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<J,apd seemingly as
impalpable as Ms shadow. Thrice they
were witMn cannon-shot W'ehch'bther, twice
without a single trench' at rampart between
them. The i&iriMsMhgkt the outposts was
incessant, hut the main body was withdrawn
as soon as there seemed a chance of its be
coming involved.”
At one time, tlie mairi body of the army
of the Prince, having tHe river Geta,
the rear guard of attacked anc
cut in pieces by a detachment of 7,000 under
Vitelli, an officer whom the Duke had sent
for that purpose. ' “ Vitelli sent a messenger
to the Duke to implore him to advance with
the main body, cross the river, and, once for
all, exterminate the rebels in a general com
bat. Alva, inflamed that his sagely-con
ceived plans could not be! comprehended even
by his favorite officers/said, ‘Go back to
Vitelli. Is he, or am; Ito command in
this campaign? Tell him not to suffer a
single man to cross the river. Warn him
against sending any lnorb envoys to advise a
battle; for should you tor any other mam
dare to bring me anoih|r message, I swear
to you, by the head ofjthe ES'ng, that ydu
go not hence alive.’ B>|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. Lexington, thus de
scribes General Price’s|bemp breastworks ly--
“At this juncture our men discovered, with
no little dismay, an engine of war which was
being brought to bear ; on them, threatening
the consequences which they dreaded most
a safe approach for the enemy, and an ulti
mate charge in force over the intrenchments.
The rebels presented a strong breastwork of
hemp bales, which appeared like a. moving
barrier, impenetrable to bullets or 'cannon
shot, and swarming with men in therear. It
was about twenty : rods in length, the 1
height of two bales of hemp. The hales
were placed with the ends facing our fortifi
cations, affording a thickness of about six
feet. This immense breastwork commenced
moving forward, not by detachments or sing
ly, but in one vast body, unbroken and
steady, as though it slid along the ground of
its own volition. It advanced steadily over
the smooth surface, parting to pass trees and
closing up again as impenetrable as a rock.
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. Our brave soldiers could only
watch it with keen anxiety, and wait for the
fearful result.” -
PBOPHICT.
I APPREHEND, says Dr. Scott, in his excel
lent Commentary, that prophecy resembles a
map of the world, on a small scale; in which
only countries and capital cities, and some
very remarkable places are noticed, so that
they who dwell near considerable cities and
large towns are disappointed at not finding
them in the map.
JWMrtisjfowjitis.
TARRANT’S
EFFERVESCENT
SELTZER APERIENT.
rTIHIS valuable and popular Medicine has universally
A received the most fevorable recommendations of
the medical profession and the public, as the most
efficient and agreeable
SALINE APERIENT.
It may be used, with the best effect, in Bilious and
Febrile Diseases, Costiveness, Sick Headache, Nau
sea, Loss Of Appetite, Acidity of the Stomach, Tor
eof the Liver, Gout, Rheumatic Affections,
:1, Piles, and all complaints where
A GENTLE OR COOLING APERIENT OR PUR
GATIVE IS REQUIRED.
It is particularly adapted to the wants of Travelers,
by Sea and Land, Residents in Hot Climates, Persons
of Sedentary Habits, Invalids and Convalescents. Cap
tains of Vessels, and Planters will find a valuable ad
dition to their Medicine Chests.
It is in the form of a Powder, carefully put in Bot
tles, to keep in any climate, and merely requires water
poured upon it to produce a delightful effervescent
beverage.
Numerous testimonials from professional and other
gentlemen of the highest standing throughout the
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
notice of an intelligent public.
TARRANT’S
Cordial Elixir of Turkey Rhubarb.
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 be 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 ail similar pre
parations.
Manufactured only by
JOHN A. TARRANT & CO., Druggists,
No. 278 Greenwich St., Cor. Warren St.,
New York.
®§yAnd for sale by Druggists generally. ly
MOFFAT’S LIFE PILLS AND PHOENIX
BITTERS.
THESE Medicines have now been before the public
for a period of Thirty Years, 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 kind 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 have 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. v
Obstinate cases of PILES, of many years’ stand
ing, have rapidly and permanently yielded to the same
means, and others of Eke kind are daily cured in every
part of the country.
Habitual, as well as Occasional Costiyeness, Dys
pepsia, Bilious and Liver Diseases, Asthma, Dropsy,
Rheumatism, 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
every 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.
“Moffat’s Vegetable Life Pills and Phoenix.
Bitters” have thus acquired a solid and enduring re
putation, which bids defiance to contradiction, and
which is co-extensive to the American population.
Both the Life Pills and Phosn’ix Bitters are mild
and. agreeable in their operation, and effectually
cleanse the system of all impurities without occasion
ing any prostration of strength, or requiring any con
finement or change of diet.
Prepared and sold by DR. WM. B. MOFFAT,
385 Broadway, New York,
For Sale by all Druggists. oct. 18-1 yr.
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.