VOLUMEL AMERICAN CITIZEN Job PriatiiigOffic-et Ornamental, plain, Fancy, card Book AND miui m winnrMK. In the Ar»llr»»lon room In the Court House. .butler, jpa,. JVK ARK. PItEI'ARET> TO PRINT,OV PHOttT NOTCH Bill Heads, Hooks, Druggist l.abelw, I'ro grammes, Constitutions, Checks, Notes, Waft?, Blanks, Business Cards, Visiting Cards, Show Cards, Pamphlets, Posters, Bills of I'are, Order Books, Paper Books, Billets, Sale Bills, &c. BEING FCRNIEHED WITH Tho Most Approved Hand Presses •THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF Type, Borders. Ornaments, Rules, Cut*, Ac., IN TUK COUNTY, # VTc will execute everything in the line of PLAIN AN DDECORATIVE PRINTING NE\TI.T, PROMPTLY, AND AT REASONABLE RATES,. in a style to excel any establishment at home, and compete will, any abroad. WORKMEN Are employed in every branch of the "business, and we endeavor to meet the wants of the community, and to re tain the honorable distinction which has l»;en already COft£tdpd to this establish ment, for TAHTE 1 >' COMPOHTION AND hi Work. In all I he essentials of Cheap Printing, flood Caper. Tasteful Composition, Beau tiful Press Work, and DISPATCH, we in vite comparison, from getting out a Card of a single line to an illuminated Poster, I jf a work of any number of paggs. *3aorEBBIOUffAL CAR'DS L. Z. MITCHELL, m.•«««»■*■ aa« a . «r- OfTire N. E r..rn<-r of Di.imoml, llutl.r, Pa. -%# Chnrlm iVCandli'M, A • !«»>.■»<"> =-* € ■ Office. South went corner of Pminond, Rntt«r, PA. J. \. AJ. I*l 1M I V\('F, A ttoraoyH at aw, Ofltco, on S. K of Diamond apit Huhut Butter, Pa. THOMPSON & J,YON, C • *" ID-Offlco.onMaln Street. Butler. Pa -** BLACK & FLEEGER, ATTOUMSV'H A T Ti ,Y w, >NO I'BNSION AND CLAIM AUKNTS Office, fouth Kaat Corner < 112 Diamond. 4.uler, Pa S-E W_1 IST G . MRS. T. J. LOUM iN, Would reepect fully inform t!m cltllens of iidfc piece I in,| in iirt n tifd to do all kind* 112 sewing, m It u* i'rrn, can nee, Getita" Shirts, and ChildM-u's Hppirol. AN<>, l«ucal Agen* for Whet ler A W il*. 11 s (kwing Machines. fob. CJ. v.»| 4. no 11 *lf 1% . ■ - ■ *.*«■ «P « ATTORNEY AT I.AW, Will attend to al 1 bus!nous entrusted tohN enrs prompt Jy. Sfxcittt attention jjlven to the colltrUitu* of J'eit- Hack JMj/ and Bounties. Will also art iuj for those wishing to boy or MM 11 T«*l estate. Office on South nide of Diamond, in Rredm's huilditiK ltutler I'a. THOS. Attorney at Law,, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT Offioo with Charles M'Candless, Esq S. W. Corner ot Diamond BUTLER PA. Claim A^eutt riTK undersigned would respectfully notify the public that lit) lias bean regularly commissioned as OH.A-IIV5; for securing Bounty M»ney, JrreaY* of l\ihall be waited npon with the greatest of pleasure U. BtTBJIMCLLBa T. B. WHITB - C HOOB FISIIOMBLE TAILORS. THE undersigned having associated themselves in ths Tailoring business, would respectfully nay io th« public In general that they have just received the Kali and Winter Kanbions, Mid are prepared to make up clothing in the latest end most approved style Plejr • call and examine our Fashions an«* materials and in the beet manner. Particular attention paid to children's teeth. ""As mechanics, they defy com ■petition; a* operators Ihej rauk among tho beet. Char ges moderate. Advice free of charge. Office—ln Boy. 112 felt like climbing up a peg, Whan ilealh hh blows did di al. And he —'hough ho could heel a boot, Himself lie oould not heal. He mended nrnifcht hnt boot* and shoos, His ways ho n«Vr would mond. And rvhen be used his last end up, liis lile was at an end. And when his thread of life t oaxtd short, His troubles waxed full sore, And when he wmxed his last wax end, He waxed to wax no more, But h'-.-.-d fhat when his life would end. And vanish like a Scroll, That nil would ke»p in memory, His latt , his end, his awl. SALTS*, Fob. 18,1867. L. sdr.rt ffliacillanu, A Boy's Trial. BV AMY RANDOLPH. A little stone cottage stands close down the road, with two or threesycamore trees strewing yellow leaves upon its roof, and a cluster of gaunt lilac bußhes at the south end—even the golden crucible of tho early December sunshine could not ttansmuje it into aught but a desolate and forlorn looking spot; "Mother," said little Harry Morton,ks he set down the pail of water he had just brought upfront the brimming spring in the woods, "don't you wish we Ihed in a big red house like Sir. Oxley'swith white stono steps, and ever so many acros if land i" "And a wagop £ IKI horses ?" added Charley, t> stout urchin of seven. Mrs. Morton sighed softly, she too had been "wishing," but her aspirations had taken a different shape from that of her two little boys. "Are you tired, mother," questioned Harry. "A Hole, my soi.." '•ls that pile of coats most done ?" "1 shall finish them by dark, I hope." Ilarry stood silently watching his mo ther's Hying needle for a moment or two. "Mother, I wish I could sew." "Voii tire helpful enough. Hurry; I could not get along without your assist* a nee around the house." "But 1 wish 1 could earn money to Ijelp you, nii'thcr. T m Murphy has a shilling a week fu- helping Smith. 1 wa- there and him if I couldn't get soti.eih.n!-' to do, but ho said 1 was 100 Into .Nirs Morton sdtiled. "All in good tune, my son. 1 idiall be very gla.i when you arc jvble to earn something, but until then, wo must wait panont y." "And eat potato ;6 r-nd bread for din ner, and burn dead sticks iu the stove. Siid Ilarry, with a little grimace. There .comes Mr Oxley's big wagon—l'll run out and open the gate for him." , A# the big wagon tiilud with rosy-red and gold streaked apples rumbled through, Farmer Oxley dropped his whip. Ilarry ran to pick it up, ami something in the old man's good humored face, as he said, "Thojik you, my boy!" encouraged him to ask, in a tremulous voicei "If you please, sir, do you know of anything I could do?" "Do?" echoed the farmer. "What on earth does the boy mean?" "To earn a little nioney, si-,'' explain ed llarry. farmer Oxley hesitated. Not half an hour ago, when his buxom helpmate had proposed sending abaskctof 'f;illiflowcrs' to the people at the gate, he had nega» tivid the idea, saying, 'he did not beliive there was agy good in the lot—gipsey nu'er-do-wells, and noihing bettor.' 15ut now, Harry's Bright eyes somehow ap pealed to his belter nature. '•What do you want money for, boy?" growled the farmer, trying to look stem. Harry glanced down at his litte red, frost-bitten toes, as if he thought the question rather superfluous. "To buy some shoes, sir, and we havn't had any meat in the house for a month, sir." Farmer Oiley whistled, and snapped the lash of his whip. '•Look here, boy, I'm going to Ijedge pon to sell these apples, and maybe I might make you useful in folding the horses, or measuring out. If you've a mind to earn a shilling, come along. 'But he added, as Harry scrambled up with alabrity, a shilling won't buy shoes." o, sir, 1 ktiiw it won't," said Harry, ■'but 1 could lay it up, and perhsjx- get a little more gome day." '•Well said," chuckled the farmer, ''l you'll do, young man."- Hany wondereU what Mr. Oxley meant but he did not venture to ask, and sat quietly by the farmer's side, wh.le that individual took sileut note of the boy's bright block curls and big dark eyes, and neatly meuded garments. '•A good ♦ace,'" thought the farmer.— j "I suppose they must be very poor. I wish I had let Rebecca send down those apples. Perhaps, if he turns out to be good lor anything about helping, I may give him something to do around the barn " It was u hard day's work, but Harr caied little for that, with the twelve | cents uieauiiug at the end of the long \ perspective. j -\Vell, my boy, I see you are not 1 afraid of work," was farmer Oxley's com ment, as with empty wagon, he turned his horses heads towards home, just as BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1867. the new moon rose a thread of g istening silver, above the city spires. Harry laughed "Are we home now, sjrE" '■Not ju3t this in nute; I've got to stop at this Savings Bank. It dun't close till five, and I must draw a little sun: out." Harry Morton held the heroes, while Mr. Ox'ey went into the handsome brown stocc building and transacted his busi ness, and gave up the reins in silence when he returned. "Well,boy, whatare you thinking of?" asked Mr. Oxley. after he had driven some distance without a word being spoken on either side. "I was thinking how nice it must be to have lots of money !" answered truth ful Ilarry. Mr. Oxley laughed. "You arc young (1 sing that song, IJtrry, lu it's true as gospel. Mcney is a nice thing !" Harry Morton was a proud boy that as he showed his mother the guerdon of his day's labor. ' Only see, |fif eeu cents, mothgr, and he only promised me a shilling! but he said I had earned it, and he wouli'nt be grudge it." Mis. Morton kissed Harry, and gave her waited for congratulations, while Charley standing on tip-toe to eye the fifteen cents, regarded his brother as a oapitalist. Mrs. Oxley's bright kitchen looked e>cn brighter than uSual, as herhusbaud came in out of the frosty starlight to the gleam ot blazing chestnut logs, and the steady glow of tho big lamp on the man tle. The evening board was dt+ly spread white, new bread, crisp honeycomb, swell ing over with golden liquid, butter as yellow as dandelion, and the fragrant slices of thinly cut ham, in which the farmei's soul delighted; while a brown cone of hot gingerbread smoked tti tho ceutro. "1 heard you coming," said Mrs. Ox ley, as sha set the tea pot on the tray and poured out a pitcher of thick cream.— "Ctime sit down. A cup ot hot tea will take the frost out of you.'' Mr. Oxley, loth sit down to tho evening meat, thiuting for the nine ty-ninth thousand time, what a good wife he had. "And what luck ?" demanded the comely matron, cutting off a section of overflowing honeycomb for her husband's plate. "Well, I sold all the apples—got good prices for 'em, too, and contracted for two hundred pounds of butter, End " '• I»icl you get the money r or my new dross ■'Yes." Farmer Oxley laid down his knife and Cork, and be gaii searching in his pocket tur the little "Savings ]sauk" book. "I must ha' left it in my overcoat poak et." lie rose up to lo ik for it. "Strange! where can it be?" '•Dear uia, Joliu; I hope you hav'nt lost it J"' ' "Ijost it 1 no, of course not; where should 1 lose it ? (Jive me the lantern and I'll £0 and take a look into the wag on. Mike hain't put it up yet." 15ift the lantern and the look were alike in vain. No Savings Kook ap peared. "Kebecca," said the farmer, solemnly, "you may depend ujon it that young scapegrace has stolen it—the boy I told you about." "My dear," remonstrated charitable Mrs. Oxley. "I tell'yuu ho hasi" raged Mr. Oxley; "and I'll have the money back or I'll have him in jail. I was a fool to believe in his smooth speeches. They're a bad set, and I've tl ought so all ah>Bg. Give me my hat, llobeeca; I'll go down there at once 1" The little supper of hasty pudding and milk was oj the table at the stone cot tage, and Mrs. Moiton and her two little boys after having made the dickering firelight last as lung as possible, had just lighted the one tallow candle thai, plied a, laint circle ot brightness round the room, when a thundering knock came to the door '•Who can thajt possibly be at, so late an hour?" wondered the widow, rendered a little nervous by overwork and insuffi cient meals. "Mamma don't goto the door. It's a robber, I'm surse, 'or else a bear!" fal tered little Charley, dropping the spoon whish had been lifted half way to his mouth, and hiding behind his mother's skirts. But Harry, fearless of evil, drew back the iron bolts and opcued the door. "Why, Mr. Oxley!" "You young vagabond," exclaimed the incensed man, "what do you mean by looking at me in that brazen-faced way? gije me the hundred dollars you've sto len from me, or by all the fates, I'll have y u odj.e i in jail before anotn er hour has pessed over your head." •'Hundred dollars! What huildred dollars? Ih. ye n«ver seen it, sir,'' said Harry, too i•» ilieied at first to realize the full furoe of the accusation that had been made. "You lie, you little miscreant; you have stolen tt!" shouted the farmer, grasping tba boy's coat collar, and shak ing hioi violently. *■ "I think there must be some mistake here, sir," said Mrs. Morton, advancing, with a scarlet spot brewing on each of her pale checks. "I am sure that my buy can nevei have taken any money that dues not justly belong'to him." "Once more I ask you, Harry Morton," said the farmer in choked accents of pas sion, "will you give back that money you stole V "1 hi ve never stolen a eent of money, I sir," said Harry, indignantly. •That is false, and you know it is !" Charley began to cry vehemently.— Mrs. Morton sat down pale and trembling. "Come, said the farmer, resolutely, it's not too late yet to drive down to Justice Hart's and you'll find the upshot of all this ohstipacy is a Led in Ledgeport jail to-Dight." ' You shall not touch my boy," ex» claimed the agonired mother. ''Harry, Harry tell bim you are not guilty I" "I have told liitu so once, mother," said the boy proudly;)"! cannot help it it he does not believe me." "I'll see whether Justice Hart won't manage to make jou tell a different s(o< ry," cried Mr. Oxley. -'Come, young jail bird, we'll have the matter settled at once," He was dragging poor little Harry down the steps, when a cheery voice from the gate 1 eyond arrested his progre?s. '.'Halloa ! does John Oxley live here?" '•I am John Oxlcy," said the farmer, shading his eyes to catch a glimpse thro' the darkness of his interlocutor. "Wei}, tiien, co:ne and open thu gate. I thought 1 should novcr be able to make you hear, tjisre was such a racket going on inside there." "What do you want?" questioned tha farmer, distrustfully. "Why, 1 want you, of course. Here show a light, well, yes it is Mr. Oxley!" "I dou't know who you are though." "Very probably, laughc l the stranger, but you see I have the advantage of yon. I am Mr. Elliot, scoud eh rk in th.s Ledge* port Savings Bank." "And what may your business here be 112" "Just to restore to you Hook No. 4212 and a hundred dollars in bank notes that you 13ft on our counter this afternoon." "T*hat I left on your counter?" stam mer d Mr. Oxley, letting go Harry Mor ton's collar. •'Exactly so," said tho clerk. "And you couldn't have got it until to-morrow morni"g if I hadu't chanced to be com ing this way to spend my weeks leave of ahseuco among the Scarborough hills." "I—l am very much obliged to yon," stammered Mr. Oxley, glancing over the t ills, and satisfying himself that the num ber was all right. "Oh, not at all; cjjly the next timo I should be a little more careful how t left loose cash lying about, Mr. Oxley." Tho clerk turned his horse'a liead away from the gate with a pleasant laugh, a? the farmer turned with a crest-fallen face toward the little group in the door way. "Harry, come iiejfe," he said. "I beg your pardon, ny boy; I've accused you falsely." "1 told you so, sir," said Ilarry, with boyish dignity, but you would net bo lieve me." "I've been wrong from beginning to end," said Mr Oxley. "Madam, I hope you'll pardon mo." Mrs. Morton bowed quietly. "Ahd Harry, conic up to the house to morrow morning, and we"! ce if we cap't find something lor yotl to d Ilarry came; and years afterward, when ho was a well-tg do-fattuer ou his own account, possessed of his ambition "a big rel house like Mr Oxley's, and ever so many acres o« land," he dated tho dawn of pr. spei ty to the evening when he had been falsely accused and vindicated al most in the same moment. For Farmer Oxley, impulsive though he was, was generous and warm-hearted too, and never d'd kind things by halves. Moral Courage in Every Day Lite. Have courage to disctarge a debt while you have the money in your pocket. Have the courage to do without that which you do not need, however' much your eyes may covot it. Have the courage to speak your mind, when it is necessary you should do so, Mid to hold your tongue when it is pru dent you should do so. llave the oourago to speak to a friend iu a "seedy" .coat, evou though you are in company with a rich one, and richly attired. Have the courage to mike a will, and a just one. Have the courage to tell a man why y<;u will not lend him your money. Have the courage to show your respect for honesty, in whatever gnise it appears; and your contempt for dishonest duplicity by whomsoever exhibited. Have the courage to wear your uiu> »1 a Committee last December to invest tigate this flagrant ease, and to reeim mend suih action as it might seem to them to require, and thei report has just been presented. After rehearsing the facts as we havo given them, they state the result of inquiries th£y have made as to tho administration of justice in other portions ol the South, rightly judging that any law passed by Congress to cor rect such evils as the one under consid eration tfould have to bo general in its character, and not restricted to the State of South Carolina. They examined all the commanders of military departments in the South, and thoir testimony is strong and unanimous that in none of tho IteLcl States do the civil iourts offer tho slightest chance of justice to a loyal sol dier, or a Uuion man, or a negro. "You could not find a jury in South Carolina," says Gen. Sickles, "that would convict a man for killing a Union soldier." Con stables won't arrest, sh-crifff won't detain, magistrates won't try, juries won't con vict for such offenses. It is tho same in Louisiana, the same in Virginia, the same in Kentucky, Georgia, AlabSma and part of Tennessee —the sauio, in fact, wherever the Confederate flag has ever waved. Gen. Wood in Mississippi never heard of but one white mat. being pun ished for killing a negro, and he ouly got a year in the penitentiary. Otu. Thom as,whose department comprises five States does not know of a single instance of punishment being inflicted for a serious offense against a freed mau—though the offenses were plenty enough aud serious enough. Ami this stats of things docs not improvo as time gcas ou, but grows worse and woree. The military officers are all very decided in their opinion that justio: and good order cannot, be ma n tained in the South without the inter vention of military courts; and Mr Stan ton concludes his testimony with a par ticularly downwright expression of be- ; lief that duch tribunals are perfectly le gal in the present condition of tho coun try; that the Milligan trial was perfectly legal, and that tho decision of tjie Su preme Court in that case was not justified "by any principle of law recognized by any civil government on earth." The Committe adopt aad repeat the recommendation of Gen. Thomas that there should be established 1 some super visory authority in these States, with powe.' to devise and insist on tho impar tial administration of justice, accompan ied by a sufiiciect force, if necessary, to induce jthe people to feel that tho author ity is able to enforce its advice and in . structions"— a recommendation so com- plotely covered by the Reconstruction bill which has passed Congress, that neither the Committee nor we deem it necessary to enlarge upon it. We have not th<3 hatdiln od to hope that the cogent reas ons brought forward iu this report will have any effect in persuading Mr. John» son to aJEx his signature to the bill; but wc rejoice in the testimony it bears to the wisdom and necessity of the principal features of that measure.—iV. }' Tri bune, Feb. 23tf. How to Court in Churoh, A young gentleman, happening to sit at church in a pew adjoining one in which fat a young lady for whom he con ceived a sudden and violent passion, was desirnus of cjitnrinj int., a egurtst'p oil the spot, but the place not being suitab'e for a formal declaration the case suggest cd the following plat;: He politely handed his fair neighbor a Hible opened with a pin stuck iu Jhe following text : Second Epistle of John, sth verse— " And now i beseech thfce, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we liad from the beginnine. that we love one another." She retained it, pointing to the second Epistle of Ruth, 10th verse . "Then she fell on her faoe and bowed herself to the ground and said to him : "Why have 1 found grace iu thiue eyes, seeing I am a stranger?" lie returned the bbok, pointing to the thirteenth verse of the third Epistle of John : "Having many things to write unto you I would not write with pen and ink, but I trust shortly to come unto yoij and speak face to face, that our joy may be full." From the above interview a marriage tcok place the ensuing week. THE FATAL EXAMPLE. —An indi vidual residing at , who was a prom ising Christian, universally esteemed n good man by those among whom he resi ded, and who had been for years superin tendent of the Sabbath school there,was away from home, and staying for a short period in a distant city, With others, ho ono evening yielded to an invitation to visit tho theatre, not, however, without some misgivings as to the propriety of his ccut'so. These, how. ever, were overcome, mid he went; but whether the act was repeated, it is not known. He returned home thinking that net would never be known to those among whom lie lived. Hut some years after ho was sent to visit £ sick and dying man Ho went, supposing it was to administer spiritual advice and consolation. As ho sat down by tl e bedside, the dying man said to him ; 'You, sir, have led me to ruin my soul. Home years sinco you were staying for a short tirto in city. 1 wis then living there,and had often been tempted to visit the theatre, but had been deterred by the convicti a that it was wrong and dangsrom. On a particular evening, as I stood in front of the build ing hesitating whother or not togo in, I saw you go up the steps and'enter. Im mediately I thought, if Mr. , who is a member of the church, and was my Sabbath school superintendent, can at* tend the theatre, I surely may. I in stantly went in, was fascinated bv the pei formances, and continued to attend till all hesitation was gone, and with it all concern for my soul. In this s'ate lam Dot; dreading the summons to appear before God. I felt I must seud for you, to tell you the influence of your exam ple.' Are there not othar members ofthe church who aro setting such examplef ? Ponder the result. — lesion Recorder. AN UNPUBLISHED INCIDENT r>v THE RKBET, CONGRESS.—It is stated that a fow months before the fall of Richmond, Va., while the rebel Congress was deeply concerned about tho cruelty and barbar ity of the North, a woman of that City walked into the House of Representatives and attacked three members with a cow hide, castigating them mercilessly. At last the Speaker caught tba viratto in his arms, and held her there until she went into hysterics She said her intention was to chastise the entire body because of its abuse of the »wth, and she made a very good commencement certainly. Af ter her departure, the House passed a reso lution that the body recommend to tho press the impropriety of unking public the unhappy incident, as a matter calcu lated to bring reproach upon the dignity of Southern legislators The Richmond pnpors never inentio . ed the circumstance, and only recently was the story told by a reconstructed member of the defunct House. j,iFR.—We aro not sent into !ifo as a butterfly is sent into tba summer, gor ccously havering over the flower.', as if the interior spirit) of the rainbow had comedown to greet these kisses of the sea son upon the ground, but to labor for the world's advancement, and to mould our characters into God's likeness, and so, through toil and achievements, to gain happiness. I would rather break stones upon the road, if it were not for the dis grace of beißg iu a chain gang, thao to be one of those contemptible joyuiongers, who are so rich and so empty that they ore continually going about to find some thing to make them happy. "The ocean speaks eloquently, and forever," says Beecher. "\es," retorted Prentice, "and there is no use in telliag it to dry up." —"John, did you ever bet OD a horse race ?" ,; No, but I've seen my sister Bet on ao old mare." NUMBER 13. AN ACT, "".''"'iu 8 bond, or I It e coun ty ot Bitlur, HOT. teltl by the Wrtttrn enusylvauin i|i(lroallect, in addition to tho inter est ol said new bonds ( a sun, annually, to be set apart as a sinking fund not less than two per cent, of tho g-oss amount cf said bonds; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Sen~ ate and House of Rcpn sentatxees of the Commonwealth of I'ennxybania in Gen eral Assembly met, audit is hereby enact ed by the authority of the tame, That upon the liability of said county of Hutler for tho paymeutof sii<) bon is boing e.s- . labtishod, tho commissioners of saitt county, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby empowered to issue twenty year coupou bonds; tho interest on which shall be paid, semi annually, at tho rate ot six per cent, per annum, to an amount equal to the principal of said bonds, now held by taid Western Pennsylvania Rail road Company. Si.CTIoN 2. That upon the liabij ty of said . ounty being determined as afore said, the said commissioners shall have authority, and upon the issue and de-- livery of said bonds, as herein provided for, shall be required to assess, levy and collect ou all property now liable to pay a county tax, a tax sufficient to pay the interest on said hoods, as it falls due, %n I to set apart, in addition it sink iug tuiid, for the rfidemptson of said bonds, an annual sum, Cot 'less than two per cent, of tho whole amount of said bonds, which shall be pledged to and used, alone, for the payment of the principal of said bonds; and tho said tax shall bo in luded iu the ■ al county lax, and levied ai d collected as county tax how is, or may be collected in said county. SECTION 3. That said Londs shall not be dblire.ad to said company until said original bonds and coupons shall bo sur rendered to a trustee, to bo mutually ohoV sen by said county and said company, who shall surrender the name to said C JUU ty, upon the delivery,(oi'atd trustee, of the bonds authorized by this act. 1 SECTION 4. That i-aid sinking fund shall be invested under the direction of tho court of common plead of the said county of liu(Jor, BuCh pational, state, or county bonds, or stock, lis said court may diri.ct; which direction, as to investment shall remain in force until changed; and the said commissioners shall cause such investment to be made, from time to time, within twenty days alter five hundrod dollars of sinking found tax, or interest 1 , oh sinking fund investment, shall come into their hands, or under tlmfr control. SECTION 5. That th'E said bonds shall be used, exclusively in aid of tho struction of a railroad, between the town of Freeport, in the county of Armstrong, and rhe town of Hutler, in the county of Hutler, in one continuous section, and shall be deliveried to said company, in such amounts, and at su :h times, as shall be agreed upon by said company and said county. JAMES R. KELLEY, Speaker qf the H. R. DAVID FLEMING. Speaker of tho Senate. APPROVED— the first day of May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and six ty-six. 1 A. 0- CURTIN. THE BOY WITU SUGAR IN HIM.— "Charley, what is it makes you to sweet?" asked a loving mother as she fondled her darling boy to her bosom. v "I dcss," lisped the boy, "dat when Dod made me out of duct he pot a little thugar in.'' That was a queer conceit for a little boy. There was no sugar put into the dust of his body, but I suspect that some sugar —the sugar of love—bad been put into his heart: That was what made him so sweet and precious to bis mother. I recommend every ebild who has a sou? or sinful disposition, to get a little of that su»ar put into his heart to sweeten it. DARK HOURS. —To eveiy man thero are many many dark hours, hours when bo feels inchnec to abandon his best en terprise; hours when his heart's dearest hopes appear delusive; hours when he feels unequal' to the burden, when all his !ispir;Uioue se«iu worthless. Lot no one think that he alooe has dark hours. They are the common lot of hu manity. They are the lolichston* to try whether we are current coin or not. t- «■ »» —liel these who have full table*, heavy puses, rich lands, but no Christ, , lie ratber object* of your pity than envy. A man caught in a railroad collision remarked, that presence of mind was gco