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down track laid at an angle of ninety de-
srees' Many are killed i'll this way, but
the greatest danger arises from the sui
phurous gases which prevail in the mines
to greater or lesser extent. Some of these
gases are harmless and may be breathed
all day without harm; some are non-explo
sive, and may be lit as it issues from the
crcvices of the rocks and will burn brightly
for long time. Other kinds are deadly.
The two most feared are the black and
white damp, causing instant death the mo-
ment it enters the lungs. The Avondale
miners were killed in this way Some
gases are explosive, and woe to the miner
who ignites it with the lamp which he usul
ally carries in the front of his cap or hat
In an instant he may be fried, lifeless
mass of hnman flesh, or so scorched and
burned that weeks will be required to heal
his wounds. We saw three who met with
this accident; they were a sad looking trio,
hair, whiskers, skin, and even flesh scorchcd
from face and limbs. So frequent are these
accidents that in Minersville rag merchant
is seldom seen, the white rags being used
to dress the burns. Everywhere you see
the marks of these dreadful burns; mems
faces Scared and scanned, hands fried
twisted and deformed, limbs crushed and
mangled-men with families disabled for
life. A physician said that fifty per cent
of his practice was mining accidents when
the mines were worked to their full capaci-
ty. Such is the life of the miner. Many
wise precautions are taken to avert these
dangers, and prevent accidents. These
precautions are enforced by legislative
enactments; an inspector is appointed by the
Governor of the State, whose duty is to see
these precautions carried out in all the
mines of Schuylkill county. Owing to
these measures an accident like that of
Avondale cannot occur here, two or three
ways of escape from the deep mines being
always provided. The miners are compar-
atively well paid for their work; at present
they all belong to the Miners Union, and
such is the perfection Of their organization
that they act as one man, and dictate their
own terms to the operators. We cannot
blame them for exacting high prices for
their work; men whose employment place
them in such jeopardy deserve to be we'll
paid.
have said that enjoyed my trip very
much. Your readers may wonder how /
could enjoy such scenes of danger and
= II, I i.
had been all l saw, my enjoyment would
have beeen rather limited; but this was not
the case, l met with many kind, hospita
bic, people, who, from their warm, loving,
christian hearts, insisted on making me
perfectly at home, and though we see them
not soon again, we shall long remember
them kindly. A. LII
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Starlight Rum0rs.

Have you heard the new story that's going
the rounds?
All over the face of the land it resounds.
The gossips who spread it keep well out Of
That is, in the day time. But hear them
at night!
lis then they come forth, sir, clamorous
crowd;
They mutter it, sing it, and shout it aloud.
In bushes and trees, in the grass and the
fern,
You'll hear the new story wherever you
What is it about, sir? Why, Katy, of
by the-way, sir, the crickets its truth will
endorse:)
1t touc hes the matter which factions have
AS to whether she didn't, or whether she
Those who've said that she did, sir, must
feel rather small,
For the fact has come out that she didn't at
ALL
Poor katy! How long she's been under the
And no one suspected that sly Tommy
Dodd!
Yes; he is the culprit. They know it at
last
Through woodland and meadow the news
travels fast;
The Katy-did faction shout long and shout
low,
s'Tommy Dodd! Tommy Dodd! Katy didn't
we know,
Now listen tonight how suspicion shall
To GLORIOUS of wrath, and conviction as
well;
The air shall resound, sir, from starlight to
sod,
And all you can hear, Sir, will be "Tommy
Doddr'
Tommy Dodd! Tommy Dodd! Tommy
Dodd! 1t is plain
Poor Katy will never be talked of again.
Yet how we shall miss it, that quarrel of
The sweet, tunesome quarrel that wouldn't
grow cold.
That sweet, tunesome quarrel-ah! let it
not go!
Tommy Dodd didn't do it. Twas Katy,
we know.
Why the nights would forever be glum and
o'ercast
If the strife about Katy were ended at
last.
Then twinkle, old stars! for we'll not let it
drop,
That cherished contention it never shall
stop.
OH take it all back, sir, this hint of the
clod
Who dared to persuade me they sang
"Tommy Toddr')
Hearth and Home.
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To the Golden Rod.
ON FIRST SEEING 1T THIS YEAR.

Welcome, dear Golden-rod, once more,
Thou mimic Towering elm:
/ always think that summer store
Hangs from thy laden stem.
The columbies have hid away
Before the blowing sun;
The cardinals awhile delay
To bow their orison.
Midmost the joyous time of flowers,
Holding thy wealth of gold,
Thou max st us quiet forget the hours
Agone, the hours untold.
Soon as thy pale buds turn to gold
Autumn draws near apace;
Yet not till all thy heads are told
Does summer hide her face.
Poised on thy double bending spray,
In happy, hating mind,
Summer seems 10th to fly away,
And 10th to hide behind.
Now, whisper to me, little flower,
The secret that thou hast:
BY sweetest will, or strangest power,
To hold the Summer fast
Was Summer throned in arched sky
Above thy bending gold,
And did she lay her queenship by
To nestle in thy fold?
l know that thou dost answer me
With thy wise, cherry nod:
What wisdom might l learn of thee
In time, dear Golden-rod
When lying on the green hillside,
see whole fields aflower,
[ too like summer fain would bide, ..
And know thy gentle power. ..
l think fiat I should like to stray
Adown the columned aisle,
And then meath golden archway pray
For Summer heart the while.
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FAITH AND WoRKs.-Two gentlemen
were one day crossing river i'll ferry
boat. A dispute about faith and works
arose, ono saying that good works were of
small Importance and that faith was every
thing; the other asserting the contrary
Not being able to convince each other the
ferryman, an enlightened Christian, asked
permission to give his opinion. Consent
being granted, he said, 81 hold in my hand
two oars. That in my right hand / call
faith; the o'her, in my left, works. Now
gentlemen, please to observe; l pull the
oar of faith, and pull that alone. See! the
boat goes round and round, and makes no
progress. | do the same thing with the
oar of works, and with a precisely similar
result-no advance. Mark! pull both to-
gether, we go on pace and in very few
moments we shall be at our landing place.
So, in my humble opinion he added
''faith without works, or works without
faith, will not suffice. Let there be both,
and the haven of eternal rest is sure to be
reached"
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which they must prepare to meet, for they
cannot avoid it; a few years will bring
thousands, perhaps millions more among
us. Since have reached California have
learned that there are great doubts as to
the practicability or wisdom of attempting
tomake domestic servants ofthcm generally,
for reasons l canaot put on paper A negro
is almost curiosity in California. l don't
think have seen five in the whole time |
have been in the city. In going down to
the city OF Sante Clara, a few days since,
saw several well dressed people that | at
first took to be Africans, but was told they
were Mexicans that belonged to the Catho-
lie Mission at that city
The civilization of San Francisco is still
far behind our Eastern cities in it's morali-
ty. All the saloons, cigar stores, confec-
tionary and many other stores are open all day
Sunday. Museums and theatres, sometimes.
Races almost every Sabbath. The billiard
tables in all the hotels and in the various
saloons of the city are going the entire day,
while fashionable vices, in guided cos
tunes, meets you in many forms. The
country is young-the people are young
wealth abundant, and the means of expen-
ding it surround you on every hand. There
are a number of fine churches and many
earnest, energetic christian people, and i'll
time the power of the Gospel and christian
civilization must prevail; but there is evil
IDENTIFY before the church mighty work.
Auxiliary to this, however, is their system
of public schools; and this, | am glad to
know, is one thing that they take pride in
The public school houses are admirable
buildings, and their system must be we'll
arranged. During the day you rarely see
any children on the street, unless occom-
panied by their parents. The reason is
they have huant officers, as they are
called, whose business is to take I'D
children, found in the streets, during
school hours, without their parents, and to
carry them to school, or to their homes, if
they cannot show good reason for being
out. Another thing is observable: the en-
tire absence of those blackguard, noisy
boys, boys and boot blacks that
poster and annoy you and disgrace the
Eastern cities. Papers are to be had at
news stands, and at the offices, but you
never see boy carrying them through
the streets. Boot backing is science in
California. At all the hotels, and at va
rious places all along the streets, you will
find cushioned seat some five or six feet
long divided into seats or stalls, where
each customer takes his seat and places his
feet on raised pair of pedestals, and the
professor, who is always grown man, will
shine you up in few minutes, when you
pay your dime and go on your way re-
joicing. These little establishments are
found on all the principal streets; not OH
the pavement, but in neat little room.
say by feet, fitted up expressly for the
purpose, and for which the occupant must
pay very respectable rent.
But / must now close and will tell you
more of the city, its environs, it's business
and its people when / reach home
+ EIIyS
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THE CARE OF Your HABITs.-Character
is the substance, reputation the shadow
only-sometimes longer and sometimes
shorter. How important, then, is care III
the growth and formation of habits, since
character is but bundle of habits - that
years have been picking up and combining;
and when combined you may annihilate the
composition, but you cannot alter it
1t is no easy matter to drop habits, even
those that hang the most loosely upon the
the outside. We have an attachment to
them, or they have an attachment 70 us,
which is not readily separated. They are
like an old pair of shoes, which, though
there are no advantages attending them
still they are easy, and we are 10th to s'cast
them of" They are like an old hat,
which, though it has become unsightly,
sits comfortable to our head, and we dread
the breaking Of new one.
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Be FIRM.-Thc winds and the waves NAV
beat against the rock, planted in troubled
sea, but it remains unmoved. Be you like
that rock, young man. Vice may entce,
and the song and the cup may invite. Be
ware-stand firmly at your post. Let your
principles shine forth unobscured. There
is glory in the thought that you have re-
sisted temptation and conquered. Your
bright example will be to the world what
the lighthouse is to the mariner upon a
sea-shore; it will guide hundreds to the
point of virtue and safety.
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MIGRANTS.

eve have met to-day long train OF
wagons filled with emigrants, who have
come from Wisconsin, Illinois, and some
from Ohio, to make their future homes in
this fertile region.
"Look at the wagons as they pass,
drawn mostly by oxen. The emigrant finds
oxen more serviceable in new country
than horses. They are better adapted for
breaking the prairie. They pull the great
plow more steadily than horses, and are
better for drawing timber to build the log
hut which will shelter the emigrant and
his family till a better house can be reared.
"Four oxen are attached to each wagon,
driven either by the owner or one of his
barefoot boys. Boxes, barrels, chairs,
tables, pots and pans constitute the furni-
ture. The -mother-white-hair
old, and wrinkled-the wife with an infant
in her arms, with three or four romping
children around her, are sitting on feath-
er bed, sweating beneath the white canvass
covering. A tin kettle is suspended be-
meath the axle, in which toe-headed ur-
chin, covered with dust, is swinging, clap
ping his hands and playing with a yellow
dog trotting behind the team. A hoop
skirt, a chicken COOP pig i'll a box, arc
the most conspicuous objects which meet
the eye as we look at the hinder part of the
wagon. A barefooted boy, as bright-eyed
as Whittier's ideal, now done in chrome
Autograph and adorning many a home,
marches behind, with his rosy-cheeked sis
ter. driving cow and calf. -...
''To-night they will be fifteen miles near
er their destination than they were in the
morning. Some of the teams have been
two months on the road, and but few
more days will bring them to the spot
which the emigrant has already selected
for his future home. The oxen crop the
rich grasses by the roadside. The COW sup
plies the little ones with milk. At night
the children gather an armful of sticks, the
mother makes cake, bakcs it before tho
camp fire in tin baker, such as were
found in every New England home forty
years ago; the emiSrant smokes his pipe,
rolls himself in his blanket, and sleeps
soundly upon the ground beneath the wag-
on, while his family sleep equally as well
beneath the canvass roof above him.
Another cake in the morning, with slice
of fried pork drink of coffee, and they
are ready for another days march.
''Not only along this road, but in every
section of the State we may behold just
such scenes. A great army of occupation
is moving into the State. The advance is
all along the line. Towns and villages are
springing up as if by magic in every coun-
ty. Every day adds thousands of acres to
those already under cultivation. The
wheat fields Of this year are wider than
they were year ago, and twelve months
hence will be much larger than to-day.
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Uns Column, $5UU per inch Tor year; Tor Q and 3
Months 70 and % per additional. Four changes
allowed TO yearly advertisers without additional charge
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rs At the cor. of Sd & Orange sts., in
the City of Wilmington Del, there is an
establishment from which issues weekly
thousands of pounds of an article which to
every housewife is like "good news from
far country" That establishment belongs
to Moore & Bro;-that article is Whining
ton city Soap"
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Mem ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOOK AGENTS WANTED FOR

EBlIALE COLLEGE, Bordentown, N. J.
Boarding and tuition 500 pr. year. For cata-
logues address Rev. JOHN d. BRAKELEz, A. M,
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Boys Letter.
u.nt ne Thinks Of Mountain Life
An Opinion ss is an OPiniOn-Ah
Intercepted Letter.


PHILOSOPHERS tell US that it is impossible to
ob,aiu a true idea of any object unless We
can see it in all its phases, and from every
side Even the rural felicity of AdirOndacks
can not be fully understood or appreciated
unless seen from the position of more than
ana observer; and the only way to get at a
osnu;ne expression of opinion is TO read a
counle ? of letters now lying waiting for the
mail First comes large and rather dirty
looking envelop, directed in a sPra"iing
bovish hand, and further more adorne9 py
two blots and big smear, the latter evident
" effected by the impatient little finger OF
fbe writer. 1t reads thus:
DEAR JmMY:-Ask your mother to bring
non IN here, right off. It's gay. There's
fishing N, here, and plenty Of worms to
Itch ,em with. You stick the hook in 'em
and they wiggle bully. Fisbing's iunnier
when you don't catch the hook in the seat
of your psntaloOns, sO't you can t sit down
and catch fish all the way home. did that
the other day, and Mr.. Jenkyns' cousin
Laura's beau, ssk't me if was a sole or a
heel. Suppose he thought he was going to
be funny, but didn't sec it. Bime by l
see him cut little piece out of cousin
Laura's hair, where her hook, caught and
kiss it. like a great babey, and put it in his
pockeL So told 'em At tea, and every body
else laft.
They have cows here, and go to see them
ro;lked They don't pump it out with their
tails. like you and I thOugt they did, but
thew squeeze it out of bag that comes on
purpose, suppose. I MIXED the other
nivbt. 1t was very hard to squeeze and it
would not go into the pail. Some OF 1t
went into my eye, and the rest of it up my
sleeve. I don't like milking. 1 don't like
tmksvoocks neither. They rufle themselves
nm big and run at you. They are very
r-eeious bird aud disagreeabie 10 live with.
Chickens are nicer. We eat 'em They
mt them under baril night, and Bill and
Iii, them in the morning. We have bully
frerineing their necks. You'd better come
here right off, sud bring a shot gun, for
there are bears hear; any Fay we saw iox,
and some candy bscOs we can't get any
here, and a pOP-gun and some bows and
arrows aud things. Perhaps We can shoot
deer. think Mr.. Jenkyns is blamed fool
He made me believe to find deer's trac
the other day, and when l looked at it, i
was nothing but the marks of cousin Laura'r
boot. I don't see what makes men so sappy
about girls. We won't will We I'd b'
ashamed. I'm going 20 ride old Sam to
morrow. He's horse. You ride him bare
hact and it's very hard to stick on, he feel
50 squirmy. Give my love to all the boys
and tell them I'm having bully time, only
7 hate old Jeukyns. No more at PTesen
from po,.v
f Yours truly, BOBBY
Brooklyn Onion.
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NEW YORK DAY EXPREss, leaves Cleve

All Trains run directly through to New York. $50
miles without change OF coaches
From ard after May 26th, 1869, trains will leave
in connection with all Western lines, as follows:
NEW YORK DAY EXPIRES leaves Cleve
land from Atlantic and Great Western Depo
by Columbus, O., time. daily, Saturdays ex
Septed at $50 nj BufaIo nom n, PepOt SS, v, eOI
time daily Sundays excepted9 at 700 3 m.
Arrives at Hornellsville lois N, Susquehan-
ma 3.l2 p m, lpine) Turner'S 50 m, sup
and arrives in New York 1913 P N. Connects
at Great Bend with DeiaFare, LaekaWanna
and Western Railroad, and at Jersey Clty with
Midnight Express Train Of New Jersey Rail
road for Philadelphia.
s,eepinR Coaches are attached TO this train at
Cleveland, and running through to Hornellsville;
and new and improyed Drawing Room Coaches are
attached at Buffalo, running through to New YORK
EXPRESS MAIL, leaves DunkiEk from Union
Depot, and Buffalo, via Avon and via Hornells-
vile daily, Sundays excepted,l at 7,SO m, ar
irving in New York at 7.l0 a m.
LIGHTNING EXPRESS, tDaily,l leaves
Cleveland 7.20 m, Dunkirk II 80 IN, Buffalo
$50 m Arrives at HOrnelsville 6.l4 m,
supp and Ney York 5-9g 9Sl g n pSgl connect at
WilliamspOrt, Harrisburg and the South; at
Jersey City with Morning Express Train Of
New Jersey Railroad for Philadeiphia, Baiti-
mo-e and Washington; and at New York with
Morning Express trains for Boston and New
England cities.
Sleeping Coaches are attached to this train st
IsaTittsbuTg and at Buffalo, running through to
New York without change.
NIGHT EXPRESS, daily, Sundays excepted,l
leaves Dunkirk 500 P. NJ, Bnfalo 500 P m
arrives at Turner's s,5s m, tbktt.,l New York
ll.3O m; connects at Binghamton for Albany
and the celebrated summer resort Sharon
Springs; and at New York with steamers and
and afternoon trains for Boston and New Eng
hand cities.
Sleeping Coaches accompany this trian from Buff
[ falo to New York.
| CINCINNATI EXPRESS, daily, Sundays
| excepted,l leaves Cleveland at 8, rs m, Dun
kirk $50 D N, Buffalo II LIS m. Stops at Sus-
| ouehanna 7.55 N, (bkft.;l Turner's 1.2 m
idine,j and arrives in New York st $50 N.
| G0nnects al QVego for ithaca, st Binghamton
for Albany, and the HelsbFated summer resort
Sharon Springs, at GEeycourt for AeWpurgh
i and Warwick, and at New York with evening
trains and steamers for Boston and New Eng
I land cities.
Sleeping Coach attached to this train at Buffalo
running through to Susquehanna, and at Mead
viIle running through to New York.
| Only One Train East on Sunday, leaving Cleve-
land at 100 A. NJ, Buffalo at ESQ P. NJ, and
I Dunlkirk 1.S0 P. n, and reaching New York at
/ 100 A. n:
4 Boston and New EnglandP Passengers with then
Baggage, are transferred free Of ehargeinN New York
-uu rsT vENTTr arm ANn 1roeT rrrYTTR TOus
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Tracing Paper.

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-. s,,,rprrise he found the experiment extreme
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s.r. ~ extract the excess of oil, he obtained
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SIIll How made it in six months
Inv Secret and sample mailed free. A. J..
Fullam, New York.
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Sleeping Coaches ac'
falo 70 New York.
SLEEPING COACHE s
" ETHE WORLD "A

accompany all nighttFains on thiEailWsy.
uz-Tbe Erie Railway Company has opened a
new Ferry from their Jersey City Depot to the foot
OF 2sd st., New York, thus enabling passengers to
reach the upper portion Of the city without the ex-
rsnse and annoyance Of a street car or omnibus
transfer.
s7-The scenery along the entire route Of the
Erie Railway is Of the most picturesque and beau
tful character. Admirers of Natures beauties. in
ever Changing landscape subjects Of continual ad-
miratiOn and interest
BagEaee checked through, andfarealEsysas Low
As by any otherRoute.
FOR Tickets via Erie Railway ,Whichean
4ia5 a, all Principal Ticket Offices in the
West and SOuth-WesS'
Gsn1 sup,t. Geul Pass. Agt;
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All Trains run directly through to New York. $50
miles without change of coaches.
From and after May 26th, 1869, trains will leave
in cnnnectinn with all Western lines, as follows:
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