Sfc* JiwtJg dtmif. the brave at home. BY T. BUCHANAN HEED, TH.maid who binds her warrior’s sash The whil^be^B 1 j er poin rwi beneath her drooping lash * ear ,^ ro P hangs and trembles, inough heaven alone records the tear, And name shall never know her story, tier heart has shed a drop as dear As ever dewed the field of glory. The wife who girds her husband’s sword, Mid little ones who weep or wonder, A ™ br ?!? ly s P eaka the cheering word, What thongh her heart be rent asunder*— ' m ker breams to hehr ihe bolts of war around him rattle, Has shed as sacred blood as e’er Was poured upon the plain of battle I The mother who conceals her grief, While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, •nr. , SBln 2 le patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God, at 5 know the pain that weighs upon her, Sheds holy blood as e’er the sod Received on Freedom’s field of honor I A CHILD TAUGHT FORGIVENESS. Mbs. Roberts had just gone up stairs to put Mary to bed. As she seated herself in the accustomed seat beside the pleasant ■window, she put her arm around the child and drew her close up to her si<je, at the same time looking very, affectionately and wistfully upon her, but she didn’t speak a word. Mary wondered and wondered what her mother was thinking about, and what made her look so. ■ She sat down on the low bench and began slowly to take off her shoes and stockings., “ Mother generally talks to me,” said she to herself, “and .asks.me if I have been good to-day. Strange she doesn’t say anything. Oh, 1 guess I know what she’s thinking about.” So jumping up she ran again to her mother’s side, and laying one hand and her head down upon the shoulder where she so often leaned, she said, hesita tingly, “Mother, I haven’t been a good girl to day, have I?” Quickly the affectionate arm was thrown again around the little girl, another closfe hug, and that same earnest look, and the mother said with much emphasis, “ Oh, Mary, how I wish you were a good littlegirl.” “ Well, mother, I can't help it. Ido want to be good, and yet I'm always naughty. I can.t help it.” 6 ' “Oh yes, my child, you can help it. If you really wanted to he good you would be.” “ Well now, mother, I will try. I’ll begin to-morrow morning the first thing. Now yon shall see that I’ll do everything you wish me to. What do you wish me to do first ?” Mrs. Roberts couldn’t help smiling at the sudden resolution of her little girl, and at the ease with which the child thought it was all to be accomplished. Ah! she understood better than Mary about the difficulties and struggles, the broken and mended and oft repeated resolutions, the heart-sinkings and weariness in the way of doing right. But she was going to help the little one all she could in making her plans and in carrying them out. So she began: “In the first place, I want you to get up early and wash and dress without fretting or making trouble for any one.” “ Well, I will.” “ Then you are to mind the very moment you are spoken to, and not ask to do things differently from what you are told.” “Yes, I will do that.’” “ I want you to learn your lessons and go through school without having a single cry.” _ “ Ah, I can’t help that, mother, the cry will come.” “ You must have your thoughts about you, Mary, and when you feel it coming keep it down.” “Well, I guess I will—and what else ?” “Be very kind and gentle with Susie, and try to make her happy, and not yourself.” “ Susie won’t do as I want her to. She’s real contrary, mother, sometimes. I don’t know as I shall be able to manage her.” “No, I don’t want you to manage her, Mary. Xam talking now about you mana ging yourself. Susie will do very well if you do right.” “ I will, then—what next ?” “I don’t know of anything else. If you mind when you are spoken to, and are plea sant and amiable, everything will go right.” “ Well, mother, I certainly will—now I mean just what I say. I will try just as hard as I can, and we’ll see if I can’t be good for one day.” “ It looks very easy now my dear, I dare say, but it will be hard. You will have to try when the time really comes for you to do all these things. When you feel like doing wrong, then is the time for you resolutely to turn about and say I will do right. But, above all, Mary, do not forget that you must pray to God to strengthen and help you to be good. Without him you can do nothing.” “ Oh, I will, mother; you shall see,” said the child; and intent upon her good resolves, with a very self-satisfied air, she finished her preparations, and was soon safely laid away under the bed-clothes. Her mother stooped over to kiss her, but Mary forgot to return the caress, so intent was she on a thought which had just flashed across her busy little mind. “Mother,” said she, “what will God do about all the naughty things I have done al ready ? Now if I begin to be gooi to-mor row, and am good all the time, there’s all the bad I have been doing up to now. What will happen to me for that?” Oh, what an important question! How Upon the answer to that hinges all our hopes of salvation and eternal life! This is an in- S which has startled older and wiser than yours, little Mary Roberts. It is the very point that was Canvassed in hea ven long, long ago, and which Christ, the only-begotten and well-beloved Son of God, came on earth to settle. Listen, little chili dten, to the answer Mrs, Roberts gave to her little girl. She felt what a grave question it was; She believed that the Spirit of God alone had awakened the thought in Mary’s heart. - She (knew that the subject Was one that the sinful heart did not readily compre hend, unless ii was taught of the same Holy Spirit, and so, lifting up her heart in prayer that God would give that Spirit to her dear child, she tried to make her answer as plain and simple and direct as she could. “God will forgive your past sins for the sake of Jesus Christ, Mary, if you ask him.” “Won't he be angry about!mem? Won’t he count them anything ? Won’t he pnnish me for them?” “No, he will forgive them. Jesus came into this world and was punished for our sins, so that God might forgive us. Now if you believe this, and are willing to trust •Tesus, he will see that all you have done wrong is wiped away —forgiven—blotted out; and God will feel toward you and treat you, for Jesus’ sake, just as though you never had done anything wicked.” ; n << S hy,^ 0W i» 0^! ” said ¥* r J- ®mt-was ail sne said; btlt she was thinking very &e2*i ously about it as she. closed her efk and turned over on her side to go to sleep. My little readers, perhaps some of you have had this same thought arise in your minds, and have wished that you could un derstand all about it. I wish I might make it very clear to you. God has said, “The soul that smneth it shall die.” We have all sinned, and therefore are exposed to death. But Jesus so loved us that he came down from heaven and suffered and died in our stead. Now God can forgive us, and is will ing to, if we ourselves are willing to be for given. If we really feel sorry for our sins we shall be glad, really glad and thankful, to be forgiven, and our hearts will be full of love to the blessed Saviour for his kindness in dying to save us. And then our love to him will make us hate sin, and we shall try very hard indeed to overcome it. Nothing will make it so easy for us to overcome our naughty ways, and to do right, as this love to Jesus Christ. And, if we pray to Mm he will take away the desire to sin more and more. So you see that the blessed Son of God is our Saviour from our sins that are past, and also from the love and power of sin within us, so that we shall be kept from sinning in time to come. This, dear chil dren, is the way to be saved. This is the work of redemption. This is* what little Mary needed more* than anything else to help her keep those good resolutions she had just made for the morrow. We will hope that from that hour she began to love the Saviour, and to be what her mother so ear nestly desired—a good little girl.—lndepend ent. WHO MOWS WHAT IT MAI DO? IjST the county of Kent lives, or lived, a clergyman and his lady, who took a very ac tive part in the Sabbath school connected with his church. They had in the school a boy, the only Bon of a widow, who was noto riously wicked, despising all the earnest prayers and admonitions of the clergyman, who, out of pity for his poor widowed mother, kept him at the school eighteen months; but at length found it absolutely necessary to dismiss the lad as a warning to others. He soon after enlisted as a soldier in a regiment that was subsequently ordered to America, it being the last American war. Some time after, the poor widow called on the clergy man to beg a Bible of the smallest size. Surprised at such a request from an indi vidual who was on the verge of eternity, and who, he knew, had one or more Bibles of large print, which she had long used to good purpose, he inquired what she wanted it for. She answered:—“A regiment is going out to America, and I want to send it to my poor boy; and 0, sir! who knows what it may do?” She sent the Bible which the clergyman gave her by a pious soldier, who, upon his arrival at their destination, found the widow’s son the very ringleader of the regiment in every description of vice. After the soldier had made Mmself known, he said:—“James, your mother has sent you her last present.” “Ah!” he replied in a careless manner, “is she gone at last? I hope she sent me some cash.” The pious soldier told him he believed the poor widow was dead; “but,” said he, “she has sent you something of more value than gold or silver, (presenting him the Bible,) and, James, it was her dying request that you would read one verse, at least, every day, and can you refuse her dying charge?” “Well,” said James, “it is not too much to ask, (opening the Bible,) so here, goes.” He opened the Bible at these words:— “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you: rest.” “Well,” said he, “that’s very odd.. I have opened to the only verse in the Bible that I could learn by heart when I was in the Sab bath school; I never could for the life of me commit another. It is very strange; hut who is this me that is mentioned in the verse.” The pious soldier asked if he did not know. He replied he did not. The good man then explained it to him; spoke to him of Jesus, and exhibited the truth and invitations of the gospel. . They walked to the house of the chaplain, Where they had further conversation; the result was, from that hour he became a changed man, and was noted for exemplary conduct as before he was noted for wickedness. Some time after this conversation, the regiment in which he was, engaged the ene my; at the close of which the pious soldier, in walking through the field of blood, be held, under a large spreading oak, the dead j body of James, his head reclining on his Bible, which was opened at the passage: “Come unto me all ye that are weary.” Poor James had gone to his eternal rest.— Methodist. HOME CONVERSATION. Children hunger perpetually for new ideas, and the most pleasant way of reception is by the voice and the ear, not the eye and the printed page. The one mode is natural, the other artificial. Who would not rather listen than' read ? We not unfrequently pass by in the papers a full report of a lecture, and then go and pay our money to hear the self-same words uttered. An audience will listen closely from the beginning to the end of an address, which not one in twenty of those present would read with the same at tention. This is emphatically true of chil dren. They will learn with pleasure from the lips of parents what they deem it drudgery to study in the books,; and even if they have the misfortune to be deprived of the educational advantages which they desire, they can not fail to grow up intelligent if they enjoy in childhood and youth the privi lege of listening daily to the conversation of intelligent people. Let parents, then, talk much and talk well at home. A father who is habitually silent in his own house, may he, in many respects, a wise man, but he is not wide in his silence. We sometimes see parents, who are the life of every company which they enter, dull, silent, uninteresting at home among their children. If they have not mental activity and mental stores sufficient for both, let them first provide for their own household. Ire land exports beef and wheat and lives on potatoes; and they fare as poorly who reserve their social charms for companies abroad, and keep their dullness for home consumption’. It is better to instruct children and make them happy at home than it is to charm Strangers or amuse friends. A silent house is a dull place for young people—a place from which they will escape if they can. They will talk or think of being “shut up” there; and the youth who does not love home is in danger. Make home, then, a cheerful and pleasant spot. Light it up with cheer ful, instructive conversation. Father, mother, talk your best at home. gummatt and (SiaupUsit. THE LOYAL LADIES. We hear much of Secession ladies, and of their efforts to inspire their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers, to attack the Constitu tion and the Union, and some of these deli cate creatures in Washington seem to court martyrdom for the sake of showing their sin cerity in a bad cause. Protected by their weakness, they and their families have taken advantage of the respect entertained by brave men for the gentler sex, and they therefore heap opprobrium upon the friends of the government in civil and in military : life. In the city of Baltimore they become the representatives of their husbands, who dare not sow the seeds of discord among the people, and make their appearance on the streets, seeking every occasion to show their contempt for their own country. A singular contrast is presented by the the deportment of the women of the loyal States. Their attachment to the republic is a profound religious attachment. Shrink ing from everything like notoriety, and cha racteristically averse to all participation in acrimonious controversy, they' address the Divine Being to vouchsafe his blessings upon our arms, and occupy, not only their leisure hours, but even the time heretofore given to other duties, in providing for their brave countrymen in arms such necessaries and luxuries .as they require. Industrious in their respective wards and districts, they not only look after the families of the volunteers, not only watch over the wives and children of these gallant men, hut solicit subscriptions for the purpose of enabling them more effec tively and generously to carry out their great mission. There is scarcely a village in the free States in which these glorious women 1 are not engaged in tMs holy work; and if the truth could he told, there is not a regi ment that is not under obligations to them. Apart from the individual contributions, such as gifts sent forward by the wife to the hus band, the sister to the brother the sweet heart to the lover, the donations of organized societies of ladies are as constantly forward ed as they are constantly liberal- What a record Miss Dix, who may be called the Executive of the, ladies of the loyal States, in our great struggle against the aristocracy of the South—what a record, I say, she will be enabled to leave to the historian! If the enormous amount of apparel, of medicines, of food, etc., sent forward by these noble women, could be specifically set forth in a newspaper, it would put to the blush many of the sterner sex, who, while professing to be energetic and true, are too often content with words rather than works.- — Phdada. Press. HIRING A GIRL. Some, at least, of our housekeeping read ers will enjoy the following, which we find in the Hartford homestead: A lady who wished to hire a “maid of all work,” was called into the parlor to see an applicant. Biddy , (seated on a sofa.) “I hear yez want a girl.” Lady.-~“ Yes.” Biddy. —“ Have yez hot and cold wather carried convaneyantly all over the house?” Lady, (still standing.)—-“Yes.” Biddy. —“ls there gas in the kitchen?” A<%.—“ Yes.” Biddy. —“ Carpets on the girl’s room?” Lady. —“ Yes.” Biddy. —“ Do you have a man to make the fires and black shoes?” Lady. —“ No. The girl makes her own fires.” Biddy. —“ That’s too bad. But I likes yez and yer house other ways, and the kitchen looks eonvaneyant, so I think I’ll come. I’ll he expecting $9 a month, as I niver works for If ss.” Lady. —“ But I want to ask you one ques tion. Can you play on the piano?” Biddy. —“Shure, no mam.” Lady. —“ Then I’m sure you will not do for me. ’ IlfilWrffllJtMM. tee north Eight. : Hitherto I have been speaking without immediate reference to the great cause in issue. I believe that, apart from, that cause, the North are entitled to our good wishes. They are in the right apart from all ques tions of slavery. If they really mean to leave “State rights” untouched-—if they are not even fighting to keep “the territories” free —if, as we are often told in newspaper arti cles, slavery has nothing to say to the war at all—l must repeat that they are empha tically right. But does anybody seriously believe this? Will any serious person get up and say, in his own name, or write in his own name, that the meaning of the whole war—-the point really at issue, from first to last—has not been, and is not (to put it at the lowest,) whether slavery shall be confined, to its pre sent limits in North America, or allowed to extend as and where it can? That was the issue; and perhaps it is so still. But those who entered on the war with this as the goal of their hopes and efforts, who would gladly have accepted the limitation of slavery to its present limits a few months, or weeks agq, will; unless they are .very different men from what I believe them to be—unless the teach ing of all history is vain—not be content now with this compromise. The great cause of freedom-will (Law them, and the nation after them, along paths which they would never have sought for themselves. It is the battle of human freedom which the North are fighting, and which should draw to them the sympathy of every Eng lishman, and make him cast to the winds all Morrill tariffs and angry talk about Canada, all bad manners and hard words. If the North is beaten, it will he a misfortune such as has not come on the world since Christen dom arose. An empire will be founded in these Southern States on the simple base of slavery, having no other starting-point or principle whatever than their right to enslave men of their own flesh and blood. It is of no use to speculate upon what the acts and policy of such a state will be. The world will see that soon enough, should it arise. Meantime, the Northern States stand alone between us, and it, and the greatest misfor tune which can happen to us and! to mankind will he their defeat. , God grant that they may hold on and be strong! God grant that they may remem ber that the greatest triumphs have always come, and must always come to men.through the greatest humiliations. God himself could not set men free but through this rule. I am yours very truly, Thomas Hughes.* Mag, {Eng.) * Author of Tom Brown, at Rugby. NEATNESS A CHRISTIAN DUTY. It may be difficult to fix the point at which the care of personal appearance In man or woman becomes excessive. It does so un questionably when it engrosses the mind to the negleet of mo're important things. But I suppose that all reasonable people now be lieve that td personal cleanliness, freshness, atid neatness is a Christian duty. The.’days are past, almost everywhere, in which piety was held to he associated with dirt. 1 Nobody would men tion now, as a proof' how saintly a human being was, that, for the love of God, he had never washed his face or brushed his hair for thirty years. And eve 1 scrupulous neatness need bring with it no si spicion of puppyism. The most trim and tidy of old men was good John Wesley ; and he conveyed to the minds of all who saw him the i otion of a man whose treasure was laid up bejond this world, quite as much as if he had dre ised in such a fashion as to make himself an object of ridicule, or as if he had forsworn, tile,use of soap. Some people fancy that slovenliness of attire indi cates a mind above petty details. I have seen an eminent preacher ascend the pulpit with his bands hanging over his right shoul der, his gown apparently put on by being dropped upon him from the. vestry ceiling, and his hair apparently,unbrushed for sev eral weeks. There wateno,suspicion ofjxffec-, tation about that goochtnan; ‘yet I regarded his untidiness -as a-defe'et, and not as an ex- : cellencß. He gave a most eloquent sermon; yet I thought it would fiave been well, had the lofty xhind that treated so admirably some of the grandest,re iHties of life and of immortality been able to address itself a little to the care of l lesser things.— Country Parson ; LIFE AND ■ We are now, if we hive reached middle life, very much what we Sshall he to the end of the chapter. We shall.not, in this world, be much better ; let us hyrnbly trust that we shall not he worse. Yetj if there he an definable.sadness 'in looking at the marred material of which so much more might have been made, there is a sublime hope in the contemplation ofmaterially bodily and men tal, of-which a great deal more and better will certainly yet be made. Hot much more may be made of any of us in life; but who shall- estimate what m|y he made of us iq immpjtalityj. Think. body! ” think of a perfectly pure and happy soul! I thought of this, on a Jjpautiful evening of this summer, walklig ysith a much valued friend through a certain,grand ducal domain. In front of a noble sepulchre, where Is laid up much aristocratic dust, there are sculp tured, by some great .artist, three colossal faces, which are meant to represent Life, Death, and Immortality. It was easy to represent Death: the face was one of solemn rest, with closed eyes; and the sculptor’s skill was mainly shown in distinguishing Life from Immortality. And he had done it well. There was Life: a care-worn, anxious, weary face, that seemed to look at you earnestly, and with a vague inquiry for something,—- the something that is lacking in all things here. And there was Immortality: life-like, but, oh,, how different, from mortal Life! There was* the beautiful face, calm, self-possessed, sublime, and with eyes looking far away. I see it yet, the crimson sunset warming the gray stone, —and a great haw thorn-tree, covered-with, hicmgntng by. Yes , there was Immortality; and you felt, as you looked at it, that it was more MADE OR LIRE !—PAL THALLIUM AND TH By a newly discovered/property, of the prism, a new power has be6n added to man’s Visual faculty. A perfect/ prism must have all three sides of the 4fop exactly- alike, which we can readily procure from an opti cian’s shop for a couple of shillings, and being in possession ot.it, we may, pursue with it , many, pleasing experiments; The first is to see /Newton’s Tris or;the /Rainbow; of Light. If we hold the prism in a horizon tal position near, a window into which the sun is shining, and allow the light to fall upon one face of the prism, there will be seen on the wall at . the back a reflection of colors like the rainbqw-t-violet, indigo, blue,; green, yellow, orange and red. If, in place of the sun, an artificial light is employed, a similar reflection o| Qojp|s i|jprodttced in like manner hut the relative proportions of the tints vary according to the nature of the flame.. , It has long been observed that certain substances when burning, or even in con tact with, burning materials, make the flame of a definite tint. Stron'tian, an earthy body found near Strontia, in Argyleshire, imparts to flame a crimson color; boracic acid turns the .flame green; common salt renders it yellow; chlorate of potass blue and so on. Now, supposing we were examining the iris band, or reflection of light produced by a spirit lamp passing through a prism, it would be noticed by a careful observer that there would be a cross-bar of light issue from the side of the iris like a needle, like a ray of light which it is; hut this .cross ray will at all times not only have a peculiar color, but it will shoot out of a particular part of the iris band. Thus it is now found that every substance in contact with flame engenders a particular line of its own, which is always alike in the prisnjptin spectrum. Recently some philosophers engaged in mapping out these lines, their color (and position for known substances, repeatedly observed lities Which they were unable to .account for. Ihis led to further search; and the almost immediate result was the discovery of thallium, cesium and other, elements. . This mode of analysis by light enables us to discover the presence of a body in such infinitesimal proportions that even decimal fractions can ill describe. Analysis by light proves the presence of nickel in the sun. What knowledge we shall yet gain, the sequel will prove. COLUMBUS. The following anecdote may be interesting to some of our readers:-’— : ' Captain D’Auberville, in the bark Chief tain, of Boston, put into Gibralter on the 27th of August, 1851. He went, with two of his across the Straits to Mount Abylus, on the African coast; as they were on the point of returning, one of the crew picked up what appeared'to be a -.piece of rock, but which thought to be a kind of numiperstoqe. On examination it was found to be a cedar keg completely in crusted with; barnacles and other marine shells. The keg wp opened, and within was found a cocoa-nut enveloped in a kind of gum or resinous substance. Within the co coa-nut shell was a piece, of parchment covered with very 613 writing, which none of those present could read. An American merchant in Gibralter then read it, and found that it was ajn-ief account,, drawn pp by Columbus in 1493, of bis American 4% [OBTALITI. PRISM. coveries up to that time. It was addressed to Ferdinand and Isabella. 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THE marked,, and ever extending, popularity of •;,VSINGER’S SEWING MA6hINES, • both in America and Europe, is such as best to estab lish .their superiority over all others in the market. Sewing machines (so called) may be bought, it is true, .for a smaller amount of dollars, but it is mis taken economy to invest anything in a worthless or unreliable article, and those who do so must abide the consequence 1 SINGER’S NEW FAMILY MACHINES. In orderto place the BEST FAMILY MACHINES IN THE WORLD within the reach of all, we have reduced our Letter A, or Transverse Shuttle Machines, beautifully ornamented, to $5O. Singer’s No. 1, and 2, Standard Shuttle Machines, both of very general application and capacity, and popular both in the family and the manufactory. Prices reduced, respectively, from $165 to $9O and. $lOO. _ Singer’s No. 3 Standard Shuttle Machine, for Car riage Makers and heavy leather work. Price com plete, $125. Also, to complete the list, an entirely new article, unequalled for manufacturing purposes, noiseless, rapid, and capable of every kind of work! Price (including iron stand and drawers,) $llO, cheap er at that, in view of its value, than the machines of any other maker as a gift. AH the Singer’s Machines make the interlock stitch with two threads, which is the best stitch known. Every person desiring to procure full and reliable in formation about Sewing Machines, their sizes, prices, working capacities, and the best methods of pur chasing, can obtain it by sending for a copy of I. M. Singer & Co.’s Gazette, which is a beautiful pictorial paper entirely devoted to the subject. It will he sup plied gratis. I. M. SINGER & CO., . oct. 18-1 yr. 810 Chestnut Street. ICE HEALERS. Your orders are respectfully so licited. . THE MOLIEEE ICE COMEANY Is prepared to furnish a superior article of EASTERN ICE, EXCLUSIVELY, As cheaply and promptly as any other Company in the City. ORDERS LEFT AT / Jos. Elkinton & Son’s. No. 783 S. Second St. John Under & Co.’s, N. E. corner of Second and Walnut Streets. Thomas Weaver’s, Druggist, N. E. corner of 18th and Vine Streets. Robert Maull’s, No 18 North Delaware Avenue. J. T. Hnfoal’s, Druggist, S. W. cor. Of Nineteenth and Green Streets. 8 Pounds per Day, 65 Cents per Week. 12 “ “ 70 . “ “ ■ 16 “ “ SO “ “ 20 “ “ 90 “ « Steainboats and Shipping supplied at the shortest notice. Please notify all changes or neglect, at the Office, in writing. Office and Depot, No. 206 Shippen Street, Or, sent through the Penny Post, will he promptly attended to. Residence, Nos. 323 and 621 North Eighteenth St. WOLBERT & BRO. OIL CLOTHS FOB SALE BY TEE MANUFACTURER, AT No. 229 Arch Street, Philadelphia. AND No. 49 Cedar Street. New York. The Stock Consists of ■ - Enamelled Leather Cloth. Carriage Floor Oil Cloth. Table and Stair Oil Cloths. Stand Covers and Green Curtain Cloth. Floor Oil Cloths, from f to 6 yards wide. The style and quality of these goods are not ex celled, Will be sold to dealers at reasonable prices, feb 28-ly THOMAS POTTER, Manufacturer. SILVER IPLATING. SAMUEL SMYTH, No. 1336 Chestnut Street, op posite-the U. S. Mint, Philadelphia. Electro Silver Plater on Albata: and Nickel Silver Metals, Britannia, Copper, Brass, Steel or Iron, where all drdfers fdr Plating will be promptly attended to. All Plating warranted to be done according to order. Reflating, done for use oYhotels: and 1 private families Warranted to give entire satisfaction. , ; sep2o WATCH THE HEALTH OF ;SOHR CHILDREN. WORMS arc a prolific source of , sickness rn chil dren. They are seldom free from them, ancl by their irritation all other diseases are aggravated.' con vulsions as well as St. Vitus’ Dance,have been superin duced bythem, and death has resulted in extreme cases. Whenever the symptoms are-observed, such as dis turbed sleep, grinding of the teeth, itching of the nose, weakness of the bowels, slow -fever, variable appetite and fetid breath, , JAYNES’ TONIC VERMIFUGE . should be resorted to without delay. It is entirely harmless, is readily taken by children, effectually de stroys worms, and by its tonic action invigorates the whole-system. It is prepared only by Dr.» D, Jayne & Son, 242 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. COUGHS, COLDS, CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, PTC. JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT HAS BEEN FOR THIRTY YEARS THE STANDARD REMEDY. It will be admitted that no better evidence of the great curative powers of this EXPECTORANT can be offered than the grateful testimony of those who have been restored to health by its use, and the wide spread popularity which, for so long a period, itffias maintained in the face of all competition, and which has created a constantly increased demand for it ip all parte of the world. As far as possible, this evi dence is laid'before the public from time to time, until the most skeptical wm acknowledge that for all pulmonary complaints it is truly an invaluable remedy. RECENT COUGHS AND COLDS, PLEURITIC PAINS, &e., are quickly and effectually cured by its diaphoretic, soothing and expectorant power. ASTHMA it always cures. It overcomes the spas modic contraction of the air vessels, and by producing free expectoration, at once removes all difficulty of breathing: BRONCHITIS readily yields to the Expectorant. It subdues the inflammation which extends through the wind tubes, produces free expectoration, and sup presses at once the cough and pain.' -CONSUMPTION.—For this insidious and fatal dis ease, no remedy on earth has ever been found so ef fectual. It subdues the inflammation, —relieves the cough and pain,—removes the difficulty of breathing, and an easy expectoration, whereby all ir ritating and obstructing matters are removed from the lungs. ■ WHOOPING COUGH is promptly relieved by this Expectorant. It shortens the duration of the disease one-half, and greatly mitigates the suffering of the patient. _ In all PULMONARY COMPLAINTS, in CROUP, PLEURISY, &e. , it will be found to be prompt, safe, pleasant and reliable, and may be especially com mended to Ministers, Teachers and Singers, for the relief of Hoarseness, and for strengthening the organs of the voice. , _ Read the following Statements: , REV. RUFUS BABCOCK, D. D., Secretary of the American and Foreign Bible Society, writes: “Having given Dr. D. Jayne’s medicines a trial in my own family, and some of them personally, I do not hesitate to commend them as a valuable addition to our materia medica. The Expectorant especially ! consider of inestimable value, and I know that it is highly esteemed, and frequently prescribed by some of the most respectable of the regular practitioners of medicine.” Rev. B. V. Yt. James, Missionary in Liberia of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, writes: —, 1 Your Expectorant has been administered with the most happy results, and I feel assured I never used an article of medicine that produced a more sure and certain relief for the complaints for which it is recom mended.” Rev. John Dowling, D. D., Pastor of the Berean Baptist Church, N. Y., writes:— “I have long known the virtues of your Expecto rant, and frequently tested them on myself and family, when afflicted with Coughs and Colds. I believe it to be one of the best remedies ever discovered for these maladies.” Rev. N. M. Jones, Rector of Church of St Bar tholomew, (Prot. Epis.,) Phila., writes:— “In all eases resembling _ Consumption, I recom mend your Expectorant, having in so many cases wit nessed its beneficial effects.” .Rev. J. J. Walsh, Missionary of the Presbyterian Board at Futtegurh, Northern Lidia, writes: — “Your Expectorant was the means, under Provi dence, of curing a case of Incipient Consumption, which had been pronounced incurable by competent medicalmen.” Rev. Jonathan Going, D. D., while President of Granville College, Ohio, wrote: — “While laboring under a severe Cold, Cough, and Hoarseness, my difficulty of breathing became so great that I felt in imminent danger of suffocation, but was perfectly cured on using Dr.D. Jayne’s Expectorant.” Miss Mary Ball, of the Protestant Episcopal Mis sion, Cape Palmas, West Africa, says:— “In our mission families your medicines are a ge - ~CK-V .wok poor to By .onwble me to do much good. Your Expectorant, has proved of great value in the case of Rev. Jacob Rambo, and in that also of Rev. Mr. Green, two of our missionaries. ’ ’ Rev. C. L. Fisher, formerlypastor of the Dell Prairie, Wis., Baptist Church, writes: — . “A little daughter of mine, aged seven years, had been afflicted for some time with Asthma and'Palpita tion of the heart, and having tried various remedies without relief, I was persuaded to get your Expec torant and Sanative Pills, and after using them she was restored to a good degree of health.” Rev. Samuel S. Day, Missionary of the Baptist Board, at Nellore, India, writes: — “By the use of your Expectorant my Cough and Sore Throat are now well. I find, occasionally, an unpleasant sensation in my throat, as if mucns had lodged there, but your Expectorant usually relieves it by two or three applications.” Rev. J. R. Coffman, of Winfield, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, writes:— “ One bottle of Jayne’s Expectorant, cured my daughter of Lung Fever, after having been beyond the hope of recovery. During the attack she had a number of convulsions. She is now perfectly well.” This Expectorant, and all of Jayne’s Family Medi cines, are prepared only by Dr. D. JAYNE & SON, 242 Chestnut Street, and may be had of agents throughout the country. DISEASES OF THE SKIN. riIHOUGH Hie remote or primary causes of Skin Dis -L ease may be various, as Impurity of the Blood, Liver Complaint, Scroful»j etc., etc., the, immediate cause is always the same, and that is an obstruction in the pores of the skin, by which the perspiration, in its passage from the body, is arrested and confined in and under the skin, causing an intolerable itching, or an eruption of Pimples, Pustules, Ringworm, Tetter, Sa.lt Rheum, etc., etc. For all these affections JAYNE’S ALTERATIVE has been found an invaluable remedy, as it removes both the primary as well as the immediate causes,— purifying the Blood, curing the Liver Complaint, and effectually eradicating Scrofula from the system, while at the same time it frees the pores of their obstructing matters, and heals the diseased surface. Prepared only by DR. D. JAYNE & SON, 242 Chestnut Street, and for sale by agents throughout the country. , WHAT CAN AIL THE CHILD?-Is its sleep disturbed? ' Do you observe a morbid restlessness,— a variable appetite, a fetid breath, grinding of the teeth, and itching of the nose? Then be sure your child is troubled with Worms. If their presence is even suspected, procure at once Jayne’s Tonic Vermi fuge. It effectually destroys Worms, is perfectly safe, and so pleasant that children will not refuse to take it. It acts also a general Tonic, and no better remedy can be taken for all derangements of the Sto mach and Digestive Organs. Prepared only by DR. JAYNE & SON, at No. 242 Chestnut Street. - Dysentery, diarrhcea, cholera, sum mer GOMPAINT, ALL BOWEL AFFEC TIONS, ETC., ABB PROMPTLY CURED BY JAYNE’S CARMINATIVE BALSAM. The remedial properties of this article have now been tested by the public for over thirty years, with a result which enables the proprietors to offer the most convincing proofs (certificates of cures effected) of its ability to remove all diseases for which it is recom mended. It is quick, safe, and certain in its action, affording immediate relief when promptly adminis tered. . Age does not impair its virtues, neither is it subject to the varying influences of climate; being equally effective in aE latitudes, it is in aE respects what it claims to be —a “Standard Household Re medy,” which every family should be suppied with. DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY. It never fails to subdue the most violent attaeks of these complaints, no matter from what cause they ori finate. As changes of climate, water, etc., often pro uce these serious diseases, travellers and others should always keep a supply of the Carminative by them. ASIATIC CHOLERA. The prompt use of the Carminative Balsam will al ways remove the Diarrhoea and Cramps which accom pany the attacks of Cholera, thus often conquering the disease in its ineipieney. It has frequently been administered in neighborhoods where the Cholera has been raging epidemically, and has never failed to give immediate and permanent relief. ■ . CHOLERA OR SUMMER COM- . • PLAINT, Is speedily and effectually cured by the Carmina tive. It removes all soreness of the Abdomen, allavs the irritation and; calms the action of the Stomach, ays - e , reUed on t 0 remove the siifferinjrs of the ones, when used according to direction^ are removed by Jayne’s Carminative Balsam, with more certainty and ease than by any other pre paration yet offered the public. L JAYNI3 SL”r Medicines, arejprepared only at. 242 Chestnut Street, and may be had of Agents through out thecountry. ;• a , OCT. 10, 1861 -Have Tea Provided for year Family an Insurance on your Life 1 DOTY MADE EASY. /NS URA NEo I\-V/9. OFFICES: HO. 16 COURT STREET, Brooklyn, HO. 16 WALL STREET, Hew York. MUTUAL, WITH A CASH CAPITAL OF $185,000, Invested in Stocks of tie State of Hew York and First-Class Bonds and Mortgages. DIRECTORS: A. A. Low, Thomas Carlton, W. H. Cary, John T. Maids, I. H. Fro thi Ogham, John Halsey, J- S. T- Stranahan, John Sneden, Thomas Messenger, J. Milton Smith, Samuel Smith, Harold Dollner, Henry E. Pierrcpont, . A. B. Capwell, Abr. B. Baylis, : Kehemiah Knight, Peter C. Cornell, Edward A. Lambert, John D. Cocks, Janies How, H. B. Claflin, 1.11. Wyman, S. B. Chittenden, George A. Jarvis, Theo. Polhemns, Jr., Samuel Perry, X E. South worth,' S. E. Howard, ' ■ Czar Dunning, George T. Hope, • John G. Bergen, Charles A. Townsend, Lewis Roberts, . Cornelias J, Sprague, Walter 8. Griffith, losenb W. Green. M. F. Odell, WALTER S. GRIFFITH, President. I. H. FROTHINGHAM, Treasurer. GEORGE C. RIPLEY, Secretary. A. B. CAPWELL, Counsel. “«*“> Counsel, { %££%£s£&?§& ~ Dividends of profits declared annually and applied immediately to reduce the amount of annual premium. Premiums payable one-half in cash and one-half in a note at 12 months, which is not in any case subjecf to assessment, but is a permanent loan on the policy to be paid only by the application of profits, or de ducted from the amount due when the policy becomes payable. The cash part of-the premium maybe paid annually, semi-annually, or quarterly, in five, ten, or any number of years,'or in one sum, Policies, the premium on which! is payable in five annual payments, may be : surrendered at the ex piration of two years, and the Company will issue for it a paid up policy for Life for two-fifths of,the original sum. If at three years for three-fifths, etc. And on the’ same principle where the premium .is payable in ten or any other number of years. Policies issued for life or tor any term of years, and on the participating or non-paftieipating scale, at rates aslow as any sound mutual or stock company. _ Premiums on short term and non-participating poli cies are payable in cash. Endowment policies issued, the sum payable to the representatives of the party at death, or to him or her on attaining 46, 50, 55, 60, 65, of 70 year of age.— Also all forms of Children’s endowments and annuity policies on the most favorable terms.. This Company has adopted a principle intend ed to prevent the lapse of any policy, and to secure to the assured in _ every case allthe assurance which their payments will provide for. Our members need not apprehend, therefore, that their inability to pay the premium at any future time will involve the loss of what they have paid. ) .7 ; Qur prospectus and other publications will bcisent gratuitously to all who require it. ' Good Agents wanted, and will be treated with 'on the most liberal terms.' 768 e. o. w-lyr , 1861. tus e • 1861. PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL ■’ RAILROAD. 260 Miles Double Track. THE capacity of this road is now equal to any in the country.: Three Through Passenger Trains between PHILADELPHIA and PITTSBURG, con necting direct at Philadelphia with Through trains to and from Boston, New York, arid all points East, and m the Union depot : at Pittsburg, with Through trams ’ to and from all points in the West, Northwest, and Southwest—thus furnishing, facilities for the tran sportation of passengers, unsurpassed for speed and comfort by any other route. Express and Fast Lines-run through to Pittsburg without change of cars or conductors. All Through Passenger trains provided with Laugbbridge’s Patent Brake-speed, under perfect control of the engineer, thus adding much to the safety of travelers. Smoking cars are attached to each train; Wood ruff s Sleeping cars to Express and Fast trains. The Express runs daily; Mail and Fast line, the Sabbath excepted. Mail Train leaves Philadelphia at . 7.80 A. M Fast Line “ “ . . 11.20 A. M' Express Train leaves “ . 10.15 P.M' WAY TRAINS LEAVE AS FOLLOWS: Harrisburg Accom’tion, via Columbian -2. J» P. M. Columbia “ , . ' , 4 OOP M Paatkesbrng “ . . IL4O-P.IL W estchester passengers will take the Mail. Parkes burg and Columbia trains. . Passengers for Sudbury, Williamsport, Elmira, Buf , ’?S, a . :ra Fulls, and intermediate points, leaving Philadelphia at-7.50 A. M. and 5.80 P. M., go directlv through. Tickets may be obtained at toe offices of the Com pany m Philadelphia, New 1 York, Bostonor Baltimore: smd at any of toe important Railroad offices in the West; also, on board of any-of toe regular line of Steamers on the Mississippi or Ohio rivers. Fare always as low, and time as quick, as bv any other route. For further information, apply at toe Passenger station, Southeast corner of Eleventh and Market streets. The completion of the Western connections of the Pennsylvania Railroad, makes this the DIRECT LINE BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE GREAT WEST. The connecting of tracks by the railroad bridge at Pittsburg, avoiding all drayage or ferriage of freigti together with the saving of time, are advantages read ily appreciated by shippers of freight, and the travel mg public. . Merchants and Shippers entrusting the transports tion of their freight to the Company, can rely vrits confidence on its speedy transit. The Rates op Freight to and from any point in ft- West, by the Pennsylvania Railroad,: are at all times as favorable as are charged by other Railroad Com panies. Be particular to mark packages “viaPexna. R. 8." For freight contracts or shipping directions, apply to, or address either of the following Agents of the Company:— D. A. STEWART, Pittsburg; H. S. Pierce ft Co., Zanesville Ohio; J.J. JohSn, Ripley Ohio; S. M Neely .Mays ville, Kv.; Ormsby ft Cropper, Ports moutb, Ohio; Paddock & Co., .Jeffersonville, Ind.; H- ”• Brown & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Athern & Hibbert, Cincinnati, Ohio; R. C. Meldrum, Madison, Lid.; Joseph E, Moore, Louisville, Ky.; P. G. 0. Riley & Co., Evansville, Ind.; N. W. Graham ft Co., Cairo, 111.; R. F. Sass, Shaler & Glass, St. Louis, £y > “Ohn H. Harris, Nashville, Tenn.; Harris & Hnnti Memphis, Tenn.; Clarke & Co., Chicago, IH-; W. H. It. Koontz, Alton, HI.; or, to freight agents of Railroads at different points in the West. E. J. Sxeeder, Philadelphia. Magraw. ft Koons, No. 80 North street, Baltimore. Leech ft Co., No. 2 Astor House, or No. 1 S. liam street, ;New York. - Lf.ech & Co., No. 77 State street, Boston. H. H. HOUSTON, General Freight Agent, Phil adelphia. . L. L: HOUPT, Ticket Agent, Philadelphia. ENOCH LEWIS, Gen’l Superintendent, Altona, PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMOBE CENTRAL RAILROAD. OPEN TO OXFORD. SPRING ARRANGEMENT. ON and after Monday, March 11th, 1861, the trains will leave Philadelphia from toe Depot of tlie West Chester arid Philadelphia Railroad Comps ll .’> Northeast corner of Eighteenth and Market streets, a ®-VM- and 4,P.M. Leave Oxford at 6.45 A*H and 2.60P.M. A daily line of Stages leaves Oxford, via Hope w ®**> to Peach Bottom, on the arrival of the morning tr ? m ; Returning,- leaves Peach Bottom, to; connect at Oxforo with the afternoon train for Philadelphia. HENRY WOOD, Superintendent.
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