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THE LITTLE FROCK AND SHOES.
A little frock but slightly worn,
Of blue and white delaine, .
With edging round tUo ucrk and slcovcs,
Lay folded neat and-plain;
Beside u'litlle pair of'sb.oeH,
With hero and tli’cre a flaw, -
;Lay half concealed’amoug the things
. In mother’s bureau drawer.
Summer bad passed away from earth,
•With all its sweetest ties; ' ■
Tito birds had left their summer haunts,
For mnro congenial skies •
The twUight.hreo7.eB softly playod ,
Among tho dews of eycn—7 .
An,angel left bis honic on high . -
To gather dowers for Heaven.
The angel near ami nearer came,
Where sister sick did He ;
And gently fanned her faded cheek,
~ And pointed to the sky j
Tho morning mb one upon the bed.
The autumn wind blow, free—
The angel moved his silvery wings.
And whispered—“Como with me,’ :
f' -
Wo gathered round her dying bod,
With hearts to weep and pray;
And many were the tears we.shed
.When sister wont awayj
“No bitter tears had'she to weep,”
No sin to bo forgiven ;
But closed her little eyes in sleep,
To open them, in heaven;
Wo laid her in the earth’s green breast,
Down by the village green,
Where gently swoops tho dewy grass,
And summer flowers are scon,
And ofton whon dear, mother goes .
. Together th’nge-to use,,
X sco her drop a silent.tear.
sister’s frock and shoos.
IP TOD LOVE lE, SAY SO
Von prftjflo tbo color of mycycs,
, You flay my face is fair,
And tlmt tho lluven'B rrinpc ftlono
J ,Cari'tnatch my wnvlng'hair, • '
‘ AnV| oft you linger l»y my side,’
;l> - Pmy wlmt onn make you star i?o ?
’ Why can’t .you spenk your mind at onco?
Do, if yqli loyp mo, say so ?
Yon soy no inusio sounds to you
So sweet; so silvery.clear/
And when my joyous laugh rings out
Upon your eager cnr;
My voice is sweetest in the song,'
And clmrmeth caro away so,
There’s magic in it you declare,
. Yet if you love mo say so.J
Yon often hold my hand in yours,
•Your voice is soft, and low;
And when you come you stay and stay.
And still seem loath to go.
I wonder if you love mo, Toni,
I wonder why yowatay so,
Why can’t you tell mo what you mean?
Do, if you love mo say so ?
.1 love you—love you dearly, Tom,
r often think with pride,
That soon the happy day will come,
When I shall bo yoiir bride.
I know ’tis love that makes you come,
; ’Tis love that makes you stay ‘so,
Dove speaks in o>cry act and look,
Yet, 0 dear Tom ! do say so.
Mißulkmnm.
tUE DOLLAR ASD THE! MAN.
Am ?“ live 90 fas t that we have nn
to^nnV n e ™° y lfe- )'T e aro too eager by half
D 3 on °y;- a ? if the chief cud of man
LbiVvr m and .B lo r if y the dollar here, and
bnts f °f ?7 r world ‘hat is to come;
but it is a fatal mistake, both in itself, and in
Us consequences, and entails a vast amount
of m.sery upon society. Money is a good
tluno m its own sphere ns the representative
ot value and of labor, and cannot bo dispensed
witli; but It is a very subordinate thing after
nil, and is by no means the master of the
world, notwithstanding the laudations of its
Votaries. ,It can perform groiit things; it can
furnish, all the luxuries and elegancies of life,
nnd treble the fascination and power of ex
ternal influences; but.it cannot touch the em
pire of the human soul, wherein lie all the
lorces of civilization and of personal charac
ter, and those grand spiritual truths nnd as
,lC' S, VP dt . anJ ennoble a true
amt upright man, that ,in the groat Eve of
angeis" h 0 nkB ? little,
meaning and
“ a . VOry . andl a
alUorthy the employment of one's-host'fac
ulties and days to achieve. It is well to have
enough ; a competoncy-tl.at happy medium
■Z " , * 3 ueitlier poverty nor riches, and
which Solomon, after sufficient trial of the
latter, thought the most desirable of condi
tions ; but it is not well to accumulate for the
sake of accumulating; to nourish within us
that mistaknblo and canine greed for wealth
Wlnoh tears our speculators and so many of
our merchants and brokers like an ovU'dc-!
Mon, and gnaws their hearts into a hideous
monev n w. m ° y nn - ' V ° '>T too much for
money when wo purchase it at so dear a rate;
and we degrade thereby, the noble callin? of'
milT rC ° mt ° a vlcioua pursuit. Lot
can "mho life moan or great in
P. r °P.” tlon , fc ? our aims, and the .amount of in-
ItTs I,eroo .‘. sm w A ic . h put-into it—
: tlo, ' 0f -‘ man which brings
reVoronC °- ° r ddds 1-lafo
a -phe President may bo a traitor nnd.a knave-'
a scS™? Bot; }^°^merchiint^ swindler and'
his mifl' - ’ and ln nono of those oases will
bis outer investments protect him from oxo
a£&(Oa»;sa:
XuSTr ifc ‘ban at the
inonoy. m ak! n V j tl,o tcndency of all this
vort i l m °noy-Tmehipis to sub
soil na^UTo ' the economy of
dear— ln ° n cJieft P commodity
near is to shove aside the claims of intolls
and character. andto establish tho reign of
Anarchy triad of Atheism.,' Wb live with vul
gar auibitiftliffi and hhyo’noMdea'bfft succeSsf
ful life,"Which, is hoffouhdedon materialism.
Gold is the-Alpha, and Omega ,of our social
creed, and. our highest, priests are. the rail
lionaries of AY/ill street.., What we Want most
of.ail is stability—-settled occupations hinn
fnlly and perseveringly bohduoted; had such
a stable view of life, that we should bo satis
fied with thp slow proceeds of our own Indus?
try, and the domestic ond sociftl blessings
which accrue from them, without hankering
after largo fortune, and dreaming perpetual
dream-fables of gold. ’’ . '
CURIOSITIES OF COURTSHIP.
A proposal was written and sent by tho
post, in the days when letters traveled quiet
ly at tho rate of ton. miles an hour on tho:mail
coach.. The anxious lover for the first week
breathlessly expected the. reply, hut it did not
come. The next week ho pined, and was
slcesbleas; still no answer. ■The third week
lie became indignant. “A civil acknowledg
ment was his Aue. She was heartless and; d
flirt.” The next week he despised her, and
congratulated^himself on his escape; and,
when at, the end of it, he' received his own
letter hack from 1 the dead letter office, because
he had, in his agitation, forgotten to'to direct
it, he had so completely outlived his love thde
he never proposed to thdt lady at all. . ;
I once saw d middle-aged invalid making
love to a, young girl. After making great ef
forts to secure an opportunity of meeting her,
ho drew his chair oloso'to hors, looking into
her face, sighed heavily,-drew his chair still
closer, and, while she. looked at him in as
tonishment,'and I in the. distance strained
my oars to hear what tender remark followed
all this preparation,. I heard him whisper
with great emphasis; “Who is your doctor?”
I need hardly say thdt the proposal failed
which followed this well-judged commence
ment, A more pflrdonahle case of a man’s
absorption in his own pursuits was that of a
very, shy lover, whoso one idea was horses.—
He never found courage to propose till'he had
porsuddod the’lady to go into the stable and
look at his favorite horses. There 7ic spoke,
and there she answered yen. But this was
natural and pardonable; a shy man may fool
this vantage-ground, and, feeling his own in
feriority in tile drawing-room, may yet ho
aware! of his superior knowledge and superior
povyer in the stable, where his horse is hia
throne ami he himself a king.. . '
A inarriago took place, not many years ago,
in the great world, where tluvtwo lovers (long
attached, but separated by tlio desire of their
parents.) met under an archway while each
was taking refuge, in London from a sudden
shower of rain. Neither of them had , the
least idea of the neighborhood of the other,
when the sudden meeting occurred, which
decided the course of their future lives. In
another cage, the engagement was broken off
bn account of. limited moans, and tho-gontle
mah went abroad. Returning after some
years absence, he arrived late on- the railway
platform, and rushed into the first carriage
be reached, just ns the train was,in motion.
In it he found (with her mother) the lady he
had been so long vainly endeavoring to for
get, and the meeting onded in one of the hap
piest marriages. Hans: Anderson gives, in;
one of , his books, nn amusing account of a
young man, newly appointed to some official
position in the court of Copenhagen, ordering
his court dross in a great haste, that ho might
bo present at a hall where ho meant to de
clare his attachment to a beautiful girl whom
be bad long loved. All went smoothly, and
•ho was on the point ,of proposing, nay, had
spoken a few preliminary wows, when a but
ton gave way on the hastily made court dress,
The lover rushod abruptly away, and the lady,
hurt at his unlooked-for departure, made an
engagement for a sleighing party next day,
where she received and accepted‘the offer of
another Invert ' ' ’
Thus, love, ns well as life, often hangs upon
a thread. Always secure your retreat in love
as in war. This is a precaution never to he,
neglected* Mr, A- . brother of the late
Lord 7*—-,-whose proud arid haughty temper
was proverbial, proposed to a lady in Portrnan
Square Gordons. After being'refused, the
rejected lover turned away from her in great
indignation, but finding the gate,of tho gar
den locked, was obliged to return to the lady
to petition for tho key. Another case still
more trying, was that of a gentleman travel
ing in North America, who,: after being hos
pitably received in the house of an officer high
in, command there, proposed to his . host’s
daughter, and was refused. A deep fall of
snow came on in the night; the roads became
impassable.; and tho poor man, to his un
speakable mortification, was detained for a
weekin the house with the.'lady. who had re
jected him. .
hiGHT Hath its Songs.— Have you never
stood liy the sea-side at night, and heard the
pebbles sing,.and the waves chant God’s glo
ries? Qr have you never risen from your
couch, and thrown up your chamber window
ed 1 istoned to these ? Listened to what ?
Silence—save now and then a murmuring
sound, which seemed sweet music then. And
have you not fancied that yon heard the harp
ot God playing in heaven ? Did you not con
ceive that yon stars, that those eyes of God
looking down on yon, were also mouths of
song—that every song was singing, as it shone,
its mighty Maker, and His lawful, well-de
served praise ? -Night has its song. AVo need
not much postry in our spirit to catch the
song of night, and hoar the spheres chant
piaisos which are loud to the heart, though
temlent to the oar—the-praises of
God ’ ' vbo boars U P th « nnpillarod
courses heaVOn ’ and moTes tho stars in their
Mountain tho aeronaut, has offered his ser
vices to tho general government in the capa
city ot. a scout. He proposes to inflate his
balloon, and, accompanied by an engineer to
oacond to any desirable elevation,taking notes
ot th? country, the situation and strength of
tho, enemy, &c. This idea is by. no means
novel. It occurred to tho first Napoleon, when
the art of ballooning was but little' under
stood.' During the Crimean war, the allies
frequently made use of those instrumentalities
to ascertain the preparation making by the
S?® 1 "*-- it >«w.ifi,tho groat plain of
northern Italy, m the campaign of 1859, that
•? e, F ■ y J>honmo most apparent. : Before
the battlcs-of Magenta and Solforino, Louis
Napoleon, had, employed mronauts to survey
ivlfi-S' 111 ’ ■ and bde Austrians wore in
bvTn? mot '° n , m ? do b ? thom was n °-
ticed by those genu of the upper atmosphere
and reported to the victorious kieT P
tilers th ° S ravo wl *lnot question
behind tnf an ? oUll fc of wealth thoulas loft
in tbb ’i 'i , - bat go . od doeds tbm hast done
tho blessed! 3 ' ° nt ‘ t 0 th °° to a ecat amotl «
A Soldier’smother to iler Sod.
I'he following motherly letter whs written
by the wiih of a mechanic in New York to
her son) .who is h worthy member of Colonel
Ellsworth's Eire Brigade. The many. miaV
representations 1 to which that regiment hah
boon subjected ,touched the mother’s heart/
and called forth; the advice which theletter
contains i' ~ ' / T —
My Beak Son : 1 am lir receipt of your
welcome letter. To bo in the enjoyment of'
good health, along with hard beds and still
harder fore, is much better than to’be Ihid
upon a sick bod. Bear son, T will 1 give you;
a little advice; Will you’ hear, as it were my
voice whispering to :you, as it did when you
were '.n little child at my knee, lisping your
childish wants, or rubbing your little cheek
to mine, as if ,to steal the roses that 1 .could
abundantly spare then? Now listen’.; 1 You
have engaged in a struggle that niay’be des
perate on both sides. I know you ora right
m the path you aro.treading; you arp young,
healthy, and willing to, run’ eVery risk,for
your cause. You have proven ydiirselfageod
fireman; now, my dear son, prove yoqrself a
true Christian soldier. Never look at the
quality Of your victuals, nor complaiii of hard
beds. The life of a soldier is made up of pri
vations. Remember the hard bed’ of your
blessed Saviour on the cross, suffering for
your sins, and redeeming you with His pre
cious-blood. ; Ho that could command the
universe, craving a drink of water, .when in
answer they, gave him vinegar and gal!. Yon,’
my dear; son,, pinst , season your food with
those thoughts..’ Your/ country requires your,
aid : and as my-blessed Mother gave up her.
Son for us, so t give you to sustain the good
cause. You have sworn to defend the flag of.
our. tJnion, and I; trust you will do so with
honor, to the shedding of the last drop of your
blood. Bo nothing that will bring a blush to
my cheek or your own, if it should he the
will of God to spare you to return. Obey yo.ur
superiors with a willingness that may show a
good effect upon your comrades. Good or bad
examples havo each their own effect on a largo
body of men, and I know you would like to
hear your companions praised for their good
conduct. Let everything yon do be to the
honor and glory of God, to the aid of your
country in her need,.and for the salvation of
your own soul. My dear son, if you could see
tho tears I shod at this moment, os I write
this letter, which may. ho the last I shall ever
write or you receive, you would he everything
a fond mother could wish to welcome home,
Lghould.it bo the will of God to send you hack"
when the war is over. For want of time, I
Will conclude ’ by giving you. the consolation
I to know that I pray for you, day and night;!
your friends and neighbors also pray for you
and tho cause you are defending. May you
and your comrades succeed,-is the constant
prayer of your fond. Mother.
PAIN, AND DEATH.
' It isVcomfort to 'have no
nerves of sensation'/ Tim'idea that every in
sect and reptile, and even tho-myriads of an
imaleulm that we are obliged, to crush and
destroy day by day, suffer pain, is a terrible
one. The,poets have'taught us the idea; it
is left to naturalists to set us fight.
, may bo out and pulled to pieces
without giving any indication of pain. .When
they lose a_ leg or two, they go about their
business without seeming,to mind it at all.—
Out a-wasp in,two, so that his thorax is sep
arated from his stomach, and abdomen, and
he Walks about merrily, and eats with an un
usually good appetite. In fact, as his food
passes through him at once, it gives him no
inconvenience, and ho can eat any quantity.
The enjoyment does hot last very long, be
cause the process of nutrition cannot go on
without the organs of digestion; but Mr.
Wasp does not seem to suffer in the least.
Insects, in certain cases, show muscular
contortions, but these are not proofs of pain.
We know that there may bo the most spasmo,-
dio action in the human body without the
least suffering. Some years ago,Wo knew of
a little, boy whoso lower extremities were
thrown into spasms by an injury to the spine.
The little fellow had no feeling whatever be
low the point of injury, and was greatly
amused to lie and see himself kick. So, the
convulsive spasms of men who are hung are
no proof of pain. When the nook is broken,
the pressure of blood On the brain produces
insensibility almost instantly. All men who
have recovered from hanging, after it was sup
posed that they were dead, give the same tes
timony ns to its painlessness. When nlendie
slowly,and with strong muscular contractions,
there is, probably, no guttering,
A HARD SENTENCE.
A few years since, one Lindsey, (famous ns
a bold thief and highwayman,) was arrested
before the Criminal Court to answer an indict
ment for highway robbery; to which charge,
there being conclusive evidence against him,
ho plead •’ Guilty.” The crime was a very
bold and atrocious not, denoting great
that kind of “ rough gambling" as well as a
wicked heart. '
At tho close of tho term, Lindsey was
brought.up to receive his sentence, when
Judgo P , who is it groat admirer of honest
industry, as well ns an inordinate hater of
such “ larapius” as Lindsey, who subsist by
thieving, proceeded to pass the sentence of
the law upon him. Ills Honor commenced
by reminding the prisoner that ho was yet a
young man, possessed with a more than ordi
nary share of endowments, sufficient, if well
applied to place him in the foremost ranks of
society. He next informed him
that, by his own plea, he was guihy of rob
bing, in open day and almost in the presence
of tho wljold community —an old and helpless
man of his hard earned money—a crime re
cognized by the law of the land as" of tho
most abandoned and wicked character. In
rehearsing this scathing prelude to the sen
tence of the court, tho Judge, as is usual in
such oases, got’himsolf very much warmed up,
so-that when he came to close his remarks
with'the sentence, ho found our State institu
tions somowhgt mixed up in his mind; for;
said lie—
“ Lindsey, I shnll sentence you for seven
years in tho Pennsylvania Legislature.”
The'Penitentiary, your Honor," suggest
ed tho Prosecuting Attorney, who was stand
ingby;: ■ ■
.The Judge• accepted the correction of:the
prosecutor, muttering, at the same time, some
thing about ! tho “ very little difference.” ‘A'
tittdr-ran around the ; bar, when- the matter
was dropped for the present; but Judge p—
very frequently hears of his sentence upon
Lindsey.
(O" The Vicksburg Whig consoles itself in
prospect of a short supply of northern whisky
by saying, "Wo may be bad off for Whisky ,
but Mississippi river water, diluted' with a
chow of. tobacco and a grain of strychnine, is
a vofy good substitute for the Cincinnati nr
liclo of which we may bo deprived,” • :
“OUR COUNTRY —MAY IT ALWAYS Bij RIGHT-RUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY”
CARLISLE,, : .PA, THURSDAY, JUfIE 13,1861,
• RED,' BIDE.
• • Ob. Columbia; -tbo gora of tbo Ocean,
: ~ .. Tho bomo of:the,br«yo,A|nditlio frco>
of oachpdtTidt’Vdovption,
- Aworld thco..
■.l’hy njanaatcs mako horodk assemble)
■' ’ When libc" '*'a form stand iu view,
'• 'niy-baT’ l '' •
■ Wl io Vod,-white and blue.
. . W 1 ip fotV.whlto nnd'bluo,
Tb; :o tyranny tremble; 1
*> W ; \c rod; while and bine,
Senator Douglas was publiily received by
tho Illinois Legislature on and
made a patriotic speech, urging'immcdiate ac
tion iu 'suppdrt of tho Government.., He’
said': . i -.■; ■; ‘ 'ii V •;» »r
_ “ Most of you know l am a good fighter in
nmes.of.partisan,strife.l hop!).to. show,you
all, tliftt l ain an equally good patriot in the
time of my country’s danger. It is now your
imperative duty to throw party and party
platforms to the winds,,forget that you ever
differed. . Give mo a country tlmt my oliildron
can live in peace,, can have a
theatre if wo desire,: tizgh controver
sies. : ■ ■ ■ v
“ ATe nre called and see
our Capitol seized, our away
by those whoglory in,trainponM;fie American
flag in the dust. Illinois State
wouhlsiiy.to day that if L&adljjpinmitted an
error in my political .par&er, it Ms consisted
in loaning too far toward the South. I have
never pandered to the projudioc'pf the North
against the Minority section. While If?lll
never invade the constitutional rights of the
South, nor sanction their invasun by others,
I want them distinctly to understandthat they:
ihudt not invade my constitutiujal rights.
(Loud cheers.)
“ It is a prodigious crime against the free
dom of the world to blpjthe Unite! States out
of themapof Christendom., What do we see?
AVashington to be bombarded 1 Tln President
and his Cabinet, elected and amointed to
their places by the Bamo'autheritypa George
AVashington and his constitutional (Jivisers, to
.bo parried off as hostages I TheiySy demon l
!of destruction to bo lot loose in thelmd 1 How
-long do you thinkubyriU~b,^twxii||Rdiii6tihe
l ; is in operation ? Allow me 1 r> say'ujmy forin
,er political enemies,-you wll nothin true to
your country if you seek'l) make- political
capital out,of these disoshrs. (Applause.)
A.iid to my old friends, you will bo false and
Unworthy of your principles if you allow po
litical defeat to convert yov into traitors to
your national-land I .The shortest waynow to
peace consists in the most stupendous and un
animous preparations tor waf” (Vociferous
cheering.) ; >
Wliat War has Cost tfie World.
The war preceding the treaty of Ilyswiok,
1507, cost §139,000,000. \
The Spanish war of 1739, settled for at
Aix Chapello, cost §270,000,006. :
The war of the,Spanish Succession cost §311,-
000,000. , , , ' ■ .
The treaty of:Paris, in 1763, ended in a
bloody struggle, which cost §560,000,000.
The war of American Independence, cost
England and this country §930,000,000.
The war of ton years, which is known as
“the French Devolution of 1793,i005t §230,-
000.000.;,, ,vi
The war againsftho First Napoleon, which
began in 1803 and ended in 1815, j. os t the ex
traordinary amount of §5,809,000;000.
The Crimean war cost n §84,000,000.
I'ho last Italian wav, hot including the hos
tilities between Victor Emanuel, Garibaldi,
Bomba &c., cost §45,000,000.
Thelastwar in India cost England §38,000,-
The list might ho doubled. It Includes
wars only'of which definite statistics are on
record. _ The cost of the present War hero ho
statistician can estimate,, because the loss to
commerce, industry and trade which it, will
involve is beyond the roach of Calculating
powers.
Queen Elizauetu’s Love of Flattery.—
With many of her attendants, she was so un
guarded in the marks of her'favor, that re
ports were spread abroad injurious to her rep
utation. Party spirit has continued the dis
cussion Up to the present time, the advocates
of the hapless Mary maintaining that the
lover of Leicester, and' Hatton, and Essex,
was not entitled to make any over-virtuous
allusions to the levities attributed to their
hoorine. Her defenders appeal to the little
influence exorcised over her by the suspected
sharers of her guilt; and say that in all like-
lihood tlio friendships of Elizabeth went no
■ further then the gratification of jior insatible
love of admiration and, appetite for fulsome
praise. Of all these temporary and capricious
attachments, we have only to difoll on that
toward Essex, for it was the' only one that in
fluenced her public acts, and seems to have
been really sincere; but at'thOjtime of his
greatest favor she was nearly seventy years
of ago; and oven after his unhappy death,
when her own demise was near it hand, she
is reported by the French Embassador to have
boon, captivated by the looks of it tall young.
Irish Earl, and, to bo as anxious as over for
flattery and devotion. The habit of being
courted became her second nature, and the
same person who, as Queen, could'withstand
a coalition of all Europe against hor throne,
was wretched if sho had not a handsome, de
signing cozener at her side, to toll her her
brow was not wrinkled with seventy-two
years of toil and ; care, and - that lier looks
were as rich and auburn as when her early
adorers had assured-her that they wore sun
beams woven intp ringlets, and clustering
round the,forehead of the chaste Diana. Ren.
Janies ■ White's Ilistori/ ofEnijlandi
anecdote is related of well-known
vagabond, iwho was brought before a magis
trate’ as a common vagrant. Having sudden
ly harpooned a good idea', ho - pulled from a
capacious pocket of his tattered coat a loaf of
bread, and a : half dried codfish, and holding
them up, with a triuniphantlopk and gesture
to thomagistfato exclaimed, “ You don’t ketch
me that way I I’m no vagrant.’ A’nt them
wisiblo means o’" support, I should like to
know V’
' jjgy Money may bo the root of all evil, but
wo should nave no objection to a trunk of it.
Wbori wai* Wiigcd its ttldti desolation,
• And threatened our InndJi) deform, •;
Tho.ark-thon of 1 ,
•Columbia rode' safe through tlio storm,
With her garlands of tiotbry around hor,
-Wlicp so proudly bold crew,
With tho flftg’Jiroudly floating before hor,
: TH6 boast oftlio and blub,
‘I The boast ofitho'rod/.Tyhiteand bluoj Ao.
Tho Vnriooiip, tho TVihe brlng hithcr,
And;fill you it up tO;thb brim, .
May tbc Avrcath they hayp.yroa uovor Tvitbor,
Nor tho stars of their glory, grow dim.
May .the: service muted ne’er, savor,
And hold to their colors. so'. true.
The army and navy for ,ovbr,
Throe cheers for the nid/white and blue. ‘
Throe chcors for Ac* . ;
Noble Sentimenti.
iA Cannon! that Uses no I‘owdcr.
480 BALLS* FIRED IN, A MINUTE^
_ A new implement of war, known'ns the
McCarty ; cannon, was put on trial in this
city last week. .■ It shoots 480 balls in a’ min
ute, without tho use of powder, the impelling
. principle being,centrifugal force.
The gun used in the experiment had only
nn_ inch hdfo and was about three feet long.
It is attached to a .Wheel about four feet in di
ameter, and riot over four inches thick, look
ing like a flange.or,a balance wheel. On one
side of tliis wheel, or flange, is a tube Which
connects the wheel with a hopper, into which
aro .poured the halls in a promiscuous man
ner, ns apples are thrown into tho hopper of
a cider mill,_ the machinery inside of .the.
;wh‘eel' receiving; the halls, carrying then!
.around to the gun barrel, and throwing them
through the, bore of tlie gun at tho rate men
tioned, above simply by the centrifugal force,
and at a velocity almost incredible.
The river at the foot of Thirty-third street
.is about one 1 and three-fourths miles, wide.
The gun was stationed some distance back
from the shore, and the, balls wore seen to
drop into tho water amongst tho shad poles,
•toward thewest side of the Hudson, at tho low
est estimate one mile from the starting point,
nnd all this by centrifugal fofee, of the ar
rangement of the machinery to use this throw
ing-off,power..
When, tho machinery is put in motion it
sounds like a threshing-machine, and has d
like hnm about it. •* The only report about its
f ring is the clank .of the ball passing into the
large wheel. Thojr. pass off without the least
noise, no one knowing their departure until i
they strike the target at a distance'.— New
York Pape)'. ’ ' . ’ ‘
Raiii‘ Road Propkhtv. —Railroad property
seems to - suffer more from internal warfare
than any, other species of property. Besides
,tho loss of its regular business from a disturb
iod condition of public affairs, and'the liability
to be taken possession of for military uses,
the first thing a defensive army does is to de
stroy all bridges as the invading army
advances. The bridges on the Northern Cen
tral, and onthoPhiladolphiaand Wilmington
fond, were burnt on the very first movement
of troops Southward. ' Through the energy of
the managers, they have been repaired, but
have to be guarded continually. The bridges
on -the Baltimore and Ohio railroad are nearly
nil to be destroyed as soon as the .Federal
troops move toward Harper’s Ferry. Since
the Federal troops have crossed into Virginia,
the work of destruction has extended .on the
Alexandria, Loudon and Hampshire, road, the
■ national troops have burnt bridges, variously
istated at eight, a*id eleven, and. haye torn up
the rails, at, intervals, over a space of many
.miles. The object, of this proceeding is to
prevent the approach of attacking forces from
The bridges beyopfi the lino'
’of" flieii, operations ’ have: been'destroyed for
miles by the Virginia troops,: to pre
vent the Federal forces from proceeding any
further South. Though railroads are great
■facilities for mustering our forces together,
they cannot be considered of much importance
for army operations in the territory of the pe-
Jibollious States. .But to the same extent they
destroy railroads, to keep the Federal forces
from following them, they also impair their
own facilities, for moving about rapidly to
various points threatened with danger. ' Por
table bridges, with car loads of rails tofpllow
after bur army, >vbuld enable them to repair
damages as they advance, and keep up a con
tinuous communication as far as they pro
gress. '
[CVA Freak op Nature.— lt id said that
a Child was born in the upper part of the city
of Harrisburg a day or two since with teeth.
Few instances Of this kind rtro on record since
the days of Eichafd 11, and think the war
must httvo something to do with it. It would
have been in accordance with the times if the
younster (providing it is a boy) had been
“ushered 1 into this breathing world” with
a knapsack on liis back, and musket in his
hand, but oven ns it is, bringing forth chil
dren ready supplied with teeth is enough to
torify Jeft'. Davis, “ or any other man.”
A Voucher, —A man once went to purchase
a horse of a Quaker.
“ Will he draw well ?” asked the huyor.
“ Thee will 1)G pleased to see him draw."
.The bargain was closed, and the favmei
tried the horse, but he would not stir a step,
lie returned and said—‘ '
That horse will not draw an inch.”
• “I did not toll thee that ho would draw,
friend, ! only remarked that it would please
thee to see him draw; and so it would mo,
blit ho would never gratiliy ino in that re
spect." "
K 7“ An old bachelor being ill, his sister
presented him a cup of ifledicine.
“ What is if ?” he asked.
She answered—
“lt is elixir asthmatic, it is very aromau
tic, and will make you feel ecstatic.”
“•Nancy,” ho replied, with a smile, “ you
are very sister-matic.”
The Confederate Government has appointed
General Leo Comraander-in-Chiof of the forces
in Virginia, in which State there are said to
bo about 55,000 men enrolled.
'Go to grass!’ said a mother to hoi
daughter.
‘Well,- then, I’sposo I’ll have to marry,’
ejaculated the fair damsel.
‘ Who so ?’ inquired the astonished mother.
‘Because all men are grass.’ The old lady
survived.
O" Happy Folks—A child with a rattle
—a schoolboy on a holiday—two lovers walk
ing by a boy sucking cider
throug a straw.
DC7" Mr. Smith you said you once officiated
in a pulpit; do you mean that you preached.
No sir; 1 held the light for tho man that
did."
*• Ah 1 the eou't understood you differently.
They supposed that tho discourse came from
you.”
‘‘Mo sir 1 I only throwed a little light upon
it »
“No,.levity, Mr. Smith. Crier wipe your
hose and call the next witness."
flgyrThe French army-numbers about 687,-
000, men, with 10. marshals, 194 generals
of divisions, 162 brigadier generals, 1,370 ma
qrs, and 6,871 captains.
[£7” When Sheridan was asked what kind
of wine ..ho' liked best, answered—“ Other
people's.’' ore are a great many Shori
dan'S/
0“Tho mere we know of History, the less
shall wo esteem the subjects of it; and to de
spise ouf spccids, is the.prico wd must too oft
en pay for knowledge of it. '
Military Signals.
. Major. Myor, of : thp army, .some months
Binde, announced the discovery by himself of
i* Ji now system of military signals,which Would,
, in a groat measure, revolutionize tho manago
. nfont of modern forces; I’hcsigniils ivrO model
. by menus of a llitg attached to a pole, from
. twelve to sixteen feet long. , .The different
movements which the flag is made to go
through represents numbers, which in their
turn represent letters of the alphtihet. Tho
letters, of course, nro combined into words
that load out this -message.* -By the interven
tion of the numbers, none hut the officer who
directs the flagman, and those who have been
previously informed of tho arrangement of
the system, can understand tho language of
tho flag, which flag is moved in three direc
tions, to right, left, and front. . This Jr done
by soldiers who nro especially drilled for tlio
purpose, and who, in the trial, manage the
bunting witli astonishing accuracy.
For night purposes, torches aro substituted
for flags; otherwise, the signals are similar to
those made in tho daytime. All tho imple
ments necessary for the service can he em
braced in a small packet, can* ho transported
from point to point by a' single mnh; and be
put in readiness for use in fifteen minutes.—
The experiments were made in the neighbor
hood of Santa Fe, in the latter part of April,
and were successful in every instance, altho’
uneven ground was. selected;The first sig
nals wore exchanged sixteen miles without
difficulty; and on th;o third day, by the aid of
a small repeating station, an intelligible mil
itary conversation was rapidly carried cm be
tween * Old Fort Marcy and Galveston, which
are twenty-five miles apart. "In a few days ,
the War Department of tho United States will
receive nn official report of those experiments,
when the commanding.offieers of tho different i
regiments now at the seat of war will; doubt- .
los,s ; bo initiated* into the mysteries of. the
business. —New York Times ; t
Bduving. the American Flag.— At Mem
phis, Tenn., a week or so ago, a largo Ameri
can flag was procured, enclosed' in a coffin
borne on a bier carried by eight nicn, and
formerly buried. _ The,Funeral was preceded
by a band of music playing the dead miiroh,
and was attended by about 500 Secessionists,
The, grave was dug alongside of a statue of
Gen. Jackson, in one oFthe public squares,
into which the flag was lowered. The earth
was then thrown upon the stars and stripes,
the grave, filled up, and the procession return
ed pcaoefuUy to their homes. The very samC
evening, there arose one of the most violent
gales of wind ’ over witnessed' in Memphis,
and every seccasion flag in the city wns blown
down. Singular to relate,' a very large seces
sion flag which was suspended near the grave,
was blown awaydrain the staff and carried by.
the. wind to the, newly fllled'up pit, where It
was dopes!ted iuid left to,soak in the'rain and
,mu i d„an. <fejtqp t riat6 ; b.e'4cttUBj( tothq depart-,
ed great. The fingCr of heaven was thus un
equivocally expressed at the infamous desecra
tion of our honovedbanner. What is the next
form irt which Southern insanity will display
itself?, 1
fo d lean' lifAnm-E.— Mix a quantity of
strong soap-ley with quick lime, to the consis
tence of milk, and:spread over the stone, and
let it remain, twenty/our hours. Then rub
off, and polish with dry woolen rags.
reply to on advertisement.headed.
“ Use Cooper’s Tooth, Brush,” a western
editor says: ‘We’ll.soe Cooper handed first,
the dirty follow! Hotv would he like to use
ours?’
Tliat.waa a wise nigger, who in speak
ing of the happiness of married people, said,
'* Dat’or pends altogether how dey enjoy them
selves.” ■ "
BSySealing wax take three parts of rosin
and one part of bees ; wax, to which add six
ounces ofshollac, Molt, rind stir well together
add while, cooling, form into sticks like you
mould candy.
, BSS“Ciov. Curtin has appointed Dr. Henry
H. Smith, Professor, of Surgery in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Surgeon (General of
the Army in Pennsylvania.
K 7" Two women, disguised in men’s clotfioS
enlisted at Alton, 111., last week, but on being
discovered were sent homo to their friends,
utterly against their wishes; ’
In one of the Ohio rogimonits there are
sixteen brothers named Pistil. They are Gor
mans.
IDT The Paris correspondent of the New
York Express writes: Hundreds of applica
tions have been made to Mr. Faulkner, be
officers of the French army, to enter the ser
vice of the United and the Confederate States,
according to their opinions of the quarrel. ■
ET* I would have you to know’, sir,-that nly
name is Frances and not Frank.”
“Ah, yes, miss, but you know I have the
franking privilege.”
. J3@s“ “ Swear not at all Abimolech; swear
not atoll.”
“ 1 bat's just wli ;it I does. ' I don’t swear
at all; I only cusses the schoolmaster,”
The last we saw of Abimeloob, ho was go
ing over a garden fence, closely pursued hv a
rawhide. ; J
(HT* Mr. Secretary Cameron has declined to
accent the four Maryland regiments offered
by Gov. Hicks simply for the defence of that
state and of the District. The governor has
entirely misapprehended the tenor of the
secretary’s explanations, and if tho Marylan
ders enlist they must enter the general ser
vice.
flgjw There is no truth in tho report that
more men aro not wanted at Washington. Tho
transport of troops thither will not cease till
the force is raised to 50,000.
OCT* A hoy in Jamaica was driving, a mule
tho other day, tho animal was sullen, stopped,
and turning his arched nock upon the boy as
in derision and contempt.
“ Won’t go, won’t you ? Feel grand, do you?
I guess you forgotyour father was a Jackass ?”
Mr Smith, yoil said you boarded at
the Columbia Hotel six months ; did you foot
your bill.”
"Ho sir; but what amounted to tho same
thing—-the landlord ifooted me.” '
Vordi'ot for defendant. ■ Call the next case.
Don’t Care a Bit.—An Irishman going to
market mot a farmer with an owl.
" Say mishtor, what’ll you take for yer hie
eyed Turkey ?” _ .
" It is an pwl, ye heist,” replied the' aston
ished farmer.
“Devil a bit do X card whether it is old or
•young, price tho bird ye spalpeen.”
rmb •
ty~ No more' rico is to bo sent Worth from
the seceedod States. . 1
[CT*Henry IVmter Davis has been nommal»l
ns a Du ion candidate for Congress inßaltimoro.
Tho American says ho cannot be elected.
lE7“Excdss of ceremony shows want of
breeding. That civility is hcstivhich excludes
all superfluous formality and aotionr
IC7" Wliieli is the most delightful. “To
kiss a fair vtoman on a dark night; or a dark*
woman on a fair night!”- 'v. :.i
JDSy-it is said that there are now 20 000
troops concentrated at Chambersburg.' ' ■
IE7” When a woinan arrays -herself a la
Bloomer, it may be said that she panis for no
toriety. ■ . .
Every fool knows how often ho lias
been a roge but every rouge does not know
how often ho has been a fool.
C? 5- Ladies, of Fashion starve their happi
ness to feed their vanity; and their love to feed,
their pndo; , • / •
O’The Cincinnati Press .publishes a sep-r
Kev - M - D- Conway, of that city, on
the “Horrors Of Peace.’' —— * '
The peach crop in the vicinity of Cin
cmnatLbas been entirely cut offi ■ '
BQF" Jeff Pavis is supposed to bo in Rich
mond; Virginia;
only colored nation in ‘ the world 1
hut .coins its own specie is Hayti.
K?“ Most men have in their souls no loco-r
motives strong enough to draw tt train of .
thought;
!C7*New doner from this spring's* Wheat
has made its apporanco in parts of South At
adama and Georgia.-
Cy Lt Sloramer is In Washington,- and re
ports Fort Pickens perfectly safe'. ,
tCT* I*llo (jor'rfin costitiitional nmendraanl'
has passed both houses of the Ohio Legisla
ture
, O’To ‘‘sheet, folly as she flies’’ require a
heavy load of common sense';
*S@£'Fhe Vote at Harper's Ferry is reported
at 4,200 fpr Sscession and 100 against it.
ID” Eighty thousand troops wiU-iiJs said*
rendezvous at Cairafot.mn, immttvß bfnmvov
bientupon Memphis; . k»
. KT’ ft is said that there have been piircha
sed for the Government §4,000 of horses in his
county. ■, , ’ ■. . ;
£7“Gfen.- Harney has been removed front
he command at St Louis.
The New, York 7th Regiment,. ft)
strong have returned homo, their term ofthirty
days having expired. .
■ ID* Gen .Beauregard isat Memphis; to take
command of the western division of the. Con
federate Army;
_ D” Bayid faggart, whp did not got tho
Coledtorship at Philadelphia, has been ape
pointed a Paymaster in the Army.'' 'V : '
O*A newspaper carrier in Layfayette, jtid.
who had been sorely annoyed by a dog, pu>-
ohasod an interest in tho animal,-, and men
shot his half. ■
SerOut of six thousand oil wells in Pon-,
nsylvania about three hundred pay;
E 7“ A regiment of Wisconsin Cavalry, un
der command of Carl Sohurz, Is confidently
expected to arrive nt Harrisburg in a few
days;
CSyTho number of applicants for situa-'
tion in tho New York Custom House is over
twelve'thousand.- •
O* A good many of the flying -rumors of
this day would bo more appropriately desi
gned by taking off tilts- letter/; • ~ ■
: o*Wisdom often comes too lath'in life to'
be of much service to us.. There’s' no Use of’
hlustard after meat.- ;
figg“Many a sweetly fashioned month had;
been disfigurodjand made hideous by tho fiery
serpent tongue within it. , ,
E7*Tho poor should get learning in order,
to become rich;, and and-tho rich ' should nek
quire it for their ornament!
BQyMt is said that the "census , embraces 1
seventeen mill.ons of women.” .Who would'
hato to be tho census? asks Prontico; , ; '
DC? - A miller,, in gltiug ri cortiffeate fo ■“ the
proprietor, of Mr, Harrisons's.’pills* fordo*-
trOying vermin, astounds us; with tho asser-,
tion. -
“I was full of rats a fortnight since ana'
now I don’t think I hove one!” • ■- 1
|£7"Tho mfnn that minds his own business!
ms a good steady employment; ■ , , ■
The great rock upon windfall orir for-tunos
rise'is "rock thC'cradle.”
a@“A good man is kinder, to his enemy
iari bad men are' to thCir friends;
E7*A piano affords a young' lady a good 1
chance to shoW her fingering and her finger-' >
ring,
B©*Professer Amasa McCoy, secretary q£ j
Cassius M. Clay’s Guards, visited Mount Ver
non on Tuesday, and reports that.the tomb of
Washington remains undisturbed;
■ [C7*Tho traitors who leave tbe navy aro told,
to go to tho South for thoir pay, according-tpj
an order of. the secretory of the navy’ to ; the‘,
fourth auditor of the treasury, as follows.—"!
Tho amounts fouhdf to bo' due to resigned navy
s hears from the states which claim toliave:
seceded, will heretofore bp paid them.from tjio;
funds heretofore sent to or deposited in thpao -
stales, except in oases where the’ department
shall otherwise direct. '
(£7“ Some one speaking to Gen Sobtt about
his policy of hemming in the rebellion, ho
playfully replied, “ When I nm going to catch;,
a rat,’ lalways sco to it that all his holes**r ’’
first stopped.” v. £ .v i.'- J
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