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DIRGE FOR rdcPRERSON
BY FRANCES MARY SCANNELL
*lint I gone in thy glory, McPherson—Oh,
wide through this grief-stricken land,
;Should the voice of a people lament thee,
• struck down by the foeman's red hand;
tOI bravest and best in the battle, that knew
not to falter or fail,
iEer•thine was the lineage of heroes— , the high
hearted race of the Gael 2
Sag,sclous in council and rawly, thy sword
backed eaeh enterprise ;
What thou wert in his need to thy chieftain,
the hero of Vicksburg can tell:
,tiut even where the death angel found thee,
was thy name in the onset withstood,
For the ground was all fruitful of valor, that
drank the rich dew of thy blood !
.Brave heart, now emotionless lying, what
KlebeN the dauntless, had been
'To the Fr . andof his early devotion, in thee
bad .America seen I
What she lost at victorious Marengo, with
• the life-tide of gallant
the ramparts of fated Atlanta we mourn
in our hero to.day.
'Take him tenderly, then, to thy bosom, and
.hold him there, sorrowful West,
The elfildfrmn the contest returning, to sleep
his last sleep on thy breast.
Rain tears fmut the sad eyes of heaven, 'twill
need them to wash out the stains
That the vintage of battle outpouring, has
left on our war-trampled plains I
In the trenches round Petersburg spreading,
where ceaseless by night and by day,
`lnd the roar of the thunder-toned cannon,
the spade and the pick-ax make way,
There is one who, though victory crowned
him, would turn in the hour of his pride,
And weep that success had not found him
with the comrade he loved by his side.
0, long in our lend be remembered the life
that so nobly he gave,
And long may the flog he defended keep
watch with its stars o'er his grave!
And this be the meed that his country shall
claim of each patriot son—
To do, and to dare, and if need be—to die as
McPherson has done
SSE TRIAL Or CAPTAIN WERTZ
The Charges and Specifications.
WAstinvorosr, August 14.—The fol
lowing are the charges and specifics
lion for which Wertz, the Anderson
ville jailor, is to be pot upon his trial
Charge—Violation of the laws of war
Specification I.—ln this, that Henry
Wertz, at Andersonville, in the-State
.of Georgia, continuously from the Ist
.clay of March, 1861, to the 10th day of
April, 1865, then and there being an:
.officer in the military service of the so,
called Confederate States of America,l
of the rank of Captain, and as such of
ficer, then and there being command'',
_
ant of a prison there located by the
authority of the so called Confederate
:States, for confinement of prisoners of
war taken and held by said so called
Confederate States, from the armies of
tbs.:United States of America, was, as
such commandant, then and there ful
ly clothpd with competent authority,
and in duty bound to treat, care, and
provide for such persons belonging to
the United States as were or might
be placed in his custody as prisoners
of war,according to the laws and usa
ges of war, which ho then and there
melt knew . , -but he, the said Henry
Weitz, wilfully and maliciously, de•
signing and contriving to impair and
injure the health and destroy the lives
of such-persona in his custody as p rig-
Rpora of war, did, during the time afore
said, in violation of his duty in that
regard, and in furtherance of his said
; evil design, confine a large number
.of
such prisoners of war, belonging to the
United States, to the amount of thirty
i thousand men, in unhealthy and un
wholesome quarters, in a close and
small area of ground, wholly inade
quate to their wants, and destructive
of ;their health, which he well know
and intended, and while there confined
during the time aforesaid, did, in furs ,
theranee of this evil design, wilfully
and maliciously neglect to furnish tents
barracks, or other shelter sufficient for
their protection froin the inclemency
of winter and the dews 'and burning
sun of summer, and with such evil in
tent did take and cause to be taken
From them their clothing, blankets,
and camp equipage of which they were
possessed at the time of being placed
in his custody; and with like 'malice
and evil intent did refush to furnish, or
pause to be furnished, food, either of a
quality or quantity sufficient to pre
nerve health and sustain life, and re
fuse and neglect to furnish wood suffi
cient for cooking in summer and to
keep the said prisoners warm in win
ter ; and did compel the said prisoners
to subsist upon unwholesome food, and
that in limited quantities entirely in
adequate to sustain health, which is
welrknown ; and did compel the said
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prisoners to use unwholesome .water,
with the filth and garbage of the pris
on and prison guards, whereby the
said prisoners became greatly reduced
in their bodily strength, and emacia
ted and injured in their bodily health
—their minds impaired, and their
tellects broken, and many of them
whose names are unknown, sickened
and died by reason thereof, which the
said Henry Wertz then and there well
knew and intended, and so knowing,
and evilly intending, did refuse and
neglect to provide proper lodgings,
food, and . nutriment for sick, and nec
essary medicine and .medical attend
anao ror restoration of their health,
and did knowingly, wilfully, and mal
iciously, in furtherance of his evil de
signs, permit them to languish and die
for want of care and proper treatment,
and when dead, the said Henry Wertz,
still pursuing his evil purpose, did per
mit to remain in the said prison amid
the emaciated, sick, and languishing
living, the bodies of the dead, until
they became corrupt and loathsome,
and filled the air with TIOXiMIS effluvia,
and thereby greatly increased unwbol
someness of prison, insomuch that
great numbers of the prisoners whose
names are unknown sickened and died
by reason of thereof. All which the
said Henry Wertz there and then well
knew, and evilly and maliciously de
sivned and intended.
The second specification charges the
prisoner with "wilfully and malicious
ly intending and designing to injure
the health and destroy lives of the pri.
Boners under his control, to the end
that the armies of the United States
might be weakened and impaired
thereby."
In the third specification ho is char
ged with maliciously ordering, causing,
procuring; and inciting soldiers in the
service of the so called Confederate
States to shoot and kill such persons
as were in his custody as prisoners of
war upon slight, trivial, and fictitious
pretences, by means whereof largo
numbers of soldiers from the armies of
the United States were wantonly killed
and murdered while prisoners Of. war.
In the fourth specification Wertz is
accused of wilfully and with malice
aforethought killing and murdering
defenseless prisoners.
The filth and last specification char.
ges him with keeping and using fere
cious and blood thirsty beasts, danger
ous to human life, called bloodhounds,
to hunt down prisoners of war who
had made their escape from This eusto•
dy, and did thus and there wilfully
and maliciously suffer• the said beasts
to seize, tear, mangle, and maim the
bodies and limbs of fugitive; which
they there and then did, whereby large
numbers of prisoners of war who did
during the time aforesaid make their
escape and wore recaptured wore eru•
elly and inhumanly injured, and great
numbers died by reason of such inhu•
man treatment, which said Henry
Wertz then and there well knew and
evilly intended.
Tim HUMAN EYE.—Tho language of
the oyo is very hard to counterfeit.
You can read in the eyes of your com
panion, while you talk, whether your
argument bits him, though his tongue
will not confess it. There is a look by
which a man shows he is going to say
a good thing,.and a look, when ho has
said it. Vain and forgotten are all the
fine offices of hospitality, if there be no
holiday in the eye. How many fur-
tive invitations are avowed by the
eye, though dissembled by the lips. A
man comes away from a company; he
has heard no important remark, but if
in sympathy with the society, he is
cognizant of such a stream of life us
has been flowing to him through the
eye. There are eyes which give no
more admission into them than blue
berries; others are liquid, and deep
wells that men might fall into ; and
others are oppressive and devouring,
and, take too much notice. There are
asking and asserting oyes, oyes full of
faith—some of good and some of sinis
ter omen.
ts„.Thackeray says that "when a
man is in love with one women in a
family, it is astonishing how fond ho
becomes of every one connected with
it. He ingratiates himself with the
maids; he is bland with the butler; be
interests himself with the footman; he
runs on errands for the daughters; ho
gives and lends money to the young
son at college ; he pats little dogs
which be would kick otherwise; he
smiles at old stories, which would
Make him break -out in yawns were
they uttered by any one else but papa;
ho drinks sweet port wino, for which
he would curse the Stewart and the
whole committee at a club; be bears
oven with the cantankerous old mai
den aunt; he beats time when the.
darling little Fanny performs her
piece on the piano; and smiles when
Wicked little - Bobby upiets the coffee
on his shirt!? "
HUNTINGDON, PA,, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1865.
Walking.
The tradesman in walking giVes
signs of folding cloth, and measuring
tape, and taking down bundles. The
ponderous arm and heavy fall of hand
betrays the blacksmith; and the quick,
nervous grasp with which she adjusts
her dress:gives unmistakable signs of
a factory 'operative. Travelers who
visit the field of Waterloo are accus
tomed to enter their names in a regis
ter. This book has been kept for many
years by the same person, and with
wonderful accuracy he is able to desig
nate the visitor's nation simply by in
specting the handwriting. Much more
easily can the profession or nation be
detected by means of' the gait. The
grave Spaniard;the phlegmatic Dutch
man, the. vivacious and sanguine .
Frenchman, the reserved and formal
Briton, the inquisitive, impetuous,
self confident American, each betrays
the national trait in his style of walk
ing. The sailor rolls when on shore as
if our trim planet sailed unsteadily.
The soldier marches even when no
longer under order. The sycophant
bends the knee as if every man ho
meets were a prince. The lawyer steps
boldly and patronizingly. Themlergy
man abstractedly, as if the street were
his study, or cautiously, as if mind
ful of the gins and pitfalls spread for
the of the unwary. The waiting
clerk is known by his bows and his
graceful effrontery. Wo distiflguish a
coxcomb by the careful manner in
which ho drops his foot, and picks his
way along the street; a watchman, by
his heavy, measured tramp. Students
saunter, school girls trip, schoolboys
daily and loiter, children patter, doe.
tors burry, het - Acre stride, teamsters
trudge, gossips gab, market-women
bustle, boatmen shuffle, ghosts stalk,
aldermen strut.
The pleasure which we deave from
walking is of every gradation. There is
a pleasure resulting from mere muscu
lr activity. This is greatly heighten
ed when obstacles aro overcome, and
'we are conscious Of exorcising physi
cal power. Hence, often the pleasure
wo take in a walk during a dark and
stormy night, through mud and snow.
Every time you put your log down,
says Leigh Hunt, you feel a respect
for it. You may, perhaps; have been
reminded of this source of pleasure
under circumstance like these: The
long winter evening Las began. A
rocking chair has received you with
open arms. Before you glows a bright,
rosy fire. Tho lamp is gently shining
over the shoulder nearest the table,
and invites to the reading of some long
wished,for book, which is to be yours
for this night only. Yourcußof happis
ness fs full when suddenly you remem
ber some engagement at the other end
of town.. Go you must, in spite of the
rollicking wind, the eager and nip
ping air. You naturally feel gloomy
and sad. Your spirits are running a
race with the mercury, and that is be
low zero. Your progression is slow
and hesitating. Soon you become con
scious that your dimensions are con
trasting. The end of a finger, the tip
of an ear, the point of the chin, the
extremity of the nose, are to you as
though they wore not. Your pride is
touched. You determine to resist the
invasion, and start off at a brisk, a
stirring pace. Now for a contest with
tho cold, a battle with the king of win
ter ! Your blood begins to spin. Phys.
ieal excitement carries off sullenness.
Your thoUghts take a now turn. The
whirl of the blood and the energy and
life of the mental endeavor act well to
gether. You reclaim your lost terri
tory, and, exulting in your power,
move for Ward in "robust hilarity" and
triumph. Disappointment, discomfort,
aro all forgotten in the pleasure resul
ting from this exorcise of physical pow
er.
SMALL BEKNNINGS.—VrankIin had
but little early education ; yet look at
what he become, and how he is rover.
enced. Ferguson, feeding his sheep
on the hills of Scotland, picked up the
rudiments of learning, but subsequent
ly rose to be one of the first astrono
mers in Europe. Ilerschell, the great
astrorterner, was in youth a drummer
boy to a marching regiment, and re•
ceived but little more than a drummer
boy's education; but his name is asso
ciated with the brightest discoveries
of science, and is borne by the planet
that his zeal discovered. A host of in-
stances rise up to testify that, by prop
oily improving tho small and perhaps
imperfect beginnings of knowledge,
they may become perhaps as founda
tion stones of a temple of learning;
which the future shall gaze upon and
adtnire.
Th oro are 1,600 male and 500
female clerks in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington—being more
than tri7o full regiments, speaking in
military parlance. The annual cost of
this littlte army is more than two mil
lion dollars.
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--PER§PITERV.-
Matrimony.
"I did !"
"You didn't!"
"You uro the plague of my life !"
"And you of miner
Aim I young folks—what at it again ?
I<ic! do! Now aro you not ashamed
of yourselves? Toll me—you sir—is
not that the maiden whom you singled
out from the world,.because you prized
and loved her most ? And tell me,
wayward girl, is not that the youth
upon whose bosom you leant, and wept
teats of joy but six short months ago?
And it has come to this already! Have
you both forgotten so soon those fairy
moonlight walks,: those hours of rap
ture when—locked in .each other's
arms and soul communing with soul—
you were all in all to each other in
this cold, selfish world?
We know nothing of your squabbleS
and do not wish to know. It is six of
one and half a dozen of the other; you
are a couple of young idiots, • and .that
is all about it. Are there not inevita
ble sorrows enough abroad in the wido
world, that you must manufacture ar
tificial and gratuitous ones to hug them
to your hearts.? 130 assured, youthful
couple, it is not always under tho load
of heavy cares that we poor mortals
sink. These come but rarely; wo
summon up extra courage to oppose
them, and, united together, you may
bkve them to the last. No, no, it is
these silly, idle, paltry bickerings—
these ill tempered little words and acts
which gradually wear the heart away
piecemeal, as water drops corrode the
hardest granite.
You foolish creatures ! have you ever
sat down quietly to view the long road
before you? And if you thus com
mence life's painful journey, what will
it be before you reach the goal? You
have often sighed, perhaps, on viewing
criminals chained, two by two, Wear,
ing their lives away; and you have
Seen a wretched dog, when cruel per.
sons have tied a tin pan to his fail,
running and howling in an agony of
terror. Now don't be vexed—but man
and wife like you always remind us of
these things. You are like two crim
inals chained together 'for life, and ei•
ther of you resemble the little puppy
dog and the other the tin pan at his
tail.
Look you, sir, she is weeping ! Now
throw your manly arms around her
neck and kiss those team away. In
you, as the stronger vessel, it is noble
to yield first. And you, sweet girl,
with sunny smiles running through
falling tears, Oh I from the union of
those smiles and tears, beam forth the
rainbow of promise to thy wedded life.
The storm is past I Now you present
a spectacle in which angels may de
light; a moment ago you were the
sport of demons.
FuN.—Oh, glorious laughter ! Thou
man loving spirit, that for a thno dost
take the burden from the wenry back;
that (lost lay salve to the feet, bruised
and cut by the flints and shards; that
takest blood-baking melancholy by the
nose and makes it grin despite itself;
that all the sorrows of the past, the
doubts of future; conloundest in
the joy of the present; that makest
man truly philosophic, conqueror of
himself an - I care ! What was talked
of as the golden chain of Tolle, was
nothing but a succession of laughs, a
chromatic scale of merriment, reach.
ing from earth to Olympus. It is not
true that Prometheus stole the fire,
but the laughter of the gods, to deify
our clay, and in the abundance of our
merriment, to make us reasonable crea
tures. Iftive you ever considered
what man would be, destitute of the
ennobling faculty of laughter? Laugh
ter is to the face of' man what synovia,
I think anatomists call it, is to his
joints; it oils, lubricates, and makes
the human countenance divine. With
out it our faces would be rigid, hyena
liki the iniquities of our heart, with
no sweet antidote work upon them,
would have made the face of the best
among us a horrid husky thing, with
two sullen, hungry, cruel lights at the
top—for forehead would then have
gone out of fashion—and a cavernous
hole below the nose. Think of a babe
without laughter—as it is, its first in
telligence ! The creature shows the
divinity of its origin and and by smi
ling upon us. Yet smiles are its first
talk with the world, smiles the first
answer that it understands. And then,
as worldly wisdom comes upon the
littlo thing, it crows, it chuckles, it
grins, and shakes in its nurse's arms,
or in waggish humor playing bopeep
with the breaSt, it reVealS its high des.
tiny, declares to him with ears to hear
the fieirdora of its immortality. Let
materialiots,blaspheme as gingerly and
acutely as they will, they must find
confusion in laughter. Man may take
a triumph, and stand upon his broad
grins, for he looks arennd the world,
and his innermost soul, sweetly tinkled
With the knowledge,, tells him that he
of all creatures laughs. Imagine, if
you can, a laughing fish. ,Lot man,
then, send a loud ha; ha! through the
universe, and be reverently grateful
for the privilege.—Douglass Jerrold,
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Novel Reading and Insanity,
Dr. flay, of the Butler Insane Asy
lum, Providence, in noticing some of
the prominent causes of the increase of
insanity in our day f lays stress on the
light reading of the age. It fails to
develop the mental health and strength
needed to endure the trials of life, and
by cultivating a morbid frame of mind,
makes it more susceptible to certain
forms of insanity. He says :
Generally speaking, there can bo no
question that excessive indulgence in
novel reading necessarily enervates
the mind and diminishes its power of
endurance. In other departments of
literature, such as biography and his
tory, the mental powers are more or
less exercised by the ideas which they
convoy. Facts are stored up in the
memory, hints are obtained for the
further pursuit of knowledge,judg
month aro formed respecting character
and actions,.original thoughts aro elic
ited, and more than all, life is viewed
as it really has been,and must be lived.
A mind thus farnished, and disci
plined is provided with a fund of 're
served power to fall back upon when
assailed by the adverse forces which,
in some shape or other, at some time .
or other, all of us must eXpect to en
counter.
In novel reading, on the contrary,
the mind passively contemplates the
scenes that are brought before it, and
which, being chiefly addressod to the
passions and emotions; naturally please
without the necessity of effort or proP•
aration. Of late yeari a class of books
has risen the solo object of which is to
stir tho feelings,hot by ingenious plots,
not by touching the finer chords of the
heart, and skillfully unfolding the
springs of action, and - by arousing our
sympathies for *adulterated, unso
phisticated goodness, truth and beauty,
for that would assimilate them to the
immortal productiobs of Shakespeare
and Scott, but by coarse exaggerations
of every sentiment, by investingovery
scene in glaring colors, and, in 'short,
by every possible form of unnatural
excitement. In all this there is little
or no addition to one's stock of knowl- .
edge; no Clement of mental strength
is evolved; and no ono is bettor pre
pared by it fur encountering tho stern
realities of life. The sickly sentimen
tality which craves this kind of stimu
lus is as different from the Sensibility
of a well ordered mind as the crimson
flush of disease froth the ruddy glow of
high health. A mind that seeks its
nutriment from books of this deserip
Lion is closed against the genial influ
ence that flows from real joy and sor
row, and from all the beauty and hero
ism of common life. A refined solfiSh,
ness is apt to prevail over every better
1 feeling, and when the evil day comes,
the higher sentiments which bind us
to our follow mon by all tho ties-of
benevolence, and justice, and venera
tion, furnish no support nor consola
tion.
This specific doctrine that I would
inculcate is, that the excessive iadnl
gene° in novel reading, which is a
characteristic of our times, is chargea
ble with many of the irregularities that
prevail among us in a degree unknown
at any former period,
The Negro's Postscript:
A gallant soldier of the sth corps is
responsible for the following :
Mac was on a visit to City Point,
and while there called upon an old
friend who had charge of sonic hun
dred of Uncle Sam's sable heroes.
While ho was sitting in the offieo;,talk
ing of old times, what should make its
appearance but the dusky proportions
of a stalwart son of Africa. As Mac's
friond was in the habit of once in a
while writing.letters for the darkies,
Sambo had come to claim the privilege
of having ono -written, The officer
being busy, requested Mae to ander
take the arduous task; and of course
ho bonsented,, just as any good natur
ed fellow would.
' "Well, Sambo, what kind'of a letter
do you want ?" asked Mac.
"Dunno, 6.4 h; wants to write to
'Honey,' sah."
"You want a regular stamper of a
'love-letter,' hey? Isn't that it ?"
"bat's it, '.xactly,
Mac wont at it in earnest, and soon
bad a love letter addressed to "Dinah"
Which, had it been to one of the fair
lady readers of tho Globe, would un
doubtedly have been aceeptable, et
least he thought so. After ho had
read the letter to 'Sambo, and gained
his approbation and thanks, he said :
"Well, Sambo, is there anything
more you would liko to have me tell
!Honey' ?"
"No, guess not, sab—Q, yes,
sab, you might say, sab, !Pleasexeuse
dis bad writen and spellen: "
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SLIGHTLY lifixze.—'From love to
Matrimony may, be but a step from the
sublime to the ridiculous; still it may
be safely ventured upon, even in a ease
like the following of domestic perplex
ities:
I got acquainted with a young wid
ow, who lived with her step daughter
in the same house. I married tho
widow; my fhther fell, shortly after,
in love with the step , daughter.of my
wife and married her. • .my Wife be ,
came the mother in law and also the
daughter in law of my own father; my
wife's step daughter is my step moth
er, and I am the *step - father. of my
mother in law. My step moths; wile:
is the - Step daughter of my wife, has a
boy; he is naturally my , step'brother,
because he is the son of. my father,
and. my stop mother; but because_ he
is the son of my wifei's step daughter,
so is my wife the gr - andinother of the .
little boy, 'and ram the grandfather of
my step brother. My :wife has also
boy;. my
_stop mother is consequently
the step sister of my boy, and is also
his grandmother, becauso ho is the
child of her step . son and my father is
the broth,ec in 'law of my son, because
he has gat her step sister for a wife.
I am the brother of my scm, who is the
son of my
. step mother. I am the
brother in law of my mother, my . wife
is. the aunt of her own son, my son is
the-grandson of my father, and am
niy
niy own grandfather.
A JOKE ON "SoNNY."—A. Parlors
burg (W. Va.) paper says thafseveral
gentlemen of the Legislature took the
cars at Grafton late on the evening of
the ult. for Wheeling, and_ among
the number was . Mr. G., of somewhat
largo proportions Physically, and a'
Mr. D., of proportional. undersize.
These tyro gentlemen took a berth to,
gether, it seems, in a sleeping car.
The little man laid behind, and the
good natured, waggish Mr. G. before.
Mr. D. was sleeping and snoring furi ,
ously. .Mr. G., more restless under
the legislative burdons,soon arose arid
was sitting by the'stOro, when an el.
doily lady came aboard and desired a
sleeping berth. "All right,: Madam,"
said Mr. G.' - "L took a berth with tit
son, and you can occupymy place in
that berth where my boy is sleeping."
Taking Mr. G. at his word, the lady
disrobed herself and lay down with
the boy. After a quiet repose, of seine
time, the boy (Mr. D.) became restless
from some cause, and began to kick
around, to the annoyance of .the old
lady. So in a maternal way she pat
ted the boy on the back and said
"Lie still, sonny; Pa said I might
sleep with you." "Who are you I".
said the legislator: "Pm no boy! I'm a
manlier of the West. Virginia Legisla.
turo!" It - is said the old lady swooned.
USEFUL OZTEIOGRAPHICAT.
Among the other difficulties of English
orthography is the relative position of
i and e hi the words in "leve"or"eive,"
and both in . manuscript . and print are
seen "believe" and "beleive," "redeye"
and "receive," reprieve" and ."re
proive.' The writer was somewhat
surprised on being told, not long since,
by a foreign. lady, who was taught
English in Holland,. that .there woe a'
rule regulating the position of tho let:
ters referred to in all 'such, words; and,
11S it, was now to him, and, so f;tr as he.
has discovered, new to °Very 'one, he
thinks it may be useful to give it pub.
Hefty. When the preceding consonant
is a letter which comes after i in the'
alphabet, e comes after i in the word,
ae "believing;" but when the preceding
consonant comes before i in the alpha.
bet e comes before i in the word, as
"receive." The yule is invariable as
applies to the class of words referred
to, but is not as of general application
to words of one syllable, haying the
same vowels in juxtaposition; thus we
have "niece," "cell," &c.,which cenforin
to the 'rule, and “chief," &c.,
which , do not: • •
JJoLr-Y.—At o, camp mooting a num:
ber of ladies continued standing on the
benches, notwithstanding the frequent
hints from the minister to sit down.
A reverend old gentleman, noted for
his good humor, aroso and said ;
think if those ladies standing on the
benches know they had holes in their
stoCkings, they would sit down." This
addl ass' had the dosirod offeet 7 there
wati an immediate sinking, into the
seats. A young minister standing be
hind him, 11.1111 blushing to the tort
said , fq, brother, how could you'say
that 7" "Say that 7" said the old gen
tiemun• "►t'•B. fapt ,,, -if tliP7 1 )90!P
holes in their stockings, I'd like to
know how they could got thorn on."
"Each moment. makes thee
dearer," as the parsiruppious tra4s
man said to his Eqtrayagarit
"The bottle is the devil's crucible;
in which every thing is incited.
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smelt tlio moat amimi &antes . foi jlroteptly .
the beiC style, every Vierietibt Job
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CALL MID. EXAMINE 111 , C611XN8 0C,7c.74). •
AT LEWIS' BOOK. STATIONERY . &
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Lord Shaftebttry recently stated.
a public meeting in London, that he;
had ascertained , from personnkobsei:.
vation that of r adultrnalo_priminats
that city, nearly all had '1411661b1:61d,
course of crime between the. ages of•
eight to sixteon years; andithitt if a
boy lived anhonest lifo up to twenty
years of age, there, .were forty :nine.chances in his favor and only fine.
against him as to an honorable life ;
thereafter:. . ' 'l.
This is a fact of startling importance
to lathers and Mothers, and sholeysA
fearful responsibility.,Certainly a' PO
rent should secure and 'exercise abso
lute control over hivehikl-itntil sixteen' ,
—it cannot be tt very difficult matter
to do this, except in very rare enses; l
and if that control is not wisely and,
efficiently exercised, it must be the ,
parent's fault- -it is owing .t . o 'parental
neglect or remissness.. 'Hence tbe-neal
source of ninety eight per cent : 7o4lMo,
crime in a country Flu& as England on,
the ignited states lies at the door of
the parents.
It is fearful reflection wo throw.
nt before the minds of the fathers and
mothers of our !add; and there lea.Ve'it ‘ .
to be thought of in viriadom,
ins' only, as - to the early seedi'of' die":
ease, that in nearly cv,ery case
are sown between sundown' and hod
time, in absence from theSamiljsrcir4le,,'
in the supply of spending money nev-.
er earned' by the spenders, opening the ,
doors of soda fountains, or beery wine.,
and tobacco shops, of the eireus.the,
negro minstrel, the restaurant, oink
dance; then follows the Sun'day" 13%!.
cursion, -the Sdnday drive, the (ay::
transition to the cornpany thosßr:
whose ways lead down to'the 'go tea.
soolal,.phYsical, and moral ruin.-- -
From '"eight to sixteen!" In these:'
few years are the destinies Ofchildren; •
fixed r in forty-nine cases Out of
fixed' by parents I Lot 'every-fathen
and mother solemnly vow: "By Ood'a.•
help, I'll hairy dai•ling's
good by making home more attraetiv.e;
than the streets!!
4alian wit is highly draniatie,
taneous, genial. Among its prOyerlis..
are--" Tho dog earns, his
wagging his tail." "Make .yourselvesi
all honey ; and the flies will devour if,"r
"The smiles of a woman are the . team
of the purse." "He who .takes an cab
by the tail; or arwoman by the tongue,.
is sure to come off empty handed.,::
The characteristic of - Spanish wit;
excessive stateliness.: Of their pr4gr--=
erbs---"Ile who has nothing to do,' leb.i
him bay' a' ship or marry a . wife.T:
"From many children and little breadl i .
good Lord deliver us."- •‘.t.A fool:
never, a fool unless be Ithows Latindt.e
French wit is charaeteriz4by film .
ness, brilliancy, : dexterity, point; breiiAt
ity. In repartee the , French is unri.
valed. Their conversation is not only.
an art, but a, fkne art: In punning they:
are unequaled. In, no. literature.;.}}*
there so many proverbs which spealg
disparingly of the fair sex. "kan_'4 , -
fire, woman is tow--the devil nompu t .
and blows." woman conceals;only
what: Bhp doesn't know." "TO) g 4
chickens: one.' must corm, the >hen.l
"Scratch people where they itch.'?'
REVERAL R - INTB FOR TIOVA.KEEPERA.
.—The heads of families are 'Often;
heard to exclaim, we must breakup t
our household aud gn to a boarding;
house for the' Want of'good house-seri
rants. A writer who. seems to have
given this vexed question some thin:tit - A
says "that, himeekeepois 'should
er scold or rave at - servants, and ilyon .
desire them to be uschil end obsg:
en t,do not exact too'much of them: /01'
low them sufficent time for rest and
recreation, remembering that humble:
labor is entitled ,to its privileges all
well AB wealth and high p . osition;
Correct their mistakes kindly. Do net;
perplex and worry them with contra
dictory directions. Teach
duties' calmly.. If aro dull do not
laugh at them, for that will only mphe
obstinate as well as du11.. ; Never "treat;
them as, if you suspected them, of dis
honesty, except, on sufficent groundsr
nor accuse them cf falsehood until you
find. them systematically, a' deceivin ,
4 • i r s
you. Give them, plenty of, thneat their
meals and comfoytable -beds
on. In short, use them as you would,,
desire to be used if in their places.
The golden rule alwayk( wotks-well
when faithfully aPplied."
0537 A countryman took his seattt,
a jtairerntalki3 apposite tq
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,
who was iudulg,ing in a bott)eoryipZ.,
Supposing the wino to be common ;
property, our unsophieticatm.i Oountr,y
frion4 helpe4 himself to it with the;
gentleman's , "That's cool 1 9 94:
claimed the owner of the wide indigo
nantly. "Yes," - replied the other "I
should think there was iee in it
WM
BILL HEADS,
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Eight to gixtemti.:
National Wit.