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trier.
CHARLES HENRY JONES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
FFicE. Na. HS SOUTH. SIXTH STREET,
above Walnut, Philadelphia. [Jame 13-1 m
DANIEL E. SCEIROEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
iFt ICE WITH J. EtAIIENMAN, PENN ST.,
14bov, Sir:b, Reading, Pa. [June 6-3rn
C. A Leopold,
A, TTORNEY AT LAW.—OFFICE IN COURT
_ door Wow Sixth, Reading, Pa,
:flay 2:3, 1.63-1.7
RICHMOND D. JONES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IFFICE WITH J. GLA?..ICT JONES, E*Q.,
ridn Penn Egnere, eolith ,ilia, Reading.
April IS, 1E63-3tao
JESSE G. HAWLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH
gig& Street, opposite the Keystone Hone% Rodin,
ii, 1563—te
- -
ZOZIN BILLSTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
n }TICE WITH A. B. WANNER, NORTH
13 sixth Street. (ebetie the Conti Home.) Xeadiag, Pa.
February 21.11361-17
RED/OVAL.
WILLIAM LIVINGOOD, ATTORNEY AT
I LAW. has removed his office to the north aide of
C•ort wreet first door below Sixth. [dec 22-a
G7larles Davis,
ITORNET AT LAW-HAS REMOVED HIS
(1_ office to the Office lately occupied by the Bon. David
E. liordon, deceased, is Sixth street, opposite the Court
tapril 14
Daniel Drinentront,
ALTTORNEY AT LAW—OFFICE IN NORTH
Sixth street, corner of Court alley. [cog 13-17
David Neff,
'WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Foreign and Domestic DAY GOOK Eo. 23 2.. t.
Fe..e street, Reading, Pa. [Marsh 10, 1360.
LIVINCOOD'S
'United States Bounty, Back. Pay and
Pension Office,
COURT STREET, REAR SIXTH:
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againstE E Ne
Government,GA INGED I
f C ee O l L e L e
. E iti e d
e T n - t
!Lai all who have heretofore employed are will cheerfully
iful.me my promptuece and fidelity. My °bargee are
....Jerateand no charge made until obtained_
WILLIAM li. LIVINGOOD,
uct IS-tfl Attorney at Law, Court St., Reading,
DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
,AN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY
lj leen the U. B. Gorerrneut, by applicaon to
Altethlt IL STAUFFER,
March 7—tf] Collection Office, Court Street, Reading.
ASA M. HART,
(Late Hart dr. Mayer ' )
n EALER, IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN
DRY GOODS, CARPETINGS, &a, Wholesale and lie
al, at Philadelphia prices. Sign of the Golden Bee Hive,
No 14 East Penn Square. [april 17-tf
F. Bushong tic Sons,
"‘'TANTIFACTURERS OF BUR EMUFLIIIO,
Absolute, Deodorised and Druggists' Alcohol; also,
ice Oil, which they will sell at the lowest Wholesale
Nicet-, at Reading. Pa.
Sig- Orders respectfully solicited. [march 12
G. M. MILLER. M. D.,
Eclectic Physician and Surgeon,
A GRADUATE OF THE ECLECTIC MEDI
11Leal College Philadelphia. offers be professional ser
tiros to the citizens of Hamburg and Tidally. 'Painful
Surgical operations, such as Betting Broken and Dislocated
I.nal , A, imputations, Culling Cancan, Tumors, Ate.. will
performed ender the infhten. of Ether, at the consent
t.f aa patient.
t office at his residence in Main street, Hamburg, Po
31sy 9. 1563-ti
DR. T. "Z.A.RDL.ITY BROWN,
SURGEON DENTIST.
f• GRADUATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
Dental College. Teeth extracted by Fran
-24 a a' Electotaguicprtelmt C estproveme:rithtizi are teeth
treeted with mach teen pain than the natal way. Ito
Oilloo in Fifth streot, opposite the .Pre.144.4-
/?.. Church. [april
CHARLES LANCASTER,
MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN,
Fourth Street, above P sun, Reading.
January 24.1663-ti
PENSIONS,
BOUNTIES & BACK PAY.
A PPLICATION4 PROMPTLY ATTENDED
11 to. Terme moderate and no charge Until obtained.
A. 0. Git N, Attorney at Law,
Jan 31-thno] Office in Court t treat, Reading.
SOLDIERS'
nouNTIrmBIONET, MIACEE•PiLIir
AND PENSION CLAIMS
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO BY
A. K. STAUFFKR,
Attorney at Law, OtAce In Court Street,
Jan M-M] READING, PA.
LIQUOR STORE.
HAVE OPENED A LIQUOR AND WINE
STORE, in the room formerly occupied by
JOHN GREEN, IN THE " SCHIRMER HOUSE."
sly frifavie ere rii Invited to null sod esxmine for tIMM
tqe.i. All LIQUORS and WINES sold be me, shall e no
r epre-PotPd.
April 1,1563-tf] JEREMIAH D. BITTING.
F. P. HELLER,
WATCHMAKER, JE WELER .7
AND DEALER IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
POONS, SPEOTAcLES, GOLD PENS, &0.,
kj Signor the fi 111.61 WATCH," De. 0331 Ea Penn
Etreot, shove Sixth, north vide, Reading, Pa.
Every article warranted to be what it le sold for
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, As, repaired with particular
attention, and guaranteed. [fob I—tf
AND FRENCH FRO
IP E A E o
c B O7K F T, O ,
40 Booth Fifth Millet
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
pLISHED AS A Rt:FUGE FROFI QUACKERY.
The Only Place Where a Cure Can be
Obtained.
DR. JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED THE
ur most Certain. Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in
tee World for all Private Diseases, Weeknethe of the Back
Limbo, Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys and Bled ,
der, Iga - 01M:dory Dtsohorgaa , Ibmpoteney, General Debility,
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Confu
sion, of ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Trenlb
hag. Mumma of Sight or Giddiness. Demme of the Head,
Throat, Nero or Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lange,
btornach or Bunch—those Terrible Disorders arising from
the Solitary &SIM of YetltbmetteMe MEET and military
Fraedeett inure fetal to their victims than the noon of Syreng
to the Mariners of lirlyam. blighting their most brilliant
hopes or anticipations, rendering marriage, de., imptrate.
irciurite =Era.
Especially. who have become the victims of Solitary Vice,
that dreadful and destructive habit which annnally sweeps
to an untimely grave thousands of Tunng Men of the moat
exalted talents and brilliant intellect, who might other
wise have entranced listening Senates, with the thunders
of eloquence or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call
with fail confidence.
IRM.a.rtaxe.an.
Married POrnOriN or Young Mon contemplating mar
riage, Mu aware of Mahal wealiatee, um& debility,
deformities apeedily cured.
He who places himself under the care of Dr. J. may
religiously confide in his honor as a gentleman, and con
fidently te'y upon his skill as a physician.
ORGANIC WEAKNESS
Immediately Cured and Fall Vigor Restored.
Thin Distreosiug dtfactiou—which renders Lite and Mar
riage impossible—is the penalty paid by the victims of im
proper indulgences, Young persona are too apt to commit
eXeesses from not being aware of the dreadful conse
quences that may ensue. Now, who that underatand the
subject, will pecend to deny that the power of procrea
tion ie loot Kamer by Mae falling Mtn Winner babite
than by the prudent? Besides being deprived of the pleas
ure of healthy offspring, the most serious and destructive
symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system be
comes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Loss of Procreative Power, Nervosa Irritabil
ity, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con
stitutional Debility. a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con
suMptiou, Decay and Death.
°thee. No. 7 South Frederick Street.
Lett hand side sctiott from Baltimore street, a few doors
from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number.
Letters mast be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor's
Diploma bangs in bis office.
A IMRE WARRANTED IN
TWO DAYS.
No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
DR. wiTONDTSTON,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Urad
note from one of the most eminent Colleges in the United
States, and the greater part of where life has been spent
iu the hospitals of London, Carle, Philadelphia and else
where, ban effected sime of the moat astonishing cares
that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in
the head and ear. when asleep, great nervousness. being
alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind,
were .diod timediitalsr_
P'7 , TIIIff:NT*T 7 TP
Or. J. addressee all those who have injured themselves
by improper indulgence and solitary habits, Which ruin
both body and mind, unfitting them for either business,
study, society or marriage.
THESE are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro
duced by earty habits of youth, ♦iz: Weakaleas of the
Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dim.. of Sight,
Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dye
pepaia, Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Digestive
Functions, General Dehllity.,Symptoms of Consam piton, &a
histrrativ.—The fearful effects on the mind are much to
be dreaded—Loss of Memory. Confusion of Ideas, Depres
shrge of Spirits, Evil Forbodings, Aversion to Society, Self-
Swim% Love of Solitude, Timidity, am., are some of the
evils produced.
Triousavris 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, heel og a
singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms
of consumption.
TOtrilra BAs
Who have injured themselves by a certain practice indul
ged In when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil
eumpaiilous, or at school, the effects of which are nightly
felt, even when asleep, and if not cured renders marriage
impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap
ply immediately.
itt hat a pity that h young moo, Ilia hops of bin gauntry.
the darling of hie parents, should be snatched from all
prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence Of
deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a car•
tale secret habit. Such persons IRUsT, before contemplat
ing
TiIIiRRIAGE.
reboot that a sound mind and body are the meek neemmary
reqnisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with
out these the journey through life becomes a weary pil
grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the
melancholy reflection that the happiness of another be
comes blighted with our own.
Mrf , l - : 1 0 - 311 - 1)
When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure
finds that be has imbibed the seeds of this painful disease,
it too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, or
dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who,
from education and respectability, can alone befriend him,
delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid
disease make their appearance, such an ulcerated Rare
throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the head and
limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the shin-bones
and arms, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity. till at last the palate of
the month or the bones of the nose fall in, and the victim
of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis
eration, till death puts a period to his dreadful sulferinge,
by sending him to "that Undiscovered country from
whence no traveller returns."
It la a melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to
this terrible disease, owing to the nnekillfulness of ignor
ant pretenders. who, by the use of that Deadly Poieon,
Mercury, ruin the constitution and make the residue u
life miserable.
STRANIIERS
Trust not your lives, or health, to the care of many Un
learned and worthless Pretenders, destitute of knowledge,
name or character, who copy Dr. Johnston's advertise
ments, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly
Sdncated Physicians, iocapable of Curing, they keep yon
trilling month after month taking their filthy and poison•
one compounds, or as long no the smallest fee can be ob
tained, and in despair, leave Lou with ruined health to
sigh over your own galling disappointment.
Or. Johnston is the only Physician advertising.
His credentials or diplomas always hang in his office.
Bin remedies or treatment are unknown to all others,
prepared troth a life spent in the great heepitale of EnrOne,
the find In the country and a more extensive Private
Practice than any other Physician in the world.
iraDOILSZIDSEN I Z I OP MIZE
PILLS&
The many thousands cured at this institution year after
year, and the numerous. important Surgical Operations
pertormed 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 as a gentleman of character and re
epuneibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the afflicted.
Skin Diseases Speedily Cared.
zip 24n letters received artless postpaid and containing
a stamp to be used on the reply. Persona welttng snonid
teats age, and send portion of advertisement describing
symptoms.
Of the Baltimore Loon Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
May 23—ly
Commercial Broker.
9111 E UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN
oat a License as a COMMERCIAL BROKER, le pre
pared to negotiate for the purchase and sale of
HEAL ESTATE.
COIN,
STOCKS,
,
MORTGAGES,
and other Securities, Goods In unbroken Packages, Collec
tion of BOWS, and any other baldness of a 0011111Allniell
Broker or Agent.
a Partins having basinfuls to do in hie line are request
ed to give hint a call.
JACOB C. SCHCENER,
OFFICE in Court Street, neat door above Alderman
&lumen lyeb 28
FRENCH'S HOTEL,_
ON TIM SUILOPEo.N PLAN,
CITY OF NEW YORK.
Single Rooms Fifty Cents per Day.
City Mal Square, corner Frankfort St.,
• (OPPOSITE CITY HALL.)
l _t E th A e L sp B aci A clu S s refectory . iE l' T l There B is E a Barber ' s ßiE R S E ho p p and
Room.. ettnebed to the Hotel.
Air Beware of ROAVIAS and IDICKIKEN who say we
are
Jan 17 1y) R. FRENCH, Proprietor.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
HATS WHITE SWAN.)
Race Street, above Third, Philadelphia.
rl l lllB ESTA IA 18 fl EN T UFFEN6 (MEAT
1
inducements, not only on account of reduced rates of
board, but nom Ito central location to the avenues of trade,
as well as the conveniences afforded by the several
Passenger Hallways running past and contiguous to it, by
which guests can pass to and front the Hotel, should they
be preferred to the regular Omnibus connected with the
Bunco. lam determined to devote my whole attention to
the comfort and convenience of my guests,.
air Terms, $1 25 per day.
D li. SIEGRIST, Proprietor,
Formerly from Eagle Hotol, Lebanon, pa.
T. V. RHosns,Cierk. (march te-tt
FRESH GROCERIES,
-AT
REDUCED PRICES.
AT THE
Corner of Tifth and Spruce Streets.
Nara 1
THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW
Ws ! for my vtne•clad home!
That it Amid ever be ao dark to me,
With its bright threshold and its whispering wee,
That it should ever come,
Fearing the lonely echo of a tread,
Beneath the roof-tree of my glorious dead !
Lead on! my orphan boy!
Thy home Is not so desolate to thee,
And the low shiver in the linden tree
May bring to thee a joy.
Bat, oh ! bow dark is the bright home before thee,
To her Who With a joyous spirit bore Wee I
Lead on I for thou art now
kly sole remaining helper. Clod bath spoken,
and the strong heart I leanod upon Is broken:
And I home teen Ids brow, -
The forehead of my upright one, and just ;
Trod by the hoof of battle to the duet.
He will not meet thee where
We blessed thee at the eventide, my son I
And when the shadows of the night steal on,
He will not call to prayer.
The lips that melted, giving thee to God,
Are in the icy keeping of the sod!
Aye, my cent boy ! thy etre
with the sleepers of the valley aut.
And the proud glory of my tire bath pam'd,
With hie high glance of fire.
Wo ! that the linden and the vine should bloom,
And ajttet man be gathered to the tomb!
OLD FRIENDS.
The old, old friends !
Some changed; some burled; some gone out of sight;
Some enemies, and In the world's nwlft fight
No time to mail tomb,
The old, old Meade—
Where are they f Three are lying in one grave;
And one from the far-off world on the daily wave
No loving message sends.
the old, dear Mende!
One passes daily; and one wears a mask;
Another, long estranged, cares not to ask
Whore causeless anger ends.
The dear old friends,
do many and no fond iu days of youth !
Alan! that Faith can be divorced from Truth,
The old, eid friends:
They hover round me etill In evening Andes:
Surely they shall return when sunlight fades,
And life on God depends.
Cake sub Slacbs.
A burglary was committed at night in the
shop of a certain watchmaker in the Rue St.
Dennis. The robbers seized a number of gold
and silver watches hanging in the window, and
then went off, leaving behind them a wooden
handled chisel, which they ha•i employed in
bursting the lock, and a candle end, wrapped in
a piece of Raper about half the size of a hand.
M. 8— did not discover the robbery till he
came down to his shop in the morning, and I
was not informed of the daring burglary till ten
o'clock, /ot once preceeded with an agent to
the shop, in order to collect any indications that
might help me to discover the robbers; but
there was not the slightest clue. No one had
seen them, and excepting the two articles to
which I have referred, no object of a nature to fa
cilitate search was left in the shop. Under these
circumstances, I resolved to call on the police
commissioner of the quarter, who might perhaps
possess more precise data; but this magistrate
told me that nothing could be done for the pre
sent, and that it would be wise to keep quiet for
a while, as any steps would only lead to loss of
time and useless labor. Then the conversation
changed, and while talking of one thing and the
other, I mechanically took up the piece of paper,
which was three inches long at the most, that
surrounded the candle end. I had read beneath
the dirty finger marks the four words, " Two
pounds of butter," written in an illegible manner,
and with ink whose paleness rendered them even
more difficult to decipher. "By Jove !" I ex
claimed, that is a prodigious accident. I must
find out the person who wrote those words, and
then, perhaps, I shall get a clue to the thieves."
The commissioner does not think much of this
paper ; he warns M. Canter that he intends to
close the report at four o'clock, and Bend all the
articles to the prefecture. " Very good," replies
our author; and off he starts, accompanied by
an agent, and holding the little piece of paper.
I jumped into a cab and visited unsuccessfully
all the markets in turn. Disappointed, I was
returning to the commissioner's office, when 1
noticed, in the Rue Aubrey le Boucher, a butter
dealer, to whom I handed my bit of paper while
repeating my usual formula. After turning it
over and over, the dealer said : " Why, I wrote
those words; but I don't know to whom they
were addressed. It is a ticket which I stuck on
two pounds of butter, sold to some passer-by or
customer." On hearing this, I fell back from
the seventh heaven to the earth, and went off.
EZZEI
As I walked along, I said to myself that the
robbery was performed either at the beginning
of the night—that is to say, at one in the morn
ing—or the burglars waited till a later hour.
Ant the latter theory was inadmissible, because
at a later hour the Rue St. Denis is filled with
carts going to market and artisans proceeding to
work. Hence the robbery was committed at
about one o'clock in the morning. If this was
the ease, the robbers, in order not le ar6llBo the
suspicion of persons dwelling in the same house
as themselves, did not go to bed ; they probably
spent the night in some low wine•vaults—the
094e11e, for instance—and that would explain
how, in going down the Faubourg du Temple,
they purchased the candle in that quarter.
Whilst discussing the circumstances which must
have preceded the robbery, I turned into the Rue
du Faubourg du Temple, where I went from
chandler's shop to chandler's shop, asking
whether any one recognized my bit of paper; it
was the lantern with which Diogenes sought a
men. At length I came to sirry.two, near the
barracks, and to my great satisfaction the fol—
lowing answer was returned to my question :
• Yes, air; at about half after eleven last night
I sold a halfpenny candle, wrapped in the paper
you now show me, to two young men who live in
the next house."
I " What is their trade?"
" Ah, sir, they are quiet as !stubs I They are
two commercial travellers, and both out of work
toetvg.
I=!
When love in severance ends.
—All the Year Round.
A PIECE OF PAPER
BY A FRENCH DETECTEYE
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1863.
just at present,. They smuggle lace from Belgi
um, but they are as well behaved as girls ; they
see nobody; they frequent no bad company;
they do not drink or quarrel."
I thanked my chandler for the information,
and said that it was not with these young men
that I had anything to do; but as I feared lest
he might warn the robbers, or give them the
alarm by his chattering. I sent my agent to
fetch one of his comrades. During the interval
I made the neighbors talk, and obtained a de
scription of the malefactors, Oa the anted of
the inspectors, I sent them to watch, with orders
to arrest the robbers-if they went out, and at
four o'clock the next morning, I went up and
arrested them. I could see nothing of a sue.
picious nnture in their room. I sent for the
commissioner; but a search led to no result, and
I began to fear, not that I was mistaken, but
that I had arrived too late, and that the watches
had fled. There was in the room a large win
dow, looking out into the yard, which I opened
to let in some fresh air, and as I leaned out I
perceived a blacksmith's shop,
"By Jove I" I sail to myself, "it would not be
very extraordinary if that smith made the chisel,
without knowing to what use it might be turned."
So taking the instrument which I had brought.,
I went down to the forge, and asked the master
if the tool was of his making.
" No, sir!" be answered ; " but I put it in a
handle for one of the young men with whom you
now are, no said he wanted to use it for open-
ing cases.
There was no further doubt that these were
the burglars ; hence I hurried up again, and the
search began more strictly than before. The
mattresses were ripped open, the palliasse ga
ted, the walls sounded, the boards taken up, and
every hole and corner inspected. We were in
despair, for we could find nothing, and after
three quarters of an hour of useless searching,
we resolved to go away. But the next morning
I commenced a fresh search in their room ; and
on examining the ceiling, I noticed an almost im
perceptible Iffaiellee of color over the bad. I
jumped on to a chair, and a vigorous blow of my
fist on the spot produced a hole, from which
tumbled, pell-mell, on the bed, gold and silver
watches, all Mien from 11. B—. Our two
rogues, in order to bide the stolen articles, had
made a hole in the ceiling, which they covered
again with thick paper, and whitewashed over,
and it only appeared of a darker color because
it was not quite dry.
Some time after, the two burglars were tried
at the assizes, and sentenced to ten years' penal
servitude. And yet, on what did the success of
this affair depend Y Upon a piece of paper, to
which no one had paid any attention.
SIAMESE FEMALE SOLDIERS.
The following description of the King of
Siam's female military body guard, though not
entirely new, is interesting from its minuteness.
It appears in the Moniteur de 1' Armee
" A battalion of the King's Guard consists of
four hundred women, chosen among the hand
somest and most robust girls in the country. They
receive excellent pay and their discipline is per
f;et, They are admitted to servo at the ago of
thirteen, and are placed in the army of reserve
at twenty five. From that period they no long.
er serve about the King's person, but are em
ployed to guard the Royal palaces and Crown
lands. On entering the army they make a vow
of chastity, from which there is no exemption
unless any of them should attract the King's at
tention and be admitted among hie legitimate
wives. The King's choice seldom falls on the
most beautiful, but on the most skilled in mili-
tary exercises.
" The hope of such reward animates them with
extraordinary zeal for military instruction, and.
Europeans are astonished at the martial appear
ance of that battalion, as well as its skill in
maoeuvering, and its excellent discipline. The
costume the women wear is very rich. Their
full dress is composed of a white woollen robe,
embroidered with gold. The cloth is extremely
fine, and descends as far as the knee; it is cover•
ed with a light coat of mail and a gilt cuirass.
The arms are free, and the head is covered with
a gilt casque. When wearing this dress on state
occasions their only weapen is a lance, which
they handle with wonderful dexterity. With
their undress they are armed with a musket.
" The battalion is composed of four compa
nies, and each company of one hundred women,
commanded by a captain of their sex. Should
the captain die, the company is drilled fur three
days by the King, who appoints one of the most
competent to succeed to the command.
"The battalion has been commanded for the
last five year• by a woman who saved the king's
life at a tiger hunt, by her courage and skill.
She posse.ses great influence at court, and is
much respected by those under her command.
She has the same establishment as a member of
the royal family, and ten elephants are placed
at her service. The king never undertakes an
expedition without being accompanied by his fe
male guard, nor does be ever hunt, or even ride
out, without an escort of the same guard, who
are devotedly attached to his person. Each in
dividual has five negresses attached to her ser
vice, and having thus no domestic occupation,
she can devote herself exclusively to the duties
of her profession. There is a parade ground
near the city where one company is stationed
for two days every week to exercise themselves
in the use of the lance, the pistol, the musket
and the rifle.
" The king attends once a month, at those ex
ercises, accompanied by his brother, who shares
in some degree the sovereign power, and dis—
tributes prizes to the most deserving. These
rewards consist of bracelets and other valuable
jewelry, to which the girls and their families
attach great importance. Those so honored fill
the offices of sergeant and corporal. Punish
ment is very rare in this corps, and when it is
inflicted it consists of a suspension from service
for a period not exceeding three months. But
duels are much more frequent. They must be
ee h e ti one d, h owever , he the female captain, and
be fought with swords in the presence of the
entire company. When the death of one of the
parties ensues, the deceased receives a magnifi—
cent funeral, and the high 'agent pronounces a
panegyric declaring that the deceased by her
valor has merited eternal rest in the abode of the
blest. The survivor receives the congratulations
of her companions ; but, as a measure of die ,
oipline, she is sentenced to pass two months
away from her company in tasting and prayer.
The military organization of this battalion is so
perfect that the entire army endeavors to imitate
it."
THE EARTH WORM.
The earth-worm lives a very solitary life below
ground, driving its little tunnels in all directions,
and never seeing its friends except at night,
when it comes cautiously to the surface and
searches for company. In the evening, if the
observer be furnished with a "bull's-eye" lan
tern, and will examine the ground with a very
gentle and cautious step, he will be sure to find
many worms stretching themselves out of their
holes, retaining for the most part their hold of
the place of repose by a ring or two left in the
hole, and elongating themselves to an almost in
credible extent. lf, while thus employed, an
earth- worm be alarmed or touched, it springs
back into its hole, as if it had been a string of
India rubber Unit had been-stretched and was
suddenly released. The worms have a curious
habit of searching for various leaves and drag
ging them into their holes, the point downwards,
and are always careful to select those particular
leaves which they best like. As a general rule,
they dislike evergreens; and the leaf which I
have found to be most in favor is that of the
primrose. I have often watched the worms
engaged in this curious pursuit; and in the dusk
of the evening it has a strange effect to see a
leaf moving over the ground as if by magic, the
dull reddish brown of the worm being quite in
visible in the imperfect light. The food of the
earth-worm is wholly of A vegetable nature, and
consists of the roots of various plants, of leaves,
and decayed vegetable substances. Many per
sons cherish a rooted fear of the earth-worm,
fancying that it. lives in church yards and feeds
upon the dead. These fears are but idle preju
dice, for the worm cares no more for the coffined
dead than does the tiger for the full manger, or
the fox for the bleeding gazelle. The corpse,
when once laid in the ground, sinks into its dust
by natural corruption, untouched by the imagin
ed devourer. The so-called worms that feed
upon decaying animal substances are the larvm
of various flies and beetles, which are hatched
from eggs laid by the parent i so that if the
maternal insect be excluded, there cannot be any
possibility of the larval. Moreover, neither the
fly nor the beetle could live at the depth in which
a coffin is deposited in the earth ; and if per
chance one or two should happen to fall into the
grave, they would be dead in half an hour, from
the deprivation of air and the weight of the su
perincumbent soil. Let, therefore, the poor
earth-worm be freed from causeless reproach;
and though its form be not attractive nor its
touch agreeable, let it at all events be divested
of the terrors with which it has hitherto been
elAhed,—Butledge4 I - 40,717.4W trefara4
PAY AS YOU GO.
"Owe no man anything," was the injunction
of a certain apostle, but we prefer the motto of
John Randolph, "pay as you go." We must
owe men all the courtesies and kindnesses which
belong to and grace humanity; it is an obliga
tion of our nature; therefore the apostle was
not sufficiently definite, but Randolph hit the
nail on the head, when he confined his maxim
to pecuniary debts, which men, under the pres
ent order of things, are liable to incur. Ele
touched with a true philosophy one of the com—
monest and greatest of society evils. We take it
for granted, that as a general rule, pecuniary
debts are contracted to be paid sooner or later
As a general rule their burthen is least the
sooner they are paid. Interest, usury, depen
dence, lawsuits, and costs of all kinds that hang
over standing and legitimate debts, add, if we
could but get at their total for a single year in
this country, millions of dollars to the original
obligations. Friendships are broken over debts,
forgeries and murders are committed on their
account, and however considered, they are a
source of cost, annoyance, and evil and that
continually. They break in everywhere upon
the harmonious relations of individuals and of
society ; they blunt sensitiveness to personal in
dependence, and in no respect do they advance
the general well being. .As debts are incurred
to be paid, and as the saving all lies on the side
of the earlier payment, why not manage to pay as
we go, and thus avoid all debts, duns, broken
friendships, writs, constable's and court costs ?
We buy this or that, and we propose to pay in a
week, a month, three months, and soon the com
mon rule of credit not running beyond six
months, for which credit we have to pay advance
prices and interests, and why should we not,
even at some sacrifice, continue to get so far the
start of custom, as to pass by this perpetual
credit system, and from that point, beginning
the world anew and even, keep even by paying
as we go?
It mould be infinitely cheaper, better, and
more independent for us all. If we can ever
pay, why not pay at once—now? It will be no
easier when interest is added to principal. The
rich have no excuse for not paying as they go,
though to their shame, they are oftenest the ones
to decree misery and ruin by the credit they use,
or rather abuse, in their intercourse with the
world. They, by withholding the honest dues of
the laborer, the mechanic, the merchant and the
professional man, who are all poor comparative
ly, force these classes into indebtedness until
communities: become a tangled net, whose
threads of affiliation are standing accounts,
notes, bomb and mortgages, suite at law, judg
ments and executions. If those who are able to
pay as they go, would be just and pay thus, the
credit system, which now makes one-half of
society dependents and slaves, would be mainly
swept away. The middle man and the poor man
are driven to the wall by the system; they can
be punished under obligation, with impunity ;
but the mac of means, the rich man, who dares
to remind him of debt? He will pay when he
gets ready.—Albany Knickerbocker.
THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.—From this time
until after the eleotion, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, receive the political outgivings of the
telegraph with the closest circumspection. It
is the most potent engine of theßepublioan party,
and should be denominated "a partisan eontriy
ance whieh occasionally tells news."
ME " 0 azExnAcKs."—The amount of Treasury
notes now in circulation is within a fraction of
Sour hundred millions of dollars.
[VOL. XXIV.-NO. 10. - WHOLE NO. 1974.
Botifirst.
SPEECH OF EX-SENATOR PUGH,
IN THE
Democratic State Convention of
Ohio.
Loud calls were made for Hon. George E.
Pugh, and that gentleman, upon taking the stand,
said for some time he had discharged the duty of
an atteeney far a gentleman who this day has
received the nomination of Governor of Ohio.
He had not agreed with him in regard to all
questions of expediency in prosecuting this war,
but he was satisfied that the question of war or of
peace wns the highest problem of statesmanship;
and he could not decide upon the issue raised
without absolute freedom of public discussion,
not as a politician, but as a citizen. His injuries
are my injuries. Outrage on him is outrage on
me ; and he exhorted the Convention to make
unanimous the nomination of the faithful, honest,
honorable, high-minded and forced exile into the
rebel States. He desired to say that in all the
anxious hours passed by that gentleman, day and
night, his cheek never blanched, nor did he
eiverve from his fundamental rights, as a citizen,
to speak without dictation of military law. On
questions of war or peace, Mr. Pugh was not
prepared to decide. [Cries of " Peace, Peace."]
A free people cannot decide such an important
question until they had heard all sides; anti any
man who undertook to decide in favor of peace
or of war, while under the dominion of martial
law or Order No. 38, did that which would be a
mockery and a shame. He did not know of what
character the resolutions to be brought before
the Convention would be, but he was hi fog& of
the adoption of a resolution that no free people
can decide to continue this war, or end it by
peace, until they have concluded that their own
liberties were safe. lie could not say that the
tendering of an armistice to the " Confederate
States," for a settlement of. the present difficul
ties, as proposed by Mr. Vallandigham, was right
until he had heard his argument and his presen
tation of all the facts. But when the President
or any military gentleman told him that his fel
low-citizen should not express his opinion, he
would reply that it is a farce and a sham to talk
of free Government. The Democratic party was
not responsible for this unhappy rebellion,
brought about by its adversaries in power;
they were warned and implored not to launch the
country into the miseries of a civil war. They
did it, and claimed that they could by the sword
restore the Constitution and Union as it was ;
and we hold them to that responsibility in the
face of God, the civilized world, and the judg.
merit of all ages. If they demand and require un
told millions of treasures, and if they fail, the
judgment of the country, God and history will
be against them. As a citizen of the United
States, he would not submit one hour, so help
him God, to this arbitrary and irresponsible
power. The Democratic party had suffered al
ready more outrages than ever could have been
conceived of, if I am to hold my life, my liberty
and personal property subject to the arbitrary
whim of Gen. Durneide or any other General.
This Convention should never adjourn until it
has achieved the liberty of the people. He said
it in view of Order No. 38. He could die but
once. I scorn your Order No. 38. [Cheers.] I
trample under foot the order of any military offi
cer defining treason. They may imprison me,
put me to hard labor, take my life, or-come what
will, I despise Order No. 88; and if you, my
fellow-citizens, are such abject slaves as to hold
your lives, liberties and property at the dictation
of any man, Colonel or Corporal, you deserve to
be slaves, and posterity will despise you. He
maintained that his client, Mr. Vallandigham,
who had dared to express his opinions upon the
momentous questions of the war, had that right
under the Constitution to deliver them; and he
exhorted the Convention to postpone every other
question in favor of the question of our own
liberties; and be would exhort Mr. Lincoln on
the question of peace or war, when he had the
right to express that opinion in public, and he
intended to express that opinion at the hazard of
his life. This question should fill their hearts
every hour and day, and be their exclusive bud.-
nese until the second Tuesday of October. Mr.
Pugh then, with much severity, dwelt upon the
acts of military officers intruding themselves into
private houses, and, in the prettenen of their
wives and children, bringing their victims before
a mock tribunal, called a military commission.
He admonished his Democratic friends not to
halloo to-day and repent to-morrow. Say it and
mean it. Let each man take counsel with his
own heart, and come to the resolution that this
usurpation of tyranny shall be stopped, peacea
bly if possible, but by force if hecessary. The
best security of liberty is to maintain it at all
hazards. Somebody must make the issue. If
it is myself, God help me, I will meet the respon
sibility. It we had an honest man in the office
of Governor instead of a creature who has sold
himself for the name of office, and licked the
duet for power, affairs would be as different as
when the honorable President of this Convention
had possession of the Executive Chair. Now we
have less than the dust of the balance. We have
no Governor; we have a king, who had the
audacity to say to my face that he would eventu
ally crawl back into the Democratic party, and
its Convention would put such men as Vallan
digham and Olds to the wall. [Groans.] It' God
spares his (Mr. Pugh's) life, and • Governor Tod
ever presented himself in any Democratic Con
vention, he would move to suspend all business
until he was expelled from the Convention. He
would pardon an honest man who was misled
and desired to return to the fold of the Demo
cratic, party ; but he could not a man who sells
himself for office and becomes a creature so infa
mous that one can never describe his infamy. If,
before sundown to-morrow, Gen. Burnside shall
have me arrested for violating Order No. 38, will
you act? [" We will," by thousands of voices.]
I Mr. Pugh continued—Then our liberties are safe,
and at the coot. tif life I intend to maintain my
rights. When hia fellow citizen, Mr. Vallandig
him, for expressing his opinion, was seized and
dragged in secretly to Cincinnati and imprisoned,
his indignation against the military authorities
knew no bounds; but whon a judicial officer,
knowing his duty under his oath, failed to per
form that duty from personal cowardice, and
trampled under foot the constitutional rights of
a citizen, the question then passed to that of
impeaching a Federal officer and making an ex
ample of Noah H. S wayne and Humphrey EL
Leavitt. Nothing less than a sense of my own
personal liberty and that of my children brought
me to this Convention. I have served the Demo
cracy of Ohio twelve years, and the contract has
been dissolved, I desire no 080 e, and want no
other position than that of a citizen ; but life ie
no longer tolerable under this despotism, and I
would rather be led to the scaffold than submit
to Burnside's Order No. 38. And the question
now for you to decide is, will you submit ?
[Cries of "No, no, no."] If the people, in Oc
tober, by their suffrages, sustain that order, he
would advise his Democratic friends to sell their
chattlea and property and emigrate to some other
country, where they can be free citizens. He
was in favor of this Convention not adjourning
until these rights were granted them ; and, in
the language of Patrick Henry, "If this be
treason, make the most of it." Turning toGov
ernor Madill, he said: " Now, my friend Gover
nor, I think I have violated order No. 38 enough."
Mr. Pugh then said that he had sought an op
portunity on the gunboat to converse with Mr.
Vallandigham, and there put the question to him
Has President Lincoln given you any choice
between going to Fort Warren or to go South ?"
Mr. Vallandigham, replied, No, but I would
rather go to Fort, Warren a thousand times than
go South." Mr. Pugh replied: " When you are
gone, the Abolition liars in charge of the tele
graph will say that you chose to go South." Mr.
Vallandigham said, " I authorize you, Mr. Pugh,
to say that such is not the feet; that I prefer
going to Fort Warren than to those who are re—
bels against the United States. I have given
you my opinion. If you are a freeman, you will
follow it, end you are not entitled to be a free
man if you don't." I3e then called upon the
Convention, in the name of 150,000 Democratic
freemen in Ohio, not to disperse or go home
until they have demanded of the President the
restoration of that person whom they have
named for Governor, and talk d nothing else
until he shall be restored to us. Mr. Pugh re
tired amid the most deafening applause.
THE DEFENCE OF PENNSYLVANIA..
PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOR CURTIN.
Pennsylvania ss
In the name and by the authority of the Com.
monwealth of Pennsylvania, ANDREW G. Con-
TIN, Governor of the said Commonivealth.
A PROCLAMATION
Information has been obtained by the War
Department that a large rebel force, composed of
cavalry, artillery and mounted infantry, has been
prepared for the purpose of making a raid into
Pennsylvania.
The President bee therefore erected two new
Departments— one in Eastern Pennsylvania, com
manded by Major General Couch, and the other
in Western Pennsylvania, commanded by Major-
General Brooks.
I earnestly invite the attention of the people
of Pennsylvania to the general orders issued by
these officers on assuming command of their re.
spective departments.
The importance of immediately raising a suffi
oient force for the defence of the State cannot be
over—rated. The corps now proposed to be estab
lished will give permanent security to our borders.
1 know too well the gallantry and patriotism of
the freemen of this Commonwealth to think it
necessary to do more than commend the measure
to the people, and urgently urge them to respond
to the call of the General Government, and fill
the tanks of these corps, the duties of which
will be mainly the defence of our homes, firesides
and property from devastation.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the
State, at Harrisburg, the twelfth day of June, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty three, and of the Commonwealth the
eighty seventh.
By the Governor.
(Signed) ELI Szrraa.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
GENERAL ORDERS FROM MAJ.-GEN. COUCH
HEADQUARTERS OP TEE DEPARTMENT OP TEE
SOMMDRANNA, Chtimbarisborg, Amon, 1803.
The undersigned assumes command of this
Department. In view of the danger of the in—
vasion now threatening the State of Pennsylva
nia by the enemies of the Government, a new
military Department has been made by direction
of the War Department, embracing all the terri
tory of Pennsylvania east of Johnstown and
Lauren Hill range of mountains, headquarters at
Chambersburg.
To prevent serious raids by the enemy it is
deemed necessary to call upon the citizens of
Pennsylvania to furnish promptly all the men
necessary to organize an army corps of volun
teer infantry, artillery and cavalry, to be desig
nated the " Army Corps of the Susquehanna."
They will all be enrolled and organized in ac—
cordance with the regulations of the United States
service, for the protection and defence of the
public and private property within this Depart
ment, and will be mustered into the service of
the United States to serve during the pleasure of
the President or the continuance of the war. The
company and field officers of the Departmental
corps will be provisionally commissioned by the
President upon the recommendation of the Gen—
eral Commanding. They will be armed, uni—
formed and equipped, and while in active service
subsisted and supplied as active troops of the
United States. When not required for active
service to defend the Department, they will be
returned to their homes subject to the call of the
commanding General.
Cavalry volunteers may furnish their own
horses, to be turned over to the United States at
their appraised value, or allowance will be made
for the time of actual service, at the rate author—
ized by law. All able volunteers between
the ages of eighteen and sixty will be enrolled
and received into this corps.
The volunteers for the State defence will re—
ceive no bounty, but will be paid the same as
like service in the army of the United States, for
the time they may be in actual service, as soon
as Congress may make an appropriation for that
purpose.
If volunteers belonging to this army corps de
sire, they can be transferred to the volunteer
service for three years or during the war, when
they will be entitled to all the bounties and
privileges granted by the Acts of Congress,
The General commanding, in accordance with
the foregoing general authority, calls upon all
citizens within his Department to come forward
promptly to perfect the company organizations
under United States regulations, to wit : one
captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieuten
ant, sixty-four privates as the minimum and
eighty-two as the maximum standard of each
company.
The General commanding specially desires that
citizens of this district tecently in the army,
should volunteer for duty in this army corps,
thereby, from their experience, adding greatly
to the efficiency of the force for immediate de—
fensive operations ; each company organization
to be perfected as soon as possible, and report
the name of the officers in command, the number
of men, and the place of its headquarters, in or—
der that they may be promptly furnished with
transportation to the general rendezvous, which
will be at Harrisburg. Any person who will
furnish 40 or more men, who will be enrolled, if
otherwise unobjectionable, will be entitled to a
captaincy.
Any person who will bring twenty-five or
more men, under the above conditions, will be
entitled to a First Lieutenancy, and every per
son who will bring fifteen or more men, under
the same conditions, to a Second Lieutenancy.
On their arrival at the place of rendezvous they
will be. formed into regiments.
So far as practicable, and as may be found
consistent with the interests of the public ser
vice, companies from the same locality will be
put together in the regimental organizations.
For the present all communications will be
addressed to Harrisburg. The chiefs of the re
apeetive organizations will report accordingly.
(Signed) D. N. Conon,
Major-General Commanding.
or Is IT TIM, as we have seen le repeutodl7
alleged, that one of the obligations of the id Loyal
Leagues" prevents its members from having any
more business or social relations with Democrats,
than is positively necessary Y We only ask for
information, not wishing to charge the League
with what we do not know to be positively the
ease. If this be one of the objects, it is but right
that the public should know it.
ORPZILEI OF lINPATENTZD LAZD.—The Aot of
Assembly in relation to the graduating and
vsl—
nation of unpatented lands by the Commissioners
of the several Counties of Pennsylvania, will
expire, by its own limitation, on the first day of
August, 1863. Those interested, bad better take
advantage of it in time, and have their lands ap
praised by the Commissioners and patented, be
fore the date above given.
Dunma the recent rebel raid into Western
Virginia one of Gen. Jenkins's men stole a lady's
hoop skirt, which so enraged the General that he
ordered the fellow to wear it a whole month—so
he was obliged to go with it around his neck,
amid the jeers of his comrades ; and to see him
holding it up when riding hie horse is said to
have been ludicrous in the estrum