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THURSDAY. JULY 27th, 1865
Nrisuuz. VIOLLUICI IT TEI PEW= II ?11 Puri et
Aziate.ax Li. sir/ —Jaime Jacksoi.
A COZRZSPONDINT of the Gall' lid, signing
himself C., from which we infer that he is
our old friend of eloquent war speech no
toriety, the profound and distinguished
ex-member of the last Legislature from
this city, attempts in a half colUmn arti
ole in that paper to gloss over the action
of Mr. Hill in taking three hundred dol
lars extra pay for his services as Chaplain
of the House. We regret for Mr. Hill's
sake and that of his constituents, that he
fails to make the case any better than we
presented it last week. He acknowledges
that Mr. Hill did take the money, and
justifies him in so doing, but claims spe
cial credit for that gentleman because, as
he says, at his "earnest solicitation," thf
sum was reduced from $5OO, the original
appropriation, to $3OO. As the fault, in
our. opinion, consists in taking any money
at all, we are" at a loos to see how there
can be any less moral wrong in taking $3OO
than $5OO.
At tlie close of " C's " article be be
comes facetious. He mildly suggests that
we " cad know little of the worth or effi•
cloy of prayer." He thinks we are " not
versed in the arithmetic of Heaven." We
beg our dearly beloved friend not to give
him s oir 'y 'rouble on those sub
pets. If all reports be true, we very much
fear that our knowledge of the " worth of
prayer" would net be increased by a
study of its effects in his case. The
." arithmetic of Heaven " may be an inter
esting study, but so far as the public has
perceived, "C's" acquaintance with it is
exceedingly limited. Our experience on
each of these important topics is not as
fir advanced as we might wish it was, but
silken we undertake to improve it, we
shall seek another school than that which
applauds the taking of $3OO extra pay out
of the State treasury, for comparatively
slight services, while the tax-burdened
people are sweating at every pore, and the
debt of the nation is increasing at a rate
which alarms every earnest thinking man
within its limits.
Tug Buffalo Courier is incorrect in say
'big that "Pennsylvania will elect a Dem
osratio Governor this fall." We doubt
not that her next choice of a person to
fill the bxacutive office will fall upon one
of her Democratic citizens, but unfortu
nately ,for her interests and the cause of
republican institutions, her people have
not the legal opportunity to make a
change in the occupant of the position
until next year. When they do obtain
the opportunity they will speak in tones
not to be misunderstood, their disappro
bation of the wickedness and frauds which
-have ruled for the past five years, and
disgraced and injured the ‘late almost
beyotid retribution. The officers to be
elected this fall are an Awiitor and Sur.
veyor•General, and although sufficient
time has scarcely elapsed for the " sober
second thought" of the people to resume
away, our friends at Harrisburg and Phil.
adelphia express unbounded confidence
in success. As the campaign will be
looked upon to a certain extent as indi
c4.3.ls ciao moult nex.t year, we expect to
see a spirited canvass.
The Chambersburg Repository (Republi
-c,an) in the course of an article upon the
several changes in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet,
makes the following statement :
"So little did gr. Lincoln know of pub
lic men who were prominent merely as
politicians rather than as statesmen, that
be did not know, two months after his
first election, that Mr. Cameron had boon
a Senator in Congress from 1846 to 1848
when Mr. Lincoln was a Representa—
tive. He knew but little of public men,
save those who won his heart or udg-
meat by the eminence of their attain.
merits in the national councils."
The ignorance attributed to Mr. Lincoln
by the Repository is ;astonishing. We cer
tainly should not believe it, did not the
information come from a source so likely
to be reliable on the subject.
Tai Gazette has a long article in favor
of the nomination of James Skinner as
the Republican candidate for Auditor-
General. One of its arguments in his sup.
port is as follows:
" The estimation in 'which his abilities
are held in this county, is beat attested
by his public services, which have been
almost without intermission since 1838."
It strikes us that after a man has held
office for that length of time he should
be willing to stand back and let others
have a chance. The young members of
the Republican party in this county will
hardly appreciate the Gazettes argument.
MR. D. W. Moose has retired from the
eslitorship of the Clearfield Republican, dia l
Democratic organ of that county, and is
succeeded by Mr. G B Goodlander, -his
former partner. We know them both,
and while we regret to part with brother
Moore, we are glad to know that he is
succeeded by so worthy and intelligent a
gentleman as Mr. Goodlander. Mr.
Moore's connection with the paper has
lasted, more or less directly, for nearly a
quarter of a century. We hope he retires
well supplied with the " good things of
life," for if any man deserves to be well
rewarded it is the faithful editor.
Scams CLeacritatr.—At least one hun
dred ministers representing the German
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Pennsyl
vania and adjacent States were in session
recently Easton, Pa., transacted all
their business and adjo'urned without say
ing one wbrd about the negro or anything
of a political character. The Synod con
fined, itself to its legitimate duties and
separated with the kindliest feelings. It .
is refreshing to look upon such a body of
men. How much more honorable, credi
table and Christianlike is such conduct
than that exhibited by some other rah
gious bodies, where fanaticism and blood.
thirsty persecution is the order of the day.
"A DISPATCH from Mobile of the 17th
inst. states that two trains had collided
on the Mobile t Ment , 6 omery railroad.
Three cars were wrecked, and five negroes
and several passengers killed."-2116une.
This brief paragraph shows explicitly
the foremost place held by the negroes in
the mind of the. Tribune writer: "Five
nerves and several passengers" is good.
The "passengers" being white, are not
supposed to have been worth mentioning.
Mildest Johano•
The country has fracticed toward •Mr.
Johnson a more generous forbearance
than has been accorded to any other Pres
ident educe Washington. This is less a
tribute to the man, than a patriotic im
pulse set in action by the appalling cir•
cumatanoes of his accession. Under that
sudden shock the country, for the first
time, wu alarmed for the existence of the
Government. The instant unanimity with
which all parties stood by the new Presi
dent was a protest against assassination,
against anarchy, against attempts to
change the personae/ of the Government
or the politics of the country except by
the republican methods of free discussion
and regular elections. Nothing more
creditable has ever occurred in our histo
ry. Bat the danger which struck us witb
4udden dismay is past, and henceforward
President Johnson, like every ruler of a
free people, must encounter the criticism
by which responsibility is enforced upon
public officers.
There has been, thus far, a disposition
to discriminate between President John
son and his official advisers. These advi
sers were not of his appointment, and it
was presunied that their stay in the cabi
net was a temporary convenience. If he
had intended to keep them, it was as
sumed that he would control them; and
it was impinaible to believe that the out
rageous acts of Secretary Stanton were
approved br any honest statesman sworn
to defend the Constitution. It was easy
to see how, in closing a great war and set
' Cling an enormous mass of unfinished
business, the services of an officer familiar
with its details might be valuable, espe
cially as the President had had no per
sonal connection with the administration
of the war. • With the great mass of new
business emerging, he could not afford to
muter the unwieldy details of a system
that had served its day and Was falling
into misuse. Shockingly as Stanton had .
violated the Constitution, it was not diffi
cult to discover plausible reasons for his
temporary retention. But Mr. Johnson
is in his fourth month, and,for aught that
appears, the Cabinet is as firmly created
under him as under his predecessor, 'who
appointed it. An indulgent country can
not much longer consent to distinguish
between the acts of the administration
and the acts of its responsible chief. If
the most conspicuous and offensive heads
of departments are to go with Mr. John
ion through his term, or through any
large and considerable part of it, the
country is justified in concluding that he
keeps them because he approves of their
conduct—that their acts are his acts, and
that he ought to be held responsible for
their usurpations.
The people will come reluctantly to
this conclusion. Even after its confidence
is shaken, it will, for a long while, hope
against hope. But certain it is that this
people, cradled in liberty, will stand by
no man who abandons the principles of
the Constitution. The subordination of
the military to the civil power, govern
ment by law instead of government by ar•
bitrary will, the habeas carpus, trial by
jury, free speech, a free press, and free
elections wilt be resolutely claimed ; and
oo man or party can stand who are faith
Zees to these - guarantees. Great allow-
ance was made during the war for the
difficulties of the situation ; but the plea
of an over-ruling public necessity will no
longer avail. The people now demand
that officers sworn to support the Consti
tution shall keep their oaths. They will
give their confidenCe to no • public officer
who is deliberately recreant to republican
principles of government.
Oa one great subject President John
son satisfies the just. expectations of the
cotintry. If he stands by his - recognition
of State rights in the reorganization of
the State governments, the people
will support him until that battle is
won. But the other great question of the
supremacy of the law is too urgent to be
much longer adjourned ; and considering
how the law has been trampled under
foot, defied and spit upon, even since Mr.
Johnson's accession, we can see no other
suitable atonement than a removal of the
offending members of: the Cabinet,. and
filling their places with honest, law-abid
ing citizens.—N. Y.
NEGRO VOTING.—There are only two
States, in the Union where the newro is al
lowed to vote without a property qualifi•
cation. They are Vermont and New
Hampshire, the former of which has only
ehthty colored voters, and the latter 190.
In Massachusetts every voter must,
within two years, have paid a State or
county tax, unless excused from taxation.
In Rhode Island a voter must own real
estate of one hundred and thirty-four
dollars value, or of the clear yearly value
of seven dollars over any ground rent.
-. A colored person is not allowed to vote
MNew York unless he has resided in the
ate three years, and is a freeholder in
value of two hundred end fifty dollars,
and paid taxes thereon.
Massachusetts, which does not at home
allow any man to vote who has net paid
a State or county tax dir eetly, for they all
pay it indirectly, is very desirous that the
Southern State, shall allow negroes to
vote without such a discrimination. She
goes in for universal black suffrage at the
South, while denying it to her poor whites
at home. This is Massachusetts philan
throphy, or preference for negro to white.
The Albany .Etening Journal 'Commences
a long editorial as follows :
"There are two or three` difficulties in
the way of the successful reorganiz%ti on
of the Democratic party ; and until these
difficulties are removed, we do not see
very clearly how the consolidation and
victory hoped for are to be achieved.
Whereupon the New York Journal of
Omuneree says with truth and point:
It is always amusing to see how troubled
and anxious Republican papers seem in
reference to the fate of the Democratic
party. If they are to be beloved, that
old party requires ''reorganization." "con
solidation, and - various other atioar, but
we hear nothing of that sod from the
Democrats. They seem to be occupied in
watching the decay of the Republican
party."
Tar Tribune advocates more stringent
laws to punish men who seduce females
from the paths of virtue: All right, but
how about the coquettish women who
seduce confiding men ? Our private opin
ion is that seduction is not confined
wholly to one side—in short, that about
sui many men are saduct4 as women.
Tux Nrir Conousa.—Tne umber Of
members of the next House of Represen
tatives, if all the States are represented,
will be 242. The new apportionment
stands until the 4th of March, 1873. The
eleven States now in process of reorgani
sation are entitled under it to the follow
ing representation :
Virginia, 8; North Carolina, 6; South
Carolina, 4; Georgia, 7 ; Florida, 1 ; Ala
bama, 6 ; 'Mississippi, 5 ; Louisiana, 5 ;
Texas, 4 ; Arkansas, 3 ; Tennessee, 8 ; To
tal, 57.
Kentucky and Nevada also are yet to
elect. They have ten members. One
hundred and eighty members have been
elected, of whom 144 were chosen on the
Lincoln ticket, and thirty-six by the op
position.
The following is the best estimate that
can be made in regard to the political
complexion otthe next House :
23 States have elected X 144 Opp.
2 (Kentucky and Nevada)'es
timated
11 Southern States 53
Total 148 100
" REPUBLIC/L.( " Fm Brawn.—" Emer
son Etheridge has been arrested. He
should be made to' hold his tongue, or
put where it can wag with impunity.' "
This paragraph, so characteristic of
Abolition-Republican intolerance, is from
the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, a Republican
paper. How admirably, says a contem
porary, commenting upon it, do its senti
ments agree with the old principle of
American liberty—freedom of speech ?
What an easy way of silencing political
opponents who, like Mr. Etheridge, are
troublesome on the stump, and whose ar
guments it is impossible to answer I Put
them in jail I This is the kind of freedom
the people have enjoyed under the dis
pensation of the so-called Republican
party, and which is unblushingly advo
cated by its organs.
birsciummox —The following sen
tence actually appeared in the New
York Independent, lienry Ward Bee
cher's paper, a widely circulated and
influential journal, and the leading organ
of one branch of the Presbyterian Church
Speaking of the negro race, the Reverend
writer says :
" This race has the seeds of great and
rich and generous culture. It shall, be
mixed with ours, is being mixed ; and in
future we shall see a fruit of art, litera
ture, of social life, the product of the
great engrafting, such as has not been
seen in this world."
Read that to your wives, sisters and
daughters, ye who follow the leadership
of the Abolitionists and other worship
pers of the negro.
NEOIOIIIPRZPVIRED TO WHITT. MEN.--The
Secretary of the Interior, Harlan, of lowa,
formerly a Methodist preacher, intends
making a clean sweep in his department.
Several clerks of anti-Harlan proclivities
have already been removed ; and a Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says : •
The Secretary has also decided that
none but negroes shall perform the ordi
nary labor in the repairs of the Capitol.
On the whole, the new broom of t he Inte
rior Department is raising a general com
motion. '
Wendell Phillips thus defined the crisis
before the great convention recently held
in Massachusetts :
•' Now comes the crisis. What is the
negro ? Well, I say, in the face of all pre
judice, that amid the gallantry, the pa
tience, the heroism of this war, the negro
bears the palm."—{ Great applause.]
White soldiers will please stand aside,
and let the negro take the palm for gal
!entry, patience, and heroism. Slob is
negro fanaticism.
Mr. H. Simon Stern, employed by thP
friends of Jeff. Davis to obtain a speedy
trial for the prisoner, has been informed
by the Government, in reply to an appli
cation be made to be permitted to see
Davis, that no access will be allowed to
him by counsel until he arrives in Wash-
ington.
The Ohio Statesman contradicts the tele:
graphic statement that Gen. Sherman hsE
endorsed the Abolition candidate int
Governor of Ohio—General Cox—and pro
nounced him the next Governor of that
State. The story was entirely untrue. -
"Lying" * * "willful, deliberate liar"
**" lie " * * "a liar" * * "habitual
tiara" " lie " * * " lying." Thi
pretty nosegay of epithets is culled from a
single abort paragraph in the Tribune.]
Goy. Curtin has arrived at Saratoga. I
would be no great loin to Pennsylvania i
he were to stay there.
PlM°le “City"--Extraet from a Private
Letter.
* * We arrived in this hole on Wednes.
day and moved into our office on Thursday
* * * Tough beef, bread and a &coo
tion of unknown ingredients called coffee, can
be procured at the moderate sum of $1 00
per day, or from $B. to $l5. per week. Sleep
ing is done in tents or in rooms with births
hung up a la sleeping car,.and steamboat.—
Everything is nasty and muddy. The whole
place smells like a camp of soldiers when flip) ,
have the diarrhoea. Whiskey abounds. Er
e►y establishment sells the beierage. Taken
in any quantity it is sickness, and if indulged
in to any extent, certain death.
The town has been full of Erie people this
week. * * The mein street commences
about three quarters of a mile N. E. from the
11. S. well and runs nearly to it, where it is
crossed by another street, one fourth of a mile
in length. The main street is built on the
road, and crooks tiround the base of . the bill
that elopes down \to Pithole Creek. These
two streets are nearly built up close. Besides
these there Is another street parallel to Main
Street rapidly building up. There are now
about. 400 houses up. Speculation in town lots
and leases etc., is quite rampant, and prices
out of reach of poor men generally. The
buildings are all put up in haste and most of
them you can see through. A large and tol
erably well built hotel will be open in few
days called the " Patchett House." The U.S.
Hotel presents the appearance of a wholesale
sifter when illuminated at night. Women are
seam and so are children, both are daily in
creasing. The 11. S. Well is a great instltu.
tion. It Is said that Duncan at Prather, who
own the fee simple of what eiz weeks ago was
a stony farm, and is now the City of Pithole,
hail) sold oat to some parties for about $l,.
600,000.
Connecticut Totes on the amendment
to its State Constitution permitting negro
suffrage, on the first Monday of Ootober
—the day on which a majority of the
towns hays their annual " town meeting."
[itstrisui Coasmemrec] •
I Trip ever the Phila. & Erie B. S.
Ilantuaavuu, July 17, 18(35
Leaving Erie on Saturday morning at .8
o'olock, on the Philadelphia & Erie through
train, I reached Harrisburg at two of the fol
lowing morning, after one of the most de—
lightful railroad rides I have ever enjoyed.
An uninterrupted confinement of more than
eight months to business duties enabled me
to appreciate more keenly than I perhaps
might otherwise have done the diversified ob.
jects of rural interest along the route. and my
arrival here finds me with lenses quickened
and heart kindled with emotions of the
most delicious nature. I anticipated an agree
able and refreshing trip, but was by no meatus
rrepared for so pleasant a one as I experi
enced. The readers of the Onscaysa who
have traveled over the road no further than
the backwoods of Elk and Cameron counties
can form no just idea of its interest along the
lower portions of the route. The scenery is
beautiful and fascinating beyond description,
and to those who have dreaded taking this
route to the East, on the supposition that it was
dull and uninteresting, I would say, try it,
and be, like me, agreeably disappointed.
When last I rode ever the road, in the fall of
1864, the trains were only running to St.
Mary's. The cars were poor and uncomforta
ble, and gave rise to a great deal of complaint
on the part of passenger!, The time was slow,
and the route being traveled very much by
persons from other sections, who were ao•
cuetomed to better speed and conveniences,
and seldom Look into consideration the un—
finished condition of the work, it was not cal,
culated to give theta a very favorable impree
sion. Indeed, it got a reputation, far and
wide, of being behind the age, and probably
with some cause. I am. glad to say that con
siderable improvements have since been made,
and that before locg the company promise to
have everything upon the road in as good
order.as any in the country. What the local
trains may be at present, I cannot say, ae I
have not rode in one for some months, hut
the through oars are as elegant and comfort.).
ble as those on most of the railroads =in the
country. That.in which I rode had three
comfortable passenger coaches, a smoking
oar in the front, and at Lock Haven a sleeping
car was attached. The passenger for Phila.
delphia, starting from Erie at 8 o'clock a:
in., reaches that city without change at 6 the
next morning, making the thrbugh trip in
twenty-tws hours. The time is somewhat
slow until the Susquehanna is remedied, when
we come upon the older portion of the road,
which allows of more rapid running. The
train stops at every station. In the course of
a few weeks, it is expected that a fast through
Hee will be plaCect ou the road, which will
make three hours quicker time than now,
stopping at only the most important places.
We arrived at Corry
„,about half-past 'nine
o'clock, and the train stopped long enough to
allow us to take a brief look about that!
" Young America" "city." Its general ap
pearance and the remarable prosperity that
has-attended its career re too well known to
1.1.
need any description. A few miles from
Corry the 101 l strik !s t a Brokenstraw creak,
and follows its lovely valley to its junc
tion with the Alleghe y. Along the Bro
kenstram are eitustel the two villages of
Pittsfield and Yonngvill , and tow its mouth
is the little se..tiemont f Irvine. The fists
here are broad and fer Ile, and it id one of
the finest situations for 4 town•in the country.
Che neighborhood of Urine was one of the
favorite resorts of the ramous Indian chief
tiornplanter. Moly ye
lion of the importnnoa
completion of the .railro
the present oommodin
stone, which ware at the
wonderful monuments
wealth. '
The scenery along till
tween Irvine and Wai
thought as handsome i
anywhere in Penns) , lvan
tiers through the valley ii
manner, having wile le
both sides, shut in b 3
mountains. Biz miles
pretty borough of War,
deal of a pleasant sumo
stands on an ettensive
feet above the low water
end has an exceeding)
If there are any reactorsi
desire to spend the hot
home, I would. recomm
spending their money e 1
toga, Newport or Cape N
The pure sir and splendiF
more good in a week th
and nauseating minera l
in twelve months. The
damage in the neighborh
spring, and some of its I
seen from the cars. A
high bank at the loweri
was carried away by the'
facing seriously the ge
the place from the rail
that portion of the fron t
impassible.
At Warren the ?Oro.
gheny on a wooden brit':
course of that delightf
Idles, suddenly turns
fallows its course and t
the town of Sheffield, in
iheffield cctiimences th.
grade upon the road, ix.
between onr harbor an
From here to the Cleric.
of seventeen miles, there
or an average of over 38
new town of Kane, origi
but changed in honor of
of the celebrated Buckta
aides and has large tract
°laity, is situated at th.
Summit, and occupies thl
the line of the read, bel l
the level of the sea, an
Erie. Between Sheffield
winds along the side o f
an almost unbroken forr..
of human habitation exi•
seen are of the most p
At Kane the company h
Hal and rather handsome
which is found abundan
hood. The place, whic,
ago was covered With wo'
contains about 400 inh st. •
of the company, added t.
of timber in the violnit ,
make it a place of some
train stops twenty minut
unlike meat railroad eat
kept by Mr. Morrison is
I met here ray staunch
'!r. J. L. Murphy, who,
our oily will be interest.
the supervisor,* of the
St. Mary's. An abrupt .•
eight miles or so brough
the Clarion river, upon w
little town of.Wilooz. P.
a few miles further we soon arrived at Ridg—
way, the county teat of Rik, a locality mid.
memorable to many of the readers of the On
sieves in connection with the draft last
spring. It is a quiet place, situated between
high hills, with but a small amount of culti
vated land around. It has a wooden court
house, with a stone jail attached, and three.
hotels, but, strange to, say, not one church I
Outsiders may be surprised to learn that the_
number of crimes in the town is quite limit .d,
and rumor has it that the justices of the
pease and sheriffs sometimes are obliged to
resort to the innocent but novel amusement
of arresting confiding strangers and putting
them through a mock trial, for the, mere sake,
as they say, of keeping their hands in. Those
who are curious about further Veticulars will
call upon or address the editor of the Advo
cate, or my esteemed old friend, Esquire
Lonnebury.
The hills between Ridgway and St. Marys
abound •in coal 'deposits, some of the veins
being enormously large. Two coal roads are
being built to connect with the main road,
and when the operations of mining have
thoroughly commenced, this section, until
lately almost an entire wilderness, will soon
teem with life and industry. The develop
ments are not yet by any inmate perfect, and
I an told by persons who profess to be
thoroughly acquainted with the country, that
new discoveries are being made almost daily.
A gentleman employed he the engineer de.
partment of the railroad informed me that a
rich vein had recently been opened but a
short distance from the main track. If one
half of what Is predicted of the region be cor.
rest, the county will soon become the equal
in productiveness and wealth of Schuylkill.
With the rich fields of Elk and Mercer as our
founts of supply for semi bituminous. and a
direct communication with the anthracite
fields of Luzerne county, I am unable to see
why the port of Erie should not, by fair energy
and shrewdness, in the course of five years
monopolize the coal tiade of the lakes.
The country between Ridgway and St.
Marys is wild and broken, with few elttle
moats on the line of the railroad. The streams
abound in trout, and the woods with deer—the
latter coming down to the creek for water,
are frequently seen from the car windows.
The town of St. Marys is a quaint German
colony, famous chiefly for good lager beer and
enormous Democratic majorities. It was set
tied by German Catholics, who came to the
locality many years ago, purchased 35,000
acres of forest land, established a church,
school and monastery, cleared np the cot=
try with genuine Teutonic industry, and by
prudence, zeal and energy have become a
community of considerable size and wealth.
The church is an elegant and, 'special's edi•
fice cf stone, surmounted by a tall spire, and
has one of the best organs in the State.
Around St. Marys is considerable cultivated
land; some of which is said• to be of good
quality. The town has first-class schools,
crime is unusually rare, the people are sociable
and happy, and. the standard of morality and
intelligence is better than is found in many
laces of mare pretensions. That portion of
iris rublio who are in the habit of beltevinz
that Catholicism and ignorance naturally
combine would find their ideas promptly die
pelled by making a visit to the solid little
Gerr•an burg which reposes in the midst of
the Elk county hills.
Eniporium, the next town reached,—if a
oluster of half a dozen buildings; more or,
less, is worthy the appellation of n town,—
is the county seat of Cameron, a county with
a voting population scarcely ecitial to the
smallest township in our portion of the State
The bills here are not wider apart than the
length of our Park, and in this narrow valley,
or rather ravine, they have gravely located
the capital of what may in course of time be
a wealthy and densely populated county The
court house, built of wood, with some preten;
lions to style, and sadly in need of a coat of
paint, stands on the side of a bill, with to
other buildings near it. An enormously large
wooden hotel is situated right by the station •
and is kept by Mr. J. L. Cook, of Waterford.
Union " candidate* for sheriff in 1861. It
re age, in anticips—
, f this mint, on the
I, Dr. Irvine erected
s build ings of free
time looked upon as
I.f human skill and
Allegheny H ver, be
en, I have always
s could be met with
is. The Heel. mesn
. • highly pictUresque
of tracts of land on
bold end romantic
above Irvine is the
looks neat and tidy, but, unless I am greatly
mistaken, many years will pass before it can
be made to pay a desirable dividend on the
amount expended in its cost and keeping. A
short distance east of Emporium is a collec
tion of perhaps a couple dozen houses, which,
I presume, is the original site of the town.
The rout• on from Emporium, which has been
tame in natural scenery from the time we left
the Allegheni; increases in interest as we de
scend the Drifdwood branch of the Sinnama.
honing, and at times glimpses of the most
exquisite mountain views conceivable are
sees. The ,train follows the bends of the
stream with as scrupulous preciseness as if a
competition were going on between the steam
horse and the brook water, to see which could
reach the Susquehanna the,first, and as the
sunlight, broken frequently by black clouds,
occasionally falls upon abrupt juts of the hills.
the etpot upon the mind of the long cooped
up city traveler is enchanting beyond my
ability to describe. From this point onward
until Harrisburg is reached the road presents
an unbroken series of charming pictures. The
passenger who is fortunate enough to secure
the south bide of the train (as it stands at the
depot in Erie) has the Sinnemahoning sod
Susquehanna almost continually in view, and
enjoys a treat of the good things of nature not
surpassed upon 'any railroad in the Union.
'en, always my beau
er resort. The town
Visits, elevated many
mark of the Meer
delight ful situ . stion
f the Oassave& who
months away from
nd them, inetea4 of
i travagantly at Sara•
ty, to go to Warren.
q drives will do them
a all the sea batht
ater . they could ttt e
thod did Iminenee
i lod of Warren last
races can p:ainly be
arge portion of the
iend of the borough
I forming torrent, do
.oral appearance of
cad, and rendering
6 t street for a while
crosses the AN—
, e, and pursuing the
r i stream for a few
a smtli creek and
l at of the Tionesta to
Warren cotinty. At
On the lower Driftwood and the Sinnema
honing the object that strikes one with great
est curiosity is the immense number of saw.
logs. They are piled up on the banks, islands,
Rand bars and rocks in wonderful profusion.
They cannot number leas than several mil—
lions, and the parson who has never been in
a timber country will almost dohlot the credi
bility of his senses upon seeing them. The
logs, are hauled from the woods to the streams
by teams, and allowel to •remain there until
the high water comes and lints them to the
booms, where they are caught,. separated,
and sawed up into lumber. Each log has its
owner's.mark imprinted on the end; and a se—
vere penalty is by laW inflicted on any one
arresting their downward progress, or taking
them for his private use. The opportunities
for fraud, I am told, are fewer than a person,
on first sight, would imagine, and few cases
of violatien of the law are reported. The
principal booms are at Look Raven and Wil
liamsport, where also are steam saw-mills on
a huge scale for converting the logs into a
marketable shape, giving employment to thou
elands of workmen. In all this country, except
along the immediate valley of the Susquehanna,
lumbering is the principal and agriculture the
secondary occupation of the male population,
and tons.ollhossoods of porous sod Minims
of money ire invested in it.
• heaviest eastward
'epting the short one
Jackson's etstion.
Summit, a distance
is a rise of 652 feet,
feet to the mile. The
ally called Lamont,
Gen. Thos. L. sane,
1 regiment, who re-
ii of land is the vi
. top of the Clarion
. highest altitude on
g 2,000 feet above
1,441 above Like
land Kane the road
. : ..ouniain, threngh
:!a Scarcely a sign
!ta) and such as are
t imitive description.
.ve erected subatan
workshops of atone,
ly in the neighbor.
°sly a short time
i4l and rooks, now
*tants, and the shops
• the large amounts
, must eventually
!size. At Kane, the
68 for dinner, and,
ng•honsee, the one
worth patronising
Democratic friend,
. ii acquaintances in
.. in learning, has
road from Kane to
- Renova,a new town laid out by the company,
on the banks of the west branch of the Susque—
hanna, in Clinton county, is destined to be
come to the road what Altoona is to the Penn
sylvania Central. It has the advantage of the
latter plaie, though, in the delightfulness of
its location-. On a wide, level and fertile tract,
witk the ever beautiful, Susquehanna gliding
atom' by 114 NW% With ghat, oold mountain
'sceDdinit grade of
us to' a branch of
ioh Is situated the
llowing this stream
springs in abundance and an atmosphere per
fect in purity, few places in the world can
surpass it, either _ ia pleastatneis, healthful-
ness, or romance of situation. This town is
intended to be the great central depot of the
road, and the I.:initially will exert all their
influence to make it a prosperous and favor
ite location. Extensive b ick machine shops,
offices and store rooms • ave been erected,
and AI capacious wooden hotel stands near the
station. A gigantic (mai, somewhat on that
style of the celebrated Lingua House, at Al
toona, is to be built, I am inforMed, next
year, and the eating-house of the road will
then be moved up from Lock Haven. Without
the assistance of the railroad company, Reno-
V3A would naturally have become a lively in.
land village ; with that co-operation, I am
not sure but it may, one of these days, aspire
to something higher in the scale even than a
borough.
Following down the Susquehanna, we - pass
in succession Young Woman's Town and
Whetham, and soon near Farrandeville, a
smoky iron town, nestled in a very narrow
and picturesque valley. I was exceedingly
charmed by the melodious title of the first
named place, and supposing it must be a gem
of a community lor young bachelors, would
most likely have, been rash enough to stop off
and spend the Sabbath there, had not a com
municative gentleman of the neighborhood
politely given me information that put an end
to all my conjectures on the subject.. He as
sured me that the town was not an asylum for
forlorn and unprotected females, as I foolishly
imagined, who had resorted there to forget
the woes inflicted upon them by, and declaim
in safety upon the vices of, degenerate man,
but that the name was ,a simple Indian desig•
nation, and that the town, although quite
small, had its fair share of de'ceiving bachel.
ors and cruel Benedicts, as well as regretful
dames and anxious daughters.
The entire distance from Renova to Lock
Haven the appreciative passengers were in
continual rapture over the scenery. The
whole fount of adjectives was used up in ex
pressing thsir admiration, and some of them
were fain to call upon the adverbs for assist
ance. E +eh bend of the road developed some
unexpected beauty, and unanimously
voted that the Hudson or the Connecticut
could not possibly surpass the Susquehanna
in loveliness—an opinion in which I have
long been an ardent believer.
The town of Lock Haven, situated on the,
river, at the confluence of Bald Eagle creek,
is the first place of any considerable - size
reached since we left Erie. Like most towns,
the railroad gives one no opportunity to fudge
of its general appe..tance: It is said to con•
tain many handsome private and public build.
lags, and to be a town of great presperity and
enterprise. The*Bald Ea;le railroad, from
Lock Haven to Tyrone, connects the Phila
delphia and Erie with the Pennsyl; , ania rail—
road, and runs for part of its route at least
through a well cultivated and fertile country.
Lock Haven is the seat of immense lumbering
operations, from which arises most of its pros.
perity. The valley here expands to an un.
usual width, and the town bas an abundance
of room for growth. The unparalleled flood
of last spring did enormous damage in this
vicinity, submerging the fl its, carrying away
houses and fences,. and making itself a nuis
ance generally. As a sample of its extent,
my attention was called to the bridge over
Bald Eagle creek, which the water com—
pletely covered for a number of hours. Its
height at the top, above the ordinary level of
the stream, I should guess to be about thirty
feet.
At Lock Raven we took supper at the din.
ing saloon of Messrs. May & Jacks - ,n, of our
city, and a good supper•it was. Unlike the
conductors of most railroad' resorts, the pro.
prietors of this place do not go on the princi.
ple of getting as much out of travelers as
they can, and giving as little in return. Their
motto is to endeavor to give full satisfaction,
and if the meal they set on Saturday evening
is a sample of their usual bill of fare, it is im•
possible that they co.n'fail to become popular.
We reaches Williamsport just as it was
growing dark, and, muob to my regret, it was
impossible to obtain a glimpse of the town. I
have heard so much of its handsomeness, en
terprise and prosperity that I had a sort of
aching desire to see it, and judge for 'myself.
The town appeared to be enjoying a new sen
sation, for from the time that we hove in
eight of the people at the station, until long
after we had reached the main Susquehanna,
there was a continuous hum-drum of " Did
you ride in the street cars :" " Nice, ain't
they;" " How do you like them," and other ,
• interesting and agreeable expressions to the
ears of strangers. Two young ladies, and a
person whom I presume, from the whiskers
on his face, although I certainly should not
from his conversation, to have been 'a man,
took a seat opposite me, and discussed, with
loud voices, the topic in all its shat es, phases
and bearings. For a couple of hours the en
tertaining conversation was listened to by"
the adjoining passengers with intense admi
ration and edification, but, strange to relate,
some of tbem at the termination of that time
grew slightly tired of it, and about midnight,
the clatter having gone on without a minutes'
intermission, I was roused from a restless
sleep in which I had done nothing but dream
of street cars, by hearing a heartless boor ex.
claim, in sepulchral tones ,tiehind me, " Con
found those street cars; I wish they were all
in —, or the people who talk about them."
The young ladies in crinoline thereupon set
up a cry of indignation, and the young lady
in pantaloons did 'just what I should have
expeo'ed him to do,—c ommenced at the be
gining of the same interesting story and pur
sued it to the end. Very much to my regret
the parties stopped off at some eta' ion north
of Harrisburg, hut the aforesaid hard-hearted
wretch did not appear to coincide with me,
for I overheard him muttering to himself:
" Mighty glad of it ; wo won't hear any more
about etreei. care to night."
The trip from Williamsport to Harrisburg.
was made after dark entirely, and I can give
you no descriptioh of the towns or country
from personal observation. Munoy,
Lewisburg and Northumberland were passed
in rapid succession,—all being towns of some
importance, but Lewisburg is the prettiest
and busiest of the lot. At Northumberland
the train crosses the north branch of the Sus
quehanna, and we 'soon arrive at the obi,
fashioned town of Sunbury, the terminus of
the Philadelphia St Erie road, and the starting
point of the Northern Central. Without any
change, our train pursues its way down the
latter, following the main Suequehanna as far
as Iltddletown,, ten miles below Harrisburg,
where it strikes off into the fertile fields of
Lancaster and reaches Philadelphia about 6
o'clock in 'the morning. Leaving it at Harris.
burg, it was not long until I found a com—
fortable place to rest, and to—day finds me in
the bosom of my home, with all the fond re
collections of boyhood swelling up in my
heart and crowding it with a thousand emo•
tions. 1, Home, home, sweet home," though
for many years . fas sway among strangers,
after all there's no plane where ono feels so
happy and independent a s
"rusticate" here fur i
,my old acquaintance' it
death, which, from present
afraid they will d , ,, hops 4%
,lay r Yeti 11.4 r, igorair, I
'and ready to r mum , ' with rt
labors of the e.iltorial pea, v ,
always been a " labor of 1-,rt
GREAT
Witches and
. I
,000.000 woRTH
of la Ono Dol,ar P4CI.
to is laid or urtil )ou e,•
DJ A. H. Wow.° & r„ ,t
o. 38 Beekman En et, \,,. y,,c
rip. Reed the follove.n, i.
ONE LH)LL ty, E
•100 Gold huntin g c
100 Gold wa•cOe. , , vtri, o ;
,200 Ladies' gold watoLt..''
600 liiiver watchtt , ,
6,000 Late style ve,t
6,600 Galata' Cal. diao., l ,i ;
4,000 Cal. diamond to
3,000 Miniature r.eve:vd.
2,000 Cal. diamon.l aLI
gents' scarf pi rl4, Lkll
2,000 Mastinic, & enNeu:
2,500 Gold band brace:...,,,
8,000 Jet anB mo,tac
2,00 Q Cameo_trooehee,
3,000 Coral ear droi
2,000 Ladies' watch chain,,
6;000 Gents' pins, vpler l it
4,000 Solitaire sleeve butt L ,
3,000 Sets studs & sleeve
6,000 Sleeve buttons;
10,000 Plain & qngratel nr. it
8,000 Lockets, nobly eT gr „.
15,000 Sete ladies' je wea l , lt
Itteet style',
5.000 Handsome real r.uv,
2,000 Sets bosom stu n.
1,000 Gold pens & gold he
2,1100 Sets . jet & rind
drops, latest el.\
2,00) Gold thimbles, ❑ .
1(1, 1 )1ro Gold pens, & silv.r
10,000 G,ld t ans, ebony
This eotlre list of beautiful an•'
sold for tree twit... each. Cm
articles wilt be placed in enekle}.
en•eopeil are'aeot by mast, 11,4,,
t. choice. Oa tre lecei k t ~!..
what ‘oa are to hare, •od
send the. dulle r azae„lske
tyre eertsbeates can be
tkittly 1.,t5 ; aixty tire
$O5. We will seal a FoL,
Cents Aleuts wauted
cents f.a. or,
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West Bide of State St., brt*,,..
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Motley received 011 Jrp. w
Collectiona made aed ;ro-re,
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Wm. }Litho & Co., Baltimorr,
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Lindeman & Boos, New t ork
Wm. B. Brkdbory, New York.
John B. Bunkum, New York.
Grovellteen & Co , New York.
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Prices at a Large Discount
facturer's Ptices.
PIANOS FROM
Also, InstrocUon 800 ay..!, -M.
1111 persona wtshing a brat ratr
on, are tavited to can and exalut,
Cant pucka/60112g elsewhere.
Reed's Block otae. , State str.et, nett' ,
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and wonderful li•tr
precedents In fashionable
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Europe and south America. 7
annually used In the Ccurt c r-: •
Peter bale anal Madrid •nu
moue. MLR AMBROSIA .•
thin from herb.' of wooer/du*,
ted with • variety of esquiet, I '
preeetts the hair falling out..: :
idly, thick And long. it mat. •t r •
it a rlossy spy eartnee. .1 :I
it. Price TS dents per largo h. t
Sold by druggists and 0..4. , •
parts of the dirt tied word.
druggists in every city, and at
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kgewts for Pei:way IMO le.
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