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JESSE G. HAWLEY;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH
sixth Street. opposite the Keystone House, Rending.
Wit Ll, 1833-il
301137 RALSTON.
aTTORN) AT LAW,
OFFICE WITH A. B. WANNER, NORTH
Street (above the Court Rouse,) Reading, Pa.
F.bruary 21,1863-17
REMOVAL
WILLII3I H. LIVINGOOD, ATTORNEY AT
V V LAW, ban removed b 1 ogle* to the north eta. of
Cart Awl lint door Wow Sixth. [deo 2S-tt
Charles Davis,
Ath)
TTORNEY AT LAW—HAS REMOVED HAI
Oaks to zhe Office lately °coupled by the Hon. David
. Tdor., deceased, in Sixth etreel, opposite the Court
Hama. [april 14
Dante/ Ermentrout,
A. TTORNEY AT LAW—OFFICE IN NORTH
Stall etreet, corner of Court alley. [Aug IS-ly
David Neff,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Foreign and Domestic DRY GOODS, No. 25 Rest
Peon ,treat, Reading, Pa. [Mara 10, I.po.
LEBANON VALLEY INSTITUTE,
ANEVILLE, LEBANON COUNTY, PA.
SELECT BOARDING SCAOOL.—COURSE
Jt. instruction ;borough and 'Womplete—namber or
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Yurb 7-ti] W.J. BURNSIDE. Annville. Pa
FREELAND SEMINARY,
WILL OPEN ITS WIN I ZER SESSION
On Monday, October 26th, 1863.
fcr Csmionue and particulars, address
REV_ R. A. MIMICKER, Principal.
6r: 10-st] Freeland, Montgomery county, Pa.
LIVINCOOD'S
United States Bounty, Back Pay and
Pension Office,
COURT STRRST, HEAR SIXTH.
11131AVING BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECT-
I mg claims against the Goeerament, I feel confident
Mai all Who hare heretofore employed me Will cheerfully
ere-.t my promptness and fidelity. My charges are
matinee and no charge made until obtained.
WILLIAM H LIVINGOOD,
oetls-41) Attorney at Law. Conn gL. Beadier. Pa.
DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
/lAN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY
U from the 11. B. Government, by application to.
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ABNER K. STAUFFER,
March 7-41] Collection Once, Court Street, Rending.
ASA M. HART,
(Late Hart, ay•ri)
HEALER IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN
DRY GOODS, CABBYPINGO, Pm, Wholesale and Re
- at Philadelphia price. Sign of the Golden Bee Hive,
Ea East Penn Square. taprill7—if
P. Sualiong dk Sons,
ILIANUPACTIJRERS OP BURNING FLUID,
Tlll...liete, Deodorized and Irmo:lsta' Alcohol; also,
re till, which they will sell at the lowest Wholesale
Rom at Reading. Fa.
Orders reespecUalli solicited- [march 12
G. M. MILLER, M. D.,
Eclectic rhysician amid Surgeon,
A GRADUATE OF THE ECLECTIC DIEM%
1 - Ica College Philadelphia, offers Me professional ser
vice* ns the citizens of Hamburg and vicinity raiaftil
operatiOnd, *PCB as dotting Broken and Dislocated
liraba, amputations, Cutting Cancers, Tumors, &a., will
i* ' , trimmed under the Influence of Ether, et the consent
u 7 the patient.
Offien at tie residence In Main strut, Hamburg, Fa.
Say 9, ISa-tf
R • T. 'YARDLEY BROWN,
SURGEON DENTIST.
GRADUATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
Dental College. Teeth extracted by Fran.
t a %AA tie Electra Magnetic process, with Clarke's
improvement. With this method teeth are
"waded with moth lees pain than the usual way. No
Mfg. chards. 011ie in Fifth street, opposite the Presbyte
lea Church. [sprit 2-17
SOLDIERS'
BOUPPrit-IMONNY, BACB-PAY
AND PENSION CLAU=S
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO BY
A. 11E. STAAJN`FIEic,
Attorney at Law, OSiee in Court Streets
Jim 31 -in READING, Pi
F. P. HELLER,
WATCHMAKER, JE WELER,
AND DEALER IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
SPOONS, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, &0.,
Signe! the s. BIG WATCH," No. 15334 East Pena
&het, above Math, north side, Reading, Pa.
Eir Every article warranted tu be what it is aold tor
litstshes, Clocks, Jewelry, Be., repaired with particular
attention, and geminate ed. [kb b-td
TRUSSES,
TUPTURB CAN BE CURED BY A TRUSS
Ir THE RIGHT KIND, IF PROPERLY PITTED AND
IiDLY ATTENDED TO. This has been abundantly de
lametrated in innumerable instance* by the use of the
/I eLTIPIDAL THIIBB of DE. RIGOR, during the last few
N... TMr trues, being covered with Hard Rubber, lc
I"hctiy waticrproof, way be Deed in bathing, and ie
ni-
Oaya cleanly as well as indeetritatible by ordinary usage.
It cm satisfactory alter a fair trial of sixty dam, it may be
Ditireed. It challenges comparison with any truss kuown.
Dr. RIOOS' Office, No. 2 BARCLAY oz, New-York.
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Ti t OE SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 200 WHIET
-L Granite Tea Setts of the neweetetyle.
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Dinner Sena of the newest style.
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COILII/014 TeSifire.
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- eat assortment of Liverpool Ware ever offered In
ing.
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-14-131, furniture ever offered in Rendirnr.
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Mackerel at Philadelphia ricea.
sunk n RELOAVIN
BALTIMORE. LOCK HOSPITAL,
ear ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE FROM QUACKERY.
The Only Place Where a Cure Can be
Obtained.
DR. JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED THE
most Caffein, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in
the World for all Private Diseases, Weakness of the Hack
or Limbs, Stricter., Affections of the Kidneys and Blad
der, Involontary,,DLechargss, Impotency, General Debility,
Nervoindia.i, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Confu
sion, of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremb
ling. Dimness of Sight or Giddiness. Disease of the Head,
Throat, Nose or Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lungs,
Stomach or Bowels—those Terrible Disorders 11111111 g from
the Solitary Habits of Youth—those BECKET and eolitary
practices more fatal to their victim. than the song of Syrens
to the Mariners of Ulysiefl, blighting their moot brilliant
hopes or anticipations, rendering marriage, kc., impossible.
1i017N131. MEN
Especially. who have become the victims of Solitary Tice,
that dreadful and asstructive habit which annually sweeps
to an untimely grave thousands of Young Men of the mold
exalted talents and brilliant intelleet; who might other
wise have entranced listening Senates, with the thunders
of eloquence or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call
with fall contidence.
NUMUJLaiIi.
Married Persons, or Young Men eoutemplatlng mar
lage, being aware of physical weakling, organic debility,
deformities speedily cured-
He who places himself under the care of Dr. J. may
religiously coutide in his honor ag a gentleman, and con
fidently rely upon Ms skill m a physician.
ORGANIC
Immediately Owed and Full Vigor Restored.
This Distressing Affeition—Which renders Life and Mar
riage impossible—is the penalty paid by the victims of Im
proper indulgences. Young persons are too apt to commit
excesses from not being aware of the dreadful cense ,
quenees that may ensue. Mow, who that understand the
subject will pretend to deny that the power of procrea
tion is lost sooner by those falling Into improper habits
than by the prudent? Resides being deprived of the pleas
ure of healthy offspring, the meet eerione nest destructive
symptoms to both hotly and mind arise. The system be
comes beranged, the Phyelowl and Mental Penedo].
Weakened, Loss of Procreative Power, Nervous
Irrttabil
tty. Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, CA'*.m.•
a titnti onal Debility, a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con
sumption, Decay and Death.
Office. No,. I 'South Frederick Street.
Lett band side going from Baltimore street, a few doom
from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number.
Letters must be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor'.
Diploma hangs In his oiilce.
A OMB WARRANTED IN
TWO DA.TS.
No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
DR. SONIISTON,
Member of the Royal College or Surgeons, London, Grad
note from one of the must eminent College. In the United
Staten, and the greater part of whose life has been spent
in the hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia and eine
where, has °Sleeted some of the most aetwilahlog cures
that were ever known; many troubled with ringing In
the head and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being
alarmed at sadden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind,
were cured immediately.
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Dr. J. addresses 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.
TIM= are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro.
dosed by .early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the
Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Bight,
Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dye
pepsin. Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Digestive
knzietlans, General Debility, Symptom.- otConitemption,&e.
BLEaratt.y.—The fearful effects on the Mind are moth to
be dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, Depres
sions of Spirits, Evil Forbodings, Aversion to Society, Self-
Distrust, Love of Solitude, Timidity, dm., are some of the
evils produced.
Tam/sawn of persona of all ages sea now Judge what
is the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor,
becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a
eingalar appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms
of aoasompilon.
YOUNG DEEM
Who have injured themselves by a certain practice Indul
ged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil
companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly
felt, even when asleep, and If not cured renders marriage
impoadble, and deetroye both mind and body, should ap
ply immediately.
What a pity that a yonng man, the hope of hie country.
the darling of his parents, ebould be snatched from all
mopeds and onjoymonto of lifo:17:lha donsillienea of
deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer
tain secret habit. Bach persons neer, before conteniplat
lag
• SCARTLIAGEI,
reflect that a sound mind and body are the most necessary
requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with
out these the journey through life becomes a weary pil
grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and Oiled with the
melancholy redaction that the happiness of another be
comes blighted with our own.
VZ5Z1.41,613 or XAEXILVDZISTCII.
When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure
dude that he has imbibed the made of this painful dbease,
it too often happens that an ill-timed ranee of shame, or
dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who,
from educed°e and respectability, ean alone befriend him,
delaying till the vonstitlitional symptoms of this horrid
disease make their appearance, Bock as ulcerated core
throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the bend and
limbs, dinner* of sight, dealhoes, - nodea on the shin-bones
and arms, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, till at lad the palate of
the mouth 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 anfferings,
by tending blot to "that Undisoovored Otiootry front
whence no traveller returns."
It is a rsetanohoty fact that thousands tall victims to
this terrible disease, owing to the usekilitutuess of Ignor
ant pretenders, who, by the nee of that Deadly POlBO7,
Mercury, rule the eoustltution and make the residue o
life snimarairlii.
STRANGERS;
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
Edneated Physician, incapable of Curing, they keep you
trilling month after month taking their filthy and poison
ous compounds, or as long as the smallest fee can be ob
tained, and in despair, leave you with ruined health to
sigh over your own gallieg disappointment.
Dr. Johnston is the only Physician advertising.
las credentials or diplomas always bang in his office.
His remedies or treatment are unknown to all others,
prepared-front a life spent in the great hospital. of Europe,
the Best in the country and a more extensive Private
Practice than any other Physician in the world.
INDORSZOLOPIT OP MEM
PRIMO.
flnle many tlooemada cured at this institution year after
year, and the numerous important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. Johnston. witnessed by the reporters of
the " Eon," 'Clipper." and many other papers,notices of
which bare appeared again and spin before he radio,
besides his standing as a gentleman of ottnrnater and re.
aponsibtlity, is a euincient guarantee to the afflicted. .
Skin Diseases Speedily Cured.
Aar :go lettere received' ordeals post-paid and containing
a stamp to be aced on the reply. Persons welting should
state age, and send portion of advertisement describing
symptoms.
AMIN W. 3031INSTON, M. D..
Of the Baltimore Lock Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Nay 2d—lY
BOUNTY MONEY,
BACK-PAY
AND PENSIONS.
ATTENDED A P to PLICATIO ra p st q au L A Y ttorney.t
May 30-U] Office to Court Street. Reading.
FRENCH'S HOTEL,
ON 23311 LUROPEAN _PLAN.
CITY OF NEW YORK.
Single Rooms Fifty Cents per Day.
City Hall Square, corner Frankfort St.,
(OPPOBITH CITY HALL.)
DIEALS A$ THEY MAY BE ORDERED IN
the spacious refectory. There is a Barber's Shop awl
Rooms attached to the Hotel.
Amt. Beware of RUNNERS awl HACKMEN who say wo
are fall. . . .
EMEII
WILLIAM PENN HOUSE.
CORNER Or PENN AND TENTS BTB.,
READING, PA.
BERTOLETTE GRANT, Proprietor.
THIS HOUSE BEING A LICENSED TAVERN,
the beat of Liquors are kept at the Bar, and as good
a table as any other lintel to the county. Accommoda
dons for Boarders and Travellers. Charges reaennablc.
pie Lunch from 9 to 11 o'clock, daily. [June 6-tf
Commercial Broker.
rplitE UNDERSIGNED HAYING TAKEN
onta License as a COMMERCIAL BROKER, le pre.
pared to negotiate for the purchase and sale of
RRAL ESTAT.R.
COIN,
,STOCKS,
BONDS,
MORTGAGES,
and other Securities. Goods in Unbroken Packages, (hales.
Ron of' Rents, and any other Winnow of a Commission
Brokeror Agent.
Parties having business to do in his lineage request
ed to give him a call
,tOat,
OFFiCR in GOUT' bine% nextJACOB
doer a b ove Aide tu
rms.
THE WIDOWED SWORD.
They have cent me the rvord that my brave boy wore
On the Held or htA young I , 6nown
On the lest rad Held, where hie fate Was sealed,
And the awn hi, dad. went down.
Aw.-; smith tear.,
TiTest are blindiug we so
There is joy in bin years.
Though' his young head be low;
And I'll gaze with a solemn delight evermore;
On the sword that my breve boy wore.
'Twas for freedom and home that I gave him away,
Like the sons of his race of old;
And though, aged and gray, I am childless this day—
He is dearer a thousand fold.
There's a fairy above him
To hallow his name—
d. land that will love him
Who died for Its fame ;
And 'a solace - will Aloe, when my old heart is more,
Round the sword that my brave boy wore.
All so noble, so true—how they stood, bow they fell
in the heath, the plague, end the.l,l;
Oh, so bravely and well as e'er story could tell
Of the dowers of the heroes of old.
Like a sword through the foe
Was that Tearful attack,
That, so bright ere the blow,'
Comes or bloodily back;
And, foremost among them his colors he bore—
And here is the sword that my brave boy wore.
It was kind of Ma comrades, ye know not how kind ;
It Is more than the Indies to me;
Ye know not how kind and how steadfast of mind
The soldier to sorrow can be.
They knew well how lonely—
How grievously wrung,
Is the heart that its only
Love tunas° young;
And they aimed his dark eye when the battle was o'er,
And sent his old father the award that ho wore.
sivis subSTIOrTm.
Madame who resided at Chalon, was a
lady of the strictest character and of a heart
proof against lluremeote. She prided heself
upon her great insensibility, and with profound
indifference had repulsed all those gallants who
had volunteered to offer their addressee. The
country was for her a veritable retreat; she
shunned reunions, and was only happy in soli
tude. The charms of a chosen circle, the plea
cures of the world; had for her no attraction :
and her favorite recreation was that of angling,
an amusement worthy or en unfeeling woman.
She was accustomed every pleasant day to
station herself at the extremity of the lonely
island of Chalon, and tithe, with a book in one
hand and her line in the other, her time was
passed in fishing, reading or dreaming.
A lover who had always been intimidated by
her coolness and who had never ventured on a
spoken or a written declaration, surprised her at
her favorite pursuit one day, when be had come
to the island for the purpose of enjoying a swim
ming bath.
He observed her for a long time without dis
covery, and busibd himself with thinking how he
might turn to his advantage this lonely amuse
ment of angling. Ills reveries were so deep and
so fortunate that he at last hit upon the desired
plan—a novel expedient, indeed—yet they are
always most successful with such women as
pretend to be invulnerable.
The next day our amorous hero returned to
the island, studied the ground, made hisarrange
ments, and when Madame D— had resumed
her accustomed place he slipped away to a remote
and retired shelter, and after divesting himself
of his clothing, he entered the stream. An ex—
cellent swimmer and Skillful diver, he trusted to
his aquatic talents for the success of his enter
prise. lie swam to the end of the island with
the greatest precaution, favored By the chances
of the banks and bushes, which hung their dense
foliage above the waters, In his lipe was a note
folded and keeled, and on arriving near the spot
where Madame D— was sitting, he made a
dive, and, lightly seizing the hook, he attached
it to his letter.
Madame D— perceiving the movement of her
line, supposed that a fish was biting.
The young man had retired as he came; he
had doubled the cape which extended out into
the water separating them from each other, and
had regained hie spot without the least noise in
his passage under the willows. The deed was
done.
IL PUNCH, Proprietor
Madame D— pulled in her line, and what
was her surprise to observe dangling upon the
barb of her hook, not the expected 'shiner,' but
an unexpected letter.
This was, however, trifling, and her surprise
became stupefaction when, :on detaching the
transfixed billet, she read upon the envelope—
her name I
So, then, this letter which she had fished up
was addressed to her.
This was somewhat miraculous. She was afraid.
Her troubled glance scrutinieud the surrounding
space. But 11 ,,, e was nothing to be seen or
heard; all wr.s stiti and lonely both on land and
water.
She quitted her seat, but took away the letter.
As soon as she was alone, and closeted, with her
self, and ae moon am the paper, perfectly water
proof and written upon with indelible ink, was
gotiou.
NOT NOW.
The path of duty I clearly trace,
I stand with conscience face to face,
Attd all Ler pales allow:
Calling and crying the while for grace.
. tionie other time, and some other Wese—
l), not today—sot now !"
I know a demon boding 111,
I know I have power to do if I will,
And I put any hand to th' plough ;
I have fair, meet suds In my bare, and la
When all the farrows are ready to MOW,
The voice cam "0, not now
ply peace I sell at the price of woe—
In heart and In eptrit I suffer no,
The anguish vrrMgs my brow,
But still I linger and cry for grace—
" Some other time, and some other place
0, not to-day—not now!"
I talk to my stubborn heart and say,
The work I moat do I will do to-day;
I wlti make to the Lord a vow :
And I will not rest and I will not Sleep
Till the vow I have vowed I rise and keep,
And the demon erten, Not now I"
And so the days and the years go by,
And so I register lie upon lie,
Arid breakerith 'Heaven my vow:
roe when I would boldly take my eland,
This terrible demon stays my band—
"o, not to-day—not now:" [Alice Cary
ANGLING FOR A HUSBAND.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1863.
dried,—she unsealed the letter and commenced
its perusal.
"A declaration of love!" cried she, at the first
words. ." What insolence."
Still the insolence had come to hc . r in so ex
traordinary a manner that her curiosity would not
suffer her to treat this letter as she had so many
others—pitilessly burn it without a reading.
No—she read it quite through. The lover, who
dated his letter from the bottom of the river, had
skillfully adopted the allegory and introduced
himself as a grotesque inhabitant of the waters.
The fable was gracefully managed, and with the
jesting tone which he had adopted was mingled
a true, serious, ardent sentiment, expressed With
beauty and eloquence.
The neat day, Madame D— returned to the
island, not without emotion and a trace of fear.
She threw her line with a trembling hand, and
shuddered as a moment after she perceived the
movement of the hook.
Is it a fish? Is it a letter
It was a letter.
Madame D— was no believer in magic—still
there was something strange and supernatural
in all this.
She had an idea of throwing bank the letter
into the stream, but relinquished It. The most
stubborn and haughty woman is always disarmed
in face of the mystery which captivates her ima•
gination.
This second* letter was more tender, more
charming than the first. Madame D— read it
several times, and could not help thinking about
the delightful merman who wrote such bewitch
ing letters.
On the subsequent day she attached her line
to the bank, and left it. swimming in the stream,
while she withdrew to a landing place upon the
extremity of the island. She watched for a long
time, but saw nothing. She returned to the
place, withdrew the line—and there was the
letter.
This time an answer was requested. It was
perhaps premature; yet the audacious request
obtained a full success. The reply was written
after some hesitation, and the hook dropped Into
the stream, charged with a letter which was in
tended to say nothing, and affected a sort of
badinage—which was nevertheless a bulletin of
victory gained over the hard severity of a woman
until then unapproachable.
Madame D-- had too much shrewdness not
to guess that her mysterious correspondent em
ployed, instead of magic, the art of a elfillful
diver. Scruples easily understood restrained
her from that portion of the bank where she was
sure that the diver would emerge from the water.
But this game of letters amused her. First it
pleased her intellect., and her curiosity became so
lively that she wrote :
Let us give up this jesting,. which has pleas
ed me for the moment, but which should continue
no longer, and come with your apologies to
Clinton."
The lover answered :
"Tee, if you will add Hope.' "
The inexorable lady replied :
"If only a word is necessary to decide you.be
it so."
The young man appeared, and was not a loser.
The gift of pleasing belonged to his person as
much as his style, and he had made such rapid
progress under water that it was easy to com
plete hie oonquenton land.
Thus Madame D— caught a husband with
out wishing it, and 4 spite of the vow which she
had taken never to marry'. Holding the line, she
bad been caught by tho fish.
DOGS THE TYPE OF MEN
"The Laws of Nature make the whole World kln."
Analogy is one cf the most prominent princi—
ples in creation. Everything is a type of some
thing else; 'everything represents and foresha
dows its next highest link.
Man is the great obvioue prototype of all the
animals. The character of every animal repre
sents one particular passion ; the character of
every man gathers up and compounds in itself all
the passions. And whatever animals approach
nearest to this faculty of comprehension—this
power of variety—are, of course, the nearest
type of men; the further off, the more remarked
their individuality.
All tigers are fierce, all lions are bravo, all
foxes are cunning, and " the rage of the vulture,
and the love of the turtle," are proverbial. Each
possesses his individual quality ; the only differ
ence is in quantity—more or less.
Now what is the distinguishing trait of dogs?
"Why," you say," according to the species."
Exactly so, and there are varieties enough of the
species to express all the qualities of a man.
Within the range of this one class of animals
are comprehended the elements of all the good
and all the eviL, all the love and all the hatred,
that ever soothed the sorrows or shook the soul
of humanity.
There are plenty of reasons why this type
should be considered the proximate link of man—
the variety of his species, the sagacity of his
instincts, his capacity and education, his ex—
emption, as a rule, from servile labor. lie is to
be the friend, the companion, the assistant, the
confidential servant of his master. Directly you
degrade him to the rank of a slave, you blunt
hie energies and coarsen his nature. Dogs rea
son considerably, their instinct amounts to a low
degree of intellect. The different sorts of dogs
represent the different sorts of men; and the
physique corresponds as well as the character.
Look at the bull-dog. His strong shoulders,
his great head, his enormous jaws match well
with his dogged resolution, his stern, cold,. in
trepid bravery. There is no dash or gallantry
about him ; he simply goes at his work the
shortest way, and does it. Amongst men, you
can find this sort la Yorkshire, in Lancashire, in
Cornwall, and there are plenty of them among
the " bonnie Boots." Whenever you see a man
of hard features, prominently developed, and
powerful lower jaw, you may know for certain
that he is a man, not of high resolve, but of stern
resolution. lie will calculate chances coolly, and
fearlessly, he will spring to the fray with all
the pluck possible to humanity ; in fine, be is
akin to the bull dog.
Then cornett the grey hound, a thiik, elegant
creature, but be dashes swiftly on his prey, and
bites hard; 'Very like those light cavalry fellows,
who rode down upon the Russian guns at Bala—
klava ; very like the gallant line who coaled the
highest of the Alma.
The great, large, lumbering Newfoundlander
finds his human development In a elan of nega-
Live men, whose pursuits aro active, but physi
cal. Not sensual men, by any meaus—men who
are addicted to field sports and muscular e'er
tion, though, perhaps, of indolent minds—large
licAtty, thick headed, goad-natured, happy go
lucky beings. Well, these are the Newfound
landers.
The water spaniels image the Sack Tar, wish
his ready usefulness, and his generous, impul
sive nature.
The terriers are a mammas class ; so are the
commercial men. Both are restless, bustling be
Tugs, small of stature, keen of feature, acute of
comprehension and infinitely hard mouthed—
oh, very!
The foxhound chases sly Reynard upon the
slightest scent, and finds a parallel In the Bow
skeet runner, or more modern detective.
The pointer and the setter represent men of
inTentiVe faculty, who pioneer inhere, and find
ideas for others to work out.
The retriever comes behind, and like the care
ful student, or the patient machinist, gatbere up
the fragments, that nothing be lost. He eluci
dates and elaborates thought to its fullest extent,
and whenever a seed of greatness fructifies, he
rescues it with laborious rare trot:tithe oblivion
of time in the lapse of ages. Of this sort are the
men who carry our mightiest measures and con
solidate the elements Of greatnesl.
The shepherds are universally considered to be
the primitive species, from which all other va
rieties are derived. Pastoral pursuits were the
occupation of Adam, and no other sort of doge
was required at first, until the chase was thought
of. This creature and the noble brutes of
Mount St. Bernard are the most conspicuous
types in the world; they seem almost identified
with the men whose mission they so greatly aid
and share. Constant association moulds then: to
great similarity—makes each a part of the other.
Their hard lives of privation and toil engender
powers of endurance. marvellous alike in the
men and the dogs. Here the type is close.
It is rather a mortifying fact that the most use
less of the canine tribes are equally faithful
representations of our superior races. The lady's
petted poodle is significant of the lady herself—
probably a spoilt child of fashion, full of capri
ces, humors, whims and fancies, having no ob
ject in life but to get rid of the burdens of time
ungenerous, good for nothing.
There is beside a very numerous class of
nondescript little curs, who are not poodles—
mongrel bred animals, who are neither useful
nor ornamenz al. One wonders what they were
created for, except that like cyphers that count
for quantity on the right side of significant
figures, they do go to increase the population,
either among dogs or men.
This species has many varieties ; the most
prominent being swells, dandies and gents. They
swarm in servants' halls, buzz about-the thea.
tres, and develop prodigiously in upper rooms.
They flourish even on carpets of three ply, and
are found abundantly in every nobleman's draw
ing room—idlers on the world's highway, non
producers in the busy hive of life.
The buil doge are becoming extinct, and pup
pyism begins to ride rampant,
THE EPISCOPAL. CHURCH AND
SLAVERY.
BISHOPS DOPKINS AND POTTER.
Early in the year 1.861, the venerable Bishop
HOPKINS, of Vermont, wrote a letter entitled
" The Bible View of Slavery." in which he un
dertook to prove, by reference to the Holy Scrip
tures, that the institution of slavery was recog
nized in the Bible, nod not forbidden by any of
itsbreeepts. This letter has been, of late, ex
tensively republished, and the attention which it
attracted aroused the hostility of the Abolition
element in the Episcopal Church to snob a pitch
that, immediately preceding the Pennsylvania
election, Bishop Potter, and the clergy wile sided
wish him, put forth the following protest against
Bishop Hopkins's " Bible View," with the evi
dent design of aiding, by their influence, the
cause of the Abolitionists in this State
Gild=
The subscribers deeply regret that the fact
of the extensive circulation through this diocese
of a letter by John Henry Hopkins, Bishop of
the Diocese of Vermont,' in defence of southern
slavery, compels them to make this public pro.
test. It is not their province to mix in any
political canvass. But as ministers of Christ, in
the Protestant Episcopal Church, it beoomee
them to deny any complicit> , or sympathy with
such a defence.
This attempt to apologise not only for slavery
in the abstract, but to advocate it as it exists in
the cotton States, and in States whioh sell men
and women in the open market as their staple
product, is, in their judgment, unworthy of any
servant of Jesus Christ. As an effort to sustain,
on Bible principles, the States in rebellion
against the Government, in the wicked attempt
to establish by force of arms a tyranny under
the name of a republic, whose corner stone'
shall be the perpetual bondage of the African, it
challenges their indignant reprobation.
"Philadelphia, September, 15f.3."
BISHOP HOPKINS'S REPLY
To the Right Rev. ALONZO POTTNIt, of the Dio
cese of Pennsylvania :
I have seen, with great amazement, a protest
against my letter on the " Bible View of Slave
ry," signed by you and a long list of your clergy,
in which you condemn it as "unworthy of any
servant of Jesus Christ," as " an effort to sustain,
on Bible principles, the States in rebellion
against. the Government in the wicked attempt
to establish, by force of arms, a tyranny in the
name of a republic, whose corner stone shall be
the perpetual bondage of the African," and as
such you say that. it challenges your " indignant
reprobation."
Now, my Right Reverend brother, I am sorry
to be obliged to charge you not only with a gross
insult against. your senior, but with the more
serious offence of a false accusation. My letter
was first published in January, 1811, more than
three months before the war began, at a time
when no one could anticipate the fnrm of gov
ernment which the Southern States should adopt,
or the course which Congress migLt take in re
ference to their secession. And when I consent
ed to its publication, I did not suppose that it
would be used in the service of any political
party, although I had no right to complain, if it
were so used, because the letter,' once published,
became public property. But. in its present form
there is nothing whatever it it, which bears on
the question of "rebellion," or of the "per
petual bondage of the African," or of " tyranny
under the name of a republic," of which slavery
should be the " Corner stone." On I he contrary,
I referred. on the last page, to my lecture pub
lished in Buffalo in 1810, and to my book Welled
"The American Citizen," published in New-
York in ]857, where " I set forth the same views
on the subject of slavery, adding, however, a
plan for its gradual abolition, whenever the South
should consent. and the whole strength of the
Government could aid in its accomplishment."
[VOL XXIV-NO. 29.-WHOLE NO. 1993.
" Sooner or later," I added, ••I believe that some
measure of that character MUM he adopted. But.
it belongs to the slave States Ibemselves to take
the lead in such a movement. And meanwhile
their legal rights and natural feelings must be
respected, if we would hope for unity and Tledo."
With these facts before your eyes, 1 am totally
at a loss to imagine -how even the extravagance
of party zeal could frame against me so bitter a
denunciation. The whole object of my letter
was to provefrom the Bade, that in the relation
of master and slave there was necessarily no sin
whatever. The sin, if there were any, lay in the
treatment of the slave, and not in the relation it—
self. Of course it was liable to abuse, as all hu
man relations must be. But while it was cer.
tain that thousands of our Christian brethren
who held slaves were treating them with kind—
ness and justice, according to the Apostles'
rule, and earnestly laboring to improve the com—
forte end ameliorate the hardships of the Insti—
tution, I held it to be a cruel and absurd charge
to accuse them as sinners against the Divine law,
when they were only doing what the Word of
God allowed, under the Constitution and aetab.
Hotbed code of their country.
I do not know whether your band of indignant
reprobationiais ever saw my book, published in
1857, but you read it, because I sent you a copy,
and I have your letter of acknowledgment,. in
which, while you dissented from some of my
conclusions, you did it with . the courtesy of a
Christian gentleman. In that letter there is no—
thing said about my opinions being unworthy
of any servant of Jesus Christ," and nothing of
" indignant reprobation." But, tempora Taman
tin% et nos mulamur in jilts.
Yes the times are indeed sadly changed, and
you have changed accordingly. For many years
you have met in brotherly council with these
Southern slaveholders. You invited them to the
hospitalities of your house, 'and paid them es
pecial deference. The new light of Eastern
Abolitionism had not yet risen within our Church,
and if you then thought. as you now think, you
took excellent care that no man amongst your
Southern friends should know it. Moreover,
your favorite Theological Seminary, only three
years ago, was the Virginia school at Alexan
dria, raised to great prosperity by Bishop Meade
slareholder—and I am very sure that nothing
at variance with my Lible View of Slavery was
ever taught in that institution. Yes we may
well say of you, as of many others, quantum mu
tatus aL ale How changed is the Bishop of
Pennsylvania in three years from his former
course of conservatism, peace and Scriptural
consistency .1
But the word of God has not changed; the
doctrine of the Apostles has not. changed; the
Constitution of our country bas not Changed;
the great standards of religious truth and real
civic loyalty remain just as they were; and I
remain along with them, notwithstanding this
hitter•and unjust assault from you and your
clergy. Ido not intend to imitate your late
style of vituperation, for I trust that I have
learned, even when I am reviled, nut to revile
again. I respect the good opinion of your Cler
gy, and am not aware that I have done anything
to forfeit it. I respect your office, your talents,
your personal character and the wisdom dnd
aucoesa with which for many years, your Epis
copate has been conducted. But I do not respect
your departure front the old and well settled
rule of the Church, and from the Apostolic' law
of Christian fairness and courtesy. Ido not be
lieve in the modern discovery of those Eastern
philanthropists who deny the divinity of our
Redeenter t and attach no importance to the
Bible except as it may suit themselves. I do
not believe that the venerated founders of our
American Church were ignorant of the Scriptures
and blind to the principles of Gospel morality.
1. do not believe that Washington and his corn
patriots, who framed our Constitution with such
express provisions for the rights of slaveholders,
were tyrants and despots—sinners against the
taw of God and the feelings of humanity. But 1
do believe in the teaching of the inspired Apos
tles, and in the Hely Catholic (or universal)
Church, which you cod your clergy oleo profess
,o believe. I know that the doctrine of that
Church was clear and unanimous on the law fed
p.7.s. of slavery for eighteen centuries together :
sod on that. point I regard your .;,,protest" said
" indignant reprobation" as the idle wind that
passes by.
I wish you, therefore, to be advertised that I
shall publish, within a few months, if a gracious
Providence should spare my life and faculties, a
full demonstration of the truth "wherein I stand."
And I shall prove in that book, by the most un
questionable authorities, that slaves and slave
holders were in the Church from the beginning;
that slavery was held to be consistent with
Christian principle by the Fathers and Councils,
and by all Protestant divines anti commentators,
up to the very close of the Nat century. and that
this fact was universal among all Churches and
sects throughout the Christian world. I shall
contend that our Church, which maintains the
primitive rule of catholic consent sod abjures
all novelties, is bound, by her very Constitution,
to hold fast the only safe and enduring rule, or
abandon her Apostolic Claims, and descend to
the level of those who are "driven about by
every wind of doctrine." And 1 shall print your
" indignant reprobation," with its list of names,
in the preface to my book, so that if I cannot
give you fame, I may, at least, do my part to
give you notoriety.
That the
_nineteenth century is a century of
vast improvement and wondorTul discovery in
the arts and sciences I greet as willingly as any
man. But in religious truth or reverence for
the Bible, the age in which we live is prolific in
daring and implode innovation. We have seen
professedly Christian communities divided and
subdivided ou every side. We have seen the
rise and spread of Universalise; Milleriem,
Pantheism, Mormonism, and Spiritualism. We
have seen even our venerable Mother Church of
England sorely agitated by the contagious fever
of change, on the one hand towards superstition.
and on the other toward infidel rationalism. And
we have heard the increasing clamor against the
Bible,
sometimes from the devotees of geological
speculation, Sometimes from the bold deniers of
miracles and prophecy, and, not least upon the
list, from the loud tongued apostles of anti
slavery. We have marked the orators which cry
" Down with the Bible, if it maintains the law
fulness of slavery." We have marveled at the
senatorial eloquence which proclaimed that "it
was high time to have an anti-slavery God and
an anti-slavery Bible." We have heard the Con
stitution of our country denounced as a " cove
nant with death and hell." We have heard the
boasted determination that the Union shall never
be restored until its provisions for the protect ion
of slavery are entirely abolished. And what is
the reenit of all Ibis philanthropy ? The fear
ful judgment of God has descended to chastise
these multiplied ems of rebellion against his
divine Government, and what the final catastro
phe shall he is only known to Him who seeth the
end from the beginning.
After forty years spent in the ministry, more
than thirty of which have been passed in the
office of a Bishop, 1 can look back with humble
thankfulness to the Giver of all good for this, at
least, that all my best, labors have been directed
to the preservation of the Church from the in
roads of doctrinal innovation. At my ordination
I promised "so to minister the DOCTRINE and
sacraments and discipline of Christ, as the Lord
I bath commanded, and as ihis"Chisreh !lath received
the same"—and certain - it is that "this Church?
had not received the doctrine of ultra-Abolition
ism at that time, as I trust she never will receive
' it, because it is contrary to the Sacred Scriptures
1 also promised " with all faithful diligence to
lerdsh and drive away from the Church all
erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's
Word," and I made those promises in the true
poses which the venerable Bishop White, my
Ordainer. attached to them—l believed than, as
he believed, that our Southern brethren com
mitted no sin in having slaves, and that they
were men of as much piety as any ministers in
our Communion. I believed, as he believed, that
the plain precepts and practice of the Apostles
sanctioned the institution, although, as a matter
of exptulionv, the tim e might come lichen the
&till would prefer, as the North had done, to
employ free labor. Those promises I have kept
faithfully to this day—and if, when I am draw—
ing near to the end of my career, I am to be con
demned and vilified by you and your clergy,
beoause I mill maintain them to the utmost Of
my slender ahiliiy, be aseured, my Right Roe.
creud Brother, that I shall regret the fact muoh
more on your account than my own.
In conclusion, have only to sayithat I feel
na resentment for the grossly insulting style of
your manifesto. The stability and unity of the
Church of Ood are the only interests which I
desire to secure, and I am too 'old in experience
to be much moved by the occasional excesses of
human infirmity. Toner It. HOPKINS,
Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont.
BURLINGTON, VI., Oct. 5,,1863.
WHAT HAS BEEN GAINED?
Not much—thinke the i rrovidetace Daily Post.
Here is what the Pori has to say about it:
We remember that at the opening of the ses—
sion of Congress which commenced on the 41k
of July, 1861, President Lincoln, in dealing with
the subject of secession, said: " There Is mock
reason to believe that the Union men are the
msjority in many, if not in every one, of the so.
caned seceded States." We •remember that we
agreed with the President on this point, and ex
pressed the hope that such a policy would be
pursued by our Government as could not fail to
strengthen the hearts diad hands of patriotic men
in the South, and thus open the way to a com—
plete restoration of the Union and the brotherly
feeling on which it must rest, when the wave of
excitement and passion, which was then rolling
over the Southen States, should have passed
away. We realized that our hope of final union
was in the people of the South themselves. We
could resist armed rebellion with the bayonet,
and this was our duty. It is our duty to-day.
But we could not then and cannot now restore
the Union with force alone. We must have a
Union sentiment iu the South, or the machinery
of government could not be made to work
smoothly. it was good policy, therefore, to un
derstand the feelings and wishes of Southern and
Border Slate Union men, and faithfully repr&-
sent these in the administration of the Govern
ment.. What these Union men said to their
fellow citizens, we all know well enough. They
declared that the North was not their enemy--
that. it was no part of the purpose of the Presi
dent and his supporters to interfere with State
iastitut.ions—and that all the evils they suffered
or were threatened with could be removed or
averted without any resort to revolutiOnary
measures. What they asked was that their
words Should be continued by the Rots of the lieu
Administration ; and many of them declared that
if this wore done the rebellion could not possibly
continue in a single State for more than six
mouths.
It is known that Mr. Lincoln, when ho entered
upon the Presidency, was strongly impreeeed
with the retteenableneee of these suggestions.
He believed it to be good policy to avoid a collie
!don with the crazy fanatics of the South. To
this end, and in the belief that secession would
blow itself out if it were not gratified with blood
abed, he actually went a step farther than Mr,
Buchanan had ever gone, by ordering the evacu
ation of both Fort Sumter and Fort Piekene.
Perhaps this was too great a concession. Cer
tainly he ufterwarde thought it was, foe he With
drew the orders referred to after signing them.
We know what followed. The Southern heart
was " tired," so was the Northern. The war
spirit raged with terrible fury. For a moment
the South seemed to be unanimous ; but we soon
perceived that its boisterousness was not based
upon the convictions of the people ; and when e
the storm had raged several months, and Con
gress assembled at Washington, we entertain no
doubt whatever that. what the President stated
was strictly true—the Union mon were the ma
jority in many if not in every one, of the so. called
seceded States.
We all know what followed. The radicals
hailed the war as the introduction of their mille-
Ilium. They demanded the extermination of the
white population of the South. They judged
every measure by its severity ; if it promised to
carry destruction to the Southern people, it was
goed—if not, it was bad. They declared the war
must prove an utter failure unless we declared
the emancipation of all the slaves. and armed
the blacks to assist us in the struggle with their
masters. We must confiscate, burn, kill, anni
hilate; nothing else would save us. Even this
would not save us, if we did not strike down all
opposition, all freedom of speech, and all free
dom of thought, at the North. Their policy was
the iron policy ; and a progressive policy, also.
They presented it by degrees, audit wee adopted
by degrees. Two years and more have gone by
since theystOmmenoed their clamors, and since
Congress and the President commenced to yield
to them; and we ark in all seriousness, to day,
what has been gained t Our Government owes
between two and three thousand millions of
dollars, 114 one of the results of the war. What
has the war gained to us? and how much of
what has been gained oan be set down as the
result of adopting the radical policy ?
We know what was promised if the ?resident
would issue an emancipation proclamation. The
rebels were to find their military arm almost in
stantly paralysed. The soldiers in the armies
would have to return home to prevent negro hi
surreotions. Alarm would seize every Southern
community ; the armies would dwindle down to
nothing ; and resistance to the Federal authority
would soon become a farce. Have these predic
tions-been realized ? Here at the North equally
pleasant consequences were to follow. There
was to be no longer a want of soldiers. Three
limes three hundred thousand" were to otter
their services to the Government, at once. Our
armies were to exhibit more energy than before.
Every battle was to bring us a victory. And wo
were to win, also, the applause and sympathy of
the world. The war would end, and end glori
ously, in six months—in a year, at farthest.
We all remember these promises and prophe
cies. We doubted that, the good anticipated
would ever come to us. and we paid the penalty
of doubting. Every doubter was denounced as a
It Copperhead " and a traitor. But were we not
right ? The war is nearly three years old ; it is
still a great " institution," and may last three
years more. The Abolition millenium may be a
little nearer Ow it was at the commencement,
But the counts -ourpoor, bleeding country—
whet has it gained
nr DirrEar.Ner.—ltt his admirable speech at
Rochester, Governor SEVSOUR thus tersely Ind'.
ealed the purposes of the two parties. As Wile
said of Sir Jou ti COPLEY, his statement is as good
as another man's argument
" We propose" ho said, " to wage this war For
a purpose upon which the whole North is united
—for a purpose which will draw to our standard
hundreds and thousands of hearts in the South.
That yet beat with love for our 'old banner and
our old Constitution. (Cheers.) They propose
that we shall carry on the war for purposes that.
we at the North cannot unanimously consent. to
they. propose net to put down revolution, but td•
make revolution ; they propose to otter no induce
ment for rebels to submit to the 11172, but they
say to us and to them that we shalt no longer
have the guaranty of the Constitution for the
preservaiion of our liberties hereafter as.they
- have been preserved before." ,
Stir A LETTIIII FEW( CHARLUSTON avers that
the city government of Charleston are anxious
to surrender the City to General Oilltaore and
Admiral Dahigren, but Beauregard and the mili
tary leaders will not allow them to do so. They
say the oily abet be burnt before it will be
surrendered. •