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4 : r: V: ft. "1 t ' I: . t t r if T'. n rdifitr antl Pronrletor LjODD IIUTCIIIXSON, Publisher. I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT TIIAN PRESIDENT. Hehby Clay. TERMS:200 pER AXJITM 7K- Aft fry ' VOLUME 6. rvIRECTORY. Post Offices. Post Masters. Enoch Reese, Joseph Behe, Henry Nutter, A. G. Crooks, Districts. ;ethel Station Blacklick. Carroll. Chest. Taylor. Washint'n. farolltown, k'hesa Springe, Conemaugn, Cre33on, Ebensburg. fUett Timber, GftlUtzin. J. Houston, John Thompson, Ebensburg. ;saH. Fisko White. J.M.Christy, . Gallitzin. Wm Tiley, Jr., Washt'n. I. E. Chandler, Johnst'wn. M. Adlesberger, Loretto. E. Wissinger, Concm'gh. A. Durbin, Munster. Andrew J Ferral, Susq'han. G. W. Bowman, White. Stan. Wharton, Clearfield. George Berkey, Richland. B. M'Colgan, - Washt'n. B. F. Slick, Croyle. William M'Conncll Washt'n. Morris Keil, S'uierhill. flemlock, Johnstown, Loretto, jlineral Poiat, Muaster, Phittsville, KoseUnd, St. AUgUaiiuv, Scalp Level, 5onman, Summerhill, Summit, Kilniore, , CHURCHES, MINISTERS, &C. Presbyterian Ret. D. Harbison, Pastor. preaching every babuatn morning at iu o'clock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock. Sab cith School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayef meet ing every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. S. Lem- 103, Preacher in charge. Rev. W.II. M'Bkioe, distant. Preacuingevery alternate oaDDam awning, at 10 o'clock. Sabbath School at o'clock, A. M. Prayer meeting every Thursda evening, at 7 o clocK. ifdck Independent UEv LaL. u. 1'owkli. Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10 o'ciock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, V. n. i'raycr r- . r i ' r .1. seetine on tue nrsi aionuay oeuiug ui.racu month ; and oa every l uesaay, l uursuay ana Friday evening, excepting the first week in .1. -!. t.'.CIl UIUI11U. Calehiistic Methodist Rev. Joht ILLIAMS, Fiitor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at :&aA 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at lr o clock, r-. - 1 A.M. l';ayer meeting every r riuay evening, at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening t 7 o'clock. Discii'lesREv. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach- z every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock. Particular Jiuplistt Uev. .UAvio jexkins, Pnitor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at 3 r ;.c!-:. S.ibbath School at at I o clock, r. u. CithoHcllEv. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor. rvices every Sabbath morning at 10 J o'clock au-1 Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening. EnEXSISl'RG MAILS. MAILS ARRIVE. Faftern, daily, at 11 J o'clock, A. M. V.stern, at 11 1 o'clock, A. M. MAILS CLOSE. "astern, daily, at 8 o'clock, P. M. Western, " " at 8 o'clock, P. M. efjrTho mails from Butler,Indiana,Strongs- tuivn. acc, arrive on 1 hursuay oi eacn week, t 5 o lo k, P. M. U'rive Lbensburg on Friday of each week, t S A. M. VThe mails from Newman's Mills, Car- t''i!tr.v,n. kc, arrive on Monday, Wednesday mi KrH-iv of ench week, at 3 o'clock, P. M. I.ftave Khensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays Uil Saturdays, at 7Dclsick, A. M. RAILROAD SCHEDULE. CRESSON STATIU West Bait. Express leaves at 8.18 A. M. 9.11 P. M. 9.02 A. M. 7.08 P. M. 3.15 P. M. 8.38 P. M. 12.30 A. M. 7.08 A. M. " Fast Line " Phila. Express ' Mail Train " Emigrant Train it u u t (4 (( East Through Express " r ast Line " Fast Mail " Through Accom. 10.39 A. M COUXTY OFFICERS. Judges of the Courts President, Hon. Geo. T.tvlor. Huntingdon: Associates, George W. E'isley, Henry C. Devinc. i rolhonotartf Joseph M Donal-I. Register and Recorder James Griflin. Sheriff John Buck. District Attorney. Philip S. Noon. County Commissioners Peter J. Little, Jno. Campbell, Edward Glass. ; Treasurer Isaac W ike. Poor House Directors George M'Cullougli, George Delany, Irwin Ratledge. 1 oor House Treasurer leorge c. K. .anm. Auiitors William J. Williams, George C. K. Zahni, Francis Tierne-. County Surveyor. Henry bcanlan. Coroner. -William Flattery. Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donahoe. Sup't. of Common Schools J. F. Condon. EBE.VSBl'RG dor. officers. AT LARGE . . Justices of the Peace David II. Roberts Harrison Kinkead. Burgess A. A. Barker. School Directors Abel Llovd. Phil S. Noon. Joshua D. Parrish. Huch Jones E.J. Mills. David J. Jones. EAST WARD. . Constable Thomas J. Davis. Town Council J. Alexander Moore. Daniel 0. Evans, Richard R. Tibbott, Evan E. Evans, William Clement. Inspectors Alexander Jones. D. O. Evans. Judge of Election Richard Jones. Jr. Assessor Thomas M. Jones. ' Assistant Assessors David E.Evans, Wm; p. Davis. WEST WARD. Constable William Mills, Jr. Toxcif, Council John Dougherty, GeorgoC. K. Zahm, Isaac Crawford, Franc i 3 A. Shoe maker, J amea Todd. Inspectors G. W. Oatman, Roberts Evans. Judge ef Election Michael Hasson. Assessor James Murray. Assistant Assessors William Barnc?, Dan elC. Zahm. The Ripening Corn. How sweet to walk through the wheatland3 brown When the teeming fatness of Heaven drops down I The waving crop with its bursting ears A sea of gold on the earth appears ; No longer robed in a dress of green, With tawny faces the fields are seen ; A sight more welcome and joyous far : ; Than a hundred blood-won victories are. Beautiful custom was that of old, When the Hebrew brought, with a joy untold, The earliest ears of the ripening corn And laid them down by the Altar's horn ; When the priesthood waved them before the Lord, While the Giver of harvests all hearts adored ; What gifts more suited could mau impart To express the flow of his grateful heart? A crowd awaits 'neath the cottage cave3. To cut the corn and to bind the sheaves ; At length is heard the expected sound Put in the sickle, the corn is browned ; And the reapers go forth with as blithe a soul As those who joined the Olympian goal ; And sorrowless hearts and voices come ' To swell the shouts of the harvest home. And there is a reaper on earth well known, Whose deeds are traced on the burial stone ; He carries a sickle more deadly and keen Than e'er on the harvest field was seen ; He cut down the earliest ears in spring, As well a3 the ripest that time can bring; The tares he gathers to flames are driven ; The wheat is laid in the garner of Heaven. A HOUSEKEEPER WANTED. WANTED A Housekeeper. No one but an elderly person, competent, and of the highest respectabilitj-. need apply. Call between ' the hours of 'd and 4, Thursday, April 6, at No. Michigan avenue. Kate Franklin rad this in the paper which lay on the counter in the little gro cery, while waiting to hayo an ounce or two of tea done up and a roll of baker's bread. She repeated the number of the house over to herself, as she received the change from the grocer. She prepared the tea after she returned to the little bare attic, and ate her scanty meal mechanically. She forgot how unsatisfied her appetite still was, in her bu-y thought. Yes, she must descend to menial service. "Why not this ? It would be better than a lower grade. Yet her soul and pride shiank from it. A stranger in a strange place, succes sively she had tried to find a situation as teacher, copyist, in a store, and sewing. She had failed in the first three, and was starving on the last. She would apply for that place, but she i would need references. Only one person she knew, in the whole great city, of suf ficient influence Mr. Davenport, the rich, haughty step-sister, who had illtreat ed her geDtle mother while she had lived, and had hated Kate herself with double hatred since the first and only one she had ; over loved had turned from htr brilliant beauty to offer heart and hand to the young ; aod disliked step sister, only to be rejected in his turn, lhe beautuui, imperious beauty had soon after married au old man for his wealth, but she had not forgotten her hatred for Kate, and disowned all connection with the now orphan and pen niless girl. Perhaps though, Kate thought, she would permit her to refer to her be cause glad to have her descend to menial employment. ; Kate felt competent for the situation, for during her mother's long illness, and her father's absence, she had entire charge of their large family and splendid house. Hut "an elderly woman." Now Kate was not an elderly woman, being only twenty; but she remembered, with a sort of pleasure, that io private theatricals, in happier days, she had imitated the voice and assumed the character of an old wo man with great success. .She knew how to stain the skin to give it an old wrinkled appearance, and she had, in the bottom of a box, some false gray hair, and a muslin cap, worn on one of these occasions. She did not need to look so very . old on ly to present a mature and matronly appear ance. - ! Mr. Edward Dayton waited at home after his dinner lo see the respondents to his advertisement, lie was a handsome man, not yet thirty, with a gay, frank, good natured countenance., r . s . - "Now for - a dazen or two of good old dames, all competent, all respectable,' and each confident she would give satisfac tion." - ' lie lighted a cigar. "I shall shock the dear old souls, but I shall take the liberty to smoko in my own EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1864. house, in the parlor or anywhere I please: mey may as wen Know wnat to expect." lie leaned back in a nonchalant way, with his feet on another chair. "There ought to be, I suppose, a Mrs. Dayton to manage these housekeeper mat ters. Well, there's time enough." Two applicants were seen and dismissed in Mr. Dayton's gentlemanly way. "Would let them know if he decided to engage them." A third was ushered in. Mr. Dayton instinctively laid ; aside his cigar, and placed a chair for his visitor. The lady likeness and propriety of her manner pleased him at once. "Fallec fortunes," he commented to himself. She answered his questions readily, but in few words. "A silent woman a good thing," was his inward remark. - "I' think you will suit me, Mrs. what did I understand your name?" "Franklin." "Mrs. Franklin, you will be required to go out of town, about seveu miles, to my country house Oak Grove in the town of Embury, on the great Central Railroad. The salary I propose to pay is six hun dred dollars per annum. Do my terms suit?" Suit! Six hundred to the half-starving person before him seemed India's wealth. She answered quietly that they suited. "Then it is all settled. By the way, I suppose you have references, thought all that is a 'mere matter of form.' " The name of Davenport was given. - "Davenport! Robert Davenport!, I know them. All right, then. If conve nient, you will please go to-morrow, Mrs. Franklin, or the next day. I shall not come down till the middlo of next week, and shall probably bring a friend or two with me. Have the chamber in the cen tre and wings prepared, if you please. The housekeeper there now will not leave until Saturday. She will show you all around." "Is Mrs. , is your wife there, or to go soon ?" He laughed. "Mrs. Edward Dayton ? No, she is not there, and I do not know of her going at present." Adding' more seriously, "I have not the pleasure, Mrs. Franklin, of having a wife," with a slight stress on "pleasure." A vivid color came into the brown cheek of the housekeeper, and her man ner showed evident embarassment. "I thought I believe I cannot " And stopped. He did not notice it. His mind had already turned to other things. He rose. "It is all settled, I believe. By the way," his eye falling on the rusty black dress, "you may like an advance, as an evidence of the bargain. It is quite cus tomary I believe to do so.' Much Edward Dayton knew about the custom of such things, but it was like his kindness and delicacy to say so. The housekeeper's hand closed on the fifty dollars he gavo her j and the words she would have said were left unuttereJ. She moved to the door. He opened it for her couitcously. "Good morning, madam." "Good morning !" she replied. "I caunot starve. I must go. I can keep up my disguise," she murmured. Mr. Dayton, accompanied by a friend, arrived at his country house the middle of the ensuing week. Everything within and about the house was in perfect order. If the new housekeeper had made a few mistakes at first, they were soon rectified. Every room that she had touched showed a magical change. .Her predecessor had beca one of the kind who believed in the sunlight never entering a room for fear of fading carpets and curtains; whose watch word was "or der," and therefore, the furniture was set primly against the wall, as if fixtures, and their position had not been altered for years ; and who moreover conscieutously Delieved cut flowers in a room unhealthy. The new housekeeper's belief differed in" these respects. The cheery sunlight was allowed to enter when and where it would; flowers were on the tables and mantle pieces ; the furniture was disar ranged with careless grace ; ornaments were taken from drawers and closets where they had been carefully packed away, and spoko for themselves ou etegres, marble shelves and mantle pieces. Mr. Dayton felt the change without knowing the reason of it. He looked around him with a satisfied air. ' ' "This a grand, cheery old place, after all ! Do you know, Lyon, I have always shunned it as the gloomiest of all gloomy places. I haven't stayed here a fortnight all put together, for the last five years. It must be your presence, old fellow, that has brightened it up so, or the gloom was all in my imagination." "Not altogether; for I remember it just as you do. You forget I have run down here with you once or twice a day. Didn't you tell me you had a good housekeeper? Perhaps the change may be owing to her some women have a singular knack at such things." "Very likely your are right. I remem bermow, that notwithstanding all I could say, Mrs. Stone would exclude the sun ; and the furniture is certainly arranged different from what it was'. A marked improvement which I hope will extend to and beyond the dinner table." It was not possible to find fait with the variety and quality of the food placed be fore them, nor the manner of its being served ; and the table appointments were perfect ; and Dayton congratulated him self upon having secured such a jewel of a housekeeper. . - The two friends passed their time in reading, driving, fishing and occasional visits to the city ; the' housekeeper hers in earning to the extent of her power, by attention to their bodily wants the six hundred she received. She had an easy master. Mr. Dayton was never fault finding, always pleasant and courteous. lie remained after his friend departed. Usually, if he did not go into town, he spent his mornings between the library and garden ; the afternoons in driving himself; sometimes in takiug the young ladies of a neighboring family, Lilly and Maud Grandison, to a drive. They were the only family with, whom he visited fa miliarly. Through the servants, the new housekeeper heard rumors, of an attach ment between the eldest daughter, Lilly, a fair and amiable girl, and Mr. Dayton. The weeks passed, and a holiday came. 31 r. Dayton had gone to town the day pre vious, to remain the rest of the week. The housekeeper had given permission to the servants to go also. She felt it a wel come relief to have the house and the day to herself. She lacked the door carefully after the last servant. She would make the most of the day. . She would have no dinner only a lunch. She had almost forgotten her real character in that in which she had assumed ; but to-day she could be herself witl out fear of intrusion or discovery. She laid aside her cap and grey tresses, washed the stain from her skin, arranged her luxuriant hair in becoming curls, and donned a pretty fresh muslin, which fitted well thesljght graceful figure. This done, she entered the parlor and stood before the mirror, as attractive a figue as one would often see. "Truly, I had forgotten my own looks ! I am Kate Frauklia, after all!" she laughed. llemcved from the long restraint, her spirits rebounded. She felo gay, light hearted, and like committing any foolish ness. "Miss Franklin," she said, in mincing, affected tones of an exquisite, "it would be irrepressible pleasure to hear the music of that long silent voice." "It would bo a great , pitty to deprive you of it then," she answered, iu her na tural voice, "and myself, also," she added ; and going to the piaco, she opened it and played a few pieces with exquisite taste and skill, and then she sung song after song, in a sweet clear, cultivated voice. She chose at first brilliant and trium phant, then the sad and plaintive succeed ed. There were tears in her eyes when she rose. But to-day moods were capri cious. . "Mrs. Franklin, who is playing on the piano ?" she asked, in an excellent imita tion of Mr. Dayton's voice. "It is only I, sir, dusting the keys. They need dusting so olten,'' she replied, in Mrs. Franklin's mature tones ; and she dusted them vigorously with her pocket handkerchief. "Ah me I". she said. Now, what other foolish thing shall I do to prove . myself that I am not an elderly housekeeper, but a young girl who, by virtue of her age, should be gay, by right of birth, wealthy and of consideration visted and visiting, as Mr. Dayton's lady-love visits and is vis ited. He is noble, and good, and hand some," she said with a sigh. "She will Do happy. How gracefully she danced here, at the party, , the other evening, when the old housekeeper was permitted to look on. She looks good and amiable, too. ' Mr. Dayton danced with her three times. I wonder if I have forgotten how to. dance!" and humming an air, she floated gracefully about the room. She stopped breathless, her cheeks bril liant from the exercise, her splendid hair disarranged. - "I-believe I feel like stiff old Mrs. Franklin, with whom dancing doesn't agree. "One" more song - from that heavenly voice, Miss Franklin, and I shall go away dreaming I have heard the angels sing," in the ludicrously affected voice she had before imitated. "Ah !" she laughed, yet half sadly, "the compliments poor old housekeeper Franklin receives I hope won't spoil her, and turn her silly old head." She 6at down again at the piano, and sang "Home, Sweet home;" then played one of Beethoven's grandest, most solemn pieces. She rose ; closed the piano. "The carnival is ended, Kate Franklin disappears from the scene, and 3Iadame Franklin enters." Neither Mr. Dayton nor the servants would have suspected from the placid, dignified deportment of the housekeeper when they returned at evening, of what strange freaks she had been guilty. The housekeeper, as usual, when Mr. Dayton was alone, sat at the table. It had commenced to rain violently, and the weather had grown suddenly cold. . Mr. Dayton, as he had done occasional ly, invited her to the library, where was a cheerful fire in the grate. He read the letters and papers which he had brought with him from town, while she knitted. . An hour or more passed in silence ; in deed, the housekeeper seldom spoke, ex cept when asked a question. At length Mr. Dayton looked up at her, ami said, abruptly : "Yours must be a lonely life, Madam. If it is not a painful subject, may I ask how long since you lost your husband?" Two hands suspended their employment, two eyes looked up at him with an alarmed expression. In his serious, sympathetic countenance, there was nothing to fright en or embarass, but the red grew deeper in the brown cheek. "It is a painful subject," she said, at last, falteringly. "If you will please ex cuse me." "Pray pardon me, .Madam." It was' farthest from my wi&h or thought to give you pain,", he returned, with grave court esy, nis manner after this was even kinder than before. It became his cus tom to invite her to sit with him every evening. . She commenced to decline; but as he invaribly insisted upon a reason, it was not always easy to find one. If she gave household cares, he called one of the ser vants to attend to it. Once, she frankly told him it was not agreeable, but she never did it a second time ; for a week, he had wrapped himself in impenetrable reserve, looking cold and gloomy, never speaking, except from necessary civility. At last, the poor housekeeper could bear it no longer. After tea, without an invitation, which had been extended since that night, she took her knitting, aud went into the parlor. The first approach to a smile she had seen on his face for many days brightened it then, but he did not say a great deal. After this, it became the regular cus tom. There could be no danger to him in the gray hair, the seemingly aged face and figure before him ; but was thero none to her, evening after evening, sitting op posite the manly, handsome fellow, know ing his goodness and large heartedness, listening to his intelligent and polished conversation ? Ono morning, he was speaking of the great loss to children, in being deprived of their parents. "I never knew a mother," he said. "She died before' my earliest recollection. I believe that, mau as I am, if I had a mother, I should go to her with all my griefs, as a little child would. I have sometimes thought of asking you to act as mother in these quiet evenings, when I have longed to confide in some one. My mother would have been about your ace, I think." . Again there was a vivid color in the brown cheek of the housekeeper, such as is rarely seen in the aged, and it . wan accompanied by a quiver of the mouth, and a smothering noise, which ended in a cough ; but both mouth and check were quickly covered with a handkerchief and quite a violent fit of coughing succeeded. Mr. Dayton, however, had not seemed to notice, though he had given her one curious glanco, instantly withdrawn, and he continued : . "For instance, respecting matrimony, whose advice of so much value as a moth er's ? Who so quick to see through char acter, and make a wise selection ? Had you a son ; who about here would you se lect for a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Franklin ?" "I am not acquainted with any of the young ladies, Mr. Dayton," 6he answered, faintly, after a pause, during which she seemed to wait for an answer. . : "True, you have seen them all, and aro I should judge a good discerner of character, from observation. Who should you select from those you havo seen I" ho persisted. ' .' ' ' She reddened and paled. : "I have -heard the Misses Gandison highly spoken of. Their appearance would seem to prove the truth. I doubt not you NUMBER 3. agree with me," she responded ouietlr-. It was now his turn to color, which ha did, slightly. "I do agree with you," he answered emphatically. "It is to be, then, as I supposed," said the housekeeper to herself, as she went to her room. It was late in September. Mr. Dayton and the housekeeper were both in the par lor. He had been unusually grave all day. It seemed to the housekeeper that his manner had changed towards her. f- . .". "I have a few questions to ask, if you will permit me, Mrp. Franklin." She felt instinctively alarmed at his tone. "Certainly," with an effort. , . . There was an ominous pause. "I have been told," he said, "that Mis Kate Franklin, a young girl, by disgui sing herself, palmed herself off upon mo. for several months as a Mrs. Franklin, au elderly lady. Is there any truth in this story t" looking searchingly at her. - She had started to her feet, then trem blingly sank back into a chair. "I confess I fail to see for what"object. My heart you could hardly expect to gain in that character." "Your heart," she repeated scornfully "I had no such laudable ambition ; I bad never seen nor heard of you till I saw. your advertisement. Would you like to know for what purpose I took upon me a disguise so repugnant ? You shall. To save myself from starvation. I had eaten but one meal a day for a week when I. applied to you, and was suffering with hunger then. My money was all gone, except a few pennies, with which to buy a roll of bread for the next day's meal, and I had no prospect of more, for I had been refused further sewing. But why should you find fault ?" her pride rising. "What matter if I were Miss or Mrs. Franklin, old or young, if I fulfilled the duties I. undertook? Have I not taken good care of your house ? Have I not made you comfortable ? If I have not, deduct from this quarter's salary, which you paid this morning, whatever you like." "I : have no fault to find, except for placing yourself and me in an awkward position, were this to become known." Waves of color mounted to the poor housekeeper's temples. "I thought I meant no one should' know, least of all, you besides I I thought when I engaged to come that you were married. Oh, what shall I do?" ', And she burst into a passion of tears. Mr. Dayton's manner changed. "Kate! Kate I I did not mean to dis tress you. Nobody knows but me no body shall know." And he soothed her tenderly. "Kate, look up. I love you with my whole heart, and I want you for my little housekeeper my wife always. 1 Kate, what do you say ?" taking her in his arms, and laying his cheek against hers. "My own Kate, is it not ?" She murmured something between her Eobs, that she must go away that minute. "Nonsense, darling! Haven't you been here for months? You are safe with me, Katie. Oh, because I know who you are. Miss Franklin, will you give me the inexpressible pleasure of hearing a' song from that long silent voice? Oh, Katie, you fairly bewitch me always. But, Katie, let's off these trappings," untying her cap ; and removing the gray hair, and with the action down fell the wreath of, brown tresses. "Oh Mr. Dayton, you were not surely you were not at home that day V looking up and covered with confusion. . "Yes, Mr. Dayton was in the library," with an acctnt on his name which Kate understood. Oh Edward ! and you teased me with all those foolish questions when you knew " "Yes, my Kate, why not ?" "But you looked so innocent." He laughed. ' 1 "I soon shall, I hope, have somebody if not a mother, to confide ; and, Kate, it is my duty and pleasure to give you a husband, so that in future, you can an swer without so much pain when he v inquired after." . ' 1 "You are too generous. - ' "I can afford to be generous," he 8- ? earnestly, "when I havo had tho prer , ' gift of your love. Kate, blest forov '"V" the day th'atlfirstengaged myhouaelr eeper fipguLong John Wentworth, in at Valparaiso, Illinois, said: "T.efri of slavery contend it is a divine icstirv and a delegate to the Chicago ri tl0"i told me he believed it ori-,;- VV,cutl0 God, who would protect it w!:wil.h suggested a new idea, ar1(l s .7 r" .V113 then let us leave it U 'God iJ zens, I go' for that. Y !? How-cti- . us leave ihi institution of God to Gad Ti,i . slave law is repealed, now a'S od A r f: 2 t i, i ir