OiE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOW-AJNTDA.:
Thursday Morning, Juno 13, 1861.
Siictttb f ottrj.
A VOICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH.
tT OLVKR WKNDKLt HOLMES.
We sing " Our Country'# " ong to-nlghl
With saddened voice and eye;
Her banner uroops in clouded light
Beneath the wintry sky.
We'll pledge her once in golden wine
Be fore her stars have set;
Though dim one reddening orb may shius. *
We have a country yet.
'Twere vain to sigh o er erTor past,
The fault of sires or sons;
Oar soldier heard the threatening blank
And spiked his useless guns;
He saw the star wreathed ensign fall
By mad invaders torn;
But saw it Irom the bastioned wall
That laughed their rage to acorn!
What though their angry cry is flung
Across the howling wave,—
They smite the air with idle tongua
The cathering storm who brave;
Enough of speech! the trumpet rings;
lie silent, patient, calm,—
God heip them if the tempest swing*
The pine against the palm!
On:toilsome years have made us tame;
Oar strength lias flept unfclt;
Tie furnace fire is slow to flame
That lids our ploughshares melt;
'Tshard to lose the bread they win
fn spite of Nature's frowns,—
T drop tiie iron threads we spin
That weave our web of towns.
To see the rustling turhiecs stand
sefre the emptied flames.
To fold the arms that flood the land
With riveis from their looms,—
it harder still lor those who learn
The truth forgot so long;
When once their slumbering passions burn.
The peaceful are the strong!
The Lord have mercy on the weak,
And calm their frenzied ire,
And save our brothers ere they shriek
" We played with northern fire!"
The eagle hold his mountain height.—
The tiger pace Ui den!
Give all their country, each his right!
U-id keep us all! A men!
<§clcctcb (bitlt.
BQB-Q'-LI XIKI.
I BY FITZ JAMES O'BRIEN.
I tit noon in Summer. The earth lav
■!n;.eis in the heat, with its thou-and
I .;ts in rood and field too fuint for thei:
Lastoiued low. mysterious speech. The Long
'ill shore, white and cresccnted, bared its
; a like Danue to tlie golden embraces
iftlieSan. In the meadows the heavy crest
!" grasses with nodding heads beat time tothe
met wash of waves upon the beach. Yellow
f -e? of the golden rod pierced the air like
t-' i'is The tulip dree, r>lel like a priest in
''."tl green, held u;to the heaven with branch
jitrms a thousand golden chalices. Far away
'Cross the Sound lay the Connecticut shore
reialiling through mist, while behind me, from
~e green rece>s-s of a deserted gardeo, tiie
irinie poured forth iiis monotone of sorrow.
A< I sauntered down '.he little path that led
orn the old home where I wis hoarding for
e Summer, to my favorite haunt hy the sua
lore, with clouds of insects springing from the
'> ; s like a living spray at every step I took,
'widenly heard the sancy notes of that low
t Jciian of hirds, the Boleo'-Lirik. As I have
MVS had a friendly feeling towards tins or
•kalogieal firctur, I set to work to obtain
iinterview with him. I was not low* in die
"vrinp his whereabouts. He was sitting on
• vump of a rail chattering vehemently, and
" l ts 1 understood his langnago, impudent-
t ■■eniiig his feathers, cocking his head on
hiedc, as if lie had a passion fur seeing N'a
"'ipside-down, and shaking his wings us
he contemplated immediate migration
' coast of Africa. About every half
-1 Jte or so he would suddenly leave his perch,
• tying a littdistance, Hop into the long
'tiuow grass, whence instantly would proceed
fcw astounding vocal effort, after which lie
v - 'i re-appear and resume his rail in triumph.
'teqiient journeys to the same spot led me
'opectthat he had some private interest
4 ' quarter—a nest, or a young bride per-
a;oi that he was in fact passing his lion
. 'on, cq J walked toward the place in which
*'■' h ia disappear lust, determined to be a
of his domestic bliss.
'■ teemed to me that a human head was
- alone an J bodiless in the deep green sea
- that surrounded me. A beautiful
j"">!.ead, blonde and spiritual, looking tip
'g < lose to its pale, rounded cheek, hush
ed rather astonished bv my appearance,
p*sttr Bob o'Link.
" head, however, was not without a bo
• ie long bending grass met over the
ear i"K exposed only the pale, beautiful
looked like an exquisite Venetian
ratued in gold and green.
,or) d moraine, sir," said the youth in a
• r o'ce, as I t,e n t over him, looking, I sup-
little bewildered at this sudden appari
, :i . fondling at the same time Master
j,, 'k with long slender fingers. " Good
"Hr, sir "
leou ' D,orn 'f ) g. sir," I answered. " You
UP,', C things quietly here."
it C. " a SQ dden glance downward toward
pj '• a, "l a sad smile flickered over his
i J obliged to take things qnietly," he
..J 1 ' Q n invalid I suppose. lam sorry."
paralyzed, sir." J
P H ' ul t l' tone of utter des
*-'h be made this terrible statement.
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
If you have ever spoken witli a man who had
spent twenty years in solitary confinement, you
will have noticed the unearthly caltn of his
voice, the low mocotone of sound, the loneli
ii' ss of accent. Well, this lad's voice souud
ed so. He talked like one shut out of life. I
made a place for myself io the grass and sat
down beside him.
" I was attracted by your bird," I said ; I
thought he had a nest here, and I followed
him. I trust lam net iutroding."
" Not at all, sir lam glad to Lave some
one to speak to. As for Bob, be has a uest
here, but it'a in my heart. He is the ouly
thiug on earth that loves me."
" You take too sad a view of life, my friend.
Your calamity is great, no doubt, but still—"
" Ah ! sir, it's all well enough to talk so
when you have limbs aud health and freedom.
When you can work and go out into life and
tread the earth with tho fuil consciousness of
being. But when ever since you can remem
ber you have been but the moiety of a man,
utterly helpless, utterly dependent, an infant
without an infant's happy unconsciousness.—
But w hat's the use of my talking to you in
this way ; here, Bob, show the gentleman your
tricks."
" Bob, on this summons, left his post by the
lad's cheek, where he,had remained perfectly
still, taking an inveutory of my person with
his round bright eye, aud apparently measur
ing me for a suit of clothes, and suddeuly flew
into the air, wnere he summersaulted and pi
ronetted and affected to lose the use of his
wings aud tumble from an apuiling height, in
variably recovering himself before reaching
the ground, after which he gravely alit upon
his master's breast and thrust his little bill uf
fectionately between his iips.
" You have tamed your bird wonderfully,"
I said to the boy.
"It has been ray amusement during many
solitury hours," he answered with a feeble
smile.
" How is it that you have been so solitary ? '
I askd ; "you live in the neighborhood f'
" In t hut house up yonder just peeping from
behind that clump of maples," uud he pointed
as lie spoke towards a respectable farm house.
" And von have friends—a family ?"
" Ah ! Sir, they are kind enough to me ;
but they must be very tired of me by this time '
" Come," said I, encouragingly, laying my
hand on his shoulder, "come, tell me all about
yourself. I'm a good listener ; beside, I am
interested in yon. Bob here looks as if he was
anxious for a story This is a charming nook
that we are in, so l'il just light a cigar, aud
do you talk."
The five and easy manner I assumed seemed
to surprise him. He glanced shyly at me out
of his large blue eyes, as if suspicious of mv
sincerity ; then he heaved a sigh, stroked Bob's
feather*, as if to assure himself of the presence
of at least one friend, and saying, " As you
please," commenced :
" I am eighteen," lie said, " you would not
think it, for I know I look younger than I am.
Confinement and suffering have made my com
plcxion pale and transparent, and the Sun and
winds that harden other men's skins aud age
their features, have had but little to do with
me. Ever since I can remember I have been
paralyzed in the lower limbs. For years I lay
upon an inclined plane of board, looking up at
the ceiling with a mind very nearly ns blank
as tiie white planter I gazed at. My father
died when I was a mere infant, and there was
no one left in the house but mother and Cou
sin Alice and me "
" Cousin Alice," I said ; " who is she ?"
Jlis eves wandered timidly towards the
louse behind the maples, as if he expected
some appiritiou to start from thence on the
very instant.
" Cousin Alice," lie repeated vangely, well,
she's—Cousin Alice."
" Excessively explanatory," I said laughing.
" Is Cousin A lice young?"
" My age."
'* I a she pretty ?"
One deep, reproachful look of those largo
blue eyes told me all. Poor fellow, there he
lay maimed, useless, passing hisdavs and even
ings in the presence of some beautiful creature
w nom he could never hone to possess,but lov
ing her with all that concentrated intensity
which belongs to the passions of the deformed.
lie seemed to know what was passing in my
mind ; for without a word from me, lie con
tinued : "She is engaged to Ralph Farewell,
who lives down yonder. She is very fond of
him, and he of her. It is they who bring me
down between them to this place every fine
day, and I sit here with Hob while they gooff
and pick nuts, and—and" and here the picture
wns too much for him, and the poor fellow
hurst into tears.
N'o wonder. To have his misfortnnc parad
cd through necessity before the woman he lov
ed. To be carried about like a piece of furni
ture by her and his rival. How often that
poor heart must have been smitten bitterly ?
How often those crippled limbs thrilled with
agony.
I took his hand in mine, but did not say a
word. There are times when consolation is
cruel. Tt was belter than all the world to let
him feel by the pressure-of hand that he found
a friend. We sat this way for some timp, un
til I was aroused from a painful revrie into
which I had fallen by a long, black shadow
being projected across the spot in which we
were sitting. I looked up and saw a tail, hand
some young man with bronze checks and curly
chestnut hair, on whose arm was hanging an
exceedingly lovely young girl, face was
a perfect treasury of archness and innocence.
They Uoked rather surprised at seeing mc.
but I explained how it was I came to he there
and they seemed to be satisfied.
" Harry, isn't it time to come home ?" said
the girl. " Ralph and I are come for yon."
" Thnnk you, Alice ; but I'd like to -tuy an
hour longer. The day is so bright and sunny
that it is a shame to be in doors. You don't
want to go home yet and he looked at
Ralph as he said this with a hitter expression
of countenance that perhaps 1 alone observed,
bot which seemed to say : It will give you an
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOVANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY R. W. STI'RROCK.
| hour more to wander together. Of course you
don't want to go home.
" Well, as you please, Ilarry. Ralph and
I will go off to the pond in tiie cedar grove
and come back in about an hour. But I say,
Harry, look here ; isn't this pretty ?" as she
| spoke slieheld out a lilt le box for his inspection.
Ho opened it, and disclosed a pretty little ring
| set with garnets. While Le looked ut it, Al-
I ice stooped over and with a blush whispered
j something into his ear, which made him to my
; keener sight quiver in all that part of him tliut
! was alive. It was but momentary, however,
for heiestored the box, sayiug coldly : " Well,
I wish you both every happiness. You will
find me here when you return."
As they walked slowly awov, he followed
them with his eyes, then turned to me. " Thev
are to be married next Suday," ho said.
I felt uil the meaning of his words. I piti
ed him. Solitude is a ueed to him at this mo
ment ; I will leave him. As I pulled out my
watch and prepared lor my departure, he said
to me : "I um exceedingly obliged to you, Sir,
for your company, but I want you to douieoae
more favor before you leave. You are strong
and I am light. Please take me to the giant's
chair. I love to sit on it aud dip my hand in
the salt wash of the sea."
" But are you not afraid of slipping and
falling in ?" I asked, for the giant's chair was
a fantastically shaped rock a few hundred
yards down the beach, around whose rugged
base the sea at high tide washed clamorously.
" Oh ! no," he answered ; there is a cleft
in it where I sit quite safely. Aud when Ralph
and Alice come to look for me I can easily
shout to them from where I am. Do take me,
sir, if you please."
Of course I obeyed his wishes I lifted him
in my arms, and with Bob liying alougside of
us, carried him down to the huge old rock
which was regally draped in the rich brown
tapestry of the sea. I found a comfortable,
dry, cleft in which I stowei him away, and
witli a promise to coute am' see him the follow
ing day, I left him, with Bob chattering away
on iiis shoulder, gazing dreamily across at the
Connecticut shore.
About an hour and three quarters after this,
I was strolling down the road smoking my af
ter dinner cigar, when IJieard hurried steps be
hind me, uud the young man named Ralph ran
up pale and breathless.
" For God's sake, sir, where did you leave
Ilarry ?" he cried. We can't find him any
where 1"
" Oh ! you havn't looked on the giant's
chair, then ; 1 took him there. I left him
snug and comfortable."
" But we have, sir. We know how fond
he was of sitting there, anil when we missed
him from the meadow, concluded that he had
got you to carry him there. But there is no
sign of him, ouly the poor Bob-o'-Liuk flying
wildly over the spot where the rqrk dips into
the water, and crying as if his heart would
break."
" Not in the giant's chair, I cried, with a
sick feeling about my heart. " Good God !
Lie has drowned himself "
" Drowned himself ! Why, what for ?" ask
ed Ralph with the most unfe:gued astonish
ment.
" lie is'in love with his Cousin Alice ; and
you are to marry he uext Sunday," was my
only reply.
The man was stunned. He saw it in an in
stant. All that secret and mysterious love
which had racked the heart of the poor crip
ple, unknown to him or iiis betrothed, was laid
bare, lie groaned and buried his face in his
"This will kill Alice, sir," lie said to me.—
"Come and help me to break it to her "
My conjecture was correct. About a week
after this the body of the poor paralytic was
washed ashore some miles down the beach,
holding with desperate clutch in one hand a
little daguerreotype of his Coosin Alice.
And Hob—he missed the accustomed hand.
For days after his master's death he used to
fly down to the old place in the meadow and
hover around there, waiting for him who nev
er more would coiue. This lasted for about a
fortnight, when Ralph, in passing by, found
the poor bird dead in the grass, which still
bore the impress of his master's form.
GITU.S XEKD EXERCISE: —Athletic sports are
full of interest to boys, and wisely do both
parents und teachers encourage them to pur
take thereof, into them they go with a rush,
and n reli-h, and a heartiness of fun, most
cheering fo behold and most excellent in its in
fluence upon their bodily health. Hut of how
little physical exercise do our girls partake ?
and how quick are we to check any propensity
to activity in play, and to any romping gam
bols or vigorous recreation on their part? The
girls of the olden time were immeasurably
more sportive, than would seem to find favor
with the staid discreetness and solemn quiet of
i he premature young ladydorn of modern days.
Hoops, (not as now used ) balls, battledoors,
rncning, dancing in its primitive innocence,
rope skipping, and an endless variety of active
sports, entirely appropriate to their sex, were
freely indulged in,—sport not only harmless in
their nature, but of positive bem fit to health
and development of all the liodily powers
Hut all that sort of frollicking,beneficial though
it really was to both the bodies and the minds
of the participants, has passed out of fashion,
and we have no romping girh, no capering
"Tomboys," with straight limbs, active frames
and plump with robust health, no "cherry
cheeked Patties," full of energetic life and
proof against rain,hail, storm and sloppy roads
but a dwindling race of pale-faced, sallow-skin
ned, wasp waisted damsels, totally unlike the
spleuded samples of th"ir sex,(if we mayjudge
of them by the statues that have come down
to us,) that adorned the cities of Greece
twenty cetnriesago ; models of the most per
fect development of the human form—a meas
ure around the waist of one of which would
encircle half a dozen of our modern victims of
lungs compressed and bones displaced by mur
derous fashion.— London Review.
fly "So far so good," as the boy said when
be bad finished tba first pot of bis mother's jam
" RECARDLKSS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
Artenuis Ward in the South,
HIS TRIALS AND ADVENTURES.
I had a narrar escape from the sonny South.
" The swings and errera of outrajus fortin,"
alluded to by Uamlick, war'nt nothin in com
parison to my trnbles. I came pesky near
sweariti some profane oath more'n onct, but
I hope I did'ntdoit, for I've promist she whose
name shall be nameless (except that her initial
is Betey J.) that I'll jine the Meetin House at
Baldinsville jest as soon as I can scrape money
enaff together so as I can 'ford to be pins in
good stile, like my welthy uabers. But if I'm
corifisticated agiu I'm afraid I shall contiuuer
011 in ray present benited state for sotn time.
1 figgered conspicyously in many thrilling
scenes in my tower from Montgomery to my
humsted, and on several occasions I thought
" the great komic paper" wouldu't never be
iuriched no more with my lubrications. Arter
bidden adoo to JeflVrscn D. I started for the
depot. I saw a nigger sittin on a fence a
playin on a banjo. "My African Brother,'sed
I, cot it. from a Track I onct red, " ycu belong
to a very interestin race. -Your master is goiu
to war excloosivly on your account."
"Yess boss," lie replied, "an' I wish 'em
honorable graves !"aud he went on playin the
banjo, larfiu all over and openin his mouth
wide enuff to driro in an old fashioned 2
wheeled chaise.
The train of cars in which I was to trust my
wallerble life was the scaliest, rickytiest lookin
lot of consurus that I ever saw on wheels afore.
"What times does this string of secoud-hand
coflius leave V' I enquired of the depot mas
ter.
lie said direcklv, and Iwent in & sot down.
I haden't tuornn'n fairly squatted afore a dark
lookin man with a swinister expression onto
his countenance entered the cars, and lookin
very sharp at me, he axed what was my priu
cipales ?
" Sccesh !" I answered. " I'm a dissolutor,
I'm in favor of Jeff. Davis, Bouregard, Fick
ens, Capt. Kidd.Bloobeard, Monro Edward,the
devil, Mrs. Cunningham and all the rest of
'cm.
" You're in favor of the war V
" Certiuly. By all all means. I'm in favor
of this war und olso of the text war. I've been
in favor of the next wur for over sixteen
years !"
" What to the knive !" sed the tnan.
" 15lud, Eargo, Mud !" sed I, tho them words
isn't origgerual with me. Them words was rit
by Shakesphere, who is dead. His Mantle
fell onto tiie author of "The Seven Sisters,'
who's going to liav a spring overcoat made
out of it.
We got under way at larst, and' proceeded
on our journey at about the rate of speed which
is generally observed by properly conducted
funeral processions. A harisume yung ga!,
with a red musketer bar on the back part of
her head, and a sussv little black hat tipt over
her forrcrd, sot in the seat with me. She
wore a liitle Sesesh flag piu'd onto her hat,
and she was a goin fcr to see her troo lore,
who had j iied the Southern army, all so hold
and Kay. So she told me. She was chilly,
and I offered her my blanket.
" Father liviu ?" I axed.
" Yes, sir."
" Got any Uncles ?"
" A heep. Uncle Thomas is ded, tho."
" Peace to Uncle Thomas' ashes, and suc
cess to him. I will be your uncle Thomas !
Lean on me, my pretty Secesher, and lin
ger in blesslul repose !" She slept as secoorly
as in her own house, and didn't disturb the
solium stillness of the night with 'ary snore.
At the first station a troop of Sojers enter
ed the cars and inquired if " Old Wax Works"
was on bored. That was the disrespcctiv
stile in which they referred to tne. " Bccuwz
if Old Wax Works is on bored," sez a man
with a face like a double -brested lobster,
" we're going to hang Old Wax Works!"
"My illustrious and patriotic Bummers ?"
sez I, agittin up and taken orf my shapnoe,
"if you allude to A Ward, it's my pleasin
dooty to inform you that he's dead, lie saw
the error of his ways at 15 minits past 2
yesterday, and he stabbed hisself with a stuffed
sledstake, dvin in five beautiful tablee® to slow
tnoosic ! Ilis larst words was : 'My ptrfesh
httrnal career is over ! I jerk no more !"
" And who be you 1"
" I'm a stoodent in Senator Benjamin's law
offi-s. I'm going up North to steal sum spoons
and things for the Snthern Army.
This was satisfactry, and the intoxicated
troops went orf. At the next station the
pretty little Secesher awoke and sed she must
git out there. I bid her a kind ndoo and giv
her sum pervisions. " Except my blessin and
this hunk of gingerbread !" I sed. she thankt
me muchly and tript galv away. There's con
siderable human nater in a man, and I'm fraid
I shall allers giv aid and comfort to the enemy
if lie comes to me in the shape of a nice young
gal.
At the next station I didn't get orf so easy
I was drgged out of the cars and rolled in the
mud for several miuits, for the purpnss of
" takin the couseet out of me,' as a Secesher
kindly stated.
I was led up finally, when a powerful, large
Secesher came np and embraced me, and to
show that he had no hard feelins agin me, put
his nose into my mouth. I returned the com
plimeut by placing my stnmiek soddenlv agin
iiis right foot, when he kindly made a spittoon
of his able-bodied fuce. AcUoated by a desire
to see whether the Secesher had beeu vaxina
ted, I then fastened my teeth onto his left
coat-sleave and tore it to the shoulder. We
then vilently butied our heads together for a
few minits, danced round a little and sot down
in a mud puddle. We riz to our feet agiu k
by a sudden A adroit movement I placed niv
left eye again the Secesher's fist. We then
rushed into each other's arms, and fell under a
two boss wagon. I was very much exhausted,
and didn't care nbont gettifi np agin, but the
man said he reconed I'd better, and I conelood
ed I would. lie pulled me up, but I hadn't
been on my feat more'n two seconds afore the
ground fleyv np and hit me in the head. The
crowd sed it was high o'.d sport, but I couldn't
zaclv see where the iafturecome in. I riz aqd
wo embraced again. We careered madly to'a
steep batik, when I got the tipper hand of my
antagonist and threw him into the raveen.-r-
He fell about forty feet, striking a grindstone
pretty hard I understood be was injured. I
haven't heard from the grindstone.
A man in a cockt hat came up and sed he
felt as tho a apology was doo me. There was
a mistake. The crowd had taken me for an
other mau I I told him not to mention it,
axed him if his wife and little ones was so's to
be about, and got on board the train, which
had stopped at that station " 20 uiiaits for
refreshments." I got all I wanted. It was
the hartiest meal I ever et.
I was rid off a rail the next day, a bunch of
blazin fire crackers bein tied to my coat tales.
It was a fine speetyeal in a dramatic pint of
view, but I didn't enjoy it. I had other ad
venters of a sartiu kind, but why continner.
Why lasserate the Public Boozum witli thes
here things ? Suffysit to say I got ocross Ma
son A Dixie's line safe at last. 1 made tracks
for my humsted. but she with whome I'm haru
ist for life fuiled to recognize, in the cmashiatcd
bein who stood before her, the gnshin youth
of forty-six summers who had left her only a
few rnouts afore. But I went into tlie pantry
and brought out a certin black bottle. Rais
in it to my lips, I sed " Here's to you, old gal!"
I did it so natral that she knewed me at once.
" Those form ! Them voice ! Tiiat natral
stile of doia things ! 'Tis he !" she cried,
and rushed into my arms. It was to much for
her & she fell into a swoon. 1 cum very near
swonnding myself.
No more to-day from yours for the prepe
tration of the Union, and the bringin of the
Goddess of Liberty out of ber present bad fix.
AKTEMUS WARD.
Aii Unreported Incident of the Seces
sion Programme.
A well known merchant of this city .who was
in New Orleans on tiie day Louisiana passed
the secession ordinance,and who witnessed the
illumination in honor of that treasonable act,
has related to us,with a request that we would
suppress names, the following racy incident,
which alike illustrates the traditionary "when
a woman won't, she wou't " cluiracteristic of
the sex, and tiie fact that the Union people of
the South have, at this time, no voice in the
newspap.r reports of the disunion section. It
so happened that on the day of the illumina
tiou the captain of u Mississippi steamboat
and his lady were stopping at the St. Charles,
and occupied a front room on the third floor
—the first floor of chambers—exactly in the
centre of the hotel. The Captain was a Union
man, and—as the sequel will show—so was his
wife. All the city was agitated duriug the
af'ernoon in prospect of the grand gala night.
The St. Charles was to be illuminated,of curse.
Accordingly, some time during the afternoon
a servant knocked at the door of the captain's
room, carrying all the necessary trappings for
lighting tip the chamber windows. Mrs.
opened the door, when the following dialogue
ensued :
Lady—What have yon got there ?
Servant—Candles, missus, to light your
window for de'lumination.
L.—Well, you can return them to where you
brought them from, as I shall not allow them
in this room.
S. —(Not to be foiled so easily, resumed,)
Oh, but massa told me to put de lights, and so
I's got to put 'cm up.
L —Can't help that ; this is my room,and I
shan't allow the windows to be illuminated for
what I am opposed to ; so that ends it.
This closed the first act. The servant ro
ported to the proprietors, who immediately
preeecded to the lady's room with a view of
convincing her of the importance of permitting
the servant to make ready for the grand even
ing light-up. Said they, "This room is the
most central in the entire front,and not to illu
minate it will be to mar seriously the effect of
the whole to which the lady replied :
" I am sorry, gentlemen to cause you any
inconvenience, but I believe this room, for the
time being, is ours by right, and 1 must posi
tively decline, in any way, to add eclat to an
outrage.as i conceive the whole disunion move
merit to be. My husband (who was out at the
time) is a Union man, and 1 am a Union wo
man, and this room cannot be illuminated."—
A few more words were exchanged,which end
ed by the lady politely requesting the proprie
tors to leave her room. Determined not to be
outdone in a matter of such grave importance,
the Captain was next fouud and appealed to.—
He heard their case ; said his wife had report
ed him correctly on the Union question ; never
theless, he would go with them to the room
and see if the matter eoald not bo amicably
arranged. Scene third ensued. The Captain's
disposition to yield was not to be seconded I>y
his better half. They next proposed to vacate
the best chamber in her favor, in some other
part.of the house, if that would be satisfac
tory, but the lady's " No !"' was still as pre
emptorv as ever. Her point was gained, and
the St. Charles was doomed to liuvo a dark
front chamber. •
Pleased with this triumph, Mrs. de
vised the following monreuvro to make the
most of her victory :—Summoning a servant,
she Rent him out to procure for her an Amer
ican flag, which, at dusk, she suspended from
her window. This made the fourth act in the
play, and the fifth is always indispensable, it
had its place here. When evening came, the
streets, animated by a merry throng, were
illuminated, but, alas! the St. Charles was
disfigured by its sombre ehnmber, when sud
denly a succession of lumps.snspendcd on bath
sides of the flag, revealing the Stars and
Stripes, were lit np, and the ensign of the
Union waved from the centre of a hotel illu
minated in honor of its overthrow ! The effect
was to give the impression thatjthc whole house
was thus paying homage to the American flag
and what is most magnificniit, is the fact that
the latter was greeted by the passing crowd
with vociferons applanse. So much for the
firmness of a tune Union woman.— Phil. Prtts.
VOL. XXTI.—INT). 2.
(fbncaliomil 3pfj)utlmef.
1 JDa?* We again call attention of directors to
j the law requiring tbeui to forward their annu
jul report by the tirst Monday in Jtfne. That
time is now past, and still thirteen of the dis
j triets are behind. They are needed by the
; State Superintendent at an early day. It U
from these annoal reports that he must obtain
the statistics which he is Squired to present
to the legislature at the commencement of each
j regnlar session. In order to Ipve this impor
tant doeumeut time, it is ngcessatY
' that the date from which it is made be ih h fi
hands as early as the day fixed by the law
; for the directors to report wLiieh is the first
Monday of Juue in each year. We hope tbr.t
. we shall not be obliged to call attention to
I this subject again. The forfieture for non
j compliance of this requesitjon is the loss of th
I State appropriation lor the next year.
HULLS FCR TITE TEACHER :—Orre of tiie most
successful teachers of the past generation,who
had upwards of thirty years experience in eeu-
I ducting a female serniHury, sets dowu the fol
lowing items, as having been instrumental iu
: his success •
1. Unremitting labor, from th% beginning
' to the present time.
2. Never being so satisfied with past or
present success, as to indulge a tendency to
j inactivity.
J. beginning every term with the same
3troug desire to make some additional improve
ment, as I at first felt for success itself.
4. Adopting every real improvement in edu
cation, whether it was demanded by public
< sentiment or not.
5. Rejecting everything that did not ap
! prove itself to my judgment, after examination
| and trial, though it might be demanded by
| public sentiment.
G. Never allowing the public to become bet
ter acquniuteri than myself with educational
interests, especially such as related to the edu
cation of young ladies,
7. Daily seeking the special aid of Heaven
ly wisdom and guidance.
Proru-sioxAf. READING :—Weclaith for sack
papers (School Journals) the same relative
position v.hch the periodicals supported by
other professions sustain. In medicine, in law,
iu theology, criticism, in art, in polite litera
ture, in the various departments qf scienee.and
iu the practical arts, we find such publications
and we find, too, that they are indispensable to
1 the promulgation of discoveries and inventions,
and to the advancement of knowledge aud art.
We shall also find—with open eyes and ears
—that no man, nor woman, of any plausible'
pretjnsious to intelligence, or to ardor in his
profession, except among teachers, we mean,
—fails, on any consideratien, to be a subscri
ber If) at least one professional periodical ; of
fails to claim the benefit of at least the prc
surojftiou tbut he reads it. lie considers it an
advantage every way, and would QS soon re
nounce all hope of improving in his profession,
wouli about as sooa throw away his tools and
desert his office, and then expect to .proper,as
to strip his magazine. However the fact may
be a louutod for, it is certainly a settled opin
ion, that, in every calling that requires intelli
gence, thought, spirit,—the periodical maga
zine rs one appliance indispensable to any solid
and tfcrmanent success.
Wly is not the same thing equally true in
the department of teaching ? Does not the
teachijf.as much at least a.s others,need collision
and filoliou with minds iu kindred pursuits ?
Docs ha uot need to keep up with the aere,lest
unaware he finds himself superanunatcd in his
own calling ere half his cotmse be run ? Does
he uotlde?ire suggestions of new methods,new
expedients, new applications of old principles,
or uew changes and variations, that may be
rung oLt ou old chords ? Does he fancy that
liis owl miud, however gifted, vf dl be permit
ted to originate ail the good and beautiful
thoughts which may enhance his usefulness in
the School room ? Or, if nothing else, does ha
not need, —and this we Fegard as altogether
the rao,-$t important consideration,—the stimu
lus imparted, and vitalising influence on mind,
and heart, which every caruest teacher is sura
to realize from the inspiration of earnest thonat
and feeling, earnestly uttered by bis fellow
laborers in tiie same field ? Are the toils of
any profession more depressing and jading
than of ibis? Are there any in which consul
tation, sympathy, encouragement and frequent
surveys of the field from new points of View,are
more salutary 2 — II. 1. School Masltr.
llow AND WHAT TO It PAD. —Read roach, Uufc
not many works. For what purpose, with
what intunt do we read ? We read not for the
sake of rinding, but we read to the end what
we may think. Reading is valuable only as
it may supply the materials which the miud
itself elaborates. As it is not the largest
amount cd" food taken into the stomach that
conducesfo health, but such a quantity of such
a kind as can be digested ; and so it is not tho
greatest domplimcnt of any kind of informa
tion that .raprorcs the mind, but such a kind
as determines the intellect to most vigorous
energy. l'lie only profitable kind of reading
is that in which we are compelled to think in
tensely; nfiereas that reading that serves only
to dissipate and divert our thoughts is either
possitivelyihurtful, or useful only ns an occa
sional relaxation from severe exertion. Uufc
the amount of vigorous thinking is ustaUy in
the inverse ratio of multifarious reading. Mul
tifarious rendimg is agreeable, but as a habit*
it is, in its way, as destructive to the mental as
dram drinking is to the bodily health. "Our
age,'' says Horder, " is the reeling age," and
he adds, " ]t would have been better in ror
opiuion.for the world and for science, if,instead
of the multitude of books which now overlay
us, we possessed but a few work-: gotd and
sterling, and which, as few, would be tliereforo
diliigeutly and profoundly studied."
Lock out for paint,' a the gifl said
when tha follow went to kiss her
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