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For nurchastiu grounds 9 la". 00 For buitdiui; leases For teaeners' wagon 3,0«0 uo For rent and repairs 75 « For fuel and t'outliigencles (» Fees of Collector lft"> 16 Fees of Treasurer 113 12 Salary of Sec'y, expns, statuy, |io«tage, &c So 00 For printing and auditors' fees 10 00 For all other purpose* and sundry ex prises. 249 70 Total money paid out 95,964 47 RKfIOUIH'KH AND LI AHi LIT] KM. Cash on hand s2,2fl# 26 Amount due district :tar; 12 The above account has beeu duly audited by the auditors of this district ann certified by them to be correct. W. P. CAJII'BEI.I., Sec'y. •f. K. RANKIN, 1 AlMlu -_ B. S. KANKIN, . itt «' tors - VIA-SANO THE GREAT a mma mm lucalfptaa. Saraaparilla, Mudritl. I I IICD Daadalloa, Kidoaj-Wurt. Hue ha, Ibl V it I*. B.pi. kt.. Which KU promptly o» m m m n ■ ■mm I m tho Ufir, Kidaajra, Blood, Stomach If 111 111. V »*l Bow«l» atthe aama Una. Thou ■ Minir V "l>« *r» ao latiaiauljr aooaartod |\|Ul Ik I that ahn uaa it tbor all AKB haeataa »cU. Lanatottlaa.tUfta. AlMraCfiaUaadooantrjr atoraa h»»o it, of win |o« it tar yoa. Alao praparod is aa(ir ""NOTICE TO FARMERS. number of Farm* for sale or exchange at low prict and on easy payment*. Several •malt farm* from 35 to 50 acre* wanted. Alao, loans furnished to farmers hiving improved lirnit on long time ar.d at low rates. Address W. J. KIBKADDEN, Freeport. Pa., Or call on Office days: Every Monday at Freeport. Every Tuesday at No. #O, Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh. Union Woolen Mill, BUTLER, PA. H. FULLEKTOX. Prop'r. Manufacturer of ULAXEKTS. FLAMKBLS, Y'AKNS, Ac. Also custom work done to order, such as curding Rolls, making Blankets, Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, Ac., at very low prices. Wool worked on the shares, it de aired. my7-ly Special Notice. To all parties troubled with Baldness, Un natural heat in the head, and Headache, the Alpha Hair Restorer in the first and only reme dy ever discovered, that has never failed in a single case ; and we defy anyone to produce a ease of baldness where it has failed to make hair grow, even in cases o;' thirty y«ars stand ing. Send for circular and sworn testimonials to JAMES MURPHY 4 CO., General Agents, 23 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. For Sale or Exchange for a Farm Three acres of land, large honse, store room and hall above, and stable and out-buildings six mile* from Butler, on the Glade Mill and Han nabatjwn road at Jefferson Centre. Young or chard of good fruit thereon. Any person want lug to purchase or exchange for a farm will in quire at CITUKM office, or addresa MRS. KATE I. NF.OT.EY, Saxonburg, Butler county, Pa. Advertise in the CITIZEN. VOL. XVIII. PHYSICIANS. JOHN E. BYERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, myai-ly] BUTLER, PA, Office on Jefferson street, opposite Klingler's Flour Store. DENTISTS. JDEHSTTXSTIR, * . 0 1# WALDRON. Graduate of the PliU- K adclpbla Dental College,is prepare'' ■ 11 ato do anything in tbe line of hi> profession in a satisfactory manner. Office on Main street, Butler, Union Block, op stairs. apll DIRECTIONS. ■lmiyi ...nil LIU K(>r Catarrh, hay fever mr L.KPAM RM," ■ cold ill the Head, &c„ mmf*S'oMmZr. ■LATArrh COLO* 'iySl a particle of the Balm H HAV-A-f.CJttLma-it rir. tfllll Into tlie nostrils; draw 'OiT> P I strongbreaths through W- m>-~' CaNja the nose. It will be ftua sCjrlfabsorbed, cleansing, f»UBALP**Tr« .Vf-fcJm aml healing the dls sV#o«"-*.leased 1 eased membrane, •£gM For Deafness, apply a particle Into ELY'S CREAMBALM HAVING gained an enviable reputation, displac ing all other preparations In the vicinity of discov ery, Is, on Its merits alone, recognized as a won derful remedy wherever known. A fair trial will convince the most skeptical of its curative pow ers. It effectually cleanses the nasal passages of Catarrhal vims, causing healthy secretions, al lays inflammation and irritation, protects the membranal linings of the head from additional colds, completely Heals the sores and restores the sense of taste and smell. Beneficial results are realized by a few applications. A thorough treat ment as directed will cure Catarrh. As a house hold remedy for cold iu the head is unequalcd. The Halm U easy to use and iigreeahle. Sold by druggists at 50 cents. On receipt of vt cents will mail a package. Send lor circular with full Infor mation. ELY* CREAM BALM CO.. Owego, N. Y. For sale In Butler by I). 11. Wuller, J.C. Kedick, Zimmerman & Wuller. Coulter 4 Linn. EXECUTORS* SALE!I The undersigned executors of Robert Thomp son, deceased, late of Chuton township, Butler Co., Pa., offer for sale the following described property, located in said Clinton township : One hundred acres of laud, partly cleared, bounded on the south by lands of John Glasgow, on Iho east by lands of James CrisweU's heirs, on the north by laud of Wm Thompson and on the west by land of Absoloin Monks, situated on tbe three-degree road, which pauses near the house. GO to 70 acres iu good state of cultiva tion, good frame and log bouse, wagon-shed and spring house, good Bpring of water nesr the house, and a first-class young orchard of bearing fruit trees. Convenient to schools, churches, mills, coal bank, etc. ALSO—Farm of Wm Thompson, adjoining same tract, and containing about 101) acres, and liavii.g on it a good,brick house, good ue't frame bauk barn and outbuildings, good orchard, it being part of same farm. MONKS, I J. W. MONKS. f " n of Robert Thompson, doc'J, late of Clinton twp. Summer Normal Term. The Summer Normal Term of the Wither spoon Institute, Butler, Pa., conducted by Pro fessors P. S. Bancroft and J. C. Tinstmaii, will open ou Monday, June 'M, 1881, continuing six weeks and closing July 30. Tuition J*4.50. A thorough course of instruction will be given in all branches taught in the public schools. WANTED ■general housework. Inquire of Henry O. Hale, corner of Penn and Sixth streets, Pittsburgh. 3tmy2s I Planing Mill —AND— i Lviml>ei' Yard. J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PURVIS S.G. Purvis & Co., MANUFAC'TI REKS AND DEALERS 131 Rough and Planed Lumber OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, GaugedC ornic t foards PORCLI POSTS, STAIR RAILS Newell Posts and Balusters FENCE PALINGS, r p-'a la tho limbs, back, itooachTK J rhoul'lcr blades, t.-.to 1*1:-1 > / 'Tor cnunp of tho stoninrh. colic, dlar-|i t rtJaa, or Voiultl:ij, t::ko I'e:.l'NA. '' ISBSBH \ J "For cwiifh, Tili'at tv/cats. short- V ' ncssof breath,taLol*-;ji;.». A. EHSMHMBI / ''Forchronic catarrh, bronchitis, pleurisy. \ / and torn tiiruatof any kind— I'taoKA." OH V i 'TIRCXAb th'i purest, most prt.mnt ami , / cmclwiitiiiuUlcliio k.'iu.i it toiuun. 1 ' \ / i 3 V" ,iCst •jpetlicr, purest V / inT'ldl j "If yen nn't cleon, tako I'cnrKA tU v i 7 e . worried Mentally, can't rc.' t, take \ J - I.UL'.V A. '' I , "JIOOO will Txj paid forttie li»i«tlmnnrlty or . / mh.«ral ttat ii>ay bo found la I'tnt A." ■■ \ / Bold everywhere. For pamphlet write to V ' S. IS. 11ALTM AX li Co., Osboru, Ohio. / If you ero rick, feel badly, or In nny way \ j unwell, takoPiiiLMA and regulalo tho bow- k r cU with PKKIM and MAN A LIN FOR SALE BV zmnEUKAsr a WULLEB BUTLER, PA. w, ' ek 1,1 > o,,r ow " town. Term* and IB vUU.mtnt free. Address 11. HALLKTr & Co., Portland, Maine. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 20,1881 toiSttii FOR RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sora Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equals ST. JACOB.* OH as A MM re. mi nipt f find clirap External Remedy. A trial entails but the comparatively killing outlay of SO Cents, and every one suffering with jialn can have cheap and positive proof of Its claim*. directions In Eleven Languages. SOLD BY ILL DRUGGISTS AND DEALEBB IV MEDICINE. A.YOGXLLER 3c CO., Baltimore, Md., XT. A, Am II f ill in s insH ynn are a of man of Irt med by the strain of ter*tciliiiKo ver mld your duties tnitl W niifl't work, to res •timulautft and use W tore bruin nerve and Hop Bitters. B wa*tc, uw Hop B. If 70a are younfr an 11 suffering from any IB discretion or di4*i|>a ■ tion , if you are mar ried or sinffl**. old or ■young, buffering from poor health or languish ■I ng on a bed of sick neat, rely on Hopl Bitters. Whoever v o-tt are, flP| Thousands die an wheuever you feel |W (1 nually fro in some that roiir *y»tern JBTJJ form of Kidney ilrr- '-jr '— Wl» that mltfht Injr or stimulating, have been prevented without intoxicating, [fl -1 by • timely use of take Hop Hopßitt.ra • itt.r a. BARE TOO DY ptpaia. kUlnn O | e. or u rinary com- . . . plaint, dl*e»»e JT J 1 J® bt the Btomach, ft UC\T) £. D,! lrreuiH }^ bowrlt. blood, H HILL blerjire for liver or nerres f lIU 1 (Irunkenne s• , _ ~. . H use of opmrn, You will be RITTrnO tobacco, or H IIFRS Dircotlc * If yooarrsim- 9 Sold by drn»- CY weak and . nrwrn J-}*"- Seadlor W ■pirlted, try JJ NEVER Circular. it llt may ,1 r-» ■■ HOP DITTOS FAIL saved hun- ; | «. T. draE tite and tongue coated, you art- suffering from tor pid liver, or "bllliousni'ss," and nothing will cure you so »|>eedilv and ixTiuauentiy as to take SIM MONS LLVKK ItKCfLATOIt OK M KI>ICIN K. mid Ilest Family Medi- AN EFFECTUAL SPK- ILI"LICS nine lor all diseases of MALAUIOUS 1 K KKV'- KKS, BOWEL COM- lrH(iUi;l isur-- owing to the secret suffering from Piles. Yet re lief IN ready to the hand of almost any one who will use systematically the remedy that lias jier manently cured thousands. SIMMONS' I.IVKB RKUUI.ATOK, is no drastic violent purge ; hut a gentle assistance to nature. CQJTB TlFfi TIOX / SHOULD not be regarded as a trifling ailment— in fact nature demands the ut most regularity of tlic bowels, and any deviation from this demand paves the way often to serious danger, it is quite as necessary to remove Impure accumu lations from the bowels as it is to eat or sleep, and no health can he expected where a costive habit of body prevails. SfCK KKiiVXCIgK t Tiiis distressing affliction occurs most frequent ly. The disturbance of the stomach, arising from the imperfectly digested contents, causes a severe pain in the head, accompanied with disagreeable nausea, and this constitutes what is |S>pularly known as Sick Headache. MANUFACTURED ONLV BV J, 11. ZEIU.V A CO., PHILADELPHIA. PA, 22Jely) SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. YOUNG CLYDESDALET Prince of Scotland, Can be seen at the stable ol'thc subscrilier, near Lcasureviile, Winfleld township, Uutlcr Co., Pa , the llrst three days ol each week, and Thursdays and Fridays at the stable oi Joseph Flick in Coylesville. PRINCE OF SCOTLAND is a beautilul dapple bay, rising six years old, with immense bone and muscle, superior action, and a perfect foot, wherein most heavy horses lack, and for disposition is unexcelled ; stands 16% hands high, weighs over L,HOO pounds, and w:is bred trom one of TLIE finest draught horses in ttcolluiid. Further truce of pedigree Is un necessary, as his appearance will recommend hiui to competent judges. ROBERT H ESSE LG ESSE R, -o»pr2m Owner. CR YSTALEN E. THE BEST AND CHEAPEST i' A. I N T, in the market. It can BE USIM! 011 Wood, Iron. Tin, leather. I'lanlrr or Paper. Mixed Ready For Use. ALL COU)RS. It goes further, lasts longer, liMiks better and Is F'HKAPEIt than any other paint. For painting Houses, Barns, Roofs, Fences, Wagons, &c„ IT 11 AS NO EtJI'AL. Call ami examine samples. J. C. REDICK, ATEPKTM] GENERAL AGENT. BL'TLER, PA. A C* CMTC i WK WANT YOU In every A vT EJI.> 1O I County, TO sell our NKW AU TOMATIC CAKPKT SWKKI'KU. You can make from J.TOO to * R ..U) |H-r day the year round. Good prollts and rapid sale*. Capital not necessary if you can furiiisli go<«I references. Address at once I'AliK CAIII-KT SWKKI'KU CO. Toledo, O. WEEK, FL'.'A day at home easily made ▼ " "Costl v 1 liit lit free. Address TIL UK & Co., > Augusta, Maine. 2tnarly FORTY DOLLARS. 'What! Forty dollars more ? Forty dollars more? Forty dollars for trim mings ? My mother never spent so much on any dress. And you have the dress ? I hate to seem cross, my dear ; but with so many business men failing every day, one sees the wisdom of economy. Explain, my dear.' 'Well, papa,' said Emma, 'it is just this: Madam Farine says that I need ten yards of trimming at four dollars a yard. The dress is half finished—and really, money goes so. There were other things to get. I'm ashamed to ask, but I was obliged to.' 'Very well, my dear,' replied the merchant; 'there is the rnone; ; but I don't think you'll need any more before Christmas. Times are not good, you know, and dear me ! forty-dollars for a trimming! Women are worse than ever.' Emma Rome slipped the roll of notes into her purse with a feeling that it was dearly bought; but fate has placed so many women in the condition of beg gars, and it is so customary to do as Emma did, that she almost wondered at the little pang which shot through her breast. Besides, her father seemed to forget the matter soon, and she knew that he was called rich—that actually, forty dollars was but a small sum for him. So, breakfast over and Mr. Rome off for that mysterious region known as 'down town,' she dressed herself be comingly and started on her shopping expedition. On the way, thoughts of her new dress ran through her mind, She intended to wear it on an occasion which to her seemed very important. Some one was to be present whose opinion she valued—some one she her self admired very much. Did he ad mire her? She bad asked Jierself the question over and over again. She had even pulled away the petals of a marquerite, one by one, counting as they fell with the words, 'lie loves—he loves me not.' And there were to be many handsome girls present, and she was not vain ; but she must look as well as possible. Thus absorbed she suddenly found herself several blocks below her desti nation. There was nothing for her but to walk, and the way led through streets filled with miserable tenement houses. The fashionable girl hurried until, all at once, she found a sort of barricade across the street. The mid dle object of this barricade was a sew ing machine, to which ou one side clung a woman. The woman was cry ing; the tears splashed down on her hand. An attendant crowd of residents contemplated the scene with evident in terest, and Emma Rome became per force one of their number. Scarcely ever before in her life bad Emma Rome been in close contact with actual misery. Poor, to her, simply meant not rich. Now she was among rags, dirt and misery, forced to stand still for a moment and luok upon it. At first the only emotion it excited was disgust. But as she was about to seek a passage through the squalid crowd words fell upon her ear that arrested her attention. 'Forty dollars I've paid on that ma chine, and now you'll not giye me time. I only ask time. I'm an honest woman. I'll pay you. Man do you know its all there is between us and starvation ? Let me have the thing back. It's but ten dollars I owe you.' 'You've owed that two months,' re plied the man. 'Come, let go, Missus I don't want to hurt you. I've got to obey orders. 'Money or the machine,' was what the boss said.' But the woman did not relinquish her hold. Still clutching the machine, she turned her agonizing eyes upon the bystanders. Forty dollars,' she repeated, 'and the machine but fifty, and he's takiDg it. I never failed until Jim broke his leg, and bis work stopped, and his wages with it, and I'd doctor's bills and all.' 'No, that she didn't,'cried a voice from the crowd 'I am knowing to her honesty.' 'And he'd better be off with his cart.' cried a man who had stalked out of the entry of the house near where the crowd had gathered, rolling up his sleeves. 'Look here, good people,' explained the man who held the machine,'l don't want to do this. I must obey orders or lose my place and my bread and butter. She'd better go to the boss and talk to him—not to me.' 'l've been,' said the woman. 'He's made of stone. I told him he'd starve us. He will. There, what's the use of my fighting like a drunken body in the street—a decent woman ? They've more than the worth of the thing now, Cod knows; but they've the power. Take it.' And she let go her hold and covered her face with her hands. But instead of those rough, red fin gers, others, dainty and small and well gloved, came down on the cover of the machine. Emma Rome had pressed forward, and now spoke: 'Stop,' she said; 'will you let the woman keep her machine if I pay you ten dollars ?' 'Them's the bosses orders, Miss,' re plied the man, 'and I'd be glad to do it, too.' Then, while the crowd gathered, and the woman who had told her piteous tale sobbed with joy, Emma drew the sum named from her purse, received in return a receipt, which she gave the poor woman, and experienced for the first time tho delight which the per formance of an utterly unselfish ac brings with it. Moreover, when tbe machine had l>een borne up stairs, Emma, who had exchanged a few words with its owner, followed her tQ her miserable room, no ted its poverty, heard all tbe bitter-tale. It was a true one—the hot ears told that. 'But I don't mind anything now, Miss,' sobbed the narrator. 'Now the machine is my own, I don't mind how hard I work. And the only great tug now is the landlord—four dollars a month for rent." ,As much a month as a yard of that trimming,' thoaght Emma, with a little pang. She questioned the woman furtLer, and found that her landlord lived 'down .stairs.' And before she turned from the door she had emptied her purse, and had paid three months' rent in advance. 'Your husband will be well and at work by that time,' she said ;and there were no regrets for the lost fringe as she took her Way homeward. Nay, she was not even stung to the soul when Madam Farine remarked, with a glance that said volumes: 'The black lace from your old gren adine dre33? Certainly, since it is your taste.' The dress, however, was not unbe coming, despite the unfurnished lace, and Emma wore it to the party. She was quite conscious that every woman of her acquaintance knew what the dress was trimmed with, but her con science whispered to her that she had done right. Moreover, the light of the better thought was on her face. Somehow, Arthur Maine found himself more than ever attracted to it, and as she drove home that night, Emma felt that the Marquerite which had said to her, 'he loves,' had been no false prophet. She had learned two lessons in a lit tle while; one that the poor might be clothed and fed from the trimmings of the rich ; the other, that extravagance in dress never yet won any man's heart. THE MANUSCRIPTS ON WHICH THE BIBLE RE VISION IS BASED. The original manuscriptsof the gospels and epistles have long since disappear ed, and all that we now have to de pend upon for our translations are copies, ancient versions, translations, and the quotations made by the Fath ers of the Church. The manuscripts of the New Testament are of two kinds —the 'uucial,' the oldest class of man uscripts, written in capitals and without puuetuation, and the 'cursive' manu scripts, so called from their being writ ten in a running hand that began to be used in the tenth century. Those of the old class were written between the fourth and tenth centuries, the others after the tenth century. Of the old manuscripts there are 130 in existence; of the new about 1,500. The very old and very valuable manuscripts are only five. Of thiae the Alexandrian Codex was originally discovered at Alexan dria, and was sent to Charles 1., in 1028. It is now in the British Muse um. Nothing is known of the origin of this, but it is usually assigned to the middle of the fifth century. It is much mutilated, twenty-four chapters of the first Gospel, two of the fourth, and eight of one of the Epistles being miss ing. The next is the Vatican manu script, supposed to have been written in the fourth century. A copy of this was never made till 1868, when fac simile was issued. The condition of this is much more perfect. The third manuscript is that in the National Li brary at Paris, whither it was brought by Catherine de' Medici. This had been overwritten—that is, the parch ment had been used for other writings; but, in spite of that, the original has been deciphered. It is assigned to the early part of the lifth •century. The fourth manuscript is that now at Cam bridge. This is the least valuable, as it is much mutilated. It belongs to the sixth century. The manuscript found in 1844 in the Convent of St. Cathe rine on Mount Sinai by Tischcndorf, and copied by him in 1859, is the most valuable of the five, as it contains the New Testament complete. This is to have been written in tie fourth century. None of these most valuable authorities were consulted in preparing any of the English versions of the Bible, even that of King James' time. The Latin Vulgate, the plenti ful cursive manuscripts, and the trans latians were used. Errors and addi tions like the Doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer had crept into the translations, even into the Syrian, which was as old as the second century. The Latin Vulgate was probably an excellent translation, as it must have been made within a few years after the death of St. John. The changes that have just been made have been made only when the weight of authority left no doubt of their necessity. The text is not a question of taste, of like and dislike, but of historic testimony ; and the revision represents the prevailing view, at the present day, as to the pre ponderance of this testimony. THE VILLAGE POSTMIS TRESS The son of this postmistress says of his mother: 'She's gettin' a little hard a' hearin', though; but I tell her that ain't strange, seein' she's heard so much in her day. Ears can't last for ever you know, Mis' Linton, an' for fifty years there ain't been nothin'goin' on among the neighbors that ma ain't heard. Bein' in the postoflis is wearin' to the hearin' ez well as the eyes. Folks com in' an' goin' for their letters generally leave as much news ez they take away. By the way. Mis' Linton, yersister, Miss Bradleigh's.comin' back to-morrow. Ma was readin' the postal cards last night, and she came across one from her." 'Reading my postal cards ?'exclaimed Mis' Linton. 'Why, yes. Ma always reads 'em—leastways she reads such as isn't took right off. She says it's her duty. Might be news of sickness or death or suthin else, that we 4 d ought to send right along. Tbey'er dreadful aggravatin' readin' through. People don't write ez well as they used to, an' don't make things clear, nutber. When anybody writes jes' 'Yes' or 'No' 011 a postal, 110 post master in creation can make anything of it But your Bister's postal is plain enough, Mis' Linton; thar ain't nothin' indefinite about her. She savs: 'comiu' Thursday, 5 o'clock train. Have Fac totum meet me,' Ma puzzled a good deal over that word 'factotum,' and we both concluded that 'twas the name of your help. Furrin' name, ain't it? I told inn 'twas new, any how, an' ez we had a young ealft we was goin to raise, an' hadn't named it, we coucluded we'd call her Factotum, like that furrin' 1 kitchen girl o' yourn. Mis' Linton. THE ONL Y PARA LLEL IN HIS TORY. Walt Whitman's Account of the *assination of Lincoln. Friday, April 14, 18t>5, seems to have been a pleasant one throughout the whole land—the moral atmosphere pleasant too—the long storm, so dark, so fratricidal, full of blood and doubt and gloom, over and ended at last by J the Min-rise of such an absolute Na tional victory, and utter break-down of secession—we almost doubted our own | selves 1 Early herbage, early flowers, ! were out. (I remember where I was 1 stopping at the time, the season being 1 advanced, there were lilacs in full I bloom. By one of those caprices that ( enter and give tinge to events without | being at all a part of them, I find my ! self always reminded of the great trage dy of that day by the sight and odor of these blossoms. Itnever fails.) But I must not dwell on this occa sion. The deed hastens. The popu lar afternoon paper of Washington, the little Evening Star, had spattered all over its third page, divided among its advertisements in a sensational manner in a hundred different places. 'The President aud his lady will IK; at the theatre this evening.' Lincoln was fond of the theatre. I have myself seen him there several times. I re member thinking how funny it was that he, in some respects the leading actor in the stormiest drama known to real history's stage through centuries, should sit there and be so completely interested and absorbed in those human jack-straws, moving about with their silly little gestures, foreign spirit and flatulent text. On this occasion the theatre was crowded, many ladies in rich and gay costumes, officers in their uniforms, many well-known citizens, young folks, the usual magnetism of so many peo ple, cheerful, with perfumes, music of violins and flutes—and over all, and saturating all, that vast vague wonder, Victory, the Nation's victory, the tri umph of the Union, filling the air, the thought, the sense, with exhilaration more than all music and perfumes. The President came betimes, and, with his wife, witnessed the play from the large stage boxes of the second tier, two thrown into one, and profusely draped with the American flag. There is a scene in the play representing a modern parlor, in which two unpre cedented English ladies are informed by an impossible Yankee that he is not a man of fortune, and therefore unde sirable for marriage-catching purposes; after which, the comments being finish ed, the dramatic trio makes exit, leav ing the stage clear for a moment. At this period came the murder of Abra ham Lincoln. Great as that was, with all its manifold train, circling round it and stretching into the future for many a century, in the politics, history, art, etc., of the New World, in point of fact the main thiug, the actual murder, transpired with the quiet and simplici ty of any commonest occurrence—the bursting of a bud or pod in the growth of vegetation, for instance. Through the general hum following the stage pause* with the change of positions came the muffled sound of a pistol-shot, which not one-hundredth part of the audieuce heard at the time—and yet a moment's hush—somehow, surely a vague, startled thrill-and then, through the ornamented, draperied, starred and striped spacewav of the President's box, a sudden figure, a man, raises himself with hands and feet, stands a moment on the railing, leaps below to the stage (a distance of perhaps fourteen or fif teen feet), fulls out of his position, catching his boot-heel in a copious drapery (the American flag), ialls on one knee, quickly recovers himself, rises as if nothing had happened (he really sprains his ankle, but unfelt then) —and so the figure, Booth, the murderer, dressed in plain black broad cloth, bareheaded, with a full head of glossy, raven hair, and his eyes like some mad animal's, flashing with light and resolution, yet with a certain calm ness, holds aioft in one hand a large knife—walks along not much back from the footlights—turns fully toward the audience his face of statuesque beauty, lit by those basilisk eyes, flashing with desperation, perhaps insanity—launch es out iu a firm and steady voice the words, Sic temper tyrannin ! —and then walks with neither slow nor very rapid pace diagonally across to the back of the stage and disappears. (Had not all this terrible scene—muking the mimic ones preposterous—had it not all been rehearsed, in blank by Hooth, beforehand ? A moment's hush—a scream—the cry of murder—Mrs. Liacoln, leaning out of the box, with ashy cheeks and lips, with an involuntary cry, pointing to the retreating figure: He has killed the President ! And still a moment's strange, incredulous suspense, and then the deluge!—then that mixture of horror, noises, uncertainty—(the sound, somewhere back, of a horse's hoofs clattering with speed)—the peo ple burst through chairs and railings and break them up; that noise adds to the scene; there is inextricable confu sion and terror; women feint; quite feeble persons fall and are trampled on; many cries of agony are heard; the broad stage suddenly fills to suffocation with a dense and motley crowd, like some horrible carnival, the audieuce rush generally upon it; at least the strong men do; the actors and actresses are all there in their play costumes and painted faces, with mortal fright show ing through the rouge, some trembling, some in tears; the screams and calls, confused talk redoubled, trebled; two or three manage to pass up water from the stage to the President's box, others trying to clamber up, etc. Iu the midst of all this, the soldiers of the President's Guard, with others suddenly drawn to the scene, burst in —some two hundred altogether—they storm the house, through all the tiers, especially the upper ones, inflamed with fury, literally charging the audi ence with fixed bayonets, muskets and pistols, shouting; Clear out.' Clear out! you son aof ! Such the wild scene, or a sugg( stion of it rather, in side the play-house. And in that night pandemonium of AI)VFKTISI\