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JOHNSON has discovered the most Certain, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in ,h,- world for all Private Diseases, Weakness of the Back ,’r Limbs, Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys andßlad der. Involuntary Discharges. I‘Ul'otcimy, General Debility, Verronsoess, Dyspepsy. Languor. Low npints. Confusion ,f Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremblings, bimness of Sight or Giddiness, Disease of the Head, Throat, Nose or Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lung?,Stom ach or Bowels —those Terrible disorders arising from the ■o.iitarv Habits of Youth—those secret and solitary prac more fetal to theii victims tlian the song of Syrens to liie Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hope* or anticipations, rendering marriage ,4c . impossi ble. YOUNG MEN K-ncciallv. who have become the victims of Solitary ' ice, Siat dreadful and destuctive habit which annually, sweeps 11 an untimely glare thousands of Young Mon of the most -limited talents and brilliant intellect, who might other wise have entranced listening Senates with the thunders ~f eloquence, or waked to ectasy the living lyre, may call with full confidence marriage. Harried Persons, or Young Men cotemplating marriage, heiog aware weakness, organic debility: defor mity, Ac„ speedily cured. lie who place* himself under the care of Dr, J. am) re jisi„u*ly confide in hi* honor as a gentleman, ami conh •bntlv rely upon hi* skill as a physician. ' ORGANIC WEAKNESS lumnsUatelv Curod,Aud full Vigor Restored. ■ This Distressing Affection—which renders Life miserable vid marriage impossible—is the penalty paid by the victims of improper indulgences. Young persona are to H,t to commit excesses from not being awaie of the dread ful consequences that may ensue. Now. who that uuder 'umls the subject 'will pretend to deny that the power of pr.xreation is lost sooner l>v those falling into improper habits than hv the prudent? Besides being deprived the pleasures of healthy offspring, the mewl serious and de structive symptoms'to both body and mind arise. The system becomes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Func tions Weakened. Loss bf Procreative Power, Nervous lrri‘ Übility, Dyspepsia. Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion Constitutional Debility, a Wasting of the Frame. Cough» Consumption, Decav and Death. OFFICE, NO. 7 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, Left hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors from the corner. Fail not to"observe name and number. Letters must be paid and contain a stamp. The Doc tor's Diploma* hang in his office A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS. So Mercury or Hustons Xhttgs. . OR. JOHNSON, „ , 51 ember of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Grad uate from one of the most eminent Colleges in the United State*, and the greater part of whose life has been spent in the hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia and else where, bm effected some of the moat astonishing cures that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the head and 4 eas* when asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent blushing, attended sometimes with derangement of mind, were cured immediately^ TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE Dr. J. all those who have irynred themselves hy improper indulgence and solitary habits, which ruin both body and mind, unfitting them for cither business, study, society or marriage. Tutsi are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro duced by early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Sight, ! Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dye p"psy, Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Diges tive Functions. General Debility, Symptoms of Consnmp rion, Ac. Mkhtallt.—-The fearful effects of the mind are much to be dreaded—Loss of Memory*, Confusion of Ideas, De pression of spirits, Evil-Forebodings, Aversion to Society, SelfDistnxst, Love of Solitude. Timidity, 4c.,are some of the evils produced. Thousands of persons of all ages can now* judge what is the cause of thei* declining health, losing their vigor, be aming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a sin gular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms of consumption Who have injured themselves Inr a certain practice hi; Jolged {q when alone, a habit frequently learned from .-til companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly felt, even when asleep, and if not cured rentier* marriage Imposible, and destroys both mind and body, should apply immediately. What a pity that a ydnng man, the hope of his country, the darling of his parents, should he 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 xcst, before contem plating reflect that a sound mind and body are the most necessary requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with out these, the journey through life becomes a wear)’ 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 onr own. m DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE, when the misguided and imprudent rotary of pleasure hods that he has Imbibed the seeds of this painful dis ease, It too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, "f 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 sin ike head and limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the shin hones and arms, blotches on the bead, face and extreml progressing wfth frightful rapidity till at , last the palate of the mouth or the bones of the nose fall in, and the victim of.thls awful disease-become* a horrid object of commiseration, till death pat* a period to his dreadful ■offerings, by sending him to «that Undiscovered Country fr®® whence no traveller returns.” It U fact that thousands fall victims to this terrible damme, owing to the unskillfulness of igno rant pretenders, who, by the use of that Deadly /bison, xereury; rwin the constitution and make the residue of me miserable. T STRANGERS *nut not your lives, or health to the care of the many Unlearned and Worthless Pretenders, deetitntraf knowb name or character, wh » copy Vir. Johnnßrs adver* iwmenu, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regu* ‘»nv Educated Physicians, Incapable of Curing, they keep ywi trifling month after month, taking their filthy and poisonous compounds, or as long as the smallest foe can **> obtained, and ini despair, leave yon with mined health sigh over yonr galling disappointment. - bv. Johnston is the only Physician advertising. Ru credential or diplomas always hang in his office. Hw remedies or treatment are unknown to all others, from a life spent In the great hospitals of Europe, Jr* J**t »n the conntiy and a more extensive Private. Prao* ‘c< than any other Physician in the world. T indorsement of the press. tne many thousands cured at this Institution, year after the ottmerom important Surgical operations' by Johnston, witnessed by the reporters of the u-m v» u Clipper,” and many other papenflfanotices of u7 e ft PP®* r ** and again public, ilm. gentlemen of character and re* P°n« wilty, is a sufficient guarantee to the afflicted. , S S IN diseases speedily cured. postpaid and containing a the reply Persons writingshonid state of advertisement describing symptoms. letleJT’fo .M tti r n *i'S' m . ld '* I> a rtlttolar in directing their r« to this InstHntion. in the following manner: M. JOHNSTON. M. 0., Of the Baltimore lock Hoepital, Mainland. ICSKH- THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE VKK¥* OF ADVERTISING YOUNG MEN MARRIAGE. [>Vom the OAumbia .Spy.] BY THE WILD SEA SHORE. Alodp 1 walked by-tho wild sea shore. Where the billows had burnished the silver floor, And 1 paused by the hjk>i in the lonely glade. Where the holly and pine cast their mournful shade: And a sombre feeling came oVr me there, As I sat in that last abode of men, Whilst a strange weird groups—some twenty or more. Were dlgging graves by the wild sea shore. $ 5 00 7 00 10 00 12 00 14 00 20 00 40 00 1 75 $ 3 00 4 00 6 00 . 8 00 10 00 14 00 25 00 Here, on the fiice of th»dr native soil. The careless negroes cheerily toil, With bursts of mirth and shout and song. They lighten their labor the whole day long. And oft they pause neath the sun’s fierce glow To brush the sweat from each swarthy brow; Yet light is the tosh (their servitude o’er.) Tills digging of graves by the wild sea shore. 10 00 The trains have come, and the rites begin— How rudely they jostle the coffins in! No service is read, ub prayer is told, But o'er each bosom the sand is rolled; No marble is planted, nor line to show The story of those who sleep below: But the spades shouldered, the work is o’er— And twenty new graves mark the wild sea shore. And thus each day, by tin* pine’s dark shade, Swiftly the grave-diggers ply lb© spade; And the trains come down from morn till night With those who fell in the bloody fight. Here friend and foe hate a common lot — Rank and distinction alike forgot— One earth receives and Ope sky bends o’er. And the dead are alike on the wild sea shore. Over the narrow neck of laud Are scattered the graves on every hand; Dirge-chanting waves on east and west. Whilst the pines stand guard o’er each sleeping breast; And at early noon and at sec of sun \ From the fort booms forth the thunder-gun; Qut unheard are the waves and the caution's roar. By those who sleep by the wild .sea shore. And still in the future the sea shall How. And the ships from afar will come and g*s And o’er its prey the sea gull scream, Where the fisher repairs the broken seam. The snowy Bauds on the storm-winds drift Where other pines their forms shall lift. But departed each trace forever mare. Of the graves that marked the wild sen shore. Aa .1 turned from the scene * ilh a heart. ’I Mid, - Oh: why will proud man depart From the sacred paths of truth aud right, to challenge his brother in deadly fight 'r Ambition and power, whose fearful cost Is unreckoned till all Is gained or lo>t! Oh! ye who yearn fur that goal no more, Go stand by those graves.ou the wild sea shore!’" And a lime worn truth I hud oft heard told. Came back again in thfe proverb old, As I thought of those forms unto earth thus hurried— That u though we are born, we are not yet buried/’ When Death hath fixed his unerring aim How worthless iB Glory! how empty Fame! We would barter earth’s laurel s many times o'er. Rather than cross to that shadowy shore And 1 saw as I went on my lonely way. Through Fancy a glimpse of that awful day When the World's huge grave shall offer its dead. And the myriads rush with a mighty tread. When soldier, civilian, grave-digger—all Shall hasten ttyuwwfer the trumpet call Of him who will swear that time is o’er. And trembling stand on eternity’s shore. Sea Shobk. May 27,1662. JlirtMf llpwrtlattg. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF THE MOUND CITY. From a long letter to the Cincinnati Commercial, dated St. Charles, White River June 16th, and kept in the form of a Diary, we gain full particulars of the late important affair on White River, to gether with details of the deplorable acci dent to the Mound City. We quote Tuesday, 7.10, A. M.—The entire fleet, including Col. Fitch’s command (Forty- Sixth Indiana Regiment) are under way, ascending the narrow crooks of White River. Steamers New National and Mus selman are behind the flag-ship Mound City, and the proud iron-clad St. Louis, followed by the gun-boats Lexington and Conestoga and supply steamer White Cloud. Weather warm, with a fine breeze. All bids fair for a victory. As we progress we find innumerable floating rafts sent drifting, we suppose, to obstruct navigation. Again, wc find the river full of cotton, by the bale innumerable—more, ten to one, than we found floating down the Mississippi. In fragments, huge and small, we find the “Southern king” loose, at the white mercy of the old White river. The gunboats pa®ed on, while one of the transports saved from fifteen to twenty hales, having time to gobwi' all “ laying around loose.” This same cotton, how ever, proved serviceable, as the future records. After passing persimmon and pecan trees, and young cane-brakes innu merable, we still find our little fleet tri umphantly navigating the rapid and suc cessive short bends—some of them hardly long enough to permit a powerful, decent side-W'heeler to “make the turn” in safety. On we go, up White river, until 7-40 A. M. when we are nearing St. Charles.— The first gun lets loose from the flag-ship Mound City. No response. In three sec onds another, and at 7.43 another. 7.47 —two reports of cannon—either an an swer to our advancing, conquering signal, or the truthful, melodious music of the tug Spitfire’s howitzer, 7.50 —Another big gun. The tug Spitfire approaches with the order for the Lexington to precede the transports and follow the St Louis. 8 A. M.—Mound City and St. Louis open out with three volleys, shelling the Choice H«rteg. shores. One minute later, and a “hail swinger” sings brightly from gunner Mar tin Dunn’s port-foward Parrott. Now the ba}l opens. Steamers Musselman and New National laud Col. Fiteh’s Pith In diana hoys on the left hand or port shore, under cover of our guns. On we' go. All speeds merrily—but here we’ll pause. Here, directly in front of us, we lind the river blockaded with three sunken steam ers, wliich we have since learned were sunk last night or early this morning, as soon as the enemy heard of our approach. The steamer Eliza G. (formerly Dr. Buf fington) lies sunk broadside in the river.— On the right is Morgan Bateman’s little stern-wheel Mary Patterson, while on the left lies the rebel gunboat Maurepas, for merly the tow-boat Gros Tete. Those boats lie sunk to the cabin floor, while the guns of the latter have been removed to tiie bluff on the left hand shore, to be used in a battery. A chain and cypress log rafts fill up the open space between the sunken boats. In the meantime, Colonel Fitch’s com mand move cautiously in the rear of the and by signal act in concert with our fleet. The enemy sent shot after shot from their, batteries, which thus far pass harmlessly over our heads. During the last ten minutes we have had an incessant fire of volley after volley of musketry.— At 10 A. ,M. the Mound City signals us to proceed, when all our boats open out with a lively bombardment—the Mound City meanwhile silencing the first bluff batten’, when she moves up witliin three hundred yards of the enemy’s works. At 11 A. M.—The Mound City having fired fifty-one guns, an unusual quantity of steam is seen issuing from her ports and through the ventilators on the upper deck. At first we suppose her boilers have explo ded, but by a mark on her port side for w'ard, perceive that she has received a shot from the enemy. From a conversation with First Master C. Dominy, of the un fortunate gunboat, we learn that after shelling the woods the Mound City pro ceeded on up the river, engaged the lower rebel battery, which was soon effectually silenced. The Mound City had then en gaged the second battery—some two hun dred yards distant—and also shelled the woods filled with the enemy’s sharpshooters. At 11 A. M. an elongated rifled forty-two pound shot entered her port side, forward of the forward port, at an angle of thirty degrees, instantly killing four men at their guns, and then passing through the steam drum and heater, finally lodged in the pantry of the steerage room. In an instant the whole boat, inside and outside, was-enveloped in steam. In the confusion of the moment, some sixty men, badly scalded, jumped overboard—thirty or more of whom, we are - sure, were drowned or murdered—the enemy's sharp shooters literally picking off our poor fel lows while they were swimming and strug gling in the water for life. When the ac cident occurred, Master Dominy was stand ing out forward, on the starboard spar deck, giving orders during the hail of can non, rifle and musketry shot. Discover ing the flow of steam, Dominy pulled off his coat, with which he covered his head, begging his men “ for God’s sake not to jump overboard.” He next went to the stern, waved his handkerchief for the gun boats below to come up and tow the dis abled Mound City out from under the rebel batterie i s-—12-pounders—which were playing on her very heavy at that time. While signalling the gun-boats to come j up, the handkerchief was shot out of his hand. As fast as he pulled his men out of the water at the stern of the Mound City, the enemy’s sharpshooters shot them down. Quartermaster McKean, and one of the coal heavers were both shot while Dominy was pulling them out—McKean through the hip, and the coal heaver through the head. The latter, with his hand clinched in Dominy’s, fell dead on the deck. While the small boats of our fleet were busily engaged in picking up the ' drowning men, the Conestoga, Captain G. ! M. Blodgett, U. S. N., commanding, in 1 full face of the fire from the enemy’s bat- i teries, gallantly came to the rescue of the -j Mound City, and passing a line to her j stern, pulled the disabled gunboat out from I the shore, where she had drifted, to a sq- ! cure point one mile below. In the meantime a party of the enemy’s I sharpshooters endeavored to board the | Mound City, but were soon shelled off by a discharge from the tug Spitfire, Dahl gren howitzer, and a round or two from the Conestoga’s big guns. One of the Lexington’s and two of the Conestoga’s small boats, while picking the men out of the water, were riddled with bullets and a shot from the enemy's 42-pounder. A 42-pounder passed through both of the Conestoga’s boats, when one of the latter was run ashore to save the men, one of whom was severely injured by a splinter. The agonizing scene cannot be described -or imagined. Your correspondent was sent on board of the ill-fated vessel, to gether with Surgeon Garver, with the hope of affording all possible relief, in the capacity of nurse. Here lay the bodies of about twenty, men, scalded to death, oth ers with their mangled bodies severed as- CATALRIST. fIXIiEPENnENT IN EVERYTHING.] ALTOONA, PA.. THURSDAY. JULY 3, 1862 under by the fatal shot. The gun-deck was literally strewn with from seventy five to eighty others, who, being badly scalded and horribly disfigured, were tear ing off their clothing; and long strings of bleeding flesh, dangling from their finger ends, hands, arms, and lacerated bodies, and with eyes burnt out and closed, pry ing out for ” Help, help—water, give me water, water—save roe. Oh! kill me, shoot me. Oh! do end ray misery. Doc tor, will I live ? Tell my wife how I died,” and numerous pitiful exclamations and pathetic appeals of this character. The features of all were wonderfully distorted. Many could not be recognized by their most intimate friends. AVe pray to God we shall never have occasion to look on such a scene again. The pilots, engineers, and all other officers ofUlie boats stood their watches to the last mo ment, while several died at their posts.— Many were moaning piteously; others, in all their misery, were cheering up and sympathizing with their comrades; others frantically screaming, running wildly about the decks, in their excrutiating ago ny, nearly all stripped to the buff.— Strewn ail over the deck lay the raw, bleeding, mangled bodies of the dead and dying seamen. The Mound City’s crew numbered one hundred and seventy-five, officers and men. Sad to relate, only from twenty to twenty five, including the three officers above mentioned, escaped uninjured—leaving one hundred and fifty men killed, drowned, missing and wounded! The mortality is fearfifl. At the present writing—Thurs day, June 19th, 10 A. M., on gunboat Conestoga, in sight of Memphis—one hun dred have died, while the recovery of the remaining fifty is considered doubtful.— AVe left forty-three dead bodies on the Mound City awaiting interment at Fort St. Charles. Since leaving there thirty four have died on the Conestoga and Mus selman. While Master Downing, and all who witnessed the poor men struggling and crying out in the water for help, are positive that from thirty to forty wane drowned before any assistance could pos sibly be rendered them. As before stated, a number were cruelly shot in the water by the enemy’s sharpshooters from both shores, and from the other boats, were soon seen to sink to rise no more. In the excitement and confusion at tending the sudden and unexpected acci dent the muster and descriptive rolls were left on the Mound City. Therefore we are not able to give the names of one tenth of the forty-three left on the gun boat. Captain Joseph Fry, Commandant of the post at Fort St. Charles, also com manded the rebel gunboat Maurepas, sunk in the river near the fort. He belonged to the United States Navy. He is a na tive of Florida but a citizen of New York, from which State he was appointed. En tered the service September 15th, 1841; has seen ten years’ seven months’ sea ser vice up to January Ist, 1861. He is thirty-seven years old; a fall, command ing man in appearance, with regular stri king features, rather handsome, ■with a brilliant, expressive eye. Fry was one of the first to resign and espouse the rebel cause. One of his associates, Francis, M. Roby, was born in Alabama, was appoint ed to the Naval Academy from Mississip pi : entered the service in 1848, but had not graduated when the rebellion broke out. He is about 19 years old, and is represented as a skillful officer. It being charged that our poor men who were shot by the rebels, while in the water, were ordered to do so by Captain Fry. We deem it proper to give his ex planation . of the affair, . Fry says that Roby, who was acting as his Aid-de- Camp, communicated tq him that our gunboat, Mound City, was landing oppo site their battery. Fry then ordered his men to pitch in and present our gunboat men from landing—hened the result. He declares he was not aware our steam ap paratus was jnjured. It was with great difficulty that Col. Fitch’s men could be restrained from hanging |Fry on the spot, iso greatly were they exasperated at the I conduct of the rebels in cruelly murdering i our men. Fry is wounded through the | right shoulder, the right; arm being para i lyzed. After the Mound City had been towed to a secure point, one of the scalded sea men, in his agony, accidentally leaned against one of her big guns, pulling the lock string, causing a premature discharge of the piece. The large transport New National, Captain Grant, laden with troops and baggage horses, was passing up the river at the time. The ball from the Mound City struck, her on the port side, forward of the wheel, and passing through the engine room severed one of the steam pipes. There was great consternation on board for a few minutes. Fortunately, only one man, a secesh engineer, was slightly injured. This was indeed a nar row escape. Owing to the scarcity of medical and surgical aid, a number of persons volun tarily did all they could to relieve the sufferers. They ignorantly made applica tions of lime water, linseed oil, and cotton. I producing spontaneous combustions. The ■ Mound City was thus set tin fire half a I dozen times, but the flames were soon ex- I tinguished without material damage. THE SIGNAL CORPS. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Pross writes as follows concerning one of the most important yet at the same time most modern branches of the public ser vice of the Army of the Potomac: The Signal Corps is an independent body, un der the special - and immediate control of the Commander-in-Chief, and is made up of details of officers and men from each brigade of the army. Major Meyer pre sides over its operations. It constructs and works the telegraph lines, accompa nies all recbnnoisanc.es, and is constantly on the alert for the transmission of intel ligence to and from general and division headquarters. All over the extensive field of work apportioned to Gen. McClellan, signal officers are found, each one closely watching for every movement of the en emy. There are two . systems of signalizing used, by telegraph and by flag. The tele graph is employed on permanent lines, as between White House and headquarters of generals, whose ground* has been effectu ally gained from the enemy. Uncertain lines, which, though having a prospect of permanency, are nevertheless at any mo ment liable to be removed, are rim by the patent insulated wire, which has so often astonished our troops, who invariably take it to be some vile Secession invention.— This is a small wire, insulated with gutta percha and covered with twisted cotton, the whole making a' flexible cord, about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. This is carried on a reel, very much like a two wheeled Philadelphia hose carriage. A line, five miles in length, can be put in working order in two hours. The reel is run along the fields and roads, the atten dants fastening the cord to trees, or bushes at points where troops might accidentally disturb it. Where a field is crossed, it is left lying on the ground, and is found to suffer no harm from'the contact. Beards ley’s portable magneto-electric instruments are used for the transmission of signals.— These are light boxes, about the size of a knapsack, and are portable. Indeed, the whole telegraph system of the Army of the Potomac is of an itinerant character, and the bottled lightning runs about on horseback as rapidly as the. opera tor who controls it. The telegraph system is sim ilar to the alphabetical dial-plate of the Philadelphia fire-alarm telegraph. Flag signalling, however, is the form most generally used; and is the most dan gerous. Each signal officer is provided with three square flags—-a white one with a red centre, a red one with a white cen tre, and a black one with a white centre. These colors have nothing to do with the signal code, however—the different flags being employed for different kinds of weather, and with different .backgrounds, that one being used which wjll be most conspicuous at the greatest 'distance.— These flags transmit signals by swing, and at night a torch is substituted for them. The manner of their use can best be shown by an illustration. Suppose part of the army makes an advance of several miles into the enemy’s lines, a detail from the signal corps always accompanies it.— When it leaves the permanent telegraph station, an officer with his flag is stationed there; at the first turn of the road taken, another is placed, and so on at evefy point where bends in the road, or trees, or bills, or other obstructions intervene and pre vent a direct view of the last flag. Every observation made, if it be thought neces sary, is readily signalled to the permanent station. The commanding officer tells the flagman with him the Message to be sent, and he gives his flags the swings which correspond with it. The next in the chain observes and repeats, and so the message goes, with lightning like velocity, back to headquarters. In battle, the signal corps is of the ut most advantage. The general command ing the forces engaged places himself on a convenient spot with his flagman. High hills in the vicinity, out of danger, but excellent for viewing the enemy’s move ments, are selected and flagmen placed up on them. Everything done by the enemy is indicated. Smoke may hide an ap proaching column from those on whom it is quickly marching. Some; of the signal officers, perched like hawks about the field, are sure to observe the enemy, and the next instant the genernal knows it, and has warned his subordinates oi the threatened danger. Batteries throwing shot and shell at an enemy concealed from them by intervening hills or woods, liave all their movements regulated by signals. Miles to the right or left, but in position Where the enemy can be seen, stands the signal man with field glass and telescope. One of the guns is fired, but the shell files wide of the mark. “A little to the right!” is sig nalled. The next shot is nearer, though still ineffective, and the flag swings for “ a little to the left.” The third falls short. “Two hundred yards further I” speeds EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. over the line. The fourth strikes, and “ a good shot!” informs the artillerymen that several more of the same sort will teach the rebels a lesson. Signal duty, from the exposure of those engaged and their conspicuous dags, which are so many targets for the enemy’s shots, is by far the most dangerous in the whole service. The bravest and coolest men are required to perform its dqties. . Sharp eye sight, knowledge of distances, and judg ment, are equally necessary to make a good signal officer. The code employed is, of course, known only to those in the se cret. Since the beginning of the war, it has been changed once, an alteration be ing rendered necessary from the desertion of an officer, who communicated the for mer code to the enemy. Now. however— the cause of the rebels having become so desperate —but little danger of the revela tion of the secret is anticipated. The im portance of the signal service may readilv be conceived by any one who knows the great distances of opposing columns, and the wide spread of an attacking army. A commanding general can be in hut one place, and it is absolutely necessary that he should have the latest information of the condition of every' part of his com mand. Every battle yet fought by this army has been regulated by signals. ' The advance, the retreat, the attack—all done by the command of a small flag, which re ceives its impulse from a man who may be sitting in his tent a dozen miles off enjoy ing a fine cigar. Every discovery of the ' enemy’s intentions, as shown by their con duct on the battle-field, is made by Major Meyer’s efficient corps. These men are among the most useful in the army, yet they never pull a trigger,'and seldom draw a sword. They toil on at their danger ous task during all hours of the day, and also through all weathers. They are sel dom mentioned by newspaper men, and this brief description of their, duties and usefulness may perhaps bring home to the country' the merit of a corps of the army whose claims to distinction have hereto fore been overborne by the more brilliant achievements of well-contested fields. SLEEP WALKING. A case is related of an English clergy man who used to get up in the night, light a candle, write sermons, correct them with interlineations, and retire to bed again, being all the time asleep. The Archbishop, of Bordeaux mentions a similar case of a student, who got up to compose a sermon while asleep, wrote it correctly, read it from one end to the other, or at least ap peared to read it, made corrections on it, scratched out lines and substituted other?, put in its place a word which had been omitted, composed music, wrote it accu rately down, and performed other things equally surprising. Dr. Gall notices a miller, who was in the habit of getting up every night and attending to his usual avo cations at the mill, and returning -to bed. On awaking in the morning he recollected nothing of what passed during the night. Martinet speaks of a saddler who was ac customed to ride in his sleep and work at his trade; and Dr. Prichard of a farmer who got out of bed, dressed himself sad dled his horse, and rode to the market, being all the time asleep. Dr. Blacklock, on one occasion, rose from bed, to which be had retired at an early hour, came into the room where his family were assembled, conversed with them, and afterwards en tertained them with a pleasant song, with out any of them suspecting that he was asleep, and without his retaining, after he awoke, the least recollectioirnf what he had done. ,It is a singular, but well au thenticated fact, that in the disastrous re treat of Sir John Moore, many of the soldiers'fell asleep, yet continued to march along vvith their comrades. OUE TEETH. They decay. Hence, unseemly mouths, bad breath, imperfect mastication. Eve rybody regrets it. What is the cause?— I reply—want of cleanliness. A clean tooth never decays. ; The mouth is a warm place—9B degrees. Particles of meat between the teeth soon decompose. Gums and teeth must suffer. Perfect cleanliness 'will preserve the teeth till old age. How shall it be se cured? : Use a quill pick and rinse the mouth after eating. Brush and Castile soap every morning; the brush with sim ple water on going to bed. Bestow this trifling care upon your precious teeth, you will keep them and ruin the dentists.— Neglect it, and you will be sorry all your lives. Children forget. Watch them. The first teeth determine the character of the second set. Give them equal care. Sugar, acids, salaeratus, and hot things, are nothing when compared with food de composing between teeth. Mercurial! aa tion may loosen the teeth, long use may wear them out, but keep them'clean and they will never decay. This advice is worth thousands of dollars to any boy or girl- Books have been written on the subject. This brief article contains all that is essen tial. NO. 22.