The itrzt;it;arU's Daughter.
Out in the street with naked feet,
1 inw Hie drnnl;nrd's littln dn'i-rMi-r :
Her tiilliTi'il plmwl wns thin nnd snmll ;
tSlic little knew fur no one tiiught licr.
Iler Mn wn3 dark, licr unburn Imir
Wag blown about her pretty ortlicarl ;
licr snd white face wove sorrow's truce,
And want nnd woe that, were not borrowed.
Heart-broken child, she seldom smiled;
Hope promised her no bright tomorrow ;
Or if its light flushed on her night,
Then up come darker clouds of sorrow,
She softly said : "Vie have no bread.
No wood to keep the fire a burning.''
rri.. .a ill . ll.a c!n la nhill
rthm, cola blooa to ice was turning.
ril i 1. T, ,1. .V '"I" ' J "
Tassed on the side where no one cried
To them for pity or compassion.
Th.H long night (led, nnd then the light
Of rosy day in beauty shining,
Set dome and spire nnd roof on fire,
And shone on one beyond repining.
falc Tcips Hems.
A New Orleans widow, on (ho sunny
side of forty, lias just taken to herself on
eighth husband.
rran Stevens has built a family tomb
nnd monument in Mount Auburn, costing
Sl'O.OOO.
American colleges have received over
$300,000 in endowments during the past
year.
A boy in Vermont, with Lis, dog has
caught two hundred and seventy. nine
woouchucks during the past season.
Six pilots on the Red Ilivsr died week
betore last of yellow fever. They were re
garded as the most skilful nnd trustworthy
of tho fraternity.
Horace Greeley says, in his character
istically mild way, that Tutirlow Weed is
"an eminent veteran liar." Pot calling
the kettle black.
But one hundred and five sabre wounds
nnd one hundred nnd forty-three bayonet
weunds were reported from the field during
the first three years ot the wnr.
Miss Kearney, daughter of Oen. rliil.
Kearney, who lost his lite at thantilly dur
ing the war, has married Monsieur do Ker
mel, a wealthy Norman gentleman.
Lieutenant Buskirk, of Monroe county,
Indiana, is a frail specimen of humanity,
standing six feet ten in his stocking feet,
and weighing four hundred pounds gross.
Boston has resolved not to fake any ad
vantage of the moon in future, but burn
pa3 Rt all times of the night, hereafter.
This decision will cost her $30,000 more.
Virginia has nine and a half millions
ncres of improved and eleven and a quarter
millions of unimproved lands. 1 leuty of
room lor improvement still.
The Nashua, New Hampshire, Iron
Company have lately commenced with good
(success, the manufacture of "steel tires for
locomotives, hitherto done only in Englund.
A male teacher ana two lady assistants
in Crown school, of Chicago, were fined
$100 and costs a few days ago for alleged
cruel punishment of nn unruly r upil.
A man was buried in Portsmouth, New
Hnmpshire, a short time since, who had
kept his gravestones and coffin in his garret
for tweaty years. Ho was ninety years
of nge.
The Georgia Slato Iload is prepared to
liquidate its entire deht of SlOO.OOO to the
Veil"i al Government, and that in a few
days it w ill uiuUo the remittance to Wash
ington. The author of tho " Guide du Ceremo
nial " says it is the proper thing for a gen.
tlemnn on marrying a widow before tho
expiration of her mourning, to put on weeds
for his lamented predecessor.
A gentleman of Chris! inuJOounly, Ken
tucky, a few days ago, killed an enormous
gray eagle. It measured eight feet from
tip to tip. Tho longest talou measured two
and five-eighth inches.
Stevenism lu the middle of the
rhapsodical manifesto of Thaddcus Sto.
vens, which is bow going ihe round of
the newspapers, as the last expiring ef
fort of the Dearly deceased statesman,
occurs iu p'.aiu broad statement, design
ed to affect the public thought, which is
simply a plain broad lie from the whole
cloth. It is where the dying political
gradiator refers to tho condition of the
Island of St. I nomas and other Danish
Islands. In tho Island of St. Thomas,
to which ho refers, which was ono of
the most flourishing and productive ot
the West India Islands before the
emancipation, we learn from a reliable
citizen who was there recently, there
was not a single plantation cultivated
two years ago, which was about twenty
ycarsafter emancipation. All the hand
Bonie plantations were deserted and
grown up with briers, and nearly the
entire population huddled in tho town
of St. Thomas, where there were ubout
f ftceo thousand negroes and uot moro
than fifteen hundred whites. But this
community is governed by iho Danish
monarchy, and through a military po
lice, which two years ago cousistod of
75 men, living in a strong fort at the
edge of a beautiful bay upon which tho
handsome town of St. Thomas fronts.
"Lor bless you, sar, dar has been no
plantation work on tho island sinco dc
mancipation.'' This is what an old ne.
gro lady remarked. On inquiring how
so many idle negroes lived, the white
people of St. Thomas said they could
not tell. There appealed to bo only
visible means of support for about one
thousand negro men and women who do
work. Their food wis chiefly imported
from other islands. If old Til ad. would
visit St. Thomas, he would find a great
negro mystery of idleness to unravel.
rittsluiy I'ut.
:sleop alone ns cold as stone,
Whore no dear parent ever sought her ;
In winding shod of snow and sleet,
Was found the drunkard's lifeless daughter.
I HE, LLK MVUeiE
JOHNF. MOORE, Editor & Proprietor.
Carry O'nuns' Epistle.
Political The Ring Convention Cor
ry fit ill in tlie Field Hit Views of
ihe. Situation The Ring Tariff
IVhat a Nomination Costs Carry's
Pletlgss and his Platform.
Dear Eagle : As you are aware I
did not get the nomination lrora
THE RING CONVENTION.
The price of delegates suddsnly rose
to two hundred and fifty dollars, and
I he City Bank wouldn't honor iny
checks to that amount.
Fo I was beat.
But not subdued, I am still in the
held.
The honest, intelligent, high minded
and virtuous voters will rally round me
Tho ring is everywhere repudiated,
and is trcmoling in its shoes.
I am glad to see the Eagle take such
an independent stand.
It don't approve of the Ring ticket.
Nor the Republican ticket.
Nor tho Montague Hall ticket.
Corry O'Lanus for Mayor is your can
didate.
lie is the candidate of tho uocorrup
ted and the incorruptible.
Ot tho unpurchased Democracy.
Of the anti.Nicholson paviors.
Of the early Closing Association.
Of the Target Companies.
Oi the Base Ballists.
Of the soldiers and sailors.
Of tho Marines.
lie is the choice of the Germans.
Of tho Fenians.
Of the widows.
The tax payers dennnd Corry O'Lan
us.
Children cy for him.
Then what chance has Kalbfleisch
got?
lie may possibly poll votes enough to
elect Bliss; but what good will that do
him ? He had bettor haul off and save
his money.
He has a weakness for economy nnd
this is tho best chance he will have of
practicing that virtue.
I sec you admire muscle.
You scored ono in his favor the other
day because he licked a man in New
lork.
J ust give me a chance and I'll whip
a man before election.
If I can find one that it would be
safe to tackle.
It wouldn't look well you know for
Brooklyn to elect a mayor with a black
eye.
Kalbfleisch has tho advantage of me
in muscle as well as money.
But if 1 am elected Mayor I will ap.
point n protessor ot the mauly art, Wa
ttr Coniiiiirisioncr. and make that depart
nicnf a uuvsci iui pugs.
If the Dunjc.it io party in this coun
ty must go to dogs, it might as well
take a short cut, instead of traveling tho
circuit of the ring.
The Presidential election comes next
year ; we want to clear away the party
stubble this fall, so as to give us a clear
Held to light the great battle.
Since you admire muscle, take a les"
son ijom its exponents, who, when they
are going to fight a battle, go into train,
ing to get rid of superfluous weight,
forswear sack and live cleanly, to puree
all humors out of their system, so that
when the day comes they aue sound in
wind and limb, free from blemish, and
give their opponent no advantage.
Better to shake oil the riag now than
to carry such a load through tho Presi
dential campaign.
1 propose to farht it out oa this lino
till election day.
You arc in lavor of low prices.
So am I.
Nominations have got to be so expen
pensive that a man of moderate means
can't indulge in the luxury of running
for office any moro.
Perhaps yon haven't seen tho Ring
tariff.
I send you a copy that was picked up
ou tho floor of one of tho nominating
conventious. '
SCALE OF I'RICES.
For nominations adopted by the Ring,
Oct. 1837.
Member of Congress $25,000
Register 10,000
County Clerk 6,000
Mayor M 6.GO0
State Senator 6,000
County Judge 40,000
Coronor 3,000
Justice of Peace 2,000
Member of Assembly, according to
the complexion of districts from
fco.OOO to 1,500
Superintendent of Poor 1000
Alderman from $100 to 100
Besides assessments, drinks, and
Printers bills.
Politics is a business that requires a
good deal af capital, but these rates are
altogether too high.
It is owing to a few men having a won
nopoly of the nominating busiuess.
Which is not Democratic
And it is bad for the public, for the
more a man spends tor to get an office
tho more'he has to make out of it.
RIDOWAT, PENNA. NOVEMBER 14,
That is how it works.
As my expenses have been light, I
shall be the most profitable man for tho
tax. payers.
My disbursements have been confined
to necessary expenses, and I am not
pledged to any great extent
I have promised Mrs. O'Lanus if I
am elected Mayor that she shall havo
an Austrikan cloak, a velvet bonnet and
a Boulevard skirt.
Thcinistoclcs is to havo a now over
coat and Eliza Jane a pair ot boots.
And I shall probably buy a new hat
tor mysclt.
But all these wouldn't cost as much
as one delegate to the City Convention
Economy is my forte.
If I am elected I will bring the citv
back to the glorious condition of four
years ago, when the city wasn't put to
the expense ot cleaning the streets,
or emptying the ash barrels.
Or paying the legitimate debts of the
city.
All of which extravagance was left
to the Republican Mayors, under whose
administration the expenses of the city
gouervment have been largely increased
by indulgence in such foolish luxuries
as light and cleanliness.
The people are no longer to be hum
bugged.
They are wido awake and up to snuff.
And mean to vote unanimously for
lour virtuous correspondent,
Corry O'Lanus.
The Highway or A'alions.
Men are too apt to pry into the hid
den mysteries of the future, or to go
back and excavate the ruins of the dead
past, while they overlook what is going
on around them in that immediate pre
sent, which is destined to mould tho
trade aud commerce, while it to some
extent controls the destinies of the
world. For that reason, probably we
have heard little of the grand enterprise
of laying a track ot iron from the eas
tern sea-board to the Golden Horn,
where the City of San Francisco looks
out upon the broad Pacific. And yet
the managers ot the Union Pacifio Kail
road announce that more than one. third
of that stupendous work has beea al
ready accomplished and confidently
prognosticate its final completion early
in tneyear This has been cfleo-
ted within two years, and is tho best
guarantee that can bo asked for or giv
en that the orgiual programme will be
speedily and successfully carried out.
'I he road of this company starts from
Omaha, which is 983 feet above tido
level, and traverses tho valley ot the
Platte to Fort MoPherson ; thence into
South Wyoming, passing over its entire
width to the southwestern point, from
which it extends to Salt Lake City.
Experience has demonstrated that there
are uo difficulties in the way which can
not be surmounted ; but, on the contra
ry, new advantages open up as the road
progresses. The ascent from Omaha to
the base of the Rooky Mouutains is but
5,079 feet in a distance of 5181 miles
aii i:isigoiocani trine and the summit,
2,20(5 feet higher, is reached within S2
miles, a grade of less than 70 feet to the
milo, which compares favorably with
those on the Pennsylvania Central, and
is not so Bteepas many on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. This section of the
road ends at Salt Lake City, and tho
Central Pacifio Railroad already opera-
ting in western Nevada via Sacramento
City, is pushing rapidly on towards the
junction. As they advanjo, it,is prov
en by experiments that the lands pene
trated are fertile and well adapted to ag
ricultural pursuits, whilo the mines of
Nevada, Montana, Colorado, and Cali
fornia, rich in precious metals, are
brought into closer connection with tho
home and foreign markets. These in
ducemcuts will foster emigration, and
the new settlers will create rich States
like Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, which
will become the customers of the road,
shipping their products eastward and
westward, and in return receiving their
supplies by this route. Thus far, the
Union is tho only avenue opened up as
a through line, and, therefore, the major
portion ot both the way and through
freight must be transported over it
But while the Union Pacifio Railroad
shall continue to be the only road across
the Continent, it is destined to monopo
lize not only our own traffio and travel,
but likewise that between Europe and
China, in conjunction with tho Pacifio
Steamship line. Tho advantages it
holds out aro not only American, but
cosmopolitan. Europe aud China will
bo brought wkhin forty days travel of
each other. The traveler who Ibaves
Loudon will cross the Atlantic in eight
days ; the Continent in six, and the Pa
cific, from San Francisco to China, in
twenty-six days. 1 bis rapidity ot move
ment bids defianoe to all foreign compe
tition. By this route.also. the approaoh
to the South American States will be
greatly faciliated.
liut the success of the enteipnse is
13G7.
VOLUME SEVEfT NUMBER 36
not contingent upon the eutiro complo
tion of the road. The way business has
already begun to bo profitable. This is
shown by tho fact that in May, June
and July last it amounted to more than
four times the interest upon tho bonds
which could be issued lor the miles in
operation. Every day enlarges the bus.
mess by increasing the settlements and
production and consumption along the
route, nod brings nearer that other busi
ness which will follow tho opening of tho
road into the mining centres. The
earnings in the month named were SI,
203,038,95, and the expenses were
6o95, 530,92, leaving a net earnings of
$807,508.03. The commercial business
alone left a profit, iu tho three named
mcnths of $485,780.04.
We have said nothing so far of the
liberal government aid to tho road.
This consists of six per cent. United
States bonds, running thirty years, and
issued at the rate of 816,000 per mile
for five hundred and seventeen miles
on the plains; $48,000 per mile for one
hundred and fifty miles through the
Rocky Mountains, and $32,000 per mile
for the residue of the distance. For
this the United States take second
mortgage bonds. The government pays
tho interest on these bonds, and also
pays the company ono-half of tho bills
for transporting troops and materials in
cash. The other half is placed to the
company's credit, and forms a sinking
fund for tho extinction of the debt,
The government also gives to the road
72,800 acres per milo of constructed
track in fee- The building of 914 miles
west from Omaha has been contracted
for at the rate of $68,058 por mile. Of
this distance, more than one-half is com
pleted. There aro 1,100 miles to be
built by the company. If tho 186 miles
not under contract cost 860,000 per
mile, the total cost will be $33,445,012
Tho resources, reckoning the land grant
at 551-00 per acre, amount to $35,145,
700, thus ensuring the work.
mi tr . i n.
ine united states is represented in
the Board of five directors, and each
section of twenty miles of the road is
personally visited and inspected by three
military and civil engineers. If found
by them to be well- constructed and
equipped, and in every respect a first class
work, they approve it, and the new sec
tion is opened f or business. The bonds
of tho government aro then issued as por
contract.
This is an unvarnished statement of
facts. If we were disposed to embellish
them, what a wide field for rose-colored
anticipations do they open before us
Almost upon the threshold we perceive
tho realization ot the vision ot one of
our fellow.townsmen, the late Peter A.
Browne, Esq. hundreds of new stars
added to our national galaxy, and mil
lions of citizens to tho ranks of Ameri
can freemen. Tho teas and siks of Chi.
na, the treasures of tho East and the
merchandise and jnanufactures of Eu
rope, will be poured into our laps. The
Uuited States will become the store,
house of tho world, and the centre of
commerce will be transferred from the
Old to tho New World. Our city now
Jacile princips in manufactures will be.
oome a Manchester or a Birmingham,
such as England never beheld. As
Philadelphians, therefore, we have an
important stake in the success of tho
Union Pacifio, as well as all similar
sohemes, and it is with this view that we
submit this brief statemeut of what has
been already accomplished to our read,
ers. Age.
When Congressman Brooks, a much
smaller man than Sumner, caned him,
the Boston pet did not attempt to resent
it; but went to Europe to have the
ifuchess ot Sutherland, and other abo
lition dumcs, to bathe his bruised crani
um and heal his wounded honor. When
a German Baron grow s'veet on Mrs.
bumner, the brave Senator did not
challenge him; but wrote a letter to
Bismarck, reflecting on his wife's honor,
and requesting the recall of the offender.
Such is tho honor of the Radical leader
of the Rump Senate. The brave ! Sen
ator went to Europe to get his head cur
ed, but Mrs. Senator has gone thither to
get her heart cured.
There is diguity about that eoinorawav
alone, we call dying that wrapping the
mantle of immortality about us ; that
putting aside with a pale hand azure
curtains that are drawn around this cra
dle of a world ; that venturing away
from home for the first time in our lives,
for we aro not dead tnere is nothing
dead to speak of, and we only go off
seeking foreign countries not laid down
on the map wo know about. There
must be lovely lands somewhere star,
ward, for none ever return that so thith
er, and wo very much doubt if any
would if they could.
Johnson is the name of the man of ci.
ant intellect at Pitt-bure. who fastened
bristle to the tail of a rat and sold the
reconstructed animal for a squirrel.
A Love Seme .
Paris is the placo for romance arl.
ventures. One night some month aeo,
a "young officer ot a cavalry regiment
was returning to his lodgings late at
night, when he saw on one of the bridg
es a young woman of considerable beau
ty, but clad in tho mean gartr.et.ts of a
work. woman, prepartng to plunge into
the river. lie seized her, and threat
ened to take her to the station house.
She supplicated, however, so earnestly
to be left alone that tho officer consen
ted to release her, first howover exneting
a solemn promise that she would not re.
peat the attempt. Sho hurried away,
but the young soldier deemed it prudent
to follow her. Luckily it was that he
did so, for no sooner did she believo
herself free from observation than tho
girl plunged into the river. The officer
was eloso upon her, and with some diffi
culty, and not without danger, succeed
ed in dragging htr to land. This time
ho insisted on accompanying her home.
With extreme reluctance the would
bo suicide led hiai to a miserable lodging
in the most wretched pi.rt of the city.
Knocking at the door and old woman
appeared, to whom the officer related
what had happened. "Ah. mudniii "
she cried, " it was for that then, you
horrowed my clothes i ami alio went on
to relato to the young officer that the
pretended unknown was no nthnr than
the daughter of a nobleman of the high.
est rank, and that she had that night
came to borrow the dress in which she
appeared, in order, as she said to nvoid
discovery in a love adventure. In proof
fit . .1 .. .. '
oi tne trutnot tins story, thcold woman
pointed to the young woman s dress,
which she had left on nssnminrr lmr
coarse attire. This naturally excited
tno young man s curiosity to the highest
pitch. lie insisted on accompanying
the VOUH2 ladv to her father, to whom
w -J J '
he related all that had taken place.
Warm thanks were, of course, heaped
upon him, aud he was invited to tho
nouse wncre uo subsequently became a
constant visitor. An intimacy snruna
up between him and the young lady,
which ripened into affection, ami thn
affection resulted in a marriaire cnlnl,r.i-
ted a few days ago. This tale is true,
sirango as it may appear. It has of
courae created an immense sensation in
the upper circles of Parisian society ;
and at present it is said that all young
unmarried ladies are bent on attempting
to commit suicide at midnight, in the
hope of being saved by a handsome ofUi
cer of hussars, and whatever is romantic
has immense popularity iu Paris.
Selh Jones' Courting Scrape,
WR. Editor. There s boon tho
douo to pay down teu our house, and
1 in goin to tell yeou all about it. i eon
see Josh Doolittle, he took a notion to
Suke Simpsons though what he could
see in her tho dear knows and shitied
up teu her quite a smart while, but
Suko sho jilted him and set her cap at
Seth Jones, and she'd a got him, teu, if
it nadn t been lor Josh. But Josh ho
was as mad as a moment, and ho deter
mined she shouldn't havo him. Wal,
the Sunday arter I was married I went
up teu dads teu spent tho arteruoon an'
evening. Wal, 1 hadn t been there but
a lectio while beforo who should cum in
but Seth Jones, all spruced up tou fiu
He kept sidling up teu Suke au' thev
kept gigling at the time. Patience sed
Seth was goin' teu stay with Suke. fur
she heerd him ask her, an' Suke sed
yes, Wal, our folks went teu bed au'
left Seth an' Suke setting alone.
hat they sed in course I don't no.
but when it came time teu go, Seth went
teu get up but he stuck fast teu tho
cheer, for Josh had put shoemaker's
wax on it.
Wal, he tuk hold of the cheer with
both hands an' gin a jerk, an' sech a
tip tearin' ye never heern beforo.
fceth thought his trowsers was tore.
and claped his hand on the plaoe, an'
maao a iusu ror his hat. He, grabbed,
not his hat but a basin of water (which
Josh had sot down where his hat was,-)
an' emptied it all over himself.
Jest then he seed bis hat an' Latched
that an' put itou, but it was half full of
Hour, an seech a looking animule, ye
never did see. The way ho rushed fur
tho door was a caution.
But his troubles didn't end here, fur
while his feet ectohed on one strim'
streeched across the door, an' sent him
headlong out doors, his head-hit another
ono across tho top an' rung o cow.bell
that wabed up all in the house.
How he got hum I kon t kuow. but I
know the next day when I went over
teu old Miss Joneses she was a cleaning
rjtn s clothes an wondering where he
got all that dough on 'em. Seth didn't
cum nerr our house agin, I kin tell yo.
ihe next bundny night he went to
soo 'Liz'beth Mehitable Wick urn, the
schule niarm, an ho s went teu see her
ever since Suko was orful mad, but
she never found out who played sech a
trick on Seth. But she pida't care so
much about it sence Pete Johnsons cu.u
teu see her. I s'pose they'll be married
afore long. Josh thinks he paid Suke
off with interest an' so do I.
It is said that when Or-nrv rrnd tlin
despatch from Gen. Grant in regard to
the " Fort Delaware fraud," he very
coolly remarked " Just as 1 expected.
I am getting too strom? nnd fj rnnr ia
afraid of mo." Hurrah for the G.'s.
Which shall it be- G earv. 0 renin v nr
Giant
Gen, Warren, the Fenian bus been
found guilty of treason.