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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."