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OBERTE. JONES.
EbensLur, Cambria co., I'a.,
alcr in T.i!i:hT. The hishr.st prices.
uh. paid for CHERRY, POPLAR, AS1I
LIND LUMBLR.
'.enslurg, Nov. 8. lCS.
I JOHN P. LINTON,
pORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown. Pa.
21-e in bunuing on corner of .daiu and
aki'.n stieet, opposite Mansion House,
" i 2o r. Entrance on Franklin street.
j':.r.itewn, Nov. U , lfc65..
D. M'LAUGHLIN,
TOP.N'EY AT LAW, Johnnlotcn, Pa.
-Cca in the Exchange building, on the
3-'"of Clinton and Locust streets up
Will attend to all business ccanect
.:b 'nis profession,
e:. 9. 1863.-tf.
Lime for Sale.
- tiiiScTft.tied is prepared to ship Lirao
c'na Lilly Station, or No. 4, on the Penn
a; lUilroai to Ebenbburg, Johnstown,
:y ether point on the Fcnna. R. E... cr
"sacnes.
Address. WM. TILEY.
art8,-tf Ilerntock, Cambria co., Pa.
STATES UNION HOTEL,
PHILADELPHIA.
5 HOTEL is pleasantly situated on the
ch stda of llarket btrcet, a few doors
Sixth street. It crntrai locality
j it particularly deairal !c to pereons
25 tne city en Lusi:,u;s or pleasure.
T. II. E. SAN DEES, Proprietor.
iM 21. 1866.-Xy.
V HAT AMI CAV STORE
: Dealer in HATS and CAPS. BOOTS
fOES, and GENTLEilENS5 FUIIN
'G GOODS, such & Dra tt.era. Shirts.
irs Handkerchiefs, Neckties, Stockings,
umDrt-l.as, ic, keeps constantly on
a ceneral
f low as the lowest. '
instowp, Juae 2i, l866.-ly.
SCOTT iiniTSP
1 Siree,t'nJ!l'?tovn co Co., Pa.,
.. A. ROW & CO.. Pronrirtor.
5 HOUSE baring beeo refitted and
antly famished, is now open for the
tuici laiuimui oi guests. Tne
cors ty long experience in hotel keep-
i.uiieni iney can satisfy a dis-
-atinc rublie.
ft Kar is supplied with the choicest
Mof liquor and wines.
1 5uads Job Wc;k done at this'c.
W. II. SECIILEK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, and PRACTICAL
SURVEYOR, Eberuburg, Fa., office in
the Commissioners ofuee. Dec. 7, 18C5.-tf.
WILLIAM KITTELL,
A'
TTORNEY AT LAW, Ensburj, Pa.
Office in Colonade Row, Centre street.
Dec. 4, lS64.-tf.
F. P. TIEKNEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Elensburg, Pa.
Office in Colonade Row.
April 5, 18C5-tf
JOSEPH M'DONALD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebemburg. Pc
Ofiice on Centre street, opposite Moore's
Hotel. Apr. 26, lSCo-tf
JOHN FENLON,
I TTORNEY AT LAW, Elensburg Pa.
H Office on High street, adj-.iniag hia resi
dence. May 4,1865. (1.42.)
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I TTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensfurj, Pa.
l Office on ilain street, three aoors East
oi Julian. May i, 1605.
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I TTORNEY AT L,V, Ebcnsburg, Ta.
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December 7, 1865. " (tf.)
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Office on JIain street, second floor over
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JAMES C. EASLY,
AT T O R N E Y - A T -LAW,
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Ebenaburg, Nov. 15, lSGe-tf
1L J. LLOYD,
SUCCESSOR to R. S. Bun. Dealer in
DRUGS. MEDICINES AND PAINTS.
Store on Main street, opposite tho "Moore
House, Ebeusburg. Pa. May 17, '6G.tf.
V. S. BARKER,
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ShiTes, Hats, Caps, Groceries, ccc ; keeps
constantly on hand a general assortment.
Store on High street, Ebensburg, Pa.
Sept 2S, 18C5.
SHIELDS HOUSE,
LO PETTO, CAMBRIA COUNTY, PA.,
THOMAS CALLEN. Proprietor.
fllUIS house ia now open for tho accommo-
dation of the public. Accommodations
as good as the country will a fiord, and
charges moderate. May 31, 18GC.-tf.
DR. D. W. EVANS,
TENDERS his professional services to tho
citizens of Ebensburg and vicinity.
Office one door east of R. Davis' store.
Night calls made at his residence three doors
west of R. Evans' cabinet ware room.
May 31, lS65-Cm
J. C. WILSON, M. D.,
6FFERS his services as PHYSICIAN and
SURGEON, to the citizens of Ebensburg
and surrounding country. Office three doors
East of the Presbyterian Church, La the
room formerly occupied by Dr. Jones.
Ebensburg, April 12, 1866. 3m..
S. BELl'ORD, DENTIST,
CONTINUES to visit Ebensburg personally
on the 4th Monday of each month.
During his absence Lewis N. Snyder, who
studied with the Doctor, will remain in the
effice and attend to all business entrusted to
him.
June 7, 1866.
" LLOYD & COT
CANKERS, Ebensburg, Pa. Gold, Silver,
J) Government Bonds, and other securities,
bought and sold. Interest allowed on time
deposits. Collections made on all accessible
points in the United States, and a General
Banking business transacted.
March 1, 18G6.tf.
UNION HOUSE,
TJBENSBURG, Ta., JOHN A. BLAIR,
ft Propietor, spares no pains to render this
hotel worthy of a continuation of the liberal
patronage it has heretofore received. His
table will always be furnished with the
best the market affords; his bar with the
best ct liquors. His stable is large, and will
be attended by an attentive and obliging
hostler. June 4, 18CS.-tf.
1866. PHILADELPHIA. 1866.
WALL PAPERS.
HO WELL & BOURKE,
MANUFACTURERS OF
PAPER HANGINGS
AND
Window Shades,
Corner FOURTH & MARKET Streets.
PHILADELPHIA.
K. B. Always in Store, a Large Stock of
LINEN & OIL SHADES.
Harch. 1, 1855.3m.
From the Lady's Friend.
Sweets of Woman's Life.
BY MARGARET 6WAVNE.
A babo at rest on mother's breast,
Too young to smile or weep,
Conscious of naught but mother's love,
So sweet is infant's sleep.
A child at play in meadows green,
Plucking the fragrant flowers,
Chasing the bright-wing'd butterflies,
So sweet aru childhood's hours.
A maiden fair as early dawn.
Radiant wiih every grace,
Gladd'ning the eye that looks on her,
So sweet is beauty's face.
A softly bl'.isLing, downcast lock,
Murmur of startled dove,
Answering another's tender words,
So sweet is maiden's love.
A white-robed virgin kneeling low.
Before God's altar bows,
Forever joined two hearts and hands,
So sweet are marriage vows.
A youthful mother bending o'er
Iler first-born beauteous boy,
Forever hers till death shall part,
So sweet a mother's joy.
A matrcn in life's autumn-time.
With ycung life clustered o'er,
Her cLidren's children clasp her knees,
So rich is autumn's store.
An aged form, whose dimming eyes
Foretell departing breath,
A re closed by grateful, loving hands.
So sweet is peaceful death.
Six feet of grass-grown flow'ry sod
On earth's kind shelt'ring breast,
Forever freed from grief and pain,
So sweet eternal rest.
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.
The terrible chastisement known as
"running the gauntlet" was abolished in
Austria in lbo-4. For years it had been
a favorite mode of punishment, and. was a
cruel and barbaiuus remnant of thoic
dark and dismal times called the middle
ages. The character cf the punishment
may be inferred from the following desc.ip
tion, by an eye witness, of tha last execu
tion of the kind :
On an autumn morning in the year
1351, the garrison of the fortress of Ther
esienstadt, oa the Egar liiver, in Bohe
mia, waa forrutd. in a large square on the
spacious place Lk fore the resident of the
commandant. In the middle of the
square, drawn up in lile, stood n company
of a rifle battalion, to which, tho delin
quent belonged. It was unarmed, (there
were three hundred,) being provided with
a switch, placed at a 6iim.ll distance
from hi; next man. At tho tenth stroke
of the clock, the drums were beaten, and
amidst a silence deep and oppressive, tha
prisoner was marched into the square.
He waa as fine a looking man as ever I
6et eyes upon ; tall, powerful and well
formed. ills handsome ieature?, to which
a black mustache gave a bold and martial
expression, shone forth in the full glow
and vigor of manhood, only they vcre of
a deadly paleness.
He waa a non-commissioned officer,
and during the campaign in Italy, in
1840 he had dist'mguishd himself in such
a manner that bis superior officers had
recommended him for promotion. Aus
tria is more generous than England towards
those that shed their blood in Ler service,
and he would have been made a commis
sioned officer long since in spite of his
humble origin and Lis poverty if it had
not been for a fatal impediment. This
impediment was his own passionate tem
per ; he was a very choleric man, Larsh
and brutal towards his inferiors, morose
and stubborn towards his superiors, when
ever they deemed it necessary to check or
rebuke him. 11a was hated by tho men
to the utmost. There was not a private
in the whole battalion that had not vowed
him revenge, lie had never made one
friend, nor did ho care to have one.
Strict in the performance of his military
service the most minor duties of which
he discharged with the utmost exactness
ho went hi3 own way, proud, reserved
and solitary. Innumerable were the pun
ishments which he had brought upon the
men ; for however slight the offense might
be, ho was sure not to pass it over in si
lence. His superior officers respected him for
his usefulness, his ability, and his exacti
tude ; but they did not like him. The
evident lack of humanity in the man made
him an object of doubt rather than' love.
Moreover there was a vague rumor about
his having once struck his own officer in
the midst of a pell mell, caused by a hand
to hand encounter with the enemy. The
report never took a clear shape, the officer
having been kilLvl.
The ecgagemc.it and gossiping of a few
woundelooluieit, had much too incohe
rent and contradictory to lead to a formal
investig-tion of the matter ; besides it waa
at the victory of Navarra. He had great
ly distinguished himself, and the old Field
MarsLal l'adezky had w ith his own hands
affixed the goldtu niedul on Lis breast.
The rumor, however, -together with the
knoweledga of his harch aad violent tem
per, caused his name to be erased from
the list of those who were recommended
for Ligher promotion.
When this incident was made known to
him ho became even more sullen, more
rigid, more cruel than ever, but always,
as it was well understood, for the benefit
cf the service, the slightest demauda of
wlich he performed with the same immu
table strictness as he enforced them to be
done by others.
A few weeks previous to tho dreadful
punishment w hich he had now to undergo,
he was mounting guard in the outworks
with some twenty or twcntylive men of
his own company. It was a chiliy, rainy
night, and when the sentries where relieved
they were glad to stretch themselves, wet
as they were, upen tho floor near the large
stove in the middle cf the guard-room.
The floor not being very clean (floors sel
dom are in thce localities,) and the white
uniforms cf the men being wet, it was no
wonder that the dirt adhered to them with
a tenacity that denied all exertions to get
it off, when the wcru rs were roushed by
the sergeant to prepare for standing guard
once more. The more they tried to rub
their clothes clean the morn sturdily he
lent a helping hand to their endeavors by
an application of tho sad equipment of
every Austrian noncommissioned officer,
the stick. While he was fully at work,
cutting, away at the men, with a powerful
armthe door opened, and the officer on
duty entered the guard room.
"Attention !" commanded the sergeant,
and sahituig the superior, ho made the
report that nothing worth remarking had
happened. The officer, a young ensign,
fresh from the military school, and almost
a boy, took no notice whatever of the im
portant news, Lut asked the sergeant, in a
brisk and somewhat impetuous manner,
what he waa again striking the men for.
The sergeant, already much annoyed at
this interference, gave a surly and unwill
ing answer, and when the young officer
rebuked him in a severe and perhaps some
what haughty manner, losing all self-control,
lifted up his hand against his officer.
It wa3 but one faml moment, quick ns
lightening. The uplifted hand never de
scended ; it was caught by a uoaoi; power
ful arms. lie was felled to the ground
and disarmed. Half an hour afterwards
he found himself in frent of the casemates.
Lifting the arm against a superior i3
considered a capital crime. In thi3 case
it had been committed whilst both parties
were on duty, and the Austrian military
law3 are the very last in the world to be
trifled with. The following day lie was
tried by court martial and sentenced to bo
shot. When the sentence waa forwarded
to the competent authority for ratification,
it happened to bo the superior's birthday ;
capital punishment was commuted, the
prisoner had to run the gauntlet.
A cruel act of grace was this commuta
tation ! When the first sentence had been
read over to hira, he had remained cold,
impassable, not a muscle of his proud face
stirred, lie did not fear death: he had
looked it in the face many a time without
flinching; :nd to die in the open air,
pierce l by a dozen balls, a soldier's death,
why should he care much for that ? But
when he was informed that he had to run
the gauntlet twice throughout his company,
after having been previously degraded, h
trembled for the first time in-his life. He
knew of many a Boldicr who .had run the
gauntlet thrice through a whole battalion,
and not even the worse of it after all ; he
knew of some that had married afterwards
nnd brought up families of children ; he
was fully aware that the issue of this ter
rible torture depended entirely upon the
disposition of the men. Dreadful reflec
tion ! Above all ho thought of the shame,
the dishonor, and the proud heart was
well nigh giving way.
On the evening previous to the punish
ment, the 2d rifle battalion of Kheren
buller infantry would have been unfit for
service the men were drunk. They bad
got up a carousal in joy and honor of the
coming day. But in the morning they
were sober enough. The drums ceased to
beat as soon as the prisoner had arrived
in the middle of the square ; his escort fell
back. He stood alone near the right wing
of the company. There waa a dead fi
le nee ; not a respiration was to be heard
from all the thousands gathered on the spot
The commanding officer read the sentence
over to him for the eecond time. This
done, he exorted the men, according to
custom, to dispense with all feelings of
compassion, and to do their duty confor
mably to the law. The colonel went
through bis part of the formality in a
quick and hurried manner, as if he were
unwilling to perform it. So he was ; he
knew but too well, that, in thia instance,
there was no need for exhortation. These
preliminaries being over, the prisoner was
delivered into the hands of the provost.
When the latter tore off from his uni
form the golden lace and galloons, the
marks of Lis military rank, throwing them
at hia feet, the face of the unfortunate
man became purple, and his dark eyes
flashed lire. When he was stripped of
his coat and shirt, and placed at the entry
of the terrible ffrect through which Le had
to pass, he became pale again. Two sol
diers went flhead ; they marched back
ward, with thdi bayonets presented to his
breast, so as to force him to keepmea.sulC j
to the drum which brought up the rear.
The drum was muffled ; its low and small
beats sounded like the music of a funeral
procession.
When be received the first stroke his
futures assumed an expression of pain,
and his firm-set lips quivered slightly.
This was, however, the only sign cf sen
sation. Crossing his arm3 orcr his breat,
and pressing his teeth close together, his
proud face remained henceforth immova
ble. Hia merciless enemies enjoyed but
an incomplete triumph after all. They
might slash his body to pieces, but his
proud, indomitable spirit they could not
break. The blows descended with a fear
ful violence upon him. After the first
dozen, blood came ; but never did be utter
one single exclamation of pain ; never, not
even with a look, did ho implore for mer
cy. An expression of scorn and disdain
was deeply set on Lis face, as pale as
death. When he had reached at last the
left wing of the company, his lacerated
back presented a fearful appearance.
Even his most exasperated enemies might
well have been satisfied now. If'it had
been pos?ible, the commanding officer him
self would have interceded in hia behalf.
But this waa not even to be thought of;
the law must have its course. They faced
him right about ; he had to make the same
way back again.
There was one formality connected with
this punishment which was a cruel, bar
barous and shameful mockery ; the delin
quent had to thank his executioners for
his tortures.
When this victim had arrived at the
file leader of the right wing of his company,
and the dreadful execution w;-3 over at
last, he threw one last, Ion look, full of
contempt, at his tormentors. Then he
was seen staggering, like a drunken man,
towards the commanding efficer. His
eyes swollen with blood, beamed with an
unnatural brightness, his respiration was
short ana painful ; touching bis head with
his right hand, in token of the military
salute, he said in a voice that came out of
his throat with a rattling sound, but that
wa?, nevertheless, distinctly audible over
the place, "I have to thank your honor
for this exquisite punishment," and fell
down dead.
A youg lady the other day,- in the
course of a lecture (after the man and man
ner of M'i5S Anna E. Dickinson,) said :
"Get married, young man, and be quick
about it too. Don't wait for the millenium,
hoping that the girls may, turn to angels
before you trust yourself with one of them.
A pretty thing you'd be alongside an angel,
wouldn't you you brute ? Don't wait
another day, but right now this very
night ask Borne nice, industrious girl to go
into partnership with you, io clear your
pathway of thorns, and plant it with flow
ers." Healthy old gal, that.
Buckley, in one of the lectures made
use of an illustration that III bear ro
peating : "Holding a .!:rae close to hia eyes
with one band, and a half dollar at some
distance with the other, said he : "Now,
I cannot see ihe hall dollar with thia eye,
for the dime is so near it, it obscures my
vision.i So ; Is with men of business: in
their eagerness to save a dollar, they often
lo3e sight of the fifty within their reach."
ji
A Milwaukee young Cy had her
"cap set" for a "rather large feller," but
failed to win him, when a confidant tried
to comfort her willi the words : ;Never
mind, Mollie, thTe are as goc f:rh :r. the
sea as ever were caught" "Mollie know
that," replied her little brother, "but she
wants a whale."
The following was taken from a
country journal "Lost or atraide from
the subscriber, a sheep all over white, one
leg waa black, and half of his body. All
persons shall receive five dollars to bring
him. He was a she gsat"
We take the following extract, dc.
live of the Catskill Mountains, from v
mgton Irvinga recently published pc;:
mous work, er.tit.L5d tho 'Spanish Ppjvi..-
"My whole voyage up the Hudson
full of vvender and romance. I w .
lively boy, somewhat imaginative, ef r
faith, and prone to relish every t'aiD tr
paitook of the marvelous. Among i: -passengers
cn board of the elocp wi3
veteran Indian trader, on hia wy to l,-:
lakes to traffic with tho natives. lie I. .
discovered my propensity, and ami:. c
Limself throughout the voyage by tel it T
me Indian legends and grotesque stori .'i
about every noted place on the river
as JSpuyten Devil Creek, the Tappan i :
the Devil's Dana ' Kainmer, anu c : . :
hobgoblin places.
"The Catskill Mountains, e?pec 'y ,
called forth a host v'C fanciful traultic l;.
We were all day slowly tiuin- aion- u.
sight of then, so that h had full tijij t .
weave his whimsical narratives. In I'. :.
mountains, he told m:, according to vi
dian belief, was kept tho great treasury r-i
storm and sunshine for the region of tL?
Hudson. Au old squaw spirit had cisa.fov
of it, who d vcit on the highest peak c:
the mountain. Here she kept V j v
Night shut up in her wigwam, letting c-t
only one of them at a time. Jite ma a
new Moons every month, End hung thtiii.
op in the sky, culling up the old ones i..
to stars. Ihe great Manitou, or master
spirit, employed her ta inanufar-Mr
clouds ; sometimes she wove them out c f
cobwebs, gossamers and morning dv,-:
and sent them off, flake after flake, tolL :
in the air and give light summer showe"..
Sometimes she would brew up black tLua
der storms and scud down di-enching raind
to swell the streams and sweep everything
away.
- "He had many stories, also, abotv,
mischievous spirits who infested the moun
tains in the shape of animals, and playe-i.
all hinds of pranks uf.on Indian hun:0. J,
decoying them i:ito quagmires and mors
ses, or to the brinks of torrents and preci
pices. All these were doled out to me as
1 lay cn the deek throughout a long sum
mer's day, gazing upon these mountains,
the ever-changing shapes and hu63 which
appeared to realize the magical influences
ia question, bometiines they seemed to
approach ; at others to recede ; during the
heat of tl.s day they almost melted into a
sultry haze ; as tho clay declined they
deepened in iono ; their summits were
brightened by the last r-iys of the sun, and
later in the evening their whclj outline
was printed in deep, purple against aa am
ber ssy. As 1 beheld. them thus shifting
continually befbro my eye, and listened to
Lost of fanciful cations concerning theai
waa conjured into my brain, w hich Lave
haunted it ever since.
"As to the Injiiau superstitions concern
ing the treasury of storms and Sbftthir.r,
j?nJ the clouds weavir. Kpirits, they may
have been suggest'-! atmospherical
phenomena of Lh:se movwtains, the clouds
wLxch gather ruuuu tLtis summits, and
the thousand atrial ellects which indicate
the changes of weather over a great extent
of country. They are epitomes of our
variable climate, and are stamped wiLh
all its vicissitudes. And here let me saj
a word in favor of those vicissitudes which
are too often made the svbjectof exclusive
repining. If they annoy us occasionally
by changes from hot to cold, from wt to
dry, they give us cne of the most beautiful
climates in the world. They give ua the
brilliant suuohine cf tha eoi'th of Europe,
with the fresh verdure of the north. They
float our summer sky wi:L douds of gor
geous tint3 or fleecy whitcae?, and send
down cooling showers to refresh the pant
ing earth and keep it green. Our seasons
are all poetical ; the phenomena of our
heavens are full of sublimity and beauty. ,
Winter with vs lias none cf its proverbial
gloom. It may have its howling winds
and thrilling frosts aud whirling snow
storms ; but it has also its long . interval
of cloudless sunsliihe, when the snow-clad
earth fives redoubled brightness to th
day, when at night the stars beam with
intense lualre, or the moon floods the wholo
land-capo with her most limpid radiance ;
and then the joyous outbreak of our spring,
bursting at once into leaf and blossom, re
dundant with vegetation and vociferous
with iife I And the splendors of our sum
mer its morning voluptuousness and eve
ning glory ; its airy palaces cf sea-guilt
clouds, piled up in a deep azure sky, and
its gusts cf tempest of almost tropical
grandeur, when the forked lightening and
the bellowing thunder volley from tha
battlements of heaven and shake the sultry
atmosphere."
Ceas 3dmire, aci beauty ' plural
fall flat.