirage promised
water. They reached the centre, but only
the white glaring sand, bouodod by the
scorched peaks, met their gage on every
hand. Around the valley they wandered,
and one by one the men died, and the pant
ing flocks stretched themselves in death un
der the hot sun. Ti en the children, crying
for water, died at their mothers' breast,
and with swollen tongues and burning vitals
the mothers' followed. Wagon after wagon
was abandoned, and strong men tottered,
and raved, and died. After a week's wan
dering, a dozen survivors found some water
in the hollow of a rock in the mountains.
It lasted but a short time, than all perished.
but two, who, through some miraculous
means, got out of the valley and followed
the trail of their former companions.
Eighty-seven persons; with hundreds of
animals, perished in this fearful place, and
since then the name of Death Valley has
been applied to it. Mr. Spears says that
when be visited it last winter, after the lapse
of eighteen years, he found the wagons still
complete, the iron work and tires bright,
and the shriveled skeletons lying in many
places side by aide,
I=l
The Armies of the World.
At the present day the standing armies of
the world are larger than they have been
since the great wars of the first Napoleon.
The army of the United States now num
bers 50,000 men in all. The cost of our
army is 1100,000,000 or nearly 62,000,000
per 1,000 men'.
The army of France has been fixed at
750,000 men in the "active army," and 5r.0,-
000 in the "passive," the latter being nam
ed the National Guard Mobile. Total, 1,-
300,000 men available for war. A contin
gent of 1,000,000 men is:annually available
to recruit the army.
The British army numbers about 200,000
men. The bulk of this army is at home.—
Ireland is absorbing about 25,000 good troops.
Of the colonies or foreign possessions, India
takes the largest body of troops, the Domin
ion of Canada next, Australia next.
The Prussian army numbers about 600,
000 men.
The Italian army now , numbers 215,000
men, and is a very effective one. In one of
its arms, the berwaglieri, or rifle batallions,
it excels oven the French army, whose Zou
ayes were supposed to be the first light in.
fantryjn the world.
The Austrian' army numbers about 700,-
000 men ; its cavalry is said to be very fine.
The government breeds its own horses, and
thus secures good mounts.
The Russian army numbers about 800,-
000 men ; it could be quickly increased to
1,200,000 in time of war. It is spread all
over the empire, from the Baltic to the Cau
casus.
Tho Spanish army is small, not exceeding
80,000 men ; but it is very well clothed and
disciplined. It is also receiving breech-
loaders.
The number of men maintained in the
standing armies of civilised nation is not less
than 3,600,000. All these vast numbers are
snatched away from useful industries, and
condemned to idleness and a vicious life,
while the laboring people are taxed for their
support, and the costly armaments they re
quire. Is it not too large a police force?
Would it not be cheaper to dethrone a few
rogues?
A QUAXIM ANZCDOTL —When the Erie
Canal was first stated, the suWeot of Invest
ing in it was discussed in a Quaker tonnas
meeting of the men. It was opposed by an
influential member—no other than Ellis
Hicks--on the ground of its being a speon
lation. Among other objections, be went
on to say—" When God created the world,
if he bad wished canals, he would have
made them." Thereupon " a weighty
Friend" (one of their terms) rose up, and
said slowly in the stoning ♦oioo in which
they always speak in mooting,
And Jacob disled a wall,
and sat down.
♦ Terrlbl• Iburtlaqsake.
Saw FILASOIIII2IO, May B—The bark Com
et from the Sandwieh Islands, brings so
count of a terrible volcano eruption of
Manes Los, which began demonstrations
on March 27th. On the 28th, over one
hundred earthquake shocks were felt at
Nilima, during the two weeks following to
April 80th ; two thousand earthquake
shocks mewed at Waist China. The
earth opened in many places add the tidal
wave roes sixty feet Dish, °retooling sows
tress fora quarter of a mile inland, sweep
ing human beings, homes and everything
moveable.
Hefbre it came a terrible shock prostra
ted churches and homes, killing many. In
all one hundred lives were lost, besides
thousands of horses and oat& The
ten vomited Ire, reeks sod Wm. A dyer
of red hot lava dee fbr eix miles long lowed
to the Pea at the rate of ten miles an hoer,
destroying everything before It, had f b rm•
log an Wand in the sea•
A new aster, two miles wide has open
ed and throws rooks and streams of lire a
thousand feet high. Streams of lava rolled
to the sea at one time, illuminating it, and
extended filly miles at night. The lava
was pushed out from shore one mile at
Wasshina, three miles from the shore. At
Conical Island it rose suddenly emitting a
column of steam and smoke, while the
Kono packet was passing, spattering mud
on the vessel. The greatest shook ocenned
April the second.
Prior to the eruption there was a great
shower of ashes and pumice. During the
great shock the swaying motion of the earth
was dreadful. No person could stand in
the midst of this tremendous shook. An
eruption of red earth poured from the
mountain, rushing across the plane three
miles in three minutes and then ceased, and
then came the great tidal wave,! and then
the streams of lava. The villages on the
shore were all destroyed by this wave. The
earth opened under the :sea and reddened
the water. The earth eruption swallowed
thirty persons, and the sea many morel;
great suffering and terror prevailed and the
whole region was affected.
Tole WILLOW Wolorm—The pleasant
spring:weather we are now enjoying, will set .
the sap to circulating, and prepare the chest
nut and willow fisrwhistler. Theboye will
soon be at it, and we shall have the shrill
sound piercing our eat from every direction.
We love to'tbink of those things by which
we beguiled many an hour in happy child
hood sport. Ilolmcs,:in the Atlantic/ Al
manac, says : "Who does not love to make
a willow whistle, ortto'see one made? Can
you not recall your Arts lesson in the art—
the cutting of the flexible bough, the choos
ing a smooth part, passing the knife around
it, above and below, pounding it judiciously,
ringing it earnestly, and feeling the hollow
cylinder of bark at last slipping on the sap
py, ivory white, fragrant wood? The little
plaything grew, with growth of art and civ
ilisation, to be the great organ which thun
dered at Harlem or in Boston. Respect the
willow whistle."
" TIMITA." —Tight pantaloons are to be
all the go the present summer. We have
had a eight of them already—and such a
sight ! It really makes us nervous to think
of it. Our young men actually seem to
have no "visible means of support." For
goodness' sake let them wear false calves.
How they expect:to become anything in the
world on such diminutive props, we are un
able to comprehend. And how do they
manage to get into them ? Their legs look
as if they had been melted and poured in,
and somehow or other the big end of the
material seems to have run down into the
boots.
MoNrr.—Men• work for it, beg for it,
steal for it, starve for it, and die for it, and
all the while, from the cradle to the grave,
God and nature thundering in our ears the
solemn question, 'What shall it profit a man
to gain the whale world and lose his own
soul?' The madness for money is the
strongest and lowest of passions, for it is
the insatiate Molloeh of the human heart,
before whose remorseless altar all the finer
attributes of humanity are sacrifioed. It
makes merchandise of all that is sacred in
the human affections, and even traffics in
the awful solemnitie of the eternal.
MR. CLARANO.II LOOAN, of Philadelphia,
just returned from Savannah, having obser
ved the election there, has made a statement
that in one ward in that city several negroes
were 'supplied by a wag with labels of "Cos
tar's rat and roach exterminator," and vo
ted them as ballots. Some of the very in
elligent suffragans noticing a cut of a rat
on the supposed ballots,asked what it meant.
They wore told it stood for the "oar-idea
tion of the constitution." They wondered,
believed, and voted. After thin, who prates
about educating voters, and who doubts that
the oolored troops fought nobly ?
A TOTING lady of Richmond was so fortu
nate as to have two admirers. She was un
fortunate in her choice, ihr him whom she
married deserted her and she has lived in
seclusion ever since. Bat the other day she
received notice hem the administrator of
the rejected lever, who had died in New
Orleans, that his whole estate had been be
queathed to her. She is now moderately
happy
AM OLD Indian who had whammed tba
effect of whiskey for many years, said a
barrel of whiskey =Paned a thousand
tongs and fifty fights.
NUMBER 13.
aeon of Thomism
None but the iftteinknible are apprehee•
sive of contempt.
Quarrels would never last long if the fault
were on one side only.
Love receives its death•wound from die•
gust and is buried by oblivion.
We are too apt to regard every one's life
much more uncertain than our own.
Every man magnifies *lurks he has re•
salved and lose= them ho has indicted.
It is never more diMonit to speak well
than when we are ashamed of our silence.
It is more difficult to conceal the sem
time we have than to feign those we have
not.
In making our Iliningeniente to live we
should not Angst that we have abo te die.
If we had no faults ourselves we would
net take pleasure in observing those of
others.
All the widow make us tom& Gude.,
but love makes us guilt i of the most ridicu
lous ones.
Women exceed the generality of men in
love, but men hue the advantage in friend-
The best societg end conversation is that
in which the heart bas greater share than
the head.
Those who apply themselves too much to
little things commonly become incapable of
great ones.
The shortest way to become rich le not by
enlarging our MAUS, but by sontssotingaur
desires.
Falsehood is often rooked by truth but
she soon outgrows her cradle and disouds
her nurse.
To bo able to bear provocation is an Err
went of great reason, and to forgive it, of a
great mind.
Ceremony was always the companion of
weak minds; it is Is plant that will never
grow in a strong soil.
Prudenoe and love are not Made for each
other; in proportion as love increases pru
dence diminishes.
The shortest and be way to make your
fortune is to convince people k is their in
terest to serve you.
Prejudice and eeltsafficioncy naturally
proceed from inexperience of the world and
ignorance of mankind.
AT A publie school exhibition in a Mich
igan village, one of the visitors made a
brief address to tho pupils, on the necessi
ty of obeying their watchers and growing up
loyal and useful. citizens. To give empha.
sis to his remarks, he pointed to a large na
tional flag, spread on one side of the room,
and inquired, "Boys, what is that flag for ?"
A little urchin promptly answered, "To
cover up the dirt, sir."
literTtNEss.—The oontemplation of hu
man affairs will lead us to this concleaion,
that among the different conditions and
ranks of men, the ballance of happiness is
preserved in a great measure equal, and
that the high and the low, the.cich and the
poor approach, in point of real enjoyment,
much nearer to each other than is commonly
imagined.
A MORT littlegirl, night or nine years
old, who had heard much talk about the
subject, came home from meeting one day
and asked, in a somewhat indignant tone,
"Mamma, what makes the minister always
say Amen ? Why don't he OM say A Ivo
man ?"
Wrrrr.—"Ms," Rid the! pride of the
family, who had seen some summers, "do
you know why our torn cat is like a poet?"
Ma did'ot know.
"Why," said the prooodious pot, "(lomat
ho go out nights and invoke the mews?"
"Do YOU know what I am thinking
about ?" said a customer to a barber.
" No, sir, not exactly ; but I an sea what
is running in your head."
TRIM is a young lady in illtoklYn so re
fined in her language that she never uses
the word " blackguard," but substitutes
" APrioan sentinel."
A BLLTPTOWN, 0., lady has bad four
boys at a birth. Her husband is doing as
well as oould be expected, but thinks she is
very overbearing.
THE young lady who was frosen with hors
ror, and was subsequently melted into tears,
wiu carried out, and consigned to a watery
gm's.
Ir usually fall out that those who seek
others' destruction find their own. No hint
to certain editors not distant from here.
A lux who claims au extraordinary amount
of veneration, says that he respeota old me
in everything ezoept chickens for dinner.
A DIGBPONDZIIT editor =arks that if the
country grows much worse, he shall publish
the births under the head of disasters.
A rearm asks, why are a fashionable
young lady's brains like a trout? Bemuse
they love to sport under a waterfall.
A Yonwo lady gives her reason* for ne•
ing a parmol in them words, " 1 raise my
parasol , to parry Sal's rays ."
Mu. Partin ton humus to the oonelu
sion that there is no use trying to Web soft
water when it rains so hard.
WRY Is a lawyer like a wryer ? Beorkuma
whatever way be :DOM down mot LUMP
the dust.
AR you etnn' hr yolir bride when ANI are
married, Au stun(' by her forevci altatwird.,
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AN ertragefi mm tear• him itsly ;
wotunn tom hor hwheini'o.