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DANIEL E. SCHROEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
iin , 106 WITH J. lIAGENAIAN, PENN ST.,
j above Si,Lb, Reading, Pa Urine 6-3 m
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C. A Leopold,
A TTORN,EY AT LAW.—OFFICE IN COURT
eNt door below Sixth. Reading,
3iAy 23, 15C3-1y
JESSE G. HAWLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
lAn R,l MOVED Hl@ OFFICE TO NORTH
sis-th street, opposite the Keystone House, Heading.
LiK.3-tt
NORM RALSTON,
AT'T'ORNEY AT LAW,
CIFFICE WITH A. B. WANNER, NORTH
:411:M Street. (above the Court Routed Reading, Va.
February 21,1Sat-ly
REMOVAL.
vvILLIAM IL LININGOOD, ATTORNEY AT
LAW. bee removed 116 office to the north elde of
Coati .treet flint door below Sixth. [dee 2.2-tf
Charles Davis,
ATTORNEY AT LAW—HAS REMOVED HIS
vniet to the OM. lately meanie& by Ilia Hon. Duld
F. cordon, deceased, in Sixth street, opposite the Coati
nsot.e. [spril 14
Daniel Ermentront,
• TTORNEY AT LAW—OFFICE IN NORTH
Wool. corner of Court alloy. [aug
David Neff,
WITOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Fnraign and Domestic DRY GOODS, No. 25 East
Ytnn street, Heading, Pa. [March 10, 1880.
LIVINCOOD'S
United States -Bounty, Back Pay and
Pension Office,
COURT STRERT, IVE4R finrszr.
AVINO BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECT
iux claims against the Government, I [eel confident
all who have heretofore employed me Will cheerfully
endorse my promptness and fidelity. My charges are
.....koateend no charge made until obtained.
WILLIAM 11. LIVINGOOD,
oct 11-if) A Ilsrlidy at Law, Court St., Heading, Pa.
DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
CIAN NOW OBTAIN THEIR. $lOO BOUNTY
ki haul the U. . Goaetnnient, by application to
ABNER N. STAUFFER,
March 7-tf] Collection Office, Court Street, Reading.
ASA M. HART,
(Late Hart & Mayer')
rhEALER IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN
knit udOne, Cd.R.PETI NU, &a... Wholesale and Re,
ha, la Philadelphia prices. sign of the Golden Bee five,
Tv i 4 East Penn Square. Laprill7-tf
P. Bushong & Sons,
AiI Ii t. II I P .t A . CTUR : ERB OF BIIR,`iINO FLUID,
and Draggief»' Meohol; also,
nae [dl, which they will sell at the lowest Wholesale
price,, at Reading, Pa.
1/10 orders reapectfally aolicited.
O. M. MILLER, M. D.,
Eclectic Physician and Surgeon.
AGRADUATE OF TUE ECLECTIC MEDI
cal College Pldladeltdda. offers his professional ser
vic. to the citizens of liambarg and vicinity. Painful
tura - kat operations, such as Potting Beaton and Dislocated
tind,, amputations, Cutting Cancers, Tumors, do., will
to p.,riortued under the influence of Ether, at the consent
et the patient.
unite at this residence In Main street, Hamburg, Ps.
inky 4,1543-lf
D T. YARDLEY BROWN,
SURGEON DENTIST.
GRADUATE OP PENNSYLVANIA
Dental College. Teeth extracted by Fran
ripiiia, Inectro Magnetic process, with Clarke's
llnprotratent. With this method teeth are
xtracled with mach less pain than the metal way. No
earn charge. Office in Fifth street, micelle the Pretbyte
rzro Chereb. (sprit 2-Iy_
CHARLES LANCASTER,
MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN,
Fourth Street, Above Penn, needing.
Jituuary 24.186341
PENSIONS,
BOUNTIES & BACK PAY.
A PPLICATIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED
11. to. Terms louder-Jo and no charge until obtained..
A. 0. °RUN, Attorney at Law,
J. 1.12 31-tmo] 01800 in Court !'treat, beading.
SOLDIERS'
BOUNTY-MONEY, ZACK-PAT
AND PENSION CLAZIES
PROMPTi.Y ATTENDED TO BY
A. K. STAUFFffitt,
Attorney at Law, Office in Court Street,
Jae 31-tfj READING, PA.
F. P. HELLER,
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER,
AND DEALER IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
SPOONS, SPECTACLES, OOLD PENS, &c.,
ffigu of the 4, um wAviii.” No. ON B a Penn
&wet, above Sixth, north aide, Reeding. Pr.
diem Every article warranted to be what It to sold for
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Ste., repaired with particular
outeotiun, and guaranteed. [rob 1-0
A LL PARENTS AND GUARDIANS ARE
11 earnestly regneeted to keep the children under their
coetrol from playing or walking upon the Railroad Tracks,
In and near this city. An Locomotives and Cara are con
ed:m(ly in motion thereon, neglecter thin precaution will
E.:dainty result in serious and parbana fatal accidents.
Juan C-2m] G. NICOLLS, General Superintendent.
- LiOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 200 WHITE
Granite Tea Setts of the newest style.
1 1 1 01:SALE AT TR E OLD JAIL., 300 GRANITE
.1_ Dinner Setts of the newest style.
I, I OR. SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 1000 SETS
j' Common Teaware.
(dolt SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, THE LARG-
Ii A
sot assortment of Liverpool Ware ever offered in
LIGE SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, A LARGE
X assortment of Pittsburgh, Boston and French 0/11101-
v. Are of every descrion.
FOE SALE AT T pti
HE OLD JAIL, THE CHOIC-
Ohl variety of bar and Hotel Oimo, China and Queens.
wire farnitore ever offered in needing
. VOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, GO BARRELS
X Mackerel at Philalelpbta
march sit WILLIAM RI/OM:I4U
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
"i-ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE PROM QUACKERY.
The Only Place Where a Cure Can be
Obtained.
DR. JOHNSTON lIAS DISCOVERED THE
most Certain, Speedy and ouly Effectual Remedy is
the World for alt Privets Diseassa, Weakness of the Bach.
or Linda, Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys and Mad
der. Involuntary Discharge's, Impotency. General Debility,
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Contu
sion, of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremb
ling. Dimmers of Sight ur fitddlnote, Disease of the Hood,
Throat. None or Skin, a &cilium of the Liver, LIMP,
Warne& or EoWel‘—thoseTetrible Disorders arising from
the Solitary Habits of Tontb—those serge? and solitary
practices more fatal to their victims than the song of Syrelle
to the Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their mutt brilliant
hopes or anticipations, rendering ularriage, dm., impossible.
1g0171170. MITE=
Especially, who have beeetee the victims' of Raillery Vies.
that dreadful and destructive habit which annually sweeps
to an untimely grave thousands or Toting Men or the most
exalted talents; and brilliant intellect, who might other
wise have entranced listening Senates, with the thunders
of eloquence or waked to imams, the living lyre. may call
with lull confidence
biarrlo4 Perform, or Young Melt contemplating mar
riage, being aware of phrsima weakneas, orgaule debility,
deformities speedily eared.
tio wha pinom himself antler the. elm. of N.. 1. may
religiously confide in hie haunt as a gentleman, and eon
ndeutiy rniy upon bin skill a. a phyfileitiii.
Immediately Cured and Pall Vigor liostored
This Distressing affection—which render, Lifoand Mar
riage bopossade—iii the pettedly paid by the victims of Im
proper intluigeuces. Young persons are too apt to coattail
assessed from not being aware of the Jr64tail cansn
quencee that may ensue. Nov, who that understand the
subject will ps eteud to deny that the power of procrea
tiou in last sooner by Dome falling into improper Labile
than by the penitent? Besides beteg deprived of the pleas
ure of healthy offspring, the most serious and deetruetive
symptoms to both inmly sad blind anise. The aystent
conies Deranged, the Physical and Mental Venation.
Weakened, Lose of Procreative Power, Baritone Irritabli-
MY, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con
stitutional Debility, a wasting of the Frame, Cough, CM
sowptiou, Demty and Death.
°idea, riro. 7 mouth Frederick Street.
Lett hand elite going from Baltimore street, a few doors
from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number.
Letters must be paid and contain a stamp. The Dectot'a
Diploma bangs lo hie office.
CURE imaan..a.nrizmn IN
TWO DAY&
No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
DR. ZWEINSTONe
Member of the Royal College oi Surgeons, London,
Grad
uate front one of the most eminent Colleges in the United
Staley, and the greater park of whose life has been spent
in the 'hospitals of lophdett, Paris, Philadelphia and else•
where, has allotted RCM of the most astonishing cares
that wore ever known; many troubled with ringing in
the head and ears when asleep, great nervonenese, being
alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent
bi u hip g , attended sometime with derangement of mind,
were curial immediately.
ii;e‘v;4=1“X 1 1: 1 ? - 4 (44P01-1: 1 * , ;(* 1 , 4(4A
Dr. J. addresses ail those who have Injured themselves
by improper indulgence and isolltary habits, which ruin
both body and mind, unfitting them for either business,
study, ...misty or marriage.
Tnses are come of the Rid and melancholy effects pro.
armed by :early habits of youth, viz: Weekliesse of the
Back and Limbo, Patna in the Head, Dimuese of Sight,
Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dys
pepsia. NeTVOIId Irritability, Derangement of the Digestive
ffenctions, General Debility, Symptom. of Consumption,&c.
Munremv.—The fearful effects on the mind are lunch to
be dreaded—Loss of Memory, amlnelon of Lima, Depres
sions of Spirits,, kvii Yorbodings, Aversion to Society, Self-
Distrust, Lore of Solitude, Timidity, &c., are some of the
evils produced.
TIICIOSANDEI of persons of all ages cam now judge what
is the canoe of their declining health, losing their vigor,
booming weak, pale, nervonn and emaciated, liming a
singular appearance about the aim, cough and symptoms
of consumption.
VO 17STO mEN
Who have injured thernaelvee by a certain practice Indul
ged in schen alone, a habit frequently learued from evil
companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly
felt, even wheu asleep, and if not Cara. ROAM marriage
impossible, and destroy./ both mind and body, should ap
ply immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of hie country.
the darling of bin parents, should be snatched from all
lampoons and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of
deviating from the pate of nature and indulging in a cer
tain secret habit. bush persona utter, before
log
211111.12.1A11iCM
reflect that a eonnd mind and body are the most necessary
reqnisitaa to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with
out those the journey through life beooMee a weary - pil
grimage; the -reaps& hourly darkens to the view; the
mind becomee shadowed with despair and filled with the
melancholy reflection that the happiness of another be
comes blighted with our own.
DISMAL= OF 1112P8U1 ZINCIEL
When the misguided and Imprudent votary of Fleenor°
Hada that he has imbibed the seeds of this painful dittotio,
it too often happens that an ,111-timed sane of shame, or
dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who,
from education and respectability, can alone befriend tam,
delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid
disease nudge their appearance, such ea ulcerated sore
throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the bead and
limbo, dimness of eight, deafness, nodes on the shlu-bones
and arias, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of
die month or the house of the nose fall in, and the victim
of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis
eration, till death pate a period to hie dreadful aniferings,
by sending him to .• Unit Undiscovered Country from
whence no traveller returns." .
. . . . . .
It ill a nadanehoty fact that thoneands fall victlmijo
this terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of taunt
-
ant pretenders, who, by the use of that :Deadly Polito.,
Atircury, rain the constitution and tuake the residue o
life miserable.
14 - 4 ,
'Print not your liven, or health, to the care of many Un
learned and worthless Pretenders, destitute of knowledge,
name or character, who copy Dr. Johnston's ativertiee
mean], or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly
Idneated Phybichun, incapable of curing, they keep you
trifling month after mouth taking their filthy and poison
ous youiponnas, or as long as the smallest fee can be ob
tained, and in despair, leave you with reined health to
sigh over your own iling disappointment.
or_ Johnston is the only Physician advertising.
Hie credentials or diplomas always bang in his once.
[march 11
His Tomei/lea or treatment are unknown to all others,
prepared from a life spent in the great hospilakof Europe,
the first in the couutry and a more eYlensiee Private
Practice than any other Physician in the world.
INDOASZINICEUMPT OP TEM
PRESS.
The many thousands cured at this institution year after
year, and the numerous important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. Johnston, witnessed by the reportera of
the Sou," •'Clipper," and many ether papers, notices of
which have appeared again and again before the public,
besides his standing as in gentleman of character and re
apanalbility, la a anffielent guarantee le the BAIL IQII
Skin Diseases Speedily Gareth
.fal" 4o letters; received unless posbpaid and containing
a stamp to be need on the reply. Persona writing *Mould
state-age, and send portion of advertisement deecribing
ilympiotric
JOHN M. 30.11381 - Writa4r, M. D.,
Of the Baltimore Lour. Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
May 23—ly
Commercial Broker.
rilliE UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN
out a Llama, aa a COMMERCIAL unman, is pre
pared to negotiate for the pnrohaee and sale of
REAL ESTATE,
COIN,
STOCKS,
BONDS,
BON TOA ORS,
ant other 643013111 W Goods In unbroken Packages, Collec
tion of Routs, and any other busluals of a Commission
Broker or Agent.
ifa- Parties baring business to do in his line are request
ed tu give him a cull.
JACOB 0. ECIRENIA
OFFICE In Court Street, next dour above Alderman
scticener. 1 . 11.1.. 28
FRENCH'S HOTEL.
ON Mil EUROPEAN PLAN,
CITY OF NEW YORK.
Single Rooms Fifty Cents per Day.
City Hall Square, corner Frankfort St.,
(OPPOSITE CITY Fio1114,)
EATS AS THEY MAY BE ORDERED IN
the spacious refectory. There Is a Barber's Shop and
atn iiO,lMB attached to the Betel.
ffMi=IiiIZ2MMOMI
WWI
NATIONAL HOTEL,
(LATE WHITE SWAN.)
Race Street, above Third, Philadelphia.
/IBIS ESTABLISHMENT OFFERS GREAT
inducements, not only on Recount of reduced rates of
board, but from its central location to the avennesof trade,
as welt as the conveniences afforded by the several
Passenger hallways ensuing past and contiguous to it, by
which guests eau pass to and from the fetal, should they
be preferred to the molar Ontightut eattneetoa with the
Hones. lam determined todovoto my whole attention to
the comfort and convenience of my guests.
ffah Terene,sl. 7d per day.
D C. DIECRIST, Proprietor,
Formerly from Angle note!, Lebanon, Ps.
v. Rwouno,Ciork. [march 16-tf
FRESH GROCERIES,
-AT--
REDUCED PRICES.
AT THE
Corner of Fifth and Spruce Streets.
YArett l li. awls a SON.
f ~
gaits nub Sitictios.
The pleasant village of Springdale was all
agog when Nick Dudley returned from Califor
nia—Nick the ne'er-do-well, who had run away
from hie drunken old father's horse-whip ten
years ago, and now came back, rich I
MI the gossips of the little neighbOrhood were
in a perfect flutter. The young misses donned
their brightest smiles and most eftptietaing cali
coes. The young fellows were furious with envy.
The minister introduced a period in his long
prayer with epecialreferenee to " the wanderer's
return;' and, ha fact, never in New England
was seen such a flutter as pervaded this pretty
rustic hamlet when it was rumored and confirm
ed that Niok had really got home.
The poor Widow Dudley had made her few
preparations for the event in fear and trembling,
for she scarcely expected from her runaway son
anything save a repetition of her reprobate
husband's neglect, yet he spread her little table
with the best het; scanty store afforded, and
smoothed her faded gown with trembling fingers,
when she heard the rumbling of the stage wheels.
To Widow Dudley and to Nick himself, all this
hubbub and commotion were lost; neither of
them minded it a whit.
Nick bought bank the old farm which his pa
rental. ancestor had succeeded in inerlgaging
twice over before he luckily broke his neck;
built an addition to the farm house ; flung out a
bay window here and a piazza there ; planted
shrubbery; drove his mother to meeting in a
new wagon; of rather rakish . and sporting ap
pearance, behind the fastest pair of chestnut
mares ever seen in that country. But be civilly
declined all invitations to tea-parties, sewing
circles, and quilting bees; was invincible at
town meetings and fancy fairs ; asked no one to,
visit him, returned no calls, and in faot, as pretty
Miss Langford remarked confidentially to Lizzie.
Hopkins, the Deacon's daughter, " behaved
more like a savage Injun, or a horrid old miser
than s decent Christian, and the handsomest
fellow in Springdale, to boot."
One or two of Nick's old schoolmates, who
ventured to introduce themselves to his presence,
told strange Stories of the interview, and of the
wonders to be seen in the apartment where the
returned Californian received them, politely, to
be sure, but coldly as an animated icicle. They
spoke of walls hung with rifles, Indian bows
and rich furs ; of cabinets filled with outlandish
bits of rooks, which sparkled in the sunlight
like diamonds ; of silver-mounted pistols, bar
baric spurs and bite diabolical IthZlo/111 idols,
carved of solid gold ; of gorgeous cloaks flung
over great elk antlers ; of Indian scalps, tri
umpantly stretched upon hoops daubed with
vermillion, and of Nick himself, strangest of
all—tall and swart, with his great beard and
dreamy eyes, and ugly red scar athwart his fore
head; never flushed nor disconcerted; his voice
swee t as a woman's and full of tenderness when
ever he spoke of or to his old mother.
Folks wondered that he should oome home if
he couldn't conduct himself a little more socially
and neighborly; ,and Indeed, many surmised
that he would not have returned at all had it not
been for his mother.
But at any rate, there he was, and they must
make the beet of him, "Rich, too; no &OA
of that, for didn't he lend Squire Foram three
thousand dollars, all in double eagles, after the
latter's mill was burned ? But then be took an
uneonseionable rate of interest—seven per cent.,
not a mill less ; what a regular old Shylook he
must be l" And as a set-otf to his riches don't
he drink wine every day at dinner with his fath
er's awful fato before him 1' and ain't he forever
with a pipe between his teeth ; and didn't be
play cards and carouse and sing songs all night
and drive about the country all day with those
friends of his who came from Boston !
mates in the mines, were they. Humph! Guess
gamblers, with their superfine broadcloth and
their gold chains and Wings."
IL FRENCH, Proprietor
So wont the 136§91p, Vl Mak eared for It all
not a red cent, but went on his way, turning
neither to the right nor to the left; dabbling a
little by fancy cattle, oftener going off for a day's
shooting or fishing; more often going down to
Boston for nobody knows what; evidently on-
MY CROSS.
It is not heavy, agonizing woo,
Bearing me down with hopeleas, crushing weight—
No ray of comfort In the gathering gloom;
A heart bereaved, a household desolate.
it la not Manteca, With her withering hand,
Keeping me low upon a conch of pain;
Longing each morning for ihe weary night,
At night for weary day, to come again.
B is not poverty, with Mailing blest,
The minima eye, the haeger-watda fors! ,
The dear OM perishing for lack of bread,
With no safe shelter from the winter's Worm
It is not slander, with her evil tongue;
'TIC not "presumptuous Fikl" against my God
Not reputation lost, or friends betrayed ;
That such is not my cross, I thank my God.
Nine is a daily cross, of petty cares,
Of little dutlce pressing on my hoart,
Of little troubles hard to mueslis,
Of Inward struggles, overcome In part.
•
My feet are weary in their daily rounds,
My bean is weary et its daily cars,
My debit nature often dab rebel;
1 pray for grace my daily cross to bear.
It in not bonny, Lord, yet oft I pine;
It in aot heavy, but 'tin everywhere ;
By day and night each hour my cross I Lear;
I Mare nut lay It down—thou kneVet It them_
I dare not lay It down. F only ask,
That, taking up my daily ems, I may
Follow my Master, humbly, slap by atop,
Throag6 olondo and datkuma, nata parfaat day
—Chureh Monthly.
MIDSUMMER-
To-day, the meek-eyed cattle on the bills
Lie grouped together in some grateful shade ;
Or slowly wander down the grassy glade,
To stand content, knee-deep, In gluey rifle.
The wandering bee, In far seeltitled horrors,
Hums Its low, cheerful anthem, free from rare;
Great brilliant battalion, fragile an fair,
Float gracefully *bore the gorgeous flowers.
The tug pviul dowu a flood of golden heat
Upon the buoy world; so hot and bright,
That the tired traveller, longing fur the night,
Seeks some cool abetter from the dandy Street.
The cricket ehlirups fern He 401 1 refrain;
The grace and all green things are near and dry;
The parched earth (Wrote for water, and teen Blab
For cooling showers. Ell nature waits for rain.
NICK DUDLEY.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1863.
joying life in his own way, despite all that was
sail of him and hie goings on.
At last the war broke out. The young men
volunteered by scores—by hundreds—by thou
sands. Weeping mothers packed their kits and
said " God bless you." Bad, broken ciroles met
around homely boards in the brown farm-houses.
Poor old fathers, with stern faces and sad hearts,
strained every nerve to make both ends meet
while the "boys" were away figlleing, and
sweethearts and Wives at themselves down to
weep over husbands and lovers marching away
for the oruel swamps of Virginia.
In the midst of it all, a report began to spread
that Nick Dudley was a secessionist, And in
deed, his conduct was somewhat suspicious.
Before the storming of Sumter, he was heard
to say a dozen times that he " sympathized with
his misguided Southern brethren," Since that
momentous era, lie had „held his tongue, never
joining iu the excited liiiWegnes of his neigh
bors in the village schoolhouse ; attending uo war
meetings ; offering u 0 Money for the cause, and
doing nothing to encourage enlistments. It
looked bad, certainly. At length the public feel
ing ran so high that Nick heard of it, but he
only laughed, calling them a pack of fools for
their pains, and said he would give his opinions
when called upon for them, not before, But no
one cared to ask him point blank what he
thOught, fur a wholesome fear of hie peOWess
was prevalent in Springdale. But Nick got
caught at last.
"Come, father, tea's ready," said Lizzie.
" Yes, Maid, in a minute. What's this ? Three
hundred thousand more men called for by Pre
sident „Lincoln I"
" The Lord pity their poor mothers," said old
Mrs. Hopkins, wiping her eyes, as she thought
of Ben, her first born away in the army.
The Deacon cast his eyes down the column.
" Humph I what's this l New regiment—under
the President's proclamation, Colonel Dudley
has beers commissioned by the Governor to raise
a regiment for immediate service."
"I wonder if that's Niok," said
"Nu. lle's a secessionist," grumbled the
Deaoon
Ile isn't," spoke up Cioily—then blushing
liken rose.
"Why, Cloily, ohiltli' said Atm Hopkins,
" How do you know what he is ?"
" Why, he told me (a white lie)—that is (con
science strickeu)—he didn't exactly say so, but
I—l know— that is, I think—"
" Better be quite sure of what you are saying;
Cioily Hopkins—sweet Cieily Hopkins, from
New Hampshire—down for a visit to her cousin
Lizzie, came blooming into Springdale one June
morning, and Nick stared at her whenever and
wherever he could, like a real heathen as he was;
and before many days he had made some pre
tense to call over' at the 'Deacon's, where he
straightway received an introduction to pit4tty
Cioily, who wondered much at his great mous
tache, and rather liked his looks, but denominated
him a perfect bear afterwards, when she and
Lizzie were talking him over. Then ho invited
Miss Lizzie (and Cieily, of course,) to ride over
to Acoomae ponds with him, to fish for perch and
gather water lilies, and, Indeed carried them
both there in grand style, and made himself so
agreeable that they fell fairly in love with him,
and vowed that they would never listen to 'a
word in his disparagement again. Yes, Nick
was caught I and Molly, though half afraid of
the great fish she had hooked, felt proud of her
conquest"; and got to looking for the dreamy
eyes and black moustache with a little flutter at
the heart and gush of crimson blushes over her
plump cheeks and milk- white neck. But, then,
he was a secessionist, they said but eke, a
staunch Union damsel—she would never marry a
secessionist—never I She said as much one day
in Nick's hearing, but he only smiled and re
marked that 4 . he woutsitiCt either—if he could."
And so the summer was slipping by, and
Cicily's visit drawing to a close—only one,,day
of it remained.
Nick had gone to Boston with a promise to
return in time to say good-bye—and something
else which be wished to tell her before they
should part, Ah l she well knew what it was !
Tea on the table, Cicily sat looking out of the
open window at the honey-suckles and sweet
briars. Lizzie as usual, was hustling round in a
perfect whirlwind of business and stiff muslin.
Old Mrs. Hopkins was slowly rolling up her
knittiug,while the Deacon, who had just received
his newspaper from the post office, was dimly
spelling out the headings to the columns.
What a pretty little- scream from frightened,
blushing Cielly, while Lizzie burst into laughter,
and old Mrs, H, dropped her knitting in aston
ishment ; for there stood Nick Dudley himself,
an observed spectator of the scene, looking hand
somer than ever in his Colonel's uniform.
What paned betWe,en Nick and Chilly that
night, in the long walk they took together under
the maples, I know not; only when the Colonel
returned home toward midnight, he went stroll—
ing along the lonely road, trolling out snatches
of Spanish ballads and old love ditties, while
Cicily went softly up to her chamber, richer by
a happy heart and a ring upon her finger which
had never glittered there before.
A battlefield—black masses of smoke drifting
overhead ; below, black masses of men here and
there—here motionless, there hurrying—charging
— retreating—red flashes of fire dashing angrily
out at sudden intervals—stragglers lying stark
and dead, clothing the fields, the woodlands and
the roads—batteries with their powder-stained
piecee, and the haggard artillerymen flitting
Wildly around them, an occasional cheer ooming
hoarsely up in the distance, as some regiment
goes swinging on at the double quick, the men
bareheaded, with their tongues lolling from their
mouths, eager eyed, all dust•begrimed and
breathless. Skirmisherii outlaying in every
thioket, creeping up hitis ihd through woods, in
long, snaky lines—bare•armed surgeons, sweaty
with hacking and mangling, towards the rear—
pale officers in groups, discussing, giving hurried
orders, and peering anxiously through field
glasses; aids darting off into the smoke and
never returning—blood-stained orderlies darting
up and out of the smoke with mysterious dis—
patches, and instantly disappearing again like
phantom massengere—the roar of the great guns
heard miles and miles away, rattling the glass
in the windows of peaceful homesteads, where
they think it is some distant thunderstorm over
the mountains.
Look at the regiment charging the rebel bat—
t ery on the hill, yonder—that formidable battery,
which, hidden by fallen trees, and stone walls,
and brush barricades, has been playing all day
with such deadly effect upon our poor fellows.
Down they go into the little valley at a half
run, canteens jingling, nonskets at slope, tight—
waieted officers already beginning to pant a lit
tle ; men loosing their knapsack straps, ready to
throw them off when they begin the real work.
Now they cross the little brooklet in the hollow
—donne of them steeping to Web a draught of
muddy water—and now and then they check
their speed for an instant to dress before they
face the unseen battery, whole position is in•
dioaled only by the thunder of the discharges
which at every instant shakes the ground.
Nick Dudley is at their head, as where else
should their Colonel be ? And, see, see what a
filmy fire gleams in those dreamy eyes as he
turns his flushed face up towards the threatening
heights
"Now, boys!"
A hoarse cheer from their thousand parched
throats, and on they go, sweeping up the hill
like a sea wave. A deeper roar from the rebel
guns, depressed so low that the cruel grape goes
tearing right in 4he face of the advancing ranks.
An instant's pause, and out of the smoke come
pouring hundreds of rebel horsemen, barbaric
fellows, the gleaners who follow the harvest of
the grape shot, riding down the reeling columns
—yelling—slashing like devils.
Whore is the Colonel now ? Why does not his
voice rise above the death•shriek and musket
tire, like a trumpet call to his brave boys
Seel Flash, Bash, from his revolver, and down
goes a rebel dragoon. Too late ! for, with the
rush and roar of the confliot they swept over him,
and Niak is left lying on hie back, with another
and a fresher scar across his forehead ; his right
arm twisted hopelessly under him ; a stinging,
numbing pain in every nerve ; a thousand pieces
of artillery an his brain 1.
Oh ! the sweet, sweet light—Cioily—all fade
together from his bewildered soul.
A crippled invalid, an exchanged prisoner, is
sitting in an easy chair, propped up with pillows
in the cosiest, warmest nook of the old farm
bees,. Poor Mrs. Dudley, her wrinkled face, so
sad and anxious, is watching him with tender
eyes. He doesn't seem to care for the fresh
flowers on the table, for the jellies, the fragrant
lemons, the iced drinks, the little comforts and
luxuries so plentifully strewn around him.
A cripple ! white, scarred face ; lips contract—
ed by sharp pain ; one arm gone at the shoulder,
emaciated frame, shaken by frequent fits of
coughing; lacklustre eyes, vacantly straying
around the room, as though seeking something
forever unattainable. Not even a mother's love,
all pervading as it is, seemed to satisfy his que
rulous longing. So changed! So broken down!
Poor Nick Dudley I
" Mother, did you write to her 1"
Hear hie feeble voice, thin and cracked by
illness.
" Yes, my son; but—" and hare she wipes
away a furtive tear or two.
"But—yes, of coarse, she's forgotten me.
Why shouldn't ahe? I'm nothing now—only a
miserable wrock. Still I wish—l could see her
before I—just to iv to her that I release her
from the engagement, but I'm—l'm willing she
41,501 go—and bear her no unkindness for do.
serting—for not wishing to marry a —cripple."
"Oh, my dear son, do not speak so. It. may
be all a mistake. If she really loves you—"
"Say no more, mother—you wrote."
"Yes, my son, nearly a month ago."
"And no reply. Humph I it is clear," and
the poor fellow turned wearily toward the wall,
while a few tears trickled down his thin cheek,
A knock at the outer door, and Mrs. Dudley
slips out of the room. In five minutes she re
turned.
"Are you asleep, my son ?"
" No, mother, but give me the laudanum drops.
I think I could doze a few minutes with their
•
help."
•
" My eon."
"Well."
" Can you bear good news ?"
He turns quickly, and sees the devoid wrink
led face all smiles.
" What is it ?" And the wistful eyes turned
beseechingly toward the door.
A rustle of muslin—a flutter of lace—an odor
Of violets, and darling Cicily Hopkins, with eyes
red with weeping, and mouth all pouting—half
way between laughing and crying of " Oh, Nick,
they never told 190" — h63 her aranii around his
neck, and her dear head upon his bosom before
the poor, unfortunate, happy devil knows whether
he is dreaming or awake.
"Did ha get well ?"
Of course he did. Wouldn't he have been a
perfect MS to die at this juncture ? He got well,
(that is, he's getting well fast now, as you read
this.) They were married last mouth. Nick
affirms he's the happiest man in the world to
day.
OLD THINGS.
A steady old fellow writes : "Bell that old
table ? No, I'll not sell it; it's only a pine table,
that's true; and it cost but eighteen shillings
twenty-five years, ago, but your ten dollar bill is
no temptation ; and. Pa not swap it, either, for
the prettiest mahogany or cherry table that you
bring me. If it has plain turned legs, instead
of a pillar in the middle, with lion's claws, and if
the marble top is only varnished paper, still, I
will not soil or swap it. It has been to me a
very profitable investment. From the day it
came to me it has been earning dividends and
increasing its own capital. My children made a
play-house and drank tea under it, for which I
thank Nig Pm legs, and when they got tired of
it that way they, turned it upside down, and
made a four-post bedstead with curtains, or pull
ed it: round the carpet for a sleigh. Then they
climbed on it for an observatory; and I never
counted the glorious romps they had round it.
And also all along for twenty-five years it has
paid its dividends of happiness to my family
circle. These dividends could never be separated
from it, until its value is not told in money. It
has bad its quiet uses, also ; for noboby could
tell it from a round table of agate and cornetist',
with its sainnabbordeted green 00Ter. Nothing
lasts forever. The top of the table was loosened
by the hard use it got, so I took a punch, drove
in the eight•penny nails below the surface,
added a few screws, puttied them over, and
pasted the marble paper checkers over the top.
(VOL. XXIV - N0.16.--WHOLE NO. 1980.
Then it was a really handsome table. It' has
had hard usage since, but bears it all; and the
checkers want renewing, which will make it
worth more yet. My watch is thirty years old.
It is one of those thick silver levers which some
poor wits call ' turnips.' It has been several
limett auggeeted to me that I might exchange it
for a thin modern gold watch, which wears easier
in the pocket. When Ido you may set me down
for a barbarian! No, the best gold and jeweled
'hunter' in existence would not tempt me to
swap. That watch marked the time when my
children were born, and the record is set down
in the family Bible ; it has ticked in their ears
when they could only speak by laughing at it,
and kicking up their heels. It has marked the
hours when the doctor's medicines were to be
given, and counted their pulses when they beat
low at midnight and when the heart ached. It
has Made many records that are fast sealed ut,
to be opened only when another Time comes.
Twenty seven years have passed since my wife
and I went out one evening and bought a tea
kettle. The fitting of tho lid was a little imper
fect, so that tho escape of steam shook it, and
caused a peculiar noise, nearly enough resemb
ling the chirping of come insect to suggest the
name by which it has now been known in the
family for a long time—our ' cricket on the
hearth.' Like the table and the watch, the ket
tle has been adding dividends to its capital every
day sines its first purchase, and though nothing
but iron, it could not be bought for its weight in
silver. It has sung so long and regularly and
cheerfully, that not only the kitchen, but the
whole house, would be lonely without it. It bee
given us its fragrant blessing morning and even
ing, and come almost to be regarded as a living
and talking creature, It is never a god fortune
that sells such old friends out of the family,
and takes in new ones that have no history and
no tongue. In all changes that have so far taken
place, I have kept these silver bowls unbroken,
and surely no change in the future shall break
them."
SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT DISEASES
Perhaps under this head may be classed the
notion that a galvanic ring, al it is called, worn
on the finger, will cure rheumatism. One some—
times sees people with a clumsy-looking Over
ring which has a piece of copper let into the in
side, and this, though in constant contact
throughout, is supposed (aided by the moisture
oilthe hand) to keep up a gentle, but continual
galvanic current, and so to alleviate or remove
rheumatism.
This notion has an air of science about it which
may perhaps redeem it from the character or
more superstition ; but the following case can
put in no such claim. I recollect that when I
was a boy a person came to my father (a clergy
man), and asked for a " sacramental chilling,"
1. e., one out of the alms collected at the Holy
Communion, to be made into a ring, and worn as
a cure for epilepsy. Ile naturally declined to
give one for "superstitious uses," and no doubt
was thought very cruel by the unfortunate ap
plicant.
Ruptured children aro expected to be cured by
being passed through a young tree, which has
been split for the purpose. After the operation
has been performed, the tree is bound up, and if
it grows together again, the child will be cured
of its rupture. I have not heard anything about
this for many years ; perhaps it has fallen into
disuse. There is an article on the subject in one
of None's books, I think, and there the witch
elm is specified as the proper tree for the pur
pose ; but, whether from the scarcity of that
tree, or from any other cause, I am not aware
that it was considered necessary- in this locality.
Ague is a disease about which various strange
noticfns are prevalent. One is that it cannot be
cured by a regular doctor—it is out of their reach
altogether, and can only be touched by some old
woman's nostrum. It is frequently treated with
spiders and cobwebs. These, indeed, are said to
contain arsenic ; and, if so, there May be a Wick
of truth in the treatment. Fright is also looked
upon as a cure for ague. I suppose that, on the
principle that sinzilia simi7ibus eurantur, it is
imagined that the shaking induced by the fright
will . counteract and destroy the shaking of the
ague fit. An old woman has told me that she
was actually cured in this manner when she was
young. She had had ague for a long time, and
nothing would cure it. Now it happened that
she had a fat pig in the sty, and a fat pig is an
important personage in a poor man's establish
ment. Wall aware of the importance of piggy in
her eyes, and determined to give her as great a
shook as possible, her husband came to her with
a very long face as she was tottering down stairs
one day, and told her that the pig was dead. Hor
ror at this fearful news overcame all other feel
ings ; she forgot all about her ague And hurried
to the scene of the catastrophe, where she found
to her great relief that. the pig was alive and
well; but the fright had done its work, and from
that day to this (she must be about eighty years
old) she has never had a touch of the ague,
though she hie resided on the same spot.
Equally strange are some of the notions about
email-pox. Fried mioe are relied on as a specific
for it, and I am afraid that it. is considered ne
cessary that they should be fried alive.
With respect to the whooping-cough, again, it
is believed that if you ask a person riding on a
piebald horse what to do for it, his recommenda
tion will be SuddStaftil if attended to. My grand.
father at one time used always to ride on a pie
bald horse, and he has frequently been stopped
by peoplo asking for a cure for whooping cough.
His invariable answer was ti Patience and water•
gruel ;" perhaps, upon the whole, the best advice
that could be given.
Ear-rings are considered to be a cure for Bore
eyes, and perhaps they may be useful so long as
the ear is sore, the ring acting as a mild Beton ;
but their efficacy is believed in after the ear has
healed.
Warts are another thing expected to be cured
by charms. A gentleman well known to me,
states that when he was a boy the landlady of
an inn where he happened to be took compassion
on his warty hands, and- undertook to cure them
by rubbing them with bacon. It was necessary,
however, that the bacon should be stolen ; so the
good lady took a secretly from her own larder,
which .was supposed to answer the condition
sufficiently. If I recollect rightly, the warts re
mained as bad as ever, which was perhaps due
to the bacon not having been beam M Melon.
I do not know whether landladies In general
are supposed to have a special faculty against
warts ; but one, a near neighbor of mine, has the
credit of being able to charm them away by
counting them. I have been told by boys that
she has actually done so for them, and that the
warts have disappeared. I have no reason to
think that they were telling me a downright lie,
but suppose that their imagination must have
been strong to overcome even such horny things
as warts. A mere coincidence would have been
almost more remarkable.
There is a very distressing eruption about the
mouth and throat, called the thrush, common
among infants and persons in the last extremity
of sickness. There is a notion about this dis
ease that a person must have it once in his life,
either at his birth or death. Nurses liko to see
it in babies ; they say that it is healthy, and
makes them feed more freely ; but, if a sick per
son shows it, he given over as past recovery,
which in really indeed extremely rare in 81101
cases.
I am no doctor, and do not know whether the
disease is really the same in both cane's, but it
appears to be so.
The following conversation, which took place
hire Dersetshira village, illustrates the popular
aerology and therapeutics of that county :
" Well, Betty," said a lady, " how are your
"Pure, thank you, ma'am ; but I has been
rather poorlyish_"
"What hae been the matter with you ?"
" Why, ma'am, I wee troubled with the rising
of the lights ; but I tooked a dose of shot, and that
has a-keepit them down."
As a pendent to this take the following, hither
to unprinted. Au old cottagei in Morayshire,
who had long been bed-rid, was charitably
visited by a neighboring lady, much given to the
administration of favorite medicines. One day
she left a bolus for him, tram which she expected
strengthening effects, and she called next day to
inquire for her patient, as usual.
" Well, John, you would take the medicine 1
left with you ?"
" Oh, no, ma'am," replied John "it wadna
gang east."
The Scotoh, it must be understood, are accus
tomed to be precise abont the ti airts" or cardi—
nal points; and generally direct you to plabea
in that way. This poor old fellow, constantly
lying on one aide, had come to have a geographi
cal idea of the direction which anything took in
passing into his gullet.—Chambers.
THE ALPS.
Agassiz, in a paper on the " Growth of
Continents," in the July number of the Atlantic
Monthly, gives the following sublime description
of his early home in Switzerland.]
"My early home was near the foot of the Jura,
where I constantly faced its rounded domes and
the slope by which they gently descend to the
plain of Switzerland. I have heard it said that
there is something monotonous in the continu
ous undulations of this range, so difforout from
the opposite one of the Alps. But I think it is
only by contrast that it, seems wanting in vigor
and picturesqueness; and those who live in its
neighborhood home very much attached to the
more peaceful character of its scenery. Perhaps
my readers will pardon the digression, if I in
terrupt our geological discussion, for a moment,
to offer them a word of advice, though it be un—
called for. I have often been asked by friends
who were intending to go to Europe what is the
moetfavorable time in the day and the best road
to enter Switzerland in order to have at once the
finest impression of the mountains: My answer
is always,—Enter it in the afternoon over the
Jura. If you are fortunate, and have one of the
bright, soft afternoons that sometimes MOW the
Alps in their full beauty, as you descend the
slope of the Jura, from which you command the
whole panorama of the opposite range, you may
see, as the clay dies, the last shadow pass with
strange rapidity from peak to peak of the Alpine
summits. The passage is so rapid, so sudden, as
the shadow vanishes from one height and appears
on the next, that it seems like the step of some
living spirit of the mountains. Then, as the sun
sinks, it sheds a brilliant glow across them, and
upon that follows—strangest effect of all--a mid
den pallor, an ashy paleness on the mountains,
that has a ghastly, chilly look. But this •is not
their last aspect ; after the sun has vanished out
of eight, in place of the glory of hie departure,
and of the corpse-like pallor which succeeded it,
there spreads over the mountains a faint blush
that dies gradually into the night. These
changett , Ake glory, the death, the soft outmod
ing life—really seem like something that has a
Spiritual existence. While, however, I counsel
my friends to see the Alps for the first time in
the afternoon, it possible, I do not promise them
that the hour will bring with it such a scene as
I have tried to describe. Perfect sunsets are
rare in any land but, nevertheless, I would ad
vise travellers to douse the latter half of the day
and a road over the Tura for their entrance into
Switzerland.*
It was from the Jura Itself that one of the
great epochs in the history of the globe received
its name. It was in a deep gorge of the Jura,
that, more than half a century ago, Leopold von
Buch first perceived the mode of formation of
mountains ; and it was at the foot of the Jura, in
the neighborhood of. Neufehatel, that the hives.
tigations were made which first. led to the recog
nition of the changes connected with the Periods.
As I shall have occasion hereafter to enter into
this subject more at length, I will only allude
briefly here to the oircumetanoes. In so doing
I am anticipating the true geological order, be
cause I must treat of .the Jurassic and.Cretaaeoul
deposits, which are • still far. in. advance of us ;
but as it was by the Study of 'these deposits that
the circumscription of the Periods, as I have de
fined them above, was first eleereined, I must
allude to them in this connection.
Facing the rangeof the Jura from the Lake of
Neufchatel, there seems to be but one uninter
rupted slope by which it descends to the ahoy*,
of. the lake. It will, however, be noticed by the
most careless observer that this elope is divided
by the difference in vegetation into two strongly
marked bands of color ; the lower and more
gradual descent being of a lighter green, while
the upper portion is covered by the deeper hue
of the forest-trees, the.Beeehes, Birches, Maples,
etc., above which comes the Pines. When the
vegetation is fully expanded, this marked divi
sion along the whole side of the range into broad
bands of green, the lighter below and the darker
above, becomes very striking. The lighter band