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PAINTING OF EVERY DE.STRIPTION Executed in a superior mariner, at the very lowerd pricer_ our a..,...),1ti00nt of Jon Pin is large Sad isehionable, sad ear Work speaks for itself. BLANKS OF ALL KINDS, Itolading PARCERIEST EMI PAPER DEED; MORTGAGES, Raps. ARTICLES OF AAEEE]IESL, LBARES, and n variety of JeA.ICRI ]assns, kept constantly fur bale, or printed W order. RICHMOND L. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, (\ppicE wiTH GLA_NCY JONES, ESIL East Penn Square, south side, Reading. April IS, 1563-3 mo • JESSE G. HAWLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH Sixtb Street, opposite the Keystone Rouse, Reading. April 11, ISR-tr NEWTON D, STRONG, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE IN COURT STREET, NEAR FIFTH, vSteading, Pa. [March 14, 1363-3 mu ZONIS RALSTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE WITH A. B. WANNER, NORTH Sixth RE...4_ (abebt, the Conn Ranee) Reading, Pa. February 21. 1563-iy REMOVAL. LLIAIIII. LIVGOOD, ATTORNEY AT liliTl LN LAW, bee removed bic office to the north side of Coen street Bret door below Sixth. NecZi-if Charles Davis, AfrTTORNEY AT LAW-11AS REMOVED 1115 Office to the Office lately occupied by the Hon. David enion, deceased. in Sixth drain, opposite the Court Rinse. [april 14 Daniel Ermentront, A TTORNEY AT LAW—OFFICE IN NORTE / - 1_ Sixth street, corner of Court alley. [aug 13-17 Dania Neff, WIIOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN y Foreign and Domestic DRY GOODS, No. 25 Suet can street, Reading, Pa. [March 10, 1560. LIVINCOOD'S United States Bounty, Back Pay and Pension Office, COURT STREET, NEAR SIXTH. 1 WING BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECT ins' claims against the Government, I feel confident tout ail who have heretofore employed me will cheerfully endorse my promptness and fidelity. My charges are moderateand no charge made until obtained. WILLIAM H. LIVINGOOD, err IR-tl7 Attorney at Law, Court Si, Heading, pa. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS OAN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY ‘_,/ from the U. S. Government, by application to ABNER K. STAUFFER, March 7—tt] Collection Office. Court Street. Reading. .A.SA M. HART, (Late Mart & Mayer,) DEALER IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN DRY GOODS, CARPETINGS, &c., Wholesale and Re sit, at Philadelphia prioes. Sign of the Golden Bee Hive, 80. 14 Bast Penn Square. Cap/1117-d P. Bushong Arc Sons, TANUFACTURERS OF BURNING FLUID, at_ Absolute, Deodorized and Druggists' Alcohol; also, r 'lee Oil, which they will sell at the lowest Wholesale prices, at Reading, Pe. 44' Orders reenectfully solicited. DR. T. 'YARDLEY BROWN, SURGEON DENTIST. GRADUATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Dental College. Teeth extracted by Pram -111144.., cis' Electro Magnetic process, with Clarke's improvement. With this method teeth are %traded with ranch less pain than the usual way. No extra charge. °Woe in Filth street, opposite the Presbyte rian Church. [april2-ly CHARLES LANCASTER, MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN, Fourth Street. above Penn, Reading. January 24. Ib6S-tt PENSIONS, BOUNTIES & BACK PAY. APPLICATIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED to Terms moderate and no charge until obtained. A. G. GREEN, Attorney at Law, Jan 3 l-tmol Ofhoe in Court i.krest,Aiihig- SOLDIERS' BOUNTY-MONEY, BACK-PAT £IW PENSION' CiaLIDELS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO BY A.. K. STA - UPPER, Attorney at 'Law, 011 lee in onrt Street, Jan 3140 READING, PA. LIQUOR STORE. T HAVE OPENED A LIQUOR AND WINE ISTORE, la the room formerly occupied by JOHN GREEN, IN THE " SCHMUCKER HOUSE." My friends are all invited to call and examine for thorn belveit All LIQUORS and WIRES bold be nie, 4411 be as represented_ April 4, 1863-tf] JEREMIAH D. BITTIIt6. WATCUF,S, GOLD AND SILVER, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY. A RELIABLE IN QUALITY AND AT LOW Pricer. WATCH RZSRAIRINB.—WatcheR pat In per fermi order and every one warranted for one year. JACOB LODEN, 21 North Fifth Street, Reading, Pa. nov 15-13mo] F. P. HELLER, WATCHMAKER JE WELER AND DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWEL It, SPOONS, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, Re_, Sign of the " WATcH," No. 53,14 Ea Penn Strew, above Sixth, north ride, Reading, Pa. di - Every article warranted to he what it le cold for Watchee, Clocks, Jewelry, Re., repaired With particular attention, and guaranteed. (Sib NOTICE. A PREMIUM WILL BE PAID ON arcox.rp, CO.LIZI gilklX.a "I grMXII. -AND 1''..111...N1. 33.ALN313. WC:01113EI8 V&:s 1 EXCHANGE AND BANKING OFFICE -OF- G. W. GOODRICH, READING, Pa. Aagort 10, 1801-14 BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL, airESTABLISRED AS A REFUGE FROM QUACKERY. The Only Place Where a Cnre Can be Obtained. DR. -JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED THE most Certain, Speedy end only Effectual Remedy iu the World for all Private Diseases, Weakness of the Lack or Limbs Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys and Mad dor, Involuntary Dlschargek, impotency, General Debility, BarVOUsile.3, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Couto mon, et Ideate, Pelpitetten of the Ileert, Womb.- link. Dimness of Sight or Giddiness. Daease of the Head. Throat, Nose or Skin, A ffectielis of the Liver, Lung., Stomach or Bowels—those Terrible Di,rders arising from the tiOlifery Habits of Youth—floe@ altraty and solitary practices more fatal to their 'letting than the snug. or syrona to the Harinera of Ulya.,ea_ blighting their most brilliant bops, or anticipation., rendering marriage, Sin, impossible. •Ir °UNE- NZ Rtif • Especially, who have become the victims of Solitary Vice, that dreadfol and d,structive batik which annually sweeps to an untimely grave thousands of Young Men of the most exalted talents and brilliant intellect, who might other wiso hire entranced tietentog &hat., with the Mendel. of eloquence or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call with full coundence Married Peratuus or Young Men contemplating mar riage, being aware of pbyeical weakness, organic debility deformities apeedlly cured. . Ife vibe place. himself under the 411143 of Dr. S. ult.y religiously confide In his honor as a gentleman, and con fidently rely upon his skill as a physician. rrT.:V7 ' .:Tr.7 . TrM7rM. Immediately Cured and Full Vigor liestored. Thie trietrecring Affection—which random Life and Mar riage Imposethleis the penalty paid by the victim of lm pour Indulgences. Toting persons are tuo apt Is commit excesses from not being aware of the dreadful rouse queucee that may ensue. Now, who that understand the subject will pretend to deny that the power of procrea tion is lost sooner by those falling Into improper habits than by the prudent ? Besides being deprived of the pleas ure of healthy offspring, the most serious Cud destructive symptoms to both body and mind erica. The system he• comes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Fnuctlons Weakened, Loss of Procreative Power, Nervous Irritabil ity, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con stitutional Debility. a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con sumption, Money end Death. office, No. 7 month Frederick Street. Lott hand side going from naltinioie elutes, a few doors from the corner. Fall not to observe name and number. Letters mast be paid nod contain a stamp. The Doctor's Diploma hangs in his olilce. A CURE WARRANWED IN TWO DAYS. Mt fifercurg or Na troth= .6rugs. as. SOFINSTON. Member-of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Grad uate from one of tne most eminent Colleges in the United States, and the greater part of whose life has been spear in the hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia and else where, has adhered some of the moat astonishing earth that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the head and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind, were cured immediately. MAZE PALATZCIMUL NOTICE. Dr. J. addresses all those who Lave injured themselves by improper Indulgence and solitary habits, Which rola both body and mind, unfitting them for either businesa, study, society or marriage. TAME are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro duced by early habits of youth, viz; Weakness of the Deck and Limbs, Path,' in the Head, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dys pepsia. Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Digestive Functions, general Debility, Sy suptunts of Comm m Minn, dm. MENTAILV.—The fearful effects on the mind are munch to be dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, Depres sions of Spirits, Evil Forbovli cgs, Aversion to Society, Self- Dietrast, Love of bolitude, Timidity, 4c,, are some of the evils produced. • THOIT'SANDaI of persons of all ages can now judge what is the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms of consumption. VOITNG WEN Who have injured themeelves by a certain practice indul ged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil companions, or at school, the ettects of which are nightly felt, even when asleep, and if not cured retideos marriage impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap ply immediately. What a pity that a pow; man. the Lopn of Ms eanntry, the darling of bin parents, should be miatched from ad prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer tain secret habit. Such persons suer, before contemplat ing MARAZAGE t reflect that a sound mind and body are the most necessary requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with out these the journey through life becomes a weary pit glitnage the prospect howdy darkens to the view; the mind becomes shadowed with despair end filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness of another be come, blighted with onr own. fl aVC - ) 014 140 t‘,st,i,..A When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure finds that be has imbibed the seeds of this painful di, ease, it too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, or dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who, from edn.tion and respectability, can alone befriend him, delaying tilt the constitutional symptoms of this horrid disease make their appearance, 813Cil as ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the shin-bones and arms, blotches on the bead, face and extremities, pro gressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of the month no the bones of the nose Lilt in, and the victim of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis eration, till death pate a period to his dreadful sufferings, by sending him to "that Undiscovered Country from whence no traveller returns." It is a melancholy fart that thousand's fall victims to this terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of ignor ant pretenders, who, by the nee of that Deadly P 4480., Mercury, coin the constitution and make the residue of life miserable. STRANGERS Trost not your lives, or health, to the care of many Un learned and worthless Pretender ,11 destitute of knowledge, name or character , who copy Dr. Johnston's advertise meets, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep you trifling month after month taking their filthy and poison ous compounds, or as long as the smallest fee can be ob tained, and in despair, leave you with ruined health to sigh over your own galling disappointment. ltr. Johnston is the only Physician advertising. His credentials or diplomas always hang to his Mace. His remedies or treatment are unknown to all °there, prepared from a life spent in the great hospitals of Europe, the first in the country and a more extensive Private Practice than any other Physician in the world. [march 18 INDOUSZINIZINT Or TEE PRESS. ' The many thousands cured at this institution year after year, and the numerous important Surgical Operattone performed by Dr. Johnston. witnessed by the reporters of the " Sun," "Clipper," and many other papers, notices of which have appeared again and again before the public, besides his standing Re a gentleman of character and re eponeibillty, is a surncient guarantee to the afflicted. Skin Diseases Speedily Cured. air No letters received unless post.paid and containing a stamp to be aced on the reply. Persons writing should state age, and sand portion of advertisement describing symptoms, TiosEN . a Conwszom 21) Of the Baltimore Lock Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. May iM--ty Commercial Broker. FIVE UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN I eat a License as a COMMERCIAL BROKER, is pre pared to negotiate for the purchase and sale of REAL ESTATE, COIN, STOCKS, BONDS, MORTGAGES, and other Securities, Goode in unbroken Packages, Collec tion of Rents, and any other business of a Commission Broker or Agent. *dr Parties having business to do in hie line are request ed to give him n call. ' door above , OFFICE a Court Street, neat door alderman Schomer. IFeb 28 FRENCH'S HOTEL; ON iUZ LUKOPLIAN PLAN, CITY OF NEW YORK. Single Rooms Fifty Cents per Ilay. City Hall Square, corner Frankfort St., (OPPOSITE CITY HALL.) 114EALS AS THEY MAY BE ORDERED IN An the epacions refectory. There is a Barbot'a Shop and bath Hoorna attached to the [total._ Atiit- Rowans of RUNNERS arid FIACRMEN who say we WS fall. `Teti 17 ly] R. FRENCH, Proprietor. NATIONAL HOTEL, (LATE WHITE SWAN.) Race Street, above Third, Philadelphia. THIS ESTABL ISH NIEN T ()EVERS GREAT Inducements, nut only on account of reduced rates of beard, bat from Ito central !unction to the ILVCIaII. Or trade, as welt as the ceavealenotet afforded by the several passenger Railways running pact and contignocia to It, by which guests can pace to end from the Betel, should they be preferred to the regular Omnibus connected with the flow.. lam determined to devote my whole attention to the comfort and convenience of my glow.. for Terms, $1 AS per day. It C. BIEORIST, Proprietor, Formerly from Eagle lintel, Lebanon, Pa. T. V. ItrroArie,Clerk. [march le-If FRESH GROCERIES -AT REDUCED PRICES. AT THE Corner of PM and Spruce Streets. Yarah 1 M. KIIIIII4 I SOL DI.AILAXALGE. gorlvv. A SONG OF MAY. I= The Spring's scented buds all around too are swelling, There are Bongs is the stream, there in health to the gale A serve of delight in each bosom is dwelling, As float the pare day-beams o'er mountain and vale: The desolate reign of old Winter Is brokon— The verdure is fresh upon every tree ; Of Nature's revival the oharts";—and a token Of love, oh, thou Spirit of Beauty i to thee. The sun looketh forth from the halls of the morning, And linsbee the clouds that begirt his career; He welcomes the gladness and glob', returning To rest on the promiee and hope of the yea, He 1111 s with rich light all the halm•breathleg flowers, He mounts to the zenith, and laughs on the wave; He wakes Into music the green forest bowers, And gilds the gay plains which the broad rivers lave. The young bird is out on hie delicate pinion, Ile timidly sails in the infinite sky ; A greeting to Key and her fairy dominion lie pours on the west wind's fragrant sig‘t; Around, above, there are peace sad pleasure; The woodlands are singing, the heaver, is bright The fields are unfolding their unrivalled treasure, And man's genial spirit is soaring in light. Alas for my Weary and care-haunted bosom! The spells of the spring -time arouse it no more; The song in the wild-wood, the sheen of the blossom, The fresh-welling fonntain—their magic is o'er! When I list to the streams, when I look on the flowers, They tell of the Past with so mournful a tone That I call up the throngs of my long-vanished boars, And sigh that their transports are over and gone. From the wide-spreading earth, from the tinlitlo9o There have vanished an eloquent glory and gleam; To my veiled mind no more is the influence given, Which coloreth life with the hues of a dream ; The bloom-purpled landscape its loveliness keepeth— I deem that a light as of old gilds the wave ; Bat the eye of my spirit in heaviness eleepeth, Or sees but my youth, and the visions it gave. Yet it is not that age on my years bath descended, 'Tie not that its snow-wreaths encircle my brow; Bat the newnese end aweeMoes of being are ended 1. feel not their love-kindling Witchery now; The shadows of Death o'er my path have been sweeping ; Thereare thoee who have loved me debarred from the day; The green turf is bright, where in peace they are sleeping, And on wings of remembrance my soul is away! It is shut to the glow of this present existence— It hears from the past a funereal strain; And it eagerly turns to the high seeming distance, Where the lost blooms of earth shall be garnered attain ; Where no mildew the soft damask rose- cheek shall uourleh, Where grief bears no longer the poisonous sting, Where pitiless Death no dark sceptre can flourish, Or stain with his blight the luxuriant Spring. It is thee that the hopes which to °there are given, 'ail cold on my heart, in this rich month of May; I bear the dear anthems that ling through the heaven, I drink the bland airs that enliven the day ; And if gentle Nature, her festival. keeping, Delights not my bosom, ah ! do not condemn; O'er the loot and the lovely thy spirit le weeping, Poe my heart's proudest raptures are buried with them THE DREAM. FROM THE OICR.HAN OF FINLAND—NT LONtiFILLLOW Two lovers throogh the garden Walkedhand in band along; Two pale and slender ereaturue, They eat the dowers among. They Wand oaeh other's cheek so warm They kissed each other's mouth ; They held each other arm in arm, They dreamed of health and youth. Two bells they sounded suddenly— They started from their sleep; And in the convent cell lay she, And ho in dnngeon deep. Gales sub Sidebos. Funs the Home Totowa/. SEVEN UP. In a pleasant farm house one wintry eve, after supper and a hard day's work at threshing, Samuel Gray rose from his chair with a sad, weary look, and stood before the drawer of an old bureau. " Samuel, what is thee doing ?" said his mo ther, following him. •° Thee is not going out to night, when so tired ?" "Yes, mother," he replied, taking up with a sigh a small calico bag, which seemed well filled. Why, that is the mortgage money, Samuel; what does thee want with that 7" It is not due till next spring." "I know it, mother; but I must have this money thin night," he answered in a determined tone. ~ For what, my son ? Thee has always told me everything. We earned the money togeth- "I know it, mother. All these years we have toiled to pay off that mortgage left on the farm at my father's death, and now it has all come to nothing. Sit down in your chair, mother, and I will tell you the truth, as I trust I have ever done. Ido not fear your blame, as I have al ways loved your praise. This one egregious error has taught me great lessons already. They say women can bear trouble better than men." Samuel's mother trembled very much, but she sat quietly down. Her face was pleasant to look at—healthy and fresh, with a clean Quaker cap crimped about it. She could not believe her son had done anything so very wrong; but all was a mystery. "Last evening you know how late I staid away ; and I presume you thought I was with El. len at, the farm ; but I was not ; more is the pity. I went on an errand to the tavern to get some I oil for our lame horse's kg. The bar-room was a blaze of light, and all the bop were there, and I stepped in to warm. There were two finely dressed gentlemen from Boston sitting around the table, calling for the best port, and treating the company. They called me to join so cordi— ally that I consented, and felt rested with the good fire and exhilarating glass. Soon one of the strangers brought out a pack of cards, and played with Joe Lampson and Jim White. I sat and smoked in the corner, and did not take much notice of the game. They played for cigars and wine, and then for money, and the game was 'Seven Up.' Now, when I was a boy I used to have an excellent run of luck at earda, and beat everybody, and I suppose I was elated at my reputation ; for when Joe Lampoon said, I have 1 1 won two hundred dollars,' I was astonished, es pecially when the strangers paid it over as quick and easy as they would brush off a fly. I thought, if dull Joe has won so quickly such a sum, why may not I, who am so lucky at. cards? They urged me to take a hand, and the eight of the new bills on the Merchant's Exchange Bank so won upon my better understanding, that I drew right up to the table. I thought only of winning; I never thought of losing. We RAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1863. SAT played and won, and played and lost, and lost. Oh : mother, I lost all thin money as quick as a Hash; and they taunted me that I could not pay but I must pay it, or have my honor lost before the whole village. I know how wrong it was, but if hard work will make it up to you, you shall never want." Here Sam broke down, and cried like a child. tt Thee is Welcome to take the money, Sam," said his mother, quietly, "I wish thee would promise never to touch a card." " Dear mother, I solemnly—" "No, Sam ! no oaths. Remember, thee will be tempted this very night to try and win back this very money." "No, I have seen too many winks pass be tween theft mon. They are gamblers, who have come down to impose on us greenhorns' in the country. When I think of how many hard days' work I have performed, and how many chickens and eggs you have raised to sell, all for one good object, and that my cursed folly has ruined all, I am ready to despair." "I shall not live long to want money, Sam; I only thought of thee and Ellen, who is soon to become thy wife." Satonel svcomed, and left the house with a heavy heart. Ile knew by the twinkling light across the fields that Ellen sat watching for his visit, but he sped on toward the village, until, stamping the snow from his shoes, he entered once more the tavern. Again, in a private parlor, he found the companions of a previous night. He went firmly up to the ta ble and deposited the money. "I have come," he said in a bold voice, " to pay you what you won from me last night." The man merely waved his hand, on which shone a jewel, toward him. " Oh, a mere trifle," he said ; " time enough by-and bye." Sam turned toward the fire with a groan. Evil thoughts took possession of his mind. " Can come men make money thus easily by the toss of a card, or the turn of a die ? and yet, after all my honest labor, must I be turned from my hum ble home, and my happy prospects broken up for life by two desperate gamblers?" Fierce pas sions seemed at war with him, as the sweet visions of former hopes passed away. Ile did not notice that there were mutterings of wrath at the table, as one after another was fleeced in his turn. Cries of "unfair," "unfair play," were met by contemptuous misers from the sue , cessful men who pocketed the gains. Samuel's little roll of bills still lay upon the table, and he could not bear to leave it there. It seemed sacred money. "How little my father thought, when he left me the farm, with only this mortgage as an ineutubrance, that I should prove SO recreant to my solemn engagement to take care of my dear mother. Oh, God, forgive me, and spare me, that I may do better in the fu ture." And at that moment a softer emotion sprang, up in his heart. lie felt a loathing of min in all kind e that. be had never felt before, and a determination to shun even the smallest deviation from duty, if its retribution was so dreadful. This was a more desirable state of mind; and an humble spirit• breathed its bles- sing ever him, as he rose up and buttoned his thin coat over his breast, again to face the cut ting wind of the wintry night. About this time a handsome sleigh had driven up to the door of the tavern. The horses were flecked with foam, and the frost hung about their trappings, showing how swiftly they had travel ed. Two strong men had leaped from it, and hastily entered the house. The host came ob sequiously to the door. They drew him aside. "We have tracked two notorious blacklegs from Deiltoll here, and thinking they might be making a little mischief, have come down. Indi cate, I say, the room where they now are, or we shall arrest you as an accomplice I Quickly !" as the gleam of a revolver shone iu the cold moon light. "In there, in there !" stammered the landlord, trembling with alarm,„ The detectives came very softly, but not so gently that the gam blers did not listen intently. One of them said, "throw the cards in the fire ! raise the window ! hark !" Just then the door was thrown violently open. "Ah, my hearties, well met! We have had quite a drive for you;" adjusting handcuffs all the time, as though they were used to the business, in spite of the desperate struggles of the two men. "Now, my birds, we will see what you have caged !" said the minions of the law, and forthwith began to pick their pockets, having laid them at length on the floor. - " Counterfeit bills in plenty, some golden eagles, silver! Get pen and paper, landlord, and state the amount. Now, young men," the sheriff said, addressing Samuel Grey and his friends who stood in silent amazement beholding the scene, " we might consider you under arrest for gambling, but presume you were just green enough to be entrapped by these Boston youths. Didn't understand the ways of our wicked city. However, I will just advise you to beware of bad company for the future ; it does not lead to pleasant results." "How much have you been robbed of this night 7" " There is my money," said Samuel, as each one elated the amount, and pointed to the roll upon the table. " Well, take it, and go instantly," said the men Samuel obeyed ; and when once more in the silent fields, and within eight of his mother's cottage, he fell on hie knees and wept aloud, giving thanks to God as he had never done be fore. lie was not yet twenty one ; life was be fore him; hope again dawned; let us trust that the ead lesson was not in vain. The old mother could not knit the long, blue woolen sock that evening. She paced the low room with prayers and tears. Never in her lonely widowhood bad sorrow come so heavily upon her heart ; and when the door opened, and Ellen stole gently in to inquire what was the matter, missing her lover, Aunt Rachel threw her arms about her neck, and gave way to grief. So Samuel found them when he returned, most unexpectedly, to change their tears to joy. ler "COMB 808, get up," said an indulgent father to his hopeful son, the other morning, "re member, the early bird catches the worm."— "What do I care for worms ?" replied the young hopeful ; it mother won't let me go a fishing." ififir FIRE is a good thing in the house ; but i 6 should be in the 'Chimney and not in the wife's temper—cooking the victuals, not roasting the husband. ser NEVEIt. own that your wife is right; do it once, and, on the conceit of it, she will be wrong the rest of her life. THE OLD UNION There are men so wild in their madness that they openly and boldly declare that they hope never to see the Union restored as it was. This Was indeed the substance of a statement made by General Butler, the prominent candidate of the radicals for the next Presidency, in a speech made by him the other day, as a bid for that office. If this idea be adopted by that party as the platform for the next Presidential campaign, we shall see the verification of prophecies often made heretofore that the first avowed enemies of the Union, who would form a party at the North to bring about its ruin, would be the men who have been loudest in their denunciations of con servative men as traitors, and in .boasting their own loyalty. Already we have the melancholy fact before us that the radical party is avowedly opposed to the restoration of the old Union. What dots this mean ? We speak of it from the record, and therefore what we say will not be denied by any of their organs. They are not in favor of prosecuting the war for the Union as it was, but they have in mind a vague notion of conquering the rebellion, and then giving us some form of government which is suited to their notions of what ought to be. This is what Gen— eral Butler means by his avowal. This is what the entire body of radical politicians are labor ing to 'accomplish. But why do they object to the old Union ? Why do they insist that they are not in favor of returning to it ? The answer is found in their own statements, often made and repeated, that they are unwilling to permit the slave States to return into the Union at all. It was to get rid of them that they invented, a year ago, the State suicide theory, and offered their resolutions in Congress and New York meetings, declaring the seceded States defunct. This doc trine was started with the idea that it would he a capital platform for a disunion party, and it was the intention of the leaders to establish a political movement in the North on this basis, hoping that out of it would grow a powerful par ty, which would maintain control of the country by excluding from Congress and from voting on Presidential elections, all the slave States, or all that had pretended to secede. This movement commanded the assent and co operation of all the leading radicals in New York, and the docu ment declaring these disunion sentiments was signed by the editors of the principal radical papers here, by many of the men who are now prominent in the Loyal Leagues. The movement was checked by the interference of Washington authority, and the treasonable plans of the au thors failed entirely. But they never abandoned their intention, and we see it constantly coming up in their speeches and public meetings. The determination to exclude the Union men of the South from all voting privileges is more and more 'Visible in the plots of Northern radicalism. Hence the heresy is now daily spread before the people that the Union can never be restored, and that we are not fighting for the Union as it was. In short the idea is that we arc engaged in a free fight, endeavoring to obtain the physical mastery over the rebels, with intent to establish hereafter such a government, on the ruins of the Constitu tion, as shall suit the radical leaders. All this is not only wrong, but it is actually lending aid and comfort to the rebels. It is playing into their hands, assisting them to gath er their forces and animate them for conflict, The true and only theory of this war is that it is a war for the Constitution ; that submission to the laws of the United States in any district, or State, is so far the end of the war, the end for which the war was prosecuted in that. place; that the only future before us which has any hope in it is the return of all the States to the old form of Union, the old Constitution. Therefore it is weakening our own arms and putting off the end of the war indefinitely, to teach that we are fight ing to establish a new government, or anew form of Union. We know how hard it is for the radical party to look forward to the possibility of having the representatives of Massachusetts met and bal anced in the Senate by the representatives of South Carolina. We know how difficult it is for Abolitionists to look forward to the presence in the Union of such a large number of States as will be for this generation, and doubtless for generations to come, practically unanimous in their abhorrence of Abolitionism. But precisely that future is before us, if we have any success in the true objects of this war. The millions who reside in the South are there to-day as they were before the war began. They are not being wasted away by war, the process of extermina tion does not go on, nor is the country becoming depopulated. There are more white citizens in the South today than there were before the war began. There are a hundred thousand more slaves in the Southern States now than there were two years ago bleu forget these startling facts in wild theories of extermination. All the effects of the war thus far on slavery have been as nothing, in a practical point of view. All the ordinary effects of war are to be in this case, as in the case of other ware, more of a moral than of a physical character. Sometimes, but rarely, small nations are exterminated by long wars, lasting through half a century, or very many years. But the results of war in general are of a moral character, convincing one or the other power that it must yield or compromise. The inhabitants of the South are, in all human pro bability, to he in the future government, whether it be the old Union or a new Union, voting citi zens. It is a dangerous policy which unites that vote in one sectional mass. It would be a vastly more wise policy to divide it, by temptations to peace and union now, and the prospect of future prosperity under the old Constitution. The policy of the radicals, who declare that they are not for the Union as it was, is a desper ate policy, designed to destroy when they find they cannot rule the country.—Journal of Com merce. slur A JEWELi R. tells us a good story about the wife of a shoddy gentleman—suddenly raised from poverty to affluence—who was spending a good deal of money for ornaments in the jewelry line. The jeweler had sold the woman a diamond ring of great value, but observing, as she tried to force it over a remarkably red and knotty finger, that the ring was a trifle too small, he said she had hotter lake a larger one. "'No matter," replied tho complacent parvenue, with amusing naivete, " this wiil do—l don't expect my hands will be so large after a little while." [VOL. XXIV.-NO. 5.-WHOLE NO. 1969. A MODEL STATESMAN The Daily Wisconsin, edited by Cramer, for merly of Albany, speaking of the wealth of the most eminent American statesmen, concludes his list with the following reference to Silas Wright: "Silas Wright, with his estate of $4,000, was really wealthier than many others are with $lOO,- 000. He owed no man anything; he met ob ligations with the utmost promptneet, And never indulged in any luxury that he could not pay for. He was a model of republican simplicity. It should also be understood that he was not mean in saving money. There was something glorious in witnessing a great statesman like Si las Wright never asking a pecuniary favor or even accepting one, yet possessing only an in- COMC that could support him and his wife in frugality. When he was elected Governor of the State of New-York, he was known to be too poor to furnish his house. His rich friends got together, and, without his knowledge, made up a subscription which was tendered to him as a gift in order to furnish his mansion. Ig This he respectfully but kindly declined, saying, with a true Roman grandeur, that he could not consent to receive such a favor from any one—even from his most esteemed friends; he was elected by the people to be Governor of the State . of New-York, and he considered it his imperative duty to live on whatever income the people had appended to that offloe ; and he did live on that income while he was Governor, in good style, but with no ostentation. Such an ex— ample on the part of so eminent a man as he was is one of those precious legacies that the young men of the present day should bear in mind—as no true greatness can ever be achieved so long as they are the pecuniary slaves of even their nearest friends. When a public man re ceives favors that he cannot repay, he loses that sturdy independence so essential to usefulness and enduring popularity. Live within your income' is more important to one Who aims to he an influential and useful statesman than any other maxim." LONGEVITY OF THE ANTEDILU VIANS. There are so very many causes contributing to shorten considerably the length of human life, that we have completely lost every criterion by which to estimate its original duration; and it would be no slight problem for a profound phy— siological science to discover and explain from a deeper investigation of the earth, or of astrono mical influences, which are often susceptible of very minute applications, the primary cause of human longevity. By a simpler course of life and diet than the very artificial, unnatural, and over-refined modes we follow, there are, even at the present day, numerous examples of a long evity far beyond the ordinary duration of human life. Jo India it is by no means uncommon to meet with men, especially in the Brahminical caste, more than a hundred years of age, and in the robust, and even generative vigor of consti tution. In the laboring class of Russia, whose modes of life are so simple, there are examples of men living to more than a hundred, a hundred and twenty, and even a hundred and fifty years of age; and, although these instances form but rare exceptions, they are more numerous there than in other European countries. There are even remarkable cases of old men who after the entire lose of their teeth bave gained a complete new set, as if their constitution had received a new sap of life, and a principle of Second growth. What in the present physical degeneracy of man kind, forms but a rare exception, may originally have been the'ordinary measure of the duration of human life, or at least may afford us some trace and indication of such a measure, more es pecially as other branches of natural science offer corresponding analogies. On the other side of that great wall of separation which divides us from the primitive ages, in that remote world so little known to us, a standard for the duration of human life very different from the present may have prevailed; and such an opinion is very probable, supported as it is by manifold testi— mony, and confirmed by the sacred record of WWI'S divine origin.—Sclategel. WAR NEWS! Great Cavalry Raid of Col. Grlergon in Mississippi. [From the Correspondence of the Yew-York Tribune.] Raw ORLEANS, Saturday Evening, May 9. Since the departure of the Columbia we bare abundance of news ; the most exciting, however, is the arrival at Baton Rouge of the Sixth and Seventh Illinois Cavalry, nine hundred strong, who have cut their way through the whole length of Mississippi. They started from La Grange, Tenn., on the morning of the 17th ult., and reached Baton Rouge on the evening of 2d May, performing the whole distance in sixteen days. They made a zigzag course through the State, sometimes east, sometimes west, but pushing south the whole time. In this way they traveled probably about eight hundred miles, averaging over forty miles a day. The force consisted of the Sixth Illinois Cav— alry, Lieut. Col. Loomis; the Seventh Illinois Cavalry, Col. Ed. Prince; the Second lowa Cavalry, Col. Hatch ; and six pieces of artillery, 2 pound calibre ; the whole under command of Col. Grierson, of the Sixth Illinois, and number ing about seventeen hundred men. From La Grange they marched nearly due South, halting at night five miles north of Rip ley, in Marshall county. Next morning the col umn moved to Ripley, whence the Second lowa started for New Albany. At Clear Springs, in Chickasaw county, Col. Retch, with his com— mand, started southeasterly to West Point, in Lowndes county, on the Mobile and Ohio rail road. After that Col. Grierson heard nothing of the Second lowa, except occasional rumors through the rebels. They then moved on Pontotoc, where they de stroyed some salt, the camp and garrison equi page of a cavalry company, and also a gunsmith's shop. A mail from the Post-office was secured; and also a large quantity of oats. On the morning of the 28th, about 175 of the men who were the least effective, with some prisoners, under command of Major Love, were sent book to La Grange. A few miles beyond Starkville, a tannery containing a number of army boots, shoes, saddles, bridles, and a large quantity of leather, was destroyed. The value is estimated at $25,000. A march of twenty-six miles brought the forces to Louisville, Winston county. Most of the route lay through a dense swamp, frequently to the horses' bellies in wa— ter. At one point it was so deep the horses swam over, and some got drowned, with a nar row escape for their riders. They then pushed on to Philadelphia, Neshoba county, where there is a bridge over the Pearl river, which the rebels undertook to destroy, but they precipitately fled as our forces approached. Later in the day a brigade under Col. Black— ' burn and Major Graham, was sent to strike the railroad at Decatur, Newton county. Here they captured a train of thirteen ears which was just about starting, loaded with quartermasters' and commissary stores, including ammunition and bomb shells in large •quantities. They had scarcely Sectircd this train arid got it on the side 'rack, when another train of twenty-five cars loaded with railroad ties, came into the depot, which was also secured. Wood was piled up around the engines and tenders, set fire to, and by that means the boilers burst, the torch was applied to the train of ears tehtaitting the am munition and about 8,000 shells. When these were fired the main column was four or five miles off, and the noise of their explosion led them to sup pose the rebels had opened on the advance col umn. Major Starr moved his battalion east, and destroyed three bridges and a lot of trestle work extending over two miles, the track torn up, rails broken and burned, and telegraph destroy ed for five miles. Near Gallatin, 1,400 pounds of powder, two wagons, twenty—six yoke of oxen, and a thirty two pound Parrott gun were captured. The gun was spiked. At Union Chnrob, forty-two miles from Nat chez and twenty from Port Gibson, a skirmish occurred with Adores' Alabama Cavalry, in which several of the enemy were wounded, the rest re- Treating to Port Gibson. • At Brookhaven Camp of Instruction, four com panies, under command of Major Starr, took two eapteine, Otte lieutenant, one surgeon, and nineteen privates prisoners. The also captured a lot of Mississippi rifles, mules, ox teams, $5,000 worth of commissary stores, and $26,000 worth of army clothing. At the crossing of Pearl river ? CoL Prince cap tured a courier with instructions to destroy all bridges, &c., which fortunate circumstance ad ded somewhat to the safety of the command. At Hazelhurst, Col. Prince, of the 7th Illinois, captured a train of about 40 cars, several of which were loaded will shell and ammunition, ;pother train, which bad just arrived, escaped by the backing out of the train by the engineer before he could be captured. About four miles east of Gallatin a battalion was detached to strike the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad, at Bahala station, where wa ter tanks, care, and other property was destroyed. At Walls' station, on the Tickfaw, a regiment of rebel cavalry was discovered, who were rout ed, with several killed and wounded, Our less was one killed and five wounded ; among them was Lieutenant Colonel Blackburn, of the 7th Illinois. Ha was shot in the thigh, and slightly in the head. He was left, with several of the wounded, at a house, with the injunction that, if not kindly treated, when our boys returned they would take their revenge. At Summit a large amount of Government sugar, wood and locomotives, &c., were destroy ed. The camp of Hughes' and Milburn's Par tisan Rangers, on Big Sandy creek, was attack ed and destroyed, and a large number of horses captured ; from here they moved on the Green— ville Spring road toward Baton Rouge. About nine miles from Baton Rouge the entire command of Stuart's cavalry. fourteen officers and eighty men, were captured. The men made very little resistance, retreating to the river, where they were surrounded. It is almost impossible to give you anything like a perfect sketch of the sixteen days' march of this band of heroes. How they managed to endure and hold out under the fatigues of so long and perilous a march through the enemy's country—living as they best could—sleeping but an hour or two at a time, is one of the most re markable events in the history of human warfare. In comparison, the deeds of Stuart. Jackson, and other Confederate cavalry, dwindle into the most contemptible affairs—not worth speaking of. At one place a number of old grey-headed men came out to resist the cavalry with shot-gate, and fired several shots—not a shot was fired in return; they were surrounded, disarmed, and their weapons destroyed. This very much aston ished them ; they bad been led to believe they would be killed, their homes destroyed, and every imaginable cruelty perpetrated upon them. But when they found that the men of the North were only fighting against efficient rebels, they seemed to wake up from a delusion. They then willingly gave our men what assistance they could, and one of them undertook to act as a guide. - The amount of damage done to the rebels it is difficult to estimate—not a bridge or railroad, net a line of telegraph anywhere along the whole route but what was destroyed. Horses, when necessary, were impressed to replace the worn out ones. Only a small stock of provisions was brought along, so that they had to live on the enemy, and tolerably hard fare they had too. Large numbers of men offered themselves to be paroled, as a means of avoiding the conscription of the rebel officers. Hundreds of negroes joined them as they came along, bringing, all one, and some two horses or mules. The success of the expedition could be shown in no more palpable manner than the health of the men. When they reached Baton Rouge, after a 16 days' ride with only one whole night's rest, and badly supplied with food, only twelve men were turned over to the surgeon. Many of the men suffered from swelling of the legs and erysipelas, from Bitting so long in the saddle, but it was only temporary. They had a very clever way of cutting the tel egraph wires so as to avoid discovery. Instead of cutting the wires and Jetting the ende hang losely, they tie up the ends with strips of leath er, so that it would not be easily seen, and yet the connection was severed. Far into the interior they were mistaken for rebel cavalry, and complimented upon the fine ness of their outfit. On more than one occasion they profited by this ignorance. To show you what courage and daring will accomplish, I may mention that they had nothing for their guide except one of Colton's county maps and a compass. In order that your readers may form an idea of the route of these daring men, I add a list of counties through which they passed. Starting from La Grange, they first struck Marshall county, in Mississippi, passing in succession through the following counties: Tippah, Pontotoc, Chickasaw, Oktibbeha, Win ston, Noaubee, Neshoba, Newton, Jasper, Smith, Simpson, Copiab, Lawrence, Pike and Amite, and Helena and Bast Baton Rouge, in Louisiana, At several points the enemy tried to catch or surround them, but in vain. Thirteen hundred cavalry were sent after them from Mobile, a thousand came south of Port Hudson, crossing Pearl river at Columbia, and two thousand came from the vicinity of Greenwood and Granada, to cut off their retreat to La Grange. They all fell to the roar, supposing Colonel Grierson would return. THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF "Guassmicxs."-- An important decision was made in the Superior Court of Cincinnati a few days since, on the question of the constitutionality of the act of Congress making Treasury notes a legal tender. The case was this : Richard B. Field was in debted to one John Tounley, by way of note and mortgage, on a balance due of two thousand dollars; and Field tendered to Tounley the two thousand dollars in legal tender notes, and de manded his note and mortgage. Tounley refused to give them up, or receive the money, on the ground, as he claimed, that the Treasury notes offered were not money, and were not a legal tender, and he demanded gold or silver. There upon Mr. Field brought cult to compel the sur render up of the note and mortgage, alleging tender of lawful money. The defendant answer ed, denying that greenbacks were a legal tender, and claiming that he was entitled to be paid in gold or silver. The question, therefore, was squarely presented. After a full and exhaustive argument, the court decided that the tender was good, and tho law making greenbacks a legal tender constitutional—and ordered the note and mortgage to be surrendered. This is the first decision in Ohio upon this important question. gar ErrnAvezuron and improvidence end at the prison door. 0
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