j;ht gLii ~~~, The Strange Little Boy. HERE in a little boy— Look at him well; Think if you know him, If you do, tell. I will describe him, That so you may see If he's a stranger To you and to , me. He has two hands That can manage a top, And climb a tall chestnut To make the nuts drop. They're just full of business, With ball, hoop, and awing, Yet are never too busy To do a kind thing. He has two feet That can run up and down, Over the country, And all about town. I should think they'd be tired— They never are stillh. But they're ready to run for you Whither you will. He has two eyes Always busy and bright, And looking at something From morning to night. They help him at work, And they help him at play, And the sweet words of Jesus They read every day. Ho has two ears— () how well he can hear The birds as they sing And the boys as they cheer ! They are out on the common, And for him they call,— lint one word from his mother He hears first of all. He has a tongue That runs like a sprite ; It begins in the morning As soon as the light. It's the best little tongue You oan anywhere find, For it always speaks truth, And it always is kind. He has a heart That is happy and gay, For Jesus is King there The whole of the day. The Lord's little servant He's trying to be,— Is this boy a'stranger To you and to me ? THE LOST KEY. " My dear Philip, have you seen my porte monnate ? " Mr. Walter's brow contracted slightly at the words, and he drew away the hand which had been caressing his wife's pretty hair. "Is that porte-mannaie lost again ? "Now, Philip," said the little woman,with a world of pretty penitence in the lengthen ed monosyllable, ' don't scold ! Upon my word, it's the first time I've mislaid it this whole morning." " It's too provoking, jane," said the hus band, pushing back the books on the table before him, with a movement denoting in tense irritation. " Will you never break yourself of this careless habit, my love ?" Jane was silent, looking down like a very. naughty child who had been chidden. You don't know what an annoyance these heedless habits are to a methodical man like myself, dear," he added, in a gentler tone, as the coral lip began to tremble, and the eye to- suffuse. "Do try to be more thoughtful, for my sake ! Here is your lost treasure," he added, quietly drawing a tiny case of pearl and gold from his pocket. " found it lying on the stairs, and thought it a most excellent opportunity for giving my careless little wife a lesson !" ,Jane clapped her hands at the sight of the restored treasure, and danced out of the room in girlish glee. "A perfect child," murmured the husband, looking after her with a smile and a sigh blending unconsciously into one another. "Well, if I don't make haste, I shall be too late for that engagement in the city. Let me see—the notes are in my iron safe, I believe. Nothing like locking up things, and keeping the ieys yourself. If Jane only followed my example— Mr. Walter paused abruptly, seeking in his various pockets, with nervous haste, for something which seemed not to be forthcom ing. "Very strange," muttered he, biting his lip. "I alWays put it in that waistcoat poc k et. Possibly. I may have laid it on the table among those papers." The aforesaid papers rustled hither and thither, like animated snow-flakes, as Mr. Walter hurriedly sought among their confu sed masses, but it was all in vain. "I can't have lost it," he exclaimed, in direperplexity. "And every one of those notes is looked up in the safe, with no earthly chance of ever getting at it I But lam cer tain the key can't be lost--I never lose any thing I It won't do to wait many more mi nutes—l'll just put on a clean shirt, and run down town. Hang that confounded key I" Mr. Walter hastened to his dressing-room to complete the details of his toilet, ere he left the house ; but his trials were not yet destined to terminate. He was a methodical man, therefore his' wardrobe was carefully locked ; he always kept things in one place, therefore t,he keys were snugly reposing in one corner of the inaccessible iron safe. He rushed frantically back to the library, hoping faintly that the key might be on the mantel-piece, where he had not yet searched. No, it was not there ; but a treacherous ink stand was, the contents - whereof, by one un lucky swoop of his elbow, descended in an ebon cataract over his shirt-front—the shirt front upon which alone he had depended! "Well, here is a catastrophe !" he mur mured, gloomily, staunching the inky flow with his pocket handkerchief. " However, I can button my coat over for the present. Let me see—there is that money I promised to pay Smithson to-day, and—' He stopped short, a cold dew of dismay breaking out on his forehead—the money drawer was a fixture of the iron safe ! Penniless and shirtless, what more despe rate state of affairs could his worst enemy desire for him ? There was a lower deep yet, however—would he not be characterless, likewise, if his wife should, by any inoppor tune chance, discover that he, the model of rule and order, had lost his key ! So thought Mr. Walter, as he went oil' to a day of per plexities, f . . the city. "Ifanu mortineations ity. ever I tease Jane again about losing things," he mattered inwardly, as he entered the room on returning home, " I hope to be drowned with a hundTed-weight of keyi —Little American. about my neck ! It's certainly a judgment upon me !" He unbuttoned his coat as he spoke, for getful of the ink-stains of themorning. Jane uttered a faint scream, and shrank back, exclaiming : " My dear Philip, what is the matter with your shirt ?" " The matter ! Oh !" said he, coloring and laughing, " I remember now--I spilt a little ink over it this morning. . It don't signify much." "Do let me get you out another, dear !" "No, no," said he, eagerly detaining her; it isn't at all worth while. Do sit down, and be easy, my love 1" But Jane started away to carry her baby up to the nursery. Just as she reached the door, something jingled softly in the pocket of her little silk apron—she stopped .in the passage. " Oh, by the way, Philip, here is the key to your iron safe. I found it on the dining room table this afternoon; and," she added, with an arch sparkle in her roguish eyes, " thought it would be an excellent opportunity for giving my husband a lesson !"' She laid the key in his hand, and:ran out of the room, as he recoiled involuntarily from the sound of his own pedantic words. As he contemplated the gleaming wards of the little steel mischief-maker, in mingled delight and mortification, the echo of Jane's merry laugh ter on the stairs reached his ear like a chime of silver bells. He laughed, too--'-he couldn't help it ! Mrs. Jane Walter was a, discreet little female. She never alluded to the subject of keys again, and her husband was never after known to reproach her for careless neas. THE BLACKSARTH.' •-• " CAN you shoe my horse.for me to-night ?" said Mr. Walton, as he came to Mr. Syms' shop, just before sunset on Saturday. " No, I can't," said Mr. Syms, not ceasing to make the anvil ring while he spoke. "I want it done very much, and I want you to do it. I should hate to get my: work done at the other shop." " If you could have got it dOneat the other shop, you wouldn't have come here." " What makes you think I have been there'?" "Because you were pretty well convinced that I wouldn't help you to break the Sab bath." • " I don't want you to help me break the Sabbath. I want you to shoe my horse." " I'll shoe him for you Monday morning. I have as much as I can do to-day. If I hadn't, I should shoe your horse." " It is none of your business what I do with my horse on Sunday." "Itis my business to see that I am not accessory to any one's doing evil." " What if you can't help it ?' " I can help aiding a man to do evil." " You have queer notions : I wonder that a man with your notions can get a ing." " The surest way of getting • a living is to do right." Walton left the shop muttering something about being priest-ridden. Mr. Syms always did what he thought was right, whether it was adapted to please his customers, or promote his interest, or not. He thought, nay, was sure that he consulted his highest interest by pleasing God. If he saw a man doing wrong, he reproved him in a tone of manly frankness. Men were sel dom made angry by his reproof. They con fessed that his practice was consistent with his profession, and thus seemed to admit his right to rebuke them. He was the right-hand man of the minister. He had a class in the Sunday-school. It was composed of the ruder boys, who admired the strength of the blacksmith's arm, and were won by the kindly interest he took in them. Judge B. was regarded as the leading man in the church, yet the minister sometimes went contrary to his judgment, but was never known to go contrary to Mr. Syms' judgment. Some said it was because Syms always thought as the minister did. Others said he knew the people better than the judge did, and hence, in practical matters, he had more influence with the minister than thejudgehad. They were not far from right. Mr. Syms was a noble illustration of the value that an artisan can be to the church and to the community. He was a consistent, fearless and energetic Christian.--8. S. Times. EARLY CONVERSION. There could not be a worse or more baleful! implication given to a child, than that he. is' to reject God and all holy principles till. he, has come to a mature age. What authority have you from the Scriptures to tell your child, or, by any sign, to show him that you; do not expect him truly to love said:obey God, till, after, he has•spent whole years in hatred and wrong ? What authority to make him feel that he is the most unprivileged of all human beings, capable of sin, but incapa ble of repentance'; old enough to resist all good, but too, young to receive any ,good whatever ? It is reasonable to suppose that you have some express'authority for a lesson so manifestly cruel and;hurtful, else you will shudder to give it. I ask you for the chap ter and verse out of which it is derived. Meantide, wherein would it be less incongru ous for !you to teach your child that he is to lie and steal, and go the whole round of vices, and then, after he comes of mature age, re-- form his conduct by the rules of virtue ? Perhaps you do not give your child to expect that he is to grow up in sin ; you only expect that he will yourself. That is scarcely bet ter : for that which is your expectation, will assuredly be-his ; and what is more, any at tempt to maintain a discipline at war with your own secret expectations, will only make a hollow and worthless, figment of that which should be an open, earnest reality. You will never practically sim at what you practically, despair of, and'if you do not practically aim to unite yolk- child to God, you will aim at something less; that is, something unchristian, wrong, sinful. But my child is a sinner, you will say ; and how can I expect him to begin a right life until God gives him a new heart ?• This is the common way of speakihg, and I state'the objection, in its own phraseology, that it may recognize itself. Who then has told you that a child cannot have the new heart of which you speak Whence do you learn that if you live the life of Christ, before him and with him, the law of the Spirit of life may not be such as to include and quicken him also ? And why should it be thought incredible that there should be some really good principle awakened in the mind of a child? For this is all that is implied in a Christian state : The Christian is one who has simply' began Auttt i on prolitteriait 6tittott Ctaitgeliot. to love what is good for its own sake, and why should it be thought impossible for a child to have this love begotten in him ? Take any scheme of depravity you please, there is yet nothing in it to forbid the possi bility that a, child should be led, in his first moral act, to cleave unto what is good and right, any more than in the first' of his twen tieth year. He is, in that case, only a child converted to good, leading'a mixed life, as all Christians do. The good in him goes into combat with the evil, and holds a qualified sovereignty. And why may not this internal conflict of goodness cover the whole life, from its dawn, as well as any part of it ? And what more appropriate to the doctrine of spiritual influence itself, than to believe that as the Spirit of Jehovah fills all the worlds of matter and government in all its objects, so all human souls, the infantile as well as the adult, have a nurture of 'the Spirit ap propriate to their age and their wants? What opinion is more essentially monstrous, in fact, than that which regards the Holy Spirit as, having no agency in the immature souls of children.who are growing up, helpless and unconscious, into the perils of time ? —Bushnell. ikitocellastono. HIM ALLISON'S CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY. ON Monday February 2nd, Hon. joseph Allison took his place in regular order, as presiding Judge of the Court of Quarter Ses sicnis of this city. He found pending there a presentment of the Grand Jury extorted from them in a totally irregular manner by his predecessor Judge Ludlow, calculated to bring on a collison between tie national au thority and the Judiciary of the State. The U.,S. officials were to be arraigned before the Court for arresting the Editor of the Evertin,q Journal and suspending the issue of his paper on account of recent malignant articles against the Government inspired by the very spirit of the. rebellion. The first act of Judge Allison on taking his seat, was to entirely reverse this mischievous and dis graceful proceeding. He gave a charge to the Grand Jury, in which after pointing out the only legal method of procedure in bring ing an officer before the notice of the Court, the Judge continued as follows His Honor Judge Ludlow, on Thursday the 29th ult., called the attention of the Grand Jury, in. a special charge ' to the fact that it had come to his knowledge that a citizen of this Commonwealth and of this county had been suddenly arrested at his residence, and had been forcibly carried against his will, beyond the limits of this State and the jurisdiction of this. Court. Accompanying this statement was a request that the grand jury would suspend all other business, _and an instruction to the District Attorney to send for the person named; di recting the Grand Jury. after they had heard the witnesses brought before them, to present thefacts to the Court. On the following day a presentment was made to the Court, in substance that A. D. Boileau, the , proprietor of the Evening Jour ne, had been arrested by military officers i the service of the United States, and con veyed to Fort McHenry ; the alleged cause of the arrest was the publication of articles tending to the support and encouragement of rebellion against the Government .of the United States. Upon this presentment the District At torney, by the Judge then holding the Court, was directed to prepare and send before the Grand Jury bills of indietment. To this proceeding I 'am compelled to ex cept ; regarding it as wrong in every aspect in which it can be viewed, ['would be dere-, • lictin my duty as a Judge of the Court, if by my silence I might even seem to sanction it, and if in speaking, I did not place upon it my most emphatic condemnation., It was unwise because it was unnecessary, the ordi nary mode of criminal procedure being fully adequate to remedy the wrong, if a wrong has. been committed, and that method being in my judgment the only proper and legal way of bringing the' case in:Court. It was injudicious ; for however ,well intended, the consequence of a. Judge, of his own motion, upon mere information obtained in no legal way, for there was no complaint under oath, with unnecessary and unusual haste, making use of his official position to institute a pro secutien, strictly personal and private inits nature, is -to render the whOle proceeding, li able to misconstruction to place this Court in a folio position before the country', Us anxious for, and of its own motion seeking a cause of difficulty with the Government, and ,because the legitimate result of, such action is to precipitate a colligion between the Stites and General Government, when such collis ion should by all proper means and to the last possible extremity be avoided, thai the true and constitutional government of the, land may be upheld and strengthened, in its fearful struggle with an infamous Rebellion which defies its authority, tramples , on its fiag; imperils its existence, and which has filled' the land with lamentation and woe. I cannel consent that 'this Quirt Shall even unintentionally be used for any such pur pose, unless the,neceasity - be forced upon us, and that a necessity that cannot be avoided ; and, speaking for myself, I here say, it shall; not be so Used, if 1;yllie eXereisiinf any por tion of, or all, the rightful power of my-, office, it can be prevented. . , There is Still another reason why I cannot: approve o± the' proceedings under considera tion, and thatis, because I believe them to be unauthorized by the law of the land, 'haVing, no established principle reguldtirig'proceed ings before Grand Juries to sanCtiorr: or to, sustain them ; . a, brief reference to,the essen tials of the three extraordinary modes• of stituting procedure, to which' I have called your attention, will make *ZS clear 'to a dein onstrati on. It is not such a, presentment as Can be made the basis of any action by "the Cou'r't, for being aimed at indiyidual offenders, and at a spe cific and distinct offence, it Couid be legally founded, only, on the personal knowledge of the Grand Jhrors ; the presentment in ques tion has for its.foundation a coMinunication made to the jury, by the presiding Judge and the statements of persons sent before them by his direction•; this is precisely what the Court in Carpenter's case decided they had no au thority to , do, and therefore stands in direct conflict with the established law and'express decision of this Court; I must, therefore, regard the preSentment-as irregular and in valid. , , Neither does this fail under the second classification ; the proceeding did not originate with the Dittrict Attorney, nor was anyin dictment,Of his own motion of otherwise, before the Grand Jury: f eq)4lly clear that it doeivmot 4`all with- the onlyreniaining mode, which is where the Court of their own motion, call the attention of the Grand Jury to, and direct an investigation of, 'matters general in their' nature; for, as we have already seen, that can only be dOne where the evil affects the entire community, and in no case where it is per sonal and individual. `'ltis not to be doubted that, in cases like those.previOusly mentioned, 1 such as riote, nuisances, and- multiplied and flagrant vices which injuriously affect the health, or comfort, or safety of the public, the Court may summon andlaind before the Grand Jury witnesses to - aid' their investigatibtilbut, to recur again to' the language of Judge King, "this course :, 1:6 ne , ver - cdopted in cafeof ordi nary crimes charged against individuals, be cause it would involve;' to a. certain extent; the expresSion'of opinion,'by anticipation, on facts 'Subsequently to come before the Court for direct judgment, and because such . cases present none of those urgent necessities which justify a' departure frOni . the ordinary course of justice." If a jUdge may direek an investigation by the Grand 'Jury of anindividual eased an alleged false arrest, the result of which in vestigation is to he made the baSia of an in dividual, personal indictment, then may he in this way institute se arate, and individual prosecutions, , upon in , rniation of unknown and irresponsible pera f nsi for every crime known to the preOPeding entirely at variance 'with thelfiireper ¬ions of his judicial office, and WhiO in itself *CUM con stitutea power of a most Tearful' and despotic nature ; .no;bitizen weld' be safe ; for the seine officer . ivhO proe 68 ' the indictment of an . indiiidualdeferiden fora Specif i c offence, i f would' have the pow M.. to try and sentence him when brought j q tl? Court by his direet agency. I hive thin?, , t t some length, gentle men, expreesed reY:yi views upon a matter of great public moment ; ' ;.could not do other -1 wise,,and deal' justly ith. myself:as a true and loyal Citizen, . Niigi the community of which' I, am a *tither and an officer, and with my country, Whichas a right to know, in this the hour of her , *erne peril, :that as a citizen and niagiati to my personal and official support shall could I, by my ailenceAperniit the spirit of malignant , and ' treasotiable - faction Which lives among, us, which i ' wholly in the inter, est of the Rebellion, hiCh 'by every Means 43 - , in its, power seeksto weaken, the arm of the Government, and to giVe,support and enconr agenient to- armed resistance to constituted authority, by the hottest and well-intended, though . injudicious actin of any..meniber -of this Court, to suppose that it could here re ceive encouragement, pr i etection or approVal. I have said nothing of:0 the act which has given rise to this pro Aeding ; I have no opinion` about, it, because . the facts have in no proper way, come before me; if a prose cution should, in due. fo rn of law, grow out of the .transaction and b . called for trial dur ing this term, it shall . t eceive its due consi deration at. the hands othe Con.rt,-, I have formed no,. pre-conceiv d judgment which t i , would disqualify me fro . trying any ease or determining any ,piesti i ,connected.with it. The Clerk is directed to enter tb,e follow ing order upon the minutes of the Court :- -And now. February 2,11863, it is, ordered that the District Attorinty shall send no in dictment to the Grand.jury based on the presentment brought intro the Court on the 30 -ult., until directed solto do by a majority of the Court. • , 6EN. 110 We give the fi officer of the army HEAD-QUARTETS, SECOND 'DIVISION, SECOND CORDS,} NEAR Ettimone, Va., 4an. Ist, 1863. To 'the Editor of the lifeo York Times: , j ust at critical state cif 'our government ut this juncture, bas ind ced me to risk being misinterpreted, and 'set before you some of the feelings and though s of an officer in the field, 'who yearns for the welfare of his coun try. Sometimes I he, " there is apathy / at home among a liirg class ;" then " that the disloyal are gainin over to themselves this apathetic class ;" th)it " very many even rejoice at our failures ;" that " thousands are crying,for 'peace,' ‘2leace,' at all events." What does all this mean,' What does it portend? I. have left iny precious family and offered myself to my country . ; gone to the threatened points, - breasted the storm, and thrown every,obstrue,tion I could in the way of the enemy, and am stilrfacing him; but what hoots it if there is no support from home'; if there ii nothing but indifference or open opposition there ? Why struggle on and wet this 'soil with our' blood if 'there is no love ot conntry among' our people ? ' Let the enemy come in 'like a Whirlwind. Let the cities of Philadelphia' and New York he turned:over to pillage. Let all the horrors Of a desolating war - sweepeier the 'thickly populated district's Of the Western and Mid dle States, then perhaps, by-and-by, our gtod people will wake, up to a sense of their sin ful selfishness -and folly. Peace ! There is no peace...,Gpd will not give us peace till we conquer it. We may change the theatre of the war,• but we, can have no . peace z _shOrt of the , destruction of our country. ,From in fancy I have been tanglat, to love my country and to Jove freedom. , ..At times I•have been. ,able to apologize for , slavery, but ha,vealways felt that it was a blot upon, us., Now must iI sacrifice wry country to save slavery ? :The , rebels might have enjoyed their darling in stitution awhile longer, but • they would not havbrit en`; they might; still,' pelliatiklire-, serve a ' transitory' rettinant • by_' promptly yielding to' lavrand returning to allegiance, but . this they*ill not do. The letter here urges `the necessity of sus-- taining the PreSident's "Prticiamation of `Eniancipation, - and proceeds : ' Let us out with it': we'haVe no alternative ; welliust destroy slavery root and branch ;•'we -must do, it in order to 'subjugate" the per sistent enemy ,of republican government. God grant us the strength and stamina t 2 meet the issue 'boldly. If he do not he will bring irs to it by chastening and scourging. This is •a - hard duty—a terrible, a solemm• duty; but,it is 'a duty. •I 'am not prepared to see this government destroyed ; not will ing to give,my children :anarchy and'sharne` for an , inheritance ; not ready for a patched up peace that will causethe land to be again drenched in blood in a few short years. Neither am'l' satisfied et the 'prospect of a border that -five hundred thousand troops' could not more than'half man: .•NU, we will bear, our own burdens and not 'bequeath 'them to our children. While I have a dor pores guard to lead I will'lead - them'against the enemy of my country.. Mr. Editor, you' are a writer. This is your business:: Work, •work—destroy this fatal apathy—convince the' faint-hearted• of their hopeless fay, end root outthe insid ious,' poiSoneus plants 'of disloyalty that are, growing 'tip in 'the shape , of 'partisan , oppoii tion to the'government. ' - ' ' Yours ore, ' V.V. 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The sore began to heal when we had given the first bottle, and was well when we had finished the second. The child's eyelashes, which had come out, grew again, and he is pow as healthy and fair as any other. The whole neighbor hood predicted that the child must die."., Rheumatism, Gout, Liver Co . mplaint, Dyspep sia, Heart Disease, Neuralgia, when caused by Scrofula in the system, are rapidly cured by this EXT. SARSAPARILLA. LETTER.. appeal from an ountry possess so many advantages over the other purga tives in the market, and their superior virtues are so universally known, that we need not do more than to assure the public, their quality is maintained equal to the best it ever has been, and that they may be de pended on to do all that they have ever done. • Prepared by J. C. .AYER, M. D. & Co. Lowell, Mass., and sold at wholesale by J. MARTS & Co., and at retail by FREtIERICK BROWN, and all dealers. EVERY MAN It.IS OWN PRINTER. Portable Printing Offices ) FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY AND NAVY, 'Merchants, , Druggists, and all Business Men, WITH WRIER THEY CAN PRINT THEIR OWN 'Handbills, Circulars, Bullheads, _Labels, Cards, Etc. Press No. 1, prints 3by 4 inches, $lO.OO. Office Complete, $20.00. Press No. 2, prints 6by 9 inches, $16.00. Office Complete, $30.00 Press No. 3, prints 9 by 11 inches, $20.00. Office 'Complete, $50.00. Press No. 4, prints 11 by 13 inches,' $26.00. Office Complete, $75.00. Press No. 6, prints 'l3 by 19 inches, $30.00. Office Complete, $lOO.OO. A circular sent on application to the ADAMS PRESS COMPANY, janB 3m 31 Park Row, N. Y. FIRST. CLASS:; `ONE PRICE' READY-MADE ... : CLOTHING. STORE, T U N ..-N0.1124 CHEST NUT STREET, UNDER THE • ' CONTINENTAL HOTEL, ' PHILADELPHLL - DIAGRAM FOR 'SELF-MEASUREMENT. j i ,., , , For Coat—Length . • 7 0" of back fromito 2 - * . '- • . and from 2to 3. ~ • —"""`: ; . Length of Sleeve f '-;, (with arm crooked) • '..)' ...... -.. - , 't .o from • 4 -to foi- and 1 ( i v , around the moat \ ..., 4. - prominent part -of , , A,= - - i, . the chest and waist. ' ' State "whether erect - 1 •', I . or stooping. . •: •li -- : • For Vest.--same- . - as F C o ° r a ,l;anta . --- - in- 1 ' ' . side seam, 'and out- -'• / side from 'hip :bone, , 1 around the waist 1 / 4 ' '''' A ,- and hip. A good fit od , _ - ' --- -- -. fit guaranteed. ' ' ' , . . Officers' Unifornis ready-niade always on han d or ; d, or to order in the best manner' and on 'the most reasonable terms. Having finished many hundred Uniforms the past year for Staff Field and Line Offi cers, as well as for the Navy, we are prepared to'ex mute orders in this line with correctness and des patch. The largest and most desirable stock of Ready- . Made Clothing in Philadelphia always on hand. ( ) The grim marked in plain fig ff es on all of the gooda. A department for Boys Clothing is also maintained at this establishment, rand superintended by experi. enced hands. Parents and others will find here a most desirable assortment of Boys' Clothing, at low prides.' Sole Agent for the "Famous Bullet Proof Vest." COAL I I COAL I I—TO FAMILIES AND M. NDFACTURERS.—Buy your Coal of A. 'S. DOTTER; 804 BROAD -street, above TINE, 4110 keeps the , best bran& of Schuylkill and Lehigh. Doal. For family use, buy the celebrated East Franklin, foi which he insole agent. ncriio 6m N:B. Dealers will pleaie leai'e orders with hiral- admits t IQf tub. AYERS' THE WORLD'S GREAT REWEDYEOR. Scrofula and Scrofulous Diseases. Erysipelas—General Debility—Purify the AYER'S . . CATHARTIC PILLS CHARLES STOKES & CO'S CHARLES STOKES &TO. CHARLES STOKES, E. T. TAYLOR, W. J. STOKES. MARBLE WORKS: HENRY S. TARR, MANUFACTURER OF Carved and Ornamental Marble' Works, No. 710 Green Street, above Seve:nth, Philadelphia. irTs,ving erected specimens in abnost every cemetery _LI throughout this State and sup_plied orders from nearly every State in the Union, I trust to receive your• influence and patronage. for the above establish fluent. I also contract, for Vaults, - Sarcophagis, etc. I have many references throu:gliout the I7Lion, which can be seen on applications ' Carved Ornamental Statuary and Monumental work of every description.- 18 ap 1y . AMERICAN Life Insurance and Must Company. OOMPANTS BUILDINGS:' Southeast Corner or lJ Walnut and Fourth Streets Authorized Capital, Paid up Capital, Incorporated 1850, by the Legislature of Penna. , Insures Lives during the natural life or for, short terms,grants annuities'and endowments, and makes contracts of all kinds depending on the issues of life. Acting also as Executors, Trustees, and Guardians. Policies of Life Insurance issued at , the, usual mu tual rates of other good companies—with profits to the assured—last BoNvsJanuary, 1861, being 43 per cen of all premiums received on mutual policies—at Joint Stock rates, 20 per cent. less than above, _or Total Abstinence rates 40 per cent, less than Mutual price. Also, a NON-FORFEITURE PLAN, By which a person pays for 5, 7 or 'lO years only, when the. Policy is paid up for Las, and nothing more to pay ; and should he be unable, or wish to discontinue sooner, the Coinpany will "issue a PAID ur Poricy, in proportion to the amount of premium paid, as fol lowsOn a Policy Of ,$lO6O, At 5 Year.l 7 Year I 10 Year after payment ' Rates. Rates. Rates: pfPrents, ' for $4OO 00 I $286 70 $2OO 00 44 4 ao • " 800 00 I 671 40 , 400:00 "'6 do " I 857 10 ` 600 00 " 8 do :U' 'Boo'oo ALEXANDER`WHILLDIN t President. , SAMUEX. WORK, yiee-President., Jenti S. Witsex Secretary BOARD OF TRUSTERS. Alexander Whilldin, J. Edgar Thomson, Hon. Jas. Pollock, Hon. Joseph Allison,,, Albert C. Roberts„, Jonas Bowman, Samuel T. Bodine, H. H. Eldridge, ' ,George Nugent, , John Ailiman, William J. Howard, Charles; F. Ileazlitt, Samuel Work. atranum. ExkurgEns.. J. P. Bird, M.' D., J. Newton Walker, M. D. in attendance at the Company's Office daily at 12 o'clock, , feb 22tf.. BEE" LODEONS HAMIONITIMS I I C ONSTANTLY on hand a stock of Melodeons q my oivx HARE, which cannot be excelled. I arm sole agent for CA_RHART'S SPLENDID HARMO NUMB, possessing unequalled poWers, variety and beauty of tone. The best instrument for CHURCH'S ever introduced. , H. M. MORRISS, , janli ly No. 728 Market street. OIL - CLOTHS . FOR SALE BY' THE IWCUFACTITREII., AT No. 229 Arch Street, Philadelphia.. AND No. 49 Cedar Street, New York. - The Stock consists of.: Enamelled Leaher Oloth. Carriage Floor Oil Cloth. Table and Stair Oil Cloths. ' • Stand Covers and Green Curtain Cloth. Floor Oil Cloths, frorivt to 6 yards wide. The style and quality of these goods are not ex celled. Win :be sold. o dealers at reasonable-prices. eb 23-1 y THOMAS' POTTER, Manufacturer. REMOVAL Lit S R " DEALER IN " Fine Teas,- Coffees, and Choice Family Groceries. • Has removed to the ' • S. E. corner of Eighth and - Walnut streets, Philo • delphia„a few doors from his former location, where he will be happy to'see his friends and customers. 'Hoods carefully packed and forwarded to the-conn• TARRANTB' BITEVESCENT SELTZER APERIEN'T.: This valuable and popular Medicine, has universally received the most favorable recommends, tions of the MEDICAL Psonsaxery and the Puetac, BE the. most EFFICIENT /ED AGREEABLE SALINE APERIENT., It may.be used with the best effect in Bilious and Febrile DiseaSes,Costivenese, Sick Bead ache, 'Nausea, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion, Acidity-:of the Stomach, Torpidity • of the Liver,. pout, Rheims- r tic Affections, Gravel, . „.. 'Piles. ' AIID ALL COMPLAINTS WHERE% A Gentle and Cooling Aperient'oi' Purgatlve. zs ;•, • ReqUired• It, is particularly adapted to the wants, of Travelers, by Sea and Land; ;Residents in Hot Cliinates, Persona of - Sedentat7 Habits, Invalids and Convalescents; Captains of Vessels and Planters will find it-a valua ble addition to their Medicine Chests. • , It is in the ferm of a Powder, carefUlly put up in hot *ate keep in any climate, and 'merely requires • water poured upon it to produce a delightful effervescent beverage- , Nuinerous testimonials from professional and Other gentlemen of the 'highestt'aliding throtighdat the country, and its 'steadily increasing popularity' for a, series of years, strongly guarantee its efficacy and val uable character, and commend it to the favorable no tice of an intelligent public. Manufactured only by , • TARRANT & CO • No. 278' Greenwich street, cor. Warren, 'York, 'myls ly - And for sale by. Druggists, generally.! trln'i.ely on. g tno ettin fa just weight, and beingaccommodated ,ott the st g vorable terms at MARRIOTT & JENKINS,. n2O fun Ninth and Wallace streets.. & 'RHOADS, PTATIEBEMS AN-D GAS -TITTEIRS, •. No. 1221 'MARKET STREET, AVE donstantly on hand, or furnishto order, llydraulie Rams, Water - Wl:male, „ -Windmills, Lift and Forep Pumps Stationary. Washstands, Hy drants; Bathing Tubs, Lead, Cast and Wronght•lron Pipes, Sheet Lead, and all other article.i in the trade. Portable Gas and Water-Works put up on the most approved principles., All work done on moderate "terms. and warranted to give`aa:tisfaction: ' - ' • WoRK, or LEAD-Bunnuto Perkin. ally attended to. 8911 tf , SA-MIJKL WORK. WxrziaaLlidCoiroft, KRAIIIKB PITTSBURG. ' • BANKING HOUSE ,OF WORK BicOOUCIE 'de CO. c, .... , .. No. 36, 801,ITR 'll3lltD oIitEXT, PRILAITLPIIIA. lIEALERS in nneurrent Rank Notes and coins. , Southern and Western Funds bought-on n the most favorable terms. , ,- Bills of Exchange on New York, Boston,Pittebnrg, Baltimore, Richmond,- Cincinnati, St.,Louis, etc., etc., constantly for uale.''' , , .;', ; . , ..,. ,i, r. , :. Collections promptly &Ade on all accessible points in the United States and Canadas. Deposits received, payable on demand, and interest • . ~ , allowed as per agreement,. Stocks and Loans bought•and aold'Oicommisslon, „ and Business Paper negociated. ~ 1r • . Refer o , Pbaltidiaphia, and • , Commercial ißanicr Fhiladelphia ; ReaT.O.rexel iSi Ca.... Winslow, , tanipe & Co., New Yorkl , ilia _cit4i4it - itila Exchange BaiikB,-Pittsbuit.2.-a z . •: 1 ‘•-z ..,, : ilo- i febi.3ltf, Collegiate Institute for 'Young Ladies, NO, 1530 ARCH STREET; PIELLIXIBLEBIL Rev. Charles-A.-Smith, D. D., Principal. The:eigbtlOAcademic year begins on Monday, Sep iembef 15th, 1862. Circulars ispecifying terms, &c., will be sent, and additional information,. given, on application to the Principal. , Letters mays be -directed-to-80x1839, Post office` Philadelphia: July 10 ly. Y 0 UNE} LA.,D 'LES IN TIT U TE, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. NUMBER LIMITED TO TITIRT'T. Building ilreo antr Conveniently Arranged. Spacious Grounds Tor Eicereiii. Charges .moderate. NEXT SESSION COMMEINCES TED YIEST ISIONDILT IN SErrtmomi. Foz irifothiation; addregs ' ' REV. THOMAS M. CANN, A. M., Proprietor. $500,00( 250,00( Catalogdes - can be had at the Music stores of _J. E. Gould, aud , l , en & Walker, Chestnut street ; .Or at the office of the "American Presbyterian." ,July3ltf The West. - Chestei Academy, AT WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA. WieUri' Two Hours Ride front Phitade,lphia. UPI-AL commence the Summer Terra, of full Piv( 1 1 . rrionths,--the Seventeenth Session, under the direttilin of its present, Principal,---on the First of May next. Boys and Young Men are thoroughly pre pared for. College or .Business. Eight gentlemen of tried ability and experience, constitute the corps of Instructors. The ENCII, GeamAx and Sr4Mian lan guages, itre taught by native resident teachers. The a . epartment' of "MilitarY Tactics."' is' in successful operation:, under the charge of a competent inatructor, without, in the least, interfering with the regular stu dies of the schooli while the individual student is not requiredto connect himself with it, CalalcigneS, cOntainitigfull information, may be had at the office of this paper,' or on application to the Principal,WlLLlAM F. WYERS, A. M. a p 3 . : Cheiter r Penna. At Pptt.stown, Montgomery aunty, Pewnsylvania. Tms School was established, years since, by the Rev. Mt Meigs formerly President of Dela= ware College. The course of Andy is extensive,Aborough and prac tical; including the liana' Preparation for Colleges, and the various branches of substantial English Bu siness education. The studies. of pupils will be con formedlo-'their future vocation, so far as it .may be actually determined, or reasonably, anticipated. The Principal gives his undivided personal attention to the School, and is aided by experienced assistants, in all the departments. The ensuing Summer: ,Session r ill commence on Wednesday, May 6th . , and continue Twenty-one weeks. 'Circulars, containing referenCes, names of pations, and full partidulars, will be sent by mail, on applica tion to; the- Principal, REV. M. MEIGS AI/ Pottstown? April 2d, 1862. 898 ly Pennsylvania , wriiitary Academy, AT ... WEST ,CHESTER, (For Emitters' Only) MITE duties of this Aosnviri will be resumed on THURSDAY, JANUARY Sra.• 'The, advantages afforded for ,theLacouirement of a thorough CLA§EICAL, SCIENTIFIC, and KTIATART Ewa . - °Arrow are rursurpassed.: Tried and Competent Picifessorsconduct the Depart ments of Ancient and Modern Languages, and a gra duate of the United States Military Academ y ., of high class Standing and of large Military experience, de- ToteEi fils'ekciuSive attention to the Mathematical and Military branches: MU.ITARY SIETE*, order and-precision are strictly .enforeed, and the most vigilant care over the moasr. AND FEESONAt.ILABITS AND RELIGIOUS TRAINING of the `cadets is exercised: ' • ; ' For circulars,. apply f Coy.. T.H.NIO. , .HYATT, jau§ 3m Rreet. Penna. Military Academy. The Pen is Mightier than the Sword." nig GOLD •FEN-TTf Fl 'BEST OF ALL .PENS. MORTON'S GOLD PENS. The Best rens in. the World. Enxeeeigt of-say_of, the following gamin cash or poit-statiips, the - stiliseriher *ill send by return :of linul; or 'otherwise,- `as • directed, a Gold Pen or ;Pens, SELECTING TENIIAME ACCORDING TO, DENORIPTION, 'GOLD PENS Wall - 017T CASES.:, tor 25 edits, the'. Magic en ; or 28cents, the ' Lucky Pen • for 50 cents, the- A.lways-Ready' Pen ; f0r,75, eents-the Elegant Pen; uud for, $)., the Ex celsior Pen. • The sizes are,'Nos. 2,4; 4, s . and 5. 'THE SAME PENS ...LN SILVER-PLATED EX. TENSION. ,CASES, PEN.OILS. For -50 Cents, , the -Magic Pen ; for. 'it cents, the Lucky • Pen ; for 'sl, 'the .Always4teady Pen'; for $1 25, the Elegant Pen 1 and for slso,:the Excelsior Pen.; : ?hese are 'well finished, good' -writing Gold Pensiltriaz Iridosznins Po j ints, the, average.- ;wear of every one of which' Will' far &titbit agross df thp beet SteetPetts: " ' ° , • .Theaname " A... Morton ", "Narrater," -am. YQttali- V," are ; stamped on the following Pens,: and -the Ponds are warrantedliii six' months, except .against accident. The numbers indicate size army % laTe. 1 being the smallest, N0...6 the largest, adapted for. the -pocket; Nol 4 'the , iinallest4 acid- No. 10 the largest -Mammoth Gold Tani -for ;the desk. - Long and:rine diuni„ Nibs.,of all sizes .and qualities. Short Nibs•of Nei. 4,5, t; and 7,` and Tmade, only of first Anality. t.Tliairagrairingi arefid-iimilei of the sizes and styles. GOLIYPENS, WITHOUT CASES. ;For 75 cents, - aallo: 1 Pen, - ista quality, or a No. 3 Pen, 3d quality. a a • , , • . For'sl, a No. 2 Pen, ist quality t or a No. Pen, 2d quality, or a NO. 4 - Pen, 3d quality. • For $l. 25, a N45.13 - •Pen, Ist quality, or allo. 4 Pen, 2d Ipiality, or a No. fa. Pen, 3d qualify. - For $;1, 50, a No. A Pen, Ist quality, or a, No. 5 Pen, 2d qiality, or a No.' 6 Pen, .3d quality, `a F'orsl 75„a No. 's'Peti, let quality, or a No. 6 Pen, 2d quality. For $2 25, a No. 6 Pen, Ist quality. , • • ME SAME -GOLD PENS IN SILVER EXTEN ' SION,CASES, WITH . PENOILS. a For $l5O, 'a No. 1 Pen, let quality, era No. 8 Peal, 3d qualify. For $1„:75,.a,N0..2 Pen, Ist quality, or a No. 3 Pen, 2d quality , or a No. 4 Pen,, 3d quidity._ For . $2; a No. 8 Pen, Ist qiality; or a No. 4 Pert, 2.d quality: or -a No 's'Pen, dlat quality. FOrs2, 50, a No.:4Peri,, let quality, or a No. 5 Pen, 2dsiality t or a No. 6.•Peo 3d quality. *Vox $3; a•No. 5 Pen, lsequalityi or a No. 6 Pen, 2u gnahty - For; $3 -50, aa No. &Pen; Ist :quality. GOLD PENS, ALL . I.sr QUALITY, IN SILVER _ MOUN'rED DESK-HOLDERS. 'Rear $2, 'a.No. 4Pen, for's2 25, a No. 5 Pen, for $2 76, 'a. / NO:- 6 Pen fort - 3 50; a No. 7 Pen. a For s4,.a!No. R for $5, a No. 9 Pen, and for as 6, a No.,lo,Pen. • The "Ist Quality"' are pointed with the very hest Iridosmin Points, carefully selected, and none of this quality, arelaidil with the slighteat imperfection which sll and...the closest scrutiny can detect. ' - The ‘"2d, Quality" are superior to. any Pens made 1 13fhim previous tothe year 1860. ' The "ad Qualify Valle intendas shall equal in respect p w abilith Elasticity and Good Writing Qualitie s (the only true considerations) any Gold Pens made elsewhere. . • COAL. t,on. Tin , truonamouno ounetantly receisr ; COAL prepared' th.a great deal of -e'eiliresely for Fe: . ly !lase, and., our mds w .7% , ant a -e, ,first-elaue arti- In regard' to" the' 'Cheap' Gold Pens, he begs le:lve to say that, Previous . to , operating his New and P:r tented Machines, le, could not have made as Coe:i Writing:and Durable Pens, for the price, had Gold been - furniihed- gratuitously I'arties orderini' must in, all instances specq,l/ " , number?' and ."..quality" of the Pens zcanird. and be particular to. describe the kind of Pens they Prgfir - 7,-mhether stiff Or limber, coarse or fine. '411. - ienatanee by mail in Registered letters are at my risfa.l,? .`For sale by-all dealers in the line throughout 1 1 1 0 country. Address, A. MORTON, . 1 " No. 2.5 Maiden Lane,New York. Any„one sending„a single letter post-stamp will re ceivethe-eregrairings above referred to. 'LOUIS Sunday:Sehool, Theological and Tract Depository. THE American Sunday-School Union and can Tract Society, each maintained for m .nr Yesirs depositories of their respective publications in this oity3 these are now united under the care of the subscriber, and he has added thereto a select assor:; anent of thelmblications of the various evangelic; , denominations, with those of private publishers, %chid' are .soid at publishers' prices. Ca tinges and specimens of Sunday-School papers sent 'misapplication. - ii:Sphonlißooks and Stationery. Address J. W. McINTYIIE, No. 9 'South Fifth Street, St. Louis M‘). :410 tf ' * FEB. 12, J. 863. EDUCATION AT,. Family BOarding School, FOR, YOUNG MEN AND BOYS,
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