H. H. FRIER, Publisher. VOLUME a ptsincos pirtrtm B. 8. BENTLEY, JR., NOTARY PUBLIC, 3loraPHosie. Attlawrledgment of need., Mortmzel.. &e, for any I Nutt,• lo the Ui , lt td.de.S. rtnidoz. Vot.kiar..tel Pay On. Vfne4tte" .etnoarlod,,,d tnfore him do not r. Tar.. the.certtllc...tc ..f t Lc '.. air Nlwki.rce.c.. ? len. f., CHARLES HOLES, DE ALE; IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, AND JEWELRY Hstssisine dons ss ususl, on short nodes and ressoushly terms Now an aa4 'MC rUttrle A vt..o In F. H. cLuhhe.r's Pa...}.0v... Dn. R L. ILINDRICK, LOPYNICIA al and L!1tG5,01%, myna:Maly tera:cra profea {. clonal aervicea to Um can.. of Fan:W.lllo and vicinity. 01 pot in the (Mkt of Dr, Ult. Boards al./. Ho4nre. riesidsvillc..Juli 37, 4aii4-0 W. SMITH, TCON.Wrir A ("OL,SBELLOR At LAW &,d /Accused Call. nor.. Office over Uri i rum, buquebsaus Depot Jarman Z. H. BURIIIIT, D ELLER In !Maple and Fanny Dry- Goads. Cirekery. Hardware. Don, Stovea Druo, Otis. attd Paintt. Boma and sboeN Hat. 1,1 Cato, Furs, Balla., Huhn, Ctn.:r., Provharw ae. tiro, attlford, Pa, Apt-,1 u. 1664.-tf S. H. BAY-RE di, BROTHERS, I a F gi n . an . e s r cr i 111 111 ron 4.4 . 1117 A k e l. . h t rg i e 1 04111 Itt e, !V no realmln Dry Goartl.7.oroalics, Crockertac. Montrose. Pa.. Februin /8141- I`, BILLINGS STROUD, IRE AND LIFE IhRI.TRANCE AGENT. Office In Lath II roe. ..11 , 11414 cod of Brick Block. Da ale atneoce, m.l WV 1.11/« aif h tranottel by C. L. Brown. Aloanoe.. letbroary 1, 1.384—t1 J. D. VAIL, 31. D-. 1 Is OMEOPATTIIO PHYSICIAN, Coe mrmancolly locate, I himself In Montrose, Pa., war, he Will promptly attend t I ,113 t. nrorcsolon erne which be mar he favonol. tietka, oo lie,idenre Wen of the 00..111005% near Lteatley net's. hi lot rose, Febrary 1, lege -Oct. V, lfiel. • A. 0. WARREN, TTOUN NY AT LAW, BOUNTY. BACK PAY And PIN .1 810 N CLAIM At; EAT. All Heaton Claim, eat•efhlly ;.et • • . Otnct ftnenerly ‘,._• - upleti by Dr. WAIL laW. arra bellitem below Searte's Hotel. Honteote, Ta.. Fell. 1.1114.-Teblirl ISM S. S. ROBERTSON, iA N Ird CT Chili i i . c e.t .L . t . o , ol.;S hi e o g ro ki v ogs stmartose, Janne.—y t 5. 1664.-‘1 CRAIILES MORRIS, ASINIONABLI BANNER and HAIR DRESSER.. am . F R. ifeeta's sin, +l-c. Kortasste. etsting, !Shampoolnt Laring. and Whiekes Coloring done to the BESI STYLE. Le lei Bair Dressed In the most dPPRO V ED FASHION. Montrode, Sept. S. ISOL-O LBWIS lIIEBY & B. BACON, le MEP constantly on band • hall ropptytof every violet, a • OftOCERISet and CONFECTIONERIES. Upswing on to bustateas and Ildnunsaln deal, thcv hopli to merit the dyes, • trnnage of tbe public, An OYSTER. and „EATING SALO , l 2•1 Inched to the Grocery, where blvsJece In season, ere served In ev et vie that the tastes of the public demand. Remember the place • oV Mon Granny Stand. on Kahl &reel, below the I. 6 mtoMoe. ors t: ti0e.17.1883.—nach17.63-1( DR. CALVIN 0. HALSEY, liSSIMAN AND .1 1 1:06.0N ,AND EXAMINING SUR GEON for PENSICItirE RS. O crsrr the o,4re of 3. L' - or• Rrn • Puhlic tivrane Bonze. It Mr. ETSrnggr•:, october. MI 41 D. A. BALDWIN, TTORRET AT LA it and Peneion. &ream nad Rack Pa Aces, On.l. Read, StMULLllo,lllGortnty, P. Ore.st 'tend, A ckiust 10, 1.04-1 y BOYD & VirEBSYR, SALEM In 'Stoves Story Pipe, Tin, , Copper, and /her I Iron Wore; &b vtu, Indow baeh, Panel Mom Woo in& tooth Prue Lumber, anti LI kinds of Boilding Murrebd t • Sh , p tooth of bearle'l Hotel. and Carpenter bbop new. Ito e timber Cburoh. . ow:nom re— January I. 1864.-if Ds. .101iN W. COBB, ► fITSICLLN and SURGEON, nattxletrully teadere hlr errata[ to the ettlserts of masquettanza Corrty. Having had anon% • ccp,nence to the II ottrft 'stew Men, corer, ne'peCile tent il O will be ttivett to StlftGirtAT, ologßATitiNs. analdence on klaple Street. Lunt of J t N, Tar.ell'. Hotel. Mottvrtoe Nogg. I..lnumy, Pa., June V.L. Dn. WILLIAM W, SMITH, v- StInGEOT. DENTIST. opeecvcr x the Hann a 'C4'cf rd ,o. A p f ''s Ope l: n ZIIte performed 111tma ;r4 ety 1r -rentecl Ftereember, ter; ro-ttimly of H. breath tr .tor Moutrepee, Jaeutry 1. 1144-11 E. J. ROGERS; la style of LYwksaananth and of the bend diateallit, the well known ecand of E. H. tisdifill.a., a few rods ewa eeaslels Howl Sloassnee, where. he 1011 be happy to ne les the calls of all mho woof luquing r lo his Hue- Moutrrtee. June 1N43.-tf ` BALDWIN & ALLEN, ▪ BALERS In ' , LOUR, Salt, Pork, Flan, Lard. Crain Feed ▪ Candies, Cloves and Thnotay Seed. Also 31100ER.lat as SJoars. Monism., Syron", Tea and :co.en Wort side o , • ono Averue. one door Woo J. EtLesid4e. =tram, January 1 1884.41 G. W. ISEAdI3 . , P HYSICIAN 6.11 D SIIEGEB.N. having pmvnanently locates himself oh Brooklyn Cooler. Pa_ tenders his lonfemlonal ser on to we eitleens of ovequeturine Coanti4on wrote ms with the thew. ihccupito the otifee of !ate Dr. B. Ilictssee heti weird,c. Brooklyn erattr. Pa_ Jour 0.1864. Iv F. B. REEKSy HAOTICAL BOOT AND bHOK HABER: Also Defile, b Barns, ,Loci. Leather. and Pert Yindlngn. It.ppablog dab • neatness and dinpwch. Two doors stxrra Marten liotol. • Maroon, Jwuary L. 1.654.-1/ JOSEPH RICE, 15111 , /to t UREA , . ane DEALER In WI ends of CHAIES Sbnp lour mile, cast or N.. mitrord 1161,41,.. ' c. Jelford. October 1. 1E41.-tf Dns. PATRICK & GARDNER, EITRIULANS A.NTS agend put.st..liy to as Lams. to that may he eutfusted to - ttadt can. corm. ,onmen,urace with thethumt. 1519 ear.. .• and dslormtli'd • 15 , 6. K. Sad Neal •Iperntlacr. and alt Bdialeal Di 1.1211.1 p ariah. Tad ended to. Wade Webtia Stow.. Wade kmr.trato 6a. to 9 p.m. PATRICE...6p, untrose.JIMMISPI,I96I.-tt E. L. GAIMNEU. WM. & WM. H. JESSUP, 170II.NETS AT t.A W, blantrow,.. Pi. Prattlce in Siscue tunas. Dridford, Wayne, Wyounng and L.eino tlonntles. antrum.. P.. January Ist. ISGI. ALBERT CHAMBERLW, ISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ATTORNEY AT LAW.— litre over tilt !None f =trip ocmpled by Post Brothers noir., PA./I/0.1.71. 16C(. J. LYONS 4t, SON, ZA.LERE IN DRY GOODS. Grocartes.Cirockety, Hardware Tinware, Roots, Veiodenna, PLanoaand an ktods of Mud Ininronients, Sheet Music, k Also carry on the Doak RIM holiness In all It. trriatchea. J. 00000, outrun. January I. 1804.' T. L. 00000. ABEL TURRELL. g E&LER 114* DRUGS. MEDICINIC4 CHEMICALS.. ▪ Paints, 011 a. Dye-etttlfs. Vornitibet, ulinm.ld'eoanvptc e z . Olsst. I" ` r " 9''l' ' '''S'u l= r o T S J l3 B b". lTur Arent fet all of the inwt Fop, Stontrosc. January I. Ingl. Q. FORDHAM, Cll of BOOTI: IMIDES,, Montrose,P2 Ws Mort . All kluds of work made 41. neatly. Work done wben prottp Montrose. e.t.a S. 1.661-11. 'SABLES A. STODDARD, floors & giiom aob., end Find. In at. third door below bearle• LIM 16 Ade to order. and repairing done many. December IS. 1.860. . LYONS &" , cl)., , O(Y GROCERIEA. 1100TA.° Carpets, 011 Olathe , Wrell end Window Ps. Store on the cot eisle of Pubne Avenue. EMI WATROUS, FOSTER, Dnaca; lactlitinea. Paints. 0111 , Clock n, Watches, Je. k34± Block. Moamar. .... ........... a. o. roeca. EC2 ILANDER LINES, ter. TILL , II ,:. Brick itip i cl4 .. .over &rad, •tv. 11. IZ9. 'OHN GROVES, TAILOR, Ahoy 06cene the nen2b lugl Office. 'tor ISSY—tf D. ti LYONS, G 3,6, ommde.:, now. Salt, Crockery, &tot w M. 40 met. F•hruary 11. leb2.-e1 A.UNIONT A, WARD, Itzogactann, at the . Term. crabs tktimOstre • aawa riII•VXOST. ;NTLEY LOOllll3, ckPJ NS CLOW AT LA W. Stratton. pa eg Drug Slon , :ot , ILAckagrluDlS Avenge, pelf St 141 ca. 01111tarr Exemptiou paper. malt neUtias Coanty, U drane - 1, would tto moll to ot tetter clot...tont thom.and all Patna V auts.log to. a. 1...1121T10W Ay - IS. 1.6 A-if L H. DURNS, osci via VIM= J. Toni, Saw aingi . t . . , , -....,_, • z• I . iio - _ .-• • i ' : i'. --""• '^- -.. \ '4. , I ' '` / . ""+"'';'.N'' , • • • i - 4 .- 0.:;. , .*:.*.. :,%,' - i - -•.,..' 7 i ..., . - ... _n ! , n. ~.•_. ~.„ i . r , . .......:.......,........„..„„,!....)....,•! • ...,.,:,..,..,„:„,,,... , ~...7.........„.:,.,,......„..,...,,..., , ~ ..,_.....,,,,_ Ftrr the Incfqxmient A MONODY ON TIM DRITEI OF CL'ItTIS lICLCE, OF DEPOSIT, E. T. The winds that o'er the bleak brown prairies blow From out the chilly East bring to my can A sand of weeping. There are ices, bowed down, A father and a mother; by a grave, It is a grave In which their hearfaare bid Net er to rise again until the data ' That sleeps so well within, shall wake mice morn On that great Day when God shall conic to roll The atone from all our sepulchres. flow he Went down Into that dark and chilly stream Whose waves will send a shudder thron g h naafi' I know not, nor what light shone round his steps From the bright hill-tops on the farther Side Of the great Gulf of Shadows, ufer'artnet joy D'erSowed his heart to think that he would now . Pass from a world that knows so many tears; Nor whether, as his hour drew nigh, a gloom Come over loan to thilek that he no more Would hear the voices that he loved so well, Nor look upon his long-familiar walks„ The balmy gleams and shooting blades of Spring, Nor the sweet days that make the Autumn hills Look like a sea of ameth3st. Nor yet Know I the form in which the blow came down That, as it broke the "golden bowl," crushed hearts Which must beat on In pain and ache and achy Through that most areadlnl of all solitudes, A world of countless fares—all save one That we are dying to behold once more. €ll these I know not : Its enough to know That the young man with the dark looks Is dead! Al,, welt, dear, sunken treasures ! broken hearts! And facts that pursue our steps by day, And break like: sunrise on our drums by night ! A few more months will glide and spring's warm breath WM wake these glorious Western plains to life, . And far as human eye can reach, will spread And waves wilderness of venCure, such As none e'er saw that has not seen the sun Go down upon the prairies Flowers will spring In the green labyrinths of the tender grass, Wild, gorgeous dowers whose names and looks to me Are strange; and roses in the verdant depths Will open, and in gardens, crocuses Will shine as it the earth were sprouting "gold. And I, as my two little: nes put north Their hands to pull the earliest violets And hold them up for me to see and praise, I then shall think of other days and springs, Gay hope a, now dead, that danced before my eyes, Enclauoing day-dreams that are broken now, And dewy glooms sweet with sashes, And woodpoths that I loved long, long,ag,n„ I shall rtmember that In shady nooks In the dem quiet of the narrow vales And at the loses of the rocky hills That tower beside the glittering Delaware, Will violets open and the tender hands Of children gather them t there birds will build And odors of a thousand budding things ' Quiver on every breeze: and signs will hang lm every bough and nook from every sod. And whisper in the tinkling rills that-lie Who stood beside the grave of Lanrus, Stands then, tonnes, among the rocks and streams And calls to all the buried flowers "come forth." hut there is one, one 17.01 . c, a dark-haired man, Woose days, just ronuding up into the morn Of life, were toil of promise and-sweet hope, Who not for all the sureslelue of our skim, Nor all foe sweetness of the early flowers, Nor silvery flutings of the vernal breeze, Nor mother's tenderness nor father's love, Will quit the sinless atmosphere; the rest, The kingly halls, the royal company, The nobles of the earth and of the heavens In that great City where they eery not And all'whose streets wind loader cypress boughs. But still he tiers, and we will think there lives With him the name deep love fot friends and those Who nourished him in lulSney and wept The bitterest teats upon his dying brow— The father 'and the mother who tidll look Back over beds of early iolets, Over June's rose. and December's snows And Ant ohm's crime.'" pomp, noon a crave Twit ever, ever will be fresh - to them! Fairbury, 111. The New Orleans fioninee says the affair of the Waellusett and Florida, lu the port of Bahia, has sud doily attracted public interest toward Brazil, ot which little is heard In this country, except on some special occasion of passing Importance. Yet Brazil has a larger territorial area than` any other State in Arrict lea, North or South, even exceeding that of the United States in their entirety, including the Ter ritorira. The area of the United States and Territo ries is 2,t519,811 square miles; that of Beall is 147,- 024 geographical square miles. A aeogr. aphleal -quare mile contains 211( English square miles (near ly 21 LB), and area of Brazil Is,' therefore, 5,724%108 rquere miles. Its greatest breadth is 2.450 miles, English, and Its greatest length'2,oso. The indenta (101.1 e, of the sea give It a coast line, on the estimate, of nearly 4,000 milts, It is divided into twenty provinces containing a population, by a census taken hi 1834 of 2,507,600, now estimated at 0,000,000; a very motley race-, whites, mixed breads of white., Indians, and negroes, Arabs, and the unmixed aboriginal savages. The un mixed and Arabs are dearly all slaves. The free population is of every Miele and hue, propagated by untrammelled " free love." Miscegenation has full sway there, and the rasults are well worth the stud) of political philosophers; • Brazil is the American example of constitutional It Is governed by a hereditary Emperor, and has at this time the great advantage of having at the Maid of the Empire a man 01 ability, cultivation, and high personal qualities. Don Pedro 11 is in the prime of his-life. lie will not be forty years of age until the 2d of Ng:ember. He succeeded to the throne when quite a child, in 1151, on the abdication 01 his father, Don Pedro, of Portugal. The late Queen of Portugal, Darius Maria, was a daughter of Donyedro, and sister Of the present Emperor of Brazil. The Goveremeilt was conducted by a Re gency until the young Emperor assumed the reins of government fur laimsell,Unid was crowned in 1641. His education was very carefully conducted, and he is n remarkable man tor he love of study and the ex tent uud variety of his accomplishments, andetot less for his attention to public affairs and his sincere ale sire to promote the welfare of tussubjecta. The Em peror has two children, both daughters ; the eldest, Isabella, eighteen years of age, is heiress prestos lice; the se•-ond daughter, and last born child, is seventeen rears of ego. The Emperor has two 'Meters, the elder of which Is married to the Count Acquila, brother to the expect ed King of Naples, and the younger to the Prince de of the French House or Orleans Her son, by this nitarriuge ' Is nr was recently a lieutenant in the navy of the United States. Ills French title is Duke of Penteietre. It would bare been an odd ac cident, lint very probable, for the Emperor's nephew to have been on the Weehusett In the affair at Bahia The Empress Dowager, step-mother of the Emperor Don Pedro, who is still living at Rio Jane o, daughter of Eugene Beaatuirnala, vice King of Italy, brother of Queen Hortense, the - mother ot the pre sent Emperor of the French. The Emperor's name, at its fall length, is as fol lows: Pedre de Aleantam Join-Charles-Leopold Salvador Bibano-Franeols-Xavier de Paula-Leodedio Allehel-Gabriel-Raptiad Gonzagtie, all of which 'names, and one or two more with feminine termina tions, are repeated In the names of his sisters. The Empire has a constitution granted by the Erte perois father In IVA- There Is a General Assembly, c2mposed of two legislative houses, a Chamber of Deputies, consisting of one hundred and twenty-two members, and a Senate of fifty-elght members for the Empire; and for each of the provinces there Is & Legislative Assembly. The provinces have each President appointed by the Emperor. The Presi dent, who conducted the Brazilian side of the COlTes poudence in the Florida affair, is the Emperor's rep. rescutative in tae province of Bahia, residing at San Salvador.' The voters in Brazil do not vote directly for Senators or Representatives in 'the General As sembly, They choose electors, as In the Presidential election in the United States. These electors elect the members of the'Liouse of DeputteS for the term or four years. A triple list of Seuators is also made Li? by,electors for each province, from which the Emperor selects one-third. Senators are for life. Suffrage In Brazil is very general. bat It is limited very much In the functions it exerchum. Brazil has a considerable nary, but not very effect ive against the improved armaments of the day. She luta 110 iron-dads, The whole number of ships in itiCZ was tarty-wee, of which twenty-two were steam ers, and sixteen armed wiling vessels, with two Lam dyed and alarm, guns, with several vessels without armament. The revenue of Beni In 1862—the last report, we h ave as.sas—was, in starting money, £5,858,722, say, in round numbers, a little leas time 141,000000. its expenditures werea trifle less than Its receipts. Its public debt altogether was &:19,372:,61M—near1y $97,- 000,000—in which is included about 418,000.000 in Government paper money,' About £7,0K1,000 ster ling, say $26,000000, Is dae in England, boiling an interest ofyartly 5 per cent. and partly 4h" per cent. Diplomatic relations hare been dititurbell mince Jutie, ititti, between Brazil and Great Britain, by the art of the Emperor resenting an indignity pat upon her tag fby the seizure of Brazilian vessels in her ports, in reprisals for en alle.ed,, failtue of the Bra titian inathoritlee to Make ttatiafactlon for injuries to A pllUNeetiliprtvilAitloortasti bf aw;_niCll.4 MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1865 DT Tr TIEMPSTEAD. EffIAM " Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong." and one or more of them killed by inhabitants of the coast, and for Mauna to British ollletra by the pollee officers of one of the cities of the empire—Rio, if we remember rightly. Alter some neeociatiens, perhaps mediation, the subjects in difference were referred to Kim: Leopold 01 Belgium, and as it has been stated in the British jonnials that the award of Leopold is In favor of Brazil, we all now know why it In that We'd/plot:untie relatlona have not been fully restored. Bahia, or more properly San Salvador, the chief city of the province of Bahia, Is the second city of the Bearitiatt empire, Inside of Bahia de rola lut &m -ita hill Saints'. Bay,) south of San Antal:do and e abouteight hundred tulles from Rio Janeiro. It has a harbor which Ifacconuted one of the finest in the world, capable of admitting any vessel of the largest size. It is strongly remitted with numerous atone forts, but scarcely strong enough to resist the ha Proved artillery lately brought Into use. The popu lation Is now about MOJXOI. The piece carries on u considerable commerce, Is the seat of government of the province, said of a Catholic Atehhishoprie, bet!, at which have palaces there, and contains also pub Ii" and military hospitals, theatres, and other exten sive buildings. The Catholic Archbishop and Pri mate of all Brasil resides at San Salvador. The minister of the United States in Brazil is Jas. Watson Wehb, formerly of the New Yolk Cwiri, and laparer. The Consul at Bahia was Thomas F. Wilson. The Brazilian tnininter to the United Stales i* Senor Miguel Maria Idaho& The Corral tienrrai for the L. olted Slates is Senor de AgUldr, at Now York. rZi7M'IIFrIMI7MWM,TEri Tie Brooklyn Eagle has n correspondent who knows a thing or two. IleAir him : It is a good thing for a man to ply attention to his family. l'edided he has one. Married men generally hare. So have I. It la the natural eonsconenee of getting married. Families, like everything else, are more expensive than they nsed to he. Shoes and clothes eost a sight, now-a days, and children have mostly good appe rites Mine hare. Bove will be boys. They can't help It. The) were . born eo. It Is their destiny to tear their trow sera, and wear nut tso pair at boots per month : keeping their blessed ma constantly employed like e besieged garrison repairing breeches, and their un fortunate pa paying out currency under strong con victions that there is nothing like "leather"—to wear out. I tried copper-toed boots on my heir. The copper wore well, and 1 tare an idea tied copper hoots would be a good idea, Ant I couldn't lied a metallic shoemaker to carry it out. Sirs, O'L also became attached to copper, and thought It would be an linprovement and save new lug if boy's pantaloons were like ships and teaket tles, eopper•bottome+t, The sturgestion was A. No. 1, but we haven't tried it yet.. Copper so run in my bead at the time that O'Pake culled me a copperhead. Thin wig, I Itc oil in of the term Mrs. 0' L. is a managing woman. She makes trow sere for oar son Alexander Thernistoeles, out of mine, when I've done with them lie can act through three pair to my one, ordinarily, and I'm obliged to wear out my clothea faster than I need to, la Order to ILeep him supplied. I once suggested that It might_ he within the re sources of art and Industry to make him a pair out of new material. Mrs. 0 L said positively that It couldn't he done. It would rule us. She concluded that It win cheap er to cut up a pair 1 had paid twelve dollars for. I subsequently found upon enquiry that new cloth for that porpoie: could have been bought for about two dollars. I ventured to tell Mr& O'L, expertinif a triam?l) of male foresight over female lack of judgmeot. She cave me a look of scorn, as she wanted to know if I had asked the price of " trimmings." Trimmings were too much for me. I have been afraid of trimmings ever since. Trimmings, I suppose means buttons and things. In addition to clothes, eta•lasitionuf our house runs np other expenssa. But what as the eta - tense compared with the joy a father feels, when die!' a day's laborious exercise at the office, wrestling with a steel pen, he returns to his domestic retreat, and Is tart at the gate by a smiling cherubim, who In tones that go to ttis fond parent'!" heart, and make him forget his troubles, sal s, " Hello, pa, give me a penny." Tour hand Instinctively go, to the sent of your affcclions, your pocket, and draws forth the coveted coin, which is promptly invested In molasses iniudy. NAPOLEON I, AS A COACHMAN. The great emperor wee by no means n good " whip;" but he was ambitions of gaining repotu lion as such. This ambition, when be was stay ing at the camp of Boulogne, was very near being the means of shortening his dart. One day he insisted on taking the reins from Cesar, his pet coachman, who, not to gene,- his master, got up in the seat ha hind, along akb Rapp, Stooge, and Carnbaceros. Of the safety of the enterprise tome opinion may be formed, when it le told that the vehicle was drawn by five young, spirited and relatively unbroken horses presented by the town t Antwerp to Napo. leon. It required all Ocsar's experience and strength of arm to drive them. The instant they telt a less expert hand, off they set in It'll gallop it the direction of the awn. The uncrowned Cesar thereupon roared to the crowned: "sire. to , he left; pull them to the Lett, and give the rein to the weond gray to the right." " Hold your tongue, Wesur; I know what I'm about," returned the em peror Bering that the driver was no longer master of the horses, Cambaceres imploringly said, " .h, mon Dicu, tire, where is your majesty going to What a coward you are, Camhaceres," ass the an seer; "don't you see that I'm driving you as I should r "Certainly," wad Rapp, who enjoyed the fright of the arebehaueellor, despite the danger he ran, "your majesty is driving us straight to Eng land, where we so badly want to go." Bat Gambit. cares, on sCeing that out of spite Napoleon lashed the horses besought him to pull them up before they went over the cliff. Monte, Lis eyes shut, stuck to the door, yellow with consternation,till the wheel mane in contact with a big stone, when the carriage turned over, and the horses of themselves stood still. The emperor, who was thrown from the box to a great distance, fainted. Cumbaccres escaped with a lump on the forehead, Slonge's hat was driven in, and Cesar and Rapp managed to land on their foet. Rapp was no sooner down than he ran to succor the emperor, who took come time to recover. Notwithstanding the plight to which his majesty was reduced, the whole party laughed hear tily; and when Napoleongot up, he banded the whip to Cesar, and said: " I must render unto Ces ar We thiuto that are Cwsar's. I have had enough of coacinnatie work, and I accordingly resige." FEMALE INTLVENCE.—I was preaching one evening, writes a clergy man, who relished a good thing rich ly, from the passage In the history of Moses, where he, with his two trlends, Aaron and Ilur, was stand ing on a hill, and beholding the battle between Isra el and Amatele. My tk-xt was Aaron nud Ilur stay ed up his hands;' and 1 argued the duty of the pro pie to hold up the hands of their minister, from the example of these good men 01 old who thus support ed Moses. On my way bom.ward from church, one of the leading men of my parish joined me, and after ex pressing his great satisfaction In my discourse, beg ged leave to suggest one point that I_4:mlc - init.: over looked. " AI," said I, " what can that be l , " " I mean," be answered, " the powerful argument In favor of female Influence." I contras," Bald 1, "that I do not perceive that the auhl*ct h hinthi at—how do you fl 'over it, my dear air ?" " Why, does it not reed," said he with come sur prise, " that Aaron and her held up his hands? I suppose the woman helped as much as the mu." HOLIDIPAST.—The editor of a China paper thus glees his evidence with regard to Canton thieves : Few among our readers know what a Canton thief is. Let na give them an illustration for which we can conch. We once caught a pickpocket at Canton in the very act of practicing his precious vocation on our own personal property. He had our handker chief, and we had him ; he was a miserable, attenu ated, and diminutive wretch, but he clung to the handkerchief with such tenacity that we could not take it from him. We bud an umbrella, which we smashed to shreds and tatters over him ; we knock ed him down three or four times, and swung him against the wall, bat it was clear that nothing except 6nch severe measures es we were disinclined to take would lead to the recovery of the property, and we relinquished it, having lost our bat as well as um brella in she scrimmage." ,W" A Maine Wilder recently applied for a fur lough, stating that if it was not granted he should lose Oily thouscaul dollars. This attracted atten tion at headquarters, and the officer was desired to forward a statement of how he would lose it. lie dld to the elftal that he bad been in the army with out a leave of absence for two years ; that he was mewed to a young lady worth fifty thousand dol lars ; that there was another fellow after her, and that she had written to himahat if he did not come home and marry her right away she would have the other man. He got his furlough. 14= 14 PMM Ia tilr os il eltlapillillagyaglewsct vriOwlAMpLUmAi,o):l One evening shoat an hone after the son had gone down, a couple of strait men dressed In soiled rebel unitorms, and each holding In his hand a good Austrian ride, rapped at the door of a small frame building near the C— road in Virginia The knot' , was answered by an old woman Whose face was almost convealed by the tangled masses of grey, uncombed bah " And what may ye want, bah , " she exclaimed, as her deep set eyes flashed upon the two men " I haven't the smallest bit of Johnny-cake to offer ye, for It was all—" "No, no," Interrupted one of the soldiers, "we don't want anything to cat; but we want you to tell us, and that in quick time, too, whether or not you've seen a slight, but strong looking slip of a mano by here of late?" "Dressed In blue and carrying a double barreled rifle," added the other. "fey! hey!" cried the hag, lifting her hands, and speaking in a sharp, ang,rr voles. 'lf ye hadn't Interrupted rue I reckon you d a heard me speak of him before now, as that was the very man who mine here and bought all my cakes. It was about two hours ago, and—" " Which way did be go alter be left your' inquir ed both men, eagerly. "Before I answer that question you must tell me who he is," said the old woman, with a curiosity natural to her sex. " He is a celebrated Union scout whom we call the 'Federal Chameleon,' because he changes his uniform so often. Sometimes It is blue, at other times gray, and he has even been seen wearing the disguise of an old farmer. lie bas shot more of our men than Is at all pleasant, and we have a roving vommission from our colonel to go on a hunt after him and capture him, If we can, either dead or alive. And now as we have replied to you," continued the speaker a little impatiently, "we demand that yon answer our question, and—" "Demand." interrupted the bag in shrill, pierc ing tones. "Is that the proper way to speak to a woman, and an old woman at that ?" Come, come, answer us it you please," cried the soldier in a milder tone. "1 meant no harm—lt Is my way of speaking." Well, perhaps I may forgive you and perhaps not," said the old women, shaking her head. " How tar is your camp from here ?" " What is that to you ? What has that to do—" " There you go again with your accursed Incivili ty!" shrieked the hug, fiercely; "but you shall an swer toy question beforeyou get a single word out of me. Now, then, how far Is your camp from hem, end how many men have you iu and around It? I Intend to.carry your fellows some corn cakes, d'ye see, and I want to know the number of mouths that I will have to cook for." " Oh, In that case," replied the rebel, "I don't see any reason why I shouldn't satisfy you. Our camps, then, are about dr*. miles from here, near— Crona roads, and our number may be about' Ilve thou sand.'• "That will do," cried the old woman with a grin of satisfaction, "yea, that will do. And now yon are sure that the man who came here to buy a sup per is the one von are after?' " We are sore of It, for although we have never seen the man's face we'd know him by his double barreled Oda, as nobody else In the Yankee semi carries a weapon of that kind.' " Ay, ay, Its the right one, then," said the bag. "After he had finished and paid for his meal, he toears DV\ Friend, I should like to put up here for ICC the night, If you have no objection.' But as I did not like the Idea of accommodating a Yankee any more than I could help, I told him there was no room for him, as I expected visitors before many boors. ' Well, then,' says he, ' can you tell me of any tam, where I can pass the night a little comfor table. Yon sec,' he added, looking toward his big double-barreled rifle, • I don't like to camp out, as It looks like rain, and this piece might be hurt by it.' 'I know of no place,' I answered ; short of four miles from here—an old barn which Is tight enough, 1 think, to keep off the rain.' Four miles Is a pretty long distance.' said he, ' and as I have tramped about considerably to-day, I don't feel much like earning Ibis heavy load so far,' pointing to his knapsack, as be spoke. • Will you no ideal...l;4lmb to let It re. math 1111 morning!" Well, yes, s ad nesltattng a little, and throwing a significant glance at the well filled pocket-book In his hand. Fin understood the look and are me a greenback dollar. 'All right,' add I, and he then departed, saying he'd call for his iugmage in the morning, after ho should waken from his Bleep in the barn. 'Now, then,' continued the ppeaker • which will ye do—go alter him at once, or wait in ambush fur him until morning?" The two soldiers drew back n tew paces and held a short conmltat ion, after which they again advanced to the elJe of the old woman. We go now," said the one who had spoken la first, n that LL you can describe to us the exact po eition of the barn." •- I don't think I could describe It so that you could find It In the dark," replied the hag, " hue a. I am willlug to d" everything in my power for the confederacy, I will go with you to show you the place." " That is right," answered the rebel, "and we'll see that you are rewarded for your zeaL" " I don't want any reward for helping my country. men," replied the other, "I am always ready to help zdong the cause." With these words she disappeared into an inner room, but came forth in a few minutes with a grey blanket thrown over her shonlderd. "I took this out of the Ynok'n knapsack," said I , lle, with a short, dry laugh, "don't you think it beeornee aye?" n very much. Lead on, Aye, bye, my gemi'd.'vweonnioatii„.. low."it you ue for the door of the house. " Forward, march :" she exclaimed, imitating the voice of a man with at rung lungs. " Forward march! Close up: close up!" And alas moved along the road at a blow tottering 'pace natural to a person of her age. The night by this time had become very dark. The sky wits obscured by thick driving clouds, and the wind screamed and roared among the tall pines that towered upon each side of the road. Occasion ally a heavy brunch wrenched from its native trunk, would fall Into the road with a terrific crash. and more than once the rebels started back and cocked tueir pieces in the belief that the din was caused by the dfsellarge of some Yankee ride " ha. ha:" laughed the old hug upon one of these occasions, "it seems to ate you are easily star tled. DJ not you think your commander might have picked out a pair of bolder hearts than yours for this expedition?" " You'd bettor keep a silent tongue in your head, my good woman, until you have had an opportunity to a tines as many bailee we we have," answered one of the men; "a good soldier is always on his guard." "Aye, aye!" replied the old woman; "but be should know how to distinguish between the crash ing or a dry branch and the ring of a rifled musket." Tue rebel did not relish the noise made by the loud, sharp toner of the female guide, and, In order to put and end to the conversation, he controlled himself sufficiently not to reply to her last remark. The party then continued their way In silence whicu was not broken by tither of them until they had gone about three miles, and a loud, clear chal lenge suddenly startled the rebel.. Halt! Who courts there?" "Friend," answered the old woman, in a ringing voice, "friend with prisoners." We are betrayed l" yelled her companions, and even as the words pissed their lips, they were sur rounded by a dozen Federal soldiers, one of whom carried a lantern. Ae the rays of light dashed upon the hag, the rebels saw the gray hair, the blanket, and female rp• parel drop to the ground, resulting, the aught but Iron.like frame of a Union soldier le the prime of tile " It Is he, by —!" exclaimed the prisoners, elm• ultaneously, as their glance wandered to the long, double- barreled rifle which he now held In his hand; '• it is he—the scout—the Federal Chameleon !" "Aye aye!" answered the latter, as he leaned upon his weapon with a quiet smile. "You are trapped sure enough, thanks to my disguise, which is only one of many that I carry lu my knapsack. Allow me to express my thanks to you for the lufor m,ti ot you cave me regarding the position of your camp and the number of your men. I bate already sent a massage to my colonel in relation to the mat ter and I see that he has commenced to act upon It." As he Spoke he pointed down the road where the dark outline of troops forming into line might be faintly distinguished. They were soon in motion, and in the course of halt an hoar the booming of cannon, the rattling of musketry, and cheers of the Federal tooope pro claimed that the combat had commenced. The din continued tor about an hour, when the prisoners learned from others who were brought to share their quarters, that the Southern troops had been sur prised and totally routed. LABOR tar Vain. —A goose trying to climb , up a tree to lay its eggs in aerow's nest. An undertaker's tusalOant trying to took serious over a pot of porter before proceeding to • funeral. A candidate for congressional honors smiling after defeat, and en deavoring to make people believe bel le proud of Ids place on the poll. Trying to kiss 'a pretty girl when she Is meeting. Trying to get a good account from a bad ledger. Ver I believe girls me like kittens; giutly etsumth them down the tight wsy, they tub anti purr most atrectioustely; but give Mob the contrary Map tno b ve ta UN 410 01411* 00,Ift I DB BELLOWS ON OALIFOILNLL I have been amaa.,a, since my return to NOW York, at the number' of inquirers that have visited me for reliable informatiou concerning your coast, and not ' so much With personal ends and objeets, as from 11. turret anxiety to know flow your coast is affected i towards ours; what your real resources are, and how they arc developing; what the obstaeles to your progress are, and how they may be removed. It is not that our }rapers are full of California Monis--; that our people do not bear enough shout metallic resourees, and mining stocks, and big frets, and monstrous pears, and great hearted Sanitary con tributions; but that they know nut how much or ,bow little to believe about all these things, and that the maggeratiou, not uncommon among travelers, disposes them to deduct so largely from current re ports, as to leave the real truth In the shade, and in a very diminished form as a eery dull shadow. When, therefore, any one of responsible character, who has the public imr, returns from California, it becomes him to take special heed onto lila words, for they are sure to have all the weight they merit, and perhaps even more. Thus the eloquent and excellent Bishop Simpson, so patriotic and so justly induential, in a speech made In the Academy of Mu sic, a fortnight since, made, in what I suppose wort Intended for rhetorical exaggerations, some remake (Mont chamber. of solid gold which have Inflamed the imagination of the people more than anything said about California for a lung time. Derubtleeis, the Interest aroused will do good, hat the solid golden chambers are not near so likely to be found as the streets of the heavenly Jerusalem paved atilt pure gold. Yet It shows how eager the people an for trustworthy information about the Pacific elope. I have told the people here that my full coaviction was that the metallic resources of your coast were in exhaustible and within scientific reach to a fabulous extent; that I had no Idea you hail touched a nill. lionth part of them, and they would employ the en ergies of sneceasive generations to dig them from your soil ; that you needed two things equally ti ga-real to the development of your mineral resources —capital, and population; and that you would get both of those things together, or nut at all ; that the way to get both was to built the Pacific Railroad at the earliest possible moment, and that now 16101 the time to do it. Build that ,road with any necessary expense to the Government—a thousand millions, if necessary—and It would repay the nation its whole cost every five years. And this, because utile so can the Pacific coast be speedily furnished with population the one thing essential. ti that cheapen ing of labor, without which mining on a !rand and extensive scale is impossible, and to the creation of that home market, without which agricultum can not thrive nor commerce flourish. Want of popu lation, even more than of capital, is the poverty of the Pacific Coast. It is no answer to this to se) there are more people there now than the actual bu airless of the country call. for. That Is true. And there never will be any more business until a greater influx of population, by the Pacific Railroad, creates an entirely new stat e of tillage; makes it possible, from the cheapness of labor, to undertake a thousand things now wholly out of the question. and to de vetope Industries—mining, is and otherwe—that now languish, or lie latent. Because many men in San Francisco are out of employment, and In other parts of California, too, it is not to be inferred that labor is abundant. The coat of living is so high that no body can afford to work for low or even moderate. wages. Wages are 6et high that only the most 100 - 6 and profitable business can afford to pay them. Mne who can't make icl to S-5 a day in gold refuse to work at all, so long as their old savings will support them. And so, In this vicious eirele, labor and eni tat, both intensely high, smothering each other, the great interests of the venni ry are brought to a com parative stand. Intense efforts are meanwhile mak ing to correct this difficulty try encouraging capital to go where the rate of Interest is form one and a half to live, and even Maher per cent., a month, But prudent men know there must be very perilous rea sons for such rates of Interest, and that It is very doubtful whether anybody, risking his money In such a market for it. doe, not, every now and then, in n 1069 of capital, more than extinguish all Id. great gains In interest Capital never did, nor will, sacrifice safety to ho of excessive returns. There la nothing 110 bad f or a ermunnolty, morally nod /66otumeehad.1 7 ,.....birs C.ILS.Ri•O 4. of the Pacific Coast, converting Its business 111, Into one great gambling concern, and making any accumulation of wealth there next to impassible The sole correction for the evil is the Increase 01 the population, and the consequent cheapening of wages, which would at once rectify all other evila, and this brings us back to the Pacific Railroad as the great moral as well as economic necessity of the no lion and especially of the other slope There is another necessity for huilding this road once, which few seem to appreciate: We want, and we have got, finally, to rely upon the troid and sliver got out of the great auriferous and argentifer ow. chain that forms the axis of our Pacific posses sions for the payment of our vast national debt, and the resuscitation of our business after the war. We amnot wait for the development of time. \l'e cannot develops the mines without population ; w e cannot have that population without the Pacific Railroad. It is an expense of time and money to reach our mineral lands, which absolutely forbids any rapid emigration. onsideting the attractions of that golden soil. It is only a marvel that only fiOo,ooo people have found their way tram all nation. to California in the last fifteen years, and 50,000 to Oregon. We must not compel oar interprising people to go round the Horn or over the plains by a three or four months' passage, or by the Isthmus at a cost of fQ3O in gold. We must create a cheap, swift, attractive way to ret them to the place where they can, In the soonest time, dig out for us the na. Hoard wealth essential - to save them from bank naptey. • But there is another reason for hurrying np the Pacific Railroad. Our great army, when it is dis banded, will find its veteran soldiers, through their ' long habits of dependence on mititary orders 11101 supervision, very much unfitted to contend with civilians in the old trades and occupations to which they were bred. They will, too, have acquired toe in • t4abits, love of danger, excitement, and enter- , pr very fatal to their return to the sober drudge ry o ordinary life and business, in old and tired communities. A good many will remain in the conn• • try they have so long fought over, and drive the plow where they polled the canon., or carried the musket. Bat, at first, there will be an immense • proclivity to emigration. The plains will be covered with hands of old soldiers, going to invade the re- • gions of gold and silve r and to substitute for the risks and comradeship et war, the good-fellowship and the possible prizes of the mining region. But all the emigration that will reach the Pacific Coast In this laborious way is small, compared with what might have been secured, were the road to the Pa cific built while this taste for emigration is alive among the disbanded soldiers. It will die out in • five years. Another reason for starting the Pacific Railroad at once, with the largest. governmental aut.:idles, la, that the people are now in the mood for great enter prises, and that this mood Is a rare one to all peoples, and Is likely to die out In a abort time. With our-, treasury, of late, dinbnrsing hundreds of millions every y ea car ex f p o e r n.s n i tita c r i y ,i rt u rple r s, 7 . 13 1, 6 . 6 . 0 r lr m e t fright not to be frightened at uric time, for our resounies are fatly equal to them. But in ordinary times, the cry of economy In the public expenditures, 131e011110tt a paraltuonious policy that denies governmental sup port to any Internal improvements, : is 60 easy a road to vulgar popularity, ttai it is aura to be raised by those who have no other means of gaining distinc tion. SLEIGH-BIDING WITH A WIDOW. The following, though not new, comes in very ap propriately these sleigh-riding times : Snow had fallen ; the young of the village got up a grand sleighing party to a country tavern at some distance, and the interesting widow Lambkin eat in the same sleigh, and under the same buffalo as myselL "Oh! oh! don't!" she exclaimed, as we came to the tired bridge, catching me by the arm,and turning her veiled face towards me, 'while her. little eyes twinkled through the moonlight "Don't what r I asked ; " I am not doing any. thine " Well, I thought you were going to take toll,"re piled Mrs. Lambkin. " What's that?" said L "Wow I" exclaimed the widow, her clear laugh ringing out above the music of the bells. " Dr. Meadows pretends he don't know what toll is." " Judea., I don't then," I said laughing in turn. Don't know that gentlemen, when they go on a alelghing party, claim a kiss as toll when they cross a bridge ? Well I never l" When next we came to a bridge, and I claimed toll, the straggles of the widow to hold the yell we vn lir anMetent to tear it ; and somehow, when the .11 wan removed , her face was tamed directly to my own, and in the glittering of the moon. light, the liorsetrotted on himself; toll was taken fir the first time In his life by Dr. Meadowt. Boon we came to a bridge, but the widow said wee no use to resist, and she paid up as we reached it, with• oat a struggle. " Bat you won't take toll for every arch, la W yon, doctor?' she 'eked. To which the only reply wee a practical affirma tive to the qacatton. Did you ever, reader, sleigh ride with a widow, and take toll at the bridges ligmte publishers of weekly newspapers In Oblo, held a State CouvPntlon at Columbus on the 4th hut., at which resolutione were adopted, advancing the price of their papers to $2,50 a year, and raking the price &jot, work aa pet cent.; also one 'for the apx4atrarat ofs comtaluee to =moralize Cocoa 4W *walls rimy 1 1 01 P prif , . LARGE THING. Resides" the seven wonder+ of the world, there are net a few magnates, both flatus.' and artllicial, whist' are verthi of attention. Anton them may be mentioned, the °manila the Cathedral at'L'lm, widen is 92 feet in height, and :35 feet in breadt b.— It has stile. n bellowses, and the Lngest pines are 13 Inches in diameter. Tric Isrtest guu was found at Aura by the gritisb, in the pos.eef•lon of the natives, which was 14 feet long, and Inches in the bore; Its weight is 104,- n; it., The weight or an Iron shot for this gun was 1464 ibs ; of stone 597 The lark et harm' lu euppoued to he the great tun at lieldlehurg In Germany, which 13 compoued of 112 uolid blllllll,, 27 fret In lenglh; 14 In feet name the ends, and IR feet through the centre. It one made In MK, and eontalus ROO hovheads; yet It Vide once drank out in eight dnyn. St. Psid's dock, In Loudon, has a dial plate of 13 fet.t 10 inches In diameter; the hour hand Lin rept 8 incies , , long, and the minute hand is 9 (get `cinches ; the figures ' , IC 2 feet 2 inches long; therninuie strokes are 6 inches, and the run to the mlautes 45 lett. The largest column in the world le probably tled bearing the endue ol Alexander at St. Feteridiurg whli•h is a single stone 85 feet In height, and 12 feet In niametur at the tap, weighing 500 tons. It was brought Iron , Finland in 18T1 at au expense 01 ,VOO,. 000 and ralaud to its Ix:militia with cupstans . by •2500 of Alexander's snldlers. The !argent pyramid Is that of Cholohl, In Melleo, built by the natives, 611 feet high, aud 1440 lea on one ride of Its bane. The longest holder Is seen at Jamestown In the is hold of St. ileleua, leading trove the [man to the fort directly above It, 800 feet high. The largest book bi the Koran of Mecca; Its length la 4 (Let S incbes , its breadth 2 feet 8 Inches, and oceupled the writer f, years. The lanrest chimney Is at Liverpool, used for the manufacture of soda ash ; in height 4(Ei feet and 45 feet In diameter. The largest carpet Is in the palace at Versailles, was 132 years in manufacture at the Gobelitio, - the whole border wrought with rich garlands of flowers, em bracing all the roars known in France. The largest ship of the anelents was that of Ptole my Plitioiciter, which MIS 4 24 feet long and lift feet broad; rowed by 4000 men; height of forecastle NI - 21, GO feet from water, and the largest oars were 5y feet lone. The Baron Itenfrcw was undoubtedly the lard <t modern ship, constructed In Canada, of soild timber 20,000 tons burden. Of steamships the Great Eastern lathe Largest, 693 tent in length, and 83 feet in brtadth, manuring 12,500 tons. • The largest hell was cast at Moscow In 1736, weighing 412,000 pounds, 19 feet high, 21 yards In circumference, and 2$ inches thick Turning from the artilleird to natural mouatrosl lies, we dud objects still more Interesting. trues, the monarch is supposed to be the great cypresa at Santa Maria del lute in Mexico, which was found by Baron Rambolt to be 118 feet In cir cumference or a; feet in dlamete.r, with no signs of decay. The Island of Sumatra pmduces a flower 9 feet in Circumference, its nectarinm holding 9 pints, the pistils us large as a cow's bores, and the enure weight of the blossom computed at 15 IN, The condor of South America and the lammergeir of the Andes are the largest birds, sometimes mou nting thirteen or fourteen feet in extent of the NV In Cturke Informs ns that there are eels In Mornithis in a certain Lake more than 20 feet in length and weighing 90 pounds. Potatoes ure said to attain a foot in diameter in Mexico. The largest fonntain Is that of Vanehum in France, which Is the Kin me of the river Sotguo. Mamy other objects in the animal kingdom and the vegetable empire are too familiar to need enum eration. lignaviAwagaip:ivitil Until one begins to feel the effect of Impaired vis ion ho two hardly estimate the value of the eyealghtt f, y -no,ntee twrsieestiecs, ne Is apt to neglect those Simple precautions, by tht observance of which his eyesight might be preserv ed First, never use a writing desk or table with your lace towards a window. In such eases the • ra . )s of light conic directly upon the pupil of the eyts, and, causing an unnatural and forted contr.r lion thereof, soon permanently injure the sight.— Next, when your table or do-k is near a window, sit co that your face turns from, not towards, the win dow while your are writing. If your face IS towards the window, the oblique rays strike the eye and in. jury it nearly as much as the direct rays when you cit in !root of the window. It is best always to sit or stand while reading or wilting with the window behind you, and next to that with the light coming over your lett aide ; then the light Munson the paper or hook, and doee not shine abruptly on the eye !all. The same remarks are applicable to artificial light. We are often asked what is the best light— gas, candles, oil, eampbene. Our answer's, it is im material which, provided the light of either be strong enough and do not flicker. A gas fish-tall banter should never he used for reading or writing, because there is a constant oceilliatton or flickering of the flame. Candles, unless they have self-con canting wicks, which do nut require suntEing,shotild not be used. We need scarcely say that ell wicks, which crust over, and thus diminish the light, arc good for nothing ; and the came is true of com• pound. of the nature of eampbene, unless the wicks are properly trimmed of all their gummy deposit af ter standing twenty-four 'motif. But whatever the artificial light used, let It strike the paper or book which you are nslng, whenever you can, from over the left shoulder. This can always be done with gas, for that light Is strong enough,. and so is the IL. ht from camphene, oil, &c., provided It comes through a circular burner like the argand. But the light, whatever it ha, should always be protected from the air in the room by a glass chimney,•to that the light may be steady. WORTH LIVING FOR When from my room I chanced to stray, to spend an hour at close of day, I ever find the place most dear, where sums friend treats to lager-beer. —Sacra menro dye. Alt! yes, my friend, of city file, sure such a treat b cures such a strife, at better than etch a dose by tar, are pleasures of a tine cigar.—Placer Herald. finch pleasure may suit baser minds, but with the good no favor finds ; we think the purest joy of life,ls making love to one's own wife.— Volcano Lat een Most wise your choice, my worthy friend, in Hy men's Joys your cares to cud, but we, though tired of single life, can't boast of having our own wife; and so, when 'neeth our cares we faint, we fly to kiss some gal that abef—yet.—Yapn Reporter. The " lager-beer" will bile provoke, while " fine havanas" end In smoke. To court one's wife Is taller fur than lagerhcer or vile cigar. Kisses, the dew of love's young morn, break ou the lips as 5000 as born. hese all are nought to that great Joy— the first glance at your first-born boy.—Eeening . Ledger. lle true, a boy's a wished for blessing, but then suppose the first a girl. A dear sweet child with ways caressing, with pooling lips and flaxen curl, with dimpled cheeks and laughing eye,. to come and bid papa good bye! So whether boy or whether ['other, embrace the babe and then the mother.— Sart Frond.° Abbe. THUNDER DI FEBRUARY. Meeting an old friend from West•Newbm7 the other day, ho reminded at of an affair that happened there some years since, over which we have eLjoyed many a hearty laugh together: A gentleman reald. leg in West Newbury, having missed u good many sticks from his wood-pile, his suspicion fell upon a well-to-do miserly neighbor, whom he ihnught capable of the act. Ao resolved accordingly to re. curt to the old expedient of placing u heavy log In a tempting posltinn, having first well charged it with gunpowder, not only In the centre, but in several minor crevices. Sure enough the stick disappeared,' and one very ranch like It • might have seen,' as James rays, on the suspected gentleman's hearth the ensuing Sunday. Before it, in a huge tin hitch. en, it turkey was browning itself to tyclimax. All of a sudden a thundering explosion ryas heard, the tin kitchen was blown Into a thousand atoms, the dismembered turkey flew through the atmosphere, and the old torn eat disappeared up the chimney.— The old gentlemen and his maiden sister were horri. bly '•skeert," but not materially Injured, and the former was the first to win his voice. "Sister," he said, "that ern was the loudest tender I ever heerd in February." The nest day the plotter of the mischief sent a tin peddler to the depredator's house. Want any tin-ware t" said the Yankee. " No, sir," said the gentleman testily. " Why, yes you do," rejoined the peddler.' "Your memory, must be dreadful short. Most all your neighboes are saying as how yon want a WI WM en - " A pair of tongs flew through the air, but the tin peddler dodged and made tracks. Looking In the window he exclaimed : " Better hey It, now; Its a feat rate artless—war rant it to stand most eny climate, and all sorts and kinds of weather; from earthquakes down to thlui-: . , Geri" . . A HarraacTioa HT s SMlool43oi—tha man who plaata a birch.traameu a school-WM,' Uttle icaoift .00 140 ccOniN 0;1 F?? ti, 0.2.00 per annum, in advancta. •NUMBER 5. Corropondenre of the Indepenient i?G7 7 4 11 C14 ' LETTRR PROM H. W. GARY. • Menus?ts, La., Dee- 25, 1864,. mitt, of the Republican : You will perhaps be nu priatd at receiving a letter from your old sabselber, IL W. Gary ; but as I still have the privilege of pa rusher )onr paper, (which is ever welcome) ands I seldom see in its columns anything concerning rempp regiment, which lathe 241 N. Y. V. V. CM Dia., thought a taw lines to let you know what we are doing might be interesting to you and at lent some of your readers. I will give you a shod sketch Of the Incidents connected with General Davidson's re cent raid (nun Baton Rouge through Eastern Louts lons and Southern Mississlpa The Cavalry Divhdon under Brig. General A. L. Leo, stationed at Raton Rouge, and the Cavalry of the 24 N. Y. V. V., silo 2d Texas, started at •Morganzia City organized into two Divisions of two Brigades each, and four pieces of artillery with each Division—the Vint Division under command of Brevet Brig.-General Joseph Bailey; and the Second Division commanded by CoL F. d. Gash, First Texas Cavalry; and a se MBrigade, under command of Major = Nlontgomery, 11th tlissouri Cavalry—nil being placed under command 01 Brig.-General Davidson. Chief of Cavalry, Military Division of West Mississippi; amatinting in the aggregate to 4,0X1 men and right pieces of artillery, with part rations for sever:item days. The command left Baton Rouge on the 27th of November, and proceeded eastward, its object known only to the commanding General. On the outset the weather was splendid and the roads fair, but on the third . day our pontoons came into re quisition to cross the Amite river, as the rebels had destroyed the bridge some time ago near Old Store Crossiloade; thirty-three miles from Baton Rouge on the Greensboro' road Oa the night of the 49th the command encamped at Tickfaw creek, our ad vance rupturing all citizens who would be likely to carry intormation of our movements, and after marching them dome distance allowing them to re turn homeward rejoicing. Reaching Tangipahoe on the 30th we crossed Tangipahoe river and its marshy bottom on the same day. Here our troubles and annoyance from had rends commenced. On reaching the Jackson and New Odom• railroad, a detachment was sent out to visit the rarer camp more, and de stroy a portion of the road, in order to mystify oar real object as much as possible. A few bushwhackers annoyed our crossing the river, but did notanoxted fu doing any damage except shooting a few hones from the swamp, On the Roth the command crossed the Bogue Chide on a dilapidated old bridge, by running the artillery across by hand, gems and cessions unlimbered: also all the wagons of the rrain,—andt encamped at' Franklington. We hens desired to cross the Pearl river at Fordsrille, btit upon arriving, thero found the swamp impassible, and effected a crossing at Clark's Ferry, fourteen miles from Columbia, by eoniuroying a bout two miles of swamp, and laying about two hundred and arty feet of pontoon bridge. While the_pdutootts were being laid , a detachment of the Ist Louisiana Cavalry was crossed in fiats and sent in advance to Columbia, where they succeeded in driving out a party claiming to belong to Forrest's command, and capturing a rebel mull On arriving at Columbia,our regiment was Bent with orders to proceed on the Monticello road fifteen miles, In order to baffle the enemy's conjectures as mush as pent ble about our route, while the main column pip. ceeded on the lower road to Augusta. There we struck a wilderness alpine wood, and miles of swamg; and in order to get through it became necessary for the cavalry and artillery to push forward to forage, and leave the train to work its way through under a guard, until forage could be sent hack totlesm, which was done by pressing what teams could be found in the country about Erron. On errhing-at Augusta another diversion was made from oar intended route, while the Main column probed down Leaf river. Knowing that our success de pended on the ejerity of our movements, the com manding General pushed a column forward to Ntively's Ferry, gained possession of it, and seat a detachment of two hundred and fifty men from-the del N. Y. Cavalry, under Lieut.-Colonel Gurney, with orders to reconnoitre and if possible to cut the telegraph, while the main command moved down Lod river, wills a view to cross at Fariees Bari; h o t, Yo th o e rea rest_sho of all, the rein felt m torrents, causing the small streams to swell so as to be impassable, and rendered the roads ins &millet condition, so much so that our artillery and wagon 'trains mired down and remained so all night, and a portion of the following day, until the bridges could he built and the swamps cordaroyed. Under such circumstances to cross the river would in all proba bility would have involved the loss of all our artillery and train, and from information gained from reliable sources, and which afterwards proved to be coneet, it would in all probability have Involved the mune loss to have crossed the cavalry and left ourarflllety and train on the west aide. As Colonel Scott was following ns an a parallel road on our-left, about fifteen miles distant, and a brigade on ourright, in the direction of Mississippi City, It was deeded advisable by the General commanding, and con curred in by division commanders, to leave our regiment at Farley's Ferry to cover Lieut.-Colonel Gurney's crossing on his return, and move the main column down to Holden's Ferry, near .Jacksen Court House, leaving Black and Red Creek In our rear, and effect a crossing of the Paseagola liver at Iloiden's Ferry. While here a message from Lieut. Colonel Gurney interims:its that the enemy attacked him six miles from Moody's Ferry, bat hesueceeded hi driving them back to Leal - Amine, where he met the enemy in force, waiting to receive him. Lieut.-Col. Gurney ordered a saber charge, and succeeded In driving them past their wagon train, mph/Ansi" prisoners and wounding several. At this juncture, Cul. Gurney's tankers having informed him of a col umn of cavalry and six pieces of artillery mo• down a parallel road to get in his rear, he seed the ambulances and fell back with his prisoners, and ft-crossed the river In Wets', our lose being one Lieutenant and two men killed and eleven wounded, two mortally; the enemy's loss unknown. The man ner in which the reconnoissance was managed, and the dashing boldness with which he made the at tack and drove the enemy's largely -superior force, reflects credit upon Lieut.-Colonel Gu rne y as . of Lica and soldier and upon his brave followers. The reconnolasance, with other information received, led the General to the conclusion that the enemy had a force of cavalry and artillery about equal to our own to delay our advance and ascertain oar des tination, this giving them time to concentrate upon the railroad; between Meridian and Mobile, all- their disposable infantry to meet us. Under the circum stances the commanding General found it necessary to move to West Pascagols, and meet Ids-supplies for men and animals, and make that a base • fcCr fu ture operations. Accordingly the command started on the morning of the 12th Inst. for Jackson Court House, laying the pontoons at Bluff creek, and ar riving at the coast the same evening, and semding back supplies of lorage for the train behind. Orders tram Headquarter's ended the expedition, it having proven a success in accomplishing Its oetensible object. Moving the command over a distance of two leatuired and eighty-seven mile:l=os' Eastern Louisiana and Mississippi in fifteen days, entrant bered by a train of ninety-six wagons, through • country barren of almost everything In the way of public and private improvements, through swamps and untraveled roads, with scarcely any loss of any kind, and without the stock being butilttle If broken down, proves conclusively that the Belem commanding the expedition possesses the ability to execute, together with energy and perseverance. Re surmounted impediments in the way of progress, as the summing up will show, having marched on an avers„-e over lft miles per day, built fifteen laid miles of corduroy, burled and Incredible t aVZ, of brush beneath the surface of swamps and gullies In the road, and laid the pontoon bridge live times, viz.: across the Amite, rearl, and Black litevaillind Red and Bluff Creek”. , - - , . The rebeLs will learn that mil part of thelr,tec story can be invaded at will, audit 1 , 04 NM • tendency to make them 'scatter their, for from points important to as . Thla movettitait las drawn a portion of Wheeler's cavalry from' Tennesaee. Gov. It. Taylor's tomes to Meridian, andllen. Bean regard to Mobile, and caused a force to be &littered along the line of the Ohio and 'While railroad for lts protection, thus saving Gen, BherMan much lump nice, and naturally interrupting the enemy's pine of anppllea by keeping to rolling stock, on the Ohio 4k, Mobile mad ready to concentrate thir forces Wary point necessary, Which otherwLse would be used, to tranaporting austenance to their armies. H. W. Co. C, 2d N. Y. V- V;Det. Be etym.—A few days ago, a despatch was re• ceived by a gentleman in Boston from, tbelWed, ha which hie correspondent requested, tho.receiver to Instantly inform a merchant In a neigtaudeg cit. co garding certain strain which tad griimportins • bear - ing on his pecuniary interests, Wlttiout. delay the "gentleman redo out of him and called on the me. chant, who received him in tho moat unkindly am. ner, and without allowing hha a prelluth=rort . told him "to come to the subject of ble b once and then clear ant." Naturally irritatcdatiinch a reception, the gentlemen lett, the merchant's counting-room without exchanging a wont with biro. The consequence was that the lack ot:the information which common civility would., bare furnished the merchant, has since cost him ibM,9ORe• " 06, ma, Dr. bfateh bed each itterli imu mother's' tooth-I Hid he, my emir . ',EY*, reel, him that try with his pinchers, and thee be pet his mouth right close to mother's palledA with is teeth." tioW:A w 16'4614 14 - r" ! 4 1 11 ,! PVT 11 .:~?.. =SEM 1111
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