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. Soeedv and only Effectual Remedy in
• Sdfo?2lu PriSS DiseE. Weakness of th.B.ck
YE Palp”u'ton P o J f the Heart, Timidity, Tremblings,
“f ldea9 ’ , 4 cj ( .i lt ft* Giddiness. Disease of the Head.
\o!e or SkinTAffectione of the Liver, Lunge, Stem-
T . , Terrible disorder. arising from the
41 rt.rvHabita ofYouth—those BtcE»i and solitary prac
« more StaJ to their victims than the song of Syrens to
lj,. Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their most hrUliarit
or anticipations, rendering marriage Ac., impossi
■ YOUNG MEN
I „ Ti-llv who have become the victima of Solitary Vice,
r , ir 'iJM and deatnetive habit which annually sweeps
! I'“thousands of Young Men of the most
“ ,“,..ntJand brilliant Intellect, who might other-
Senates with the thunders
l f 'l n'ence, or waked to ectasy the living lyre, may call
witU full confidence
marriage- , , '
Marrici Per«m., or Young M™ co.empUtmg marmgo,
being aware of phyiical weakness, organic debility, (itfor
°uVwho places himsell under the care of Dr. J. J»»y »-
liriuaslv confide in hie honor ,a* a gentleman, and confi
doutlv rolv upon hi* skill a* a physician.
• ’ ORGANIC WEAKNESS
ImmeJiatelv Cured, and full Visor Restored.
Tbis Distressing Affect ion-which renders Lifel
•iuJ marriage impossible—the penalty paid 1)} the
of improper indulgences Young fMjimto'
apt to commit cxccsscsjrom not being awar e of the dread
fill consequence* that may ensue. N
the subject will pretend to deny that the priwer of
procreation is lotft sooner by those falling
habits than by tbo prudent? Besides being deprived the
pleasures of healthy offspring., the most serious and de
structive symptoms to both .body and mind arise. The
.y»tcm becomes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Fuuc
tiona Weakened. Loss of Procreative Power. Nervous 1m
lability. Dvspepsia. Palpitation of the Heart. Indigestion
Constitutional Debility, a Wasting of the Frame, Cough,
Consumption,Decay and Death. ,
OFFICE, NO. 7 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET,
Left hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors
from the corner. Fail not totobserve name and number.
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A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS.
'So Mtrcury or Niueont Drug*-
08. JOHNSON. J .
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Grad
uate from one of the moat eminent Colleges in the United ]
States, and the greater part of whose life baa been spent in
the hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia and else
where. baa effected some of the most astonishing cures ;
that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the
head and ears when asleep,, great nervousness, being
alarmed at sudden sounds, baahfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended sometimes with derangement of mind,
were cured immediately.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE-
Dr, J. addresses’all those who have injured themselves
by improper Indulgence and solitary habits, which ruin
both body and mind, unfitting them for either business,
study, society or marriage.
This* are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro
duced by early habita of yonth, vis: Weakness of the
Back and Limbs. Pains In the Head, Dimness of Sight,
Loss of Muscular Power. Palpitation of the Heart, Dys
pqpsy, Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Dlges
. live Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of (jousump
lion, Ec. ! .
Mbstallt.— Tbe fearful effects of the mind we much to
be dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, De
pression of spirits, Evil-Forebodings, Aversion to Society,
MfDlstrust, Love of Solitude, Timiditj, debate some of
the evils produced. .
Thocsasbs of persons of all ages can now judge what is
the cause of their 1 declining health, losing their .vigor, be
coming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a sin
gular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms of
consumption
YOUNG MEN
Who have injured themselveu by a certain practice in
dulged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from
evil companions, or at school, the effects of , which are
nightly felt, eren when asleep, and if not cured renders
marriage imposible, and destroys both body,
should apply immediately. 1
What a pity that a young man, the hope of bis .country,
the darling of his' parents, should be snatched from all
prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of
deviating from the path of nature, and indulging in, a
certain secret habit. Such persons must, before contem
plating
MARRIAGE.
reflect that a sound mind and body are the meet ;neceasary
requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with
out these, the Journey through life becomes a weary pil
grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the View; the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and filled With the
melancholy reflection that the happiness ot another be
comes blighted with our own.
Disease of imprudence.
When the misguided and imprudent votary Of pleasure
finds that be has, imbibed the seeds of this painfuldis*
ease, it too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame,
or dread of discovery, deters him from applying te those
who, from education and respectability, can alone be
friend him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of
this horrid disease make their appearance, such as ulcera
ted sore throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pain s In.the head
sad limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the shin
hones and 'arms, blotches on the head, face and extremi
ties, progressing with frightful rapidity, tilt at last* the
palate of the month or the hones of the nose fall in, and
the victim of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of
commiseration, till death puts a period to bis dreadful
•sufferings, by sending him to “that Undiscovered Country
from whence no traveller returns.”
It a mdanctioly fact that thousands ' fall victims to
ibto terrible disease, owing to the unskillful ness of Igno
rant pretenders, who, hy the use of that jDeadly Jhriton*
V'reury. ruin the constitution and'• make the residue of
Uf“ miserable.
_ STRANGERS : L ,
i nut not your lives, or health to the care of the many
t’uleamed and Worthless Pretenders, destitute of knowi
ng';, name or character, who copy Dr. Johnston’s adver
tisements, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regn
•wly Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep
- T °b trilling month after month, taking their filthy and
poisonous compounds, or as long as the smallest fee can
be obtained, and in despair, leave yon with ruined health
tfl *‘?h over your galling disappointment.
J>r. Johnston is the only Physician advertising*
His credential or diplomas always hang in h» office.
His remedies or treatment are unknown toi all others,
prepared from a life spent In the great hospitals of Europe.
first in the country and a more extensive Pritnif. Prac
txt* any other Physician in the world.
INDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS.
The many thousand*. cured at this year after
W ftn ** the numerous important Surgic#' operations
LT 0 ”?* 1 by Johnston, by the reporters of the
Clipper,” and many other notices of
ve appeared again and again before . the public,
. stan(lin ? ** « gentlemen of character and re
sponsibility, I* a sufficient guarantee tolhe affljcted.
V ■»*>* O'SEASES speedily cubed.
!*” re ? flT6<l nnl<« poet-paid nad containing a
be j“**lV n the "•'•J *’ er " un> writiugfhonld state
geana send portion of adrertUementdeacribing irmniniiiß
irttHI 0 ?’ ,honlcl be particular In directing their
letter* to .hi. Institution, in the following manner;
M. JOHMSTON/1i.0.,
Of the Baltimore Lock Hospital, Maryland.
.11. C. DSBN,
NIGHT SCENE AFTER THE RATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG.
Far away Crow his borne, in a bright sunny clime.
Whore the soft'geoUe sephyr was sighing,
'At the lone hour of night, (haring fought bis last time,
A poor wounded soldier lay dying.
Mo loved ones stood round him to whisper of hope,
MoTond hand his weakness sustaining.
But alone through the valley of death be must grope.
And he felMhat the life-tide was waning.
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THE DYIHC SOLDIER.
BY A. TAN DTAE. fttST MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
’Tis true that a comrade bad crept to bis aide.
But be. too, was languished and weary,
And yet to console and to aid hkn be tried,
And the dying man blessed him sincerely.
0, come! welcome death, and relieve me of pain
Come now in my moment of sorrow.
I fear not your dust, and your power I disdain.
For my soul shall be free on the morrow.
I once fondly hoped that I might, reach my home.
To die ’mid the friends of life’s morning.
Bnt bright angels beckoned from Heaven’s asure dome,
And I felt ’twas my last final warning.
'Then he turned to the comrade who watched by fals bed.
And gave him a sign to draw nigh him,
Saying, in a low whisper, “ Come, lean down your head.
For I’m taint, and I think 1 am dying ”
Then be drew from his pocket a likeness, anl said.
Take this to my wife 2 oh, bow often
I’ve gazed on those features, how many fears shed. ~
While at served my harsh nature to soften.
Tee, take it, my friend, and preserve it for me,
And be kissed it with dying affection.
Baying, woojd that that loved one once more I could see,
Oh, God! do thou be her protection!
And here Is this Bible—my mother's last gift—
From th« vices of camp it has shielded.
My spirit above life’s dull cares it did lift.
And joy beyond measure it yielded.
Take this as a gift of affection from mo.
And oh, for the sake of the giver.
Do then read it often; thy guide il will be.
As ’tie mine over Death’s silent river.
And here is this letter, read this to menow.
for I feel that my eye-sight is failing.
’Tis the last from my wife—a true woman’s last vow—
Which I kept when the foe wore assailing.
Tes, read it, for though miles of distance divide.
By'tiie pen's magic power she has spoken.
And even in death, though she's not by side.
I am blessed with affection’s last token.
My children, God bksa them ! they once were my pride
’T was for them that I braved every danger;
Tell them for bis country their dear father died.
In the land of the foe man and stranger.
Now, comrade, good-by 2 then his spirit took flight
To that land free from sorrow and sighing.
Where the bright sun of glory excludeth the night.
And there's no mure wounded nor dying.
Thus, daily and hourly, some brave soldier dies
In tattle or out upon picket;
He knows not his fate'till the swift ballet flies
From 4> a ravage” concealed in the thicket.
But the great world moves on, without heeding the loss,
And their names are uhhonored in story.
But like the fine gold-dust o’eripread by the dross,
They shine in their own modest glory.
I RATHER THINK I WILL.
Oh! I’ll tell you of a fellow.
Of a follow 1 have seen, i
Who is neither white nor yellow.
But is altogether green,
lie has told me of a cottage,
Of a cottage on a hill;
And he begged me to accept him.
But I hardly think I will.
Now the tears the creature wasted.
.Were enough to turn a mill;
Then his name it isn’t charming,
v For It’s only common •* BQI ;**
And be wishes me to wed him.
Bat f hardly think 1 will.
And be begged me to accept him.
But 1 hardly think I will.
O he whispered of devotion,
, Of devotion pure and deep,
Bat it seemed so very silly,
That I nearly fell asleep.
And he thinks It would be pleasant, \
As we Journey down the hill,
To go hand in hand together,
Bnt 1 hardly think 1 will.
lie was here last night to see me.
And be made so long a stay,
1 began to think the blockhead,
Never meant to go away.
At first I learned to hate him.
And 1 know 1 hate him still.
Yet he urges me to have him,
Bnt 1 hardly think I-will.
I'm sore 1 wouldn’t choose him,
Bnt the very deuce is in it;
For be says UI refuse him.
That fas couldn’t live a minute 1
And yon knew, the blessed Bible,
Plainly says,“we must not kill,”
So I’ve thought the matter over.
And I rather think I willl
Jfrlwt
THE PEAIEIE EOBBEE.
On a distant prairie at nightfall, a way
worn and weary traveller was overtaken
by a snow storm. When the first few
flakes came softly dropping down, he looked
eagerly around in hope of discerning a
place of shelter, hut none was to be seen—
only the reckless waste of rolling lands
and far off hills in the direction whither
he was going—nab far off he feared he never
could reach thorn. With the departure
of light the snow began falling, the wind
blew keener, the road soon hidden from
view, the traveller felt that he was lost on
a trackless waste, without a star to guide
him across the dangerous country.
“This is terrible!” said he aloud. “I
fear much I shall never come to my des
tination. If I had but a compass and a
light I should not fear, for if I could resist
ALTOONA, PA. ; THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1862.
the effects of the cold long enough to reach
the hills, there I could find human habi
tations, or at least the shelter of a rock.—
Now I may go in a circle till I freeze, and
be no nearer help' What a fool I was to
the river - side and cross the prairie
just for the sake of a few miles more or
less of journey. No matter; I must even
battle it out now—Heaven helping.”
And battle it out he did, most manfully.
He drew his cap down over his ears and
brow, and his fur collar up over his mouth,
and thrusting his hands deeper into his
pockets, pressed on through the yielding
snow. The gloogi increased, the wind
sharper and through his heavy clothes the
traveller began to feel the effects of the
cold. His feet grew numb, his arms
chilled, and after an hour’s rapid walking
he suddenly paused.
, “And do I know whither I am going?”
he exclaimed. “ Perhaps I have already
turned aside from the straight line, and am
wandering on the verge of destruction. —
O! that I could shake off this drowsy feel
ing that is stealing over me! I know
what it is—the precursor of a rest in this
cold winding sheet of snow. Great Hea-
O t ,
ven, I am freezing to death!” shrieked he,
; bounding forward with renewed energy.—
; “ Action is life, and life is too
sweetiose yet!”
He hurried along with a springing mo
i tion, stamping his feet "vigorous at every
| step, and swinging his arms to keep the
! blood in circulation. Yet with all his ef
: forts, he knew the angel of death was fold
ing his white wings silently around him.
“Despair—no!” he cried, “not while
I the memory of mv loved wife and dear
children is left me. I will struggle on for
your sakes, and fight the storm, to
; the last extremity. O, just Heaven, for
; the sake of the innocent ones whose only
I stay is my right arm, help me to resist —
! help me to triumph'!”
At this moment he plunged into a hol
low, his feet strode over ice, and he heard
the voice of a streamlet singing of life and
action benath its icy crust. At the same
time the smell of wood smoke saluted his
nostrils.
“O, thou who reignest above,” he ejac
ulated, “ I thank Thee that Thou hast
heard my prayer. Help is near me.”
He reeled heavily onward through the
blinding snow, and saw just before him a
low shed. One more struggle and he fell
against it. In an instant he divined its
character. With a last desperate effort
he found the door, threw it open, and
rushed in, flung himself at full length upon
I the floor, knowing only that he wag in an
j atmosphere reeking with fumes of bacon,
and warm with the smoke which rose from
a pan of smothered coals in the centre of
the place. It was a settler’s rude smoke
house left to care for itself during the
long winter’s night, and the traveler’s
heart sent up i tribute to Heaven for this
place of refuge in the desert of snow.
In the large log cabin in the valley of
the streamlet, Milly Dean sat alone. Her
husband had gone to a distant town, and
the young wife was left with her baby.—>
Accustomed to the solitude, she felt safe,
and sat in contentment before the blazing
fire; the flames leaping right joyfully up
the chimney, and green legs sizzled and
cracked in the heat like things in the life.
Out of doors the wind was howling drear
ily, and the'snow falling heavily; but Mary
cared not, for it only made the fire more
cheerful.
There came a rapping at the door.
“How strange! What can that be at
our door this wild night?” she said to her
self, as die arose and went into the little
entry!
“ Who is there?” she asked.
“For Heaven’s sake, let me in; lam
freezing to death!” was the reply.
“ Who are you? and how came you in
this lonely place on such an evening as
this?”
“lam a traveller from below; Host
my way and am dying with cold. For
pity’s sake let me in, or I shall perish!”
Milly hesitated. She was alone; and it
was three miles to the nearest neighbor’s.
What should she do ? She paused in per
plexity.
“O, save me—save me! lam dying!”
were the words that met her hearing.—
There was a heavy fall against the sill,
and then low moans. Her woman’s nature
could stand no more; true to the instinct
of her being, she unbarred the door and
threw it open. A closely muffled figure
reeled by her into the room, and shutting
the door she followed. On reaching the
fire-place, the stranger threw off his dis
guise and stood erect and strong, without
a sign of inconvenience from the of
the weather. Milly retreated from him in
amazement; but recovering herself and
putting the beat face on the matter, she
tremulously addressed the man:—
“I am sorry, sir, you are cold. It is
a hitter night to be abroad. Will you sit
by the fire?” and she pushed a chair for
ward.
The man made no response, but stoop
ing over, ran his fingers through the blaze.
Then he turned and stared at her with a
look which made her blood run cold.—
She would pretend there were others in
frSDEPENDEST IK EVERYTHING.]
die house, for she already felt afraid of
the man, and bitterly regretted having ad
mitted him.
“ Would you like to see some of the
men folks, sir?” she inquired. “If so, I
will call them from their beds.”
The man laughed hoarsely and replied;
“Milly Dean, for that I believe is your
name, you cannot deceive me.' You are
alone in this house. I took particular
care to ascertain that before I came. So
you can make yourself easy on that score,
and do as I bid you.” ,
Do as you bid me!” exclaimed Milly,
in terror: “what do you want of me?”
“ I want the twelve hundred .dollars in
gold your husband received for his produce
two days ago. You probably know where
it is.”
Milly sprang into the entry and would
have fled, but the stranger caught her by
the wrist and dragged her roughly back.
•* You cannot escape me, young woman,”
he said “You wall find it most conve
nient to make a clear breast of it at once.
It will be better for you.”
Milly strove to release her arm. The
rough treatment die received aroused her
temper, and indignation overcome all other
feelings. •
“ Let me go, you scoundrel, let me go,
or I will call for help,”'she cried.
“Call, you fool,” said the ruffian, “and
much good may it do you. Keep yourself
still and tell me where the money is.”
“I will not!” she exclaimed, her eyes
flashing fire.
“ You wall not,” he then replied, “ w e
shall see.”
He released her wrist so violently that
she reeled half across the room. Then he
siezed her sleeping infant from its cradle,
and held it at arms length almost into the
blazing fire, so that the terrified mother
expected to see its light garments catch the
flame.
“ Now r then where’s the money ? Speak
out quick or hear your baby shriek with
pain. I will burn it to death before
your eyes if you do not tell me where the
money is.”
“ Monster give me my child,” shrieked
Milly, endeavoring to reach the little one.
“ Let me have my baby.”
But every effort was frustrated# for
again and again the: strong hand of the
robber thrust her back.
“ See, its dothes will be on fire in a
minute,” said the man, putting the help
less innocent closer to the flames. The
mother looked into his eyes. She saw
there the look of heartless determination.
She became aware that the cotton gar
ments of the child were smoking with heat.
“ How shalf it be ?” asked the ruffian.
“Hurry*or the child dies. I have no
time to waste here.”
“ Anything—anything, only give me
my child!” she cried. The next instant
it was handed to her, and she sank upon
the floor and folded it to her bosom.
“Come,” exclaimed the man, touching
her rudely with his foot, “you have not
told me where the money is.”
“In the box on the. upper shelf,” she
replied, pointing to the closet.
“So far so well. It is nearly all gold.
I will pocket it with your leave, or with
out your leave, just as you please.” He
filled his pockets with the golden com, and
threw the empty box into the fire. ! Then
he came and Stood beside her.
“ Put your babyin the cradle,” he said,
“if you wish to save its life. I have
other business for you.”
“What do you mean?” cried Milly,
eyeing the man with suspicion.
“ Let me have him,” said he, trying to
take it.
“No, no, I will put the baby in the
cradle myself. You shall not touch the
poor little thing. Now, sir, what is it?”
she continued, almost choking with excite
ment, after having laid the pretty infant
on its downy place; of rest; she stood erect
and waited the reply.
“ I am going to kill you!” said the man.
“ Kill me,” she exclaimed her face
growing pale with terror. “Kill me!
What have I ever done to you that you
should kill me?”
“Nothing, nothing, my dear, only you
know that you have seen me, and you will
know me again.” and he advanced upon
her.
“O, sir, let me live. Have you not
done enough to take my husband’s money,
without depriving him of his wife too ? I
will never say a' word against you if you
will only spare me—only spare me!”
As she spoke she clasped her hands and
looked imploringly at him.
“ I am sorry that I cannot safely grant!
your request,” he responded. “ There is
no help for it, so come along out doors.”
He reached out his hand to grasp Milly,
but the instinct of self-preservation was
strong upon her. She evaded him, flew to
the chimney piece, snatched her husband’s
| loaded rifle from the hooks on which it.
I hung, cocked and presented it at the breast
of the robber. Her motions were so rapid
that before he could prevent it, her finger
had pressed the trigger and there was an
explosion. But with equal readiness the
man stepped asidb, the ball passed over his
head, and the next instant the grip was on
her throat.
‘‘l’ll teach you how to handle arms,” j WHAT A BAYONET CHAE6K IS.
he said. “You would have killed me, It is that? the battle at
would you’ “I will show ;you a tnck pj ttebnr g Landing undoubtedly was, but
worth two of that” . , one bayonet wound has been discovered by
“Mercy, mercy,” cned the terrified our the re, and that was inflicted
woman. -. . by a barbarous rebel upon a sick soldier
“ There’s no mercy for you, he ejacu- j - n _ Some surprise has been
lated. He dragged her into tho'entry, and ex p regge d a t this fact: there is a general
flung open the door. “Out with y ou lnto impression that after a bayonet charge, if
the snow.” . v . , the contesting forces are composed of brave
“Hold! what is this. exclaimed a me „ there should be a great number of
deep-toned voice. “Unhand that woman, Buch woun ds. The truth is that a bayonet
you scoundrel!” charge is a very different affair from what
A powerful man stood in the doorway. - t k generally supposed. In the first
He dealt the,robber a blow between the p i aces the regiment or other force which
eyes which struck him back mto the entry. the though probably ranged
His grasp of MiUy was relinquished, and M near M opposite its
she fell to the floor. ■ . enemy, cannot keep up this formation
“O, sir,” she cried to thejiew comer du • of a m a e or more of
“ 9ave me - The ™ an 'J 8 !, ground which must be traversed by it be
would murder me that I would not tell it fore £oe k readied. Even with the
“ ear not > ma dam, he shill pot harm and bravest men, one end ot
you,” responded the stranger. bellow, the Une behind, and if the enemy
surrender yourself. ... should stand still to receive the charge,
“Get out of my way,” cned the robber, . a the wonld be engaged
making a nidi for the door, and sinking at practicC) however, military
at the stranger with a bowie knife, Giv- confcgB that bayonets are very
ing back a few steps, the stranger seized rarely actually crossed. A charge usually
the robber by the collar, whirled him one of three turns; either the charg- ’
around, and threw huh on h?s face in the . by its firmness and impetuosity,
snow. The robber struggled, but the throws the opposing force into a panic, and
stranger knelt heavily on the small ot his u breaks rank and flieB without awaiting
back, and grasped his hair. ; . the thrust of the bayonet; or, by firmness
“Lie still,” said the stringer, or and a well delivered volley at short dis
will send a bullet through your bram. tance, the side which is attacked drives off
The robber felt the cold barrel of a pis- other . • in the f ewest gages, both
tol at his ear, and obeyed. MiUy quickly gideg well> and theilj i n the words
brought ropes, at her rescuer*? request, and of one of our most exper i enced generals,
the robber was bound hand and foot. « t he best sergeant decides the fate of the
“It was a strange Providence,’ the new . charge »_berause only the sergeant and
comer said, “that overtook me with a snow one rf tfae men %t the end of the
storm on the praine, and forced mean H ne which first comes in contact with the
hour ago to take refuge in your smoke- enemy , B line are reaUy engaged during the
house, nearly dead with cold; f ew de cisive moments, and thus the con-
MiUy acknowledged the truth of the re- d , individual bravery and strength of
mark, and she knelt and thanked her a dozen men, who alone cross
Father in Heaven for her deliverance. bayonets with the enemy, gain the victory
The next day Milly’s husband caine for Bide to which they belong. «What
home, and when he had teen told all, he do yQu we keep our bayonets
remarked: . , bright for, but to scare the enemy!” a
“This fellow was in the tavern at the d igtinguished general said to one who was
village, the day I sold my produce. It • n „„; r ; n „ j n to t b e nature of bayonet
will learn me a lesson—never to let stran- chargeg . and a Marshal of France wrote:
gers know when money is plenty with me, l( j t k Qot the number of killed, but the
lest they should be tempted, to crime and number of frightened, that decides the issue
bring ruin on me and mine.?’ 0 f a battle.” Jomini says distinctly that
That day some sixty or seventy men fae m but one bayonet fight in all bis
gathered at the house of Mr. Dean* military experience; and it is related by
robber was recognized as a notorious horse Qne of the historians of Napoleon’s wars,
thief, who had long infested the neighbor- a t w jj en e French were once charging
hood. There was a summary tnal, and tbe w ith the bayonet, when the
then in dogged silence, the wretch who wou j d no t or. could not retreat,
would have burned a harmless infant and tbere enaued aB pectacle unexpected by the
murdered a faithful and gentle woman, o £s cerBon either side;. The French and
submitted to his, inevitable fate. A rudely p rua gj a) ri soldiers, when they got within
constructed gallows and a stout rope, ended Btriking distance, apparently by mutual
his existence. Soon the thinly settled dubbed their muskets, and fought
frontiers of the West do they mete out jus- deapera tely with their anns reversed,
tice to offenders against property and me.
About seventeen hundred dollars in bills
were found on the person of the robber,
besides the gold he bad taken |from Mrs.
Dean. As there were no claimants for the
hlllftj at the suggestion of the stranger,
whose life had been saved from the anger
of the winter storm by the shelter he had
found in the smoke-house, a thousand dol
lars of the seventeen hundred were pre
sented to MiUy in consideration of what
she had passed through, and thje remainder
yras divided around.
On that very spot there: is now a thriv
ing town, and one of the finest residences
in the place is that whqjre dwells MiUy
Dean and her husband.
VThere is no moral;philosophy that
■will teach ns anything better than Christ
taught. There is no conception of purity,
that is more transcendent mid beautiful
than that which was in the life
of the Saviour. There is no idea of dis
interested benevolence to he compared with
that which is portrayed by the New Tes
tament.
Love akd Sugar.— “Do you believe
in second love, Mrs. McQuade?”
“Dot believe in second love ? Humph!
If a man buys a pound of sugar, isn t it
sweet ? and when it’s gone don’t he want
another pound, and isn’t that sweet, too?
Troth, Murphy, I believe in second love.”
«ST An old saying current in European
military circles, runs in this wise: The
Spanish to build forts. The French to
take them. The English to hpld them
to render this complete the following should
be added; The Confederates to evacuate
them.
fyAn English editor mskes the following
sweeping assertion" What I a man and
never in love! Pshaw! he must have a
heart of ice, a soul as lifeless as a corn-cob,,
the gizzard of a goose, and a head as sappy
as a cocoa nut.”
yy-Qriilp says, when ;he sees kisses be
tween women, it reminds him of two hand
some unmatched gloves—charming things
for their proper mates, but good for noth
ing, that way.
9- As a man drinks he generally grows:
reckless ; in this case, the mpre drams the
fewer scruples. ’
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
Pretty Good Joke. — A London paper
tells a pretty good one on an old bachelor
of that place, who was present at a But
ter Fair, recently held in that town. A
lady who enjoys a joke hugely asked him
if he would Uke to see the milking machine,
•one of which was on exhibition. The
gentleman, of course, signified his assent,
when Mrs. conducted him to a far
cornet of the room, where a very young
person was drawing substance from the
maternal fount, and, pointing to the cher
ub, Mrs. ; —; said that was one of the
most perfect arrangements for the use in
question ever invented. Such a roar ol
laughter followed as was likely to bring
down the plastering.
Nose and Lips. —A sharp nose and
thin lips are considerd by physiognomists
certain signs of shrewish disposition. As
a criminal was once on his way to the gal
lows, proclamation was made that if any
woman would marry him under the gal
lon's, with the rope around his meek, he
would receive a pardon.
“ I will,” cried .a cracked voice from the
middle of the crowd.
The culprit desired the eager candidate
for matrimony to approach the curt, which
she did; and he began to examine her
countenance.
“ Nose like a knife,” said he, “ Kps like
wafers. Drive on hangman.”
U « Mister Magnanimity, father wants
the loan of your newspaper for a few min
utes, if yon please.” “ Run back, my boy
and tell your father that I will lend, him
my breakfast with pleasure but I haven’t
got through with my paper yet.”
A young lady who lately gave an
order to a milliner for a bonnet, said;—
You are to make it plain, add at the same
smart, as I sit in a conspicuous place in
the church.”
fgr A public speaker should, never lose
sight of the thread of his discourse; like a
busy needle, he should always have the
thread in his eye. . ,
Or Disdain not your inferior, though
poor! since be may be much your superior
in wisdom, and the noble endowments of
the mind.
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