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Spring was fcusy in the‘woodlands,
CHrabing>,up from peak to peak;
As..an/ht eL’meto ’sat and brooded, .
hia cheek.-
hard .upon him,
1 Ahd hia living-friends were few.
And.from odt the.sombro future ‘
Trimble* drifted into view.
Tboro Is something‘tnovoa on strangely
In old-ruins grayvwith years ;
Yet.there’s something far more touching.
In aa old face wot with tears., .
And Uo sat there,-sadly'sighing
O’er his feebleness-and wrongs.
Though the.birds outsideJiis window
. ot'sUmmcr in their songs.
But/bcbolcU ’• aehango comes o’er him
Where arorall his sbrrowi now?
Co’ukV thoy- lcavo bis lioai-t as quickly
As the gloom' his brow ?
Up Iho groin sTo'pQ of-his garden,
Past tho:dial, he savvf ruu
Three ypuqggirls, with, bright cyos sliming,
Like .their brown beads, in the. sun !
There was Fanny, famed for wisdom !
And fair Alice, famed for pride;
Amibne that could say 14 My uncle,”
- And said little else beside, •*
And that.vision startled memories,
That Soon hid all scones of strife,
Sending Hoods of hallowed sunshine
. through the-ragged rents of life.
Then they took him from Ills study,-
Through lung lanes, and tangled bowers,
’Out into the shaded valley V
ilichly tinted o’er with flowers.
And ho blessed their.merry voices, -.
Singing round him ns he went, .
For the eight of thoir-wild gladness- .<
■ I?iUotl'U>B owi^lioavt
'And, that night,' there came about him
Far-off mendows plcturcd-.fair,
And old woods iii which ho \vauderod
Fro he knew the name of-care: ,
; And ho said; ‘ 4 These angel laces•
. Take the whUeneps-fromone’s bnirl”
LATEST NEWS PROJI TUB DSJD,
„ Scattered about the world are dead and
.Tniriod cities that it is one of the lahorsof the
-liviiijs in pur dav to disentomb. There are
■Pompeii and Herculaneum opeh, 'to'bear wit
ness yet to the life of the past. At-Pompeii
the diseiitumlnnent is now- going, on with
fresh activity lunpgood results. Old,Egypt
is delivering op fi-e.sh secrets if heridead at
..Thebes' ami elsewhere.. Spades ar d picks
'have been busy over the graves of Carthage
‘and other dead, arid hurled cities of the Car
thaginians Nincvah and Babylon, having
been in the hands of such resurrectionists-its
Mr. Bayard, Sir floury 'Rawlison find others,
■are loft at pence for fi shrift time. 'Any nows
thence is old news; bat froth the -graves of
other cities, what is the latest intelligence 1
By the Sunny shores of the Bay of. Naples.
■stood for. centuries the remnant of an old
■ wall; and the people Who-lived Weirr ft‘tfe'v
'er cared to dig below the surface. It is now
'one hundred and fifteen years ago that a
workman, engaged in, digging a well near
'this ruin, cut into a hollow chamber, of which
the walls were covered with paintings. By
the slow clearing away of the earth from
buildings made by men who lived at the be
'ginning of the-. Christian era, dwelling-housa
' ®s, temples, altera, statues, built,for the,wor
ship of heathen deities, baths and theat.es,
were found till struck to silence like'the
‘Sleeping Beauty, only for a great many hum;
’dred years instead of duo; and, in our day;
■so restored to light and life, that wo see what
.the town people wore doing in the house and
iiri ‘he street in the month of August, A. D.
•79. There are written recoords of the cause
of this sudden, burial of a city whose inhabi
tants were in the full tide of luxurious enjoy
ment. The letttr remains in which the youn
ger Pliny (ells Tacitus the horrors of it three
days’ eruption of Vesuvius, in which his,un
cle, (admiral of the Homan fleet then lying
in the hay,) having approached top near the
burning mountain, although still miles from
.it, mot Ids death by the exhalations burst
ing from beneath his feet. The admiral had
asthma, and the solphurous vapors appear to
have suffocated him at once, so that ho fell
while his attendants fled from the scene of
destruction to embark on board their ships.
Returning, as soon as itboeanrt light, Which
was not until after the end of three days,
they found their master lying,’.Stretched as
they had left him. ns if h‘6 had fallen asleep.
'Of late years, the removal of thri mass of mad
ashes, and pumice stones, which the b'drn- 1
ing mountain had thrown out upon th’a city,
has confirmed tli'6 statement of another an
joient writer, that thb town of Pompeii had
been, at the time of its total destruction, in
bourse of rebuilding after the consequences
'of a violent earthquake which had happened
Sixteen years bolero. For, as we walk along
in the streets, we not only see the theatre and
beany other edifices to have boon id course of
'construction at the time of their burial bat
m the quarter once occupied by the stone and
biavldo masons there ‘lie portions of an old
frieze, executed in volcanic stone, beside
which stands copies of the same decoration
cut in white marble ready for execution in a
restored temple. There are wheel-tracks in
•he lava pavement; there are worn stone
stops leading up to temples and places of husi
ness; and, curiously enough, thoro is stone,
Worn by the bunds of those who daily strip-
Pod jo drink at the fountains placed at the
reet-oroasings. By constantly loaning on
ue hand while they stopped to drink the
aiming water, these people, who fur so many
liriVi Uri ? s have known no more thirst, wore a
, *iow m the stone rim of the basin upon
eiv ° 1 " lo y loaned. Terrible testimony is
tront? 03 t *'° suddenness of the last outas-
Pao. Broad is in tho bakers’ shop; there
1 I
is a meal jweparod tint never tasted, in a tav
ern. Outside that gate, in the town Trail
which led to Herculaneum, was found a'skel
eton in armor, _ It was that of the soldier on
guard, who, faithful to duty, had not left his
post. In a niche shelterihg a seat fur the
use of tired travelers, wore found the bones
ot a. woman dud a baby, and those of two
other persons clasped in one another's arms.
A few paces further on were three more skel
etons, two of persons who had been running
one way, and' the other of a person who had
been hastening in the opposite, direction.—
Of those one held sixty nine pieces of gold
and one hundred and twenty one of silver.—
Money was found lying beside the remains
of people who had died in the vain endeavor
to carry away means of life whoso sands were
tun. In a room of fhe Temple oflsls, the
priest 6f that Egyptian deity had met death
with feastinp, for near him- were egg
shells anil tile 'bodes of fowls and of a pig,
together with a broken glass 'anfflvtvine vase
In' the house known ns that of Diomed, were
the remains of a man, with that of a goat
-having it bell slung round its neck. In this
dwelling were discovered more than twenty
human beings. In a stable were the bones
of a mule, stiel with its bron'zd bit between
its teeth; in another place was the skeleton
of a dog beside the bones of his master.—
Some skeletods bad four gold rings on the
same finger; one bad a bronze lantern in his
hand, with which ho bad doubtless been try
ing to find bis way out of the thick darkness
of that day of terror.
All these y,oi(iains were discovered many
years ago,. but the work of excavation Whs
then very slow, blow the recent change of
government has given a new impulse to this
most Interestjng labor, insomuch that during
the last few month's, more has been done to
ward diainfeVm.s.nt.'of'the secrets' of this bur
ied community than bad lieon noccfttiDlished
in the previous' quarter of a century There
is a regular organization of labor, and about
three hundred porfcon», many of them.girls
and women, are employed the
crust formed eighteen dehlnricb ago'tv prop-,
tion from the mountain which now rises be- 1
hind the scone .without even a wreath of
smoke upon its summit. Upon a regular
tramway trucks, impelled by their own
weight, run down an inclined plane and dis
charge their loads at the end, just ns is doffe 1
at the formation of a railway. An entirely l
new quarter of the town has been thus open
ed nut; and there lias been found within the
Inst few days the roof of a house, with alt its
tiles lying at their proper angle of inclina
tion, the ashes and mud haying poured into
and filled .the room beneath it so completely
ns to support its covering. There? are two
houses with walls painted in fresco, loonkiug
when disclosed, as fresh ns whon'first placed
upon the walls. Unfortunately, in very lit
tle,' time the colors fade away and alter. *Tho
reds.especially soon become quite black.-
These changes are h'rdhahly duo to,chem
ical alteration ..produced by ’the sun’s rays,
and to' the. oxidizing power of the air. If.
therefore, ns soon rvp.ona of those pmutinjijß is
discovered.-it',could'; he Washed- Ovid' with a'-'J
solution of boiled-grass, such as is used by
the modem fresco painters in Munich,'these
intci'esting specimens of ancient art might bo
pt'esbrved. The writer-lias suggested this to
Signor Firello. tiie director of the oXcava
lions. The very substance is sold in Italy
for the purpose of preserving wood from the
.oflficts'bf fire, and .is. knownMiy the name of
liquoro disclce.- Several bodies have been
recentlyifound imbedded in a mess of hard
ened mud ; and the fortunate idea struck
Signor Firello of pouring plaster of Paris in
to the moulds thus formed. In this manner
tan exact cast was made, inclosing such.parta-j
■.of the contained bodies ns remained undeoom- I
posed. Thus were obtained, first, the body
of a man lying stretched upon his back, bis
features very well preserved; in, fact, so per
fectly that bis friends, wore they alive still,,
could have,sworn to bis identity. Afterward,
o remains ot two fomalos, a woman ami,
.yonng girl, wore preserved irt the sumo man
ner ; so that, while of the dress only a east
.remains, the skull-hones are there, resting
upon the outstretched /arm. At the rtioa'ieht
of death the left liiuid deems -to, have ■ been
'clasping the dress. In the elder female the
left hand is shut, oiio of the fingers having a
ring upon it. This group consisted of one
man and three women, probably all of the
:,snme family, who’were attempting to’save
themselves by flight, after having hastily se
cured dertfun 'Objects \Vhioh they valued.
Silver money, besides four ear-rings and a
all made of-gold, -together with
’the remains of a linen bag, were lying near
: the woman.
One is struck by the fact that very many
.of the persons thus disclosed expired while
engaged in the act of drawing their dress
liver their features. Two reasons may be
given for this. One. that it was done in the
endeavor to prevent suffocation from the
mephitic; vapors given off by the volcano.
The other and the better, that it was cus-
tomary among the jRi-mans to hide the face
when in,the act of death. Thus, true to his
ory, Shakespeare makes Antony say of the
‘the .mightiest Julius
And in his mantle muffling up his face,
Even at the base of Ppmpey’s statue, '
Which ail the while ran blood groat Ciosar foil.
Time;- though ho shovels slowly, gets
through more work than the liveliest volcano,
and.is the ae’xton who has dug the grave of
many a proud city. The remains of Roman
London lie buried fifteen feet bolijtv the level
of tho present streets. You are on the Nile,
and see;.on either bank, a green plain under
a cloudless sky. The columns and towers ol
the groat temple of Luxor rise from arming
the .miserable hovel;; of'ft starved modern lit
tle market town. You sail by. and it is nil
bright green plain till a mile further’to the
north thn towers of Karnnk overtop a palm
grove that partly hides the wonder df its wide
spread ruins. Bht on tho green plain be
tween Luxor and- Karnak, and for twelve
miles'towards, tho hills of the Eastern Desert
stood tlVd fbnVplps, palaces and gardens of
hrindred gated Thoßes, for a thousand years
th'd capital of the gfpAt niUldn of tho ancient
world, Tini'6 Mis done Us work in its own
slow way, and the Nile, rising from its new
ly discovered sopree in tt.gr oat tropical lake,
has played the part of .Vesuvius. Harvests
wtiro eight feet above the burial ground on
which tho glory of the PharSahs was dis
played. At Thebes, also, there have been
recent excavation sand discoveries.
Wo have details trout Mr. Rhind of bis own
•eoont excavation at Thebes of the unriflod-
tomb of an Egyptian dignitary. Ho found it
by the help of tho fiirty men who dug under
his order. In seven weeks a doorway into
tho rook was uncovered. This door has boon
opoaod ; tho tomb within, and another within
that, had been rifled; there wore broken
mummy boxes, and mummies themselves lay
where they had been teased out, with their
wrappings ripped up along tho throat and
breast. But further along, at the font of tho
same piece of rook, other men had boon sot to
dig. and two months of work cleared tho way
to a tomb yet with its seal apparently unbro
tel). The first entrance was into a gallery
within the rock, about, eight feet square and
fifty-five long, its walls smoothly plastered,
with clay." Half way down this gallery Mr.
Rhmd came to a funeral canopy of brightly
painted pillars, supporting a painted roof,
With a sort of temple front.in miniature, nil
very gay .with, red,'blue and yellow. .This
corresponded to our hearse and feathers over
the dead, and had been delivered up as-well
as charged for, by the ancient undertaker.
Further inward, there sat, carved in stone, a
pairof monumental figures, two feet high,
.male and female, side by side. Their super
scription showed that the deceased gentleman
had been h;oltidf.6f giro military police of the
Temple.of Aminon Ra, at Thebes; He was
decidedly plump and on bis dress was in
scribed, “All food off the tables of Apimori
Ra and Mut is given to the deceased/' The.
lady by tfi'e {re(itlep>kh’a side was inscribed.
“His sister beloved from the Se'pth'of his
heart.” The statues wore flanked by tall
jars. ' • _ ', T
After this couple had been buried further
use had been made of their tomb,
trances were foundj still built up, leading to
passages, one midway in this gallery, the
other at the end of it. There was also at the
end of The gallery a massive wooden door,
barred, lacked and protected by a barrich i o
of large stories Ufailt id front of it to half its
height. Great was the excitement'of the
whole body of resurrectionists. . The sealed
entrances were guarded throfigli the night
by sailors from the boat,, for there was no
.trusting the fellaheen’ of .Gounreh, demoral
ized by a successful traffic in ■ antiquities.—
Early next morning the entrance tb the side
passage was opened. It led to a couple of
sriiall cells, both in confusion, with their plain
black wooden mummy oases broken, and the
bodies turned out, many of them unwrapped.
There were a few sepulchral images, and in
the innermost cell yet remained the plain Ro
man lamo of. terracotta, with black nozzle
and half burnt wick, that had lighted the
plunderers two thousand years ago. There
’remained the’massive door, of such substan
tial timber that in ill-tempered Egvpt it was
a prize worthy'to ho competed a bish
op/a,deacon, a consular agont.and twoslieiks.
The door' opened on a sloping tunnel, in
.which a man could wdk upright. It was'a
tonne I seven ty feet long, leading to a shaft or
wwl fen feet by six. Half way down this
gallery wore cells which had been
rifled. 'Hope, how lay. like truth, at the bot
tom of the, well. The well, twenty feot deep,
waseffcaslca by strong beams, over which still
hung the repo of twisted palm fibres, by
.which the .abad-'hnfi !those who carried them
descended years ago. Xt.the bottom there
wore again chambers.. Of these, throe con
tained mummies of , persons who had-been
buried in ordinary cases'; but a fourth death
chamber contained a nihsifiVo dark granite
sarcophagus, with the roller's anil plank by
which, it .had been-moved into position still
lying about it. The'want of Veneration for
antiquity, RUovvrv.Uy thpHO pef»plh,.;vuVvv tlloiu
jselvtesiil.HbA tv;b,- r.s,’
plaints, of brqkbn munimy cases hovered with*
hieroglyphics. At tiie doorway of tin’s prin
ciplo vault, was a tall jar nearly full of palm
nuts; there were .nuts also scattered abbot
the floof. At the- head of the sarcophagus
was the preserved body of a dog, like a small
Italian grey hound, swatbetfin osiers-; also a
mummied ibis, a doll of a hawk, and a hall
of bitumen. The dog was an emblem of An
ubis,,genius of tombs. Whenever a house
dogdiedin the course of nature, all the in
mates of the bouse shaved their whole person.
'Xhe ibis was emblematical of the recording
angel. , The hawk was the symbol-of Horns,
who Ushered, the wools that were saved’into
the presence of Osiris; and within the ball
’of bitumen was a coiled snake, probably the
horned isnake sacred to Ammon Ra, the god
especially honored at Thebes
iho solid coyer of the -sarcophagus, freed
from tlio cement which fastened It, was rais*
ed, and the sarcophagus itself was then found
to,have been filled with bitumen poured in
hot over the mummy. Theclearing away of
this was a long work, and curly in the course
of it the glitter of a: golden chaplet excited
the Arab workmen, who dream wildly of
treasures (6 die found in the unopened tombs.
The face of the mummy was ciised by ft.-gilt
and the temples wore wreathed with a
chapiet of copper thickly gilt, having eleven'
hay leaves of thin gold* attached to it by pli
ant stalks. Tb*d pater cdoth covering of the
'body was pain ted in a diagonal pattern, an
swering to that on the top of the wooden
funeral canopy at the first entrance. Under ,
the painted shroud were folds steeped in line
bitumen and pungent gums, with small chin
plates of gold, some of them beetle shaped,
and glassy . pieces interspersed. From the
leu side of the dead was tak’eh'ft. lArge Vit'dAl
papyrus. When the body itself "was reached
I -—that of a man of mature years, with strong
i ly marked features—the skin if the upper
part Of the body was found to Infve been cov
ered with thick .gold Tcfftf. In another case
was the wife of this dignitary, also with the
upper part of her skin gilt, and a papyrus by
her side. Others were differently adorned,
and one had a gilt mask. The dignitary in
the sarcophagus was named Leban ; ho had
had charge of the royal horses, and died nine
years before our .era, at the ago of sixty, —
His wife's name was Tabai, daughter of a
priest and lord, who is described as “one very
great emong mortals.” They went down to
the pit with the records that arc their letters
of introduction to the antiquaries of the nine
teenth century. ,
Cartilage, too, has, after all, been incom
pletely blotted out. After throe months* la
bor on the site of ancient Carthago, Mr. N.
Davis found, that the keeper of a French
chkpel there bfid been stimulated, by ob.scr*
vation of his wanderings, to dig at the foot
of a piece of wall near a wide pit that had
been opfiftfed in vain by searchers among the
apparently poor ruins of the temple of Aa-
Ho found in a few hoiirs a charming
mosaic, meaauringabnut four fe'6t by two and
a half. It was complete. and the nature of
the ground made itappeAtto him impossible
that there could be more. liut Mr. Davis,
sedl'rtg men to work, soon disclosed the bright
mosaics of the corner of a temple floor adorn
ed with a eblossAl female bust, and with two
full robed priestesses dancing before their
goddess. More digging bi'oliglit 'toliglitmoro
of the rich pavement trodden by the worship
pers in a groat temple that had been re
stored when Carthago became the capital of
Roman Africa. Much mope of old Carthago
las since been found. The Oiirthiyge.nian
smses were built, above the lower story,
with what Pliny called formneenn walls, of
earth enclosed between hoards; snob walls
being declared proof ngflinat riiin; wind and
fire. There yet remain turrets of earth built
by‘ Hannibal as watch-towers on Spanish
mountain lops. But when tbeso earthen
walls of Carthage fell in ruins, they formed
heaps of rubbish that a fow years would trans-
form into mounds of apparently natural soil,
with nothing loft under them hut unsuspect
ed pavements, through which tho Romans
" OUR COUNTRY—MAt IT ALWAYS BE EIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.”
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTE
What lessons are embodied in thy teach
ings 1 stern lessong. as wein our days of hope
and happiness, could never think encounter
ing as,we set sail under sunny "skies, and our
hark glided pleaet-SUly over smooth waters;
we did not dream of the clouds,’the storm,
the tempest, that came all,too Shon and a
woke us from our fond security. '
d . TiraC, the great ttpnitor'bf all hearts teaches
■ns the undeniable ahd stern truth, that change
is written.on all'Jllinge; but the saddest is
death. Oh how teTrUdo is the wreck of hearts
and homes, when ||m nieasehger reslatlesj tuid
'hherring ip his march, takes, from nur’blast
the brave and strong; prayor'knd tears are of
ho avail; life’s lesfln we mast all learn, life’s
burdens we must Boar. ,
• Who has not sew some of.thoir loved ones
wrappedjn the oigd e'e-emepts of the grave
and borne to the; jhmiir.p.riiljlo city of the
dead? when wo reijiciiihered that.in'
derings thruhgli 'life’s paths we should meet
them no ihore, see their kindly beaming smile,
hear their loved tines no more, have wo not,
in anguish of soul;,littered the wail ofn.bleed
'•ng heiirt, letme (jie for in all this broad earth :
I have nought to live far: hut we cannot die
when we wish to most; we may weep at many
a grave before vre-reae i our own.
Who has not wppt over broken hopes And
severed ties’? whtf/fias not seen, one by one
life’s cherished- flrenms depart, its golden
clirilioo turned .top bitterness; or snatched
rudely from our gfasp tho hope and trust of
years ?, “■
Oh; who cannot; say, when all our hoarded
hopes are our household goods are
scattered and broken, I would not live , al
ways? .. 'I-
As rather an unscrupulous fellow , named
Ben was coming down’one morning, he mot
Tom, and stopped him. ~ •
‘lsay, Tom,’ ho said, ‘here’s n pretty
good counterfeit three. If you pash it, 1 I’ll
divide.’
‘ Letts sep the,.plaster.’ said Tom ; and af
ter examiai>ig'i.tiCfirefully, put it’in his veht
poeket,’. roui'acWh-thf .;
‘lt is no e'pmf^iviaV.on—a dollar and a
half a pie<;.i.'/.’ : ,;prS : , ;
’ Yes,’ suiiTßi-:-... , ...
■ aii rig.... s. ;.i.fh,b.
Aiul tiff 1 . ,
A (ov m :).i he quietly, step
,V>rA v ill a Lh i- sir.). (),A ion it Upti.,n,m\ pur-
The clerk hj.<',:ed;pt..,lh^ rather dquhting
ly ; wl.on I.ifps qvpioiiijjfefyroro immediately
calnieil by’Tob; who laiii;; .
‘ There is : rio tits in hlol. ing,.for -I received
the iiot'b from Ban-'ih'iiis-h ’ not’, ton. minutes
ago.’/;; . : .
Of course the clerk, with this assurance,
forked the dollar an’i a half in change ; with
this dopos.it and a can of oysters. Tom left.
Shortly afterward -fa's.(not Ben, who asked
him if he had passed the note. -, -
‘ Oh, yes,’ said Tinn at the same time pass
ing over the dollar arid a half to Bon;
That evening, when Bob (tiMe up h-s.cash
account,.ho was surprised.to find the same
old counterfeit three'in (lie drawer. Turn
ing to his ’locum tehans, ho asked :
‘ Whore did you get this cursed note?—
Didn't yon know it was counterfeit ?’ •
‘Why',’ said the el<.rk. ‘ Tom gave it tome
and I suspected it was fishy ; hut he said he
had just received it from you, and I took it.’
The thing had penetrated the wool of. Ben.
With a particular grin, ho muttered, Sold!’
and charged the can of oysters to profit and
loss account.
Earth has some sacred spots whore wo feel
like loosenin’; the shoos from our feet, arid
treading with holy reverence ; where com
mon words of pleasure are.’ unfitting ; places
whei’o friendship's, hands have lingered in
each other; where vojvs have been plighted,
prayers offered rind tears of parting shed.—
Oh, how the thoughts hover around such pla
ces, and travel back through immeasurable
apace to visit them. But of all the spots on
the green earth,,none is so snored as that
whore rest's, waiting the resurrection, those
wo once loved and cherished. Hence, in all
ages, the better portion of mankind, have
chosen the loved spots they have IoVeA. to’
wander at eventide and weep alone. But
among th‘o charnel houses of the dead if there
is one spot iri or e sacred than the rest, it is a
mother’s gravel there sleeps the mother of
our infancy—she whoso heart was h stran
ger to eyeryr other feeling hut love, and who
corild always find excuses fords when wo
could none for ourselves. There she sleeps
and wo love the very earth for her sake.
An Opinion on Morgan.—lt is related
that an old woman ventured out in, the midst
of Morgan aud his men in a little town in
Indiana, and inquired of a rebel, who was
sitting backward upon his ‘ frame/ .
* Wlinr is the gcynllor ?’
‘ D'ye mean John Morga n ?’
‘ Yans, jest so.’
‘There he is,’ said the reb, pointih'g to
John.
‘ Well/ said the old lady, eyeing hiiiri from
head to foot, ‘ We’ve got better lookin’ horse
thieves nor him in Iloosier, an’ lose.said
about ’em too/
C7’“Mr. Timothy,” said a learned Indy,
who had been showing off at the expense of
a dangler, “you remind nib of a' barurtVetbf
that is filled with nothing in the drifter story/
“Divine Almira,” meekly replied her ador
er,‘.‘ln thanking you for , that compliment,
let me remin I, you that you occupy the upper
story entirely.”
O” Tho Indy who pulsed a five cent piece
in one of tho horsbdars in Boston, Inst Tues
day, was very much confused by the wonder
ing gaze oftho other passengers. The con
ductor examined tho |) ic'ije very carefully to
satisfy himself that it was genuine'.
O’ Many sav that, trumpet-players are
doomed to short lives. Wo doubt it; we
have known men to blow their own trumpets
incessantly, and achieve a good troublesome
old ago.
O’ Accounts from all parts of tho Canad
ian Province agree as to tho bountiful harvest
which is now being reaped.
often dug in : the rebuilding of tho city. A
thin lay or of charcoal, or some other evidence
of the npt.ion.of tl(« fire, is always found on
the remains of ancient Carthago. The use
of clay bricko for building has been assigned,
ns one main cause of the complete disappear
anco of Babylon’;.. For .Babylon tho mighty
city is fallen. Scarcely a detached figure or
tablet has been dug from the vast heaps that
are the gravesof all its glory.
Life ’and TioVb,
Profit and lo&.
4 illotlier'* .GraVc,
11BER10, m
Tlie Effects of a New Piano.
Tho deed is accomplished. My wife has
got a piano, “and now farewell to the tran
quil mind, farewell content and evening pa
pers, and tl C big cigars that make ambition
virtue—o farewell 1 And 0, ye mortal en
gines, whose rude throats the.immortal Jove’s
dread clamors counterfeit!” But stop —I can't
bid them farewell, fur one of them has just
oume. It came on a dray. Six men carried
it into the parlor, and it grunted awfully. It
weighs a ton, shines like a mirror;, and has
carved Cupids climbing up its lege. And.
such lungs—whew! My wile has cOmnionocd
to practice upon it, and the first tune she
touched the .machine I thought we wore iu
the midst of a thunder storm, and the light
ning had struck the crockery chest. The eat,
with tail erect, took a bee lino for a particu
lar friefad oh the fence, demolishing a six shil
ling pane of glass. The baby awoke; the lit
tle fellow tried his best to beat tho instrument,
but ho didn’t do it—it .him. i
A teacher has been introduced iute the
house. He says he is. the last of Napoleon’s,
grand army. He wears a lung moustache,
looks at me fiercely, smells of garlic, and goes
by'ho name of Count xlun-away-and-never
come-back-again-by and-by. He ran his fin-'
gers through his hair, then cooked .his eyes
up to the ceiling like a monkey hunting flies,
then down came one ..of his .fingers, and 1
heard a dreadful sound, similer to that pro
'fluced by a cockroach 'hpon the tenor string
of a fiddle. Down came another, and I was
reminded of the wind whistling through a
knothole in a hencoop. He touched his thumb,
nod I thought I Was in. a peach orchard, lis
tening to the praying of a jackass. Now
runs his fingers along the beys, and I thought
of a boy rattling, a stick upon a picket fence
All of a sudden, ho stopped, and I , thought
that something had happened. 1 Then came
down-both fists, and 0 lord, such a noise I
never heard before. I thought a hurricane
had struck the house, and, the walls were
cimng in. I imagined I was in the cellar
anu a ton of coal falling, on my head, f
thought the machine had burst, vrh,cn the
infernal thing stopped and I hoard my wife
ekelaim:
. ‘-.Exquisite!’’
“What.the deuce is tho matter?’’.
The answer was,
“Why, dear, that’s Somnamhula.” .
. “Hang Somnanibula,” thought I, and the
Count rolled up the sheet.
Ho calla .it music, but for the life of mo, I
can’t make it look like anything else than %
rail fence with a lot of juvenile negroes climb
ing oyer it. Before that instrument of tor
ture came into 'the house, I cohld ’enjoy my
self, but now every woman in the neighbor
hood must be invited to hoar the new piano,
and every time the blasted thing shrieks out
like a locomotive with the'bronchitis, I have
to praise its tone, and when invited guests
are playing, 1 have, to say, .-‘Exquisite !” Do
ligluluH”, “Heavenly 1” andaU-such trash,
whjle at ,tho same time I know no move about
'
( An Item for the, Home Circle.—Sombody
says,mid truly too, thatthere are few-families,-
anywhere, in which love is riot abused ns furn-"
isliiiig the license fur .impoliteness; A. lias
band; father, or brothci, will speak harsh
words to those he loves best, simply because
the security of love and family pride'.keeps
him from getting bis head broken. It is a
shame that a man will speak more impolitely,
at times to his wife or sister than he would
to any other female, except alow vicious one.
It is thus that the honest affections of a map’s
nature prove to bo a weaker protection to a
woman in the family circle than the restraints
of society, and that a woman usually is in
debted for the kindest politeness of life to
those, not belonging to her own household.
Things ought not to he so. The man who,
because it will riot be resented, inflicts his
.spleen and bad temper upon those of his
hea’rtstono, is a Small crowd and a very moan
man. Kind words’are circulating mediums
betwec'ri.trfic gentlemen and ladies at homo,
and no polish exhibited iri society can atone
for the harsh' language and disrespectful
treatpiont too often indulged in between those
bound together by ,Ood‘s own ties of blood,
and the more sacred bonds ofoonjngal lose.
A Re-TAii.on.—A newsboy rushed into ft
retail store on Hanover street, the other day;
and thus accosted the proprietor; ,
‘ Say, Mister, do you retail shirts here ?'
‘ Yes, my son ; we have them to fit you at
one dollar each—very nice ones.’
‘Oh, blazes I I don't want a whole one.—
But I seed on your sign : Shirts retail and
wholesale, and I thought you might re-tail
mine, lor it wants it bad ; a dog got hold of
it, and wouldn’t let go if I’d kill’d him.’
Tit for Tat.—lt is reported that the reb
els are at once to put!00;000 colored srildicrs
iri the field under white officers. They are
to fight \Vith the promise of freedom; rind the
New York Herald says the following bounties
will be offered. them §5. for each IT. S,
musket, §25 for each IT. S. horse, §2O for
each.U. S. negro Soldier captured by them,
arid §5O for each soriip of ft IT. S. officer com
mandirig negro soldiers.
Seward on McCi.ei-lan.—The Washing
ton, correspondent of the World says, ‘Sec
retary Seward’s ‘ last words’ in Washington
before leaving for Auburn are reported to
have been to the following effect—that the
country would have been the bettor by three
disastrous defeats—that of the Pope cam
paign, the B.ilrnsido slaughter, and Hooker’s
wilderness fight— if Gen. McClellan had been
left in command of the army of ike Potomac
and let alone.’
BSf If' you want to make a girl, who is
vain of her beauty, mad, tell her you wont to
a party last night, and was introduced to
Miss the handsom'est girl you ever
saw in your life. The momott't jtobr hack is
turned she will commenc’d nlttking fbcos at
you. That’s so, try it.
0“ XfresscS itfo bottling down. The sign
before tba door of 'a m'AtttVitt maker's shop,
in the oily, reads thus: , ■ ,
“ N. B.—Dresses made lower than ever.”
BSy*lfyou wish your neighbors to notice
you, buy a clog and tie him up in tho cellar
nil ilight. They won’t sleep for thinking of
you.
o“F!ave said, that if men should rise
front the dead.and.bead their epitaphs, some
of thorn would think they had got into tho
wrong grave.
O’ The heart that soars upward escapes
'little cares and vexations ; tho birds that fly
high have not the dust of the road upon their
wings.
O’ It is less important to a young lady
that her lover’s diamonds should be of purer
water than his drinks should bo.
|MW.
SSTfIUNBING iIHLITIRY miIDS.
Wholesale Swindling Operations in the Rais
ing of a Cavalry Regiment. Enormous
Profits on Spavined Horses—Military Com
missions Sold\and Resold—Fraudulent Spec
ulations in Sabres, Saddles Pistols and
Groceries.
[From tho N. Y. Herald, Aug. V.]
Wo publislf to dny. n most extraordinary
fboitbl of fliots, collected from various relia
ble sources, by our reporters, showing an or
ganized system of swindling on, the United
Slates government, which has no parallel in
the Wars of any other country. Some months
ago we published a lengthy expose of similar
frauds, which ht the time led to considerable
excitement in military and general circles.—
The exposures now made arc more particu
lar in their hearing, pointing as they do to
individuals well known in this community,
one of whom, at least, has been for some time
connected with the military service of the
country. It is astonishing that the Govern
ment Commissioner of the War Department
has nut brought these facts to the notice of
the government and the press. 1 If one tithe
of, the charges which now rest on private in
formation can bo proved to be true, it would
bo more than sufficient to call for the most
condign, swift and exemplary punishment
on all the parties concerned. Without far
ther preface, wo will, state the facts as they
have been convoyed to our reporters.
In-the early part of the spring,of the,year
180i,Just after the proclamation of the Pres
ident of the United. States calling for volun
teers to take the Cold, two .persons,, whose
names we hero (mbit, proceeded to,Washing
ton to endeavor to obtain-authorities, to rajso’
a regiment of cavalry in New York. While
in Washington they met with a man of some
rote, and requested him to use his influence
to assist'therii in carrying out their views.—
This gentleman had some doubts as to the
character of one o'f'tho t‘qr(jes, and was there
fore not inclined to'do'anytmhj: to hssisfhim ;.
'but, thinking,that the other was a respecta
ble, honest, and reliable person, ho resolved
to interest himself in, his hblialf, and to do
everything in his power for 'the supeessaif the
work he had in ...1n flue course the fa
vored party wits ihtrodubed to the Hon. Wm.
H. Seward, Secretary of State, and other
persons^of influence, through whose exertions
he obtained the required permission to raise
a regiment of cavalry, and to purchase the
horses and equipments for mounting and
arming the mem
From all that has trknspivcd it appears
that throe persons had entered into arrange- 1
uieuts to form o kind of partnership iii.tho
business'of raising the. regiment and fitting
it out, on the understanding that they were ’
equally to divine, whatever in-olUs -might no-'
torue from the operation. It seems that nn
otner pcißOri iseikm •ifn.fetctcetn'..i.t,
to onter into the combination, that ho should
have the disposal of thc sutlership of the reg
iment for himself or fur his friends. He,
therefore, co-operated with them until he
discovered that they were combining to swin
dle.not only him, hut every one with whom
they had any kind of dealings.. Ho then
broke tiff his contract, and re,used to have
anything more to do with them. We are al
so informed that one of the principals quali
fied himself before a Notary,Public in New
York as a bondsman to the extent of ten
thousand dollars for a man who was seeking
to obtnin the position of Paymaster in the
service, while thebe, ,werb pending eleven
judgments against him in different courts,
.amounting to .several thousand dollars! -
In the matter of h supply Of horses for lho
fegiment.tho same collision ippenrs.' A;fhr
rier was employed to inspect horses, and on
conscientiously: rejecting many of them the
Colonel became greatly incensedr ;ainst him
and discharged him from that service to make
room for'another exaifiiher, who is supposed
would bo more pliable, ami therefore more
easily moulded to his nefarious purpose.
This new examiner, it appears, passed, a
number of horses which were bought at an
average of. $BO a piece. Those horses were
sold to the government at the full price of
$ll3. Another person who furnished horses
supplied sumo'three hundred ht $BO A piece.
These, it appears, were very good horses,
lib made Out his-bill in his own name at $ll3
each, and, after receiving payment’from the
military authorities, he paid over SlO a piece
on each horse to one of the principals. Ho,
however, refused to furnish any more Ikrsea,
th the firm sooirbegnn to deal unfairly with
tilth. This fa enough to show tho wholesale
manner in which the government was swin
dled in the one item of horses, but if wo
choose to pursue the inquiry farther, there is
no lack of facts just as shameful as tho pre
ceding.
The supply of saddles was too good an op
portunity for swindling to be allowed to pass,
and tho linn therefore made good use of it.
According to a statement made to us. it si sms
;hat the Colonel calculated on making about
;hroo dollars on cab saddle. The sa'ddlos
urnished to the regiment were of the old
Mexican pattern, and ware vastly inferior to
the McClellan saddle, and ns with pistols, they
were all inspected and condemned at Har
per’s Ferry.
The sabres which were supplied to the
regiment were .subsequently condemned at
Harper’s Ferry, They wore of an inferior
quality; but, the firm contrived to make one
dollar and fifty cents on oach sabre. On a
contract with a merchant for supplying sa
bres to the whole regiment, it was arranged
that the partners should make a profit of two
dollars on each weapon. Besides this there
is strong evidence to show that a number of
officers bought their commissions at prices
ranging from two hundred dollars to four
hundred dollars apiece.
sutlorship, which, it is already stated, was
premised to a man fora friend, it Scorns that
the Colonel afterwards sold it to Mother per
son, but subsequently took it front him and
resold ft to it thiftl Tbi J'StiO, the ar
rangement being that 5260 was to bo paid in
cash and the remainder afterwards. This
latter pepe.oj), jt is, njUggod, paid the, first mot
sty, but refused, to payfth'e other, oh the pleti
that the Colonel and his associates had swin-
dled him out of 88,1100. Another man, also
had the sutlership of the regiment sold to
him, for whioli he was to pay 83.000 in cash,
and to furnish the Colonel 81,000 worth of
groceries. A sum of 83.000 was also raised
for the alleged purpose ot purchasing a silver
service to bo presented to the wife of an hon
orable Senator, bat it is now understood that
the pluto was chased, but that tho
money collected for that purpose was appro
priated by tho Colonel and his partners for
thoir own personal uso and bonclit. A largo
sum was collected from tho officers and paid
over, hut has novor since been accounted for.
Tins general sys'em of swindling was enr
out in the most minuto details ~, 1
A kind of business manager of the organi-
There are some charges against the Colon
el at which the public must naturally stand
aghast; for if they'be proved when the prop
er board of inquiry begins its sittings, tbor
will naturally consign his name to perpetual'
srifnmy. It is said to be stated by the suffer,
era themselves, that, ho picked his business
agent’s,pocket of $5O ; that he also picked the.
pocket of'nnotlicr man ol his watch, and that
in like manner lie abstracted $5O from tlio.
ppojtot of an officer in AVashington. It is ti>,
lie lioppd fer tile Colonel’s own sake, as well
as for the honor of our military service, that
these charges may prove unfounded, or at
least greatly'exaggerated. ’ *f’
In bis dealings with his Farrier, the Col
onel broke faith with him in not appointing
him to a por'lfion in the regiment Which ho
had promised him. The Farrier was also
promised one dollar ahead for each her,id,
that ho might inspect; hat lie never received
a farthing fur nia,time or trouble. .
According to numerous statements mad"
to us, it appears that the profits which,acoru- .
od from the purchase of-horses and other mat
te'rinls for the use of the regiment Were taken
and used by the Colonel for the purchase arid
furnishing of a house in tlio city of New York.
This led to a misunderstanding with the two,
other members of the 6rtn, who were much
dissatisfied at the course pursued hy tlio Col
onel in appropriating the lion’s share of tho
spoils. -- ''
_ . Prior to this H-seems that the ColOnel wo
in very limited oircumstarices, and, has ama*.
sed a largo fortune out of the frauds on the
governriient ho was pretending toserve.
Of the career of this Colonel prior to hip
connection with the arriiy a good deal has
transpired.
At. the time he entered the service of tlm
United States there was an indictment agaiim
him for perjury ; hut itwaa'snspen.ded. when
li'e-was about to leave for thbsoat of war. • •
•We might add that one of the partners hi
Said to liavo made an-agreement with a law
yer, in order to gel his influence in obtaining
Authority to buy horses arid equipmeritn lc>'
hig.. regiment, promising to give him a h.-
rquohe hnd pqir of horses for liis service, ns.
well as one-fourth of the profits which,Hu**
might make out of tho transaction’; bot.-tV-’
lawyer only received the horses and barouche
and §3OO in money. He considered that he
had been swindled, and declared that the
whole crow were a. Set of,-damned rascals.—
According to the declaration of two of the
partners, the Colonel had appropriated all tho
money to his own ii?o.
'.there .are facts enough extant to swell on.-,
this recital to twice its., present,-length ; but
“sufficient unto tho day is the evil thereof.”
( The conspiracy of the Abolitionists to rivetv
I run the Constitution is becoming daily mors
’ apparent, and the evidence that they JmJ-1,
the President in their power is indisputable.
The time has arrived when every white citi
zen, who is not willing to bo soerificed to ne
gro and Abolition supremacy and tyranny,
fnust assort liis rights and defend tiie Con
stitution formed to protect them. From many
proofs of the pressing danger to our institu
tions we select the following:
The Philadelphia Bulletin, a loading jour
nal of the Republican faith, in ar. editorial
on tho " Ship of State,” gives its Eeriiimeuiii
in these words: . ‘
“ Now, some, say, ‘ we are for the Union
as it was.’ What if you are; you cannot,
have it, the stuff that was in it. is 100 rotten,
and would tot stand tho pressure if you could
put it back. ' Tbit could riot trust it; nobody •
hut Secessionists, Copperheads and Traitor’s
would go to sea in the old hulk.’’
L’he Chicago Tribune, tho organ of the Ad-'
ministration in Illinois, says:. -
“ The Union as it was will never bless the
vison of any pro-slavery fanatic, of secession
sympathizer, and it never ought to. It is »,
thing of the past, hated by every patriot, ami
destined never to curse an honest people, or
blot the pages of history again.”. , . '
jfh.ad. Stevens, the acknowledged leader of
the Republican parry in.Congrees, in a speech
on the floor of the House, uttered the follow
ing language:
. “I will not stulify myself by. supposing
that wo have any warrant in the Constitution
for this proceeding.
This talk of restoring the Union ns it was
under tho Constitution as it, is, is one of the
absurdities which I have heard repeated un
til! have i.ccomo about sick of it. The Union
can never he restored ns it was. There are
many things which render such an event
impossible. This Union never shall, with my
consent, be restored .under the Constitution as
it is, with, slavery to be ’protected by it."
Mr; Whitting, Solicitor of the Administra
tion at Washington, and hence supposed,to
bo speaking its sentiments, in a receritdotter
published in the North American, at Phila
delphia, among other startling declarations,
said: ■ 1 .!
“Among the war measures sanctioned by
io President, to which he has, mure than
once, pledged his snored honor, and which
Congress has enforced by solemn laws, is tho
liberation of slaves. Tho Government has
invited .them to share the dangers, the hon
or and tho advantages of sustaining the Union,
and Ims pledged itself to the world for their
freedom.
“ Whatever disasters may befall our arms)
whatever humiliations may be in store fora*
it is earnestly hoped that we may he saved
the unfathomable infamy of breaking tin na
tion’s faith with Europe, and with colored eil •
hens and staves in the Union.” , ,
The Abolitionists,, it seams, aro .delighted
that Lee was not defeated on tho . Potomac a
second time. A correspondent of the Anti-
Slavery Standard writes :
"Our peoplo.arplpapers express much cha
grin that liee> vtrS allowed to escape without
another battle. I don’t share in the feeling.
On the contrary, I was,glad when I beard
that ho was over the.irivor, ,and I have seen
In regard to the
no reason sinpoi fur any other emotion. If
Mcrda'had’engaged Loo and been whipped
—which was 1 possible—it would have been
bad ; if ho had utterly defe'atod and routed
Loo—which was much more than possible
it would have been worse. The political
consequences could hardly have Jailed to be
disastrous. The nation is not prepared for a
sudden and triumphant suppression of the
rebellion. We shall not be ready till we gel a
black army oj’alleast one hundred thousand
men in the field.” . ~ ,
'jy m Tho tune of tho conscripts—Wo ard
coming, Father Abraham, three hundred
dollars more.
O' Most young fellows, when whiskey in
at hand make rye mouths.
zntion of the regiment was swindled out,of
Ilia pay for his time ns well ns for his service- 1
es. K citizen of Philadelphia was defrauded
of his pay fop. his services to the amount of
§350. A man tvho was concerned in the
purchase of horses seems also to have been
swindled out of $3,000 hy the same parties
under similar circumstances;
■tub vOJtsrmcr.
NO. 13.