She tincidiiiiiiiiiitignicer, PUOLISHIgi EVERT TRUESDAT UT COOPER, SANDERS - ON & CO., J. M. COOPER, H. G SMITH, ALSIII73) SAS:DEL:SON. WM. A. MOIITOIP, TERSIS—Two Dollars per annum, payable In all cases to advance. OFFICE-SOU r.ti. vk EST CORNER OP CENTRE SQUARE. letters on business shonld be ad- I VOLUME 65 'dressed LO COOPER, SANDERSON Co. •'ac#rg. For the Intelligeneer Ebb, 0 Tide Ebb, 0! tide; Ebb to the sea, Where o bosom 'wide '.Vaiteth for thee. :to ebbs youth, (Had mountain stream, Gushing love and truth— All things a dream. Silver age Rolla like the wave ; Dim eye, forehead sage, Conning the grave. Like thee, life Elibeth away Smiling, weeping, %trill Las and decay. 0! tide, rest; Sleep on the sea, lin thy Mother's breast Heaving with thee. Xittraq. The Light Gone Out - . A little child lay in the house. There were black and white folding= al the door; and flowing robes of whit , upon the sleeper in the great parlor. It went out last night when the stars were out, when the moon had set, and the winds were silent.. There was no struggle-- the little hands clasped, and went up ward on its heavenward journey. Alter all, there is nothing strange in stu•it a going—nothing so sad in the passing dew drop, in the Inehdly or t h e voice now dumb forever; and NV,' Bart• often wondered what there was tOrtears when the little one was borne away from the ;trills of its mother. It seems to inc then. ought to be smiles instead of _tears, and peace instead of wailing. \Ve lifted up the sIIOW White covering; and saw smiles only upon the lip, :out no trace of suffering or sorrow left. The summons (NOIR' to it. Went W:ty in gladness. We saw the mother, amid learn, aside the forgotten toys and fold up the little white robe, as if there was to be 2111 eternal shadow and silenee in the household, anri we marvelled why this should be. For we thought of the sweet face, wrinkled whenage came; the hair gray ; and the mail struggling in after year.; for mastery in the world. Then we thought of the new life ; the years of .lob grottiug hrlgiller through endless cyttles ; and We thought, too, of the little child waiting in the better land for cooling friends; 'Chink of this link binding earth to heaven—held in the hands of a little child! Oh, it is better, far loett , .r, thus to go away in tile first flush of life thun wait to be wrecked on the great ocean of the world or gO down in the storm. We can be reconciled to all this; we call drop a tear upon the tare of the sleeper, and turn away without a sorrow. One child in heaven—one angel front our household in heaven; and we dry our tears, and pass on in life, enue(•iuus that we and It will clasp Lands at the threshold of heaven. - We murmur no more, and follow the little household god to the gra \e, thinking only of its new glory and its angel rohe. We will miss the laugh, and thesound of littly feet ; and we will miss it at the family meetings, and we may sigh as it passes on its journey to the sky, but it is not the sorrow of one eternally dead to us. Take up the little coffin in your arms, lay it on your lap in the carriage, dress it with flowers, and lay it gently down in the grave. Drop no tear, but scatter roses above it, and go home, re joicing and not weeping—not . that I lod has taken it, and conscious tkat your darling little child is waiting for you up above the stars. Think of it! a little child waiting in heaven for coining friends from linun.. Tribulation "Phis is a world of sorntw, and many there are who " cony to grief." Nome, like Rachael of old, mourn and will not be comforted ; others take a calmer view of matters, and draw coosttlation—as signor Mitr does eggs—from an appa rently empty hag. A type of the latter class is the young and unsophisticated girl spoken of in the following para graph by the "local " of the San Fran cisco Expr(t:s who I teemne attached —ac— cording to the tel of Assembly—to brass buttons' and a butte coat, tilled, as the sequel proved, by a poor apology fir human being. It seems they journeyed but a short on the matrimonial path, Nv en brass buttons and ,oat "seceded," leaving the four-days I to finish the journeyalone. The "Itieti I" gives the following as the result : "Yesterday a messenger entered our sanctum conveying, the inteligenee that a lady wished to see us immediately at the - Hotel. ICe hnmediately re- sponded to the call, and wended our way to the locality indicated. I - pon our arrival \v e were met by a young lady ar rayed in a neat calico dress, with a cosy little white bonnet covered allover with flowers. She offered us a chair, which we accepted in as graceful a marling' as our einbarrassed situation would allow. Soon she exclaimed, with a sharp, -mill voice: ' I believe you are tile man prints the Erpr( We answered in the affirmative. At this juncture she ! pulled out a long red pocket handker chief, which had been concealed in ; some portion of her skirts, and com menced rubbing her eyes. Soon the ' tears began to flow in a copious man ner, and she gave vent to deep sob:. We gazed upon her in deep sorrow. At last we mustered up courage enough to address her, and exclaimed: 'Madame what is the cause of thy grief:" .she continued to sob, and the red piece of dry goods was fast becoming saturated with tears. We spoke again and asked her the cause of her anguish. She en deavored to speak in broken accents, overwhelming grief of her heart would not allow her lips to give utterance. After a lively application of the red handkerchief to her eyes, she broke forth as follows; wa-wa-want to ad-ad-ad-ver-tise my, niy, my husband.' In giving this sentence sobs intervened in a most terrific manner. A long pause e,psued. Business came to a stand still. 'the tears began to slow freely again, and a beautiful face was again buried in the ample folds of a red handkerchief. Soon she rallied again, and removing tia cloth from her face, said she had married a So-so-so-soldier who had re-re-re-recently jined the ar ar-army.' Who is he, we inquired, and where is he from? He, he he, is from Sis-sis-sis-kiyou county, and his name is Zekiel. He ha-ha-had on a blue jacket and br-br-brass buttons, and had with him a ya-ya-ya-yaller dorg.' 4 How long did you enjoy matrimonial alliance, Madame,' we inquired. 'We was mar ried four days,' she answered. After vain endeavors to administer comfort to the disconsolate one we left, with the promise that we would make use of our hest endeavors to find Zeke and the yallerAlorg.' As we were about taking our departure a thought struck her, and her face brightened up as she exclaim ed : Perhaps you can hear of the dog ! If you dew please send him to me it would be such consolotio4." '' ' - - - - Or , I" -',“ .!1; -if .:., ;1,-1- 'r,::9 Wijri Al .:r..1•,!r-, ~..ii if=•••:- --.7. ..yl. - ;i ,:is , A - -:ii , ll . 1 'Or . . . . .. . .. , ... 4 , , eiks,:ilif . . ~., . , . . ......... ~ . ....,_. .. • ........„ . _ .. , je . :., .._,.. , . ... , . .. . i 0 . ... :. ._, ....„! ..,... ~...„7....._0„ •0. .....- ...„ , . ..„..„ „..„...::. ......„ . . j , .:., .., Nant.....a . „ . ., ~.... ~ s.ifft(... . _ • , _ _ • .. . • . Mrs. Robert White and Family The heads of wheat grew heavy and golden under the summer's sun, and a motherquail looked out with an anxious eye one morning from her nest in the fence corner. The reapers were whet ting their sharp sickles, and laughing and singing and talking as merry as could be. In all probability they would find out her nest, and then what would become of her poor little flock? There were a full "baker's dozen " of them to look after, and no wonder she was anxious. But Mrs. Robert White was keen as a brier which grew over her head. `We'll show them a trick, little dears," said she, with a merry chuckle. ":When I give this sort of a ery, do you dive, each by himself, into the tall grass on the other side of the fence, and I will take care of the rest. Only mind, when you hew• one whistle ' liob White' quite softly, all come Lack to the nest again, for then the danger will he over." Sure enough, that very afternoon she had occasion to put her scheme into praetiee. " Hallo!" said the furrner'sson, " here is-a quail's nest, loya. If we will take home the little ones, they will grow up as tame as chickens. The old hrown hen hatelted out two last year, 1(11,1 they staeod:Tout the Lars all winter." Ilia when Master Tom sought for his prize he found att empty nest. Just het ., :re WilS the old mother hird,, panting :mil heatini the ground wit li lien wings at a terril.le rah, Ilia terhor 'slowly on like a wounded but discreetly taking a course .ittite dif ferent from that which her meetings had taken. she seemed so easy a prize th . c hogs did nut greatly - exert them seive,:, hut walked leisurely on in the lath he in li ated, until at last, by an annul dodge, she luiie eluded them. It wan :I piece 01 generalship, and honorahle 1.0 her motherly feelings. The hoys were called off to their work again, and the happy mother awaited their departure hefor: she called together her , lilllll.l , if] iwat•e, t in .aht, la , : reaper had loft the field, — B . lll rellitallher the le , - , on I IIIIVT• tZ111 , .2,111 )'Olt 111-II:Ay. It 111:1 . % 1 , 11111• 11 , C1 . 111 a great many times ill your live,. (Itir tall enemy iI ,o avari cious, lie will al\vays if he trot paA to-day, tts avarice al Nvays ili-appointniiiat awl vexation.' Anil then, in 111..41ec, the tul of a fence rail, awl sang a ilatining song for her 111111 fun, \, -.onto iii•ople inter prot this \\ ity . Denny. i) , 1111y, cerde pay no , the twe-aed-,i.x-peneey , ifi'veoNved 111 e more than a yea: :Ind a half now! 't , he. — ale' de \vi) Itc)ve in tile gra,: in. i Merry's Muscluil. The Five Cradles A Hiatt w h o hail recently mecum(' votary to Bacchus, returned home one 'dela iu an imeinieiliate state of lioozi lies,. 'Flint is t,, he drunk, Mit Ix rreetly conscious of his unfortu-note situation. Knowing that Ili, wife Wa, asleep, he decided to attempt gaindlii_i his lied without dii,- turlihez her, mid, I v sleepimr, off his ineliriation, conceal the fact from her altoi2setlier. Ile reaohed the door M . his room witleittt distuviiite4 her,met.; Mier ruminating a few moment, on the matter, he thought if he could reach the bedrio,r; and hold on to it while lie slipped oil' hi , apparel. the feat w,411(1 Ise caSly avrolli iShell. twat ely for his sehetne. a cradle stood ill a direct line with the bed :Wow the middle of the floor.— course, hen his shins came in con tact with the :Aforesaid pieceof furniture he pitched ov,r it with perfect loosenes, anti upon gritinilu2; an erect position, ere an equilibrium NVO., established, he went over linek‘viirtis, in ;ill e Itially summitry manner \ ~ t rougloil trr Li foot, and hoot forinno,t over Ow bower of infiiiit Lalrliinc .\ t length, with the fifth filth pnlionoo lieonnio and \vas p.t . t o b e overcome. [IT (11•-•pi•rati , 111 Ill` 4 • I • il`11 ( 1111 hi.lerlrin, l arnnr: \\*lit!! \Nile' how Dlally erzt.llt-,ll:tve yozi got in the iloils.e? I'vr lallcn ovcr five. :111.1 lwrore nn A Food Appearane( , tyle of dress an d manner i, th:tih leases without attim•tiugany partieul. talon. 'l'he romplhoeut yOll au pny to the fires of 0 holy or gentleman i, not to 3 11101111 , C1' 3t hat it \\M , ---0111y that they Nl - ore Nv o ll :111,1 appropriately - drese(l.-- Even (•legaitoe, grnre, and beauty be come t , trensive tho Illo110•111 thou :11V in IVe people over-dressed, over-elei.nuit, over-polite. But is. it too wor-e to err in the (oiler extr,•nn , ? The Ind y who wn-3 olnn up the aisle ()Cu churk•ll to be huirried, but \\":111:Cti Off without waiting ~t, n 11)11y, In•vaus, her tenet anJ l• 1 . ; • ; t ; pr,d,aidy right. .\ wan, who could treat his wire with disre-Tuct. rudene, , , , , and indecen cy then, NV:i , 110( likely to make a good hu,band. People vcLu Wv:ll'l , )tig: unt nnt4ed h a ir. terrific heard., hroatl and matte tip in eccentric Lace -,•fe c ioi e ,onte \\*here. \Vc sho't' Nvi,l , ollf hv ilecetit t.ofif,•rillity to plea,ingi xicrual ap pt.aance 11,i "illy a matter ,clf-iti i,rk•-1. 'hut 1.1“ w can we our flienti. tin l '.y uutkiug. 11=1!11111 111:kt !II a malt alld (•,Aitt,ll'y n it k,ttCer err 011 the tutu Lake too tuuciu nitht r thalt to,' little care ot . pursolittl Ilow lie hot the Apple When the lion. William , now M. C., was a boy at school, his bench was shared by an urchin named Muggs. The teacher had instituted a rule that any scholar seen eating during school hours should ewe on the floor and finish eating what he had begun, to the merriment of his fellow pupils. One day Bill brought a fine large apple t from home, and laid it on his desk ; and so tempting was the fruit to Muggs that, in consideration of his best slate pencil, Bill promised hint a "taste" when he . should eat it at recess. Not many minutes after this Bill's attention was called another way, and Muggs, watch ing the opportunity, took the apple and purposely commenced munching it, di rectly before the eyes of the teacher. " The young man who is eating an apple come on to the floor and finish it," said the teacher. Muggs obeyed with with well-feigned reluctance, blinking at Bill under the arm that shaded his ' roguish eyes, while Bill shook his fist and vowed vengeance the very first re , ,ess. How to be Hateful. There are some persons who seem to treasure up things that are disagreeable, On purpose. I can understand how a boy that never bad been taugllt better might carry torpedoes in his pocket, and delight to throw them down at the feet of passers-by and see them bound ; but I cannot understand how an in structed and well meaning person could do such a thing. And yet there are men that carry torpedoes all their life, and take pleasure in tossing them at people. "Oh," they say, "I have something now, and when I meet that man I will give it to him!" And they wait for the right company, and the right circumstances, and then they out with the most disagreeable things. And if they are remonstrated with, they say, " It is true," as if that was a justifica tion of their conduct. If God should take all the things that are true of you, and make a scourge of them, and whip you tt ith it, you would be the most miserable of men. But he does not use all the truth on you. And is there no law of kfulness ? Is there no desire to please awl profit. men? Have you a right to take ally little story that you can pick up about a man, and use it in such a way as to injure him, or to give him pain ? And yet, how many men there arc that seen) to enjoy nothing so much as inflicting exquisite suffering upon a man ill this way, when lit (am not help hinisei ! Well, you know just how the devil feels. Whenever he has done anything wicked, and has made somebody very unhappy, and laughs, he feels just as, for the time being, you feel, when you have done a cruel thing, and somebody is hurt, and it does you good. Custom is not only a sP.olilt nature, but it is continually mistaken for the first. When Gas was Introduced The gas used for ordinary purposes is one of the products of the destructive distillations of pit coal, submitted to a great heat in east-iron retorts. Certain permanent gases are given off, and are collected in a large pipe half filled with tar, after which they pass through a series of iron pipes, cooled on the out side by streams of water. The tar and ammoniacal liquid generated are thus condensed, and the gases proceed to another part of the apparatus, called the purifier. her being submitted to tile purifying process, it is collected into large reservoirs, called gasometers— more correct ly gas-holders—from which it is conveyeit by large pipes, afterwards branching otl• into lesser ones, to all parts of the town. The artificial production of an inflam mable air frotit coal is first mentioned by Ilse Rev. Mr. Clayton, in a letter ad dressed to the Royal Society, May Li, 1655; he states that he distilled coal in a close vessel, collecting the gas in blad ders, and afterwards burning it for the amusement of his friends. In the 'year 1707 he erected a similar apparatus in Ayreshire, wiiiirc be then resided, and in 1705 he was engaged to put up his ap pa paths a p t the manufactory of Messrs. lioulton, Watts & Co., Soho, nearßirm ingham. The illumination of the Soho WV•orks by gas in 1503, on the occasion of peace, brought it into general notice, and it was soon adopted by many in dividuals, wbo, acting upon their own ideas, introduced various modes of col lecting and purifying it. A public ex hibition of it in London took place in 1800. Golden Lane was lighted with it in 1507, Ptdl Mall in 1500, and all the streets generally in 1514. A Benevolent Ph3sietan •`Sold.' The 'l' roy nwifirt' tells a good story of the manner in which a certain M. 1)., residing in Troy, was recently taken in andeompletely " sold'' by a German, a stranger. it seems the latter called on the aforementioned disciple of Eseu lupins for medical assistance, told him that lie was here without friends, and showed him papers which represented that he was worth considerable pro perty at Chicago. The Doctor, in the " goodness of loss , heart," took the stranger in and properly eared for hint, until he died on his hands. Before - grin' Death " had seized him he made a will, leaving all his property to his benefactor, at the saute time drawing a check for S':;,.loo.tin a western hank— that being the amount he stated he hail on deposit at such hank—and kindly. donated the proceeds the Doctor. !tumor adds that he was recently laid out at the house of the Doctor and buried in a respectable manner; lout it is added that the property, cheek, money, said to be o<vited hy the deceased, have since turned out to be all in "Nis eye," tind the Doetor's anti cipations of realizing a " small for tune has been blasted. An Old Lady Adi ice to Johnny "Now John. listen to On. oliler than you or I eouldn't I,e your norther. N,ver ,10 v 4 m rry a y.ung wornon, i 11 1 ,:: heforc breakfast. You should know how late she lies in bed in the morning, you j should take notice whether her com_ plexion is the saint. in the morning as in the evening, or whether the wash and towel have robbed her of her eve- Iting You should take care to surprise her, so that you may see her in her morning dress, and observe how her hair looks when she is not expecting you. If possible, you should he where you can hear the morning conversation iwtween her and her mother. If she is ill-natured and snappish to her mother, so site will be to you--depend on it. But if you find her up and hissed neat ly in the morning, with the same smiles, the neatly combed hair the same ready and pleasant answers to her mother which characterized her deport in the evening, and particularly if she is lending a hand to get breakfast ready in good season, she is a prize, John and the sooner you secure her to yourself the better. —ln the City Hall at Luneburg, Hanover, is a monument to a pig—a glass ease, enclosing a ham, still in good preservation. A slab of black marble attracts the eye of visitors, who find thereon the following inscription in Latin, engraved in letters of gold: "Passer-by, contemplate here the mor tal remains of the pig which acquired for itself imperishable glory by the dis covery of the salteprings of Luneburg." —The subject of a universal language is now exciting considerable attentis)n in England. A code of symbols have been invented, which is declared infallible. The symbols are thirty-four in number, and have been tried in most of the Eu ropean and Oriental languages. It is said that apenon of common intelligence and education can learn them in a few days' study. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1864. The Way of the World. There goes a virtuous and honest man. Whosares! Nobody looks a- t , him or cares a fig how he looks or dresses. Here passes a man of wealth. The old ladies run to the window. " Who?" "Where ?" " How does he dress ?I' He is a great object of attraction. " HoW in the world did he make so much ?" " He doesn't look as if he was worth a penny." This is the way of the world. Every body; gazes with admiration upon the rich while they turn away from virtu ous poverty. Let a man make ten thousand dollars, and he is a gentleman every inch of him. Everybody has a kind word and a smile for him. Be poor and honest and no one knows you. Men and women have heard of such a name as yours, and you may live at their elbow, but they are not certain about it. Possess a fortune and-live at the mile post, and your neighbors and friends would line the heart of the city. All would know where you lived and point a stranger to the very door. We repeat—such is the world. tiold en vice is caressed, while humble virtue is unobserved. Will the time never come—ncrer ! when men shall he honored for their virtues and despised for their vices; rather than be earesseet for their riches and condemned tin• their poverty'. Everybody, in words, censures the idea of honoring the rich because they are rich, and yet, such are the regulations Of society, that everybody dots humble in his mani,crs and feelings when in the presence of the " upper ten thous and." As long as ladies will associate with the voluptuous rich and shun the virtuous poor, so long Will vice be con sidered no disgrace, iind \VC:Oth will pay for the sacrifice of virtue, The hour of Death A paper on this subject was lately read at the British Association by Mr. Haviland of the Bridgewater Infirmary. It is stated that tin author had collect ed over 5,1)(5) cases of death, with the hour of death and other circumstances recorded, which he had tabulated and exhibited on a large chart. By this chart he showed that in 1,000 cases of death in children under five years of age, the periods of the greatest mortality took place during the hours between one and eight ill the morning ; that an extraordinary, depression took place in the succeeding hours, and that between 9 and 12 P. M. the rate of mortality was at its minimum. He t hen compared these statistics with 2,591 deaths from all causes, and the chart showed bow re markable the wave lines of death com pared with those above. In the ease of death from consumption, although there slurred a general resemblance in the wave line, yet between the hours of 4 and 8 o'clock, A. M., when there was a depression when compdred with the first four-hour period, the mortality was the greatest. The extraordinary mor tality was in the early hours of the morning,, when the powers of life were at their lowest ebb, and, strange to say when the patient was most cared for. He urged the necessity of feeding and stimulating the patients at their weak est hour, so as to tide them over a criti cal period, and, even if death be inevi table, to support the patient so that he might at least have a few hours more of life snatched from eternity to admit of his being able to carry out some ne glected duty, pardon some enemy, or see some beloved Next to being a bride herself, every good looking young woman likes to he a bride's maid. Wedlock is thought by a large proportion of 'the blooming sex to he contagious, and much to the credit of their courage, fair spinsters are not at all afraid of catching it. Perhaps the theory that the affection is communi cated by the contract is coxrect. Cer tainly we have known one marriage to lead to another, and sometimes to such a series of " happy even ts '' as to favor the belief that matrimony, as John Van Buren might say. " runs like the cholera.- Is there any book entitled "pubes tin• • Bridesmaids" in secret circulation among young ladies? It seems as if there must Is', for all the pretty heneh women act precisely alike. So far as official conduct is concerned, when you have seen one bridesmaidyou have seen the whole fascinating tribe. Their lead ing duty seems to be to treat the bride as " a "victim led with garlands to the sacrifice." They consider it necessary to exhort her to " cheer up and stand by." It is assumed, by a poetic fiction, that she goes in a state of fearful trepi dation to the altar, and upon the whole would rather not. Her 'fair aids pro vide themselves with pungent essences, lest she should faint at the " trying mo ment," which, between you and us, reader. she has no more idea of doing th an slre has of i s tr ue , she sometimes tells them that she " feels as if she would sink into the earth," and that they respond, "poor, dear soul," and apply the smelling-bottle; but she goes through her nuptial martyrdom with fortitude, nevertheless. In nine cases of ten the bridegroom is more " flustered " than the fi : agile and lovely creature at his side; but nobody thinks of pitying him, poor fellow ! All sympathy, compassion, interest, is con centrate, upon the bride, and if one of the groomsmen does recommend him to take a glass of wine before the ceremo ny, to steady his nerves, the advice is given supercilliously—as who should say, "what a spooney you are, old fel low." Bridesmaids may be considered as •brides in what lawyers call the " in choate " or incipient state. They are looking forward to that , day of trium phant weakness when it•shall be their turn to be " poor dear creatured," and Preston salted, and otherwise sustained and supported, as the law of nuptial pretences directs. Let us hope they may not be disappointed. THREE IMPORTANT TinsGs.—Three things to love : courage, gentleness and affection. Three things to admire: in tellectual power, dignity and graceful ness. Three things 16 hate: cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude. Three things to delight in : beauty, frankness , and freedom. Three things to wish for : health, friends and cheerful spirit.— Three things to pray for: faith, peace and purity of heart. Three things to like: cordiality, good humor and mirth fulness. Three things to avoid : idle ness, loquacity and. flippant jesting.— Three things to cultivate: good books, good friends and good temper. Three things to contend for: honor, country and friends. Three things to govern; temper, impulse and tongue. , Bridesmaids Little Girls. I cannot well imagine a home more incomplete than that one where there is no little girl to Stand ln the void of the domestic circle which boys can never fill, and , to draw all hearts. ithin , the magic ring by the nameless charm 'of herpresence. There is something about little girls which is especially loveable ; even, their willful, naughty ways seem utterly void of evil when they are so soon followed by the sweet penitence that overflows in such gracious showers. Your boys are great noble fellows, gen erous, loving, and full of good impulses, but they are noisy and demonstrative, and dearly as you love then', you are glad their place is out of. doors ; but Jennie with her light step is always beside you ; she brings the slippers for papa, and with her pretty dimpled fin gers unfolds the paper for him to read ; she puts on a thimble no bigger than a fairy's, and with some very mysterious combination of " doll rags," fills up a small rocker by mamma, with a \ton derful assumption of womanly dignity. And who shall tell how the, little thread of speech that flows with such sweet, silvery lightness from those innocent lips, twines itself around the mother's heart, never to rust, not even when the dear little face is hid among the daisies, as so many mothers know. But .fennie grows to he a woman, and there is a long and shining track front the half-latched door of eh ildhood, till the.girl blooms into the mature woman., There are the brothers who a INV:I3'S low er their voices when they talk to their sister, and tell of the sports in which she takes almost as much interest as they do, while in turn she instructs them in all the little minor details ttf home life, of which they would grow up ignorant if not for her. And what a shield she is upon the dawning manhood wherein so many temptations lie. Always her sweet presence to guard and inspire them, a check upon pm faulty, a living sermon on immorality. How fragrant the cup of tea she hands them at the evening meal, how cheery her voice as she relates the little inci dents of the day. No silly talk of in cipient beaux, or love of young men met on the promenade. A girl like that has no empty space in her head for such thoughts to run riot in, and you don't find her spending the evening in the dim parlor with a questionable young man for her company. When her lover comes, he must say what he has to say in the family sitting-room with father and mother; or, if he is ashanti•d to, there is. no room for hint there. Jennie's young heart has not been filled by the pernicious nonsense which results in so many unhappy marriages or hasty divorces. Dear girl, she thinks all the time of what a good home she has, what dear brothers, and on betided knees craves the blessing of Heaven to rest on them, but site does not know how far, very far, for time and eternity, her own pure example goes, how it will radiate as a blessing into other home where a sister's memory will be the consecrated ground of the past. Cherish then the little girls, dimpled darlings who tear'their aprons, and cut the table-cloths, and eat the sugar, and are themselves the sugar and salt of life! Let them dress and undress their doll babies to their heart's content, and don't tell them Tom Thumb and Red Riding Hood are fiction, but leave them alone till they find it out, which they will all too soon. Answer all the funny questions the ask, and don't make fun of their baby theology, and when you must whip them, do it so that if you should remember it, it would not he with tears, for a great many little girls lose their hold suddenly before the door from which they have just escaped is shut, and find their way back to the an gels. So he gentle with tick darlings, and see what a trael , of sunshine will followlin the wake of the little bobbing heads that daily find a great many hard problems to solve. Popping the Question To us gentlemen this popping the q ties- - lion is no 'easy matter. It drives, verilybelieve, a bashful man almost into hysteric's. Many a cold sweat, many a choking in the throat, many a knock ing of the knees together•, have these poor• rascals before they can summon courage to ask a girl to have them. it isn't so, egad, with all—some do it with an easy impthiency—soma dO it in a set speech—some (I() it because they can't help it—and some never at all, but getmarried, as it were, by instinct. Only give two lovers fair play, kick your match-making aunts to the duce, and my life for it the most demure will find a way of being understood, even if, like ! old Sir Isaac Newton, they have to make it with their foot. As they get cozier, they will sit gazing in each other's eyes till at last, when they least expect it, i perhaps the question witl pop out like the cork from a champaglie bottle. It's all nonsense this lending young folks a helping hand—take my wool for it, all they wi , ll ;slit he left :Mum ; ))11 , 1 iftlu•re be an, c .nfounded young-i, let them be put to bed or drowned, it dosn't matter a fig which. If lovers have no tongues, haven't they eyes, egad! and where is the simpleton that can't tell whether a girl loves him with out a word on her part ? No one ad mires modesty more than I do ; but the most delicate angel of them all won't disguise her little heart when 3 - on are with her. A blush, a sigh, a studied avoidance of you in company, and a low thrilling trembling of the voice at times when no one is by, tell more titan the smilesof a thousand coquettes. Ah, you needn't, Amy, shake your head—you'll no doubt be soon enough—butif you fall in love, as you will, my word on it—the very echo of one footstep will make your heart flutter like a frightened bird.— Jeremy Short. CRITICISM OF SHAKSPEARE BY A SAlLOR.—President Felton in his " Fa miliar Letters from Europe," recently published by Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, relates the following incident that oc curred on the good ship Daniel Webster in which he was a passenger in 1853: "Last night I read some passage from the Midsummer Night's Dream to the captain. When I came to the descrip tion of the mermaid riding upon the dolphin's hack, he pronounced it a humbug. The dolphin's back is as sharp as a razor, and no mermaid could pos sibly ride the beast unless she first sad dled him." —A gentleman long since, in one of his rides in Southern Illinois, sought to make himself interesting to a good, looking mother of a sweet baby, occu pying the next seat in the car. After duly praisin ,, the baby he remarked to the mother "He is a real sucker, I sup pose." " No, sir;"..said - the lady, blush ing; "we had to raise himon the bot tle. The gentleman resumed his read ing and has not 'bragged on any strange baby Sipe: iortMizeouo. The Pyramids—Who Built Them? From Blackwood'fi Magazine.i The pyramids--i. e.,three which mo nopolize the name, for some sixty or seventy more of inferior size exist in Lower Egypt,) stand in a diagonal line from northeast to southwest, with the sides of each exactly facing the fourcar dinal points. The northern is the largest and usually called the first, though some conceive the second or middleone to be, in truth, the oldest. These two differ in size and construction, covering over some twelke acres Of ground, and rising to a height of four hundred and fifty feet. There are now the only sur viving remnants of the famous Aeven Wonders of the World, and are without doubt the oldest, as well as the largest, edifices extant. The third is but half their size, but of superior construction. All three, as Herodotus was informed, were executed by the kings whose nam es they bore for their own sepulchres—the first by Cheops, who reigned fifty years; the second by his brother, Gephrenes, who reigned fifty-six years; and the third liy Mycerinus, son of Cheops. They were faced with slabs of stone carefully formed, and presenting a smooth, inaccessible surface from top to bottom. There was an inscription on the side. of the first pyramid; from Which Herodotus' guide read to him that sixteen hundred talents of silver had been expended in buying radishes, onions, and garlic for the workmen. No other writing is mentioned, and this has long since disappeared with the casing stones, which the Arabs stripped oft; tile pyramids to use in building their t'j y of Marcel (:ahirch i'Misraim the Victorious). by unbelievers ignorantly railed Cairo. Herodotus learnt that this 'stone was brought from the Nile, and drawn by a causeway erected for the purpose front the river to the end-of the desert. This causeway, which" took ten years to building, and was formed of p. d ishedstones,seulptured with animals, was, in his opinion, a work little inferior to the pyramid itself. What say the pyramids themselves? First, they sift rm themselves to he tombs and temples. Sepulchral vaults have been discovered under each, and there is no trace of any religious uses what ever. The vaults, however, have no eommunications—and never could have any with the Nile, being all considera bly above the level. Hence, the story of the Cheops and his insulted tomb only prove that the priests were not acquaint ed with the interior of the pyramids. At what time they were first opened, we know not—apparently not till after I le rodot us's visit-perhaps before fit ratios who mentions the entrance into the larger one covered by a movable stone. They were probably violated by the t-sians. and certainly by the Arabian ealiphs of the seventh century. l fence the absenctlof a body, or any traces of one, in Ow larger pyramids, does not amount to a corroboration of t he legend that the fottAilleni were never buried there. Then_ t the vault is empty, the Great Pyramid contains what neither Herodotus nor Diodorus ever expected, a ehambesp—indeed two --in the heart of the superstructure ; and in one of these, called the King's Chamber, a plain granite sarcophagus ill remains. it must be noted that all the chambers and vaults are secured by portcullises of stone, wit' every precaution against disturbance or subsequent entry. Another point to be noted is, that the vaults are entered by sloping passages opening high in the northern face of etch pyramid, and running at about the same angle straight into the bowels of the earth. In the Great Pyramid the passage is upwards of three hundred feet long, and so exactly straight that the sky is visible from the lower end. Its angle with the horizon is 26:41 which, according to a cah•ulation made by Sir John Hersclhel, would have pointed four thousand years ago to the star a in the constellation of Prato, which teas d north star. This fact has been called in to assist in determining the date of the structure. At all events, when coupled with the exact emplace ment of the sides, it proves that some astronomical considerations were in view, though the pyramids were hardly suited for observatories. laron Bunsein insists ot.o„;ilolatry be- ; jug coeval with the language and na tionality of Egypt, and will allow of no sesdi changes in the religion or monar chy through all his romantie periods.— t ingifiries of a lower flight will find it !C pyramids themselves the clearest ';lenceof at least an entire revolution. lN,t only are they manifestly different in character from all other monuments, but the very tradition of their origin was lost. The idol priests knew noth ing about them, Their founders were impious, accursed men who closed the teroplesPhilition, the shepherd, and so forth. What does this mean, but that they were men of another religion, i in l ived before the temples were built? The Pyramids were, like Stonehenge— r,•l4.s of a former state of society, which bad no succession among those who talked so ignorantly. (ii the numeroll- pyramids, , 4111 10,s is known than of the famous three : yet around the apices of the hoary structures Baron Bunsen per ; steak,: that lit ha, wovon, so j a= never to hi' removed, a history to ti k effect Man was created in the year 11. C. lu,S:i-1, when everything 1101111 of the Alps was 1111 open sea, the 1..ral Monti ! tains standing up as an island, and ; Britannia not having yet arisen from out the azure main. The rase is simply this: We may conjecture the oldest pyramid to be of age of Abraham, say '2lOO years B. C.; any earlier date is worthy only of the Antldan Knights." The strongest grounds, moreover, of this conjecture, arc eat away by the Egyptologists,when they reject the astronomical indications and is icy a origin. If the ab, are ut -,uiptiirt, can be reemndled with the contemporaneous idolatry, and Chutfus is to be connected with the tombs of Ghizen and Benihassen, the argument heroines very strong fort much later date. There is no trace of an idolatrous building in Lower Egypt before the Theban Amosis, who, accord ing to an inscription yet remaining in the quarry, built the temple of Phthah, at Memphis, in the twenty- second year of his reign. The Egypto logists choose to consider this a rebuild ing after the shepherd desolation; but the shepherds are a myth, unknown to the monuments as to the Bible and He rodotus. Then, too, the argument for unity of design comes seriously into play ; only, instead of carrying the Sphinx back to Cheops, it will bring Cheops down to Sphinx. The monster is unquestionably of Theban origin, and was probably constructed in the early part of the eighteenth dynasty as a monument to the new monarchy. In that ease the second pyramid may be the oldest (as Bunsen thinks,) and Am osis may be Lhafra or Chahryis, its founder. Chufu and Mencheres may be succes sors or colleagues and Nitocris may be the regent sister of Thothines 111., whom Wilkinson calls Amunneitgori and Lopsius, Funt Amen. For ourselves we incline to the queen of Psammeticus as at least the second founder of the third (or rosy-faced) pyramid, and if one was built in this age or archaic restoration, why not the others also ? Taking this, the last date, the pyramids will stillbe the oldest monuments in existence, and the last of the Seven Wonders of the world. Surely we may be content with so marvellous an antiquity, without following the Prussian enthusiasts in their attempts toout-Manetho Manetho. As a question of critical evidence, there is absolutely nothing in their specula tions to determine, one way or the other, the problems that were insoluble to Herodotus. - One or two interesting coincidents between the names in Egyp tian legend and the interpretation from the monuments (genuine or fictitious) is the utmost yet attained to. To set up these scraps and guesses against the au thority of such a history as the boolr. of. Genesis is, froin a purely literary point or a view, rtdiculono. To pbm N 1 ER 47. thern• against the authenticity and spirationot the Illoaale, Wrktings, at/wag in the New Testament even more strongly than in the Old, is an offence to our common Chriatianity. Aihtata After Its XllPtare• Correspondence:of pie Xtost,on JCp=4d.] All along th is street---Disirietta—and in this neighborhood the cottages and houses bear the marksof our cannoned; ing. The smaller -houses and some of the larger ones have their chimneys built on the outside. These are often badly battered, while broken fences, roofs, piazzas, huge rips and ordinary sized cannon holes in the sides of the buildings, in every conceivable part, all attest that war in its most earnest tem- per has been wagedin and around At lanta. In the business part of the town and in the west end, there does not appear to have been much damage done. One block was burned down ; the foundry buildings and the large engine house— one of the finest in the West—had their roofs somewhat injured ; but, on the whole, one is astonished that, with such a long cannonading so little permanent injury has been inflicted on the town. Fifty houses, however, in different parts of the city, were burned to the ground by fires kindled by our shells. We walked through the town on the morning after our arrival. It spreads over a large space, and, outside of the business district, the - houses are wide enough apart, having gardens, or rather grounds, around them, to insure a tole rable:, degree of protection to property against the fiercest bombardment. The v;ide streets and open spaces took the shells very good-naturedly, and have no recollection of their visits. The demo lished lamp-posts and shade-trees shat tered alone remind one that something has happened out of the ordinary way of business in the streets themselves. GOPHER HOLES. What are those red mounds in the gar dens ? Go in, nobody will question your right to do so ; for almpst everybody is out of town, or getting ready to go, and the few who remain will not dare to order you to' halt. They are either friends,who have not gone North yet, or rebell who must leave within twenty four hours, or contrabands who like to be called Yankees, or "Constitutional Union men," who prefer to seek new homes in the free States and Canada, to risking their lives, and liberty, and property again in the Confederacy, which they still hope to see an indepen dent nationality. We went into two or three of the gar dens to examine the red mounds of earth. They call them gopher holes. Whenever the stealing began the wo- men and other non-combatants who could do so, left their houses and ran into them for safety. They are holes dug in the ground, boarded up, and covered several feet deep with earth. You descend into them by steps, which are dug on the side from which the shells do not come. They are seven or eight feet in height or depth, and about four in width, and will hold—those we saw —from six to a dozen persons. They have a flooring and a rude beach to sit on. An air-hole and the stairway afford ventilation and fresh air. If a shell falls on the roof and explodes it does no one any harm. They are living graves. Perhaps you may have seen a picture of them, labelled " Cave life in Atlanta," in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. If so, I despair of giving you a correct picture of them, until you forget that engraved and mendacious lie. We saw others dug in the hard clay embankments of the railroad. They are first dug straight in a few feet, and then suddenly turn to the left. As I have not spoken yet with any one who lived in them, and will not adopt Frank Leslie's mode of supplying a lack of facts by an abundance of fancy, you must imagine for yourselves the amount and degree of comfort likely to be found in these subterranean abodes. Never may the wives and daughters of New England have to seek such places of safety ! I think if some friends that I have-in Boston were to see the batter ed houses and the gopher holes here, they would be far less ready than they now are to wish for a war with England or France as soon as the present strife is ended. Atlanta once seemed far less likely to need such caves than Boston and its suburbs would do in case of a great foreign war. THE BUSINESS DISTRICT. Although the business district of At lanta was but slightly injured by the bombardment, it affords a sadder illus tration of the effects of war than even the gopher holes of the shattered dwel lings. The streets were never more thronged than now in the brightest days of its prosperity ; but every store is empty and deSerted or tenanted only by military men—by the commissaries or the quartermasters, or the regimental post offices. Atlanta was a oity with a settled pop ulation of at least fifteen thousand, and refugees from various States had more than doubled its inhabitants since the war began—such, at least, is what some of the leading citizens say. It was the Yankeest place in all the " Yankee States of the South," as the Georgians some years ago loved to call their coun try. It was a thriving, driving city— for the South. It was the terminus of several railroads. Its business blocks, depots, and foundries, and round houses, would have done credit to any Massa chusetts town ; and; now? There are two hotels in operation, several barber shops and' embalming the dead estab lishments, and three news depots—and that is all, absolutely ALL—the business now carried on outside of governmental control, unless one excepts the Adams' Express Company, and also the Sani tary Commission, which has at length been permitted to have two agents here. The Government is running the found ries, and everything else except the churches, and these will probably soon run out by expulsion of their congrega -1 tions under the recent stern and rigor ous order of General Sherman. The depots are lined with refligees and their household goods, patiently waiting to move North—into "Gods' country," as our soldier boys patrioti cally and peetically call the North. I would not guess that there are over a thousand citizens left in Atlanta, in cluding those who have accepted Gov ernment work, and their families.— There are quite large numbers of blacks, but every one of them is employed in' the commissary and quartermaster's departments. and the recruitment of them is jealously prohibited by the military authorities. The streets are thronged with men on foot and ou horseback—but they are nearly all in uniform. Not one per cent. are clad In citizens' attire. The larger part of the dwellings are either open or empty, or occupied as the headquarters of the offi cers of the different departments. THE DEFENCES We walked along the railroad to see the defences. Military men speak of them with great admiration, and say that it would have been utterly impos sible to carry the city by storm, or only at a hideous sacrifice of life. There are three lines of works which are said to extend without a break all around the city. They are twenty-two miles in length. The middle line is very strong, and, at short distances, are well built and strong forts, which sweep every approach to them. Some of them were mounted with six and eight guns of; heavy calibre. Chevaux de frise— long trunks of trees, with spokes ex tending three or four feet both sides of them, so that turn them ask you would, their spurs opposed you—are placed in front of them • and outside of these, again, are felled trees, to arrest and baf fle the march of the most desperate as sailants. Some sixty guns in all, of dif ferent calibres, were captured, but their carriages were burned and they were spiked. I saw some of them. Theybe; longed, when they were made, as they now belong, to." 5.," as their uncle faceable imprints attest. But our, large army and our able gen eralship „inade all this vast work of no avail; _their parlor was skilfully con structekbut we would not walk until we ,forced the.mazuniotit military . epider to Wive. " • Fl o ArLi i 7 7.4 - 70 r-1 6 f, bues/• per cent. Junnamorrom 7_oents Ulna_ ror the - nclitiend 4 cents- each 4r!ii . ;nwni. thser- Pwraarr ears' and other ofher advar's tdi tae eoltunik: - Onsoolurrur, / Hsu Third nolnans, .. • Calms, or ten oT/em, , onelo Stud/less Cards, five humor /ess, cele LEGAL Arra Ural Noirnii:: Executors' 2.00 - Alizaluistassare n0tt0e5,.,„.—...., too • Matinees' 100 Mutants' notices,. . . L4 O Other "Notices," tin - 11;W, three time 5,.... ...... The Relative Positions of Brant and Lee. From the Richmond Cor. of L9ndon Times. , In many of my previous letters pointed outto your readers the true dia frfivantages of Lee's position as corn- _ Fared With Grant's. Alia general illus tration it may be said that Lee.is on the arc, Grant on the chord of a. circle ; but as this expression does not exactly de fine the position of the two armies, ,whose lines (extending each of them over a length of thirty miles) do not pursue any uniform course of inclina tion, I will endeavor, at the risk of re pealing what I have described many times before, to make my meaning clearer. Your readers will understand 'that, in such an attitude as is occupied - by the armies of Lee and Grant, the army which takes the initiative and acts on the aggressive has an immense advantage. Lee is like a skilful one-armed prize fighter, 'who is fighting a big bully with two arms, taller, more active and keener sighted than himself. The most tempt ing and promising opportunities offer themselves to him every day. He can not afford to. hazard even twenty lives in a tentative operagon. The fact of his great numerical i n Merl ty to his enemy, • and that he is tethered down and forced to keep always a large portion of his - army before Petersburg, are disadvan-° tages equivalent to the loss of an arm by a prize fighter. Grant, on the other hand, has, in the eyes of those who rightly survey the ground, such advan tages as make it astonishing that, in the four months between the 12th of June, when he crossed the James, river, and the present time, he should have made so little use of them. In his centre lies the James river, with its dozens of Yan kee gunboats and Monitors, covering the (Y: federal base of operations, and making / it even unapproachable bypeneralLee. It is doubtless with a view to getting still more out of these Monitors that General Butler is attempting to cut a canal through Dutch Gap, into which he hopes to tempt the James river. It is not thought here—l may say par paren these—that any advantage will result to Butler's comrades from this canal, even if, contrary to Federal experience at Vicksburg, it prove a success. By means of the pontoon bridges which, connect Bermuda Hun dred with Deep Bottom, Grant can throw any number of men by night or by day to the north or south of the James. It is almost impossible for Lee to know if Grant's demonstrations, whether they threaten Richmond on the extreme Federal right, or the South side Railroad on the Federal left, are feints or realities. On the other hand, from the configuration of the ground, it is almost impossible for Lee to cut Grant's extended lines in any vital place. The most tempting place to as sail those lines would be somewhere not far from the spot where Grant's mine was sprung. But the shape of the ground and the position of the position of the forests is such that the lines can only be attacked. at two or three con fined spots, and here naturally Grant has defended himself . With triple fron tiers of fortifications, and keeps always strong bodies of men in position. I am in hopes that during the coming winter rest will not be denied to Lee's army, as it becomes stronger; but be that as it may, I am convinced that when the true history of the Confederate campaign of 1864 in Virginia is written, it will record a struggle unsurplfssed in heroism, and in the patience and self denying endurance of the troops since the time when blood was first spilt upon the earth, and man first lifted his hand in anger against his brother. There is one plan by which, at the price of the bricks and mortar of Peters burg, General Lee might curtail* the existing prolongation of his lines,might assume a much stronger defensive posi tion and considerably increase the diffi culties of his opponent. That this plan will be adopted, if occasion requires, is by no means improbable; but so long as General Lee feels himself strong enough to hold and protect Petersburg as well as Richmond he will continue to cling to both. If he gave up the town of Petersburg, and he fell back upon the western and higher bank of the Appomattox, holding the heights of Pocahontas, which guide Petersburg on the west and north, his strength for de fense would be much greater; but he would have, in the same measure, to give the little city up to its assailants, much in the same fashion as Fredericks burg was given up to the Federals while the Confederates held Mary's Heights. It has often been urged by wise mili tary heads that this would be a judicious step, but experience has shown to what misery the inhabitants of towns surren- - dered to the enemy are reduced, and to this misery Gen. Lee will not consent that Petersburg shall be exposed, if he can prevent it. My own expression is that the success or failure which may follow Hood's daring move in Georgia (of which I spoke in my last letter) will govern the operations of Grant against Richmond. The reciprocity and mutu ality which have: always existed between the various armies of the Federals on the one hand and of the Confederates on the other, in the East and West, were never more apparent than at this moment. If the Confederates maintain theirpresent attitude before Richmond, and continue' to hold their enemy back until, as is here anticipated, a great disaster has overtaken Sherman in the West, I do not scruple to say that, in my opinion, - Richmond will laugh its assailants to scorn. If, on the other hand, Sherman is able to extricate himself from his pre sent critical position, by either beating or outwitting Hood, there will be reason for apprehension about Richmond dur ing the coming winter tire like of which has never existed before. Meat Preserved Many Thousand Tears. We have now eviderke of man having coexisted in Europe with three species of elephant, two of them extinct, name ly, the mammoth and the clephua anti quus, and a third the same as that which still survives in Africa. As to the first of these, the mammoth, I am aware that some writers contend that it could not have died out many tens of thousands of years before our time, because its flesh has been preserved in ice in Siberia in so _fresh a state as to serve as food for dogs, bears, and wolves ; but this argument seems to me fallacious. Midendorf, in 1843, af . ter digging through some thickness of frozen soil in Siberia, came down upon an icy mass, iu which the camas of a mammoth was Imbedded so perfect that, among other parts, the pupil of the eye was taken out, and is now preserved in the Museum of Moscow. No one will deny that this elephant had lain for several thousand years in its icy envel ope ; and if it had been left undisturbed, and the cold had gone on increasing for myriads of centuries, we might reason ably expect that the frozen flesh might continue undecayed until a second gla cial period had passed away.—Sir Chas. A CHILD ON SABBATH-BREAKING.— One Sunday, as a little girl of four win ters was on the way home from church, with her father, they passed a boy split ting wood, when the father said, " Mary, do you see that boy breaking the Sabbath ?" She made no reply but appeared to be very thoughtful, as she walked homeward. After entering the house, her mother asked her what she had seen while she was gone, when she replied : " Oh, mother, I saw -a boy breaking the Sabbath with a big as !" . -In 1810 Judge Tanerias Bo feeble that a gentleman whOhad'a law snit, refused to give it to hiM for fear he world die hefore the case was tried: - 1 11413 was lifty-four yeao3 before the great jurist.
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