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It has been made to appear that. the First .Nallimul Bank of Hunting don. in the County of Itantingdotimuld State of Peens) has bean duly orianited under and wearable to the requirements of the set of Congress, entitled...An set to provide a national currency Secured by a plidge of Ili+ ted States clocks, and to provide for the areal:stieo and redemption thereof, approved February 25, 1563, and IMO complied with all the provisions of said 'act required to be complied with before commencing the business el Banking: Plow, Therefore, I, Ilagh McCulloch, Conn - . troller of the mercury do hereby certify that the said First I.:animal Bonk of Ilentiondon, County of Ilan Una don, and Stole of Pennsylvania, le anthorized to com mence the business of Banking tinder the net aforesaid. In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty-second day of July, 1803. HUGH McCULLOCII, {l3eAl of he Comp.} Comptroller of the troller of the Cur- Ctirrenty. rend. UNIVERSA L CLOTHES WRINGER I I=o=l No. 1. Large Family Wringer, $lO,OO 'No. 2. Medium " 7,00 No. " " " 6,00 No, 3. Small " I( 5,00 No. 8. Large Hotel, " 14,00 No. 18. Medium Laundry t: run 118,00 No. 22. Large • .1=430,00 Nos. 2}. and 3 have no Cogs. All oth ers aro warranted. *No. 2 is the size generally used in private families. ORANGE JUDD, of the "American Ag riculturist," says of the UNIVERSAL CLOTHES WRINGER 40 A ehilti ran renellly wring nut a tulthill of clothe. in a few minute.. It a in reality a CLirrOLV SAVER! A 'Nit SariAl and a STLNOTU Sacral The saving of ger ents a lit Alone pay a large per eentage on it. coat. WO hlok the machine much more than "pays fur fteeif eve ry year" ht the curing of garments! Theta aro lovers' kiwi., nearly alike in general construction, but we con eider it important that the Wringer he fitted with Cues, set horwlse a UMW of garments may clog the cullers, nod the rollers upon the ctnnk•ehnft Clip and test the clothes. or the rubber break loose from the shaft. Our 01141 It one et the first make. and it Is as aeon so sow after neurly TOM MAU' cessrisr VIM Every Wringer with Cog Wheels is War ranted in every particular. KO -Wringer can be Durable without Cog Wheels A good CANVASSER wanted in tff e eceiptot.the.price from-pla ce; where no one is selling, we will send:the 'Wringer free of expense. For particulars and circulars ad dress R. C. BROWNING, 347 Broadway, N. Y. Aug. 12, '63 MEN .WANTED FOR THE INVALID CORPS Only those faithful soldiers who, from wounds nr the hardshiln of war. are no longer fit for active field duty, will he received to this Corps of !Inner. linlistmente will be for three years, unites owner discharged. Pay and allowance Farms as for officer, and men of the United Platen infantry; except Chet no premium or bounties for enlistment a 11l be allowed. This will not Invalidate any pensions or bounties It Mat may be duo for previous ear. .For the convenience of service, the men will be selected for three grades of duty. Those who are most efficient and ahle•bodied. and capable of performing guard duty, etc., w ill be armed with musk eta, and assigned to compa nies of the First Battalion. Those of the next degree of efficiency. Including those who line, hwt n hand am nu arm; and the least effective, including those rho hare lost a foot or leg. to the companies of the Second or Third Battalions; they will he armed with .WOl dm. The duties will be to act chicly as provost guards and garrisons for cities; guards for hospitals and other public braidings; lad as clerics, orderlies, tc. If Found necessa• ry, they may be assigned to forts. &T.. Aeting Assistant provost Marshals General are author he ti to appoint °f leer. of the Regular Service. or of tho Invalid Corps, to administer the oath of enlistment to those men who have completely fulfilled the prescribed conditions of admission to the Invalid Corps, nist 1. That the applirent is nu fit Po. Ferrice In the field. 2. Thst he Is fit for the duties, or some of them, Indies t4d shore. 3. That, Irno now In the lervlce, he we. honorably dlieharged. 4. That he I. meritorious and deserving For enliement or furth,•r intematlon, apply to the Iloard et' Enrollment fur the diutrict In nhlch the •ppil clnt II • reAblelit Ity order ofJAMELS B. FItY, Provost Marling Getters' J. D. CA3II'IIEbb, - Captain and Provost Mar,bal. tluntlngdon, July B, 18G3 ISAAC K. STAUFFER, W.&TCIELMAKER AND JEWELER, MANUFACTURER OF FILYSR WARS and Imronrrn or WATCHEIS, No. 148 North Secondst., Corner Quarry, I= Ile his constantly on band an assortment of Gold and . Silver Patent Levers, !Aphis and Plain Watches, Fine Gold Chains, Seals and Key.. Breast Pins, s•-• # • Ear Rings, Finger Rings, Bracelets. Miniature Ciera. Medallion., Lockets, Pencils, Thimble.. Fpee.l.l•4l, Silver Table, Desert, Tea, Salt and Mustard Spoon.: Sugar Spoons, Cups. Napkin Rings. Fruit and Brat.. Knives, &lel& Canal., Diamond Pointed Pen., wlach will be obi kw for Cub! N.J. TOBIAS et. CO'Sbest quality full Jewelled Patent Lover Movements constantly on hand; also other Makere of superior quality. - Gold and /Firer bought for Oath. Sept. 9, 1563....17. :INSURE YOUR PROPERTY' IN THE • GIRARD • Fire and Marine Insurance Co., - • PHILADELPHIA. NO MARINE RISK—FIRE RISKS ONLY TAKEN. rerpeluo/polici , s granted on brick and s tone buildings. Limited policies granted on frame or log buildings, merchandise and furniture. e11...N0 premium notes required, consequently no wets. merits made. It. ALLISON MILLER, 5ep1.6,1863 At. fur Huntingdon k adjoining Cos n OWARD ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA: :rA - erclerat Destitution established by special Endowment, for she Retail of the Sick and Distressed. of dad with . lir:dent and Epidemic paean', and especially for the fere of Dissases of the &coat Organs. 2leslical Advice given gratis, by the Acting Surgeon. 'Valuable Reports on Spermatorrlicea, and other Diseases of the Sexual Organs, and on the new Remedies employed in the Dispensary, .out to the afflicted to sealed letter eu veloprs, free of charge. Two or three Stamps for postage will be acceptable. Address, bit. J. SEILLEN HOUGHTON, Acting Sur geon, Howard 11.4.0ClatIOTI, No. 2 South Nislth Street,Phii sdelphla, Pa. By order or the Directors. EZRA D. HARTWELL, President. GE°. FAIRCITILD, Dec. 31,1882.-Iy. CALL at the new CLOTHING STOR ILI of GUTMAN t CO., If yen want a Reel article Clothing. Store room In Long'i newb tiiti t. In the DI mood, Ilemtingden Sept le, 18;.7 IVOU will find the Largest and Best aesortmtnt../ Ladr.s' Drew anuAR nt D. r. G ,•. • . , : "' - f , •-•..-• !:;-1«:.*:. - ..?,,: -. 1 , ,'V'ZY- , 6.„ 1 - ::5-.i • ~. ‘...„,,,,... 4 -~ -) . c• lr *.",idear ~.,,;:iiidii‘;:: ~. ... ~, ~...,,,„ •• (... t . ~.. • r ... • . .. . . • . ~. . • r._ -,,,•-4,-,....,:..... ...;,:;,..,::,,.:-:.:,-.,...:.! .....,,-.,,,:........,:,,...:;:„....„.,„,-.,.. .. the bs ."`^,. .':- .. : - •-"- 4 ' 4..i.,..... ,- •- ', .• .: `.i.'-iZS ~ ~ . . .1.1. 0 . . .... _., .. . ~ ::.,::'.•.!;••,':: . , ..........._;„... _ ... . •••:.:.: _...4....... MI WILLIAM LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIX. Fle Cabe. HUNTINGDON, PA. A Visit to the Returned Richmond Prisoners at Annapolis, Md. ANNAPOLIS, 31d., Dec. 1, 1863, To the editor of the Daily Morning Chronicle DEAR Sin : Although the statements respecting the extreme wretchedness of the Union prisoners, returned from Richmond, seemed to me to be so well authenticated, as to preclude all of doubt or mistake, I yet resol ved to satisfy myself of their truthful ness, or otherwise, by actual personal observation: To this step [ was prompted by no desire to gratify a mere idle curiosity, but to render to theAe poor .men, if possible, all the good that might be in my power "He that knoweth to do good," says St. James, , "and doeth it not, to him it is sin." Nor are we in our min istrations of mercy, to wait until occa. sions for their exercise present them. selves at our doors, but, in imitation of our blessed Redeemer, we are to seek them out. He "went about doing good," penetrating into the hedges and by-ways, and scattering benefits and blessings among the outcast and des pised of earth. Actuated by motives such as these, I paid a visit to the Government hos pitals. at Annapolis, and proceed to furnish you with a statement of the Condition of the prisoners recently re-, turned front Richmond. In my visit there I was most kindly assisted' by Rev. C. Henries, the self-'denying chaplain in charge of that place.— Be assured it is not possible to ex aggerate the scones of horror there presented : they defy the descriptive energies of language. The pictorial representation in Harper's Weekly, so far from being an exaggeration, atltirds but a very inadequate view of these scenes of wretchedness. -In my pas toral experience I have been at the bed-side of many dying sufferers; but never before have my sensibilities been so shocked as at Annapolis. Md. To look upon men—not brutes—reduced to bony skeletons, by withholding fispm them their daily bread, I never expec ted to witness in this land of plenty.— But such I did witness among the re turned pris - onerS st Annapolis. An unspeakable satisfaction to me was to be permitted. 1-' emenany with the beloved chaplain, to, point oum ber of such dying starvelings to "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world." In every instance, when it was in the power of those poor men to speak, they have died, the last lingering accents on their lips consist ing, of invocations to Christ for the re mission of their sins, and in the sup plication of blessings from the Almigh ty Ruler of the world on their beloved country. Very few of these men after their arrival here, have been able to articulate. They could only signify their wishes by looks and signs ! From the few who are able to speak, it is noteworthy fact that I did not hear a solitary murmur of complaint that they had enlisted in the service of their country, or that, by the mysterious ness of Providence, they had been doomed, for such it cause, to die even so ghastly and horrible a death. With the Apostles of our Lord, these heroic men seem content, in the prosecution of their noble work, to endure oven worse things than a baptism of blood and a martyrdom of fire, even a hor ror not confronted by the Apostles themselves, viz: starvation ! In my intercourse with these fam ishing victims of Southern barbarity, I was exceedingly anxious• to learn their own impressions as to the causes that underlie the action of the rebel government towards themselves. Ac cordingly, r directed to numbers the inquiry, "Whether tho treatment they had received at Richmond was volun tary or compulsory P If the former, it would of course be the fault of their enemies; if the latter, their misthrtune. With one accord the answer was, that their dreadful condition was mostly volunthey—the result of a system of wanton and deliberate cruelty ! Tho Richmond conspirators, our prisoners admit, are in straits—and have it not in their power to bestow upon them oven a tolerable degree of care and attention. But their condition is not go desperate that they might not, if they wished, afford thorn at. least as much daily food as would serve to preserve tho holy partnership which the bountiful Creator hath instituted between the soul and body. Their own destitution the rebels seize upon, not a a real and truthful justification of their inhumanity, but as a pretext. And this they do, not in sorrow, but in the intense maliciousness of diabol ism itself! They gloat over it, that for the display of their fiendish cruelty, they have an argument plausible enough' to acquit themselves to their own 'wicked "foregone conclusions," however transparent its flimsiness to all the world beside. I stood at the bedside of a dying loyal youth from Tennessee. I kneeled at his bedside in prayer. He claimed to have made his peace with God, through faith in Jesus Christ. In the very article and hour of death, when all purposes aro honest and all secrets aro revealed, I asked him : "Do you think, my young brother, that the men at Richmond have starved you to death from choice, or were they driven to it from necessi ty ?" His answer was, "God forgive them; they might have done better if tboy had wished." The utterances of another wore: "I know they could have given us more food than they did, frpm the amount they gave to the guards. But they wished us to starve. HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, ono of their leading men said to me: 'Libby Prison and Belle Island are our best Generals!—they aro killing off more men than Bragg and Lee!'" Ono other fact I learned, most dis creditable to the ' rebel authorities.— Belle Island is a contracted patch of ground, Consisting of only three or four acres, on which thousands of prisoners are crowded, with scarcely a foot of in tervening space. The water they aro compelled to drink is in close proxim ity to the sinks, and, necessarily, pol luted and poisoned. This the prison , ors are compelled to drink, in very sight of clear and wholesome water, which is running in perennial streams before their eyes. Their hardships are thus purposely aggravated, and under them an iron constitution melts away as frosts before a summer's sun. This, indeed, is the very refinement of cruel ty. From another of the dying men I learned the astounding fact that, since the incarceration of our poor prisoners at Richmond, in no solitary instance has a Woman appeared in their midst to minister even to bur wounded and dying! From tno "gentler sex," ordi narily so noted fur the finer and better sensibilities of human nature, not one of our prisoners has received so much as a cup of cold water— nothing but in sults and reproaches. How strikingly this contrasts with the kindness lavish ed by the ladies of the North on the suffering rebels whom the "accidents" of war have thrown into our hands.— After the battle of Gettyshu-g, num bers of ladies from Philadelphia and elsewhere hastened.to the scene and distributed stores to the amount of thousands, indiscriminately. Between the parties they made no distinction.-- Had they• been monsters in human shape, they might Lima Lave cuffered thousands to die of neglect. But it sufficed for them to know, that altho' engaged in a gigantic iniquity—such as has not been paralleled in the annals of crime since the crucifixion of Christ on Cavalry—these misguided men were, nevertheless, of the race of our universal 'manhood. redeemed by the blood of Christ. This consideration alone sufficed to secure to them a pass port to the enlarged sympathies and the most generous and substantial aid of our Christian ladies. These, as thousands can and do attest, wore most spontaireously rendered, "without re spect to persons " In no pharasaical spirit, but in that of unsophisticated truth and soberness, may we, who es pouse the side of the UnionAthank God that such cruelty and inhumanity as are no w—u,d. , r review may not he charged to us. To the conduct of the rebel conspir ators it adds monstrous aggravation, that these barbarities are being enact ed in Richmond, under the immediate cognizance of the so-Called Confederate authorities. Did they occur in the wilds of Arkansas or Texas, or among the Sioux savages on the Pembida, they might challenge some degree of' pallia tion. But when we call to mind that the voluntary starvation of defenceless men is occurring at Richmond, within the sound of the voices of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and their associates in crime, then does the bo gus Confederacy itself become respon sible for these atrocities, to God and man. Then will impartial men, all the world over, maugre all their efforts to newiith, the sraind ty loo,din ff „ it into a mazy labyrinth of doubt, reach the inevitable conclusion, that these men deserve the scorn of the civ ilized world, not to speak rf the just vengeance of Heaven. Surely, the bronzed terrors of an incensed Omnip otence must ultimately overtake them. But, can anything still be done for the relief of our returned Richmond prisoners? In answer to this interro gatory, I reply, YES, much, very much. The Christian and Sanitary Commis sions have already accomplished won ders. But individuals and churches can largely co-operate. Send to the care of Rev. Henry C Henries, the be loved chaplain at Annapolis, ]id , whatever stores you and your congro gations can command. Send money, ' which can be used in accommodating the friends of the suffering mon on their visits there. Send flannel under clothing, (shirts and drawers,) woolen stockings, pocket handkerchiefs, band ages, &o. • Send liquors and jellies ; and whatever else your discretion may suggest, as needful for the sick. And may the God of all comfort bless and reward all who do good to our bravo and noble soldiers! Very truly your friend, E. W. HUTTER, Pastor of St. Mathew's Lutheran Church, Now Street, Philadelphia. ne3 6 . Generation alter generation have felt as wo do now, and their lives were as active an our own. The hea vens will bo as bright over our graves as they are about our paths. Yet a little while and all this will have hap pened. The throbbing heart will be stilled, and we shall bo at rest. Our funeral will wend its way, and the prayers will be said; we shall be left the darkness and silence of the tomb, and it may be but a short time we shall be spoken of, but the things of life shall creep on, and our names will be forgotten. 'Days shall continue to move on, and laughter and songs will be hoard in the room whore wo died, and the eyes that mourned for us be dry and animated with joy, and even our children will cease to think of us, and will remember to lisp our names.no more. ter Since t he war commenced, Gon. Grant has captured 492 cannon, and 90,000 prisoners. -PERSEVERE.- A Remarkable Escape From Texas—Ad ventures of Four Methodist Brothers, who Tied the Rebel Conscription in Texas, Correopowlence of toe Mlsiourt Democrat WESTON, Platte county, Mo., Nov.lo While upon an excursion toward your city on Saturday last, I happened to make the acquaintance on the cars, of four brothers, who had escaped ro bel conscription from Decatur, Wise county, Texas. WITe your read: are enjoying the great moral victory in tbo important battlo fought at the polls, last week, it was thought a briet account of the escape. Would bo relish ed by many of your readers, I there fore transmit from my notes for your journal. Their names are William, Samuel, who left a wife and one child, Arche leas and Edward T. Ferris. The lat ter had a wife. They were all Meth odists; noLie specimens of .humanity— one was six foot four inches, and the shortest full six foot in height, and all ruddy and well proportioned. Tho eldest was 26 and the youngest 21. Their father, Isaac, was originally from Tennessee, a stock-raiser, non-slave. holder and an ever devoted Union man. Their parents had been metho dists from before their recollection.— There wore five brothers who started, leaving two younger brothers and one sister with their parents, with whom also the two married ones left their families. At the first breaking out of the rebellion Jeff. Davis called for vol unteers only saying. "When it be comes necessary to draft to sustain the cause, I'll abandon it." Before one year, however, drafting corn tneneed. Then, by law of the Con federate Congress, the owners of 20 slaves, 500 head of cattle. 300 head of horses and the manufacturers of cer tain articles, ono of which was salt, were exempted- Four'of them formed a firm manufhetured and were exemp ted. The other, William, was draf ted. About the Ist of July last, it la came the understanding that the ex emption law had been. abrogated; the military commenced :-oonseripting. ev ery able-bodied man. Any one trying to evade the conscription was consid ered a deserter. ...Magruder issued an order to take no "deserter" alive as ho would be a nuisance and demoralize the army. It wits also published at the county seat, that to talk with a "deserter" was a peldtenliary of unless they could prove what he said. About 60 staunch Union men wore hung in Wise and Cook counties. William deserted the Confederate army and Samuel set himself to form a company to flee. It was agreed to depart silently in squads of two or three and rendezous at it certain Un ion man's cattle rancho about 150 mileivuistantin. 1.;c1r... About 30 engaged. They provided arms and strong, fleet horses; but now the secret being in so many hands it leaked. The eldest brother Madison, with John English (from Missouri,) had started when the secret became known. The Confederate' soldiers scoured the country and headed off the two. Tho last heard from them they wore at full speed and being fir ed at by their pursuers. • Most of the 30 backed out; hut these four and James Parish (from liissou ri) were certain of death if they re mained, resolved to escape, or sell their• lives as dear as possible. Their father, at the usual family devotions in the evening, commended them to the care of Divine Providence, char ged them, if the rebels hung him, to avenge his death, and strengthened their faith by assuring them that if they did right all would come out right. Tho morning of the 10th of July found them secreted in the brush eight miles from home. There they remain ed that day. They had a good map, a pocket compass, matches, a little salt, about two hundred pounds of flour, two largo pistols, two six shoot ers, three double barrelled shot guns (worth $2OO each in Confederate-mon ey) ono rifle, each well mounted, and having three fine extra horses. For provisions they relied upon finding game. Here they wore found by J. Higgins Bart. W. Armstrong and James Ow ens, who had, unknown to the others, started to flee to Kansas through the Indian country. They were well mounted and armed. At first each party took the other for scouts sent out to arrest them. A recognition, however, took place before blood was shed, and the party thus increased af terwards travelled together.—That night and the next day it rained in cessantly, during all which they rode on. This day they came in sight of a field in which wore thirty or forty lion ses, which they conjectured to bolong- DECEMBER 16, 1868. to scouts sent out to arrest them, wild while their horses were feeding, had taken shelter in an unoccupied cabin in the field. At this discovery they wheeled, dashed into the brush and moved at doule quick, throwing away their flour (except forty or fifty pounds,) taking different routes .to make their pursuers lose their trail. They met at night, though not before one was supposed lost. The next mor ning, by watching their opportunity, knoWing the time the Rangers were passing from ono picket to another, they had passed the line, were outside the settlements. As the Indians in the North and West were hostile, they deemed it impossible to escape in ei ther direction.—They therefore struck a southwest course to the Brazos, then west, and up that river over a rough hilly country about 100 miles; • thence a southwest course again until they reached the head-waters of the Colorado; thence on until they struck the old California trail, which they know by the wrecks strewed along.— They followed this trail until they crossed the Pecos a deep narrow stream with precipitous banks, which they followed up 70 or 80 miles to Vope's Artesian Well. This is the crossing of the Southern overland stage route, which they then kept un til they reached the Rio Grande at El Paso. The military authorities call , this Franklin. It is opposite El Paso, in old Mexico. They had _travelled_ about eight hundred miles, had had no food for the last day, and were nearly exhausted. Here they found a Federal post, with ono company, under command of Colonel Bowoy, by whom they wore welcomed and kindly treated. They found little game, but with care their provisions had lasted about throo hun dred Miles. They killed two poor bears, in the chase fur which ono of the brothers was greatly injured, was an invalid, suffering much and is now hardly recovered. The meat of the bears mostly spoiled. They succeed ed in killing two antelopes. Deer and antelope were seen in the distance: They-there found - no-game„:.except rabbits, of which they killed one each day for seven days, which they stow ed in a tin cup, and with one spoonful of meal they made soup, dividing it into•eight rations. On thecighth rab bit day they found none, during which they fasted. They then killed their fattest horse, which they jerked and dried. This lasted until the last day but ono before they arrived at El Pa so. Part of their route lay through a fine grazing country—at times they had to travel 70, 80, in ono case 120 miles without writer. At El Paso they sold their rims horses, one of them having died from exhaustion, and recruited their strength. Parish, Aranotonnis ond Trigging wont to the gold mines. Owens (boy left with rheumatism, and the four brothers, humanely furnished with government transportation, came to Santa Fe, where they found friends iu Gun. Carl ton and staff, of whom and all the Government officials they speak in warmest terms of • gratitude. Thence they came to Denver City, which from El Paso is called a thousand miles.— There they took the stage and travel ling day and night seven days, came to Atchison, across the river from which they found the first railroad they ever saw.-,lt is their purpose to go to New Orleans and join the Fed oral army under Banks, penetrate in to Texas, and if living, to bring away their parents and wives. They report the Union sentiment strong. They think a majority of e leetions in Texas were carried by fraud and kept by force. They say Confederate money was then worth only ono-third its face in Wise county, but wore informed that lower down the State a dealer asked ten dollars for a pair of boots, cash, or one hundred dollars Confederate mon ey. The purchaser paid the latter. What They Knew 1800 Years Ago. The letters of the Rev. Mr. Thomp son, written during his recent tour in Europe ; Africa and Asia, published in the N. Y. Independent, are highly in structive and entertaining. We sub join an extract relating to the "Lost Arts :" The author, on the first of January, 1863, approached Pompeii, one of the cities overwhelmed by tho ashes and cinders of Vesuvius, on its memorable eruption about half a century subse quent to the commencement of the Christian era. In the suburbs stands the first object which was not long since brought to light after a burial of ages; it was the large and elegant, mansion of Arrias Diomedes, which bears numerous inscriptions as legible now as the day after they were made; together with many traces of the great wealth of the occupant. Toombs and ornaments remain along the road out side the city; within are rows of shops and houses on both side the principle street, which is laid Gm for half 4. mile. $1,50 a year in advance. Tho portable v.rticlei found 'on the premises that served to identify each house, have all been removed to the museum at Naples ; also the flnerfres coes and mosaic. Enough of these re• main, however, to show the luxurious and the lasciuious taste of the inhabi tants. Here is a living commentary upon the concluding verses of the first chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Ro mans. The shocking memorials of hu man depravity here • found and now collected in the secret chamber of the Museb Borbonico at Naples, are no lon ger to be seen upon any terms—the Pope, when in exile at Nnples,'having prohibited their exhibition, as contrary to good morals.' But every memorial of Pompeii shows it to have been a ci ty °limit—a second Sodom. The man of letters who would select such sub jects for the frescoes of his walls as aro found in the house of Sallust would be scouted from our modern society. Yet wonderful was the perfection of art as hero exhibited; amazing was the wealth of a city adorned with such temples, theatres and other public edi fices us yet are found in their old pla ces and proportions along these silent streets; vast, too, these houses, whose floors aro rich - mosaics, whose walls are adorned with elaborate frescoes, whose courts are surronndcd with marble pillars and beautiful marble vases and fountains. In the garden of ono house recently exhumed, the statuary has been left precisely as found, pretty lit tle groups surrounding the fountain, whose very pipes can be traced from the reservoir above. There is nothing now under the sun no+ even our patent method of heating houses and of warming water for baths. This was done at Ponnftii.h.y. means of-flues - of tiliiitri.iirried around the rooms, within the walls, and hav ing apertures for the escape of the heat from the furnace below. Walker Chilson, &c., have invaded the patent of some luckless dealer in furnaces at Pompeii, who was buried at last in ashes and cinders. Wo don't know so much after ull, in America, in this nineteenth century. Take away the knowledge of the Gospel, and we know nothing in comparison with these an cient lords, of the arts and ologancies of life. The streets of Pompeii aro rectan gular, and were paved, and probably better regulated than the streets of Now York.—The houses were much better built.—no cement made 2000 years ago is like a rock to-day. There art. no Twenty-first street contractors herb. How wonderful is the prow -Sat:ion bithese walls—in-ashes, - to be sure, but in themselves 'proof against decay. How wrfect the pillars, the mouldings, the capitals I How dis tinct and how delicate the paintings on the walls and ceiling ! H' ow ad mirable the arrangement of the hous es and gardens! How beautiful—but we must not linger at Pompeii. ' Its gloom is the more oppressive for the sunshine upon its desolation. EDUCATIONAL COLUMN. S. B. CHENEY, Editor, To whom all communicatione on the eub ject . of Education should be addressed. [From the Pennsylvania School Journal.] Teaching Children to Lie. Children are often taught to lie. Very many of them readily accept such teaching, They are apt pupils. Fathers and mothers and teachers teach them• to doceive,'to be false, to lie. Children take to lying almost as readily as a duck to a green puddle. Moral and religious training alone can make them truthful. Without this training they are certain to 'grow up into habits of untruthfulness. Liars of every grade, from the gentle. equiv ocator to the deliberate, malicious fal sifier, aro found' in almost every school. They need to be watched, taught, reformed. By mans good and wise teachers, truthfulnbss in all its purity and nobleness is faithfully in culcated, and conscientiously exem plified. By many, less good and wise falsehood is taught by precept and ex ample. This bad teaching is given in various ways: 1. Children are taught to•lie by a teacher who gives them false reasons for his acts. He has an object to ac complish, which ~be would conceal from his pupils; be, therefore presents an untrue reason,Or unreal motive, in stead of the true or real ono.—For ex ample: At the public examination of a certain school, the teacher of ono class said in a low tone to the poor scholar at the foot, "You needn't re cite today. We shan't have time to hear you." The boy instantly replied, "Is that the true reason, sir ?" The teacher had lied to the boy, and the boy know it. What effect that • one lesson may have bad, time, will tell. Children are quick to detect depart ures from truth on the part of the teacher. They are equally quick to say, "If our teacher does such things it is right for us to do them!! • If a teacher is detected hilt single instance of falsehood, his moral power 'over his pupils is weakened—perhaps destroY 7 ed. 2. Children aro taught to lie, when they are trained to seem to know more than they do' know. This is a • too common mode of giving this kind of Instruction. Pablio examinations -of TIME CA - LO3E3M JOB 8E rt GLOBE -JOB,, OFFICE"' £ the mod complete of anyltt tho country, ind pos its the most ample tannin for promPt/T ozootatlpti b ac st Y;ei e ver 7 r":l6l7bf Job RriutiagoclOi9lol,l AND DI4LS; • • • E i btikkRAMMES; - • . Vl ` —BLANKS; (CARDS. CIRCULARS. BALL TICKETS, . LABELS, ac., ac., NO. 25, OM APB BIAYLIIIPEIPMICIS OP PMP, AT LNITI:T - 130011, STATIONNItt k gUSIO BTORIL schools, if real examinations, are high. ly useful'; but if, as 'is fregnettlt the case, they are shams and hu'inbags, they. tie eteeedingly 'pernicious. • = When, preparatory to nn eaaicina tion, one part of a book iS assigned to ono - scholar and another part to an 4 other, and afters . vg4 . ot6 made glibly to recite their several Ptiftehle .such.amanner as to say -in substance to tho public, "This is-a fair ..ipeef men of our knotvledge of: the' ,i'vhichr book,"—the examination is, a • doiVn‘: right lie. The children .iiaVe a dreadful lesson, • • We once heard at an examination a brilliant exercise in mental arithmetic: We afterwards said' •a. girl ,who 'dl6: tinguished herself,• in 'the •exeroi r ie, "Did you know, that you ivekr&to' cite die' particular • 'eisfriiplet-vihi'gh' you performed ?" 'n as tlie' answer. The •Chiss was deliberately taught to deceive tho:pUblio. l •-', = One of our fernier teachers; Wisbilig a class in spelling-to Appettr:Wcilg (kit; led the class npon'six•woiclii , 'on'eac fr . Page of the spelling book.' Att-tblfr e 'close of the term we veined to the as sembled audience to know every:word in the book. The- teacher and• the pupils knew how great a falsehood had' been t ad. , . Many a brilliant examination, that' has olicitod'admiraticin,inci applauso,' has boon nothing but a ilsliborafa sham—an outi•ageouis 'sNymate. ln a 'nforiti - painreifirsicllnsViar — Mo dins deceives the public is as blame-worthy as the man who ohtains money &Om his neighbor by falie ".pretences.:—aye, even more so; for - the - man who swin dles for the sake of money.iiijnies" bat one perion, perhaps, : peetiniarily, and no ono but himself, morally; whereas the teacher who strives to gain ap. plause dishonestly, does so at:the beet Of the moral character of every one of his pupils. "If it is fair to cheat in school, it is fair to cheat ofeeWhere 1" Soso) , quick-judging boys and 'B. Children are taught practical lying by a teacher who pretends to be doing what he is:not doing. For i the sake of detecting acts, the, teacher" !ieinetgrifes::Wake*.a. pretence of being preitialidlrrn:iitteri tive to' ii — ticischeOl room, while every child posicssing particle Of brains knows that.the . tea cher is eagerly watching or any 10- * lation of rides. We remember a teacher whO AiSed to spend, a large part of his' ,time in seemingly profound study. With, his book before him and, hie eyes, shaded by his hands, he'said by his actions, am studying. I shall , nOt scie you, if you do play:" Aut . 'the boys soon learned that when the muster thus told them he wati,not leekini r he was looking very sharply between:bis fingers. They soon lefi.rned, "That is si - gatUe.we caii:Pay as .*4ll iti'Youratili they piey.st son in acting falsohirods was quickly learned. . - 4. The making of proinlses are not fulfilled, and the uttering of throats that aro not executed, tedd to make children think lightly ,of un truthfulness. The 'sacredness :of One's word can hot be too Carefully guarded. These are but a few of the' waysin which children in school are, taught to speak and act ri falselhoOds.—;Bdlievihg. that teachers ihave mheb to 'do With the morel, character" 'of their 'pupils, exerting an influence upon'them which can never ceaso, we hold it ;to be.the duty of every teacher,to be open, a bove-board, true, in all his dealings with his young charge, and to utterly abhor all shams and false Pretences. It a man cannot 'sustain himself 'in school without lying , and swindling, thus teaching his pupils to lie and swin dle, lot biro abandon school-keeping, or die, or do something else equally useful to the public.--. Resident :Editor ,Massachusetts Teacher. A VALUABLZ Booth.—The material from which tho future history of the war for the UnioriAs.,t9 be jarritten, is accumulating abundantly, ,and there has. been ,no more valuable contribu tion to it than the "Annals of the ar my of the 'Cumberland," just publish ed by Messrs J. B. Lippincott & Co. It contains a fall account 'of Gener al Rosecran's campaign down to the advance toward Chatanooga, e• criptions of all the battles, .skirmishes and expeditions, biographies, and 43or traits of all the. principal general's. and the officers of their :staffs, And 'much other interesting matter. We find that there aro no less • than :78 "portraits of officers, engraved .On steel, 'besides other fine illustrations. The "toldmo is a laige octavo of 671. pages; superb ly printed and riebly hound:, Its _an thor is an officer of,Rosearart's • army, but his name is np(given: has done his work well 'and 'ProduCed a most interesting- and valuable bOok. Since it was written, a number of. hose whose lives he has given, have proved their heroism 'anew on thefilOody field of Chiehamauga. Everyone who had relatives or friends that were in •ithaft and the other battles of the Arrny of the Cumberland, should procure, ,a co py. of this really elegant:, and valuable work. For sale at Lewis' Book Store POSTERS, 13Tht EttLiDS,