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Affection*, paina ifltha km ofthe llwrt, Lown«a of SpUS lMl«v: jQldtllircaa, etc,, etc. ■* rrejrßUrltv. llwy rewovetjie MU* ts fluU »|irlng ftuiu It. ' ' > g rounding country, tl at he Ikes recently purchased the Drug SJore of Berlin 4 Co., on Virginia Street, opposite Fries’hardware Store. H}s Drugs jure Fresh aud Pure, AUi) tu* - hopes by strict attention to business, to merit a share oSf public patronage, tail and examine hie stock. He has constantly on hand, ■ ; DRUGS, .MEDICINES and CHEMICALS, ; FINE’, TOILET SOAPS. PERFUMERY, BRUSBES, class, petty, paints, oils, tarnishes. CARBdpr OIL AND LAMPS, NATIONS, CIGARS, and ttery article usually kept in cl First-class Drug Store ; PURE AND LIQUORS + ‘ for medicinal use. DOMESTIC GRAPE WINE—PURE—WARRANTED. PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS accurately compoundi&d', at all hours of the dav or night. Altoona, Sept. 30,1863. 18®. SPRING 1864. G;IBCULAK. I take pleasure in issuing this my Spring through whichl would inform myifriends •“jJ.V l ' generally that I have just t-eturneii from V* e where I havjo purchased a fresh Stock of 5 > I HATij; AND CAPS o! the Latest Style*, and as to quality, color and price can not mil to please ail glasses. i ! ha»n also boughtjan immense stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, tbu lumorny of which are city make add will be .gnaran- J " M J rtl H L* of badies’and Childrens’ Shoes in e raijllste, all of which, I am now offering at a small ad vance on wholeeale plricea. The public will be greatly benefited bv giving tide their *”r'” nrr, “ iA - clt I JAMES S. MANN. Main street, ! Altoona, Pa. ap9-tf HARDWARE! J- MANN. • : fcALEII M FOREIGN AND DO JL> JIRSTIC hardware. WOODEN WARE, BROOMS, , 1 . WINDOW SHADES, DOOR MATS L'PHOtSTKRINO GOODS. ; SHOE FINDINGS, moulders' too 4 COFFIN trimmings, ; ’ birdcages AND WIRE GOODS, ‘ ‘ PL’T-ni WHITE LEAD, AC* 4c. WINDOff glass, « P^ion °1 oovla in line will be fur- Ul „™? short notice and at low rates for cash. clo'ed OnT« n raL‘r t^M° f , I)RT . QOODS on hand, will be •hrtbSMsr^ ln order to reUn,,ui,b A&AM™' i »ftl 1 “8l! eSr ‘ Ph FOdder CUt,fr " l i MUSIC !—INSTRUCTIONS GI V EN hn the PianjvForte aud'Melodeou, by Miss M. MAKER. Tlans, $lO per quarter. No charge for the use of the Instrument. Residence on Catharine Street, west Altoona. J ’ ’ f Jan. 16, 1862.-tf. JUST RECEIVED—A Lot of Prime CIGARS— at ! Jnn. >3, '&!.] irfiLMBOLO’s Genuine buchu Drake’s Plsatotlon Bitters, Jn* l|S, *64] j 1 RKIGART’S Drug Store. A/TBN AND; BOYS’ COATS, of every JJJL Wjle and colir, of good qnalfty, »t : LAUOUMAN’S. NEW AND IMPROVED STYLES it Trunks, Valises anil Carpet-Bags. at i | ' LADOHUAS’S. PURE HITE LEAP AN!) ZINC ffalnt, also Chtame, Green, Yellow, Parii Green, dry *B4 gWUri oil at £l-*t] KBSSIiBB’B. THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE. E. B. Me CRUM, - - - ' . * a. a DERJS\ KDITOfiH AMD;PROPRIETORS. Per annum, (payable invariably iu advance,) >l6O All papers discontinued lit the expiration of the time paid lor. Four lines or less.. One Square, (8 lines).. Two . “ (16 “ )... Three •* (24 11 J... Over three weeks wd leas than three months. 25 cents per square tor each insert ion. Six lines or 1 ess. One square Two “ Three u 'Four Half a column" One column Administrators and Executors Notices Merchants advertising by the year, three^quares, Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding 8 lines with paper, per year. 6 00 Communications .of a political character or individual Interest, wtll.be charged according to the above rates. Advertisements not marked with the number of laser* tion* desired, will be continued till forbid and charged according to the above terms. Business notices,flve cents per line forevery insertion. Obituary notices exceeding ten lines, fifty cents a square THE STOEY OF A SOUTHEEN ACTOE. \ , UFB IK CABTLE thusdeb. The writer of the following narrative, as appears by rebel-papers and passports which he has, left Richmond and the rebel army about the Bth; of May. He informs ua that he is a printer by trade, and was actor in the South vwhen the war broke out. He tells his story in his own way: I was born in Mobile and raised in the South, and of course was imbued with .Southern principles. When this war broke out I was led to believe that the North intended to confiscate all lands and free the negroes, ravish our wives and sisters, bum our houses and make serfs of us all. With those outrages -staring me in the face, I at once volunteered in the regular army, and was appointed first lieutenant of the Baltimore battery, where I remained until the seven days’ fight before Rich mond, suffering all the necessary priva tions, not having ; even a tent to lie under, after day nothing to eat. On Wednesday’s fight we were at Crew’s farm. I was then acting as Major, hav ing command of both the Baltimore bat tery and the Purcell battery. We cap tured some fourteen' prisoners. The first sergant of the Purcell, battery, and some nine or ten of the men, wished to shoot the prisoners, and' I placed them under arrest to prevent. them from so doing. The rest of the men of the Purcell battery became incensed at having their comrades under arrest, and swore they would kill the prisoners gt the first opportunity. I took the prisoners, and determined to pro tect them even with my life. though they were my, enemies, they were then helpless and prisoners pf war, and I was 1 isolved they should be ' treated as such. I placed them under a tree and slept in their midst myself. About midnight I was waked by one of the prisoners, who told me that he heard the; corporal of the guard toll the sentinel that he was coming back with four of the battery to cut the damn Yankee’s throats, and would cut jbat damn lieutenant’s throat too if he attempted to prevent them. I lofiked at my piatolsand found they were all right. In a few mo ments the corporal With four men all armed with short swords,; came up. I arose gne asked what was wanted. He replied that one of the prisoners had an overcoat,lie wanted, and that He intended to have i| - 1 KEIGARTS Drug Store. YKXICB OX ADTXXYIBIMO X insertion 2 do. 3 do. .... $ 26 $ $ 60 v .. 60 76 c 1 00 .... 1 00 160 200 .... 1 60 200 260 '3 months. 6 months. 1 year. $ 160 $ 3 00 $6OO , 2 60 4 00 7 00 .x.. 4-00 ' 6 60 10 00 .... 10 00 14 00 20 00 .... 14 00 25 00 40 00 with, liberty to change. €iWm feettg. MY BEAU THAT’S IN THE ARMY. Am—“ The Oirl flcft Behind Me" I'm lonesome since he left my side To brave disease atni danger; To cross o’er hill and rolling tide, r And quarter with the stranger. ’Tie just one year ago- this night He took his leave in sadness But in a week fails missive read We’llmeet again in'gladness. 1 long upon those ruby lips To print the welcome token, , Assuring him my sacred vow, No, never can be broken ; For I will ever constant be. Though life is dark and stormy, To him who is so gallant, brave, 1 My beau that’s in the army. When the hours so sweetly here, Till Rebeldom revolted; So kind and winning In bis way, That be could notbe faulted. But at the Harm of tbs drum * lie did both grieve Bud charm me, By flying to the nation, said, My baau that’s in the army. The gent who sits at home in case. And dreams of lamb and glory, While soldier’s groan* float on the breeze, 'Must bear a different story. Yes, I despise the coward drone, There’s naught in him can,chorm me; But give me he who’d die for home. My beau that’s in the acpiy. Now if there’s one within our land Whose sympathy is callous, I do not think it woald be just To stretch bio on the gallows; But let me warn yoh.ifyon doubt, Perhaps ’tis better,for me, To tell yon plain yon can’t cut out My beau that’s in the army. JJtlwf U|is«W»ni». ordered him to go to his post; he refused, and made a cut at one of the prisoners, : while one of the men tried to get .between ; me and the corporal. I took him by the shoulder and threw him one side, and a gain ordered them to their post. Finding words useless, I drew my pistols and fired, i killing the corporal and wounding one of the mutineers; the remaining three retur- ; ned .to their post. The next day I received ; a summons to attend a court martial, charged with unlawfully shooting two of 1 my men. I proved that they had diso beyed my commands, and was discharged with the reprimand and instructions that I would not be held justifiable again in shooting my men to protect Yankee pris oners. Shortly after, from what occurred at a council of war, I found 1 wasjnisiaken. That I was not fighting for the defense of our homes and friends, but that the war was prosecuted for the sake of a few bro ken down politicians. The truth was like a thunderbolt, and 1 determined then.and there to fight no longer in the rebel army. I at once sat down and wrote my resigna tion, stating that I had been deceived, and would fight no longer for a party who was fighting only for power. My resignation was at last accepted and I returned to my profession. Shortly after my resignation I wrote a play which I called the “ Chiet tan’s Doom,” in which T introduced the America flag. The [tart of the piece which they took offence at was the first scene, which is the deck of' a vessel called the Lightfoot. At her masthead floated the star spangled banner. A portion of t|ie crew are seated on the rails, when one of them proposes to raise the pirate’s flag aud pull down the stars and stripes. Why should we.” said he, “toil day after day for a mere pittance while we could be kings of the seas; let us pull down the stars and stripes and raise the skull and cross bones”—and at this their captain enters —“ What would ye. do ? Know ye not he who would stain or soil that flag is a traitor, and deserves the death of a dog ?” This piece was pro duced in the Richmond theatre, and was received with much enthusiasm. The next day I was standing in the door of the theatre, when a detective came up to me and said, “ Is your name J. W. Atwater?” I replied that it was. He said that Geri. Winder wished to see me. I went with him to Gen. Winder’s office, and there 1 found he bad by some means, unknown to me, my manuscript. He asked me in a very abrupt manner, if I was the author of that piece. I fold him I was. He said that was enough, and told the de tective td take me to Castle Thunder. I asked him' what for. He said for treason. I protested against ray arrest and deman ded a trial, but he refused togrant me one. I was conveyed to Castle Thunder hand cuffed. When I reached the prison, they put me in irons, with an iron collar around my neck, bracelets on my hands, and shac kles ommy ankles, and placed in a dungeon eight feet square, where I could not see my hand-before In this place I was kept for six months, with nothing to eat but a small piece of bread daily, and a pail of water, with nothing to lie on but the bare stones, as they would not allow me a blanket to cover me with, and, what is worse, daring my whole imprison ment they would not let me see any of my friends’ or send a note to them The com mandant of the post would sometimes come to my cell and try and make me humble myself to- him, but, thank God, I had the spirit to spurn him. He would call me a traitor and heap every insult upon me that he could. He sometimes threatened to shoot or hang me, but I al ways defied him. At the end of six months I was taken out of irpns and placed with other prisoners away up in the top of the building,-toom No. 10. H er e. I fared better. They would give us two cups of : cow peas and a piece of com bread to last us us all day. Sometimes they would change it, and give us what they called turnip soup. They would get frozen turnips and boil them up without washing or pealing them, and when we would get through drinking our soup we would fijid in the bottom of the cup a couple of table spoonsful of dirt. There is an old adage, that we all have to eat a peck of dirt before we die, but I think the prisoners in Castle Thunder drank a bushel. If we ventured to look out of, the windows the -sentinels would yell, “take your head in, dog,” and fire at us. They killed several of the prisoners ini this way,; They seemed to take a great! delight ip firing at unarmed and helpless prisoners. The chaplain of the post used to coine up in our room and pray for the confederate arms in repelling the North-, ern vandals and Hessians, as he used to term them. A* last I grew tired of this, as it Was an insult to us all, and I ven turietl to tell him that his time could be better employed down stairs with the rebel For this act alone I laid' in iron for three weeks. They used to smoke us for eight hours during the day until we would almost bacome stifled. If we would complain of'it they would tell qs that it was too good for us. The small pox broke out among us aud men died on the floor all around me without being cay 8 00 12 00 5 00 6 00 10 00 14 00 1 76 10 00 [INDEPENDENT IN E' ALTOONA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1864. ried to a hospital. This disease raged among us for eight or ten weeks when it abated, leaving only a few of us to relate the tale. When Kilpatrick made the raid upon Richmond, he could have taken it very as there were ho troops in Rich- j mond at the time, and we were all buo yant in spirits hoping that he would come and release us. The authorities were, frightened and the commandant of Castle Thunder told us h~e had all the prisons undermined with powder,, and that if Kil patrick did capture the city he intended to blow us all to the devil. But we were doomed to disappointment. Kilpatrick retreated from a place which he could easily have captured and released every prisoner in the city. * jThen we would have wrecked vengeance upon those who had wantonly treated us sb brutally.( Shortly after the retreat of Kilpatrick they car ried the body of young Dahlgren through the streets of Richmond in a dirt cart,‘ with his head and arms dragging the ground, his cork leg thrown across his breast, with the rabble shouting hang the Hessian," “ burn the vandal and horse thief,” with many other such exclamations. They re fused the body even |a Christian burial, and buried it in a place called horse heav en, where they used tp throw all the dead dogs, cows and other la nimals. There his body remains now, though they told a falsehood to the father of the young man, Admiral Dahlgreen, saying that it could not be'found. After this they treated us worse than before, giving us no food some times for a whole day, * The post warden’s assistant is a contemptible scoundrel, who had his head shaved| for cowardice and was drummed out of |he rebel service, and who was entirely destitute of honor, would come up of mornings find call the roll and would order the men in lines as if they were dogs. j He spoke one morning rather insulting to me, and I could pot brook an insult from one whom I considered so far beneath the human race, and I knocked him down as I would a cur. . For this act I was tied up by the thumbs for three . hours. For the slightest offence they would punish us severely. One of ihd prisoners threw a cup of water out of one of the windows, for this he was buckejd and gagged for half a day. / In Ibis prison there weie old men whose hair was white as snow, who had been dragged from their homes and in carcerated in this foul place, merely be cause they were suspected of being loyal to the star spangled banner, all appeals for a trial refused them. Then there were children, some not exceeding thirteen years of age, charged with I guiding the enemy through tne country ,| all lay there victims to the tyrant’s fury. ! They would threaten these young lads with the scaffold if they would not divulge allj they knew, or con sent to go into their! army. All shared alike. If a Union spldier is seen by a rebel who says that he knew him to be in the rebel army, it is enough; they will take him out into the yard and shoot him without even a trial. " Many a man has been shot as a deserter who never-saw the rebel army until they marched forth.under the stars and stripes to meet them. They would often propose to-release me if 1 would consent to join their army again. I refused them.' On the first day last March they again made the proposition, vowing thatNif I refused they would keep me until the war was over. I defied them. With this they threw me into irons and placed me once more lin the cell where I was first incarcerated. Seeing that they were bent to kill me if possible t and think ing if I could get into a cavalry company there might be some chance for me to make my escape, lat once sent for the com mandant of the post and told him I would join their army, providing they would al low me to join the Ist Maryland cavalry. He refused and said he would put me in infantry. I told him that 1 would stay and rot first, knowing that itr would be impossible for me to get away, and returned to my dungeon. 4 o’clock in the afternoon a guard came to my cell and took me to the office where a portion of my irons were takjen off. I asked the sergant who was in pharge of me what they were going to dp. He told me that they were going to pjit me in a cavalry conpany. I was satisfied. As I passM out of the door .1 m et the commandant and he said “ Oh, I have brought you; down to it at last have I?” I replied,: “Not so well as you think ” When I reached the street and the fresh air struck 5 me it,chilled me, although it was a warm day,-and I had a very severe ague. I was carried to Hanover Junction and assigned ; to Co. F, Ist Maryland cavalry, where I ' remained until the 4th of last Soy But to return to the treatment of pris-; oners. There are five prisons in Rich mond, Castle Thunder, Libby, Isle, Crews, and Main street in which all fare alike. During last (winter on Bello Isle, they allowed only one stick of wood to a tent of twenty men a day to keep them warm. Many a popr wounded soldier has i i died in those prisons from starvation and | the want of fire or plothihg to keep them ! from freezing. The women seem worse | than the men. Thpse who should imitate the angels, I havelseen refuse to give the poor even a glass of water, and when they would for anything, repel them with insult. ■- Prom the Ist of'March I performed my duty as a soldier and won the confidence of my officers. May sth my furlough was given to me to go to Hardee county for twenty days to procure ahorse, otin plain words, to Steal ope. 1 left the city of Richmond, otf the Bth of May, taking the Central Railroad for Staunton, Virginia, at which place 1 arrived at. six in the evening, lat once proceeded,to the Pro vost Marshal’s office and obtained a pass port for New Market, and walked from Staunton to Woodstock, Gen. Imboden’s headquarters. 1 immediately went to see Gen. Imboden and asked him for' a pass to go over into Hardee county. He re fused, saying that|“ there were too many damn Yankees, add 1 would be captured.” X was resolved noil to return to the rebel army. 1 found that there was a chain picket reaching from mountain to moun tain and came within twenty feet of the picket. lat once gut on my bands and kpees and crawlecl under the brush until 1 succeeded in getting past him. Even then I did nut venture to take the road as there were a number of scouts on all the roads I still kept the mountains till X reached Cedar Creek. Being pretty welt exhausted I went; in to an old lady’s house and asked if I could not stop there for the night; she said “ yes,” but asketfif I was not a Southern soldier. I told her I was as I had; on my rebel uniform. Knowing there was some Union citizens living in the valley, I at once resolved to try and find out if this old lady was not one of them, and jin conversation I told her that there was a good many* deserting the rebel cause ; she replied “ I wish they would all desert.”; I then trust her, and tol4 her of my long imprison ment and that it was my intention to go to Martinsburg;; she seemed to sympa thize with me and told me to make- my self comforable. ; After supper, I noticed she sent a little girl off somewhere, and it aroused my supicions. In a few moments a rebel officer and four men entered the room with arms.; lat once saw the trap, and discovering a window I 'made one bound and cleared, conveying sash and 'glass with me. On reaching the outside of the house I at;once laid down in the grass. There was a large barn up in the yard, and the officer said “damn him, he has gone to that barn, but I will have him.” He at once surrounded the bam, and I ; made my escape and went up two miles further and slept in a haystack the rest of the night. ’ The next morning I pro ceeded on; my jouimey, altd the next after noon I reached Winchester, expecting to find the Union forces, but they had ; all moved in the direction of ’ Strasburg. On going up the Main street a woman called out to two young men who were standing on the opposite comer, “ there goes a rebel deserter!, why doi’t you stop him?” On hearing this, I halted and and gave the young men a defiant look. If they had moved one Step X certainly would have killed them. Seeing they were hot very anxious for an encounter I proceeded bn my way until I beached Bunker Hill, af ter walking oveb one hundred miles. I found ftie Union; army and gave myself pp to them, and had the best dinner I bad for three years. ; ’ Richmond* very strongly ;i fortified, having sixty miles of breastworks five miles outside the city, and quite a number of smaller batteries inside of ’ the other breastworks, all mounted with heavy seige guns. The people seem determined* to de fend Richmond to the last. The soldiers’ rations are only one pint of meal and a quarter, of a pound of bacon a day. The poor people are starving. I kpohr many families who wsre before the war in good circumstances, who now Jiye on com meal and wheat seeing ho meat for weeks at a time. • Flour is worth from $3OO to $350 per barrel.? Com meal ST3 a bushel, sugar $l6 per; pound, bacon $l2 per pound, beef slo‘and scarce at: that, and all other-things fn proportion. A labor ing: mail only gets for his labor $5 to $8 : per day*—two days’ hibor tp buy a pound of meat. Very Respectfully, Reappearance of the feet-— --We are very glad to see t|iat the ladies have adopted a mode of gathering their garigehts in fes toons, by an elastic coni, which relieves them not only from dragging their skirts oyer the dirty pavements, but restores to mankind the civilizing influences of their feet. The American ladies have the hand somest feet of any ladies in the world; and'having deprived us of then), through an absurb fashion, at least five years, we naturally; welcome the return with joy. We therefore declare permanently for festoons insteadjof trails. There is now a case in the United States Supreme- Court involving the title to the site of the city of Keokuk, lowa. It .has been in Court twenty, years, and involves ' land valued at $16,000,000. The parties are| Charles Mason ys. Mes senger & May v I . ‘ ' Anecdote of a Sheep. —Anecdotes of animals are always amusing; and more over, if observed accurately and told with out embellishment, may some dpy serve to solve a great problem in philosophy—the distinction namely, between the spirit of the man that goeth upwards and thespiri* of the beast that goeth downward to the earth—a problem that the great Bishop Butler could not solve, and left a blemish in his argument, but a monument to his candor. The subject of the one lam go ing to tell happened many years ago, When I was an urchin of eight or ten ; but I re member it well. ' L. W. Atwatek. EDITOKS AND P^OPBDETOHS. One fine summer morning it was my province to aid in driving a flock Ot sheep to the brook to Jbe washed, preparatory to shearing. Thefhanwho had charge of them led the procession with the salt dishj in his hand, iq which he ostentatiously rattled some lumps of Salt, and from time to time made pretence of throwing hand* fid on the ground, to draw the flock on ward from place, while I followed todrive up the literers. The old patriarch of the troop, a fine old buck led the van pf the quadrupeds, and carefully l examined every spot where the false motion of throwing salt was made!, till lie was fully satisfied in his owin mind that no salt was deposited. He then paused, shook his simple horns, and wai ting till the shepherd was about a rod in advance, charged upon him from the rear with his whole momentum fairly raising him oif his feet. 1 saw, and from the first comprehended the manoeuvre, but there was so much fun in it, it was im possible to give the alarm; and when the man turned to “ blow qie up,” for my tacit complacency, 1 was rolling on the green sward in a convulsion of laughter so con tageous he was forced to join in it, and let me off without rebuke. Will it do to attribute to so ample an animal >as a sheep, so high a moral senti ment as indignation at deceit T Perhaps not, but we may at least mpke the “ prac tical inference,” that those Ihaving charge of flocks cannot securely lead them long with mere occasional handfuls of—wind. —Church Journal. , A Bough Bedfellow. —There .is a story going the rounds of the papers, told of a man in Arkansas, who had been drinking till a late hour at night, mad then started home in a state of sweet ob liviousness. Upon reaching his own prem ises, he was too far gone to discover any door to the domicil he was about to in habit, and therefore laid himself down in a shed which was a favorite rendezevpiu for the hogs. They happened to be out when the new comer arrived, but soon re-, turned to their bed. The water being rather cold, they, in their utmost kindness, and with the trust hospitality, gave their biped companion the middle pf the bed, some lying on either side of him, and others {acting the part of a quilt. Their warmth prevented him from being injured by exposure. Towards morning he awoke. Finding himself comfortable, in blissful ignorance of his whereabouts, he supposed enjoying the accommodation of a tavern in company with another gentleman. He reached out his hand-catching hold of the stiff bristles of a hog, exclaimed: “ Hallo, my good friend, you’ve got a —of a beard! When did you shave lastV’ Keeping the Pledge. l — An Irishman made a sudden dash into a druggist’s shop in Glasgow. Drawing from his pocket a soda water bottle filled to the brim with spine pure liquid, he handed it across the counter and exclaimed, “ There, doclher smitf that would yez ?” , The doctor did as he was directed and pronounced the liquid to be genuine whis ky. “ Thank ye, d ©ether,” said the Irish man, hand me it back again.” - The doctor again’ did as directed, and asked him what he meant t “Och, then,” said Pat, “if you will have it, the praste told me not to drink any of this unless I got it from the bands of the docther. So here’s your health, and the praste’s health, and the health of Moees.” A colored preacher within our lines, recently felt constrained to preach against the extortion of the cutlers, from ~Vhich his flock had suffered. After much delib eration, he announced bis text as follows: —“Now de serpent was more suffer dan . any. Beast ob de field, which' de Lord God has, made.” , O* A Dead mjile, belonging to a Mem phis citizen, was being hauled out of the lines the otherday, when a bayonet thrust revealed the fact that the carcass contained 6&Q00 percussion caps, a quantity of am munition, and other contraband articles which some rebel sympathiser Bad taken this means of smuggling. One train of deep emotion cannot fill up the heart, it radiates like a star God-ward and earth-ward. i tg' We erect lifeless temples toG£i,but are ourselves the living tempJee He has erected to Himself. ! ! ’ NO. 20.