H. H. FR :: all' , . . •= I =
voLum 14 11.
Tasintoo
B. 8. BENTLEY, JR., NOTARY PUBLIC,
I\LONP OBE. PA.,
Tr KES Achnmetedgrnent of Deeds. Mortgages &c., for .y
State In the Dotted metes. Pension Vouchers and Po Cm
nexus teknovrlsdated banns. him do sot regain the certldnale of the
elm of the Door, Montrose, J... 2, "C""-tf'
CHARLES HOLES,
ELLER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, AND JEWELRY
Repairing done as usual. on eitort notice and romonable Hasa
on mei .ide Public A roans In F. B. Chanaler's btor.
P.., Nor. 7.7N4.
Ds. E. L. HANDRICK,
firvatoraw andßUßOSOP,mrspirthely tenders Ids profta
don.] senecosto the ethane of remaining and vicinity. Oa
e l ln the office of Dr. Leet. Boards at J. Hoefordl.
regoeselle. July R. MLA(
E. W. SMITH,
k TrOP.NIT d COUTESXLLOIL AT LAW and Liccuird 4Thau
en. Agesa Office ore? Les% Drug gum
stow...sm. MINA Burman XL MSC
EL BLTRMTT,
r, lALER m Sta Is and Fancy Don' Goods, , Hardware.
1.1 Iron, Blaves. 01.15.. d Planta Boo=7Bbots., RM,
11.(Xl= 8.251
ril U. 10 (limerick P ro vision& tc.
Pa.. Ap
E 3. H. B&YILE. & BROTHERS,
‘I'AIPUFACTIMERS of MID Carling; Cooling* of oil Mod,
131. Stoves, Tln and Sheet Iron Ware, Ai&leulteral implement".
end DWI!. iti Dry Gooda,Oroeerlea Croek.l7, Se.
Montrose. lb., February 09.1664.
BILLINGS STROUD,
ilt% ARD LIME LREILFILANCE AGENT. Office In Lath
F
ran't building, east and of Brick Block. In tda atoms* true!
Mr St the office trill be transacted by O. L. Brown.
Montrose, Yebmary L 1860.—tf
J. D. VAIL, M. D.,
HOMIPOPATH/0 PHIIII OI III, too perrnanently located
bin:malt Montrose, Pa., VFlll.3* he will promptly attend to
ell tells m Ma profeeslon Iran wake he now be Goosed. 0111 m
ase. Reddens West of the thrtrt Haws, oar Bentley &AWN.
Yocum, Febnary 1,196&-Oct. R 4, 180/.
A. 0. WARREN,
AMRS= AT LAW, BOITNTY, BACK PATAnd PLB
SION CLAIM AOMINT. 411 Pat.lol3 Claim, cikettll pre
wed. Office lc room formerly occupied
IS by D. Vali: B
Boyd% buthimg, below &tale'. Hotel.
Montrose, Feb. 1864.-febryl
S. 8. ROBERTSON,
31 1HUFaCTURER. of BoorsaskiologLik.
°sew Street. Montrose, Po.
Montrose, Slantry to 1864.-tf
ORA Rt.R.S MORRIS,
a. AISHIONABHE BASHER and HAIR DRESSER...over F.
B. Weetts Shoe Store, Montrose. Hair Dotting. Shnatpootna.
Shaving. and Whiaket Colovin,a done In the BW STYLE. la.
Dee Hair Dressed Inaba most APPRO V LB FASHION.
Montrame, Sept. M, 1/361.-U
LEWIS HERBY & E. BACON,
Tr SEP constantly oa band a fall snarly of every variety al
011.00ESIES and GONFIBITIONERIRS. By Mitt attars
lon to brillraill and Advisees in deal, tbey hope to milt tbs I[y ral
triermaire oftto public. An OYSTIR nod RATING SA LOON is
attached to the Grocery. wbere Walser to 100.00, are served In
err a/lethal the tastes att. ;labile demand. Remember tte laTe,
the old Mott Grassy stand, on Bath Street, below the 1.
Si orArow. Nov. 17,1911.—m5117,111.-tf
Da. CALVIN C. HALSEY,
YEYFICIAN AND RURGEON, AND EXAMINING 81.11 t.
0 ICON for PENSIONERS. Offlos over the store or J. LTezn
Pos. Public Avenue !loud. st Mr. Etheridge's.
Itottrose.., October. 1859.-tf
D. A. BALDWIN,
A ITORNET LT LLW. and Pettedon. Bounty, and Batt Pal
agenl., Great Bend, Su4tEetvanna (Monty. F.
Great 9ead. Aureat 10. 1P144
BOYD & WEBSTER,
D
C I ALE4I.IS i, Stooes *i t . 3tove Pia and
Panel Pooh nowt
BSuds7Wllise Lainber, d all
Cu o f BoUdhoß
Tha Shop south or Soarles f oul, and reuteze Shop scar the
Igethodhrt Limed. Maarnwas, Pa.. Jsznary 1, IB6L-tt
Dn. JOHN W. COBB,
fRTSI,CIAN wed BURGEON, rompoaltolly tenders hlo as
the to oitheas of Munuchonta, Ooanty. Having Cad about 3
a-oedema In the Pnluni State Amry as Surceon,evoca'
fluent ion sin be err= to se 11.0/(1A 1. OP ERATIONS.
nasidatee on Maple Street, Santa J. S. Torben Hotel.
Montrooe, Sari. County, Pa-, June IL' 1/368.-tf
Ds. WILLIAM W. SMITH,
- 817RGItflle DENTIST, once over the Bankthe
I LYZIce b :I proper
ormea to.. All Dre4 ,4 oyeirl=
eramomm. Remember, office formerly of & Son.
Mootnese, January 1, 1864.—tf
E. J. ROGERS,
111 - ANLITACTITHEB of all descrlptnme ofWAG
VII ONO, CARRIAGES, SLEIGHS, de.. In the
besletyle otWletovouhly .6 of the Nat maertale.
al the wall koown nand of E. H. ROGERS, • few rode as
of navies Hotel In Idonteree, whore he edll be WWII' to ae
cote< the calls of all W. leant ankthlng In hie Hoe,
Monter., June 1, Ifieb—tf
BALDWIN & ALLEN,
DSALMIS In FLOUB, Salt, Port, Fish, Lard. Oraln, Feed
Candles elm= and Timothy Seed. Alto OBOCERISS.
each es Sugars, Holston. Syrupg T and Coffee. W Ode of
Plealle avenue, one door be J. Etheridge.
Monroe. Jaannry 1, 1.8&L-t!
D. G. W. BEACH,
PHYSICTIAN A-SID SURGEON. toping Pcm'knetttly toerteo
himvelf at Brooklyn Getter. 1.3‘.. tenders his prof ' mat ler
vices to the Mineoe of h.q.:tell:nos ClounfY.Oa teen enfome.m .
nu , .Ith the tle.ea. necuptes the office of late-tala Dr. B. Eirrovd
inn. and t.ants aL Mm. nichartlaoria.
Brooklra Cent.T, Juste I. 1e.74--IY
F. B. WEEKB,
PRACTICAL BOOT AND BROIL MAKER; also Mar It
Basta, Shp.. Leatheir.and Shoe Sindhips.. Sepstring door
with neathestand dispatch. Two doccra &bow, Searle'. RW.I.
Montrose, Janstaiy I , ISSL-tt
JOSEPH RICE,
ASAITITFACTITSIER stA DEALER In all kinds of CRAIRA
4.ll , l:2l47 ,l4 . ( ll s es o nnat L of i lCz tr idllford Bartmigh.
Ihts. PATRICK & GARDNER,
PRYSIOLINB AND SURGEONS, attend faithfully ant
et:mentally to all Omfronetbm mar be entreated to the am.
termacommensurnte vrith the Mama. Diseasee and defonaftle.
Of the EYE, Surgical f Imerationa, and all Surgical DisrAmo Tarim-
VIT attended to. 0111ce over Webb'i Store. 019 re boom from e •
te. to 9 p. m. E. PATRICE-Jr,
Iloutrate,Januarvl.l9OL4l E. L. GARDNER.
WM. a WM. H. JESSUP,
TTORNETA AT LAW, alantroae. Prar.tlee Ir. Basque
baroxa, Bradford, Wayne, Wyondng and Lawful Counties.
kloatrose, Pa.„ January la, 1861.
ALBERT CHAIEBERLIN,
DISTRICT ATTORNEY ATTORNEYAND AT LAW.—
Mike over the Store ftrroorly occupied by Foal 111nallera
Mao:rose, Pa. January 1, 1860.
J. LYONS & SON,
116 &LIME In DRY GOODS, Orocestra.OsookerY.Ukehmn
1111 To,rars. Rooks, Idsiodeom. Plana., and all kinds of Mold
cal lasonmenta Sheet Music. an. Also carry as the Book Bind.
las bugalru la all ha branches. J. irossa,
limns., January 1. Bat. S. A- L 111331.
ABEL TERRELL,
nakLER TN DRUGS, MILDICIFEh„
11 ?sluts. Oils. Itye-stuffli, Varnishes, IVludoss Glue.
Oruaem tilazawsre, Jew
•tri. Fancy Goods, P•rfunuery Bnsztest Instrument', Tral
et. 111,4, Brushes, /kr.,.,—and Apra for all of = w ; r :rk
la: Pozen: lanlldues. Montmen.
C. 0. FORDIELA3I,
Xr 1:17 A.CTMITE of BOOTS & frflOES, Plnleroae, Pt
Mop over DLit Pt . •
More. AA kinds of work mode
orler. and repairing done neatly. Work done when prom.
Inca. uwrrme . April 2. 1381..-tf
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
rk FALLER in BOOTS & SIIOEN, Leather and Find.
jlipL
ze
_ o,„ lk= m slcf.. third duor below
Se
dole mtly. Lou
iLt=deirid loco.epr
B. R. LYONS & CO.,
D&LERS luDIIY OW - W.% 01104.7CH1E8. BOOTA, gHOES.
Laze,' Gaiter., Carpet& 011 Cloths, Wall nn.l Vandoar rap
P:. Palau. Oil; &. SLOW CM the alai elde of rublla Avenue.
Mont/rose. January 1, 181k.-11
READ, WATROLTS, & FOSTER,
riE&LEItb IN DEN .1001)S, Dra=. Medicine, Paints. Olt,
"JmakcY. Iron. Clocks, Wotan, Jew
airy, Ecikk oc r ml,o=l, Pc+nkkery. Ac. Brick Mock. Moatznee.
a. I. IMAM S. W•Tliot•Z 4. O. ram.
Idoutroec, January 1, 1854.
PM:LANDER LINES,
FASIIIONABLC TAILOR, Brick lticck Ecki.
Watra. h Fasten IR-0M licatrax,
Aioutrose. Pa.. July
JOHN GROVES,
'mum?: &nut TAILOR. Shop oppneite the aelrati
Mau SY= Filming UM..
MODUUM Po, October 'A mn..-tr
' D. A. L YONS.
reZAVILD In Dry Goode Ouctrkes, Flour, Sall. Crockery.
Herdeare. ay. Sure ea Dale Street.
h'ueee duns IN.not rebreerr 1885.-0
BEMMONT & WARD.
ITOOL CARDING, Oka thoadax. end liatatteCturers. at the
_ oldAtaad kteml as fizolth'• ChnThtg Madam. Terms mule
qualm whsn at the *oft Is brute,. JOVE saLITSOSI,
. en ll= _6O
BENTLEY'. • LOOMIS,
A !TORN ISTS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, ftraptca, p a
za. OIRm oyer reinsert Drag Store. ou
If
ite Away& Dear
kr Provost Marinate. Oteem ci titara Exemption pavem
- Mao
bur.e. In t etMon by falter eViettllyabint. and all boxing
rl " to c
us promptly attended to. m a. ISINTLZT.
P.—Suitt. teza—u v. it. unarm,.
L li. BURNS,
Q a tEi AT LANre,-11:21112a1N11!=i,F,14.
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THE SIXTEENTH BATTLE.
(7b a soldier who had fought in fifteen bath of the
Union, and lay in a &mei dying of consumption.)
In OLIVER WENDELL HOLASEIL
Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,
Snatched fmm the altars of Insolent foes,
Burning with star-tires, but never consuming,
Flash Its broad ribands of lily and mac.
Vainly the prophets of Baal would rend It—
Vainly his worshippers pray for its fall ;
Thousands have died for It, millions defend it,
Emblem of justice agd mercy to aIL
Justice that reddens the sky with her terrors,
Mercy that comes with her white-handed train,
Soothing all passions, redeeming all errors,
Sheathing the sabre and breaking the chain.
Borne on the deluge of old usurpations,
Drifted our Ark o'er the desolate seas;
This was the rairibaw of hope to the nations,
Torn from the storm-cloud and Hang to the breeze.
God bless the Flag and Its royal defenders,
While Its broad folds o'tr the battle.tield wave,
Till the dim star-wreath re-kindle Its splendors,
Washed from its stains In the blood of the brave.
Ai , :(), :
FROM CA DWI. SPEICE'S MOON ON TILE. DISCOVER/
At the earliest possible moment after our camp
bad been pitched, a bunt was se: afoot, and Captain
Grant, myself, and some attendants, were soon
making our way to " the path." There were no an
imals there when we arrived, except a few hippo
potami, and we Were, therefore, obliged to wait the
coming,,Of some more palatable game. Oar Da
tience however, was` Saverely taxed ; and, after a
long delay, we were about to " bag " a hippopota
mus, when ono 01 mit. attendants. perched In a tree
about half a tulle distant, began waving his blanket.
This was a signal gatne was approaching. We
immediately drew into cover, and awaited the corn
ing' up of the litter.
We were wit delayed lone, for presently a long
column of animals; 'from the elephant to the hoo
doo, appeared. In view, trotting at a good pace to
the river. Their flanks were soon presented to us,
and each selecting his object, fired. McColl shot a
fine young buffalo cow, whilst Captain Grant was
equally succereful with a hoo-doo, and several
gnaws, cast by our atten4anta, stopped the career of
one or two different animals of the herd.
At this juncture, however, occurred an unexpect
ed adventure, that finished our sport, at least for
that day. I had sprung forward, immediately after
firing, in order to obtain a fair shot at a huge ele
phant, that I wanted to bring down on account of
his immense tusks. I got the desired aim, and
pulled the trigger of my second barrel. At the mo
ment of my doing so, a wild .-ry of alarm, uttered
by one of the blacks, called my attention. Glancing
round, my eye chanced to range up into the foliage
of the tree beneath which Captain Grant and myself
bud lain for several hours previous: My feelings
may possibly be imagined, as I beheld an enormous
boa constrictor, whose hideous head and neck pro
jected some distanee into view, showed that ho was
about to make.a fatal spring. Ifts direction was
certainly towards Inc; and' as he flashed fr..m his
position-like a thunder-bolt, I gave myself up, for
ere aid could reach me, fold after fold of the mou
=rn would have crashed my strong frame into a
quivering pulp. I fell, seeming caught in a whirl
wind of last, and a strange, Indescribable scathe en
sued. In the midst of this terrible strife, I suddenly
became conscious of the presence of a second vic
tim, and even after the titne that has elapsed since
then I still recollect with what vividness thetbought
shot across my mind, that this seeond victim was
Captain Grant, my noble companion. At lust, alter
being thus whirled about for several seconds, each
seeming to he interniinable, there ensued a lull, a
stillness as of death, and I opened my eyes, expect
ing to look upon thosd nnexplored landscapes which
'are seen only in the country beyond the tomb. In
stead of that, I saw Captain Grant levelling his rifle
towards me, while, standing beside and behind him,
were the blacks, in every conceivable attitude of the
moat intense suspense;
In a moment I comPrehended aIL The huge ser
pent had struck a }dung buffalo cow, between
which and him I bad tinlneklly placed myself at the
moment of firing upon the elephant A meet singu
lar good fortune had tittendediiee, however, for in
stead of being crushed Into a mangled mass with the
unfortunate cow, Ink left forearm only had been
caught In between the buffalo's body and a single
fold of the constrictor. The limb laid just in front
of the shoulder at the root of the neck, and thus
had a soft bed of flesh into which It was jammed, as
it were, by the immense pressure of the serpent's
body, that was like Iran In hardness. As I saw
Grant about to shoot, a terror took Eiossession of
me, for if be retrained 1 might possibly escape, after
the boa released his folds from the dead cow. But
should he Ore and strike the reptile, it would, in Its
convulsions, crush or drag me to pieces. Even as
the idea came to me I beheld Grunt pause, lie ap
peared
to fully comprehend all. Be could see how
situated, that was still living, and that my
delivery depended on the will of the constrictor.—
We could see every line on each other's face, so
close were we, and I would have shouted or Eyck
, en, or even whispered at him, had I dared; but the
boa's held was reared within a few inches of mine,
and-the wink of an eye-lid would perhaps settle my
doom ; so 1 stared like a dead man at Grant and the
blacks.
Presently the serpent began gradually to relax his
folds, and atter re-tightening them several times as
the crushed bultdo quivered, he unwound ope fold
entirely. Then:he paused. Tlignext Iron-like band
was the one which held me prisoner; and as I felt it
little by little, little by little unclasplog, my heart
stood still with hope and fear. Perhaps, upon be
ing ire the benumbed arm uncontrolled by my
t fall firm the cushion-like lied In which
It lay. d such a mishap might bring the sre
fold around my neck or chest, and then farewell to
the sources of the Nile. 0 how hardlv,.how deeper
ttleir I struggled to command myself! I glanced at
Grant, and saw him handling his rifle anxiously. I
glanced at the armee, and saw them' still geeing
as though petrified with fistegihshment. I g lanced
'at the serpent's loathsome head, and saw its bright,
deadly eyes watching for the least sign of life in its
prey. Now. then, the reptile looseued Its folds on
ray arm a hair's breadth, and now a little more un
til half an loch of space separated my Mg and its
mottled skin. I could base - whipped out mv hand
but dared not take the risk. Atoms of time dragged
themselves into ages . , and a minute seemed eternity
itself! The stetted fold was removed entirely, and
the next one was casing. Should I dash away now,
or wait a more favorable movement ? I decided
on therfcrrmert -and, -with lightning-speed,.Limed.
cd away toward Grant; the crack of whose piece I
heard the same instant ' For the tint time in my
lite I was thorn thorougid oiereome;and ainklugdown2
Istaaineditle . aScicßillrfalatiOk
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1865.
No clangtng of clarion,
No trampling of feet,
No rallying war-cry,
No rolling drum beat,
No booming of cannon,
No mnskPtry rattle,
While the hero Is lighting
His sixteenth battle.
Death shots are flying,
Diviug no sound ;
Unseen the marksman,
Deadly the wound;
A narrow chamber
The battle-ground.
Yonthttd, yet war-wore,
A veteran to-Dight
Is sUently waging.
His sixteenth bight
Fiercer than cannons'
Fiery breath,
To stand face to face
Battling grim Death ;
The brunt of the bayonet
Easy to brave,
Hard to sink slowly
Into the grave. , ,,
Count all thy campaigns,
First to fifteenth,
By far the severest
Is the sixteenth.
In the dark valley—
Valley of doom—
Gather the shadows,
Deepens the gloom,
The foeman is gaining,
No succor is nigh,
Swift is strength waning,
God help him diet
One brave man only,
• Stretched on the plain—
One lone name only,
"The list of slain."
Round the pale martyr
Wrap the white stars,
Remember his blood
Reddens Its bars ;
On the worn visage
Let In the Iliad—
Thank God ! lie's ended
lila sixteenth light.
GOD SAVE UM - FLAG.
OF TIM . SOI.7IIOES OF TICE NILE.
"Freedom and Right against' t Slavery and Wrong."
When I fully recovered, Omnt and the overjoyed
ncgroes held me up, and pointed out the boa, who
was still writhing in his death agonies. I shudder
ed as I looked upon the effects of his tremendous
dying strength. For yards around where ho lay,
grass, bushes, and saplings, and in fuct everything
except the more folly grown trees, were cut clean
off, us though they had been trimmed with an im
enense scythe. This monster, when measured, was
fifty-one feet two Inches and a half in extreme
tength,while round the thickest portion of its body,
the girth was nearly three feet, thus proving, I be
lieve, to be the largest serpent that was ever au
thentically heard of.
SAYINGS OF JOSH BILLINGS
It Ix highly important that when a man makes up
biz mind Lew bekum a raskal, that he should exam
ine hlzsel elusly, and see if he slut better koestruct
fer a phool.
I arg,y in ibis way, If a man lz right, be kant be
too naltkal, 11 he la rung, he kant be too konsarva-
It iz a verry delikate Job, tew forgiv a man with
out lowering him la hiz own ebtlumshun, and yureA
too.
Az a ginml thing, wen a woman wares the britch
es she has a god rite to them.
I am poor, and lam glad that I am, for I find that
wealth makos more people mean than It does gener
ous.
Woman's intlooenee tz powerful--espeshila when
sbe *aim enything.
No man ltres tew git beet, but It is better tew git
beet than tew be rong.
Sticking up your ooze don't prove ennything, for
a sopa Mier, wen he in away trom hiz hum, smells
everything.
Awl kind ov bores ar a numnce, but It is better
tew be bored with a tew-inch orger than a gimte
let.
It iz sed "that a boss don't know biz strength"
—and I don't milly suppose that a skunk does nutti
er.
"Be shore you're rite, then go ahead ;" but in
kase uv doubt go ahead envy wa.
Bekta and creeds nv religion, ar like pocket cum
peaces, gud muff to pint nut the direckshun, but
the nearer the pole pi git.-the wuss the work.
Men :tint apt tew git kicked out uv good society
fer being ritch.
The rude to ruin lz alwus kept In good repair, and
the travelers pa the expenses us it.
Tf a man begins life hi being a lust lutenant in biz
Cantle, he need never tow look ter promosben.
The only profit there iz in keeping more than one
dorg, iz wet yu kan make on the board.
I parent gut as mulch mutiny es sum folks, but I
her got us mulch imputlense ez essay us' them, and
this lz the next thing tew munny.
It slut often that a man's reputashen outlasts biz
mutiny
Don't mistake arroganse for wisdom; menny hay
thought they Wl= wire, when tha war only windy.
The man who leant git abed without pallin others
back, tz a limited cuss.
Woman will sumtimes confess her sins,hut I never
kon one 2 eonfess her faults.
Oh! what a world this lz 2 11v ln , for the soul that
iz afrade of dirt and diriltree.
ffMEiMMSIMI
Oneida iz the poor man's pork, and the rich man's
pudding —Troy Sem
P4:0440)344(00404:10133kitil
The following article is copied from mdra Journal
of Llcaltk, New-York. It appearn to contain good
advise, which it le reachtial [or all to know :
" An Incalculable amount of sickness, suffering
and permature death would be avoided every year,
if we could be induced to heed the warnings, the
premonitions, which kindly nature glees of the
coming on of the great enemy, disease. Many a
mother especially, has lost a darling child, to her
lifelong sorrow, by falling to observe the approach
or disease, in seine unusual act or circumstance con
nected with her off spring.
If an adult or child wakes up thirsty in the morn
ing, however apparently well at the moment, or the
preceding evening, there will be Illness before noon
always, Infallibly. It is generals averted bi remain.'
lag warm in bed, in a cool, well-ventilated room,
eating nothing, but drinking plentifully of some hot
tea, till day, Borne little mar be eaten in the alter
noon by a child. But as long as a person wakes
with thirst in the morning, there Is an absence of
health—there Is fever.
ft, when not habitual to hint, one is waked up
early in the morning with an inclination to stool,
especially if there is a feeling of debility afterward*,
It Is the premonition of disrrhma,suminer complaint,
dysentery or cholera, should be perfect quietude,
etc, as above ; In addition, a piece of warm, thick,
woolen flannel should be wrapped tightly around
the abdomen; the drink should be boiled milk; or
far better, eat piece* of ice all the time, and thus
keep the thirst perfectly subdued ; eat nothing but
boiled rice, corn starch, sago or tapioca, and contin
ue all these until the tiredness and thirst are gone,
the strength returned, add the bowels have been
quiet for twelve hours, returning slowly to the usu
al activeness and diet."
BIBLE B.EDDLE, OR THE WONDERFUL
PROPHET.
Re 16 not Noah nor Noah's eon nor a Lecite, nor
John the Baptist, nor yet the wandering Jew, for
tut was with Noah in the ark; the scriptures make
mention of him, mutienlarly In St. John, St. Mark,
SG Luke, so that we may believe that he I. no im
pOister. no knows not parents, be never lay upon
his mother's breaat ; his beard is sari, as no man
ever won •; he got, barefooted and barelegged, like
a grave old friar. fie wears no hat in Winter or
Sommer, but often appears with a crown upon his
bead - Ills coat Is neither knit nor spun, nor hair,
silk, linen or woolen, bark nor sheep akin, yet it
abounds with a variety - of colors and fits close to
the akin.
He le wonderfully temperate: he never drinks
any thing but cold wab-r; he would rstip.r take his
dinner in a farmer's barn than In a king's palace.—
He ill very watchful: be sleeps not In bed, but site
in a singular kind of a chair with his clothes on.—
He was alive at the crucifixion. Nearly all the
world hear him. He once preached u short sermon
which convinced a man of his sin, and mused him
to weep bitterly. Lie .tever was married, yet he has
favorites whom he loves dearly, for if he has hut one
morsel of weal, he divideg it among them. Though
be never rides on horseback he 1, in eom« respects
equipped as horsemen are. He is an advocate of
early rising, though be never retires to bed. HIS
prophecies are so true that the moment you hear
his voice you may know what is approaching.
Now who is Ms prophet, and what dotb he fore
tell " Ja.
MEW'S CltONVX.—lllero It, having furnished a
goldsmith with a quantity of [lac gold to mane a
crown, suspected, upon receiving It, that the gold
smith Lad cheated him by lasing a greater quantity
of silver alloy than was necessary. He applied to
Archimedes to discover the fraud without defacing
the crown; which he did by this experiment: He
procured a ball of pure gold and another of oilver,
Latch exactly 01 the tame weight as the crown; judg
ing that if the crown were of pure gold it would
be of equal bulk., and being pat in water would ex
pel an equal amount of water with the golden ball ;
If of silver it would ex p 4 an equal quantity with the
sliver one; but if of an intermediate quality the
quantity of water expelled would be In exact pro
portion. Title upon trial he proved to be the case,
and by comparing the quantities, of water displaced
discoremil the exact proportion - of gold and silver
in the crown.
Bmigen Eitt.t..—A good story Is told of a Yankee
hackman WilD was engaged to convey two English-
Men about the environs of Boston, Including of
course Bunker 111 a alter going up and Inspecting
;he monument, the Englishmen returned to the
hack, whet" the driver was quietly waiting for
them. "I say,driver," said one of the Englishmen,
"this Is the prate where we Englishmen gave you
Yankees a thrashing about elgh.y years since."
" Well," says the driver, " don't know as I ever
heard tell about that; but who owns the Laud now?"
Gairrumotrintt.—As two little [trebles were trot
ting along together, one of them fell and broke a
pitcher be was carrying. He commenced 'Tying,
when the other boy raked him why he cried.—
" Cause," raid he, when I get borne mother will
whip me for breaking the mug." " What I" maid
the other, "balut you pt no grandmother living at
your Irwin ?" "No;" was the reply. "Wei, I
have, and I might break two mugs, and they daren•t
whip me."
ar A latter from a rebel soldier to the beloved
of his eoul," said to have been intereented,con.
talus sonic touching parai,traphs. lie says : ,• My
quarters In came passable, but the quarters in
my pocket are not
t. ar LIZt night I had a mud paddle
Mr my pillow, and covered myself with a sheet of
writer. I lung for more whisky barrels and less gun
barrels, more biscuits and leas bullets. Ilow I wish
You were here. Tbe, farther away I get from you,
the better I like
LjoWn
Cam` Says-Artemus Ward: "Yu ma differ az
much az yu_plena about the stile of a young lady's
2 4X 0}'• but / /4 1 - SIA if she hex forty
10. 0
tbuwwwilloAritik. the agor la se war rite as
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BLITOKEIRM JUDGMENT.
On a sultry summer evening In 1831, an old woman
was si tting beton) her humble cottage lit the little
Silesian village of Burnhehn. She had put the dia•
tuff aside, and was reading the Bible, which lay arfen
on her knees. While she was reading the holy word
in art under tone to herself, her ,ear caught the
sound of quick footsteps, and a long shadow emerged
from behind the cottage. The old woman trembled
violently; a moment afterwards, ; her uplifted eyes
fell upon the figure of a handstincie and well-made
lad, In military attire.
" How are you, mother" •
She arose and threw her trembling arms around
his neck. "God be thanked, 1113 i boy that I see,
thee again! Bat how pale and h ar d thou look
est " She went on, after a pulse: To be sure, thou
must be very tired and hungry! "
Bhe , led him into the room to the old arm-chair,
and urged him to Mt down, and repose himself a lit
tle, whilst she herself would prepare him some sup.
per.
" What did he like best? Should elte make him an
omelet, or roast a chicken? 0, it was no trouble at
all! Dear me, how could he talk of trouble? She
was but too glad to do anything for her own dear
boy, Yea, she would go and get him a chicken."
The old woman, all bustle and activity, lett the
room,
The youth dud not betray so much pleasure at this
hearty receytlon from his aged parent as might have
heels expected. He was restless and 11l at case; it
seemed as if something was heavily weighing upon
his heart; and when his wanderitig eye fell upon
the portrait of his deceased fattter,'Which was hang
ing right over the chlmney-pleee, presenting that
worthy gentleman in the still uniform worn by the
{dog's garde de corps half a century ago, he felt as if
the old sergeant was looking at him with a grim
frown upon his honest countenance, Just as if he ex
perienced a hearty inclination to step out or his
worm-eaten rossivwsd frtune, to seize the old knotted
hazel stick In the corner, with the brass knob at the
top, and to apply it to tee back of his offspring for
half an hour or to; as, In fact, he had been in the
habit of doing many a day la his lifetime, some
eight or ten yea's ago. Ills restless son felt so
much overcome by this latter reflection that when
the old woman came bustling -in again, after the
lapse of some minutes, with the chicken ander her
apron, she found her dear boy with his head in las
hands leaning listlessly upon the table.
Ho sat up when she came in, bat did not look at
her. That old woman became attentive In the
Joy of her heart, she had never thought yet of ask
ing him env questions except those concerning his
appetite_ Now. It began to strike her that the pres•
mat period was rather a strange time for a soldier to
be on leave of absence.
"Charles!" No answer.
The old woman trembled violently, dropped her
burden, and walked straight up to 'dm. Her hon
est, wrinkled countenance was full of anxiety and
apprehension Looking him full in the face, and
clasping her hands together, she cried nut In agony:
" So help me God, Charles, you arc a deserter I"
" I couldn't stand It any longer, mother," uttered
her wretched son, In a broken voice, by way of
apology.
" You couldn't stand It ;" said the old woman, ex
asperated beyond measure; "you couldn't stand ;
and hundreds and thousands of your brethren d,
Fie, for shame!" and with her old, honest, trembling
band she gave him a smack on the face.
" Mother!" exclaimed the young man, starting
up, with the blood rushing to his face.
Fie, for shame,"' she went on, without heeding
him in the least, '• to bring such o disgrace upon the
whole village. What wnidd he say?" She pointed
to where the old warrior was hanging over the
chimney piece, whose stern countenance
by the rays of the eventing sun, seemed to as
aum, an unuaual oxprrealon of solemn Indignation
"Sit down—sit down. I say. you—deserter! It shall
not be said that your dead rath..es house, in the village
of Barnhelm, is a place for run*ways, while the
whole country Is up In arms! ' Don't you stir, sir!
I'll he back In a minute." And with this the brave
old woman left the room, and locked the door atter
her. •
She was not alone when she came back, about
half an hour afterwards; nsi : country parson, th e
j
schnotmaster, the country judge, and hats dozen r
more of the dignitaries of the village were with her. '
The little room was site foil tvleen all these distin
guished visitors had entered. Charles sat In the
old arm-chair, quite motionlem, his face covered
with both his hands.
The honest villagers had uvula up thel- minds at
once what to do with the deserter; they looked upon
hls crime as an ignominy, by which he had not only
disgraced himself, but also their community at large,
and they were not the men to put ap with such an al ?
front The schoolmaster, who was a politician, and
subscriber to a newspaper, having Informed them
that the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of
the army were but about two days' march from the
village, they had coina to escort him thither. Tue
judge proclaimed the young man a prisoner In the
11+141 , . of his majesty the king, and called upon him
to follow him to a place of security for the night, as
on the following morning they would's a body con
vey him to his excellency the field-marshal Blucher.
lie rose and followed them without opposition.
When they had all gone, the old woman took up the
holy scripture once more; but it was in vain that
she strove to read; her eyes grew dim, and the let
tem were all swimming confusedly before them, so
she put it down and wept bitterly.
Early on the following morning a strange pro
eeeslon was seen emerging from the little village of
Barnheiin—fonr old peasants escorting one young
soldier. The country judge, with grave air, marched
ahead of them, whilst the schoolmaster, who had ob
stinately insisted upon accompanying the expedi
tion, brought up the rear. The prisoner, with down
east eyes and fallen countenance, was walking be
tween the two other patriots; wades he had pledged
his word not to make any attempt at aught, they
consented to leave his hands untied. When the ex
pedition. after a day's march, nut rip for the night at
small hamlet, they were told that all the villages
around were crammed full with Frenchmen, so they
were obliged to take s long, roundabout way, and
It was not before the morning of the filth day after
their departure that they reached headquarters.
" Where Is the re ddence of the conamanderdn
chief ?" asked they of one of the ordnance-offieers,
who were galloping through the streets In every di
rection.
" Why, In the chateau, to be sure, -where the two
hussars were mounting guard,on horseback"
When they had entered the yard they were not In
the least discouraged at the eight of whole scores of
adintants and orderly officers of every rank and aim,
all of whom seemed to have some urgent business
with the commander-In-chief, for no sooner had any
otip of them been despatched than he was seen
mounting again and tearing away with his horse's
belly to the ground. It never entered their heads
for one moment that the general might consider
their own business to be of a somewhat smaller Im
portance, although the schoolmaster argued from
what he 55w that something of consequence was
going on }net now. The worthy man was rizht so
far; the commander-In-chief was about to give bat
tle on the following day. When they had waited
patiently for a couple of hours, and began to feel
tired and somewhat hungry, the country judge,
conscious of the importance of his mission, ventured
at last to accost one of the officers of the general's
staff, who was posing by with a packet of sealed
letters in his hand; brit that hasty functionary dta
not even stop to give ear to the address of the head
man of the rural deputation, hut merely grumbled
something about the propriety of the party going to
Jerieho—or further.
Oar worthy inhabitants of Burnheim, however,
were not the men to give way so soon, and renewed
the charge accordingly. This time it was a middle
wed-man, with a benevolent countenance, whom
they made acquainted with their desire to see the
deld•marshel on moat urgent businees.
" Why, they had chosen their time rather badly
indeed; the general was extremely busy. Couldn't
one of the secretaries do as well?'
"By no mean's; they mast see the general him
self."
" Was It Information concerning the enemy which
they wanted to deliver ?"
"Oh, no; something much more imoortaat—from
Burnhelm." added the schoolmaster
The middle aged &Beer with the benevolent
countenance laughed, and said he would try. After
the lapse of about half an hoar, he came back, and
beckoned to them to follow. They were ushered
into au ante-room, and directed to wait for his ex
cellency.
The door opened after anotherhalfhour's waiting,
and an old man, with grey hair 4, trop-cat features,
and bright eyes entered the room; it was the com
mander-in-chief. Old Father Blucher, as the soldiers
called him. The country judge stepped forward,
and bowler low, deliveredthe speech about which he
had been pondering ever since they had left their
native place, and which of conrse be thought to bo
very eloquent He stated all that has been told al
ready in the course of this narrative; how the de
serter's own mother had given information of her
son's crime; how they had resolved at once to bring
him back to headwaters; concluding his addiese
with the hope that hid excellency would not be in
duced to think worse of tilde because of one
that had rendered himself tinwerthy of the name of
a Prussian. The tears came trickling down his
honest cheek.
The general looked 'my grave Indeed. •Those
large bright eyes of his roamed for en instant over
his carat audience with a strange extireasion.
He timely at a &um what sort of WI
he had to deal with; then - his look re t fora while
on the tent figure of the yonng man, a io with his
downcast eyes and cam-worn lace appeared the very
- imageotallerzong d4oetkin., EleVearlds km* to
bee boschat oast-Morltilluistabria eSU
war is a capital crime, and Father Blucher, with his
Pon will, was the last mem la the world to be tri
fled with.
On • sudden the features of the old hero assumed
an expression of harshness. Turning round toward
the speaker of this singular deputation, he said Ir. a
rough voice, and In a very abrupt manner-. "Mr.
Judge, you are an ass."
The villagers started as If they had boon stung.
After all the anxiety and trouble they bad under
gone for the cause which they considered to be a
just one, they had expected a somewhat more cor
dial reception.
"But, yonrezecllency"—remonstrated the amazed
dignitary.
" Hold your tongue; I say you are an ass I
know better; in Burnbelm there are no deserters!
And you, my eon," he went on, with his Iron fea
tures relenting a little, and with that strange ex
pression In hie isrtv. bright eyes, "you will show
them to-morrow, on the battle-Held, what a Burn
helm man can do; will you not?"
The young man dropped down on his knees, and
was stammering a few broken words, which the
general did not hear, however, for when the lad
rose again with high flushed cheeks and sparkling
eyes—a far different man—Blucher had left the
room.
Toe worthy peasants, whose perceptive faculties
were by no means equal to their honesty, began at
last to get a glimpse of the general's real meaning.
The country judge was the first to throw his cap
high into the air and give three hearty cheers for
Father Blucher, who, with one single word had ex
tinguished what they tivi considered a Maio upon
their native village, comforted the broken heart of
mother, and preserved a pair of arms for the delouse
of the country—arms that would nut fall to do their
duty now
When they had given vent to their enthusiasm af
ter their hearts' content, and taken leave of the
young man, wh' was carried away by an aide-de
camp of the general's stair, they made up their
minds to buy some provision in the plan, and re
tarn again to the villa;, , e. They had, however,
scarcely niched they and when they were overtaken
by the same middle-aged odle.er who had announced
them to the commander in chief, who asked them
what fn heaven's name they were going to do now.
" Way, going back again, to be sure. To Burn
helm, you know!" ejaculated the schoolmaster.
" And did they think that his excellency would al
low anybody to leave headquarters without having
had a dinner Drat! He had alreadygiven orders to
that effect, and they had but to follow this non
com
missioned officer here, who would show them the
eruy."
they needed not to be told twice, we may be sore;
and when they were shown iuto s kitchen room
where dower was served up for them, YAW a bottle
of wine standing before mann cover, they felt very
grateful to his excellency, and very proud at the
saute time because of the honor sh awn to the rep
resetitatives of their village. But when each of them
found a double Frederick d'or under Ids plate, their
enthusiasm burst out afresh, and many were the
healthy drunk to the welfare of Old Father Blucher.
When they had all eaten and drunken their till,
and wore about to take their leave, they fell in once
more with their friend, the middle-aged officer, who
gave them some advice concerning the best way of
rsmching the village without running any danger,
for, at he said, the comlug day would be an event
ful one He accompanied them through the yard to
the gateway, where he bade them farewell, p.stuting
as he len, to one of the hussars, who was mounted
guard before the gate,
By heavens! it MIA the prisoner, the boy Charles,
now tally pardoned by his excellency the commander
inmhief. Row proud he looked, with flushed cheek
and sparkling eyes! He dared not addressed them,
for he was on duty; but he looked at tueus, much
to say : " Wait,,anl you shall ace to-morrow !"
Nor was he faithless to the vow. On the evening
of the following day, the me norable 25 . 15 of August,
when the bloody victory at the Satzhack wee gained,
and the field marshal rode through the tutu ranks
of his men, who greeted him with enthusia.Alc
cheers, he was addressed by the commanding of
of the 31st hussars, who reported how greatly pri
vate Charles Fisher had distouguished himself above
all the rest, having taken a standar( from the enemy,
and made prisoner, with his own huts, the coal
tasod.t of a French re,ginient.
The field marshal stopped his horse, and, taking'
the Iron cross from his own uniform, affixing it with
his own hands to the breast of the young man, said,
with that strange expression In his large bright
eyes:
" Well done, my son_ I knew I was right when I
said that In Burntielm there were no deserters!"
LITTLE GrilLt3.
I cannot well imagine a home more Incomplete
than that one where there is no little girl to stand
la the void of the domestic circle which boys can
never flit, and to draw all hearts within the magic
ring of her presence. There is something about lit
tle girls which is especially lovable; even their
wilful, naughty ways seem utterlyvoid of evil when
they are so soon followed by the sweet penitence
that overflows in such gracious showers. Your boys
are great, noble follows, generous, loving, and full
of good impulses, but they are noisy and demi - inst.-
tire, and dearly as you love them, you are glad their
place is out of doors; but Jennie, with her light
step, is always besides you : she brings the slippers
or pops, and with her pretty dimpled fingers un
folds the paper for him to read ; she puts on a thim
ble no bigger than a fairy's, and with some very mys
terlons combination of • doll rams," tills up up a
small rocker by mamma, with a wonderful assump
tion of womanly dignity. And who shad tell
the little thread of speech that flows with such
sweet, silvery lightness from those innocent lips,
twines itself around the mother's heart never to
rust, not even when the dear little face is hid among
the daisies, as so many mothers know.
But Jennie grows to be a woman, and there is
a long and staining track from the half latched
door of womanhood till the girl blooms into the ma
ture woman. There are the brothera who always
lower their voices when they talk to their sister,
and tell of the sports in which she takes almost as
numb interest as they do, walk in turn she instructs
them In all the little minor details of home life, of
which they would grow up ignorant if not for her.
And what a shield sae is upon the dawning manhood
wherein so many temptations lie. Always her sweet
presence to guard and Inspire them, a check upon
prolanity, a living sermon upon immorality. flow
fragrant the cup of tea she hands them at the evening
mail; how cheery her voice as she relates the little
Incidents of the day. No silly talk of Incipient beaux,
or love of young men met on the promenade. A
girl like that Ii .s no empty space in her head for
such thoughts to ma riot is, and you don't find her
s
pending the evening in the dim prior with a que.s
tlomible young man for her company.
When her lover comes he must say what he has to
say in the family sitting-room with father and moth
er, or, If ashamed to, there is no room for hint there.
Jennies young heart has not been tilled by the
?roc-ions nonsense which results to so many unhappy
marriages or hasty divorces. Dear girl, she things
all the time of what a good home she has, and what
dear brothers, and on bentied knees craves the bles
sing of Haven to rest on them, but she does not
know haw far, very far for time and eternity, her own
pore example goes, how It will radiate as a blessing
into other betties where a sister's memory will be
the consecrated ground of the past.
Cherish, then, the little girls, dimpled darlings,
who hear their aprons, and eat the table-cloths, and
eat the sugar, and are themselves the sugar and salt
of lite Let them dress and undress their doll babies
to their heart's content, and don't tell them Tom
Thumb and Bed Biding Hood are action, but leave
them alone till they tied it out, which they will all
too soon. Answer all the funny questions they ash:,
and don't make fan of their baby theology, and
when you must whip them, do it so that If you
should remember is, It would not be with tears, for
a great many little girls lose their bold suddenly
before the door from which they have Just escaped
is shut, and dad their way back to the angels. Bo
be gentle with the darlings, and see what a track of
sunshine will follow In the wake of the little bobbing
heads that daily dad a great many hard problems to
solve.
CoatMilt/Wt. to Parsfotoc r.—f t lea remarkable
fact teat persons losing themselves in a snow storm,
manifest a tendency to tura round grwinally to toe
left, to the extent even of eventually moving in a
circle. Te" explanation of this in found probably
in the Gut that the limbs and muscles of the right
side are more developed than those of the left side.
Shoemakers nay that, na a genera' thing, the right
loot Is somewhat larger than the left an 4 that the
right boot weans out 'inst. Under the excitement
felt when one is lost, and, in the absence of any
gelding line the impeder energy of the right limbs
throWa the pedestrian insensibly round on the left.
It mac also ba remarked, that in the an"lent religi
ons ceremonies of every country, circular or chorlc
&laces were a pre.valeat custom.
grA man recently broke off a marriage because
the lady did not po4'rea conversational powers.
&wicked editor, Income:cantina anon the fact, tam,
"Re should have married her and then refined h e r
a new bonnet, to have developed her powers of
tat."
rir A woman committed suicide In Carthage, Al.,
because her husband voted the Repnbllcan ticket,
What a copperhead! Wo suppose she must have
bit !ionic end so died.
`Tall the truth, and shame the Devil; ,kno
lowcpappl
ue. who can *tame, Um nail w o... riff,
ipsigtopkygviathvg
REOONCIILIATION.
It Is said that a conquered people cannot be recon
ciled and contially united to their conquerors. Why,
there is not a kingdom or an empire In Europe that
Is not made up of provinces that ware separate king
doms., that were conquered and absorbed, and that
are now brought into consolidation, so that there is
not a team. or a line to tell where the original bound-
aries ran What eort of people du men think you
to be when they Ile by the wholesale right against
history ? AU Europe was testellated like • a chess
board and the kingdoms that now are large nation
alities comprise disaffected terrirorles that were by
military force brought into cordial union. The his
tory of rid race spite on the proposition. And as to
bitterness, two generations are enough to overcome
that, provided that there Is no injury added at ter
ward. Why, we fought England seven yeare, and
as late as my childhood no man was cocusidered a
patriot that did not hate the Britisher; and within
lug life-Lime I have seen all the antipathy of the
.Itnerlean to the Englishman burn out. And when
the Prince of Wales came to Crania, It Is the con
cession of the most loyal of English subjects that
their own people did not give him such a voluntary
and enthusiastic reception as he received among as,
because he was the heir of the kingdom that was
once our mother, and once oar oppressor. The bit
terness was gone, and gone In one life-time It has
begun again, It will die again in a life-time. I tell
you, you do not estimate the torte of Christianity in
prosperous nations, and how, when the cause is re
meved, all that rankles and irritates gives way to
fontettutness, and forgiveness, and friendship, and
love. And In answer to all the English sophistries
on this suOject. I simply palut to the experience Of
England and Scotland. The Scotch are a people
that are likely to carry the as long as any people ;
I I they are a people wuose nature is as difficult to
change as any that you will tip apt to Und ; and yet,
Scotland and England, that hated each other as cor
dially as say people ever slid, are now as nordially
united. Scotland Is as firmly united to England to
day an Ireland is not Nor could one tell whether
Queen Victoria was more Queen at tratinbergh or
Loudon ; at Holvrood or St James. And yet men
in England stand and tell you that It Is not possible
to reconcile a people when they - have once beau
offended by war.
It Is to be remembered, too, that to be conquered
In wee is not necessarily to be humiliated. We im
pose no new laws. We submerge. no tree institu
thins and raise up no oppressive Guys. We cstab•
hell no strange edicts. We leave the S. math all their
liberties. No foreign court is to nit among them.
No soldiers of foreign equipment are to be stationed
In their midst. No yoke is to be thrust upon them.
It is not an when the Saxons were forbiddeu to steak
their mother tongue. It is net en when the House
of fispsteirg told the people of Hungary that they
tun-t speak German and not their owe native lan
gongs, Tueir own courts remairi; their own legit
' Tatures remain; their own Melt procedure remains;
their own people are to be their own magistrates.—
They are as free to day as New England. And to
Marrow, when the old flag stain stands floating In
Ixetrity, It will be a symbol of liberty just as numb in
Georgia and Alabama as in Haswachusetts and New
York. There is zo be the imposition of no foreign
hondare, no penalty, no odious authority, no badge
of servitude. And is it possible, under such dream-
stances, for men to go oe from generation to eenent.
Lion burning with hidden arcs of hatred?
One change only has takenklace. B:avery is end
ed. But for the South to...Wtd a grudge against the
N , wth for that, is as if one should strike the surgeon
who had token MT a cancer cleanly and thoroughly.
is It to be supposed that when n man wakes with
out disease or draturbance of body, he will be more
Irritable In health than he was In sickness? In ten
rears the destruct)on of slavery will be the most
popular event is the history of the South. It will
pit an end to class despotism which was just begin
ning to be felt. For, let me tell you, while south
ern statesmen have had a certain ambition to control
the gaverument and the continent, this was not the
first lorm of it. Those who arc most Intimately ac.
quainted with southern society In all Its Darts, are
well aware that it tens needful for the alavebolding
by some exterior antagonism, to keep their
people from revolting and destroying them and
theirs. They have long feared the rising up of the
U. , 03111013 TWO* In indignation against class despot.
ism based on slave property! When, therefore,
though it be by the sword, slavery is thetroyed, the
change addresses itself to the enthusiasm of the
common people in the south, and ralsesthem to an
influence which, when once it is fairly tasted by
them, they will never forego.—Lfenry Ward .Bax/u.r.
STORIES OF THE PEDIMENT
A writer In the WatcAmin and .71sji,for tells the
following stories of the President:
Mr. Lincoln has a Mail of humor which, though
not always dignified, is harmless. ft It very apt and
ready, and doubtless among all the wearying sor
rows of his 'ninth, life has afforded blot relief under
Ida heavy load. This jocoacuess Is sometimes grim
and sarcastic. It is always playful, yet is never
abusive and seldom wounds. Mien it is nicely
adapted to the place and occasion, and Is used with
greet elTect. It Is one form of that humor that le
not uncommon is New England, especially In rural
dietileta, and which In higher and more cultivated
development, adorns the pages of Holmes, Lowell,
and others of our literary men.
About two years ago, when the Prince of Wales
was noun to marry the Princess Alexandria, Queen
Victoria rent a letter to each of the Sovereigns. in
forming them of her son's betrothal, and among the
rest to President Lincoln. Lard Lyons, her Ambas
sador to Washington—and who, by the war, Is tin.
married—requested an audience with Mr. - Lincoln,
that he migut present this important document in
person. At the time appointed he was received at
the White House In company with Mr. Seward.
" May it please your Excellency," said Lord Ly
One, "T hold In my hand an autograph letter from
my royal mistress, Queen Victoria, which I have
been commanded to present to your Excellency. In
it she Informs your Excellency that her son,
his Roy
al Highness, the Prince of Wales, Is about to con
tract a matrimonial alliance with her Royal High
nets, the Princ4a of Alexandra, of Denmark."
After °outlaying in this strain for a few minutes
Lord Lyons tendered the letter to the Prcoddent and
awaited his reply. It was short, simple, and ex.
presalve, and consisted simply of the words:
" Lord Lyons, go thou and do likewise."
We doubt if any English ambassador was ever ad
drenacd In this manner before, aed would be glad to
learn what sanest he met with In putting the reply
in diplomatic tangling., when be reported It to her
Majesty.
It is said that some time since, when a deputation
of clergymen pretested an address to the President,
in which he was styled "a pillar of the church,"
he quaintly, and pert' ps truthfully, remarked that
"they would have done much better to call him a
steeple."
WCI.LINGTON'S CLLARGEEL—After the blockade of
Copeeitsgen, General llrosvem,r brought over to
England a mare, which produced a colt named Co
penougot. "This horde," said Sir Edward Cast,
"being afterwards sold to 11.‘jor fieneoll Sir Charles
Stewart, was taken by hint to the Peninsula, and
when that officer quitted the grin.) , In 1813, on the
'leach of his drat ;vile, It was sold and , became the
property of the duke. At Vittoria and other kitties
Ills grace used no other charger, and It became
great favorite with him. That horse also carried
the Duke of Wellington throughout the glorious day
of Waterloo, when, It In said, he bore him for eight
een hoar* on his back, and when at length released
ut Its close, gate no sign of fatigue. Hu was of a
full lien chestnut color, and with' a strong dash of
the Arab in Ma appearance, and showed at all times
an endurance of work that was remarkable. Ile
died in ISri, at the age of twenty...seven, and was
buried at Stmthfieldsaye with military honors. Ills
mane and tail furnished a great many tinge, brooch
es, and bracelets, which were presented by the great
eorrimander to enthusiastic ladles; an that this cele
brated charger obtained a renown which will proba
bly long continuo, for these memorials will not cease
to be regarded us heir-looms of many a noble family.
`•Coppenhagen" was modelled for the home of the
Wellington statue upon the arch in London.
A PRETTY Moweu ra SAIONY.—At Dresden I saw
the Sint lue Slac'onna with Inexpressible delight; but
I 153. , another night, not quite so poetical and bleat,
yet still to be looked upon with Interest and pima.
ure. One day I wan walking through the public
square to the picture gallery. I happened to notice
a woman mowing. I stopped, eat doWn, and watch.
al her foe halt an hour. She was apparently, two or
three and twenty, Her head was tinely formed and
set finely on bar shoulders.
,tier hair was neatly
braided round it; her features were regular; com
plexion brown as a berry; eyes bright blue; form
vlgoroos, well rounded like' that of Dorothea In
Goethe'd poem. From her tans hung golden ear
rings She wore a bright colored petticoat, reaching
a Intl• below her knees; Ler legs were bare, and her
feet encased to embroidered shoes. ' She was the
picturoof health and rohnst beauty. She swung the
scythe with an inimitable esee and grace, and as she
did so there was aplacid expression on her pleasant
countenance, which spoke of a goon coosciencc, a
contented spirit and a willingness to do the work
which her destiny pointed' out. 1 examined the
swaths; the gmsa was cut as smooth as velvet; you
could not text where one swath ended and the heat
began. An English lawn looked no :smoother. It
was a work of art, high art, aid an American fanner
might have taken a useful lesson, whit; I could
live taken bur portrait lb the eh* habruitiecW”.
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se-00 per annum, in advanda.
HALF AN HOllB. Ht A BAIT.: AD once
Traveler—" New York," planking the price of
ticket. The„licket clerk jerks out a ticket and Jerks
In the money almost in an Instant, without a word,
and the traveler give. place for the next comer, who
perhaps tuts the same death:Lagoa, but who occupies
much more time In making his wants known, limo ,
thinsr after this style:
" Wtuit's the fare to New York r
" Four dollars."
" How long afore you start r
•` Ten minutes."
.. Ati--er--ean you clump s fifty dollar DM
" Yes, sir."
"Give me change ICI Boston money ( *ylng out
the My) and In eve dollar bills you can."
(Chanu Is made and the ticket thrown ma In ab
moat a second of time.)
" Da you get Into New York as early now as
usnal."
" Yes, 61r."
" Wont time does the Fill Melly triad have to
morrow mornhe r.
By this time the quedst bad gathered np his
bank-notes, folded them 11D, put them smoothly IZltn
almcket t o l l V tdumb rPt t°ii T a t a
of a beadidi ial;romtruidbsri who
was waiting nervously behind him, and by the de
lay caused the collection of half a dozen applicants
fur ticket&
Neat cornea the countryman's turn.
(Breathlessly) —"Ticket for Boston!"
" Yon are lo , Boston now sir."
"O! --er! Yea—ahl ha! he! I want to go to
Plimpton-vine"—(on show of money.)
"Forty-five cents:" (walling fora stem of funde.)
" Yes ; well, I'll take one ticket."
" Yes, sir, forty eve cente."
By this time gent from the rural district (temple
bends the pole advance principle adopted at the
well regulated railway stations—and fishing into the
profound depths of his pantaloons pocket, with
draws, in a capacious hand, a miscellaneous eollee
riots, which from a hasty glance appears to be coin
pesed of a piece ef cavendiah tobacco, a lead pencil,
piece of net chalk, large Jack knife, • political
medal, leather shoe-string, a couple of buttons, •
suspender buckle, and some change. From the lat
ter a twenty live cent place, two half-dlmea, two
theree.cent pieces and four cents are laboriously ex
tracted and laid upon the counter, from which they
are rapidly swept by three or four dexterous passes of
the clerk. who turns to serve a lady.
"I want a lady's ticket to Providenee"—depask
leg a five-dollar note. Clerk throws out a lady's
ticket, which beans a striking similarity to, and to
tact would be called a twin brother of a "'gentle
man's ticket," and oleo some change at the same
time. ieey cautiously examines a bank note she
has received In exchange—" Is It n good billy"
Certainly, madam, we give none other."
Lady retires perfectly salte:led. The next cue
' tomer is an illuatrions exile, who we have every
reason to suppose hag recently fared aumptonaly
upon a repast In which redone figured conapienonsly
as a vegetable, and moderate priced willakey as the
principal beverae.
"Share what Is the price all tickbet now to Nee
Yarrk?"
"Deck passage, two dollars and a half."
" Wouldn't ye take a dollar and seventy-liver
Shure it's all the money rye gat, at all"
" No! two dollars and tlfty cents"
(Persuasively.) "Shure, wouldn't ye take two
dollars?"
" Not a cent lees than two tiny. (Emphatically.)
Pass out your money or pass on ."
Pat, lauding hiam.y and pennant= of noi use In
this instance, counts oat his cash, which tke.quick
eye of the clerk discovers to be a little short of the
required amount.
" Three cents more."
The stray tin= cent piece In reluctantly dropped
from Patrick's warm palm, and the Indirldwd who
suec.eds anxiously Inquires "what time the fire
o'clock train leaves ?" and Is aertonsly Informed at
" sbrty minutes past four."
The next lopires, " ban Mr. Smith bought • ticket
for this train?
"Can't say. sir; don't know him."
0, he's a dark complexioned man, had on a dark
overcoat, and an umbrella under his arm."
In consideration of the fact that about fltty "dirk
complexioned" individuals, with dark overcoats on,
bad purchased tickets of the clerk, some haring um
brellas under their arms and some not, it is not very
extraordinary that he does not recollect which one
la Mr. Smith.
AU the time these negotiations are going on,
eager Interrogators on the outer circle of the mid
shout the 'office are propounding question's, and a
running fire of them and replica All up every possi
ble pause.
" When does the next Until start!"
"Ten minutes of five."
"Say, you : what do yon tax to Mazdield?"
"Seventy-live cents."
Sailor -- Purser, give ns a card for New Bedford."
Slaps down a gold pier; sweeps ticket and change
into the crown of his hat, takes a bite of the weed,
and rolls off to a car " well forrard."
" Does ibis train stop at L. ?"
"No: this is the express train."
" Which one does?'
" Accommodation—leaves at two and a half
o'clock."
"Tieket-'n 'art to Providence."
" How old is the half ticket?"
" Hey ?"
Row old is the child you want the half ticket
for?"
" Between seven and eight"
"Is this the boy f" pointing to a lad of about
eleven, who was endeavoring to make himself lonk
as short as possible, by crooking his legs and resting
his elilo on the counter.
"Yes, that's him; suppose you only charge halt
price for boys "
" Fall price for him, sir."
"Full price: why he only a boy; pit handn't
ought, ter charge full price."
Big enough to occupy a scat, sir; full price U
yo u wean.'
The applicant reluctantly draws out the money,
and the boy grows some eight or ten Inches la
stature In as many seconds.
"Ticket fur New York," eays another, throwing
down a ten dollar note. Tne clerk Veen a rapid
glance at the bank note, followed by • keen: search
log one at the applicant, and then replies: "Coun
terfeit." The dropping of the under jaw, the blank
and stupefied amazement of the latte.r at this an
nouncement proves at once the offielarsiudgmint
was correct, and that the applicant was anconselOws
of the character of the note until he tendered It In
payment for a ticket
:11; M ~~ 1~3SI:~ y Y:1: t:~:1; ~ ~j:~:l Y ~:~ r. r:
Wm. Cullen Bryant gave the following excellent
advice to a young man who.offered him an article
for the Epentog Ant:
"My young friend, I observe that you have used
several French expressions in your article. 1. think,
if you will study the English language, that you
will dud it catethie of expressing all the Ideas that
you may Lave. I have always found it so, and In all
that 1 have written I do nut recall an Instance',
when I was tempted to use a foreign word, but that,
on searching, I toned a better one In my own lan
he simple, unaffected; he honest In your speakil
and writing Never use a long wo.d where a sh ort
oce will do. Call a spade, not a well known oblong
Instrument of manual Industry; let a home be a
home, not a residence; a place a place, not a las&
ty ; and so of the rest. Where a snort word will do,
von always lose by using a long one. Foil lose in
clearness, you lose In honest expreselon of your
meaning; and in the estimation of all men who are
competent to judge, ,you Jose in reputation for
ability.
The only true way to shine In this false world, Is
to be modest and unassuming. Falsehood may be a
very thick crust, but in the course of time troth will
find a place to break throngh. • Elegance of language
may not be In the power of all of us, but simpliett/
and straightforwardness are.
Write much as you speak; speak as you think.
If with your inferior, speak no coarser thanosnal ;
with your superior, speak no finer. Be what you
say, and within the rules of prodeace, say what you
are. No one ever was a gainer by slogolarity of
words, or in pronunciation. The truly wise man
will so speak that no one will observe hearts,
A man may show great knowledge of ehentlar
carrying about bladders of strange gasses to breathe,
but be will enjoy better health, and Iled more time
for business, who Hypo on common fir.' -
Sidney Smith once remarked: "Alter yeti bare
written an article, take your pen and strike out half
of the words, and you will be surprised to see bow
much stronger it Is."
(lam, ofi Mit= I—Your own mind demands
that you find it occupation; and If you do not, it
will make you miserable. It is an awfal thing tO
liner nothing to do. The mill within yon demands
grist to grind, and if you give it none, lt still gdnde
on, as Luther said ; but it is Itself It grinds and wows
away. : lily friend Smith, having overworked his
Iles at college, was once forbid to read= write for
eighteen mouths. It was a horrible reuses at, first.
Bet he devised wars of giving the msolthe work ;
and during that period of enforced Idleness be ac
quired the power of connected thinking wh boat
wrifingdolva each anccessive thought, Few people
have that power. One of the rams of Wvwefro
menu le the faculty of profitable meditation. Most
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