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■*_ established as a REFUGE FROM QUACKERY
The Only Place Where a Cure Can
be Obtained. ,
Dft. 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,
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,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. ■
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vid marriage impossible—is the penalty paid by the
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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
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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.
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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.
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*nut not your lives, or health to the care of the many
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‘»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.
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letleJT’fo .M tti r n *i'S' m . ld '* I> a rtlttolar in directing their
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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.
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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.