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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. TO PHYSICIANS. Xew York, August 15, 1S63. Allow me to call yonr attention to my PRE P AKATIOX OF COMPOUND EXTRACT BU CHC. The component parts are, BUCHU, Long Leaf CUBKBS, J CKIPER BBKKIES. - Mode of H reparation : Bnchu, in vacuo. Ja oiper Berries, by distillation, to form a fine gin. Cubebs extracted by displacement with spirits obtained front Juniper Berries ; very little sugar is used, and a small proportion of spirit. It is more palatable than any now in u.-c. Buchu as prepared by Druggists, is of a dark color. It is a plant that emits its fragrance ; the action of a flame destroys this (its active principle) leaving a dark and glntinons decoction. Mine is tbo color of ingredients. The Bucbn in my prep aration predominates ; the smallest quantity of the other ingredients are added to prevent fer mentation ; upoa inspection it will be found not to be a Tincture, as made in l'harmacopoea, nor is it a Syrup and therefore can be used in cases where fever or inflammation exists. In this, you have the knowledge of the Ingredients and the mode of preparation. lKping that you will favor it with a trial, and that open inspect km it will meet with yonr appro bation, with a feeling of profound confidence, , I am very respectfully, H. T. HELMBOLD, Chemist and Druggist of 19 Years' Experience. NEW TO-DAY. IS HEREBY UIVJ2X, THAT I HAVE opened a .ivery and Feed Stable! in tie town of LEBANON, where I will be con stantly on hand to attend to the wants of the people. I will run a hack from Albany to Lebanon una Soda Springs, on Saturday of each week. AU business cutructed to my care will be promptly attended to. ; ,, W. B. DONACA. Lebanon, Sept. 10, 1870 Iv3m3 : Money at Interest. BET t$ij,000 ON THE ELECTION! Any one who wants to vlu can do so ly " calling au ' I. o-'iot-1j'& son, 11JIIO, thankful for past patronage, still in W vile the attention of Linn county tt at., to their unequalled stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINT & VARNISH BRUSHES, rAINTS;t)ILS, VARNISHES, ALCOHOL KEROSENE, WINDOW GLASS, ' " OVK US S MS, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES," ETC. Agents fr lrl I. Jayne A Son's preparations, H. II. U. ll"r?c;itotlk'incs, etc. Do you like medicine for it's bitter or' nauseat ing taste? AVe "have that description. Do you want the effect Kith aii aromatic txste ? After taking a few doses of our Elixir, "twill two very pleasant that your prejudices Must snrcly turn awry, w s. and the preparation ' s w ill lose tnc name o- pnysic. (bnl not the effcet.) Physicians ana customers irom un-cvuiuj may ruet urcti mat wieir wrucre win uciuiopfr ly attended to. Prescriptions carefully and cor rectly compounded. Have vou the impolite guest called acorn? We sell "Corn Slayer," wuicl- surely does the work, without pain. Do you desire a book of any kinrf , a old Pen, an Album, Stationery, or such? W . S. Driggs is with us, for the accommodation oi all favoring him with a call. r Do you want a fine Watch, a set of Jewelry, cheap or dear? i. D. Titus sells the same, under the same roof. . Come and see us. Buy a Book. Buy a Watch. Buy a Pill. Buy something or nothing, but come and see us. anyway. A well sprinkled floor and a cool drink of water in the summer, and a warm stove surrounded by comfortable chairs in winter constantly kept for tho accommodation of all. Albany, May 14, '70-36 --- - - " ! (From the largest Manufacturing Che mi sts in th tir i I '"' November 4, 1S54. ."I am acquainted with Mr. H. T. Helmbol d be occupied the drug store opposite my residence and was successful in conducting the bosines where others had not been equally so before him T bare hrn favor&hlv im oressed with his charac ler anu enterprise. WILLTAM WEIGHTMAN. Firm of Powers Weightman, Manufacturing Cemtsts, Ninth and Brown-sts., Philadelphia IIELMBO 1. X 9 S FLUID EXTRACT B U C II U , For weakness arrtsing from indiscretion. The ex haasted powers oi Nature which are accompanied by so many alarming symptoms, among which will. be found. Indisposition to Exertion, Losa of Memory. Wakefulness, Horror of Disease, or Forebodings of Evil ; in fact, Universal Lassitude Prostration, said inability 4o enter into the enjoy aaeata of society. . The Constitution oaea effected with Organic Weakness, requires the mid of Medicine to strengthen and invigorate the system, which HELMBOLD S EXTRACT BU CHU invariably does. If bo treatment is sub mitted to, Consnmtion or Insanity ensues. Eek&old'g FluM Extract Bochn la affections peculiar to Females, is unequalled by Uoa, Painfulness, or Huppression of Customary vacaatioM, Cleerated or ficirrns state of the Uten&s, and all complaints incidental to the sex, r the decline or change; of life. 1 IIEJLifUBOsLD'S Fluid Extract or Bnchu, AND Ictprored Rose Wash, " will radically exterminate from the system dis. i arising from habits of dissipation, at little expense, little or no change in diet, no ineonrcn ssaee or exposure; completely superseding those at pleasant and dangerous remedies. Copaira and Herenry, in ail those diseases. ncIm!)oId's f - , ,, ...... . '. -r fluid Extract Bnchu alt diseases ef taeso m. wWK. ...I.,!-- aal fecaajo, from whatever cause oruriaat SBS, nasi no suiter of bow long standing. It is pioanaat in taste and odor, "immediate" in action, ana more streogtheuicg than any of the prepara tions ef Bark or Iron. . , '5f auSwrioS from broken down or delicate MstitBturae, proeore the remedy at one. .' .?5L,!?der.f"?t fwre that however slight mT be the attack of the above diseases, it is cer Uto to effeet bodily beaath and menUl powers. -rfS , v ?if oi" the aid of Di Drurtc, . Extract of Bacnn is the great Jtll?J 1?? 'Jn'. - Price; $1.25 ?J??L7 t? t0f $8"60- Delivered to SaSyiiT " "W1" U commu- H. T. HELMBOLD, 2rS and ChemicalWareboase, S94 Broadway, &Xoom are genuine unless done ap in steel scravna wrapper, with fae-siaaleof my Chemical 'ttNkrehoase, and signed , r. h. Mcdonald & co., ; WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS SAM 'rSASSXSCO. CAL., . . .,n , I.ro aiinrt Call tne arcennon oi umicr, . meat of Newlv Arrtved " Goods, composed In SLrt or the foUowin articles, togetfier with ererv ttilnjr kept In a well supplied WHULIw gAtE DRIU STOKE. Fbksh DKrss, - I Tranrs Pimiirti Fatsstt Medicikks, ! DECS61STS' Susoniss, TaCSSaS SOTPOBTXBS 1 rHAKIB 1KBBS, KBBOSKSK OIL, II fimT,iKnAnjL Which we offer at the lowest Cash Prices, and are determined not to be undersold. B. H. vnnv'!! a tUJt rB AS CISCO, vu FOR SALE, Our Druir Business located in San Fran cisco, Cal. Alter our best wishes, and express ing our thanks for the liberal patronage we have received for more than twenty-one rears, during which period we have been steadily engaged in tho Drug business in California, we beg to say in consequence of the rapid growth of Dr. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters, now spread over the United States and countries far beyond, we are necessitated to deTote our entire time to said business. : ; We are the Oldest Drug firm on the Pacific Coast and the only one, continuous under tbo same proprietors Bince 1S49, and have determined to sell our large, prosperous, and well established business on favorable terms. This is a rare opportunity for men with means, of entering into a profitable business with advan tages never before offered. For particulars enquire of R. H. McDOXALD CO., R. H. McDosald, ) Wholesale Druggists, J. C. riiKCER, f San Franeisco, Cal. N. B. Until a sale is made we shall continue importations and keep a large stock : of fresh Is constantly on hand, and sell at prices to "Please, sir, will you give mc a penny, only a penny ?" "No go along with you; I never give money to street beggars.'' And Mrs. Parker sat a trifle ' imore erect if it were possible, in her buffalj cushioned wagonseat, and grasped her blue cotton umbrella tighter. But her husband, Paul Parfcer, oo whose kindly face the boy turned his gaze, said: "See here boy ; I've only got a .fifty cent piece and its more money than I ought to give away. , I shall be here at three o'clock, this day week, opposite this very tavern ; will you be, here to pay it back to me ? Mind, I only lend it to you; iand may be I'll be able to find some work for you by that time." "Yes, sir," said the boy gleefully, as he scrambled up the wheel, "I'll will be here, sure." g j, ,- --- " v "Paul Parkef, you're a fool ! : said the woman, angrily. . "Jtou scatter your money about as though there was no end ; to it. Do youuppose : you'll ever see your fifty cents again ?" , ( , "I hope so, wife," said the old man, touching his placid horse gently with the reins, .and,urgipg,biui into a sleepy jog trot. "I should be sorry to think there wasn't no truth in that bright-eyed little fellow. Give the world a fair chance, that's all I've got to say."? The blistering August sunshine was pouring into a little garret room in one of the most squalid and neglected purlieus of the town, where a brutal looking man sat smoking a short black pipe, and two or three boys lounged around halt asleep. A hand organ stood against the wall, and a monkey dressed in soiled red rags chat tered in the window. " Nino's ;: accordeon and thumped tambourine lay near by ; Nino himself, with tear-stained' cheeks and heavy eyelids, was crouched in a cor ner, wistfully watching the door, as if re solved to avail himself of the first chance that offered itself for escape. There was a wild beauty about the boy in spite of his swarthy cheeks and for lorn uniform of rags, and an attractive ness that was difficult to understand. His brow, overshadowed by thick black locks, was frank and open ; his eyes were Boft and liquid, ; and there- were both spirit and gentleness in the well outlined mouth, i Had Nino Berlani been the offspring of aristocratio lineage, he would have been called, handsome ; but rags and poverty and blows are anything but beautifying, and Nino had known little else in his brief and sunless exist ence,. V; . ;i 5 Presently the man knocked the ashes from his pipe and laid it down, with a vicious side-long glance at the boy.- ' "So you'd got fifty cents hid away, you was going to gammon me out of, eh V he demanded. "You young vagabond, I'd like to know what you mean by it !" "We can do nothing, wife." "We shall be sold out at auction, and die in a poorhouse yet. Oh, Paul, why didn't you pay more heed to what I've always kept telli a' you ?" "Not so bad as that, I hope," said the old man cheerily, though the muscles of his lip and brow quivered. "Father, is it St. John Martin, the Leeds street lawyer, to whom you owe this money t" ' "Yes; what do you know about him?" "Not much ; but I met bis son atsev- think. if him just our goods constantly defy competition. - The Great Bledical Discovery! Or. WAIJCEB'S CAXXFOB5TIA VINEGAR BITTERS, s r Hundreds of Thousands Sg ? : Bear testimony to their Wonderj - 4? . Co tut Curative fenects. 2 I? a WHAT ARE THEY?! s 9 El-, S l Has, SeS .iini . -X ...... B 5 f i A ISs A ill '5a! mr." 'liS : . HsJr jF 1-2. THET ABB KOT A WUR . S J DRIN K.P51 t Is FANCY Kide of Poor, Ham, Wnlakey.Proof Bsdrlta and Refuse liqnors doetored,splced : andssreetenedto pleas tbo taste, called Ton. ' Je," Appetizer," JBetorers, c., that lead tne tippler, on to drunkenness and ml a, but aro a true Medicine. made from tbeXativo Boon and Herbs of California, free from all Alcoaello Stlatalaata. Thoy aro the CEEAT BSLOOD jiPTJKIFIEB and 1.IFB GIVINO FIS- CIFLE a perfect Eenovator andlavlgoortorof the System; earrylns oS all poisonous maatar and - restttrtaK the blood to a neattby eoadlttoa.' So person can take tnese Sitters according to direc tion and remain long unwell. i Far Islaaaatsrjr and Chraala SMtea asattaat and CjOHt, lyvepla r Iudl tMla, Stlioaa, BUsmltteat and lnter- sattteat Feven, Dlaeaaea of tho Blood, i. Livert Kidser. and Bladder, taess Blt tern have been most successful. . Sack D1sj eases are caused by Vitiated Blood, -which. Is generally produced by derangement of the JDlrestlve Orsans. --. DYSPEPSIA UK INDIGESTION. " Beadaehe. Fatn In the Shoulders, Coughs, Tight t . ness of the Chest, Dizziness; Sour Eructations of '.. the Stomach, Bad taste la the Month Bilious At- taeks. Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of . " the Lungs, Pain in theregioos of the Kidneys and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the off ' springs of Dyspepsia. " t They Invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid liver and bowels, which render them of un equalled emcacy in cleansing the blood of all impurities, and Imparting new life and vigor to thownolesystsm. n 70S SKIN DISEASES. Eruptloas.Tetter, Salt Bhenm, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Bolls, Carbuncles, Ring-Worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, lton. Scurfs, Discolors tlona of the Skin, H amors and Diseases of the Skin, of Whatever name or nature, are literally dug up audcarrled out ef the system la a short time by ' the mse of these Bitters.- One bottle in such esses will convince the most Incredulous of their aaratlva eflecht. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find ' : Its impurities bursting through the skin In Pim ples, Eruptions or Sores; eleanselt when yon and tt obstructed and sluggish la the veins; . cleanse tt when It is foul, and your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure and the health of the system willfollow. !'- riN, TAPE and other WORMS, lurking la the system of so mans- thousands, are effoetuallr destroyed and removed, for fall directions, read . aSTSfnlly tne circular around each bottle. J. WALKER. Proprietor. B. H. MCDONALD dt COBrecnrlsts and Gen. Agents, San Franctseo. Cal,, and K and M Commerce Street, New York. BOLD BY ALL DHUGOISTS AKO DEALERS. eral parties last fall, and I I you were to go there and tell how it is. or write, even " -No use," croaked Mrs. Parker, despairingly, "other folks aint so . ready to let go of their money as your lather is Lucy." May be it's worth trying," said old Paul, hopefully, we'll write this very night, and next week we'll go up to Bos ton and see what answer he makes us." And then Lucy, blushing like a sweet pea, ran to get the pen and paper, timid- I ly trusting in the efficacy of her plan. I , "For hia father can't be so very 1 hard hearted, she thought, "ami thev are so very rich that surely they will be will ins to wait for this five hundred dollars until we can pay it." ' . The elegantly furnished little office on Leeds street did not often have such outre equipages drawn up before it as Paul Parker's mud be-splashed box wagon and shaggy old pony, and the elegantly at tired young lawyer, who sat at the desk examining some papers, glanced no in surprise at the blooming girl and the bent pld man who entered together, like May and December. "r.i.r-v j - . Niuian! I thought your father I did not know that "My father is detained at his country seat, and I am acting member of the firm, Lucy. ' He took tne 5 into partnership last week, ana that is He turned inquiringly, and with some thing oi a start, to the brown laced old man, who stood in the background. Lucy introduced her father, and stated their business, with a prolusion or very becom ing blushes. She bad not expected to find her gallant young cavalier of the past Fall in in the office of St John Mar tin. ' "We are in" very straitened circum stances, Mr. Martin," concluded Lucy "and my father cannot at present hope to discharge this debt, but I am soon to have a very good situation in Madam Elvaine's school as music teacher, and we can get along and pay a part at a time if your father would be so kind as to wait a little " Lucy stopped short ; her voice was getting unsteady, and she was far too proud to yield to the fast coming tears in Ninian Martin's presence. The young man had listened in silence but now he took a tin box from its shelf in the safe, and unlocking it, dis closed sundry packages of labelled notes, "It was mine," sobbed the . boy ; "I earned it siagiu under the great ioiks winders, after work hours was over. I gave you all 1 earned in the daytime, I did" - . 'Yours!" growled the man savagely; "and all you earn is mine, and if ever I catch you at any such a trick again Pil split your head open for you. Where are you going now ? Sit down again." "Only out as lar as West Landhill tavern," said Nino, entreatingly, as his eyes marked the slowly creeping tide of sunshine along the floor that formed his only substitute for a clock. "Well, we won't do no such thing," said the man, evidently in a most con trary and quarrelsome mood. "Go back to your bench again ; do you hear? You're not goin' to stir out of this before night aud not then, unless you behave your self." "I'll be hack in ten minutes, sir; I will, indeed." "Hold your noise !" brutally ejaculat ed his irate' keeper.' "I tell" you you shan't stir another peg; there, now!" :Dave," to one ot the other boys, "give us a light for this pipe."J ';'' Nino, watching his opportunity as a wild beast might, watch, for an escape from the cage, gave a forward dart just as the man.Btooped over to rub hia match egainst, the sole of his boot. Uut he was not quite quick enough; his tyrant seized him rudely by the arm, and slung him across the floor as if he had been : a toy. p He fell, Ms temple striking against the leg of a bedstead standing in the cor ner, and lay quite insensible. "Blest if I don't think he's done for," dad," said one of the hitherto impassive spectators of the scene, a boy of thirteen, who was generally dressed aa a "wander ing Bavarian," with tambourine and bolls. ' ' "Let him alone, I say," snarled : the father, "I'll teach him a lesson.'.', . Just then the bell in the old square tower of the; town clock struck three. "I told you he wouldn't be here, Paul!" exultantly exclaimed Mrs. . Parker, pro jecting her1 keen gray eyes into every nook and corner around-the dull street in front of the "West Landhill House of Entertainment for Man and Beast." "I knew it I Now, what do you think of jour fine honest boy ?" Paul Parker's., countenance clouded visibly.- - ' --.---. ' "I'm sorry for it, wife sorry from the bottom of my heart. I somehow thought he was different from the common lot of 'em, but I s'pose I hadn't ought to ex pect much from a lad brought op in the streets. Well, lets, drive on." The swift rolliDgyeara had " sprinkled their silver blossoms more plentifully ou the head of Paul Parker, and plowed deeper lines ia his wife's face. The lit tle girl at their fireside, had grown into a tall, handsome young woman. Once more we enter the inner sanctuary of their lives. - ' f a "It is father's step, mother," said Lucy Parker, jumping, to open the door. "Well, father, what luck ?" "Bad enough, child,"! said, old Pl meekly shaking the powdery fringe of snow from his overcoat. Milton's down ag'n with fever'n ague; his wife's poorly, and Bruee has had a stroke, so he can't work no more."' "And they didn't pay yott the money 7 Paul you were a fool for lending it," shrieked his wife -shrilly." "And what are we to do, with lawyer Martin wriun and writin' for the money we owe him,' receipts, etc. "Let me see, he said, running eye over them, "it was a note for 500 "Is this your note V "Yes, sir." Ninian Martin tore it in two, and laid the fragments on the fire. Paul Parker and Lucy gazed in astonishment as the young lawyer lifted his dark eyes calray toward them. "Mr Parker, you will please consider that you have this day received payment for a very old debt. We have balanced accounts." "Sir, I don't understand you," said the bewildered old man. "I don't remem ber" ; But I do. It is rather more than ten years, Mr. Parker, since you put that money at interest." "Sir?" 'l will be more plain with you," said the young man smiling. "Perhaps Miss Parker is not aware that I am only the adopted son of my more than father. My real name is Nino Barlini. I am " an Italian by birth. Just ten years ago I was begging in the streets of Laudhill, starved and penniless. A kind hand you know whose, Mr. Parker extended itself tome in the hour of need." The old man's face lighted up. ., "I do remember now. It was a fifty cent piece; and I told you to come back just a week from that time "1 did not come. : No, but I tried my very best to come, but was prevented by brutality of the man whose slave and drudge I was. , Well, I begged my way to Boston, having run ; away from my tyrant. St. John Martin found me one night in the streets, perishing from eold and starvation. He had just lost his only child, a boy of about my own age, and not unlike me in personal appearance, and somehow I seemed to take the . sore, vacant place in his'-heart. I resolved that if it ever lay in my power I would return the gift a thousand fold.: - But I never dreamed that Lucy's father was my benefactor." . - He turned to her with a brightr con gratulatory smile, while the brown face of old Paul Parker worked with emotions he could not conceal. "I thought you wouldn't ha' cheated me, boy J I thought your face was a good and true one! But I havn't no right to your generosity.! Your lather " "My father and I are one, sir, in deed, thought and wish." "I don't know how to thank you, young man." Then do not attempt it. Perhaps one of these days I may ssk you for yet more favors."'.' Old Paul Parker went home to his wife sedately triumphant. ; -v "Wire, you've said, 'I told you so all your life ; now its my turn." . ."What on airth do you mean?" grum bled his ascetic helpmate. -1 do believe you're get tin in your dotage." . . "Maybe I an) ; in that case though I wish I'd got into it long ago." And he told bis adventure, while Lucy sat by, smiling like a morning in May. "Did'nt I invest that fifty to a pretty good advantage?" "Well, I never I was her ultimatum. : , , "He wants new favors some day from me. What do you say, mother ? Can we spare our little girl, here ?" "Don't, father ?" cried Lucy, hiding her face ; but she didn't look very angry, after all. A Freak of Fortune. Samuel Duhobret was a rllxpl, r.f tu famous engraver, Albert Durer, admitted into the art school out of charity. He was employed in painting signs and the coarse tapestry tnen used in Uermany. As he was about forty years of age, small, uly and numpnacked, he was the butt of ill jokes among his fellow-pupils, and select- i . : 1 i- . . t - ,., . eu as a epeuiai uujeui oi uisuKe Dy IHad um Durer, who tormented the scholars and domestics, as well as the master, by her Xantippical temper. Poor Duhobret had not a spice of malice in hia heart, and not only bore all his trials with patience, eating without complaint the scanty crusts given mm tor dinner, while his compan ions fared better, but always showed him self ready to assist and serve those who scoffed at him. His industry was indefatigable. He came to his studies every morning at day break, and worked till sunset. During three years he plodded thus, and said nothing ot the paintings ne had produced in his lonely chamber, by the light ot his lamp. His bodily energies wasted away under incessant toil. JNo one cared enough for him to notice the feverish col or in his wrinkled cheek, or the increas ing meagieness of his misshapen ' frame. No one observed that the poor "pittance set aside for his mid-day meal remain ed untouched for several days. The poor artist made his appearance as usual and as meekly bore the gibes of the stu dents or the taunts of lady, working with the same untiring assiduity, though his hands trembled and ' his eyes were often suffused with tears. One morning he was missing from the scene of his labors, andr though jokes were passed about his disappearance, no one thought of going to his lodgings to see if he were ill or dead. He was,, in deed, prostrated by tbo low fever that had been lurking in his veins and sapping his strength. He was half delirious, and muttered wild, incoherent words, fancy ing his bed surrounded by . mocking de mons, taunting him with his inability to call a priest to administer the words of comfort that might smooth "his passage to another world. From exhausted slumbers he awoke faint and with parched lips ; it was the fifth day he had lain in his ceil neglected. Feebly he stretched out his hand toward the earthen pitcher, and found that it contained not a drop of water. Slowly and with difficulty he arose, for he knew that he must procure sustenance or die of want. He had not a kreutzer. He went to the other end of the room, took up the picture he had painted last, and resolved to carry it to a dealer, who might give him for it enough to Turnish him necessaries for a week longer. Ou hia way he passed a house, before which there was a great crowd. There was-to be a sale, he learned, of many specimens of art, collected during thirty years as an amateur. The wearied Du hobret thought he might here find a market for his picture. He worked his his way through the crowd, dragged himself "One hundred thousand I" adding an impatient execration against his adversa ry. The crest-fallen picture dealer with drew. , The' tall victor bore away the prize. iipassed through the wondering peo ple, went out, and was going along the street, when a decripit, lame, humpbacked wretch, tottering alorg by the aid ot a stick, presented himself before him. The stranger threw him a piece of money and waved his band as it dispensing witn thanks. r "May it please vour honor." persisted the supposed beetrar. "I am the painter of that picture." He opened his eyes ; tor he had hardly yet been able to per suade himself that he-had not been dreaming. V . The tall man was Count Dunkelsbach, the richest nobleman in Germany. He stopped and questioned the artist. Be ing convinced of the truth of his state ment, he took out his pocket-book, . tore out a leaf and wrote' a few lines. " "Take it, friend, he said. "It is the check for your money. Good morning !" Duhobret invested his money, and, re solved to live luxuriously for the rest of i, to lift. : miuiauug panning us a pastime. But though he had borne privation and toil, prosperity was too much for him. Indigestion carried him off. His nietum still had an honored place in the cabinet of Count Dunkelsbach, and the , curious incident of its purchase was often related. it alterward passed into the possession of tne ivmg oi jjavaria. . Lord Palmers ton once defined dirt as 'matter in the wrong place." up the steps, and found the auctioucer, a busy li'tle man holding a handful of pa pers, and inclined to be rough with the lean, sallow hunchback, who so eagerly implored his attention. "V hat do you call your picture ?". he saked. "It iaa view of the Abby of Newbourg, with the village and landscape," replied the trembling artist. Tho auctioneer looked at him hemmed contemptuously, aud asked its price. "Whatever you please; whatever it will bring," was the anxious reply. "Hem I" with an uniawrablo criticism "I can promise you no more than three thalers." . Poor Duhobret had spent the nights of many mouths on that piece. But he was starving, and the pittance offered would buy him bread. He nodded to the auc tioneer, aud retired to a corner. After many paintings and engravings had been sold Duhobret's was exhibited. " Who bids ? Three thalers. Who bids ?' was the cy. The poor artist held his breath. No response was heard. Sup pose it should pot find a purchaser ?i lie dared not look up ; he thought everybody was laughing at the folly of offering ' so worthless a piece at public sale, j , "It is certainly my best work I" he murmured pitcously to himself. He ventured to look at the picture as the auctioneer held it in a favorable light. ? There was certainly a beautiful freshness in the foliage, a trans parency in the water, a freedom and life in the animals. The steeple, the ! trees, the whole landscape, showed the genius of an artist. Alas ! he felt the last throb of an artist's vanity.' The dead silence continued, and, turning away, he , buried his face in his hands. , v 1 "Twenty-one thalers 1" a faint voice cried out. The stupified painter gave a start of joy, and looked to see. who had uttered those blessed words. It was the picture-dealer to whom he first ment to go. "Fifty thalers 1" cried tho sonorous voice of a tall man in black. 1 ' There was another silence. ' "One hundred thalers !" at length cried the picture-dealer, evidently piqued and anxious. "Two hundred !" "Three hundred V "Four hundred." "One thousand thalers." Another profound silence, and the crowd pressed around the two opponents, who stood opposite each other, with flushed and angiy faces. - The tall stranger bid fifteen hundred thalers. ; "Two thousand thalers 1" thundered the picture dealer glancing around : him triumphantly. "Ten thousand thalers!" vociferated the tail man, his face crimson with rage and his hands clenched convulsively. The dealer grew pale, and his frame shook with agitation. His voice was suf focated, but after two or three efforts he cried, out : - "Twenty thousand !" His tall opponent bid forty thousand. The dealer hesitated, lliv opponent laughed a low laugh of insolent triumph, and the crowd gave a murmur of admira tion. The picture dealer felt his case at stake, and called out in sharp despera tion : . " "Fifty thousand !" The tall man hesitated; the crowd was breathless. At length, tossing his arm in defiance, he shouted: NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, Patronize Home Manufactures I . b r 66 ms ; Vt Poi-tland l'ricesj HAVING GONE L ABU ELY. JJitu the manufacture of j. . ALL GRADES OF BROOMCT . .til I am prepared to furnish the urogou pumic w.,y as good a broom as can lie obtained on tbo eoatt, at Portland prices. Orders solicited. . Address all orders to , " CO., General Agents, AlDy. "rcfroa- VV. U. HCjKjUL V . Albany, December 3, J870-13y 5 THE "SINGER" NEW A Romantic Stoky. Louis Muhl- bach, in het "Letters from Esypt," tells a very romantic story about the wife of Count Benedetti, the French Minister Plenipotentiary at the Prussian , Court before the outbreak of the present war A very rich Greek merchant, resident in Alexandria, had two black wives whom he loved dearly, and for whose service he provided a large retinue of beautiful girls. One of his wives one day chanced to see a charming white girl, and was so pleased with ber that she: coaxed her husband into marrying her. , The beautiful slave becamo a confiden tial servant and companion to her negro mistresses, and conducted herself toward them in such a sagacious manner that she became indispensable to them. She sang to them, and gossipped and frolicked so gracefully, that ennui was banished completely. She won their affection, and, through them also the affection of her master, the venerable Greek merchant. But unfortunnately the black wives fell siek one day,' and before nightfall wereboih dead. Their disease was known to nobody, and they were hastily buried. The bautiful young slave, who had not left their side for a moment during the few hours of their illness, seemed incon solable. She did hei best, however, to assuage the grief of the ancient merchant, and in this way so endeared herself to him that he adopted her, since he was just a little too old to marry her. Iu course of time, the venerable sage rejoin ed his swarthy wifes in the other world, and the fortunate nymph came into pos session of his millions. At this stage of her existance, Couiit Benedetti who was then only a penniless attache to the F rench Consulate in Alexandria, offered her his hand and heart, and, having mairied her, with the aid of her wealth cut for himself a road to fame. In this way, she, who was ouce a slave to slaves, became a star in the circles of the French world of fashion. A nice pious old man in Mass., thought his oxen laid out strength brushing away flies that might be used hauling the corn plow, so he tied f bricks to their tails. The plan worked well until one of the bricks struck the old man on the head, when he was carried to tho house on a door. He said he haden't thought of this f.ontinrency. The oxen's tails are loose now, and the old man has had' his brains soldered in with silver. - Family Sewing' Machine, With Attachments for all binds af Work, Is fast winning favor in the , household, - as shown by the. sales of last year, amounting to eighty-six thousand, v . seven hundred and eighty one ' machines, which far exceed thoso of any other Company. ' This new FAMILY MACHIlfE is capable of a range aud variety of work such as was thought imnossitila n short thno ft'ro. to merform by ma chinery. We claim, aud can show tboge whom it may concern, that it ia the cheapest, most beauti ful, delicately arranged, nicely adjusted, easily operated, and smoothly running oi au tno iaiuiiy Sewing Machines. It is rcninrna&le.noi oniy ior the range and variety1 of its sewine, but also for the variety and different KIXDS OF TEXTCR12 which it will sew with equal locility ana penec tion, using Silk Twist, Linen or Cotlon Thread, fine or coarse, making tho IN1EULOCKED-ELASTie-STITCU, alike ou both sides of the tabric sewn. Thus beaver clotli, or leather, may be sewn with great strength and uniformity of , stitch, and in a moment this willinjr and never wearying machine may be adjusted for fine work on gauze or gossamer tissue, or tho tucking of tareletan, or ruffling, or almost any other work which delicate fingers have been known to per form. Purchasers can soon be convinced that our new Family machine embodies NEW and essential principles simplicity of construction ease of operation uniformity of PltKCISE action at any speed capacity for range and variety of work, fine or coarse, "leaving all rivals behind it. - The Koldlnjr Cases. - The New Family Machine may be had in a va riety of folding cover ncd cartes. Sumo show in polished furface nly the graih and tint of tho wood, while others are finished in all the elabora tion of art The Attachments For Hemming, Fulling, Ruffling, Braining, Bind ing, Cording, atherinir, Tucking, Embroidering, Ac, are not only nntneroiia, but now brought to great perfection. Most of tkem can - be attached ; or detached by a Simula move of the hand. The quality of the work can Only be fully appreciated on observation and examination. Machine Twist, Linen Thrmif. Ftxwl Cotton. Otl. dV.' Wc have and rhuil kes'p in stock at our Central Office, and Agencies, (on spools of varimia sixes). Twist of all sizes and colors Linen Thread, Spool Cotton, Oil, and ull other articles necessary in the use of our machines. We wish it understood that we manufacture the Twist sold by us ; that- we f hull aim to have it excel in quality and exceed in quantity, for a . the Twist made by us in our new and extensive mills, supplied as they fire with the uist improved machinery and skilled labor can be relied on for the desirable qualities of uniformity of size, cven ncss, length of thread a marked oa each spool strength, excellence of color, and beauty of finish' THE SIXGEU MANUFACTUBINO CO., oet29-S-3 Xo. 458 Broadway, New York. A timid bachelor t at New Bedford, Mass., was recently prevented from mak ing a proposal ot marriage to a young lady ot that city through the latter hav ing remarked that she recognized his un steady legs in the distance lonjr before tbu outline of his features could be dis tinguished. . . Chicago A lady who had refused an awkward but wealthy suitor, said to a friend as ho passed : "Look at him ! Could you marry him, even it ne naa a carnage and horses ( "No; indeed!" replied the other, "not it ne Kept a livery stable." VARIOUS ITEMS. .... A 1 ! ' rtt ai a recent weuuing in vjnteajio the organ played "Put Me in My Little Bed" as the bridal party left the church. , A man in Baraboo, Wisconsin, eighty seven years of age, has applied for a divorce from his wife for desertion. There were no less tha 60S suits for divorce entered in the courta of during the past year. The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is advertised for rent. This is a nice open ing for an enterprising business man. The New York Commercial speaks of "the contesting election epidemic" which has seriously attacked the country. The London Timet remarks that there are not ten Irishmen in Ireland who do not think of coming - to America some time or other. " . ' - The Wisconsin Assembly, by a vote of 73 to 9, passed a memorial to Congress praying that the Income Tax be not re pealed. . ; f j Mrs. Jane C Swisshelnr - is - writing wicked articles on men and measures. "I'm off when you talk, of working," as the cork said to the gingor pop. Florida has an Indian population of 202, There are 74.000 doctors in the United States. Grocers should remember that honest tea is the best policy. ; The draughtman's paradise Pencil vania. t Woman's rites Matrimony and di vorce. . " ' . "Feminary" i a new Western express ion for female seminary. " ... -v The Haw Material Underdone steak. A light after-piece A pheasant's tail. SAX Xo. FItAXCICO OFFICE, 139 Montgomery street. II IIS. S. A. JO II AS, Agent for AllTuny. THE NEW FOOD. For a few cents you can buy of your Grocer or -Druggist a package of SEA MOSS FARINE made, from pure Irish Uoss or Carrageen, ; which will make (sixteen quarts of Blanc Mange, and a like quantity cf Puddings Custards, Creams, Charlotte Itusse, &c. It is the cheapest, healthiest and most delicious food in the world. It makes a splendid Dessert, and ; has no equal as a light ' and delicate food for Invalids and Children. A Glorious Change!! . THE GREAT WOUND'S TONIC. Plantation: Bitters. Tltis wonderful vegetable re storative . is tlie slieet-anclior of tlte feeble and slebititated. As a. ionic it ml cordial for (lie - aged, and languid, i it Iaa no equal fiinnnrr KShnsiifIiifi4. . Ami s-nsnlw for the nervous weakness to wliichuomen are enpecially sub ject, it ii superseding every oilier Simulant. Tit nil climates, tropi cal, temperate, or frigid, it act a i icciftc in every species of ,:i-ts;:-r wZiicU undermines the to s ta ciigt! and breaks down t'.. , spisits. For salo by iti. tits.