27E BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE, UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW. THE RICH AND THE POOR. .;W SERIES, 1. 50. t C T 'l "5 !,1U o initv, IV.., every w e.:i:esaay ! v I -.r Wilson, :U the iluiow- .,b!v tn advanre : i: it- in l.i-:. oo $1 00 ne year, jail to pay thiir subscriptions he cxi'irl'.i' r. of fix months will at ti.- r ite of $2.50 per year, !. . !".:'.! to pay until after the cs- ...vdve months will be charged at ; ) per year. ,;.' ,. s-.-w'ind when pa'ul fur rt.S ti;- cents per nuino-r; .1 in r: .h,-r.- ailvai.ee j: cents per ;ed. onsutute a quarter ; aui 1 fifty numbers, KATl'S O" AOvKUTISIN' i.-e typo constitute a "..p. rv.a i:;st rtion, $1 00 .... nt insertion, -' . : ::t , he yt;.r, ( 00 ir -', ..::o :n.-erti-n, 1 50 pier.t in.- l'lion, .r.O .; rtii et'l'nnn, thr e niont Is, 8 00 ' e.'ltttnu, six months, 1- 00 .' ::a column, diit' vi .t!', 20 ('0 ;. !.;:..:;, three Lv..i;tl.s, 12 0U : six months, 20 00 ; ;:, is. ( tie rear, ;'" "0 . : :.,!!, t' re.' months, 20 '"'0 s;.:c m :b' 00 V. ..e v-.ar, TO 00 : N :i e." 2 00 .': X .b. 2 SO -..-..j..rV X tie.-. 2 GO .:;!.' D.Mt'u X--t':ces, Fn e. -! :.al cauls with paper, per an- j'l 00 Miry Nutices, over six lines, t-.u cents ...! ..!!! business X..i.-c t-:r!.t ;'r t-r.- t Mi.-er'i-'n, an 1 fuur cents fur :l-.' , :(, t ir..-c rtion.. if S '.:, cr .innvmica : a !.,! i.afare ir.u. t I1.' paid fur i :-,ts. . . rt, in p..!vcrti--w n's. . .; . '-:k -::i.is am rii:ffi,A!:s. !(;) .a.l. 100 "t. M SI 7 HO Vj r.o oo 1 f) 0 oo :;0 oo 3 oo r oo y 00 r.o oo oo oo 50 50 on t iAi:is $1 r,o I 2'.o f..r 2 0'' j GO') fur 1 hnn.lre.l. I'.I.AN KS. $3 5 50 ! Eafba-l !: l:,ti"-t be i I'r.Jl b'l.AUK 1 1, l-oo. W1LSOX. Jit r.c FOR ALE OR RENT. .i'..d ( OA i, PA XI) formerly (idi.in, or., situate in 1 a : . ! i ;"': to Cambria count v, about !'i-v,-e-t of Kbrnhb".r2 i .f. J-h;i (Jill.m Jr.. and 1 avi 1 Davis, Jr., -r agner, containg it.td Tir.htij-tl.ixe Acres, LaviiiiT thereon erected a :' ! ;(.J: HWKIJ.ING HOUSE and Z.arsre S2nu:. ISarn. 1 'ntains an abundance of coal ' ..tulitv a drift 4J feet thick A t. -; a -vpr: V:n,' I,,. Kned which is now being 'oe undersigned, the present :.ijg in the bi r::h of Klv-ns-li. L. dOilX.STOX, WM. KITTELL. lSf,o. tf. H. WALTERS, "'i street, litircea Frtnlln awl Clhtton, v ' side, JOHNSTOWN, I' A. Constantly on hand a large and well Parted stock !" s.-as'nabl: iH mn m wmi tock con:.-ts of almost every article --.ly kept in a retail store, all of which veboeu selected with care and are offered prices which cannot fail to prove satisfac- v an ami examine fur vourselves. v. 10, 1805. Cm. II. WALTERS. Illii!.TISTRY. W'E undersigned Graduate of theBalti- r..'jre Collfgo .f Dental Surgery, respect '' etic-rs lis proficssional services to the ens of Elenshurg. He has spared no ais t!i..r...ugi.ly to acquaint himself with T itaprovenient '.n bis r.rt Tn nnnn r1-" of rersor. d experience he has thought ---a the impart.Ml experience of the high- "aont'i s in T...,..i i- , , ' iiai oeience. nee. He sim may be riven i.iat an etmortniK' r - , A I - ' tTK to c,,,.,!. I'faiv its own tirrwsn . SAMUKL BKLFOliD, D. D. S. Oiuc voiov.a.'... Row T? L . r, f c it ''''-'n'-ts. m.lv i. ""no, jr.: v. n. ill Lout EbcnM .nrr, t r it f0 ul nirtth. to .-tay one week. 0 F ALT, T V n n 'r. AT TtlfQ A-n E 'S,I0U'"-ST NOTICE N .ASOXADldi PRICES. at ailfc tniinrl, j The Dead Duck-A Parody. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note. As his curse to the barn-yard we hurried, Nut a soldier discharged a farewell shot O'er the grave where poor ducky was buried. We buried him him darkly, at the dead of nipht, The sods with the barn-shovel turning, Iy the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Xor in sheet, cor in shroud, we wound him, But he lay like a dead duck taking bis rest, With his tail-feathers scattered around him. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his poor crippled wings, What a let-son t'would be to the fools who Lad striven. To reach unattainable things. Few and fhort were the prayers we said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow, For we knew that had he not thus been in terred He would Lave made our dinner to-morrow But half of our heavy work was through Wh-n the clock iold the hour for retiring. Ami we learned by chauticleer's'OcvS''oar crow. That the tun would soon be rising. Slowly ;iu 1 sadly we laid him down, Fr .in the place of his fall fresh and gory ; We carved nut a line, wc raised not a stone, To rtca'd our IVad Duck's last glory. STORY OF THE WAR. Facts that are Stranger than Fiction. There is now living m the city of Cin cinnati, a familv, the history of which Ibnns something ho romantic as to consti tute a mo.-t interesting st'jry : In the summer of 18.59 Charles Ceroux became a graduate of a college in the southern part of this State, lie was the deseendent of an aristocratic family who lived in Louisiana, anil, to be brief, he was then a full embodiment of the "chilvalry," just having entered Lis majority. While attending college he Lad formed the ac quaintance of Clara (1 , who attended a college for young ladies in this city, which acquaintance ripened into attach ment and love, and just before the break ing out of the rebellion, they were mar ried and removed .South. Miss G was an orphan, possessed of considerable property, which was held in trust by her uncle, a Southern minister who Lad raised her from infancy, and personally superin tended Lcr education. In addition to tlie endowments of a collegiate education sLe was possessed of a strong character bor dering almost on the masculine, but tem pered with sweetness and mildness not often combined in the same person. She was at once handsome and womanly. Within a year after their marriage and settlement in the South, came the fierce, wild blasts of war from Sumter's parapet, and tbere was none more ready to enter the deadly fray than Charles Geroux. Ills political tutors were practical seces sionists, and he entered upon the war with a fervor and zeal to command the admira tion of his friends, and which secured him a major's commission. His wife opposed his mad scheme with all the power of a woman s eloquence but to no avail. She openly espoused the cause of tLe Union. steadfastly refused to co-operate with her new tnends and neighbors. .Notwithstand ing her lovo for the old flag, and open unionism, her husband loved Lcr, and whue her husband was at home the neigh bors respected her. Geroux invested al Lis ready property, w Inch included lib wife's fortune, in Confederate bonds, nlac ed them in her hands, gave her a kiss for a sdiort farewell, assured her that the war would soon be over, and marching at the head of a victorious column of his coun try's defenders, she would be proud to welcome him. After Lis departure, her treatment by his relatives and neighbors became almost intolerable because of her hatred of secession. After two years of service in the Con federate army, he was captured a prisoner by the victorious Sherman, in his march to Atlanta, and sent to Camp Douglas. This was good news to his wife, who couM not longer endure the persecutions she received at the South, and &he resolv ed to make her way North and rejoin him in his prison home, and if she could not secure his pardon, to at least stay near him. Her Confederate bonds were worth less, and site was penniless; she made her way to the Mississippi and took passage on the ill-fated steamer Sultana for the North; she sold some jewelry for money, sufficient to carry her to Chicago. Arriv ing at Memphis her child was taken very 'EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE ill, and by the advice of the captain of the Sultana, she remained there to secure medical aid tor her child. ithin twenty four hours thereafter the boiler of the Sul tana exploded and twelve hundred lives were lost. Geroux fared ill at ease in Camp Doug las, and made many stratagems to escape, lie finally succeeded in bribing a raw sen tinel to let him pass, and to avoid pursuit a resort to deception became necessary. A comrade of his was on the point of death. His mess dressed the dead soldier in the major's uaiform, and conveyed him to the dead house, and gave his name as "Major Charles Geroux, Third Louisiana Regiment, C. S. A." The next morning the body was taken away and buried, and the rank, name, regiment and place of burial, were duly recorded in the register of Camp Douglas dead, by C. II. Jordan, the undertaker for the Government, at Chicago. That night Geroux escaped. His absence created no inquiry, as be was reported dead. For tLe purpose of avoid ing public roads and conveyances, he took a Lorsefrom the pasture near Camp Doug las belonging to J. L. Hancock, formerly President of the Loard of Trade of Chi cago, and by avoiding the public roads as much as possible, he reached Momence the next day. His actions excited suspi- cion, and he was arrested on suspicion of having stolen the horse, and was lodged in the Kankakee jail. lie was taken out on a writ of habeas corpus, and no proof being found to hold him, he was dis charged. Coming thence to Cincinnati he obtain ed a situation in a wholesale grocery busi ness. After the usual delays in passing letters through the lines, he learned that his two brothers were killed in the battle of the Wilderness, that his father's estate had been confiscated to the United States Gov ernment, and his lather had voluntarily exiled himself to Mexico. Of his wife and child, the only information was that they had sought to get North, and took passage on the Sultana, since which they had not been heard of, and no doubt re mained that they had perished. His true position Lad been studiously concealed, and be avoided Lis former acquaintances. SLortly after Le received tins intelligence from the South, Sherman started on his grand march from Atlanta, and Grant marshaled his grand army before Peters burg, tmd the Confederate army vanished almost as a vision. During the past sum mer Geroux returned to the South, and was fully confirmed in the information he had received about Lis family, and that his real estate had also been confiscated. He gave his wife and child up as lost, and returned to Cincinnati. Alter his wife and child had remained in Memphis and escaped the disaster of the Sultana, she started for Chicago and reached Camp Douglas. Impatient at the delay, she hastened there with expec tations high to meet him who was dearer to her than life. The reader can picture to himself the agony of this sad wife. A stranger, destitute of money, carrying in her arms a weakly child not yet recovered from a severe illness, and she herself worn- out with fatigue and anxiety, when she learned that Lcr husband was dead. There was no doubt of his death; the reg istry kept at Camp Douglas showed it, and the grave was pointed out to her, which bore this inscription on a pine board : "MAJOR CHARLES GEROUX, THIRD LOUISIANA INFANTRY." The same grave this day is neatly sod- ded over, and at its head grows a rose bush. lh-oken-henrted and bowed down with grief, she wended her way on foot to the great city of Chicago not knowing why she went. A stranger among strangers, with no one to aid and pity her save the good God, who in her utmost heart, she believed had forsaken her. She was taken in and cared for by the Sisters of Charity until she . could hear from her friends in Ohio, from whom she had received no intelligence for the past four years. A letter was received, that immediately after the war her uncle had died, and that, soon after, his widow had removed to Iroquois county, Illinois, to live with her married son. Mrs. Geroux was supplied with money to enable her to find her friends in Iroquois county, where she has since resided. Geroux returned to his situation at Cin. cinnati, and was pent by the firm to. col lect a debt in Iroquois county. While there he sought out the attorney who had him discharged on the habeas corpus, to learn the whereabouts of the horse that did him such exceeding good service, and to secure his assistance in collecting his debt. lie soon made himself known, and while they were discussing about the stol en horse, a lady and child entered the same office. There was a momentary pause, and husband and wife were in each other's arms. We shall not attempt to describe '; 3 scene which followed. The husband found a wife aud child, whom he firmly believed to be dead, and the wife found a husband over whose grave she had shed bitter tears of woe. Mrs. Geroux was visiting the same at torney, to fiud out about her husband's confiscated property, and to apply to the Government to have his property restored to her. C. V. Culver. This great bogus financier, this builder of cities on paper, this Republican Rep resentative in Congress, (in a horn) this collapsed fellow, is still attracting consid erable attention in the papers. The Mead ville Democrat asks several important questions in regard to the failure, which occurred on the 27th of March, about two months since. The DuiivcnU says that a gentleman of more than ordinary informa tion in such matters, states that Culver's liabilities would probably approximate st.c millions of dollars. April oth a meeting of creditors was held in Meadville, where a committee was appointed, and that com mittee reported their full faith in Culver's ability to pay. The people would like to see a realization of that expressed confi dence. Since the meeting at which Cul ver asserted bis ability and intention to pay, there ha3 been a dogged silence on the part of Culver & Co. The creditors are no wiser than they were on the 27th of March, and no richer, and no likeli hoods of being. The amount of Culver's indebtedness may be 6,000,000, more or less ; for the Democrat says : "lie had unlimited control of a large number of moneyed institutions ; he has had the treasure of churches, of colleges, of guardians, of trust funds, of preachers, and lawyers and doctors, of merchants and mechanics and laborers, of rich and poor, of high and low, and, in short, all classes and conditions of individuals, pour ed into Lis capacious pockets w itLout stint or measure. Yes, even tLe rag money machines of the Government appeared to be at his command. He had the "the full," the unbounded 'conjvkn.ce' of Church and State, of society in the aggregate. Culver was a benevolent man, took to church liberality, gave to churches and borrowed from them ; kept what he bor rowed, and iukd to ikui what he nave. He was elected Representative on the Repub lican platform, and never took his seat but once, lie talked good republicanism and borrowed large sums from his political brothers, and never paid thera. lie is a brilliant, a diamond of the first water, in Republican ranks, on the ground that the more of a scoundrel and humbug he is, the better Republican. What good, faith ful, honest Democrat or Republican could have been elected in opposition to him. He filled all Republicans eyes and hearts. They looked on, Culver and were satisfied. l?ut while he held them bound in adora tion he was cooly taking their money. It is often the case most always, in fact, that the greatest humbugs and villains command the situation in preference to known and tried men. Rut they come to an end. His politics, statesmanship, fi nancial honesty, his honor as a man is lost. And yet he is no more of a scoun drel now than when he was worshipped as the greatest and best in ten thousand. It is almost certain failure to belong to the Republican party. We have never determined whether the scoundrels all go to that party, or whether that party make? scoundrels. Rut it is a fact be yond contradiction that the greatest hum bugs and defaulters came out of that par ty." Culver shaved his own party the worst, borrowed the most money of them and cheated thera out of the most. While his political friends and financial sufferers are twisting like eels on a hot griddle, as a general thing Democrats view the scene with comparative stoicism. Warren Led ger. Tiie movement recently inaugeratcd to make it appear that "Geary" is the sol diers' favorite, is a dead failure. The "boys in blue" know all about the "hero." They know exactly how, and where, and when, he fought, and that knowledge is not calculated to inspire any very great enthusiasm in their patriotic bosoms. The Latest. Why is a "tilting skeert" like a slaughter house. Uecause lean and fat calves are seen in them. The above was accidentally made by a steamboat man who writes to the Pittsburgh Commercial. 7, I860. Parson Brownlow in the Past. Our readers no doubt care as little as we do for the sayings and doings of this abandoned old reprobate ; but as Govern or of an important State like Tennessee, and "a burning and a shining light" of i the I Judical party, it may not be amiss to give a little reminiscence of his past, I in contrast with his present josition and views. In May 1SGU, lie addressed a let ter to the Uev. Mr. Payne, a Northern Abolitionist, in which he said : ''Dissolve this Union, you infamous villains, and we shall make this proposi tion at once to Louis Napoleon, a most sagacious monarch, and he would quarter at New Orleans 200,000 Frenchmen, and ! at Chesapeake 200,000 more ; he would then command the Mississippi Valley, whip the North-western States into our Southern Confederacy, and we would then turn upon the New England States, and cause the hurricane of civil war to rage and sweep from Mason and Dixon's line to the codfisherica of Maine, until he would extinguish the last abolition foot hold on the continent of America ! Face to face, knife to knife, steel to steel, and pike to pike, we would meet 'ou, and a3 we would cause you to bleed at every pore, we would make you regret in the bitter agonies of death, that you had ever leit any concern tor tlie Atncan race. i Sir, if the fanatical, wicked and infer nal course persued by you and your un principled associates is continued, the re sults will be as I have said, aud you or your children will live to see it. Pale faced poverty and dismay are staring some of your manufacturers and operatives in the face. We are sending our orders to England and France for goods, and dri ving your hell deser ing freedom shriekers into the holding of Union meetings, and making these against their wills, curse agi tators of the slavery question, and resolve that John Drown and his murderous asso ciates got only justice when at Charleston ! Carry on your war, if you choose death rather than life, and we will stain every sVamp in the South with yours and our own blood, and with the ve ngeance of an infuriated foe we will be upon you in the North, at the hour of midnight, and as long as a lucifer match can be found we will burn up your substance." Death ok the Last Survivor of the Wyoming Massacre. A correspondent of the 1 Baltimore Siti, in a letter dated York Springs, May 12th, says: The death took place yesterday of Samuel Kennedy, near York Springs, Adams county, Pa., in the 03d year of his age. He was the last survivor of the Wyoming massacre. His mother brought him away when live years old, in her flight from that inhuman slaughter. She, with her son Samuel, settled in Mcnallen township, then York, now Adams county, where she has resid ed until his death, surrounded by his child ren, grand and great grandchildren, a res pected citizen, without an enemy, beloved by all who knew him. His father, John Kenned', with his two brothers, Samuel and Thomas, settled in the Wyoming set tlement sometime before its de?truction by the Indians. Samuel was killed, and his wife and six children taken prisoners and were never heard of after the massa cre; but John's wife and three children, the eldest being the boy Samuel, just de ceased, after hiding in a wheat field, sur rounded by Indians all night, finally es caped. John was absent at the time, having gone to Penn's Valley to assist in guarding the people there from the Indians. Two of his wife's brothers were killed in the massacre. The other Kennedy (Thom as) was a single man at the time, and was uninjured. The deceased was born on the Gth December, 1773, in Northum berland county, Pa. Churches Durst ln the South. A writer in the New Orleans Christian Ad vocate says that so far as he has ascertained between one thousand and twelve hund red church houses were Lurnt duriug the war. These Churches, he thinks, have cost the people not less than five millions of dollars. In the loss the Methodists were the greatest sufferers the liaptist3 next, then the Presbyterians, the Catho lics least. One of tho favorite accomplishments of "Geary" is to attempt to straddle two horses ; and he has recently undertaken to ride a pair going in different direcftons. He would like to have the poeplo believe that he is for the President and Congress both, and he would be delighted if he could humbug the honest voters into the impression that he was in favor of negro suffrage and at tho same time opposed to striking the word "white" from tho Con stitution of Pennsylvania. Age. VOL. 13 NO. 16. The Bankrupt Law. The Uankrupt law which was passed on Tuesday last in the National House of Kcprcsentatives, but which is yet to be concurred in by the Senate, makes the U. S. District Courts, courts of bankruptcy, and also gives the Circuit Courts jurisdic tion of the subject. It provides for both voluntary and unvoluntary bankruptcy. In the former, any citizen owing over $300 shall apply by petition to the Judge of his district, setting out his inability to pay his debts in full, and his willingness to surren der his property for the benefit of his cred itors. The filing the petition is an act of j bankruptcy upon which the Judge directs the U. S. Marshal to take possession of his ellects until an assignee is appointed. The creditors then hold a meeting and choose the assignees. Creditors, whose debts are proved, share the effect in pro portion without any prefering except in case of the wages of operatives, clerks or house servants, to an amount not more than $o0 each, and debts due the United States or State, and taxes. If it shall appear in court that the bankrupt has in all things conformed to his duty under this act, and that he is entitled under tho provisions thereof to receive a discharge, the court shall grant him a discharge from all his debts, except as thereinafter provid- ed, and shall give him a certificate there of under the seal of the court. Involun tary bankrutcy is caused by various acts of the debtor, such as a departure from the State, avoiding the service' of legal process, removal or concealment of prop erty, fraudulent assignment of property, arrest and detention lordebt for a period of seven days, and confession of judgment or suspension of payment of commercial paper for fourteen days. Various penal ties for frauds, concealments, &c, are provided; and the law goes into c-fleet as soon as the necessary officers are appoint ed; provided no proceedings shall in any case commence before November 1st, 1S0G. The Romance of Divorce. Indiana has long been famous for the multitudinous; divorce cases which cumber the records of her Courts. There is rarely in this con nection, anything pleasant to narrate, but the incidents following constitute excep tions to the rule : A couple in Sullivan had been married six years, but of late failed to be agreeable to each other, and the husband, in a fit of anger, instituted proceedings for a divorce, which he procured and promptly carried to his wife. She was indignant, but said she was ready to go, and bade him accom pany her to the wardrobe, to see that she took no clothes but her own. Opening the door, she paused a moment, and then burst into tears. Her emotion was caused by the sight of a dress of a dear little daughter who died two years ago. The husband saw the cause of her deep sorrow, and was affected as much as herself. They embraced, tore up the divorce, aud were married again before morning. Why one should not Swear. An article in the Pittsburgh Preacher, gives eight good reasons why a man should not swear : 1. It is mean. A man of high moral standing would almost as soon steal a sheep as swear. 2. It is vulgar altogeth er too low for a decent man. 3. It is cowardly implying a fear either of not being believed or obeyed. 4. It is un gentlemauly. A gentleman, according to Webster, is a genteel man well bred, re fined. Such a one will no more swear than go into the street to throw mud with a loafer. 5. It is indecent offensive to delicacy, and extremely unfit for human ears. C. It is foolish. "Want of de cency is want of sense." 7. It is abusive to the mind which conceives. A Strange Resemblance. There was recently in the Southwest a tragedy some what similar to the murder of the Deering family in Philadelphia, by which a family named Deerfield was murdered The murderer of the latter family has been convicted. His name is Coovcrt, and the Memphis Ledger states that there is a most remarkable resemblance between him and Probst. Doth are five feet seven or eight inches high, have blue eyes, light hair, and turncd-up noses. Roth have a strid ling walk and a stoop in the shoulders, and both served in the army. The strang est resemblance of all, however, is, that Coovcrt, like Probst, has lost the thumb of his right hand, which was shot off whilst in the service. C3" A Man in Nashua, N. II., recently lost his "beloved companion" on Saturday, lie buried her on Sunday, procured a cer tificate on Monday, and on Tuesday was again enjoying the pleasure of married life. V rr ii
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