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They will be entitled to 4 ulumn. confined exclusively to their business, with privilege of change. ■,-- Advertising in all cases exclusive of sub scription to the paper. .JOB PRINTING of every kind in Plain and Fa n, v cob as, done with neatness and dispatch. Hand hills. Blanks, Card's, Pamphlets, Ac., of every va rictv and style, printed at the shortest notice. The REPORTER OFFICE has just been re-fitted with Power Presses, and every thing in the Printing line can be executed iu the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. IO TRIUMPHS:. BT LIEUTENANT BICHAKD KEALF. Not ever, in all human time, Did any man or nation I'laut foot upon the peaks sublime Of Mount Transfiguration ; But first in long preceding hours Of dread and solemn being Clashed buttle 'gainst Satanic powers, Alone with the All-seeing. God's glory lights no mortal brows Which sorrow hath not wasted ; N* wine hath he for lips of those His lees who never tasted. Nor ever, till iu bloodiest stress The heart is well approved, Does the All-brooding Tenderness Cry, "This is my beloved!" 0 land, through years of shrouded nights In triple blackness groping, Toward the far prophetic lights That beacon the world's hoping— Behold ! no title shalt thou miss Of that transforming given To all who, dragged through hell's abyss, Hold fast their grip on heaven. The Lord God's purpose throbs along ()ur stormy turbulences ; He keeps the sap of nations strong By hidden recompenses. The Lord God sows his righteous grain In battle-blasted furrows, And draws from present days of pain Large peace for calm to-morrows. From strokes of unseen cimeters A million hearts are bleeding ; \ • rv runs tingling to the stars Of babes' and widows' pleading : While at hell's altars sacrificed— God's martyred son forever— Lies the clear life that crystallized Our kingliest endeavor. And yet beneath our brimming tears Lies nobler cause for singing Than ever in the shining years When all our vales were ringing With happy sounds of mellow peace ; And all our cities thundered With lusty echoes, and onr seas By freighted keels were sundered. For lo ! the branding flails that drave < )ur husks of foul self from us show all the watching heavens we have Immortal grain of promise. And lo! the dreadful blasts that blew In gusts of fire amid us llave scorched and winnowed from the true The falseness which undid us. No floundering more, for mind or heart, Among the lower levels ; No welcome more for moods that sort With satyrs and with devils ; But over all our fruitful slopes, < in all our plains of beauty, Fair temples for fair hitman Lopes, And altar-tlirones for duty. Wherefore, O ransomed people shout! O banners, wave in glory! (> bugles, blow the triumph out! U drums, strike up the story ! '.ug, broken fetters, idle swords! FUp hands, O States, together! Ai.d h t all praises be the Lord's, Oui Savior and our Father. CORP. CARTER, THE MUTINEER. "< iine, no more grumbling—sit down, and be silent. We've had too much o' this already." l'hese words were uttered by a tall, raw- C'lied, ill-clad man, of about thirty-five J'ears. who with three others were amusing themselves at a game of " all fours," on • luistnias eve in the year 1180. Besides the speaker and his associates at the table there were in the room eight or ten others, each presenting in his external appearance unmistakable marks of squalid want Tat tered garments, grizzly beards and wau features pervaded the assemblage. Some ,played, while others looked on, others a gain were stretched on benches or strolling about the room ; and all, except those at the card table, were engaged in boisterous and irregular conversation. Hard words passed from one another among their grim visages, and the tout ensemble presented •aore nearly the appearance of a brawling, hall-starved, disappointed banditti than that el a company of honest and respectable !" 'pic. The party to whom the words we ■ ave quoted were addressed, was at the < >nn nt striding to and fro across the floor "1 the room, and with violent gesticulation ittering an unmeasured string of grievan mingled with occasional ambiguous ••''orations and threats. The admonition to sit down and be silent," spoken in a tone li; 't savored of authority, checked his im patient stride, and cut in two a half-uttered ■ipi'ession that, whether in whole or in part, would not be deemed polito in tho 'Uun.s of this paper. Swallowing the un •utrred half, then he paused, and turned 1 wards the speaker, who had not raised " ' yes lroin the game, and was at that ■ -neat scoring three points upon the pine •" ae with a piece of charcoal. ' "mre grumbling, hey, Corporal," he ■ i' I' d, with considerable emphasis on ' Ib iisive dissyllable—" no more grum \\ ho the d—l put a guard over the s peech of a freeman? I'll grumble as n us 1 like, and you may make the most '• ve nothing to do but grumble. I • l 1 1 l at for there's no forage. 1 can't sleep k ' u " n I try to do that, my empty belly I>S1 >S {fumbling and keeps me awake. I E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVI. can't even keep myself warm, unless a coat made of promises will do it. They're all we get now a-days, Corporal—plenty of promises without any performances- -and who the d—l can make rations or firewood out of them. I say I've a right to grumble, and I'll do it ! It does rne good." "That's right, Blake," exclaraed another, " speak the truth and shame the devil. Ain't we all half starved ? Besides, I like to know the man in the Pennsylvania line that's got a whole coat or two shirts to his back ! It's time to grumble when you come to that." " That's all very true, if there's any got by it," interposed a fourth speaker. "If you could only grumble the mess into full rations and warm quarters, I'd jine with all my heart." Corporal Carter continued his game, yet while he seemed to disregard alike the con versation and the defiant attitude of the principal malcontent, Blake, he had listen ed to every word with a greedy ear. He was a man of keen perception, firm patriot ism, and indomitable energy—qualifications which had enabled him for a long time to lose sight of his own privations, and hold in check those inferior spirits who, although true to the cause of the colonies and their native land, were not insensible to the physical sufferings which the circumstan ces of an unequal war had inflicted upon them. He was, in fact, just such a man as Napoleon Bonaparte would have converted iuto a field Marshal, or at least a Brigadier. Nor was his influence confined to liis own company. In all the subordinane messes of the Pennsylvania line, his name was as well known as General Wayne himself, who commanded ; and in all their petty alterca tions Corporal Carter was called in as the arbiter or court of appeal, and his decis ions, when made, were as conclusive as the verdict of a court martial. For a long time, in common with his comrades, lie had endured all the privations attendant on the poverty of the colonies, and what appeared to he the indifference of Congress to their wants, and the apathy of the people, lie saw, too, the growing dis content among the troops, amounting at times, to insubordination and almost to ab solute revolt, and while his best energies were employed among the " rank and file " to maintain correct discipline, he had him self felt, and keenly too, that they were en titled to something better than starvation and nakedness for their services. Still no means within the reach of his humble sta tion had suggested itself to his mind, by which their condition might be improved. He knew the officers of the line were obli ged to share more or less, with privates there mortifications and wants, and that consequently, an appeal to them would be not only futile, but ungenerous. So he had made up his mind to do his duty, hope for the best, and abide the issue. He listened, therefore, to the slight ebbu lition of insubordination just quoted, with deep interest. Knowing that a similar spirit pervaded the whole brigade* he saw plainly that unless some measures were speedily adopted to keep the " rank and file" together, the service would be dis graced by general desertion, or, perhaps,an unbridled mutiny. The conversation in the mess continued, growing less arid less pa cific, and the Corporal finished his game at "all fours," losing his "Jack" in the last hand, by paying too much attention to oth er matters. He then arose from the table, and addressing Black, as though he had not heard what was passing demanded the cause of his complaint. Black answered by holding up an apol ogy for a boot, through the front of which, five discolored toes, that disdained the cov ering of a stocking, were protruded. At this symbol of suffering, and manifest cause of complaint, the discontented soldier poin ted, with a look of peculiar significance. "I know it," said the Corporal, as he glanced at the dilapidated covering, " and now look at mine. It's Hobson's choice with us, and there's not much to brag of be tween the two or for that matter between us or old Mad Anthony himself, for if the truth was known, he's not much better off, I'm thinking—-don't we all share and share alike ?" " Well, s'pose we do, that don't warm us, nor give rations ; I'm tired o' the ser vice, and 1 mean to quit it somehow." '• What ! quit Gen. Washington ! 1 sup pose the next thing you will do will be to join the red coats ; they give full rations and better pay, I'm told." " Look here, Corporal Carter,," exclaimed Black, " if it wasn't you, by G—d I'd knock you down for that. Don't you talk to me about jinin'the red coats ; I'm as true to liberty as you or any other man, and if I do quit the service it'll be because I can't keep body and soul together in it —don't say that again." " Well," said the Corporal, soothingly, "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, but you musn't talk that way, it's Christmas Eve, you know, and we are promised double ra tions to-morrow ; keep your spirits up, boys, and if you will leave it to me, I'll see if we can't wake up Congress, and get something done for us." ibis proposition was received with a burst ol approbation by all present, and an unanimous declaration that they would be governed by the Corporal in everything. " My first order, then," said he, "is, that that not one word of what has passed in the mess to-night, shall be uttered by any man to another. Do you all promise obedi ence ?" " We do ! we do !" was the universal re sponse. " Good night!" The Ist day of January, 1781, dawned 011 the village of Morristown, New Jersey, in a clear, brilliant winter morning. The ground was covered with a light coating of snow, and the air was just sufficiently sharp cold, and bracing, to give elasticity to the mind and vigor to the frame. In consequence of the ill-conditiou of his troops, the morning parade of Gen. Wayne, or, as lie was some times called, Mad Anthony, had been a matter more of form than of fact, for sever al days, and for the New Year a general holiday to the men had been announced in orders. The officers of the command had made arrangements to pay their respects to the General, before dinner, and to all ex ternal appearance, the day promised to be one of unusual hilarity and enjoyment. In accordance with their arrangements, the commissioned officers had assembled at head-quarters just before noon, and were in the midst of a morning festivity, when they were surprised by hearing the " roll " bea TOW AND A, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., JUNE 22, 1865. ten distinctly at various points, for the muster of the brigade. The General was no less astonished than the rest ; all lis tened attentively, as the call continued,and the General was about to dispatch a mess enger to learn the cause of the unaccoun table summons, when a person in breath less haste rushed into the apartment and gave information that the whole Pennsyl vania line, thirteen hundred strong, had mutinied —was under arms and in command of Corporal Carter. " Corporal Carter !" exclaimed the Gen eral, " there's no truer man in the Continen tal Army ! A mutiny under Corporal Car ter ! impossible ! Gentlemen, let us see what is the meaning of this." As he spoke, the General buckled on his sword and placed his pistols in his belt,and leading the way, moved in haste to the pa rade ground. There indeed he saw the line under arms, and exasperated beyond rea son, he hastened to the spot where Carter with a few chosen comrades, was posted as the leaders of the insurrection. Address ing the Corporal, he demanded, almost choked with rage— " What is the meaning of this riot, you rebels ?" To which Carter replied, very coolly and respectfully— " This is no riot, General. Our troops have borne this neglect till they can bear it no longer. They are suffering day by day with hunger and cold, they feel that their fidelity is abused, and have at last determined, without intending any disre spect towards you, and without any lack of devotion to the cause of their country, to march to the halls of Congress, at Phila delphia, and there make known their wants and demand justice " Infuriated with this avowal of open re volt, the General drew his pistol and level ing at Carter, declared he would shoot him on the spot, unless he instantly suppressed the mutiny and ordered the men to their quarters. In an instant a dozen bayonets were pre sented at the breast of the General, and one of the soldiers said to him, in the most feel ing manner— " General, we all love and respect you, but if you fire, you are a dead man 1 We are no rebels, except against King George, and would follow you against his troops as freely to-day as we ever have. All we de mand is our pay and rations, and that we are determined to have." The General withheld his fire, but with his officers attempted to quell the insurrec tion, when a slight skirmish ensued, in which one man was killed and several wounded. Quiet having been restored, the brigade set out on its march for the seat of gov ernment, headed by the intrepid yet pru dent Corporal, and followed by its discom fited and mortified General. The progress of this column of half-star ved men was marked by no violence or dis order. With resolute souls they pursued their way to the accomplishment of a sin gle object, and no trace of rapine tarnished their foot-steps or disgraced their name They were American soldiers, in arms for the independence of their country, and no privation could swerve them from the course of honor ; their grievances came to them from the neglect or indifference of the gov ernment, and to the Government alone they looked for redress. Arrived at Princeton, Gen. Wayne in duced them to suspend their march, assis ted them in obtaining a supply of provis ions, and strove to make satisfactory ar rangements with them, but failed. The evil that they suffered was radical, and it must meet with a radical cure. They had determined to awaken the Congress of the young nation to a sense of its duty to the sentinels of liberty ; and nothing short of that would satisfy them. As a matter of course, Sir Henry Clinton, who then held possession of New York, soon learned through the tories, all the par ticulars of the revolt ; and on the following night, three men were brought before the Corporal, by the officer of the guard, with information that they had a special dispatch for the commanding officer of the Pennsyl vania brigade. Carter received them and to his astonishment found them to be emis saries from Clinton, who mistaking the character and object of the mutiny, imag ined that he had only to offer terms aud re ceive the whole corps into the British ranks. No man ever committed a greater error. The Corporal was so exasperated at this insult to the patriotism of his comrades and himself, that in the first impulse of his in dignation he threatened to hang the mess engers before breakfast on the following morning. He called together a body of his confederates, and pointing at the chop fal len couriers of tyranny, said : " See comrades, these fellows have come to us from Gen. Clinton. He wants to bribe us into the red coat army, and they have the impudence to tell us so. What shall we do with them ?" " Shoot them !" exclaimed half a dozen voices. " Shoot them !" said Carter—" No, shoot ing is too good for them—they are spies. What say you, shall we hand them over to the General, and let him hang them accord ing to law ?" " Agreed ! agreed ! Send them up !" was shouted on all sides. Turning to the trembling culprits, Carter said: " Your master, I see, wants a lesson in good manners—and we will teach him nev er again to insult the pride of American soldiers by offering to bribe them from their true allegiance. We will show him that, poor as we are, neither he nor his king has gold enough to buy us." He then sent them under guard to Gen. Wayne, declaring them to be spies from the enemy ; and they were subsequently tried as such, found guilty, and executed. WHAT IS MONEY. —Money is independence. Money is freedom. Money is leisure. Mon ney is safety. Money is education. Money is the gratification of taste, benevolence, and public spirit. The man is a fool or an angel who does not try to make money. A clear conscience, good health, and plenty of money, are among the essentials of a full, joyous existence. Still, unfortunately, it too often happens that people who have an abundant supply of money are destitute of character. While it is desirable that men should have both, notwithstanding all the advantages of money, it is better to have character. REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. PREPARATIONS ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN — SCIENTIFIC TESTS. The Londou Telegraph of May 23, has the following iute resting account of the pre parations on board the Great Eastern fur laying the ocean telegraph cable : DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 1858 AND 1865. A visit was paid to the Great Eastern a few days Bince by a large party of the di rectors' friends ; and it may be said that all who understood the preparations which they saw came away with a greatly strengthened confidence in the future of the new cable. Since 1858, when the first At lantic line was laid, the advance that has been made by the scientific world towards comprehending electrical phenomena is very great. It has been said, by a man well qualified to speak on the subject, that electric science has passed, since that time, from its childhood to its maturity. So far as the phenomena connected with long elec tric circuits were concerned, we had in 1858 no knowledge whatever. The instruments in common use were unsuitcd to receiving signals through a great length of cable ; the necessity of providing for the conduc tor au insulation so perfect as to approach an absolute condition was inadequately ap preciated. The best preliminary test for a long cable had not been devised, and the old Atlantic telegraph was laid without having been subjected to any searching test on shore. Everybody had advice to give concerning the management of the wire, but uo one recommended the precau ti >ns which subsequent experience has shown to be necessary. When the signals began to fail, the battery power was aug mented, and electro-magnetic induction coils, which rapidly helped on the destruc tion of the conductor, were put iu circuit. No one thought of " nursing" the cable — of humoring its feeble attempts at articu late utterance, and of finding what it said rather by listening acutely than by con stantly calling on it, in the language of the Victoria gallery, to " Speak up." The old cable, however, is dead and gone ; pa-1 of it has been picked up and applied to igno ble uses, as a racehorse past his work may be put into the shafts of a hansom ; part of it has been abandoned, and lies where it may rest till the end of time, iu the " dark unfathomed caves "of the deep sea. Let us turn to the practical present. SCENES ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTEEN. The Great Eastern looks just now more like an engineer's workshop than a sea going ship. The vast expanses of her deck are covered with wooden sheds and piles of timber. There are smiths' forges below, and between the decks you might fancy yourself in a machinist's factory. The great engines of the ship, it is true, have lost the bright look of machinery which is in constant use ; and the huge dull masses of iron seem asleep, or in a trance. If you descend the ladders which lead to the boil ers and furnaces—an expedition which is more like going down a mine than any other to which it can be compared—you find yourself in the midst of darkness, soli tude and cold ; but in those regions of the vessel where the cable is being shipped and watched there is every sign of keen, vigilant intelligence. When you under stand what is being done, you see some thing more than this —that scientific fore sight of the highest order directs every step ; and that the thick tarry rope, coarse and rough to appearance, which lies coiled away under water in the tanks of the ship, is manufactured, scanned, and tested with as much care as the nicest optical instru ment in an astronomer's observatory, or most delicate apparatus of fragile glass ever applied to the careful experiments of chemistry. THE SCIENTIFIC TESTS. It seems impossible that there can be any fault in the Atlantic cable when the Great Eastern goes to sea. To say nothing of the tests applied to it at the manufactory, it is tested not alone after it has been taken on board, but during its delivery into the ship. As soon as a length is brought along side, one end is connected with the coils al ready on board, and the other end with the instruments in the testing room. The cir cuit is thus made through the whole extent of the coil, the portion on board and the portion alongside. The process of hauling in then commences, and the insulation is continuously observed. The instruments in the testing room record the smallest de viation from absolutely perfect insulation. It will be understood that an insulation which shall be quite perfect, as an elec trician understands the word, is not at tainable. A piece of metal separated by means of the purest glass, and enclosed in the driest atmosphere that can be obtained, will, if charged with electricity, lose that electricity after a time. In speaking of insulation we must therefore be understood to mean an approximate condition ; but the approximation in the case of the new Atlantic cable comes so near to perfection that this rough tarry rope is a scientific wonder. The last dying pulsation of the old At lantic cable was forced through it by means of a galvanic battery consisting of two hundred and forty cells. The submarine telegraph from London to Amsterdam is habitually worked with a battery of fifty cells, and such a battery is commonly used for the other submarine lines of Europe. Signals have been repeatedly sent through more than thirteen hundred miles of the cable now on board the Great Eastern by means of one cell. Galvanic currents so feeble that they could not have been felt by the hand, and might have been passed harmlessly through a circuit completed by the operator's tongue, can be used to con vey messages along a length of cable that would very nearly stretch from London to St. Petersburg. Over needle instruments, such as those in ordinary use for land tele graph, a current from one cell would be powerless. To record such faint pulsations of elec tricity, it is necessary to use Professers Thompson's mirror galvanometer. This beautiful instrument consists of a mirror about the size of a four penny piece, made of microscope glass, and so thin that it weighs only a grain. On the back of this mirror a minute magnet is fixed, and, thus supplemented, it is suspended by a silken fibre in the heart of a coil of wire, so that any currant passing through the coil de flects the magnet and the mirror along with it. A ray of light reflected by the mirror alls on a scale, distant about eighteen or twenty inches, and reveals its faintest movements. Different combinations of these movements represent the different letters of the alphabet, and thus the appar ently erratic wanderings of a ray of light are made to convey intelligence. An in strument of this kind is constantly used to test the cable, as it is hauled on board; and if any fault had existed it could not have passed without detection. Up to this time, when there are on board the ship and alongside 1,970 miles of cable, no fault has been discovered. THE IMMERSION. The machinery for paying out is not yet on board, but is being put together at the . Greenwich works. The process of immer sion will take about a fort-night. The be ginning of the shore end will be lain by a small vessel, which will meet the Great Eastern about twenty miles from the Irish cost. The cable will then be passed on board, connected with that in the great tanks, and the big ship will begin her voy age. To the uninitiated, this process of cutting and joining the cable appears very mysterious, but the engineers who are used to the work face it without any hesitation. The joints do not really endanger either the insultation or the strength of the cable, as wherever they are made the external and conducting wires are spliced along a , considerable length—sometimes not less than thirty yards—and the gutta percha carefully put on in separate layers, firmly pressed together by means of warm irons. The completness of the joint is tested by laying it in an insulated metalic vessel con taining water, and ascertaining, by means of tests applied to this vessal, whether any electricity escapes from the joint as a cur rent is passed along the cable. A MODEL COMPOSITION. To boys and girls who are perplexed to know what to write about and how to write > it, when required by their teachers to bring : "a composition," we commend the following model : 1 WlNTEß. —Winter is the coldest season of I the year, because it comes in winter. In i some countries winter comes in summer, ; and then it is very pleasant. I wish win- j ter would conic in summer in this country, i Then I would go skating barefoot and slide < down hill in linen trowsers. We could 1 snowball without our fingers getting cold 1 —and men who go sleigh-riding would not f have to stop at every tavern and warm, as i they do now. It snows more in winter than ; any other season of the year. This is be- ' cause so many sleighs are made at that i time. I i Ice grows much better in winter than in summer, which was an inconvenience be fore the discovery of ice houses. Water that is left out of doors is apt to freeze at this season. Some people take in their wells and keep them by them by the fire, and they don't freeze. Skating is great fun in winter. The boys get their skates on when the creek is froz en over, and race, and play tag, break through the ice and get wet all over (they get drowned sometimes,) fall and break their heads, and enjoy themselves in many other ways. A boy once borrowed my skates and ran off with them, and I could not catch him. Mother said judgment would overtake him one day. Judgment will have to run pretty lively on its legs if it does for he runs bully. There ain't much sleigh-riding except in winter— folks don't seem to care • much for it in summer. The grown up boys and girls like to go sleigh-riding. The boys generally drive with one hand and hold the girl's mull's with the other. Brother Bob let me go along once when he took Celia Crane out sleigh riding, and I thought he paid more atten tion to holding the muff than he did to hold ing the horses. Snow-balling is another winter sport. I have snow-balled in the summer. But we used hard stones and hard apples. It isn't so amusing as it is in the winter somehow. But enough. I have dashed oil' those little things about winter, while sister is getting ready for school. Good-bye. NEDDY. NEVER GET ANGRY. —it does no good. Some sins have seeming compensation or apology, a present gratification of some sort ; but anger has none. A man feels no better for it. It is really a torment; and when the storm of passion has cleared away,it leaves him td see he has been a fool ; and he has made himself a fool in the eyes of others. Who thinks well of an ill-natured man,who has to be approached in the most guarded and cautious way ? Who wishes him for a neighbor or a partner in business ? He keeps all about him in the same state of mind as if they were living next to a horn et's nest or a rabid animal. And as to prosperity in business, one gets along no better for getting angry. What if business is perplexing, and everything goes by con traries, will a fit of passion make the winds more propitious, the grounds more product ive, and markets more favorable ? Will a bad temper draw customers, pay bills, and make creditors better naturcd ? An angry man adds nothing to the welfare of society. Since, then, anger is useless, needless, dis graceful, without the least apology, and found only "in the bosom of fools," why should it be indulged in at all ? RELICS. —The rage lor relics in this coun try is something astounding. A respect ably dressed man was noticed the other day putting into his pocket a brick from the wall in front of Mr. Lincoln's house,and this is but one of the ten thousand follies. The entire stairway upon which Colonel Ellsworth was killed, in Alexandria, has been cut into chips and carried away. The tree at the foot of which Sickles shot Key. in Washington, has been barked and cut until it is dead-. The oak tree under which General Grant talked with Pembcrtou, and arranged the terms of surrender of Vicks burg-, has been annihilated, and recently a party dug into the ground ten feet for the roots of the historic oak. An elm tree which Abraham Lincoln planted stands in front of his old house in Springfield. Of course, it will be torn in pieces and destroyed. EVERY plain girl has one consolation. If e is not a pretty young lady, will if she ves, be a pretty old one. Iper A.lll1 11111, 111 Advance. LITE IN JAPAN—OUBIOUS CUSTOMS- A Japan correspondent of the Xew-York Tribune, furnishes the following in refer ence to certain features in the life of that country: Nothing in Japan will impress a stran ger more forcibly than the exceeding still ness of its rural life, nor is it in the country alone that the tendency to quiet is apparent. There is little boisterousness in the every day life of the Japanese. The farmer swearing at his refractory ox or horse, the master or mistress loudly chiding a negli gent or unwilling servant to the edification of a neighborhood, are sights and sounds more germane to our civilized ways, than those of those rude people. Many is the time when walking solitary afield in some by-path, I have come suddenly on a farmer leading homeward his laden beast. The animal snuffs the stranger, and in affright plunges away, breaking his leading-rope and spilling his load. Patiently the peas ant goes to work to sooth his frightened beast, not pounding him, gathers his spilled load, apologizes for the trouble he has made, and goes 011 again, leaving one to reflect on the lesson of patience and forbearance taught by the rude peasant. On the great thoroughfare of the Tokaldo, the daily throng passes by, sliding smoothly along in stocking feet, or in sandals of straw. A daimio's train with its hundreds of retain ers, winds through the crooked thorough fare noiseless as a serpent's trail, save where the herald in advance calls out to citizen and wayfarer, St a ni iro, " Down on your kuees." The road bed, beaten by the tread of generations of travelers, reverber ates no sound from straw-shod foot of man and beast. Only the norimon bearers move under their burden poles tc the chorus of their inharmonious grunt, or a travelling vender of quack medicine, or itinerate show- j man or pastry cook, cries out the attract ions of his trade, or some begging priest tickles his bell, soliciting alms with sonor ous voice at the open doorway, or it is some group of playing children, or hoyden lass j on her high wooden pattens, who awakes 1 the stillness as she goes clattering by to the bath-house. But away from the kaido, among the fields and farms, the stillness of a universal Sabbath reigns. I see the rude plow driven through the field, the mattock sink into the yielding earth, but never a clink of a stone gives back a sound. The burdened horses come filing through the winding pathways, noiseless in their straw shoes, their masters as quietly walking alongside. There are laborers in the field at their noiseless work of pulling weeds. The groves are less vocal with bird songs than in our newer land. The very streams come gliding down between grassy banks and over stoneless beds, with muffled sounds, to fall into the quiet sea. Many a time 1 have taken a walk of miles among alternate woods and cultivated fields of this populous neighborhood, meeting rare ly a soul or hearing any sounds ot animate life save the pheasant calling to his mate, the whirr of the wood pigeons, the twitter of myriads of rice birds, or the piping of the frogs in the poddy fields, until I have wondered when, how and by whom, all the fields were so tidily kept and cultivated. As the winter is broken in upon by the New Year holidays, so the midsummer of labor has its repose iu similar national hol idays, beginning with the 15th day of the 7th moon, or the latter part of our August., These holidays are observed with nearly or not quite the faithfulness of the New Year holidays. Labor is universally suspended; even the fisherman throws no net into the sea. Like the New Year time, this is also a general settling time of accounts. All, gentle and simple alike, are clad in their best attire,and the streets are full of pretty and showily dressed children,intent on their visitings and amusements. The 16th day of this moon, the second of the holidays, Bong, as it is called, is a day of universal cessation from labor. Even the prisoners 111 the jails have some relaxation from their usual severe confinement, their bands are unloosed, and a better meal,to them a feast, is provided at the government expense. In Yedo, ceremonious visits are made to the Tycoon by the Daimios and chief officers of State. During these days, too, it is the duty of each family to visit the family tem ple and burial place. The cemeteries are cleansed and swept, tombstones are reno vated or replaced, the stone basins are re plenished with water, fresh flowers and green branches are brought, offerings of food and drink are made, an incense burn ed, and many prayers repeated. The more conspicuous monuments are adorned with paper, strips of plain white, or inscribed by the priests with sacred words and symbols. Lanterns are suspended over the graves for illumination at night. 011 the 6eaooast, where there is water, when night comes down, tiny boats are launched laden with food for the departed spirits which wander about their old habitations, and such as are large enough are illumina ted with lanterns. If the air is still, whole fleets of thest little boats may be seen float ing 011 the quiet waters. As in all lands, foremost in these pious observances are the women, attended by their children, and the sight of so many well-dressed groups, bent on a common er rand, is as picturesque as it is pleasing.— The stranger who should happen for the first time to fall upon Yedo during the Bong holidays would be astonished at the fine ap pearance of the streets, thronged with so many elegantly dressed females. From Daimio palace and official residence, the lady of the house issues forth with her train of attendant maids, for this pious du ty admits of no exemption of rank, and the high-born lady must humbly go on foot to her ancestors' graves, as old custom and etiquette prescribes, though she may return to her home in her norimon. She is pro tected, while 011 this errand, from the vul gar gaze by the artifice of dressing several of her maids precisely like herself, to baf fle impertinent curiosity. But one will not mistake the meaning of these rites for the dead,which of themselves are sufficiently touching and beautiful, for they spring, not as with us, out of dear af fection for the departed, but out of that slavery of superstitious fear which here evermore holds and haunts the living. O'LAKY, gazing with astonishment at an elephant in a menagerie, asked the keeper, " What kind of a baste is that aitin hay with his tail ?'' SOMETHING ABOUT THE HAIR. How many hairs on your head ? The number varies with different persons ; the average is stated on good authority to be 21*3 to every quarter of a square inch ; from this each can calculate somewhere near the sum of his own. Flaxen hairs are the fi nest, brown and red next, and black the coarsest. A space containing lit black would be occupied by 162 brown, or 182 flaxen. Each hair springs from a root im bedded in the skin. The outside is com posed of homey scales overlapping each other like shingles on a roof, though not with the same regularity, and these scales form a tube enclosing a marrowy pith. The hair of different races of men, varies in structure as well as in color ; thus that of the negro may be felted, that is, formed in to a solid compact mass like cloth. The property is owing to the prominence of the j scales composing it. Straight hair is near ly round, curly hair is more flattened, the most so in the negro, whose hairs are near ly flat ribbons. The different colors de pend on minute particles of coloring matter within the hair ; age, sickness, severe men tal exercise, or sudden fright may destroy the coloring matter, and cause the hair to turn gray. In animals having " whiskers," as the cat, tiger, rat, etc., the hairs are supplied with nerves, which render them very delicate " feelers," by which they are aided in stealing on their prey. In passing through narrow spaces, these give notice if the opening be not large enough to ad mit the animal's body. In some forms of disease the human hair becomes extremely sensitive at the roots, and liable to bleed. Frequent cutting causes it to grow coarser, but not more thickly and those who desire to retain soft silky beards should not shave at all. Oils, pomades, and such prepara tions clog the pores of the scalp and pre vent the healthy growth of the hair ; wash ing the scalp with water and thoroughly drying with a towel, will keep it in excel lent condition. Human hair is an impor tant article of trade, tons of it being sold every year. In large districts of Europe the peasant girls are shorn annually, re ceiving from two to twenty dollars each for the crop. Most of this is used by those who can not grow enough of their own, some of it making jewelry and other orna ments. NUMBER 4. AN individual who owned a small tavern near the field of Waterloo, the scene of the lust great action of Napoleon, was ques tioned as to whether he did not possess some relics of the battle, and as invari ably and honestly answered in the nega tive. But he was very poor, and one day while ! lamenting to a neighbor not only his pover jtv but the annoyance to which travelers ' subjected him, his friend cut him short with, "Well, make one help the other. Make some relics!" "But what can 1 do?" Inquired the poor man. "Tell them that Napoleon or Wellington entered your shop during the battle, and sat down on that chair." Not long after an English tourist entered the tavern, and enquiring for relics, was told the chair story. The chair was bought at an incredible price, The next comer was informed that Wellington had taken a drink, and the "Wellington tumbler" was accordingly sold. The third "arrival" gazed with breathless wonder at the nail on which Bonaparte had hung up his hat. The fourth purchased the door posts be tween which he entered; and the fifth be came the happy purchaser of the floor on which he had trodden. At the last advices the fortunate tavern keeper had not a roof to cover his lie id, and was sitting on a bag of sold in the center, of a deep pit, formed by selling the earth on which the house stood. DOMESTIC LIFE —No man ever proposed in the world without the consent and co-oper ation of his wife. If she unites in mutual endeavors or rewards his labors with an endearing smile, with what spirit and per severance does he apply to his vocation; with what confidence will he resort either to his merchandise or farm; fly over land, sail over seas, meet difficulty and encoun ter danger—if lie knows he is not spending his strength in vain, but that his labors will be rewarded by the sweets of home! How delightful it is to have one to cheer, and a companion to soothe the solitary hours of grief and pain! Solitude and dis appointment enter into the history of every man's life; and he has but half provided lbr his voyage who finds but an associate for happy hours, while for his months of dark ness and distress no sympathising partner is prepared! HEAL ELOQUENCE. — There are uo people in the world with whom eloquence is so uni versal as with the Irish. When Leigh liit chie was traveling in Ireland, he passed a man who was a painful spectacle of pallor, squalor, and raggedness. His heart smote him as he passed, and he turned back. "If you are in want," said Ritche, with a degree of peevishness, "Why do you not beg?" "Sure, it is begging hard I am, your honor." "You didn't say a word." "Of course not, your honor: but see how the skin is spakin through the holes in me trowsers, and the bones cryin out through me skin ! Look at me sunken cheeks, and the famine that is starin me in the eyes ! Man alive! Isn't it hoggin' I am with a thousand tongues ?" OVER in Jersey, during the last Presi dential canvass, a young lawyer, noted for the length of his neck, his tongue and his bill, was on the stump blowing his horn for Gen. M'Olellau. Getting on his elo quence, he spread himself, and said: "I would that on the Bth day of next No vember I might have the wings of a bird, and I would fly to every city and every vil lage, to every town and ever)- hamlet, to every mansion and every hut, and pro claim to man, woman and child—'Geo. B MeClellun is President of the United States.'" At this point, a youngster in the crowd sang out: "Dry up, you fool. You'd be shot for a goose before you flew a mile." A WIT being told that an old acquaintance was married, exclaimed, "lamglad to hear it" But reflecting a moment, lie added, in a tone of compassion and forget fulness, "and yet, 1 don't know why I should be— he never did me any harm. ONE of the big Trees in Calaverous Grove, California, known as the "Old Maid,' tell ! down a short time since. "The old lady ; was about twelve hundered years of age," says a California paper; "and had attained the height of three hundered and twenty five feet, and was thirty feet across the butt." "GENTLY the dews are o're me stealing" as the man said when lie had five bills ! presented to him at one time.
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