SUTLERS' K>k Bindery, <ANK BOOK MANUFACTORY ,64 Market St i Barrufary, Pd: ’• tabliahment is-phiefly devoted tn IMtetatn of BUaIUMo tor or pUin, r*M wS Mmft to |»«Ob» Nt Unrn pm>er. * wniJ ilM* Seiontfflc Aonku. Looaon nSJ, Ss£ffiK,SSflSSS;£";, SW mlMMttal hrtf Madia*. SeSftLn, M«B»«tno», PamohUtUw«, (wand in nod .. at Tory audaratc> pricaa. htwm harla* , ataataa toMad, wfflraeaha alibaral iiaZ., aaMy ba aaat to oa from adiataßoe by £,l t^sjSASssr^si imialai Addnaa F. L. SowEr^ Btrrrtonr.fl,, tU A BMW, at tha Mbtmt oOet. an>UT Jtaoaa. and rkdafty. Thay will giro inform/ tea tobtodtof, «ad rroalTe and rrtnra book. *r» all vbo wUiut thalr workto [Mawh n.UW-ly S “ « 5 .2 1 -g* g* 2 s -w .H« 4 | S’ 8 d " t s • ini 55 S <* s♦: s . ** § £•< s 41 PH j sp|i| , B*h%t y Kjs=i.|2ii gf^ii ■~ •* S*-s -.% ■.£;]'j-i \S. ARDI EVER ONWARD ! TEP BY STEP I UNDERSIGNED DfESIRES TO n ble old eaetonere and the pabllc noartlu tUaniiai gone Into the .Bry Good Inaißen trecefreJ elerju and entirely new Mock of BESS GOODS, dice, embracing all thelatcet, prettiaataadaiM iHIONABLE PATTERNS. t which, may be found every qualityof roods, i»f which it would b« too tedkmt to euuuente. In thfrUae of pore, fresh rim! chaap 3ERIES 4c PROVISIONS ' knock under” to any of my com pet] ton. In mend feel enre that I can render aattaftctlon. I of country produce taken in exchange for the higheat market price allowed. the corner of Annie and Helen etreele. Eut THOMAS HKBLOP. May 22,1582. JACQB WEIS, SR AND CONFECTIONER, Ttaouru Siaxrr, AuooxvP*. « CONSTANTLY ON HAND tKAD, CAKES, CANDIES OB CREAM JETMEATB. of his own nuumfiutons which be Ito iMI, wholesale or retail, at the most reason . itao, PORJEIGN FRUITS, such as SGES. LEMONS, PINE-APPLES, RUNES, RAISINS, NUTS, AC., &C band in their ref pec tire fuuona. ES BAKED TO ORDER. tar nccartona, on abort notice and in the urat t rtyle of the art. unine and price my atock and you will find Hid cheap aa can be pnnbaaad elanrhere. XBB3- H. FETTINGER’S [ieral News igency, lALL, No. 7, MAIN STREET OOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS, ONERY, CONFECTIONARIES JARS & TOBACCO, ND NOTIONS INOREAT VARIETY CONSTANTLY QM HAND. at. ua. • • ■ . •"• ■■ . LLOYD & CO., AtHJO SA, Pd, STON, JACK & GO., BozjujajrsßVse, fa. ANKERS, U “ AS, Johnston, Jack $ Co.") . FTS ON THE PRINCIPAL t, and torer and Gold lot aada. OoUectiou V. KESSLER—-PRACTICAL IOOGIST, reepectiUly taiianM^^/ ina of Altoona and tbe pnblic he atin conUnnea the Drag boalnaJ»r^^^^ r i 18. CTUOOCALB, OILS/TAAKISH- j attesttonto bnajneaa, and adealre torendwjat all at ranarda prioe and qnaHty, be bopeete eoetaeaahanof pnbOcpntronase. . ■ and atohnate anppUed on f»ee<MUjhl» tern.*, naftwtndlatnnta ptWptly u pmtKstitai earafalijr nowpiianided. [!-«• LADY FRIENDS WOULD D<j &<rf Joe*4»,lM2. . J AND LA-BkD OILS, OAM-j AND AT MCCORMICK'S Swrf HitojflJ of »"<U JEBIES.——A LABOR >lrtf wortmetit of QroeeriM h * T * jSJ vhaN to ttm at J.B- It, HAT, TOOTH, SHA vl > ff l >t,Badt«ul VtiaMhUnubm •* w3BL kß|S ;j KINDS, OF PRINTING- IttELLAS AND PA^SO^ !oiu«M T»riety, M v WOOH*^ MajI.MAS. •' ' • —- STYLES CABFNTING Aj loilucm be found*'- uw “* BNJWAL AShOttgM^. l^ fcwlg, {Ulr aitd (INK ASSOmtoNT^yi'N 1 " fees «•»*»«■* «r v \ ■ M ' OIL. CQU)GyK% Jff! McCRUM & DERN, VOL. 8 Muskingum Tailley iAJ ST ■ CORNER OF Market and TMrd Streets, ZANESVILLE, OHIO. lift ARE NOW TURNING OCT A LARGE T T number of our improved Portable Steam Engines .ml t'oruble Circular Saw Mills, as well rs Stationary .;u n r iiie» and Saw Mills, many of which are finding theii a mt« Blair, Camlnia*.Huntingdon and Crawford Coun aud other parts of the State of Pennsylvania. . Those received .and in operation, are giving the most en :il„ HHtiabiCtiou. There is now hardly a State or Territor> , i tin* Cuion. but that <>ur improved Portable Engines ,ii 1 Saw Millet are iu use in. Ail our Engine have Spark u icster Stacks on them which coniine the flying spark*. UV would respectfully refer'you to the following gentle und Certificates for the portability, utility and orac i.mU'p«rations of our Portable Steam Engines and Saw Haetstowm. Crawford Co . Pa..) 31 ay 16th, 1863. j J, A J. H. Duvall: —Gunlltmtn :—We received ~jr Tweuty Horse Fewer Portable Engine aud Saw Mill. ,i, order. We ire perfectly satisfied with it ; every* ,„iujr works to our entire satisfaction—in fact beyond our . ijiL-clations. We sawed 4000 feet of white-oak boards in hours and could have done mar? in the some time, xul #e have had good logs. W* lake pleasure in recommending those in want ol ».,«■ Mills and Engines to purchase of you. Respectfully, C. REYNOLDS & K. ANDRESS. We are authorized to say, for Mi. Samuel Miliiken. o dt.lli'Jaysburg, Pa., that the 20 horse power Portable Kn ai-r aud Saw Mill we sold him. has fully met hi* expec union, and proveti itself to be all that was claimed fur *1 ■i our circular; and since starting it, has sent in his t-.ioi for a second Engine and Saw Mill, of same powei ui'i size. • K-r further references, wo will give the names of M. 1 Dili and Thomas M'AuUey. Altoona, Pa.: A. L, llolli- Unlliduysburg. Pa.: M. M. Adams, Creason, Pa.: W. Lv'Zfipler and Joseph S. Reed,' Huntingdon, Pa.; Messr*. k C».. Tyrone. Pa., all of whom have purchased ~rT.ii.ie Steam Engines aud Portable Circular ,Sa\v Mill* W•* fullv warrant our Engine* and Saw Mills, to be j. u» firsl-chui* material: workmanship the same: rn Bras* Bali Valws in pumps and check*, an*! to saw -m o.OW to 10.000 t»*Gt of lumber per day—say 10 hour*. »ilift* solicited. .Description circular sent t*< all rur • i-aideut*. Respectfully. J. & J. 11. DUVALL. Corner Market and 3rd Street*, just opposite C. (•- K. Road Depot. Zaie-r-viil.-. Ohio. June 2,1563-4 m. 0. YES! 0 ; YES!! I’HISWAY! THIS WAY! SPUING & SUMMER GOODS, I H, HI LEMAN has just received a f I * large and well selected slock of Goods, consisting f Cloths, Plain and Fancy Ca«simcn*s, Satinetts. Ken- Mscky Jeans. Tweeds. Beaverteeus, Blue Drilling, and alp I>o>r kinds of Goods for / MEN AND BOYS’ WEAK, i“Svth«r with a grand and magnificent assortment of t LADIES' DRESS GOODS. •■vh at Back and Fancy Silks. Chtdlies. Benges. Brilliants. Lawns. Delaines. Chinlzs, Dtßrges, Cray's. Prints. (rapt and Stella Sltawls. Mantillas. Vndersterres and ifosicry.%imnets and Ribbons, Cottars. Hand lerchi'/s, Kid Gloves. Hooped Start's. Skirt, iny, Lace Mitts, dr., dr. ALSO, . irking.. Checks, Bleached and Unbleached .Muslins. Cotton and Linen Table Diaper. Cnish, Suukr en, 4c. BOOTS AN D SHOES, AUDWAEE, ftUEESSWAKE. WOOD AND WILLOW WARE, OIL CLOTHS, CARPETS, 4C. GHOCERIES. mr stock of Oroceriea is more extensive than ever, and .insists of Bio and Java Coffee, Crushed. Loaf and N O. sugars; Green. and Black Teas; Molasses. Soaps, ■ uMles, Salt, Fish, 4c. Thankful to the pn'dic fin- the very liberal patrnnap' 'n'rvtofore received. Jie hopes by strict attention to bnsi •ss. anil an endeavdr to please, to merit a continuanco ol tin* same. ~ , 49 K oall and examine his Stock, and you will be con l ined th t he has the best assorlment and cheapest Goods :n the market. , V Cundtry Produce of all kinds taken m exchange for Goods at market prices. Altoona. April 28. 1863. EXCELSIOR Eiat <fe Cap Store. r p U K I’KOPRIETOH OF THE 1 “EXCELSIOR” hat; and CAP Store. wtiuld inform his rnMtmiirrs. and the Public generally, that-ho hasjust returned from the city with the‘largest and most varied *tock of goods in.his line ..ever brought to Altoona, al. of which he has now on exhibUhm and sale at Ills new store loom on Virginia street, iext door to Jag rar-d’s store. His stock embraces all thh latest styles of SPRING AND SUtMMEB HATS, ■ CAPS, MISSES’ FLATS, &C. H 'h Stock of Bats and Caps arc of tbe very best selection, >f «veiy style, color and shape, for both iold and yootig. AM be asks is th:it the people call and Examine his stock, Mid-lie feels confident (hat he can send them\away re (••icing, if not In, the purchase of Buchan article as they wanted, at the remembrance of having; looked~npon the handsomest stock of Hats, Caps, Flats, 4*L| ever exhibited in this ’ ! N I have also on hand an (entirely new ritock of Ladies’ and Childrens’ Hals and Flats, which I am confident cannot be in the country, til of which I will noil at the most reasonable prices. K©« Qu-mhor the Hal) of Fashion when yon'want anything in fhc line uf head covering, and call on May 4. ’63-lf ,*f.ESBE SMITH, Drug Store. C Berlin & 00., announce to •'J . the citizens of Altoona and vie ipltj that they have opened a Drug and Variety Sloro in WORK’S NEW BUILDING, Viryinia Street, between Julia and Caroline Shvets, where may bo had 'OKCGS, CBEMJCAL& '„ nTVC . patent medicines, perfumeries, Y.iJNTS, OIL, GLASS, PUTTY,. . and ail other articles usually sold in the Drug-business. .OUR MEDICINES are of the purest and neat quality, and our Chemical* bear the murks of the best manufacturers. > Painters. Ulasiers. Builders and others requiring to use* PAUTTd, OILS, VA&NIBUBS, TtJRPBNTINJ2, Window Glass, Paint Brushes, SashTool** dc,, dc~, wtllftnd our assortment to be of the REST QUALITY AND AT'TffK LOWKST PRICKS. Tii*,- parent Whies add Liquor* for Medicinal. -Meehan!- caioll Sacramental purposes always 3n store. All orders correctly and promptly answered, and Pbrsicians Prescriptions accurately compounded. Altoona, U*y U, 186 S. THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE E. B. McCRUM. R. C. DEBS RDtTO&d AND PROPRIETORS. Per annum, (payable invariably in advance,) $1 54 Ail papers discontinued at the expiration of the tiiu< paid lor. 1 insertion 2 do. 3 do. Pourlines or 1e55...... $ 25 $ Z7}s> $ 54. >»«• Square, (8 liuee) 54.* 76 1 U 4 Two “ (1G *• ) 100 150 204 three •• (24 “ ) 150 200 25» Over threesfieeks and leas than three mouths, 25 cent* per equate for each insertion. Six Hues or lean. .)ne square Three Pour Half a column hie column idmiiiiNtratora .Executors Notices Merchants lulverlilng by the year. throiVaqoares, with liberty to change.* - Professional or Business Cards, n6t exceeding S.iines OK with (taper, per year . 5 Of Communications of a politico character or individual interest. will be charged according to the above rates. Advertisements not marked with the number of inser tion* desired, will be continued HU forbid and charged according to the above terms. Business notices five cents pe** line for every insertion. Obituary notices exceeding ten lines, fifty cents asquar* THE DRAFTED COVEY’S SONC. Jfckct A burglary was committed at night in the shop of a certain watchmaker in the Rue St. Dennis. The robbers seized a number of gold and silver watches hang ing in the window, and they went off. leaving behind them a wooden handled chisel, whieK they had employed in break ing the lock, and a candle end, wrapped in a piece of paper about half the size ot a hand. M. S did not discover the robbery till he came down to the shop in the morning, and 1 -was not informed of the daring burglary till.ten o’clock.— I at once proceeded with an agent to the shop, in order to collect any indications that might help me to discover the rob bers ; but there was not theslightesl clue. No one had seen them, and excepting the two articles to which I have referred, no object of a nature to facilitate search was left itKthe shop. Under these circumstan ces, I resolved to call on the police com missioner of that quarter, who might per haps possess more precise data ; but this magistrate told me that nothing could be done at present, and that it would be wise to keep quiet for a while, as any steps would -only lead to loss of time and useless labor. 1 hen the cqnverstaion changed, and while talking of one thing and the other, I mechanically took up the piece of paper, which was about three inches long at the most, that surrounded the candle end. I had read beneath the dirty finger marks the four words, “ Two pounds of butter,” written in an illegible manner, and with link whose paleness rendered them even more impossible to decipher. By Jove.” I exclaimed, “ that is a pro digious .accident. 1 must find out the per son who wrote those words, .and then, perhaps, I shall get a clue to the thieves.” The commissioner does hot think much of this paper ; he warns M. Cauler that •he intends to close the report at four o’clock, and send all the articles to the prefecture. “Very good,” replies our author; and off ho starts, accompanied by an agents and holding the little piece of paper. '■ I jumped into a cab and visited unsuc cessfully all the markets in turn. Disap pointed, 1 was returning to the commis sioner’s office, when I noticed, in the Rue Aubrey le Boucher, a butter dealer, to whom I. handed my bit of paper-while repeating my usual formula. After turn ing it. over . and over, the dealer said: “ Why, I wrote those words ; but I don’t ’ know-to whom they were addressed. It . Is a ticket which I sold to some passer-by or customer." On hearing this, I fell • back from the seventh heaven to the earth, i and went off. ”, As I walked along, I said to myself TBRM6 OF ADVERTISING 3 months. 6 months. 1 year $ 1 50 f 3 00 $ 5 Oh 2 50 4 00 0 00 - 10 00 5 00 6 00 10 00 . 14 00 10 00 14 00 20 04 14 00 If you lend me three hundred dollars I’ll give you my M I. 0- U.,” Dm drafted, you see, and it follows I owe to the Manhul his due! Wbeu the pay-triot owes the conscription Aud will pay what he honestly owes Ue’* a chap that kind and description. That hates to be bothered with foes! If the Doctor would only exempt me,— I could show I’ve no stomach” —for fight! And I know there’s no rations could tempt me To eut when my stomach’s not right! But a soldier can eat what ho choose*. And what does he get fbr a bed ? The ground! Which will fill him with bruises, And settle a cold ta hi* head. What on earth is the us*;* of long muskets, Or the “ bore” of those very big guns' TluV a man in many a muss gels. A fight he naturally shun*. It's so bad tojbe wearing big patches. Or fchowjnaßwo very black eyes! The eggs a man sits on he hatches. But what does ho hatch il he dies ? I would like.to be dock’d out with ribbons. And all that comes under that head: But I wouldn’t give any one threepence For the .honors that come when one’* dead A tombstone may tell a good story. Inscribed bn its white marble shaft. But I’ll run my chance of that glory. If you'll just get me oft' froui the draft A PIECE OP PAPER. BV A FRENCH DETECTIVE. that the robbery was performed either at the beginning of the nigln —that i* u say, at one in the morning—or the burg lars waited till a late hour. Hut the lat ter theory was inadmissible, lieeause at a late hour the Rue\St. Dennis is filled with carts going to market and artisans pro ceeding to work. Hence the lobbery was committed at about one o’clock in the morning. If this was the cas“, the, rob bers, in order not to arouse the suspicion of persons dwelling in the same • house with themselves, did not go to bed ; they probably spent the night in some mean wine-vualt—the Coutelle, for instance — and that would explain bow, in going down the Faubourg du Temple, they pur chased the candle in that quarter. — Whilst discussing the circumstances which must have proceeded the robbery, 1 turned into the Rue de Faubourg du Temple, where I went from chandler’s shop to chandler’s shop, asking whether any one recognized my bit of paper ; it was the lantern with which Diogenes sought a At length I came to sixty-two, near the barracks, and to my great satis faction the following answer was returned to my question: : 04* 4 00 S 00 12 0b 25 00 40 Of 1 75 10 OC* [Qian, “ Yes, sir ; at about half after eleven last night 1 sold a half-penny candle, wrapped in the paper you now show me, to two young men who live in the next house.” “ What is their trade ?” ‘‘ Ah, sir, they are quiet as lambs! They are two commercial travelers, and both out of work just at present. They smuggle lace from Belgium, but they are as well behaved as girls ; they see nobody ; they frequent no bad company ; they do not drink or quarrel.” I thanked my chandler for the infor mation, and said that it was not with these young men that I had anything to do ; but as 1 feared he might warn the robbers, or give the alarm by his chatter ing, I sent my agent to fetch one of his. comrades. During the interval 1 made th& neighbors talk, and obtained a descrip tion of the malefactors. On the arrival of the inspectors, I sent them to watch, with orders to arrest the robbers it they went out, and at four o’clock the next morning, 1 went up and arrested them.— I could see nothing of a suspicious nature in their room. I sent for the commissioner, but a search led to no result, and I began to tear, not that I was mistaken, but that $3OO. I had arrived too late, and that the watches had tied. There was in the room a large window, looking out into the yard, which I opened to let in sotue Iresh air, and as I leaned out I perceived a blacksmith’s shop. “ By Jove !" I said to myself, “ it would not be very extraordinary if that smith made the ihisel, without knowing to what it might l>c turned.” l?o taking the instrument which 1 had brought, I went down to the forge, and asked the master if the tool was of his making.” “ No, sir!” he answered : “ but 1 put it in a handle for one of the young men with whom you now are. He said he wanted to use it for opening cases.” There was no further doubt that these were the burglars; hence I hurried up ugaift, and the search began more strictly than before. The mattresses were ripped open, the palliasse gutted, the walls sounded, the boards taken up, and every hole and every corner inspected. We were in despair for we could find nothing, and after three-quarters of an hour of useless searching, we resolved to go away. But the next morning I commenced a fresh search in their room, an on examin ing the ceiling I noticed an almost imper ceptible difference of color over the bed. I jumped on to a chair, a vigorous blow of my fist on .the spot produced a hole, from which tumbled pell mell on the bed, gold and silver watches, all stolen form M. S • Our two rogues, in order to hide the stolen articles had made a hole in the ceiling, which they covered again with thick paper, and white-washed over, and it only appeared of a darker hue be cause it was not quite dry. Some time after the two burglars were tried at the assizes, and sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. And yet, on what did the success of this affair depend ? Upon a piece of paper, to which no one had paid any attention. To Keep Hotter Cool without a Cel lar. — A correspondent of the Boston Cul tivator says: “Cover the bottom of a large Jar with coarse salt. Put the but d“r in a bag, place it in the jar and cover it will/coarse salt; place the jar in a north room, and the salt will keep the butter nearly as cool through the summer, as a common cellar.” A newspaper, in noticing the pre sentage of a silver cup to a contemporary, says: “He needs no cup; he can drink from any vessel that' contains liquor— whether the neck of a bottle, the mouth of a demijon, the spike of a keg, or the bunghole of a barrel.” Punch says women first resorted to tight lacing to prove to men how well they could bear squeezing [independent in everything.] ALTOONA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1863 THE LITTLE OUTCAST •‘Mayn’t I stay, ma’am’ I'll do any tl inn you give mo—cut wood, go after water, and ido all your errands.” '1 lie troubled eyes of I lie speaker were filled with tears. It was a lad that stood at the outer door, pleading with a kindly looking woman, who still seemed to doubt the reality of his good intentions. The cottage sat by itself on a bleak moor, or what in Scotland would have, been called such*. The time was near the latter end of September, and the fierce wind rattled the boughs of the two only naked trees near the house, and fled with a shivering sound into the narrow door way, as if seeking for warmth- at the blazing fire within. Now and then a snow-flake touched with its soft chill the cheek of the listener, or whitened the angry redness of the poor bov’s benumbed hands. The woman was evidently loth to grant the boy’s request, and the peculiar look stamped upon his features would have suggested to any mind an idea of depravity far beyond his years. But her woman’s heart could not resist the sorrow in those large, but by no means handsome gray eyes. “ Come in, at any rate, till the good man comes home ; there, sit down by the tire; you look perishing with cold,” and she drew a rude chair up to the warmest corner, then, suspiciously glancing at the child from the corners of her eyes, she continued setting the table for supper. Presently came the tramp of heavy shoes, the door was swung open with a quick jerk, and the “good man” presented himself wearied with labor. A look of intelligence passed between his wife and himself; he, too, scanned the boy’s face with an expression not evidenc ing satisfaction, but. nevertheless, mhde him come to the table, and then enjoyed the zest with which, he dispatched his supper. Day after day passed, and yet the boy begged to Ik; kept “only till to-morrow so the good people, after due consideration, concluded that as long as he was docile, and worked so heartily, they would retain him. One day, in the middle of winter, a peddler, long accustomed to trade at the cottage made his appearance, and disposed of his goods readily, as he had been waited for. “You have a boy out there spliling wood, I see.” he said, pointing to the yard “Yes; do you know him?” “ I have seen him,” replied the peddler, evasively. “And where—who i« he } what is he?” “ A jail bird !” and the peddler swung bis pack over bis shoulder; “that boy. young as he looks, I saw in court mysdf, and heard his sentence —“ ten months ; he's a hard one —you’d do well to look keerfuljy after him.” Oh ! there was sjmething so horrible in the word jail; the jnjor woman trembled as she laid away her purchases, fan* could she be easy till she called the boy in, and assured him that she knew that dark part of his history. Ashamed, distressed, the child hung down his head; his cheeks seemed bursting with his hot blood ; his lips quivered, and anguish was painted as vividly upon his forehead as if the words were branded into his flesh. “ Well,” he muttered, his whole frame relaxing as if a burden of guilt or joy had suddenly rolled off, “I may as well go to ruin at once—-there's no use in my trying to do better—everybody hates and despises me—nobody cares about me. I may as well go to ruin at once.” “ Tell me,” said the woman, who stood off far enough for flight, if that be neces sary, “ how came you to go so young to that dreadful place? Where was your mother? where? “ Oh!’’ exclaimed the boy, with a burst of grief that was terrible to behold, “oh ! I hain’t no mother —oh! hain't had no mother ever :since I was a baby. If I’d only had a mother,” he continued, his an guish growing vehement, and the fears gushing out from his strange-looking gray eyes, “I wouldn’t ’a been> bound out, and kicked and cliffed, and laid on with whips. 1 wouldn’t ’a been saucy, and got knocked down, and then ran away, and stole be cause I was hungry. Oh! I hain't got ho mother —I hain’t got no mother —I haven’t had no mother since I was a baby. The strength wa° all gone from the poor boy, and he sank on his knees sobbing great choking sobs, and rubbing the pot tears away with his poor knuckles. A l **! did that woman stand there unmoved! Did she coldly bid him pack up and be off —the jail bird? No, no; ?he had been a mother, and, tho’ all her children slept under the cold sod in the churchyard, she was a mother still She went up to that poor boy, not to hasten him away, but to lay her fingers kindly, softly on his bead —to tell him to look up, and from henceforth find in her a mother. —Yes, she even put her arm about the neck of that torsaked, deserted child — she poured from her mother’s heart sweet. womanly words, words of counsel and tenderness. Oh! how sweet was her deep that night—how soft her pillow. She had .inked a poor, suffering heart to hers by the most silken, the strongest bands of love; she had plucked some thorns from the path of a little sinning, but striving mortal. None but the angels coul<|l wit ness her holy joy, and not envy. Did the boy leave her I 1 Never—he is with her still i a vigorous, manly, promising youth. The low char acter of his countenance has given plant to an open, pleasing expression, with depth enough to make it an interesting study. His foster-father is dead; his good foster mother aged and sickly, but she knows m want. The once poor outcast is her only dependence, nobly does he»repay the trust. “Hethat saveth a soul from death, hideth a multitude of sins.” Life and Love.— What lessons art embodied in thy teachings! stern lessons, as we in our days of hope and happiness could never think of encountering, as we set sail under sunny skies, and our bark glided pleasantly over smooth waters; we did not dream of the clouds, the storm ami the tempest, that came all too soon and woke us from our fond security. Time, the great monitor of all hearts, teaches us the undeniable and stern truth, that change is written on all things; but the saddest is death. Oh how terrible h the wreck of hearts and homes, when tht messenger, resistless and unerring in his march, takes from our midst the brave and strong; prayer and tear are of no avail; life’s lesson we must all learn, life’s burden we must bear. Who has not seen some of their ; lqved ones wrapped in the cold cerements of th‘- grave and borne to the innumerable city of the dead ? When remembered that in all our wonderings through life we should meet them no more, see their - kindly beaming smile, hear their loved tones no more, have we not, in anguish of soul, uttered the wail of a bleeding heart, let die. for in all this broad earth I have nought to live tor; but we cannot die when wc wish to most; we may weep at many a grave before we reach our own. Who has not wept over broken hopes and severed ties* Who has notsjen, one by one, life’s cherished dreams depart, its golden chalice turned to bitterness ; oi snatched rudely from our grasp the hope andTfust of years? Oh, who cannot' say, when all our hoarded hopes are crushed, our household goods are scattered and I would not live always ? Wanted to Know.—The name of the tune which was played upon the feelings? If the cup of sorrow has a saucer ? In what form the phantoms of doubt appear ? What is the fine when people become in toxicated with happiness ! Why other men should not have a forge as well as a blacksmith ? : How many men have bolted from the course of true love? It any one was strangled who hong on a doubt? How many dutiful sons belong to mother church ? If the light of other days were gas or electricity ? the name of the Irishman who got to the top of the morning? If keeping a fast-day don’t destroy many a brood of chickens* If any one ever felt fatigued after the exercise of forbearance f If the girl who dung to hope hadn’t a slippery hold? CP* A young lady named Taylor, meet ing a former .acquaintance named Mason, at a party, where the latter was assuming much importance in consequence of her wealth, and who did not deign to notice her, revenged herself by stepping into the group, suiruflnding the haughty belle, and thus addressing her, with the most winning smile. “I have been thinking, my dear Miss Mason that we ought to; exchange names.” “ Why, indeed *” “Because my name is Taylor and my fa ther was a mason, and your name is Ma son and your father was a tailor.” “ Only One.” —One hour lost in the morning by lying in bed, will put back, and may frustrate, all the business of the day. One hole in the fence will cost ten times as much as it will take to fix it at once. One unruly animal williteach all others in it» company bad tricks. One bad habit indulged or submitted to. will sink your power of self-govern ment as quickly as one leak will sink a ship. One drinker will keep a family poor and in trouble. 49-The bug that ffies tbe highest and makes the loudest bask, is tltoooe that generally lights in the dfirtibrt Jfdddle- EPiroßs-ainy t aoriiEr»R. THE BTOBM OF SHELL. Mr. WUkmm, a special . correepaiMient uf the N. Y. Times, with the Army of the Potomac, thus. thrlllinjtly describes the terrible storm of shell which the memy poured upon the headquarters of Gen. Meads, near Gettysburg: Eleven o’clock—twelve o’clock—one j’clock. In the shadow cast by the tiny farm house, 16 by 20, which Gen. Mfade had made his headquarters, lay wearied *laff officers and tired reporters. There was not wantirig to the peacefulness of <he scene, the singing jf a bird which had j nest in a-peaefc'treewithin the-yard of lie white-washed cottage. In the midst of its warbling, a shell screamed over the nouse, instantly followed by another, and another, and in a moment the air wasfull of the most complete artillery perinde to an infahtry- bottle that was eyei exhibited. Every siae and fbns of shell known to British and American gunnery, shrieked. Whirled, moaned, whistled and. wrathfully fluttered over our ground.— As many as six in a second, constantly two in a second, banting and screaming over and around headquarters, made a hell of fire that amased the oldest offi cers. They burst in the yard—burst next to the fence bn both sides, garnished, as usual, with hitched horses of aids and or derUek The fastened animals reared and plunged with terror. Then one fell, then Another—sixteen lay dead and mangled before the fire ceased, still fastened by their halleTs, which gave the expression of being wickedly tied up to the painfully, i hose brute victims of a eruel war touched all hearts. Through the qudst of the storm of screaming exploding shells, an ambulance, driven by its foridus conduc tor at’fall apeed,-presented to us the mar veltana spectacle of a horse going on three tegs. A binder one had been shot off at the hoof. A shell tore up the little step of the headquarters ct£|age, and wripped bags of oats as with a knife. Another soon carried off one of its two pillars. — Soon a spherical shell burst opposite the •pen door —another rippe4 through the iow garret. The remaining pillar went almost immediately to the bowl of a fixed *bot that Whitworth must bare made. During this tire, the horses at twenty and thirty feet distant, were receiving their death, and the .soldiers in Federal blue were torn to pieces in the road, and died with the peculiar yells that blend the ex torted cry of pain with horror and de spair. Not an orderly—not an ambu lance—not a straggler was to be teen upon the plain sweept by this tempest of orchestral death, thirty minutes after it commenced. Were not one hundred and twenty pieces of artillery trying to cut from the field every battery we had in position to resist their purposed infantry attack, and to sweep away the slight de fences behind which our infantry were waiting ? Forty minutes—fifty minutes —counted on watches that ran—oh, so languidly! Sheila through the two lower rooms. A shell into the chimney, that daringly did not explode.' Shells in the yard. The air thicker and falter and more deafening with the howling whir ing of these infernal missiles. The.chief of staff struck—Seth Williams-loved and respected through theartny, sepa rated from instant death by two inches of space vertically measured. An aid bored with a flagment of iron through the bone of the arm. Another cut with an ex ploded piece. And the time measured on the sluggish watches, was an hour and forty minutes. The Advantages or Singing.—Sing ing is a great institution. It oils the wheels of care—supplies the place of sun shine. A man who rings has a good heart under his shirt-front. Such a man not only works more willingly, but he works more constantly. A ringing cob bler will earn as much money again as a cobbler who gives way to low spirits and indigestion. Avaricious men never ring. The man who attacks ringing throws a stone at the head of hilarity, and would, if he could, cub June of its roses, or Au gust of its meadow' larks. MT An Irishman in describing America nid i M I am told that ye might roll Eng land threogh it«n wonWa’t nub a dint in the ground: there’s fresh water oefeans inride that ye might dround old Ireland in; and as for Scotland, ye might stick it in a corner, and ye’d mver be able to find it out except it might be by the smell of whisky.” > •* A young conscript poetically in clined, thus ventilates his notion of the ssoo provision of the /new conscription act: “ I’m glad my dad three bandied has, To save «je from thearmy. To ma'* dw apron «mng» lH hang, Nor join the Union army.” The ambition to be witty sometimes overcomes even a yooth’s Action. #11.4 day he was twenty-one,” “yob.|fg»y)t a fim for your paster now.” u YdßSfraaid John,** imdhad these : NO. 29!
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