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
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Jtaoaa. and rkdafty. Thay will giro inform/
tea tobtodtof, «ad rroalTe and rrtnra book.
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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. • • ■ . •"• ■■ .
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STON, JACK & GO.,
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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
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RDtTO&d AND PROPRIETORS.
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Advertisements not marked with the number of inser
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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 :
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