O Wife The Spy thould have the eye of Argus: he u honorable if he do but look to the welfare of the commonwealth. WOKOB 8 T K B THI RNDAY. OCTOBER 10. IMTI. I.egisiiiti v r A'omiuHlien*. Nominations for the state senate are now made daily, and in the representative districts the choice of candidates will be determined dur ing the next fortnight. These are the nomina tions on which more depends than on any oth ers. The governor has an honorable and re uponsible office. It is importantfthat he should be a man of dignity, fit mness and independence. It would be disgraceful if we should have for our chief magistrate a demagogue or a facile, compliant man, the ready tool of intriguers or mischief makers. We are to have a governor this rear, as we have had for many years, whom everybody can trust, but if he were, in all re spects, the reverse of what he is in point of pri vate and political character, he would have but little power for evil compared with that of an ignorant or corrupt legislature, and the very conspicuousness of his station, and the fact that be cannot divide the responsibility of his ac tions, is a restraint upon him, from which legis lators are free. It is a matter of experience that the executive business at the state house has, under successive administrations, with one or two exceptions, and tho-c not recent, been hon estly and faithfully performed. No one would venture to say that all the state legislation, dur ing ten years past, was wise or was guided by pure and upright motives. Candidates for the legislature are not selected with so much care as the importance of their office descives. Constituencies arc not exacting enough in regard to the qualifications of those whom they honor with their votes. They are too ready to yield the office as a reward for per sonal good fellowship, political service or fluency of speech, leaving the more important matters of solid ability and uncompromising upright ness out of view. A man not in all respects saiisfaetory, is nominated and voted for with the superficial excuse that he is only one among some hundreds, and, if he cannot be trusted to go right by himself, there will be plenty to keep him straight. It is just these, not often con sciously corrupt, but weak and compliant per sons, elected by good-natured constituencies, who do not wholly trust, but are unwil ling vigorously to oppose them, who become the easy prey of plausible lobbyists and make up the strength of every mischievous combination in the legislature. The nucleus of thesupjiort of each lobby scheme consists of a few men who are personally concerned in car rying it through, and whose election has been brought about for that purpose. They do the talking and the general work in{the commit tees and elsewhere; but they find allies, who are indispensable when the matter is brought to a vote, among the crowd of inconspicuous members, unfamiliar with legislative business, who do not see readily into the merits or de merits of a proposed measure. Men of this stamp can often be prevailed upon to barter their votes in return for support promised to some measure in which their locality is inter ested; they may be flattered into compliance by personal attentions from somebody of note, or imposed upon by plausible arguments, to which they listen with favorable predisposition from the fact that a person of consequence thinks it worth while to argue with them. If there were no memberaof this character, or this deplorable lack of character, lobbyists would cease to be dangerous, in fact they would cease to exist, for their occupation would be gone. It is the duty of good men in every dis trier to sec that none but inflexibly honest, in telligent, self-respecting men are nominated. It is not important that every member should be a ready debater, or possess talents of a high order; it is important that he should be upright and conscious of bis responsibilities; that he should have the confidence of his constituents, and be resolved to deserve and retain it. There can hardly be any district which does not contain some men of this stamp, who would accept a neat in the general court, but there may be some districts which have not a great many such. The fashion of making a change every year, until all the moderately respectable men in the town have had their turn, draws heavily upon the raw material for legislators. The fashion seems to be pretty firmly established, and it is appar. ently useless to urge its abandonment; but if inexperienced men must be sent, kt it at least be understood that character is the first and in dispensable requisite, and talent a subortlinate though very desirable qualification,and that it is the most important political duty of every citizen to give his personal attention and influ ence to flic making of these nominations. The Butler controversy, or, rather, tlie antag onisms growing out of it, have not yet abated their combativeness, in Springfield; but there will, doubtless, lie a milder and more smiling mood, all round, after a time. The Republican's batteries have been active, and there has been something like a return fire from one of the pulpits, we understand. Now a gun has been fired from a caucus. The republican caucus held to choose delegates to the local conventions, gave the Republican a shot. We copy from the Republican the following account of it:— “As somebody was about 10 move an adjourn ment, H. F. Trask, son of Eliphalet Trask, and, like his father, a member of the prohibitorv par ty, presented the following resolutions:— ‘Whereas, the last caucus of the republican party of this city has been repeatedly designated by the Springfield Republican of this city as a “mob,” and an attempt has been made to attach the stigma ot fraud to its proceedings, and tu discredit the delegates therein chosen; and whereas, since the Worcester convention, that journal, instead of laboring for the success o the ticket nominated, has apparently made di rect effort to destroy the harmony oi the party in this city and reduce its majority, by its malig nant abuse of those delegates and of the repub lican votei who elected them, Resolved, that we deprecate the course thus pursued as calculated to weaken the republican pa r iy of this city, and destroy that unity which is essential to success; that the attacks were wholly uncalled for, not warranted by the facts, and unjust; and the republican party ol Spring field do notjpiopose to assume the private griefs or quarrels of that journal, acknowledge it as our organ, or submit to its dictation. o ut earnest protest by Captain b.C. Warnner, the roolutijns were adopted, and the cau. us adjourned.” The Republican replies that this caucus was a 4 ‘Butler and I rask combination of labor reform ers, prohibitionists, and sore-head republicans,” and adds:-“save a few friends of the two Springfield candidates for district attorney, none else were present at the caucus.” It is a little remarkable, certainly, that the regular republi can* should leave their caucus business to management of>ucb a combination. It is no wise likely .that the biggest guns that can Ie fired by the “Butler and Trask combination,” or by any other combination, can do much in jury to the Republican; but wc may reasonably inquire whether such a smart tight is adapted to strengthen the republican party in Springfield. Another thing occurs to us. If the mover of the resolution quoted above belongs to the prohibi tory party, and not to the republican party, his zeal lor strengthening the latter party can not he strong. D- berv, and the gold hidden by the roblwrs, gives movement to the characters and events. Many readers will say, the story is “intensely interest ing’’; but no one is likely to suspect that Mr. Yates is Walter Scott in disguise. Nevertheless, a better book might not be pecuniarily as suc cessful as we presume this will be. For sale at Bigelow’s. Zanita, a Tale of the Yo-Semite, by Therese Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore. New York: Hurd Houghton. The author of this work has attained so much notoriety of late years that a l>ook from her pen will find plenty of curious readers. She has not done herself discredit on ihe whole. She begins her story with a description of a ride through wonderful ly picturesque regions; introduces a singular being, called Kcnmuir, who figures conspicuous ly throughout the narrative, and at last ends her journey at a hospitable cottage, nestled among the mountains, where she manes the ac quaintance of the other characters who act their parts in her story. These are a cultivated fath er anil mother with two daughters, the elder of whom, a child of six years old, is the heroine Zanita. This child grows up beautiful and un tamable, causes her friends untold trouble, and at last ends her life most tragically, a handsome, mysterious English lover perishing with her. The style of the writer is simple and clear, some of her descriptions of scenery graphic, and her delineations of character, as influenced by comparatively solitary life in those wild re gions, well done. For sale by San lord Co. Joshua Marvel, by 3. L. Farjeon, author of “Griff.” Boston: James R. Osgood Co. The series of novels which these enterprising publishers have in hand shows excellent judg ment in selection, and bids fair to become a fa vorite with novel readers. Some of the best books of the season have already appeared in it. The present author's name is new to American readers, but it will soon become familiar if he writes such books as this. Some critics have suggested a resemblance to Dickens, and there is something in his story that reminds one of that great master of fiction, though it is not an imitation or trick of manner, that might be easily caught, and 1)0 worth less than nothing, but rather a similarity of temper, a kindly humor that appreciates keenly whatever is ludicrous, but is never unfeeling or cynical. A hasty glance, which is all we have been able to give this book as yet, iaipresses us strongly with its merits, and leads us lo expect much of its au thor in the future. It is for sale here by L. H. Bigelow. The Sparks of Genius, by Elisha Kellogg, author of the Elm Island Stories, &c. This is a tale of college life, the first of a scries, called the Whispering Pine Series, illustrated with numer ous spirited engravings. Mr. Kellogg’s inven tion is very fertile. His stories are always full of exciting incidents, told in a way that boys, and often older people too, find very captivating. This new series promises to be as popular as those which have preceded it. It is published by Lee Shepard, Boston, and for sale here by L. H. Bigelow. “Fire in the Woods’’ is the title of the fourth volume of the “B. O. W. C. Series,” pub lished by Lee Shepard, Boston. Professor James de Millc is the author, and the charac ters introduced in the previous volumes,continue their adventures in this; but the scenes are new, and the “Fire in the Woods” occasioned only a portion of them. For sale at Bigelow’s. “Little Jaket,” written by Mrs. S. il.de Kroyft, and published by Hurd Houghton, New York, tells the story of a blind German child, or, rather, relates how it was told by the lx>y himself, in several conversations. The book is handsomely printed and bound, and it is well supplied with pictorial illustrations. The pre face states that it is not a work of fiction. For sale bv .Sanford Co. A Journey Round My- Room; by Xavier de Maistre. Translated from the French, with a notice of the author’s life. New York: Hurd Houghton. This work was written during the author’s forty-two days of imprisonment at Turin. It is one of those productions which can not be written without genius for producing them. It is well translated; that is to say, as well as possible; for this is one of the cases in which the style is an essential part of the work; and here, “Ze style ne traduit pas* I —“style is un translatable.” For sale by Sanford Co. The Diamond on the Hearth, a novel by Marian Janies, author of “Ethel,” etc. New York: D. Appleton Co. This story is better than the average now-a days, less sensational and more natural. The scene is laid in England; the characters are au author, his family, friends and acquaintances. The character of the hero iue is drawn with a nice baud. We find her charming, and are glad when, at the conclusion of the story, her troubles come to a happy end ing. The l*ook is for sale by Sanford Co. Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens. This is the sixth volume of D. Appleton Co.’s Handy Volume Scries of Dickens’ works. It bus illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech and H. K. Browne. For sale at Sanford’s. The Sunday Magazine, for October, has the beginninga of two new stories: “The Vicar’s Daughter” by George MacDonald, aud “Marga ret” by the author of Jmiuiue Leigh. There i* übf Jhiln Spn: Worcester, cTbursban gaming, (October 19, 1871. I also the first of a series of papers, entitled “Pre miums Paid to Experience,” by Edward Garrett* i who is favorably known as the author of “Oc cupationi of a Retired Life.” There are other I articles of interest by skilled writers, and the il lustrations have much merit. The Cradle of the Fart*. Major John Hay writes as follows to the New York Tribune: Mau is the only animal who wastes his time in efforts to find out how things began for the mere pleasure of knowing. We are not satisfied with our pleasures until we have poisoned I Inin w ith the flavor of realism. We pursue our Bur gundy until we have hunted it down to the vats where it spirts under the broad feet of rhe peas ants of Beaune. And we are equally unwise in dwelling on the source of our troubles, instead of looking forward to the cm! of them,and then forgetting them wholly. Hie Nile is better worth seeing at Karnak and Cairo than at Ny. anza. The Mississippi is a far more enjoyable stream at Spunky point or Alton than nt itusu ca lake. Yet, good men, sensible in the main, waste their Ilves in tracking them to those sav age thickets, where nature has hidden away their cradles sate from the tread of the world. I sec the lolly of all this plainly enough, but the human nature in me will not let me follow my own precept. I have here before me six miles, more or less, of the finest conflagration ever seen. I have smoking ruins and ruins which have broken themselves of smoking; churches as romantic in their dilapidation as Melrose by moonlight; mountains of brick and mortar and forests of springing chimneys; but I turned Irom them all this morning to hunt tor the spot where the tire started. It is the gr. at est and most brilliant apparition of the nine teenth century —more reckless than Fisk, more remorseless than Bismarck. Some details of its early life might not be without edification. There may be lessons in its cradle and in its grave. These were the thoughs that justified me in going to Dekoven street, though the real reason was that I was curious to see the first footprint of the monster who had trampled a great city out of existence in a day. Nothing could be more ignoble and common place than this quarter of Chicago. 1 reached It by crossing over the long drawbridge at Twelfth street, which was swinging graceful I v on its pivot as I came. The streets were aII filled with wagons loaded down with furniture, which exposed to the gaze of the loungers the broken life of the family. The air of the quarter was wholly foreign and not quite reputable. Even the little church ot St. Wenzel added to the Bo hemian air of the district. German volunteers WCTB guarding the relief stores from hungry who would make irregular forays on the provisions. Both sides thought their dignity re quired they shouM speak English instead of tiieir native tongue. “Keep your fingers von dem pretzels off, or you’ll get a het on you.” ‘•Yes! I bet you got a heap o’ style, don’t it.” Those colloquies sometimes give us moments of conjecture as to the final doom of our language. 1 found Dekoven street at last, a mean little street of shabby wooden houses, with dirty door yards and unpainted fences falling to decay. It had no look of Chicago about it. Take it up bodily and drop it out on the prairie and its name might be Lickskillet station as well as anything else. The street was unpaved and lit tered with old boxes and mildewed papers, and a dozen absurd geese wandered about with rustic familiarity. Slatternly women lounged at the gates and bare-legged children kept up an evi dently traditional warfare of skirmishing with the geese. On the south side of the street not a house was touched. On the north only one re mained. All the rest were simply ashes. There were no piles of ruin here. The wooden hovels left no landmarks except here and there a stunted chimney too squat to fall. The grade had been raised in places and left untouched in others, so that now, as in the north division, the roads seemed like viaducts, and scorched and blackened trees seemed growing out of sodded cellars. But ol all the miserable plain stretching out before me to the turning coal heaps in the northern dis trict, 1 was only interested in the narrow block lietween Dekoven and Taylor streets, now quite flat and cool, with small gutter boys inarching through the lots, some kicking with bare iect in the light ashes for suspected and sporadic coals, and others prudently mounted on stilts, which sunk from time to time in the spongy soil and caused the young acrobats to descend ignomini ously and pull them out. This was the Mecca of my pilgrimage, for here the fire began. One squalid little hovel alone remained intact in all that vast expanse. A warped and weather lieaten shanty of two rooms, perched on thin piles, with tin plate nailed half way down them like dirty pantalets. There was no dirtier hut in Chicago or Tipperary. But it stood there safe, while a city had perished before it and around it. It was preserved by its own destruct ivesignificance. It was made sacred by the curse that rested on it—a curse more deadly than that which darkened the lintels of the house of Thyestes. For out of that house, last Sun day night, came a woman with, a lamp to the bain behind the house, to milk the cow with the crumbled temper, that kicked the lamp, that spilled the kerosene, that tired the straw, that burnt Chicago. And thereto this hour .stands that craven little house, holding on tightly to its miserable existence. 1 siood on the sidewalk opposite, as in duty lx)und, calling up the appropriate emotions. A strange, wrinkled face on a dwarfish body came up aud said, “That's a dreadful sight.” I as sented, and he continued in n melancholy croon: “Forty year I’vc lived here—aud there wasn’t a brick house but wan,and that was the Lakeside house, and it’s gone now; an ye ll bclave me, Soor, I niver sec a fire loike that.” I believed him thoroughly, and he went away. My emo tions not being satisfactory from a front view of the shanty, 1 went around to the rear, and there found the man of the house, sitting with two of his friends. His wite, Our Lady of the Lamp—freighted with heavier disaster than that which Psyche carried to the bedside ot Eros—sat at the window, knit ting. I approached the man of the house and gave him good-day. He glanced ud with sleepy, furtive eyes. 1 asked him what he knew about the origin of the fire. He glanced at his friends and said, civilly, he knew very little; he was waked up about nine o’clock by the alarm, and fought from that time to save his house; at every sentence be turned to his friends and said, “I can prove it by them,” to which they nodded assent. He seemed fearful that all Chicago was coming down upon him for prompt and integral payment of that $200,000,000 hisaow bad kick ed over. His neigh 1 Mirs say this story is an in vention dating Iro n the second day of the fire. There was something unutterably grotesque in this ultimate atom feeling a sense of responsi bility for a catastrophe so stupendous, and striv ing by a fiction, which must have heavily taxed his highest powers ot imagination, to escape a-reckoning he was already free hom, Like his fellows the midgo and the nit, Through minuteness, to wit. A Touching Letter from Chicago.—The following letter is published in the Boston Jour nal Chicago, 111., Oct. 14,1871. O. IF. Newcomb, Esq.: My Dear Friend—You doubtless think ol my family and self as dead. I am happy to inform you tiiat my wife and babe arc now well. Our little daughter was born on Lincoln park, on Sunday morning, the Bth hist. 1 had made a home of my rout, a sheet that a neighbor kindly loaned me, and a high hat I picked up near our location. We were boarding at the Sherman house, but had to flee and leave everything. I was even left without mv bat. Mother, my dear sainted mother has never been found, and we are in an awful state of sus pense. Mrs. N. does not as yet know that she has been burned; should she find it out now, she, too, I fear, would soon follow her. She keeps calling for mother—“ Why don't mother come?” It crushes my heart to bear her call fbr “Mother.” Wc tell her she Is not well enough to come. God bless the Boston folks, and but fora warm bed and clothing from your noble city my wife would now have been dead. A pair of blankets (from Boston) was brought to us in our hour of peril, thus saving the life of my wife and our little one. How acceptable the food has been, too; but hundreds about us have nearly died irom over-eating as well as from exposure. The first thing I got to eat was a “Boston cracker.” I enjoyed it better than I ever enjoyed a dinner at trie Tremont house, New Haven. I had a little money in my vest pocket, which will keep us along a while. Wc have a tent now, and are very comfortable, and .should feel perfectly happy if we only knew the fate of our dear mother. 1 presume we never shall. I trust you will pardon the writing, for it is accomplished under many difficulties’ We shall always bless your people for their great kind ness. Three cheers went up tor Boston Irom our little crowd last night. A little bundle of baby clothes was brought to us last night, with a label, “from the Christian union of Boston.” In the bundle was everything, even to a nursing bottle, a very acceptable article, which we were obliged to use. God bless the hands that did up that bundle; a mother must have done it. We call our babv Eva Boston, and wc hope she may grow up to bless the donors of her first outfit. I am your friend, John Andrew Nolan. An important reduction in English postage went into operation on the sth of Xfctober. The half-ounce weight disappears from the postal scales, and the half-penny stamp conies into use lor letters above an ounce weight. The let ter postage will still be a penny, but the penny stamp will cover all letters not exceeding an ounce; while only an additional half-penny will be required for letters above an ounce anil under two. The following are the details of the new tariff: For a letter not exceeding 1 ounce, Id.; exceeding 1 ounce, but not exceeding 2 ounces, lid.; exceeding 2 ounces, but not ex ceeding 4 ounces, 2d.; exceeding 4 ounces, but not exceeding 0 ounces, 2Jd.; exceeding 6 ounces, but not exceeding 8 oun -es, 3d.; exceed ing 8 ounces, but not exceeding 10 ounces, 3Jd.; exceeding 10 ounces, but not exceeding 12 ounces, 4d. This tariff is limited to 12 ounces, and letters above that rate will be at the rate of a penny an ounce. The English postal service is now the cheapest as well as the most effective in the world. Col. John W. Forney, in his “Personal Re collections,” mentions the negro dialect which so generally characterized the speech of the public men of the south before the war. Henry Clay’s speaking, he says, was “strongly marked by it. James M. Mason, of Virginia, seemed lo delight in the African accent. But there was no letter specimen than the late Thomas 11. Bayley, for many years the representative in congress of the Accomac district. He was a man of ■•onsiderable force aud education, and f can easily recall bin tall form, his expressive face and ringing voice, as spectacles on nose, he inj I address the ‘Mr. the honorable member who had just had the ‘flo.’ Keitt of South Carolina had the same ac cent and pronunciation. too, Linn Boyd of Kentucky, and Howell Cobb of Georgia. All these men, and most of the former leaders of opinion in the south are in their graves; but Toombs, Stephens, Henty A. Wise, Bocock, John Forsyth and .JetE Davis still live ns warn ings if not ns examples." The Three iHnNked Hen. ‘•Yonder’s the village, Barin,” says my driver, pointing to a few spots of light that twinkle along the darkening sky-line; “and we'll be there in another quarter of an hour, if it please heaven. Lucky for us that it’s not winter time, or we’d have the grey coats’ wolves at our heels before we got in.” “Are there many of them alxxit here in win ter?" asked L •'Many of them. A good deal too many. Why, it was only last winter/’ he goes on. with a genuinely Russian love of frightening himself and other people, “that a sledge came into the village, which had been attacked by wolves close to where we are now, on a dark windy evening just like this one; and they gobbled up the driver and the horses, and every thing but the sledge itself—and that was a good deal scratched.” But if thev ate up the horses, how did tite sledge get to the village?'’ “Ab, Burin!” answered the old rogue, with a chuckle, “that's not mv affair.” Our day’s work has been a long and hard one, as may be seen by the smoking flanks and quiv ering nostrils of our horses, and the country through which we have passed is not such as one loves to linger over. Picturesaueness, in the ordinary sense of the word, is sadly wanting to Russia proper. All her best scenery is to be found in regions lately wrested from other pow ers—Finland, the Caucasus, rhe Crimea. Nor is the monotony of tier boundless plains diversi fied by the abundance of life, which relieves rhe flatness of Holland and the Netherlands. Si beria is peopled at the rate of one inhabitant to th re” square miles. The vast prairies of Central Russia are little, if at all, more populous. The new railway from Kkva to Balta runs for ut least half its length through a chaos of un cleared forests. The banks of the Volga, for leagues together, are silent and desolate as those of the Amazon. Along the whole course of the Lower Don, from Kalatah to within a few h< urs’ sail of Rostov, there is not a single town—hard ly even a village worth calling such—to break the monotony of the voiceless solitudes through which it flows. And even upon the famous “black soil,” every spadeful of which is worth a king’s ransom, one may travel for days with out seeing a human habitation except a stray liquor shop, or meeting a human being except an occasional robber. While sipping mv ten, and munching the black bread wherewith my host’s wife, a stout, fresh-looking woman of five and-thirty, supplies me ad libitum, 1 glance round the room, which is merely an enlarged and ornamented copy of what I have seen in every hamlet on iny road. The heavy crossbeams of the roof, the rough hewn chairs and tables, the huge tea-urn—the gilt-edge picture of a saint in the far corner, with a small lamp burning before it—the enor mous stove, on the bromi fiat top of which my entertainers are wont to sleep in winter—the broad clumsy bed with its patch-work coverlet, arc all there. And there, too, on the opposi’c side of the room, is the huge«painted chest, bar red and banded with iron, which is the Russian peasant's pride and glory, in which he keeps his Sunday clothes, and whatever valuables he may possess, and upon the painting and decorating of which he often expends a sum which it must have cost him many a hard day’s work and many a supperless night to raise. But even in their first hasty survey of the sur roundings, my eyes have time to remark one oi>- ject, which is the very last that one would ex pect to find under the roof of a Russian peasant, whose sole weapon is usually the short ax which he chops his firewood, puts together his furni ture, builds his log-hut, and occasionally splits the head of his wife or father. Just opposite where I sat, hanging upon a nail in the wall, is a large pistol, evidently unused for a consider able time, to judge by the rust which covers it. Our friend the starosta, following the direction of mv glance, gives a significant chuckle. “There's something to look at, Barin,” says he, nodding in the direction of the weapon. “You don't often see those toys in our shops,” do you?” “Well, indeed, brother, it’s hardly the sort of a thing one would expect to see so far from the town. Do you keep it to shoot the ‘taratans’ (cockroaches) with?” My host gives a horse bellowing laugh, at this not very brilliant joke, echoed by the shriller treble of his wife, and crossing the room takes down the pistol from its perch, and lays it on the table. Some letters branded into the stock catch my eye, and holding it up in the light, 1 read “April 14,1869,” for the answer to this enigma. “1 wrote that,” says he, with the air of Corolanus. “Alone 1 did it.” “I can write ami read too, or I shouldn’t be starosta now. Ah! the first time 1 wrote my own name, I felt as grand as Ilia Murometz!” The worthy staiosra's enthusiasm somewhat tries my gravity, though had already seen the same thing once and again during my travels in the interior. The Russian peasant’s reverence for the power of “talking by making marks in a book” is almost superstitious; and 1 recollect being considerably amused at overhearing a rough-hewn fellow, with whom 1 had lodged in one of the remoter villages, after reciting to an attentive circle, my feats in walking, running, climbing ami leaping, wind up with, “And lie knows how towrite!” 1 hat was the day that 1 got this pistol,” pur sues my Amphitryon; “and good service he did me that day. If it hadn't been for him, I should have lost a good handful of money, and mayhap my life in the bargain!” “Ah! how did that happen?” asked I. “This is just the time for a good story: suppose you tell me all about it before I turn in.” Nothing loth, my host knocked tl e ashes from his pipe, recharged it, and clearing his throat vigorously, lie began as follows: “You must know, then. Barin, that 1 had a cousin, Vasilli Mosloffby name, who, instead of sticking to the village as I did, was all for getting away to one of the large towns, thinking to push his way there, aud pick up money as you would gather mushrooms in the wood. And, sure enough, one day be went off to Moscow, and after a time, 1 got word that he had managed to find work in one of the big German shops on tlie Konznetski Most (he was a famous hand at wood carving and such like), aud that he was getting on pretty well; for our proverb says, “Heaven helps the helpful man,” ami Vasilli was always one to stand on his own feet. And after that 1 had no news of him for a long time, when, all of a sudden, there came to me a big package ot bank notes, and a letter with them, say ing Vasilli was dead (may be gain the king dom of heaven!) aud bad left me all the money he had saved—some two thousand roubles or so (about £26o)—which was a great windfall to a poor fellow like me.” “You should just have seen him that day, Barin,” chimes in, laughingly, the ladv of the house, who bad just finished her preparations for my further accommodation. “When he opened the package ami saw the notes be stared about him like a dog that’s lost his master, and all the rest of the day as though he didn't know where he was.” “Well, you needn’t laugh at me, Vasilissa, re torted her husband, with a broad grin; “you kept on counting the notes yourself for an hour or more, and never counted 'em right after all.” And the two laugh in lusty chorus. “You may be sure, Barin,” he continues, turning to me, “that I wasn't long in inviting my friends to come and rejoice with me over the good hick which God had sent; and by seven Jn the eve ning I had all ready for ’em—the tea-urn boil ing, the black bread and bacon laid out, a dish of salted cucumbers, and a halt-gallon ol ‘vod ka* (corn brandy) into the bargain. .Just as I'd finished laying out the table(niy wife had gone out to buy some sausage) there came a knock at the door. Thinks I. •There are my guests conic already,’ and 1 went to let ’em in. But when lupene I the door (heaven preserve us!) what should I see there but three men in black masks, and the foremost of 'em with a pistol in his hand—this very pistol that's lying on the ta ble now.” “Oho! that pistol’s a trophy taken from the enemy, then?” remarked]. “This begins to get interesting: go on, pray!” “Fm not going to say 1 wasn't frightened,” pursues the starosta. “I was frightened, and very badly frightened, too, I can tell you. But before 1 could say a word the foremost black guard claps a hand on my shoulder and says to me, in a voice that sounded as if it came down a chimney, ‘Hand over that money you got this morning; quick, or I’fl send you where you won’t come back again and 1 heard the pistol click as he cocked it. Well, as you know, ‘When needs must there’s no time’for brewing beer,' so I went to the old chest yonder and out with the banknotes; but in banding them out 1 managed to tuck two or three of them into iny sleeve. The rogue counted them twice over ami shook bis head. ‘This won’t do,’ says he, catching me by the collar. ‘We know exactly how much you got this morning, and we mean to have it all; so out with what you’ve hidden or it will be the worse lor you.’ Then all at once a thought came into my head, just as il somelxxly had whispered it to me,aud I shook the bank notes onto! my sleeve on the floor, so that they all tiew this way and that way. I'he rogue, fearing, no doubt, that some of them might get lost, pounced upon them to pick ’em up, pulling down his pistol just as 1 thought he would. But the minute he loosed bold of it 1 snatched it up, and shot him dead on the spot. My driver gave a hoarse, chuckling laugh of intense enjoyment, while the starosta paused for a moment in order to heighten the effect of his last sentence, handling the captured pistol with a belligerent air. “Well done,” put in I; “you tricked him very nicely. But what did the other two fellows do? Ran away, 1 suppose?” “You may ask that,” replies the narrator, with a broader gnu than ever; “they were gone almost before 1 could turn round. Well, when i found myself safe again and the field clear i felt so dazed that I almost thought I should have fainted; but 1 knew {here was more to be done yet. so I dipped my head in a pan of water to clear it a bit, locked up the house, put the key in my pocket and away as hard as I could go to the ‘kvartalni’ (district police inspector). But when I got there he was not at home. They said he had gone out more than hour before and hadn’t come back yet, so there was noth ing fbr it but to go on to the next station,across the river yonder, and tell the kvaitalni there. Ihe moment he heaid what bad happened he claps on bis coat, calls three or four of his tueu, and awav we all went buck to my but, where we found Hie dead fellow lying on the door just as I had left him. The kvartalui's men pulled off his mask—and who should this he but the very police inspector I had been looking for! And the other two robbers, as I found out aiter ward, were the village postmaster and priest. And now. Barin, here’s your place ready for you, and may heaven send you a good night's rest I”— Chambers Journal. UlißcellnHcoun lt<*iUN. A southern darkey, talking of some vain white man, said he was “one o’dem fellers what always wanted de tail feathers of his chickens painted pink.’’ The once natty clerks and bookkeepers of Chicago are now selling newspapers in the streets, <»r earning their bread and butter as pri vate policemen. The old confederate powder works at Augusta, G.i., which were surpassed in size or perfection of equipment by none in the world, have been lying idle since the war, fast going to ruin. Thev have now been purchased by a company who intend to*put them to their original use. I hey were confiscated by the government at the close of the war. According to the Limerick Chronicle, the sea serpent has appeared to the bathers at the Irish watering-place of Kilkec. it raised its head out of the water as usual, and looked blandly at the ladies, who “nearly tainted.” It was probably a female sea-serpent, as it wore a chignon “ol seaweed-looking hair, which rose and fell with the motion of the water.” An indignant “barrister” writes to the Times that in spite of the oratorical flourish of Curran about the, shackles falling from the slave the moment he touches British soil, etc., etc., the slave traffic between Tripoli and Constantinople, through the intermediate port of Malta, still goes on. The “barrister” saw five or six young female slaves at Malta on their way to Constan tinople as a present to a pasha. Dr. Light hill’s next visit to the Bay State house will be Oct. 19, 20, and 21. Pretty styles in bonnets and hats at Roche’s, 188 Main street, old No. 30. Full lines of new goods. Horace Kendall will sell farm stock at auction for A. Windsor, on the Bailey farm, in Northboro, this morning at nine o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. .Fames Fuller, No. 28 Chan dler street, well known citizens of this place, were agreeably surprised, on Tuesday evening, by a large number of friends, who called to pay their regards and offer their congratulations, it being the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding day. A pleasant visit was enjoyed by all. The many friends left many valuable presents in token of their love and regards. Impromptu speeches, jokes, music, &c., with a generous supply of re freshments, was the order o' the occasion. LATEST MAKKKTB, NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. New York, Oct. 18.—Money stringent at 7 percent currency to gold inUrest; and l-32d to H per cent paid for turning stocks, but closed rather easier, ami l-32d per ct was paid tor turning stocks. The discount demand was urgent, only commercial paper being current at high rates shipments ot currency yesterday, sl.W,ouo— green hacks—to the west .Sterling exchange weak at lOS (o 1084 for long (Sold heavy, under free -alts by foreign bankers, and a government purchase of four millions In bonds; the price touched 1124, but closed at 113 (di 1134. Loins at 3 percent per annum to l-64thpcrdayforu.se. and 2 per cent for carrying. The c earings were $38,000,000. It is understood that the government will sell only a million of gold to-morrow. Governments heavy and’ lower, and closed feverish. A treasury award was made at 110 8-100ths (a. 110 47-100ths. State securities heavy and lower. Storks during tlie middle of the day were heavy and excited and 1 2 per cent !ow« r, hip c o>cd firm, with the decline nearly re covered. .Most of the buslne s was in Western Union, Lake >Uore. and New York Central. A compromise has been effected between the receivers of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati railroad, and .Mr. Lord, former president; terms unknown. United stares currency 6« 110 S United states Sixes. 1881 United Stales 5-20's, 1862, coupons 114’* 1861. 113 1885, 114*4 new 1865. 112 1887. 112* 1868. 112* 10-lOs 1094 Western Union Telegraph company 56*« Pacific Mail Steamship company N. Y. Centra! A Hudson River consol'd Ks'i do do do do scrip si 4 Erie railroad 274 do preferred 60 Harlem railroad 1174 do preferred 119 Reading railroad loi't Michigan Central railroad 115 Union Pacific railroad stock 214 Panama railroad 54 Lake Shore dr Michigan Southern K 91 Illinois Central railroad 133 Cleveland and Pittsburg i auro ad 114 Chicago and Northwestern railroad 514 dn dn profc’TCO 83.4 Cleveland. Columbus A Cincinnati railroad, .so New Jersey Central railroad 10l 4 vuicagu au'l Kuca luiaua ra.iruad 96 Milwaukee and 8t Paul railroad 524 do do pref 724 Toledo and Wabasn railroal 524 do pref 80 Fart Wayne and Chicago railroad 96 Alton and Terre Haute railroad lb do preferred 49 Chicago and Alton railroad 112 do preferred 114 Ohio and Mississippi railroad 354 Hart'ord and Erie railroad 2 Columbus Cincinnati *V Ind. Central R it ...154 Chicago. Burlington and Quincy K R 124 Hannibal and st Joseph K it 55 Central Pacific gold bonds loo* Union Pacific railroad Ist mort. 6s 844 BOSTON STOCK SALEH-Oct. 18. 51.000 United States Five-twenties. IM»7 112'* >3.000 Union Pacific land grant 7s 54.000 Union Pacific railroadbs SI,OOO Central Paciilc railroad 7s. 1883 10l 4 $6 '»0» Hanford ami Erie railroad 7s. new 24 s7.imhi Maine State 6s. 18-w 4 >22.000 Chicago citv 7s 90ta914 New llamp-ldre State Six*—, 99 53.1MV Bath city 6s. 1891 90 $5,000 Portland city 6s, 1877 974 $5,000 Hartford div 6s. 187.» 99 $15,000 Cincinnati city 7 3 10s, 1897 1004@101 $1,090 old Colony and Newport It It os. 1876 94* >2.000 Michigan Central II it. Bs. l«90 1074 SI,OOO Vt. CH. A Vt. Ca. R K Ms, 1877 1014 $3,000 Boston city ss, 1884, gold 99 $2,000 Cedar Rapids and .Missouri R B 7.', 1916 90 70 Eastern railroad 107* 142 Boston ana Albany railroad 92 Fitchburg railroad 48 Vermont and Canada railroad 10l 4 '.’s Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R R 128 65 Northern railroad. N. 11 Ill* 4 Conn, ami Pass. River railroad 91 100 Indianapolis and cimnnnaii railroad 74 142 Michigan Central railroad 15 Rutland railroad, prei 77 Rutland railroad, common ..*244 6.5 Union Pacific railroad 224 150 Old Colony and Newport railroad 40 Ogdensburg f.ake Champlain RR 874 11 Phil.. WIL and Baltimore railroad 534 4 Pepperell Manufacturing Co 642.4 40 Bates Alanufacturiiig Co 114 M '25 Namnkeag Steam Colton Mills 12a 10 Middlesex Mills 175 10 Nashua Manufacturing Company .650 1 Merrimack Manufacturing Co, 1397 4 DOWRHTIC MARRETa. New York, oct. 18.—Cotton dull and 4c lower.closing nominal; sales Lmvbales; middling uplands 19Hc. Flour dull and 5 10c lower; sales 93.50 bbls; slate $6 30 sci 7: round hoop Ohio $7 (a. 7 60; western $6,30 M.xo; south ern $7.20 (o 9.2.5. Wheat opened 1 2c lower, but dosed steady at a decline; sales 164,000 bush No 1 spring SI .54 (a. 1.55; No 2 do $1.40 (,r §1,52; No 3 $1,42 4 amber state >1.60; winter red western $1.55 1.59; white Michigan $1,6.5 (u) $1,72. Coma shade low< r; sales 124.000 bush; mixed ai 75 754 c. in store, and 764 (<4l 77c afloat. Oats heavy and declining: sales 59.000 bush; Ohio and we.st ern at 5» Beef quiet. Pork moderately active and sternly; sales mess at $13.30 13.37. Lard quiet and steady; sales at 94 104 c. Butter dull. Whi.«kev firmer; sales u t tern tree 95 9.54 c. Rice slea tv at 8 4 (u, 9c. Sugai ill moderate request; Muscovado at 9 Ilk-; fair to go.d relining 9(a94 e Coffee quiet; Rio 18 (th lß4e, gold,duty paid. .Molasses dull. Spirits turpen tine linn at 69 70e: rosin firm at $4 20 4.25 for strained. Petroleum quiet; crude 144 c; refined 234 24c Tallow steady. Wool quiet and tirm; pulled at 55 62c. CINCINNATI. Oct. 18 -Pork dull and drooping, at 512,75. Lard dull and holders unwilling to make concessions; sales at 94 94c. Bulk meats ; shoulders held al 64c; clear rib sides 64 7o; dear sides 74c. Bacon •tilli; ciear sides at Bc—no demand. Hogs—heavy re ceipt- depress tlie market; sales at $4 (><*.—Tins superb Hair Dre is iii<- W the harmless, reliable and insiantani i>«is; no (ißappointinent; no ridiculous tints oi disagreeable odor. Ihe genuine Win. A P.utchelor's Hair live produces ini mediately a splendid Black or Natural Bron n leaves the hair dean, suit, beautiful; docs nut ctintaln a particle of lead or any injurious com pound. Sold by all Druggists. Factory, 1G Bond at.. N. Y. dlvr |vlo Ues. m. Huppiu dk Co., CommiMon Merchant* and Dealers tn Flour. Corn. Rye, Oata, Malt. Meal oi al kind*, Fine and Coarse Feed, LiuMud Oil Meal. Me ibankatrHl. WorcMler. Mana dt( lari Kenatorinl The Republicans of the First Worcester Senatorial District are requested to send (Delegates to a Senatorial Convention, to he held at the Common Council Room, on WEDNESDAY EVEN I NG, Oct. 25, at 74 o’clock, to nominate a Cundblale for Senator, and to transact such other business as may properlv come before said Con vention. The hasis of representation will lie the name a- at the State Convention. By order of tin* ’onimlttee. oil <1t025 F. B. STODDARD, Chairman. ’i’hr Republicani* of the 3d Worcester Senatorial Diatnet are requested lo send delegates to a Convention, to beholden at Horticultural Hall, In Worcester. Oct. 25ih, Inst., at 11 o’clock a. m.. tor the purpose of nomi nating a candidate for Senator, and for transacting any other business which may properly come before 11. The basis ol representation will be the same as that fortlie State Convention. A. J. BARTHOLOMEW, Chairman. Geo. W. Johnson. Scc'v. RottthbrMfe. Oct. 11, 18T1. ls lo 5 each per annum. ft' pla< ■us Security wiumst Furor Bury’.ars for ieposltmg Valuab.es ot all kind Bonds. Mortgages. Willa, Deeds, Jewelry, Silver Plate. «c„ received at very low rales, for which receipts art The Vault, Burglar-Proof Canes, and Small Safes an louble-locked. A Private Night-Watch, on duty from 6 p. M.to6 a.m., wul a Burglar Alarm communicating with the Police Office, add greatly to the security otherwise afforded. Busiuesa Houra from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. ’>’•4 dtf HAMPEL T. BIGELOW. Sec’y Malhswi Ac Ohumberiuiu, PLUMBEKB. Corner Waldo and Exchange Hl*., Worcester. Mui. Bath Tubs and Boilers, Water Closets, Wash Bowls’ Wash Trays, Binks Ac Ac.,fitted up at short notice, and in a thorough manner. dtf Jyß Wui'ceatcr (hi* Eiuhl ompany. coke. This Cheap and most Dkmraui.e Fuel for Manufae taring purposes and Family use. is now offered 10 the public in quantities to suit, at the following Reduced Prices: One Chaldron us 36 bushels >5.00 One Half do. 18 2.50 In quantities less than half Chaldron, 15 Cents per bushel. Payments may be made, and orders foritsdeliverv will be issued only at the Office ol the Conipam No. 6 Bank Block, Foster street, up stairs. REPAIRS, 1 rregularitlcs or failureofsupplyot gas should be report ed, and npplicalions for service pipes and meters may be made at Hie Repair Room, No. 4 Cromoton’s Block. Me chanic street up stairs. dtf mt The relief' alh-rJcI by Dr. H*m*S Aromatic Invk orator, to those afflicted with dyspepsia, inactivity of the liver, acidity of the stomach, vertigo, depression of spirits, languor, disturbed Heep, anr. F. Morrill, No. 3 Bulilm h -t Boston, Ma Consult him in all cases; he is the oldest and most ex penenced specialist in Boston—thirtv-lhree years’ prac tice. See his Pocket Medical Adviser Price 25 cents. Send for it. dcopAwtf o 5 On MnrriuKe.—Essays for Youno Men, <>n great Social Evils and Abuses, which interfere with .Marriage, with sure means of relief lor the Erring aud Unfortunate, diseased and debilitated. Sent tree, in sealed envelopes. Address Howard Association, No. 2 S. Ninth street, Pliiladelphia, Pa. dTuATli3m jy27 •fohn S. (Murk Ac Mun, Commissou Merchants •nd dealers tn Flour and Grain, Land Plaster, Lime, Cal ..-med PUsier, Gr. Bone, Cemeut, Balt, Guano, Super phosphate of Liinc, and Went to Produce, Nos. 95 aud Front st., Worceater, Mess. dtf JOHN H. CLARK A MON Indexlcal Silver Soap Marion Harland, in “Com«on Sense In the House hold.” page 529, says: -For denning silver, 1 have for years used the iNDEXICAL SILVER SOAP, lb side being dean and easy of application. It will not wear away the metal, us will whiting or chalk or plate pon der/' Sold everywhere. d3m aulN Dr. Henry F. Clark, Office corner Myrtle and Southbridge Sts. <>l3 dtf By occasionally toning and stimulating the ner vous system with Latham’s Cathartic Exibact, you prevent or entirely remove .dyspepsia, constipation, nil iousorsck headache, lever ann ague, impurity of the nlond, and overcome nnny disease* lo which you other wise subject yourself to. dlw oh; 1.. Merrifield, Imar ot Ihe Plano Con,/ Orden are received at Wm. Mecorsey'n, p. o. Block. jy!4 dSAWtf Five Per Cent, per Aunue Allowed for Money on Call. E. A. GOODNOW, u 5 Wf FiralNational Bank. M A ICKIBD In Rock Bottom. Oct 17. by Rev B Judd. James U W h ttemore ot herry Valley, to Mary E Judd, daughter ol Hie official mg clergyman. nil'll In Paxtin. Oct 18, Mrs Zillah, relict of Silas Reed, senior, late of Oakham, aged 85 yrs 4 mos 21 days. Funeral at h‘r late r«’-nhnee. with Mis chirk Pike In Paxton, on Frldai, :Otb. at 10 o’clock am. Relatives xml triends are invited to alien I without further notice. In Clinton. Miss, Oct 13. Mary Wharton, aged 13 mos 19 days, only child of Prof Preston D and Ella J Jones. BLAKE LODGE No. 49, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.—A Regular Com munication nil! be held THIS (Thursday) EVENING, at 74 o’clock prompt. Grand Chancellor, D. A. Cushman.of Illi nois, will be present. A full attendance is defied. <;eo. C. LAWRENCE. <•l9 dlt Rec. Scribe. fit A II EG rLA It CONVOCATION ot Worcester Grand Lodge cf Perfection will held at Masonic Hall, Pearl st., THIS (‘‘hursday) EVENING. Oct. 19tli. 1871. 019 I.OO perpair. We give new pairs for all that rip or tear in putting on. A Bill line of Ladies', Gents’ and Children’s Merino and Fleece-lined Hosiery, Gloves and Underwear, Dress Trimmings, Gimps, Fringes and Buttons. BLACK VELVET RIBBON. FANCY VELVET RIBBONS, in all colors, WEINBERG BROS, a Doors North ofFosterSt. 019 dt.ll BY J. P. HALL CO.. Auctioneers, No. 580 Main street. A UCTION SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE! CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE SATURDAY, October ai, Al 2 o'clock F. M at Salesroom, 580 Main st. 1 BLA4 K WALNUT PARLOK SET. 2 laiunges, 1 Easy ChairJMarble and Wood Top Centre Tattles, Cane and Wood Seat Chairs, COTTAB E B EDSTKA 1»S, Mal trasses, Pillows, Comforters, Quilts, Table Linen, Towels. Ac., 1 Cooking Stove. I Parlor Stove, 10l of Crockery, Glass ami Tin Ware. Evening Sale at 7 o’clock. J. P. HA.KL CO., 019 d3t AueUoiwor B BLENDALL A BANISTER. Am tiun< is, Prentisg Block. Front st. yALUABLE FARM AT AUCTION. On THURSDAY. October 26th. at 2 o’clock p. M., will be sold the very valuable Farm of the subscriber, situ ated near George Hill. I about mile from the pleasant village of South Lancaster, and 1 mile from centre. Said farm con’ams 100 acres of good land, well divided Into mowing, tillage and pasturage with about 12 acres of wood and t ini Iter, ami a never-failing supply ot running water at house and barn. The buildings cori giM of a large 2-story house,' very pleasantly located, within full view of village and centre; large barn and other out buildings, all in good repair. The land is under a good state of cultivation, and is stocked with a good supply of fruit trees of various kinds Said Farm ad joins the splendid estate of Nathaniel Thayer. Emi., and will offer an excellent opportunity to persons desirous of purchasing a good farm In one of the most pleasant towns in the State, where the schools areas good as the best, and taxes lower than almost any other town in the slate. Cars run to ami from Boston, Worcester and Fitchburg three times daily. For further particulars inqu re of the subscriber, on the premises, or of the Auctioneers. Sale positive Also, al 12 o’clock M., will be sold ail the Farm Stock and Farming Tools, consisting of tlie usual variety. W. S. KEYES. HORACE KENDALL, Auctioneer. Lancaster, Oct. 18,167 L dts oW By KENDALL A- BANISTEIL AuCtlonCCN, Prentiss Block, Front st. JJERSONAL PROPERTY at AUCTION. The subscriber having sold his Fann, known as Ihe Stearns Farm, located about one mile below City Alms house, will sell ai Public Auction, on WEDNESDAY, October 25th, at 124 o'clock r. M., the following prop- 1 HORSE, 6 Cowr. 2 Yearlings, 1 Light Express Wagon, 2 Fann Wagons. I Express Wagon, body and springs. 2 Sleighs. 2 Horse Sleds, 1 Whitcomb Horn' Rake. 2 Single Har nesses, I New Bridle. 8 Tons English Hay, 3 Tons Stock Hay, 2 Tons Oats, cut green lor fodder, 10l Corn Fodder. 36 barrels Potatoes. 1 Cross Cut Saw. 2 Plows. I Horse Hoe. Draft and Stake Chains, Iron Bars. I Hay Cutter, Shovel'. Hoes, Rakes, Forks, Corn Cutters, and Sickles; Dairy Utensils, consisting of Uhums, Pails, Pans, Ap.; also, 2 Stoves, amt ti variety of articles not speciUed in above bill. JAMES E TAYLOR. HORACE KENDALL, Auctioneer. Shrewsbury. Oct. 18. 1871. dts <.19 BFOR SALE Good two-tenement house—ls rooms; pleasant location, eight minutes’ walk from City Hall, south, near Main st., in thorough repair; furnace; sewer entered: good barn, with cellar. Price S9OOO. L. A. ELY A CO.. Cor. Main ami Pleasant sts. BFOR SALE —Near Main st. Baptist Church, three tenement French roof Hoose, 19 rooms; eleven thousand teet of land: plenty of iruit; well fenced. Terms easy. L. A. ELY A CO Corner Main and Pleasant streets. BFOR SALE—In New England Vil lage, nice Cottage House, with 9 gmid rooms, everything in pertect repair; one acre ol superior land, well Mocked with all kinds of fruit and grapes; running waler to house; very pleasant location -one «t the best lathe village: neighborhood tlrst-clns» Price >2500. L. A. ELY A CO., Corner Main and Pleasant sts. FO R SALE—At the south end, nearly M'ii w 'J-’’»«;ment House-16 rooms; Hrat class ■Uli neighborhood city water; barn with two stalls. J L. A. ELY A CO IJ dlt op. Main ami Pleasant-I'. 3T FOR SALE A<; ILEY HORSE, •'years old. thoroughly broken to harness, H °nnd and kind, and a good roadster. Slav be seen al the Stable ol H. J. REED.Cen- si. For terms call at No 9 Flagg’s Ul^ k J. A. ANDREWS. •>l9 dtf yy A L T E B J- B E EMAN WHOLESALE DEALER IN OYSTERS, ►l4 Dyer Nt., Providence, K. I. ty* All orders prompt y attended to. d2m 019 IV ANTED- A permanent situation for an Intelligent Yankee BOY. ten years old. In an American family, where he can work for for bis board and go to school. For particulars, call at the new Intel ligence Office. No. 1 Front St. Exchange, fliet door on th- right d3l* Ol> SITUATION WANTED—To du general housework. Apply at No. 56 Shrewsbury l9 ANTED! A young lady desires board in a private family in Ihe vicHiitv of Thomas i. Reference* given. Addrc-s J. C. 8.. Spy Office. LET—A pleasant and convenient lower tenement, No. 16 Gold st., corner of Summit, In quin- on th. pr, ;h .q. LET A Tenement ot -v- h rooms in J. rawceit s Block, opposite ctvHa i Inquire oi ft" l9 dtf I t i r. UO Main »l 4 BM\LI. TENEMENT of two rooms XX let, at N 0.2!) I.auivl s|. rpHB AMERICAN BUTTON HOLE SEWING MACHINE does all finds of stuchtna. works button hole* and orerandorer If you want a sewin. Machine, he sum and enamine these before purchasing eKew lo re. I. 11. MTr printed copy of Hd> notice, properly mailed, post age pre-paid, to each ol the heirs, devisees’ or legatees of sanl estate, or their legal representatives known to the pet it loner, seven days, at h ast, before said court. W itne-, Henry Chapin, Esquire, Judge of said Court, thi--seventeenth day of October. In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventv-one. £1 CHAS. E. STEVENS. Register. O‘» d3«Th Ildiccs. A M Blt 10 AN oc ANTIQUARUN ■llie Animal Meetlim m"'h' Ameihr j,’ 1 Society uni be held al the Hall Society wlr- cester. onth 21>t nm.. at 11 o’clock a m The Semi-Annual Reports of the (’ouneii .i. nm will be laid before Ihe meeting. ~H J™ Iheor-iin WO R I 8T ER CO U r HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Annual Meeting ol ihe Worcestei UcrHeuim -1 Society will be held al Hie Librarv. In IlortirultHi Hall.inlhecilv ot Wm.aster, on WEDSL>d\V he Ist day ot November, at It)4 o’clock am. to act upon tin 1 toHowlng artich-K pu vi'ir 10cll0Me 01,| v' rs ftl Soolity for Iheeiiaulue 2. To transact appropriate bii-lness. 3. To see if any change be made in ihe bv I m-. GEORGE E. FRANCIS, Sec'y H orcester. Ocl. 18,1871. triinitees. The TrusteeH of the Worcester Co. cietv win convene, tor Hie transaction of Im ll"is,** 1 Tn oii.voi 0e1 1".r .■llrn.nl al I o'. loek A. M. to net upon till, matter ol increasing tile l»nl w -.i, A. SMITH, Tre* 4 MERICAN MERCHANTS UNION J XPRESS OMPANY. Worcester, Mass., Oct. 11th. 1871. Hon. Edward Earle, Mayor of Worcester: M..- Dear Sir—All contributions of money, clcuhhig or supplies, for the rellet f th- sufferers at Chicodro will be transported 10 the Mayor of Chicago by the American Merchants Union Express Co. free of chargo. Ver y trwly, dlw J. W. BALDWIN, Agent. pUFTEENTH REGT REUNION There wi'l be a Reunion of the members of the Fif teenth Reg’t Vols.. at Horticultural Hall. Worres ter, SAIT RDAY. Oct. 21st, 1871. at ten o’clock a m Dinner at the Lincoln House, at twelve o’clock m 014 dlw p. F. MURRAY, Act.See>. Dissolution or coi-artnershu-' The firm of c. A. Gardner A: Co. is dissolved this 16th day of October. 1871. C. A. G A RDNER D TOURTELLOT 7he business ot the late firm will be settled by C Gardner. d4c ©l7 mHE SUBSCRIBBB fully an- X nounces to the public, that lie has leased the “HALE BARN,” ut the corner of Laurel and Hanover streets. an«l ha. remodeled and thoroughly stocked Hie same, t.or ihe purposes of a FIRST CLASS LIVEF.V AND BOARDIM STABLE. ami Double Teams furnished upon call. Liberal patronage solicited. 1K dim* WII.I.Ai:t) H E UM A T ISM' Y.>" hell. viclims of Qnnekery and Impoßlllon.l ill you ever learn sense; do you not km>w that no medical aid can render you pennaneni relief m effectual cure of Rheiimaii-m PKOFFSNOR MA(, assert it. ami all honest medical men a.Lull the saiim- Your suffering-, contracted sinews, cnppleu, dinged joints, and your pockets prove it I rile. All 1 rue medical works support my Reid for yours elves. Il medical aid could how Lft ihe Queen oi England and Ex Napoleon 01 Fiameo uhr.i from it now. as assured by the press? I boldlv assert, and defy contradiction, Ihereha-.no cure been discovered up to the present datu. but my New Zealand Rheumatic Adhesive Vegetable Plaster. Make inquiry of the victims I have cured Dineomlle.l ihllh wurt.l.) hr m> I' I'roeure pamphlet tor full particulars, s.-m free hv mail on annli cation, and y>*u must Im* convinced that I do not Hum ,,UU* J. W. MAC, No. 192 Harrison Avenue, Boston. N. B.—ri RTiti.R Notice. From tin nuimmuscdlr, made on Dr. Mac, his slay al the Lincoln House win be continued until Saturday, 2M inst. onsudmlmi tree, from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. flat* o jg I OST —Monday aftenmon, A PLAIN d uou> UlUVKIjfr. markM r s H i,7 I Ii f rewanl«l h> huvliu II al OSGOOD BRADLEI 41 F ront st. d2l* oIE STRAYKD From the imsturc tlie übseriber. in Lt let. (Wi. -'i wMIhltN STEERS. Were la i x-cn in the M ull,ea ''.h* b 1" Auburn The im.lei will be liberally rewarded on giving intbrmatt..n ot imdi whereabouts to M. A. WHEELER, "I d2w Leu-.' I. I !;LA( KAM>l\\ with silver eoftar. but no name 'The ft rk l r can find hm hy applying at 0 m st. THOAIAS Gl; \Y on d3l* riOPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. The fun, V ot Davis ,k Knowlton Grocers and Dealers in Flour Grain, s this day dissolved by millnal eon-ent. Tlie business of Ihe late tirm will be settled In D. W. Knowlton who will continue Hie business at the old staml No lo Grove J. WALTER iIAVIS, dtf W. KN o W LT() N! Salt. IMPORTANT SALE.—A Good Rusim ss in Webster, Mass.— The two well known Storey- Crockery and Gnicery—of the subscriber's . 11. «v E. 1., R. Depot-, m the coinmcri ril center ot the town. tai Stock in good condition. No incumbrance of old or nZSd,Sb. s,wk an l weium busing- m-mamßng m Apply atom.'to Mr. E. A. NH HoLS, ontue prem ises, or to the SUlwcrllHH- al Webster. v 1 'i. i-;o. Qtf ll 1 JPOR SALE! boot AN D MIIO£ MTOHF! One of the oldest stands in Worcester Co., (42 years’ sta. dlng,) doing a good business. Sickness the reason AGmv’lu- E. GRAY, (of Chencv A <«r.iy P, ;tu,| h Ex-'rm ;e -i. «t :t o |n POR SALE! A Grocery and Provision Store, or J’ Cßt< r l. FOR SALE Cottage Hou md ■'ll Lot, No. 5 Piedmont st. House contahiH9 rooms, ■nil all in good order: sniall barn, well and citv water; 13,8(10 lecl of land, well stocked nilh Irui*. trees; G.tMW feet of land will be-
CORDIS MILLS. dtf MilHmrv, STANDING WOOD AND TIMBER Foil SALE.—A Lot containing about 40 -ireM within miles of Worcester, I*! northeast fnnt Gr u ton <'enter. A very desirable lot. Inquire ot 016 d6t* J AMES l*z;A COCK. lAßnnsf ORGAN FOR SALE Rm -ale at a bargain, one nearly now M \Son a- hi m LIN CABINET ORGAN. It i, the Style E. 5B sale lima: sn ares sth KESHBVOIK STOCK. Addrej, A. WHEELOCK, oH dtf Charlton yejiot!