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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. It stated that,
according to the writer’s judgment, the ships
could not survive another day ; that they
were between the western isles and Spain;
that two similar narratives were* written and
thrown into the sea, in case the caravel
should go to the bottom.
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country, and its steadily increasing popularity for' a
series of years, strongly guaranty its efficacy and va
luable character, and, commend it to the favorable
notira of an intelligent, publie.
TARRANT’S
Cordial Elixir of Turkey Rhubarb. T
This beautiful preparation from the True Turkey
Rhubarb, has the approval and sanction of many of
our Best Physicians as a valuable and favorite
FAMILY MEDICINE,
And is preferable to any other form in which Rhu
barb is administered, either for Adults or Children
it being combined in a manner to make it at once
palatable to the taste and efficient in its operation.
' TARRANT’S
Improved Indelible Ink,
For marking Linen, Muslin, Silk, etc., has been
proved by many years' experience, to tie the best,
most permanent, and reliable preparation ever offered
to the public. •
The superiority of this Article is acknowledged by
all, and purchasers and dealers will find it to their
interest to give it a preference over all similar pre
parations. '
Manufactured only by
JOHN A. TARRANT & CO., Druggists,
No, 27? Greenwich St;, <3or. Warren St.,
New York.
And for sale by Druggists generally. 1 y.
MOFFAT’S LIFE PILLS AND PHCENIX
BITTERS. ,
THESE Medicineshave now been before the public
for a period of Thirty Teaks, and during that
time maintained a high character, in almost every
part, of the globe, for their extraordinary and imme
diate power of restoring perfect health to persons suf
fering under nearly every kidd of disease to which the
human frame is liable.
The most horrible cases of SCROFULA, in which
the face, boxes, and limbs of the victim nave been
preyed upon by the insatiable disease, are proved, by
the undeniable authority of the sufferers themselves,
to have been completely cured by these purely Vege
table Medicines, after all others have been found more
than useless.
Obstinate cases of PILES, of many years’ stand
ing, have rapidly and permanently yielded to the same
means, and others of Eke kind fc are daily cured in every
part of the country. '
Habitual, as well as Occasional Gostiveness; Dys
grnsia, Bilious aud Liver Diseases, Asthma, Dropsy,
heumatism, Fever and Ague, Worms, Settled Pains
in the Limbs,
Together with a long catalogue of other maladies,
are shown, on the.same indisputable evidence, to be
evefy where and invariably exterminated by these
mildly operating, yet sure and speedy resources of
health and strength, without the usual aid of puffery
and artificial recommendations: *
putetion, which bids defiance to contradiction, and
whichis co-extensive tothe American:population:
Both the Life Pills and Phoonix Bitters are mild
and agreeable in their operation, and effectually
cleanse the system of all impurities without occasion
ing any’ prostration of strength, 6r requiring any con
finement or change of diet.
Prepared and sold by DR. WM. B. MOFFAT,
885 Broadway, New York.
For Sale by all Druggists. oct. 18-1 yr.
THE SINGER SEWING MACHINES.
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.