ght =lig Citric The Volunteer's Mother. HE is my boy, my only boy ; His father died long years gone by; And little have I known of joy But gazing on his dark blue eye. 'Tis lighted now with higher glow ; His country calls him ; let him go He never grieved me ; tender, kind, Strong, loving—full of hope and grace— My life was in his own entwined, My heart but mirrored back his face. With stern resolve he seeks the foe— His country calls him; let him go 1 How often I have sat beside Him sleeping—clustering round his head Those rich brown locks, my praise, my pride I And now the earth must be his bed. 'Tis wrong to grieve for this, I know— His country calls him; let him go I .A.h l in how many hearts this strife Is waged in prayer, by prayer is won There is the wood, the fire, the knife, And for the sacrifice—our son 'Twould kill rue if he fell ; but, no I His country calls him; let him go I For God, who gave our land so blest, Would have us guard it; heart and home Give up their best at such behest. The gulf was closed in heathen Rome With one young warrior. Weal or woe, His country calls him ; let him go I LIGHT UP YONDER. " I DON'T see," cried Harry Johnson, " why some folks are in such a hurry to get to heaven. This world is bright enough for me." His older sister, Jane, laid down her sew ing, and looked straight down into his happy black eyes. " Harry, would you really like to know the reason ? Come, look at this picture." She took up a little school geography, and showed him a picture of some men at work - in a deep mine. "Now, Harry, there are poor people who spend all their lives in just such places as -that. It'd dig—dig--dig--with them, with their pickaxes and shovels, from morning to night—only they never know when it is morning, and when night, for they have no sunlight down " there. , "Ugh 1" cried Harry, " that must :be horrid 1" "Not quite so horrid to them, after all," said his sister. "For, you see they get used to it. And some of them have never 'seen the tun in. titer lives. They are born, and they die there. There are their friends; and I have no doubt it seems to them quite sort of Way to live, They have lamps to fork. by,. and with .the lamps they go round into the great dark, holes of the mine to dig. ~ ,But suppose now, Harry, that some day one of these people' takes it into his head to come up from under ground, and see the world outside. Ho' jumps into the great bucket they have to hoist the ore they dig outin the mines; ; round and round goes the wheel at the top that winds up the rope ; and by and by the man begins to get up into daybed. Oh ! isn't it splendid 1' he cries out- 7r a, good deal haiipier than you were, Ibr_ryi when you went ta the museum. What't — a glorious world they have got up here He sees the green grass, and the waving trees, and the blue = skYAte.tiecailie houses, a;4l the peoPie, and the laughing children ; and he can't help clapping his hands in the delight at the beautiful things atonnd. •' After a while he gets into the . bucket again,: and slowly the rope lets him down in the dark. When he comes to the bottom of. the mine, his friends want to know how he likes -things up here. " Oh," he says, "I don't want to livedin the mine any longer." " Don't want to live in the mine ?" they ask him. "Pray, why not ? Isn't it as pleasant here as it was before you went up ? Are not the lamps as bright—the food as good—the work as easy —the wages as large—your friends down here as kind as they ever were ?" " Yes;" he says, a everything is just as it woe. But . Foe seen the world up yonder ! It isn't because I like the dark mine here lead than I did that I want to go ; but because I love the happy fields and the sunny sky up there so much more." "Now, Harry, do you think it is anything strange that he would rather mount up again to the outside world ?" "No, Jane, I'm sure I don't. I should feel just so." 64 Well, the apostle Paul says in one place that, he wants to leave the earth, and be with Christ. And if you' would like to know the reason read what he says in another place. "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (he means himself, Harry), caught up into the third heaven." There ! that was the reason ! What glorious things he saw in God's pure heaven above, we do not know— what sights of the golden city, and the angels in„shining robes ' and the harps of gold t and the crowns, and the sea of glass, and the mighty multitude singing God's praises to . et 1 1 . 4 .37, We know nothing about all that. ut who can wonder that when he came down i ato this lower world again, he wanted to get lack up ybnder t" > "But, ‘.l3ut, jme,- have you, and papa, and mamma been in heaven, as. Paul had '?" "No, Harry. 'But it sometimes seem to IDS .041 if I had. When I read in Revelation shout the river of the'water of life, and think of those blessed ones who, as the hymn says "Range the sweet plains on the banks of the river, Ana - sing of salvation for ever and ever"— when I think, Harry, of our' dear Lord a 8 there among them, with his loving counte nance) it seems to me, sometimes , as if I were already there. This world—thOugh I love all the beautiful things and the kind friends in it=-is not quite bright enough for me, Parry, if it is for you. You remember your bird Billy, that got away last year, don't you I/ " Oh, yes, -,Tane, I cried a. week about it. Aid - Billy seemed so happy, singing in his cage, I didn't see why he needed to go, if the door was open." " Ah, Harry, so is the Christian happy, singing in Ma cage—this world, that is. But Billy was fat happier when he could spread his little wings for a flight to the grove over yonder. And so it is with the Christian, when death opens the door to his cage. He is glad to be on God's beautiful earth, but a good deal more glad to fly away into God's more beautiful heaven." " Christians are queer folks, Jane ; I wish I were one," .said H arry, slowly. He sat with his little elbows on his knees, and his chin on the palms of his hands. It is clear that he was thinking hard. God help him —and you, too, dear reader—to pray as well as think, and pray with a Christian heart. OLD-FASHIONED COMFORTS OUR ancestors were a frugal, self-denying people, inured to hardship from the cradle ; they were content to be without almost all the luxuries of life, but they enjoyed some of its comforts, to which many of us are strangers (old-fashioned comforts, we may say); and among these, the old fireplace, as it used to be termed, held no mean rank. How vividly the picture of one of those spa cious kitchens of the olden times comes to our mind, with its plain furniture - and sanded floor, innocent of paint, but as white as the neatest of housewives could make it ! In one corner stood the clock, its very face wearing an aspect of good cheer, and seem ing to smile benignantly upon a miniature moon over its head, which, tradition said, had, at a remote period, followed the rising and setting of its great prototype in the heavens, though its days of active service were long ago over. But the crowning glory of that kitchen was not its sanded floor ; nor the high desk, with its pigeon -holes and secret drawers, which no venturesome youngster ever dared invade ; nor yet the old clock ticking so mu sically in the corner ; but it was the old fashioned fire-place, with its blazing embers, huge back-logs, and iron fire-dogs, that shed a glory over the whole room, gilded the plain and homely furniture with its bright light, and rendered the place a type of true New England homes in " y olden time." Never were there such' apples as those which swung round and round upon strings before the bright fire of a winter's evening, never such baked potatoes as those buried deep in the ashes upon the hearth, never such cornstalks as those which caught a golden hue from the blazing embers, or tur keys like those turned upon a spit, filling the room with savory odors so suggestive of a dainty repast. Before the fire was the wooden settle, and here the children were wont to sit in the long evening, telling stories, cracking nuts, con ning their lessons for the morrow, or listen ing in silence to the words of wisdom that fell from the lips of their superiors, and anon gazing in _silence into the bright fire, and conjuring up all sorts of grotesque fanciful images from among the burning coals. No fabled genii, with their magic lamps of en chantment, could build such gorgeous palaces, or create such gems as the child could dis cern amid the blazing embers of the old fashioned fire-place. And we must not neglect the chimney corner, where sat our grandfather in his ac customed seat, his hair silvered with the snows of many winters—a venerable man, to whom old age had come. " frostily but kind ly," and whose last days were like those of an Indian summer, serene and beautiful, even till the stars appeared in heaven. How pure was the air in those days ! The huge fire-place, with its brisk draught, car ried off the impurities of the atmosphere, and left the air pure, life-giving and healthful. Now, we crouch around hot cooking-stoves, and think it strange that we feel so stupid and drowsy of an evening ; or we huddle about air-tight stoves, and wonder that the air seems burning and impure ; or we sit down in chilly rooms heated by a furnace, and marvel that with all our costly furniture, soft carpets, bright mirrors, and damask cur tains, they are cheerless placesso unlike our ideas of a New England home. AIT9I - 1-1, ments of our advanced civilization, the fire should be permitted to go out forever in our old-fashioned fire-places, thus burying in the ashes of the past so many means of health, home-comfort, good-cheer and happiness.— Scientific American. * 4) )iliallalt0111. A MAN GUARDING $3,000,000 WORTH OF DIAMONDS. THE most profound adaman.tologist in the world is the Duke of Brunswick. He has in his possession $3,000,000 worth of diamonds. He has just published a catalogue of his dia monds, and in the appendix there is a notice of the most celebrated diamonds in the world. This catalogue numbers not less than 268 quarto pages. It gives with great detail, a list of his diamonds. It relates how this once adorned a Turkish saber, that a royal diadem, another an imperial collar, a fourth a Grand Electoral hat ; this black diamond was an idol's eye, that brilliant rosy diamond, was taken from the Emperor Baber, at Agra, (it weighg 81 carats, and is worth $80,000) those were waistcoat buttons of the Emperor Don Pedro, this diamond ring with the Stu art coat of arms and the cypher M. S., be longed to Mary Queen of Scots ; that pair of earrings hung once on Marie Antoinette. He has plenty of diamonds worth $20,000,., $30,000, and 45,000; two worth $60,000 each, one $70 , 000 and $BO,OOO. He is -in treaty for two diamonds, one of which is worth - $232,000, and the other $650,000. The Duke of Brunswick dares not leave, Paris at any period of the year ; his dia -mends keep him chained there. He dares not sleep from home (some folks reckon" this liberty of pillow one of the great fran chises of Paris) a single night. Then he livei in a house constructed not so much for corn tfort 'as security. It is ,burglar-proof; sur roinded on every side by a , high wall; the wall:itself is surmounted by a lofty iron rail ing, defended by innumerable sharp spear, heads, which are so contrived that if any person touches one of them a chime of bells, begins instsntly to ring an alarm ; this iron railing cost him $14,127. He keeps his diaL 'wands in a safe, built in a thick wall ; hiss bed is placed against it, that no burglar may. break into it without killing or at least wak ing him, and that he may amuse himself without leaving his bed. The safe is lined with granite and with iron, if it is opened by violence a discharge of 'firearms which will inevitably kill the burglar takes place, and at the same time a chime of bells in every room in the house is set ringing. He has but one window in his - bedroom ; the sash is of the stoutest iron, and cannot be entered unless one be master of the secret combination of the lock. A case of a dozen six barreled revolvers, leaded and capped, lies upon a table within reach of his bed. Would you like to be in his place ? IRISH ANECDOTES. THERE are some Irish anecdotes, the point and pith of which are generally supposed to be a blunder or bull, but which really turn on a stroke of fine natural humor: An English gentleman, had an Irish serf Amtritatt Vrtoittttiatilta 6tittort traugeliot. vant, whom he took as his attendant to a Highland grouse-shooting. The expense of the sport to the Englishman had been very great : a large rent for the muir, new guns, and muniments of war on grouse, high-bred dogs, a fashionable shooting costume, and a countless number of incidental charges. Un fortunately, the sportsman was less expert than extravagant. Like a friend of our own, of whom we have heard old Willie M— speak, " he was grand at the shooting, but no very gude at the killing; " so, after the first week of the war, as the master and man were seated on a rock consoling themselves under the fatigue and disappointment of unsuccess ful pursuit, the Englishman says, "Well, Pat, this is expensive work. I've been calculat ing that every one of these birds cost me above £50." "Faith, your honor," says Pat, throwing a dash of humor into the sympa thizing simplicity of his reply, "I'm sorry for that, but it's lucky there's no more of them:" A poor old Irish cripple sat begging at a bridge, urging his appeal to the charity of passengers with the eager and versatile elo quence of his country. A gentleman and lady—young, gay, and handsome, with that peculiar look of gratified and complacent consciousness which indicates the first few weeks of married life—crossed the bridge. They regarded not the petitions of the beg gar ; so, just as they passed him he exclaimed, " May the blessing of the Lord, which brings love, and joy, and wealth, and a fine family, follow you all the days of your life ; " a pause; the couple passed heedlessly on, and the beg gar, with a fine touch of caustic humor, ad ded, ‘‘,and never overtake you." A nobleman and his lady, walking throiigh a magnificent avenue in one of the finest parts of Ireland, were accosted by a poor woman as follows: " The Lord bless your noble lordship and your gracious ladyship. I dramed a drame about you both last night. I dramed your lordship gave me a pound of tobacco, and your ladyship a pound of tay." "Ah,.my good woman," says the peer, " dreams go by contraries." To be sure they do," says the woman ; so it will be your lordship will give me the tay, and her ladyship will give me the tobacco." A lad was sent with a note, and a basket containing some living partridges. On his way, tempted by curiosity, he peeped into the basket, when the partridges flew away. Much perplexed was he ; but after a little consideration he reclosed the basket, went on his way, and delivered the letter with his best bow. " Well my lad," said the gentle man on reading it, " I see there are some live partridges in this letter." " Oh, by the powers," says Paddy, "I'm glad of that, for they flew out of the basket." A traveler in Ireland, having been inclined to deny that the peasantry were humorous, was told to ask any question of the first laboring man he met on the road. Accord, ingly, on seeing a sturdy fellow breaking stones, he says , . " Now, my man, if the devil were to come here just now, whether would he take you. or me ? " " Me, to be sure," says the man, .C° for he's certain of your ho nor at any time." - A poor Irish laborer had an impediment in his speech, and could not pronounce words beginning with the letter P without stam mering. A neighboring gentleman, seeing him digging potatoes, and wishing to make him ridiculous, said, " What do you call these things you're digging ? " " Sir," says poor Pat, " I don't call them ; when I want them I fetch them." • An Irishman thus desoribes his _ _• . w r i rr imr rt • r 'Ol. .aw `at Ryan t'other side Of the way. thought it was Pat, and Pat thought it was me ; and when I came up it was neither of us." ICELANDIC JUSTICE, FORMERLY every freeman in Iceland who felt himself aggrieved or injured in any of his rights, had three ways open to him for re dress. He might betake himself at once to the man who had done him wrong, and after laying the grievance before him, demand a fine, compensation and atonement in the way of money [bet.] In this case the matter took the shape of a friendly agreement, and the difference was soon settled. But it some times happened that one or the other side claimed what was called " self-doom," the right to make his own award. But if the wrong-doer refused to make any compensa tion, there were still two ways left of dealing with him. First,' the injured party might fall back on his right of private war and fol low up the feud, and take vengeance, on him by killing him or some near member of the family. Or, he might follow it up in law and make a private wrong a matter for the consi deration of the state. Here, in fact, we see, the old freeman waiving Wit his old naturel righ*--the right of property and: the right of ::revenge—and appealing to the new orga-• nization of things which he had accepted on the eetablishment of a commonwealth. With regard to the• steps in such atrial, the. Ice landic lawsuit was based on the evidence of the community, supported.by oath. At every step solemn witness wee-taken, mid to fail in producing such witness _was to lose the suit. --ritish Quarterly. SAPPHIRES. NErr to*the diamond in hardness, beauty, and value, comes the sapphire- 7 -the holy sap phire, " which renders the bearer pacific,• ami able, pious, and devout, and confirms the soul, in goody works ". which refuses to shine for the beautifying of the unchaste or the im pure, and which, by the mere force of its own pure rays, kills all noxious and venomous creature& llow_to describe ihit soft deep blue—deepeat in the males, fairest in the fe- Males—to which nothing b can be com pared, save perhaps the exquisite glory of an Irish eye? The sapphire in its color is blue—blue as an Italian heaven, blue as the deep blue sea ; but it is also red, and yellow, and green, and violet, and hair-brown—such a brown as the Venetian painters loved, with a golden light striking through—and it is bluish-gray and blackish, and it is sometimes radiated and chatoyant. But when all these various colors are combined, it is called by various names : it is oriental ruby when red; oriental topaz when yellow; oriental emerald when green ; oriental amethyst when violet ; adamantine spar when hair-brown ; emery when in granulated masses of bluish-gray ; asteria, or star-stone, whatradiated ,• corun dum when dull and dingy-colored. Thus all the finest gems - are mere varieties of the sap phire, which stands next in order -to the kingly diamond himself. The sapphire some times changes color by artificial light, and Mr. Hope's saphir merveilleux," which is a deep delicious blue by day, becomes dis tinctly amethystine at night. The finest blue sapphires come from Ceylon, which is a very island of gem; magnificent in the c' the insignia of the " crown jewels in Fran, of a single sapphire velous beauty, mount-I and surrounded by ti ; amonds in existence are almost as intense itself. The asteria, is a singularly lovel color, but turn it w see ever six rays 01 stream from it. So when the star-rays sometimes they are j of red or blue. The most beautiful play o ish, aurora-colored, o is pure alumina-color I agents by which Nat dren and masqueras Zzeh Magazine. i l vi ' HEARING a young highly praised for her beauty, Gotthol ed : What kind of beauty do you mean erely that of the c 1 body, or that, arso, mind ? I see well that you have been , 1 *ng no further than the sign which natu 'splays outside the house, but have never ed for the host who dwells within. Bea is an excellent gift of God, nor has the - of the Holy Spirit forgotten to speak i raise but it is vir tuous and godly beau , one which Scripture honors, expressly de ing, on the other hand, " that a fair w, n, which is without discretion, is as aje if gold in a swine's snout." (Prov. xi :.) Many a pretty girl is like the flow. called the imperial crown, which is adm ~ no doubt, for its showy appearance; b despised for its un pleasant odor. Were r mind as free from pride, selfishness, lux - and levity, as her countenance from spo wrinkles, and.could she govern her inwa inclinations as she does her external car _e, she would have none to match her. ; who loves the cater pillar and such insects owever showy their appearance, and brig nd ,variegated the colors that adorn the seeing they injure and defile the trees an . ants en - which they settle ? What the be ris an apple for its rosy skin, if the maggt i ave penetrated and devoured its heart ? hat care I for the beautiful brown of t i nut, if it be worm eaten, and fill the moh with corruption? Even so, external boa of person deserves no praise, unless re ed with the inward beauty of virtue and I) 'ness. It is, there fore, far better to aril e beauty than to be born with it. The bes kind is that which does not wither at the uch of fever, like a flower, but lasts and en res on a bed of sick- Des's, in old age, and e n at death. My God ! my beau, exists only in the sunshine of thy grace. ithout light, nothing is beautiful; and, wilt: irradiated by thy goodness, every objecis ugly and hideous. Lord Jesus ! thou faire of the sons of men, shed on my poor soul t r beams of thy love ; that is all the beauty l i esire. ,: ' . .o} -~--- ~~~. COMPARATIVE-Sizu Some notion may be o rative size of the prii solar system, by supp feet in diameter plaep plain to repre sent ilte— tart - • -"Vilaveil at - t wo eet represents distane L tation of Venus : ( bly larger,; at a dista represent Ihe earth. still, for a pin's head' 500 500 feet, would MIDI the position and size Juno. A moderate -size ter ,of a mile would smaller orange, at near represent Saturn ; .-. Herschell dwindles int' a distance of three-qua the central globe repres, EFFICIENCY OF EI.FLEi CANNON.—Colonel Brown, commander at. ort Pickens, in his report of the attack upo the rebel`batteries, states that he his come is the conclusion that the brick or stone walls if batteries, at a dis tance -of 2000 yards, ca not be seriously in jured by the most dick. t smooth-bore guns. He also states that Miele are not to be de pended upon for firini"Avooden bnildingi, I unless they are filled will some inflammable composition. He alSo vs - that small gun boats, drawing six feet , ater and armed with rifled guns, are of more ervice than a forty gun ship, and that P, °Ws" rifled gun is much better than James •:. The moment the rebels at Fort. Mcßae go their rifled, guns to bear upon the Richmon 1, she had to aban don the contest or be cit to pieces. If she had been supplied with , e ,same kind. of ord nance, she would haie'd,ne Mich more mis chief. ' 4), - IMPORTANCE OF Goo lIA.LITY OF IRON . FOR SHIPS.—We find thefollowing statement I in the London ffiagin4:—ln- consequence of the inferior descriptien of iron, supplied at. Chathain Dockyard for -the Achilles, 50, by the various firms under Contract to the Ad-1 miralty, and - the difficult' experienced in ob taining adequate- supplies of plate and angle iron for the prosecution :of the works - in con - - nection with , the-buildini cif that. frigate % the Admiralty have entero t g ,f o s' a contract with the well-known firm - Mares & Co., who have undertaken to' f h rhatever plate i iron may be required at - Chatham. The first, deliveriessefircin* - ern Messrs. Maresis firm _have - keen made at -Cha*am-Dockyard, and the whole of -that supplied up to this time is, of very excellent quality. , The delay in building the Achilles has arisen solely from the difficulty experienced in obtaining iron of prime quality. This, however, has now been got over, and the work on the Achilles will !be proceeded with rapidly. QUANTITY OF FOOD FOR OXEN.—Frequent observations have shown that an ox will con sume two per cent. of his weight of hay per day to maintain his condition. If put to moderate labor, an increase of this quantity to three per cent. will enable" him to perform his work, and still maintain his flesh. If he is to be fatted, he requii•es about four and a half per• cent. of his weight daily in nutri tious food. ALCOHOL will - wash out stains of oil, wax, resin and pitchy or resinous substances ; so will spirits of turpenting, and . generally with out -injury to colors. turpentine may afterwards be removed With alcohol, as it is liable to leave a slight stain. Common burn ince fluid, which is a mixture of alcohol and turpentine (or canipherte), is an excellent solvent of oil, wax, tar, resin, etc., and it 'soon dries off after use.- _ d one of the most ed world is that in Esprit, among the The dove is formed eat size and mar ;ll white diamonds, est suite of blue di he blue diamonds ilor as the sapphire tar-stone sapphire, m ; grayish-blue in way you will, you illiant silver light es the stone is red, .olden yellow ; and y white on a ground sol sapphire has a lescent light, pink ish. The sapphire y one of the magic ransforrns her chil er serva,nts.—Eng- ifir. 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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 beveraga - Numerous testimonials from professional and other gentlemen of the highest standing throughout. the country, and its steadily increasing popularity for a. series of yeirs, 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. Rhubarb, has the approval' and , Sanction of many of stsicians.as.a ialua,ble_andfavoiite 'And is preferable to any, Other. form in which RIM , barb is administered, either for, Adults or Children, it being combined' iii. a maliber to,inakeltl,at once palata.bla to the Imi l te Ind• s efficiOr k t in its :operation. - TAARANTS, Improved Indelibk Ink, 'For marking Linen, hinalie,: :ete.; Das - been preyed by, many years'. experience, to be the .best, most permanent, and reliable preparatioix ever : Wired to the public. The superiority of this Article is acknowledged *by all, and purchasers and dealers will find. it to their interest to give it a preference over all pre parations. - . . . Manufactured only by • _ JOHN A. TARRANT & Ca, DRUGGISTS, No. 278 Greenwich ,St., Cor. Warren St, • Nw_Tork. Dir*And for sale by Druggists generally. ly Corns and Bunions Cured! A DDITIONAL conclusive evidence of Dr. KEN .LI. NEDY'S INSTANTANEOUS and PAINLESS process of effectually removing the worst cases of Corns and Bunions and all Diseases of the Feet, Hands and Face. From Dr. 0. Leroy, M. D. "This is to certify that Dr. Kennedy has operated on my feet tom y. entire satisfaction. " From John W. Dows, Broker and Keil Estate Agent Vainu " t — stre et: "Dr. ,Kennedy.has operated on the feet of my.wife and myself with surgeon-like skill." - From Isaac D. Matiens. "Dr. Kennedy has removed a 'bunion off my right joint, which has been a pest to me'for sixteen years." FrOm Francis Tearney, Philadelphia Bank " This is to certify that I. called-on Dr. Kennedy, 1.1. few weeks ago, and he operated on•iny feet to my entir satisfaction." From Thomas H. Shoemaker, Phila. ':"I called on Dr. Kennedy in November last, and he operated on my feet to my entire satisfaction." -From Francis H. Hier. • "This in to certify that leaned on Dr. Kennedy. He removed 'three corns and five bunions off my . feet 'with out pabror bleeding, and am satisfied that he has effectually cured me." • . From Mrs: J. W.:Hammond, No., 718 - Catharine st. - !‘ This is to certify tliati: Dr.:Kennedy . has removed corns and bunions, off: of triy feet, which have annoyed me for several years. He also removed& cancer from My middle finger, which I had no 'use of for the period' of six months. I cordially commend him io -the suf- feriVighaimMityOfPhiladelphiacas a skillful:Surgeon.' REFERENCES. • Mrs. 'Smith, Green st. Mrs. W. L. Howard. W. C. Foster, Com. Met ' chant, Third street. MyereuDavWiNiliffto st above Fifth- -- Major Comstock. - Mrs. W. Partridge, Wal nut street. [CAL FACULTY. L. Stevens. ._ - • Dr., Johii Corbet, M.D. Captain MeChun William H. Mills Jr. Rev. Walter W.- Stanton, L.L. D. Samuel W. Howard, At: Clopole Stevens, Pharma eutist. OF THE MEDI From Dr. W "Dr. Kennedy has operated - on my feet, and has effeetually cured me of some torturing pests that I have been annoyed with for years." - From the Rev. Walter M. Thompson. "This is to certify that whilst sojourning in Phila delphia, Dr. Kennedy has operated- on three of my family to my entire satisfaction." From the Hon. Wm. M. Thorn, ex-member of the Ohio Legislative. " This is to certify that i called on Dr. Kennedy to operate on my feet. He displayed great Skill as a sur geon, and I am satisfied that he has effectually cured me of these torturing pests, which have annoyed me for many years." .From George F. Oraerly, 637 Arch street. " This is "to certify that I called on Dr. Kennedy. He has operated on my feet to my entire satisfaction." Dr.KENNEDY claims to be the only Chiropodiesl Surgeon of Philadelphia that ever received the unani mous commendations of the Philadelphia press. -He can be consulted at his office, dailyi No. 901 Filbert street, Hours from 9to 12 and 2to6P. M. dec6 GEORGE T. COBB, Designer and Engraver on Wood & Brass Dies, Engraving at Lowest Rates, No'. '4ll Chestnut street, • ' Philadekkhia. dee 2 It UNDERTAKERS. CYRUS HORNE, UNDERTAKER, No 23 NORTH ELEVENTH STREET, Philadelphia. COFFINS,. Hearses, Carriages, and everything ap pertaining to Funerals, furnished at the shortest notice. Lead Coffins on hand. nov2B GEORGE W. LOTT, General 'Furnishing Undertaker, No. 509 SOUTH THIRTEENTH STREET, First; house below Lombard street, Philadelphia. Every requisite furnished at shortest notice, and on most reasonable terms. Personal attendance at all hours. nov2l ly EDWIN A. HUGHES, UNDERTAKER, AND SEXTON OF DR. WADSWORTH'S CHURCH, No. 259 SOUTH TENTH STREET, above. Spruce street, nov2B Philadelphia. LEWIS FAYETTE, GENERAL FURNISHING UNDERTAKER, No. 770 South Second street, above Catharine, WOULD respectfully inform the citizens of Phil adelphia, that he still continues at his old stand, 356 S. Second street, above Catharine, where he will keep constantly on hand a large assortment of READY MADE COFFINS, of all qualities together with the complete paraphernalia necessary for the pro per interment of the dead. His horses and carriages are unsurpassed, and his drivers among the most care ful. Charges moderate. Old stand, No. 35648 - . Second street, New No. 770. nov2l ly HORATIO S. HELVERSON, BEGS leave to announce that he is conducting the• UNDERTAKING BUSINESS, At the old established stand of his father; the late Nicholas Helverson, No. 225 Coates street, above St.. John st., which has been in opera tion for over 40 years, and he assures the pub lic that the well earned reputation of the con cern will be kept up in every particular ; his facilities are such as to enable him to guaran tee satisfaction to any and all that favor him with.their patronage, and his long experience, and. the personal attention given to every de partment, will ensure that everything in his line will be manufactured of the best material, and finest workmanship, at the very lowest prices. N.B.—Walnut, Mahogany and Cloth Coffins, with plated and solid silver mountings, always on hand, ready to be delivered at the shortest notice. nov2l ly Brown's Essence of Jamaica Ginger. - %/rANTTFACTURED only at•FRED'K BROWN'S V_L Drug and Chemical store, Northeast corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Attention is called to this valuable remedy, which should be in every family, and for the Army and Navy it is indis pensable, curing affections of the stomach and bowels, and is a certain preventive from the effects of bad water. CAUTION.—Be sure to get the genuine Essence, which is prepared only byF. BROWN, at his Drug and Chemical store, Northeast corner of Fifth and Chest 7 nut streets, Philadelphia, and for sale by all the re spectable Apothecaries in the United States. MUTTER'S COUGH SYRUP. F. BROWN— Copy-right secured—Prepared only from the Original Prescription of the late Professor Mutter, at Frederick Brown's, Northeast corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. This Remedy is a safe and shnplereparation from the receipt of the late _p distinguished Professor Mutter, with whom it was a favorite prescription. That he tiSed it in his extensive practice, insures to the timid a certain proof of its pure and innoxious elements, and to those' ho, know his character for skill and care- Sal attention, to prescribe only such remedial agents as should secure restoration withont producing subse quent evil,. it will be-welcomed as a real good. Un der the guidance of a ,Physician, (to whom its combi natkia will unhesitatingly be 'niade, known), it will always'be fournd benefkcial, and in cases where a me dical adviseris not at hand, it may be- used with safety, according,to thd directions, in all, cases of short or Drug and Cheinical `utore,.Nor" theast corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphiaa, cleca am SCHOOL FOR PHYSICAL AND MEN TAL EDUCATION, NOW OPEN FOR BOARDING AND DAY PUPILS. THIS School has two peculiar features,viz.: HEALTH, as a primary object, and INSTRUCTION by Lectures. Young ladies only are received as boarders. The school is designed to give them as complete and finished an education as can be had in any Seminary or Female College. Pupils may commence any time. Apply for terms, at the School, No. 1432 S. PENN SQUARE, br address, WM. M. CORNELL, A.M., M.D., Principal. Miss MARION A. SLOCUM, late of the F'emale Semi nary at Harrisburg, Pa., is Assistant Principal. Dr. C. has also a Department for BOYS, in separate rooms, where they are fitted for Business; or College, or Military, or Naval Schools. Miss Clara F. Sher man, of Boston, is assistant teacher in the School for Boys. Both Schools have a PRIMARY DEPARTMENT, in which pupils are received at a reduced price. In strumental Music, Latin, Greek, French, and German are taught by competent instructors. nov2l THE FIRE IN: CHESTNUT STREET. • - 14e* from Theo. .lEL•Peters & Co. - , Philadelphia, January 19, 1860. MESSES. FARitEL, HERRING & CO., 629 Chestnut Street. Grarriminer:—We have recovered• the Herring's Patent Champion. Safe, of your make: which we bought from yiiiinearly five years ago, from the ruins re our building, No. 716 ChestnUt street, which was entirely Zeiitroyed by fire on the morning of the 17th inst. So rapid was- the progress of the flames, before we could reach the store, the whole interior was one mass of fire. The Safe being in the back part of the store, and surrounded by the most combustible Materials, was exposed to great heat. It fell with the walls of that_ part`of the building into the cellar, and remained im bedded in the ruins for more than thirty hours. The Safe was opened this morning in the presence of a number of gentlemen, and the contents, comprising our books, bills, receivable money, and a large amount of valuable papers, are all safe; not a thing was touched by fire. -Respectfully, yours, THEO. H. PETERS do CO. The above Safe can be seen at our store, where the public are invited to call and, examine it. PARREL, HERRING Sr, CO. No. 629 Ottani= ST. (Jayne's Hail.) sep 29-47 LADD, WEBSTER, AND CO.'S TIGHT LOCIirSTITCH SEWING MACHINES. Bur THE BEST k AHD , GET THE CHEAPEST! " They stitch, Ann, bind, :fell, rung -and gather without basting; use a .straight needle' and, wheel feed . , and, make stitch. alike on both sides ortho cloth. They are Without any, of those delicate and nice cidjitstmCnts, which make many machines "more plague than profit." We claim them to be the 'best made machines in the world, and capable of doing a'greeter range of work, in amore satisfactory manner, PRICES REDUCED to $5O, and upwards. • • , LADD, WEBSTER, & CO., • .153-6 m. • . ' 921 Chestnut St., PliihuL 11110 t OYD & BATES, - - - BANKERS APO DEALERS lil MILO OP PiPeltiaillj RAMC NOTES AND SrEarz. 18 'SOUTH THIRD ST., PHILADELPHIA. Two Dooms ABOVE MECHANICS' Particular attention is given to the collection of Notes and Drafts. :Drafts on New -York, Boston, Baltimore, &c., ,Cor sale. Stocks and Bonds bought and sold on commission at the Board of Brokers. Business Paper, Loans on Collateral, &c., negotiated. feb. 10--lyr Suet= WORM Wnzaut MoMeow. Eau= end Lox, Prossone. BANKING HOUSE OF WOBJE, No001:1011 & CO., 80. 86 asuth. Third Sired, PaLLADILPELI. AMU= in MINXIMIT ELM ,Norse and Corm SOOTIEERN and WZOTERN Purrna bought on the moat favorable terma. Maas or Minium; on New York, Boston, Pittakorg, Baltimore, Richmond, Cincinnati, St. Louis, dc. , da, constantly for sale. Consenorm promptly- made on all accessible points in the United States and °anodes. per Dermasag reemen Rummy payable on demand, and interest allowed as t. 1310018 and Luna bought and sold on oommiation, and Boatemb PAP= negotiated. Refer to Preitnetrwm and ConwencuLßANES, Philadelphia ; REM 'DM= & CO, WINELOW. LINTZ& & Co., New York, and Omar& and 12roniwon BAWLS, PlttibMlL PRINCE & CO'S, IMPROVED MELODEONS AND ORGAN ME• lodeons, or Harmoniums. The best and the cheap est. Prices from $45 to $350, according to style. A liberal discount for cash, or on monthly instalments of as small amounts as $5. JAMES BELLAK, Nos. 279 and 281 South Fifth street, above Spruce, Philadelphia, Wholesale Agent. decs A CARD. THE undersigned takes pleasure in announcing to the patrons of the "American Presbyterian," and the public in general, that the CLOTHING manufactured, either ready-made or special order, is from material of the VERY BEST.FABRICS, and warranted to give satisfaction. The prices are marked in PLAIN FIGURES, on each garment, and in all cases, uniformly low. TERMS CASH, EDWARD T. TAYLOR, For CHARLES STOKES, oct3l No. 824 Chestnut street, Phila. FULL WEIGHT, WITHOUT PAPER. WILSON'S DANDELION COFFEE IS the best and cheapest Coffee that can be used, and is entirely different from any other Dandelion Cof fee that has yet been offered to the public. Persons who use it once will continue to use It, as, in addition to its peculiarly rich and delicious flavor, one balf the quantity is sufficient. It is prepared from a receipt which the proprietor used for years in England, with great success, _and can be procured at WILSON'S Tea Warehouse, No. 236 Chestnut street, or at every gro cery and tea store in the United States or Canada. N.B.—The Dandelion Root used is imported by the proprietor from France t and is of the finest descrip tion. The green I3in - de7ionßoot for sale. Cash or ders from the country promptly attended to. decl2 T OLLOCK'S IMPROVED DANDELION COF XV. FEE. Made from.the best Java Coffee, is recom mended by physicians as a superior 2 nutritious bever age for General Debility, Dyspepsia, and all Bilious disorders. Thousands who have been reluctantly compelled to abandon the use of Coffee, will use this without inju rious effects. One can contains the strength of two Rounds of ordinary coffee. For sale at - the corner of EIGHTEENTH and SPRUCE and all Drugists and Gro cers, and by DrOTT & (so., No. 232 "North SECOND Street. Price 25 cents. . novl4 ly ONE HUNDRED AND' FIFTY DOL LARS PER YEAR BELVIDERE SEMINARY, NEW JERSEY, ONE Hundred and Fifty Dollars will pay for Board and Tuition a year, for a young Lady, in this Institution. Its location for advantages cannot be surpassed. The instruction is equal to that imparted in any School of the highest order. A native French teacher resides in the family. Pupils are received at any time, and charged accordingly. REV. J. ADDISON WHITAKER, A.M., Principal. MISS DELIA A. SLOCUM, Vice Principal. - octlo ly Have You Provided for your Family an Insurance on your Life ? ooss fAtt...,,.e. NAI IMS (T RANCE C xe oxis..b.ra, 'Brooklyn; NO. 16 WALL STREET, New York. MUTUAL, WITH A CASH CAPITAL OF *125.000, Invested in Stocks of the State of New York DIRECTORS: A. A. Low, Thomas Carlton, W. H. Cary, John T. Martin, I. H. Frothingham, John Halsey, J. S. T. Stranahan, John Sneden, Thomas Messenger, J. Milton Smith, Samuel Smith, Harold Donner, Henry E. Pierrcpont, A. B. Capwell, Abr. B. Baylis, Nehemiah Knight, Peter C. Cornll, Edward A. Lambert, john D. Cocks, James Thiw, • H. B. Oaflin, L. B. Wyman, S. B. Chittenden, George A. Jarvis, Theo. Polhemus, Jr:, Samuel Perry, 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, - loalmh W. Green K. F. Odell, WALTER S. GRIFFITH, President. I. H. FROTHINGHAII, Treasurer. GEORGE C. RIPLEY, - Seeret'au. - A. B. CAPIN' ELL, Counsel. { C. L. MrrCUELL, Brooklyn,Medical Counsel 1 JAS. 'STEWART, M.D., hew-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. Oa - 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 46, 50, 55, 60, 65, or 70 year of age.-- Also all forms of Children's endo*lneuts and annuity policies on the most favorable terms. - Ser This Company has adopted a principle intend ed to prevent the lapse of any policy, and to secure 'to the assured in every case all the assurance which their payments will provide for. Our members need not apprehend, therefore, that their- /risibility 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 FINE GROCERIES AND TEAS. THOMPSON, BLACK & SON, N. W. corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets, PHILADELPHIA.. W HOLESALE and Retail dealers in fine Teas, Sugar, Coffee, Flour, Fruit, Spices, Pickles Preserves, and every variety of choice - Family Groce ries. Goods delivered in any part of the city,_ or Ikno.—o,ll JAN. 9, 1862. DUTY MADE EASY. OFFICES: and First-Class Bonds and Nortgages. BITFFINGTON, ORGAN BUILDER, No. 131 S. ELZVENTEI Above Waloitt; PHILADELPHIA
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