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Q!R.ecovbc3r. J . B. U.VL.L, Editor and Proprietor. 1 Mail and Office, in advance. --------- $2 2d TEEMStU’Inbt or Ton, “ each. .. 2 00 ) ViUageSnbscriberg, by Carrier..... 2 00 Rnten o f A d v ertisiug: 1 inch space (12 lines Nonpareil), per year ......... $S 00 2 Indies \ 24 “ “ “ “ ....... ts 00 a “ “ 30 “ “ “ “ ........ 20 00 4 “ “ 4S “ “ “ 25 00 ■ n A N I E L P . B E N N E T T , U nder Sheriff and Jailor, CatsMU, Greene Co,, K. Y« QTEPHEN POST, D epu t y S hbr - ^ iif and Constable, and licensed Anctioneer, Coxsa^e, N. Y. - ______ jel21y* TAMES W . HISEERD, A ttorney ^ and Connselloy at Law, Coxsa<^e, Greene Co. ■RUFUS W. WATSON, A ttorney and Counsellor at Itaw, Catstdll, Greene Co, TXTM. W. WETMORE, P h y s ic i a n , ’ ▼ Surgeon and Oculists C^-Particular atten tion paid to diseases of the Eye, both medica} and surgical. Itesidencenoar head of Main st.,Catskill. A U G U S T U S H IL L , A ttorney and Counsellor a t Itaw, Cairo, Greene Co, H.WETMORE,P hysician AND Surgeon,(fonnerlyofI*eeds.> Eesidencenear foot of Main ot., Catskill. _______________ tdeclS* \XTUM. E . LEETE, A t t o r n e y a n d \ ' Condsellor at Law, CoxsacMe, Greene Co. T A S . B. OLNEY, A ttorney and ^ Counsellor at I»aw, CatsMU. Office over Meech, Sage & Cowles* store._________________________ f ) LNE Y & K IN Gr, A ttokn ^ ys and Coxmsellors at I aw , CatskilL Office one door below Tannera\ National Banh, D. K, O lnet , _____________________________ B. H, K ing , T ) H E N R Y D A L E Y , A ttorney • and Counsellor at liuw, i^attsville, Greene Co., N. Y. ________________ [ _________ I ______ M E H E M L\JE S. EA S L A N D, A t - tomey and Co\msellor a t Lavr, and Licensed Auctioneer, JLceds, Qv^ane Co., N. Y. Special atteii- tion paid to the collection of Accounts. __________ I P MORE, A .W .N IG O L L , P . J. • PITCH, Attorneys and Counsellors at IiaV, 7 Warren st, ^Ist door West of Sroadway), Kew Yorh. marSlly Q ID K E Y CitO W ELL, A t t o r n e y ^ and Counsellor at Law, Prattsville, Greene Co. A C . G R I S W O L D , A t t o r n e t a n d Counsellor at Iiaw, Catskill. ■'Willpaypar- ticular attention to the prosecution and collection of all claims for Pensions, Bounty and Back Pay. Of fice on William st. fpH O M r lS FORD, J e ., D eputy Sheriff and Constable, Hunter, Greene Co. T ) R . E. LIN E B U R G H , S urgeon ' Dentist. Booms over the Post-OfEice, .ce CatsMil. T J E N J .F .B A R K L E Y .E heriep of Greene County. Office at the Court House, CatsMU. V. O.^diiress, Jewett, Greene Co., N. Y. TAT' GIBBONS, D e p u t y S h e r i f f ^ Licensed Auctioneer, &c., Greenville, Greene Co., N. Y. 1 7 L. IN G E RSD L L , P hysician • and Surgeon, and Coroner. Office in Mcoch’s New Building, William st., Oatskill. ^LM. H. MYERS, L ic e n s e d A uc - * * tioneer, Catsldll, N. Y. Charges moderate. (^SBOEN & GIVENS, A ttorneys and Counsellors at Law, CatskilL Office in aieech*s Building. A. M. Osuom, _____________ C. C. Giross. Q-EO. W. HALCOTT, D ea l e r in ROOKS, SISTIOBERK, LSW BUIS, P a p e r Hangings} SliadeS} K erosene LampS) OIL, &c., 5 doors above Tanners’ Bank, C?dg^l. A L E X A N D E R M E E C H, wznr GARBUTT, GRKGCS S CO., S kolesale G rocers and T ea G ealers , Nos. ICS and 170 Chambers st., cor. Geenwich, NEW YOBK. E ljiek H. G aebuit , D e L ior L oucks , PEimiNANn H. Gni 66 S, J rtttpt . , PiRT.A-\T*>TOTtj ______________ J. E dwin D odge . ■ l^ I N T B R & STAFFO RD, * * Manufacturers of COACHES, CARRIAOES AND SLEIGHS, SCHOHARIE, N. Y. fui' None b u t the very best materials used, fin ish and Durability is our aim. J H. BALDWIN, D ealer i n ANiERlCAN AND ITALIAN MARBLES, GRANITE, &c., Catakm, N. Y. Hannfactnier of every yariety of C euetery W oee , such as Monuments, Head-3toney Posts,-&c. ^ O. W AIT, v t l i j AG- je s e j s : t o n , \WE attead, as heretofore, to all calls iii his line _________ with promptness and fidelity. apCO’CC. W . & B. W . W OLFE, ' carpenters and builders , OATSKHX. Shop on Hill st., opposite John Clarke’s Blacksmith Shop. AH work done well and promptly, Oatskill, Peb. 17,1871. ___________________ ^ jg D G B R L Y & COMFORT, CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS, CATSKILL. New Pirm, at the old location, (near Court House,) and old workmen retained. Good work, best mate- ferial, and.satisfactioh certain. War. E dgerlt , CatskiU, Jah 12,1871, _________ Wai. C omfort , ■R W . GRAY, J - ' . -WITH W M . E D G A S B i n n , Importer of BRANDIES, RUMS, GINS, WINES, k . And Dealer in Fine Old Bourbon a n d K-yc Wlib$kics. P. O. Box 3185. No. 61 Front st., New York’ J 'R E D . A . STAH L , Skying, Gail OiessinjSllieiRjSaiooR, CG aiAIN STJKEET» G 6 Opposite Tanners’ National Bank. A fine assortment of HAVANA ANI> DOMESTIC CIGAES, Chewing an'd Smoking Tobacco, Collars, Cuffs, Bosoms, Neckties, Bows^ Scarfs; Hair Dyes, Soaps, Perfumcrie.s, &c. Satisfaction guaranteed in every case. Don’t for- get the nnmher, CGMoin st., opposite Tanners’ Bank. T5AM S D E L L .& H U B B E L , (Snccessora to O. C. Sage & Bro.,) POODOCECOraSSHilERCHlIITS, Dealers in Bntter} ObccsC} Bggs, Ziurd} Hops* And General Mordiandise, 3G0 Greenwich st., Now York. EijiCTUs R amsbeix , _____ H enhy W. H ubbel . jgj LAM PM AN, m m ID BUILDER, W a ter St., C a tskill, N. Y. Sash, Blinds, Doors, Balusters, Newels, Scroll Sawing, Turning, Planing, Tongueing, and Groov ing, at E. Larapman’s SLeatn Sash and Blind Factory! Ci^^arreii’a 3?ire-Proof Hoofing fumiehed and apiilied. _____________ Catskill, Feb. 22,1871. S. DANIELS,, AT * ’ E. A, Browere^s Store, Main. . Street, will receive orders for ciistom I work which he will guarantee toi give entire satisfaction. C A P R I C E S * MQDEEiATB. Catalrm,>. 71 H O B T O N & S M I T H , T N Y I T B A T T E N T IO N to t h e i r A- complete assortment of DRUeS, HEDICiSES, u m AHD TOiLET iRTiCLES. Also, to their large stock of Paintx, Oils^ Bm slics, W indow Glass, <&c. A full line of T»orillard’s Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Snuffs, &c. Aeplendidinvoiceofgenuine mported Cigars, just received. Catskill, April 14,1870. ____ W A T E R S & S m T H , * ’ (Successors to Amos Story,) CAjRPJSNTjEljas and B U IU > E K S , And-proprietors of the CatsM ll Steam Sash, Blind &; Boor F a c tory, Upper Main st,, Catskill. Scroll Sawing, Mouldings, Balusters, H-md Bails, Newels, &c,, done to order, promptly. General Shop Tl’^ork, such as Door and Window Frames, Water Tables, Comer Boards, and all styles of Cornice, done iP a. satisfactory manner. Catskill, June 9 ,1S71. G eo . W. W aters , F bed ’ k . T. S mith . VAN VALKENSURGH & RQNK. PMOyCEGOliSSiOHIERCHp, ■RUTTER, C H E E S E , WOOL, Hops, Malt, Flour, Grain, Beans, Seeds, Eggs, Dried Fruits, Leaf Tobacco, &c.. No. 181 I tead e S t., N ew Yorb* B. F . V an V alkenbubgh , H. K.K onk . Lampjnan’s Concrete Pavement Sidewalks. P,HEAP AND DURABLE!— W a r - ranted entirely satisfacto^. These Walks are now in use in several places in this Village, and I would refer all desiring information to N. Swart- wont, J . M. E.gnor, John Clarke, Wm. OUnen, IVm. Donahue, J . Hallock, the Trustees of the Village of CatskiU, and-Tiil others for whom I have laid this Pavement. SOAPSTO?® KOOFING! Clieaper and better than Tin, and the most durable Eoofmg yet discovered. CaU and examine foryour- selves. Work done in any p art of the County. Catskill, April 20,1871. m5* H. LAMPMAN. Carriage, Wagon and Sleigh Mauufaciofjr. P & P. M. D U M O ND, HATING • erected new and spacious Ware-Booms and Shops, nearly opposite the CatsMllHouse, announce that thoy are prepared to manufacture to order every descriptioii of Carriages, Wagonsand Sleiclis, in the Xiatest Styles, and of the most substantial and dura ble materials. They employ superior workmen, and are determined that their manufactures sballnotbe surpassed. CSnjobbing andSepaiting done as here- tolore. PHHJP DUIIOND,. C!.faMl,JaM.17,lse3. FETmM.PUM o:TO. ■prO N E Y B E E I H O N B Y B E B T ^ Tbia choice brand of Smoiing Tobacco, direct fifi V O L U M E 8 0 . C A T S K I L L , X . Y ., F R I D A Y M O R O T K O , S E P T E M B E R 2 2 , 1 8 7 1 . X U M B E R 8 . FRUIT, VEGETABLES, add GONFEGTiOHERT. TAM E S M. BG NO R, a t E g n o r & ' ^ Lynes* old stand, 3 doors below the Post-Office, is in constant receipt of a large assortment of goods in the Epicurean line, -whi<^ he offers for sole at reasonable rates. He will keep on sale a large vari ety of seasonable articles, to which he invites public attention. Fresli, Preserved and Dried Fruits, Oysters, Fish, Poultry, Game, VefietaiteSj Crackers, Cheese, and other substantials and luxuries. __________ CatskiUj Dec. 20,1870. FRUIT ANB CONPECTIQIIERT STORE, Comer of Main and'Thompson streets, Catskill. 'TTENRY SELLECK, having made large additions to his extensive stock, now offers to the public the largest variely of For eign and Domestic FRUIT I Koine-Mafic, Fresli CONFECTIONERY! Bread, Cake, Crackers, Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Vegetables in season, and innumerable other ne cessaries and luxuries, ever offered in this market. In connection with the above is a well-regulated ICE CREAM SALOON, which is now open, and conducted in unexception able style^ __________________________ mylOIy (Y S B O R N H O USE, A t h e n s .— B. D. W olcott , Proprietor. S2?“Enlarged and Befitted, thoroughly Renovated, and in excellent order. Public patronage is respectfully solicited. f^ A Y ’S G REENE CO. HOTEL, ” corner Main and Church sts., CatskiU, N. Y.— l?Hii.ip C. G ax , 3?roprietor. S^Only Stage House •'^LESTERN H OTEL, H e a d o p 7 * Main at., CatskiU.—klAHTiN F. S shth , Pro- etor. This vreU-known House is in. thorough ler, offeriug good accommodations to tho travel- J public. Tbo present proprietor baring pnr- ebasea the above Hotel, pledges himself to leave no effort untried, to render comfort and satisfaction to bis guests. _______________ May 25,1871. T R Y IN G HOUBE, C a t s k il l .— H eney a . P ebson , Proprietor. This large, new Brick Hotel is one of the handsomest and most con venient structures of the kind in tho country, with the most modem and comfortable appointments thronghout. The JjUmituxe is also entir^y now; the location is pleasant and accessible, and the pro prietor will aim to keep a FIRST CLA.SS HOUSE, to the entire satisfaction of the traveling public. TEEMS EEASONABLE. S^Good StabU:^ attached. » Nov. 5,1870. (^UNN’S NEW HOTEL, c o r n e r Main and Bronson sts., CatsMU.—E nos G unn , Proprietor. New House, New Furniture, Superior Accommodations. Omnibus and Stage facilities. CatskiU, Oct. 20, 1870. ______________________ B. SL IN O E R L A N D ’S B I L I j I A E D b o o m , In new Brick Building, opposite Catskill House, UP STAIBS. Good Tables, and Elbow Boom. Good accommoda tions, reasonable prices. E d . CAUGiLti, H. B. AuDniCH. CARGILL & ALD R IC H ’S Livery S ta b les! Iir IIEIV BEIOZ BHILDIHG, , A P P O S I T E TH E CATSK ILL House, Main street, Catskill. This is the most extensive Livery in town, and can furnish Rigs in all styles. Headquarters of the Omnibus Lino. Order Slate in the Office.___________________June 9, 1871. S A J K R I X O E R I3 K O S .» CITBAL LITIRY STABLES, IlIaiiL S t., Catskill. ■FIR S T CijxiSS TU R N O U T S , IN every style. Office at the Jewelry Store oppo site Tanners’ Bank, and at the Irving House. je9 G E O RG E W . LOUD’S F i r s t C l a s s M W H T E R T , T iro f i r p s o x s t i i e e t , c a t s k y u c ., ■R E A R OP V IN CEN T 'S D R U G Store, in the New Stables. BEST TITRN-OUTS IN TOWN! fassengei's conveyed to all parts o f tbo conntry. je9 WATTSON & CLARK’S rnu DUD.I ^++++++++++4+++++^ IBADE t W. 0. t MABK. EB-PHICETs^Pcr lbs._a 3 FOB SALE BY SHECH,SA6E & COWLES, Catskill. ypHIS SUPER-PHOSPHATE IS (dreaperthan and-superiorto Peruvian Guano, Snasmuch as it forces the crops into rapid and Inxn- 3 sant growth, and white it to this end stimulates tho land, it does not, like Guano, exhaust the strength df the soil, but adds to and increases its richness; so that its effects are lasting for several crops, and C8DSTS ONE-THTIU> I.ESS THAN GUANO. The Super-Phosphate has been tested during the past years by many of onr most practical farmers, ■who bear testimony to its merits by numerous certificates, The basis of tho Super-Phospbate Is South Caro- isrt.q. Bock Phosphate. The Super-Phosphate is firmly put up in barrels, thus more easily and pleasantly handled'. :^r27 _______________________________________________________________ MON3EY CANNOT BUY IT ! POE SIGHT IS PRICELESS! T h e D IAM O N D G L A S S E S ’ Manufactured by J . E . SPENCER i& Co., N. X ., ■WHICH ARE NOW OEEBRBD ^ * to the public, are pronounced by all the ccle- Ibrated Opticians of the world to bo tho MOST PERFECT, \Natural Artificial £dp to tho human eye over known. They are ground under their ovfn supervision, Trom minute Crystal Pebbles, melted together, and •derive their name, “Diamond,” oa account of their hardness and brilliancy. The Sciciitiiie Principle •On which they are constnictod brings tho core or •centre of the lens directly in front of the eye, pro- ■ducing a clear and distinct vision, as in the natural, healthy sight, and preventing all unpleasant sensa tions, such as glimmering and wavering of light, •dizziness, &c., peculiar to all others in use. They are iTioniited in the Finest fiinnncr, In frames of tho best quality, of all materials used for that purpose. Their Finish ansi Durability Cannot be Surpasseii! SAIHUEli HL\1 j j 1«ORY. Jeweler and Optician, Is Sole Agent for CATSKILL, from whom they ean only he obtained. These goods are not supplied io Ped^ers, at any price. oct28r&coly^ 0. H ighs ’ M etallic km S pring 8 ed ! mHE BEST BED e v e r INTENT- ed. 1st Premium at American Institute, Octo ber, 1870. I t Ss p erfectly and nuiformly E lastic. The Springs cannot become misplaced. NO NOISE. NOHEPATBS. NO BUGS. NO DIET. Oan bo rolled up in small compass for transporta- iion. 'Address METALLIO UNION SPRING CO., janlSly _______________ P oughkeepsie , N. Y. BLACKSMITHING! JOHN SMITH & SON, W a t e r st., Catskill, (new Brick Shop, nearly opposite ■Wiltses’ Furnace.) JOBBING, HORSE-SHOEING. CARRIAGE AND SLEIGH IRONING. Catskill, May 2 5 , 1 8 7 0 . ______ Q W E E T CTDEB! — O a h h e d p b r - ^ fectly sweet, )it SHAT.v.Tt h wnvis SHALES & POX’S. SENSSEL^RVILLE WOOLEN LULLS T H E SUBSCRIBER announces to the citizons of Greene County that the above Mills are in operation, and that he has now on hand and for sale, at low prices, either for cash or in ex change for wool, ail tho different styles of WOOLEN GOODS xiaually wanted in a family, consisting in pjttfcof CASSIMEKES, Fancy and P lain! Cbeobaisd aad Plain PLANITEIS and PLAIDS. snitaSle for Ladies’- and Cliildveu’a Dresses. Lo- rtoU Carding done on short notice. „ H. WATEEBUBY. BensseljerviUc, Jnno 15,1871. m l _________ N E W C O A L Y 'A R D . I T H E S u b s c r ibe r -*■ haspurchasedtheCoal . Yard of D. C. OvnBBAUOH, at the corner of Cornell, ______ Horton, BlAck& Co.’s Dock , whorO'he will continue the business of supplying all kinds of L A C E A .W A N N A C O A L ! At the Very Lowest P rices. My Coal shall be well screened and every effort B^deJo^giveja^g^d wticle. Please call and eeo .......... . lijjg e l g Q - ^ J j g j Q ^ week. OHN DOANE. WHY RUIN YOUR EYESIGHT! T / ^ E N Y O U CAN IM P R OVE ’ V it t>y using tho celebrated Patent tniproveil Spectacles & Ep-lilasses! *T'or sale by V J. F. SYI.YESTKB, Jeweler, 58 Slain st., Catskill, A S T E R S ! - F o b a l l t h e t a b i o u s A l gemng Machines, can be bad at Aprins, 1871. CSAS. S. WTT,T.A11D>S, Catskfil. 1,000 CORDS BARK WANTED by N. SWARTWOUT, Oatskill, June 20,1871. CATSKILL REAL ESTATE AGENCY, (Office over Olney & King.) •pTARMS a n d v i l l a g e PROP- A ERTY for sale. J. HALLOCK, July 29,1870. . Attorney and ConnaeUor. v a l u a b l e PROPERTY FOR ^ SALE!—Tlve Hoxise and Lot of Mrs. L obikba P eck , on the corher of Main and Livingston sts., in the Village of Catskill, are offered for sale. The lot is 82 ft. front and 151 ft. deep. The House is large, in good order, and well arranged forkeeping Board- ers. augl’70 Apply to RUFUS H. KING. VOR BALE OR EXCHANGE!— -L W ebsteh H ouse , at Cairo, is now offered for sale. The House is new, 30x42 feet, 3 stories and attic and basement—containing 28 rooms, with mod em improvements, cooking range, hot and cold water in kitchen and bath-room (on two floors), and sta tionary wash-tubs in basement. The place has 13 acres of choice Land, with li House; also a larg$ Blacksmi e Stable and Wagon and Wagon-Maker’s - Shop. Is a good location for a Hotel or Boarding House. Will exchange for a farm. Address Feb. 24, 1871. tf J. B. WEBSTER, Cairo. N. Y. JTOUSE AND LOT in ATHENS V illage FOR BALE.—In Washington St.; two story, frame House. Inquire on tho premises, or at the Post-Office. seplwA* C. D. MERRIT, and miles West of the M, E. Church, Kiskatom. Is a first class hay farm, contains ICO acres, 30 acres of woodl and, has two fine Apple Orchards, with plenty of other fruit necessary for use. It is well watered, and buildings and fences in good repair. Terms easy. CjeSOmO] GRIFFIN HOLBROOK. JPARM FOR SALE!— T h e F arm of the late I saac P oweli ^ on Indian Ridge, in Cairo, now occupied by his ^vidow. Contains about 160 acres—30 acres timber land, tho balance improv ed; has a good variety of Fruit; soil adapted to grain or grass; well watered, and buildings ample aud lu good condition. Distance to CatskiU 8 miles, to Coxsackio 11 miles. Apply to Catskill, Feb. 1C, 1870. RUFUS H. KING. \ P O R SALE, olr easy terms , one of the finest and most eligible Building Lots in Catskill, on WiUiam St.; sufficiently large for two dwclUnga. ______ aul8 M.W. STAPLES. TT O U S E A N D LOT PO R SALE. _Tiio subscriber offers for sale his new brick House, 7 rooms, with two acres of ground, on which arc 100 fruit trees, vines, &c. \Will be sold on rea sonable terms. Apply to H iram V an S teenutogii . CatskiU, Aug. 4 , 1871. ______ JOS. LHFEVBE. VOR SALE.—THE “EASTERN HOTEL” at Cairo, Green© County, N. Y., for merly kept by B. H. W aldbon . Tho property Is In good order, and Trill bo sold low and on easy terms. For particulars apply to or address HENRY T. COFFIN, aug‘im 8 ^ _________________ Po’keepsie, N. Y. II'OR SALE.—B uilding L ots in Catsldll, (between the grounds of Isaac Pruyn, Esq., and S. S. Day, Esq.) Lots 50 ft, front by 160 ft, deep, or in lots of any size to suit purchasers. T erms : One-third cash, two-thirds on mortgage. Apply to SAMUEL PENFIELD, or to JOSEPH HALLOCK, , Feb. 16,1870. _______ Office over Olney & King. v a l u a b l e r e a l ESTATE ^ FOR SAIiE.—The valuable property in tho lower part of tho Village, belonging to tho Beach es tate, and known as tho “ Stone Jug,” i^s offered for Bale. Also tho property on Hill st.f^known as the “Yellow Row.” Inquire of CatskiU, Feb. 18, 1870. GEO. H. PENFTFXD. pOTTAGES TO RENT!— P ros - ' pect Terrace. Three pleasant Cottages to rent. Possession given immediately. Inquire of CatskiU, April 27,1871. QEO. W. HAPCOTT. U O U S B , LOT AND STORE, 114 Main st., for sale or rent. Terms made easy. Apply to CatsMU, March SO, 1871. Dn. E. E. MACKEY. fP O R SALE OB TO R E N T !— T h e largo aud pleasantly located Dwelling on Jeffer son Heights, now occupied by Mr, Samud Allen, Daqviiro of CatskiH, March 3 ,1371. RUFUS H. KING. J f OUSE FO R SALE or TO LET \ * —Comer Summit avenue and Grand st. The House has 13 large rooms, and is eligibly situated. Large Garden, and Carriage House, For full par ticulars apply to H. B. ALDRICH. CatskiU, March 3,1871. ______________________ lY E S IR A B L E B U IL D IN G LOTS for sale, to parties desiring to build—^in sizes to suit purcuasers, on High, Spring, North and © o r n c t r . jjuti»'een Spring anu> aucu Ei.a., 9 »ibu vauaiuau / > ^, aiu . va — foiling brook, and splendid vieb’O—a desirable loca- tion. Terms made easy. Apply to CatsMU, Jan. 13, 1871. , THEO. A. CORE, FOOTE, curaoe & co. WnOUESAHE AND KETAIL I jrAYB THE LARGEST STOCK and make XMMIB X iO tfJ E S S P 3 P J S I C E S ! fiLLKiHDS OF B uildikg L uhber , 5 uck W alhut , B lack W alhot K ewels , B alusters , & c ,, Kept constantiyon hand. Parties wishing to purchase Lumber of any des cription aro invited to call and examine onr stock before purchasing elsewhere. 0®*Yard on Water St., foot of Church St., Catskill. April 20,1870. W H Y W I L L . Y O U RUIN YOUR EYESIGHT By using Common Glasses, when you can purchase liAZAItUS ifc M O R R IS’ CELEBRATED PEBFEOTED SPECTACLES ASD ETE-6LASSES, TH E BEST IN T H E W ORLD. npHEY ARB RBCOMMENDED by the F aculty for PURITY OF MATERIAL, BBILLlANOy OF FINISH, aud their STRENGTH ENING AND PRESERVING POWERS, in which they excel all others. They lastmanyyears without change. They can only bo obtained in Catskill, of CHARLES S. W ILLARD, Watchmaker and Jeweler, S ole A ppointed A gent foe this place . No Peddlers Employed or Supplied, LAZARUS & MORItlS, _____ Manufacturing Opticians, Hartford,_Conn^ ■yy'H E N Y O U L E A V E TH E GO K I G H T ■JiO S teel ' s Hoia u D h g R ooms , S16 a n d 318 <3rccnwicliSt.,Ncw Yorlc, Between Rcado and Duano Sts., AND GET TOUR BREAKFAST, DINNER, or TEA, At Reasonable Prices, and of the Best Quality. 150 Room s, - - 50 and Y5 c ts . i>ey N ight. 0. ABEEL & Co., A s e n ts f o r 0 - r e g ‘o r y Ss M o o r ’ s Catskill, June 9,1871. Iii8 Lol Banufacioring Co.'s FERTILIZERS! For Sale by WATSON CRAWFORD, March 17,1870. __________ S m it h ’ s IiAypiKO, N. Y. G U N S M I T H I N G ! T F. V. S. TOLLEY & ^ • SOH, mannfacturera and dealers In Target, Donblo and Sinnlo Barrel*'—“ * “ • BIIXES aud SHOT QDNS; all kinds of BIgTOLS J JPowder, Shot, Caps, Cartridges, and all the Pixed Ammunition naed; Powder Masks, Shot Bags, Came om tho Dost manufacturers, ac. Earshot Guns made from Army Eiiles, and all kinds of EEPAIBlNg done promptly. ■f LITTLE'W OOD, N o . 313 \W ar - •O , ron st., HUDSON, N. Y., sole agent for STEmWAI’S PIANO-FORTES! •other manufacturers’Pianos constantly on hani. Srince & Co.’s Celebrated Oreans and Me- lodeonS) Sheet Music and Mnsical filcrciiiuidxsc, o f the best b inds. LffS^PiANOsaroHHUB. OldPianoatakeninexcdiange ffa? new. Pianos aud otlici? musical iustruments ‘TDEned Bepaired. Every Znstrumeut warranted tfcoglve perfect satisfaction. _______ May 28, 1871, Isady-MaJe Doors, Sasli anl Ollnls. B . D U N H A M HAS gone into * the business of fumishingflrst class, Beady- Sty—all kiln-dried, and warranted no! ___________ warp. Jlr, Dunham receives them per railroad di- ; Todt from tho manufacturers, and offers them at ^ Sower rates than heretofore, \ kCatskiU, May C, 1871. REBUKE. V 4 V 1.0 44 ct.vu.us the sunlight roUed, The green leaves rustled abovamy head| And the sea ^vas a eea of gold. The world is cruel, 1 said again, Her voice is harsh to my shrinking car, And the nights are dreary and full of pain. Out of the darkness sweet aud clear, There rippled a tender strain; Rippled the song of a bird asleep, That sang in a dream of the budding wood; Of shining fields where the reapers reap, Of a. wee brown mate and a nestling brood, And the grass where tho berries peep. The worjd is false, though the world bo fair. —Drerland Monthly, AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE. How sweet it were, if without feeble fright. Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight, An angel came to us, and we could bear To see him issue from the silent air, At evening in our room, and bend on ours fiis divine eyes, and bring us from his bowers Nows of dear friends, and children who have never Been dead, indeed—as we shall know for ever. Alas! we think nut ^vhat we daily see About our hearths—angela that are to be. Or may be if they will, and we prepare Their souls aud ours to meet in happy air— A child, a friend, a wife whoso soft heart Bings In unison with ours, breeding its future wings. —L eigh H unt . ‘V e r i e r ' . DAVID SPENCEK'S LOYB. ! ^PRY OUR ORO COPFEB, 26c. ; pex pound. SHALER & FOX, 73 Main st, BY AUGUSTA DARNED. People \were in the way of saying “poor Migs G oldins ,” •with sighs and head shakes. Put I^ss Collms was by no means poor in one sense. Her place from being one of the tidiest, since the old man died Lad fallen into a gentle decay ■wliich fitted it for artist-eyes. The house and bam had toned and mel lowed more with golden mosses; the orchard trees bent their gnarled boughs together in that afternoon content which belongs to anciet habitations, and the garden had lost its primness, at least one comer of it, in nettle burdock, and furze. Such a radiant Spring evening as it T/as ! The fields were thick w ith dan delions ; a snow had fallen on the pur ple-lim b ed plum trees, and th e y were alive w ith th e flutter of birds. A red light shone out of t h e warm. W est, and burnished the thick p ile of turf beside the road. Mrs. E bisbee was driving home with her sister A jto in the buggy. She was square-built and upright, and handled the reins like a man. She bullied peo ple unconsciously by the tones of her voice ; and Ann, a meek little woman, seemed born to echo her strong sister’s opinions. “There’s D ave S eenceb ,” said Mrs. Frisbee—as a man stepped out of the road and took the dust from her wheels —^with a certaiu amormt of contempt in her tone. “He’s running to the widow’s now pretty steady, but it wasn’t so when the old mrn was alive. He was a regu lar bom tyrant to his women folks, and Miss OoUins never dared peep. D ave is a fool,” she continued, with more asperity, giving a jerk to the lines. “He might have married most any steady, respectable young girl round. You wouldn’t have made him a bad wife, Ann, if he hadn’t been too particu lar about looks, and not cared for a smart woman. But lie must go and get betwattled after that Euth Collins. I always said she would come to no good. She wab too much of a prancer, and held lier head too high in the air, as if there wasn’t but one pink and white with a pair of black eyes in ik And then when the old man made her prom- ise to* marry Dave, on account of tbe pi'operty, and after S edeoed came here from -ime city and went Nourishing aroHDd \With his fine clothes and gold chain, and bragging about his riches, and Buth ran away with him at last, and the dirty business all came out that Selford had a wife and children in New York, and the old man swore he should never darken his door again, anybody would have supposed it would have brought Dave to his senses and made him thank his stars for a lucky escape; but I believe to gracious he would pick her up now out of the road. It looks as if he’d always been hankering after her these ten years, when she’d made herself as.common as dirt. Dave hain’t got good common sense.” “No, he hasn’t,” responded Ann faintly. “Ann, I wish you wouldn’t echo every word I say. You always was my shad ow, and I suppose it is too late to ex pect you to get brains out of your own.”' The buggy wheels -at tins moment turned with a sharp creak in at the gate of the Krisbee place. The shadows were, lengthening and the dews were falling, and in the soft brown of the Spring twilight sat old lady CouANs alone. The comers of the sileut room were dus^y. ITot so mucli as a cat stu-red across the floor, and there was only the ticking of the great clock in the comer that seemed preter- naturally slow and deliberate. Mrs. Collins herself made a long and rather meagre-shadow as she sat motionless in her high-backed chair by the window. The easement was open, and tbe fresh smells from the usually warm evening were coming in little wafts. Somebody just tapped at tbe door, and without waiting for permission lift ed the latch.- It was the man who had passed Mrs. Frisbee on tbe road. His clothes were of a homely, farm-like o u t; there were straggling ends of a cotton handkerchief coming out from under his chin, and his trowsers legs were turned over his boots a little, tdthongh the road was not dirty. His wrists were large and red and projected from his cuffs, his teeth were prominent, and the scanty hairs was turning white around- his temples. “How is the old lady, David?” in- quiredhlrs. Collins, as her visitor helped himself to a chair in the dim room. He held his hat between his knees and dropped his bandanna into it after he had mopped his forehead. “Pretty much tbe same as she has been since she got bed-ridden. Her mind’s befin going gradually, but there ain’t much pain about it, only she takes queer notions and worries at night. Something put it into her head not to let PoiiiY P batt wait on her. I have to wash her face, and comb her hair, and feed her every morsel she eats, with a spoon. My hands are clumsy—all thumbs, you know; but she likes to have me do i t ; and some days she frets BO PoUy has to come down to the lot two or three times to get me to go up and p a ci^ her. ” “Polly is a smart woman,” said Mrs. Collins, musingly. “Yes,” responded David ; “she’s as neat as wax, and the best butter and cheese maker anywhere.” The widow paused a little. “I’ve thought,” said she at length, “that yon. would many PoUy one of these days. The old lady can’t last long. She may go off sudden like, ’most any time, and then you couldn’t hire PoUy as you do now ; folks would talk. You are get ting along in years, David; and Polly ain’t handsome, and she’s got a shaip tongue of her own; but she’d make you a good wife. I don’t say she’s the one you’d have picked out.” A sudden heat must have flushed over David’s forehead, for he took his handkerchief and wiped it rather vigor ously. “I did not expect this from you, Mrs. Collins,” said he, “I shouldn’t have minded so much if it had come feom some folks, but I thought you understood just how the case stands. There are men that oan take up first one woman and then another, and it’s all the same to them, but there never was but just one woman for me. I couldn’t see anybody else when Euth was round, and the recollection of her, v/ith her eyes shining, and her curls floating out, has never let me look at another these long yeai^s. I was a fool, clumsy and awkward, always stuttering ami turning red when I came where she •V7as, She gave xae many a scornful word, but I did her worseharm. Mother made me think I could get her. She said she knew what girls was. She was high strung, always preaching that I was good enough for anybody, and she ami file old squire made it up together. XoTX Imo-w Low tHe forms joined ; and that night Euth said she would have me, she looked as white as a sheet. I didn’t notice it then for I Was kind of drunk with happiness, but 1 knew how it -was when, she went away. She could no more care for old Dave than the lit tle innocent-faced violet down in the lot could for the stump it grows beside. It was wicked to make her say she could. But things might be changed a little now. She might not mind my awkwardness quite so much, in ease she should ever need a friend. \When the minister down there at the village thought he had a call to preach against Euth, and hold her up as an example, it seemed as though a little wind that blows in a warm day, or as if a bit of a robin’s song was ^oing around the world,. and whispering “Ruth, Dave don’t blame you.” There’s been tribu lation for us both. I’m an obstinate man; slow men are apfe to b e ; tbat’s the reason I couldn’t give Euth _np; and I guess it’s kept me from growing like a clod my plough turns over on the side hill.” “You talk as if nobody else but yon ever thought of Euth,” said the old woman querulously. “I guess she was my child. I guess I bore her, Aind car ried her in my arms, and took pride in her pretty looks and smart ways. She made me trouble enough the mercy knows. It wasn’t easy to live with the old squire any time, and Ruth’s going away had to come on somebody, and it came on me. Don’t you s’pose I ’ve laid awake nights thinking about her, and the neighbors all saying she had took to bad Avays ? There wasn’t nothing I could do, was there ? I did send her money twice, and if the old man had foimd it out, he’d have turned me out doors. Here I am liAring all stark alone, as if there wasn’t one of my name aKve. Folks may ihink I ’m hard not to try and Arin her back now, but there is the will made aH in black and white, so that if I harbor Eutli I shall forfeit the old homestead. The boys ore comfort ably settled on farms of their oim. They’re set against Euth. It’s the old jnan right over again. They would break the will if they conld ; and I tell you, David, I ’d rather beg than go and live \witli tbe wife of any son IVe got. Love Euth, I guess I do. I’ve thought I could gladly see her in her coffin some times, but to-night when the scent from the apple blows began to come in, I thought how she used to put the pink buds in her curly hair, and, it made me faint like, and I shut the window. But, if I got Euth back, the boys would go to law, and take away the old place, and then we might have to pack off to the poor house. I couldn’t do it, Da vid, could I, and turn myself out of a shelter in my old age ?” “No,” said David rather slowly,“but tilings are different Avith me. Mother Las got past minding much, and I’ve got no kinfolks to complain, and I ’ve fliougbt if Euth should ever be in want —I don’t think she ever av UI be, mind —or if she should ever get sick, she might not scorn to take a little help from m e ; so I Avrote an advertisement like, and sent it to a New York paper. I ain’t no hand at wording things, but I put it some how like this : ‘Euth, Da vid don’t blame you. It’s Avith him as it always was. . Come back to tbe old place.’” ^ About the time Mrs. Frisbee was driving homeward a woman got down, from a wagon in which a farmer had given her a lift. She was humbly, al most meanly, clad in a black gOAvn, over which she wore a light Summer shawl. There was little trace of beauty about her face, but her eyes Avere dark and sunken, Avhere the mouth had once been a ripe red. She had been set doivn on the edge of a little piece of woods, where the braided tree boughs made a dark frame work for the brightness of the sunset. A wind was rustling the young leaves softly like lovers’ whispers. . There were ferns and vrild flowers growing in tbe crotcb of tbe fence, and xnoist bright mosses making a soft lip to the little spring that bubbled through the grass.. The woman sat dOAvn on a log near by> and untied her bonnet strings, and let tbe covering fall a H'fctle \way off\ from. her hair, shotring that i t was thin and streaked with gray. Her senses seemed to drink in eagerly the fragrance and of bright cloudlets Avere dissolving s I oa ?- ly in the blue. She looked up long tlirough the tree boughs, and then she turned and began to finger the ferns and grasses and Avild geranium blos soms around where she sat—tenderly, hungrily almost, as if they could give her a blessing. She dipped her fingers in the little pouring stream and touched them to hjBi’ forehead. It Avas like a baptism. She sat there long, and then Avith some little flowers pinned in her old shaAvl, when the shadows began to thicken, she crept onward past the lone ly fields. Sbe kept close to the fences, and glided by as noiselessly as a shadow. She came ere long to the forks of the road. There were inhabitants not far off, Avith lights glimmering through tho trees, a dog barked, tbe stars began to shine. Onward she crept up to the gate of the old OoUins place. She stopped under the wayside maple, and glanced at tbe firont of tbe dwelling. All was dark, not a r.ay of light anywhere. The smell of lilacs, and old fashioned scent of lavender, came to her out of the garden. She would at least touch the threshold. She crouched in the shadow of the porch, bearing her heart beat qiuck. The door opened and a man came out. Ho stumbled a little in tbe dark on the last step, and then he stood BtiU and took off his hat tmder the sweet sky and the stars. He was thinking of one —only one, and asking in his OAvn way that G od Avould keep her wherever she might be. He had done it every night for ten years. There was a rustle in the shadow, and a wri%>er, pained aad eager, that said “David.” He reached out his hands, mechanically, and clasp ed a woman’s hands. He was half stunned, and the blood seemed ringing in his ears. “Ruth,” was all he could articulate with Hs thick tongue. “I had to come, David.” The tears were raining down her face. He could hear hovr she wept. “I saw what you put in the paper, and I could npt rest till I had tried to make you think a lit tle better of me. I deceived you cruel ly, and I was deceived myself. I’ve tried to live honest since. I have had to tread the winepress alone, David, and it has sobered me UntU I know what it is to scorn your love. I could go down on my knees, and kiss your feet.” “Don’t,” said DaAud, sore distressed. “It ain’t for you to confess to me, I always trusted you, Euth. They tried to force yon where your heart did not incline, and it was wicked. But that was long ago. It might be different noAV if you. could overlook all that’s gone.” He put his arm around her, and half unconsciously to her, bore her up the steps of the old house and pushed open the door. The old lady had lit the light and was pottering arotmd at her last chores. “Mother.” Dave—^he had never called her mother before. She turned, and in another moment Enth’s head Avaa on her bosom. She was laughing and crying half hysterically. “My pretty Euth has come back,” said she, fondling the drooped head with her old fingers—“come back to me in this lonesome old house, where I ’m soared by the dark. We was talking about her this very night, wasn’t we, •David. Telling how pretty she Avas and how she used to laugh ; and she isn’t a mite changed; her hair is just like silk, and her cheeks are round and soft.” “Look at m e ,” said Euth, lifting her tear-stained face. “See, mother, m y hair is as white as yours; look at the Avrinkles.” “No, no ; it ain’t so, DaArid,” cried the old Avoman. “The candle is dim, and my eyes are poor, but I see it’s my Euth just as you used to be. You vriU always live Avith me now, won’t you ?” coaxed the old 'woman. They said I wouldn’t Eve with E benbzeb or H tbam , but they and me Avas more alike, Ruth. The bbys may go together now, and get the old place ; I don’t careand she went again to fondle her child. “Come and live Avith me,” said David, hisfaceunspeakablyiUumined. “Come, botb of you.'' Eiitli’s sad eyes met his, and she reached out her hand. “If you could take me,” whispered she, “I am —’’ He clasped her hand. After long years there came the compensating joy to the man’s heart that had kuoAWi Mo variableuess, or sbadovr of turning.— Golden ______________ B©\Ahoffse\liolcler, in filling up his census sebedule under tbe bead “Wbere Born/' described one of bis children as bom “in tlie parlor/* and another “up stairs,” ^ c i e c i [Written for tho Recorder.] THE MYSTERIOUS STRAN&BE. In a deep valley, in the far East, sur rounded by lofty mountains, once dwelt a numerous people. It was called the “Vale of D lea.” The air was ever b alm y aud pure, and on every side were sunny lawns c lothed in the richest verdure.— Flow ersofthesw eetestperfum e b loomed in perennial b eauty, and animals o f the m ost graceful forms—^the antelope and bright-eyed gazelle—sported through the forests and groves, and birds o f the most beautiful plumage made tbe air vocal vrith their songs. In short, there was everythirfg to please the eye, to cha:m the ear, and awaken the heart to feelings of love and adoration. But, notwithstanding all this, the people were unhappy. Discord dwelt in their midst. Unfortunately, their ancestors had migrated from various cotintries, and each had brought Avith him the peculiar views, opinions and prejudices of his nation. These they had instilled into the_ minds of their children as consti tuting the whole, the entire truth ; and taught them to believe that all who dif fered their opinions were sunk in error, aud unworthy of their sympathy or re gard. Hence, envy, jealousy and ill- Avill reigned in the heaz'ts of the people. Sect was arrayed against seot,and party against party. Consequently, there was no social intercourse, no mutual co-op- eration for improving and bettering their condition. If any party or sect proposed any measure, it was at once objected to and denounced by aH oth ers. Hence no improvement was made —nothing for the general good was done. Their only study and desire were to build up their own sector party—and to put doAm and destroy all others. As tim e roUbd on this spirit o f bitter ness and hostility seem ed to increase. It was kept alive and cherished, not so mucb by tbe people as by tbe leaders of the various sects. These raised the battle cry and set the hearts of their people against those of aU others. They never exhorted them to seek, to search and examine for the truth—hnt to. be lieve as they were taught, and cling to the faith of their fathers. Thus the val- ley, which otherwise might have been a Paradise, Avas a scene of discord and strife. A t length there appeared among the people a man o f grave aspect and noble mien. A l^ o u g h versed in their lan guage, h is appearance, his manners, everything proclaimed him a stranger from a distant land. And, though the greatest c a r iosity prevailed, no o n e p re sum ed to inquire who he was or whence he came. H e went from house to house and freely conversed -with the people throughout the valley. I t was r eadily seen that he belonged to no s e c t or par ty among them . In his conversation he evej; spoke of “The M ission of L ife,” “The D e s tin y o f M an,” and explained to them the mode of -woridng out the for mer and rightly accomplishing the lat ter. There was something in his man ner and words that impressed the peo ple. They listened in silence and heard him gladly. The leaders, however, de nounced him as a visionary—a lunatic —and ridiculed his sayings. Weeks, months passed away, and yet the stran ger remained among them. At length he inArited all, old and young, of every party, sect and conditioh, to assemble on a spacious lawn, that he might be hold and address them collectively be fore he took his final leave of the valley. Notwithstanding 'the opposition of the leaders, the people assembled, grouped, however, into sects and par ties. It was the first general m eeting of the inhabitants of the V a le of Ulea. From an em inence th e stranger ad dressed them as follows: “My friends, I have witnessed with pain and grief the discord and strifei jm o n \ you. Are ye not all brethren- children of the same father? Then why \look ye upon those of an opposite faith as your enemies ? Have you ever tested their belief—or, even, your OAvn—by the standard of eternal truth ? If not,who of you Avill dare to say ‘I am right and ailATho differ from me arevirrong.’— Truth is mmutable and universal. It knows neither sect nor party. And he Avhose mind is imbued Avith its spirit looks earth broad, aud heaven high, and says to man, wherever found and what ever his condition, ‘my fnend,my broth er.’ Religion draws men together,imites heart to heart in bonds of love—^while error ever separates, builds up sects and parties, aud lays more stress on some intellectual belM than on a pure,a holy life. Eeligion aims at the generM good —strives to make all mqn Aviser and bet ter—^to make them social, friendly— good neighbors, good citizens, wdlling to co-operate in every good word and work. Its motto is ‘Peace on earth— good will among men.’ Look at yonder sun. Do ye not all walk in its light ? The balmy air—do ye not aUlive on its breath ? The limpid streams—do ye not all drink of their waters ’? And tliis lovely vale—do ye not .all dweU in its enclosure ? Are ye not all one people, traveling to the same home—‘the house for all the living ?’ Then why this ani mosity, this exclusiyeness between sects and parties ? -Eeturn ye to your homes and bring hither whatever separates man from man, sect from sect, and let ns pile the Avhole together, and test it hy firc. The good and true Artll be un harmed, while the cau I alone will be consumed.” AH were pleased with the proposition for each felt that his oavu would stand the test, while aU others would be de stroyed. They hurried to their homes, and quickly returned, bearing burd'ens of every size and hue. Some were load ed doAvn with ignorance and self-con ceit ; others vrith pride of sect, party or birth ; many Avith the en'ors and siAper- stitions of childish fancy ; some Avith bigotry, envy and sectarian hate. The leaders came with monstrous sacks of selfishness, conceit, vanity and ambi tion. The whole were piled, one upon the other, and formed a towering mount ain. The stranger at length approached the pile, and cast upon it something like a soroU, breathing love to man and reverence to God. No sooner did it fall upon the others than a mighty flame enveloped the Avhole mass, and in a short time consumed aU—but the scroU of the stranger. There it lay tmtouehed, unharmed. But,what was remarkable, a fragrant odor—sweeter than the per fumes of Cashmere,or the balmy breeze from Arabia’s spicy groves—overspread the vast multitude. At once anew won der took place. Prejudice, envy, jeal ousy and hate gave place to kindness, sympathy and brotherly affection. By a simultaneous movement, the various sects became intermingled, and each beheld in each other a friend, a brother. All Avas peace, harmony and jay. A song of thanks^ving arose like the voice of many waters, and, as it ceased, a re sponse came from tbe surrounding mountains—“Glory to God in the high est ; peace on earth, good wiUto men.” At length, turning to inquire of the stranger the cause of all this, lo ! he was gone—he had left the valley. From that time, aU was harmony in the \Vale of Ulea. One and all united in aiding and improving their condition. They lived and labored each for all, and ail for each. They established schools, li braries, museums ; and tbe only strife among them was, “who shall do each other most good ?” From that period a yearly festival Avas, and is stiU held, in commemoration of the change Avrought by the Arise, noble and godlike stran ger. O. JC^“T h is is the way to out off the neck of a bottle : W ith a strong twine, a yard or less in length, m ake o n e turn around the neck, rapidly move the bottle from one end of tb e string to the other, that the M o tion m ay heat the p a r t ; while hot, dip in cold water aud the glass is cracked off as clean and smqoth as if cut b y a diamond. A few strokes or move m ents of the string are all that are re quired. A bottle m ay b e c u t in two by the same process if strips of paper are pasted around it, t o keep the string from slipping from, the place desired. JB^*A solid block of granite was re- cently quarried at Gloucester, Mass., 122 feet in length, 46 feet Avide, and 30 feet thick. Its weight is estimated at 14,000 tons, and its contents 162,000 cubic feet. I t i s to be cut up into sec tions somenrhat more portable, and is designed for part construction of tbe East River bridge in N. I . It took seven kegs of p o A v d e r to discharge this monstrous lump. Ij^^Nature’s tailoring—potato patch. THE BOURBON DIADEM. l>eath of Cbarctte, tho Vendeou GeueroJ, In N cav Orleans- Few of the residents in the lower part of the city, of late years, but are fa miliar A r i t h some of the incidents we are now relating. They have often seen in the tvdlight of Summer evenings a sin gular apparition. Suddenly, on the ban quette of Music street, has appeared an old man, Arith long g r ^ hair, and clad in the costume of half a century ago. The garments were faded and worn, out revealed a richness which in earlier days was more fitted for a court than an American metropolis. He was a very tall man, although' a Imnehbaek, and but for the deformity -ffould have been of gigantic proportions. In tbe breadth of shoulders, the deep, powerful chest, and long, nervous arms, resided marve lous strength, while the lower limbs, fashioned in magnificent strength and beauty, arrested attention and com manded admiration wherever he appear ed. He spoke to no one, looked at no one, but in silent abstraction pursued his lonely walk far into the night. Years went by, and night after night little children paused in their play to watch the receding figure of the lonely man. It m u s t have been forty years \ago th a t he first came among us. He look ed middle-aged then; but as years flew by the sturdy frame rem ained flexible and active, but the hair grew gray and his face was seamed Avith Avrinkles.. He Eved iu the little brick building that set back from the street. Wild vines crept over the crumbling piles and wreathed fantastic shapes on the eliim- ney tops. In the yard beautiful flowers bloomed aU the year round, and their rich perfume made the air sensuous and sweet. At a Avindow shaded by a trellis Avork, hid in the bloom of roses, the old man sat of afternoons and watched the sun’s decline. No one else was ever seen in the house—^no one ever crossed the threshold; and so he lived, a smile- less, sad old man, in a lonely house. ■But one day, not a great while since, the neighbors saw that the blinds in tbe house were closed. The old man had not appeared on the street for weeks, and the grass bad begun to grow from the chinlcs of the marble slabs at his door, aud it began to be whispered about that the old man Avas dead. At last, one day, the neighbors went in (they were poor people, but kindly and true). Sure enough ho was dead. He lay paUid and stark on a pallet of straw. There were a few scattered chairs around’ the room and a plain table. One object only arrested tbe eye. Near the body was a rich casket) set in mother of pearl and gold. Jew els flashed from the costly lid, and Avreathed in the dust of diamonds were engraved the “Lilies of France” in a coronet of gold. They opened the box and there flashed on their eyes the B oubbon diadem. It was stolen the night of the 16th of August, 1830, when CsABiiES the Tenth abdicated the throne of Franco in favor of the Duke of Boit- DEAUX. Underneath it was a manu script, written in French. It contained only these Avords : I am CuABETTE, the Vendean General. M a m a of Savoy Avas to have been my Avife. She Avas taken from me and given to the C omte d ’A r T ois . * I could have forgiven this, but he deserted me when most I needed his help and assistance. Iavengeamyselfandprocmedhis overthrow, and am happy since he died an exile. This was all. Over h is life silence now drtiAvs a veil. His AvayWard p a s sions, h is inward conflicts, none can estimate. L o n e ly and sad h e perished, in e x il e ; none could appreciate liis in juries ; let none judge too harshly of his life,—iVew Orleans JPicagune. R evival or Om 'W bii L s . The Petroleum Centre liecord says: “An oldXYell on the flats of the S xjchan - AN farm, drillecl and abandoned nearly seven years ago as worthless, was’clean- ed out and started up a few days since, and has yielded thirty barrels per day b y actual measurement. The parties Avho took hold of the Avell are all poor, hard-'working men. The venture has been a lucky one for them, as they have already cleared upwards of §2,000 apiece, beside paying expenses. Another old abandoned ivell on the opposite side of Oil Creek from the above well, was start ed up last week, and has since yielded from s ix t o eight barrels of oil per day. This w e ll is also on the Buchanan farm, and was pum p ed dry and abandoned five years ago. F ive or six other old weUs h a v e recently been started u p , and are aU p roducing oil in paying quanti ties. T h e theory advanced by u s some days ago, that crude petroleum was con tinually forming in the bowels of the earth, and that in the course of tim e m o st of the old territory in the oil re gions would again produce oil largely, is clearly demonstrated in the starting up of these weUs. They had aH b een pumped dry, and abandoned as worth less, over five y ears ago, a n d when clean ed out and tested all produced oil in paying quantities. Now, i f this oil has not been slovrly forming during this tim e, where did i t come from?” M t . V esuvius b i N isht . A B o ston gentleman,* who recently spent a n igh t on the sum m it of Mt. Vesuvius, gives some interesting facts about the volcano. H e describes the crater as having three- throats, so to speak, w h ich were dissimiTar in their action. One was very violent in its action, and through the night, at longer or shorter intervals, i t was terrific, and consisted in trem endous and sudden ex plosions infinitely louder than those of the heaviest artiHery, accompanied by the eruption to the height of between 100 to 2Q0 feet o f im m ense voUeys of gloAving stones and red-hot cinders, Avliich spread into m agnificent boquets of great brillianoy. Subterranean rum b ling som etimes preceded the ex plosions, w h ich shook the m ountain to, its base. From the second throat flow ed a copious, compressed volum e of smoke, and flame, as from a furnace, and Arith n o noise except that of tbe constant roaring of th e flames. The third throat threw o u t volum es o f smoke and great boqnets of gloAring cinders, bu t vrith m u ch less v iolence than either of th e other two, and was accompanied Arith a g reat bloAring noise, v e r y m u ch lik e that of an ascending rocket of v a st proportions. D u r ing aH this tim e the flow of lava was great and continuous. How 10 M ake T ea . According to Mr. a ;V. A. 'W hite , who has Avritten an account of his “Land •Journey from Ania to Europe,” the samovar is one of the greatest of Kus- sian institutions. It is a large sort of um, in the centre of which is a tube in to Avhieh hot coal or charcoal is intro duced, keeping it constantly boiling. The traveUer thus speaks of Russian tea making and drinking : In a smaU teapot a strong infusion, nearly essence of tea, is made; a small quantity of this is poured into tumblers, and each guest adds water and sugar ad libitum. Whether it is that the tea in Russia is much better than Aye got in England, or that the method of drinking it is better than oiu-s, I know n o t; I can only say that I never tasted its equal before, and never hardly for years imbibed so much as I did during my short stay at Kalgan. The Eussians say that the tea which makes only a land voyage is much superior to that which passes over the sea, and I am inclined to their opinion; also that their method of making it for drinking is the right one. EvEav-DAT R euqioh . W e m u st come back to our point, w H o h is, not t o urge aH o f y o n to give yourselves np t o m ission Arork, but to serve G od more and more in connection Avith your daily oaUing. I have heard that a AToman Avho has a mission makes a p oor w ife and a bad m o ther; this is very p o ssible, and at the same time very lam entable; bu t the m ission I would urge i s not of th is sort. D irty rooms, slatternly goAvns, and children Avith nn- Avashed faces, are SAvift A v itnesses a g a in s t the sincerity of those who keep others’ ATxneyards and neglect their OAvn. I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water a t home. L e t tho but tons be on tbe sliil’ts, let tbe’cMdren’s socles, 'be mended, let tbe roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a. ne\r pin, and tbe borne be happy as home can be. Serve G od by doing common action in heavenly spirlt,- and then, if your daily cal ling only leaves you ei^icks and crevices of time, fill tbese up \witb boly service. o f WAR REMINISOENCBS. George Alfred T o w n send licors Things a b o u t several Jlistinguishcd L e a d e rs. THE RBGXJLAR ABSTT ON JEFF, UAVIS. The speech o f J bbjb ' '. D avis com ing up AvhHe I was a t army headquarters, in an important W estern city, I remarked that, as Jeff, had once been Secretary of ’War under the U n ion, he probably had m any devoted friends in the regu lar army. N o reply but polite sUenoe foUowed this suggestion, tiU one grim and gray old veteran said: “That was a heavy ta-iumvirate of men Jeff. Davis put at the head of the rebel army. An army is. composed of three parts—^head, beHy and legs; otherwise, Mie Adjutant- General’s Department, the Commissary- General’s and the Quartermaster-Gen eral’s. Three men of business genius are required in these posts, bnt who did Jeff, select? Old S am O oopeb for Ad jutant, who would not have been fit to take charge of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington; N obtbuop for Gommis- sary, who was the worst in the world; and old M ie b s for Quartermaster. And I am toldthat'Jeff.’s'appointments gen erally were of that class.” “Y e s,” said another, dryly, “it’s like Jeff.’s judgm ent to be helping G bamt to another term.” AJJ OPINION ON AVAB. I put thef olloAring question at Omaha, amongst a group of officers, and the re ply foHowed as ensuing: “ W hat was tb e greatest aeiaon fought by the W estern armies in the war?” “ T h e battle of FrankHn; that is gen erally a d m itted to b e D avid S. S takdev ’ s battle, now Colonel o f the 22d Infantry. The subsequentvioto:^of Nashville-was an easy corollary to it. B u t th e most plucky, extraordinary and wonderful de tached battle which we had was C obse ’ s defense of Altoona. Corse is now in Chicago—a smaU, Aviry, badly-scarred man, removed b y Grant from his rev enue colleetorship to oblige a Senator favoring San Dom ingo. H e marched aH night, and h is whole command con sisted of 1,944 men. The prize was a m illion rations stored there, and the attacking party was about a third of H ood ’ s army. Corse fought all day, the odds four to one, lo s t 700 m en, and beat the Avhole rebel army. Summoned to surrender at the outset, ‘to prevent th e needless effusion of blood,’ h e re- pUed: ‘W e are prepared for the effu sion!’ And having killed and captured more rebels than h is entire command numbered, h e sent the neAvs o f the bat tle to S hbbmau in these words: ‘I am short a cheek-bone and one ear, but am able to whip aH heU y e t .’ ” wno AVAS THE ABLEST BEBEl, COMMANDBB? I asked this question at AngeU Island of a body of regular ofiieers. The an swer, deHvered by a cool old veteran, was: “J oe 'J ohnston . Joe cleaned his re treat up the Peninsula before M o O ued - DAN as smooth as a threshing-floor; he didn’t leave a smeU of victuals or an. old pair of shoes. He amused Sherman around Atlanta 100 days with feints at an offensive movement, when he hardly commanded an effective poor-house._— Joe Johnston was always a clear soldier of prescience and nice strategy and dex terity. After Atlanta, old Senator Wio- DAiL came up to Johnston and said: ‘ “ Joe, I sawBBAGS doAvn at Savannah, and he says you’re a darned fool!’ “ ‘Did Bragg say that of me?’ said Johnston, incredulously. \ “ ‘Certainly; several people heard it. T hat’s what he said you Avere.’ “ ‘How could Gen. Bragg have reason to denounce me in such terms?’ “ ‘Oh! h e said i t took you one hund red days to fall b a ck on Atlanta, and. h e could have done i t in five!’ ” EPITAPHS TO OBK. OEO. H. THOMAS. A-n officer of fame and eharacter told me th a t he had carried a message from A ndeew J ohnson to G eo . H . 'T homa ^ after th e latterrefused to acoeptthenofi? inatioH o f “General” at the President’s hands. “If you have opportunity” said John son, “say to Gen. Thomas that I have always respected him, and it grieved me m ore deeply than any desertion to see that he rejected m y kindness and did Avroqg to h is OAm great deserts,_ The better sense of a ll the people, without regard to m y personal preference, re quired him to be no more than one place below th e commandership.” My informant carried tne n ews to Gen. Thomas, and tbe old v eteran s a i d ; “I could have done alm ost anything to spare the feeHngs of Eresident John- s6n, except to step in between the peo ple and General Grant, whom they ex pect and Irish to see General-in-Chief. Consistent Arith m y loyaliy to the n ation and m y respect for th e public Arish, I had to say in unequivocal terms that I w o u ld not accept the G eneralship at the expense o f Grant.” - ■ “Thom as,” added m y informant, “would probably have been confirmed b y the Senate had h e not declined the nomination. Alm o st a n y soldier in his place w o u ld have accepted it, paxtiou- larly after G-rant’s a ttem p ted remoTal of him before Nashville. But he had the magnanimity to stand aside ; and wliat was his recompense? Gen. Grant skip- ped him, the ranking Major General, and gave the Lieutenant Generaloy to S heridan . That office General Thomas fuHy expected, and tho country expect ed it for him. They say that he died of apoplexy, bnt he was cut down toward the grave when they degraded him at that period.” Another officer added: “I was AVith Thomas at Carlisle Bar racks when, according to F irz L ee , lie wavered betw e en the U n ion and Vir ginia. There never was a b igger lie told b y a powder m o n k ey upon a hero. I talked to Thomas upon th e issues of that time every day. His brother Avrote to him finaUy that unless he joined the Confederacy at once §9,000 which he had deposited in theBank of Norfolk, would be confiscated. The old man seldom swore, bnt when he did so it was im pressive.” “They threaten me, then,” he said. “Dam n their perfidious souls I They shall see where I take m y stand.” L6 liveliest muscle aud sassiest lip, iiried the broom on the Mlssissip ; DO'VN ON HIS LUOK. This yor luck sometimes runs in a way that's sur prisin'— There’s^ days, now and then, when a man’s luck is And days when the clussest can’t lay up a cent, A long o f t h in g s s o u r in g t o s u c h a n extent. ^Twas in Vicksburgh, one ovenin', that J oe B annon struck One o f t h e se yer blam e d streaks o f om e y y luck ; Which Joe himself lowed he was never tuk down A n y WU38 than h e w u z in that ram shackle tow n . For th( Joe kei And—pervidin* he hadn’t tuk more'n a cog in— \He 'WUZ a h u ll t e a m a d o g 'under t h e wagSn, Ye mought seek a month without findin’ a limb That wus able to got away with him. T h e n igh t T a llude t o Joe -was o n a sm a ll toot, '27' sw’oro he was spilin' to whop some galoot I Ho went around town, from saloon to shebang, Sayin',‘*I am Joe Bannon, 'n' don't keer a dang!” Such remarks seldom fails of perjucin' a snarl, 'K* J o e w a s q u it e sudden, d rapped o v e r a bar’l. Ho ^vus harnessed so lively ho hadn’t no show, B y a scienco’t x>ill, w h ich h o dono i t t o Joe ; And ho everlastin*ly mopped that floor With Joe, till he didn’t prefer any more. Five times that night Joe tried it on. B u t e a ch m u s s e n d e d lik e num b e r one. Ho wus disappinted aud sad and mad, Along of the shocks that his feelins had had. G'wine b a ck t o t h e levee, h o kem acrost A c rii)ple, w h ich one o f h is legs he had lost. Says J ^ , *‘You's a crip, which I know I kin whoj) 'N' j u s t f o r a c h a n g e I reckon I ’l l pop h im ,” But I'm cussed if that crip didn't purty much Bust Joe’s geranium 'svith his crutch I (Leastw ise, that’s w h a t t h e tw o doctors said— 'if' th e y c h u c k e d a h a lf d o llar 'n t h e top o f h i s h ead.} How come Joe Bannon to lose his grip ? I t couldn’t b e e n -whiskey that s p iled h is trip ; Fur hit was his native element; If 'twasn't jist luck, I don't want a cent. —Buffah Courier, —F rank C live . L etter rEOH D asibl ■VJ ebster to his S ou . A correspondent of the B o ston Trav eler, Avriting from Exeter, N . H ., gives extracts from a letter Avritten by D an iel W ebsteb ' to his son E davaiid about the tim e that th e latter commenced h is studies at PmEntPs’ Exeter Acad emy, Avhioh school h e him self at one tim e attended: W ash ington , Juno 23, 1834. M t D ear S on :—F letcheb Avrote me from Exeter tho next day after your arrival, aud in- formed me that you had \been so fortunate as to be received at Col. C hadwick ' s , and were commeneiag yoiir studies. Ton are at a most important period of life, my dear sou, soon growing up to be a young man, and a boy no longer, and I feel great anxiety for your sue- cess. I beseech you to be attentive to all your duties, and to fulfil every oblif^ation wttU cheer fulness and punctuality. Above all, remember your moral and religious concerns. Be con stant at church and prayers, and every ap pointment for worship. There can be no solid character and no true happiness which are not founded on a sense of religious duty.. Avoid all evil company, aud every temptation, and consider that yoU have now left your father’s house and gone forth to improve your oivn character, and prepare your mind for the part you are to act In life. AH that can be done for you hy others will amount to nothing, unless you do much for yourself. Cherish all the good counsel which your dear mother used to give you, and let those of us who are yet alive have the pleasure of seeing yon come forward as one who gives promise of virtue, usefulness and distinction. I fervently commend you .to Uie blessings of our Heavenly Father. * # I happen to have two smaUMass. hiUs; they do not go here, and I -enelose them to you, to he used if .you have ocoasion to buy a book or spend a dollar for any other article. Tour affieetiouate father, D aniel W ebsteb . E dwaed W ebsteb . F. S .—Since writing this 1 have received your letter. I remember the great tree, and Itnow exactly where your room is. A L ahge F abm .— E ichabd K ing is tlie owner and occupant o f Santa E a trutis Eancb, in N o r tbem Texas. The ranch or p lantation consists o f n ineteen leagues of land, each league embraemg 4,428 acres ; o n t h e p la n t a t i o n t h e r e a r e s ixty- five thousand head of cattle; one-fourth of th is number are beeves, one-fom'th cows ; tho other h a lf com prises one and two-years-oHs. Mr. Kmg owns one tliousaiid saddle horses ; employs be- tween tliree and four hundred herds- m e n ; h e also ow n s Seven.tho-asand b r e e d mares, and as many thousand sheep. He hrands twelve thousand calves an nually. He keeps hetween eight hun dred and a tliouson^ bulls, or gentlemen hovines. It may foe stated, in this con- nection, that upwards of six millions of beef cattle are driven from Texas yearly. AN EDITOR m TROUBLE, A Aveek or two ago one of our report ers had ocoasion to refer to a certain Avoman, Avhom Ave avi H caU H annah S mtth , as a “ d enizen” o f the 11th ward. A day or tAvo afterward a huge man entered the office, Avith his brow clothed Avith thunder. Iu his hand he carried a fearful club, and at bis side trotted a bnUdog, whom hunger had made des perate. W ith that quick appreciation of the situation which is creditable to the su perior inteHigence o f educated m en,the editor of th is paper and the proprietors darted to the Arindow, eUmbed o u tside, and doAvn the lightning rod, and went across the street to watch the bloody fray through a spy-glass. W ith the fearlessness o f conscious in nocence we sat siiU, m erely inserting our legs in two sections o f stove-pipe to guard against any m isapprehension of facts on the part of the dog. The m an Avith the club approached. “Are y o u the editor ?” he asked,spit- ting on h is hand and g rasping his club. W e told him that tho editor Avas o u t ; that he had gone to the N o r thP o le with Captain H add ; and that he Avould 'not return before 1876, in tim e for the Cen tennial Celebration. “Are you the proprietor ?” he asked, W e explained to him th a t we Avere not ; th a t the proprietors Avere also o u t —that they had gone to South America for the purpose o f investigating the curative properties of eundurango, and they expected to remain there for sev eral years. “W ell, whoever gou are,” exclaimed the warrior, “mg name is Sm ith.” W e told him Ave were glad ; because, if there was one thing better thanpos- session, of the name of Smith, it was the privilege o f ImoAring a man of that name. “B u t, Sm ith,” we said, “ why this battle array ? It is absurd for a man to put on the panoply of war, and frisk into editors’ sanctums fum b ling a club and accompanied by a disheartened fonH-dog, simply foecanse his name hap- pens to be Smith.” H e said he called t o burst the h ead o f the man w h o had insulted his sistei’. “It is im p ossible. Sm ith, that such a tiling could have been done by any one in this office !” “Yes, bnt i t Avas, though ; and her name was published, too ! M iss Sm ith — M iss Manner Sm ith !” ‘■May Ave be perm itted to inquire, Mr. Smith, what was the precise char- aeter of the afiront offered to Hannah ?” “WeU, you see,” said Sm ith, “ the blackguard said she was a ‘denizen.’— And I want you to understand,” said Sm ith, becoming excited,and brandisb- ing h is club in a -wild manner over oui’ head, AvhHe the buUdog advanced and commenced to sniff up and down our stove-pipe—“I Avant y o u to understand that she i s a decent young woman,with a good char-aeh-ter, and none of youi’ denizens and such truck. The man who says she is a denizen is a blackguard and a tbief, and I ’U smash him over the nose if I get a chance. They m a y say what they p lease about « ie,but the man who abuses m y sister has got to suffer.” And Smith struck the table in a -rio- lent manner with his club, ivhile the bulldog p u t his forelegs up on the back of our chair. We pacified Smith Arith a dietionaiy. We pointed ont to that raging Avarrior that the W ebsterian definition of the word “ d enizen” gives such a person an unoffending character, and deprives the term of an ^ h in g like reproach. Sm ith said h e was satisfied, and he shook hands, and kicked the buUdog doAvn stairs.— Phila. Simdag Dispatch, M iht J ulep . A H o o sier stopped o p p o site one o f the fashionable d rinking saloons,yesterday, and Avith h is hands deep in h is pockets, and the front of his chin turned up, seemed looking with absorbing interest into the interior at an individual luxu riating on a julep, Arith a straw accom paniment. “WeU, I swear ef that ain’t a new kink,” he says. “Who’d a thort of sech a thing as a green sass drink ? How consamed cool that feUer sucks it,” so liloquized he, moving his body in a sympathetic manner, as if engaged in tow ing the fluid himself. “I’ll hev a taste of that mixtur’ ef I bust a bit,” was his conclusion—so in he went. “What Trill you take, sir?” inquired the barkeeper. “Jest go on and give that feHer his licker, ’cause 1 ain’t half so dry as he looks,” said our Hoosier, pointing to a customer at the far end of the counter. “Now, sir ?” again said the attentive barkeeper. The Hoosier reached across the coun ter, took hold of his coHar, and, draw ing him close up,Avhispered in his ear : “A green sass drink, with aU the fix- ings r* and then he winked at him fa- miliarly, as if to convey his meaning more fully, that aH the ingredients be there. “Yes, sil’,” said the bar-keeper. The mint was fixed in the ice beside it, the sugar piled on top, and the fluid deEcately poured over aU, a la Empire —the whole was then commingled, and Avith the accompanying straw ornament, handed to the customer. He puUed his hands out of his pockets, picked up his glass and commenced a first suck, then a guffaw, which exercise he continued tUl the straw squealed Avith emptiness, whereupon, setting it doAvn, he pulled out his bit, and repeating the operation of whispering to the bar-keeper, told him, secretly : “I ’ve seed through them ar’ green sass drinks. They’re pooty good, all ’eept the ioe, and I reckon they’re cold enough ’thout that ; but, stranger, that fodder stuff is an amazing cute idee for the temperance folks ; it’s put in,I cal culate, to hide the Hoker !” E^S\One of S vdnbv S mith ’ s friends met him one day in the street with a complaint that a gentleman to whom he hadbeentryingto elaborate a p e t theory about the North Pole,had ont him short vrith the exclamation : “Oh, d— tho North Pole !” “That is nothing,” said the reverend joker, “it is not many days since I heard him speak disrespectfdUy of the Equator.” I^Eatlier hard on the poets: an ar- •fcicle entitled tlie “ Confessions of a Murderer,” concludes as foHows : “Little confidence is placed in the statement of the prisoner, who Avrites poeti^ and shows other signs of weak- OUB “BATTLE OP D0EKIN&.” at the Pxiiciisc <.f Horace Cirecler. The follow ing is supposed to have been written in 1892 b y M ax A deleb , V. lio was a wUue.ss' {,, the terrible scenes which the story tells. The E n g lish sat ire, “The B a ttle of D o r k ing,” supplied the suggestion for this prophetic ta le: THE dbNQUEST OF 4.MEBICA. You ask me to tell y o u , m y children, of the events which immediately pre ceded the destruction of the once great American Union, and the capture of the country by its present European rulers, and to say something also of the cause which led to these deplorable results. I undertake the task Avith a hea-vy heart, for when I revert to that terrible tim e i cannot h e lp contrasting o u r p roud con dition up to that fatal y ear Arith the h u m iliating position occupied now by the Amereean people. The story is a short one. In the fall of 1872, H obaob G bee - DBY, the editor of a newspaper in New York, Avas elected President of the U n i ted States. The people voted for him because they th o a g h t h e was an h o n est man. And so h e was. B u t h e was vain and weak, and he entertained certain fanatical and preposterous notions— about agricultural matters, for instance which he was determined to force upon the people at aU hazards and despite aU opposition. H e believed among o th er tlungs that o v e r m a n ought to go to the west to earn H s bread, and long b e fore he was c h o sen President h e used to advise everybody to go to that region, as a cure for all th e disasters that could befaU the human fam ily. DBIVINQ THE SBABOABD POPUI.ATION WEST. As soon as he reached the Executive Mansion, w h ich we used to call the W hite House, President Greeley organ ized an army of two hundred thousand men, and proceeded to force the entire population of the seaboard states w e st ward a t the xioint o f the bayonet. The ■atmost vigilance was used. Those who r esisted were shot down, and their dead bodies were carried off to a n ation al factory, which the President had cs- tahUshed for m aking som e kind of a fantasticalfertilizer. AU thelarge c ities of the east were depopulated, and the toAvns were entirely empty. The army sAvept b efore i t milMons o f men, women and children, until the vast plains w e st of Kansas were reached, when the pur suit ceased and the army was draAvn up ^ in a continuous line, Arith orders to shoot any person w h o attem p ted to visit tho east. Of course h u n d reds o f thousands of these poor creatures perished from starvation. T H s seem ed to frightenPres- ident Greeley, and h e sent a m essage to Congress recommending that seven hundred thousand volum es o f a book o f his, entitled, “\V^at I Know About Farm ing,” should be v o ted for th e reUef of the starring sufferers. T h is was done, and farming im p lem ents were supplied; and the millions of Avretched outcasts made an effort to tUl the ground. Of th e result o f th is I AriH speak further on. A i l , EU B O P E IN ABMS AGAINST AMEBICA. In the meantime the President was do in g infinite harm to th e country in anoth er way. H is handwriting was so fear- f uHy a n d wonderf uHy b a d that n o Hving man c o u ld read it. And so h e sent M s first annual m essage to Congress— the document was d evoted w h o lly to tar iff and agriculture—a sentence appeared wHoh subsequently was a scertained to be, “Large cultivation of rutabagas and beans is the only hope of the American nation, I am sure.” The printers, not being able to interpret tins, pu t i t in the foUoAring form, in w h ich i t w e n t to th e world: “ T h e Czar of R u ssia could not keep clean if he washed him self Avith the whole A tlantic once a day!” T H s perversion of the m e ssage was im m ediately telegraphed to the Eussian minister, and the Czar was so indignant that h e im m ediately declared war. Just at t h is tim e President Greeley undertook to Avrite som e letters to P rince B ismarck upon th e subject of the pota to rot, and after giving H s singular view s at a great length, he concluded Avith the statem ent that i f th e Emperor W illiam said that sub-soil ploAring was not good in ligh t soils, or that guano was better than bone dust, he was a “liar, a viUain and a slave!” Of course th e Emperor a lso im m ediately declared war, and became an ally o f R u ssia and England, against w H c h latter countjy Mr. Greeley had already begun hostili ties, because the Queen, in her speech from the throne, had declared the Trib- une’s advocacy o f a tariff on p ig iron in-, oendiary, and calculated to disturb the peace of nations. Unhappily, this was not the full meas ure o f o u r d isasters. The P resident h a d sent to the Emperor o f Austria a copy of his book, “What I Know,” etc., 'wittt h is autograph on the fiy-leah T h e Em - peror m istook the si^ a t u r e for a cari cature of th e Austrian eagle, and he readily joined war against th e U n ited States; w h ile France was provoked to the sam e act h y t h e fact that when the French M inister came to call upon Mr, Greeley to present h is credentials, the- President, wlio T7as s i t i n g an editorial at' t b e tim e, not com preliending tlie French language, m istook the amfoassa- dor for a beggar, and w ithout looking up handed hun a quarter and an order for a clean shirt, and said t o H m : “ Go W est, young man—go W e st.” EBESIDENT GBEELEY AND CABINET HANGED. So aU these nations joined in m a k ing war upon the U n ited States. ‘They swooped doAvn upon our coasts and landed w ithout opposition, for those exposed p o rtions of our unhappy coun try were a b solutely deserted. The Pres ident was afraid to c a ll away the army from K a n sas at first, for fear the ou t raged people upon th e plains wcmld come E a st in spite of him . B u t a t last h e did summon t h e army to H s add, and it m o v ed to m e et the enemy. I t was too late. Before th e troops reached Cincinnati the foreigners. h a d seized W a shington and aU t h e country E a st o f the O Ho, and had hung th e President, the Cabinet a n d every m ember of Con- gress. T h e army disbanded in alarm, and the invaders m o v ed to the far W est, where they found th e population dying of starvation, b ecause they h a d f o llow e d . the advice of Greeley’s book, to “T iy, for your first crop, to raise lim es, and don’t p lant more than a b u shel o f q u ick lim e in a H H !” Of conrse these wretch ed people were at the m ercy o f th e enemy, who—to H s credit be i t said— treated them kindly, fed them , and brought them back to their old hom es. UTTEB BU IN OP TH E B E rD B L IO . Y o n know what foHowed—how Prineo F b e d e b i c k . W n m i A S i of P russia a scended the tH ’one, and the other hum iliations that ensued. I t was a fearful blow t o Eepublicanism —a blow from w inch i t w in never recover. I t m a d e us, who were free men, a nation o f slaves. I t was aU the r e sult of our b lin d confi dence in a m isguided old sardine w h o thought h im self a p n ilosopher, bnt Avho was actuaUy a fool. M a y H eaven pro tect y o u , m y children, from t h e remorse I f e e l when I remember that I v o ted for that bucolic old editor. toper sneered at a young man for wearing spectacles, when the youth replied : “I t is better to us© glasses over the nose as I do, than under the nose as you do !” T heee J olly H usbands . Three joUy Berks Co. husbands, by name Tm W atson , J oe B koatn and Bmi, W aukeb , sat late one evening drinking at the village tavern, untU, being pretty weU corned, they agreed that each, on returning home, should do the first thing Hs Avife told him, in default of wHeh he should, the next morning, pay the bill. They then separated for the Hght, engaging to meet the next morn ing and give an honest account of their proceedings at home, so far as related to th e b ill. The next m o rning W a lker and Brown made their appearance, bnt it was some time before Watson arrived. W alker began first: “You see, w h en I entered my house the candle was out, and the fire was giving but a glimmer ing of light. I eame near walking ac cidentally into a pot of batter that th e panoalies were to be made of next morn ing. _ Iffy Avife, who was dreadfully out of humor at s ittin g np so late, said to me, sarcastically: ‘B ill, do pu t your foot into that batter. ’ ‘Jn s t as y o n say, M aggie , ’ said I, and Avithoui the least hesitation I put m y foot into t h e pot of batter, and went to bed .” N e x t Joe BroAvn told H s story: “M y wife had already retired in our usual sleeping- room, w H e h adjoins the kitchen, the door o f w H c h w a s ajar. N o t being able, you know, to navigate perfectly, I m ade a dreadful clattering among the household furmture, and m y -wife, in no p leasant way, b a w led out; ‘Do break the porridge pot!’ N o sooner said than done. I seized hold of th e tail of the After tH s exploit I retired to rest aud received a curtain lecture for my pains.” I t was now Tim W atson’s turn to give an account of himself, which he did Arith a v e r y lon g face, as foUows: “M y w ife gave m e the m o st unlucky com mand in the w o iid, for I was b h m d ering up stairs in the dark, when she cried out: ‘D o break your neck, do, Tim!’ ‘PH be cussed i f I do, K ate ,’ said I , as I gathered myseK up. I ’ll sooner pay tbe bill; and .so, landlord, bere’s tbe cash for you, and this is the last time m ever risk five dollars on the com mand of my Arife.” Missourian and Hs Arife and seven cbildxen walked twenty-five Tnile.s to Kansas City to see a circus. SS^Tho tool Arith which many a pub lisher has hewn out a fortune: the “ads, ’’
