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
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eg Drug Slon , :ot , ILAckagrluDlS Avenge, pelf
St 141 ca. 01111tarr Exemptiou paper. malt
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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."
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