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VOL. 1.
Mo. faittg Hnki
(A Consolidation of the American ami
Advocate,)
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John T. Ensor,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN !
CHANCERY,
Towsontown, Md.
Will attend promptly and perscveringly to all
business entrusted to his care.
Jan. 1, 1365.—tf.
R W. DOUGHERTY,
ATTOHINIE'if AT LAW,
TOWSONTOWN, MD.
April I.—6m.
DR. J. PIPER,
Office —Residence of the late Dr. E. R. Tidings.
Office hours from 7 A. M., to 9 o’clock A. M.
From 1 o’clock P. M., to 3 o’cl’k P. M.,
and 6 o'clock P. M.
Feb. 25.—tf.
DR. SAMUEL KEPLER.
Officeandßesidence —NEAR EPSOM CHURCH.
Towsontown, Dec. 31, 1361.—1 v
j. nelson winner. r. w. price
WISNER & PRICE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW ..
It Office—No. 1 Smedley Row, Towsontown.
HAVING formed a partnership, will give
prompt attention to all law and chancery
business entrusted to their care.
Sep. 17, 1864.—1 y
Amos F. Musselman,
ATTORNEY.
Office No. 21 Lexington st., Baltimore city,
PRACTICES in the Courts of Baltimore
county.
July 9,1864. —1 y _
WILLIAM M. BUSEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
No. 71 Fayette Street, Near Charles,
Baltimore, Md.
April 1, 18C5.—ly.
Theodore Glocker,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ATT#*
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
No. 44 St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md.
PARTICULAR attention given to Chancery
and Orphans’ Court business, in the,Courts
of Baltimore city and comity.
All communications or business left with Mr.
JOHN R. D. BEDFORD,Conveyancer,Towson
town, will be promptly attonded to.
March 12, 1864.—tf.
O. C. Warfield,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Towsontown.
JJREPARES applications for
BOUNTY,
BACK PAY and
PENSIONS.
Feb. 20.—tf
Jos. P. Merryman.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
71 West Fayette street, Balt.
Jan. 9,1864. —1 y
q. merryman. e. p. keech, i). n. s
MERRYMAN & KEECH,
"dentists,
No. 50 North Calvert street, Baltimore.
March 26, 1864.—1 y -
R. R. Boarman,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY.
Smedley Row, opposite Court House,
. TOWSONTOWN.
WILL promptly attend to all business en
trusted to his care.
Jan. 18,—tf
LEWIS B. WHEELER. WILLIAM 8. KEECH
Wheeler & Keech,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
ANU
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
Office No. 1 and 2 Smedley Row, Towsontown.
HAVING formed a PARTNERSHIP for the
practice of Law, will give p*ompt atten
tion to the collection of claims and business in
general in the Orphans’Cdurtand Circuit Court
for Baltimore county.
Aug. 27, 1859—tf
R. W. Templbman. Cdas.J. Pennington
Wm. H. Shiplp.y.
Agents for sale of Maryland hands.
Office (up stairs) No. 48 Lexington st., Baltimore.
R. W. Templeman, & Co.,
OFFER their services to tho public for the
Sale of Farms, and Real Estate generally, j
They have, as Surveyors, a general knowledge I
of the lands of parts of the State, and unusual
faoilities otherwise for the transaction of such
business. Plats and descriptions of all prop
erties they may have for sale, will be kept in
book form. Parties wishing to sell or purchase
will please communicate by letter as above.
Oat. 31.—1 y
CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
THE undersigned, having taken up his res
in the Tenth District, on the new Turnpike
Jedding from Meredith’s Ford to' Sweet Air,
respectfully a4ks of tjie public a share of rhe '
business appertaining tb Bunding and Carpen
ter’s Work in general.
GEORGE 11. MATTHEWS.
Jan. 28, 1865.—tf. m
GEORGE C. McCOULL,
UNDERTAKER,
No. 131 Saratoga street, 1 door west of Howard
■, TS prepared to furnish COFFINS at 25 per
X cent, leas than the usual price, and of fine
finish, for cash. Jan. 28, 1865.—1 y.
MAN to* work I
JjL on a Farm either by the day or month.—
5? 1
Mr. JOHN E. OWENS, , i
Aigburth Vale, Towsontown. I <
March 26.—St,
County Advertisements.
WARREN STORE,
In the Thriving Little Village of
WARREN.
GREAT REDUCTION OF PRICES IN ALL
KINDS OF GOODS.
rpHE proprietors of the “Warren Store” are
1 offering great inducements to the citizens
of this neighborhood, that is worthy of their
attention. We offer to the public the best se
lection of goods that can be found in any store
in the country, and will guarantee to%ell them
at less than city retail prices. All goods sold
here warranted as represented or the money
I refunded. Our stock consists in part of
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES.
HARDWARE,
CHINA WARE,
CROCKERYWARE,
EARTHENWARE,
STONEWARE,
GLASSWARE,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
IIATS, CAPS,
DRUGS, DYE BTUFFS, OIL AND PAINTS,
MEDICINES, GLASS, PUTTY, WHITE
LEAD, LINSEED k NEATS FOOT
OIL. PARAPHINE OIL, KER
OSENE OIL, MACHINE
OIL, MACKEREL,
HERRINGS, BA
CON, HAMS,
BREAST PIECES, SHOULDERS, G. A. SALT,
Fine Salt, Flour, Corn Meal, Mill Feed, Horn
ony Buck Wheat,
TIN AND WOODEN WARES,
Brooms, Ropca, Plow Lines, Shoe Findings,
Wrot Nails, Cut Nails, Spikes, Rivets, ami eve
ry article that may he found in a well regulat
ed country store.
COUNTRY PRODUCE
of all kinds taken in exchange for goods at
city prices.
11. P. THOMAS,
For Warren Manufacturing Company.
Feb. 18.—ly.
Auctioneer.
THE undersigned having taken out a Gov
ernment License for sth as well as the 2d
Congressional District, is prepared to attend
sales in any part of Baltimore or Harford coun
ties, or any other portion of said Districts, ex
cept Baltimore city.
Having removed from Sweet Air to
Towsontown, persons having business with me
will please address me at Towsontown, or ap
ply to Mr. Church, Advoeato Office, Mr. Long
necker A Sons, American Office, or Mr. Nelson
Cooper, at his store.
SAMUEL G. WILSON,
Dec. s.—tAlO Towsontown, Md.
NOTICE.
THE firm of Longnecker A Sons having been
dissolved, all persons having claims
against the above firm, of any kind, will please
present them to the undersigned, and all per
sons being in any way indebted either for sub
scription to the Baltimore County American,or
for advertising, are requested to make immedi
ate payment to the above. All persons indebt
ed to John H. Lougneckor for subscription to,
or advertising in the above paper, previous to
November 15th. 1863, are earnestly requested
to raakp payment as above. Bills will be sent
to all ao indebted.
H. C. LONGNECKER,
J. B. LONGNECKER.
J. H. LONGNECKER,
Jan. 7.—tf.
TOWSONTOWN
FEMALE SEMINARY.
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL for young
Ladies.
Mrs. MARGARET R. SCHEXCK,
Principle.
(Late Principal of the Columbus Female Sem
inary, Ohio.)
The next term wXI eommenee on Wednesday,
February, BIA. Feb. 11.—41*
LODI COMPANYS’
POUDBBTTE.
WE again offer this celebrated Manure to
Farmers. After 25 years trial it is found
to be the cteapest and best fertiliser used, over
10,000 bbla. were sold last year, the demand ex
ceeding the supply.
For Tobacco, Corn, Potatoes and Vegetables,
it is unsurpassed.
The Company manufacture also, Bone Ta-feu,
(a substitute for Super Phosphate.) from Bones,
Blood, Offal, Night Soil and Peruvian Guano,
ground fine. Price SSO per Ton.
Coe’s Phosphate; made by W. L. Bradly,
Boston. Having been appointed an Agent for
this celebrated Phosphate, we shall have a con
stant supply on hand.
Pamphlets with full particulars, with price,
may be obtained by addressing the Company’s
Agents, BOWEN A MERCER,
No. 3 Exchange Place, Baltimore.
February 25.—2 m.
JOHN D. HAMMOND,
SADDLE, HARNESS, TRUNK,
AND COLLAR MANUFACTURER,
WHOLESALE A RETAIL,
No. 348 Baltimore at., jgFJW WBk
SSWmal wfl 3 doors below Eutaw
House, Baltimore,
MANUFACTURES and keeps constantly on
hand every description of SADDLES,
HARNESS, TRUNKS. VALISES, CARPET
BAGS, COLLARS, and every other article in
his line. All orders executed with neatness
and dispatch. July 9,1864. —1 y
PLOUGH CASTINGS !
PLOUGH CASTINGS !!
THE attention of Farmers and Merchants is
invited to my full and complete stock, em
bracing all the various sizes of the Wiley,
Woodcock, Smith, Atwood, Minor A Horton,
Wisconsin, and other kinds, all of which will
be sold low by the single piece or ton.
Also, a good assortment of Ploughs, at less
than regular prices, at No. 142 N. Gay street,
Baltimore. HENRY WILCOX.
Feb. 6.—tf
TO REAL ESTATE OWNERS.
THE undersigned are now dealing extensive
ly in the sale of FARMS and LANDS in
all parts of Maryland, especially in Baltimore
county. Those desiring to sell at good prices,
will sepd us a full description.
No Sale no Charge.
£?fr*All Legal Claims of soldiers prosecuted.
' Address, EATON A CO.,
Baltimore.
Office—No. 26 St. Tanl Street between Lex
| ington and Fayette. Feb. 4, 1865.—tf.
TAKE NOTICE.
PALL STYLES OP HATS, 1804.
WE are now prepared to
niah our lriends and
public with tho FALL STYLES HBjfSggfr.
OF HATS, for Gentlemen’s wear, UES&fife
which will eompare favorably with any sold
in the eity of Baltimore.
ALSO, SOFT FELT HATS,
Latest patterns, for Gentlemen, Youths and
Children, some very beautiful.
S. HINDES A SON, •
Oct. 15.—tf No. 106 Gay street.
SCHUCHMANN & HEIM,
JUraS
MANUFACTURERS OF
Traveling Trunks,
Valises and Ladies Bonnet Boxes,
No. 6 W. Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE.
MADE TO ORDER /-**
Jan. 14, 1865.—1 y.
All Persons Indebted
TO the late Baltimore County Advocate, either
to E. F, Church, or Church A Havorstjek,
are respectfully requested to eall at the Union
office and settle their bill*. j
Fab. 18.—tf
TOWSONTOWN, MD., SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1865.
Railroad Directory.
Northern Central Railway.
TRAINS NORTHWARD.
Mail leavqs Calvert Station at 9.20 A. M.
Pittsburg and Erie Express 8.00 P. M.
Pittsburg and Elmira Express 10.00 P. M.
Harrisburg Accommodation leaves at 2.50 P. M.
l’arkton Accommodation No. 1 “ 7.20 A. M.
Parkton Accommodation No. 3 “ 5.00 P. M.
TRAINS SO UTll WARD.
Mail train arrives at Calvert Station 5.30 P. M.
Pittsburg, Elmira and Erie Express..7.oo A. M.
Harrisburg Accommodation arrives 12.20 A. M.
Parkton Accommodation, No. 2 8.30 A. M.
Parkton Accommodation, No. 4 7.25 P. M.
Pittsburg Express through without change ol
cars.
Express Train leaves at 10.00 daily.
Express Train at 8.00 daily, except Saturdays,
for Harrisburg, Pittsburg and Erie.
Express at 10.00 P. M., Sundays, for Harris
burg, Pittsburg and the West only, arrives dai
lv except Mondays.
’ Express at 8.00 P. M., leaves daily except
Saturdays.
Mail daily, except Sundays. Harrisburg Ac
commodation leaves daily except Sundays.—
Mail and Express will not stop between Balti
more and Parkton.
Baltimore A Ohio Railroad.
Mail Train for the Ohio river will leave Bal
timore daily (except Sunday) at 9.00 A. M.
Express Train will leave Baltimore daily at
9.40 P. M.
Both trains connect at the Ohio river for all
points West, Southwest and Northwest.
Frederick Train leaves Baltimore daily at 4.
00 P. M.; and Frederick at 7.00 A. M., Sundays
excepted.
The Ellicott’s Mills Train leaves Baltimore
at 6.20 and 10.00 A. M., and 2.00 P. M.; and El
licott’s Mills at 7.00 and 11.30 and 3.30 P. M.
FOR WASHINGTON.
Leave Baltimore at 4.30, 7.00, 8.50, 9.40 a. m.
and 3.30, and 6.00 P. M. On Sundays at
4.30 8.50 A. M., and 3.30 and 6.00 P. M. Leave
Washington at 6.15, 8.15 and 11.15 A. M., and
3.00, 4.30, and 6.45 P. M. On Sundays at
8.15, 11.15 and 3.00 A. M., and 3.00 P. M. The
O. a. m. and 3.30 p. ra. trains only from Balti
more, and the 8.15 a. m. and 3.00 p. m. from
Washington stop at wav points. The 7.00, 8.50
a. m. and the 3.30 and 6.00 p. m. from Balti
more, and the 6.15 and 8.15 a. m. and 3.ooand
4.30 p. m. trains from Washington connect with
trains on the Annapolis road.
Philadelphia Railroad.
Way Mail Train for Philadelphia and way
stations, at 8.25 a. m.
Express Train for Philadelphia and New
York at 9.20 a. m. .
Express Train for Philadelphia and New
York at 1.10 p. m.
Way Mail Train for Philadelphia and way
stations at 4.25 p. m. *
Express Train for Philadelphia and N. York
at 6.35 p. m.
Above trains leave daily except Sundays.—
On Sundays for Philadelphia and New York
at 9.25 p. m.
For Salisbury ami intermediate points on
Delaware Railroad take 9.25 p. m., train, and
for Dover, Deleware, take the 1.00 p. m., train.
Western Maryland Railroad.
Leave Union Bridge at 4.35 A. M. and 8.47
A. M. Leave Baltimore at 9.20 A. M. and 3.
P. M.
Stages connect daily with Manchester and
Hampstead, at Glen Morris Station, on arrival
ol 9.20 A. M. train from Baltimore, and for
Uniontown, Taney town and Emmittsburg, on
arrival of same train at Linwood Station.
Baltimore & towsontown
RAILWAY.
ON an aftor Monday, October 10th, 1864, cars
will
LEAVE BALTIMORE EVERY HOUR,
In the Charles Street Gars, corner of Baltimore
and North streets,
FROM 7 A. M. TO 6 P. M., except 12 M.
And will leave
CORNER EAST AND ENSOR STS., Old Town,
EVERY HOUR,
FROM 7.15 A. M. TO 6.15 V. M.,
Except at 12.15 noon.
The cars connect at North Boundary Avenue.
LEAVE TOWSONTOWN EVERY HOUR,
FROM 7 A. M. TO 7 P. M., except at 12 M.
A car will leave the corner of EAST AND
ENSOR STREETS at 11 P. M.
Oct. 15.—tf A. D. SANKS, Agent.
CHANGE OF HOURS.
Baltimore, Catonsville & Ellicott’s Hills
RAILWAY.
FALL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ON and after Monday, October 3d, 1864, cars
will run HOURLY,
FROM 7 A. M. TO 12 M.,
ANn
FROM 2 TO 7 P. M., DAILY,
Sundays included.
PASSENGERS TO AND FROM ELLICOTT’S
MILLS will leave daily, Sundays included, at
8 and 11 A. M., and 2 and 5 P. M.
Depot west end of Baltimore street.
Oct. B.—tf
Substitute Brokers.
Special Notice.
Headquarters for Drafted and En
rolled Men for the City and
Counties.
WANTED this day, FIFTY good Alien or
Contraband SUBSTITUES, for which
we will pay the highest price. We invite all
of our friends (who are subject to draft) not to
fail in procuring a Substitute for three years,
!irevious to draft, which may take place in a
ew days; (and as our motto was from the first,
so it is now, to deal fairly with'all men.) As
time is money, you can call and leave your
orders and no further personal time would be
required and your full discharge papers for
three years would be brought to your place of
business for settlement.
wo do not ask for money in advance,
call early at tho “OLD ESTABLISHED OF
FICE,” Law Buildings, St Paul street, Room
No. 6, up stairs.
WM. H. BAYZAND A CO.,
Feb. 4.—2 m. Authorized Agents.
The Old Established and Reliable
Substitute Agency,
G E 0. C 0 L T 0 N & C 0.,
28 Second Street, Nearly Opposite the Post Office,
HAVING been for a long time in the busi
iness of furnishing Districts and individ
ualswith Substitutes, and enlisting Volunteers
for the Arrnv and Navy, and being thoroughly
familiar with every department of our occupa
tion, we can offer great facilities to those who
may need our services. Those who wanttoen
ter the service, either as Substitutes or Volun
teers, as well as those who want Substitutes for
themselves or friends, would do well to give us
a call.
Contracts taken for filling quotas, as
.heretofore.
papers of all kinds carefully
prepared and advice furnished. Claims of all
kinds collected with dispatch.
RFMEMBER THE PLACE !
38 Second Street, Baltimore, Md.
Feb. 25.—2 m.
COME OUT OF THE DRAFT !
Enroled and Drafted Men of the City and
Counties,
NOW is your time to putin good alien SUB
STITUTES, at the shortest possible notice,
and Cheaper than the Cheapest, thereby ob
taining a release for 3 years, with a guarantee
from us besides. SUBS ARE SCARCE and the
PRICES GOING UP EVERY DAY. Therefore,
all Enroled Men who intend to furnish a SUB.
previous to the taking place of the Draft, can
be supplied by making early application at our
office, 75 West Fayette street, Bible House, up
stAira, and at our office, Ellicott’s Mills, 4th door
from the Provost Marshal’s office.
We do not ask for any money until We present
your full diseharge for three years.
WM. B. SASSCER A 00.,
Jan. 14.—8 m. Authorised Agents.
Jclert §o*to.
TWO CHOICE TUNES.
(■SARD DURING A SOUTH HIND.)
ST PHILIP HABVfIT, JR.
I.
A Southern nabob grown saucy and bold
From the lack of his brains and the weight of his gold,
Harangued with his bluster both blatant and loud
In this awful manner a chivalrous crowd :
“Sons of valor and daring, brave hearts of the South,
Would you have the last morsel snatched out of your
mouth ?
See your own cherished rights and your dear sacred soi*
Usurped by the minions of labor and toil;
Your castle invaded, your children made slaves,
By an insolent rabble of Yankees and knaves f
No! Perish the thought! fly to arms and prepare
To vanquish the foe when he.comes if he dare!
For fearless and brave ’neath our palmetto tree
We’ll meet him and beat him with one to his three.
We’ll meet him at noon, and the broad morrow’s sun
Will smile as he sees the work finished and won.
Then come, ye poltroons of the niggardly North
We fling down the gauntlet and welcome you forth ;
For fearless and brave, ’neath our palmetto tree
We’ll meet you and beat you with ene to your three.'’
11.
A Southern nabob grown meek and demure—
In fact grown confoundedly seedy and poor
With losses of cotton and chattel** and bets,
With taxes and duties and big foreign debts,
Thus mournfully mused as he sat in the shad*
That the wide spreading branch of his palmetto made
“Oh ! Jefferson Davis i as sure as a gun
I’m ruined completely—teetotally done.
Tobacco and cotton and bacon have lied,
And that last drop of blood but remains to be shed.
Shall it fall in defence of the last inch of ground *
No ! the fluid’s too precious to squander, I've found ;
I'll buy me a tieketto some foreign shore,
And there, like the great Dioclesian of yore,
Pass the rest of my days in seclusion and quiet,
Afar from the hollow world’s racket and riot.
Come, Pompcy, my boy, bring the horse and th gig,
And drive me away, where, I don’t cars a fig.
Zounds! where '* the scoundrel —has he gone to hoot?
He has, ami by Jove I must needs follow suit!”
—Baltimore American
THE OLD FLAG.
Cod bless the Flag! the dear old Flag!
Whose gallant folds are flying
In triumph and in glory, still
IJach traitor band defying.
Amid the smoke and cannon's roar ;
Amid the dead and dying;
The eagle cry of victory
From lip to lip is flying.
Yes ? o'er the field all wet with gore.
Where thousand's sleep together;
Its glorious stars are shining or,
And will shine on forever.
A million hands are raised to strike ;
A million hearts are glowing
With love for that dear, honored Flag,
Which o'er our homes is flowing.
God bless our Flag! our dear old Flag!
We’ll strike it— never, never ;
Hay Cod watch o’er its stripes anil stars
Forever, and forever.
fgiSLellaneoni
Stephen Girard.
iVithin the memory of many persona still
alive, “old Girard,” as the famous Banker
was usually styled, used to walk, in his
swift, awkward way, the streets ol the low
er part of Philadelphia. Though every
thing apout him indicated that he had very
little in common with his fellow-citizens,
he was the marked man of the city for more
than a generation. His aspect was rather
insignificant and quite unprepossessing.—
His dress was old-fashioned and shabby;
and he wore the pig-tail, the white neck
cloth, the wide-brimmed hat, and the large
skirted coat of the last century. He was
blind in one eye; the other, though his
burly eye-brow gave some character to his
countenance, was curiously devoid of expres
sion. He had also the absent look of a
man who either had no thoughts or was
absorbed in thought; and he shuffled along
on his enormous feet, looking neither to the
right nor to the left. There was also a cer
tain look of the old mariner about him,
, though he had been fifty years au inhabi
tant of the town. When he rode it was in
the plainest, least comfortable gig in Phi
ladelphia, drawn by an ancient and ill
formed horse, driven always by the mas
ter’s own hand at a good pace. He chose
still to live where he had lived for fifty
years, in Water street, close to the wharves,
in a small and inconvenient house, darken
ed by tall store-houses, amid the bustle,
the noise, and the odors of commerce.
His sole pleasure was to visit, once a
day, a little farm which he posessed a few
miles out of town, where he was wont to
take off his coat, roll up his shirt-sleeves,
and personally labor in the field and in the
barn, hoeing corn, pruning trees, tossing,
hay, and not disdaining even to assist in
butchering the animals which he raised for
market. It was no mere ornamental or ex
perimental farm. He made it pay. All of
its produce was carefully, nay scrupulously
husbanded, sold, recorded, and accounted
for. He loved his grapes, his plums, his
pigs, and especially his rare breed of cana
ry birds ; but the people 1 of Philadelphia
had the full benefit of their increase—at
the highest market rates. Many feared,
many served, but none loved this singular
and lonely old man. If there was among
the very few who habitually conversed with
him, one who understood and esteemed
him, there was but one ; and he was a man
of snch abounding charity, that like Uncle
Toby, if he heard that the Devil was hope
lessly damned, would have said, “I am sorry
for it.” Never was there a person more
destitute than Girard of the qualities which
win the affection of others. His temper
was violent, his presence forbidding, his
usual manner ungracious, his will inflexible,
his heart untender, his imagination dead.
He was odious to many of his fellow-citi
zens, who considered him the hardest and
meanest of men. Ho had lived among
them for half a century, but he was no more
a Philadelphian in 1830 than in 1776. He
still spoke with a French accent, and ac
companied his words with a French shrng
and French gesticulations. Surrounded
with Christian churches which he had help
ed to build, he remaiued a sturdy unbeliev
er, and posessed the complete works of on
ly one man, Voltaire.
He made it a point of duty to labor on
Sunday, as a good example toothers. He
made no secret of the fact that he consid
ered the idleness of Sunday an iujnry to
the people, moral and economical. He
would have opened his bank on Sunday if
any one would have come to it. For his
part, he required no rest and would have
none. He nevor traveled. Ho never at
tended public assemblies or amnsements.
He had no affections to gratify, no friends
to visit, no curiosity to appease, no tastes
to indulge. What he once said of himself
appeard to be true, that he rose in the
morning with but a single object, and that
was to labor so hard all day as to be able
to sleep all night. The world was abso
lutely nothing to him bnt a working place.
He scorned and seonted the idea that old
men should cease to labor, and should spend
the evening of their days jn tranquility.—
“No” he would say, “lab#r is the price of
life, its happiness, its everything ; to rest
is to rust; every man should labor to the
last hour of bis ability,” Such was Ste
phen Girard.
This is an uupleasiug picture of a citizen
of polite and amiable Philadelphia. It
were indeed a grim and dreary world,
wherein should prevail the principles of
Girard. But see what this man has done
for the city that loved him not ! Vast and
imposing structures rise on the banks of
tho Schuylkill, wherein at this hour six
hundred orphan boys are fed, clothed, train
ed, and taught upon tho income of the enor
mous estate which he won by his entire
consecration to the work of accumulating
property. In the ample grounds of Girard
College, looking up at its five massive mar
ble edifices, strolling in its shady walls, or
by its verdant play-grounds, or listening to
the cheerful cries of the boys at play, the
most sympathetic and imaginative of men
must pause before censuring the sterile
and unlovely life of its founder. And if
he should inquire closely into the charac
ter and career of the man who willed this
great institution iuto being, lie would, per
haps, be willing to admit that there was
room in the world for one Girard, .though
it were a pity there should ever bo another.
— North American Review, January, 1865.
An African Village.
The chief, who, in a blackened red shirt
Jim Crow hat, dingy trowses, and shoes
trodden down at thp heels, looked marve
lously like the cook or the steward of some
coast of Guinea trader, sat in tho green
iron chair and took dinner with us, handing
the bones, half picked, to the favored of
His people as they squatted around and the
meal being concluded, Chapman and I ac
cepted his invitation to his village the
more readily that we wished him to be
out of the way when the beads arrived.—
The town, a few hundred yards more to the
Westward, was a straggling collection of
cylindro-conical huts each surrounded by a
reed fence fifteen feet or more in height,
and of no great architectural beauty.
Indeed, compared with the carefully built
clay walls, surrouuded by the neatly thatch
ed conical roof, and ornamented with de
signs in colored earth, I had seen at Vaal
River and Thaba Uncliu, I was disappoint
ed with its want of neatness. In the open
central space stood a pitched roof shed of
poles and reed, used as a stable; before
this was new Trek Touw in process of
stretching. Just beyond were two wagons,
the wheels carefully raised on stones, and
each covered by a shed of rough poles to
shield it from the sun
One of these was his own, and the other
that of the late Dr. Holden, and this, from
the tenor of his remarks, it seemed more
and more evident he was greatly inclined
to keep “until the doctor should claim it
himself.” His chief objection however, at
present was to get us to make him Dupas.
oastilles, Suyman having told him the false
current among the Malays at the Capo re
specting their efficacy as love charms or
other surgical properties. We assured him
that it was all nousense, that it was used
only by fine ladies troubled with the vapors,
and by effeminate dandies, and not worthy
the attention of men ; but all this only in
creased his eagerness, and at last while one
of his youug wives, a slender and elegantly
formed girl in everything except her fea
tures, pounded up the ingredients upon a
small fiat stone, worn hollow with constant
use, we compounded a number of the much
desired little perfumed cones and, gave him
one. the smoke of which, carefully inclosed
within his ample karos, he inhaled as if it
were too precious to lose a whiff of it.
Heaps of ivory nicely calculated as to
size and value were held out to tempt Chap
man to part with the horses, and a pair of
ox horns eight feet three inches in a straight
lino between the tips, and more than ten
feet in the curve, were sent to tho wagon
to be sold f<?r white shirts, “washed and
boxed.” Not far from the stable was the
kolta, a semi-circular palisade of rough
poles a dozen or eighteen feet high, and
streaked at about breast height with a black
medicine line all round the interior.
In this sat one of the members of the
tribe who had just been brought in by the
returned commander, and among them their
chief a common looking, sharpfeatured lit
tle fellow, whose cunning had often got
him into scrapes from which his courage
could not release him. Once while a boy,
he went to steal corn from the garden of
oue of bis father’s subjects, and had care
fully packed up as much as he could carry,
when a buflalo. which had come down for
the very same purpose, charged at once up
on him, and pitched the two-legged thief
such a distance as almost to break his neck
and scarcely to leave him strength to crawl
away.— Explorations in Southwest Africa, hg
T. liaines, F. R. G. S.
Petroleum: What is it ?
The name Petroleum means Rock Oil. —
This indicates its place in the earth. True,
it flows from the earth, sometimes floats on
ponds or lakes, comes out in springs, is
found in rocks, aud is distilled from bitu
minous coal. It used to be collected on
Senoca Lake, and was called Seneca oil.—
The writer has some which was taken from
that lake more than fifty years ago, and is
precisely like that from the oil regions of
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and other States.
Yet it is not a new thing—for it was lcuqjvu
and used on the Eastern Continent before
the Christian era. It has excited new in
terest from its abundance and from its new
and extensive uses. Its exportation from
our country is prodigious, a real era in the
trade.
Petroleum is a real chemical compound,
formed of carbon and hydrogen, or a true
hydro-carbon. Several compounds of these
two elements exist together in it. Its con
version by heat into illuminating gas is
well known. This is a gaseous hydro-car
bon ; petroleum is a liquid hydro-carbon,
as is naptha also; and bitumen is a solid
bydro-carbon. Such vast quantities flow
from the oil wells that people cannot but
iuquirc, How is it produced ? Though chem
ists and geologists of high character for
knowledge believe this oil results from
chemical action upon either vegetable or
animal matter buried ip. the earth, or upon
both, they have not shown its production,
or what is the matter acted on, and how
the action is carried on. All agree that it
seems to be connected with coal fields,
where were imbedded immense quantities
of vegetable substances.
A late paper contains a professed an
swer, aud gives, as it supposes, the com
plete chemical process in the formation of
the oil. Omitting the great mistakes in
the chemistry, let us look at the process.—
The paper states that limestone, carbonate
of lime, lies below, and sandstone above,
the oil rock; that water filters from the
surface through the sandstone into the
limestone, and that there the hydrogen of
the water combines with the carbon in the
limestone to form the oil, while the other
elements pass off; and hence the produc
tion of oil must be unlimited, as the sub
stances, water and carbon, in the rocks, are
without limit. This is a beautiful theory,
and seems scientific in language. Yet
chemists have never been able to discover
or effect the union of carbon and hydrogen
from water and limestone, or to detect any
action or force which would lead to such
a result.— The solution has not been given. —
New York Observer. .
■■ ' -*
tell you, young ladies, that divine
love is better than human. You had bet
ter be on yoniN&nees than upon the gentle
man’s.
How Tom Corwin, Kid his Sister of
an Obnoxious Lover.
BY A WESTERN MAN.
Every one has heard of the eloquent, pa
tHetic, and humorous stump orator of Ohio.
He was pronounced by Mr. Clay (a most
competent authority,) to be the finest stump
speaker he bad ever heard ; and in this
opinion I most heartily coiucide, after hav
ing heard Clay, Crittenden, Joues of Ten
nessee,“Polk, Benjamin, Soule, Randall,
Hunt, Tom Marshall, Gen. Lamar, Bates,
Douglas and a host of others.
Well, this great orator carried his love
of fuD into every department of lite. In
tho private circle, where he knew every
person, and where he uiubosomed himself
fully, he was the most delightful and ge
nial conversationalist I ever listend to. I
do not know that he now, as age and infir
mity are creeping on, indulges this procliv
ity to humor so much as he used to do.—
But some twenty years used to tell,
with great gusto, tho following story :
“In early life—so early that I cannot re
member the removal—my father ‘pulled up
stakes,’ and carrying with him the house
hold goods, went from Bourbon county,
Kentucky, where I was born, to Ohio.—
Notwithstanding a rough and tumble strug
gle with the world, he had a hard time to
get on, owiug to a numerous and rapidly
increasing family. Well, family matters
had not much improved when I had reach
' ed my thirteenth or fourteenth year.
“At this time there lived in the neigh
borhood a young man by the name of Picker
ing. He had inherited a well stocked farm,
i was good-looking and made a strong pro
fession of religion. This latter qualifica
tion caused him to find peculiar favor in the
eyes of my father, who always was blinded
. by professions of extra piety.
“This fellow had a strong hankering af
ter one of my sisters who was a very pretty
, girl. To her he was peculiarly distasteful.
She seemed always excessively annoyed at
. his presence. Yet he was ever at her side.
1 She dared not dismiss him entirely, for fear
. of the paternal anger. Things went on in
this way a year or two, and as I partook
largely of my sister’s hatred to him, I resolv
i ed to get rid of him in some way. 1 cast
f about for a plan for some time, but nothing
, occurred which gave me tho slightest hope
I of being successful.
i “At last returning homo late one sum
mer night from mill, I found the family at
■ their nightly devotions. Passing by the
.windows of the room in which they were
i assembled, I saw that Pickering was there,
and pretty soon discovered that he was
, nodding, aud finally his head dropped.—
, Now was my opportunity. I stole slily iu
i. to the hall, and reaching the hall door,
which was slightly ajar, aud close by which
Pickering was ‘on bended knee,’ 1 reached
in, and quickly pulling his chair-from under
him, he rolled heavily, as a sound sleeper
would upon the floor. The noise alarmed
all. The old gentlemau stopped in the
midst of his almost interminable prayer,
aud saw the position of Pickering. All
the family laughed outright; even my
mother smiled.
“Pickering endeavored to pick himself
up as rapidly as possible, but he had touch
ed the old man upon his tenderest point.—
It was evident, from his rubbing his eyes,
that he had slept under the old gentleman’s
ministrations ; aud had not my father a rep
utation far and wide for the fervency and
strength of his ministrations, and was not
i Pickering his professing brother? Slowly
. yet most dighifiedly did the old mau ap
p proach him. ‘Begone hypocrite ! he cried,
; in thundering tones. ‘Never enter my
: house again.’
“Pickering was thunderstruck. He felt
l that he could make no apolgy which would
not add to insult. He had no suspicion of
the extra force which had aided him in his
fall. He at once fonnd his hat, took up
his line of march, and, completely crestfal
len,, passed by me as I stood grinning iq,
i the shadow of the porch.
■ “ At a suitable time I entered, got my
■ supper, was told by a brother in hurried
. whispers, what had happened, and then I
, stole off to bed, affecting ignorance, aud
laughing most heartily, as I ensconded my
, self in tho sheets, at the complete success
' of my plan.
“Net day I cautiously imparted my secret
to my sister. She was in her own room at
• the time, and she threw herself upon the
bed and rolled in agouies and convulsions
' of laughter. She had been emancipated
forever from the obnoxious lover. The old
gentleman did not hear the real state of
> thefacts for full twenty years afterwards ;
but when he did he laughed heartily.”
The Mineral Wealth of the U. S.
It is estimated that Colorado Territory
with a population which is sufficient to al
low it to be admitted into the Uuion as a
State, will produce in a year the value of
fifteen millions of dollars from its golden
rniucs ; and Idaho Territory is also estima
ted, to yield six millions this year. The
rapidly increased population of Nevifßa, at
traded by the discovery of precious metals,
has already erected it into a State, and Ne
braska will in probability do likewise. In
the vast regions covered by the mountain
ranges, and which embrace an areaofnear
ly half a million of square miles, the min
eral wealth of California will bo many
times repeated, and to numerous districts
tides of emigration are now moving, rival
led ouly in magnitude by that which set
towards California when the gold discover
ies were first made generally known. The
progress of iron manufactures, in different
parts of the country, together with those
which have been recently introduced at
and near the lakes, has been larger than
ever, and sufficient to supply the whole
country. The value of the copper product
of the lakes, this year, has been ten or
twelve millions of dollars. An addition to
those vast mineral resources, is the immense
yield of earth oil, and the indispensable
coal product, both anthracite and bitumin
ous, which have increased one-third within
a twelve month.
Marriage in Lapland.
It is death in Lapland to marry a maid
without the consent of her parents and
friends. When a young man has formed
an attachment for a female, the fashion is
to appoint their friends to meet to behold
the. two young parties run a race together.
The maid is allowed in starting the advan
tage of one-third part of the race, so that
it is impossible except willing of herself,
that she should be overtaken. If the maid,
outrun her suitor, the matter is ended ; he
must never have her, it being penalty for
the man to renew the motion of marriage.
But if the virgin has an effection for him,
though at first she ruus fast to try the
truth of his love, she will (without Atlan
ta’s golden balls to retard her speed) pre
tend some casualty, and before she comes
to the end of the race she will come to a
halt. Thus none are compelled to marry
against their own wills; and this is the
cause that in this poor country the married
people are richer in their own contentment
than in other lands, where bo many forced
matches make feigned love, and cause real
unhappiness. '
beautiful thought is thus suggest
ed in the Koran—“ Angels,, in the grave,
will not question thee as to the amount of
wealth thon hast left behind thee, bat as to
what deeds thou hast done in the world to
entitle thee to a seat among the bleft.”
A Tragical Delusion.
The tragical delusion of the madmen of
Charleston four years ago, that they could
overthrow a great nation as easily as they
could fire upon a provision ship or upon a
little isolated garrison, is vividly illustra
ted by the two following extracts. The
first is from the Charleston Mercury of the
10th of January, 1861 and the second from
a letter to the Tribune, written in Charles
ton, on the 20th of Febuary. 1865 :
“The expulsion of the steamer Star of
the West from the Charleston harbor yes
terday morning was the opening of the
ball of the revolution. . . We would
not exchange or recall that blow for mil
lions. The haughty echo of her cannon
has ore this reverberated from Maine to
Texas, through every hamlet of the North,
and down along the great waters of the
Southwest. And though greasy and treach
erous ruffians may cry on the dogs of war,
and traitorous politicians may lend their
aid in deceptions, South Carolina will stand
under her own palmetto-tree, uuterrified by
the snarling growls (jr the assaults of the
one, undeceived or deterred by the wily
machinations of the other. And if that
rod sea of blood be still lacking to the
parchment of our liberties, and blood they
want, blood they shall have, and blood
enough to stamp it all in red. For, by the
God of our fathers, the soil of South Caro
lina shall be free!”
So wrote men who were ready and eager
to smother in blood a Government which
they did not pretend had ever harmed them,
and which they had absolutely controll
ed. Four years pass. One by one their
hopes disappeared. And now, amidst the
desertion, according to Governor Vance,
of half their army, amidst the imprecations
and cries of the Richmond journals that
their leaders shall not flee by the mere
wind of Sherman’s thundering march,
Charleston falls without a bio wand the crazy
city that causelessly defied a Government
as strong as it is benign, is thus described :
“The wharves looked as if they had been
deserted for half a century—broken down,
dilapidated, grass and moss peeping up be
tween the pavements, where once the busy
feet of commerce trod incessantly. The
warehouses near the river; the streets as
we enter them ; the houses and the stores
and the public buildings—we look at them
and hold our breaths in utter amazement.
Every step wo take increases our astonish
ment. No pen, no pencil, no tongue can do
justice to the scene. No imagination can
conceive of the utter wreck, the universal
ruin, the stupendous desolation.
Ruin—ruin—ruin—ruin—above and be
low ; on the right hand and the left; ruin
-—ruin—ruin—everywhere and always ;
starting at us from every paneless window ;
looking out at us from every shell-torn
wall; glaring at us from every battered
door and pillar and veranda; crouching
beneath our feet on every side-walk. Not
Pompeii, nor Herculaneum, nor Thebes, nor
the Nile, have ruius so complete, so sadden
ing, so plailftively eloquent; for they speak
to us of an age not ours, and long ago dead,
with whose people and life and ideas we
have no sympathy whatever. But here, on
these shattered wrecks of houses, built in
our own style, many of them doing credit
to the architecture of our epoch, we read
names familiar to ns all, telling us of trades
and professions and commercial institu
tions, which every modern city reckons up
by the hundred ; yet dead, dead, dead ; as
silent as the grave of the Pharohs ; as de
serted as the bazaars of the merchant prin
ces of Old Tyre. I ' — Harper's Weekly.
Two Causes of the Numerous Rail
road Disasters.
Polly Britain, a simple old woman liv
ing in a retired part of the country, once
remarked :—“Very few people ever rode
on railroads without being killed.” If the
railway accidents continue to multiply as
they have during the last few months, this
' statement may be made by intelligent men.
These accidents are all the result of mis
management on the part of the directors.
If a competent and efficient superintendent
be employed, and if he be supplied with
sufficient funds to keep the track and roll
ing stock in repair, no accident will ever
occur. There are long roads in the coun
try that have been in operation more than
thirty years without ever killing or injur
ing a passenger. The employment of an
incompetent superintendent is certainly
the fault of the directors: and, strange as
it may seem, this has been done for the
sake of saving a portion of the salary re
quired to secure a capable man. This is
surely the worst of all places for the prac
tice of economy.
Bjt as the character of our directors has
not suddenly changed, there must be some
special cause or causes for the great in
crease of railway accidents at the present
time. Among the most important of these
causes we suggest two—one political or so
cial, and the other mechanical.
Among all the manifestations of tho wide
spread and disastrous effects of an altera
tion of the currency, there is none more
curious, as there is none more melancholy,
than this increase of railroad accidents.—
The rise in prices resulting from the aug
mention of the currency has doubled the
cost of repairs, and there is a universal be
lief that this inflamation of the currency
will bo but temporary. Railway directors,
therefore, in common with other bodies of
men, are disposed to put off all expendi
tures until the same result can be accom
plished with half the money. This has led
to a postponement ofall permanentimprove
ments, and a resort to make-shifts and ex
pedients to keep the roads running for a
season with the least possible expenditure
for repairs. As the inflation of the cur
rency has continued longer than was an
ticipated, this system of usiug the railways
without repairing them has been persever
ed in till both the track and the rolling
stock have been worn to a wretched condi
tion, and the natural result is this frightful
succession of disasters.
Many of the railroad accidents have been
produced by brokeu rails, and this we are
told by a large iron manufacturer is mainly
due to the extensive a few years back
of cold short iron. It is said that this dif
ficulty can be effectually remedied by tho
introduction of either coppery ore or
Franklinito into the iron for rails. Compe
tent directors would see that this danger
was avoided, as well as that of running the
roads when out of repair.— -Scientific Amer
ican.
What the Methodists Have Done.—
Rev. Dr. Cook, Principal of the Wesleyan
Academy at Wilbraham, says the Metho
dists of this oountry have, for the last
twenty years, established, on the average,
one school in four monihs, at an average,
endowment of $40,000, making sixty schools
in that time at a cost of $2,400,000
®g*The government doesn’t give the sol
dier a bond to secure his life, but it gives
him a sword as security without bond.
fgrlt is sometimes necessary to test the
soundness of a man as we do that of a tea
cup—by giving him a few smart thumps.
jyPeople with short legs step quickly,
because legs are pendulums, and swing more
times in a minute the shorter they are.
may easily be purchased,- bus
happiness is a home-made articlej •
NO. 14.