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JACK & CO., HOLLIDATSBU&G, PA: JSTKEBS, lell f Johnston, Jack Co.’ 1 ) S ON THE PRINCIPAL Silnr and SMd torttJe. Colltctioii retired an depoel t«,p»7»ble oo denuud, ■rupon time, with Intnftetet fcirrttw. CEgSLER—^RACTICAI ST, respectful!j nmwnncee / UtopM'nad the i can tin at. the Din. wtew h» comiMBT MICALS, OILS, TAKNnB.^t9 bn to bniqeoi, aad adotn to render ui- KCndl Wioo utd qMttt;, I* hope, » • «ipr« of pnMie p»troo»g». osrchanti sHnoUod w reMoonble I*® l ' itdlanat^ttrojiiMiy riptloat chrefaUjcompowtwl- P-< f - KL POLICE OAZpTK - Jonnul o/ Cri«» 1« jwjwaasttogig Imianl JUttert, .wrt.tojfcjwm* ta*"’] To P. W- K BABB.-H«iwß right to Rtaoabißtnr* *b« OPjM'i, (ICIAI. Omi ' iu »I,W. illjMp erB 'l‘* coutiuued *1 ;*!»• expiration ofthe tinfe | P iiH»r rr.KVM of adTIRTISUIO 1 in«ertkm * do. 3 do. , r ~d tf9 leas $ $ $0 •' '„« r e ( & line*) 100 t .)rt .!]«»«• ~ ) 100 160 200 Y‘ • .21 ■■ , 150 2 W 110 *r three weeks wJ lew than three month*, 26 cent* ' .rsnnsre mr each insertion. "’■* 6monthi. 6 month*. 1 year. MIS MC * "■ 4 oo 600 10 00 .}**. n 6 00 * 00 12 00 tlir ' .. 600 10 00. 14 00 : -••* 10 00 'MOO 20 00 l4 00 25 00 40 00 Taiinisiratot* and Kxecuwra Notice*..... 1 T 6 Jrchant* advertising by Ole year, three equate*, ■ilk liberty te change, .......... .. 10 00 ,rational or Bournes* Cards, not exceeding 8 , tfiti, paper, per jr«r » w cJonnmicatiottsorn political naracterorlndlTidualin- Lt will lie charged according to the abore rates. iiirertUemen .» not marked with the number of ineer desired, will he continued till forbid and charged ac line m the shore terms. B sines* notices five cents per line for every insertion.; ibitosrv notices exceeding ten line., fifty cents a aqua e BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL ."■VnuUSUiSD AS A RBPUGE FEOM QUACKERY rie Only Place Where a Cure Can be Obtained. DR. JOHNSON has discovered the Crmin. Speedy and wily Effectual Remedy in „I|l for all Private Diseases. Weakness of the Back ' ‘ 'iTnlii strictures. Affections of the Kidneys and Bind j-iu.viur.ury Discharges, Impotency, General Debility, ; V.aisness Dyspepsy, Languor. Low Spirits, Confusion ;; I u. Paliiitatiou of the Heart. Timidity, Tremblings, . ~ ... ~f Sight or Giddiuess, Disease of the Head. 1 r.i s .Major Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lungs. Stom ,r Bowels— Hio.se Terrible disorders arising Trom the rv -iuiiUs of Youth—those secret and solitary prac ’ ,nire fatal to theil victims thin the song of Syrens to iiariuers of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant r p ,sur anticipations, rendering marriage Ac., impossi- YOUNG MEN nwiilh- who have become the victims of Solitary Vice, ,Jt.aj’ful and deatnctire habit which annnahy sweeps ’ « untimelygrave thousands of Young Men of the most nlleJ talents and brilliant intellect, who might other r„, have entranced listening Senates with the thunders Mo.inence, or waked to ectaay the living lyre, may call •*i:U full coufiJeuce. \Urrietl [Vr-ions, or-Young Men cotemplaling.marriage, !*ms «wat*r of physical weakness, organic debility, defor- cured. , 'le who places himself under the care of Dr. J. may re ij. ulU aiy confide iiishis honor as h gentleman, and confi* j iitlv ri lv upon his skill tw a physician. ORGANIC WEAKNESS ■uni-dutslv Cured, au.i full Vigor Restored. Ilii, piatiesdug Affection —which renders hue miserable ,nl marriage impossible—is the penalty paid by the .dim* of improper indulgences. Young .persrns are t« ,;.t :.1 c.'snsuit ,>s from not being await* »*f the dread i:l c lasotjijeiiocs that may eo*U'- N*»w, who that under .aiilt tU- subject will pretend fu deny that the power of e„ reatiow is lost so mer bv th«»*e falliug into improper than bv the prudent? Besides being deprived the , iMture> .jf healthy offspring, the most serious and de* .•tractive symptoms to both, body and mind arise. The •vjtciu becomes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Fane* •jaas Weakened. Los- of Procreative Power. Nervous Irri. ■.ability. Dvspt-psiu, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion jastitutiona! Debility, a Wasting of the Frame, Cough. \mumption, Decav and Death. OFFICE. NO. 7 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, Ui liau tside going from Baltimore street, a few doors rjiD tli* corner. Fail not to'observe name and number. Utiefi must be paid and contain a stamp. The Doc* Diplomas lung id hU office A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS* Y-x Mtrcury or Nttsebns Drugs . OR. JOHNSON, . tfeuib*r of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Grad* :i\t from one of the most eminent Colleges in the United jute*. utiil the greater part of whose life has been sjientln rh* hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia and else •her*, has effected some of the most astonishing cures that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the h»al and e»rs when asleep, great nervousness, being tUnued at sudden sou ids. bashful ness, with frequent Wiwhing, attended sometimes with Jeraugemeut of miod, «*re cured immediately. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE . Dr. J. addresses all those who have injured themselves unpr.iper indulgence and solitary habits, which ruin-, wth b.»dy and mind, unfitting them for either business, nu-ly. society or marriage. These are some of the sad and melancholy-effects pr»»* lu:i*d by early habits of youth. viz; Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the ttead, Dffnress of Sight, bus of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart. Dys*. PW.-Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the live functions., General Debility, Symptoms of Consump •ion. 4c. .\lexT vu.T.—The (earful effects of the mind are much* to ' j Jrcaded— U of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, JJe of spirits, Evil-Koreboditigs. Aversion to Society, Love of Solitude, Timidity, Ac., ore some ;pf i-u'«vi!s produced. .. Tajciixos of persons of all ages can now judge whatsis 'tie cause of their declining health, losing their vigor, pe -tiaing weak, pale, nervous and enr'ciated, having a Sin gular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptornsjof t'UiumptioD YOUNG MEN . , Vbo ivare injured themselves by a certain n ilje.! iu whtsu alone, a habit frequently learned Tvii companions* or at school, the effects of which, are iihtlv felt, even when asleep, and if not cured render* hnposible, and destroys both mind and .body, apple Immediately. '■ [. What a pity that a young roan, the hope of his country. Vdarllug of hia parents, should be snatched from; all l>rrcta and enjoyments of life, by the consequence: ; of Wuting from the path of nature, and indulging Iu a ■ rt-iiu sc-cr-t habit. Such persons must, before content* plating - ‘.‘fleet that a wand nilud ami luxly are the moat f*‘luisUc* to promote coituubiil happiness.. Indeed, with out these, the journey through -life becomes a weary :pll- JrimiKe; the prospect bonrly darkens to the view; the uiu i bocumen afaiulowed with (lea)ttifr and filled with the m-lauchuty reflection that the happiness ol another be* '’Mae* blighted with oar own c - ; DISEASE OP IMPRUDENCE. 'Then the mtHguided and Iropradent votary of pleasure uuJ« tliat he has imbibed tile eeeds of this palnfftlidls* •h*. it too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, •t Iread of discovery, deters him from applying to t|io<« >. from-education and respectability, can alone be* fri'-nJ him.'fteUyliii' till the constitutional symptoms of '3i< borri.l disease make their appearance, such as uWera '*l »t*re inroitt. diseased nose, nocturnal pain s In the head a 4;l limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the shin t>-jne» and arms, blotches on the face and extreml- with frightful rapidity, till at last the Shiite of the month or the bones of the nose fall in, ami f h« victim of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of till death, put* a period to his dreadful ytlferiog*, by sending him t-> •' that Undiscovered Country fam whence no traveller returns.” * It Un ivfuucAofy fact thnt thousands fall victims to t‘ii< terrible dnease, owing to the. ttnskillfilluess of igno rjut prt>t“n;l,T«. who. by the use ' of that Deadly M-rzurif. min the constitution hud make the residue of '•« mi**rahle. f'M not TOOT lives. - ™ 'heaUh"to the care of the men; Cjilewnwf and Worthies* Pretenders, destitute of know! '- u l *. nvue or character, who Dr. Johnston’s adver lls->aenu. or style the?n*elvea, In the newspaper*, regu* -»dT K hicuteil Phyrtlciivn*. Incapable of Curing, they keep A J o * trifling month after liionth, taking their filthy and or os tong as the smallest fee chi and in *h*«palr, leave yuo-with ruined hehltb oter your giUlajf dUappointment. Dr. J »hnettr *d ftgaiu and again before the public, •»a« #tan, liuK aa a gentlemen of character and re* PPMlolUty, it a tnfflcient guarantee to the afflicted. ; ifor fcSfT diseases speedily cured. •to-.l'*?" n ' c ' i T e '* oulej« po(t-pal(» trot containing a , o“n»edonthe reply I’eranm wntlttgabouMtitato Portion <**W*rttamaiit describing symptom* Utt!? 0 *" 1 T •Jwnld be imllcolnr in directing thair • w ihle Institution. In the folluwlng tunijtier: ... JOHN J». JOH NSTON. M. D., Of tha fcOttasor. Lock Hospital, Maryls Si marriage MARRIAGE, STRANGERS Original fcetij. For the AUooma Tribune. battle of the rapidah. BT JAMES WIDNE^. Th« gourds are out, tbn Uttoo beat, Nor sound is beard of tramping feet; No rattling drum, nor bugle blast, Tba marsh fe o’er, the dgy Is past. Within their tents throughout the field, The sons of Her* to slumber yield. While sentries watch, with wakeful eye, Bach wood and hill as they pass by. Thus pass the silent, hoars away . *Till dawn proclaims approaching day; As shades of night to distance flee. The drum beats up the reveille. The startled hosts from sleep awake. And light their fires, and rations take; Scarce have they finished, their repast When 1 10l they hear a bogle blast. A horseman conies with rapid speed. With palid face and panting.steed..' Gives tidings that the foe is near . And striving bard to gain the rear. To arms! to arma! a herald cries; From rank to rank the order flies,- And columns more with measured' tread. Each by their brave commanders led. Long lines of Rebels soon appear, And loud 1 for u Jeff” and “tyizie” cheer, While Bakes, amid his loyal band.;; Awaits their coming, sword in hand. * Soldiers!’* be cries, “be firm, be brave; We fight this day our land to save; Let ‘Stonewall’s* minions keenly feet Your iron hail and pointed steeL’* ‘•Unlimber guns! positions.take! With grape and shell their legions rake Each battery begins to play, And whizzing missiles speed away. The sweeping grape and bursting shell. Their work of death by hundreds tell; Brigades advancing left and right, With eager haste to joih' the fight; From their unerring rifles throw A leaden deluge on the /be; While many (all, no more to rise. And in death's sleep they elcse thejr eyes. The horsemen draw their glittering swords. And fiercely charge the Rebel hordes And laurels win; white many brave Descend with honor to the grave. Still fiercely burns the deadly strife. ’Tis hand to baud, and life for life; Like dark portentious clouds that form In wild array before a storm; ' While quick the scatheful lightnings glare. Atul awful thunder rends the air. Thus o'er the field of carnage rise, , Dense clouds of smoke that dim the skies. And .like the vivid lightning's gleam, Tho cannons pour their fiery stream. As sounds as loud as thunders roar Et ho from hill, aud vale and shore. Thus raged the battle all the day, ’Till eve pul on her somber grey. : Fresh troops arrived to Rebel'aid. ' And lo! a fearful charge is made;' BUt, like their native granite rock, Tiie Yankee columns meet the shock, Aud M Stonewall's” hordes are mode to yield While Bakes is master of the field. A SCABED : REBEL. One day this week a Federal Soldier, recently discharged from the service for disability, stopped a few minutes on business at one of the offices in town. While there a starched Tory of severe as pect, who was a stranger in these parts, stepped up to the soldier and made some insulting remarks concerning bine uniforms and black abolitionists. The soldier kept silent, arid the Tory, convinced that the subject of his abuse: had hut little resist ance in his composition, proceeded, to touch on the usual topics of “ Abolition Fanaticism,’ “ Consti tutional Rights of the South,” and concluded by a home thrust at the alleged frauds and forgeries in bar regimental elections. At thispoint the soldier who had been a passive hearer of: this tirade, rose from bis seat and confronted the Tory. With eyes flashing Arc, he said; , “ You have said enough, sir ! It is through such scoundrels as you that the war is still on our bands! While thousands of on' soldiers are laying down their 1 lives in defence of a Govern ment which has protected yon from birth, and the rest of your villainous crew art stopping in the North to labor in your cowardly Way for the suc cess of the rebellion. I toll yon here, sir, that I know how to read and vote. Their votes for the Union against all such Tories' as yourself, are neither bought nor compelled. When you want to look round for frauds. Villainies, forgeries, rob beries, murder and Treason, hunt up your own record of your fellow scoundrels in Totyista!— There is a mark on yonr forehead now, which pro claims you a coward and a rebel 1” Here the soldier drew out a little pocket knife and opened it. He then continued— “l have killed men a thousand times better than yon are, and ——” The sentence was cut short hjy a rapid move ,ment of the Tory. That gentleman, aghast with terror, and believing that; the knife, .which was not formidable enough to abrade the nose of a pig, was already feeling for his, turned round on his heel, ran frarttically to the door ripened it, rushed into the street, and made the fastest time on record from the scene of danger, with the skirt of his coat, extending horizontally in . a rearward di rection. Our private opinion is that this Tory will not be in a hurry hereafter to arouse the lion ' in a Federal soldier. A terror Of blue uniforms and small knives like water to a rabid dog will haunt him through the rest of his mortal pil grimage I —Dtsmoint Register. tSf* The following is said to hare passed in a school down cast: “ What is the moist'northern town in the United States?” ‘ i “ The North foie.” “ Who is it inhabited by ?” “ By the Poles, 0.” , “ That’s right. Now what is the meaning of the word stop?" ' “ I don’t know, sir.” “ What dol do when I bend over thus?” “Yon scratches your shins sir.? “ What is die meaning; of the word canre ?” “ I don’t know, sir.’’ : “ What does your father do When he* sits down at the table?” , j' ■ “He axes for the brandy bottle." “I don't mean that. Well, then, what does your mother do when you sit ddwn at the table ? “ She says she w>ll wring opr necks'if we spill any grease onthe floor;"' ALTOONA, PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. HISTOEY OF A UNION MAETYE. lecture bt rev. johh u. AUGHEY. The Rev. John H. Aoghey, a Presbyterian clergyman from Mississippi, delivered a public lec ture at Yardleyville on Thursday evening, and one at Newton on Friday evening the lat and 2d inst., for the benefit of the Ladies’ Aid Societies of those places. These lectures were well attended, and the narrative of his martyr to loyalty was listened to with great attention. Mr. Aoghey de livered a lecture at New Hope a short time since, and in his story the people of that .community were deeply interested. Mr. Aoghey is now engaged in the publication of a book, in which he relates the origin and pro gress of the rebellion in Mississippi, and gives an account of his own adventures and persecutions. He is sojourning at the residence of Rev. Dr. Breed, of Philadelphia. Dr. Breed is a son-in law of Jared Boyd Solebnry. in this county. In the coarse of the last year or two. Mr. Aoghey has endured almost every imaginable suffering. He was an earnest, open, decided opponent of the re bellion from the outset. Arrested as a Unionist, he was heavily manacled, y and thrust into a crowded, filthy, prison, whence bis companions were taken out day by day to be shot, and their bodies thrown into a ditch, as the punishment of their patriotism. Mr. Aughey, ns a. more deter mined and influential Unionist, was reserved for conspicuous hanging, but escaped before the ful filment of that intention. Traveling in the op posite direction from that in which he would naturally be sought—wearing on his ankles the heavy iron fetters which he had not been able to remove—be was obliged to evade the bloodhounds that were usually kept to hunt slaves, but are now employed to track the white Unionists. Taking care to leave none of his garments in prison, as from them the scent might be taken ; travelling only by night, and then very slowly, because of the galling circlets upon his ankles ; living mainly on green corn plucked from the fields, and eaten raw, since to build a fire would have been to advertise his location to his unrelenting toes—he finally discovered himself at a venture to a farmer, who proved to be a Unionist, and by whom he was conveyed on horseback several miles in the right direction, thus enabled finally to evade the rebel pickets and make his escape. On the first of July last, he was arrested by a company of cavalry under command of Capt. Hill, in Tishemingocounty, Mississippi. When brought into Hill’s presence, that worthy thus addressed him: “ Are you a Unionist ?" “I voted the Union ticket sir.” “ That, sir, is an evasion. I voted the Union ticket, and now 1 am fighting against the Union. What arc vour sentiments now ?” “ I have never seen any reason for changing my opinions. I voted the Union ticket, and; am still a Union man.’’ "Yon must go to headquarters." A Mr. Benjamin Clark had been arrested as a Unionist on the same day, while plowing in a field, and both were placed under guard and sent to Fnlton in Ittnwamba county, to the headquarters of Col. Bradfute. When they appeared in his presence, the following colloquy ensued: “Are you a Unionist?”—(to Mr. Aughey.) “ I am, sir.” “ Where were yon born ?" “ I was born in the State of New York, but have sjient eleven years in the South.” “ Ah! Yankee born and a traitor. You de serve to be hanged!” If being of Northern birth is a crime, it certainly was not Mr. Aughey’s fault, inasmuch ns his pa rents did not consult him ns to the place he wished to be bom, and he could not have helped it if he had tried. This he laconically stated. They were then placed under a heavy guard and taken toßrooksville, the headquarters of Gen. Pfeifer, where they remained during the night, sleeping upon the grass, without covering. On the next day a guard conducted them to Price ville, into the presence of Gen. Jordan, who thus addressed Mr. Aughey: “ Are you a Unionist ?" “ I am, sir.” “ Where were you bom ?” ‘“ I was born in' the State of New York—a State which never repudiated, nullified, seceded, nor did any other disgraceful act. lam proud, sir, of my birthright in that glorious Empire State.” “If you love the North so well, why did you not go there at the commencement of the war?" “ Give me a passjort and I will go North instanter ” “ The first passport you will gat will be a free ticket to the infernal regions." I “ Thank you for your kind offer. I was not be fore aware that you were the devil's ticket agent,” was the response qf the divine. Soon after this interview the guards set out with them for Tupelo, where they were incarcer ated in the central military prison. There were seventy or eighty prisoners.in that gloomy abode. The prison was filthv in the extreme. It was not supplied'with any kind of furniture—not even beds or blankets. At night the inmates lay down on the hard planks and slept as best they could. They were starved, insulted and maltreated in every passible way. A strong guard came in daily and took the piisoners out to do scavenger work in thq streets. At three o’clock every day some of them were taken out and shot or hung. Mr. A. with a Mr. Malone, attempted to escape. Mr. M. did escape to the Federal lines, but was recaptured, heavily ironed, and replaced in prison. Twocora panies of cavalry, with bloodhounds, were sent in search of them. Mr. Aughey’s arrest took place after he had been out two nightfc and a day.— Several of his fellow-prisoners hod been shot daring his absence. - On his return he found the Hour of his prison had been spiked down, the guards doubled, and great precaution and vigilance exercised to prevent any future escape. The Judge Advocate of the Confederate Army of the West came one day and informed Mr. Aughey that he would be executed on the following Tuesday. As they had deter mined to hang him, be petitioned to be shot, but the request was refused. He resolved therefore to attempt a second escape, and in the event of a failure draw the fire of the guard' and be shot.— He preferred to be slain in the excitement inci dent to an attempt to escape rather than to meet, a horrid death by strangidation at a rope’s end, amid the jeers of a rabble. His fellow-prisoners sided him in removing his chain, but could not remove the heavy bands; and although the prison was strictly guarded, and surrounded by camps containing* 15,000 or 20,000 men, yet he eluded their vigilance, and succeeded in reaching the dense woods. At length, after incredible suffer ings from hunger, thirst and fatigue, he reached the Federal lines at Rienzie, Mississippi, in safety, where he found protection beneath the folds of the old flag. —Bucks Co Intel. CT A physician, in speaking of the frail con- falls i,h love this year will think his sweetheart an stituiion of* the women of the present day, re- angel—and whoever gets married will find if it is m f A«t that we ought to take great care of onr true or not.' He that loses his hair this year will grandmother*, for we should never get any be bald—and he that loses his wife will certainly mom. be a widower. [independent in everything.] Angels in the Her, I was compelled to forego some portion of my food, though in a state of half-starvation. I had. not a moment of time that 1 could call iny own'; and I had to read and write amid the talking, laughing, singing, whistling and bawlthig of at least half a score of the most thoughtless men— and that, too, in their hours of freedom from all control. And I say if I, under those circum stances, could encounter and overcome the task, is there, can there be in the'whole world a youth who can find an excuse for the non-performance? —Cob bet. A Cote Widow.—lt is related that a man on bis death-bed called his wife to him and said: “ I leave my horse to my parents; sell him and hand the money you get for him over to them. But my dug I leave to yon; dispose of him as you think best.” The wife promised to obey. So in due time after the death of her lord she started to find a market for her animals. “How much do you ask for your horse ?” inquired a farmer. “ I cannot sell the horse alone,” she replied, “but I will sell yon the horse and dog together at a fair price for both. Give me $lOO for the dug, and $1 for the horse, and we can trade on these termsand the cute widow conscientiously paid to the parents the $1 she had received for the horse, and had to herself the. $lOO for the dog. Was she far wrong? Ideas Imperishable.—Abraham %' dead, but a race survive to call him father. Plato these twenty centuries and more, departed from the porch and the lyceum, but phantomlike lives to teach the youth of endless generations. Christ is gone far from earth, but Christianity has lived to edneate the church, and redeem the world, and bring many sons of earth to glory. Unman worth and influence and character, and example, have an earthly immortality. These are great forces which commingle themselves in the world’s IBS', and live and work through; endless changes, af fecting the character and the destiny of the race I for good. The antithesis of this view of human | influence; is that which invests human responsi bility with its appalling interests; for’ bad men I likewise live when dead, and live in evil, expand ! ing in volume, and endless progressive intensity. Coming Events. —We notice that some very knowing wiseacres ore already bnsy in predict ing ’what may and what may not occur during the year upon which we have just entered. . Without countenancing their correctness we insert the fol lowing specimens' of their smartness. It is as serted that the year 1863 will be a very eventful one—to every maiden who gets married. Through out the whole course .of the year, whenever the moon wanes the nights become dark. Whoever Eccentric Travelers.—To anecdotes of ec centric travelers may be added the story of‘the Englishman who made a bet that Van Ambnrgh, tte lion tamer, would be eaten by his ferocious pupils within a given time, and who followed him about the continents of Europe and America in the hope of seeing him at last devoured, and. so winning his stake. The Russians also have a story of an Englishman, who posted overland, in the depth of winter, to St. Petersburg!!, merely to see the famous wrought itpn gates of Hie Sum mer Garden. He is said Jo have died of grief at finding the gates su|ierior to those at thej entrance of his own park at home. Add to this the lying traveler who boasted that he had been everywhere, and who being ,asked hpw he liked Persia replied that he scarcely knew as he had only staid there a day. Note likewise among eccentricities the no bleman, still living, of whom it was' inquired at dinner, what he bad thought of Athens during an oriental lour. He turned to his hodv servant, waiting behind his chair, and said : “ John, what did I think of Athens?" —Nolen and Queries. ■ Employing Emancipated Negroes.—Messrs. Ellis, Britton & Eaton, Vermont, a responsible firm, publish the following proposition to the President;—We will purchase, at any reasonable price for ca-h, 40.000 acres of the cotton lands in possession of flic Government at Port Royal, and agree to employ 10,000 emancipated negroes to work thereon dining the coming year, and pay them wages at the rate of $1.25 cents )ter day for each able hand, and a proportionate sum for those of an inferior grade; payable weekly, either in cash or necessary articles of clothing and provis ions, at cost prices; and will, on the first day of JanuaiT in each year ensuing, sell to the peg rocs any amount of these lands that they desire to purchase and have the means to pay for, from hall an aero upward, at cost price, and will treat them in every respect, while in onr employment, a ngricnhural laborers in New' England are trailed. As the planting season is at hand, an immediate answer to this will lie required, to enable ns to go on with the undertaking. Great Union Meeting in Arkansas.—An enthusiastic , Union demonstration occurred at Fayetteville, Arkansas, on the 27rh. Over one thousand of the loyal citizens of Arkansas were present. Speeches were made by Dr. Johnson, jr prominent Union refugee, Lieut. Col. Bishop, of the first Arkansas Cavalry, and others. Fifteen home guard companies were organized, and Wished to be accounted as Arkansas militia. Hundreds of citizens signed a petition to Congress to prd-r the. election of a member from that State. All citizens having arms in their possession have given them up, to be used in defence of their homes.— Another meeting will be held nt Huntsville in a few days. The Union .sentiment is daily growing stronger in that section, and Col. Hamsun", of the First Arkansas Cavalry, commanding that posr, is affording every facility and encouragement. Clerical Wit. —Robert Hall wits unhappy in his courtship of Miss Steel. When he was per haps smarting beneath the disappointment he went out to tea. The lady of the, house said, with no very-great taste—“ You are dull, Mr. Hill; we have no polished steel here to entertain, you."— “ Oh, nmduin. that's not the slightest consequence; you have plenty of polished brass.” His genius for happy retort never slumbered. One of his congregation, a sickly, querulous old mortal, met him in the street. “ Ah, Mr. Hall, yon have— never—been to see me—sir, I've been—very ill— I’ve been at death’s door—Mr. Hall.” “Indeed!” replied Hall, “have you? Well, why didn't you step in, sir ? why didn't you step in ?” H took a jug to a store and asked for a gallon of whiskey. He gave his prom ise to pay for it on the spot. The jug was no: empty. Bat he stated that he had already bough; a quart, but wished the concern filled os full as it could hold. When the gallon was poured into the jug the money was not poured out ,of Bill's pocket, for the latter was as empty as the flintier was full. Promises to pay were not received, and the grocer poured the gallon hack again into the measure, leaving Bill to trudge off with his quart of rum, not much worse for the little water with which it was diluted. The grocer's gallon was a little weaker, but Bill’s quart had become a great deal stronger. A Rising Mas. —The editor of the Springfield Mass., Republican says he has a receipt, signed by Nathaniel IVBanks’in 1836, for money received by him fromSaigent M. Davis, of Roxbupy, Mass., in whose employ he then was, a machinist, at $1,33 per day. The same Nathaniel P. Banks, since that time, has been Governor of Massachu setts, Speaker of the United States House |of Rep resentatives, . and pronounced the most accom plished, with a single exception— Henry Clay— that ever held that place; ami is now a Majot General in the United States army, and in com mand of the Federal forces at New Orleans. 0* We hear a good anecdote concerning a sol dier laddie on one of our gunltonts. The vessel was just going into action, and our soldier was upon his knees, when an officer snccringly asked ■him if he wai afraid? V— “No, I was praying," was theTesponse. “ Well, what were you prayjpg for ?” continued the officer. ■ . - “ Praying.that the enemy’s bullets may be dis tributor the same why as the prize money is, principally among the officers /” was tbe.qnick and ready retort. yr A female servant sweeping out a bachelor's room found'a four-penny-piece oh the carpet, which she carried to the owner. “Yon may keep it for your honesty," said he smiling. A short time after he missed his gold pencil case, and in quired of the girl if she had seen it. “Yes, sir," was the reply. “ And what did you do with it ?” “Kept it formy honesty, sir?” The old bachelor grinned a horrible smile, and vanished. Ssf Illinois is a good State to live in.- Govern or Yates in his late message, says of that State : “ She now produces twice as much corn as any other State; almost twice as much wheat; in meat cattle, the first; in hogs but little behind Ohio ; ' and in the value of live stock of all kinds, she is already the second State in the JJniou.” Campaign Already Chalked Out.—-The Washington Star of Monday evening says:— M It is understood that Gen. Hooker litis his plan of campaign already chalked out, and that with the very first opportunity for breaking the mod blockade, he will enter npon its active develop ment.’" A Curious Fact. —Some cnrious gfcnius states, as the result of an estimate, that a million one, dojlar treasury notes • would weigh over a ton, and make a pile as high as the Washington monument. This will give some idea of the labor of preparing out treasury note issue. EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. A Voice ntmr KoßTit Cako^bia —Flaw Talk.— The Raleigh Standard, inmaking of the rebel authorities at Richmond, MHs the fol lowing language: f . “ They labored to break down the old Govern ment became they were about to hit l/it * bttf,' and they woujd break the «»c oa» before they would part with the carcase upon which the te/tare* are settled. Their motto was, divide mid destroy, and their motto now is, amoiidatod rdt or nua. Hence they are the destructives, and those who oppose them are the conservatives. We sHll walk the soil and breathe theairoffreedom, asdare not to be influenced in our coarse by the bUldbh roents or the frowns of power.” i 41 The Federal officers In Gapes county. S'. C.. have made ‘ important captures of contraband goods, amounting in value to somq $30,000.” Crime of Murder.—There are four maiden committed in England for every million inhabi tants; 17 in Belgium; 20 in Sardinia; 81 in Prance; 3G in Austria; 08 in Bavaria; 4fi in Lombardy; 100 in Rome; 90 in Sicily; 200 in Naples. 'Murder is almost'unknown in the val leys of Vandola. Pennsylvania's Martyrs,—Since the com mencement of the war sixteen Pennsylvania col onels have been killed in battle, and two have died from camp diseases. A raven has been shot in France bearing; a lit tle locket with an inscription purporting that the bird was born in 1806, and was called “Wagram." 9 For the A ltoona *■ IN MEMOBim Died— October 31st, 1863, Uervet Robinson, aged 1 Occurs. And what more? Would there was nothing main. That he had gone home to God, and that was the end. That no home was left desolate, no hearts bereft. Gone home to God? What;conld we ask for more? What indeed? but that our.hearts are human and we so frail. The eye ofTaith grows iim with anguish, and a heart-mist rising, veils .he “shining shore,” so that we cannot see clearly he young feet treading safely on the other side— safely—because he has crossed over the dark river, has stood in the swellings of Jordon, and is now branded forever on the eternal shore. It is a loving Father that has laid this heavy cross on trembling shoulders, for some wise end. ‘ What I Jo thou knowest not now, but thou shall know hcrcaf.er.’ Mark the promise. By and by God will bind content about the hearts he has broken. Though missing still the bright lace, they will trow calmer, and '.feel how much better it is to luve him before them than after them. That it was better far to die when his heart was pure, than dve till the ddys come when you have no pleasure in them; till kite frame is outworn, and the keepers of the bouse tremble, and those that look out of the windows he darkened, (mayhap by dispair or ntguish,) 'till the strength is gone and even' the grasshopper proves a burden. , Why should the ■tome-folks weep so sore? Why should they mourn because the young spirit has flung off its and put on a shining robe? That t(n small feet grew heavy traveling over rongh roads, and the mind hat narrow limits could not bind, that reached tar and wide after knowledge, is taught by the tiigels! Why should they mourn because the loved one has been called early from this coarse world? escaped forever its turmoil and strife!— And stilt the answer is the sanie: because we are •o human. We arc selfish in !onr griefafter all. We cannot really mourn for the early loot—we tare not. It is fur onrselvcs. then we shed such bitter tears, fur our own darkened homes and blighted hopes. We foifget that the eye over which we watched the death-lilm gather, is now gazing upon the “Green Pastures I”—that the ear that was deaf to our anguished cry, is listening to the calm flow of the “Still Waters!” That the “ Great Shepherd” has folded teiiderer arms about the boy than any earthly parent‘could. We know how those stricken parents loved him; how bright be was; how full of promise was the writing on the broad, white brow, and in the deep eyes. We know how the young life, unfolding in that 'quiet home, was a spring of never failing joy; flow they wove into their dreamihgs of his future many a golden thread. Wc know, too, how their hearts will ache through ail the coming years; ache for the sound of a voice that is forever echoing in their ears, and for the treading of the restless feet. We know how this November sunshine that comes glistening over our )iapcr, will seem like a hitter mockery, because the earth has been upturned, and under it lies the precious head. It is hut another thread broken in this earth-life. They can but gather up i U the broken threads and lay them carefully away; ■ hey will be remembered hereafter. ‘Bat he was so bright I On his brow was genius that already fore? shadowed a brilliant future, and O, we loved him sol’ Aye, he had genius! but sitch natures cannot feed’on husks, the food offered to many a hungry soul! They must walk ofienest in the shadows, and the tender feet grow weary and foot-sore in their clambering after the unattainable. Better for to lie down and die, andfimsb the race in Heaven! To the bereaved parents we would say, wait awhile. God is only keeping him for you. 'He has taken the light of your eyes, so that you may be drawn nearer to Himself. These great crashing blows arc very hard to bear, almost more than the human heart can bear and live. We feel at first as ifwe cannot, will not bear them; afterword, listen- ’ ing to the ‘still small voice,’ we come to tee that it is.all right, that it was best so, else would we love this beautiful world too well. It is well tp be often at the foot of the cross; I only there is safety, only there can we keep Calvary’s 'track iri view.' And now after all this is written, it narrows down io Just where it was at the beginning, simply that Hervey is dead! That the light baa gone out in that house forever. There is the vacant (eat, the impressed pillow, the useless, half-worn shoes, the cap and vo.it, hanging idly in the ball, the satchel fall of books, to be conned by him never again. We might write on and on, and still the tale never be told. Yon know it well—you whose homes death has entered, and stolen the brigfitest and fairest. I cannot see the shadow on yonr brow. There will be aching hearts and longing spirits in Hervey's home, ami much looking but over the hills to the far country where the loved one dwells. Bnt so sorely as God lives, so surely will He bring perfect peace to die hearts n«|W so tempest-tossed, and in Uis own good will heal the wounds. The sate will last a lifetime, but it will not be much seen| owing, to the cover ing one wears when going .oat into the world. It is said the eagle-mother, when she thinks id time for her young to fly, trouWejo ti«Jr nest, tries, to make it uncomfortable, so that they' mayhssh to leave it. God has troubldd your nest,lshthat it may not be pleasant for a low abiding pined: hut He will sthy tho trouble and O, “when He glveth N0..1.