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TAILORING SHOP
The Subeeriber having had a lixtoen years prne
ileal experience in cutting and making clothing,
new offers his services in this line to the citisens of
NICHOLSON and vicinity.
Those wishing to get Fits will find his shop the
place to get them.
Jeib, K. Smew.
d<-nSO-6moe
iflert fluty.
r mm I&H vawmp.
I live in San Francisco, and am a lock
smith by trade. My calling is a .strange
one, and possesses a certain fascination,
rendering it one of the most agreeable of
pursuits. Many who follow it see nothing
in it but labor—think of nothing but its re
turns of gold and silver. To me it has other
charms than the money it produces. 1 am
called upon almost daily, to open doors and
peer into neglect* d apartments ; to spring
the -tubborn iocks of safes, and gloat upon
the treasures within ; to quietly enter the
apartments of ladies with more beauty than
discretion, and pick the locks of drawers
containing peace destroying missives, that
the dangerous evidences of wandering af
fection may not reach the eye of a husband
or father, in possession of the missing key;
to force the fastening of cash boxes and de
positories of record", telling of men made
suddenly rich, of corporations plundered, of
orphans robbed, of hopes crushed, of fami
lies ruined. Is there no charm in all this ;
—no food for speculation ?—scope for the
range of pleasant fancy ? Then who would
not be a locksmith, though his face is be
grimmed with the soot of the forge, and his
hands stained with rust
Aut IJhave a story to tell—not exactly a
story, eithtr—for a story implies the com
pletion, as well as the beginning of a nar
rative—and mine is scarcely more than the
introduction to one. Let him who deals in
things o f fancy write the rest. In the
spring of 1856—1 think it was in April —I
opened a little shop in Kearney Street, and
soon worked myself into a fair business. —
Late one evening, a lady, closely veiled,
entered my shop, and pulling from beneath
her cloak a small jappanned box, request
ed me to open it. The lock was curiously
constructed, and I was all of an hour in fit
ting it with a key. The lady seemed
nervous at the delay, and at length reques
ted me to close the door. 1 was a little sur
prised at the 'suggestion, but of course com
plied. Shutting the door and returning to
my work, the lady withdrew her veil, dis
closing as sweet a face as can well be imag
ined. There was a rest lessness in the eye
and a pallor in the cheek, however, which
plainly told of a heart ill at ease, and in a
moment every emotion tor her bad given
place to that of pity.
"Perhaps you arc not well, madam, and
the night air is too chilly ? ' ,>aid 1, rather
inquisitively.
1 felt a rebuke at the reply : "In re
questing you to close the door, I had no
other object than to escape the attention of
persons."
I did not reply, but thoughtfully contin
ued my work. She resumed ;
"That little box contains valuable pa
pers —piivate papers —and I have either
lost the key or it has been stolen. I do
not wish to hate you remember that I ever
came here on such an errand," she contin
ued with some hesitation, and giving me a
look which it was no difficult matter to un
derstand.
"Certainly, madam, if yon desire it. If
I cannot forget your face, I will at least at
tempt to lose the recollection of ever seeing
it here."
The lady bowed rather coldly at what I
considered a fine compliment, and I pro
ceeded with my work, satisfied that a sud
denly discovered partiality for me had noth
ing to do with the visit. Having succeeded
after much filing and fitting, in turning the
lock, I was seized with a curiosity to get a
glimpse at thV precious contents of the box
and suddenly raising the lid, discovered a
bundle of letters and a daugnerreotype, as
I slowly passed the box to its owner. She
seized it hurriedly, and placing the picture
and letters in her pocket, locked the box
and drawing the veil over her face, pointed
to the door. I opened it,and as she passed
into the street she merely whispered—"Re
member !" We met again, and I have been
thus particular in describing her visit to
the shop to render probable a subsequent
recognition.
About two o'clock in the morning, in the
latter part of May following, I was awoke
bv a gentle tap upon the window of the
little room back of the shop, in which I
lodged. Thinking of burglars, I sprang
out of bed, and in a moment was at the
wjndow,with a heavy hammer in my hand,
which I usually kept at that time within
convenient reach of my bedside.
"Who's there!" I inquired, raising the
hammer, and peering out into the darkness
—for it wif as dark as Egypt when under
the course of Israel's rod. #
"Hist," exclaimed a figure, stepping in
front of the window ; "open the door > I
have business for you."
"Rather past business hours, I should
say ; but who are you ?'
"No one that would harm you," returned
the voice, which I imagined was rather fem
inine for a burglar'R,
"Nor no one that can," I replied rather
emphatically, by the way of a warning, as I
tightened my grip on the hammer, and pro
ceeded to the door. I pushed back the
bolt, and slowly opened the door, discover
ed the stranger upon the steps.
"What do you want ?" I abruptly in
quired.
*1 will tell yot," answered the same soft
voice, "if yon care to open the door wide
enough for me to enter."
"Come in," said I, throwing the door
ajar resolutely, and proceeding to light a
candle. Having succeeded, I turnea to
examine the visitor. He was a small and
"TO SPEAK BIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FHCBMAII*S RIGHT. " —Thornu Jefferenw,
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1866.
neatly dressed gentleman, with a heavy
Raglan around his shoulders, and a blue
navy cap drawn over his eyes. As I ad
vanced toward him lie seemedNo hesitate a
moment, then raised the cap from his fore
head, and looked me curiously in tbe face,
I did not drop the candle, but I acknowledg
to a little nervousness as I hurriedly placed
the light upon the table, and silently pro
ceeded to invest myself with two ot three
very necessary articles of clothing. As
the Lord liveth, my visitor was a Tady, and
the same for whom I had opened the little
box about a month before. Having com
pleted my hasty toilet, I attempted to
stammer an apology for my rudeness but
utterly failed. The fact is I was too much
contounded.
Smiling at my discomfiture, she said .*
"Disguise is useless ; I presume you rcc
ognize me ?"
"I believe I told you, madam, I should
not soon forget your face. In what way
can I serve you ?"
"By doing half an hour's work before
daylight to-morrow, and receiving five hun
dred dollars for your labor," was the reply,
"It is not ordinary work,'' said I inquir
inglv, "that commands so magnificent a
compensation."
"It is a labor common to your calling."
returned the lady. "The price is not so
much for the labor, as the condition under
which it much be performed."
"And what is the condition," I asked
"That you will submit to being conveyed
from and returned to your door blindfold
ed."
Ideas of murder, burglary, and almost
every other crime to villainy, hurriedly
yiesented themselves in succession, as 1
bowed and said :
"1 must understand something more of
the character of the employment as well
as tbe condition, to accept your offer."
"Will not five hundred dollars answer in
lieu of an explanation ? ' she asked.
" No —nor five thousand,"
She patted her foot nervously on the
floor, I could see she had placed entirely
too low an estimate on my honesty, and I
felt some gratification in being able to con
vince her of the facts.
"Well, then, if it is absolutely necessa
ry for me to explain," she replied, "j
most tell you that you are required to pick
the lock of a vault, and rescue from death
a man who las been confined for three
days."
"To whom does the vault belong 7* I
inquired.
"My husband," was the somewhat re
luctant reply.
*,Then why so much seciesy, or rather
hew came a man confined in such a spot ?"
"I secreted him there to escape the ob
servation of my buiband. He suspected
such, and closed the door upon him. Pre
suming he had left the vault and quitted
tbe house by the back door, I did not dream
until to-day that he WM confined there.—
Certain suspicious acts of my husband this
afternoon, convince me that the man is
there, beyond human hearing, and will be
•starved to death bv my barbarous husband,
unless immediately rescued. For three
day 3he has not left tbe bouse. I drugged
him less than an hour ago, and he is now
so completely stnpefied*that the lock mav
picked without his interfence. I have
searched his pockets, hence my application
to you. Now you know all; will you ac
company me ?"
"To the end of the world, madam, on
such an errand."
"Then prepare yourself, there is a cab
waiting at the door."
I was a little surprised, for 1 had not
heard the sound of wheels. Hastily put
ting a coat, and providing myself with the
required implements, 1 was soon at the
door. There was the cab, with the driver
in his seat, ready for the mysterious jour
ney. I entered the vehicle, followed hy
the lady. As soon as I was seated, she
prodnced a heavy handkerchief which, hy
the faint light of an adjoining street lamp,
she bonnd round mv eyes. The lady
seated herself beside me and the cab
started. In half an hour the cab stopped -
in what part of the city I am entirely ig
norant, as it was evidently driven in any
thing but a direct course from the point of
starting.
Examining the bandage to see that ra v
vision was completely obsonred, the lady
handed me the bundle of toolsj with which
I was provided, then taking me by the
arm led me through R gate into a house
which I knew was of brick, and after ta
king me along a passage way which could
not have been less than fifty feet in length
and down a -flight of stairs into which was
evidently an nnderground basement
stopped beside a vault, aud removed the
handkerchief from my eyes.
"Here is the vault—open it," said she,
springing the dcor of a dark lantern, and
throwing a beam of light upon the lock.
I seized a bunch of skeleton keys, and
after a few trials, which the lady seemed
to watch with the most .painful anxiety,
sprang the holt. The door swung upon
its hinges, and my companion telling roe
not to close it, as it was self-locking, sprang
into the vault. I did not follow. I heard
the murmur of low voices within, and the
next moment the lady reappeared, and
leaning upon her arm a man, with face so
haggard that I started at the sight —
How he must have suffered during the
three long days of his confinement.
here," she 9aid, handing me
the lantern ; "I will be back in a moment.',
The two slowly ascended the stairs, and
I beard them enter a room immediately
above where I was standing. In less than
a minute the lady returned.
"Shall I close it, madam ?" said I, pla
cing nay band on the door of the vault.
"No, do 1" she exclaimed, hastily seizing
my arm; it waits, another occupant!"
"Madam, you certainlv do not intend
to-—"
"Are you ready ?" she interrupted,impa
tiently, holding the handkerchief to my
eyes. The thought flashed across my
mind that she intended to push mc into the
vault, and bury me and my secret togeth
er. She seemed to read mv suspicion, and
continued: "Do not be alarmed,. You
are not the man !"
I could not mistake the truth or the fear
ful meaning of the remark, and I shuddered
as I bent my heal to the handkerchief.—
My eyes were as carefully bandaged as be
fore, and I was led to the cab, and thence
driven home bv a more circuitous route,
if possible, than the one by which we caine.
Arriving in front of the house, the hand
kerchief vva removed, and I stepped from
the vehicle. A purse of five hundred dol
lars was placed in my Land, and in amo
ment the cab and its mysterious occupants
had turned the corner and were out of
sight.
I entered the shop, and the purse of
g dd was the only evidence I could summon
in my bewilderment, that all I had just
done and witnessed was not a dream.
A month after that, I saw the lady, and
the gentleman taken from the vault walk
ing leisurely along Montgomery street, I
do not know, but 1 believe tbe slooping
husband awoke within the vault, and his
bones are there to-day ! The wife is still
a resident of San Francisco.
\ erv Bad. —We heard Fred Douglass
speak but once. He is a pretty sharp dar
key, well-formed, rather graceful, ar.d en
tirely ready. On the occasion to which
we allude he spoke in Independence
Square, in Philadelphia. His harangue
was violent, made up chiefly of descrip
tions of the outrages practiced upon the
slave by his master, and wrought a very
decided effect upon the crowd. Perceiv
ing this, Fred took his advantage at the
flood, went higher and higher into the re
gion of eloquence. "Ah my friends," he
said, "1 do not speak from hearsay. I stand
before you a living—l was going to say a |
bleeding—witness to the truth of all I re- J
late. If you could behold the scare and
stripes upon my back." Just here an Irish
man vociferated, "Uould on, Freddy, dar
ling—is it truth you is telling us ?" The
darkey orator lifted his finger tragically to (
Heaven in the affirmative. "Oh, murder !
did they lacerate you !"' Fred answered
that they did. "Did they thumbscrew
you ?" Fred answered that they did.—
"Did they buck you like a shoal?" Fred
answered that they did. "Begorra.!"
roared Pat, "if that be true, you must have
been a d — m bud nigger /" It closed tbe
meeting in a general row.— Banner.
tW "I tell you that I shall commit so
cide if you don't have mc, Susan."
" Well Charley, as soon as you have
given me that evidence of your affections,
I will believe you love mc."
lie immediately hung himself upon her
neck, aud said:
"Thare now ! Is not that an act of susy
side ?"
She wilted.
A young man at Niagara Falls hav
ing been crossed in love, walked to the pre
cipice, deliberately took off his clothes,
gave one lingering look at tlie gulf below
him and then —went home.
An oM lady inquired at ono of the
railway stations what time the 7:45 train
would start, and was told at a quarter to
eight. "Bless mc! she exclaimed, "von
are always changing the time on this line."
When does a man become a sugar plant
er ? \\ hen he buries his sweet heart.
Let no one overload yon with favors,you
will find it an insufferable burden.
-• ■ - -
\\ by does water boil sooner in nn old
saucepan than in a now one ? Punch takes
it upon himself to answer this abstruse
question by saying,it's because thi old un's
used toil.
A mule driver in the army was swearing
at, and kicking a span of baikv mules, when
the general, who was annoyed at his pro
fanity, ordered him to stop.
"Who are you ?"
"Commander of the brigade !"
"I'm commander of these mules and I'll
do as I please, or resign, and you can take
my place."
—4*V
"What is that dog barking at I" asked a
fop, whose boots were more polished than
his ideas. "Why," replied a bystander,
"because lie sees another puppy in your
boots."
The path of glory leads but to the grave,
and the road of the whisky-swiller endeth
in a bed m the gutter.
People perform the greater part of the
voyage of life before taking on their ballast;
hence so many shipwrecks.
-
A lawyer engaged in a case, tormented a
witness so much questions, that the poor
fellow at last ericd for water. "There,said
the judge, "I thought you'd pump him dry."
A Political General's Soliloquy.
Whir r-r!
How like a rocket went nt>, terrifying
the innocent.
Spat!
How like a stick falling in the mud did
I come down.
When the late rebellion began, I did
not amount to enough to add up and give
one to carry. I was a sort of second-rate
loafer, begging tobacco, standing around
saloons and barrooms, waiting to be treat
ed by liberal strangers. I had no clean
stockings—no neat home—no money sav
ed —no credit —no fiue food, and but little
coarse. " But suddenly a star arose I"
Brave men were wanted. 1 had peddled
whiskey at the polls, to elect men on the
God-and-morality, retrenchment, lie and
stick to it closer than any hungry politi
cian in the country, and the late adminis
tration—noble administration—gave me
rich reward. I was made a captain, and
like a blue-tailed bottle-fly, I strutted about
my native town.
Guess I wasn't old style, in white gloves
and stripes up my legs. Guess 1 did nt
support the government. Beckon I didn't
get trusted to little things at stores, and
when a man wouldn't trust me, guess I
wouldn't iucite mobs on such Copperheads.
And I was put in command of a hundred
men. Egad I that was a joke. Why
Lord bless you, I didn't know as much
about war as a dog knows of his grandfa
ther —but I bad political influence—could
absorb vast quantities of whiskey and eo'd
steal like a nigger! Or like John Brown.
Or like Ben. Butler. Or like any other
house robber,
Aad I went to war. And I hired cor
respondents to mention my brave exploits
in Republican papers. And I stole wines
from hospitals and treated my friends. And
I read the army letters which I hired writ
ten, and which poor fools printed to politi
cal friends. And I kept out of the way of
bullets and such —and I st*>ls piles of house
hold goods, from rat traps to pianoes, from
silk elastic to linen intended for infants yet
unborn, and so in the eyes of the late ad
ministration proved my fitness for higher
position.
And I wm made a brigadier general.—
Big thing. Nearly every fool in the army
was a brigadier general. While brave
men fought,l stole spoons and such. While
other men were at war, I was punishing
Democrats, issuing petty orders, " taking
toil" from Union farmers, and sending
chairs, tables, beds and bedding, pictures,
books, spoons, knives and forks, nut crack
ers, glass and silver ware, mirrors, side
boards, parlor ornaments, laces, silks, and
ladies* underclothes, stolen from piivate
drawers, and bureaus, up North at gov
ernment expense, to let people know that I
was saving my salary to beautify my home.
Cunning cuss !
And I denounced Democrats, thereby
winning promotion and good opinions from
Republican papers. And I spent my sal
ary For whiskey .except what went for—
nothing now, not much at first! And I
went on raids, capturing imaginary bands
of enemies, reported by the papers as real.
And being an unscrupulous knave, intent
only on money, I was hired by the admin
istration of the late lamented to go up and
down the land stumping for, and in behalf
of niggers and Abolitionists.—par nobile
frtthim.
And I sent Democrats to the front, and
they were shot down like dogs or dragged
back wounded to die in hospitals, or swear
allegiance to Abraham. And I stuffed
election returns, and I stole cotton wherev
er it could he found, mules ditto, corn ditto
government stores ditto, and" other things
ditto, till I became rich. And what a lot
of men there were who believed we were
fighting to subdue the rebellion. 'Twas
merely a pleasant litile murderous crusade
for cotton and niggers—the cotton for the
rich, the niggers for the poor tax payers to
support.
The war was a Godsend to me. It took
me from the gutter, or a stool in some sa
loon and made a great man of me. It lift
ed me by the waistbands right up along
side of great men. And didn't I strut?
And didn't T fall back upon my dignity?
And didn't I snub those whose servant I
was—and win the contempt of every sen
sible mar. in the land. And didn't nigger
wenches fall in love with me, and didn't I
keep abandoned women at head quarters
on money I stole from my bleeding coun
try ? To be sure I did. That was the ac
me of " loyalty." That was known as Lin
coln prtriotism. That style was the style
that paid. That style made mc popular
with the Abolitionists at home, And
didn't I drive Southern roosters from
watching the nest, and didn't Igo into
that business for them ? And didn't Igo
into the patent bleaching business on
joint account, half for myself and half for
the government ?
There were some good men in the ar
my—some fine officers—some gentlemanly
patriotic officers, but they were in hard
luck, and took lower seats. And didn't I
get promoted for being caught out nights,
roaming over the country —poaching on
some nigger or white man's domain, in be
half of my government?
And wasn't I sorry when we had stolen
the Sooth poor, and were obliged to close
the War? The occupation of Othello was
gone. I returned home. People did not
make speeehea and welcome Me back as
they did when I left. I strutted around
with my blue-tailed plumage till it looked
slumpy, and the people began to take in
clothes from the lines in my neighborhood,
when it became known that I WM a polit
ical general, whoae best holt waa stealing
" -My ' 1,1 j j- >fts.x v^ s=ss=s 7rn' m '
lmm, moo -■■* Ainni^
and endorsing Abolitionism. No ooe caret
for me now. A good hunting dog is mort
petted. A buck nigger is of more account
in the eyes of Congress and the people,
i People whisper strange things about that
Ston&wal! Jackson song of "Whose pin
here ?" etc. lam not half so popular as
I was when in the army. In fact, I be
lieve lam about played out. Why can't
we have another war ? Lots of fellows
have come out ofState prisons since the
war ended, and there is plenty material for
i more of these political army officars, who
could draw beer better than blood. Nev
er mind—l'll put the money I stole in
government bonds—there is no taxes to
pay on them—l'll sit around and draw my
interest on them—live in idleness and be
supported by the poor fools who have no
bonds, but who pay taxes while Ido not,
and who pay me tor being a thief and liv
ing in idleness. Yon see lam one of the
supporters of this government. I can put
my money in bonds— somebody pays the
faxes of the country, and pay me interest,
but it is too us bond holders. Oh, dear I
Suppose the people should rkpudiatk
these bonds, as they surely will if they are
not taxed— what will become of me I I'll
have to work the same as other men or go
to the poor house wth liberated niggers,
for tax-paying white men to support.—
Brick Pomeroy.
Eleven Millions for Negro PaajperaL
The bogus affair that calls itself a Con
gress has just voted eleven millions for the
" Nigger Bureau," to establish schools and
support nigger paupers in the South f Just
think —the negroes of the South produced
some three hundred millions of surplus or
real wealth, nearly all of which was finally
secured to the people of the North, who
built their Fifth azenue palaces and volup
tuous churches on this result of " slavery,"
and in 1860 there was not one single pau
per among all these four millions of negroes.
Now this labor and all this mighty produc
tion of wealth is abolished, for the time be
ing, as absolutely so as if the negro himself
was stricken out of existence, and the nor
thern laboring classes are loaded down
with a debt of three thousand millions to
accomplish the stupendous crime. Count
ing in the negresses of the South, who
produced as much cotton as the males per
haps, the producing forces of the two sec
tions were about equal, therefore it come#
to this, not only is the labor of the negm
lost to the whole country, but every labor
ing man in the North, must hereafter give
a very considerable portion of each dav'g
toil to destroy the former. The emigrant,
the Irishman, the farmer, the mechanic,
every man who adds to the production of
the country must first give up a portion of
each day's toil to pay the interest on th#
debt contracted to " abolish" the labor of
the negro in the South, and what is left ho
may spend on his wife and ehildren. If
his children have not quite enough to fill
their bellies or to cover their nakeduew,"
why be can only reply to them bo patient,
for though you suffer for food and clothing,
and I am giving my sweat and very life
blood, and will doubtless die in the alms
house, it is the glorions cause of emancipat
ing negroes from labor! But slnee this
unapproachable crime of Abolition, the ne
groes are not only lost to production, but
northern laborers are to be taxed eleven
millions more to support negro paupers!
Well, whv not? Since their hand is in, why
not complete the job? Why not, indeed,
bring the negroes North and save tbeex--
prnce of sending agehts into the remote
South to look after them? Why not, in
deed, give every negro a white laborer to
work for him hereafter? It would simplifv
the matter mightily, and be the same thing
in fact.
Too Late ! — Alas! how many hearts
have ceased to boat with the wild pulsation
of hope when those cruel, crushing words
have fallen on the ear, leaving onlv the ut
ter blankness of despair ! How often
have the struggles of long weary years re
alized a fortune too late ! How " often wo
have all found what we coveted most
friends, power, love—but too latk !
How madlv happy it would have made us
once, before our trust had been deceived,
and our spirit broken ! Tt sickens us now.
for we had given np the thought of it
long ago. and turn from it even as the dv
ing begger turns from food, the want of
which has killed h'm.
Purity ok Fkbltvg. —A life of dnty ft
the only cheerfbl life, for all- joy springs
from the affections; and it is the great
law of nature that without good deeds, aO
good affection dies, and the heart becomes
utterly desolate. The external world tbm
looses all ita heauty ; poetry fades away
from the earth ; for what is poetry, bat
the reflection of all pare and sweet, all high
and holy thoughts ?
Hope for the shirtless. Boston is go
ing to manufacture paper shirts at twenty
five cents each. No excuse tor shirtless
persons then.
A lady, writing upon the subject, says:
"When men break their hearts, it is the
same aa when a lobster break one of hia
claws —another sprouting immediately and
growing in its place."
jgy Boarding-House Dialogue.—"Tour .
milk does not pay any income-tax, I sup
pose, Mrs. Skinpenny* "Why not, air .
"I shouldn't think it was rich enough."
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