In
IL H. FRAZIER, Publisher.,
VOLUME 11.
girtetorg.
B. S. ROBERTSON,
n -..IIPACITILEII of BOOTEISELOMILIO4,
&sego Sind, Montrose, 1.4.
11011t731e, Jannim,2B, 11364.-tf
DR. E. L. B
pHMO/AN AND 81:111GDON, leu locoed at Brueklou Mae.
ouch.= Gonaty, Fa. FBI attend promptly to al/ este
utOott be may be favored. Ottee at L. X. Euldwues.
Broctlya, Julylo, 1665.—yt.
DR. E. L GARDNER,
DHISIOULN LND SITRGEO?I, liontlose, Pa. Waco over
L
Webby Store . Dowd. at Seere's Hotel.
; liontrore.Jmre
GROVES & REYNOLDS,
AII'`MfH;4NL°RB. Slop over CimadleesF, :40+Imse, Jose I, IE6O
Dn. CHARLES DECKER,
AND SURGEON, Lavin! located taaselt at
I Illrehanlvllle, Susquehanna County. R, willatttend to all the
mil , with which he may be favored wl th promptnaiiand attention.
at his reAdenee near orange Mott's Sea. •
ti.rclardville, Swab Co., Po, May
JOHN BEAUMONT,
WOOL CA.MrtSFt, Cloth Comer, and Itannactnrcr. at the old
rand known as Smlth'o Carding Machine. Tense made
k,own wben the work to brougot,
dmenp, Mardi 'A 1863. •
Dn. G. Z. DIMOCIi,
varrsicreN and SURGEON, MONTROSE, Pa. Once on
owega Amt. oppatte the Reneennauxue Onace. Beanie at
s^ , Wp Hotel.
u.aarose, rebel:wry Oh, 1865.-lyp
C. M. CRA.NDALL,
.11. r AN't FACTITIVER of Unen-erheell, Wool.vbeela. Wheel.
box:, dc. Wood4nrnlng done to order. and
n , atrA 3nanner, rnlng Shop and Wheel Factory In Sap.'
Yo I.lr, Bo' kllng. erp Wan.
Not,:,, January Mt, 1843.-t1
B. S. BENTLEY, JR., NOTARY PUBLIC,
Atobyrixosm.
T IgetoN.ron"' Acd"if:yr sny
, iwkd.-ed Lain do not require the certilicite of cur
v 1 :: 4 +
Moot,ose, J.. 2, IS6B.—tf,
CHARLES HOLES,
E YF.
.3 IS CLOCKS, WATCHES, A\l) JEWYELRY
U r dose LI 1.119 M, on short notice and numonable toms
-• , Public Avenue in P. 13. Chandloie 151. R. -
if mt. N0v.7.1884..
DR. E. L. ELLNDRICK;
,c,d SURGEON, resrietttally tenders his prof,*
..roctte to the ditistento of Priend.imille and skinny. 01
Fototly:11, o Jalysath,. of r 7. 1964..
4(
Lees. Boards at J. Hostordl.
W. IS2dITH,
TTk•i.N ET A COIII7I3ELLOIL AT LAW and Llecraed L`L,
1,1 _orr. Oalce over Las's Drag store.
reeea,,,ta Depot Januar" L% 1864.
H. BIJIMITT,
T 1 Y: -
ALLR St. .rd r... 9 Dr7ooo4ls, Crockery. Hanlyoure
a._nd Plante,Boots sod Shoes, flit or , xedes. Provisima.
11.11ohl, Ps., Axil 11, 1E64..41
S. IL SAYRE & BROTHERS,
‘IA,;TTnINAPt . QI'TVW:4,Zt,,cuVr-11
r Dr y unodOrocrlca, ,rockvy,
Mor.tro, Ps_ Februaay 72.1E64.
1311111 RS STROUD,
FIRE AND LIFE lASI:TRANCE ENT. 02. In Lath
. 5 I.i Idlnz, oast tad of Brick Most. In Ida atmeuce,
to, the Ake will betrauctetcal by C. L. Brown.
Hon y, February 1, 113154...-tf
J. D. VAIL, M. D.,
LiJmEorxruic rarsimeli. hu "permanently located
LI h! rasel f In Montrone., Pa., where he will promptly attend te
1 '
Cl.ll , ir. Hanrofession ante which In may be favored. Odlet
H., der.' Weal of the Court Houma. near Bentley &Mena
Y. •htfoso. Fehusry 1.18a1.-0ct.92., 18G1.
A. 0. WARREN,
AT LAW BOUNTY, BACK PAT and rim
sJoN mensi easirr. All Penton Clalmm earefolly ore
'mu In ronm formerly ocruplr..l by Dr. TalL W. B
balm> be.rle's Betel.
.ntrose, Pa.. Feb. 1. 15¢4.-febl4l
LRWIS KIRBY & E. BACON,
K : - ,t:ynKTl'VT,uroobT.4 (771 1 0 '' VA
falrnassln deal, they hope to meolt the In., By etrlet :
of the public. An OYSTER sad EATING liAEOOl.i
t..tzte the Grocery, where bivalve,, In season, are served In et ,
Avle 'tat the [Aide" nftne rabiledernor.d. Reenemher ete
firoehry *tend, on Men Street, below the
Poe
1l:tv-..t, Nov. 17, 1863.—nach17,133.-tt
DR. CALVIN C. HALSEY,
DE i A m SURGEON _ A. 3113 EXAMLNING
.IN for PENSIONERS. Mee °Tuttle sten of J.Lyoto
Pobbo Avenue. Boardi of Mr. Etheridge&
”stober, IM.-tf
D. A. BALDWM,
aTT, .RNICT AT LAW. awl Peaelon , Bou.Lv. and Back PLY
Av.., Great Bend, Semttchaana Manly, Ea.
vend, Anz..t 10. 1,63-1 y
I.IOTD & WEBSTER,
swva., Stove Pipe. T. Cope, and Shea
11 ix, Were.Wlndoae Sash, Panel Doors, Windo-v
V.ae Cl
Lumbez and all anade at Itraldtrg Matmis2e
• rLfesHotel, and Carpenter Shop near the
, arssr s, Ya. , January 1, 1854.-ti
Da. WILLIAM W. SMITH,
SITRGEON DENTIST. Offlce over the Deakins
OfOce of Coqler At Co. All Dentalperatlosi
...parote..l In his ussel goo B o a tyle au`
nose., Remember. of for of /1. Smith dr on.
tl - or-bre, Jobeary 1, 1864.—tf
E. J. ROGERS,
Ir AL , N''l , 'FLEE or an Cescrlptlons of WAG.
t LLk/LILIAGEB, SLEIGHS, &c.. In tee
Jr.:war:unto and of the best matexhile,
tte etand of E. H. EOGERS, a few rode evrt
• Rote! In Montrose. where he will be happy to re.'
ra'.A oil who want wlythinit In hie line.
11,...,1, Jane 1, 32/8.-tf
DR. JOHN W. COBB,
DP 7,1 CI 4.1 81.311.0E017. respectfully lA:rulers bh. service.
I ; omemof husonetutram County. Ile wilt wve.eepoclol
: • Ihe comical .nd medleal tymtment of diwase, of lb<
whe, L2v be etmemlted rolatlve etregletl operollons
' n: 4 le oat= over W. J. lk S. H. Mulford sStoro.
..ot Maple stmt. ea. of J. ci. Tarboro Hotel.
itralmet, hong. Ootuaty. Pa.. Jute 22.1811'"U
BALDWIN & ALLEN,
D Ll:StrlJOUr,braht.h
E s . r m .te F a l !' h la lArd z dilo n &rr y ' sd
Mona ver l, Syrups Ten and Coffee. West aids de
war dodr beWo it.thendjn-
M,11 , ,, Jananty 1, 1864.-1.1
Da. G. W. BEACH,
DITT,t% !lAN A.ND SURGEON, having pizazumeoGY thcat.e
Brooklyn Geuter, Pa- tenders hls profesalonal aer
ooze. of Susquehanna County. oo t...roas
• time. Occupies tit , office of the late Dr. B. Richard
-panil at Atm Rlchudron'a.
C.:mt.:T, Pa.. Juuell.lBt.4.-19
F. B. WEEKS,
4A .7106 L 8007 LSD 550 S ILAYLEIL; also Mlle: IL
IL.x, Shoes, Leettm..nn6 Shoe FILICs. Repairing dune
am.eh. Too dactmtban Smrle's nota.
1. 186L-tf
WLL & WM EL JESSUP,
TToIf.:6ETB AT Law, 111ontro66. Pa. P 6661366 16 81116166
a Brscllbrd., wane, Wyoming wad 14666mc 08661182.
Jcnuary la, 1861.
ALBERT CHAMBERLIN,
rr. , 7111.CT ATTORNEY AND ATTORNTS AT LAW.—
, utee ov. the Store fremrrly occupied try ron Drothere
Po. January 1, /56e.
J. LYONS L- SON,
IN ?=,'gdVl7.ll°V;lT•
in.trusueuts. Sheut .119010, Moo tarry Co the mock Bina
r.t.:newa in all 110 tcranchv.- ? I. LIMAI4
January 1. 1864. S. L. Liol7ll
ABEL TERRELL,:
Dt &tau IIItUOS, MEDICINES , CHEMICALS.
Paints. 011 L llyeretullL Vitrutrlan, MT:ocm Glam.
Grocurlea, Crockery, alesemure, Wall• Paper. Jew
' t - r G00d.% P.-rf .umery Surecel lisetruments, True
' C•••eLL BrUetee. AL..—..314 Agent for all of the sane._ pop
, liontroze. Jr.tuarY Uti.
0. 0. FORDEIAII,
Itc&Nl77ACiTtrarli of BOOTS dk
ov SHOES, MontrO4e,
st,op It
&tore. All led. of wort mr“.e
oLd rep e l lzimg dean neatly. .Reek done evbee prom
hiontrote, Alr',l 4, 186L-tf .grow
CHARLES N. STODD&RD,
• KA LEI: in 1100T6 .t SHOES. Esther and rind.
Maio Ir.. third door below Searle'. Ilutrl.
t. ..re wade to order, and repairing done nerdy.
Ountroae, Pa.. Decemtda /1.1640.
L 11. BURNS,
A TTOltfliii AT LAW. °Alm with William J. IWrialL Ss
Aite SParle's Hata Pwmion and Lawny Claims careful
anrose, a lE44 tf
a'arad. promptly made
l
LYONS Zt CO., •
E &LESS I nDra (SCRIPS, GROCERIES. ROOTS, SHOES,
11 , Leases' Genera, Carpets, 011 Clotna, Walt rad Window rtle
Palma, An. Ware on the cat okle of Public Amon.
• J.
H. Wont
nozoone.hanary 1,1864.-tf
READ, WATROUS, & FOSTER,
E ,, A; ;;: gs 111 DRY r.:101),S, lflumn. Netahren: 081
s.rrr Yrtgasyn''.l., T,I71111)117AVouth".
A. warirrus n.c.rorzzia
„au, January 1, lEtd.
PHILANDER LltEB,
Wet
Ta. 1 4 .08, Brick Block. ow' Bead'
watrou rogar's Mom itnnt,n... pa.
...ran Pa.. 17 .140
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ILEAD AT "TEE LWAELS," O TIM lEEIIIII3I.A.C, .11C21E,
The roll of drum and the bugle's walling
Vex the air of our vales no more;
The spear is beaten to hooks of pruning,
The share Is the sword the soldier wore!
Sing soft, sing low, our lowland river,
Under thy banks of laurel blooni,
Softly and sweet, as the hour beseemeth,
Sing us the songs of,peace and home.
Let all the tender voices of nature
Temper the triumph, and chasten mirth,
Full of the infinite love and pity
For fallen martyr and darkened hearth.
But to him:whogives us beauty for ashes,
And the oil of joy for mourning long,
Let thy hills give thanks, and all thy waters
Break into Jubilant waves of song !
Bring us the air of hills and forests,
The sweet aroma of bireh and pine,
Give us a waft of the north wind, laden
With sweet-briar odors and breath of kiln!
Bring us the purple of mountain sunsets,
Shadows of cloud.) that rake the hills,
The green repass ofthy Plymouth meadows,
The gleam and ripple of Campton rills.
Lead us away in shadow and sunshine,
Slaves of fancy, through all thy mites,
The winding ways of Pemlgewasset,
And Winniplaanke'a hundred isles.
Shatter in sunshine over thy ledges,
Laugh in thy plunges from fall to fall;
Play with thy fringes of elms, and darken
Under the shade of the mountain wall.
The cradle song of thy hill-side fountains
Here in thy glory and strength repeat ;
Give us a taste of the upland music,
Show us the dance of thy silver feet.
Into thy dutiful life of uses
Pour the innate and weave the flowers;
Let the song Gif birds and the bloom of meadows
Lighten and gladden thy heart and ours.
Sing on! bring down, 0 lowland river,
The joy of the hills to the waiting sea;
The wealth of the vales, the pomp of mountains,
The breath of the woodlands bear with thee.
Here, in the calm of thy seaward valley,
Mirth and labor shall hold their truce
Dance of waters and mill of grinding,
Both are beauty and both are use.
Type of the North-land's strength and glory,
Pride and hope of our home and raez,—
Freedom lending to rugged labor
Tints of beauty and lines of p - ace!
Once again, 0 beautiful river,
Hear our greetings and take our thank., ;
Hither we come as Eastern pilgrims
Throng to the Jordan's sacred banks.
For though by the Master's feet untrodden,
Though never hls word has stilled thy waves,
Well for us may thy shores be holy,
With Christian altars and saintly graves.
And well may we own thy hint and token
01 fairer valleys and streams than these,
Where the rivers of God arc full of water,
And tall of sap arc his healing trees !
FA= Hour. at Hume
Flip, AND MARIA, ADD Es,
I got up °iris next morning and took my things
out of my t6nk, and fixed them nicely in the draw
ers, and the ll I set out to go down stair , but there
was a door tanding open, end I saw too children
were inside; and so I went in, and save I 'Good
morning, children,' and then I said good morning to
a nice looking woman who was dressing one of 'em.
'Can I help dress 'em 1 , says I, for I saw she had
her hands full and up In the corner was a handsom'
cradle, a rocking sway all by itself.
• Thank you ma'am, there Is no need,' says she,
'rye wound up the cradle and the beby'll go to
sleep pretty soon, and so I shall hare time to dress
the rest If-they'll only behave.'
' Wound up the cradle!, says I, quite astonished
to sec It rocking away with no living soul near It
' Yes, It's a Self rocking cradle,' says she, ' we've
all the imodern improvements In this hone. The
children's ma ain't very fond of trouble, and so she's
got everything bandy, dumb-walters, sewing-ma
chines, and all sorts of contrivances. If you'd like
to go down on the dumb-welter, I'll show you where
'Us,' says she.
' The dumb what r says L
' The dumb-waiter,' says she, 'they're very handy
about getting the coal up and down, and sometimes
folks uses them themselves, if they're tired, or is
old ladies that gets out of breath.'
.` What, to ride np end down the stair,' says L
' Why yes, to save climbing so many flights of
stairs,' says she.
' Well, ra seen so many strange things In this
house, and so many a waiting and tending, that I
thought to be sure a dumb-waiter was a man they
kept a purpose .to carry you up and down them stairs,
i
and says , • in,lte's dumb I suppose he ain't blind,
and he'd see what a figure I should make a riding of
a poor fellow creature as if he was a wild beast. .No,
I ain't used to such tbinge, and I guess my two leet's
as good dumb-waiters Ili I need.'
I see she was a laughing; but quite good natured
like, and says she, The children ' s about dressed
now, and it you won't tbink , :etrange of it, I'll ask
you to mind theme minute While I go down to get
their breakfast. I shall bef right back. And you,
children, you say your prayers while I'm gone.'
'Why don't they eat with their pa and ma?' says
I, And don't their ma hear them say their pray
ers?'
' Not since I came here,' says she. ' Their ma
don't care about such things as psuers I make 'em
kneel down and say over something, if it's only to
make some difference between them and the heathen,'
says she.
'Bnt they go down to family prayers, I hope"
says L
She burst ant a laughing, and says she, ' I guess
there ain't many family prayers in this house, says
she, nor any other kind o'prayers either. Folks i<
too busy n placing cards and a dancing and doing
all that kind ostbings to get time to say prayers.'
I felt so ■tuck up, that I couldn't any a word, and
I was just a going to run bielc to my bed room and
look In the glass and see It'twas me or if %wasn't
me, when I heard a voice cline to my ear say, ' Find
out if the old lady thinks tee or coffee for her break
fast.'
' Did you speak ?' says I to the mass.
' No ma'am. 'twasn't me,' says she.
Then I knew It was the Evil One prowling round,
and no wonder! and so I spokenp loud and strong
and says I, Are you an Evil Spirit, or what are
your I didn't nay nothing about spirit,' said the
voice, 'its tea and coffee Is spe , kingof'
'La! it's nobody but the ho ok a wanting to know
what you'll have for breakfast,' nays the miss. I
couldn't think what made you turn all colors so.
sup_pose you ain't used, to them spmkui
' g
ith that she puts her month to a little hole In
the wall, and then says she Find out yourself,' and
then says she to me, ' Tbese tiibes are very handy
about keeping house. All Mrs. Avery has to do is
to hollow down into the klchen what she'll have for
dinner, and there's k he end of it And It's convenient
for the cook too, fox cooks don't want no ladles a
peeking round In their kitebebs.
says I, Utterer." And I couldn't get out
another word if FiNbeen to suffer.
I went down toibreakfast, and Fred was civil as
need be, but his wile didn't say much, and I was
kind o' fnaid of her/ a sittle there In such a beauti
ful quilted blue wrapper, and a lace sap, and ribbons
a flyin', and mo in my old calico loose gown. And
sometimes when I'tn seared, I get, to running on. and
so I kind o' got to talking about the house and the
handsome things, and says I, When I see nil these
beautiful things and the water all so handy and the
gas a coming when it's _wanted and going away
when 'tain't, and the cradle a rocking away by it
self, and them things to whisper&dd the wall with,
why I almost feel as if I'd got to heaven. Things
can't be Winch handler and couvcnienter up there,'
says L 'BM when' think again that their ma
dou'L hear them chLtdren say their prayers and dan
ces and plays cards,and don't never see the inside
of her kitchen, and the pieces' thrown away for
want of somebody to aoe to 'em, why then I feel as
if 'twasn't exaetly heaven, amiss If 'twits a longer
road to get therefrom here than to get to the other
per ,
Cousin Avery, she looked kind o' bewildered now,
and Fred, he took up the newspaper and began to
read, and he read it all thereat of the breakfast time.
And when he'd done, he got up and says he, ' I'm
skald you'll Lind it rather dull here, aunt,' says
he, ' but Maria ;must take you out, and show you
round and amuseiyon all she can; so be took ids
hat and went off, and I didn't know exactly what to
do, so I went upstairs to my room , and there were
three or four women all around the washstand with
pails and mops a sopping UP the water, and Marla
looking on as red And angry as could be.
You've left the water a nuanlnr, and Ws ail come
flooding downthrpugh my culling and ruined it,' says
she, and then she muttered something about coun
try folks, but I didn't hear what, for I wan Co
asham , d I didn't know what to da.
' II the old lady hadn't 0 tell the wasb - veg In the
I:4:valtivigil
ET JOIL4 G. WiIITTIEM
PART TIIR SZCOND
" Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong."
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1865.
basin 'Wouldn't a run over,' says ono of them girls,
but you sec that stopped np the holes.'
Maria, shn went off upon that, and I got down
and helped dry up the carpet, and kept a begging of
'em all not to think hard of me for making so much
trouble, and they all was pleasant and said "twsn't
no matter.' When I went down they said Maria
had gone out, so I hadn't anywhere to stay unless
'twas with the children, and I went up there and
the room was all put to rights and the baby a rock
ing away all to himself, and the children playing
round, and the nuns she was basting some work.
'l'll hem that petticoat,' says I, 'it you think I
can do It to snit.'
' Oh no, It's to be done en the machine,' says she,
' but If you've a mind to baste while I sew, why that
will help along a sight. But I'll put Gustavus Into
the baby-tender afore I begin,' says she, 'or he'll be
In the machine;' so she caught him up and fastened
him Into a thing that hung trout the ceiling, and lett
him kind o' dangling. So
.1 set down and basted,
and she began to make that machine go. I'd hcerd
of sewing-machlues, but I hadn't never seen one,
and I couldn't baste for looking and wondering, and
the noes she made her feet fly and kept a asking for
more work, and I hurried and drove,' but „I couldn't
baste to keep with her, and at last I stopped, and
says I, There's one of them machines inside n' my
head, and another where my heart oughter to be,'
says I, 'and I can't stand It no longer. Do stop
sewing and take that child out of them straps. It's
against nature for children to be eo little trouble as
them are children are, and they ought to be playing
out of doors instead n' rocking and jiggling up there
In this hot room'
`Guess you're getting nervous,' says the nuss,
'and anyhow I've 42:0t to take 'em out to walk, If It's
only to let Mrs. Henderson see that our children's
got as handsome clothes as hern has, If we ain't just
been to Paris. Why then" three children's pet had
sixty-three new !rocks made, and their ma thinks
that ain't enough. Come, Matilda, I'll dress you
first,' says she.
' I donl want to go to walk,' says Slatllda.
Don't want to go to walk ! Then how's that
Henderson girl a going to see your new cloak and
them furs o' your'n. And vour'n cost more'n her'n,
for your ma give twenty-eight dollars a piece for
them muffs o' yonr'n and your sisters, and what's
the use if you don't go down the Fifth Avenue and
show 'em
I began to feel kind o' sick and fulut, and says I
to myself 'lf their Ina don't sec to tier children 1
don't know as I oughter to expect the Lord to, but
it he don't they'll be rained over and over again.'
" I'll go out and walk with:you and the children
if you ain't no objections, nods,' says L
'No,' says she, 'I ain't no objections if you'll put
on your best bonnet, and fix up a little.'
So I dressed me, and I took the girls and she took
the baby, and we walked up and down the Fifth
Avenue, and I hoard one cuss say to oar's :
Is that your new muss?' says she.
' La! no, It's our aunt,' says she, and then they
both burst out a laughing.
Well, it went on from day to day that I hadn't
any where else to stay, and no I stayed with them
children. And Fanny, the oldest one, she got to
loving me, and nothing would do but ell r must
sleep in my room, and I washed and dressed her,
and told her stories out of the Bible and Pilgrim's
Progress, and taught her hymns, and then Matilda
she wanted to come too, and they moved jittle
bedstead in, and so by degrees 1 got so that you
couldn't hardly tell me from the miss. And it w as
handy for her to have me star home every Sunday
afternoon and see to the children while she went to
meetin' and home to see her folks, and she said no,
and that she felt easy to leave 'em with me because
I'd know what to do 11 anything happened to 'em.
And it got to be handy for her to call tee if the holy
cried mores than common in the night, or If he
had the croup. For Gustavus was a croupy child,
and every time his ma had company and would have
him down stairs with his apron off to chow then
white arms and them round shoulders of his full n'
dimples, why,he was sure to wake up a coughing and
scaring us out of our wits. Well, I wasn't young
and spry as I used to he, and It's wearing to lose
your sleep o' nights, and then Fred's w , ys nod
Maria's tne'h, me feel kind o' distressed like,
and Sam Avery he kept writing and hecteriug me
and saying I ought to Latin the law of Fred, and
Satan he roared round tome, and all together one
night after dinner, just as we was gifting up from
the table, I was took with an awl il pain in my hem:.
and down I went tlat on the door. Fred Inv got in •
up, and they seal for the doctor, and Inc doctor te•
questioned this "Le and he ones:toned that one, an I
he laid susses' places wasn't Pisces for old ladle,
and then again, plenty of frc,h air was good for ol.i
ladies, and to have things pleasant about '•ni, and
took round and diferted. So I was Sick a good
While, and I L.l.pect I made a sight o' trouble, for
one day they WAS all a sitting in my room and little
Fanny One stood by the aide of the bed, and Say.,
she, ' Aunt Avery, what is a Regular Nuisance?'
'I don't know.' says I, ' I never saw one. 'Tain't
ons rig the creatures in Pilgrim's Progress, is it?'
says 1
•For ma sap you're a Regular nnlsance,' sayi
she_
' You naughty girl, how dare you till; so bald
her Mil, and she up and boxed the little thing's care
till they was red.
'lt ain't a story, and you did say so. You told
Mrs. Henderson—f
'Hold your tontme, you silly little goose :` said
Fred. ' bon't mind her, Aunt Avery, she', t k otton, 4
hut a child.
' They do ny children and toots speak the truth.'
saes I, 'and maybe you think I'm a fool ; and mayb
lam But I ain't deaf nor blind, and I can't always
te. dumb. And I wont deny it, Frcd, I've bad bast
tbouzlits towards you. Not ❑bout the money; I
don't care for money, and never did. But It's so
dreadful to think of you sayin g you was poor, and
all those things about your children going out t
work for thAir living.'
`Psbatv! that Was a mere joke,' cried Fred. ' You
knew, as well as I did, that they ware only a parcel
of babies.'
Well, and there's another thing 1" want you to
speak of. Did Sam Avery coax me to come hero
because be thought it would take a weight MT your
mind; or Fmeans,: be thought it would plague you
and Maria to have a plain old body like me round
the house?'
'Sam Avery be hanged!' said Fred ' The fact is,
aunt Avery, I ain't worse than other men. I was in
love with Maria, end I was determined to have tit r.
And I wanted her to lire with me pretty moth as
she had been used to living. If you think this too
fine a house for her to possess, why you'd better
and examine. the one she waS lorn and brought up
In. I economize all I can ; we don't keep a carriage,
and Maria has often to ride in stages, and pass tip
her sixpence like any old washerwoman. And I
deny myself about giving. I Ore nothing to the
poor, and subscribe to no charities, except charity
balls; and Sam Avery, a sanctimonious old sinner.
has Just given lice hundred to Foreign Missions. If
it wasn't for being twitted about the money 1 bad
from you I could hold up my head as high as any
man. But since you've been and set all Goshen on
Tile, why nay life is a dog's life, and little more.'
It cut me to the heart to think I'd kept him to
Short of money that ho hadn't nothing to give
away.
- .
says I. 'you'll soon have the value of the
old place, and be out of debt, besides. For I'm go
ing where I shalt want noes of those things.'
Just then I looked nrand there was M'ris stand
ing in front of Fred, her face white and her lips
trembling. She hadghne out with the child, and
we hadn't noticed she'd come back.
'Do you mean to say You've been borrowing
money of this old woman and have been deceiving
me all along by pretending she gave it to you ? LOOK
me in the face, if you dare !'
' What a fuss about a few thousand dollars!' re
turned he. 'Of course I expect to repay her ell she's
let me hare. And you, Maria, are the last person to
complain. Was not this house your own choice?
And how did you suppose a man of my age could
afford to buy it without help?'
Maria made no answer. It seemed as if all her
love to him had turned into contempt.
I riz up in bed, m weak as I was, and says 1,
Fred Avery, come here to me, and you, Maria,
come here too, and you two kiss each other and
make up, right away, or I shall die here In this
house, end canft have my owe minister to bury Me,
and shall have to put up with your'n. Why, what's
money when you come to putting it along side of
dwellin' together in unity ? Quick, get a paper and
let me sign it; mud say in the paper it was my free
gift and I never lent none of it; and, oh hurry, Fred,
for I feel so Lalntand dizzy!'
'I believe you've killed the poor old soul said
Maria, and she fanned me and held salts to my
nose, and tried to make me lie down. But I
wouldn't, and kept making signs for the paper, for
I thought I was going to drop away in no time.
' Get the paper tide instant, Fred' said Maria,
pretty much as it he was one of the children. So he
went and got it and I signed my name, and then I
lay back on the pillow, and I don't know what
happened next, only I felt them fanning me, and
a pouring things down my throat ; and one says,
'open the window!' and another says, 'it's no use 1'
and then I beard a child's voice set up such a wail
that my old heart began to beat again, and I opened
my eyes, and there was little Fanny, and she crept
up on to my bed, and laid her soft face against mite,
and said, ' Yon won't go and die, aunt Avery, and
have your poor litttle Fanny?' and I knew that I
mustn't goand Icavethat wall a sounding in her ma's
cars. And when I know I ought not to do a thing,
I don't do it. Bo that time I didn't dlr.
Well! We an easy thing to slip down to the bot
tom of the kill, but it ain't ball so easy to get up
again as it Is to lay there In a bqap, a doing nothing.
And It took a sight of wine whey, calves' feet jelly,
and ale sod porter, and them intemperate kind o'
things to drag me a little way at* time back into
the world again. T didn't tee much Of And, but
Maria used to come up and alt In my room and work
on a little baby's blanket she was a covering with
leaves and dowers, and sometimes she'd speak quite
yoft, and gentle like, and coax me to take my beet-tea,
just as if the wanted ma to get. well. She wasn't
never much of a talker, but we got used to each
other more'n I ever thought we should. And one
day—then! I know it was silly, but when she was
giving me some thing, I took hold of that pretty
soft hand of hers and kissed it. And the color came
and went into her face, and she burnt out a crying,
and saya she:
' I shouldn't have cared so much, only I ,sanded to
love Fred
That was all she ever said to me about him after
I'd algned that. paper, but when folk's hearts are
full they ain't apt to go to talking mach, and I
know now that Marls had got a heart, and that
was fnll and more too.
At last Igot strong enoogls to ride out, and Maria
went with me, and after a while she used to stop at
Stewart's and such placs-e to do her shopping, and I
stay In the carriage until she got through. I want.
ed to see what sort of a place Stewart 'a was, for I
heard tell of it many a time, but I thought Maria
wouldn't want to have me go iu with her, and that
maybe I could go sometime by myself. I linked
her what they kept there, and she said 'Oh, every
thing,' and I sure the shop looked as big as all
out doors. She used to get into a stage sometimes
to go down town, and I watched all she did In them
stages so as to know how'tc manage, and one day I
slipped out andgot into the Ural one that came along,
for thinks I, why shouldn't I go to Stewart's if I've
a mind, all by myself?
It carried me np this street and across that, and at
last it stopped near a railroad depot, and all the pas
sengers but mo got out. I waited a little while,
and at last I got up, and says Ito th e driver, Ain't
you a going no further?'
' No, I ain't,' says he.
'But I want to go to Stewart's,' says L
' no objections, ma'am,' says he, and began
to heat his arms about, and blow his hands as if h..
was froze. I didn't know what to do, or where I
was, but pretty anon he turned his homes'
about, and began to go back the very way we'd
come. So I pulled the check, and says I, ' I want
to go to Stewart's.'
' %Yell, ain't you going?' says she, and I don't
know as there's any need to pull a fellow's leg oil!'
' I beg yonr pardon, I didn't mean to hurt you,'
say I, and with that I set dow" and we rode awl
rode till we got Into Broadway, and then I txmln '0
watch all tau shrus on the shops, 60 as to get out at
the right place.. At last we gut most down to the
ferries, so I asked a man tact got in if we hadn't
passed Stewart's.'
'Oh yes, long ago,' says he.
'Dear me, I must get out then,' says 1. ' I toll
the driver I wanted to go there, tint I suppose to
bad s good deal on his mind a picking his way alms:.
and so forgot So I gut out. cad began to wilia
up the street, and I ran rarsinst everybody and every
body ran against me, and I came near getting run
over a dozen times, and seas 60 confused that I did
n't rightly know how far I'd walked, no I stained a
girl, and says I, 'Oh, do you know where Stewart . t.
is ?'
'La, It's three or four blocks down so,' says she.
'I didn't see no sign up,' says 1, 'and so I passed
' I guess you'll have to look till dark if you're
looking for signs,' says she, and away she went. I
was pretty will used up, I was Cu flied, but I wen:
bark, mid tlii-. time I neural it and wiut lu. The
first thine I asked for was tape. We dou't keep
It,' says the t•lerk.
• Do you keep faits?' says L
' No, fans are not lc oar :inc.'
'Well, have you got any hrnwn Windsor soap
No, they hadn't got any kind of soap. Th. en
some other little thing - s I slanted, such as button-,
pins, and needles, but I didn't like to ask for 'en,.
for if thee didn't happen to have none of 'em It
might hurt their feelings to have people know it.
But there was one thing I thought I'd venture to ask
for, and that was a velvet cloak. - I'd heerd Marb:
say a new kind of apring cloak was uncommon han
dy, and I had twenty dollars iu ms ;rockets purpo:ic
to buy It with. For I kind 0' liked Maria, and I
pitied her too, for she and Fred didn't seems
frlonde, and thoue I had made so mach trouble is hen
1 was sick.
The clerk said yes, they had some, but says be,
' They're very expensive,' and never offemil to show
them to me. Well, I ain't perfect, and I felt a li:
tic riled in my feelinga. And says I, as mild as I
could, I didn't s ! nothing shout the price. I ask
ed you If you'd got any o' them cloaks. Upon that
lea took out one or two, and I liked them pr-tty
well, though when I heerd the price I found my
twenty dollars warn't oing to help much; bat then
I didn't care. 'I don't want no finch finery mys,ll,'
thinks ], 'but then Maria's young and she wants It,
and she and Fred feel pretty had, and I don't know
as it's nor 0(8am Avery's busluess how I spend my
money. Folks down to Goshen they might say oust
Avery abe's grown worldly and fond of the pornpA
and,vonitles, tad the 'taint true If they do say it.
'Tata worldy to weal' good clothes, and 'taint pi
ons to wear bad ones. 'The Lord don't look on th,
outside, and I have a feeling that It's right for Ma•
ria to have one o' them cloaks.' Bo I says to tit,
man, Won't you be so good as to let me Carey
home two o' them cloaks to show Mrs. Avery, fur I
don't know which tsf 'em she'd Ilke best. go star
ed at me hallo minute, and then says he, ' Are you
her seamstre.ssr
' No, I ain't,' says I. ' I suppose you think then.
ain't no ladies but what wears silks and satins and
laces and velvets. But I'll tell you whet, Ahljah
Pennell, when you're tired In this world as long n,
I hare you won't judge folks jut by their clothes..'
Ile colored up and looked at me pretty sharp, and
says he, ' EXenUe mu for not recognizing you, Miss
Avery. It's so many years rinse I Lett Goshen. I'll
send the cloaks for you with pleasure. Won't tou
hare one for y ourself?'
' No, Abijao, no,' nava 1, 'them 'ere cloaks ain't
Inc old women like me.' So I bid him goad-by and
all good-by that stood round a Nughing is their
sleeves, and I went out to look for a stage and the ,
was a nice policeman a standing there, so 1 told Lint
where I wanted to go, for, thinks I, it makes a good
deal of odds which stage you get Into, and he put
me In and I Rat down by a man n ith a gold ring on
his linger and little short, black curls round his foie
head, and he was quite sociable, and 1 told him
where I'd been, and Low I hadn't bought nothing,
and then we to ked about the weather, and at last
he got out. And just after that 1 put my hand into
my pocket to get my parse, and there wasn't no
purse there.
'Goodnm.s!' guys 1 it) all the folks In the stage,
4 m 7 purse ain't in my pocket!'
That man with curly hair sat pretty close to von,'
bays one of the passengers. ' Bat It's no nse trying
to catch him now.'
'But I ain't got no money to pay my fair,' says I,
' and I must get right out.'• So I made the driver
stop, and nays 1, ' I'm very sorry, Mister, hut my
pocket's been picked and I can't pay my fare '
You don't come that dodge over me, old woman,'
says he. 'lt you can't nay your tare you'd better
git out and walk.' So I got out and walked till I
w.s ready to drop, but when I went In, there was
Marla admiring of them cloaks, and says she :
' Aunt Avery, somebody's sent me these cloaks to
choose which I'll have, and I'm afraid It's Fred.—
And Fred's no: going to make up with cloaks, I can
tell him.'
'No, dear,' says 'lt ain't Fred, It's your old
aunt that wants to see you pleased and happy, and
that's went down to BiCWEISCR and picked out than
cloaks.'
`La! I never !' says she, ' I thongbt van had r.n
Idea that everybody ought to wear sackcloth and
ashes.' But she did seem sort of pleased and grat..-
MI, and Fred did too, when he mule home, and h •
and Maria behaved quite decent to each other, but I
could see there was something on their minds, and
they weren't good friends by no means.
Little Fanny she and I kept together a good deal,
for she wasn't no care, and Gustavus he got to be
banging around his old aunt, and I taught him to
come in every night to say his prayers. That night
be was so good, and coaxed Bo prettily to sleep with
me, that I thought I wouldn't care If the doctor did
scold, the dear child should have his way now and
then. And seeing the little creature a lying there so
innocent and so handsome, and a looking just as
Fred used to look, I couldn't help praying more'n
common for him, and says I to myself, 'He won't
have the croup to-night, anyhow, with me to cover
him up and keep him warm.' But about two o'clock
I was woke out of a sound sleep with that 'ern
cough of his. -It went :h'oed' me like a knife, and
I got up and gave him his drops light away, and put
on more coal and covered him up warmer, tut be
didn't seem no better, so I bad' to go and call Fred
to go for the doctor.
Well I well I there's some has to toil and fight and
work their way uP hill towards the heavenly places,
and there's some that never know nothing about no
kind o' battling, and their little white feet never go
long enough over the dusty road tett soiled or
e - d
tired. And when thaylight came at my win
dows that morning, Fred and Maria was good friends
again, and he hsd,nisarms around her and she clung
dose to him, but little Gustavus waa gone Gone
where such dreadful Words as menet ain't never
mentioned ; gone straight np to tlas. great white
throne without no tears and no misgivings ! Oh
Fred, you're a rich man now, for you've got a child
np In heaven.
That night Marla had the vidldren kneel down
and say their prayers In her room. tint I never see
her shed no tearr., nor h,:arti her a grieving. She
hid her poor broken heart away in I.l' bosom, and
thtre wasn't no getting at It to •urort ft. I
couldn't but lay awake nights at, r og of her a
walking up and down in her room, and a chafing
and a wearing all to herself, and them tears she
couldn't abed was a wetting my pillow end fairly a
bathing my poor prayers for
We had an early spring this year, and Fred Raid
the doctor told him I'd better not stay In New-York
till warm weather cam.. So I wrote to Sam Avery
and told him I was a coming home in May, and I
thought I ought to tell him how I'd gone contrary
to hln advice and signed away all Pd ever lent Fred,
and made hint a life member of the Bible Society
and them. And I asked him not to feel hard to me,
and to sec that the widow Dean had my room ready
against I got back. Maria was stiller than ever,
and hardly; ever talked at all, and Fred looked 101 l
of care and yet more as be used to when he was a
boy. Aud we parted kindly, and Maria as good as
said she was sorry to have me go, only It was time
to take the children out of town. Fanny, she said
she was agoing with me, and she got a little trunk
and put her things In it, and was as busy as a bee
folding and packing. And when I saw her heart so
set upon it, I felt a pang Ruch a. I never felt before,
to think I hadn't got no home to take her to and
tmw it wouldn't do to venture her on the widow
Dean who couldn't abide children. Well!' her Pa
had to carry her off by main force when the carriage
came, and I bad a dull journey home, for I didn't
seem to have no home, only the name of one. For
I never took to boaniln.'
It was past five o'clock when I got to Goshen
postotlice, and thinks I dam Avery wont be up
braiding me to-night, for Its quite a piece from bin
house to the Widow's. Bat who should I sec a
waiting there at the depot but Sam and his shay.
How dy'e do ? aunt Avery, glad to sed you home
again,' says he, jump right into the shay and I'll
gut Tour trunk. Amanda, she's a waking tea for
you, and I rather think you'll tied it [Alin' not,'
siva he.
' But I was a going to the widow Dean's,' says I.
' Don't talk no widow Dean'+ to me,' says dam,
' but you Jest get into that shay o' mine and go
where your took to, aunt Avery.'
And how nice and clean and shiny Amanda's
house did look, to be sure! And how she kissed
me and said over and over 'twas good to get me
borne al.mln. And how that tea did bad me up,
and make me lee! young and spry as I used to feel
to old times
Well, alter tea I put on an apron she lent me, and
she and mu washed up and cleared away, and Sam
read a chapter and we had prayers, and I went to
bed, and I never knew nothing atter I laid my head
un the piilovv, but.slept all night like a baby.
At breakfast I expected Sam would begin about
Fred, but lie didn't, and Amanda she didn't, and we
two we washed up the dishes and as era the doors
and made the beds; and Amanda she let me do Jest
as I was a mind to, and it didn't seem like boardin'
at all. And alter a while I left off expecting Sam to
vector me about Fred, and got to feeling easy In my
mind. And we had the minieter to tea, and his
wile and Millen:l4 and you never saw nobody no
pleased as they was at their thingn. For of course
I wasn't going to New-York without getting a
black silk gown for my minister's wife, and a doll
for little. Rebecca, and wooden cats and dugs for the
rest of them. Sam Avery be waa going and a com
ing moron common this spring, and he says to me
one day, ' Aunt Avery, don't you go to looking at
the old place when you are wandering out. Yon
see Squire Jackson's been a cutting and a hacking.
and there's a good deal going on there, and it might
rile your feelings to see the muss,' says he.
So I didn't go neer the old place, and I didn't
want to, and the time it slipped by and I got to leeb
Mg that nothing aggravating hadn't never happened
to toe. Folks come fur aunt Avery when they wee
sick jest as they used to, and tee mini , ter he drop
ped in every now and then, and Deacon Morse he
had over plenty of them rough sayings of his that
didn't mean nothing but good will, and so I telt
quite to home. There wasn't but one thing a sting
ing of tne, and that was Fred and his ways, and Ma
ria and her ways. And I kind o' yearned after them
children, and couldn't help a thinking if I hadn't
been and sold the old place, tber'd always been a
home for them in the summer time, and a plenty of
new milk and ireeh eggs.
Well ! it got to he well on Into July, and one af
ternoon, Sam Avery he come in and says he, ' Aunt
Avery, put on your bonnet and get Into the shay
and LTU rigllt down to the old place. There's some
thing do.vn there wants looking after,' says he.
D air me, is any of em sick t" nays I. Anti I put
on my things, and Sant whipped up the old horse,
and next news, we was driving up to the .honse
Twigs didn't look so changed after all. Them trees
was gone, there's no denying of it., but there wasn't
nothing else gone, and when I went in there wasn't
none of Squire Jackson's red and yeller carpets on
the Wan' nor none n' his things slaying about,—
But Were was my little 11.41 a-stand a setting in the
owner, and my old Bible on It with the spectacles
handy by jest as they used to he, and our cat she
iconic a rubbing of herself against me, as much as to
say, ' Glad to see you back, aunt Avery,' and them
children, they come running up, and one kissed me
and the other hugged me, and 'twas Fanny and Ma.
tildy,and then Fred Avery he walks up, and nays he,
Welcome home, aunt Avery!' and Maria she takes
both 01 my old hands and squeezes of 'em tip to tier
heart; and then says she, ' Here's our new baby
come to toe you, and her name's aunt Avery,' says
she, and she put It into ray arms and 't wasn't big
ger than a kitten, bat it had a little mite of a smile
a shining on its face all ready waiting for me. By
this time I was a'most beat oat, but they set me
down in my old chair, and them children they was
round me, and Fred a smiling, and Maria a smiling,
and Sam Avery a shaking hands with everybody,
and I didn't pretend to make nothing out o' nobody
for I knew 'twasn't nothing real, only something I
was reading out of a hook. Only that 'era little ba
by that was named aunt Avery, it held tight bold o'
one o' my fingers with its tiny little pink hand, and
wasn't nothing you could read out of a book no
how. And then Amanda she opened toe door Into
the big kitchen and there was a great long table sot
out with my best china andithings, and our minister
and his wife and all them children, and Deacon
Morse and the widow Dean, they'd come to tea,
And the minister he stood up, and says . he, 'Let u ,
prey.' And in his prayer he told the Lord all about
though I gun, the Lord knew of It before, how
Maria had made Fred sell that big house of his, and
how he'd l.onght me back the old place, and how
I we was all come to tea, and a good many other
things I couldn't rightly Mar for the crying and
aonbintr that was ageing on all round. And then
we had tea, and I never thought when Amanda
made me fry all them dongh-nuts and stir up such
sight o' cake what 'twas all a coming to, for it's my
opinion that nobody knows when they does a thing
what's aping to come next, though the Lord He
knows all along.
Well, It begun to grow dark, and ono after anoth
er they all come and bid me good-night, till at last
everybody was gone but me and Maria and them
children of hers. And Maria came up to me, and
says she, ',Doe% the old place look pleasant, aunt
Avery?' but I couldn't answer her for them team
that kept a choking me. And so she said if I didn't
mind, and it wouldn't be too much trouble, she
wanted to stay with me the rest of the summer, ti-I
Fred could get a new, honest home for her some
where else. Wasn't that just like an angel now,
after all the trouble I'd been and made for her,
a setting of her against her husband, and a turn
ing of her out of her beautiful hone* and home,
and making , her buy back for me my old place ?
So she and me we undressed them children, and
made them kneel down and say their prayers, and
we put them to-bed up stairs, and I began to feel
at home.
And Maria she staid till gold weather came, and
she sat and read my old Bible, and talked to them
children about the place Gnatavus had traveled to,
and she pald respects to cur minister, and wiped
up the china when I washed it, and fitted her ways
to my ways quite meek and quiet-like.
And Fred paid back every cent he'd borrowed,
for he'd kept aceount,and know ell about It, and he
started fair end ileum in the world again, owing
nothing to nobody. So now I've a home for him
and Maria and the children, and the old house Is
full of Averys once more, and so is the old pew,
and all the taxes paid up regular.
So you ate a rich man now, Fred, and you're a
rich 7701:1111.0, Maria, for you've get a child up In
heaven! aura END.
MIL NASBY HAS A VISION.
SAINT'S REST, {with 15 In the SIM/ uv
Noo Gersy,) May nit, 1665.
Dreems wuz common In the old Skriptoorall
times, and wuz coneedred as profetlklc. I lied a
dreem larat nit; which may or not mene enthin.—
Ef It may, Lord help the undembsed, is my prayer,
continually.
• I dreemed I wuz dell—that assisted by a tyfus fe
ver, and 3 dokters I had bustid the bonds ny mor
tality,aud lied cored to the unknown hereafter. Up
I went to the gates uv the bother world, wher I
wuz confrontid by Peter.
" Wber you (rum?" eez he.
" Noo Geny," aez I.
" Wuz yoo a good dltyzen r eez he.
" I win a demokrat who never skrateht a Ilkklt:
see I.
" Hey you votid that tikkit fur the lard 4 yeers
and kin yoo read 4', rez he.
" I hey and kin,' rez I.
" Then your place 1.5 below," see be. " Glt."
Wick I did.
I met his Majesty Satan the I, at his dore, and he
welcomed me corjelly. I wozdisappinted in his
perenel appecmnce. Ile wuz a middle-ajed man,
gentlemanly la stile, resemblin Geffson Davis very
much, only bevin a more Intellectual cast uv count
enanee
"Welkum," sez he. "I her been spectin yoo
sum time. Welkura I Welkum I"
" Rev yoo menny nv the Ditnocrisy with yowl,"
sez i.
" Not money ne the ginoolne Iropperbetade,” sea
be.
" T3v coor•o yao !went," 60Z L "We overage es
good ez---"
" That's not It," scz be gazin onto me with an
exprcsbun uv Intense foridnis, " that's not fist it.—
All but about 11 or 10 (ruin each countyglt out by
pleedln innocence, and Idiocy, and etch . But it's all
rite. 1 make It up by bevin a Levier force 2 spare
2 btlr np the few leaders. Yoo klu rade print, cant
yoo ?" he askt anksbusty.
" I kin," BCZ L
" All rite," sez be, " flefferson Darts will be along
In a few months, tho et he don't slew more man
than he did when ho woo caught, he'll make poor
amusement"
" He'a a disgrace 2 Ida aecks—ho ort to bey bin a
*omen," sea 1.
" Troo " retorts he, "bat if Shskspeer ees,
' ther's a ' divinity that ehspea our ends.' Then Alec
Stephens!"
" Will you git him ? He wnz orienelly opposed
2 seceshin."
"That's my best bolt. Davis wuz alluz a secesh,
Bengamin woz beCoz ho thawt It wood pay—on em
I've hell a morn re ever tense they arrived at the
ysers of akountability. Stephens knode seeesh wuz
rong—he can't pled° Ignorance nor nuttiln, fer he
warnd his peeple agin it, and then wez but up in 2
Join it hisc:l fer the poor prislig uv playin 2 lidcllo
to Getf. Davis, who drawd a mizabte bow bisself.—
I've Jed-wood on him."
" Tell me gentile sir," sea I, "how about Fermin
di Wood, Vallandynm, et awl, ez the lawyers say."
"In duo time the r mine," sez he. "They can't
save themselves by repentance, even. They are
now past forty, and if they'd cowmen, In ded ern
est tryin to do ez much good r z they hey had, and
lived till they wets ez old ez Methoozcler, they
couldn't make a commencement toward ballancln
the books. By the way, speekin tin Methooseler,
used to watt pashently fer customers in them days
when men lived 1100 years."
"There's Correy, Colorada Jewel, and Alec
1,0171 , ," contionoed he, Pee lied my eye on Jewet
and Curry I'd lose—there's a place out Me Iry my
goorisdicshen, fer etch. They slut responsible you
see. The devils that wuz kart not us ' the man and
took refuge in the swine, left the swine when they
wuz drowndld, and hen inhablthl inenny men sane , .
Two nv them air In Corry and won in Jewct, today.
Alec Long hez, evry now and then, a glintrin uv
seine, he si l os oeeayhenally euriace Irdleations uv
intellect, not quite enntf to make a lunatic us him,
and too much ler an ideot. I may glt him and may
not. But you will hey plenty of compeny. The
stand your party took dray thousands tot men In
to cuelduis, who knode better and who, et let
alone, wood hey dodged me. I hey an eye on
snm who denonnet Vallyoiaem, and yet, when the
screws was brat down on 2 em, and by the way, fist
etch ez u turned them ',.d screws, (and pokt me
joekelsrly in the ribs) actilly precldid at Valandigme
meeting, and votid fer him. Then, alter he wuz
derestid, they swore they didn't vote ler hint at all,
addln a dirty Ile to the origiel Din, wleh is shin the
devil, (ez u stile me) his thie,with compound interest.
"But teccoose me—l'll show yoo 2 your apart -
mence. That way my deer sir."
I obg,ectid to oln and looked ankshusly fur es
cape. Obsereln this a change cum over the polight
gentleman afore me. His t yes gllstenid, a sultrus
streern Ishood (rum his mouth, his toet partid ii!
hoofs, fingers elongatld int: claws, I observed a tale
peepin down under his cute, in short he wuz trans
formed In:: the Identical devil 1 bed seen on secret
occa-hens, when labrin under attux of delirum tre
mens, eooperindooet by drinkin a burl sow to,
mucu cleckshun whisky, doorin hotly contestid
campancA. He reeeht one claw fur me, when I
woke. 2my I wuz Tejoist at flndin myself still on
pmyln ground, is we. k—twuz goy onspetkable. 1
cant interpit the dreem. PETILOLET:s3 V. liAstiv,
Lott fluter un Ns church
us the Noo Di•pensaslion
0 :WA 0 Rtel
Reading stionlil he avoided when it interfere with
necessary repose, as It doe. when paranoia at a late
hour of night It then has a pernicious influence
upon the health first, then upon the spirits, then
upon the mind itself. The knowledge gained b.
this way is for the most part but of little value, ler
it gained al the expense of mental vigor, one
sometimes even of life itself. Tim celehratedWillLun
Pinckney, the great Maryland orator, fell a snuffle,-
to late reading. To read when yon ought to be In
bed, especially to nerd in bed, is to inflict a great
evil upon your-elf with-ut an equivalent. It
to before your eyes, your brain, your netvon
system, your Intellect. A person mentally indolent
may be fond or reading. lie may love to read in a
recumbent po.ture till he fails asleep, every day ca
every night of his lir , . It may be too much to way
that his room resembles the famous cave of the {,n,l
of sleep; but he furnishes proof In hi, experiene
that the leaves of a book are as sure an opiate as the
leaves of the poppy, the symbol of that god In
deed, we have known those who regularly take a
book to bed with them every night, as " shot- b or.
to pull on sleep with." Indeed, we have seen a
whole family, each with a book in baud, to which
each seemed to be bowing In devotion, except oae
bright young girl, who archly sting •
" We are all noddla', old, nid,
We are all nodin' at our house at Lome."
In order to profit from reading, It la advantageous
to converse with those who have read the Berne
hooka. Two persons of equal capacity may read
the same book, and yet rewire from It very differ
cut Impressions- By exchanging their 'Views in the
commerce of thought, each is a gainer. The
culties which one meets with are solved by the ott
er, and the truths upon which they Krim are more
firmly fixed in the minds of each. By thus bringing
their minds in contact with each other, In conversa
tion upon the work, their feelings are warmed into
more vigorous exercise, and by the collision of their
opinions, the light of truth is brought out More
over, by conversing concerning the books that you
read, with those that are older and have had better
opportunities for observation, von will be the bulbs
able to form correct estimates of what yon read.
Their experience will help to gaunt you against the
errors and evil tendencies of the work, or enable
you to appreciate its excellencies.
Are you deficient in taste? Read the best English
poets, sneh as Gray and Goldsmith, Pope and
Thompsom, Cowper and Coleridge, Scott and
Wordsworth
Are von deficient In imagination? Auld Milton,
Aken.fde and Barka.
Are you deficl.nt In the powers of reason? Read
Ch.illlngworth, Bacon and Locke
Are yon dificlent In jutdgmmt and good sense
In the common atisirs of life? Read Fraukila.
Are you deficient In sensibility? Read Goethe
and Mackenzie.
Arc you deficient to vigor of style? Read Joulna
and For.
Are you deficient in political knowledge? Read
Siontesquiea, the Federalist," Webster.
Aro you deficient lapatriotism ? Reed Demos.
thenes, and the " Life of Washington."
Are you deficient In conscience? Read some of
President Edwards's works.
Are you deficient in piety? Read the Bible
pwirErwrioayabviol
The real danger in our eastern civilization is the
growing power of concentrated wealth, sad its
ecrwalnas use by men of high position to annoy the
rabble In their great cities, and thug control the
whole public life of the nation. Society in the old
free States in rapidly cormolidating Into cities and
large towns. Nearly one-third of the population ci
New York and a third of the population of Peanut.
vanla, New Jersey. 3lansaelasettn, Connecticut and
Rhode Island, is to day gathered In a score of cities,
which have become the contra of influence But
every one of them is convulsed by a fearful struggle
for lie complete control by corporate and concen
trated wealth. We doubt if there is any portion of
the civilized world where money, powerfully used,
can do so much as In the valley of the Hudson in
cantern.New York. We see too evident proof of the
deteruilnition of a portion of our rich men of all
these eastern cities to govern the government by al
liance with the Ignorance, vice and poverty of these
vast hives of population. The scenes we have con
stantly witnessed alike In the higher commercial,
politleal,4mil the lowest popular life of the city eJ
New York during the last few years may well alarm
every friend of his country.
The cultivated, right minded, honest men and
women of the East must understand that the coun
try expecte them to resist and overthrow this at
tempt to role the people by a moneyed aristocracy,
as dangerous and unscrupnicras as the slave aristoc
racy late In arms amtlnst us. Wo narrowly missed
a league between It and the slaveholdera at the be
ginning of the war. It was only Cowed by the terri
ble uprising of those April days. It has reared its
hideous head mom than once during the pant four
years to welcome a Rebel rule in the great central
cities of the East. 'We feel its malignant spell out to
the very edges of our Western ; and Its
selfish and unpatriotic Mhhcenverg are the real cause
of much of the bitterness that so often news our
companionship. We charge the noble-hearted peo
ple of the Now England and Middle States to see to
it that thee° venerable commonwealths do not si
lently fall Into the control of thin power, made up
by the godless rich and graceless poor, t 9 repeat the
drama of old world corruption and tyranny.-110.
A. D. liar.
•
tar Tho true thry ro ug hly,mas rights Is to slip,.
cate the gide thenti then let the women
do as they - have a mind to. o
or Renew le the light of Tenth.
02.00 per annum, in advance.
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Far the Independent Republican
TOBAOOO USING.
It is usually a thankless and almost fruitless task
to undertake the reformation of persons from any
habit, however unnatural or injurious, especially
when the habit has thrown around it emanation of
custom and respectability, and its injurious effects
are so gradual as not always to be observed. I have
not the vanity to hope that by ono short newspaper
arliele I shall have the pleasure of turning many
from the habit of tobacco using, but I wish to pre
sent a few facts and reflections for the consideration
of the candid, hoping thereby to aid In some degree
In checking the spread of a habit, at once natiatu
ad, Injurious, and disgusting. Tho nee of totems
as a luxury among civilized people is of rather mod
ern date. The savagrs of thla continent had badalged
to some extent in smoking and chewing long before
the advent of the white man on these shores.: On
his arrival at Cuba, in 1492, Columbus beheld for
the ;Ira time the ludlerona sight of a man drawing
tobacco smoke Into his month through a burning
cigar. The plant was soon after hatrodneed into
Spain and Portugal. In 1599 Sir Francis Drake in
troduced the use of the article into England ; and
about the year 1:03 It was Introduced into Italy by
the Cardinal Santa Croce. From these points it
spread rapidly over nearly the whole habitable globe,
soul is cultivated and used very extensively In nearly
every country on the face of the earth. Says a dis
tinguished medical author In regard to it:
" But a habit an Intriesically disgusting, and so.
self evidently inimical to individual health and so
cial decency, did not overrun the land and sensual
ize the people without a struggle. As with its twin
friend of evil, alcohol, its use was at first opposed,
then tolerated; next embraced, and finally eulogiz
ed."
King James the first, and Charles his successor,
prohibited Its use under severe penalties. James
wrote a book, the "Counterblast to Tobacco," in
which he declared t t .ninklng la a custom" loathe.
some to the eye, hatetel to the nose, harmful to the
brain, dangerous to the lunas, and, in the black,
stinking lames thereof, nearest resembling the hor
rit.le Ryden smut a of the pit that la bottomless."
Whatever theologians may think of the latter clause
of this quotation, the most eminent phricians and
Plif'doloehas confirm the views ot the King in re
tard to its harretal " effects on the vital organs.
Observing and intelligent men in all countries
have been fearfully apprehensive of the evil results
to society and individuals, which must follow the
prevalence of a habit so utterly uncle= and besot
ting as the use of tobacco in any form, and have
used all their intlctence against it. "In 11124 Pope
Urban VIII excommunicated all snuff•takere who--
defiled St. Peter's church by taking a pinch within
os walls." A few years later, in Russia, the offence
f tobacco chewing was punished with death, while
those who smoked were condemned to have their
noses cut off. In IWO Popo innocent XII renewed
the ediet of Urbane; but Benedict XIV having, him
,or, become a muff-taker, In 17 . 34 repealed It. More
than a hundred volumes have been written to put
down the detestable nabit of using tobacco es a
luxury, and yet, not withstanding all the statutes and
t.,licts of Popes and Kings, and tie testimony of em
inent physicians, acientific men, and philanthroplabt
atrainst it, it has been for centuries constantly ex
tending the area of lie abominable and most relent
kss slavery, and is at the present time making more
rapid progress, especially among the rising genera
lion of this country, than at any former period.
By transforming the natural loathing and disgust
far a polebnons weed into a love and passion for its
use, it has trirzaphed over reason, argument,
dentinciation, statutes, and punishments, and
Is next to the also. of al.o r bollo b0v010g... 7
nag and bearitling vice of Christendom. As to the
nature of " the weed" all aro :greed that it IS a poi
son ; and as such, an enemy to the vital organism;
and not until all the laws of nature are reversed can
one expect to indulge in the use of a poison without
suffering injurious consequences, of which I wish to
say more hereafter, In connection with such facts
and reflections as the importance of the subject de
mands. F.
SITSQUEILANNA DLPOS, July 11th.
HOW GRANT GOT INTO THE WAIL
The well-known correspondent of the Boston
.1.1m.1, who writes tinder the signature of "Bar
leigb," tbus relates the story of Grant's re-entrufice
Into the United States army at the outbreak of tie
rebellion :
' Four years ago this very month, Mrs. Grant livied
In her quiet home in Galena. Her husband was 31 . r.
Grunt, the leather dealer, a plain, modest, reliable
man, without much apparent force, who attracted
very little ;Mennen anyway. The war had com
menced. The flag land been shot away from Sumter,
and shot out of a rebel cannon at Memphis. One
morning Mr. Grant called on Congreasman wash.
borne, who resides In Galena He told Mr. W. that
ha did not leel right—that he could not slecpnights,
that he felt that he was not doing his duty. Wash•
burne asked Lim what was the matter. Mr Grant
replied, "I am doing nothing for my country. I
have been educated at the nation's expense; but
hare lam at home doing nothing. I don'll know
what to do. lam no politician. I don't EC= to be
wanted anywhere, yet I feel as if I was fit for some
thing it I enuid only find my place." Mr. Wash
burnt invited his neighbor to accompany him to
Springfield, where an important consultation was to
be held at the request of Governor Yates'. On the
morning of the fourth day Mr. Grant called at Mr.
Washburne's rooms, and said to him, "Nobody
knows me here—thern Is, nothing for me to do—l
am going home." " Hold on a day longer," said
Waahbunae. The next day an Important discussion
was held in the council chamber. At Mr. Waah
burne's request Mr. Grant was called In. He held
an Interview with the State authorities for thiety
minutes, end then went out. As the door closer
Governor Yates cried out, "Good God, Washburn,
who is this man ? I have learner more about troops
in these thirty minutes than I ever knew in all my
life All I can do for him now is to put him nn my
staff. Yougo home and raise a regiment and I
will commission him as Colonel." The thing was
done. The rest of the story the world knows by
heart.
IRS INFLUENOE OF nu ON FELONY.
Dr. Sprague relates the following, In his work up
on the American pulpit:
Dr. Gay bad coma time missed the bay from his
barn, and was satisfied that It was stolen. With a
view to detect the thief, ho took a dark lantern and
stationed himself near the place where he supposed
he must pass. In duo time, a person whom he
knew puaed along into his barn, and quickly came
out with as large a load of hay as ho could carry up
on his back. The doctor, without saying a word,
followed the thief, and took the candle out of his
lantern, and stuck It tato the hay upon his back,
and then retreated. In a moment the bay was in a
light blaze, and the fellow, throwing It from him In
utter consternation, ran away from his perishing
booty. The doctor kept the affair a secret, even
from his own family; and, within a day or two, the
thief came to him In great agitation, and told him
that he wished to confess to him a grievous sin;
that he had been tempted to steal some of his hay,
and, as he was carrying It away, the Almighty was
so angry with him that He had Bent fire from heav
en and bet it to blazing upon his hack. The doctor
agreed to forgive him on condition of his never ro•
pcating the offense.
NEW Youu ISlmmoNAlPuz.s.—The richest throe of
the New York millionaires are thus described :
William 13. Astor, worth about fifty millions, owns
about one thousand stores and dwellings, and has
the reputation of being a good and lenient landlord.
fle is a well preserved old gentleman, on the cloudy
Bide of sixty, Industrious , reticent, and punctual.—
He seldom shows his face et apublic gathering, rare.
ly makes Weisel( eOIIaDICIIOIII3 in the newspapers, and
seems to be devoted almost entirely to the task of
taking care of his immense fortune. He Is tall,
straight, spare, gray, and grave.
A. T. Stewart is reported to be worth millions.—
Though an active business man, he finds time to look
after the interests of the city, and he Iran made h
self prominent to his patriotic endeavors to pot down
the rebellion. He is a tail, thin man,
of nervous
sanguine temperament . Ho is about eat) , years
of age, quiet and dignified la his deportment, and
chaititsbly disposed when appeals reach him. In
this!clty and else po where many of the currents of char
ity are dammed at the dcairs of private secretaries.
Commodore Vanderbilt is a tall, white-hared,
red checked, handsome old man of Seventy, and
past. He drives s fast horse, sails a fast boat, and
sometimes associates with fast men. Ho Is worth
se least twenty (some say forty) millions, lie Is
generous to the poor.
DEMOII.I,IIZED, aCt :rot SosTrzugn.—The Au
gusta (Gal Sentinel has thalbilowing ;Nod story of
a rebel soldier': A soldier of Bates' division; after
the command bad run two days from Nashville, bad
thrown away his gun and accoutrements, and, alone
in the woods, sat down and commenced thinking—
the prat chance he had for such lathing. Rolling up
his sleeves, and looking at his Legs, and genera
pbysigne, he thus cave vent to his 'TA:wenn - to
qam warped, badly whipped and somewhat der
moralized ; but no man can say ' I am scattered'
. Poor Brigham Young, is a vadower. One
of.his wires died on the ildad of last month. Btu
wan the handsomest of all Brigham's wives, empti