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Summer Arrangement of the Boling and Columbia Railroad. J.RAINS of this road run by Reading Rail Road time, which is ten minutes faster NO that of Pennsylvania Railroad. On and after Wednesday, May 23d, 1866, loins of this road will run as follows : SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. WILL LEAVE COLUMBIA AT S:l5 s. ro., and arrive at Reading 10:15 a. m. 10:00 a. In., 1) " 12:15 noon. 3:40 p. m., IP 5:55 p. m. LEAVE ILEADIBIG AT ti:ls 5. m., and arrive at Columbia 9:05 a. m 12:05 noon, " " 2 : 15 p. 615 p. m., " " 8;25 p.m SUNDAY TRAINS: Leaves Columbia 7:30 a. m., and waives at Reading 9:40 a. m. Returning, leaves Read ing 6:05 Nom. and arrives at Columbia at 8:15 p.m. This train makes close connection at Reading far New York and Philadelphia, and return from Phila. LITI Z SUN DAY TRAIN hares Reading S:00 a. in. and arrives at Litiz 9:30a. m. returning, leaves Litiz 4:30 p. m. and arrives at Reading at 6:15 p. in. The 8.10 a.m. train from Columbia makes close connection with express trains at Read ing for New York, arriving there at 3.40 p. m. and Philadelphia 1.00 p. en. ; also for Potts. idle and the Lebanon Valley. Passengers leaving New York at 7.00 a. m end Philadelphia at 8.00 a. m. connect with twin leaving. Reading at 12.05 noon for Co hatia, York, and Northern Central R. R. Excursion tickets sold on all regular trains to parties of 25 or more, to and from all points. Apply to Gen. Ticket Agt. 0" Through tickets to New-York, Phila delphia and Lancaster sold at principal sta tions, and Baggage checked through. Freight corned with the utmost promptness and dis patch, at the lowest rates. Further informs 11011 With regard to Freight or passage, may be abtaired from the Agents of the Compa ny, Geo; F. GAGE, Superintendent. E, F. KEEVER, General Freight & Ticket Agt. House-P'ialtitiaig• AND PAPER-HANGING. The undersigned would respectfully an nounee to his old friends and the public generally, that he continues the above business in all its various branches Especial attention paid to plain and fancy paperhanging, China glossing, Frosting and Enamelling Glass, Graining of all kinds, &c. Thankful for past favors, would ask a con tinuance of the same. Residence a few doors rest of the Town Hall, oa Walnut street. DAVID FL MELLINGER. Marietta, Nov. 25, 1865.-IY. First National Bank of Marietta. THIS BANKING ASSOZTATION !Inure° COMPLETED ITS OROANIZAT/ON 15 now prepared to transact all kinds of BANKING BUSINESS: The Board of Directors meet weekly, on Itednesday, for discount and other business. It Dank Mount : From 9A.atto3 F. m. JOHN HOLLINGER, PRESIDENT. BOWMAN, Cash{ . THE LADY'S FR/END-- The Best of the Monthlies—devoted to Fashion and Pure Literature. $2.50 a ) ear ; TWO copies $4.00; Eight (and one gratis) Sl6. WHEELER & WILSON'S SEWING MACHINES given as premiums. Send 15 cetts for a sample copy to DEACON & PE TERSON, 319 Walnut at., Philadelphia. DR. J. Z. HOFFER, DENTIST, OF THE BALTIMORE COLLEGE " I " , OF DENTAL SURGERY, L ATE, OF HARRISBURG. Pi I CE:—Froat street, next door to R Williams' Drug Store, between Locust and Walnut streets, Columbia. 17 1.1.111.11 AN1EL G. BARER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LANCASTER, PA. r ,„ -----o:—:o bh °FP/ ' 4 :--No. 24 NORTH DRIER STREET toe,rNit the Court House, where he will at 'end t practice of his profession in all its virious branches. 1 . 1 DR. WM. B. FAHNESTOCK, -11102 :-MAtzt-ST., trzearcir OPPOSITE S Paligier & l'attereou'■ Store. PPFICE HOURS. FRoX '1 7 0 0 8 2 A. PI. " 6To7P. M. °BERT C. HARRIS PLASTERER. Wield located in the Borough of Marietta, Pe lt respectfully offer his services to the „le, and being determined to do his work and at reasonable prices, he hopes to merit sad receive a liberal share of public patronage. Marietta, May 12, 1865.-3t* SKIRT SUPPORTERS. an ex 444 C 'o F_ell s eiat at for ladies. Just received r aide at MRS. ROTH'S Variety Store. tlOll P RINTING of every description ex .ttuted With Mariettian . neatness and dispatch at the ° " L ee The RAlLsee them SICIRT...S.—Go to Mrs. ROTH'S and . • T.,#t I.lllarittlian. etc QT ntibteez Zurzt. A waggish cobbler, once in Rome s Put forth a proclamation, That he'd be willing to disclose For a due consideration, A secret which the cobbling world Could ill afford to lose— The way to make in one short day, A hundred pair of shoes. From every quarter to the, sight There ran a thousand fellows, Tanners, cobblers, boot-men, shoe-men, Jolly leather sellers, All redolent of beer and smoke, And cobbler's wax and hides : Each fellow pays his thirty pence And calls it chaap besides. Silence ! the cobbler enters, And casts around his eyes, Then curls his lip—the rogue then frowns, And then looks wondrous wise. " My friends? he says, "'tie simple quite, The plan that I propose; And every one of you, I think, Might learn it if you choose. "A good sharp knife is all you need In carrying out my plan; So easy is it none can fail, Let him be child or man, To make a hundred pair of shoes? Just go back to your shops, And takes hundred pair of boots, And cut off all the tops !" A BEAUTIFUL LEGEND.—Jesus and two or three of his disciples went down one day from Jerusalem to Jericho. Peter—the ardent and eager Peter— was, as usual, by the Teacher's side. On the road of Olivet lay a horse-shoe, which the teacher desired Peter to pick up; but which Peter let lie, as he did not think it worth stooping for. The Teacher stooped for it and exchanged it in the village for a measure of cher riee. The cherries he carried—as east ern men now carry such things—in the bosom of his dress, When they had to ascend the ridge, and the road lay between heated rocks and over ragged stones, and among glar ing white dust, Peter became tormented with heat and dust, and fell behind. Then the teacher dropped a ripe cherry at every few steps, and Peter eagerly stooped for them. When they were all gone Jesus returned to him and said with a smile: " Ho who is above stooping to a small thing will have to bend his back to many lesser things." A PROSPECT FOR PRUSSIA.—An En glish paper states that Gen. McClellan, who our readers will recollect as the great American general, who captured Yorktown with one hundred and twenty thousand men, after a month's siege, without losing a night's rest (or disturb ing any one else's) has given it as his opinion that, in a war between Prussia and Austria, Prussia must go to the wall. It has been suggested, however, that if Prussia could so intrigue as to induce Austria to give McClellan a general command, she might consider herself as being safely out of her peril. We are told, by-the-bye, that the Amer ican Napoleon based his conclusion against Prussia entirely upon a careful examination of the census tables.— Wilkes' Spirit of the Times. WORTH THE CHARM.—Young men are mistaken when they think good looks their principal recommendation to wo men. A woman admires a handsome man for a time, but it needs something more than a good-looking face to retain this feeling. A woman is, as a general rule, more strongly drawn by the intel lectual qualities of the opposite sex than by anythitig else. What is above said is also true of the gentler sex. A man frequently says of some belle: "Yes, she's very beautiful, bat I thank Heaven she isn't my wife I" Women like to be admired for their loveliness, and we do not mean to blame them for it ; bat it requires something more than mere beauty to enable them to retain their influence over men. ear Dr. Hall, in an elaborate article in his Journal of Health, on cholera and its treatment, takes the ground that calomel is the only proper remedy, and that to employ any other is to trifle with human life. Dr. Scott in a low article on the same subject, says It can not be denied that great fatality attend the treatment of cholera by calomel." Who shall decide when doctors dis agree r lar When Daniel Webster was a young man, about commencing the study of law, he was advised not to en- . ter the legal profession, for 'it, was al ready crowded. His reply was " There is room enough at the top." ''ilbtgritkilt ponsetrania &trim! for 14e Nome Cult. MARIETTA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1866. SHOCKING AFFAIR.—Amos Krat, Esq. was murdered by a negro at his resi dence near Shadwell depot, Albermarle county, Va., last week ; and horrible to relate, the negro, not satisfied with the life of his victim, took off his skin arid stretched it on a barn door. This is suf ficient proof of the esuential barbarity of the African race. The above is going the rounds of the Republican papers, and yet they insist on greater liberty for the negro. The hide and tallow are all that many men are worth. The negro has taken the former and stretched it on a barn door; yet the radicals seem anxious that he should be allowed further liberty, prob ably so he can have the latter to make into candles. We can come to no oth er conclusion. The account of the above horrible deed we have seen ex clusively in Republican papers, therefore it is for our readers to judge of its truth or falsehood.—Rutland Courier. We think all intelligent readers will appreciate the patriotic indignation of the Courier at the cruelty displayed in killing and skinning ~,Amos Krat—and when the perpetrator is a negro, the cruelty appears truly appalling. Oh, for a mirror! that -the editor of the Courier might behold himself rebuking a negro for slaving a muskrat.—Rutland Herald. Cr The officers of the Petroleum Bank at Titusville, and the Venango Bank, of Franklin, intend entering a suit against the State of Pennsylvania, for the recovery of a million and a quar ter of United States securities, deposit ed with Auditor General Slenker, as security for the circulating medium of those banks. The facts, as they are stated in official circles, are these : The firm of Culver, Penn & Co., were in the habit of taking the notes of the Venan go and Petroleum Banks for cancellation at the Auditor General's office, where they received a like amount of bonds for that which they presented in notes. It is now alleged that the parties thus redeeming these bonds were neither agents nor officers of these banks, and that the bonds were taken to New York, and hypothecated By Culver, Penn & Co. Senator Hoge, from the Venango district, alleges that it was without au thority of the banks ; that it was embezzlement, for which the Auditor General of the State, is responsible. tom' Anna Dickinson, in a Woman's Rights meeting at Boston lately gave some reminiscences of her early life. She had done hard manual labor, had sewed, taught, copied letters, stood in a store, worked in the Mint, before she choose the platform as a profession. Miss Dickinson brought down the house in enthusiastic applause by the state ment that the first money she ever earn ed was by scrubbing walks in Philadel phia, and that she was actuated to undertake the labor by a determination to obtain the means to buy a ticket to hear Wendell Philips lecture. Gir The following is a remedy to pre vent birds from carrying off cherries Put a cat in a box, made of strips of boards, and place the box in the tree. The strips should be, placed just far enough apart so as not to allow " puss " to escape, and yet render her perfectly visible. As soon as the birds see the box with the cat inside, they will imme diately fly away and not return to the tree. eir Tons of bristles, for which many thousands of dollars would gladly be paid by brush manufacturers, are annu ally wasted throughout the 'United States. Here is a chance for farmers' boys to "do good and make money.' Whenever a hog is slaughtered, pick out the bristles, tie them in a bunch, the but-ends all one way, and sell them to the country storekeeper, who will find a ready market for them in the city. ear The Boston Transcript says : Wade Hampton's complaint that South Carolina is not represented in Congress is equal in effrontery to the appeal of the criminal who killed his father and mother, and then asked the Court to have pity on him as he was an orphan. The last fashionable bonnet which appeared on the promenade in Paris, consisted of a single vine-leaf of pink silk, laid flat on the top of the head, the said vine-Icaf being edged with glass pendants, imitating dew drops, and kept in its place by a pair of •pink strings. far The bill to license and legalize liquor selling in Massachusetts was de feated in the house by a vote of 1.46 to 49. "I SAW HER BUT A MomENT."—She wore a handsome crinoline on the day when first we met, and she scudded like a schooner with a cloud of canvass set. .As she swept along the pavement, with a grandeur fit to kill, I saw her but a moment, yet methinks I see her still. The wind was on a bender, and as saucy as a witch, and played the 'very dickens with the duet, dimity and sich. The gaiters were delicious, which her feet were made to fill—l saw her but a mo ment, yet methinks I see her still. She scooted round the corner, and, streaming out behind, her crinoline and calico were romping in the wind ; to have them in position would have baffled twice her skill—l saw her but a moment, yet me thinks I see her still. I shut my eyes tremenjus, for I didn't want to see a dis play of pretty ankles when it wasn't meant for me; and until I lose my sen ses, I am sure I never will—l saw her but a moment, yet methinks I see her still. RECEPTION BY THE " SPIRITS."-At spiritualists meeting in New Jersey on Sunday, one of the mediums, a MiES Bullene, gave the following account of the reception of Gen. Scott in the spirit land:—"Gen. Scott was received by all the spirits en masse. At his right stood Washington. Behind him was Wellington, the Iron Duke. At his left appeared the . late Czar of Russia. Before him, with folded arms, Napoleon was stationed as the representative of France. Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Lincoln, and the other deceased Presi dents of this Republic, whose names Miss Bullene had clearly forgotten, act ed as the reception committee. All the dead heroes of the recent war were on duty, with many thousands of other fa mous people whom Miss Bullene would not name. The reception ceremony was exceedingly modest. A little child whom the General had dearly loved was deputed to present him with a crown of laurel, and as it was placed upon the hero's head there was exclamations from the vast throng." A TEMPERANCE MAN.-A. master coop er called upon a colored man in Ohio, and wished to purchase some stave-tim ber. He inquired for what purpose he wanted it, and received for answer, "I have contracted for so many whiskey. barrels." " Well, sir," was the prompt reply, "I have the timber for sale, and want mon ey; but no man shall purchase a stave from me for that purpose." • The cooper was indignant to meet such stern reproach from a black, and called him a nigger. " That is very true," mildly replied the other. "Itis my misfortune to be a negro ; I can't help that; but I can help selling my timber to make whiskey barrels, and I mean to do it." THE FAMILY RECORD.--" The post office in our village," writes a Vermont lady, " was kept in the bar room of the tavern,—a great resort for loungers. An old chap, more remarkable for his coarseness and infidelity than his good manners, was sitting there_one day, with a lot of boon companions, when the Methodist preacher, a new comer, enter ed, and asked for his letters. Old Swipes asked bluntly, "Are you the Methodist parson just come here to preach 7" "I am," pleasantly replied the minis- " 'Well," said Swipes, " will you tell me how old the devil is ?" "Keep your own family record," quickly returned the preacher, and left the room amidst the roars of the com pany. far A. horticulturist advertised that he would supply all sorts of fruit trees and plants, especially pie-plants of all kinds. A gentleman thereupon sent him an order for one package of custard pie seed, and a dozen rgince pie plants. The gentleman promptly filled the order by sending him four goose eggs and a small dog. sir M. Thevenin, speaking of French girls, declares that he had rather turn hermit, and spend his whole life in con templation, thin espouse one of those empty, stupid, proud, and pretentious women, who believe they are gifted be cause they can get through a polka, dis tinguished because they are draped with cashmere, and well-born because they do not know the price of butter.- !Er Red noses are lighthouses to warn voyagers on the sea of life off the coasts of Madeira, Jamaica, Santa Cruz, and Holland. THE HAIRS OF THE HUMAN HEAD.- Only a German could have patience to count the hairs of the human head, which have been commonly supposed to be " without number." The results are sufficiently curious to reward the inves tigation. The hair from the heads of four women, weighing about fourteen ounces to the head, was taken, and on the head of the blonde was found 140,- 419 hairs ; of the brown-haired, 109,440 ; of the black-haired, 202,962, and of the red-haired woman 83.740. ar The amount of commutation paid in the several States during the war was as follows : Maine, $610,200 ; New Hampshire, $288,500; Vermont, $593,- 400 ; Massachusetts, $1,610,400 ; Rhode - Island, $141,300 ; Connecticut, $457,- 200 ; New York, $5,485,799; New Jet soy, $1,265,700 ; Pennsylvania, $8,634,- 300 ; Delaware, $416,100 ; Maryland, $1,31,900 ; District of Columbia, $96,- 900 ; Kentucky, $997,530 ; Ohio, $l,- 978,087.; Illinois, $15,900; Indiana, $235,500 ; Michigan, $614,700; Wiscon sin, $1,533,600 ; lowa, $22,500 ; Minne sota, s3l6,Boo.—Total, $26,366,316. fair Paper, manufactured from wood, is now being freely made at several places in New England. The mills we think will go on increasing in number until the price of paper shall come down to a rate which will allow publishers of newspapers to pay their way by their subscriptions. For the last four or five years the struggles of publishers cannot be imagined by the readers of their pa pers. The price which has been charg ed for newspapers has borne and still bears no comparison to the cost. 6.3 r An Irish writer says that one ex pected and curious effect of the cattle disease in England has been to raise the value of goats . to an extraordinary degree. These hitherto despised ani mals are now exported in considerable numbers from Ireland, and have been sold in several English counties at from four to five pounds each, the ordinary price being not over ten shillings. fir Remember—it is oot what people eat, but what they digest, that makes them strong. It is not what they gain, but what they save, that make them rich. It is not what they read, but what they remember, that makes them learned. It is not what they profess, but what they practice, that makes them good. .stuf fax ~%tltlitif A newspaper correspondent says that in Georgia, where Sheridan's army made a sweep of all the carriages, the ladies go visiting in carts. They call them cartes de visite, and console themselves with the thought that they are in the height of fashion. If one .pine tree can make pitch, how many will, make a pitcher Y If one twinge of pain make an ache, how many will make an acre ? And if it take four men two days to eat a ham, how long will it take to eat a ham-er A gentleman, walking with two ladies stepped on a hogshead hoop, that flew np and struck him in the face. " Good gracious 1" said he, "which of you drop ped that ?" A correspondent writes that, if we de sire it, he will "send ns something to fill up with." That's just what we want. Suppose yon commence now with a good roasting piece of beef and a barrel of flour. A punster says, " My name is Somer set. lam a miserable old bachelor. I cannot marry ; for how could I hope to prevail on a young lady possessed of the slightest notions of delicacy, to turn a S omerset." " Have you seen my black-faced ante lope 1" inquired Mr. Lewcode, who has a collection of animals, to his friend. " No, I haven't. Whom did your black faced aunt elope with 4" "-Mr. Swipes, I've just kicked your son William out of my store." " Well, Mr. Swingle, it's the first bill you've footed this many a day." An English confectioner has taught his parrot to call every lady entering his shop a "pretty creature." His cus tom is increasing. Brigs has a great faculty for getting things cheap. The other day he had a beautiful set of teeth inserted for next to nothing. He kicked a dog. If a speaker coughs when he hesitates fora thought or a word, consider it the hem of hisdiscourse. Houses should be furnished with luige lights for the convenience of the livers. VOL. XII.-NO. 47. Wonderful Discovery The following letter, says the New Mexican, published at Santa Fe, N. M., accompanied with the bone referred to, was received by Mr. Cooley last week. It is a strange and remarkable story, and were the narrator other than Dr. W. T. Strachan, we would hesitate be fore giving it credence. Dr. Strachan is a gentleman of the strictest veracity ; be has frequently been a member of the Legislature, and was also a member of the State Constitutional Convention, besides occupying other positions of honor and profit conferred upon him by a confiding and appreciative people. The bone above alluded to has been on exhibition in this city at Frank Green's El Dorado,' and has attracted thous ands of visitors. We sincerely hope that Dr. Strachan will give to the world the results of the further investigations which he promises to make. But here is the letter : ALBITRQUERQUE, May 10, 1866 O. E. COOLEY, Esq., Santa Fe, N. M. Dear Sir—This is truly an age of wonders ; every day unravels some hid den mystery or brings forth wonderful discoveries. Holy writ proclaims, that in the antideluvian world there were nations of giants. Uriah Parke, the celebrated antiquarian, cites numerous instances of the remains of human beings of almost incredible dimensions being found in both the old and the new world ; the most extraordinary of which were discovered in 1827 in the Gaunt Mountains in south western Hindostan, where two lead coffins, one forty and the other sixty feet in length- were found, containing human skeletons of prodigious size and it seems that the counter parts are now to be exhumed from the mountain cases of New Mexico to again astonish the scientific world. The recent remarkable discoveries you made of the remains of a skeleton of gigantic dimensions has been equall ed if not surpassed by a discovery I made of similar remains while prospecting in the Sandia Mountains, about eighteen miles N. E. of this place. I herewith forward you a bone which is pronounced by Drs. Weeds and Christian to be the first phalanx of the little finger, and in the opinion of the above named medical gentlemen the individual to whom it originally belonged must have been at least 40 feet high 9 feet across the shoul ders and have weighed 3,600 pounds. They likewise believe that although the bone is in a comparative good state of preservation that it may have rested where it was found for 1500 to 2000 years. It is truly a great curiosity, and Drs. Weeds and Christian propose to visit the cave where the remains were found with me and if possible secure the entire skeleton, and send it as a great national curiosity to the Army Medical Museum in Washington city. Please preserve the phalanx; if lost it would render the skeleton incomplete. I made the discovery on Monday last, while prospecting for silver in company with M.arehal Pratt and several others. We were climbing up a narrow and al most impassable ravine in the south west slope of the Sandia Mountains, and discovered a low narrow opening in the nicks of the rocks at our left hand ; this we entered, and it soon widened into a spacious Cave. We prepared torches and determined to explore it as far as we could safely do so. After a great deal of toil in climbing over loose and rugged rocks we entered an immense chamber; the walls and roof were dot ted all over with semilite and the reflect. ed light of our torches from this crystal ceiling presented such a degree of brill. ancy as to defy my powers of description. At the further extremity of the chamber I discovered the gigantic remains ;of which the bone I send you constituted a part. I first thought it mast be the skeleton of a Mastidon, the thigh bone being nearly 9 feet long and as thick as my waist, yet the distribution of the bones were such as to preclude the pos sibility of it being any other than a hu man skeleton, and examination of the teeth and some other bones confirmed the opinion. So did the more scientific examination of the medical gentlemen above referred to. As I stated above that in company with Drs. Weeds, Christian I shall again visit this cave and remove all the bones that can be found, to this place, for more careful and scientific examination. Upon our return I shall take great pleasure in communicating to you the further results of our investigations into the mysteries and wonders of this newly discovered cave, and of these evidences of a now extinct , animal-creation. Very respectfully, yonre truly, IW. T-
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