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Advertising in all cases exclusive of sub scription to the paper. .1011 PRINTING of every kind in Plain and Fan , v colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Hand bills, blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, Ac., of every va riety and style, printed at the shortest notice. The ID: PORTER OFFICE has just been re-fitted with Power Posses, and even - thing in the Printing line can l,c executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. g'lafcil §kfi®ttn. ASSASSINATIONS. I have seen, since the death of President Lincoln, in several publications, notices of the assassinations of crowned heads, and in one a list of those who have lived within the period of modern history, but this list .lid not include one whose life was quite as eventful, and whose death was as much mounted as any one it did mention —I mean William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, sur numed tlie Silent. This man, hereditary heir of the princely Louse of Orange in Holland, was in his life lovalto the interests of his race, a reformer, a hero and victim to the unbounded law lessness of those who through long years sought the destruction of the liberty and free institutions of his country. He died bv the hand of the assassin in July 1584, in the 54th year of his age. No country in Europe has sacrificed so much blood and treasure in the cause of national independence and of the Reformed l.Vligion, as Holland. At one period of her history, that is, during most of the lfith century, she was the great theatre of that struggle which ended in the emancipation of the intellect of Northern Europe from the dogmas of a corrupt ecclesiastic oppression in the South. During forty years of this infuriated con test, William was the recognized leader of the liberal party. Discouraged by no mis fortune, destroyed by no defeat, always popular, always vigilant, with an unwaver ing zeal and a steadfast reliance upon God A iid his country, lie fought the good fight; and his enemies, balded and despairing of conquering and enslaving his country while he lived, resorted at last to the hired assassin. Philip II of Spain offered a re ward <f 2500 crowns of gold and a patent < f nobility to any one " sufficiently gener ous of heart to rid us of this pest, deliver ing lriin to us alive or dead." For this re ward several attempts were made upon his life and once he was dangerously wounded. At another attempt, he was mortally woun ded by a shot through the body, and died in a few moments. Ilis murderer was taken, tortured, and finally execnted. His right hand was first burned off with a red hot iron, his flesh torn from his bones with pin chers in six different places,his bowels were taken out, he was then quartered, his heart torn from his body and llung in his face, and finally he was beheaded after life had tied. Hut the execrable tyrant who pro cured the death of William ennobled the parents of his murderer, and granted them three estates belonging to his victim. This kingly assassin was in early life a suitor tor the hand of Elizabeth of England. There are several points wherein the characters and fates of William of Orange and Abraham Lincoln resemble each other, both were heads of nationalities, both had a firm reliance 011 Divine Providence, both were firm, courageous, and prudent in the selection of means and agents, both were possessed of an indomitable will and en ergy of character, both were slow to choose, hut having chosen were of steadfast faith, both had love of country remarkably de veloped, both were surrounded by traitors in friendly guise, both had to combat the same character of enemies, unscrupulous, cunning, and half barbarian, both were re tiring and uncxaeting in deportment, both had the rare faculty of attaching tlmse about them to their persons and interests, both were simple in their manners, both were great statesmen and profoundly read in the science of human nature, both were trrave and silent men in their intercourse with others, both were of a melancholy temperament, some times assuming an out side cheerfulness to mask an inward gloom, and lastly, these two men to whom the world is so much indebted that it must re main pauper forever, were both shot down likedogs. The only point of divergence in their characters, is, that William was a successful soldier and born to command. Nothing of this can he said of Abraham | Lincoln. Ihiring many centuries past it has been a custom in European Courts to surround the executive head of the nation witli a life guard charged with his special defense, but in Republican America such has not '•••en deemed important or called for, and such is the simplicity of our notions that !| ad our chief magistrate instituted such a uieang of security, it would most probably !li, ve excited the jealousy of the people, and he would have been charged with the a unity of aping monarchical customs, and perhaps with the design of overthrowing ■ur system of government. It has ever "'i our boast that our highest officer of l "te might mix freely with the people, and us secure in their love and respect as if "'"rounded by an army. E. O. CiOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVI. But the childhood of the nation has passed, its manhood has arrived. Hence forth things will be changed, and our rule, grafted as it has heretofore been in public consent, will lose, as it respects those por. tions which have been in rebellion, in a measure, its republican character, ai d be that of conquest. It can not be otherwise. In fact the Southern States are conquered territory, as much so as Hungary, Poland, or Ireland, and our administration must adapt itself to the change. Not in severity, not in anger, but in a stern merciful justice, taking the initial steps in reconstruction, and leading the way to a state of things in advance of that prior to the rebellion. No one supposes the South can come back just as she was. Things do not stand still any more than the years. Events will take place as time passes, and the four years last past have been fruitful in events. — With every care of the government to pro tect the institution of Slavery during the war just closed, it would have died out, and the emancipation proclamation hastened that event in no degree. Here then are results which were sure to take place from the first—the first gun fired at Sunipter still echoes from the Hull' to Passamaquoddy and that echo will be heard and felt to the,last syllable of recorded time. That echo was the knell of Slavery, of State Sovereignty, and its thunder tones proclaimed the principle that majorities shall always govern minorities. To a large portion of the population of these States, all south of the Potomac, startling changes are in prospect—changes quite subversive of the ancient order of things, and it can not be expected that the southern mind will embrace them at once. The result of this civil war will be as revolutionary in the South as a contrary result would have been in the North. It will be wisdom in the victorious North to avail itself of its advan tages of position. Compromises are ob solete—there is but one rig-lit way, and let that way be determined on and l igidly pur sued. All this is spoken and written with no feeling of resentment towards those who begun the war. It must have hapened sooner or later and we think beat now. Hu man nature is now as it ever has been, and no such great change has ever taken place without blood-shed. Men are naturally belligerent and that good time lias not yet come, so often invoked and prayed for by prophets, poets, and philanthropists. The war was then a necessary war—northern and southern civilization are so different from each other that they could not remain side by side in peace. The one is modern commercial civilization which letters and the arts have introduced to the intellect and conscience of men within the last three hundred years. The other is the ancient military civilization which has always ex isted since Nimrod the mighty hunter erec ted his empire upon the trophies of con quest. The latter being of barbaric origin is essentially barbarous, a proposition which nearly every event of this war con firms, while the former, springing into life since the invention of printing and the ad aptation of magnetism to navigation, is en lightened and refined —built up on the cul tivation of the moral and intellectual fac ulties of our race. FROM THE 201 th REGIMENT. Camp of the 207 th Regt., l'a. Vol., ) ALEXANDRIA, Va., May lGth, 1865. f En. REPORTER — FIR :—As Bradford Coun tj is represented in the 207 th Regt., l'a. Vol , a history of the part taken by the regiment in the great battle before Peters burg, might be interestingto many readers of your paper, I will endeavor, as near as possible, to give you the details. On the evening of the Ist of April, an orderley dashed up to Head-Quarters of the Regiment ; soon the ollicers were gathered at the Colonel's quarters where they were informed that an attack would be made on the next morning to carry the enemy's works before Petersburg, by storm. The part assigned to our regiment was directly in front of " Fort Ilell," or Fort Sedgwick. The enemy's works consisted of a chain of forts known as the " Seven Sisters," pro tected by ditches and double lines of chevaux de (Vise ; after being informed of the plan of attack, the ofiieers at once set about preparing their separate commands for the terrible work assigned them. On the morning of April 2d, the word " fall-in" passed along the line, companies moved in to position, the 207 th was soon iu readi ness to advance. The charge was to be made in three lines, the 207 th having the Post of Ilmor , or the front ; about three o'clock we moved out along the Jerusalem Plank road passing Fort Hell, formed in line of battle behind our picket line, the 205 th P. V., forming in the rear, and the 211 th P V., composing the third line, the Pioneers advancing to cut away the ob | structions, while in the mean time a few axes were distributed to the different com -1 panics, that if necessary they might assist the Pioneers in their work. The troops on the right and left having got into position, and the time for advancing having arrived, orders were passed along the line in whis pers, the regipient passed quietly over the j chain of works (our picket line), when a | scene commenced that, (with the help of the readers imagination,) 1 can give them but a faint idea. With a shout the regi ment swept over the enemy's picket line, TO WANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., JUNE 8, 1865. (fortified,) capturing or killing the most of them, advancing rapidly until we rescind the obstructions in front of the enemy's forts halted to remove them, the Pioneers working with a will arid the officers and men assisting in removing them, in the mean time being exposed to murderous fire of grape and canister and musketry at short range, the men and officers falling on every side ; the obstructions having been removed, the men pressed forward plunged through the ditches tilled with water, climbed the ramparts, and in a few mo ments were in the enemy's works engaged in hand to hand contest, -the 205 th and 211 th coming gallantly forward and assist ing. The enemy was steadily driven back, and three of their forts were at once occu pied by our troops and held ; several guns captured which were soon turned upon the enemy while retreating, doing good execu tion. Nearly a thousand prisoners were captured ; the fighting continued ineess ently all day, the enemy immediately turn ing - all their guns from their rear works upon our troops, now occupying their lost works ; by great exertions gunners were procured from Fort Sedgwick who soon turned the enemy's guns upon their rear works with goad execution, checking the enemy's fire, thus enabling our troops to hold their position. Eight unsuccessful charges were made during the day to re capture the forts and were repulsed each time with great slaughter, the eighth charge was partially successful, the men holding the left getting out of amuuition, were tem porarily thrown into contusion and were on the eve of losing the ground and forts thus taken ; the right of the line unflinchingly held their ground until reinforcements ar rived, when the line was at once reestab lished, the enemy abandoned all further hopes of retaking the works. This battle may justly be considered the most sanguinary during the war, and re sulted in the overthrow of the enemy at this point. I might mention innumerable instances of personal daring and bravery of officers and men but the space allotted here would not permit, but suffice to say the brave boys (the rank and file) of Co. J If, have their full share of honor awarded them Lt. A. R. Case, Ist Lieut, of Co. B, reached the ramparts of the fort and while in the act of cheering the men forward, fell pierced through the brain. Capt. Jas. A. Carothers, Co. 1, Ist Lt. Dodd of same company also fell mortally wounded while leading their men forward and encouraging them by their heroic example. " All honor to the fallen heroes.'' Many other officers were wounded; the loss of the regiment amounted to over two hundred in killed and wounded. Our noble Colonel, R. C. Cox, having command of the Brigade the most of the time, lie was always in front and where the bullets flew the thickest, he was found directing the battle and encour aging the men, and to him belongs the honor of the great success. However, 1 will not forget to speak of the services rendered by the 205 th and 211 th Regt's., j P. V., commanded by the gallant Col. L. A. j Dodd and Major Mauret—of individual ser vices of other officers and men the space j allotted here will not permit to speak of, it is but due to them to say that all endeav ored to perform their duty and are rejoic ing in the glorious victory. On the morning of the 3d of April, the whole line advanced, swept everything be fore them and entered Petersburg in tri umph ; resting a short time we returned to our old camp and eat a hearty meal, the first for nearly forty-eight hours,'dropped a few tears to the memory of the absent ones, packed up and marched about ten miles in pursuit of the enemy and en camped, when the command was soon wrapped in their blankets, seeking their rest for the night all so greatly needed. Thus ends a soldiers experience of two days. 1 have the honor to be your obedi ent servent, J. A. RODGERS, (.'apt. Co., B, 207 th I'. V. A TorcH or PETROI.EOI. —CIose to the lands of the Centre Oil Company there lives an old chap worth a mint. Ignorant, of course, dumb luck has made him rich. His household pets consist of a terrier dog and stupid daughter, both of whom engage his attention. The former provided for, he determined to "accomplish" his daughter. To this end he came to the city. He bought a piano, a harp, a guitar, and a car load of music books, and so forth, winding up his business by engaging a first-class intellect ual and music tutor, with all of which he started for the "region." The documents were of course soon arranged for business. The tutor set to work and toiled like a Tro jan. but witli no success. Despairing of ultimate triumph, he went to the oil king and made a clean breast of it. "Why, what the world's the matter ?" asked the father. "Well," answered the tutor, "Kitty has a piano, and guitar, and harp, and music, and books, and all that, but she wants ca pacity—that's all." "Well, by the Lord Harry," cried the oil king, "if that's all, just buy it. I've got the stuff, and if money will get it she shall have capacity or any thing else." Two hundred years ago the freemen of Massachusetts, voting in State elections used corn and beans as indicative of yeas and nays, the corn being counted as yea and the beans as nay in the ballotting. And when the beans were in the minority they acknowlenged the corn. AN unwary moment may happen to the most guarded and reserved; and this re flection ought to fill us with charity for oth ers. REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. THERE IS NO DEATH. There is no ileuth! The stars go <lowu To rise npon some fairer shore ; Aud bright in Heaven's jewelled crown They shine forevemiore. There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer showers To golden grain or mellow fruit. Or rainbow tinted flowers. The granite rocks disorganize To feed the hungry moss they bear ; The forest leaves drink daily life From out the viewless air. There is no death! The leaves may fall, The flowers may fade and pass away - - They only wait through wintry hours. The coming ol the May. There is no death! An angel form Walks o'er the earth with silent tread, lie bears our best loved things away, And then we call them "dead." He leaves our hearts all desolate- He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers : Transplanted into bliss, they now Adorn immortal bowers. The bird-like voice whose joyous tones Made glad this scene of joy and strife. Kings now in everlasting song Amid the tree of life. And when He sees a smile too bright, Or hearts too pure for taint and vice. He bears it to that world of light To dwell in paradise. Born into that undying life, They leave us lmt to come again : With joy we welcome them—the same, Except in sin and pain. And ever near us, though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless Universe Is lite—thev are not dead. o THE ESCAPE. FltOM THE FORTHCOMING WoRK EXTiri.El* "THE FIEUI, THE DI'XGEOX, AND THE KSCAPE." A good wit will Miike use of anything. I will turn disease to commodity. KINO HENRY IV. On that Sunday evening, half an hour before dark (the latest moment at which the guards could be passed, even by author ized persons, without the countersign), my friends, Messrs. Browne and Davis, went out to the Rebel hospital beyond the inner line of sentinels, as if to order their usual medical supplies for the sick prisoners. As they passed in and out a dozen times a day, and their faces were quite familiar to the sentinels, they were not compelled to show their passes, and Mr. Browne left his behind with me. A few minutes later, taking with me a long box tilled with the bottles in which medical supplies were usually brought and giving it to a little lad who assisted me in my hospital duties, 1 started to follow them. As if in great haste, we walked rapidly toward the gate, while, leaning against trees or standing in the hospital doors, half a dozen of our friends looked 011 to see how the plan worked. When we reached the gate, I took the box from the boy, and said to him, of course for the benefit of the sentiuel : "1 am going outside, to get the bottles filled. I shall be back in about fifteen min utes, and want you to remain right here, to take them and distribute them among the hospitals. Do not go away now." The lad, understanding the matter per fectly, replied : "Yes sir and T attempt ed to pass the sentinel by mere assurance 1 had learned long before how far a man may go, even in captivity, by sheer native impudence—by moving right along, with out hesitation, with a confident look,just as if he had a right to go and no one had any right to question him. On several oc casions, 1 absolutely saw prisoners, who had procured citizens' clothes, thus walk past the guards in broad daylight, out of the Rebel prisons. 1 think 1 could have done it on this oc casion, but for the fact that it had been tried successfully two or three times, and the guards severely punished. The senti nel stopped me with his musket, demand ing : "Have you a pass, sir ?" "Certainly, I have a pass," I replied, with all the indignation 1 could assume. "Have you not seen it often enough to know it by this time ?" Apparently a little confounded, he replied, modestly : "Probably I have, but they are very strict with us, and I was not quite sure." 1 gave to him this genuine pass belong ing to my associate : HEADQUARTERS CONFEDERATE STATES 1 Military Prison, Salsbnry, N. C., R December 5, 1865. ) Junius H. Brown, Citizen,has permission to pass the inner gate of the prison, to assist in carrying medicines to the Military Prison Hospitals, until further orders. J. A. FCQVA, Captain and Asst. Commandant of Post. We had speculated for a long time about my using a spurious pass, and my two com rades prepared several, with a skill and ex actness which demonstrated that, if their talents had been turned in that direction, they might have made first class forgers.— But we finally concluded that the veritable pass was better, because, if the guard had any doubt about it-, 1 could tell him to send it into headquarters for examination. The answer returned would, of course, be that it was genuine. But it was not submitted to any such in spection. The guard spelled it out slowly, then folded and returned it to me, saving : "That pass is all right. 1 know Captain Fuqua's hand-writing. Go 011, sir ; ex cuse me, sir, for detaining you." 1 thought him very excusable under the circumstances, and walked out. My great fear was that, during the half hour which must elapse before 1 could go outside the garrison, 1 might encounter some Rebel officer or attache who knew me. Before I had walked teu steps, I saw, sauntering to and fro on the piazza of the headquarters building, a deserter from our service named Davidson, who recognized and bowed to me. 1 rather thought lie would not betray me, but was still fearful of it. I went on, and a few yards further, coining toward me in that narrow lane, where it was impossible to avoid him, 1 saw the one Rebel officer who knew me better than any other —who came into my quarters frequent ly—Lieut. Stockton, the post-adjutant. Ob serving him in the distance, 1 thought I recognized in him that old ill-fortune which had so long and steadfastly baffied us. When we met, 1 hade him good evening, and conversed for a few minutes upon the weather, or some other sueject, in which I did not feel any very profound interest.— Then he passed into head quarters, and 1 went on. Yet a few yards further I encoun tered a third Rebel named Smith, who was entirely familiar with me, and whose quai ters, inside the garrison, were within twen ty feet of my own. There was not hall a dozen Confederates about the prison who were familiar with me, but it seemed as if at this time they were coming together in a grand convention. Not daring to enter the Rebel hospital, where I was certain to Lie recognized, I laid down my box of medicines, and sought shelter in a little out-building. While I re mained there, waiting for the coining of the blessed darkness, I constantly expected to see a sergeant, with a file of rebel sol diers, come to take me back into the yard ; but none came. It was rare good fortune. Stockton, Smith, and Davidson all knew, if they had their wits about them, that I had no more light there than in the village it self. 1 suppose their thoughtlessness must have been caused by the peculiarly honest and business-like look of that medicine box ! At dark, my two friends joined me. We went through the gate in full sight of the sentinel, who, seeing us come from the hospital, supposed we were Rebel surgeons or nurses. And then, on that dark, rainy Sunday night, the first time for twenty niouths, we fouud ourselves walking freely in a public street, without a I'ebel bayonet before or behind us. For many months, even before leaving prison, we had been, familiar with the name ol DAN ELLIS —a famous Union guide, who, siuce the beginning of the war, had done nothing hut conduct loyal men to out lines. Ellis is a hero, and his life a romance.— He had taken through, in all, more than four thousand persons. He had probably seeu more adventure—in fights and races with the rebels, in long journeys, some times barefooted and through the snow, or swimming rivers full of floating ice —than any other man living. lie never lost but one man, who was swooped up through his own heedlessness. The party had traveled eight or ten days, living upon nothing but parched corn. Dan insisted that a man could walk twenty-five miles a day through snow upon parched corn just as well as upon any other diet— if he only thought so. I feel bound to say that I have tried it and don't think so. This person held the same opinion. lie re volted against the parched-corn diet, vow ing that he would go to the first house and get an honest meal, if he was captured fol ic He went to the first house, obtained the meal and was captured. After we had traveled fifty miles, every body said to us, " if you can only find Dan Ellis, and do just as he tells you, you will be certain to get through." We did find Dan Ellis. On Sunday night, one hundred and thirty-four miles from out lines, greatly broken down, we reached a point on the road, waited for two hours, when along came Dan Ellis with a party of seventy men—refugees, prisoners, Reb el deserters, Union soldiers returing from their homes within the enemy's lines, and escaping prisoners. About thirty of them were mounted and twenty armed. Like most men of action, Dan was a per son of few w-ords. When our story had been told him, he said to his comrades : " Boys, here are some gentlemen who have escaped from Salisbury, and who are almost dead from the journey. They are our people. They have suffered in our cause. They are going to their homes in our lines. We can't ride and let these men walk. Get down off your horses, and help them up." Down they came, and up we went; and then we pressed along at a terrible pace. ******* To-day, when we got on the hot track of eight guerrillas, the Rebel-hunting instinct waxed strong within Pan, and, taking eight of his own men, he started in fierce pursuit. Seven of the enemy escaped, but one was captured and brought to our camp a prisoner. Then Pan went to the nearest Union house to learn the news ; for every loyal family in a range of many hundred miles knew and loved him. We, very weary, lay down to sleep in an old orchard, with our saddles for pillows. Our reflections were pleasant. We were only seventy nine miles from the Union lines. We pro gressed swimmingly, and had even begun to regulate the domestic affairs of the border! Before midnight, some one shook my arm. 1 rubbed my eyes open and looked up. There was Pan Ellis. " Boys, we must saddle instantly. We have walked right into a nest of Rebels ; several hundred are within a few miles ; eighty are in this immediate neighborhood. They are lying in ambush for Colonel Kirk and his men. It is doubtful whether we can ever get out of this. We must di vide into two parties. The footmen must take to the mountains ; we who are riding, and in much more danger—as horses make more noise, and leave so many traces must press on at once, if we ever hope to reach the Union lines." The word was passed in low tones. Flinging our saddles upon our weary beasts, we were on our way almost in stantly. My place was near the middle of the cavalcade. The man just before me was riding a white horse, which enabled me to follow him with ease. We galloped along at Pan's usual pace, with the most sublime indifference to roads —up and down rocky hills, across streams, through swamps, over fences —everywhere but upon public thoroughfares. I suppose we had traveled three miles, when Mr. Pavis fell back from the front, and said to me : " That young lady rides very well ; does she not ?" 'f What young lady ?" " The young lady who is piloting us." per Annum, in Advance. I had thought that Dan Kllis was pilot ing us, and rode forward to see about the young lady. There she was, surely enough. I cou Id not scrutinize her face in the darkness, but it was said to be comely. I could see that her form was graceful, aud the ease and firmness with which she sat on her horse would have been a lesson for a rid ing-master. She resided at the Union house, where Dan had gone for news. The moment she learned his need, she volunteered to pilot him out of that neighborhood, where she was born and bred, and knew every acre. The only accessible horse (one belonging to a Rebel officer, but just then kept in her father's barn) was brought out aud sad dled. She mounted, came to our camp at midnight, and was now stealthily guiding us, avoiding farm-houses where the rebels were quartered, going round their camps, evading their pickets. She led us for seven miles Then, while we remained in the wood, she rode forward over the long bridge which spanned the Nolechueky River, to see if there were any guard upon it ; weut to the first Union house beyond to learn whether the roads were picketed ; came back and told us the coast was clear. Then she rode by our long line toward her home. We should have given her three rousing cheers, had it been safe to cheer. 1 hope the time is not far distant when her name may be made public. Until the Rebel guerrillas are driven out from their hiding places near her mountain home, it will not be pru dent. IDEAS OF THE ARABIANS. —Their general opinion of an English traveller is, that he is a lunatic or a magician; a lunatic, if on closely watching his movements, they dis cover he pays little attention to things ar round him; a confirmed lunatic, if he goes out sketching and spoils good paper with scratches and hieroglyphics; and a magi cian when inquisitive about ruins, and giv en to picking up stones and shells, gather ing leaves and brushes. Or buying up old bits of copper, iron and silver. In these cases, he is supposed, by aid of his magic al powers, to convert stones and shells in to diamonds of immense price; and the leaves and sticks are charms, by which he can bestow comforts upon his friends, and snakes and pestilence open his luckieless enemies. If a traveller pick up a stone and examine it carefully, he will be sure to have at his tail a host of malapert little boys deriding him, though keeping at a respectful distance, in deference to his magical powers. Should he indeed turn round suddenly and pursue them a few steps, they fly in agony and fear, the very veins in their little legs most bursting, and they never stop to look back till they have got well among the crowd again, where, panting for breath they recount to their au ditors the dreadful looks that devil of a Frank gave them, making fire come out of his eyes and adders out of his mouth. THE FEELING OF GROWING OLD.— It seems but a summer since we looked forward with eager hopes to the coming year; and now we are looking- sadly back. Not that the dream has passed, but that it has been of no more worth to those around us. As the glowing hopes and ambition of early life pass away, as friends often depart, and the stronger ties which hold us here are thrown off, our life seems but a bubble, glancing for a moment in the light, then broken, leaving not* a ripple on the stream. Forty years seemed once a long and weary pilgrimage to tread. It now seems but a step. And yet along the way are broken shrines, where a thousand hopes have was ted into ashes; foot-prints sacred under their drifting dust; green mounds, whose grass is fresh with the watering of tears, shadows, even, which we could not forget. We will garner the sunshine of those years, and with chastened steps and hopes, push 011 towards the quiet evening, whose sig nal lights will soon be seen swinging where the waters ars still, and the storms never beat. TIME FOR MATRIMONY. — Among the ancient Germans, than whom a fiuer race never existed, it was death for any woman to marrv before she was twenty 7 years old.— In this country, very- few ladies are fit, ei ther physically or mentally, to become mothers, before they reach the age of twen ty 7 one, twenty- two, or one or two years ol der. The unsound condition and constitu of the parent, is usually transmitted, with increased intensity, to the offspring. By the laws of Lycurgus, the most special at tention was paid to the physical education of women; and no delicate or sickly wo men were, on any account allowed to mar ry. Dr. Johnson, I*ll his work on the Econ omy 7 of Health, says that matrimony should not be contracted before the first year of the fourth septennial, on the part of the la dy, nor before the last year of the same in the case of the gentlemen; in other words, the female should be at least twenty one years of age, and the male twenty eight years. The doctor says that there should be a difference of seven years between the sexes, at whatever period of life the connection is contracted. There is a difference of seven years, not in the actual duration of life, in the two sexes, but in the stamina of the constitution, the symmetry of the form, and the liuaments of the face. In respect to the early marriage, so far as it concerns the solter sex, foi .very year at which mar riage is entered upon before the age of twenty one, there will he, on an average, three years of premature decay more or less apparent, of the corporeal fabric. DUST, &C., IN THE EVE. —When the eye is irritated by dust, or intrusive particles of any kind, the sufferer invariably shuts and rubs his eye, and not unfrequently the re moval of the irritating cause thereby be comes more difficult. The proper practice is to keep the eye open, as if staring; a sort of rotary movement of the ball takes place, the surface becomes covered with water, the particle is gradually impelled to the corner of the eye, without any of the disagreeable consequences that attend shutting and rubbing. Equally effective is this mode when a fly is an intruder. He does not wish to remain where accident has placed him; but you close the prison door and like the starling, "he can't get out.'' Keep the eye open and he will be glad to relieve you. THE REBEL WOMEN IN RICHMOND —A cor respondent of the Washington Chronicle says : Of the women in Richmond I might write volumes. They have much to an swer for. They have been severely misled by the press and the pulpit. They have credited the falsehoods of the one and been seduced by the religious glosses of the other. The Confederate cause got to be identified with their domestic peace ami their religious connections, and it is a rend ing of tho heart-strings to see it fall. They have lost no opportunity to stimulate the pride and flagging hopes of the sterner sex. " 1 hate the Yankees," said a young girl amid her companions. "If I ever have any children, even though Lee is beaten, I will bring them np in eternal ha tred of ttiose who have subdued us."— " Our hostility," said another, " is invinci ble ; I shall never do anything but hate those who have deprived us of our rights ; I should never have been willing to yield if it had not been yield or starve, and life is sweet." But the most violent bear tes timony to the good conduct of our troops, and the universal acknowledgement was that tliey could hardly believe their own eyes, the Yankees had behaved so much better than they expected. NUMBER 2. LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS. —We don't like stinginess, we don't like economy, when it comes down to rags and starvation. We have no sympathy with the notion that the poor man should bitch himself to a post and stand still, while the rest of the world moves forward. It is no man's duty to deny him self every amusement, every recreation, every comfort that lie may get rich. It is no man's duty to make an iceberg of him self, to shut his eyes and ears to the suffer ings of his fellows, and to deny himself the enjoyment that results from generous ac tions, merely that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel about. But there is an economy in every man's duty, which is es pecially commendable in the man who struggles with poverty —an economy which must be practiced if tbe poor man would secure independence. It is almost every man's privilege, and it becomes his duty, to live within his means ; not UP TO, but with in them. Wealth does not make the man, we admit, and should never be taken into account in our judgment of men ; but com petence should always be secured, when it can be, by the practice of economy and self-denial only to a tolerable extent. It should be secured, not so much for others to look upon, or to raise us in the estima tion of others, as to secure the consciousnes of independence and the satisfaction which is derived from its acquirement and posses sion. RESPECT THE AGED. —Many an old person has the pain—not bodily, but sharper still —of feeling himself in the way. Some one wants his place. His very chair in the chimney corner is grudged him. He is a burden to his son or daughter. The very arm that props him is taken away from some productive labor. As he sits at the table, his own guests are too idle or too unkind to make him a sharer in their mirth. They grudge the trouble of that raised voice which alone could make him one of them : and when he speaks, it is only to be put aside as ignorant or des. pised, as old-fashioned and obsolete. Oh, little do younger persons know their power of giving pain or pleasure ! It is a pain for anj- man, still in the world, to be made to feel that he is no longer of it, to be driv en in upon his own little world of conscious isolation and buried enjoyment. But this is his condition ; and if any fretfulness or querulousness of temper has aggravated it —if others love him not because he is not amiable—shall we pity that condition less --and shall we upbraid it with that fault which is itself the worst part of it ? GENERAL JACKSON'S Morro.—"Think be fore yuii act, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking." This is true doc trine. Many men fail in life and go down to the grave with hopes blasted and pros pects of happiness unrealized, because they did not adopt and act upon this motto. Nothing so prepares a man for action as thought; but nothing so unfits a man for action in the course of action. Better by far adopt some course and pursue it ener getically, even though it may not be the best,than to keep continually thinking with out action. "Go ahead" ought to be prin ted in every young man's hat, and read until it becomes a part of his nature, until he can act upon his judgment, and not be turned from his course by every wind of interested advice. In conclusion we would say: "Think before you act; but when the time for action comes stop thinking." WEAR A SMlLE.— Which will you do, smile and make others happy, or be crabbed, and make everybody around you misera ble ? You cau live among beautiful flow ers, or in the mire surrounded by fogs and frogs. The amount of happiness which you can produce is incalculable, if you will show a smiling face, a kind heart, and speak pleasant words. On the other hand, by sour looks, cross words, and a fretful disposition, you can make hundreds un happy almost beyond endurance. Which will you do? Wear a pleasant counten ance, let joy beam in your eye and love glow on your forehead. There is no joy so great as that which springs from a kind act or a pleasant deed, and 3-011 may feel it at night when you i-est, and at morning when you rise, and through the day when about 3'our daily business. DONATION VISIT.-—" Mother," said James, " what is the meaning of donation ? You have been preparing all this week for the donation party, and I want to know what it means." " Why, Jimmy," said Johnny, " don't you know what donation means ? I do ! l>o means the cake, and nation means the pe< >- pic ; and they carry the cake to the minis ter's, and the people go there and eat it." DR. Payson says, "If you put a bright shilling into a child's hand, he will be pleased with it ; but tell him of an estate in reserve for him, and he pays little atten tion to you. So men and women are often more delighted with present comforts than with the prospects of future glory." IT is a certain sign of an ill heart, to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and iuuocent, can have 110 gratifi cation that way: but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self, and an impatience of seeing it in another A MAN OF ACTION. — General Grant is a man of action, and not a man of words or fussy preperation. When he was directed to visit Sherman in North Carolina, he re ceived the order, folded it up, took his leave of the President with a carpet bag in one hand and a full cigar case in his pocket, aud in a few days had the terms of the treaty revoked and Johnson laying down his arms, "Pa, why do they plant guns—do they grow and have leaves?" " No, my son, but like plants they shoot, and the others do the leaving."
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