THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. Butler, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 13,1864. H - KN trance to the AMMICAN CITIZKN Printing OfHce from lb-- Smith,xm Jefferson street. BSS"*We refer <>ur readers to the adver tisement of Silas I'carce and Son's, Pro prietors of Ituial llill Nursery. Those wishing to purchase fruit and ornamental trees, do well to call at (he above establish mat before|purchasi ng elsewhere. FRESH ARRIVAL. —The M'Aboy'shave just received a new and great variety of all kinds of Dry (roods, Boots & Shoes, Gro ceries, Hardware, Queensware, and in fact every thing pertaining to theirline of busi ness. They are selling low for 'cash. The highest market prices allowed for all kinds , of produce. GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK. —The Janua-1 ry number for lKt>4, of this excellent j work is now befoi# us. The Fashion j Plates are beautiful, and unexcelled by j any that we have ever seen. Jhe Steel | EngraKings are splendid. The Literature ■ is said to he "by the first writer* in Amer- ; tea. Judging from the appearance and 1 contents of the pre*nt number, it promi- I ses fair toexcel anything that has proceed ed it. Do not fail to supply yourselves with the January number, and we feel satisfied that you will not hesitate, after j examining it, to procure the remaining i numbers for 1864. For particulars, see j notice in another column of this paper. Ill' Something. It is the duty of everyone to take some active part as actor fin the stage of life, j Some seem to think they can vegetate, as it were, without being anything in par ticular. Man was not made to rust out | his life. It is expected he should "net well his part." lie must be something. ; He has a work to perform, which it is his duty to attend to. We are not, placed here to grow up, pass through lhe vai i ous stages of life, and then die. without j having done anything for the benefit of] tlu; human race. It is a principle in th.' i creed of the Mohametans,' that every one ! should have a trade. No Christian doc- ' trine could be better than that. Is a man j to be brought up in idleness? Is he to j live upon the wealth which his ancestors j • have acquired by frugal industry ?Ishe j placed here to pass through life like an j automaton? Has he nothing to perform as a citizen of the world? A man who ' docs liothing, is useless to his country as j an inhabitant. A man who.'locs nothing is a mere cypher, lie does not fulfil the ' obligations'for which he was sent into the world, and when he dies, lie has not fin- ! ished the work that was given him to do j lie is a mere blank in creation." Some j are born with riches and honors upon their heads. But does it follow that they have ■nothing to do in their career through life? There are certain duties for every one to perform. Be something. Don't live like a hermit ami die unrcgrcMed. See that young man, no matter what arc his ciroirm«t«ncos, if he has 110 par ticular business to pursue, he will not ac complish much. Perhaps he has a fath er abundantly able to support him. Per haps that father has lobored hard to ob tain a competence that is sufficient for his sons to live in idleness. Can they go abroad with any degree of self-compla cency, squandering away the money which their father's have earned by hard labor? No one who has the proper feelings of a "citizen, who wishes to bo ranked among the useful members of society, would live such a life. Be something. Don't be a drone. You may rely upon jffrnr present possessions, or on your future prospects, bur these rich es may fly away, or other hopes may be obliterated, and if you have no place of your own, in such a ease, ten to one you will find your path beset with thorns.— Want may come upon you before you arc aware of it, and having no profession, you lind yourself in anything but an enviable condition. It is therefore, necessary that | youshouldßE SOMETIIINa. Don't depend j upon fortune, for she is a fickle support. j which often fails when you lean upon her I with the greatest confidence. Trust to ' your own exertions. BE SOMETHING, pursue that vocation \ for which you arc fitted by nature ; pur- ' sue it faithfully and diligently. You have a part to act, and the honor in per forming that part, depends upon yourself. It is sickening to see a parrel of idol boys ; hanging around a father, spending the money which he has earned by his indus try, without attempt ing to do anything .for themselves. BE SOKMETIII.NO, should be their mot to. Every one is capable of learning some > " art, trade, or mystery," and can earn a competence for himself. He should HE SOMETHING, and not bring down the gray tiairs of his father to the grave. He should learn to depend upon himself.— Idle boys living upon u parent without any profession or employment, are illy qualified for good members of society.— And we regret to say, that it is too ofteu the case that it is the parents fault that they are thus brought up. They should be taught to BE SOMETHING, to know how to provide for themselves in ease of ne-1 cessity, and to act well their part, they j will reap the honor which therein lies.- S«as" The protracted storm which com- j niencod with the New Year, is now giving 1 way. aud we may soon bid good by to j sleghing. For the Citizen. BUTLER, Jau. 12, 1804. En's. CITIZEN: —On New Year's day we received a visit from our good friends ! of Butler circuit that we will not soon for j get. They came regardless of the pierc ing wind that blew, tothe number of about one hundred and twenty-five, bringing with j them the very substantial* of life. They took full possession of our humble dwell ing, without any resistance on our part, and had every thing their own way. The • ladies showed themselves adepts in the art ' of cooking by spreading a table which would certainly satisfy the taste of the most fastidious. They left with us cloth ing and produce to the amount of seven ty-five dollars and fifty-six dollars in cash. , We were glad to see a number of our friends [ present who are not members of the M. E. j Church. The day will be long remcm- I bered for its happy associations, as well as I for the gifts received. ADNA B. LEONARD. B®"" The following are the remarks of Mr. Johnston, after being elected Speak er of the House of Representatives, of Pennsylvania, for the present session : I am profoundly grateful, gentlemen of the House of Representatives, for the high honor which you have just conferred I upon me by electing me as your Speaker; | and I assure you 1 will use my best en j deavors to discharge the duties of the po -1 sition with faithfulness and impartiality, j I assume the responsibilities of the place j with a sincere distrust of my own capa } bilrties, but with a confiding hope that I I will be so generously sustained by you as to make my administration a success. | Standing to each other in the relation of peel's,, it will harldly be admissablc in me to enlarge upon our several iWre. What was once competence has become poverty, pov-! erty has become penury, and penury is lapsing into pauperism. Any mechanical l occupation is more profitable than the | most intellectual profession. The most accomplished scholars in the Confedera cy would be glad to barter their services for food and raiment. In the complete upturning of our social relations the only happy people are those who have . black I hearts or black skins. j COTTON AT THE SOUTH.—A recent a? ' tide in the Richmond Whig esti mates the amount of cotton at present within the lim its of the 'Confederacy' at 3,00,000,000 i bales, ot which the rebel Government owns I about 300,000 bales. Terrible Storm in the West. We copy the following from a number of special dispatches, from many points in * the North-West to the Chicago Tribune : OSHKOH, Wis.', Jan. 3.—The storm opened on Thursday with a eofS, driving r snow. Friday morning the mercury had I fallen to the almost incredible degree of thirty-eight below zero, Fahrenheit. On Saturday morning it was thirty-six below zero. At this time (Sunday afternoon) it ' is eight below zero. ' The only casualty wo have heard of, is t that a woman being frozen to death while i driving a team between Berlin and Rosen , dal, Winnebago county. There are many cases of frozen hands and feet, and smaller members. ROCHFORD, 111., Jan. 3.—The-most se vere storm since IXjtt has been raging , here since Wednesday, commencing with a heavy fall of snow about midnight. It was quickly followed by a terrible wind, ' the thermometer falling before morning ' ! to thirty three degrees below zero. The j snow and wind continued till after dark. | the snow drifting badly, the thermometer | varying but little from thirty degrees be- I' t low zero. • . [ On Friday the wind blew a perfect gale c all day. It was intensely cold, and it was j impossible for men or beast to stop out but j | a few minutes at a time. It is reported that one man was frozen to death, and several ' so badly frost bitten in the extremities 1 ! that they wili have feet and hands ampu ; ; tated. The first train *> uce Thursday : morning passed here at i last night. One lady passenger, while storm-bound I at Belvidere, was attacked with diptiitHa, | and died last night a few minutes after her : j arrival here. Business has nearly been suspended; on j | account of the roads being impassible and i the intense cold. i ST. PAUL, Jan. 3.—There is no doubt j the last three days of last week have been j the coldest known here for years. The j | highest range of the mercury during that ! | time has been ten ilegrees below zero, and j i most of the timeiias been twenty andthir- J |ty below. It was thirty degrees below ze- ! ro at 0 o'clock this morning, and thirty- ] j eight during the night. The army regis | tor thermometer at Fort Snelling, which j is on a high bleak bluff, marked fifty be low zero yesterday. A register which has i been kept since that fort was established | jin IS]2, shows that this degree of cold | has been reached but twice during that | time. . . | MILWAUKEE, January 2. 1864.—The , weather for the past forty-eight hours has been*perfectly diabolical, and business is in consequence almost suspended. The thermometer has ranged from thirty to thirty-five degrees below zero, with a | driving wind most terrible to encounter, j Frozen eat,-, noses and feet are innumera ! bio, and many persons were yesterday piek !ed up insensible on the streets. Ears and feet were frozen while going but a few blocks. Many employees of the railroads were badly frozen and crippled for life. — Xo train:; have arrived or departed yet in any direction, hi fact, we arc eomplete i ly frozen in.and must wait patiently for j deliverance, though theft is little abate ment as yet. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. '2, 1864. j All railroad communication is suspended | with no prospect of being resumed for sev-. ; cral days, No trains have arrived here | since Thursday. We are completely snow !ed in. The weather is bitter cold. Sev j eral'soldiers have frozen to death at Camp i Yates. It is reported that the Hospital is jin a very bad, condition. The stage-dri- I ver on the route between here and Virgin j ia was found dead on his box to day.— Supposed to have frozen to death. GALENA, January 2. —The weather is exceedingly cold, the mercury ranging I from twenty-five to thirty-three degrees below zero. The gale subsided on Fri day night, leaving the railroad blocked up since Wednesday, evening and the pros pect is gloomy. FORT WAYNE, January 2.—The ther mometer oi) the Ist was 28 degrees below zero, with heavy wind and snow. Two men were frozen to death. The Pitts burgh and Fort Wayne Railroad is not yet open to Chicago, but all goes on right j eastward. The Toledo and Wabash Road is slightly interrupted. No mails for throe days. MADISON, Jan. 2.—A terrible storm of wind and snow sot in hereon Wednesday night, lastingall day Thursday—complete ly blockadingtherailroads. In many pla tes on the Milwaukeeand Prairie duChien Railroad the drifts werefrom 12 to 14foet deep, and packed in so hard that it requir | cd to be shoveled out before trains could ! pass. The passenger train which left here Thursday afternoon for Prairie du Chicn, I >'ot buried in a drift at Avena, an/'. w - a per hund.; Buckwheat *3,oo:Ryo i 2.75. | FRUlT—Dried Apples, $1,50 per bushel; Dried Peach- ; ! es. $3,00. I FEATHERS—IS rent!* per pound, « R AlX—Whont, M,M(s per bnaliM; 100; I Oat». 70.': rw Xc. ;6c '. •' 1 j GllOi'KUlKS —C ,7,.t ni.), :j7r per pound: Java, 40c: 1 J Bnjvv,i sugar, 15c per pound; do.White, lfic; N.O. Molaa- IBes, 80 rent- per gallon; Syrop 90c and #l. HIDES—'I% cent* py pound. LARD—I 2 cents p«-r pound. NAILS—*S,7S per keg. I j»i >T ATO ES—4O and s()c per bn*hel. PORK—7 to 8 c«-nt« per pound. R AOS—S rent* per pound. RICK—I 2 cent* per pound. SEEDS—Clover, *7,00 per bushel; Timothy, *2.50; Flax, #2.00. SA LT—*3.oo per liarrel. T A LLOW—IO cent* pet pound. WOOL—7Oc per pound. PITTBIIUIIGII MAUKKTB. j « January 12,1864. APPLES—*2,2S fa *2,50 per ban;el. • , BUTTER—Freeh Roll, 25 (ft ttAier lb. CHEESE—Western Reserve, 14c per lb; Hamburg, , 15 per lb. EOOS—23 (rh 24c per dozen. F LOUR—Wheat, $7,25 $7.50; Buckwheat, *4. $ *4,25. GRAlN—Wheat, *1,40 (a. *1,45; Corn, *1.30; Oats, | 80 (a Ssc. G ll< lES —Sugar, 17 (3) 1714 c per lb • Coffee, 34 ( 35c per m: Molasses, 05 (n> flOc per "gallon ; Syrup, 80 (g> i 85c per S A LT—JJverpool, $2,50 \ectfully invited to attend. By order of the W. M. TOW APVEBTHEMESTO. idminislrator'N Notice. IFTTERS of Ailmiru'fltration having been granted to j the undersigned, on the estate of EJi/a Boyd, lale »>f i*enu township dee'd, all person's knowing thenist Ives in debted to said estate are requested to make |iavmcnt, and th«we having claims atpuurt the are requested to preacnt them properly authenticated for settlement. ROBERT C AMPBELL, Ad'm. OrplinnN Court Sale. RY virtue of nn order and decree of the Orphans' Court of Butler county, th»- undersignod will expose to sale at public vendue or outcry, upon the prendses, (with leave to adjourn from time to time, to the Court House in Batler) on the fli>t day of March A. D. 1804, the following described real estate, the property of the mi nor children of John Scott, late of Centro township, But ler county, dee'd, to wit: a certain lot of ground situate in the village of Unlonville, in the township of Centro, and county of Butler aforesaid ; bounded on the north by If. Doerr and School Honse lot; c:»qt by School Hou«e lot and alley ; south by the Butler and Mercer Turtiplkc, I and George ftTCandlees ; west by Samuel Borland and George M'Candlew, e?intaining about fonr and one half srres all under fence and on which i* erected, a frame stable, coal house together with a large variety of good fruit trees and a good well of water thereon. TERMS.— One half in hand, and the balanco in one year from confirmation of sale by tlio Court, with lnt»«re*t from date of confirmation. JOHN HUSSELTON. Guardian of the minor children of John Scott, dee'd. Jan. 13, 3t. Orphan's Court Sale. BY virtue <.f an order of the Orphan** Court of Butler county I*a. No. 24, December Term, 1863,thc un dersigned James 11. M'Mahen, Adm'r of James M'Mahon dee'd, will cx]>ose to public sale on the premises, on Frl ,.day the 11th day . BY virtneand decree of the Orphan'* Court of Butler county, I will expose to pub#: sale on the premises on ThumlajHthe lMtli day of February next, at ten o'clock, of nai.l .IHV. All that certain piece of land fitua ted in the borough of Millerstown, *ai«l county; bounded «.ti the north by lands of John Shakely, on the east by It nds of Jacob Barnhart and Williani M'Cullough, on ti e .south by lauds of Jacob and John Frederick, and on th) wift by latuls of Dauhenspeek, v rederlck and lv containing about three acres. Also—A certain COJII lot in Donegal township, said county, Itounded on the north by lands of John Kittsim moss, on the east by lands of same, on the south by lands <>f si me and on the west by lands «>f name—containing nhontone acre, with an excellent vein of coal and a coal bank in working order. TRESIS. —One third in hand, and the balance in two equal annual installments with interest from the cuiflr niatior.of sale. THEODORE J. CRAIG, WILLIAM B. BYERS, A*n\s. of John Bvcfs, dee d. I .Tan. 13, 3t. Guar«|lan> Hale or Iteal Estule. nV virtue of an order and decree of the Orphan's t.'ourt of Butler county, I will expose to public sale I o?i the premises, in the borough of Harmony, Rutler county Pa., on the cisghtet-uth day of February next, the one half interest in a certain house and lot in said boro., bounded on the north by an alley, on the east by u street on the south by George Beam, and on the west* by Mar ' tin lloMerninn, known In said borough as the Mill House rr,.:'" 1 !'- TKRMS. —^ no third in hand, and the balance In two enuiil annuni installment* with interest from confirma tion of sale. PHILIP NASS. Guardian of Hannah Ifcncnberger. j Terms reclined to oI«t l*riee*! mm UON BOOK For 1864. | Great Literary and Pictorial Year I The publisher of Godey's Lady's B«K>k, thankful to Ihut public which has enabled him to publish a magazine for the la«