RAILROADS. PHILADELPHIA AND READING R.R. ,V It It A N (1 K M K N T 0 F PA88KNGKHTHAIN8 ' xNOVEMlJElTTotli, 1870. Trains Lcnre HarrlBburg as Follows i For New Vork via Allentown, at 8.10. s.05 a. m. ami 1.45 p. m. ... . Kor New Vork via Philadelphia and "Bound Brook Houte," tf.2u, iFant JSxp.) 8.S6 a. m. aud ' 'rfiroii'dh ear arrives In New York at la noon. Kor Philadelphia, at 6.15, O.'JJ (.KasHsxp) S.0A, 1.65 a. in.. 1.45 and l.Ou p. in , . . Kor Heading, at A. 15, 9.ao( Fast Exp.) 106, 9.08 a. m., 1.4.'.,4.iki, Kiid s.n p. m. Kor PoUsville. at 6.15. g.Oi a. m. and 4.00 p. m.. and via Huliuylklll and Busiiuehauiia nrauoh at a. 4o p. m. Kor Auburn, via Schuylkill and Hnsquehanna Branch ato.Hoa.m. ...., Kor Lancaster and Columbia, S.1S, 8.06 a m. and 4. (Hi p. n. Kor Allentown, at 6.15, 8 05, 0.55 a. m., 1 45 and life 8.05 a. m. and 1.45 p. in. trains have throiiKli oars (or New Vork. The g oo tralu has through cars for Pblladel- ''xhi 8.C5 a. m. anil 1.45 p. in., trains make rlosn Connection at Heading Willi Main Lino trains havhm through cars lor New fork, via "Bound Brook Koute." HUNDAYH 1 For New York, at 5.20 a. m. Kor Allentown and Way Hiallons, at 5.30 a. m. Kor Heading, I'hlldelaphla, anil Way Blallun". at 1.46 p. in. Trains Leave Tor Harrlsburg as Follow t Leave New York via Allentown, 8 45 a. 111 , 1.W ami 5 30 p. 111. Leave New York via "Bound Brook Route." and Philadelphia at 7.45 a. in., l.so aud M.uo p. m., or rlvliiK at lliirrlHbiiiR. It 8.20 p. in., and &2up.in. Through cur, New Vork to llarrlslnirg. ave Lancaster. 8.05 a m. aud 3.h0 p. in. Leave Columbia, 7.65 a. m. and 3.40 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at (Moa. in., 4.00 and 6.90 (Kant Kxp) and 7 45 p. 111. Leave Poiutvllle.e.on, lUOa. m. and 4.40 p. n. Leave Heading, at 4.60, 7.25,11.50 a. ui., 1.30,0.15, 8.00 and 10.35 p. ill. Leave Pottavlile vlaHchuylklll and Susquehanna Branch, 8.2 a. in. 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TUB undersigned hrvlng opened a WHEELWRIGHT SHOP, NEW 13LOOMFIELD, are now prepared to do any kind of work in their line, in any style, at prices which cannot fall to (lv satisfaction. Carriages of all atjles built and ail work will be warranted. 8TOUKFER & CRIST. New Bloomneld, April 23, 187. REWARD Blind, Itchinjt, or lJloerUxI PHeMthkt l-ltlnBB i kmurdvfajlitomm. Git I burned tat mliei, cure mm of long Unding in 1 week and ordinary m Id I dui, I T AM yrintd on it in blark mf Slonnt OR'J pr.'J, P. JHIIt'i tnmnm, . ! sboltla. Sold I,r mil druiiiri.la. ..ut bj nitl bf I V Mil I 1 Put., li. W. aw 1WU nun Anb bt, f kiUv , t laly fpinnn I w W Alaska Curiosities. IN IIARTI'OIID, recently, Mr. J. . Tttady gave a lecture on Alaska, Illus trating his ilUcourae with a map, and also with a bit; trunk full of curiosities and products of Alaska. These he piled Upon the tables aliawla, canoes, fishing apparatus, and a long string of curlosl tics, chiefly ornamented In high colors. A big potato and turnip were among the products. The wood included the yel low cedrtr-a beautiful fine-grained artl clc, light as white wood, but much superior for many purposes, and suscep. tible of a tine polish. Its color Is that of a rather pule lemon. The Russian had occupied Alaska for Us seul fisheries for a century. Our coast line was pointed out on the map to the point where, tuiniiig north, It reaches Mount St. Ellas, a mountain 18,000 feet high, and having huge glaciers. Beyond, it goes west to Retiring sea. There Is a coast line of 2,300 miles. The whole territory of Alaska comprises OHO ,000 square miles, by far the most extensive of our posses sions, and reaching north Indefinitely to the pole, perhaps. Bltka and Fott Wrangle are down toward the southeast part, on the coast. Captain Cook sailed around there In the lust century, and Cook's Inlet bears his name. The Rus sians held a monopoly of the fur trade till wo bought the country, In 1807. People have been taught that It was an Insane purchase, and both Reward and Humner have been blamed but I tblnk It Is the finest possession we have, and it will yield a good return. At once there was a rush of speculators to Alas ka, and pre emption claims were set up. The do vein men t directed that such claimants be forced out, at the point of the bayonet If neceBBary and the troops were sent up there. They have discour aged the settlement of the country. That Is why so little is known of It. Alaska, has 1,100 Inlands. They extend along the coast for a thousand miles. All through that great distance steamers can go on deep but smooth water, all the way. The Beal rocks lie oil to the west, there, in Retiring sea. Up there, Inland, toward the north, flows the great Yukon river 2,000 miles long, and almost as big as the Mississippi; it empties through a delta into Behring's straits. The thousand islands along the south ern sea shore of Alaska rise sheer, like rocky mountain walls, out of the sea, and large ships can sail right up to them; they are. mountains rising up from the sea, and presenting the most magnificent scenery I have ever met with. The climate around Hltka Is mild and not subject to the extremes you have here. Hltka is up north In latitude 57, but it has no cold winter weather and no hot summer weather. Last winter the lowest point reached at any time was 27; and winter before last there was no tee whatever. It is a very agreeable summer climate. In fact the southern coast, from Fort Wrangle to Bltka, Is the most delightful spot on the globe. It is, climatically speaking, well balanced. There are no Insect pests, no tormenting Hies, no bugs. It is a para dise. The coast scenery is absolutely mag nificent. You can sail right up to it. I saw from one place seven great glaciers pouring over the slopes of Mt. Fair weather. It is the testimony of those who have seen both, that this Alaska scenery surpasses that of the Alps or the Pyrenees. . ' The people have their good and their bad traits. First, as to their bad quail ties they are great gamblers. They will gamble away their last dollar or their last blanket. I Here the speaker exhibited their "gambling-sticks,' a curious arrangement. They will bet on canoe races a man will bet his slaves, and lose all. I have seen this. Another of their vices is llcen tiousness, which dates from the arrival of the white races among them. They are also fond of strong drink. And they progress they now make their own liquor. One Lawson taught them how. He distilled a mash iuto rum by rigging up an oil-can, putting in a " worm," and showing them how to do it. The liquor is called " Hoo chlno." Our soldiers there will drink anything in the shape of liquor, and if they cannot get that they will drink Worcestershire sauce, and even red Ink, for the alcohol it contains. An Indian woman Imparted the secret of making rum out of molasses. At once a great demand arose for molasses, and it sold for 60 cents a gallon when I was there. Everybody seemed to be carrying a pall of molasses. I inquired into It and found what it was for. This rum-drink-ing has wrought great mischief among them. Another bad quality of these Alaskans Is their belief in witchcraft. They cremate the bodies of most people but there are a few persons who are possess ed of a' spirit;" these are "doctors," and are treated almost ' reverentially. Their bodies are not burned. The " doc tor" Is marked from birth by some curl in the hair; that makes him sacred, atx lve oau accuse anybody of being a witch or wizard and unless the accused confesses, death is the penalty; while social ost racism follows confession. The " doctor" Is also consulted In cases of slokncss. One person whom a "doctor" had accused was saved, at Bltka, by the authorities sending word to the"doolor" that If the accused were killed, ho, the accuser, should also be hung. The lecturer then spoke of the good qualities of the people. They are some what Christianized, are faithful, power ful, industrious workers, and can be depended upon $ are faithful to contracts; work well lit the salmon-canning facto rles ; can make the tin cans ; have a love and faculty for the acquisition of property ; are keener traders than we are; lay up provisions for winter; have a jolly time winters, and alone of all seml-clvillzed or nearly civilized people they show their superiority by the social position of woman. The woman Is the head of the house. Her children take her family name not her husband's. Her husband cannot will the property. The wife, and the unmarried woman also, does pretty much as she pleaseB. The husband does not make a bargain to carry a party up the river in a boat without asking his wife what the price Is to be, aud so of all the furs they sell she decides the price they shall ask. A curious and Ingenious arrangement for a halibut hook was exhibited. Also specimens of native boats. They cut down a big tree, burn out and hew out the mlddlo, fill it with water, put in red-hot stones to boll the water, cover it over, let the wood become steamed, then spring it out, into the requisite flaring boat shape, by inserting still cross wedges. The resources of the country Include a great amount of furs, besides those of the seals, which pay $3 each to Govern ment, aud the company is permitted to take 100,000 a year. The timber is valuable spruce, fir, and a beautiful yellow cedar bright and lasting. The fisheries are abucdaut, and superior to those of Newfoundland, etc., for which we pay such a sum In money and life. The abundance and size of the salmon Isatna.lng; and cod and halibut abound. A little fish like the sardine, but more delicate, is thrown ashore by the ton. Bears and deer are plenty ; the finest venison in the world Is there, and the cheapest. Berries are in variety even wild strawberries, and two or ' three varieties of huckleberries. Birds of all kinds, even to the eagle and the swan. Qold mines have been opened, and are doing well. Iron seems to be there In great amount. All that Is needed to start Alaska on the road to prosperity aud population Is the establishment of laws. This, Congress should see to. A Dutchman Who Wanted an Interview. HE ENTERED Ihe Journal office with blood in his eyes. He had on an array overcoat, a plush cap and a frown darker than a thunder cloud folded three thick. He looked at the foreman, who was just sitting down to give a man credit for seventeen cents on subscription, and sternly inquired; " Vhere lsh der aidltor V" " He Just stepped out a moment ago." " Bhtepped oud,eh? Vhen vll heshtep inV" " Expect him back very soon. Any thing I can do for you V " Maype he knows I vas gooming, and dot's vy ho shtepped oud ?" " Well, I couldn't say as to that."- "GooUn't ehV Veil, 1 valt a leedle und he comes back. I baf a leedle pin ti neas mlt him. Vat uas he peen zaylng 'bout me in dot Shournal, eh " " About you V I don't know sir." "Veil, by shlminy, he says I vas got drunk und made some rows von tay, und I shoost see 'bout dot." "I think you must be mistaken, sir, I " " Dink I vos, eh V Maype I got some friends vot toleme 'bout dot 1 I find oud all 'boud Id, by shlminy I He says I vos drunk und made some drouble, und ven he gooms pack I shoost see 'boud dot. I plack his eyes, by shlminy, und glck him und knog his brains oud, maype, for dot. Shoost let him goom pack und I show him all 'boud id. I gick him right avay down stairs bo gwlck der leedle guss von't find oud vot vas ailed him, I' bait you." ' But my friend, guess you don't know him. He is twice as big as you are; he weighs two hundred and forty pounds, and got lots of muscle." " He vas very large 1"' " Well, yes, about the size of Adklns, down here on the street." "Ishdot soV Adklns ves a sloud man." " YA, either of them can pick up a barrel of salt and throw it across the road without a grunt." , " Py shiminy, ish dot so V" " Yes. There comes the editor now," cried the foreman, aiming bis linger at Col. Wilson (a 240 pound man,) who was just coming down the street. " Dot vas der aidltor y Vel, if he didn't nay nottlng 'bout me dot vas all right." " Let's see, your name is 1"' " Yaw, dot lsh my nnnie." " Well, come to think, I believe he did say In the Journal a week or two ngo that you got drunk at 's saloon,' kicked out three or four window lights, smashed up a few chairs, and that you tried to steal five cents of a small boy to buy another drink with." Vos dot all he said V " I believe lie said that a man who would conduct himself In such an outra geous manner ought to be turred and feathered, and rode out of town ' on a rail." "Vhat else did he zay V" " I think he closed by remarking that if he'd been the owner of that property, he'd a smashed you up into Dutch cheese In less than two minutes." " Und dot vas all he zay 'bout me In dose papers V" " Well, that Is about all I can remem ber now." " Veil, py shlminy, I vas a pig fool ef I got mad 'boud a lettle shoke like dot. I go right avay und dond zay nottlng 'boud Id. Dose vellers vas lyln to put some shob on me. Day zay he vas hurt mine garacder, und I know it vas von lie all de vhile." Just then the " devil" in the press room gave a Comanche war whoop, and the foreman heard a man going down stairs as though his Batanlc majesty was after him. Rather Uncertain Bonds. ABOUT thirteen years ago a man named Spencer, alia Brockwell, was arrested and taken before a United Btates commissioner In Newark, New Jersey, charged with counterfeiting and uttering the United Btates one Thou sand dollar seven-thirty bond. The commissioner, upon hearing the evi dence, ordered that the prisoner be held to answer before the United Btates dis trict court, or give bond in $10,000 that he could call upon to go his security, and so the United Btates marshal hav ing him In custody said, "Come along then, you must be imprisoned." Mrs. Bpencer, alias Brockwell, the prisoner's wife, a gentle, smart-looking woman, who was present,became greatly distressed at the prospect of parting with her husbaud. Bald the gentleman's spouse: "Mr.Offl cer, can't you receive a deposit of a few hundred dollars as security for the forth coming of my husband ?" "No, mum, said the custodian, "but if you'll just plank down the ten thousand dollars which of course you can't we'll be glad to part with your husband." "Thereat the face of the good wife dropped, and there was consternation depicted in the countenances of both husband and wife. They whispered to. gether in the corner of the room, and then with a long-drawn sigh, Mrs Spencer said : "we'll put the money up; Just turn your back to me." The officer turned away, as requested, when the lit tle woman whipped up her crinoline, and took from a bundle attached thereto ten genuine one thousand dollar United Btates bonds. "There, sir," she said, "don't lose them, for I expect to call for that prop erty some of these days." And sne old tnat same, a few years thereafter, when, by statute of limita tion her husband was relieved from the charge. He was not tried, because he was be coming continually valuable (on prom ises of favor by the officers of the law) by divulgements, which In time led to the capture of the plates from which the alleged counterfeits were prin fed ; the manner of obtaining impressions from the genuine plate in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; the name of the man in that bureau who, be alleges, took the impressions from the genuine Government plate, and which man, by the bye, is there employed now. Borne time after the arrest of Ppencer the United States Treasurer received from the New York firm of Jay Cooke & Co., a package of bonds, in which were eighty $1,000 seven-thirty bonds. These eighty-thousand dollar securities were by the Treasurer, rejected as coun terfeit, and it was claimed that they were of the batch, (over three millions dollars face value,) made by the before mentioned alleged counterfeiter. Jay Cooke & Co. refused to make good the rejected bonds, that firm and many of the best experts claiming that these securities were printed from engravings made from impressions taken from the original engraving in the Treasury De partment. The government brought suit against Jay Cooke & Co., a long trial was had, in which some of the oldest and best en gravers in the country testified that Jay Cooke & Co. were justified in their defense; that the alleged counter felts were printed from engravings made from impressions taken from original plates. The verdict of the Jury was against the bankers, but neither expert engravers nor bankers were ever recon ciled to the result of that trial, and the question has thus stood undecided. Meanwhile the Treasury Dcpaitment offered a reward of twenty thousand dol lars for the capture of the plates upon which the alleged counterfeits were prin ted. W.P.Wood of this city, long employed In detective service for the Government, captured the plates and claimed the re ward. Ills claim went to the first comp troller of the Treasury, where It ban been persistently contested for about two years by some of the employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who allege that the captured plates are counterfeits, were not taken from genu ine plates, Ac. Mr. Wood claimed the reward on fourgrounds, and yesterday the first comptroller of the Treasury de cided In his favor, awarding blm ten thousand dollars. This decision, how ever, Is based upon the first three of four points relied upon by Mr, Wood ; but on the fourth point, which embra ces the questions as to the genuineness of plates, counterfeiting, Ac, the comp troller is of opinion that tho proof Is not sufficient to sustain Wood's claim; or, In other words, that the alleged coun terfeit engraving was not made from im pressions taken from the genuine plate. Here is an opinion coming from an of ficer of the Treasury Department, him self not an expert, which decided the question merely to this one case, and carries no weight of authority with it beyond this instance. But the old ex pert engravers outside the Bureau of Engraving and Printing still maintain that the comptroller was not, from laok of skill and experience, competent to. decide the technical questions involved ; that tho weight of evidence among com petent witnesses is overwhelmingly to the effect that the so-called counterfeit bonds were taken, as alleged, from the genuine engraving In the bureau, etc., etc. Attention is directed to. the fact that Mr. Rlsley, while engaged as a So-, licltor of the Treasury, made a loss and. thorough examination of this matttti ai the request of the then Secretary, McCullough, and decided against the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Bo, here we are again at sea, with doubts as to how many of the three mil lion dollars In the alleged counterfeits outstanding and pas.dng are genuine. The matter will eventually, no doubt, be examined by the Banking and Cur rency Committee of the House. Wanh ington Capital, Mirrlags at the Muzzle of a Shotgun. In the district court to-day, in the case ofMckeeben against Moose, a motion for a new trial was overruled, to which exception was taken. This case is one of remarkable Interest. On June 30th, 1870, the father of Hattle L. Moose, a beautiful young country girl, 17 years old, living about twelve miles from this city In the southern part of the county, came into the office of the Probate Judge, and obtained a marriage license to unite his daughter and Allison McKeehen, the present plaintiff, who was at that time a wealthy country merchant In the village of Tonganoxle, and whose age is 32. The license was unsuspectingly granted. Moose went home, and McKeen was in vited to call at bis bouse that evening, which invitation the latter accepted with an alacrity which, perhaps, is better un derstood when it is know that Miss Moose had confessed that there had been criminal relations existing between them. Soon after bis arrival, however, McKeehen was confronted, as his state ment alleges, with the stalwart farmer, armed with a shot-gun and two revolv ers, and was informed that unless he married bis victim he had just five min utes to live. He consented, after vainly endeavoring to argue, the question. Still keeping him covered with the shot gun a justice of the peace was sent for by the father and the ceremony was performed. McKeehen was then informed, that he might go or stay. He chose the former course, and in a short time brought suit to have the marriage set aside, on the ground of fraud, violence, etc. The de fendant put In a counter-charge of seduc tion, claiming $5,000 damages. Last week a decree was rendered setting aside the marriage, and a motion was made by the defendant for a new trial, which was heard to-day, as above stated. All the parties are respectably connected, and the young girl created a sensation In the court room by her beauty, quiet manner and refined action. Much sympathy was expressed for her. MvKeebau, it i said, will now be prosecuted for seduc tion. Kama paper. Strange Mail Matter. The postmaster at Hastings, la., while stamping letters, the other day, struck one that exploded with a report like that of a pistol. The edges of the letter were torn open, and the thing at once took fire, burning and mutilating several other letter that lay next to It. The fire was extinguished without serious results, and the letter will be . forwarded to Washington for such action by the department as hi ay be deemed beneficial to the postal service. What the explo sive couteuU were can only be conjec tured, as the postmaster retusee to open the letter, or m auy way interfere with Its present couiiitluu.