The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-01-23
News Summary.

a NEW LITERARY ENTERPRISE.-
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fishers. 100000 to be awarded to the
subscribers. Novel plan to induce large
circulation.
We have been favored With advance
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& Co., publishers.
From our knowledge of the parties en-
gagged in this enterprise, we feel justified
In asserting that their undertaking will
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In addition to the attractions of fresh
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and Europe, as the .itle indicates, the
publishers draw upon the whole world for
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(if such were needed) dividend system"
of an entirely original character, In which
all their patrons will participate. This
department is under the personal super
vision and exclusive control Of Mr. Geo.
q. Evans, long aud favorably known as
gentleman of experience, oapability, en-
terprise and probity. We commend to all
a perusal Of the 'prospectus," wherein the
distinotiva features Of the enterprise are
fully set forth, feeling satisfied that the
result will be an immense circulation of
their new monthly, "The World at Home"
Full particulars are seat free. Address
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day Times.
The Methodist Church in the United
States has a variety Of divisions which,
We believe, are peculiar to itself. Other
churches are divided by differences of
religious belief-the Baptist Church, for
Instance, into Regular, Anti Mission,
Seventh Day, Six Principle, FreeWilI,
River Brethren, Duukers, Mennonites,
and Winebrennarians. The Presbyterians
are divided into the Old School, the New
School, Cumberland, United, and Assc-
dox aud Hicksita. So the Methodist
Church is Episcopal, Protestant, and
Wesleyan. But the latter Church is also
divided, unlike other denominations, by
political boundaries into the n. u. South
| and the II. e. North. Beside this bound
| airy division we have another division of
Church in the Southern States which may
be called either "politioap or "ethnolog-
| ioaP'-the division according to race.
The Methodist Church South has a
distinct organization for It's coIored mem
bers.
THADDEUs STEVENS is in his seat at
the opening of the House every morning,
! and though rarely rising to speak, he is
constantly surrounded by members, who
consult his judgment on current topics
aud duties. A few days ago, while a
noisy Copperhead member was shouting
his love of the white rebels South and
his hate of the black man, a gentleman,
who was listening to the TRADE, said to
Mr.. Stevens, Il wonder what that angry
Democrat wants 2" "Why," said the
| old man, with a quiet smile, "what he
wants most is-Gratns." Mr. Stevens
cannot ascend the stairs leading to the
! Capitol, SO two stout fellows are employed
to carry him up. The other day as they
were bearing along their not very heavy
burden, he turned to them and said
"Have you ever thought, my friends,
who will be kind enough to take all this
trouble for me when you two invalids
have died % The men laughed heartily
at the veterans grim philosophy.
THE anecdote recently told Of General
Grant, wherein it was stated that at one
time he supplied frewood to Congressman
Blow, of Missouri, and that he used to
haul wood into ST Louis for sale, and
when it was disposed of he would drive
down to the shore of ;he river and shovel
in load of sand to take back to his farm,
is commented upon as follows by the n.
Y. Sun:
"He has been as much a laboring man
as ever President Lincoln was, working
with his own hands quite as successfully
as that great statesman and wise patriot
ever did when spiitli2 = rails IN his earlier
manhood. What remarkable thing that
two of the greatest men ever produced oy
our country, aud above all tie two Tho
have been raised up to guide the nation
through the crisis of the last FIVE years,
should have thus come FROM the ranks of
the toiling masses of the great Vest
Both men of the people, their names will
be illustriouS as long as the world stands
HORACE GREELY'S twenty y-fourth
recollection Of his own busy life, has
reference to beggarS and borrowers, of
which two classes he believes the latter
TO be the greater nuisance. New York, he
says, is "the metropolis of beggary."
The worst beggars are those who go about
soliciting aims for churches, seminaries,
libraries, and the like. But it is borrow
ers Greeley recalls with the liveliest
disgust and indignation. Once '.gush-
ing youth wrote TO him asking for Poe's
autograph. Greeley replied that he had
but one autograph ot Poe, that it was on
promissory note, had cost fifty dollars,
but would be sold for half that amount"
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