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Dry GOODS large stcck at REYNOLDS
BNophEAD cos, No Ii Centre st, opposite
tho Post Office, Oil City, Pa.
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CrOckery-For all kinds 30 to REYNOLDS
bkoDHEAD II cos, No. Il Centre Street. oppo.
site the Post Office, Oil City, Pa.
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RICH NJ ARRIAGE GIFT.

lHE RICHEST GIFT which Young Man can rr4
sent to hi- Bride IS a sound con-,n,ion and , p,e
hrnH Essays on these subjects, with the hunnro
tvicw- of benevolent Physicians, sent ia scaled l.
Ter enNclones, free Of chargc Address HOWARD
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WIN DOW GLASS,

\ large assortment, all sizes, at A. D.
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agents f'r the celebrated ON II. Cigars" mann.
netUrrd b. Tho American Whip Co. TRY them
The Van Buren press., 1869-02-23
Concluded In our ncxt.l
A TOUCHING STORY.

The following affecting narrative pur.
ports to have been given by father to
his sod, us warning derived from his
own bitter experience Of the sin OF resist.
ing mothers love and counsel:
What agony was on my mothers face
when all that she had said and suffered
failed to move me Sherose 10 90 home,
and followed at distance She spoke
to me no more until she reached her own
door.
1T is school time now" she said.
GO, my son, and once more let me be.
seech you to think upon what ] have
said"
" | shan't 20 TO school, said l. az
She looked astonished at my boldness,
but replied firmly:
Certainly you will, Alfred com.
mand you"
Il will not" said l.
Zone of the two things you must do,
Alfred--either go to school this minute,
or will lock you up in your room and
keep you there until you promise implicit
obedience to my wishes in the future
IL dare you to 10 it," said l., "you
can't get me up stairs
"Alfred, choose now, said my mother,
who laid her baud upon my arm. She
trembled violently, and was deadly pale
of you touch me will kick YOU
said !, ina fearful rage God knows
The Van Buren press., 1869-02-23
POET RY.
AULD LANG SYNE.


As sung at Jas. G. McGgirss, Jai.3ary s,A, lS6!
Should aud acquaintance ee forgot
And never brought 10 min!
Should auld acquaintance be fcrgo.,
And Aud Lang Synes
For Aud Lang Syne, my Joi
For Aud Lang syne;
Wen tax a cup o kindness yet
For Aud Lang Syne.
An surely yen your glasses ill.,
An surely I'll ill mine,
An Wen tax right guide willy-wought,
For Aud Lang Syne.
For Aud Lang Syne, etc
It's mony year sim first we met,
WI song and jest and .sssc,
And aft We saw the dagger rise
In Aud Lang Syne.
For Aud Lang Fgne, etc,
We a. haze had our ups and doons,
Great sorrows, joys divine; ....
And some haze won, and some haze lost
Sin Aud Lang Syne.
For Aud Lang syne, etc.
In column and in line.
Each lighting for his flag and faith,
And Aud Lang Syne.
For Aud Lang Syne, etc.
And they who lost no malice bear,
Nor murmur nor rePine;
And they who won the losers love,
For Aud Lang Syne
For Aud Lang Syne, etc.
And some haze seen the simmer sun
On mony a broad land shine,
And wandered mony weary foot
Sin Aud Lang Syne,
For Aud Lang syne, etc.
The laurel and the cypress on
II Some grassy graves entwine, .4
Where those are laid who lo'ed us weel
In Aud Lang Syne.
For Aud Lang Syne, etc.
And some we luvc, in foreign lands
To see their ain land pine, r.
And backward look wi fond regret
" To Aud Lang Syne.
FOR Aud Lang Syne. etc.
We a hae had our luves and hates
The hates we a resign ~ ...
But keep the luves a fresh and green,
For Aud Lang Syne. ......
For Aud Lang Syne, etc.
An there's ham, each trusty frien',
And gle 5 ham o thine.
And wen take right guide willy -YoughV,
For Aud Lang Syne.
For Aud Lang Syne, etc.
An when we shut the book o life,
An n Of earth resign,
The memories shall If sad, be sweet,
OF Aud Lang Syne,
For Aud Lang Sync, etc
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How SMALL EXPENDITURES CoUxr.---
Five cents each morning. A mere tribe.
Thirty five cents per week. Not much,yet
il would buy coffee or sugar for whole
family. sls % year. Aud this amount
invested in savings bank at the end OF
each year. and the interest thereon ct six
per cent. computed annually. would. IN
twelve years amount to more than S610.
Enough to buy good farm in the West.
Five cents before breakfast, dinner, and
supper you'd hardly miss il yet It's fifteen
cents day *l.o5 per week. Enough to
buy wife or daughter dress. S54 Goa
year Enough TO buy a small library Of
books. Invest this as before, and in TWEEN.
" years you would have over $4,000.
Quite enough to buy good house and lot:
Zen cents each morning; hardly worth
a second thought yet with j. you can buy
paper Of pins ora spool Of thread. Seven.
~ cents per week 'twould buy several
yards Of muslin. $3.50 ID one year. De.
post this amount as before, and you would
have Sl.340 In twenty years; quite asnng
little fortune. Ten cents before each break.
fast dinner and supper--thirty cents day,
/, would buy book for the children.
3d. per week enough to pay for years
subscription of good newspaper. $780,.
20 per year. With it you could buy good
mclodeon on which your wife or daughter
could produce sweet music to pleasantly
while the evening hours away. And this
amount invested as before, would in forty
years, produce the desirable amount, ele..
600. 4t. t z
Boys. learn lesson. II wou would b .
happy youth. lead sobcr life, aud DO .
wealthy aud influential man, instead Of
squsnlering your cxtrs change, invest In :
library or savings bank.
Ii you would DO miserable youth lead
drunken life, abuse your children. grisvs
your vile. be wrctehcd aud despicsbls be.
ing while you live, aud finally 20 down 70
a dshonorcd grave, take our extra change
and invest 1t ina drinking saloon. "
The Van Buren press., 1869-02-23
.I BY THE USE OF THE
MISSISSIPPI DIARRNEA CORDIAL
$4,000 REV ARD

To any one who can produce or ever have produc.
ed remedy which bears any resemblance to this
in point of value,
The soothing and healing influence of the Mis-
sissippi Diarrhpa Cordial is almost instantaneous.
" felt; and within few mnutes after taking II,
the sufferer ON any Of the disorders which it pro.
esses to cure is not only convalcscent but we'll 1t
acts upon the internal surfaces with which it
comes in contact like an emollent quiettng The
whole system and producing healthy action in
the digestive aud secretive organs.
The Van Buren press., 1869-02-23

HOSPITALITY. The Hindoos exlsnd their
hospitality to their enemies. ssying '.TAs
tree does not withdraw ils shade evea kol
the woodcuttsr"
The Van Buren press., 1869-02-23
Col. WIN. r. BOURNE,

Formerly Of Fort Smith, Arkansas, will as
sist me In the duties of my Agency. | am
prepared to make cash advances on all ship
mcnts Of Cotton to the House OF Messrs. F. l.,
BRAuSs Il Co., Baltimore, and VIII PERSONAL
ly guarantee to shippers as much per pound,
net, as they would receive by. shipping to
New Orleans or New York markets.
G.. A. MEYER,
Agent for Baltimore and Arkansas. .
, 1869-11-09

with fifty millions could not do in New
York, or why a successful chief in the
"Ring," any man with a million, a head
for finance, and no scrupIes, should not
make fifty millions. We expect yet to
see Mr.. Urquhart's strange dream fulfilled,
and a single millionaire gain possession
of a State, make what laws be p%leases,
and live in a free Republic as much o
sovereign as if he were an Asiatic King.
Vanderbilt-who, we should say, behaved
we'll in this atfair-could buy New Jersey.
The Spectator, Octobe err 16.
, 1869-11-09

na0uS In a lew minutes. OF course, IN
such a scene, the speciality of The Ameri-
can character, the strange and to us IN
explicable something in their brains
which makes them so distinct from the
English, the liability to mental hectic,
came out in full force. Brokers went
mad, tainted, fell i'll, and died the Gold
Room was like an asylum with the pa
TENTS all loose and furious the clerks in
the Gold Bank sat In permanent session;
the Bank. was at last compelled to shut
its doors merely to get through its work,
and desperate attempts were made BY the
loserS to lynch the chief author Of their
misfortunes, himself, it is reported, an
enormous sufferer. All over the country
business stopped, no nan knowing at
what price to sell, because he could not
tell what import duty he mi ght not have
to pay on taking his orders out OF bond.
The effect was, in fact, precisely as if Mr.
Gladstone had announced 10 Parliament
that he was about to increase all import
duties indefinitely, without fixing either
the time or the amount. The spasm was
too short TO create much ruin beyond
specializing circles, but had 1T lasted, as
but for Mr.. BoutWel'S action it might
have lasted, weeks, it is not too much to
say that every dealer in the United States
would have been more or less impOver-
ished, and trade contracted 90 per cent.
Even as it was, every man who had con-
tracted to deliver goods out of bond on
any one Of these three days was fined
from 90 to 80 per cent. on the amount of
duty, that is, probably, his whole profit.
Mr.. FiSk's finger was, in fact on the
throat of every man in every port of the
Union.
The American Press is already asking
anxiouSly where the remedy for his state
Of affairs can be found, and it has reason
for its anxiety. There is not The Sigh
test security that the experiment may
not be repeated by men much stronger
than Messrs. Fisk and Gould, and Gov
eminent cannot be always descending in
a shower Of gold to the relief of mankind.
Even if gold were not the subject, men
so rich and imbued with such a thirst for
gaming might still work Unbelievable
mischief. There is nothing whatever TO
prevent three or four spectators like Mr..
Vanderbilt from mastering all the rail-
way in the country, or reducing their
shares to nominal values, or holding all
the iron, or even making an attack on
-four, or doing any other act which men
possessed of immence resources, and
standing in sympathy apart from the
community, fighting like the Barons of
old for their own hands, without refer
ence to the welfare of any not directly
connected with themselves, may be able
10 conceive. Congress has no power over
them. the State Legis alurcs can scarcely
, 1869-11-09
THE EVANGELICAL UNION.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, ON PULPIT
PREACHING WHAT PREACHERS
AND PREACHING SHOULD BE.

The great feature at the Evangelical
Convention in the Reform church in
Washington square, yesterday, was an
adde's by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
on "PuIpil Pteaching."
The reverend gentleman began his dis
course by remarking that there was a
prevalent impression that preaching had
fallen off, and that it was no longer the
power it formerly was. Churches COM
planned that the pulpit did not bear the
same relation to religion that ii once did,
and it therefore became a matter of pro-
found Importance TO know whether there
had been any enteebIement, and if there
had been what had caused it.. For his
part the speaker said he believed the
pulpit was never stronger than it is to-
day. The community had, too, gained
relatively more, for the work which was
once done by the pulpit was now per-
formed by other agencies but, notwith-
standing all these changes the pulpit
stood as high absolutely, though not per-
haps relatively, as it ever did at any pre-
vious time. The impression prevailed,
it is true, that it had turned from the
ministry a great many young men, and it
was desirable therefore to look at the
matter in its original element, and attract
the thought and feeling of the young to
the sacred functions Of preaching. It
was possible for a man to be a good min
lister and pastor and not a good preacher,
while at the same time q man might be
a good preacher, and yet be very far from
being a good pastor or general admins
traitor. In some instances however, these
different qualities are combined ia one in
dividuaI. Taking the words of the Great
Master, and looking at his works, it would
seem that the true definition Of a preacher
was this-the end of preaching is the en-
tire moral elevation of human nature, of
bringing it into the conscious present and
sympathy Of God. That was the end
sought by preaching. The main charac-
t%erislic of preaching is the elevation of
mans moral nature, not his elevation to
refinement. How is this to be done?
The most direct instrument is preaching
and that [ understand to be the end Of
bringing truth to the human soul in IFS
living human form. [ understand preach
ing to be the art of one soal graphing
with another, not to cast it down, enot to
conquer it, but to lift it up. There are
, 1869-11-09

apparently they cannot be induced to
forego this use of wealth. Amidst such
colossal gambling every other excitement
seems insipid, and life without excite
ment is to them a dreary waste. What
are they to do ? La England IA man with
ten millions would enter politics, or build
up a great landed estate, or ''found Il
family" or engage in that miserable but
exciting social strife which absorbs so
many brains; but in America all these
careers are closed, wealth being, after
a certain point, nearly useless TO secure a
career. 1t is often asserted that the rca-
diness with which "society' in Europe
adopts the very rich is dlscreditable to
the great, that it is, in fact a violation of
the first law of good societies that refine
admission, bu2 it must not be- forgotten
that society in the act Of adoption impos-
es certain restraints which the history Of
New York shows to be of value. 1t is
not we'll thai great skill in getting togtth-
er millions should be rewarded with a
pecrage, political Influence, high position
IN society, aud tn" general Difference of
all around; but il is much better that it
should be 50 rewarded than that its pos
SCISSOR should be placed, %a$in New York,
practically outside restraint, invested with
power to ruin, or enrich, or demoralize
whole communities. 4 millionaire there
seems able to place himself altogether
outside the laws, to live among q race
which still boasts its Pnritanism like a
Sultan, among a laWabiding people TO
wage private war, among a community
singuIarly kindly to pour out ruin at will
upon The unotfending. No ~aristOcrat in
modern days has bad anything like the
power of the American plutocrat, aud no
ariStocrat in any days has been more COM
pleteIy beyond restraint. The remedy,
we hope, must come, but we confess we
cannot see whence. The law of equal
division at death clearly does not prevent
aggiOmerations of property which are all
the more dangerous, because the proper
ty, being personal, can be so rapidly turned
to use. A Marquis of Westminster can
do much, but a threat from him 10 upset
the City would only provoke a smile. A
Mr.. Vanderbilt in England, if he chose to
work mere mischief, might reduce US all
to a state of barter, and work more ruin
than an invading army and if we may
judge from all we hear of New York,
would be just as likely to do it as not in
order to feel his power, to make
"strokes," and generally to enjoy the ex-
element of a superb form Of gambling.
Fortunately, in England a man of that
kind would In no short time provoke the
community, and The community through
Parliament is absolute /; but in America
we see nothing to prevent the develop
ment of the millionaire into a virtual
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-06-15
Wells ard Walker.

The following is an extract from the letter of
Ariel special Washington correspondent of
the Enquirer aud Ecaminer, dated Washing
ton, June 4th 9ri a ef*
"a witness to the work of Wells in this city,
| will do him the justice to say that he ranks
first of all the rpet-baggcrs, first in keen
intellect, in re ource, in audacity aud mendaci
ty, in capacity for mischief and cold blooded
malice for the people Of the South Even de-
feated ] should regard him as l would rattle
snake of whom was not sure that he was dead,
SO formidable that even in death his ven m
would be something to dread aud avoid. As
Satan stood pre-eminent In pandemoniom, SO
stands this man among those who have sought
to make slaves Of the Southern people. HIS
testimony before the reconstruction committee;
the skilltul manner in which he distilled his
poison into the ears Of the committee who had
such great power for veal or for woe to Virgin
ia, made my blood run cold. Let him once be
elected Governor ofVirginia, and my word for
it. the very simple gentlemen who now say the. e
is no difference between Walker and Wells will
find out that difference to their heart content
And further guarantee that this lesson they
will remember as long as they live.
But for the split in the Republican party
which Messrs. Walker, Stearns aud others
brought abous, and but for the efforts of the
fir named gentleman, now candidate for
Governor aided by some others, dnubt if Vir-
ginia wou d not now be under the Underwood
constitution, with all its abominations The
artful efforts of Wells to cut off from register
ing some 25, 900 voters. were foiled chiefly by
the opposition and vigilance of Colonel Walker
and Mr. Beck Of Kentucky, and to both the
| people Of Virginia are under obligations which
no mere office can repay.
| I do not believe one can be found who ha,
opposed the carpet-baggers with more skill
earnestness and efficiency or more true sympa
thy for the people Of Virginia than Colone
Walker Nor is he to be viewed as an ordinar,
candidate for office. He is not politician no
office-seeking man l have knowledge of tn,
fact that the Office sought hin and not he tn,
office that long before the Petersburg conven
ton met some Of the truest sons of the Stat
| had pitched upon him as the most available
man for the juncture, and that he was reluc,an
to accept, though ready to help defeat Wells.
NV personal acquaintance with Colonel Walk
er has impressed me with the highest opinion
of his integrity and capacity for usefulness, AM
[ sincerely hope that his majority will be rul
up to fifty thousand, as it ought to be and vii
be, if all do their duty Every vote cast fo
him will strengthen us in the legislative contest
and help to make more complete the doom 0
the carpet-bagger. >
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-06-15
For the Spectator.

A recent communication in your excellent pf-
per relative to a Market House in Stauntor :,
seems not to have attracted the attention it d, :
served 80
Is it not remarkable that town of five thou
sand inhabitants, so fourshing and full of en-
terprise as ours-a town that can boast its wa
ter works and gas works-should be without a
market? There are but few housekeepers who
have not, within the last six months. found it
impossible, on more than one occasion, to buy
pound of butter from our merchants or the
country people, although hundreds of pounds
were being shipped daily from this point to
Richmond and Baltimore
As for vegetables. If we get any at this sea-
son, it is by accident.
A man who would sit down to a moderately
good dinner. must needs spend the best hours
of the forenoon in searching for it, from shop
10 shop and from street to street. And then
the prices twenty-five cents for bunch of
asparagus as large as your wrist, and twenty
cents for head of early york cabbage, the size
of a cocoanut Strawberries worth in the Nor
| folk market from five to eight cents per quart,
here bring twenty-five cents.
| And yet Staunton is surrounded by highly
productive country capable of furnishing in
| abundance all table supplies needed by the
town. -8 5E
The experience of all towns has been that
| the mutual interests and convenience of market
| men and consumers require that they meet to-
gehcr in open market at least once day. II
this way the housekeener can. in a few minutes
procure all his supplies for the day, and the
producer save the time and trouble Of hawking
his >tuff, in wagon or basket, along the stree
or from house to house. throughout The day.
In the absence of market place country
people. however well their lands are adapted t.
the purpose cannot afford to engage in truck
ing, simply because they caano spare the time
required to dispose of th.n after the fashion
that now obtains here We know of no evil
incident to the regular market system not coun
terbalanced by those indicated above as +, su t
ing from the absence Of it.. .d5 saif.t4l
HOUSEKEE PERS.s !.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-06-15
Come in Beautiful Dreams.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.

T BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.
Come, in beautiful dreams, love,
Oh! come to me oft,
When the light wings of sleep
On my bosom lies soft:
Oh come when the sea
In the moons gentle light,
Beats soft on the air.
Like the pulse of the night
When the sky and the wave
Wear their loftiest blue,
When the dew's on the flower,
i And the stars on the dew.
Come, in beautiful dreams, love,
a Oh! come and we II stray
Where the whole year is crowned
With the blossoms of May
Where each sound is as sweet yf
AS the COOS of dove,
And the gales are as soft
As the breathings of love;
Where the beams kiss the waves,
And the waves kiss the beach,
And our warm lips may catch,
The sweet lessons they teach.
Come, in beautiful dreams, love,
Oh! come and we'll fly
Like two winged spirits
OF love, through the sky;
With hand clasped in hand,
On our dream wings we Ii go
Where the starlight and moonlight
Are blending their glow;
And on the bright clouds We'll linger.
OF purple and gold.
Till the angels shall envy
The bliss they behold.