JamiJg §mh. THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY. What flower is this that greets the morn, Its hues from heaven so freshly born 1 With burning star and flaming band It kindles all the sunset land O, tell us what its name may be f Is this the Flower of Liberty? It is'the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty 1 In savage Nature’s far abode Its tender seed our fathers sowed; The storm-winds rook its swelling bud, Its opening leaves were streaked with blood, Till, lo! earth’s tyrants shook to see The fttll-blown Flower of Libertyl Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty I Behold its streaming rays unite One mingled flood of braided light,—• The red that fires the Southern rose, With spotless white from Northern snows, And, spangled o’er its azure, see The sister Stars of Liberty 1 Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flowers of Liberty! The blades of heroes fence it round; Where’er it springs is holy ground; From tower and dome its glories spread; It waves where lonely sentries tread j It makes the land as ocean free, And plants an empire on the seal Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Libertyl Thy sacred leaves, fair Freedom’s flower, Shall over float on dome and tower, To all their heavenly colors true, In blackening frost or crimson dew, — And Gob love us as we love thee, Thrice holy Flower of Liberty 1 Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Fi.ower op Liberty ! OUR FATHER IS A DRUNKARD. The May blooms had unfurled their pink banners from the apple trees, and the song nf the robin was heard in the land. In the long spring twilight, Harry, Jamie, and Kit ty were playing with their little neighbors iitound the garden gate. “What’s that coming?” suddenly cried little Lu Carroll, peering down the dusky road. “ I’tn afraid it’s a drunken man.” Harry, with a quick sensitiveness, looked in the direction indicated by her rosy finger. “Why, that isn’t a drunken man,” cried he, the blood rushing to his hair; “that’s lather.” “ Well, what if it is ? ” cried Dick Sta ples. “It may be a drunken man for all that.” “What do you mean?” cried Harry, fiercely. “ I mean your father drinks, and that’s what makes his face look so red and shiny.” “Ho such thing,” cried Jamie, his blue eyes leaping into sudden fire. “ Father has rushes of blood to the head. He told us so lumself; and mother says it’s very danger ous.” And Jamie choked down to a sob. “ Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Hick, tauntingly. “That’s a good joke. Why, there isn’t a boy in the neighborhood that doesn’t know be drinks like a fish. I declare he’s stag gering about now as bad as old drunken Peter." Harry sprang like a young lion upon his tormentor, so wild with shame and bitter pain that he hardly knew what he did. Hick’s brother flew to Ms assistance: and little Jamie, with flashing eyes, enlisted on the side of Harry, while the General vig orously attacked his master’s enemy in the rear, “ Take it back,” screamed Harry, wMle J amie, with bleeding face, had no breath for words. “ I won’t,” retorted Dick; “ he's so drunk now he can’t tell the door from the window,” “ Boys ! hoys! ” exclaimed a voice full of reproachful surprise; and turning qqickly, the young combatants beheld their white haired pastor, Ms kind face full of grief and pity- ;. . V . : The boys stood with downcast eyes and paralyzed tongues; while the General, feel ing himself involved ip the common disgrace, rutreated behind Jamie, with drooping ears. “ How did this happen ? ” asked Mr. Ma son, kindly taking the hot hand of 1 little pan ting Jamie. “ He called our father a drunkard,” gasped Jnmie, a large tear rolling down either cheek. “ As bad as old Pete Brown,” added Har ry, with flashing eyes. Dick gradually edged away from the re proof of good Mr, Mason’s eyes, and the two children were left alone with their old friend. “ 0 Mr. Mason,” cried Jamie, “ don’t look so sad. We know it was very wrong to fight; but we could not help it when he called father such names. You don’t know how a fellow feels when—” But Jamie broke down, while Harry stood, firm and defiant, muttering,— “ Served him right. I’ll do it again. No one shall call my father a drunkard.” “My dear children,” said the kind pastor, “ let us talk over the matte?-.. My little flock has gone all astray. Did you forget the le>Bbn to ‘do good to those who . “ Oh; Iremember,” cried Harry, excitedly; “hut I could not do it at that time. 0 Mr. Mason, wasn’t it a lie ? ” he asked, appeal ingly ; and Jamie looked up with eager hope. The good old man’s voice was tremulous with pity as he answered tenderly, “I’m afraid it was not all a lie, my poor children. Your father has changed very much within the last few months; but I hope we shall yet be able to save him. We will all try to gether—shall we?” he added, more cheer fully. ... Harry’s -brown eyes were distended, and his proud young mouth quivered painfully, as he said in a hoarse whisper, “ it’s true, then, Jamie. Our father is a drunkard.” “ Oh, what shall we do ? ” sobbed Jamie, throwing himself passionately upon the ground. •‘My dear children,” began Mr. Mason, wiping away a tear; but Jamie continued, in a low, wailing voice,— “ Oh, will the boys chase him, and knock in his hat, and throw mud and stones at him, as they do at old Pete Brown ? Oh, I shall die—l shall die.” “ Hear me,” said the old pastor, with kind authority. “ You must not give up in this way. There is a great work for you, and Harry to do.” “ Oh, we shall be a drunkard’s children,” said Harry,, bitterly; “ and all the boys will laugh at us, and call us ‘ Punch ’ and ‘ Whis ky Skin ’ as they do old Pete’s boys. I won’t go to school any more; and there’s no use trying to do anything." “ Stop, stop', my child,” cried Mr. Mason. “ You are going too fast. There are a great many good people left in'the world—-men an 1 boys—who will never think of lailghing at you. And, besides, I want you to be very brave and courageous, and never mind a lit tle ridicule now and then, and perhaps you won’t have to bear it very long, for X think you can do a great deal to help your father.” “ Wliat ? ” asked Jamie, eagerly springing to his feet. “ In the first place you can ask God to cure him.” “ Oh, Mr. Mason,” sighed Jamie, in a dis appointed tone, “ we’ve done that ever since New Year’s, and it don’t seem to do any good.” “ You don’t know that,” said Mr. Mason, cheerfully. “Perhaps God has a plan now to make him your own kind father again. But I think he would like to have these two hoys help him.” “ What, help Gf-od / ” asked Jamie, with an incredulous smile. “ Yes, indeed,” said Mr. Mason. “Of course God could do everything alone, but he likes to have some of his work done by his little children. He wants to see how wil ling and ready they are to do anything to please him.” “ Well, Mr. Mason,” cried Jamie, joyfully, “ I’m ready. What shall Ido ? ” And, with eager eyes and parted mouth, he seemed ready to spring into immediate action. ' Then followed a long, earnest talk which resulted in the conclusion that Harry and Jamie were to be home missionaries. They were to be very attentive and affectionate to their poor father. They were to try all sorts of innocent expedients to keep him in nights. They should tell him funny stories about their school and the boys. Harry should want help |in his sums; and Jamie should have some cu rious puzzle to be solved; and they should both watch if he seemed uneasy, or his throat became parched, and be ready to give him a draught of pure, cool water. Then, while father was gone to his business, they should still keep on trying to do good. They should call a meeting of all the little boys and girls in the neighborhood, and ask them if they didn’t want to join a cold-water army; and they should all sign a pledge never to drink anything hut pure, cold water. “ I’m sure I never shall! ” interrupted Harry, with clinched hands and burning tears. “ But, Mr. Mason,” said Jamie, anxiously, “ won’t all the boys say it’s a pretty joke for drunkards’ boys to get up a cold-water army? I’m sure Hick Staples will.” “ Perhaps some of them will laugh at first, but it won’t last long. I believe every boy has a good spot in his heart somewhere; and I shouldn’t wonder if even little Hick Sta ples came to ask your pardon before night. But be careful, my dear little soldiers. Re member that ‘he that is slow to anger is bet ter than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh-a city.’ And never forget to ask God’s blessing for Christ’s sake.” Mr. Mason went on his way; and Henry and Jamie entered the house, saddened, but hopeful, and anxious to begin their good work. But as they entered the gloomy, nnlighted room, their young hearts were chilled with a presentiment of some impending evil. “ Is anything the matter, mother ? ” asked Jamie, stumbling up to where she sat, her face buried in her hands, and her long, black hair unbound, and falling unheeded over her shoulders. Harry instinctively lighted their last little piece of candle, and revealed his father lean ing against the mantel, with a ghastly de spairing face. The poor children gazed from one to the other in pitiful distress, as no sound broke the stillness but the solemn ticking of the old clock. At last Jamie made one more effort, and, timidly approacMng Ms father, he asked im ploringly,— “ What is the matter, father ? Can’t you tell us?”- “Matter?” groaned James Grey. “Oh, nothing is the matter, only I’ve ruined my family, and we’re miserable beggars! ” And he laughed a loud, startling laugh. Mrs. Grey looked up, and caught the frightened gaze of the two bewildered chil dren. “My poor little sons,” she criecl, for getting her own misery in pity for them, “ come, I will tell you all. Mr. Mabbit has failed, and your father has lost everything.” “ Well, now, mother,” said Jamie, bright ening, “that isn’t so bad. I always bated that old distillery, and the ugly, red-faced men that used to be around it, Now, ean’t : father go back to Mr. Fundy’s, and we all be just as happy as ——” “ Hold your tongue, boy! ” thundered James. The child grew deathly pale, and looked at his father with a pitiful expression of bro ken-hearted surprise. “Jamie is not used to such words from his father,” said Mrs. Grey, in a low tone. “ I didn’t mean to frighten him,” said James, half apologetically; “but the child must learn not to be impudent. And, Mag gie,” be continued with a wild look from his bloodshot eyes, “ don’t reproach me. You must be careful how you goad one standing on the brink of ruin. I’m going fast enough. I’ll soon topple over. Hurrah f” And, with an insane laugh, he hurried to the door. “James,” implored Mr. Grey, springing to her feet, and catching his arm, “I don’t reproach you. -Hear me —” But he flung her roughly aside, and hurriedly rushed from the house. “ Where is he going, mother V’ asked Har ry in,a fearful whisper. Mrs. Grey shook her head. “ 0 mother, you needn’t try to keep it from us any longer. We found out all about it. We know our father is ” —his voice sunk to a sobbing whisper:—“ a drunkard .” “Yes,” said Mrs. Grey, in tearless apathy, “it is true; and now he has gone for more of the horrible poison!”. A. “Why, mother,” cried, Jamie, “will any one be so wicked as to give it to him when he seOs how wretched it has made him al ready.” ‘ Mrs- Grey smiled a strange, wan sipile, “ Oh, yes, my little, Jamie.” “ And can’t anything be done with them ?” “ They ought to be.hiing,” said Hairy, vehemently, drawing up his small figure. “ What’s the difference between, killing a man in a minute and killin g-h i m # few f ©h mother, if I'm ever a man, I’ll try to be pre sident ; and I’ll make it a law that whoever sells rum shall be hung till they’re dead, dead, dead ! ” And the excited child laid his head upon his mother’s knee, and wept bitterly. After a while, when they all became more composed, Mrs. Grey told them they must leave their present home in one short week, and go to live in the city. “ Why, that isn’t so bad, mother,” cried Harry, with returning animation: “I like the city.” • ■ j “ Oh my poor child,” returned the mother, “ we are not going to live in any of the fine houses on the pleasant streets, hut in some narrow lane, in a rickety house, where there Stftxman ffw 'S&jrtniatt and stxu%n dtJMijeliiSi. are already two or three other families. It is all your father can afford at present. “I’ll never go,” said impulsive Harry again, while Jamie looked wistfully around the room where he had passed so many hap py hours. “Ah, but you must,” said Mrs. Grey, with difficulty commanding her voice. “ The cottage is already sold, and the new people are coming to take immediate possession. “ I don’t think I can bear it, mother,” said Jamie, in a choking voice. ■ “ Well,” said Mrs. Grey, making a great effort to be cheerful for the sake of her chil dren, “ perhaps it will not be so 'very hard, after all. We will all' work together, and make our new home as pleasant and bright as we can; and perhaps father will be more willing to stay with us, now that he has done with that dreadful distillery.” “Mother,” said Jamie, eagerly recurring to his old question, “ why can’t father go back to Mr. Fundy’s ? ” _ _ Mrs. Grey hesitated, but Jamie persisted. “Well, my child,” said she, with great ef fort, “Mr, Fundy has refused to take him back, because ” j( “You needn’t tell the reason, mother, cried Harry, fiercely. “I don’t want to know. Ohj” cried the child, jumping up, and pressing both hands to his aching bead, “ I don’t think father has any right to make us so unhappy. I won’t have him for my father. I can’t love him any more.” “Harry! ” cried Mrs. Grey, reprovingly; and Jamie hastened to say,—■ “ Why, I love him; I shall always love poor father; and you know, Harry, what we were going to do for him. Mr. Mason thought God would help him, if we only did what we could.” “Well, we can try,” said poor Harry; “but I can’t exactly see my way clear. I feel as if everything was growing dark.”— The Little Captain. A CURL CUT OFF WITH AN AXE. A TRUE INCIDENT. “Ho you see this lock of hair?” said an old man to me. “Yes; but what of it? It is, I suppose, the curl from the head of a dear child, long since gone to God.” “It is not. It is a lock of my own hair; and it is now nearly seventy years since it was cut from this head.” “But why do you prize a lock of your hair so much ?” , “It has a story belonging to it, and a strange one. I keep it thus with care be cause it speaks to me more of God and of his special care than anything else I possess. “I was a little child of four years old, with long, curly locks, which, in sun, or rain, or wind, hnng down my cheeks uncovered. One day my father went into the woods to cut up a log, and I went with him. I was standing a little way behind him, or rather at his side, watching with interest the strokes of the heavy axe, as it went up and came down upon the wood, sending off splinters with every stroke in all directions. Some, of the splinters fell at my feet, and I eagerly stooped to pick them up. In doing so I stumbled forward, and in a moment nay curly head lay upon the log. I had fallen just at the moment when the axe was a coming down with all its force. It was too late to stop the blow. Down came the axe. I screamed, and my father fell to the ground in terror. He could not stay the stroke, and in the blindness which the sudden horror caused, he thought he had killed his boy. We soon recovered, I from my fright, and he, from his terror. He caught me in his arms and looked, at me from head to foot, to find out the deadly wound, .which he was sure he had inflicted. Not a drop of bided nor a scar was to be seen. He knelt upon the grass and gave thanks to a gracious God. Having done so, he took up his axe and found a few hairs upon its edge. He turned to the log he had been splitting, and there was a single curl of his boy’s hair, sharply cut through and laid upon the wood. How great the escape! It was as if an an gel had turned aside the edge at the moment when it was descending on my head. With renewed thanks upon Ms lips, he took up the curl, and went home with me in his arms. “ That lock he kept all his days, as a me morial of God’s care and love. That lock he left to me on his death-bed.” A WORD TO YOUNG LADIES. Do not dismiss your habits of study, when you cease to attend school. That crisis is often a hazardous one, in the history of a young lady. If she has gained distinction there, without a radical love of knowledge, her improvement ceases with the excitement that sustained it. If a latent fondness for expensive dress and fashionable amusements was cherished in her period of classical edu cation she will rush into them with an eager ness proportioned to her previous restraint. Satisfied with past honors, and believing that she “has already attained, and is already perfect,” she slumbers at her post, and, in a few years, perceives those outstripping her, whose talents she once held in contempt. Every young lady who, at leaving school, entertains a clear and comfortable conviction that she has finished her education, should 1 recollect the reproof of the venerable Dr. v Rush to a young physician, who spoke of the’ time when he finished his studies. “ When you finished your studies ! Why, you must be a happy man to have finished so young. Ido not expect to finish mine as long as I live.” There is an affecting lesson in the death of that philosopher, who, after it was supposed that breath had forsaken him, faintly raised, his head to listen to some improving conver sation that was conducted in his chamber, and even drew the curtain, saying, “ I shall be most happy to die, learning something." — Mrs. Sigourney. ROUTINE AND REALITY. The repetition of duties, under some fixed rule, is difficult to reconcile with freshness and heartiness of life. Sometimes we chafe at the rule, and indulge in vague dreams and sentimental theories of action without plan, and life without law. Sometimes we sink down under the monotony, grow indifferent through familiarity, and' suffer life to become a tame and spiritless succession of tasks, a dull, drudging, grubbing subserviency. Is there no remedy or reconciliation? Is there no. such thing as joining the Company of whom Coventry Patmore says— “ They live by law; not like the fool, But like the bard who freely sings In strictest bonds of rhyme and rule, Yet finds in them not bonds but wings?” Get the Christian instantly thM whole order of servile offices rises into new dignity. A free allegiance to the Father of goodness transforms the abject state, and sets the slave on a footing with kings. It is like the touch of the angel’s spear that giveth life. Bondage is ended. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” The devout soul is lifted, at once, above the degradation, and beyond all the circumstances, pf slavery. If the chains are not taken off, they gall the limbs no longer. “Fear and trembling” give place to “good will.” If we could strike out what is everywhere done in dull eqltformity to precedent and fashion, and what Is . done only in eye-service as men-pleasersj substituting an honest, in dependent, individual doing of all things by personal choice, “ with good-will, as unto the Lord,” or because it is right, what vocation, trade, household, would not gain in the inte rest and power of that renovated existence ? Business would be transacted not by mere commercial maxims,' hot by Christian princi ples. Literature would he cleared of cant. Common labor would not be common or un clean. The church' would be rid of make believe. Politics would be purged of official bondage to precedence and prejudice. Fa milies would not he stupefied with mutual unconcern, or deadened with the humdrum of cooking, providing, mending, and clean ing. Households would not be herds of ani mals stabled together for feeding and sleep ing, and for sleepy or sensual pleasure, hut animated groups ,of- beneficent and entertain ing souls.—---F..Ah Mfmtington, in_ Thayer’s Home _ ■' SLOW, BUT SURE* The career of the Duke of Alva, whom the historian Motley calls “the first warrior of his age,” contains a lesson which may he of value to us in these war-times. A chief cause of that general’s success, was his in difference to popular opinion and to the clamors of his soldiers. This was strikingly illustrated in his campaign against the Prince of Orange, of which Mr. Motley gives a graphic account in the second volume of “The Rise of the Dutch Republic. In the early part of October, 1568, the Prince of Orange, with 20,000 infantry, and ' 8,000 cavalry, entered Brabant, and eagerly sought a battle with the Duke of Alva, who was at the head of only 15,000 or 16,000 in fantry, and 5,500 'cavalry. “ The Prince had everything to-hope, the Duke every thing to fear from, khe- result of a general action.” The latter believed that' if he could avoid a battle, the army of the Prince, which was poorly paid, would at. the ap proach of winter disband of its own accord. He accordingly “resolved to hang upon his adversary’s skirts, to follow him move by move, to check him at every turn, to harass him in a hundred ways, fo foil all his enter prises, to parry all Ms strokes, and finally to drive him out of the country, after a totally barren campaign, when, as he felt certain, his ill-paid hirelings would vanish in all directions, and leave their patriot Prince a helpless and penniless adventurer.” The plan was carried out to the letter, although it required almost superhuman firmness on the part of the Duke to keep his own impatient soldiers in check. “ Twenty nine times the Prince changed his encamp ment, and at every remove the Duke was still behind him, as clos|ron de Ohevreau, a young officer of the Duke, dashed his pistol to the ground in his presence, exclaiming that the Duke would never fight. The Duke smiled at the young man’s chagrin, seemed even to approve his enthusiasm, but remind ed him that it was the business of an officer to fight, of a General to conquer. If the victory were bloodless, so much the better for all.” The Duke’s predictions were finally veri fied ; for in the latter part of November, the paid soldiers of the Prince became mutinous, his army was dissolved, and his hopes of rescuing the Netherlands from Spanish tyranny were, for the time disappointed. “ The Duke had, by consummate strategy, foiled the army under tfie idolized champion of the Netherlands, and this so decisively, that without losing a single man, he had de stroyed eight thousand Rebels, and scattered to the winds the- twenty thousand.” While the sympathies.of all lovers of lib erty must be with the Prince of Orange in this unfortunate campaign, it is impossible to repress a feeling of admiration for the firm ness and skill displayed by the Duke. It is instruetive'to reflect what a bowl would greet a modern Alva who, at the bead of our . Ame rican, army, should adhere to such a system of tactics. The result, of the campaign in the Netherlands might have been very diffe rent, if the Duke had had to contend against reporters dogging his steps, and inflaming the minds oi the people by indiscreet reports, and against a thousand newspapers hounding him on to.a premature battle. He was more than a match for the murmurs of his soldiers; but it may be doubted whether he would have been proof against such a pressure as bias been brought to bear on some of our military: leaders.— -Examiner. A NOYII Bfij&ASTWORK. A correspondent off: \he Chicago Times, describing the siege of. 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Behind it were hundreds of men pushing and urging with levers, wMle others held the bales steadily to their places, and others still, whose numbers seemed almost infinite, firing between the crevices and over the top at our soldiers. Our men looked at the mov ing monster with astonishment. It lay like a large serpent, winding over the hiila and hollows, apparently motionless, yet moving broadside on, to envelop and destroy them in its vast folds. In vain the cannon were turned upon it. The heavy bales absorbed the shot harmlessly, or quietly resumed the positions from which they were displaced, seemingly moving without hands, but in reality controlled by strong arms which were unseen. In vain the musket bullets rained upon it in unremitting showers. The thou sands that it concealed were safe from such .puny assaults, and slowly gliding along, they waited with eagerness the time when their position should warrant them in bursting through its walls and storming up to the in trenchments. 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THE SINGER SEWING MACHINES. The • marked, and ever extending, popularity of SINQFR’S SEWING MACHINES, both in America and Europe, is such as best to establish their superiority over all others in the market. Sewing machines (so called) may be bought, it.is true, fora smaller amount of dollars, but it la mistaken economy to invest anything in a. worthless or unreliable article, and those who do so must abide the consequence! SINGER’S NEW FAMILY MACHINES- In order to place THE BEST FAMILY MACHINES IN THE WORLD 1 within the reach of all, we have re duced 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 sl3s'to $9O and $lOO. Singer’s No. 3 Standard Shuttle Machine, for Carriage Makers and heavy leather work. Price complete, $ 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, cheaper at that, in yiew of its.vatue, than the machines of-any other maker as a gift. All of Singer’s Machines make the interlock stitch ■with two threads, which is the best stitch known. Every person desiring to procure full ami reliable in formation about Sewing Machines, -their- sizes, prices, working capacities, and the best methods of purchasing, can obtain it by sending for a copy of 1. M. Singer & Cot’s Gazette, which is a beautiful pictorial paper en tirely devoted to the subject. It Will be supplied gratis. I. M SINGER & CO, oet. 18-1 yr. Sio Chestnut Street. ILANE, , DEALER IN BOOKS, STATIONERY, &o. 264, Sixth Avenue, near 17th Street, ’ ‘ NEW YORK. 2J”Bahnei'of the Covenant to be had here. Have You Provided for your Family an Insurance on your Idfe • DUTY MADE EASY. COU^' OFFICES 310. 16 COURT STREET, Brooklyn, NO. 16 WAIL STREET, New York. MUTITAI,, WITH A CASH CAPITAL OF $125,000, Invested in Stocks of the State of New York and First-Class Bonds and Mortgages. DIRECTORS: A. A. Low, Thomas Carlton, W. H. Cary, John T. Martin, I. H. Frothingham, John Halsey, J. S. T Slranahan, John Sneden, Thomas Messenger, J. Milton Smith, Samuel Smith, Harold Dollner, Henry E. Pierrcpont, A. B. Capwell, Abr. B. Baylis, Nehemiah Knight, Peter C. Cornell, ' Edward A. Lambert, John D. Cocks, James How, H. B. Claflin, L. B. Wyman, S. B. Chittenden, George A. Jarvis, Theo. Polhemus, Jr., Samuel Ferry, J. E. Southworth, S. E. Howard, Czar Dunning, George T. Hope, John G. Bergen, Charles A. Townsend, Lewis Roberts, Cornelius J. Sprague, Walter S. Griffith, losenh W. Green. M.F. Odell, - WALTER S. GRIFFITH, President I. JEL FROTHINGHAM, Treasurer. GEORGE C. RIPLEY, Secretary. A. B. CAPWELL, Counsel. Medical Counsel, j f L. M.D. J Brooklyn, ’ l Jas. Stewart, M.D., New York. 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 subject 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 may be 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 for any term of years, and on the participating or non-participating scale, at rates as low 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 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, or 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 ease Ml the 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. Our prospectus and other publications will ,be sent 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. the 1861. PENNSYLYAH IA 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, and all points East, and in the Union.depot at Pittsburg, with Through trains 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 trams provided with Laughbridge’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 ruffs Sleeping cars to Express and Fast trains. The Express runs daily; Mail and Fast Line, the Sabbath excepted. Mail Train leaves Philadelphia at . 1.30 A. M. Fast Line “ “ . 11.20 A.M. Express Train leaves “ ' . 10.15 P.M. WAY TRAINS;LEAVE AS FOLLOWS; Harrisburg Accom’tion, via Columbia 2.30 P. M. Columbia “ . 4.00 P. M. Parkesburg “ . . . 6.40 P. M. Westchester passengers will take the Mail, Parkes burg and Columbia trains. Passengers for Sunbury, Williamsport, Elmira, Buf falo, Niagara Falls, and intermediate points, leaving. Philadelphia at 7.30 A. M. and 6.30 P. M., go directly through. Tickets may be obtained at the offices of the Com pany in Philadelphia, New York, Boston or Baltimore; and at any of the important Railroad offices in the West ; also, on board of any of the regular line of Steamers on the Mississippi or Ohio rivers. fifST" Fare always as low, and time as quick, as by any other route. For further information, apply at the 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 freight, together with the saving of time, are adyantages read ily appreciated by shippers of freight;, and the travel ing public. Merchants and Shippers entrusting the transporta tion of their freight to the Company/can rely with confidence on its speedy transit. The Hates o t Freight to and from any point in the West, by the Pennsylvania Railroad, are at all times as favorable as are charged by other Railroad Com panies. Be particular to mark packages “ via Penna. R.R.” For freight contracts or shipping directions, apply to, or address either of the following Agents of the Company:— D. A. STEWART, Pittsburg; H. S. Pieree & Co., Zanesville. Ohio; J. J. Johnston, Ripley, Ohio; R. M’Neely, Maysville, Ky.; Ormsby & Cropper, Ports mouth, Ohio; Paddock &.Co., Jeffersonville, Ind.; H. W; Brown & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Athern ffi Hibbert, Cincinnati, Ohio; R. C. Meldrum, Madison, Ind.; Joseph E. Moore, Louisville, Ky.V P. O. O. Riley & Co., Evansville, Ind.; N. W. Graham & Co., Cairo, 111.; R. F. Sass, Shaler & Glass, St. Louis, Mo.; John H. Harris, Nashville, Tenn.; Harris & Hunt, Memphis, Tenn.; Clarke & Co., Chicago, 111.; W. H. H. Koontz, Alton, HI.; or, to freight agents of Railroads at different points in the West. E. J. Sneeder, Philadelphia. Magraw & Kooks, No. 80 North street, Baltimore. Leech & Co;, No. 2 Astor House, or No. 1 j3‘. Wil liam street; NewiYoirk. Leech & Co., No. 7.7. State street, Boston, .r H. H. HOUSTON,' General Freight Agent, Phil adelphia. : - ' / V L. L. HOUPT, Ticket. Agent, Philadelphia ENOCH LEWIS, Gen’l Superintendent. Altona, PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE CENTRAL RAILROAD. OPEN TO OXFORD. SPRING ARRANGEMENT. ON. and after Monday, March 11th, 1861, the trains will leave Philadelphia from the Depot of the West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad Company, Northeast corner of Eighteenth and Market streets, at 8 A.M. and 4 P.M. Leave' Oxford at 6.45 A. M. and 2.60 P. M. . A daily line of Stages leaves Oxford, via Hopewell, to .Peach onthe arrival of the morning train. Returning, leaves Peach Bottom, to connect at Oxford with the afternoon train for Philadelphia. " HENRY WOOD, Superintendent. OCT. 31, 1861- WATCH THE HEALTH OF YOUR CHILDREN. WORMS are a prolific source of sickness in chil dren, They are seldom free from them, and by their irritation .all other diseases are aggravated. Con vulsions as well as St. Vitus’ Dance, have been superin duced by them, 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 d e . stroys worms, and by its tonic action invigorates the whole system. It is prepared only by Dr. D. Jat.ve & Son, 242 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. COUGHS, COLDS, CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA BRONCHITIS, ETC. ’ JAYNES EXPECTORANT HAS BERN FOR THIRTT TEARS 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, it has maintained in the face of all competition, and which has created a constantly increased demand for it in all parts of the world. As far as possible, this evi denee is laid before the public from time to tim P until the most skeptical will acknowledge that for all pulmonary complaints it is truly an invaluable remeJv RECENT COUGHS AND COLDS, PLETTIfmn PAINS, &c., are quickly and effectually cured bv its diaphoretic, soothing and expectorant power J ASTHMA it always cures. It overcomes the spas modic contraction of the air vessels, and by producing free expectoration, at once removes all diffienltv of breathing. ' BRONCHITIS readily yields to the Expectorant It subdues the inflammation which extends throSh the wind tubes, produces free expectoration, and sun presses at once the cough and pain.' F CONSUMPTION.—For this insidious and fetal dis ease, no remedy on earth has ever been found so ef* fectual. It subdues the inflammation, —relieves the cough and pain,—removes the diffiulty of breathing and produces 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 &c., 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 somaof them personally, I do not hesitate to_ commend them as a valuable addition to our materia medica. The Expectorant especially I 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. R. James, Missionary in Liberia of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, writes:— “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.” Ref. 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 he 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, Sessionary of the Presbyterian Board at Futtegurh, Northern India, writes:— “Your Expectorant was the means, under Provi dence, of curing a case of Incipient Consumption, which had been pronounced incurable by competent medical men.” Rev. Jonathan Going, D. D., while President of Granville College, Ohio,Tvrote:— j “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. I). Jayne's Expectorant. ’ ’ Miss Mary Ball, of the Protestant Episcopal Mis sion, Cape Palmas, West says:—; “In our mission families your medicines are a.ge neral specific, and among the sick poor they enable' me to do much good. Your, Expectorant has proved of great value in the case of Rev.’ Jacob. Ramho,' and in that also of Rev. Mr. Green, two of our missionaries.” Rev. C. L. Fisher, formerly pastor of the Dell Prame, Wis., Baptist Church,:;writes: — ... “A little daughter of mine, aged seven years, had been afflicted for some time -ritb AMmaaifdPalpita tion of the heart, and haring tried’varibus remedies without relief, I was persuaded to get,ypur Expec torantand 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 tiroat, as if mucus had lodged there, but your Exp eetorant 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. mHOUGH the remote or primary causes of Skin Dis -L ease may_be various, as Lnpurity. of the. Blood, Liver Complaint, Scrofula, etc., etc., the immediate cause is always the same, and teat is an obstruction in tee pores of tee skin, by -which tee perspiration, in its passage from the body, is arrested.and confined in and under tee skin, causing an intolerable itching, or an eruption of Pimples, Pustules, Ringworm, Tetter, Salt 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 tee' Mver Complaint, and effectually eradicating Scrofula from-the system, while at the same time it frees tee pores of their obstructing matters, and heals the diseased surface. Prepared only by DR. D. JAYNE & SON, 212 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, arid no better remedy can. be taken for all derangemerils of the Sto mach and Digestive Organs. Prepared only by DR JAYNE & SON, 1 at No. 242 Chestnut Street. DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA, SUM MER COMPAINI, ALL ROWEL AFFEC TIONS, ETC., ' b ABE FJROMPTLY CUBED 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 -fc offer tee most convincing proofs (certificates of cures' effected) of its ability to remove all diseases , fqr which it: is recom mended. It is quick, safe, and. certain in its action, affording immediate relief 'when prdihptly adminis tered. Age does not impair its. virtues, .neither is it subject to the vmying'influencesofclimate; being equally effective in all .latitudes, it is-in all respects what it claims to be—a “ Standard Household Re medy,” which every'femily should be suppied with. DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY; It never fails to subdue the most violent attacks of these complaints, np matter from what cause they oti finate. As changes of climate, water, etc., often pro uee these serious diseases, travellers and others should always keep a supply of tee Carminative by them. ASIATIC .CHOLERA- The prompt.use of the.Carminative f BalsMß will al ways remove;tee Diarrhoea and Cramps which accom pany the attacks of Cholera, thus often conquering the disease in its incipiency. 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 INFANTUM OR SUMMER COM PLAINT, . . Is speedily and effectually cured by tee Carmina tive. It removes all soreness of the Abdomen, allays the irritation and calms:-the action of the Stomach, and may always be relied on to remove the sufferings of the little ones, when 'used according to directions. Cholera Morbus, ChSplic, Griping, Pains, Sour Sto mach, Waterbrash, Pain of Sickness of the Stomach- Want of Appetite, Wind in the Bowels, Cramps, Sea Sickness, and Bowel Affections and Nervous Dis eases, are removed by Jayn'e’s Carminative Balsam, with more certainty and ease than by any other pre paration yet offered the public. The Carminative Balsam, and all of DR. D. & SON’S Family Medicines, are prepared only at U» Chestnut Street, arid rnay be had of Agents througn -out tee country.