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AND MARTYR.
BT MUS. LUCY HOOPBR.
There is a shadow on the sunny air,
There is a darkness o'er the April day,
We bow our heads beneath this awful cloud,
So sudden come and not to pass away.
-0 the wild grief that sweeps across the land!
From frozen Maine to Californian shore,
A people's tears, an orphaned nation's wail;
For him, the good, the great, who is no more.
The noblest brain that ever toiled for man,
The kindest heart that ever thrilled a breast,
The lofty soul unstained by soil or earth,
Sent by a traitor to a martyr's rest.
And his last act (O gentle kindly heart,)
The noble promptings of unselfish grace,
He would not disappoint the waiting crowd,
Who came to gaze upon his honored face.
0 God, Thy ways are just! and yet we find
Thig dispensation hard to understand;
Why must our Prophet's weary feet be stayed
Upon the borders of the Promised Land ?
He bore the heat; the burden ofthe day,
The golden even-tide he shall not see,
He shall not see the old flag wave again,
Over a laud united, saved and free.
He loved his people, and he ever lent
To *ll our griefs a sympathising ear;
Now for the. first time in these four sad years,
The stricken nations wail, he does not hear.
0 never wept a lavd a nobler Chief!
Kind heart, strong hand, true soul—yet while
we weep,
Det us remember even 'mid our tears,
'Tis God who gives to His beloved sleep.
So sleeps he now—the chosen man of God—
No more shall care or sorrow thrill his breast,
Tbc weary one and heavy laden, lies.
Hushed' by the voice of God to endless rest.
We need no solemn knell, no tolling bells,
No chanted dirge, no vain words sadiy said,
The saddest knell that ever thrilled the air,
Bang in those words. "Our President is dead!"
PHILADELPHIA, April 16, 1865.
THE OLD FLAG OF SUMTER.
WRITTEN BY COL. A. J. H. DCGAXSK.
Lift up the Old Flag ofNumter!
Tenderly—lovingly,
Lift it on Liberty's spars!
Bring back the Old Flag of Sumter—
Banner of stars.
Back, like a bride to her bridegroom,
Living and lived as of yore;
Back to the winds and the sunshine—
Wedded once more!
Oh, how she twines around Sumter,
Kisses the red brow of Sumter,
Mantling his furrows and scars-
All the grim bosom of Ruin
Zoning with Liberty's stars!
Bring back the free Flag of Sumter!
Fearlessly—faithfully—
Lift it o'er shackles and bars:
High o'er the ashes of Slavery ,
Watchligbt of Stars!
Under the folds of its azure
Mingle the souls of our brave;
Under the gules of its glory
JHeedeth no slave!
Clothed thecomnr*? white fleeces—
Feeleth no longer his scars:
Man-like, he looks up to Heaven—
Under the Banner of Stars!
Lift up the proud flag of Sumter.
Joyously —jocundly, —
Rocked by the cannon's loud jars;
All the dark clouds of Disunion
Rifting with stars !
Far over crumbling Rebellion,
Loyalty's Gospel it bears :
Climbing the highways of Heaven.
F eighted with prayers !
Emblem of Liberty's
Symbol and sign of a People,
Stronger than soldans or ciars;
High o'er the hills of the future
Sbineth our Beacon of Stars!
Shout for the bold flag of Sumter!
Manfully—heartfullv—
Shout for it! Soldiers aid Tars !
lc who with Sherioar. ha ve conquered
Under the Stars;
Rally once more round the Flag, boy?.
Fling o'er the waters yonr chant:
Hurrah! for Sberrauu and Sheridan .
Hurrah! for Grant!
Ve who with Farragut thundered —
Ye who went storming with Porter —
Peal out your Union Hatxas !
Shout for the Old Flag of Sumter !
Shout for the Banner of Stars !
Stand by the Old Flag of Sumter !
Steadfastly—dauntlessly—
Stand by it! Soldiers and Tars!
Leading the March of the ages
Cluster its sows !
Out from the darkness of Bondage—
Upward from Battle s Red Sea;
Over the Jordan-of Victory
Landing the FRBE !
Bring back the Old Flag of Sumter.
Lift up the bold Flag of Sumter.
Fling it aloft from its spars! '
Standby the folds of "Old Glory!
Stand by the Banner of Stars !
Kneel round the pure Flag of Sumter,
Silently—reverently—
Kissing its beautiful scar?:
Swear by the pure Flag of Sumter,
Swear by the stars !
Hero, at the Altar of Sumter,
Built upon Slavery s dust;
Welded from Slavery's ruins,
Lying in rust,
Swear to be true to Our Union —
Swear to be loyal to Freedom —
Rending all fetters and bars;
Under the Flag of our Fathers—
Under the Banner of Stars!
Frar for the Old Flag of Sumter!
Piously—fervently—
Hushing the "cannon's wild jars;
Pray, as ye prayed with your AXDERSOS
Under its stars!
Braving the red bolts of Treason
Holding Rebellion at bay ;
First for the Old Flag to battle;
Earliest to pray 1
God bless the heroes who live for it.
God rest the martyrs who die for it;
Robed in their beautiful scars;
Gilding its gules with their life-blood-
Yielding their SOILS for its STARS .
One on the Old Flag of Sumter!
Graciously—gratefully!
Reck not that battle-stain mars ;
Reck not for murk of our Midnight
Darkening its stars!
Lo! by that flag's Crucifixion
Freedom's Redemption was bought,
Out of the Passion of Sumter
Union is wrought!
Ours was the Trial and Agony
Ours is the fiery alembic!
What though it scorches and chars.
Out of the slag comes the silver .
Midnight is Mother of Stars!
ijgj. In Lillia's song in Tennyson's "Princess
is the following:
"Thy voice is heard through rolling drums,
1 hat heat to battle where he stands;
Thy face across bis fancy comes,
And gives the battle to his Lands:
A moment, while the trumpets blow,
He sees his brood about thy knee,
The next, like fire he meets the foe,
And strikes him dead for thine and thee."
"The gallant Dutchman, Schimmelfennig,
Holds Charleston as he would a hen egg;
He grabs the traitors by the ear,
And brings them to their lager beer.
We wish we had a millioo such men (
V* this bold , ft*, hating Dutcuu.au.
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jfelwt itoni.
MY PLAIN LOVER.
I was a coquette. Many a lover's heart I
had lacerated by refusing his offer of mar
riage. after I had lured him on to a declara
tion. My last victim's name was .lames Fra
zer. He was a tall, awkward, homely, un
gainly man, but his heart was true as steel,
i respected him highly, and felt pained when I
witnessed his anguish at uiy rejection of him.
But the fact was, I had myself fallen in love
with Captain Elliott, who had been unremit
ting in his devotion to me.'
Mr. James Frazer warned me against Elliot;
but I charged him with jealousy, and took his
warning as an insult.
A tew days afterwards Elliot and 1 were
engaged, and my dream of romantic love
seemed to he in a fair way of realization. I
had a week of happiness. Many have not so
much in a life-time. Many awake from the
bright short dream to find themselves in life
long darkness, and bondage from which there
is no escape. Thank God, I was not to be so
miserable as they !
My mother was a widow iu good circum
stances, but having very bad health. She
was also of an easy, listless, credulous nature
—hating trouble, and willing to take things
just as they happened to present themselves.
She therefore made no inquiries about Cap
tain Elliot—hut fondly believed that inas
much as he was a Captqin he must necessarily
be a man of honor also, especially as he had
served in the Crimea and India and won med
als. His regiment was quartered in our neigh
borhood, and he had the reputation of being
one of the wealthies, as he was certainly the
handsomest officer in it.
I remember well the day wa became enga
ged. He was on duty, but had managed to
ride over to our house in his uniform, and
while we were walking in the garden he made
the tender avowal. I referred him to "mam
ma he hastened to her—returned in three
minutes, and led me into her presence to re
ceive the assurance that the maternal consent
had been readily and freely given.
Mr dear mother hated trouble, and she
moreover loved me tenderly, so that she was
well pleased to find a husband presenting
himself in a form and manner apparently so
eligible for her beloved and only daughter.
Well a week passed quite delightfully as I
have said: and at the expiration of this there
might have been seen an equestrian party
winding through our old Devonshire woods
and quiet country road. Elliot and I led the
cavalcade. 1 rode my own beautiful brown
Bess. Captain Elliot was mounted on a
handsome black horse that had been sent him
merry girls and their cavaliers; and among
them was tall awkward and silent .lames tra
zer. His presence had marred all the pleas
ure of my ride, and I was glad to be in ad
vance of them all that I might not see him.
And so we rode on through the woods, and.
I listened, well pleased, to the low but anima
ted words of the gallant Eliot, who wished
himself a knight and me a fair-, ladye ot the
olden time thai he might go forth to do battle
and compel all men to recognize tlie claims
of his peerless love. Very eloquently he
spoke of the inspiration of love, of the brave
deeds and perilous exploits it had promoted,
wishing again and again that he might pro
claim and maintain his love before the world.
It pleased me to listen to this and to believe it
sincere, though I surely had no wish to put my
lover to such a test.
A shot suddenly rang through the woods
and a wounded bird, darting past, fluttered
and fell at the feet of brown Bess. With a
bound and a spring that nearly unseated me,
she was off.
Struggling to regain my seat. I had no pow
er to cheek her, and even as she flew, the
fear and madness of the moment grew upon
her. I could only cling breathlessly to the
mane and bridle, and wonder hopelessly where
this mad gallop was to end. She swerved
from a passing wagon, and turned into a path
that led to the river. In the sudden move
ment the reins had been torn from my hands
and I could not regain them. 1 clung to the
mane and closed my eyes, that I might not
I behold the fate that awaited me. How sweet
was life in those precious moments that 1
thought my last! How all its joys, its aflec
tions, its last crowning love rose up before
me ! I thought of the pang that would rend
Elliot's heart as he saw me lying mangled and
dead : and then the thought would come if he
were pursuing and trying to save me, even,
as he had said, at the risk of life and limb.
I remembered no more. I felt a sudden
shock, a fearful rushing through the air, and
knew no more until days afterwards. I woke
at a faint, week semblance of life in my
' chamber home.
I never saw Captain Elliot again. Hie last
words I ever heard from his Hps were those
of knightly daring. The last action of his
life iu connection with mine, was to follow in
the train of frightened yowths.who rode after
me, to contemplate the disaster from afar,
and as soon as he saw me lifted from the
shallow bed of the river, into which I had
been thrown when my frightened horse stop
ped suddenly on its banks, to ride hastily off.
That evening he sent to make enquiries, and
learning that I was severely, but it was hop
ed not fatally, injured, he thenceforth con
tented himself with such tidings ot my con
| dition and improvement as could he gained
i from mere rumor.
At last it was known that 1 would never
recover entirely from the effects of my inju
ry, and that very day Captain Elliot departed
suddenly from the neighborhood. He made
no attempt to see me, nor sent me any fare
well. When I was once more abroad, and
beginning, though with much unalloyed bit
terness. to learn the tesson of patience and
resignation that awaited me, I received a let
ter from him, iu which he merely said that he
presumed my own judgment had taught me,
that in my sltered circumstances, our engage
ment must come to an end ! but to satisfy his
own sense of honor (his honor !) he wrote to
say that while entertaining the highest respect
for me, he desired formal renunciation of
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY, APRIL, 38. 1865.
my claim. Writing on the bottom of this
letter, "Let it be as you wish," I returned it
to him at once, and thus ended my brief
dream of a rouiautic wedding.
I heard ere this of Elliot's cowardly con
duct on that day; but now I first bethought
me to inquire who had rescued tne from that
imminent death. And then I learned that
James Frazer, his arm already broken by the
jerk with which Brown Bess tore away from
him as he caught at her bridle, had ridden af
ter me, and been the first to lift me from the
water. Many times daily he made inquiries
concerning me ; his had been the hand that
had sent the rare flowers that had decked my
room ; his were the lips that breathed words
of comfort and hope to my poor mother ; his
were the books that I read during '.he days of
convalescence ; and his, now, <.he arm that
supported me, as slowly and painfully I paced
the garden walks.
I have been his wife for many a year, I
have forgotten that he is not handsome — or
rather he is beautiful to me, because I see
his grand and loving spirit shining through
his plain features and animating his awkward
figure. I have long since laid aside, as ut
terly untenable, my theory that beautiful spir
its dwell only in lovely bodies. It may be a
providential compensation that, in denying
physical perfection, the soul is not dwarted or
marred by petty vanity or love of the world's
praise.
PiSMllflttJONS.
ARTEMAS WARD ON BOSTON.
Artemas thus writes to his "Dear-Betsy"
concerning his late visit to the Modern A
thens:
"The winder of my room commands a ex
hileratin' view of Cobb's Hill, where Cottou
Mather, the father of the Reformers and sich
lies berrid. There is men even now who wor
ship Cotton, and there is wimmen who wear
him next their hearts. Bat I don't weep for
him, he's been dead to lengthy. I ain't go
ing to be absurd, like old Mr. Skillins, in our
naborhood, who is ninety-six years of age, and
gets drunk every 'lection day, and weeps bit
turly he haint got no Parents. He's a nice
Orphan, he is.
Bunker Hill is over yonder in Charleston.
In 177") a thrillin' draray was acted out over
there in which the "Warren Combination
played star parts."
Old Mr. Fanuel is ded, hut bis Hall is still
in full blarst. This is the Cradel in which the
Goddess of Liberty was rocked, my Dear.—
The Goddess hasn't been very well durin' the
past few years and the cnm'ris quack doctors
she called in didn't help her any; but the old
uieir ousiness, .uajor g^ ob who undersUnd
I think the day is near
take her three meals a day, and sleep nights
as comf bly as in the old time.
" The common is here as usheil; and the low
cuss who called it a Wacant Lot, 'nd wanted
to know why they didn't ornament it with
Bildins', a dnhappy Outcast in Nabonsit.
The State House is fiUed with statesman,
but som of em wear quer hats. They buy 'tu
I take it, of hatters who carry on hat stores
down stairs in Dock squtre. and
is either ten years aheadof the prevailing stile
or ten years behind it—jpst as the intellectoo
al person sees tit to tbiik about. I had the
plesure ov talkin' with several members of
the Legislatur. 1 told 'im the eye of 1000
ages was onto we Amertan people of to-day.
They seemed deeply iroyessed with the re
marks, and wanted to kit>w if I had seen the
Grate Orgin.
Harvard College. Ths celebrated institoo
tion of lcarnin' is pleasatly situated in the
bar-room of Parker's it School street, and
has poopils from all ove the country.
I went over to Lexing>n yes'day. My bo
som hove with sollim amotions, k this I
said to a man who was dvin' a yoke of oxen,
"this is ware our revutionary forefathers
asserted their indepenflnce and split their
blud. Classic ground.'
"Wall," the man suit "it's good for white
beans and potatos. butt regards to raisin'
wheat, t'aint worth adn But have you seen
the Grate Orgin ?"
I returned in the hostars, part way. A
pooty girl in spectaclest near me, and was
tetlin' a young man hotnnch he reminded
her of a young man she ted to know in Walt
ham. Pooty soon the&ung man got out,
and smilin' a seductiv' ianner, I said to the
girl in spectacle, "Dft I remind yon of
somebody you used to tow ?''
"Yes," she said, "yjdo remind me of one
man, who was sent tibe penitentiary for
stealin' a bar'l of matril—he died there,
and I concluded you n't him." I didn't
pursoo the conversatio I only heard her
silvery voice once morluring the remainder
of the jerney. Turnin) a respectable look
in' female of advancedmmers she asked her
if she had seen the Gr Orgin.
We old chaps, my d, are apt to forget
that it some time sinc was infants and et
lite food. Nothin' futher int'rist took
place on the cars exc that a colored gen
■ tleroan, a total strangdo me, asked if I'd
1 lend him my diamond tstpin to wear to a
funeral in outh R>n I told him I
wouldn't —not a purpr
Altlio' fur from the hayries, there is a
buudants of wild game ioston, such as quails
snips, plover and Hoo
I mentto have allud'.o the Grate Orgin
in this letter, but I en't seen it. Mr.
Reeves, whose tavern >p at, informs me
that it can be distiaj heard through a
smoked glass at his natown in N. Ham
shire any clear day. settin' the Grate
Orgin aside, (and iff! I don t think I
I heard it mentioned all time I was there,)
! Boston is one of the giest, surefootedest,
clear-headest, corafofest cities on the
i globe. Onlike every " large city 1 was
i ever in. the hack merft seem to have been
speshally intended bytr for the Buglary
profession, and it's al the only large city
1 know of, where you' t enjoy a brilliant
opportunity of bein' idled in sum way,
from the risin of the to the goin' down
thereof. Then I sayfi and continued ap
plause for Boston.
Ax ENTHUSIASTIC OUTBURST. —It is said that
on Sunday night about an hour after the re
ception of the glorious news of Lee's surren
der, an excited individual in military attire,
who was mounted on a pile of bricks, on the
corner of State and High streets, gave vent
to the following enthusiastic outburst, indu
ced no doubt, by an exuberance of spirits and
patriotism :
Whoopee! Thunder and Mars! Light
breaks iii the east! Scream, Oh Eagle! The
day-star illumines the world! The Peace
Commissioners have put on theirseven-league
boots and walked into the Confederacy!
Richmond has caved in ! Petersburg has pe
tered out! Babylon, the mother of harlots,
has fallen ! Grant has extended his land
grant all through Virginia! Twenty-four
thousand prisoners! Fifty pieces of cannon,
and more a coming! Jeff Davis skedaddles
from the halter! Wigfall's wig tails and he
can't stop to pick it up! Lee wrecked on a
lee shore! Hurra for the conquering legions
of the Republic! The Confederate Bank is
busted! The abominations of the earth are
no more! Victory at Last! A million cheers
for our Star-Spangled-Royal-Triple-Hued-
Nonpareil-American-Fourth-of-July Grant!
A terrific yell for the flag of the Free! Vic
tory ! G'ory! Zip! E Pluribus Unum!
World without end ! Hallelujah !
THE LAWYER AND THE DUCKS. —There is
not a more common offense against the laws
of common courtesy (wc might sav, often
times decency) than is practiced by a certain
class of lawyers now a days in the examina
tion of witnesses upon the stand. Now and
then, however, an impertinent lawyer "gets
it back" in such away that he is fain to call
the next witness. Of such was the following
not as yet put down in the books' 1 , but well
worthy of being transferred to "the papers. 11
At a late term of the Court of Sessions a
man was brought up by a farmer, accused of
stealing some ducks.
"How do you know that the ducks are
your ducks?" asked the defendant's coun
sel.
"Oh. 1 would know them anywhere, 11 re
plied the fanner; and he went on to prescribe
their peculiarities.
"Why," said the prisoner'scounsel, "these
ducks can't be such rare breed; I have some
very much like them in my own yard."
That's not unlikely, sir," replied the farm
er: "they are not the only ducks I have had
stolen lately!"
"Call the next witness.''
SCENE IX AX EXEMPTION OFFICE. —The as
pirant was Yawcob Schnider a resident of the
suburbs.
'What is the matter with you, Yawcob ?"
'Veil, my pack is mostjyoke." •
' Local or ,V>v "V ... J",
•i mean io joure a standing complaint r
'Nein, I lays in der bed generally.'
'Well, how did you hurt your back ?'
'Veil, I was some beer drink last week in
der saloon, and goes my house in, and den,
I goes my stairs up, and I tumbles my win
dow out and I strikes de sidewalk, an my
pack; and I lies irt der bed tree months.'
'Ah,' said the clerk, 'you fell out of the
window last week ?'
'Yaw.'
'And you laid in bed three months, how do
vou make that out?'
'lch nix for stay, Ick can nich so much
English sprecken.'
Yawcob didn't get his papers.
OVER in Jersey, durihg the last Presidential
canvass, a young lawyer, noted for the length
of his neck, his tongue and his bill, was on
the stump blowing his horn for Gen. McClel
lan. Getting on in his eloquence, he spread
himself, and said :
"I would that on the Bth day of next No
vember I might have the wings of a bird, and
I would fly to every city and every village, to
every town and every hamlet, to every man
sion and every hut. and proclaim to every
man. woman and child : Geo. B. McClellan
is President of these United States."
At this point a youngster in the crowd sang
out: "Dry up, you fool. You'd be shot for
a goose before you flew a mile."
PERSONAL APPEARANCE. — Attention to one's
outward appearance is one of the first ele
ments of politeness. Want of cleanliness,
slovenly or dilapidated attire, are an affront
to the persons we approach. Anything like
dirtvness —the very word offends —is utterly
unpardonable and inadmissable. Man, nat
urally the nudest of animals. has necessarily
the greatest need of personal neatness. Most
of the nations of antiquity bathed daily, or
oftener. Ablutions were, and still are, in
many countries, a religious practice. Per
fumes are quite gone out of fashion, being
left to be used almost exclusively by persons
of questionable character.
The Richmond rebels have taught the la
dies of that city to hate the Yankees to such
a degree as to cause them to resolve not to
call their children, should they have any af
ter Grant, or Sherman, or Sheridan, or But
ler. Since the Yankee boys have gone into
the city, these same ladies have fallen in love
with their brass coats and blue buttons, and
the next thing we shall hear of is, that ihey
will be marrying some of our soldier boys.
THE wiues left by the late Daniel Webster
were sold at auction in Boston on the 21st
inst., for the benefit of his son, Ashburton
Webster. There were upwards of 500 bottles
which were sold in packages by the bottle at
high rates. The wines were packed at Mr.
Webster's home in Washington, 13 years ago
and sent to Boston, where they have ever,
since been in the hands of the trustees of the
will. '
HEI.D FOR THE PRESENT. —General Halleck
has decided that the 146 Rebel prisoners, (a
portion of those lately captured at Fort Stead
man,) who claimed that they surrendered on
the condition that they be allowed to take the
oath of allegiance to this Government, Shall
be sent to Point Lookout, weere they will be
held for the present, but that they shall not
be exchanged against their will.
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Smmdw jof the
WHY do pioneers go before the army ? To
axe the way.
LIGHT infantry movements —Agitating a
cradle with a baby in it.
WANTED— some of the beer produced when
"mischiefis brewing."
W HY is a tight shoe like a fine summer ?
Because it makes the corn grow.
WITH this year, the British Parliament has
been in existence six hundred years.
WHAT is the best tar for making the wheels
of life run smoothly? The al tar.
A suspicions man would search a pincush -
ion for treason, and see daggers in a need'le
case.
PROVOKING— to dream you have lots or" m on
ey, and then wake up and find yourself, an
editor.
A DOWN east editor declares that modesty
is a quality that highly adorns a womrm but
ruins a man.
WHY are books the best friends ?—Because
when they bore you, you can always shut them
up without offence !
IT is Walter Savage Lander, who says:—
"Little men in lofty places throw long shad
ows, because our suu is setting."
LOVE, justice and fortune are said to have
no eyes, but all three make us mortals open
our eyes pretty wide sometimes.
GEORGE, how does your new horse an
swer ?" I regret to 6ay that I cannot in
form you, for I never asked him a ques
tion."
ADVICE to Captains in the army—ln form
ing your companies on the banks of a deep
and rapid river, be careful how you order men
to "fall in."
HENRY IV, having bestowed the cordon
bleu on a gentleman at the solicitation of the
Due de Nevers, when the collar was put on
the gentleman made the customary speech—
"Sire, lam not worthy." "I know it well,"
said the king.
"Go TO GRASS 1" said a mother to her
daughter. "Well, then, I suppose I'll have
to marry," ejaculated the fair damsel. "Why
so?" exclaimed the astonished mother. "Be
cause all men are grass. " The old lady sur
vived.
'JOHN,' said a doting parent to her gorman
dizing son. 'do you really think you can ciat
the whole of the pudding with impunity ?'—
'I don't know, ma,' replied young hopeful,
'but I guess I can with a spoon.'
THE Baptist Chronicle says: "At an ex
amination of girls for the rite of confirmation
in the Episcopal Church, in answer to the
question, "What is the outward and visible
siarnand form in baptism?" the reply of a
A M AbbACllL Chl AO U UU|jS, UWK. . . ~
a husband may open a wife's letters, oj,
ground so often and so tersely stated by S?
Theopilus Parsons, of Cambridge, that "the
husband and wife are one, aud the husband*
is that one."
AT a large dinner-party in a certain city,
lately, the frosty weather had done consider
able duty in supplying conversation, when a
plump, happy-looking married lady made m
remark about cold feet. "Surely," said a
lady opposite, "Mrs. , you are not troab
led with cold feet?" Amidst an awful pp.use
she naively answered, "Yes. indeed, I am
very much troubled —but then they are not
my own.'
How TO SWEAT A PATIKNT. — A young gen
tleman was undergoing an examination at the
College of Surgeons, when the questions put
were of a very searching character. After
answering a number of queries, he was asked
what he would prescribe to throw a patient
into a profuse perspiration. 'Why,' exclaim
ed the youthful Galen, 'I would send him here
to be examined ; and if that did not give him
a sweat I do not know what would.'
WE returned home on Thursday, says an
editor, after a trip of six hundred miles, In
about three and a-half days, having, in that
time passed over four States, nine railroads,
four oxen and a barouche. Any person who
has done more in that time, will please for
ward his address, and the small balance he
owes us.
FANCY DRINKS. —A great many people think
that the peculiar fancy names which were in
vogue for drinks a few years since were par
ticularly our inventions. But long before the
days of Whiskey skins, Stone-fences andEye
openers there weve just such names for the
drinks of the middle ages. In the old work
'De Generibus Mbrisoaum et Ebrietate \ ltan
da,' published in 1515, we find the following
among others:—Cows-tail, Calves-neck, Slip
slop, Slam-in-the-ashes, Knock-'em-down,
Crowing-cock, Wild-oats, Red-head, Raise
head, Swell-nose and Gnat's mnstard. These
may not be as enticing as some of our own
bar-keeping inventions, but they are highly
original.
CONUNDRUMS. —What is the longest, and
yet the shortest thing in the world; the swif
test and the most slow ; the most divisible and
the most extended ; the least valued and the
most regretted ; without which nothing can
be done; which devours everything, however
small, and yet gives life snd spirit to all things
however great? Answer —Time.
Why is playing chess a more exemplary oc
cupation than playing cards ? Because you
play atchess with two bishops, and at cards
with four knaves.
When does a severe cold resemble a bril
liant idea? Whea it comes into one's bead
suddenly.
If a person is learning many, languages,
what should be end with ? The Finnish, of
course.
Why is a petroleum dealer like an epicure?
Because he lives on the fat of the land.
Why are some fortunes like ships ? Be
cause they are built on the stocks.
LOGICAL PARADOX.— Epimenides said "all
Cretans are liars."
Now Epimenides was himself a Cretan.
Therefore, Epimenides was a liar.
But if he was a liar, the Cretans were not'
liars.
Now, if the Cretans were not hart, Epimen
ides was not 9 line.
"M'OTfICE OF NQ,UIBITION— Whereas,I
XI -jnet, s. Lane,* nephew of John F. Laae,
late of the City of Lan carter, Pens'a., deceased,
pre'Mßted a petition to the Orphani' Court for the
Co.nnty of Bedford, State of Penntylvania, on the
I' lth day of Fcliruary, 1865, setting forth, That the
said John N- I*ne died inteeUte unmarried and
without issue on the 3i>th day of January, A.
D, 1856, and that the parties interested in the par
titioa and valuation of the real estate of the said
deceased are a* follows: Alice T. Taylor, of Pine
(ifove, Clark County, Kentucky; William W. Lane,
of Irvine, Kstcll eounty, Kentucky; Jatnes 8. Lane,
of Pine drove, Clark county, Kentucky; Madison
T. Ritchie, Alexander H. Ritchie, and Rebecca
C. Ritchie, (a minor whose guardian if James 8.
Lane,) of Winchester, Clark county, Kentucky,land
Polly Ritchie, of Maysville, De Kalb county, Mis
souri, [the said Alice T. Taylor, William N. Lane
ar<d James 8. Lane being children of William &■
L aue, who was a brother of said intestate; and
Madieon T. Ritchie, Alexander H. Ritchie and
1 tubueca 8. Ritchie being children of Clarissa N.
ditohie, deceased, who was a daughter of said
W"m. Ji. Lane; and Polly Ritchie being the widow
of Wm. S, Ritchie, a son of said Clarissa N. Ritch
ie, deceased, T> ho died intestate, sine* petitioners
intestate, leaving issue Williafn T. Ritchie and
Sterling P. Ritchie, both of whom are since de
ceased, intestate, unmarried and without issue:]
George W. Webb, and Edwin B. Wobb, of Carmi,
Wjite county, Illinois; Willoughby L. Webb of
the city of Philadelphia; > c usan Webb, of Carmi,
Illinois, and George W. Webb (a minor whose
'guardian is Heury K. Leman, of said citv of Lan
caster,) [the said George W. Webb, Edwin B.
Webb, and Willoughby L. Webb being sons of
Martha C. Webb deceased, who was a sister of said
intestate, and Susan Webb, and George W. Webb,
the younger, being children of John L. Webb, who
was a son of said Martha C. Webb,]: Mary Ann
Kennedy and Rebecca Hunter of Charlestcwn,
Jefferson county, Virginia, [children of Willough
by W. Lane deceased, who was a brother of said
intestate] : tsnac li Carter, of Charlestown, Jef
rerson county, Virginia, and Mary F. Martin, of
Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky,
[children of Surah Ann Carter, deceased, who was
a sister of said intestate): Mary N. Nteklin, of
Charlestown, Jefferson county, Virginia, [a child
of George S. Lane, deceased, who was a brother of
intestate]: John N. Lane, James B. Lane and El
liott E. Lane {minors whose guardian is Richard
S, Jenkins, of the City of Philodelphia,) and Har
riett R. Lane of the City of Lancaster, aforesaid,
[the said Harriett R. Lane being a child of Elliott
T. Lane, deceased, who was a brother of intestate,
and John N. Lar.e, James B. Lane, and EKiott E.
Lane, being children of James B. Lane, who died
intestate, who was a son of said Elliott T. Lane):
that the said John X. Lane died seised in hie de
mesne, as of fee, (inter alia,) in nine pieces or
tracts of land situate in said Bedford county, in
Broad Top township, as follows, vis:
1. The one thereof adjeiaimg the John Cher
ington tract, William Lane, Isaac Grove, Michael
Si pes, William Bunn, and others, containing four
hundred and thirty-owe acres and one hundred and
thirty perches, and allowance of land, surveyed
on warrant of Hth April, A. D. 1795, granted to
John Chevingtoo, and patented by the Common
wealth by patent of lfith of June, 1853, to Rich
ard D. Wood and Lewis T. Watson, who by Deed
of Indenture of the sth day of July, A. D. 1853,
granted sad conveyed to John P. Lane his heirs
and assigns forever in foe.
2. Another thereof containing four hundred and
two acres and three-quarters, and allowance,
which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by
warrant dated the 25th day of February, A. D.
1866, granted to William Bunn, and the sains
which Richard D. Wood and his wife, and Lewis
T. Watson and his wife, by Deed of Indenture of
the sth day of July, A. D. 1853, granted and
conveyed to John N. Lane, in fee.
3. Another thereof containing one hundred and
eight and three fourths, and allowance,, of land,
which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by pat
ent dated October 26, A. D. 1829, granted and
conveyed to John Tod; and the same which Rich
ard D. Wood and his wife, and Lewis T. Watson
and his wife, by Deed of Indenture of the sth
day of July, A. D. 1858, granted and conveyed to
John N. Lane his heirs and assigns in fee.
4. Another thereof containing two hundred and
twenty five acres and one fourth and allowance
of land, which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
by patent dated tbe 14th day of December, A. D.
1795, granted and conveyed unto Leonard Sayre,
and the same which Richard D. Wood and his
wife, and Lewis T. Watson and his wife, by
Deed of Indenture of tbe sth day of July, A. D.
1853, granted and conveyed unto John N. Lane,
his heirs and assigns forever in fee.
5. Another thereof containing two hundred sad
ten acres and allowance of land which the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, by patent dated the
26th day of October, A. D. 1829, granted and con
veyed unto John Tod, and the same which Richard
i D.JWood and his wife, and Lewis T. Watson and
, A. n "-ed of Indenture of the sth of July,
' Lao." .**•*.ffrwtod and conveyed unto John N.
DsgwPty e l r fJMld assigns forever in fee.
• acres and thirty perches, and allowance of land,
being tbe same, the undivided moiety or half
part whereof, Samuel Pleasants and his wife, by
Deed of Indenture of the 13th dsy of September,
A. D. 1553, granted and conveyed nnto John N.
Lane, his heirs and assigns forever in fee, and ths
other undivided moiety or half part, whereof Lew
is T. Watson and his wife, and Jerman Jacob and
his wife, by Deed of Indenture of the 15th dsy of
September, A. D. 1853, granted and conveyed to
John N. Lane l is heirs aud assigns forever, in foe.
7. Another thereof, adjoining lands of Hopewell
Farm and Ealtxer Swarts, containing one hund
red and sixty acres and ninety-six perches and
allowance of land, which the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by warrant dated the 9th day of
June, A. D. 1853, granted to John McLain; and
which the said John McLain and bis wife, by
deed of Indenture dated the 30th day of March,
A. D. 1854, granted and conveyed to John N.
Lane, his heirs and assigns forever, in fee.
8. Another thereof adjoining lands of (Rays
town Branch of the Juniata River,) Hopewell Com
pany, William Lowry's improvement, and others,
containing three huniked and forty-two acres and
one hundred and six perches and allowance of
land; being the same tract of land which was or
iginally surveyed on a warrant for four hundred
acres to Daniel Kerr, dated 21st day of March, A.
D. 1794, returned as containing three hundred
and sixty-five acres and allowance, and accepted
in the land office of Pennsylvania on the 23d day
of December, A. D. 1830, and for which • pstont
dated the 4th day of October A. D. 1855, was issued
by the Commonwealth to John Ssvage and his wifs
by deed of Indenture of the 17th dsy of November,
.4. D. 1855, granted and oonreyed to John Lane,
his heirs and assigns forever, in fee.
9. The other thereof adjoining lands of John
Zook and Jacob Myers, containing eleven acres
and 16 perches and allowance of land which ths
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by patent dated
the 22d day of. December, A. D. 1853, granted
and conveyed to Thomas M. Long, sad which
the said Thomas M. Long and his wifs, by deed of
Indenture dated ths 11th day of April, A.D. 1854,
granted and conveyed to John N. Lane, his heirs
and assigns forever, in fee. And praying tbe Court
to award an Inquest to make partition of the
premises aforesaid to and among the heirs and
legal representatives of the said intestate: which
said Inquest was upon motion of & L. Russell,
Esq., awarded according to the prayer of the pe
tioner.
Notice is therefore given to all parties inter
ested, that in pursuance of a writ of partition or
valuation to me directed, I will proceed to hold an
inquisition on the premises, on MONDAY THB
24th DAY OF APRIL, A. D. 1865, when and
where they can attend if they see proper.
JOHN ALSTADT, Skiriff.
Sheriff's Office, March 24, 1885.:4a
TO TRESPASSERS.
All persons are hereby forbidden from fishing,
hunting, driving cattle, or otherwise tresspassing
on our premises, as the law will be rigidly enfor
ced against all who are thus found violating, with
out respect to person.
D. C. MeCORMICK,
G. T. MeCORMICK,
and others, Heirs of the lata Dr. Sboenberger.
aplfttfi
ADMINISTRATOR'S^ NOTICE.
Entitle of George Skarp, late of Middle
Woodberry tp., decerned.
Notice is hereby given that Letter* tf Adminis
tration have been granted to the undersigned by
the Register of Bedford county, on th< said estate.
AH persons indebted to said estate will make im
mediate payment, and those having clsias against
the same must present them properly authentica
ted for settlement. DAVID M. REPI/)GLE,
mar 31:* Administrator.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE—The undersigned
Auditor, appointed by the Orphans' Court of
Bedford County, to distribute the money in the
bands of the Executors of the last will, Ac., of'
FREDERICK BBRKHBIMKR, declL, to and
amongst legatees and devisees, will attend to the
duties of his appointment on FRIDAY, the 31st
day of March, instant, at his offioe, in the Bor
ough of Bedford, when and where all parties in
teres ted can attend.
marl? JNQ, P. REED, Aaditor.'
NOTICE.— Having left my Books and Sale
List in the hands of H. KICODEMTW, Esq.,
of Bedford, for settlement, all persons knowing
themselves indebted to me will please sell oa iuw,
at his office, and settle. WM. DIBKRT,
Late proprietor of thelfftrhingta* Hotel.
Bedford 31, W5,