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The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

NJ: MARY'S HOTEL, B. E. WELLEN-
~ DORF Proprietor, St. Marys, Elk coun-
ty ia, This house is new and fitted up with
esPecial care, for the convenience and
comfort OF guests, at moderate rates. Free
Hack to and from the Depot. Good sta
bling attached, (mar 29'G6.ly.
DRACTICAL CLOCK l. WATCH
4 MAKER ST. MARY'S. ELK
county, Pa. Edward Mcbride, keeps con-
stantly on hand and for sale, Watches,
Clocks, and Jewelry of all descriptions
RasN Repairing neatly executed, and done
on short notice and reasonable terms.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

FIRE,-The Portland Mills we're en-.
tirely consumed by FIRE on Sunday even
ing 18th inst. It appears that fire
had been built under the boilers for the
purpose of thawing them out, SO as to
be in order to run the mill the next day.
BY some means the fire was communica-
ted to the wooden structure OF the mill,
and when discovered. the progress of the
flames had been too great, to be overcome.
These mills it is said cost $4,000 in
their construction. They we're owned
by Breeden Il Co. No Insurance.
FATAL AooIDENT.-0n Thursday
March 18th whilst rolling logs into
Trout Run in Jay Township, this couu-
ty, MIR Lynch, late from Canada, came
to his death by number of logs rolling
over his body, killing him instantly,
His body was taken to Canada for inter
ment. At the same time, a man
named Dwyer, from the same Provin ce,
suffered a compound comminuted frac,
ture Of the thigh, and is lying in crit.
cal condition at the house Of Mr.. Robi
sou, near the place of accident, bnt
hopes of his life are entertained by his
friends.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

NTAsHINGTON HOUSE, St. Mary's,
w Elk county Pa, Edward Babe Pro-
prietor. This house is new ard and fitted
up with especial care for the convenience Of
guests. Good Stabling attached.
Mar-29 '66 ly.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

NOTICE. Of Administration hav.
ing been granted to the undersigned, upon
the estate of J. c. Chaplin Esq, late of
Ridgway township decd. All pcrsons
knowing themselves indebted to said estata
are requested to make immediate payment,
and all persons having claims will present
them duly authenticated for settlement.
Ridgway, Feb. 2lst 'GG. J, POWELL.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29
DISSOLUTION OF CO.PARTNERsHIp.

DISSOLUTION OF COMPREHENSIVE.
The partnership heretofore existing
and trading as the firm of Houk & M'Ecah,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
The books and accounts Of said firm will 10
main at the old stand and he settled by ]. V.
Houk. All persons knowing themselves in.
dehted to said firm, are requested to call
and make immediate payment. The bust.
ness will still continue at the same place.
J. V. HOUk,
Ridgway. Feb, 2lst &c. c.. M'VEAN.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

RBCHbhOHlS
~ ~O1D NJ W.,
MRS. f. O Clements,
Proo,,s 90 Restaurant
7o. r1oh
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29
NEW ADVERTISE MENTS.

~ H. VOLK, Manufa cturer & Dealer in
". Lager Beer, opp osi te the Railroad
Depot, Saint Mary's, Elk county, Pa.
mar29' 66-ly.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-03-29

NHE PUBLIC are respectfully in
! vited to call and examine our
stock aud prices Whether they wish
TO buy or not, for we claim to have one
of the most complete stocks and the
finest STORE in the county and can
sell for less profit, than any other house
in the county.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
p O E T r Y
From the New Orleans Times.
VIRGINIA.
BY QUEEN OF HEARTS

Oh Virginia, fair Virginia, queen of all our sunny
land,
Of the warlike Southern sisters thou, the chosen
of the band
Thou didst pledge u.s. royal sister though thy
pledge was not with wine,
And the rivers ran all crimsoned with that deep,
dark pledge of thine
Here we crown theein thy sorrow-thou has bow
ed beneath the rod,
While the foemen o er thy teemng fields relent-
lessly have trod.
Thy homesteads lie in ruins, and thy daughters
wander far
And thy sons, amid the foremost ranks, have
borne the brunt Of war.
Upon thy naughty hcraldry thy proud and high
archives,
In their blood their names immortal are written
on these leaves.
Oh Virginia fair Virginia unpoIluted be thy
SOIL
Beneath it many a soldier-heart hath rested from
its toll.
deep, dark main,
Thy plains smile green and fertile with the life
blood of our slain;
The breeze that sweeps the hillside bearing south
ward to the sea,
Hath a moan upon its murmuring-a requiem for
me;
And we watt thee on the summer wind, bleed
ing sister sigh,
For her gallant sons, who on thy plains hath lain
them down to die.
So in our hearts we shrine thee, and we crown
thy regal brow;
Oh queen, our sons sleep on thy breast fond,
fond mother, thou
Els mid May in our sunny-our land of love and
flowers,
Growing wildly in our woodlands, woven deity
! in our bowers;
And our dark-eyed maids go tripping, tripping
lightly Ger the green
Gorgeous skies and silvery streamlets all bedaz-
cling in their sheen
In the cup the red wine sparkling, yet, yet, can
not sip,
For the tears have gathered in mine eyes as !
press it to my lip
And my heart goes back in yearning over land
All the lips cold and silent that pledged this
cup with me.
And thus, oh fair Virginia, when the golden
hours fit By,
them down to die.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22

Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER-STEyENs
Doctrines FTrLY CHARACTERIZED. That
brilliant and eccentric divine, the Rev. Hen
ry Ward Beccler, in a sermon last Sunday
to his congregation, in Brooklyn, on the text,
g Overcome evil with good" denounces Ste
vens and his doctrines, and the course hith-
erto pursued by the North towards the South.
He said:
Z have not been very popular with my
people during the past year. | have failed
to carry them altogether with me on some
public questions-and [ am sorry for them !!
But yet, I must say that cannot escape the
direct bearing Of this Gospel law. [ am as
strong as ever in the conviction that the true
result of the war must be recognized. What
ever went into the Constitution on account
Of slavery must come out and what was
kept out, on account Of slavery must be put
into Our organic law-and [ have believed
and labored for this as strongly, and longer
than many of you. But have felt that it
should be done in the spirit Of love, not Of
hatred. [ consider the doctrines brought
forward in the House of Representatives by
Mr. Stevens, though followed in their entire
ty, thank God by very few, | think them
to be the doctrines of Belial, leading them
to destruction. The North had a chance to
show grace, and love, and magnanimity.-
How | longed to see it Both Congress and
the President should have been pressed to
Union. I had hoped to see the North show
ing her superiority in Christian nobleness
and generous forgiveness. Butt have been
disappointed. 1t has not been done. You
can no more change rebels to loyal men by
casting them out and turning them away
than you can convert the wicked by building
up wall Of separation between them and
the good-shutting them out from the ve1y
influences that should be brought to bear up
on them. IF thine enemy hunger, feed
him; if he thirst, give him drink for in SC
doing thou shalt heap Goals of fire upon his
head Be not overcome of evil, but over
come evil with good" There, go; vote that
You have been talking it long enough do it
You have been praying it long enough; try
it."
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
Fashionable Women.

Fashion kills more women than toll and
sorrow. Obedience to fashion is q greater
transgression of the laws of woman's nature
a greater injury to her physical and mental
constitution, than the hardships of poverty
and neglect. The slave-woman at her task,
will live and grow old, and see two or three
generations of her mistresses fade and pass
away. The washerwoman, with scarce ray
of hope to cheer her in her tolls, will live to
see her fashionable sisters all die around her.
The kitchen-maid is hearty and strong, when
her lady has to be nursed like sick baby
1t is a sad truth that fashion-pamp wo-
men are almost worthless for all the good
ends of human life. They have but little
force Of character; they have still less pow
er of moral will, and quite as little physical
energy. They have no great purpose in life
they accomplish no worthy ends. They
are doll-forms in the hands of milliners and
servants, to be dressed and fed to order
They dress nobody they feed nobody, they
instruct nobody; they bless. nobody, and
save nobody. They write no books, they
set no rich examples of virtue and womanly
life. If they rear children, servant and nur-
ses do all save to conceive and give them
birth And when reared, what are they p
What do they ever amount to but weak sci
ons of the old stock =? Who ever heard of a
fashionable woman's child exhibiting any viz
tue and power of mind for which it became
eminent? Read the biographies of our great
and good men. Not one of them had fash
ionable mother. They nearly all sprung
from strong minded women, who had about
as little to do with fashion as with the clouds.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
Wholesome Advice to the Freedmen

The South Carolina Ledger, a weekly
paper published in the interests Of the color
ed people, was established in Charleston some
time last autumn by L. Hurley & Co. In
his last issue Mr.. Hurley gives the following
wholesome advice to the freedmen
Cultivate by every means in your power
the good opinion Of your former master
Remember that they have suffered much and
been severely tried the past five years. Bear
in mind, too, that they have their prejudices
and the prejudices Of their fathers to contend
against and that, besides, they cannot, from
their very circumstances, be expected to re-
gard innovations in their midst in the same
| light that Northern Eutopians do
But be patient. Recollect that when the
time does come-that whatever claims or
privileges are granted you by them-will,
in their practical bearings, be worth to you
far more than all the recognitions Of the
North But anything suddenly forced upon
the whites by any party hostile to the South
that you can never enjoy In the North
itself the Negroes steps have been but Of
gradual measurement We have heard some
of your so-called friends say that nothing
SllOIG OL dIOUuCI I6NOIuIlOu COulO Save UllC
cause y and you may be told by interested
parties-vampires who feed on the "cause'
that in the event Of collision between
yourselves and the whites-the North would
stand by you. They would insinuate that,
now you know the use Of the cartridge-box,
you should insist Immediately on the ballot
box.
Yes the red man dared to assert his claim
to the fair country the Great Spirit had given
him, and these mems fathers speedily 'im-
proved him off the face Of the earth . and
their descendants to this day ignore the claims
Of the colored man. as in Connecticut and
other States Out on the canting hypocrites !!
Be not deceived by these men. If a collision
occurs the government would of course, be
compelled to see order observed; but should
war of races ever ensue, the whites would
Join the whites, and the blacks join the blacks.
Your most implacable enemies are to be
found among the white soldiers. Their ha-
tired towards your race seems to grow in in
tensity from the very moment they enter the
service.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
4 Jewish niYOrca.

The Now Haven Journal and Courier has
the following:
Z" Yesterday divorce, according to the
practice in the Hebrew Church, took place
at the residence Of the Rey j. Gabriel At
the present term of the Superior Court di-
vorce was obtained by Louis Rothschild from
Esther One Of the parties desired that
divorce should also be granted after the man
ner of the Hebrew custom. Yesterday it
was accomplished AS it is somewhat in
teresting to know what the ceremony consist
ed of, we give it. It was as follows: The
wife, dressed in black, with black veil over
her face, appeared with her husband before
council Of ten men, members oft he syna-
gogue. There were also present three rab-
bins, one of whom acted as the petitioner,
and wrote out on parchment petition in
Hebrew, asking for divorce, and also wrote
out the decree Of divorce; the second acted
as the respondent of defendant, & the third as
a kind Of Judge the Council of ten acting
as jury. The man and wife having APP
peared, then stood side by side before the
Council The rabbns and Council then
took an oath, all shaking hands-the oath
being to the effect that they would always
consider the divorce legal and binding The
wife then removed her VEIL and the rabbi
who acted as petitioner read the petition in
German, and stated the case to the Council,
who having heard it, decree the divorce
The decree, folded up, was handed to the
husband and the wife raising her open hands
the husband dropped the paper into them
The rabbi who acted as judge then took it
and cut the ends like fringe. He then
handed it to the President of the synagogue,
telling him to place it among the records of
the society, to be preserved as evidence of
the divorce. This having been done, the
ceremony was finished, and the parties de-
parted, no longer man and WIFE"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
INTERESTING AND ROMANTIC REMINIscENCE

INTERESTING AND ROMANTIC "REMINISCENCES.
The Montgomery Nail re-produces the
following interesting episode of illustrious
Virginians in the olden time:
The grandfather Of General Robert E. Lee
was rival of General Washington in a love
affair. The object of their affection was the
beautiful Miss Grimes, the first love of Wash
ington, and whom he celebrated as "the low
land beauty" Lee was successful and bore
off the prize. The son Of this marriage,
Lighthouse Harry Lee, was always held
in great friendship by Washington and lrv-
ing, in his biography, suggests that the
memory of his tenderness for the mother was
not without its influence in connection with
the son.
This friendship continued between them
until the death of the father of his country"
Major-Gen. Henry Lee was a gallant officer,
the author of ''Memoirs Of the War in the
South" Governor Of Virginia in 1871; an
advocate of the Federal Constitution in the
Virginia Convention a member of Congress
when Washington died; appointed BY Con-
gress to deliver the eulogy on the occasion,
and in his eulogy originated the classic words,
First in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen."
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22

THE TELEGRApH-W learn from the
Washington Star, that a consolidation of the
three eattelegraphic companies, the'Ameri-
can," the United States, and the Western
Union BIAS just been effected, with a joint
capital of $50, 100000 This gigantic con-
Germ will now control every wire in the Union,
with the exception of the single route be-
tween Washington and New York. 1t has
some 5000 offices, and the monopoly of the
right of way over every railroad line in the
U. S. The length of wire of the CONSOLIDATE
ed companies is 90, 900 miles and the amount
Of business done by the companies last year
was Sd, 420, 260,80 1t would seem that this
consolidation ends all hopes of any success
full rivalry against such a colossal monopoly,
and we hear already that raise Of telegraphio
tolls is threatened.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
Two Children i'm 0ne-A Remarkable Freak
OF Nature.

The Washington Star, of Saturday after
noon, gives the following account of Won
derful birth near that city:
On Thursday morning the wife of Mr..
John Barnhardt, residing in Uniontown, was
delivered Of child, which is great curios-
ity in its way, almost outrivaling the Siamese
Twins. This child has two perfect heads,
we'll covered with hair, and are beautifully
featured, four arms, the bodies being united
just below them, two spinal columns, which
unite in one pelyls, two breast bones, but
only one pair of well formed legs. The ply
sicians who have seen this wonderful freak
Of nature, are under the opinion that there
are certainly two hearts, two lungs, and that
perhaps portion Of the digestive organs are
also double, the two bodies not apparently
losing individuality until they reach the pei
Wis, and even at this point, where it is APP
parent one body is male there is some sign
the other is female. The features of one
bears the resemblance Of female, and the
other a male. One Of the bodies, or rather
one side of the body. was born alive, and
lived some time after birth, and the other
died in the birth This is the first product
Of the marriage Of the parties. The mother
is young and healthy woman of about TWEEN
ty years Of age, from the neighborhood of
Lynchburg, Virginia, and the father is ma
tive Of Germany, about twenty-five or twen-
ty-six years Old The father was in the ar
my, and served in the neighborhood of
Lynchburg, where he married the mother
on the 18th Of August last. It has not been
definitely determined as to what disposition
will be made Of the bodies, but at the pres
eat they are at DR.. Scollay's embalming es-
adjustment, where they have been placed in
alcohol, Notwithstanding the bodies are fully
developed, and measure nearly eight inches
across the shoulders The mother is doing
remarkably well.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
A Leaf From the History of Loyal Massa-
cEnsetfS

During the war of 1912, Massachusetts
was busily engaged in decrying the war,
villifying its supporters, disheartening its
troops, encouraging and comforting the
enemy, threatening their fellow-citizens bully
ing Congress and attempting to depose the
President of the United States. Their Gov
ernor took the front in this crusade, the
Legislature supported the Governor, and the
people by majority cheered and animated
both.
But the opposition was to receive a more
imposing and solemn character. It was NOV
ed in the Legislature by a Mr.. low:
'That committee be appointed to con-
fer with all the New England States and see
if they will agree to appoint committee to
join them and repair to the City of Wash
ington Immediately there and then person
ally to make known to the President the
opinion of the New England States in regard
to the present war, and the manner in which
it has been conducted, and inform him that
he must either resign his Office as President,
or remove those ministers and other officers
of the General Government who have by
their nefarious plans ruined the nation
The nefarious plans Of these New England
disorganizers were not carried out, because
higher destinies for the time awaited the
country. Peace was restored, and the Union
preserved. 1t was reserved for later day,
to give Massachusetts and the rest of the New
England States the opportunity for which
their souls have so long painted, to under
mine and finally overthrow the Union and
the Constitution, through the agencies Of a
sectional fanaticism. And now, after a long
and bloody war provoked by the fanatical
blottings of her own meddling, oficious and
unconstitutional policy, she stands to day
through her Representatives and Senators in
Congress, in fierce opposition to the restora-
ton of the Union, and the advocate Of all
the abnormal acts by which the Constitution
of this country has been made dead letter
AS she was in the past, so she is in the pres
ent. She prayed and labored for disunion
in 1912, she was praying and laboring for it
in 1861 and succeeded; and now, in 1866
through her Summers, Wilson's, Fosters, Po-
lands and Spragues, she is endeavoring to
establish, as the policy of this country, the
reduction of the Southern States to the con-
dition of conquered provinces, and the sub
stitution of a vast centralized despotism at
Washington, for the Constitution that our
Fathers gave us.-N Y. Ners.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
ANOTHER REPORT FROM gems. SrEEDMAn

ANOTHER REPORT FROM gems. STEEDMAN
AND FULLERTON. - Washington, J'ule ID
Generals Steedman and Fullerton have furn-
ished to the Secretary Of War report of the
operations Of the Freedmen's Bureau in the
Military Departments of South Carolina and
Florida They highly commend Gen. Scott,
Assistant Commissioner in South Carolina,
for the wise policy that pervades his system
of governing and feeding the freedmen.
They recommend the discontinuance Of the
employment Of citizens in the Bureau, and
instance several cases Of the agents being In
terested in working plantations. They finally
recommend that the Sea Island lands, given
to the negroes by Gen. Sherman's order, be
returned to their owners, provided they pay
the freedmen for all improvements that the
latter have made while in possession OF the
property
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22
Nobody Cares.

The other day some Yankee soldiers see
ing negro fellow sitting on the dock wharf,
with his feet hanging over the water, be-
thought themselves how easy thing it would
be to send him to kingdom come" by blow
on the back Of the head that would at once
disable him and tumble him into the water.
This was done with the admirable prompt
ness and dispatch which form part of military
training, and the result fully answered their
expectations. The negro, whose name was
Roane, went, without a struggle, to the bot
tom, and lay there until fshed up an hour
or SO after by the charitable boat-hook of a
skipper. The Coroner had some sort of an
investigation, but, as one Of the soldiers OBJ
jected to testifying before ajury, one mem
Der OF which was wearing gray clothes, the
inquest does not appear to have been very
searching. One Of the soldiers who formed
the gang that played the pleasant little freak
was known, and is now known; and there
would be no difficulty, we fancy, if General
Terry, as head Of the Freedmen's Bureau,
as we'll as commander of the military forces
here, were to take hold Of the matter, in COM
polling this man to disclose the names of all
who were in the party, and who at present
divide the murder among them. The next
step would be to require eaclr man 50 impli-
Gated to exculpate himself, clearly and be-
yond all question. This sitting process would
eliminate the murderer. We do not hear
that anything is being done in the matter
What does Gen. Howard think of this quiet
way Of letting off those who make fshbait Of
his beloved? Has Horace Greeley nothing
to say about it? And the great and good
Sumner, has he nothing to say even in mem
DRY Of this ''man and brother and is he
going to let the deep damnation of his ia
king off pass without word Come, Messrs
Terry, Howard, Greeley, Sumner-let III
hear from you Wing.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-22

A CHEAP DIs1NFEcrANT. A correspon-
dent Of the Baltimore Gazette gives the fol-
lowing recipe for cheap deodorizer, which
is worth remembering:
Let every family procure, say two pounds
Of dry chloride Of lime, costing about ten
cents per pound, and four pounds Of common
washing soda, costing five cents per pound.
Dissolve the soda in six gallons of water, in
key or a barrel, and gradually add the
chloride of lime, stirring it until it is all mix
ed in, then let it settle, and you have the
chloride of Soda of which take a pint Or so
and sprinkle around where bad smells arise
and this should be,done every week, say
twice. The vessel it is in should be kept in
dark place and covered closely Or stopped
up tight.
Thus for 40 cents you may have some six
gallons Of chloride of soda strong enough for
disinfecting, &C., purposes, and sufficient to
keep your premises pure and clean for the
whole summer, and if everybody would use
it, we should have very pure city indeed.