£. 33ixicler*v ia ctiiefly ,, tt^'aajpi&Hr muMnjny «tjle rwjairad. H»rw2J: ew * nook, i^y'»R»ii^iJL n *fc®’" ■tFtennMiMK. ke., Mind nUtantlal half- Mndhi»/Bij?3 1 S'- w -ynj m«Ur*w price*. Li. dW to Uut, will rec.lv. a 1 ■ &'p^‘^:%gSsZ M OKRK.at the IH KptK. UMj vicinity. They wlUdeJi-V *“-' and reed,. £r .11 who ‘ ’ CUucb aasea-i, If ■ *:« ■ |:a g! i :B r «l i B iJ -< ga o . S :§*.|ilf •f '5? '.58 2.a s ■ St >* : S J. 5 = = S i , s S' « i> S SwM .i r m *i*s|s j : feg|fci.S f CQ <i 5a “-C i M^sS-s s- I. -a^|s-i -*?• iJStjlglg OO* 3-s s**. -1 His \&- S « '<• • •/ m>l EVER ONWARD' ’EP BY ST?JEP! JfDERSIGXEDBESIBESTU eoetomere and the public generelh grate Into the IhyGood bMtoe*? wMteJ elargc end entirely new etock of pess Q-oods •.embracing ell the latest, pmUeetaad mo»i lIORABLE PATTERNS. 'bnjh may be found every onalitv of "OO.K Web it would bo too the line of pure, fresh and cheep SKIES & PROVISIONS nock under” to any of my competitors. In (»t Meet tore that I can render «a»i«&ct|on produce taken In exchange r™ ■■ blgiett market price allotted. ’ <?’rner of Annie and Ueten ttreeia. Sin THOMAS UEBLOP ,22,1862. ACOB WEIS, a AND CONFECTIONER, Vtom.xu Smtt. Aitooka, Pa., i CONSTANTLY ON HAND SAD, CAKES, CANDIES SWEATS, of lum own manufacture, wlu'cli li. 1 i,Il. wh >loale or retail. at the roost reason **«Oj FOREIGN FKUlK,isqii u es. Lemons, pine-apples. JNES, RAISINS, NUTS, &C„ &C„ id. In respective seasons! : BAKED TO ORDER. occasion*. od short notice und In the neat ly le cf the art. * toe and price my stock and you will find 'cbesp as can be purchased elpewherc. I FETTINGER’S lul A T ews Agency, Jbt, No. 7, MMN STREET L BOOKS, JBLANK BOOKS, naty, gonfegtionaries Ikjis & TOBACCO,. MOTIONS IN GREAT VARIETY OOSSTANTLY ON HAND. IJLOYD & CO,, Atmos*, rju TON, JACK & CO.. I HOLLIDA TSBVBO, NKEEB, " BtU, Johntlon, Jade J’Co.”) TS ON THE PRINCIPAL id Silver and Gold forsale. CdUeetWi* reeelfed on deposits, pajabt* ondemsoi. -or upon Ome, with internet at fclrr»tr». KESSLER PRACTICAL HST, rwpectfWl j announces t Altoona and the public flicontinnes the Drn|r *, where he khepe constant!/ Wholesale and Betas, DBOTB, ■! lEUICAL3, OILS, VABNXBH- K? tm. ■ , ittou to business, and « desire to render »t -• retards price and quality, he hopw >■ eaatottt of public patratoc*-- I merchants supplied on. reasonable term*, an a distance promptly attended to. ecrlptiom carefully coatpopnded. r&Y FRIENDS WOULD VO *-itn upon the choke and tf%KC*B GOODS nosr dimtoed if” r«sof : :SWHT rScViKM, ■■■] ■ Cor.of Tlrgluia andOahdtae •« eatisas. ; ID LAKD OliS,OiM jw Bnid.Ch^Oß.^^jj^.g AT MCCORMICK'S^ KIES, A LABOR SfIAV^ 0 ' VMiito i sßrito*W «‘ KB6gt g # 'S I^^ iIiLA-S AND CAKPSTg^if SL A66ORTMS|' O .2 ir and CW»* JSSsSiOI’t fci** _ ABSOHT ua b. fcand .1 ■ ’^ssag^Se * MoCRUM & DERK VOL. 8, THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE. t B Me CRUM. - - - - - HC. 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Advertisements not marked with the number of laser 10Ds desired, will be continued till forbid and charged Ici urdine to the above terms. Business notices five cents per line foe every insertion, obituary notice- exceeding ten liqes, fifty cents a square. BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL , isTAUI.ISHHD AS A KKFUOE PttOM QUACKERY lie Only Place Where a Cure Can be Obtained, DK. JOHNSON has discovered the most Certain, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in <Le «ryrld for all Private Diseases. Weakness of the Bach ‘ nnibi, strictures. Affections of the Kidneys and Blad- Involuntary Discharges, Imputency, General Debility, witness. Uyspepsy, Languor. Low Spirits. Confusion ,f Meas. Palpitation of the Heart. Timidity, Trembling*, o.nnejj of Sight or Giddiness. Disease ol the He»d. i N\.ae or Skin, Affections of the Liver,:Lung». Stom , *i->r Bowels —those Terrible disorders arising Irom the IViitarv Habits of Youth—those secret and solitary prac- U ces more fatal to theit victims than the song of Myrons to (hg Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant aopes or anticipations, rendering marriage ic., imposai* bis. YOUNG MEN especially, who have become the victims of Solitary > ice. .;,, t dreadful and destuctive habit which annually sweeps , > uu untimoly glare thousands of Young Men pf the most j \tislted talents aud briUiant'iutcHvct, who might other liave entranced listening Senates with the thunders ,f eloquence, or waketTto ectasy the living lyre, may call * >tU full confidence. MARRIAGE ■l.4tried Persons, or Young Men cotemplating marriage, aware of physical weakness, organic debility, defor* any, Ac., speedily cured. Ho who places himsull under th<* care of Dr. J. may re fi-i .afly confide in his honor as a gentleman., and c«»ufi j’.iilv r»dy upon his skill as a physician. ORGANIC WEAKNESS .‘.aiueditUly Cured, ami full Vigor Beston-d. Tuis Distressing Affection —which renders Life miserable v.;J marriage impossible—in the penally -.paid by the ictans ofimpropor indulgences. Young pep-ms. are to .l: :■> commit excea es from not being awai.* ..f the dread- J ujuscuueuces that may ensu«. Now. who that under t-.ui li the subject will pretend to deny that the power ol i creation is lostvohuer by tho«e falling into improper i Abus than by the prudent? Besides being di-privcil the i.kisures of healthy offspring, the most serious ami do .truciive symptoms to both body and mind arise. Tlie • vtfteiu becomes Deranged, the Physical and .'Mental Func tions Weakened--Los* of Procreative Power. Nervous Irri übility, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart. Indigestion uiistitotional Debility, a Wasting of the frame. Cough, ''on-mcaption, Decay and Death. OFFICE, NO. 7 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, tef» baud side going from Baltimore street, h few doom :>o o the corner. Fail not lo'observo name and number L“tt-*M must be paid , and contain u stamp. The Doc tor's Diplomas hang iu his office A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS. JVb Mercury or Nuseons Drugs. OR. JOHNSON, vleuber of the Boyal College of Surgeons, London, Grad uto from one of the most eminent Colleges in the United St.ites, and the greater part of whose life has been spent in j- hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia and else - here, has effected some of the most astonishing cures ;>:at were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the -.•ad and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being i tanned at sodden sonvds, bashful ness, with frequent Mushing, attended sometimes with derangement of mind. **»rs cured immediately. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE Dr. J. addresses all those who hare injured themselves v improper indulgence and solitary habits* which ruin ■.'.fb body and mind, unfitting them for either business. • udy. society or marriage. issss are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro* ■inced by early habits of youth, via: Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Sight. Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of this Heart, Dys i.-piy, Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Dlges* iro Functions. General Debility, Symptoms of Consump •ioo. Ac. Mestaixt.—The fearful effects of the mind nr« mud) to dreaded—L*«s of Memory, Confusion of Ideas. De gression of spirits, BtU-FOrebod!ng», Aversion to Society. eolMHstnut, Lore of Solitude, Timidity, Ac., are some of :he evils produced. lao(TBA3IM of persons of all ages can now judge what is oe cause of thatr declining health, losing (heir vigor, he lming weak, pale, nervous and emiclated, having a sin ,nilar appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms o! oosujnption Y-OUNG MEN *. Who hare injured themsehres bye certain practice m- Jntged In when alone, m habit frequently learned from evil companions, or at school. the effects of which are nightly felt, even whenasleep. and if not fcured render* marriage imposible, laid destroys both mind and should apply immediately. What a pity'that a young man. the hope of his country, ib* darling of his parents, should be snatched from all irospectt and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of leyiating from the path of nature, and indulging in a -rtain secret habit. Such person* mcst. before contem plating MARRIAGE, redact that * found mind and hod} are the nao.**t necessary requisite* to promote cououbiat happiness. i Jrdeed. with* oat these, the journey through. Ufa becomes a weary pil grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; thu niQd becomes ibadowed with despair and 01 led with the oitslamdloiy reflection that the happiness bt another Le contes blighted with oar own. DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure loja that be has Imbibed the eeeda uf this painful die-, •■aso, It too often happens that an 111-timed sense of shame, tr dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those eilO, from education and respectability, can alone be friend Urn, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid dispose make their appearance.such as nice ra te! tore throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pain s in the head sad limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the shin hones and arms* blotches on the head, then and extremi- Ties. progressing With frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of the month or the bones of the nose fall In, and tbs Tictim of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of ■ominiseratJon, tm death pots a period :to his dreadful • offerings, by tending him t , that U ndlscovered Country from whence no traveller returns.” * It it a melancholy fait that thousands fall victims to -,hla terrible disease, owing to the nnakillfulnesa of ign.v pretenders, who, by the use of that Deadly Poison, tfsrcury. rain ths constitution- snd make-the residue of I ife miserable. STRANGERS » - iriut not your livee,'orhealth to the care of the many Culcarnsd and Worthiesis Pretenders, destitute of knowl edge, name or character, who copy Dr Johnston’s ndrer tUomonte, or style - themselves, in the newsptpeni. regu- Isriy Kd nested Physic tana, incapable of Curing, they keep yon triSing month after month, taking their flithy and poisonous compounds, or as long aa the smallest fee can l» obtained, and in despair. leave yon with ruined health to ilgk aver your galling disappointment, i; Dr. John,ton ie the only Physician advertising. His credential or diplomas always hang In his office, ills remedies or treatment are unknown to ail others; Prepared from a life spent In the great hospitals of Europe, tneflrat in the country anda more extensive Private I*rac tlathan aay other Physician In the world. -' indorsement of the press. lU‘‘ many thousands cared at this Institution, year after y«*r. «od the numerous important Surgical operation* performed by Johnson, witnessed by the reporter* of the. Swn, u ‘‘Clipper,” and many olh*r papers, police* of vhich bare appeared again and again before the public, fc**\4et his atandlbg a« a gentlemen of character and ffr •poniiblllty, ia a sufficient guarantee to the;affllcte4. w SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CURED. no letter* received unless post-paid snd containing a •utaptobeusedoD the reply Persona writing should state pwilsendp<irUOn ofadvertisementdescribing symptoms Persons wHtisg ahoatd be partienlar in directing Ibeir * »»r* to bis InstHolton, in the following manner: ,JOHN M. JOHNSTON. M. 0., Of the Baltimore Lock Roepfttl, Maryland From the Atlant c Monthly for May. AFTER “TAPS.” Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! K» 1 lay with ray blanket on. By the dim fire-light^in the moonlight night. When the «kirrai*bliifr fight was done. The measm ed beat ofthe eentry’a feet, With tit* jingling ecabbard’t ring! Tramp! Tramp! ip rajr meadow-camp By the SbemmdpahVifpnng. The moonlight aeems to shed cold beam* On a row of-(uUegrayegtoues; Give the bugle breath,'and that image of Death Will fly from Ihe reveille’* tone*. By each tented roof u charger's hoof Make* the frosty hill-side ring Give the bugle breath, and a spirit of Death To each home's girth; will spring. Tramp! Tramp! Triifepl Tramp! The sentry, before my tent. Guards, ill gloom, hi* chief, for whom Its shelter to-night la lent. lam not there. On she bill skle bare I think of the..ghoBt within: Of the trftvf ;who died at roy swrrrd-luvnd *»«*«•. To day, ’mld the horrible din. Of shot and shell ami the infantry yell. As we charged with jibe sabre drawn. To ipy heart T said. ■¥ Who shall be the dead In my tent at another dawn V' I thought of a blossoming almonri tree. The stateliest fretj tltnt I know : Of a goMwi bowl: ofa parted soul: And a lamp that is burning low. Oh. thoughts that ktU! I thought of the hill Tu the far-off Jora chain : Of the two, the three, o’er the wide salt sea. Whose hearts would break with pain. Of my pride and eldest boy: Of my darlingkthe second —Ifi years; Of Willie, whose face, with its pure, mild grace. Melts memory into fears. Of their mother, my-bride, by the Alpine lake’s side. And tlie angel asleep in her arms ; Love, Beauty, and Truth. which she brought to my youth, In that sweet Apriljday of her charms Halt! Who /*’ The cold midnight air And the challenging: word chill me through. The ghost of a fear whispers, close to my ear. ** Is peril, lore, coming to you?” The hoarse answer, Belief.’’ makes the -.hade of q grief. Die away, with the step <-n the sod, A ki-K m Its in air. while a tear and a pniy. r U'-nfhle my'beloved jo God Tramp! Tramp! Trapip! Tramp! With a solemn, pendulum-swing! Though I slumber all night, the.fire burn.-* bright, And my sentinels’ sCabbards ring. ‘•Bool und saddle!” is sounding. Our pulses are bounding. ‘•To horse And 1 touch with my heel Black Gray in the flanks and ride down the rank?, With my heart, like my sabre, of steel. Mrtt THE EVENTS OF A NIGHT. When Martin Luther, conversing with a friend, walked in the field at Eiselben, and suddenly beheld -the partner of his thought struck to the earth by lightning— a livid corpse, what were his feelings ? Or, how excited the mind of Michael Angelo when, in his silent cham ber of the Medical mansion, he pursued his immortal labors at midnight; with opened coffins ;and ghastly mortal remains around him, to assist the workings of his genius! 1 You have read, moreover of the Hebri dean fisher who descended a horrible preci pice in search of eagle’s eggs ; and, swing ing in mid air, ,was attacked by the enraged birds—a thrilling circumstance which blanched his dark locks, and deprived him, for a time, of reason. • But you have never beard the story of that night ; and none save I can tell it.— Give me, then, your best attention, and do not doubt me,; for I do not doubt myself. I had taken; supper and found pleasure in it. Amiable with the finoly-flavord coffee, and fresh Finnan haddocks, I rang my bell. “ Now, landlady,” said; I, “sup pose I turn in. And by the way, I was rather cold last night. If you would give my another blanket I’d thank you.” r “ Eh! yes, sir; N ye’ll no’ fash me ” And good Mistress Wilson departed.— She was a kind Scotch soul, and therefore I had not, hesitated to prefer my- request. Presently_she told me all . was ready. I took my Candlestick, bade her good night, and in a second was in my chamber. Before jumping into bed, I studiously examined several little articles which 1 had collected in my rambles. I had lately ar rived at Leith from Rotterdam, and being fresh from Waterloo, I naturally wished to “ straighten” the various relics, ect., which I had brought in my coffre. Mr«. Wilson had loaned me a drawer, and busi ness began. The chestnuts from Hougo rapnt, ihe French eagles, }he views of La Have Sainte, ;Monf St. .Kan, La Montague du Lion, ect, were severally placed in my drawer; together with guide books, pocket compass, and ‘other et cetera. “ Nm T,U id bed.” With that thought my outer shell was speedily cast off. I did my devotions and tunied off the gas. The next moment I leaped into bed. Como gentle sleep 1 ethereal-mildness come. Exqui-ite warm sheets ' I plunged my fee* down inf® the recesses. How deli cious! how-^ —Heavens! what was it. ? What could - ; sjt be my encoun tered t Froaen with vague horror, I ALTOONA, PA., TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1863. sprang from this bed. My brain positively whirled; my teeth chattered —but not with cold. Cold ? t), I would rather step upon an icebei£ than again experience the thrill which I then endured. There was some object in the bed. A i ude grasp, j a secret robber would have chilled me less. Its mysterious feel was not of aught human. Momentary relapse into a desperate mood and my spirit said within me, ‘‘ Get in again and kick it out!” Kick out —what* Searching in the dark I at last found a chair- My next thought was to examine my foot. No! it was not lacerated —not even scratched. True, I had not at the moment experienced a sense of pain ; but so horrible a,surprise would nut allow of it. Mental excitement often deadens physical suffering. Yet, as-I believed, there was no laceration. I could not detect the flow of blood ; and, though in the dark, I Could have felt this. With hands clasped on my forehead, I strove to think. What were my best rec ollections of the contact? I remembered that the left foot had touched nothing, but as the leg went down it' received a gentle rub. I recollected also that the soul of my right foot had been visited with the feeling of hot breath, as though it were the breath of an animal. But then it had not touched any rough or furry creature. At this point, impressed with a dread of the supernatural, I removed my chair to the most remote comer of the room, and there pursued my train of reflection. Was it a sleeping cat ? Entangled in one of the sheets, its fur might have been covered. I called to mind many instances of cats which, for the warmth, had crept into beds. Still, one so rudely aroused would have extended its claws ; and v I— had I been wounded ? Not to the best of my belief. In the first place, I was confident that the plunge of toy feet would have awakened such an animal. Its impulse then would be to bound away. But no movement apparent to the ear had taken place. On the other hand— There were two married ladies staying at the house. One of them had a small baby. Her servant maid had been en joined to put that precious infant to bed. I had heard this through my opened door at the moment when supper was served. Before taking supper, I had accidentally caught a glimpse of the servant girl on the way to her mistress’ apartment, and her physiognomy caused me to think her a stupid, blundering lass. Now, how easily might a mistake have occured. Ihe stu pidity or forgetfulness of the moment might have led her to place the little baby in the wrung bed. Its mamma slept in the chamber next to mine l ; how facile then to open the wrong door! Certainly I had not felt anything of the shape or substance of a baby. But, in that horrible moment my mind had been completely unhinged; and could I now say what I had felt 1 Thought beats the electric telegraph. These reflections occurred in less time than I take to tell them. My first vague horror had given away to a feeling of calm fright. By this time my body was benumbed, for in one’s shirt the cold strikes in with effect. Huddling myself together—and still impressed by the supernatural —I resumed my chain of analysis. Thus, for some minutes, but you shall not be troubled with more details. After tuining over every horrible probability, and glancing in the dark towards the bed (as I believed.) 1 went into the committee (all alone) .on ways and means—what to do! Should I awaken the landlady ? By no means ; even though the circumstances warranted it, I would not. After the first horror, as I have told yon_a calm fright succeeded; and I felt that—fearful as was the position—l would have to brave it alone. No! I would light the gas, and—look! Slowly I quitted my chair—but at this moment a strange, unearthly biasing sound came from the I>ed. It might be the his sing of a serpent, (and Mrs. Wilson was, I had head, an amateur collector of such creatures,) or the suppressed breathing of a dog. It was a sound as though blood were letting! Saint Bartholomew, flayed to death as thou wast! how my hair stood op as I thought of sickening passages in Frankestein! Shaking with the palsy, as it seemed I tottered to my chair. But something must be done. Screwing Up my courage to the sticking point, and murmuring a prayer, 1 again arose, found my trousers, and searched for my box of congreves, (which, as a smoker, I invaria bly carry.) It was barren! not a single match remained! What should Ido? To cross the spacious landing, and to reach the kjtehen, was an early thought. The Are would perhaps be smouldering; I might perchance obtain what I required. Mrs. Wilson’s matches I could not hope to find; I knew not their locality. But an old newspaper, (which I had put in the drawer loaned me, as mentioned,) would do.— Could not I carry it, blazing, from the kitchen embers? Yes, I could, but. what then? The glare of the light would [independent in everything.] arouse the sleepers ; and then—the second mamed lady was, I had heard Mrs. Wil son say, fearful of fire; and I felt persuad ed that, after the manner of others whom I knew, she slept wifh her door ajar. I felt for my cane—the one which I had brought from Hougomont. Despe rate, I thought of striking the coverlet until the object moved. But suppose it were an infant! Ah ! 1 could pass my cane gently over the surface and do no harm. I approached the bed, and did so.— ■Then, starting back, my summoned reso lution left me; I knew, I felt, that the object was still there! With a beating heart, 1 dressed myself as fast as I could; and cautiously feeling my way to the sit ting room, lay down on the sofa and drew my coat over me. For a time I was unable to sleep; my nerves were too much strained ; at length I dropped off into an uneasy slumber. The clock of an adjacent church struck four. 1 awoke Morning had come; golden and silvery rays were flashing through the crevices of the shutters. I arose—with a perfect memory of last night's occurences^ —shook myself, and (re assured by the day) proceeded to my cham ber. I was not at ease when I entered. I stopped at the threshold —but at last I slowly went in. With abated breath 1 approached the bed. Oh! shall 1 ever erase from my memory that revelation. Ghoul! vampire! monsters misshapen, and creatures charged to freeze the bloood. No marvel that 1 had thought of ye ! My terror had been actually excited ; my nerves awfully startled ; and I discov ered the cause at the bottom of the bed, in the shape of a “foot-bottle!” Mrs. Wilson, pray fjr the future inform your guests when you give them a b°dfellow, which a bad conscience or an active imagi nation can conjure into a frightful and mysterious monster. “ I Don’t Like Mv Business.” —There is no greater fallacy in the world than that entertained by young men that some pursuit in life can be found wholly suited to their tastes whims and fancies. This philosopher’s stone can never be discovered, and every one who makes bis life a search for it will be ruined Much truth is con tained in the Irishman’s remark : “It is never aisy to work hard.” Let, therefore, the fact be always remembered by the young, that no lifework can be entirely agreeable to man. Success always lies at the top of a hill; if we would reach it, we can do so only by hard persevering ef fort, while beset with difficulties of every kind. Genius counts nothing in the battle, of life; determined, obstinate, pcreeve-. ranee in one single channel is everything. Hence, 'should any ■ one of our young readers be debating in his mind a change of business, imagining he has a genius for some other, let him at once dismiss the' thought as he would a temptation to dp evil. If you think you made a mistake in choosing the pursuit or profession you did, don’t make another by leaving it. Spend all your enei gies in working for and cling to it, as you wduld\to the life-boat that sustained you iti the midst of the ocean. If you leave it, it is almost certain that you will go down ; but if you cling to it, informing yonrself about it until you are its master, bending your every energy to the work, success is certain. Good, hard honest effort, steadily persevering in, will make your love for your business or pro fession grow; since no one should ex pect to reach a period when he cant feel that his life-work is just the one he could have done best and would have liked best. We are allowed to see and feel the roughness in our own pathway, but none in others; yet all have them. —Hunts Merchants’ Magazine. All About Kisses. —The girls never grow weary of kissing-—we beg pardon, we mean the subject is ever congenial to their taste. But what an absurd idea it is in man to ask a lady to kiss him, just as if he, the senseless being, thought the poor trembling little creature was going to do it! The idea of a man asking for; a thing so easily obtained! Why, it is ridiculous! and a man with the least particle of brains would hoot at the idea. She’d say no till doomsday. And ydu, poor believer, would forego the happiness of drawing nectar from the rosebud mouth, simply because you were ig noramous enough to ask for what you might have taken. There are ten thou sand ways to kiss a girl ’without asking the privilege. Direct her attention to something on the table; ask for a book which you know to be there, and whilst she is there, go with the affected purpose of helping her to look for it ; be particu lar to get at her left side—do you need any more telling? If you do, yon do not deserve the kiss that might be so grace fully taken. A man whp would ask a kiss of a fair maiden ought to be tarred and feathered as a craven-hearted monster. Don’t do it; don’t for goodness sake, ask the girls to kite you. Kiss them if you want to, but do it like gentlemen. Kiss them If you can. PERSIA* STORIES OF HUBBARDS. A married man preaentedhimself trem bling and sorrowful at the gates of para dise. He had heard so often of his faults and short-comings while upon earth, thah "he believed in them devotedly, and had no hope of being admitted to the habitations of the blessed. One wife, he had been repeatedly informed, was a blessing far beyond her merits while in the flesh; how, then, could he hope fur the smiles of seventy houries. But the prophet, when he presented himself at the gates of heaven, to his great surprise, greeted him with a smile of ineffable compassion. “Pass on, poor martyr,*’ said Mahorftet. “You have been indeed a great sinner, but you have suffered enough upon the earth, so be of good cheer, for you will not meet your wife here.” A man who had hitherto crept up to heaven, now stood up confllently, and presented himself to the prophet upon the ground that he had been twice married. “ Nay,” said the prophet, angrily, “par adise is no place for fools.” A ruffling young fellow married the wealthy widow of a great Khan. On the wedding* night she determined to assert her authority over him. So she treated him with great contemptwhen he came into the ante-room, and sat luxuriously imbedded in rose-leaf cushions, caressing a large white cat, of which she pretended to be dolingly fond. She appeared fb be annoyed by her husband's entrance, and looked at him out of the corners of her eyes with a glance of cold disdain. “ I dislike cats,” remarked the young soldier, blandly, as if he vyas making a mere casual observation ; they offend my sight.” If his wife had looked at him with a glance of cold disdain before, her eyes now wore an expression of auger ■ and con tempt such as no words can express, did not even deign to answer him, but she took the cat" to her bosom and fondled it passionately. Her whole heart seemed to be in the cat, and cold was the shoulder which she turned to her husband. Bitter was the sneer upon her beautiful lips. “ When any one offends.me,” continued her gallant, gayly, “I cutoff his head. It is a peculiarity of mine which 1 am sure will only make me dearer to you.”— Then drawing his sword, he took the cat gently but firmly from her arms, cut off its head, wiped the blade, sheathed it, and sat down, continuing to talk affectionately to his wife as if nothing had happened. After which, says tradition, she became the best and most submissive wife in the world.- A henpecked fellow meeting him next day as he rode with a gallant train through the market-place, began to condole with him.. “Ah !” said the henpecked, with deep feeling, “ you/too, have taken a wife, and got a tyrant. You ■ bad better have remained the poor soldier ’ that you were, I pity you from my very heart’ 7 “ Not so,” replied the ruffler, joyfully; “keep your sighs to cool yourself next summer.” He then related the events of his wed ding-night, with their satisfactory results. The henpecked man listened attentively, and pondered long. “ 1 have also a sword,” said he, “ though it is rusty, and my wife is like wise fond of cats. I will cut off the head of my wife’s favorite cat at once.” He did so, and received a sound beat ing. His wife, moreover, made him go down upon his knees and tell her what ghin, or evil epirit, had prompted him to commit the bloody deed. » “ Fool!” said the lady, with a vixenish smile, when she had possessed herself of the henpecked’s secret, “you should have done it the first night.” Moral. —Advice is useless to fools. Tom of the Last Signer.— -The ancient seat ofi Charles Carroll, of Car rol ton, and his tomb, is about fifteen miles from Baltimore. Entering the gateway we drove through a noble avenue, planted on each side with trees of every variety, and soon found ourselves in front of the Carroll mansion, which is a long, com fortable two stoty building, terminated at the north end by the chaple, which -has become famous as the repository of the remains of (he gallant signer of the Dec laration of Independence, His tomb is set in the wall on the left of the altar, and presents a shield and scroll of white marble, on which is carved in relief a p*n and roll of parchment, surrounded by thir teen stars ; a Latin inscription appropri ate to his great act, appear 9 * o the centre. Below this some figures in bass relievo rep resenting Fame with inverted toiicb, and History, guarding a funeral urn. The chapel is cruciform, and contains a hand some; marble altar, soma fine old pictures, a good organ, and is decorated with rich and beautiful windows of stained glass. The floor, which is elevated, contains some fourteen or fifteen pews, which are occupied by the family of Mr. Carroll and their friends. The body of the church contains about . forty commodious pews, whejre his slaves, who are carefully instret •d in the Catholic faith, sit and kneel. EDITORS AMD Anecdote. —White traveling in West ern Virginia, happening one day to 1m in a small dry goods store, situated in a small nltege, an old lady from tha coun try came in. She purchased several articles of the ckrk, and at length ob served a neatly painted and varnished bel lows hanging by a post, she enquired what it was. The clerk perceiving that the oijd lady was rather ignorant, and bring somewhat of a wag. Informed her that it was a new fashioned lan which be had lately received from the East, at the same time taking the bellows down and puffing it in his fhee, told her that was the mode of operation. The old lady repeated the operation on herself, and was so delighted with the new fan, that she purchased it forthwith and departed. On the next day our informant, the minister, had an appointment to preach at a schoolhouse in the neighboring country. The congregation being assembled, white the minister was in the act of reading the hymn, who should pop in but the old woman with her new fashioned fan; and having taken her seat, immediately com menced puffing away in good earnest— The congregation knew not what 4o make of it: some smiled, and some looked aston ished, but the ludicrous prevailed 9V«r everything else, and to such an extent, that the minister himself was obliged to stop reading, and to hand Ihe bode to his brother in the desk. After the usual preliminary services, he roee to preach* but there sat conspicuously the old ladjy with the bellows, in front, a hand hold of each handle, the nose turned up towards her face, and with much self-complacency, puffing the gentle breeze into her face. What to do or how to proceed he knew not, for he could not cast his eyes over tbe congregation without meeting with the old lady. At length summoning resolu tion, apd trying to feel the solemnity of the duty imposed on him, he proceeded. He finished his discourse, but it cost him more effort than any before or since. A True Love Stobt. —A bashful gentleman of Holly Springs, Mississippi, took a violent ‘ hankering’ after a fair seamstress of the town; and after a great deal of hesitation, finally brought His courage up to the standing point, and made an evening call on the lady. He found her busily engaged at her work, pressing off a garment with a tailor’s goose. She, however, received him very courteously, and continued her work. A bevy of the seamstress’s female friends dropped m a few minutes after our heroic friend had subsided into silence, for he found it absolutely impossible to maintain a conversation with the lady. The add den entrance of the viators, instead of re lieving, only added to his embarrassment, and be sat in silence until bis' situation became punful to all, bat to none more than to himself All effort* !to draw him # into conversation proved abortive, and it became a matter of {se rious concern to tire ladles how to relieve the gentleman of bis embarrassment with out a catastrophe, for he was well knpwn to all of them as a gentleman of great worth, bashfulhess being his only frailty. Ihe seamstress finally got through wfith her work, and called but to the negro man in the kitchen; I “ John 1” The door opened and a stoat, burly negro stack his head through the dolor way, and said: “ I is here. Missus.” “ John, will yoa take this goom out?” Onr bashful friend sprang to bis feet in an instant, and exclaimed: | “I beg your pardon, madam, for in truding on you, but Pli go out mgtdfi ; And before the lady could her meaning to him, he had gathered up, bis hat and, made his exit, which was fouoafed by the frantic yells of the girls, tam sorry to add that the little misunderstand ing made an old bachelor and an old'maid. Yankce' Bathing. —Kendall, of the New Orleans Picayune, relates the fol lowing, which occurred in his presence some time ago, at Baden Baden, Germany : At this juncture we were joined by an English party, when the subject matter brougnt under discussion was bathing. “I take a cold sponge bath every morn ing when at home,” said John BuU. “ So do I,” retorted the Yankee. “ Winter and summer,” continued the Englishman. “My system exactly,” responded the Yankee. “Is yonr weather and tester cold!” queried John 8011/ “ Bight chilly,” continued Brother Jona than. “ Hpw cold !” inquired John. “ So cold that the water all freest* as I pour it down my back, and rattles upon the floor in the shape of hail I” responded the Yankee, witlv' the ««">> cunning twinkle of the eye. 11 Were you in the next room to me in America,” he con tinued, “ and could bear messl am taking my sponge bath of a cold winter’s morning, you would think I was pouring diy fekn« down nw back.” The Englishman shrugged his shoulders as witha chUVaod marvelled. w NO. 14
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