DIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
xowANDA:
Thursday Morning, December 4, 1862.
gdcrttb Hottrj.
WONDERS AND MURMURS.
Strange that the wind should be left so free
To play with a flower, or tear a tree ;
To range or ramble where'er it will,
Aud as°it lists to be fierce or still ;
Above and around, to breathe of life,
Or to mingle on earth and the sky in strife ;
Gently to whisper with morning light,
Yet to growl like a fettered fiend, ere night;
Or to love and cherish and bless, to day,
What to morrow it ruthless rends away !
Strange, that the sun should call into birth
All the fairest flowers aud fruits of earth,
Then bid them perish, and see them die,
While they cheer the soul and gladden the eye.
At mom, its child is the pride of spring—
At night, a shriveled and loathsome thing !
To-day there is hope and life in its breath,
To morrow it shrinks to a useless death ;
Strange doth it seem that the sun should joy
To give life alone that it may destroy !
Strange, that the ocean should come and go,
With its daily and nightly ebb and flow-
To bear on its placid breast at morn,
The bark that, ere night, will be tempest-torn ;
Or cherished it all the way it must roam,
To leave it in wreck within sight of home ;
To smile as the mariner's toils are o'er,
Then wash the dead to his cottage door ;
And gently ripple along the strand,
To watch tho widow behold him land !
But, stranger than all, that man should die
When his plans are formed and his hopes are high ;
He walks forth a lord of the earth to day,
And the morrow beholds him a part of its clay !
He is bora iu sorrow and cradled ia pain,
And from youth to age, it is labor in vain ;
And all that seventy years can show,
Is, that wealth is trouble, and wisdom woe :
•That he travels a path of care aud strife,
Who drinks of the poisoned cup of life.
Alas! if we murmur at things like tV
That reflection tells us are wise •* ;
That the wind is not eve- ie oreath—
That the sun is often the Dearer of death—
That the ocean wave is not always still—
And that life is chequered with good and ill—
If we know 'tis well such change should be,
What J i we learn from the things we see ?
Th.r an erring and sinning child of dust
Should not wonder nor murmur, but hope and trust.
HJisrtllantons.
m to© Lifflii i
OR.
HOW I BECAME A BACHELOR.
BY J 11. D.
That I urn a bachelor is rendered onmn-taka
bly evident ly tin- foreuoitig caption. llow 1
became so, you have yet to 1.-crtt, and as y
olj-rt in p< niiitsL' this sketch is not so much
Ion! • )i-ii what i am, so nntoi funate, (<x
fortipiute, as y'U p ! eusi-,) u< to le-. as if t.s-to
tuiigipeu vmi I<l regard to how such cutm
lo ue the case, and hoping (hit it ut iy prove
a Ramitiry lesson to some reckless wight like
my.-tlf, 1 wiii proceed w thout further preface
or prelim maty.
It was while on a visit to on aunt of mine
in the town of G '.hut I became acq an ed
Ki'h Carrie May Cure, a fine bloouii.g maiden
of eighteen summers, with beautiful auburn
bair, clear lit eyes, a small nose, and a hand
some mouth, wcil studded with pearly teeth,
rivaling snow iu their dazzling whiteness ; ad-
A-d to these charms a faulless lortn and grace
ful carriage rendered her at once a special ob
jtct of attraction ond admiration ; her am;a
bibty and sweetness of temper made her many
vuroj friends, while her beauty of face and
%re drew her hosts of suitors, in short she
as I was not long iu discovering, the uui
fersaily admitted belle of the place.
Although I am not to say an extrao'dinary
ißSCepiible individual,iu the general acceptation
o: the term, yet 1 will admit that, like all the
'est of my class, I have my weak points, and
fJnot profess to be so entirely proof against
-be influence of female charms as to be inca
pable of experiencing at times a curious and
Somewhat undefiuable sense of palpitatiou in
'he region of the ribs when in the company of
•be fair sex, and as my acquaintance with the
tocbauting Carrie resolved itself iuto intimacy,
a od this, ere long, began to ripen into strong
;Mecling, I eventually began to realize thai I
becoming eumesDed iu a net of fascination,
horn which a desperate attempt was necessary
|o extricate myself, and where I had former
!sought ber so-ieiy merely for the sake of a
ffiat, wherewith to while away the time, I
f° w began to look upou her iu the light of an
"-dispensable companion ; and ut length as
lime for my retujn home drew near, I be
etle aware that unless she and I could make
I 1 compromise one way or an other, I mast bid
lir *ell to happiness and make up my miud to
'Ptmd my future life iu misery. Actuated by
u 'e thoughts, and fearfol lest I should be
Stalled by some one or other of her ad
and having also the happy conscious
itsj of being looked upon by her in that light
* as calculated to be anything but discour
'nC to my hopes ;iu short, feeling fully .s
--to that I was by far the most higbl v -i'ed
gallants, I determined tb' ,eiore I
oaj leave of G , I know my
from her lips ;conse<" :tiy the evening
Prions to the dav r ,_u lor my v urn, I
a 'to on upon her, and met with t usual
tordiai reception. I remained .or some time
to. finally, after considerable " hem" ing
to besuatiou, I nerved myself for the desper
- deed I was aboi t to commit. In the most
-nuating manuer I asked her to be mine—
-0 'bare with me my future trials and triumphs,
"fses or successes, prosperity or adversities,
J . ?? or sorrows, as the case might be ; I told
I was poor and bad yet to gain a D ime
position in the world, but that I loved
* ef truly and deTOtedlyr, aod would make
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
her a kind aod affectionate husband ; as I
concluded, she placed her baud in mine, say
ing as she did so :
*' Etiwiu, my heart is already yours, obtain
my parent's couseut, and I will cheerfully be
stow upou you this baud "
What more could any reasonable man ask?
Obtain my pareuts' coustnt,aud I will cheer
fully btsiow upon you this Laud." The words
kept sounding in my ears, aud I was in doubt
whether I was dreaming or not ; gradually,
however, 1 came to my seusts, when my first
act was to throw my arms arouod the neck
of my beloved, and imprint a warm, passion
ate kiss upou her ruby lips as a token of ac
knowledgment that I understood and appre
ciated her meaning. It was determined that
we should go to her father for the purpose of
obtaiuing his sanction to our p-oposed alliance.
Y\ e lound him reading a uewspaper.and made
knowu our errand without delay : he studied
for a moment, which seemed to me a month,
aud at length he said :
" Mr. Willet, I canDOt 6ay that I have any
serious objectiou to receive you as my sou iu
law, yet as you yourself acknowledge that you
have not as yet beeu enabled to attain a posi
tion such as it is my opiuion advisable for you
to attain before undertaking the suppoit of a
wife, I must request you to apply yourself as
siduously, und wheu you have risen to some
emiueuce iu your profession, aud accumulated
somewhat towards the maintenance of her
whom you anticipate taking uuder your care,
1 will then, I assure you, place uo further ob
stacle in the way of your marriage. The wel
fare ot my daughter has ever beeu my cou
staut study, aud I would be the lust one to
deny her anything that would iu the slightest
degree contribute to her happiness. You will
believe me, my dear frieud, wheu I say I am
prompted ty no mercenary motive, for I am
sure when you come lo reason the matter
clearly and calmly iu your owu mind, and look
at it in the proper light, you cauuot fail to
preceive the utility ot foliowiug my advice."
I bowed au acknowledgment, and with a
promise to call upou ihtui in the morning to
bid them farewell, I took my departure.
To say that I did not feel some degree of
impatience consequent upou the result of my
iuterview with Mr. Mayburu would be absurd,
for lovers are always impetuous uud unwilling
to be put off, aud 1 was by uo means an ex
cept ion, but 1 was compelled to make a virtue
ot necessity and bide my lime. The next
morning i made an early breakfast, and re
paired ut once to thedomicil of my inuu.orata,
whom i lound looking us charming a> ever.—
1 buOe her good morning, and told her that
I had come lo take my leave of her for a
siiurt Hint, but lliut 1 hoped the day was not
f;<- t wheu I should he pirmitted to come
agi-iii und claim her as my Unde. Having
now broached the, to us, by no means un
pleasant theme of the previous evening's con
versation, we were soon deeply engrossed in
muking plans lor the future. But all things
must have au end, and as the hours sped
away like minutes, it seemed to my lntaluaieU
iiiind us though 1 had ecaicOy intt-red the
noiise until it was time-lor me to pronounce
;he much dreaded good by.wlilcti was to be the
.Mgna. tor our temporary separation ; and, as
hke " time and tide' railroad cars "wait for
no man," 1 was obliged to do it, but it, was
doue in a decidedly doleiui way, 1 as-ure
you, and ere long 1 was speeding forward ou
my homeward way, uiy thoughts centered ou
one ooject, and tu.it Oqj et was Carrie, a
prize which I was fully resolved I would use
mv inmost exertions to guiu.
* *****
Nearly two years had elapsed since the
date of my engagement with Carrie Mayburu;
during tLiut time i hati m.tde many visits to
G t und always found her the same un
changed being that she wus when first pre
sented to the reader, unless it was that she
seemed, at least to my eyes, if possible, more
beautiful than ever. We had kept up a regu
lar corresuoudeuce, her leiters al ways breath
ing a spirit of love and affection coupled with
the hope that the time would soon come when
we would be united to separate no more in
life ; mine, as may be reudily imagined, al
ways re-echoed the sentiments embodied in
hers. As the reader has always been ap
prised. it was the desire of Mr. Mayburn that
I should rise to some emineuce iu my profes
sion before claiming the fulfillment of his
daughters promise This I had e deavored
to the utmost of my capacity to do, and I had
reason to believe that I had iu a great meas
ure succeeded, for by the expiration of the
time above mentioned, I vas able to con
gratulate myself upon having the patronage
of the most influential citizens of this place
who placed the most implicit confidence in my
professional abilities ; consequently, I now
felt justified in once more making application
for the hand of the lair Carrie, aud as I wus
so situated, at tho lime 1 came to the conclu
sion, that it would he impossible for me to
visit, G for several weeks, I resolved to
rite to Mr. M. in reference to tho mutter,
Dd ascertain his views of the case Accord
ingly having composed my mind as well as
circumstances would admit, I sat down with
a new pen and a quire of extra quality uote
paper, and summoning all my eloquence, tact
aud chirographital skill. I transcribed a
most elaboratory worded epistle, wherein I
portrayed my present circumstances, position,
still uusatisfied aspirations, until after nearly
exhausting the vocabulary of Webster's latest
edition, I was at length coustraiued to wind
np by the assurance that but one thing wa9
lacking to reuder me supremely happy, aud
that was, as you have already conjectured,
the legal right to be the protector and posses
sor of his lovely daughter, aud that I hoped
he would have QOW no further objection to
our union.
Now it happened that I had in G a
cousiu named Bob Tracy, who was the owuer
of.a beautiful bay mare on whome for some
time pust 1 had cast numerous wistful glances,
and considering that a refusal of my request
was entirely out of the question, I determined
to drop him a few lines, desirit.g him not to
etiolate for the disposal of the aforesaid mare
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH.
until such time as 1 should have a chance to
coufer with lum, as I thought it highly proba
ble I conld make him an offer for her which
he wonld be willing to accept ; so I dashed
off a hasty note, and having folded, sealed,
and superscribed both missives, I consigned
them to the post office and returned to my du
ties with a view of whiling away the time as
patiently as possible until I could have suffi
c;eut leisure to enable me to ascertain the re
sult of my petition.
However wearily the wheels of time may
sometimes drag on, yet they never have been
known to cease their revolutions entirely, and
thus in my case, although the space interven
ing between my despatching the letters aud
my visit to their destination seemed intermi
nably long, yet it finally passed away and at
length one fine morning found me comfortably
ensconced in the cars, dashing on at a furious
rate in the direction of G , and in a few
hours I reached the goal upon which were
fixed my highest hopes, which, alas for the
disappointments to which we are all of us more
or less liable at times to be subjected, as the
sequel will show, were destined never to be
realized, hopes which proved to be unsubstan
tial foundation upon which I had been build
ing my airy castles ; but I will not anticipate.
Immediately upon my arrival in G , j
repaired to a hotel, to put myself in the prop
er trim, prior to calling at the house of my
prospective friend. Having made an unex
ceptional le toilet, I set out with a beating
heart aud a sort of nervous impatience, and
after a short walk found myself at Mr. May
bum's door. I rang the bell, which was an
swered by the servant, who at once ushered
me into the sitting room, where were Carrie
and her father, both of whom regarded me
an instant with looks of surprise and wonder,
when, to my astonishment, the former arose,
and, with naught save a slight and scared)
perceptible nod of recognition, glided out of
the door. How to acconut for this strange
conduct, was a thing utterly beyond my com
prehension ; lor a moment I was dumbfound
ed, but as I recovered myself, I turned to
wards the father as though to ask a solution
of the mystery. I did not have long to wait,
for, with a face resembling a surcharged thun
dercloud, the old gentleman suddenly burst
forth—
" Well, sir, you are a scoundrel and a vil
lain, and us consummate a specimen of con
centrated audacity, effrontery and impudence,
as you now prove yourseit to be in polluting
my house with your contaminating presence,
I never saw !"
'To say I was astonished, wonld be but a
faint way of expressing it. I was completely
taken aback, hut, Gually, managed to find my
speech, wheu I politely reqnested him to ex
plain himself, as I was not aware that I had
been guilty of any act to merit these animad
versions.
" Explain, sir ! —why, what do yon mean,
you contemptible poppy ? and having most
grossly insulted mv daughter as will us my
S elf—a fact of which we have ample testimony
in your own hand writing—do you dare to
come and denv to my face any knowledge of
the lac- whatever ?"
This was something T was entirely unpre
pared for, and I louaLti long and earnestly at
the man to see if he was insane or not. What
did he mean? What a preposterous idea!
1 offer an insult to his daughter ! her, for
whom I would cheerfully have laid down ray
life, and fell only too thankful for the oppor
tunity.
" Mr. Mayburu," said I, as soon as I conld
recover my faculties, " I will not be ttius tri
fled with any longer. I have never, either by
word or deed, been the cause of wounding
your daughter's feelings, and I—"
But he seemed determined that I should
have no chance to vindicate myself in any way,
and stopped me short by producing from his
pocket a letter, which he thrust fiercely into
my hand, saying as he did so :
" There is the undeniable proof : let us
have no more words about it. Leave my
house and never enter it again as long as you
live, or I will have you pitched headforemost
into the street."
Mechanically I took the letter, the hand
writing of which I immediately recognized as
my own, aud ran my eye hurriedly over the
coutents. Good heavens ! it was the note I
had, by mistake, enclosed in the envelope ad
dressed to Mr. Mayburn, and vice versa.
As the reader is doubtless anxious to know
what the letter could possibly contain to so
completely turn the tide of affairs pertaining
to my matrimonial prospects, I will give it
verbatim :
" JOLLY CHUMI sit down to scrawl you & word or
two in reference to the superL animal over which you
hld legal sw .y, and of whm as you are already aware
I have desired to be in possession, kuowing her to be a
gay creature, full of life and spirit, and withal decidedly
fuzt. 1 feel that without her I cannot longer be satis
tied; andlrom nothing, I assure you, will I derive so
much pleasure as Irom trotting her around, and exhibit
ing her to my frieuds. Feeling certain that my offer
proves acceptable, I will call on you in a short time, un
til which 1 do not wish you to dispose of her.
Yours considerably,
EDWIN WILLKT."
After readiog it, I stood for a momeut as
if in a trance ; at length I raised m_v eyes
from the letter, gave one glance at Mr. May
burn, and crushing the offending sheet in my
hand, rushed, scarcely knowing what I did,
with a sort of frantic despair through the hall,
and without a word to any one J left the
house, never again to darken its doors.
A few days afterward I called upon Bob
Tracy to say to him that he need not reserve
the mare auv longer, as I had concluded not
to purchase ; but as soon as he caught sight
of me be ran out to meet and shook me by the
hand and otherwise indulged in the most ex
travagant demonstrations of joy, asking me
over and over again if it was really me, as he
despaired of ever seeing me again, for having
received from me a most beautifully written
gilt-edged note, asking in marriage a daughter,
of whose existence be was most profoundly ig
norant, be had no doubt that I nad gone stark
mud, and had just about made up his mind to
insert an advertisement in the pupers warning
the publie to beware of me as a person dan
geroas to be at large. I QOW gave op; I
" iIE&ARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
found T was besieged on all sides, and with an
imploring look I begged him to say no more
about it to any one, that I had banished all
thoughts of marriage from my mina, and had
concluded to spend my future life in single
blessedness ; but despite the charge I gave
Bob to keep qniet, the affair, through some
mysterious agency, became circulated around,
or, depend upon it, I would never have given
it publicity : and now, having put you in pos
session of the facts concerning the history of
those " two letters," I will make a polite bow
aud retire to my bachelor couch.
THE FIGURES ON DRESS PARADE. —Assume
an army of 600,000 men formed into single
line and allowing two feet to each man, there
are 5,280 feet iu a mile ; allowing two feet
to each mau, and you have 2640 men to the
mile. Now divide 600,000 by 2,640 and you
have instead of 23 miles 227 miles and a frac
tion over ; now countermarch the right wing
and place as a rear rank and you have a front
of over 113 miles, should the Generalissimo
wish to make a rapid inspection by rail it
would take two and a half hours, if on horse
back it would take one day of twelve hours,
and give no time to feed on the road at that.
Now form them into a hollow square, front
and rear rank, and instead of being not quite
three miles from side to side, it would exceed
28 miles, and the square would contain over
784 square miles,a larger area than any coun
ty in Ohio. When marching at the rate of
20 miles per day, it would take including ar
tillery, ambulances, Ac., two weeks for the ex
treme left wing to reach a poiut' left by the
right wing ; now place this army on guard,
say 50 feet apart, we might then guard a ter
ritory of over two millions of square miles, or
a hollow sqare being 1427 miles from side to
side. We will presume that the relief guard
travels at the rate of twenty miles per day of
twenty-four hours, which seems very slow, but
when we consider that they must halt every
50 feet and give the countersign, Ac., it will
keep them busy to go the twenty miles. It
will then take from the time the guard starts
until the last guard is relieved 285 days or
over 9 months, at the end of this time he must
look very much as the man did that was sent
lo the Atlantic telegraph office and command
ed to wait for the European message. As a
sentinel is not allowed lo stand still he will
have travelled about 7240 miles.
Now take the number of meu that have, are,
and will-soon be engaged iu this war aud we
have over two and a half millions, place these
on guard ou the equator and it would encir
cle the eurth with a guard 52 feet apart.—
Tlr's army's regular ration of potatoes would
be over 4,000 bushels per day.
EDMUND BUR.CE. —When Burke came for
ward, as his custom was, to the middle of the
House of Commons to speak, the first pecu
liarity which caught the eye of the spectator
was the glasses which he almost constantly
wore in the days cf his celebrity. He was
tab and noble looking, with a decidedly pre
possessing appearance ; by no raeajts smart
in his dress, yet possessing personal dignity
which the tailor could not have given him.—
lie seemed full of thought aud care ; aud the
firm lines about the mouth, the strong jaw,
and severe glance of the dark eye, spoke of
many an iuward battle which was known to
no human observer. The head was solid aud
intense, rather than massive, high rather than
broad, and toletably promineut, fuller, one
Would say at first sight, of the reasoning than
of the imagining power. His nose, which
was as straight as if it had been cut after a
bevel, opened out into two powerful nostrils
made apparently only to sneer. Altogether
he looked like a great man with a great les
sen to rend to men, more thau like a gentle
one set in the world to please. He spoke with
a decided Hibernian accent, although he left
the country early in life. But it is to be re
marked that men of genius hardly ever lose
the tongue of their youth. He had a voice
of great compass, and he was never required
to hesitate for words. They came quick and
vehement, frequently almost beyond the power
of utterance. As he spoke, his head rose and
fell ; now it swung, and anon it oscillated from
side to side of his body, moved by the intense
nervous action of his frame. Young Gillray,
the foremost of English caricaturists, sketches
Burke in various postures and attitudes. One
of the most characteristic of these represents
him as rapt in.the delivery of some splendid
oration, with his hands clenched and his arms
raised erectly over his head, his whole body a
picture of living energy.— British Review.
S&" Humau life, with all its follies, faults
and sins, has nothing in it to rdock at, but
ranch to pity, deplore, and love. Look out
over the rose gemmed path of maidenhood ;
see its merry and mysterious windings—how
the far-off and nnattained urges itse/f on the
almost bewildered pleasure seeker ! How the
child woman tries to interpret nature's sign
language ! How bright the tints she gives to
her life picture 1
Happy, inexperienced maiden—happy in
your dreams of coming bliss—envied of an
gels in vonr sweet purity, fascinating in your
unconscious beauty—truthful, trusting, care
free 1 What can be more beautiful than thy
young days nil unmixed with selfishness and
sin ? No thought of evil, no fear of turning
the pages of life, no pausing upon the untried
brink of womanhood ! No suspicious pilot
guides thy little boat out into thee deep waves
of wedded life ! no terror stricken sentinel
stands guard at the door which opens up ma
ternal joys 1 Truth, trust, love ! these are
thine iuherited jewels ! 0, woman, wear
them I
I© Deputy Marshal Jenkins of Philadel
phia, assisted by two police officers of that
city, on Tuesday last, arrested a counterfeiter
named George White, at Brooklyu, N.J , and
succeeded in securing all the paraphernalia of
bis trade. Among the plates were a num
ber on Pennsylvania banks, ot different de
nominations.
Printing in America.
Tee first printing press in North America,
as we learu from Coggeshall's Newspaper lie
cord, was established at the City of Mexico,
about the year 1600. The first press " work
ed " in the Americau Colonies was "set up"
at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1629. The
Rev. Jesse Glover procured this press, by
" contributions of frieuds of iearniug and reli
gion " in Amsterdam and iu England, bnt died
ou his passage to the new world. Stephen
Day was the first printer. In honor of his
pioneer position, Government gave him a grant
of three hundred acres of land.
Pennsylvania was the second Colony to en
courage printiug. William Bradford came to
Pennsylvania with William Peun, iu 1686,
and established a printing press in Philadel
phia. In 1692, Mr. Bradford was iuduced to
establish a printing press iu New York. He
received £4U per aunum and the privilege of
printing on his own account. Previous to this
time, there had been uo printing done in the
Province of New York. His first issue in
New York was a proclamation, bearing the
date of 1692.
It was nearly a century after a printing
press hud been set up in New England, be
fore one would be tolerated iu Virgiuia.
The southern colonists had uo printing done
among them till 1727.
There was a printing press at Cambridge,
Mass., 1629 ; at Philadelphia, Penn., 1686 ;
at New York, N. Y., 1692 ; at New Londou,
Corin., 1709 ; at Annapolis, Md., 1726 ; at
Williamsburg, Va., 1729 ; at Charleston, S.
C., 1730 ; at Newport, R. 1., 1732 ; at Wood
bridge, N. J., 1752 ; at Newbern, N. C.,
1755 ; at Portsmouth, N. H., 1756 ; at Sa
vannah, Ga., 1762
The first printing press established in the
Northwest Territory, was worked by William
Maxwell, at Cincinnati, in 1793. The first
printing executed west of the Mississippi, was
done at St. Louis, in 1808, by Jacob Hinkle.
There had been a printing press in Ken
tucky, iu 1786, and there was one in Tennes
see, in 1793 ; iu Michigan in 1809 ; in Mis
sissippi in 1810. Louisiana had a press im
mediately after her possession by the United
States.
Printing was done in Canada, before the
separation of the American Colonies from the
mother country. Halifax had a press in 1761,
and Quebec boasted of a printing offite in
1764.
Iu 1725, there were 5 newspapers printed
in the United States ; in 1775, there were
34 ; in 1800, about 200 ; in 1825, about 600;
in 1830, about 1,000 ; in 1840, about 1,400;
.in 1850, about 2,300 ; iu 1860 about 5,000.
A Day at a Time.
A little of the sea in a tumbler is colorless;
but a vast deal of the sea seen in its ocean
bed, is green. With life the case is reversed.
In the common-piace course of life, the path
we are treading may bok rather green—
green, 1 mean like the cheerful verdure of
grass ; but if you take it in too great a pros
pect, the whole track is apt to take the as
pect of a desert waste, with only a green spot
here and there. You will not add to the
cheerfulness and hopefulness of man or child
by drilling iuto him ; this morning you will
do such things ; and all day such other things;
and in the cveuing such other things ; then
you will sleep. To-morrow morning you will
rise ; and then the same thing over and over;
and so on. I have kuon a malignant per
son who enjoyed the word of presenting to
others such disbearteuing views of life. Let
me, mv reader, counsel the opposite course :
Let us not look at life as one unvaried ex
panse, although we may justly do so. Let
us discipline our minds to look at life as a
series of beginnings and ends. It is a succes
sion of stages, and we shnil think of oue
stage at a time. " Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof." Most people can bear one
days' evil ; the thing that breaks men down,
is the trying to bear, ou one day, the evil of
two days, twenty days, a hundred days.—
We can bear a day of pain, by a night of
pain ; and that again by a day of paiu, and
that again by a night of pain,and thus onward.
But we can bear each day and night of pain
only by taking each by itself. We can break
each rod, but not the buudle. And the suf
ferer, in real, great suffering, turns to the wall
in black despair, when he looks too far on,and
takes in a uniform dreary expanse of suffering,
uurelieved by the blessed relief of even fauci
ful beginnings and ends.
FIENDISH TRAGEDY.—A terrible tragedy was
perpetrated at Port Clinton, N. Y., on Oct.
31. Henrv Riquarlz, a hired man engaged
by Mr. T. J. Kirk, took advantage of the ab
sence of the eldest of bis employer's three
daughters from home, to entice the two youn
ger girls, aged respectively fifteen and eleven
years, into the barn where he was at work,
and after violating their persons, strangled
them to death by lying leather cords around
their necks. They were found with faces swol
len and discolored, and eyes starting from their
pocke's. On the return of the eldest daughter,
the viilain refused to give any information re
garding the girls, but seized the first favora
ble opportunity, overpowered her, tied her
hands and feet, and when consciousness, which
she had lost in the struggle was restored, told
ber that be did not intend to do her any in
jury, but that he only wished to prevent her
giving the alarm until he bad made way with
himself. As he was leaving the house for
this purpose be met one of the neighbors, who
had come in on some errand, told her that the
girls for whom she asked were up stairs, and
then going to the barn, succeeded in banging
himself before the alarm could be given.—
Yery naturally the horrible affair created the
most intense excitement in the town where it
was perpetrated.
IguTbe young lady who promises one gen
tleman, and marries another, has not the right
" ring " about her.
VOL. XXIII. —NO. 27.
A Chinese Juggler.
As soon as he had cleared a circle with the
old " striug and balls," he spread the contents
of bis wallet on the ground, aud stripped him
self to the waist. He was a poor thin fellow,
who seemed to suffer from the effects of the
trick he performed. He first of all spoke for
about five minutes with all the volubility of
Charles Matthews, evidently saying something
witty, for the people round laughed heartily.
In the middle of his harangue, however, he
was seized with a fit of choking, and after an
effort of trying to get something out of his
throat drew forth a little slip of bamboo, like
a Lisbon tooth-pick, then another and aud an
other, then he sneezed, and out they came
from his nostrils, then from his eyes, until he
completed the uumber of 37, by making ona
appear half-way out of each orifice at the same
tiu-e, and thea threw the lot on the ground
for any one to examine. He next took three
glass balls, about an inch in diameter, and,
placing them singly between his lips, sucked
them into his mouth and swallowed the first,
a red one, then a blue, aud last of all a white
one; here was a little interlude of tooth-picks
aodialkitg, after which he walked gravely
round the ring, stopping four times : each
time he gave himself a shake and a jump,
when the balls were distiutpv heard to jingle
inside him. On completing his round, after
several efforts, he spat the balls out on the
ground in the same order he had swallowed
them, the red first, the white last. He theu
took two more balls, one of polished steel
about the size of a hen's egg, and another of
glass the same size. These he first let fall on
the ground to show that they were solid, then,
placing them between bis lips.swallowed them
like the smaller ones, but with difficulty, the
ball swelling the throat as it went dowu; here
more tooth-picks and talking, while he pre
pared two swords, about an inch wide and
twenty long, very like polished hoop-iron,
clashed them together to show they were real
aud passed both dewn his throat at once, un
til they struck the balls with an audible click;
withdrawing these, he placed his hand behind
him, and after several apparently painful tri
als, each ball rose in the throat, and fell from
his mouth to the ground with a heavy thump.
Pekin Letter.
IMMENSE AP.MV MOVING DOWN TITE MISSIS
SIPPI—Between 25,000 and 30,000 troops
have passed down the river within the last two
weeks. Those going down during last week
went t? Memphis aud Helena—most of them
to the former. It is now understood that Geo.
Sherman, at present in Memphis, will coope
rate with Ge.i. Grant, now moving against
the enemy in Mississippi. From this it would
appear that the report that the new troops
now going down the river arc to be organized
into a distinct army under Gen. McClernand
is not correct. Nevertheless, we should not
be surprised to hear of a big rise in the old
Father ot Waters very soon, which will effec
tually wash out Vieksburg, and open the chan
nel clean through to the Gulf.
MISSOURI FOR FREEDOM. —The triumph of
the Emancipation policy of President LINCOLN
iu Missouri, which from last accounts seems
to be assured, is worth to the country at least
as much as a great victory iu the field of bat
tle. It is Dew estimated that we have six of
the nine members of Congress, and ten ma
jority on joint ballot in the legislature, which
secures the election of two Emancipationists
to the Senate of the Uuited States. Wheu
the people cf a Slave State stand up for Free
dom thus nobly, pro-slavery men in the free
States should hide their heads in shame.
J©- A young lellow of our acquaintance,
whose better half bad just presented him with
a pair of bouncing twins, attended liev. Mr.
's church on last Sunday evening. Dur
ing the discourse the clergyman looked right
at our innocent friend, and said in a tone of
thrilling eloquence : " Youug man, you have
an important responsibility thrust upon you "
The new-fledged dad, supposing that the
preacher alluded to his peculiar home eveut,
considerably startled the audience by reply
ing : " Yes, I have two of them."
At Tiffin, Ohio, the other day, Van
Amburgh's traiued elephant, Hannibal, broke
open the wagon of a caudy peddler who fol
lowed the show, and gobbled down, iu less
time than it takes to read this paragraph, six
thousand gingerbread cakes, seventy pouuds
of assorted candy, aud forty pouuds ot " French
kisses." The total value of his stolen treat
was over SBO.
a©- Gen. Wocl emphatically denies that
he put Col. Miles in commaud of Harper's
Ferry, for which he (Wool) was censured by
the late Commission. Miles was appointed to
that place by Gen McClellan, before Gen.
Wool had control of the Department. Gen.
McClellun was also censured by the Commis
sion for his neglect to support Miles.
jJ©"Brig. Gen. Patterson was found dead
in his tent, at Fairfax Court-House, on Sat
urday morning. His body was scut to Philadel
phia. He is a son ot Major-General Patter
son, vho commanded at Harper's Ferry at
the time of the Grst battle of Bull Run.
Wanted ! The chair in which the sun
sets. A garment for the naked eye. Buckles
to fasten a laughiDg stock. The animal that
drew the inference. Eggs from a nest of
thieves. A bucket of water from " All's
Well."
t@T The most remarkable case of indecision
we ever heard of, was that of a man who Rat
up all night because be could not determine
which to take off first, bis coat or his boots.
am surprised, my dear, that I have
, never seeu you blush." " The fact is, has
| band, I was boro to blush unseen."