BY FRED'K L. BAKER. E I ,V SFIRT FOR 1866 ! I , z ,ll) ; baltion of lite , By. in OP SICIRTS. J. 11 7 . BRADLEY'S N ot . Patent Duplex for double) Spring Sktrt. _ THIS Invention consists of Duplex (or twn) o l die pure refined steel springs, ingeniously budded tightly and firmly together, edge to Orr, making the i toughest, toughest, most flexible, etas ae and durable spring ever used. They sel- Mil bead °Await, like the single springs, awl consequently preserve their perfect and shape more than twice as long as single ,pritig.ekirt that ever has or can be wade. • The ' , comb iful flexibility and great comfort and pleasure to any lady wearing the. Duplex haliptie skirt will be experienced particularly to all crowded Assemblies, Operas, carriages, willow' cars, church pews, arm chairs, for prionenade and house dress, as the skirt can to folded when in use to occupy a small place as easily and conveniently as a silk or muslin 60,5. A holy having enjoyed the pleasure, com tun nod great convenience of wearing the du plex elliptic Fleet spring skirt for a single day will never atteiwards willingly dispense with their La. For children, Misses, and young Indies they ar superior to all others. [he hoops arc covered with 2 ply double twisted thread and will wear twice as Yong as its single yarn covering which is used on all Singly swel hoop skirts. The three bottom tads en every skirt are also double steel, and Nide or double covered to prevent the cover -111 trait wearing oft' the rods when dragging dawn stairs, stone steps, &c., &c., which they ate eastnntly subject to when in use. All are made of the new and eegant corded tspes, and are the best quality inl every part giv pg . to the wearer the most graceful and perfect shape possible, and are unquestionably the lightest, most desirable, comfortable and (owned Skirt ever made. IVeors' BRADLEY & CARY, Proprie'ors of the invention, and Sole Manufacturers, 97 Chambers, and 79 Sr. Si Ileade streets, New Verb. Fur sale in all first-class 'stores in this City, oad throughout the United States, and Canada, thivano de Cuba,Mexico, South America, and the %Vest Inies. inquire for the Duplex Elliptic (or (blade) Spring Skirt. [3m-ABge H.RI.A.7:).11311"1" HISTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION ! 'NE late rebellion atands out peculiar and 1 extraordinary in human event.; and the magnificent scale upon which the war has rem conducted, constitute it oneuf the grand er and most brilliant chapters of the world's iistoi y. Mr. Headley, of all writers, is perhaps best qualified to portray the the stupendous feat ures of the mighty contest. His previous works on less momentous themes have placed him in the first position, as a graphsc and pow qui ddeniator of war scene and characters, and the magnitude and grandeur of the pres- PM subject, impart to his pen the fire and vi vid a yet more exacted inspiration, and fur oh ample scope for the highest eXhibition of his peculiar genius for military . description. Crider hia powerful pen the stirring scenes of the War pass in review with the vividness sod distinctness of a present and living reality; Mile his great talent for condenuation ena bles him to embody everything of importance ill a compass just suited to the public want. From uo other source can so clear and com prehensive an impression of the grand march of events be obtained, so easily and agreeably as from Mr. Headley's work. Other hiatories have been issued before Grant's Report and other official documents were submitted to the government, and there fore :meltable. hr. Headley has delayed the aimpletion of this till those deem/irate so a folio/ to outhenticity and correctness could et obtained. The second volume, completing this work, mil he issued it March, lad. Agents wan ted to engage in its sale in every town and Ninny in the United States. Liberal induCe mews offered. For particilars x a ty to or ad, diess AMERICAN PU8:11,4 NO CO., re Nu. 148 Asylum-et., Hi ' ord, Conn. Scranton 6. Burr, Agehts. . .-g• f•T• 4-€ ' 441 Scribiatr anb Coninanter. IVoihn most respectfully take this means of informing has friends and the public generally Ulm lie has commenced the drawing of DEEDS, MORTGAGES, JUDGMENTS, 1 , 1, 1 1 in flirt everything in the CorryEv some line, flaring gratuitous intercourse with a member of the Lancaster Bar, be will be ena bled to execute legal instruments of writing With accuracy. i" Ile can be found at the office of "THE AlplCT SlAll,"—"Lilld3By t al Belding? (sec °°4 floor) near the Poet Office corner, or -at is residence on Market stfeel, half s apiece wast of the 4, Donegal HousellT Marietta' .*lilank Deeds, Mortgages, Judgments and Lenges always on hand a nd - for Bale. THE MASON & HA OLIN Cabinet Organs, Fad different styles, nor. to sacred and k uillt Mun, for $BO to 600 eaCh. Ftrry min Gold or sneer Maids, or other Arid Pre." toiutos free them. Illustrated Cl sent free. Add,„, pd A „, 3l , se HAMLIN, "- 100, or MASON BROTHERS, Septemer 9, 18*-Iy.l New-York. xuaIII.OWARD ItSSOCIATION. PHIL...IDE-PI" PA' !sews of the Urinary and Se Systems Z O l new and reliable treatment. AblOs the I CARBER 3 an Easy of warning and tlostruction, sent in sealed envelom:free e f rge. Address,SICILIAN HOVOKTON, pOIVIIrd Association No. 2 South Ninth St, Philadelphia P [ jan. D R. J. Z. HOFFER, DENTIST, ~ttOr THE BALTIMORE COLLEGE . 14 .. OF DENTAL SURGERY, i-AE OF .ErARRISBURCI (P. 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Marriages and Deaths, the simple announcement, FREE ; but for any additional lines, ten cents a line. A liberal deduction made to yearly a nd half yearly advertisers. ' Having just added a " NEWBURY Montt- TAIN JOBBER PRESS," together with a large assortment of new Job and Card type, Cuts, Borders, &c., &c., to the Job Office of "THE MARIETTIA N," which will insure the f ne and speedy execution of all kinds of Jos & CARD P a I rt Tina, from the smallest Card to the LARGEST POSTER, at reasonable prices. INTERESTING DIALOGUE. Vheat—Meat—Cobbage—Potatoes—ilp ples—Grapel—Beets-7omatoes— Bread—Cui-e—dlnd some other Things—And the Boys and Girls Besides. SCENE--John Sniith's Country Store— TIME, Evening—SPEAKERS, Sundry Villagers, and Farmers who have " happened in as usual." Mr. Smith.—Trade is very dull nowa days; I don't sell half as much as I did five years ago. ,Mr. Jones.—Good reason. Things 're so high, we can't afford to buy. You charge such awful prices, Smith. Mr. Smith.—Can't help it,. I have to pay so much more. When I sold sugar at 10 cents a pound, I made a cent a pound, and I only make a cent now on 20 cents, and this cent prbfit don't go -ao far io_keep my family. Mr. Brown.—l boy just an much as ever. I don't see as there is much change. I used to sell. my 600 bushels of wheat for 75 cents a bushel; or $450. Of this, $250 went for family _store bills, and $2OO to iiity off my farm debt. Now, when I sell for $1.50 perbushel, or $9OO it takes-about $5OO for store bills, and tented $4OO to pay off-the debt. In fact these high prices suit me. I wish Mr, McCulloch bad kept out of the Treasury for he threatens to make Greenbacks par, and knock down prices. Mr. Price.-1 don't see as it makes much difference. If there is twice se much money going, and everybody gets twice as much for everything he raises, and pays twice as much for_ everything he boys, it all comes out square at the end ; and there is this gain in the opera tion : those who' save money, or mate a profit, make double, as neighbor Brown explains about paying his farm debt. Mr. Butler.—Thaea so. Mr. Greene.—So I think.—Mr. Moore. —So do I. , Mr. Baker.—There is a little draw back. 1 keep the accounts of Widow Roberts, who has the mortgage on Mr. Brown's farm, and the $4OO he pays, don't go only half so far in supporting her, and educating her children. Mr. Mavis, (the School Teacher ). Yes it does, for I only get $3O a month for teaching Mrs. Robert's and other's children, and I used to get $25, with wheat at 75 cents. Rev. Mr. Corey.—And I only get $6OO a year, while I always had $5OO with wheat at 75 cents and sugar 10- cents. Several froices.—That ain't quite square. _ , Mr. Knox, ( Editor ).—And you only pay me $2 a year for my newspaper, which you thought cheap at $1.50, five years ago, though 1 have , now to pay three times as much for everything I use in making a newspaper. Mr. Greene.—Why- don't you raise your prices, too ? Mr. Knoz.—People won't stand it. I must keep along: Wish no profit, Or . even - at ' a' hoping for better times, or else lose my subscribers, and let the paper go down. Why, when :.I raised the price from $1.50 to $2 a year; a good many stopped the paper-:ainotig' thim Mr. Brown himself, though I paid hint' double for his wheat. Mr. Browis.-4 didn't stop it eo mnch for the price; I wentin - for paying for My farm by extra econoely. Mr. Enex.—Yes, he followed my ad vice for people " to economize , and pay their debts now." But let ureee - Mr.` Brown began at the - right place. On one Saturday I published m my paper that wheat bad advanced 15 cents a hula s!. On -Mender Mr.' Brown went to tdirkerwilleidleWs6llclinditaMbui4 ale *Cobb 'dent galas over the old g6t. g tubtut Vonsebania *mat fir tke Conte MARIETTA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1866. price, and thought he did well. .:Lie came home boasting about it, until he met neighbor johrufon, who got the 15 cents advance, because he read my pa per, and was wide-awake. Mr. Brown's loss on 60 bushels would pay four-whole prim' subscription. Mr. Brown:--Don't say anything more about that, Mr. Knox, and put me down a iabscriber for life. Knox.—l have heard of several other such losses by those who stopped my paper. Not to be too personal, as some of them are here, rwill call them A, B, C, etc: Mr. A. paid 4 per cent more fees on $7l taxes, because he did not - see the collecter's notice in my paper, and thus lost $2.84, to save $2. Mr. B. paid $3.60 the same way. Mr. C. failed to bring in his claim against au estate, because he did not see in my paper the legal notice limiting the time. That cost him $34, to save $2 subscription. Mr. D. sold 200 pounds of wool at 62 cents, because he did not see an adver tisement of Mr. Smith, right here at home, offering 70 cents. That, cost him $l6, to save $2. Mr. F's. boys went down to the village every night or two, to get the news and local gossip, because they had no paper at home, and one of them fell into bad company, and is ruin ed. I know twenty cases where people lost money for not learning what is going on. I gather up all that is going on in business and society, and condense it in to my columns. It is important for every man to know all about home mat ters, and I doubt if there is a man in this whole town who would not, in- the course of &leer, get some information, that would pay him back mere than $2 a year. Anal then think of a household sitting dowm.together 365 days in'a year, and hating nothing to talk about, except their own affairs, and a few items °Pips sip, gathered up by occasional contact `CM other people. • Taylor.---Let me help Editor Knoxla argument. Wife read to me an item he published about a humbug, which he cofied from the American Agriculturist; of New York City. Next day one of these same humbugs came round- with his article, and was so plausible that he almost persuaded her into paying him $3, for his swindling recipe ; but the editor's - caution kepther back. A:max.—Yes, and do 'yeti know that .the fellow sold more- than fifty of the humbug recipes hereabouts, at $3 a piece Y but-not to any of my subscribers. Potts.—Pat me down as .16 subscriber, Mr. Knox, here -is your two dollars. Show.--And me too. Knox.—Thank you, gentlemen. I'll try to make a better paper than ,ever, Every dollar helps ; a new sabscr iber only adds to my expense the co at of pa per. If everybodyto2k the paper, and thus divided the cost of getting news, setting, gine° rent, etc , I. could double the value of the paper le each. Please talk the matter over with other neighbors and see if it cannot , be dpne. &veral I%oices.—We , will. Sinith.—And now while you life about it, I' want to make up a club-for a good ` New York paper. BroMn.—We can't afford to take so many papers. Smith.—Xoe has,jiet seen that you could not afford to stop year 'home pa, per:; let ns see if jt will not pay,to join our club. Mr. Bir t h, you have taken the American Agriculturist for urinal years. Does it pay? ilich.—Pay? Yes, fifty tildes over`: Why I got two ten-aire fields ready to OW to 'wheat; and pat one Of thein. That night my Agriculturist ca me, and I read a simple recommendation' shout preparing seed wheat: I called .:;John and we put 15 bnalkels snok, for the nest day. It cost 50 dente for the ma terials. Well, tinikeecoad field , yielded 5 bushels an acre more than the other— or 50 bushels extra, and better wheat too. Pretty good pay' for $1.50 expen ded fora paper. .And I hive got loth of other hints almost an profitable. You know I get better plofiti on my beef pork andmition, then any other tean the place. Plow tis does not come fiom any direct hint, like the wheat but , from a good many suggestione that I have picked - up bireading ^the% Atridur. Wrist. 'and from the :Oeurse "of iefijoning that kbave been led into, by' rending in it what others do, and think, and say. ,Smith.—Yon are inWthei entwacriber to the ..diriciatnia, Mr West ; does it pay t... •s' Yes: You know what good cabbeimi sad potatoes I hid l astt ...jl4 o lo ol f.- Whl..tlip cab.l;agier were Worth doublowdredwimanismapJor unitketer for home ww.-11WO011ideemottb.Is coos a pliece, titre ; and they only coot 20 cents extra for seed. My 250 boat els of potatoes are' all engaged for sead at $1.50 a bushel, when otherlinds ing only 50 cernts. That's $250 clear gain, for the $l4 extra I paid for seed, and the $1.50 I paid for the Agriculturist. It was through this paper that I learned about both the cabbages. and potatoes. Its editors are careful, intelligent men, on the constant lookout `;for anything new that is really good, while the pa per abounds in cantiois ttgainst the, poor and unprofitable. Smith.—What say yon, Mr. Taylor ? Does it pay to invest. $1.50 in the Agri culturist ? Taylor.—Nost certainly. - A hint in he paper led me to look 'after certain insects at the proper time, and the re sult was, I had 160 barrels of splendid apples, which brought me a clean $5 per barrel, and this , you know was better by $l, than the average prices here, or SI6P. Then I have read so much about _good and bad times, the method of treating thein, etc., that I can beat the town in Tieing grapes profitably. My son. Wil liam, got a kink in his head., about To matoes,• from something the Editors said, and sent for some seed. He made more money on the crop raised in his spare hours, than was cleared by half the farmers in this town. Smith.—Let's hear from Mr. Crane. Crane.—l only read in the paper what waty said about hogs—what kind paid best, how to feed them, and the like ; but if you will call around and see my porkers, and my expense account, I'll bet a pippin I can Eh:low fifty dollars more of pork for the same money, than any other man here. And this•.: comes from readinurtial, oiher men think and do. But Wife aught to be here.to speak. She and. the girls read the Agriculturist next to the Bible. They think the bollsericild department Is . worth more than all the - t e as ion magazines in the world. They say, it is so fall of good hints about all kinds of house Work. All I can say is, that we do have better bread and-cake ; and wife says the cake don't cost so much as it used to do. She has learned from the paper how a hundred other housekeepers do their work. Rev. Corey.—Let me say, also, that Mrs. Crane and , her daughters have ad ded a good many beautiful but. cheap home-made fixtures to their parlor and sitting-rooms, which pertaioly make their homes more attractiie. They told me , the other day, they got thoee .np from pictures and deacriptions in the Agricui- 2:221 Travis. —My salary has not allowed me to take the paper ; though I must squeeze oat enough to do so- this year. My school boys have brought me some copies to look at, the past year or two, and I Sod the Boy's and Girl's depart ment of the Agricuiturist the best thing I ever saw It is full of items, etc., that amuse and at the same time instruct the children. Why, . I could pick out the boys and girls in my school whose par ents take the Agriculturist, just by hear ing them talk—they are so full, of new and good thin gs . they have learned from the paper. The papei hns many beanti . ful engravings. Pev: Corey.—iii Knell as is my salary, I would have the paper if it cost 5 a year; instead of 150. The feet is, it helps - Out my salary. My little garden plot at the parsonage lies yielded us al most all our table - vogetables, besides many beautiful flowers. The Agricul ;twist has been my constant guide. I ,knew but little of gardening ; but this * paper is so full of information about the best-things to plant and sow, when to plant, and how to cultivate—all told in so plain and practical a way, by men who seem .to talk from their own expe rience, that I knOw list what to do, and how, to do it well. The high moral tone of the paper,_its common sense, the-care it takes of all parts of the Farm, the Garden, the- Orchard 7 --the„ Household work, and the, Obibiren as well, with its hundreds of beautiful and. instructive en .gravinge7-make it the, most valuable .periodical I have ever seen. I heartily every one of my parishioners woald take 'it for hitnseltand faintly. It would awaken thought and enter Prise, give in ;West, to the town ant, neighborhood talk, - stimulate improvement, introduce new and profitable crops, _animals and iinplaments, and add to one wealth. Take my advice. and oryciti - try the paper eyes:. The $1,50 at 8048, iS only the ceuteA weal;, indit isxorth that Why tholarge and beautiful any way._ . engravings are-worth many times that. Basis torli the deittiseis: AO/4r "link year, suilt‘ski tom` blis = sty ppad; thought I would take a new paper. Smith.— The "Geneses Farmer," was not really stopped. The Publishers of the Agriculturist invited Mr. Harris to jein the Farmer to the Agriculturist, and pat his whole force into the latter paper. They paid him a large price for his of fice, and moved it with everything con nected with it to their office. So the. Agriculturist is really two papers joined into one, and of course better. I think we better go with Mr. Harris to the Agriculturist, that has been published for 25 years, and has a hundred thousand circulation, which, as Mr. Knox has told ns, supplies the means and facilities for giving us a great deal more for the same money. •Mr. Harris carries on hie large (arm, and in his "Walks and Talks on the Farm," And other things he writes for the Agriculturist, he tells us a great deal about all kinds of farm work. Duvis.—Put me down for the Agri culturist. Smith. —I am glad to do so. I know yon will like it. The January number, which has just come to hand, is alone worth the cost of a year. .See here, (showing it,) there are 40 pages, twice as large as themagazine pages, and the:. are thirty : five engravings in it, two of them full page size, and see how beauti ful I Why, I'll give any meg whO takes the paper a year, a dollar and a half in goods out - of my store, if he says at the end of a year be has not got many times , his money's worth. Butler.—Pat me in your club. Greene.—. And me too.—Brown.—And me. Smith.—l have no interest in the mat ter, excel-t to do a good thing for the place. You can join our club, or any one who desires can get the _Agricultur ist for all of 1866. (Volunie 25),. by 'Amp. ly enclosh4 $1.50, with his name and post office address, and sending it to ORANGE JUDD & Co., 41 PARK Istow, NEw YORK Ornr. The paper always comes prompt and regularly, and,• what, is .a good thing, it stops when your time' is up, without you having to write about it. I predict that there will be• plenty of others next winter, to talk as Mr. Rich, Mr. West, Mr.-Crane and Parson Corey have done to-nighty Fetid. Feet. Some persons can be "smelled" a mile off, more, or less ; it is a misfortune, and a source of very great mortification to the refined and sensitiv. It may ba "bore" with some with others, if ndt all, it is thepresult of a diseased condi tion of the system, or a neglect of per sonal cleanliness. There is a peculiar odor emanating from the feet, which is Perhaps, always the result of uncleanli ness. If daily washings do not remove these ciders, a very efficient Wash is found in red oxide of lead, one part to twenty nine parts of , the liquor of the sub-acet ata of lead the first to be bruised in a porcelain mortar, gradually adding_ the latter ;Apply a few drape once a week, oftener in summer. A spec 6 _ c odor escapes every one,and is Peculiar to the individual p the dog knows it, and by it follows bin mister. through any crowd of human beings, and never makes a mistake. A man's organ. of smell is not thus acutely developed ; Still there , are persons whose peculiar penetrating odor is readily .recognized. This does not come - from the "sweat" of a person, as no such odor issues from the hands. but from the arm pits and other parts kept covered by the:clotbing, so that the air cannot penetrate ; nor is the application of soap and water too frequently allowed. When the "sweat" 'remains in contact with the skin, it un dergoes a chemical change;and it ie this which disengages the peculiar!, greeable oddr, as to the feet. p IMAM:dm - - 1y ; thus this chemical formation is a kind of fetid fat, which is absorbed into the pores of the leather, and there it is 'detained with fresh ndditions daily, for weeks and - montbs, with increasing • ran cidity, as the smell of any old boot or shoe will deakonstrate. Some persons wear stockings without changing from the time thdy. are first put on until they are worn full of holes. Very many do not wash their feet oftener than once a month, only a - few . as often 'is once -a • week. The feet ought to be washed ev ery night beforo going to bed, and no stocking, boot or shoe should' biiput on second time, until it has had a whole day's sunning, et least by those who have an 'ambition to-be and . feel as sweet and clean.as a dew-drop on_the r9se,of pum meri or put two table -spoons of the cOmpound spirits ofammonia (hartstiorp) in a basin of water, and-wash the face, luisde, urine, arm-pits and !set I,rith fit The situ is deft" freak,blesit, and overst';- it is per , assiw but perfectly, bllkrOlgea sat. little.—Ball'aAurncrl of Eteithi. VOL. XII.--NO. 25. A VERY PROPER ANSWER.—Gen. Clin ton B. Fisk, in charge of the Bureau of Refugees and Abandoned Lands for Kentncky and Tennessee, has his head quarters at Nashville. and has much trouble with the "poor whites," who are beggarly, mean and impudent. A Nash ville letter says :—. "Not long since a woman from the refugee camp, which the Government has been supplying with subsistence for 'some time, called on Gen. Fisk for the purpose of getting transportation or ra tions, She Wits a fair specimen of the tobacco-chewing, snuff-taking 'white trash' ofTennessee. After considerable conversation of a general character, th( following occurred : Refugee.—' Mister Fisk, be yon al Abolishionist r General F.—' Indeed, madame, I be Refugee.—' But you don't believe i nigger equality, do you ?' General F.—' I do not think, mademi that you have occasion for the slightel Uneasiness on the subject of negro eqias ity ; for you must certainly learn a grel deal more, and do a great deal bette before you can possibly be on an equal ty 'with a great many of the negroes.' Our female refugee departed withou much ceremony, and it is predicted tha, she will throw her influence in favor of the conservative candidate at the com ing Congressional election." WAS IT A " WATERFALL ?"—ln that admirable book "The Canoe and Sad dle," by the lamented Theodore Win throp, in the description of the manner of catching salmon by the Klalam Indi ans up in Puget's Sound, we find the following : " They don a head-gear like a.` rat's nest,' coofected of wool, feath ers, furry tails, ribbon and rags, consid ered attractive to salmon and highly magical." This sounds very like a de scription of the- modern "water-fall." Perhaps our belles took the hint from the Klalams and think their "head-gear' will make them more successful "fishers of men." - Wurrirsrso.—The attention of the mistress of a family was lately called to the fact that a little colored girl was constantly seen lying on the grass-plat, with her face turned up to the sun. Upon being questioned why she assumed that posture, she answered, "Why, blis sis always lam& things on the grass what she wants to make white. I want to-get white too." iffir A traveler relating his experience in the East Indies, alluded, to the great number of servants employed by gentle. men in that country. To take care of my pipe,' said he, ' I had four servants. • Is4t possible 1 'Yes ;it was the duty of the first to bring me the pipe ; the second filled it ; the third lighted it. 'And what did the fourth do The fourth smoked it—l never could bear tobacco myself. fir As father Taylor was giving a temperance address in Rocky Hill meet ing•house a certain drunkard was so much offended with his severe but truth ful remarks, that he rose up and began to hiss the speaker. Instantly after, Taylor turned the attention of the large audience to the insolent rowdy, and then forcibly said, as he pointed to his vic tim: "There's a red nose got into cold -watet ; don't you hear it hiss." irgr Dr. Letsom, a famous physician of the last century, used to sign his pre scriptions "I. Letsom," which gave rise to the following epigram : "When any patient calls in haste, \ rphysies, bleeds; and sweats 'em'. 11 after that they choose-to die, Why then, of course, I. LErs'Em." sr A parrot in a confectionary store at Waterbury, Conn., has been taught to say 'pretty creature' to each lady that enters the store. The result is that •the store is crowded all day—to Bee the parrot, of course, not to listen to its flattery. Jones says a person's character dcpends on good bringing up ; for in- Bianco (says he), a man who has been brought up by the police seldom turns out respectable. sir Dr. Carlyon describes a dinner party as "a hospitable attempt upon your life." W Age is venerable in man, and would n be in woman—if she ever became old. sir Man leads woman to the altar—in -that ad his leadership begins and ends. . He who liver- for himself alone iivep Fe.a Ineanii,tow.