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Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as wa understand it"—-A- LINCOLN
(Original |Joetn j.
For the Cirix**.
THE DEATH OF A COBBLER
Old STIFFLZWICKS baa breathed his latt,
And floated off s<<raewhere.
To whom he left his pegging awl,
1 knew not, do not care
But I know he wa* a bristling man.
A cobbler, too, hi* trade.
A nd the la*t shoe he laited up,
\\ as the last one he a.ai^>.
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 <sld
clothes until you can psy Tor new ones.
Have the courage to obey your Maker
at the risk of being ridiculed by wan.
Have the courage to prefer oomfort
and propriety to fashion, in all things.
Have the«oijragc to acknowledge your
ignorance, rather than to Beck credit for
knowledge under false pretenics.
Have the courage to provido eater*,
taininent for your friends, within your
means —not beyond.
Have the courage to take a good paper,
and to pay for it annually in advance.
THE SOCL'B REST. —The needle's point
in the seaman's never stands
still, but quivers, and shakes, till it conies
righr against the North Pole. Tho wise
tnen of the East never stood still, till they
were right against that other STEL - , which
shone more brightly in the manger than
the sun did in firmament. Aad No
ah's dove'fioiltd find no rest lor the sole
of her foot all the<-while she was flutter
ing over tjie flood, till she returned to
tlie ark witljati olive branch in her mouth.
Sothe heart of every true ehiistiac, which
is the turtle dove of Je»u3 Christ, can
find no rest all tjie while ahe is hovoring
over the waters of this world, till it has the
silver wings of a dove, and with the olive
branch of faith, fly to the true Noah,
which signifieth "Rest," till Christ puts
forth his hand out of the ark, aad taking
' it in, receives it to himself.
MUEDEK QF UNION SOLDIERS.
On the Bth of October, 1860, a cor
poral amHwo privates of the Main Vet
eraa Volunteers were brutally murdered
at a place called Rrown's Ferry, on the
Savannah River, in South Caralina.—
They had committed no wrong and done
nothing to provoke hostility, but were
massacred in cold blocd fjr no othei rea
son than because they wore the uniform
of the United States. Four men were
arrested for the crime by the military
authorities, and a Military Commission,
convened by Gen. Sickles, after a long
and careful trial, found them guilty,upon
undoubted testimony, and they were sen
tenced two to be hanged, and two to be
imprisoned for lile.
Of course I*ll the South r."a:; enraged
at learning that four of her citizens, bad
subjects though they were, had been con
victed, and were goiug to bo punished 1
for the vcqial offense of shooting aud
drowning three Yankee soldiers. The
President was besought to interfere.—
Petitioners reminded him that his "avow
ed policy" demanded his interpos : tion ;
and Alexander 11. Stephens, Gov. Orr.
llurschel V. Johnson, and others of the
leading men of the South, united in ap
plications for the discharge of tho pris
oners, or at any rate for their transfer to
the civil tribunals, which tliey knew
w it)ld amount to about the same thing.
The Hun. O. U. Browning, now Secre
tary of the Interior, received a fee of
SI,OOO lor his services in influencing Mr
Andrew Johnson's mind 011 the subject,
and persuading him to remove the crim
inals to some tort, where a writ of habeas
corpus could be served on their custodi
an's without danger of a conflict between
tho civil and military authorities. It wis
supposed that after the Miligan decision
there wo ilii be no difficulty in having
the trial declared unlawful. \ writ was
served on Oeu. Sickles at Charleston,but
he disregarded it, and the Secretary of
War approved his conduct.
Several weeks after this service, the
President commuted the two death sen
tences to imprisonment for life at the
Tortugas, but eight days later all four ot
the prisoners were removed to Fort Del
aware, aud there the commandant, Col.
Howard, was served with a writ of habeas
corpus from Judge Hall of the Uuited
States District Court of Delaware,which
he was instructed from Washington to
obey. A hearing was had anu the pris
oners wero discharged, on the ground
that at the time cf tho trial oi' tho mur
derers the civil courts of South Caroli
na were open and the regular adminis
tration of justice was unobstructed. We
need hardly remind our readers that this
assertion of Judge Hall's was very far
from the truth. The prisoners returned
to their homes, aud their fellow citizens,
win, bo it remarked, wero almost unan
imously convinced of their guilt, receiv
ed them with ovatious, aud gave them a
banquet. To quote language of a
surgeon in tho army, "the town was, as
they expressed it there, literally drunk."
The civil authorities never took meas
ures to try the assassins, and they are
still at large.
The IJouse of Rcpr-iseotajivea &pf>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(lroa<l Conipaiiy,
H HKREAS, It is alleged the county of
Butler is indebted to the Western Penn
sylvania Railroad Company the amount
ot certain bonds, is-mei by said county,
to the North Western Railroad Compa
ny, estimated at 8185,000; whiob bonds,
it is alleged, by virtue of certain legal
Ibecame and are now the
property ot said Wes'ern Pennsylvania
Railroad Company :
And Whereat, Said bonds fail due iu
the year one thousaud eight huudred and
seventy.foilr:
And Whereat, The payment of the
sime, in the event of the liability ofsaia
county to pay the same, being determine
cd, would be oppressive to said eountv*
And Whereas, It is the wish of sail!
County, acceded to oysaid company, that
tieiv bonds be issued by said county to
said company, to mature twentv yerrs
alter the tiist day of April, Anno Domini
1"6.i, wiih interest coupons attached,
tearing iutorest from the said first day of
April, 180i5; and payable semi annually,
at the rate ol six per cent, per annum;
and the said county to be autho'ized to
levy and c >llect, 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<J
j but absence of body was better.