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BUSINESS DIREBTORY. -
W. D. TERRELL & CO.,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, and dealers in
Wall Paper, Kerosene Lamps, Window - Wass,
Perfumery, Paints end Oils, &c.,
Corning, E. Y., Jan. 1,1866.—1 y.
W. A.. NICHOLS.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Office formerly occupied by Jewel Lowrey, Esq
Wellsboro, Jau. 1, 1866-Iy.
S. F. SIISAAHIA.S,
BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER. ShqpD)POlr
C. L. Wilcox's Store.
Wellsboro, Jun. 1, 1866.-Iy.
JUL lUS-SILIERWOOD, .
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Court Street, opposite
the Court flout, Williamsport, Pa.
Jan. 6, 18i36-1y
I.lrxt : R. Sum. ,
WILLIAM H. SMITH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Inenratce, Bounty and Pension Agency, Main
Street Wellaboro, Pa., Jan. 1, 1866.
JOHN I. MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
Office lately occupied by John W. Guernsey,
Esq., Tioga, Tioga:"County, Penn's. Prompt
attention to Collections.
Jan 1, 1866.—V.
S. F. WlLsols
WILSON & NILES,
ATTORNEYS a COUNSELORS AT LAW,
(First door from Bigoney'e,on the Avenne)+-
Will attend to holiness enrosted'te their cane
in the counties of Tioga and Potter. •
Wellsboro, Jan. I, 1866.
GEORGE 'WAGNER,
TAILOR. Shop first door Dor' of L. A. Searle
Shoe Shop. irgr-Cut ting, Fitting, and. Repair
ing done promptly and well.
- Welleboro, Pa., Jan. 1, 1866.-Iy.
SOHN EL SNIAIESPEARE,
DRAPER AND TAILOR, Shop over Bowen's
Store, eecond floor. 2 7V-Cutting, Fitting, and
Repairing done promptly and in best style.
_Wellsboro, Pn..,lnn. 1,1866-1 y •
PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE,
CORNER OPitAIN STREET & THE AVENUE
J. W. BIGOIST, Proprietor. This popular Hotel,
has been re-fitted and re-furnished throughout,
is now open to the public as a first-class
house. A good hostler always on hand.
Wellshoro, Jan. 1,106.-1 y
ROUT. HAWLEY,
HA WLEY &
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Williamsport Pa.—
Spinal attention given to collection of Pen
sions. 801311t7 and Back Pay, and all - Claims
against the National and State Governments. ,
Williamsport, Pa , Nov. 1.5, '1865-3m.
JOSEPH HANLEY,
BLACKSMITH AND SHOER. I have rented
the shop lately occupied by Mr. P. C Hoig, and
am prepared to sh - Oe horses and oxen, and to
do all kinds of work pertaining to the bald.
- loess in a superior inanner
,Wellsborn, Pa., Jan. 1, 18615.---ly.-
IZAAK WA.LTON HOUSE,
Gaines, Tioga.CountY, Pa. -._
H. C.: VEIIkiILYEA, PaOseekroa.. This is a
new hotel „located within easy access of the
best fishing and hunting grounds in North
ern Pennsylvania. No pains will be spared
for the accommodation of-pleasure seekers and
the traveling public. - [Jan. I, 1866.]
1. HERVEY- EWING,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
No. 11 Law Building,—St. Paul St, Baltimore.
REPERENCES.—Levin Gale, Attoroey at Law,
Edward larttel, A tt'y •at Law, -Rev.- J. MeE.
Riley, D. D., Rev. Henry Slicer.' D. D., Con
field, Bro. k Co,, F. Grove It Co., Ludwig
MeSherry, John F. McJilton, Esq., Robert Law
son, Esq., S. Sutherland, Esq. [-Mr. EWING is
authorized to transact auy business appertain
ing to this paper in Baltimore.]
Jan. 1, 1866-Iy. - _
VIOLIN STRINGS at
- WEBB'S DRUG STORE
trALL'S CELEBRATED VEGETABLE SICILIAN
Ja HAIR RENEWER, can be had ttt ROY's Drng
LEE
CONCENTRATED LYE, for sale at
ROY'S DRUG STOB&
PLOUR AND FEED; BUCK - .WHEAT
-I: FLOUR, Meal, Pork and fialt, Tea, Coffee,
Sugar, Soap, :Candles, Seleratas, - Tobaceo and
Kerosene On. - - Alio, ;Mackerel, White Fish, and
Trout, by the package or pound.
CHAS. N VALKENBURG.
Wencher°, Jan. 1, 1885.
WEI EE LB A.R RON S, cugEsE
PRESS SCREWS, and sdaleboards for
boxing choose, also
Powder, Shot and Lead
And pistol cartridges.
GUNN rf• TUCKER
are also agents fur Milee's Patent Money Drawer.
Also, agent., for Ribbon Stamps and Seal
Prams. Rernernber:-at Gann JiTneter's Hard
ware Store. Welleboro.
Jan. 1. 18G6.-1y
REAL ESTATE,/ FOR SALE.—Twenty-five
acres of land near Wellaboro, an excellent
soil, well, fenced, handsome buildingaite and
4 " view of the toe, and vicinity, a never failing
spring of water, ;to. Enquire of
JOHN DICKINSON, Esq.
Delmar, Dec. 13, 1885-3 m.
N EW vii9TO q R 4 .Pl,l GALLERY.-
FRANK SPENCER
hat the pleasure to inform the citizens of Tiosta
county that they bare the beet opportunity ever
offered them, to procure Ambrotypes, FerrotYPet t t
Gems, Cartes de Visite, Vignettes, and all kinds
of fancy and popular card. and colored pictures,
at his Gallery on Elmira Street.
Mansfield, Nov. 15, '6s—tf. F. M. SPENCER.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that books for recoiving subscriptions o ibe
Capital Stock'of THB - NORTHERN RAIL VAT
COMPANY, will be opened ,at 10 o'clock on Sat
urday, February 24. 1866, at the Hotel of T. XV.
Bigoney, in the borough of Wellsboro, Tioga
Pennsylvania, J. CHRISTIE,
GEO. TRACY,
J. W. BIGONEY,
It. FARR.
Jan. 17, 1866-6 w
KING'S PORTABLE LEMONADE the
A& only preparation of the kind made from
the fruit.- As-au asitiele of coostem}, purity, and
deliciousness, it, culot be surpassed, and is recom
mutended by phyla tans for invalids and family
use. it will keep for years in any climate, while
it, condensed form renders it especially conven
ient for travelers. MI who use lemons are re
queited to give it a trial. Entertainments at
home, parties, and picnics should not be without
IL For sale by all Druggists and first.class
Groeers. Manufactured only by
MFUGER,
Zan. 1, 1866-Iy. No. 549 Pearl St., N. Y. .
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VOL. XIII.
DEERFIELD WOOLEN FACTORY.
rpuE UNDERSIGED having purehaeed
the well known Woolen Factory of Messrs.
B. 4 t B. S. Bowen on the Cowanesque River, two
faiLes.east of Knoxville, takes this method of
informing the inhabitants of Tioga nod adjoining
counties that he will manufacture wool by the
yard or on shares to suit customers, into
.FLANNELS, CASSIMERES, DOE-SKINS,
FULL CLOTHS, of all kinds.
The machinery has been thoroughly repaired
and new machinery added thereto, also an 'im
proved new'wheel which will enable him to work
the entire season. Ile will pay particular atten
tion of
Won Carding dr. Cloth Dressing,
which will be done in the neatest possible man
ner, having added one new Roll Machine, will
-enable him to dispatch and accommodate people
from a distance. He would farther say that he
.has, carried on the business in manufacturing
wool for farmers in Bradford and adjoining
,counties for the past twenty years; he therefore
can warrant ail work and satisfy his customers,
using nothing. in manufacturing but genuine
wool. JOSEPH INGHAM.
- Deerfield, Jan. 1, 1888-Iy._
SEPTEMBER Ist 1865.
1 1 -r
PROM THIS DATA,
.FOR READY PAY ONLY
•
CUSTOM BOOTS AHD SHOES;
Leather,- Findings, he.
CASH PAID FOR HIDES, PELTS,
DEER SKINS AND , FURS.
DR. FRANKLIN SAYS:
!' When you have anything to advertise, tell
the public of it in plain, simple language."
I am manufacturing good custom made Boots
and Shoes 'which I will sell at fair prices, and
only for READY- PAY. Such work cannot be
sold at as low. rates per pair as eastern made
slop-work, bat it can and will be sold at prices
which will enable the purchaser to protect his
feet with good'aubstantial boots more cheaply
than with' a poor slop-shop article, which, even
if it chances not to fall in pieces with the first
weeks service, is but a doubtful protection in
wet and cold weather, Try me.
Back and Doeskin's Wanted,
in the red and short blue, for which I pay
cash and a good price.
Beef-aides and Calfskins Wanted,
or which I will also pay cash.
Sheep Pelts Wanted,
forwhich I will also pay cash and the highest
market price..
An assortment of sole, upper, calfskins and
linings, pegs, thread, nails, awls, knives, shoe
hammers, ,kc., kept constantly on band,
which I will sell cheap for cash. Shop on Main
Streetbetween Wilcox's and Bullard's.
G. W. SEARS.
N. B. I can't give credit, because, to be
plain, haven't got it to give. -
Wellsboro, Jan. 1,1866.
J. B. NILES
. H. C UILYIN
NEW GOODS Af PEACE PRICES!
The attention of the public is called to my stock of
DRY GOODS & GROCERIES
wkichl" have just purchased in New York City
25 per cent. cheaper than thgse who pardhased
earlier. •r am offering Goode very cheap,
FOR CASH ONLY.
1
Is Large and Well Selected
FAIL AND WINTER DRESS GOODS
MERINOtS,. ALPACAS, PAR A MAT
TAS, - of all Colors, NOTIONS
of all Descriptions;
GLOVES; 40SMItY, :DRESS TRIM
MIIkiGS BUTTONS, GIBBONS,
DOIMEESTICS,
BROWN AND BLEACHED MUS4INS,
DENIMS, FLANNELS, &o:
Fine Prints, fast colors, .1, shillings per yd
Nice Brown Muslin, yard wide, 2 , ..per 3—(l
" Bleßehed "
2s.'.l`er yd.
Ali Wool Red ‘b„per yd.
Shawls, Hoop Skirts,,Boots tz Shoes.
Also a complete assortment of
GROCERIE,S,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES, '&c:,
READY MADE CLOTHING;
CLOTHS' OF ALL KINDS, CA.SSI-
MEN'S & BOY'S 14TS & CAPS,
. all styles, ... ' , -. : r
All of wbioli will bo solcl fol a Cab iOwor th an
any other ,
Pint Door above Post Ware
TIOGA, Nor, 29, 1865-3 m.
'DBE MASON & HAMLIN'S CABINET
I ORGANS' ,forty different styles, - adapted to
sacred and, seCtilir music, for $BO to $6BO each.
Thirty-Pive Co(d or Silver Afedetta, or other first
Premiums awarded them. Illustrated Catalogues
sea fry,. AO'sSs, MA O N & HAMLIN, pus-.
ton z ottaSeN-BROTHERS, New York.. .
[Sept. 13, 1865-IyA .
it 1
j
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MY STOCK
CONSISTING OF
OF THE
NEWEST STYLES.
A Large Stock of
cfmarsmG OF
MIRES, SATINETS, UN
TIICKY JEANS,
FIRM IN Tifi t COUNTY.
IS: 0. RAWAIRTT,
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DRUGS -AND-MEDICINES
LANG At sviarrE,
Of MANSFIELD, Pa., have just received and
offer to the inhabitants of Tinge county, at the
lowest rash prices; a large and well aneorted-stock
of the following first class goods:
DRUGS, MEDICINES, & DYE STUFFS,
Paints, Oil, Putty end Maas, Howe & Stevens'
- Family Dyes. Patent Medicines, Perfumery,
- - Toilet Soaps, Hair Oils and Pomades,
School and Miscellaneous Books,
Writing Paper,Buvelopes,Blank
Books, i and Blank Deeds of
all kinds, Diaries fOr
1866,
Photngrapb and Autograph Albums, Gold Pens
and Pocket Cutlery, All kinds of Toys,,
Tobacco, Snuff & Cigars of beat ,
brands.
Pianos, lOolodOons, & Cabinet Organs
VIOLINS, GUITARS, ACCOItI/ROKS,
and 'all kinds of Musical Instruments and musical
merchandise. All the most-popular Sheet Music
always on band.
BAND INSTRUMENTS
By,special, arrengements with, the largest man
ufacturing house in New York, we can furnish.all
styles of
INSTRUMENTS,
required in
BRASS AND SILVER BANDS
Pieties wishing' Instruments 'Will Save ten per
cent. by communicating •with •us before purchas
ing elsewhere. All Instruments delivered
FREE OF °HA:ROA- AXP
One day In the ftilof 1792, when Gen-
eral Washington Ifas President Of the
United States, a company of Georgia
planters lifippened . to :be assembled at
the house, near Savannah, of Mrs. Na
thaniel Greene, widow of the famous
General Greene of the Revolution. Sev
eral of these planters had been officers
under the command of the General, and
they hadecalled, naturally enough, to
pay their respects to his widow.
• The conversation turned upon the
depressed condition of the Southern
States since the close of the War; The
planters were generally in debt, their
lands were mortgaged, their products
afforded little profit, and many of the
younger and'more enterprising people
were moving away. The cause of this
state of things, these planters agreed,
was the difficulty of raising cotton with
profit owing to the great labor required
in separating the fibres of the cotton
from the seeds. • -
Many of our readers, we presume,
have never seen cotton growing, nor
even a ball, or pod, of cotton. This pod.
which is about as large as. a hen's egg,
bursts when it is rip,e and the cotton
gushes out at the top in a -beautiful
white flock.. If ;Ten examine this - flock
closely, you discover it contains eight
or ten large seeds, much resembling,
in size and shape, the seeds of a melon.
The fibres of the cotton adhere so tight
ly to the seeds, that to get one pound of
clean cotton, without wasting any,
used to require a whole day's labor. It
was this fact that rendered the raising
of cotton so little profitable, and kept
the Southern States from sharing in the
prosperity enjoyed by the . - States of the
North, after the close of the Revolu
tionary war.
When the gentlemen had been con
versing some time, the idea was star
ted, that perhaps this work could be
done by a machine. Mrs. Greene then
remarked : • - . • .„ 4 , -
"Gentlemen, fip'ply - to my young
friend, ,Mr. Whitney ; he can make any
thing.
Few words have ever been spoken , on
this globe that have had such impor
tant and memorable' consequences as
this simple observa,tion of Mrs. Nathan
ielOre-02e. -
Eli Whitney, of whom she spoke,
was a young 31asSachusetts Yankee,
who had came to Georgia to teach and,
having been taken sick, had been invi
ted by this hospitable lady to reside in
her house till he should recover. He
was the'...sortofa poor farmer, and had
worked his way through college with
out assistance—as Yankee boys often
do. Prom early boyhood he had exhibi
ted wonderful skill in mechanics, and
in college he used to prepare the philo
sophical _apparatus with remarkable
nicety, to the great admiration of pro
fessors and students. - During his resi
dence With Mrs. Greens he ha d made for
her an ingenious tambour-frame, on a
new principle, as well as many curious
toys for her children.—Hence her ad
vice. "Apply to my friend, Mr. Whit
ney ;14. can., make anything."
• ShenoWintroduced Mr. Whitney to
her friends, who described to him the
difficulty tinder which they labored. He
told them he had never seen a pod of
cotton in his life. Without giving them
any promises, he resolved to procure
some, raw
,cotton forthwith, and see
WhAt-he could do !with it. tiearching
about the 'wharves of Savannah, he
found, at length, some unclean cotton,
and, taking home a bundle of it in his
hands, he shut himself up in a room in
the basement, and set to work to in
vent the machine required.
• All the winter he laboredin his sell
kary cell. There were no proper tools
to be had in Savannah. He, there
fore, made his own tools. There Was.
no wire. • He also made his own wire.
The children; the servants, the visitors
to. the house, wondered what he could
l doing In the basement all alone; but
; he said nothing, and kept on tinkering,
ltialuniering f and thinking, till; early in
the spring of 1793, he - had completed his
LADIES' GAITERS, BALMORAL, Work.-
&- CALF; & MISSES SHOES. 4Having,set up the mysterious ma
•F'Chine in a shed, he invited a number of
Froneli and Oak _Stock constantly on h an d f o r planters to come and witness its op
sale. Cask paid at all ernes for BIDES, PELTS, ation. its success was complete. The
and . gentlemen saw, with unbounded de
' light, that one man, with th'
WARRAITTED Mr EVER T RESPECT'.
.
Pianos end Melodeons to rent on reasonable
terms. Agents for the
_celebrated Florence Sew
ing Machines. LAVG-t WHITE.
Mansfield; Dec. 8,1888-6 m, - *,
IVE , W , DREFO, STORE, ,
Dr. W. W. WEBS 8& BRO.
Have opened a i Drug and Chemical Store, on
Main Streit, Ist door below Hastings, where they
intend to: keep a full assortment of
Dii'VGB AND ',MEDICINES.
A gOod 'article' of Medicinal:Liquors and Wines.
Prescriptions carefully prepared.
Medical advice given free of charge.
Wellsb . oro. Nov. 8-Iy.
NEW FIRM & NEN GOODS AT TIOGA
. . .
BORDEN BAG'S
.
Would respectfully announce to "all whom it
may coneern,"'tlietf they keep constantly on hand
a large and well selected assortment of
DRUGS AND-
PAINTS, OILS,
GLASS AND WALL PATER,
DYE STUFFS, FAMILY DYES, LAMPS,
GLASS WARE, :PLATED
such as CASTORS,
TEA ',3c'TAI3LE, FORKS;
CAKE DISHES, &c
WRITING' rAIRER,_
Y‘tiV,ELOPES, SCHOOL . BOOKS,
Pt.I.TENT, MEDICINES,
!'ex, Coffee, Spice, Pepper; Gin
4,;er, Soilleratils, Sl:tech,
TOILET WASHING SOAPS,
• and au.endlesi variety of
YANKEE NOTIONS.
Tioia; Pa., Oct. 4, 1865-Iy*s
KN.OAVILLE
Boot, Shoe and Leather Store.
_ .
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
TIIE - UNDERSIGNED having formed
a co-partnership under the nettle and title of
i. LOGIEIRY- '.&
can be found , at -the. old stand, twirlier•of Main
and Mill St!eet3, *hare they will keep constantly
on hand a general assortment of
BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER AND
ti FINDINGS, -••
.
of tile beeflinalityorbieb - they will belt so cheap
'for Caah,,aa to make if an object - fir "dealers AO
boy - , • -
Our Stook conaista in part of
MEN'S, & BOY',S, CALF, KIP, & STO(fA
BOOTS, ,
of our "own toonutaiture. - Also,
fight, _ La one ...-, ~ 1. .is young
Yankee engine, could clean as much
cotton in a day as a man. could clean
by hand in a whole winter. The cot
ton grown on a large plantation could
Ire separated from the seed in a fewdays;
, which before required the constant la
___ . .
Farm for Sale . i hor of a hundred hands for several
TN Elk township, Tioga Coitnty Pa., containing ;
months. -
Thus was the cotton-gin invented.
I:124 acres, 40 acres improved. Said farm is I
watered by.numerous springs. A email stream of I The principle was so simple, that the
water oddment ros churning, sowing wood, .ke., I wonder, was that no one had thought
runs through the farm near the buildings. It is lof it before. The eaten was put into a
well situatedfora good dairy farm. A portion of 1 large trough, the bottom of which was
it is good - grain land. Two log houses, frame Iformed of wires placed in parallel rows,
barn and other out buildings thereon. A thrifty iso closely together that the seedS could
young orchard of TO or 80 apple, pear or Pl u m I not pass through. Under - this trough
trees. :A good school house on' the adjoining saws revolVed, the teeth of which thrust
farm The above farm might be divided into 1 *
. themselves between the wires, leaving
two small farms of 62 acres each. Price $l2 per ,
acre. Term, easy A liberal deduction tritide ; the seed behind, which ran out in a
for cash down. Inquire of
, stream at one end of the trough.
C. 11. RELLEY, Wellsbero, or The simplicity of the cotton-gin had
WM. VpDl t lz.',Td, on the, premises .. tivsk effects;. one good, the other bad.
Jan. /7, 1866,-tt .. - e The good effect was that, in the course
IA
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TERNS-CASH D.V. DELIVERY. . " 1 .
1 1% LOGfIRY, Knoxville, Pa.
J. AtCII4IRDSON, Elmira, N.Y.- t.
Enoxviile, Jon. 1, 1866—tf.
t nun. lg .
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AVELT.SBORO, PA., FEB. 27, 1860.
There comes a Ulna a hen we grow old,
And, two a 51.11154 t down the sea,
Slopes gradual, and the night wind cold
Comes whiapeilrig, sad and chillingly;
And lo.:ke ate gray .
At wiutet's day.
And eyes of•eaddeet blue behold
The leaves all dreary drift away,
And lips of faded coma say,
There cornea a time when at, grow uld.
There comes n time when joyous hearts,
Which leap R/1 leap the laughing main,
And dead to alt save memory,
_ As, prisoner in his dung - eon chain ;
And dawn of day
Math passedaway,
The moan hath into 'darkness rolled,
And by the embers wan and gray,
hear A - roice in whisper say,
Thera comes a time when we grow old.
There comes a time when manhood's prima
Is shrouded in the mist of years,
, And beauty fading like a dream,
Rath:passed away la silent fears;
AndAhen how dart; 1
But oh l the spark
That Males youth tO hues of gold.
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections lingering say,
Thine comes a time when we grow old.
There cornea a time tag n-laughing Epring
And golden sultlinere to be;
And we put on the Autumn robe
To treed the last deasity.
But now tivisTope, .
With rosy hopp,
Beyond the sunset we;bebold—
Another dawn with fairer light.
While watchers whtsperthrongb the night
There comes a time whea - we grow old.
Stied gottrg.
THESE COMES A TIME
Nistellineutts.
ELI WZjTNET
A I4TI
r*-••• 11 41
of a very few years, it was introduced
all over the cotton States, Increased the
value of the cotton lands, doubled and
trebled the production of cotton, and
raised the Southern States from hope
less depression to the, greatest prosper
ity; The effect was as lasting as it was
sudden. -- In 1793, the whole export of
cotton from the 'United States was ten
thousand bales. Men acquainted with
the subject are of opinion, that this sin-
Sle invention has been worth to the
outh one thousand million dollars.
How much did the inventor gain by
it? Not one dollar! Associating him
self with a man of capital, he went to
Connecticut to set up a manufactory of
cotton-gins. But the simplicity of the
machine was spell that any good me
chanic who saw it could make one ; and
long before Whitney was ready to sup
ply machines of his own waking there
were a great number in operation all
over the Cotton States. His patent
proved to be no protection to him. If
he brought suit for its infringements,
no Southern jUry would give him a ver
dict. He struggled on under adverse
influences for fifteen years. In 1808,
when his patent expired, he gave up
the- contest, and withdrew from the
business, a poorer man than he was' on
the day that he went, with his hand
full of cotton-pods, into Mrs. Green's
basement. Thousands of men were
rich, who but for his ingenuity and la
bor would have remained poor to the
end of their days. The levees of the
Southern ports were heaped high with
cotton, which, but for him, would nev
er have been grown. Fleets of cotton
ships sailed th seas, which butfor him,
would never have been built. He, the
creator of so much wealth, returned to
his native State, at the age of forty-two,
to begin the world anew.
But Eli Whitney was a thorough
bred Yankee—one of those unconque
rable men who, balked in one direction,
try another, and keep trying till they
succeed. He turned his attention to
the improved of firearms, particularly
the old-fashioned musket. Having es
tablished a manufactory of firearms at
New Haven, he prospered in business,
and was enabled at length to !gratifv
his domestic tastes by marrying the
daughter of Judge Edwards, withwhom
he lived an happiness the rest of his
life.
Some of the improvements which he
invented are preserved in the Spring
field musket, with which our soldiers
in the field were chiefly armed. It was
he who began the improvements in
firearms which Colt and many others
have continued, and whicrhave given
the United States the best musket, the
:best pistols, the best rifles, and the best
cannon in the world.
It is a curious fact, that the same man
should have supplied the South with
the wealth that tempted itto rebel, and
the United States with the weapons
with which it enforeed.its just author
ity.
The time is at hand when Yankee
ingenuity will again he employed in
del eloping the rabt resources of the
Southern :states:' Theresa re - Whitueys
still among As. When at length the
opportunity shall be afforded them, they
will commence tinkering and cogita
ting, inventing new machines and new
methods, causing the WOl/1 fields to
smile again with abundant harvests,
and the dilapidated old towns to renew
their youth;
Old Virginia
An Illinois sucker took a great dislike
- to a-foolish young Virginian who was
a fellow passenger with him on one of
the a Missippi steamboats. I was on the
boat (said Deacon Doolittle), and saw
the whole affair. The Virginian was
continually combing his hair, brush
-bag his clothes or dusting his boots—to
all which movements the sucker took
exceptions, as being what he termed "a
leetle too darned nice by half." He
finally drew up his chair beside the
Virginian and began ;
"Whar might you be from, stranger?"
"I am from Virginia, sir," politely
answered the gent. -
"From old Vargiuny, I s'pose?" says
the sucker.
"Yes, sir, old Virginia," was thereply.
"You are sooty high up in the, pic
tures thar, I suppose?"
"I dont know what you mean by that
remark, sir.
• "Oh, nuthiu,"says the sucker, "but
that you are desperate rich, and , have
been brought up right nice."
"If the information will gratify you
in any wa.y," says the gent, patron
izingly, smoothing down his hair, "I
belong to one of the first families."
"Oh, in course," answered the sucker.
• "Well, stranger, beM' as you belong
to the fust, I'll just give you two of the
fattest shoats in all Illinois of you'll
only find me a feller that belongs to one'
of the second Virginny families."
"You want to quarrel with me, sir,"
says the Virginian.
"No, stranger, not an atom," answer
ed the Sucker, "but I never seed one of
the second family, and I'd gin suthin
to git a sight at one of 'em. !know you
are one of the fust, 'cause you look just
like John Randolph."
-This mollified the Virginian ; the hint
of a resemblance to the statesman was
flattering to his feelinge, and he accord
ingly acknowledged relationship to the
orator.
"He, you know, descended from the
Ingin gal, Pocahoutas.',
"You are right, sir,"' answered the
other.
"Well, stranger," said- the sucker, "do
you know that is anuther queer thing
alms puzzles me, and it's this: I never
seed a Virginyan that didn't claim to
be either descended from an Ingin, John
Randolph or a nigger."
We need not add that the sucker
rolled off his chair—suddenly They
were separated until the sucker got . off
at a landing near his home. As he
stepped ashore, he caught sight of the
Virginian on the upper deck, and hailed
him at once with—
"I eay, old Virginity, remember—two
fat shoats for the lust feller you find
belonging to the second Virginny fam
ily !"
HAPPINESS consists in thinking you
are happy ; and misery in thinking you
are miserable.
DOMESTIC MAGAZINES—Wires who
are always blowing up .)heir husbands.
A little too much whiskey has kept
many a man from pursuing a straight
forward path.
Why does a lazy man resemble an
industrious ono• ? Because, he hardly
earns his bread.
The Doctor and the gear
Among the mixed inhabitants of the
Hole mining town of Eureka, Califor
uiu, there was none who held a higher
1.0-ition, in his own estimation, than
the subject of this little sketch, Doctor
The doctor was a tall, pompous speci
men of thegenus "blower," of Falstaff
ian proportions, and hailing from Pike
County, _Missouri. To use his own
choice lauguage,-he was "not much at
doctoi ing, but was some- puinkins ou
grizzly b'ars." He might not under
stand the'use of the scalpel, but was an
adept at mixing a cobbler, or playing
poker, He was also a famous hunter,
and Many and bloody were the encoun-.
tern he had passed through with the
bears and other monarchs of the Sierras.
Nothing delighted him so much as to
gather a crowd of miners around him,
when he would expatiate; at' great
length upon his exploits as' a hunter,
compared with which Grizzly Adams,
Nimrod, or Dr. Livingstone were but
tyros in experience.
On the breaking out of the late rebel
lion, the doctor irnmediatly took side
with the rebels, and hesitated not to
express his opinion at all times and
places.
The miners bore with him awhile,
until forbearance had ceased to be vir
tue, and then decided to punish him in
a manner he would not soon forget, at
the first opportunity.
The occasion was soon presented, for
one cloudy afternoon, soon after the
doctor shouldered his rifle, remarking,
as he did so, that he was "going in
search of a grizzly." He had scarcely
passed out of sighs before a party pro
ceeded to a neighiporing butcher shop,
and borrowed an old ox hide, huge di
mensions, commenced the manufacture
of a mammoth grizzly bear.
Placing it overr the backs of two of
the most mischievous-of the party, who
stooped, for, that purpose, and sewing
and stuffing with hay the open spaces,
they soon had the satisfaction of behold
ing, a most ferocious-looking "b'ar," as
the result of their labors. lit was truly a
life-like deception, the two men mak
ing the motive power complete.
Just at sunset "ye grizzly" was driv
en about a half a mile from town, and
stationed in a deep ravine, by a clump
of bushes near the trail by which the
doctor wpuld return. Then hiding
themselves near by, the boys waited
with breathless interest for the result.—
They had not long to wait, for their
victim soon made his appearance, hur
rying along with lengthened strides,
and casting furtive glances to the right
and left. As he arrived opposite the
clump of bushes, the "bear" gave a
horrible growl, andthen, with an angry
"whoop," plunged into the trail, dir
ectly in front of the affrighted doctor.
For an instant he stood transfixed with
horror, every hair bristling with fear,
and then dropping his rifle, he turned
and fled as though pursued by all the
fiends of Tartarus, yelling, as he went—i
'Clod of my fathers, protect me !"
-Seeing a live oak - near at hand, he
made for it, and giving one frightened
leap, landed safe among its branches,
and a moment later bruin was at its
foot, snarling and growling in the most
approved manner.
The doctor was safe, but what a situa
tion Night was fast setting around in
silence-and gloom, while a black cloud,
hurrying up from the south-east, gave
warning of au approaching storm.—
Evidently something must be done im
mediately, or a night's lodging in the
tree would be inevitable.
The "bear" sat contentedly at the
foot of the tree, occasionally giving a
fearful growl, and trying his teeth upon
the bark, to keep his victim in a COM
fotable state of trepidation. A few
moments later a hoarse peal of thunder
boomed over the mountains, followed
by a fierce glare of lurid light, while
wind and rain swept through those old
forest trees as though each were striv
ing for the mastery.
It soon died away, however, when
the besieged doctor gave vent to amourn
ful,- long-drawn "halloo," that fairly
convulsed his concealed listeners with
laughter. No reply. Again and again
that despairing cry rang through the
forest, answered only by the blood
thirsty growl of bruin. At last, hoar*
by his exertions, the doctor was inex
pressibly relieved by hearing a faint
."halloo in return. Nearer and nearer
it came, and finally he could distinguish
the forms of his neighbors, as the moon
had just risen above the eastern sum
mit. His courage returned at once,
and he shouted—
"Hurry up, and kill this `b'ar,' for
I've had an awful fight with four of
'em, and they've•chawed me all up,"
"Holloa, doctor," said the foremost,
"is that you ?"
"Yes, what's lift of me. Hurry up ;
I'm most gin out; back all scratched
and thawed up."
"Now, look here, 'doctor," said the
spokesman of the party, "you are
known to be one of the worst secession
ists in these parts, and unless you'll
promise to reform, vote the Union tick
etnt the next election, and support the
Constitution, we'll leave you to roost
in that tree to-night."
"I'll see you hanged first, and then I
won't!" yelled the enraged doctor.
"Very well. Boys, come on;" and
turning, they left the spot, followed by
a fearful growl from the "b'ar," who
commenced slowly to climb the tree.
This was decisive,
"Stop! Stop! Come back, boys, and
I'll promise !" he fairly groaned after
them.
In a moment they returned, and pour
ed in a volley from their revolvers that
stretched his bearship upon the ground.
Cautiously the doctor descended,
-ex
claiming—
" Ain't he a monster ! Tell you what,
we had an awful fight—rolled and
scratched up more'n an acre of bushes.
But, let's take his hide, to remember
him by."
Ono of the party now advanced, and
with a few vigorous strokes with his
bowie, completely disembowelled the
defunct grizzly, when out sprang the
motive-power, the "inner man," in
the shape of two well-known acquaint
ances.
Such another shout as then went, up,
was never heard before among those
mountains. The doctor looked astound
ed, then 'confused ; but soon rallying,
he whined—
"For the love of Heaven, boys, don't
tell of this, and I'll keep my promise,
as I'm a sinner !"
He ha done so most religiously
A coquette treat‘; a lover like a
in ;Jou
et—=Carries about a certain time
or amusement orshow,audthenqu:letly
picks him to pieew.
JOBBING DEPARTZEIVT,
Tbo Proprietors have stocked the establishment with
a 'tarp assortment of modern etylea
and are prepared to execute neatly, and promptly,
PO9TER9, ItANDBILLS, CIRCULARS, CASIDS, BILL
HEAD', LETTER 'HEADS, 3TITEXIIINT3,
TOWNSHIP URDERS, ac., do.
- Deeds, 3fortg.iges. Leases, and a full assortment of
Constables' and Justices' Blanks, constantly un band.
I People living at a distance can depend on basins tbair
rtork done proniptly, and sent back In return mall.
.ffirOrstci—ltoy's black, Second Floor.
N 0.9.
15 - ,the Rev. ,S. W. 8., to C. G.,
onldaughter, etc. "No dards." Why
didn' tit say no baby? I have one of those
interesting animals at my home. It
came when it mined, dark as pitch, and
my umbrella at the store, no ears run
ning: The doctor lived five miles due
_West, and the nurse six miles due East,
and when 1 gut home to the bosom of
my family the condensed milkman was
at the next door. It is a funny little
chip, that baby, Solferino color, and the
length of a Bologna Sausage. Cross?
I guelia. not! Cm, um; it commenced
chasing me down the pathway of life
just when muslin, linen - and White flan
nel were the highest they had been
since Adam built a house for Mrs. Eve's
chickens—Doctors charged two dollars a
squint, four dollars a grunt, and, on ac
count of the scarcity of rain in the
country, take what is left in a man's
pocket, no discount for cash, and send
bill for balance, January Ist. A poor
little thing is that baby ; a speck of a
nose like a wart ; head as bald as a
squash, and no place to hitch a water
fall : a.mouth just suited to come the
gum game and chew milk, Oh, crackee,
you should hear horsing. I havebumped
it, stuffed my fur cap down its throat,
giving it the smoothing iron to play
with, but that little red lump that looks
ad if it couldn't hold blood enough to
keep a mosquito from fainting, persists
in yelling Like thunder. It shows a
great desire to swallow its fists ; and the
other day they dropped down its throat,
and all that prevented their going clear
through, was the crook of its elbows.
It stopped its music and I was happy
one and a half minutes. It's a pleasant
thing to have a baby in the house—one
of your bellyache kind.
Think of the pleasures of a father, in
dishabille, trembling in the midnight
hour with his warm feet upon a square
yard of cold oil cloth, dropping pare
goric in a tin spoon by moonlight;
somebody thumping on the door, wife
of your bosom shouting huiry, , and the
baby yelling till the fresco drops from
the ceiling. It's a nice time to think
of dress coats, pants ties and white kids.
Shades of departed cocktails, what com
fort, what a picture for an artist inplas
ter of Paris. Its mother says the dar
ling is troubled with wind on the stom
ach—it beats all the wind instruments
you ever heard. I have to get up in
the cold while the milk warms—it uses
the bottle. I have a cradle with a rep
resentation of a miraculous soothing
syrup on the dashboard. I tried to stop
in breath the other night—it was no
go ; I rocked it so hard I missed the
stays, and sent it slap clear across the
room, upsetting ajar of preserves.
It didn,t make any noise, then, oh,
no l It's mother says only wait until
it gets bleached, (it's been vaccinated,
and old enough to crawl around anu
feed on pins. Yes, I'm going to wait.
Won't it be delightful? John, run for
the doctor, sic has fell into the slop
pail, and is choking with a potato skin:
sic has fell down stairs : sis has swallowed
the tack hammer : allows signs of the
mumps, measles, croup, small-pox, colic,
whooping !cough, dysentery, cholera
infantuni, or some other darn thing to
I let the doctor take all the money laid
by for my winter's corn beef, and all
this comes of shampooing and curling
my hair, wearing nice cloths, looking
handsome. going a courting, and making
my wile fall in love and marry me.
The " Local" of the 'Pittsburg Post
describes the process of making glass
ware in one of the establishments of
that city, as follows:
The pots in which the " batch" of
mixture is melted, are thirty-nine inches
high by forty-three inches in diameter.
They are made of the finest Missouri
and Allegheny clay, and the greatest
possible care must be exercised in their
manufacture. A housewife may get an
accidental atom of dirt into the bread
she makes and be forgiven, but there is
no pardon for the man who mixes ever
so little dirt with the pot clay, and his
sin will surely find him out, for a piece
of dirt less than a pea will ruin the pot.
About one hundred of these pots are
kept on hand ready for use. They are
not fit to be used until they have the
seal of age upon them.
The materials used are principally
sand, lead, pearlash, and nitre. The
sand is of the purest Missouri, and be
fore it is used it is washed thoroughly,
and when it is put into the " batch'' it,
is pure enough for the neatest house
wife of old to have sprinkled the " best
room" floor withal.
A furnace provided with a large iron
pan by way of a bottom, is used for pul
verizing the lead. On the floor near by
is piled a quantity of pig-lead, and into
this iron bottomed over these pigs are
placed for roasting. A little long-han
dled hoe is kept stiring the melted lead.
A, scum of hardened metal appears on
the surface and is shoved back into a
second division, called, a burning oven.'
Here the lead is thoroughly burned, and
when it is taken out it is sifted, after
which it is a fine, red powder.
A large tank holds a saturated solu
tion of pearlash. It is left in this tank
until all impurities settle to the bottom,
when the clear portion of the liquid is
decanted into another tank through
which a coil of steam-pipe passes. Here
it is boiled by steam until the liquid
evaporates, and pure ash remains as
white and stniniess as snow. The nitre
employed in the manufacture is treated
in the same manner. 'These ingredients
are now ready to be mixed into glass
" dough."
The batch is made up of the following
proportions: 2,000 pounds of sand, 650
pounds of lead, 500 pounds of pearlash,
and l'oo pounds of nitre.
The " batch," when it is ready, is of
a pretty, cinnamon color, and does not
look in the least as if in twenty-four
hours hence it would be shining beau
tiful goblets and fruit dishes. When
the ingredients are ready for transform
ation the m.ess is shoveled into a little
dray and hauled to the pots.
'I he next that we see of this pretty,
cinnamon-colored mixture, is when it
is taken, in little melted bits, on the
end of rods, out of the glowing mouth
of the furnace. It is glass now, and no
trick of art or incantation of science can
make sand and lead and peariash and
saltpeter of it again. Standing all about
the different furnaces are many press
es, all provided with distinct and dif
ferent moulds. Each press is tended
by a workman, assisted by two or three
boys. A boy runs from the furnace to
the prEss with a little wad of melted
glass twisting rapidly on-• the end of a
rod. He holds the rod 6ver the onen
mouth of theul r t a, l and lets the glass
run in till the tottlips it with a
Bair of shears. 7 the working of a
JOB AND CARD TYPE
AND FAST PRESSES,
The First Baby.
GLASS MANUFACTURE