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' • 'boo a yor4 poyabil in/anew. 1,60 tot dIC ineetheil3 sde To Guns : roux copies *5 to solvaatoe, Ten cores tce 514 411 papers d at th =pirate." of the Owe paH fur- 1L1T1.3 OP APTIO/T413i9 IN T a g Gu n n% 1 31 Imo. 3ro, Omo. 17 :;li &pare, 6Dnes,cr leee. 6- 50 76 2,00 3.00 6,00 1 /CI " V l 4 OO 1.25 3,01 5,00 ,8,00 2 v 20 " ISP 3O $ 5 O 5,00 5,00 Ikod 3 " 30 ~ d 03, 00 3.75 TAO 12,00 200 [Larger Adrern in proportion.] , . Im a m * an d jiamblis ' Notiroli, 6 Insertions $6,06 ita knaltors' Notices pod L . Mises, •'3 3,60 Special Notice*, as read' atter, 10 eta. a line for one InSernon. _,:" a* Maritime *Mime illi i published gratuitously. • sir An Obituary Follies solutions, Giber Frigate Amociations, bachargi nutmeats, at the above raNs '. ' Advertisements tor Ee on, Charit csoonat objects. ace-Wilt 4 ea u, are Anadverdsiag Milt 4,,,,,,a 51 pa me drat insertion. Fairly AdVeitiMill Jowl ka . of ren - wing their ',Swims . " me parmee. .&ny.additbinat „ ing the amount contracted - i one-hair th e rates above apse 5 samaras. Yearly saversieers will be eb :mutant advertisels for all matte i to am - busine.s. FEINTING ..OF WENT D RIPTIOh Issanted in a superior manner, at ~, 1,,,,,,,,, Oar assortment of Jos TITII 10 DM johjona] ear Work speaknfor itself. it. —:--- • BLADVS OF ALL , Mk. Nal:Lang PASCI3dART and PASTA . Mt, m om) ROM ARTIChlii OF Au 01207 , LIABEIS,.d a Tal i .117Gcm" IliaLmrei,.ltept constantly fur ear, Nut cr!er. _ ate ash. Deaths will be - -- SAL - ELNDR.tV , AL L 4:TOIZNEY AND COUNBELLi iti2 Neve Jamey Avenue, Wit-aline° eterept attention wilt be given to Ito geplante Court, Omit et Claims, 1' • .D,llll , ry Denutments. • - . --- ------- Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London ' °reds nate from one of the meet eminent Colleges in the United Stites, and the greater - part ofierhoso life bee been apent in the hospitals of Louden, Parts, Philadelphia and elm. where, has effected some of the moat astonishing cures that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the head and ears, when eateep, great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden Pounds, bashfulness, with frequent billlibbla, attended sometitae with - derangement of mind, were cured immediately. T.A.13.33 MILTICTIZAB. NOTICE. Dr_ .I_ addresses all those mho have Itanred themselves by . improper Indulgence and solitary habits, which mile both body and mind, unfitting them for either business, ...Ludy, soristy or marriage. Trime are anme of the sad and melancholy effects priv atised by *early habits of youth, viz: Weatraenis of the Back and 'Limb , . Pains it, the Head, Dimon. of Sight, LOW, of Alnseitlai Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dys pepsia, tiervons Irritability, Derangement of thr iiigestive Functions, General Debility .SympLoms of Consul= plion,Ste . histrrahur.—The fearful streets on the mind are much to be dreaded—Lose of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, bepres. siona of Spirits, Evil Forbod imp:, Aversion to o:inlay, Self. Distrust, Love of Solitnde, Timidity, Ste., are some of the Lam ilsproduced. 171 , TTIOUSANDs of persons of all ages can now Judge , what ---- -1- - ---i- - - --- --, ..4 the canes of their declining health, losing their vigor, ..... ~i. 4 . T Acrria i esw_ D ua r 4Em . ovEri i roming weak, pale ; nervous and emaciated , having a it. 0 . , oia" mmigxecupled zpriteuteile. vonia ;guisr appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms * II ..asuption. • 1r01173111 MIN P Deed ilinuesed, in Sixth street, ..----- - r Writ 14a r have in jered themseiverby a mutate practice bidet u when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil anlous. or at school, theigijette of Which are nightly the when asleep, and if not clued renders marriage Able, and destroys bo th mind and body, should up imediatoly. is • a pity that a young man, the hope of hie country, ling of bie parents, should be snatched from all , ha end enjoy meets of life, by the eeneequence of Wove - the path of nature and Indulging in a eer disalitt. finch persons ace?, before contemplat- Dr. 308.13/11k , OL PlittitEBolo. . :wpm,, Ur to tbacitizons of Reading' and irtainiti e .;:f tomato]. In. Oerman and English. Office it me . 411 Fenn street., adjetaira; She Farmers' Ban Octane( 31, 1583-11* 7s,SSE G. HAWbNIr 4'v:l7 Olt 14 F:l7 A 1,7'. lIAS REMOVED 118 OFFICETo Sisthfiteset, oppoolte the Neystolte:Hott April 11, "ItteB-11 40138 **3 TON, ATTOttSiBy. AT SSA Nll3 EWE CPITU A. EL WANNER, At 4 .: I fsizth Meet, (above the Coati tieuxe,) Reading. iahreT.ry IAO3-13. ----.-.---4 ri.i.TAK R. LIVINGOoD., ATTORNEY `IT AW..bee removed hie office to the north sf court o.2eat flat Rog below Sixth. ides Daniel Ermentront. A TTORNEY AT 1,11--OFFICE LN 1:0ItT iffurkitroat, router of Court allot. (sag 13-17 . 4 lt " David Neff, VirigiPSALE ,1D DEALBR 1--,l;ragmar4o 211/51 GOOM 80. 25 Bast 140 k - 'FS. War& 10, /660. LEIANON VALLEY INSTITUTE, ARTIIMLIsE LEROCN COPS TY, PA. , . . SELECT BOA.B.DING SCiIOOL.—COURSE Jkof budreetion Cowart' asd compldta—namber of der erelialted: 171461111.0110111 September and October. Rdpessed pat quarter OM For Cranlird and information. address. Mareal74A , ;r . W.J. RIIRNSIDE, AlllrrillO, Pa ,L.I N 0D ' ratted lStaten Bounty, Back Pay.. and ' Pension Moe, • GOONS ii•iniST, 251PA3 &IZTM. gaAvEnti- BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECT- I eg claims against the Government, I feel confident n who have haretofors employed me will cheerfully prourptione and Idelll7. My Marra arc moderate and no charge wide until obtained. WILLIAM 11. LIVINGOOD, oat IS-tll Atioaney at Law, Court St, Reading, Pa. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS CAN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY 6"e'''''ont 'A b lsa l t e igAl li ;l lll 4 ]tom 7-111 Collection 0 Mee. Court Street, Readtng. *SA M. HART, (Late Hart £ Mayers) LER IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN GOODS, CARYSTINGS, he., Wholesale sea Re .ladalphia awl of the Golden Bee Mee, . Pena kassM _ jerell7-tf You. P. pritillOws & Bond, • AOTIIKERS OF BURNING FLUID, Arad and Druggists' Alcohol; also, eh tk 324°a° they will sell at the lowest Wholesale pd - , .*ng, re. [parch 12 `=- respectfully solicited. G. M. IffILL.DR, M. D., 'tan and Surgeon, ECJ.ECTIC MEDl ,fferel his n rofeanional sec rg and vicinity. Painfel Ling Broken and Dislocated' Cancers, Tamers, le., will ice of Scher, at the consent Alain street, Hamburg, Pa. .BY BROWN, lENTIST. OF PENNSYWANIA D .„, lERS'+ AS. PACE PAY ,ff,ON MAIMS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO BY A. H. Attorney at ban', °Mee la Coart Street, ha 31.-111 READING, FA. BQUNTY MONEY, HACK-PAY AND PENSIONS. .. , 44 1? L,,,, ATION 5 ?MAI ilf LY ENDED/M 41 . S, It. Attorney sit LOW, 30-01 Othce in Cond. Street, Reading. --------L---. 7. WIISLIIIM SIDIDIMS; Sign , Rouse .and. Wall Painter, no. 10 SOIVF I( oilenru STIMEAT, r 7t it F. & D I N . a . lil —GRAINING, GLAZING, BRONZINa, On on anns owl CMOS, Olotolni. Ste• 'ork in the country promptly attandod to. N _ ber 14, 15d3-Can • F. P. HELLER,..; WAVOLIMAKER JEWELER ,5 AID DEALER IN WHORES, 040CES, JEWELRY, §,POONS, SPECTACLES, OOLD PENS, &a., - sip of the 46 BIG WALTCU," No. Odjd num abole faxtb. iuith *kb Stadia, ?a. 4 111 r Scei7 edidele watrauted to I. what it wad tor Thdeltee,Glocite, Jeweirp, au, repaired with particular attest/oa, arid gattirsateed. ribbl,4ld IR SA OLE of AT THHOLD JAIL, THE CHC: II IX 1/1144 : as I Oldia anAll _ I e - , •, Ir, b. BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL, iffrESTABLISHED £5 A EMUS FROM CRUCKS&Y. The Only Plaee Where a Curt Oen be Obtained. DIL JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED TIIE moot Gerlain. Speedy and only iffeetnal Giuntdy in rue World for all Private Diseases, Weakliest of the Deck or Limbs, Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys and Bid der, Involuntary Discharges, Impotency, General Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Lehguor, Low Spirits, Confu sion, of ideas, Palpitation 9r the Heart, Timidity, Tleob• tins. b.murou of fAgut or.Gtddlnese, Disease of the Head, Throat, Nose or. (kiln Affections of the Liver, Lungs, Stomach or ilowelethese Terrible Disorders &tieing from the &Iltarir 'Habib, of Youth—those sucilar and solitary practices more fatal to their victim that, thesong of byrene to the Atarinere of L'iyma, blighting their most brilliant hope. or anticipations, rendering marriage, &c., impossible. YOUNG , man= lispecialli, :who have become the 'Motion of Solitary Vice, that dream and dsstructive habit whin k annually tureen* to AU Untimely grave thousands of Young lien of the most exalted talents and brilliant intellect, who might Other wise have entranced listening Senates, with the thunder* of eloquence or *eked to ecstasy the living lyre, may Call with fell confidence. • IbIZLVILIBIIII. f Bo onelal and for, as adver- Harried Persoits, or Young Men contemplating mar. Nage, being aware of physicaf weakness organic debility, Worn:Wee spadily cored. He who planes himself under the care of Dr. S. may religiously confide in his honor as a gentleman, and "n -ide/Lily rely upon his skill as a physician_ ORCFANIC WELILIMBEIS le and Sda• =I de.ired) W slug ex. ad edgra t sere* ke p Svilei •••• , 1 eitil Immediately Cured and Fall Vigor Restored. This Distressing Affection—which renders Life and Mar riage impossible—is the penalty paid by the victims of im proper indsdgences. Tonng persons are too apt to commit excesses from not being aware of the dreadful cense quenees that may ensue. ROW, Who that andoretand the sobject will pretend to deny that the power of mares. time to lost sootier by those falling into improper habits than by the prudent? Besides being deprived of the pleas ure of health?' offsPring, the mote tuitions and destructive symptoms to both body and mina arise. Tho eye Lem be comes Deranged.. the Physical and Mental Yam:lions Weakened, Loot of Procreative Poser, Nervous irritabil ity, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, ludignstion, Con stitutional Debility, a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con semption, Davey and Death. Office, No. 7 South rroderick Street. Left hand aide going from haltimore sweet, a few doors from the corner. Fail not to observe name aml tpantimg, Lanters mast be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor's Diploma hangs in his Mace. AL CURE V74.331.411QT8, TWO xuars. No Minh* or Nauseous Drugs. Das ZortarsrroN„ M c or sal rill be el for tram the sem t rckiti ZEE! imbue!, ifice, W I.ov 28-If 4ILIMEATIOLTAGN, • • a Wand' mind and body are the most necessary o promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with ° journey through life becomes a weary pH. 4 1, e pt ~.. l hourly darkens to the view; the es shadowed with despair and filled with the ....reflection that the happiness of another be d with our own. Wit OP ISTPRIEZIXIMIeII. i n gatiegulded and imprudent votary of pleasure it *as i mbibed the seeds of this painful disease, d " ,pan e that an; 11-thoed sense of shame, or from: : ry, deters him from applying tothose who, ae.b, d respectability , san alone befriend him, at , s eonialtutional symptoms of this horrid thsoatiair appearance. such es ulcerated sore li ta t a , 7 d.nose, nocturnal pains In the head and an d aniki eight, deafness, nodes on the shin-bones vo n. A on the bead, fade and extremitiee, pro m... gal rapidity, till at last the palate of o f this aCfo nes of the noes fall in, and the victim motion, -e becomes a horrid object of commis- I T ta ndwite a period to his dreadful sufferings, whence .., .. flat Undiscovered. Country from It 1,, a c.returoa" thi o t e .ritit fact that thousands fall rictime to an t p r ore4olo og to the unshillitinera of ignor gr., 0 . *by the use of that Deadly Paso>, we , netttutted and make the residue o ege. Teeth extracted by - Frau litsiiiptette process, with Clarke's With tLis tuetlaa teeth are in than the usual way. No street, oppoedte the Presbyte -, [sprit 2-17 itallranitS Trust not yell learned and:* health, to the of of many tin name Or ,hiaretenders, destitute of knowledge, manta, or stAu copy Dr. Johnston's advertise geo..tod phyla., in the newspapers, reguistly totting mgeggpapable of Curing, they keep you nun el:imp:MD*l l taking their lathy and poison. Mined, mid Milt as tile smallest fee can be ob. sigh over yonegive you With ruined health to Dr. Johnstol o mi disappointmeat. - Ills credenti Physau advertising. Ri o re medi Vie any;t hang in hie ic e. . prepared n o w at nnWt ll the area in th the great hoepitale of Europe, Praefiee than a Aa .. m. i o n r e h eex w e o n r s l i d v . e Private r"s me • NT OF THE The many tho SS• • • • year, and the mink this institution year after performed by Dr. *taut Surgical Operations the - Bon," "Clip named by the reporters of Which have apnea y other papers, notices of beeldee his elan& again before the petite, ~,,„,,,thility, is ait ma of *hammer dad re _ Skill Ina tee to the afflicted. I Ali- No letters r edily Owed. a stamp to be need o ,ost.paid and containing state age, and send ' et writing should smptoms. . sertisement describing •y 3011111111 Li Of the Baltimore May 2:1-1y .13allimare, Maryland Riohmond P r. Richmond TAE DEPART. WASHINGTON hae deoided to pay virrvEs Of Officers or SoI orwilizaod ns The amount of pay that WILSAMII a.LIVIOOIOOI., ban all the neoonvary for. ?melon Agent, parpore ; and for a speedy proaly f or t h e , nov 21413 Imo, call ova IVItiO6OD. TO MY PRIEND • I JS 811 A LL NECEO from the (Ninety Burin brjra owls amalgams:lnto wil ?entwine, to Villa charge uf WU' be kept open Flo b a n and clienni having legal basin calving prompt and eilloiaot at Oman of extensive legal lean] the her. / have fall mmflaminf , and industry, and t thereawe 01 Wrest. of my clients and friends' Mr. F. W. COIVRAD will also Respertfall; Porravn.wc, Po., Nov. 21,1163 CLOTH pERSONS W ANT OP . C I Heady-made or made to orddi LEVI .EINSTEI 019 ream Street, "hove Otti, be found the humeri, Bieck of - .11.EADY-MADE C aver evened to Reading. A good, comfortable suit for blood all wool meimere Paula for ge in proportion. ti Ae WI manufacture all mar Clothi upon it that eyery article tomcat mad work, nob as Is generally found In C ,f, naming seamed the services or Mr. snarly of Philadelphia, sod hit. Jacob , 2.syeatillffillillageelllgto tailoring boll country, WI are vellum tO Sake so ~4 . 1 Wltiob We Wartatlt to be or the latest* . .All ;tootle eat at Ulla WlllatillabmaUt satin cation or no sale. N. o.—ma Law G. CoUtiitele. w Me beet Cutters to the BM" to vags t 4 amt. • FICHTHORN, DRY GOODS, FINE GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, 22.11383311rafil MlLUrrrip &Gap &Csir No. 604 PENN STREET, ABOVE SIXTH, READING, PA. WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY CALL TUE attention of the citizens of Reading and vicinity, to Our large stock of Pine Groceries, comprialng in part the following, to wit: • NATIMAL FRUITS, IN SYRUPS FRESH CANNED PEACHES, GREEN GAGES, FRE,SS PINE APPLE, FRESH STRAWBERRIES, SUPERIOR FRESH TOMATOES, FRESH GREEN CORN, WINSLOW'S PATENT ORRENCORN. Alen, the following, put np to glatejsre,. FRESH THAMES. FRESH PLUMS, Q MINES, CURRANTS. GRAPES, GOOSEBERRIES. BLACKBERRIES, TOMATOES. JELLIES, Put up lu gia.s CURRANT, STRA WIRER T. AMO RASPERRR Y DOMESTIC DRIED PRITITS : Apples, New-York Slate Plums. 'Nacho s . Fault Harries. Cherries ' Elder Berrien, Seedleeeeherrtee. Dried Rhubarb, FRUITS: Lemons, Layer Retsina, • Brinah Raking, Seedless 141etea, Carniuta, Citron, Lemon Peel, Figs, Turkey Prune., Cranberries, Omen Apples. D XIV Plain and Mixed PICKLES, In glass jars. Aleo, by the dorm or lees. Extra Tomato Cnteny, Hone Radish, Chow Chow, Prepared French Mustard, Virgin Oil, . • Olive CM. EXTRACT'S: Burnett's Superior Extract of Yauille, inarueit's Superior Extract of Lemon, • Leapitt's gatract of Miaow). ' Leavitt's Extract of lion., itiellerde' Liquid neuuot, &armee Lemon, Cinnamon, dre. 5.0 - varitueu 'Extra Syrup; Sugar Nouse Syrup; iieW- York Syrup; Southwark Syrup. SUGARS: Brown and r.. 5.04 , 6ugarkr of all qualities and prices. Java, Rlo,Wheat and Rye Coffee; Army Coffee ; A tinore's Coffee ; fdiddletton'a Java and Illddleton'e Dandelion Cot feel 1111es' Sono Coffee; Superior Santo Coffee. Imperial, Young Upton, and Superior Black Teas. baker's Chocolate, Ba ker's Cocoa, Baker's Broths. cawego Corn Swab, fleckor's Farina, Bichlll Cheese, New City Sugar Cured Ham, Shoulders and Flitch. Now No, 1, Sand 3 Mackerel, Herring and Codden, New bless Shad, Soda. Ronda and Water Crackers, Cracker Dust, Ginger Snaps and Almond Cakes, NW Hominy and Beans, Pearl Barley, Rios Flour and Bine, BMOCS Coffee and Succor', Swam Cider, Puro Cider 'Vinegar and Patent Vibegar. Sperm, Adamantine and Tallbw Candles, Non-explosive Coal Oil, panellise erratic Soap, Variegated, Windsor and Honey Soap. Liman, Detersive, Oleine, Olive and Home-made Soap, Silver Gloss Starch, Pearl SWIM, Aiden's Alkali for Soap making, Excelsior Stove Polish, Indigo Bina, - Canary and Hemp Sited, Saleratae, Baking Soda, Azurites, Cream Tartar, Wall, Scrub, Sweeping, Punting, Stove and Shoe Braaten BreMula and Whisks. Wash Boards and Buckets, Tying and Wick Yarn, Woolen Yarn and Cotton Bolls, Hazard's Congress Paste Shoe Blacking, Netts:Fs Nonpareil Shoe Blacking, Pure and fresh Spires of all kinds. Air Give tie a call, at No. 604 Penn Street, above 6th nov 211 FRANK. B. FICHTHOEN. 438 PENN STREET, READING, WEST SZASEILEIT SQUARE. THE NEW YORK DRY GOODS STORE. MU INIPORTANT NOTICE To the Purchaeore of DRY (3.400 ) C). 33 . • We are now SELLING OFF AT REDUCED PRICES, In order, as noarly as possible, • TO EFFECT A CLEARANCE BY THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY NEXT, Dress Goods from 10 to 25 per Cent. CLOTIIG AND PANTALOON STUFFS, 16 to 25 per cent. LAPINS' CLOAKS AND - COATS. Shawls, Long and Square, reduced onequarter BLANKETS REDUCED, • ZOO colored do. at bolt their value. WOOL NOSE AND. BALD NOSE, lENTB At half price. FLANNELS REDUCED 20 PER CENT P, ABSENT Conproon, I pN. BK.. of pp. My care my friondo P upon Its re. !ton to a goo- Lportenco iutexrity ved the in attention. 'Linen and Cambric Handkerchiefs at, leas than old prices. QUILTS, COUNTZBIUMES, &G., &C., DoeWeil Bargains. The GOODS !ire of the best fabriee and OUSI .131-3Kno. And need only an examination by am Intelligent public to canny them either worth and the groat advantages now uttered. . HER oa On ACCOUnt of eiton , i cio blitslOGßO tranceottonn in Now- York, the proprietor to unable to oontioue Lie personal au pervle4on of the Itemliog concern. Any merchant teiohltot to obtain a first olaoo location and enjoy the prielloge of the prestige of•tlte rtew•York Dry Goods Store, will And this a rare ebance to get a valuable Bash:wee Location eta moderate rent. deed) Cizezelms G. 'zoos. GIRAZNEU (MIULLT.) GJUANS CAN CONSTANTLY BE HAD AT LAUER B BREWERY, corner o Third and Cheetnni Maga. 1. LAMM Dowsiber T, 16614 f • TO ISIORMSBOEN I TEE BEST AND ,CHEAPEST PLACE TO hey Onsa, Powder, Mid. NMI 1111.. 13 la 45E0. Luca & Oct 17] MA Market &pare, Heading, re. • -k.,,,... I ' rt ..., ..,,,,,,,r_,,-, , ~., ..„ _ ~„.. ..,....:,... J o id VA , AT te4, 5I N , • I '4- ehfr4 i ie ,g . 00 ,11: ''''''''f:_ t '.. t 4 ., "- 44 t. 4.41. DEALER IN PICILLMS, VIOLASSES: COFFEE: 7EAS 1 Oar yalookto stock In s limited period, or And have marked down 15 to 25 per cent WARRANTED, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26 .1863. Ooolog. HERE'S CHRISTMAS flare% Ohslohnie—lat ne baldly groat him, We may as Weil, for none ten sheet Mtn ; He will steal on, and slyly Aprleide The first gray hair sad first faint wrinkle. And yet Methinks It 111th, matter. What aead of rain•moos he Hatters, 8.,) that amid it we contrive To hoop Truth's Heartsease still nitre • Within our breast. Here's Christmas, and it seamen' well That Cousclence to our deeds should tell The Just roan of all we've dem', dad trace the way onr made have ran Let ne peraee timelessly oenled. The volume ever =muted, And see Uwe have said or thought No evil thing that shall have brought Blots on oar crest. The Woad is but a ledger-ebeet Where Right and Wrong in balance moat, And wall it is that rya should see Fall often how it ACOOIII2IIO may be. Old Christmas has a trick,we And, Of bringing bills of every kind, So, ere we drain the festive cup, We'll look within, and reckon up The debts we owe, Let as not idly shirk the task, But face ourselvee, and boldly ask oar conduct whether it has trod The path of Mammon or of God ? A more Important " day-book" lives Than that width worldly commerce gives; Bens brighter figures must be found Than those which make the golden - round Of Profit's Let as take heed that no arrears Are duo to those whose oll.nit Wars Are calling on no night and day For debts which mercy ought to nay Let no be no that lye have hoard The claims of Illeary's lowly word, And that our lips Dave never driven Thilialplera and the overltAvou With harsh denial Lot ne think how acconote" real' Maud When the " recording morn" hand Adds up oar eolumus—turulng then To the "great book" not kept my men. Ka yellow duet Will eerie to hide The errors made by selfish pride; False items, though en vellum page. Will never bear the searching gauge Of holy sight. So tato good caution bow we let Delusion lead t" into debt i And let old Vhdotintis and us wilting To pay Ilanianity' . llast We'll pile the log and drain the cup, lint not before we reckon up The " balance.eheet" that Conscience drawn, And God e'er keeps by Ma own laws Of Wrong and Right. gaits sit:6 Star_te%. A CHRISTMAS DINNER BY OLSARLEg DICIZO,X.4 Christmas time I The man must be a misan thrope indeed, in whine breeet something like a jovial feeling is not aroused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened—by.the recurrence of Cbristmae. Thor Are people. who will tell you that Christmas is not' to them what it used to be that each succeeding Christmas has found some cherished hope, or happy prospect of the years before, dimmed or passed away, and that the present only serves to remind them of reduced circumstances and straitened incomes— of the feasts they once bestowed en hollow friends and of the cold looks that meet them now In adversity and misfortune. Never heed such dismal reminiscences. There are few men who have lived long enough in the world who cannot call tip such thoughts any day'in the year. Then do not select the merriest of three hundred and misty five for your doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing fire—fill the glass and send round the song—and if your room be smaller than it was a dozen years ago, or if your glass be filled with reeking punch, instead of sparkling wine, put a good face on the mat ter, and empty it off-hand, and fill another, and troll of the old ditty you used to sing, and thank Clod it's no worse. Look on the merry faces of your children as they sit round the fire. One little seat may be empty ; one alight form that gladdened the father's heart, and roused the mother's pride to look upon, may not be there. Dwell not upon the past; think not that one short year ago, the fair child now resolving into dust, sat before you with blooming health upon its cheek, and the gay unconsoloasnees of infancy in its joyous eye. Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has ma ay—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Fill your glass again, with a merry face and contented heart. Our life on it but your Christmas shall be merry, and your new year a happy one. Who can be insensible to the outpouring of good feeling, and the honest interchange ore feotionate attachment which abound at this sea son of the year? A Christmas family party ! We know nothing in nature more delightful! There seems a magic in the very name of Christ mas. Petty jealousies and discords are forgotten ; social feelings are awakened in bosoms to which they hare long been strangers: father and son or brother or sister, we have met and passed with averted , gaze, or a look of cold recognition for months before, proffer, and return the cordi al embrace, and bury their past animosities in their present happiness. Kindly hearts that have yearned towards each other, but have been withheld by false notions of pride and self-dig nity, aro again reunited, and all is kindness and benevolence! Would that Christmas lasted the whole year through, and the prejudices and passions which deform our bettor nature, were never called. into action among then to whom they should ever be strangers! The Christmas family party that we mean, is not a mere assembla g e of relations, g ot up at a week or two's notice, originating this year, hay, ing no family precedent in the last, and not likely to be repeated in the nazi It is an annual gathering of all the apoeseible members, of the foung or old, rich or peer ; and all the Children look forward to it, for two months be. forehand, in anticipation. Eartnerly it was held at grandpaptea ; but grandpapa is getting old, and grandmamma getting old too, and rather infirm, they have given up housekeeping, and dOmestioated themselves With Unole George, so the party always takes plane at Uncle George's house, but grandmamma sends in most of the good things and grandpapa always will toddle down all the *ay to liewgato-market,* to buy a turkey, which he engages a porter to bring home behind him in iriumph, always insisting on the man's being rewarded with a glass of.spirita over and above his hire, to drink "a merry Christmas .and a happy new year" to aunt George. As to grandmamMa, Sho is very secret and mysterious for two or three days beforehand, but not sufficient ly so to prevent rumors getting afloat that alto has purchased a btangfal now cap with pink ribbons for each. of the servants, together with ettudrY books and pen. knives, and pencil-cases for the younger branches; to say nothing of divers secret additions to the order originally given by Annt George at the pastry-cook's, such as anoth er dozen of mince-pies for the dinner, and a large plum cake for the children. On Christmas eve, grandatamma is always in excellent spirits, 4114,„,after employing all the children daring the day in stoning the plums and all that, insists regularly every year on Uncle George coming down into the kitchen, taking off his mant,"and stirring the pudding for half an hour or so, which Uncle George good humoredly does to the vociferoue delight of the children and servants ; and the evening concludes with a glorious game of blind man's buff, in an early stage of which grandpapa takes care to be caught, in order that be may have an opportuni ty of displaying his dexterity. On the following morning, the old couple, with as many of the children as the pow will hold, go to church in great state, leaving Aunt George at home dusting decanters and filling castors, and Unalo George carrying bottles into the dining parlor, and calling for oork screws, and getting into everybody's way. When the church-party return to lunch grand: papa produces a small sprig of mislatoo from his pocket, and tempts the boys to kiss their little 0011E1111M under it—a proceeding which affords both the boys and the old gentleman unlimited satisfaction, but which rather outrages grand mamma's idea of decorum, until grandpapa gays, that when he was just thirteen years and three months old, he kissed grandreamma under a misletoe too, on which the children clap their hands and laugh vary heartily, as do Aunt 1:141540 and Uncle George; and gra:plummets looktpletteed and says with a benevolent smile, that grandpapa always was an impudent dog, on which the children laugh very heartily again, and grandpapa mom heartily than any of them Ilut all these diversions arc nothing to the Cub sequent excitement when grandam:mum in a high cap and slate-colored silk gown, and grandpapa with a beautifully plaited shirt-frill, and while neckarehlef, seat themselves on one side of the drawing-room fire, with Uncle George's children and little cousins innumerable, seated in the front, waiting the arrival of the ansivaly ex pected visitors. Suddenly a haokney-conch Is heard to stop, and Uncle G-oorgo, who has been looking out or the window, exclaims " Here's Jane!" on which the children rush to the door, and helter-skelter down stairs; and Uncle Hobert and Aunt Jane, and the dear little baby, and the nurse, and the whole party, are, ushered up stairs amidst tumultuous shouts of "Oh my !" from the children, and frequently repeated warn ings not to hurt baby from the Durso ; and grandpapa takes the child, and grandtnamma kisses her daughter, and the confusion of this first entry has scarcely Subsided when some other aunts and cumin with mare eousins arrive, and the grown up cousins flirt with each other, and so do the little cousins too, for that matter, and nothing is to be heard but a confused din of talking, laughing, anti merriment. A hesitating double knock at the street doer, heard during a momentary pause in the cower cation, excites a general inquiry of Who's that ?" and two or three children who have been standing at the window, announce in a low voice, that "it's poor Aunt Margaret." Upon which Aunt George leaves the room to welcome the new comer, and grandmamma draws herself up rather stiff and stately, for Margaret married a poor man without her consent, and poverty not being a sufficiently weighty puniebteentlor her offence, has been discarded by her friends, and debarred the society of her dearest relatives. But Christmas has come round, and the unkind feelings that have struggled against better dis positions during the year, have melted away before its genial influence, like half formed ice beneath the morning sun. It is not difficult in a moment of angry feeling for a parent to denounce a disobedient child ; but to banish her at a pe riod of general good will and hilarity, from the hearth round which she has sat on many anni versaries of the same day, expanding by slow degrees from infancy to girlhood, and then bursting almost floperoetibly into the high spirited and beautiful woman, Is widely differ ent. The air of conscious rectitude and cold forgiveness, which the old lady has assumed, sits ill upon her ; and when the poor girl is led in by her sister, pale in looks, and broken in spirit—not from poverty, for that she could bear, but from the conseiodenees of undeserved neglect and unmerited unkindness—it is easy to see how much of it is Assumed. A momentary pause succeeds; the girl breaks suddenly from her sister and throws herself, sobbing, on her me. ther's neck. The father steps hastily forward and grasps her husjaand's hand. Friends crowd round to offer - their hearty congratulations, and happinestand harmony again prevail. As to this dinner, it's perfectly delightful— ispthing goes wrong, and everybody is in the beet way offipirits, and disposed to please and be pleased. ""tirandpapa relates & eireumetantial account of the purchase of the turkey, with a slight dig:igen relative to the purchase of previous Mikeys on former Christmas days, which grandmaturaa corroborates in the minutest particula Uncle IJeorgo tells stories and carvesipoifriy, and takes wine, and jokes with the children at the side. table, and winks at the cousins that are making love, or being made love to, and exhilarates everybody with his good hu mor and' hospitality ; and when at last a stout servant staggers in with a gigantic pudding with a sprig of holly in the lop, there In such a laughing t and shouting, and clapping of little chubby.Vinds, and kicking up of rat dumpy legs, as of only be squalled by the applause with which the astonishing feat of pouring lighted brandy into mince-pies, is received by the Rounger visitors. Then the desert land the wine I— and the fun I Such beautiful speeches, and such songs from Aunt Margaret's husband, who turns out to bo such a nice wee, ate so attentive to grandmarnma I Even grand ma not only sings his annual song with un precedented vigor, but on being honored with au unanimous encore, according to annual endow, actually comes out with .a new one whioh nobody IN - P' ' - ' vo top e-s. r, rAer -- - - - ,f - 4 crA g c. f . • q;111P 14 NI ' iil ip aI IA 1 ....4 `" i Irt J 0 n ...:., O,,Pa 1 l e lgi ...A 044 item }A,I,- l a. A 1 a .....7„ ... ~i 72.,.. tv, I .4/4 .. , to Iv %-,,,::--f.717 .' ' , F.- 11 - -4 A ' . ...7 . 1 ....-..-„, :,,-- I ~, i: 1 12'? ...,, i O l I - ; ^.., 1.. .- 1 fir ii:-.2 i IVA ,-.4 ila li ;51 - 4 v i It , -,4 ' • .1.1 g...; iF. 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The first day of the year, for many ages and in various parts of the world was celebrated as a religious and social festival. With the poet biblical Jews the new year commenced anti still commences with the autumnal month Cori, the first day being.celebrated by them with consider able ceremony. The Romans made an especial holiday of it, offering aacrificee to Janus, and taking care that all they thought, said and did, should be pure and favorable, since everything was ominous for the occurrences of the whole year. They appeared in the streets in festive garments, exchanged kindly salutations, and gave to each other presents celled straw, con sisting of gilt dates, figs, honey cakes, and cop per coins, having on one side the double head of Janus and on the other a ahip. This custom of bedewing presents was made by some of the emperors an important source of their personal revenue, until modified by a deereo of the Em peror Claudius. The early Christian Emperors, however, continued to receive them, notwith standing they were condemned by the ecclesias tical conteils on account of the Pagan ceremo nies' at their presentation. Prynno, in his " referring to the hostility of the early church to any imitation among Christ ians of the Roman saturnalia, says ; " The whole Catholicise Church appointed a solemn lathlike fasto upon this our now year's day, to bewail those hethenish enterludos,, sports, and lewd idolatrous practicer, which im,d been used on it; prohibiting all Christians, ander pain of excom- Inuniedeien, from observing the Olaends or first of January (which we neer call now year's day) as holy, and from sending abroad new year's gifts upon it, (a custom now too frequent,) it being a mere relique of pagatisme and idolatry, dtrlved from the heathen Romans' feast of two faced Janus, and a practice so execrable note Christ ians that not only the whole Catbelicke Church, but even the four famous councils of (iscre foI IOWS a long array of authorities) have positively prohibited the solemnization of new year's gifts under an anathema and excemmunieatioo." she bestowal of gifts upon new year's day was not peculiar to the Romans. The Druids distributed branches of the sacred mistletoe. cut with pecu liar ceremonies, us new year's gifts among the people; and the Saxons of the north, according to Bishop Stillingfieet observed; the festival, and RiLh more than ordinary jollity and feast ing, and by sending gifts to one another. In spite of the opposition of ecclesiastical councils, the practice continued through the middle ages; and among kings and their powerial vassals the interchange of presento.was a distinguishing .feature of the first day of the year. henry 111. of England is said to have extort ed new year's gifts,m,rd Queen Elizabeth's ward robe and jewelry were probably almost wholly supplied from these annual contributions. It appears from the " Progresses and Processions " of her majesty, published by Nichols, that the lords, spiritual And temporal, of the realm, the chief officers of state, and the servants of the royal household, down to the master cook, ser geant of the pastry, and dustman, were among the contributors to these . largesses, whichloon slated of money, 'tick wearing apparel, plate, jewels, trinkets, sweetmeats, and . an. infinite variety of other things. Dr. Drake says that, although the Queen made returns to the new year's gifts, in plate and other articles, she took care that the balances should be in her own favor. As lie as 1002, as appears front the " Monthly Miscellany" for December - of that year, the English nobility were accustomed, " every new year's tide," to "send to the King a puree with gold in it." Under the Tudors and Stuarts new year's gifts were given and received with mutual wishes of a happy new yearameng all conditions of people. An orange stack with plover, or a gilt nutmeg was a popular gift ; tenants sent their landlords capons, and ladies received pre sents of gloves or pins, or in lieu thereof, a com pensation in money, whence the terms " glove money" and "pin money." Brande, in his "Populist Antiquities," enumerates many cere monies and superstitious practices observed by the English and Scottish peasantry on the first day of the year, which,. together with the once almost universal bestowal of gifts, have very much declined. In England the ringing in the new year front the belfries of churches is now the wily open demonstration of joy at the recur rence of the anniversary. In Germany ceremo nies derived from old superstitions are in vogue ; but throughout continental Earope e altiough the day is a universal holiday, congralulatory.wishes have generally been subatituted for the more substantial expressions of esteem formerly in terchanged by friends. In Paris and other large cities almost incredible sums are still expended in bonbons and similar areicles for presents. In the city of New York elm day is made the occa sion of social Ingle by gentlemen among the families of Sheir acquaintance—a custom dating back almost to the settlement of the town by the Dutch, and which bee been imitated, with more or less success in other places in the United States.—.lVeev American Cticlrym-lin. Tile PUCLIO DEBT.— Tile Secretary of the Treasury, in his report, estimates the public debt, on the st of July, 1861, at $1,686,000,000; and en the 30th of June, 1865, at $2,231,935,- 130 37. Thia will be comforting news to the tax-payors'of the country ! than TM—Yankee Notions says the phrase high ton so long monopolized by the fashionable world, now belouge to the ooal dealers. A ton of coal, at seven (1.4311tM, ie 111:911 Mn with a venge ance. A liorevess EFFORT..Edward Everett Lae been trying to persuade the President to reverse his unjust and outz.ageoue decision in the CABO of Fitz John Porter. [VOL. XXIV-NO. 36.-WHOLE NO. 2000. NEW-YEAR'S DAY; THE NEGRO POLICY OF THE ADIWINISTBATION. Interesting Debate hi the U. 13. %waste, Tuesday, December 15, 1863. Mr. DAVIS (Ky.) called up a resolution in re- Wien to the exchange of prisoners, end pro ceeded to argue vehemently against the policy of refusing to exchange our suffering white eel diers—thanguishing, starving, diseased white mon—because the rebels refuse to exchange the negro captives. He denounced the policy of the Administration at length upon the several points in which the negro is affected—characterising its potation as monstrous, and referring to the present era as "the reign of Abraham the first." Ile averred that hie own loyalty was unspotted; that he hated, with undying vigor, the crime of eecossion, and that he should ever, in seeking to avoid the Scylla of the rebellion, use constant vigilance not. to fall into the Charybdis of Abo litionism. ft. was evident that this policy was only a part of that designed to perpetuate the power of the Administration. He closed with en indignant protest against the refusal of the Ad ministration to liberate thousands of dying white men, for the sake of a few negroes. Mr. JOHNSON (Md.) then addreescd the Sen ate. He deemed it perfectly clear that humani ty, which is the highest polioy, demands the continuance of the change of prisoners. As the negroes were but few, he would suggest that an equal number of rebel prisoners should be held as hostages for the colored soldiers. He pro ceeded to combat the opinion of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Davis) that these men should not bo,protected, and corrected hie views of the power of the President by quoting from the Constitution relative to the Executive and Legieletiee power. liven supposing there was no army on navy to put down the rebellion, it was still the duty of the President to execute the laws and provide the raceme therefor. If a foreign toe has put his foot upon those shores, has not the President the right to call around him all the facilities which the power of the Government can supply ? Do cannot force men into the ranks, but he can call for volunteere. A.nd has not Congress the power Weal! the slave plfaulation to the defence. of the country ? Though they are called property, for the purpose of taxation, they are etill person. It in not es sential that they should be called citizens, to be called upon. if no CitiZelle, they are men ; but . being property, they must be paid far, if thus called out in pursuance of the power given to the President. In conclusion, ho said the Con stitution will be returned to us in its original excellence, and the men who have violated it will to hold to deocreat. But until that day comes, we should, with one heart and voice, exert the whole moral and phyeloal power of the Gov erment in putting an end now end forever to an ambitious, unprovoked and treasonable attempt to destroy a Government the boot ever vouchsafed to men ; for desirnyinF, it would be to destroy Constitutional liberty itself. Mr. DAVIS, hi reply, argued that the preamble of the Coustiation of the United States confers no power on the Government. This question Was raised iu the Supreme Court, and the inter pretation there given was that the preamble nei the creates nor eat:fere on Government or any of the Departments any power whatever, but only points to the ends for a hich tho power is con ferred in the Constitution. It was the business of every intelligent man in America to know the principles of Government, and how its powers and principles ore divided among the different Departittente. The Fresidera has no right to suspend the writ cf habeas corpus. which was a Legislative and not an Executive function. Ile altogether dissented from the positions and principles assumed by the Senator from Mary- WO [Mr. Johnson.] All the powers to be ex erased are conferred by the Constitution alone, and there aro no powers vested in the govern ment in any of its Departments, which are not conferred by the Constitution. Hence the Pre sident cannot raise troops or armies, nor has he the power to originate any measure to put donee insurrection, without the assent of Congress. The positions of the Senator from Maryland are contrary to the decisions of the Supreme Court, and his doctlines are heretical and dangerous, Just in proportion as the principles of the Con stitution are disregarded the Government is weakened and the rebellion strengthened. If the Executive had been governed e by the princi ples heretofore announced so the true intent of the war, the rebellion would long ago have been put down ; and the only way to regain what has been lost is to return to the proper basis on which to prosecute the war. It was the deter mination of the party in power that the war shall continue till the next Presidential election. The war would hays been brought to a close long ago; if the Administration had singly and in good faith devoted itself to the principle an nounced in the Crittenden resolutions, and the commanders of the armies bad not been selected, not because of their hostility to rebels, but be cause of their opposition to slavery. Alr. Hats (N. H.) said that nothing WAS far ther from his intentions. He rose to indignantly deny. that it was the desire of gentleman on this door to continue the war in order to influence the neat Presidential election. A. more atrocious allegation against honorable men was never list ened to from the beginning of time to the pre sent moment. • Mr. Davis (Ky.) interrupting, said the Senator himself had heretofore remarked that the army of plnnderere exceeded the number of soldiers in the field. Mr. HALM replied that he never made such a remark, nor anything like it. lie had said : "The liberties of this country were more in danger from profligacy in the treasury than from the rebels in the field." If the allegations of the Senator were true,lie would sooner take into his own hands the head of a men from the charnel horse, reeking with peefilenee, than the hands of those around him. If the allegation was true, every Senator was stamped with the foulest treason and perjury. The country is at war. The tre mendous issue of national life or death trembles in the balance. Treason, 'with hie red hand, aims a blow at the nation's life. The destinies of the country have been submitted to the gen tlemen around him, who are bound by the mine tity of their oaths to sustain the country and the Constitution, and to defend the firesides and homes threatened by invasilon, while tae Senator from Kentucky says that they are hypocrites, and do not mean to sustain these objects. Mr. DAVIS explained that be had reference to those in power, Mr. GALE replied that the Senator had made an allegation which embraced every ,Senator. It was an allegation which, if true, 'Would dis grace the vilest inmates of the penitentiary. The country is at stake. God is trying tho great question of free government before the world, and in the course of his providence has entrusted the destinies of the country in their hands. Were they to have a man to rise here, and before the world, before heaven and earth, bring an' allegation against them which, if true, Would justify every inmate in the penitentiary to•refuse to give them a friendly hand Y The carnoter of the President was also included in this allega tion. lie believed there was one thing that met everybody's assent—namely, that President Lin coln is eminently au honest man. To-day, for the first time, he had heard the honesty and patriotism of the Executive questioned. Ile ap prehended the Senator did not appreciate the character of his accusation. None strikes a harder blow than ho who loses confidence in the patriotism and integrity of those to whom are confined our destinies. If the Government has called for black soldiers to take up arms, and nailed them out to fight the battles of the coin try, it is bound to protect them, at all hazards, by every ageney Man put forth, the Government having used them, and they having become prisoners ; and if they are abandoned to their fate, it is guilty of baseness unparalleled in his tory. The party in power Mut one aim, andthat aim is the oeuutry—but Oie purpose, sad that 11.14 II