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DM'LAUGIILIX. Alterney at Law, Johnstown, Pa. Oflice in the Ex change building, on the Corner of Clinton nuil Locust streets up stair. Will attend to all business connected with his profession. Dec. 9, 18G3.-tf. WILLIAM KITTELLT tforncn at 7nb, (fibtnsburg, Cambria County Penna. Olllce Col o a ad e row. Dec. 4. 19; "tYUUS L. PKRSHIXG. Esq. Attorney J at Law, .Johnstown, Cambria Co. Pa. Olliceon Main street, second lloor over Hank. ix 2 BICHAEL UASSOX. F.sy. Attorney -if JL at Law, Eoensburg. Cambria Co. Pa. Ofliiee on Main street, three doors East I Julian. ix 2 J. C Scnnlan, A T T O It N B Y A T L A W , KBRSsui'Kii. Pa., OFFICE ON MAIN STKKKT, TIIKEK DOORS EAST of the LOGAN HOUSE. December 10, H03.-!y. K. L. Johnston. Geo. W. Oatman. JOHNSTON & OATMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Lbensburg Cambria County Penna. OFFICE REMOVED TO LLOYD ST., Ono door West of R. L. Johnston's Rss idence. Dec. 4. lSlil. ly. JOHN FEXLON, Esq. Attorney at Law, Ehensburg, Cambria county Pa. Ottico on Main stieet adjoining his dwel ling, ix 2 1) S. NOON, ATTORNEY at law. KBEXSRUKO.CAMDKIA CO.. PA. Oflice out- door East of the Pust Office. Feb. 18, 1863.-tf. G EORGEM. REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, EKEXSU17KG. Caniltria County, Pa. OFFICE IX COLOXADE ROW. March 13. 18C4. J. W. HICKMAN. 11. F. HOI.I- G. W. HICKMAN &L CO., Wholesale Dealers in MANUFACTURED TOBACCO. FOREIGN AXD DOMESTIC SEGARS. SNUFFS. &c. N. E. COiL THIRD & MARKET STREET. PHILADELPHIA. August 13. 18C3.-Iy. W. W. MM a. JOHN 8. DAVISON. M A I R & D A V I O N , IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN SADDLERY, CARRIAGE AND TUNRK HARDWARE & TRIMMINGS, SADDLES & HARNESS, X . 1ST, Wood Street, PITTSBURGH. PA. PAD SKINS, BEST OAK TANNED HARNESS. SKIRTING AXD BRI DLE LEATHERS. June 17, 1803 ly. J T.MOUHR. WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL DEALER IN FLOUR, CHOP. &c: HENRY NEFF'S MILLS. WEST BARREE. ki i . Hi'STisoDOM County, Pa. March 23, 184. t Iltnl. An oflice on 0nf c. next door north- of Esq. Kinkcad's office' Prts-esaion given immediately. JOSEPH M'DONALI) April 73. 27E BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE Female Resolution. No ! I will never see him more, Since thus he likes to room. And when his cab stops at the door, John, say I'm not at home! lie smiled .'aat night when Julia smiled (They mu.-.t have met before.) If thus by her he is beguiled, I'll never. see him more! I'll sing no more the songs he loved, Nor play the waltzes o'er. Nor wear the color he approved. I'll never please him more ! I'll conquer soon love's foolish flame. As thousands have before. Look strange when'er I hear his name, And ne'er pronounce it more! The plat of hair I must resign. That next my heart I wore ; He. too, must yield that tress of mine He stole when truth he swore ? The minature I used to trace, And feel romantic o'er, I'll tear from its morocco case, And never kiss it more ? This ring his gift I must return, (It makes my finger sore; Then there's his letters those I'll burn, Ami trample on the H.or! His sonnet, that my album graced, (My tears thus blot it o'er.) The leaves together thus I'll paste, And ne'er behold it more' 111 waltz and flirt with Knsign G , (Though voted oft a bore') In short. I'll show my heart is free, And sigh for him no more ; It we should meet, his eye shall shrink. My scornful glance before ; G'ls that's his knock ! here, Johu ! I tl.iuk I'll see him jitt once more ! A Sailor's IV ire. "Now Rose don't cry ; you remember what you promised when you became the wife of :i sailor." 'Yes, I know. I promised to be courageous, to Ik? hopeful, to be resigned ; but then I hadn't been vour wife for two years, and it was easy to resign a happi-ne.-s 1 knew nothing about." Then you are happy wife dear ? Have I been a good husband to you ?" The reply that Hose made to this was to burst into tears ami to throw herself i:;to the arms of her husband. I Jose had been the pretty child of a widowed mother. She had a little fortune of her own, and good fortune and good looks. With all these advantages it can be imagined that she did not want for suitors. Kose, how ever, turned from all the gay young fel lows who wooed her ; but when Mathew Carroll came to see her mother, she would sit demurely and silently by her side lis tening, as Desdemona may have listened to Othello, to the account Mathew gave of his adventures and exploits in the va rious far-distant lands and oceans to which lie had been. lie was the captain and owner of a little merchant vessel, and had attained the age of 3ii without ever having thought of forming any ties that would bind him to land. His element seemed to be the ocean ; man and boy lie had lived on it. All the associations of his youth were with it. He considered his visits to land and his sojourn in cities mere incidents recreations that had nothing to do with the real business of life. Somehow since his return to his native village, where he had not been for many j-ears, a stranger, new feeling had come over him. He r.o longer thought exclusively of his projected voyages when he was alone ; he oiiener saw belere hiiu the bright eyes and gen tle looks of Kose Danvers than the blue dancing waves ; instead of thinking of futuic bargains and trades, all that seemed to occupy his mind was the time that inter vened between his visits to the cottage. Yet what could he expect ? Surelynot that Kose would love him, a great, big, rough sailor, so many years older, too, than she was. lie laughed at himself for a fool when he caught himself even hoping such thing?, as he sat smoking his pipe on the rocks overlooking the sea One evening, however, it happened that Hose and her mother sat beside him gazing at the smooth water and the dis tant horizon in silent admiration, when Mathew burst out into one of his loud laughs. " Dear me, Mathew Carroll, what is the matter?" said Mrs. Danvers. " What are you laughing at, captain ?" exclaimed Kose. " Would you like to know " said Captain Carroll, taking his pipe from his mouth and speaking in a serious and de cided tone. 44 Yes, I should." "Will, thiii, 1 was Ijoii'liirv.' to think DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE EBENSBTJRG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE how an old fool like me, rough and weather-beaten, could expect a pretty young girl to fall in love with him. Now wasn't that enough to make him laugh right out ?" " I do not think so," gravely re marked Rose. " You don't," said the captain, look ing earnestly at her ; " can you guess who the young girl was ?" " Yes," replied Kose, in a very low whisper, holding down her head and pick ing a piece of sea-weed to pieces. The captain let his pipe fall, and his voice trembled, as turning to Rose, he exclaimed : " Hose, Hose ! don't be afraid to speak ; I think I could bear the joy " The captain clasped his hands together, ami for a moment could only gaze on her. "My wife!" he said at last, "will you, young and courted as you are, be my wife ?" " If you will have me," said Hose, with a little coquettish smile. The captain's answer, if not very ex plicit, was exceedingly emphatic, for he elasjied Hose in his arms and actually carried her to her mother, and holding her tight to his bosom as he would have done a baby, " Give her to me !" he exclaimed : "give her to me !"' Mrs. Danvers smiled ; she was evi dently r.ot much surprised. " To none more willingly would I give her, Mathew ; but, little Hose, it requires courage and resignation to be a sailor's wife ; how will you bear to let him go from you ?" Rose promised, as every one promises everything under the same circumstances, and they were married. So completely happy was the captain, so entirely new to him were home and its joys, that he had not the courage to break away from them for more than two years Hut he had now a boy who lisped his name, and who just toddled from his j mother to him ; Mathew began to dream again of the sea, for his boy's sake lie wanted a fortune. lie formed the plan of a lucrative venture, and settled the day on which he was to take command of his vessel and set sail. L'util now he had entrusted the good ship to the master, who had made several successful little adventures. Mathew had his ship re-fitted and re-painted ; he changed its name from The Vulture' to the dear name of ' Hose," and hud a fine figure-head on the bow somewhat of the cabbage order, made a special ornament for his ship. His wife and boy he left in a quiet comfortable cottage he had bought, and there was money enough in the old sea chest in his room to last for over two years, and he should be back before that time. And so he sailed. The parting was so dreadful that the good captain took a solemn vow as he stood on the deck of his good ship that this should le his last ven ture, that he would bring hack enough, and then never leave his happy home again. Now he is gone ; Hose, with straining eyes, can no longer see the vessel, even as a black sjieck ; the captain has long since lost sight of the white handkerchief his darling waved. Ruse and her boy have gone home, and the young mother kneels alone in her cliamber prayiiv fur his safety, praying for courage to endure his absence. So passed the first year in peace and resignation ; then she received a letter from him ; in six months he would be home. Hose was happy. What was six months ? Nothing. She en dured a whole year's separation. Hut six months went by, then a year, then two; no tidings neither of the ship nor of the captain. His tjoy grew, and learned to pray for his father ; Hose had grown pale and grave, h, the third year her mother died ; then was Hose indeed alone, and hope had fled. So passed by eight years of her life. She was now twenty-eight. No longer did she watch ami wait ; she knew the sea had devoured its prey, and she had mourned him long and deeply, as those widowed in heart and not in name mourn. Life, however, was difficult to Kose. She was forced now to work for her sub sistence. All she possessed was the cot tage, and that no privation could induce lier to part with. The widow, however, had found friends ; among them was a man well to do in the world, the owner of many vessels, and possessor of a fine, handsome home, the handsomest in the village of N. At last he ventured to make known the nature of his feelings to Hose. He offered her his hand. Hose shrunk away, but her life was very soli tary and her boy without a protector ; she was herself helpless. DISTRIBUTED ALIKE, UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND In the eighth year of her widowhood Hose married again. After three years' experience Kose con fessed even to herself that she was con tented and happy. She had two children beside her own boy, as she always called Mat., the son of her first love. She was sitting one evening on the I poarch of her house, one child playin on her knee, the other on her lap, (for it was a mere infant,) when a man, bent and lame, clothed in rags came across the garden and stood looking towards her. " Mother," said Mathew her eldest son, " see, that Ls a beggar man, and he looks like a sailor." " Ah ! a sailor must never go empty handed from our door ; give him this." Mathey flew with his alms toward the beggur. He had a look of age and suffer ing about him that enlisted the boy's sym pathy at once. "Take this," said he, "my mother never lets a sailor go away without relief. My father was a sailor." " Indeed." "Yes, Mathew Carroll, captain of the Hose, lost at sea. Did you ever hear anything of him ?" " No ; and you are his son?" " Yes, mother says he was a brave, good man. " "She is rich now all this belongs to her does it not V " Oh ! yes, we arc rich now ; mother married again. Those are my little brothers, and yonder comes my new father. He has just given me a fine boat. Oh ! he is so kind to me. Good-bve, sailor." For an instant the sailor stood, and sha ding his eyes with his hands, gazed at the boy, then at the mother, sitting under the vine clad porch, smiling at the infant on her knee. Then the sailor turned away, hobbled down the walk, and was seen no more. Neither Kose nor Mat ever re membered his having been there five min utes alter he had disappeared. Five years after this there came a letter for Hose from a lawyer in New York. A man named .Mathew Caroll had left her the whole of his fortune, beside a scaled letter, which he forwarded. " Hose, darling, I was not dead. For eight years I was on an island among sav ages. I came back. I found you happy, another by your side; children, not mine around j ou. You, so fair, young and gentle still. Oh ; how I gazed on you for those few moments ! What could I bring you ? Not even my money, for you were rich. I could bring -ou but an old hus band, changed and suffering. I could bring you but remorse, sorrow, and dis grace. You had mourned me dead, I knew you had. Not one bitter feeling had I toward you. One look at you and my boy, and then away forever. The only proof of love I could give you was to leave you in jeace, and remain dead, as you and all the world thought me. I have never been back to our home, and I die among strangers, blessing you and my boy. Farewell, my own sweet, darling wife. He happy, ami my spirit that watches -ou will rejoice. The fortune, over fifty thousand dollars, was bequeathed to Hose Danvers, to be divided equally between all her children, making no especial clause for Mathew Carrol?, "for," said the will, "Kose loves them all alike." A Lawvkk's Retaining Fke. Mr. liurchard, the revival preacher, went about the village to enlist the wealthy and influential to attend his preaching in order to give some eclat to his meetings. - In the course of his perambulations, one day, he fell in with Hob .S , an attorney of some reputation, and very famous for his wit and readiness at repartee. "Good morning Mr. S -," said the " evangelist," " understanding that you are. one of the leading men of the town, and a lawyer of high standing, I have called upon you in hopes to engage you on the Lord's side." "Thank you," replied Hob, with an air of great sobriety, and with the most professional manner possible, " I thank you, I should be most happy to be em ployed on that side of the case, if I could do so conscicnciously with my engage ment ; but you must go to some other council, as I have a standing retainer from the opposite P&rty " The Baltimore Evening Transa ct was suspended by Gen. Wallace for say ing that the loss of the Army of the Po tomac was not less than 70,000 men, and crediting the same to the Associated Press. , $3- A briefless young barrister says Hint anv ladv who possesses one thousand ; acres of J ami presents sufficient ground for i an attachment. 1, 1864. Tlirlllin? lucideut of Hie War. The Yankees, from time to time, throw a shell into the the city and nobody seems to mind it. But misfortune willed that yesterday a shell should throw the entire community into mourning. Miss Anna Pickens, the daughter of our former Governor, never consented to leave the city. Despite, the representa tions of Gen. Boauregard, she remained, braving shells and Greek fire, tending the wounded, and cheering all with her pres ence. Among the wounded officers under her ministering care was Mr. Andrew de Kochelle, a decendant of one of the no blest Huguenot families of this city. This young man was full of the liveliest gratitude for his fair nurse ; gratitude gave birth to a more tender sentiment ; his suit was listened to; Governor Pickens gave his consent, and the marriage was fixed for yesterday, the 23d of April. Lieutenant de Kochelle was on duty at Fort Sumpter in the morning, and it was determined that the ceremony should take place at the residence of General Bouhani, in the evening at 7 o'clock. At the mo ment when the Episcopal clergyman was asking the bride if she was ready a shell fell upon the roof of the building, jkmic t rated to the room where the company were assembled, burst, and wounded nine persons," and among the rest, Miss Anna Pickens. Wo cannot describe the scene that followed. Order was at last reestab lished, and the wounded were removed, all except the bride, who lay motionless upon the carpet. Her betrothed, kneel ing and bending over her, was weeping bitterly and trying to staunch the blood that welled from a terrible wound under her left breast. A surgeon came and de clared that Miss Pickens had no longer than two hours to live. We will not paint the general despair. When the wounded girl recovered her conscientiousness she asked to know her fate, ami when they hesitated to tell her Andrew," she said, " I beg of you to tell me the truth. If I must die, I can die worthy of you." The young soldier's tears were his answer, and Miss Anna, summoning all her strength, attempted to smile. Nothing could Imj more heartrend ing than to see the agony of this brave girl, struggling in the embrace of death, and against a terrible mortal pang. Gov. Pickens, whose courage is known, was almost without conscienciousnesfs, and Mrs. Pickens looked ujhju her child with the dry and haggard eye of one whose reason totters. Lieutenant de Kochelle was the first to speak. " Anna," he cried, " I will die soon, too, but 1 would have you to be my wife. There is yet time to unite us." The young girl did not reply; she was too weak. A slight flush rose for an in stant to her pale cheek ; it could be seen that joy and pain were struggling in her spirit for the mastery. Lying upon a sofa, her bridal dress all stained with blood, her hair disheveled, she had never been more beautiful. Helpless as she was, Lieutenant de Kochelle took her hand and requested the Rev. Mr. Dickinson to pro ceed with the ceremony. When it was time for the dj ing girl to say " Yes," her lips parted several times, but she could not articulate. At last the word was spoken, and a slight feam rested ujKn her lips. The dying agony was near. The minister sobbed as he proceeded with the ceremony. An hour afterward all was over, and the bridal chamber was the chamber of death. Lieutenant de Kochelle has sworn to perish in battle against the Yankees, and we are sure that he will keep his oath. He has now a double motive to hate them and bis own ex istence. Our entire community share the grief that afflicts the family of Governor Pick ens. The obsequies of Miss Anna will occur to-morrow at eleven o'clock. Gov. Pickens and Lieutenant de Kochelle will be chief mourners. Our ex-Governor desires that there shall be no military dis play. The funeral cortege will be coin posed of all our ladies, all our magistrates, all our generals, and-the wounded soldiers, many of whom owe their lives to the de votion of the deceased. Never has a wo man been followed to the grave with so many regrets never has one left sadder remembrances in the hearts of Charlesto nians. Charleston Jferciuy, April 24. ij-y The bogus Constitutional Conven vention, in session in New Orleans, did not appear inclined, at latest dates, to adjourn in a hurry. They had voted themselves salaries ranging from 10 to 20 per day, and cvideutly intend to make a good thing of it, C3T An exchange says the President' 'esr A business man can get along with has the nation at heart. We believe it out advertising, and so can a wason tvhiei i the newt nation. THE POOR VOL. 11---NO. 23. A I'ig lu Crluollue. The wide distended skirts of ladies' dresses of the present day have been made the cause of many a sad, but also of many amusing scenes. An incident of the lat ter class, which happened the other day in Montrose, is one of the most laugha ble we have ever heard, (says a Montrose paper:) "A young lady dressed in full fashion able attire, iucluding an ample crinoline extending dress, was in a friend's j ard, looking at the cows, perhaps, and during the time she was there, a fine, small porker was roaming at will in the yard. The pig, impelled, no doubt by curiosity, commenced to make close inspection of the young lady, while she was inspecting some other animal, and having ventured rather near, was caught and caged within the compass of the crinoline. Not liking so small a sty, wide though the skirt was, the pig soon made known to the owner of the crinoline the unpleasant fact that he was within, by making desperate efforts to get out. The young lady was in a sad fright at the commotion within her dies,-", which was not lessened by hearing the grunting which indicated what sort of a tenant she had got ; but notwithstanding the shock to her nerves, she made anxious efforts to get the pig ouf. His swiueship, however, had got his snout fixed in the network of the crinoline, and his ejectment was found to be no easy matter. A " lord of creation," who was attracted to Uie spot by the noise of the struggle, was so struck with the absurdity of the scene, that his risible faculties fairly prevented hirn from rendering assistance. The strug gle did not last much longer, however, for the pig, assisted by the resisting strength of the lady, made his exit by carrying away one half of the cage on his snout. The lady retreated in as great a hurry as the pig in a state that can be better ima .giued than described. Xiie Value of. 9 lorses. Some people will no doubt be astonished" to learn that large fortunes have been made every year since the commencement of the war, out of the dead horses of the army of the Potomac. The popular idea is that when Kosinate yields up the ghost, she is buried in some field, or left to moulder into mother earth in the woods somewere. Not so. She has indeed made her last charge and knawed her last fence rail, but there is from two to four dollars in the old animal yet. A contract for the purchase of the dead horses of the armv of the Potomac for the ensueing year, was let a few weeks ago to the highest bidder at 1,76 per head, delivered at the factory of the contractor. Last year 60,000 were cleared on the contract, and this year it is thought 100, 000 can be made on it. The animals die at the rate of oO jer day at the lowest calculation. At the contractor's establishment they are thoroughly dissected. First the shoes are taken off, and are usually worth 50 cents per set. Then the hoofs are cut off, which bring about two dollars a set. Then comes the caudel appendage, worth half a dollar. Then the hide I don't know what it sells for. Then the tallow, if it be possible to extract any fallow from the army horses, which I think ex tremely doubtful unless ' they die imiue diately after entering the service. And last, but not least, the shin bones are valu able, being converted into a variety i f articles, that many bvlieve to le composed of pure ivory, such as sane-heads, knife handles, &c. Patkiotio Dkixkkk. A "loyal" maii came to town the other day, got a little heavy about the head, and fearing he might be suspected of drinking too freely 4 apologized to a crowd of bystanders in the following eloquent and patriotic language : " 'Now 1 ax you fellows who's the bet citizen, him as supports the Government, ' or him as doesn't ? Why him as does in course. I supiorts Government, fellers every man as drinks supports Govern ment. That is, if he drinks taxed Iickers. F.very ' blessed drop of licker he swaller9 is taxed to pay the saleries of them big olfiers at Washington and supports the war. Snose all was to quit a drinking, I why the war must stop and the Govern merit must fall it couldn't help it no ! how. That's the werry ivasi n 1 drinks. ' I don't like grog I mortally hates it. ! If I followed my own incleiuation, I'd ' rather drink buttermilk, or pitiger-iop, or ' soda-water. But I lickers for the good of mv country, to set-a.u example of loyalty, wirtnous self-denial to the rieing gnera . tion.'" Holmes County runner. svith-...t gresc-brl i go-.i hard.
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