-5 ...... '1 ' hiM I.I.M n , , ,. it .im... i i , jawir; I,. , n I.,, ui jjif Dcuoieii to politics, fitcrature, agriculture, Science, JHoraliti), aub cueral IntcUijjenct. VOL 1 24. STROUDSBURGr, MONROE COUNTY, PA NOVEMBER 30, 1865. NO. S9. Published bv Theodore Scisoch. .TERMS-r ao dollars a year in advance and if no ixt before the end of thcyeaJ, mo dollars and filfy its. will be charged. ... Km n-.r,r , t,-c... ,.ti, niiel until all arrearages are naid. iiccpt at the option of llic Editor. I . u iveruu . - ' - ?' BjAlvcrtisc nciils ninnv Miuiireui (uigi.i lines ur fteSS- '-1 JOS PRINTING, , OF ALL KIKDS , , ftx.cite i. the .hiBht.iy.eof ihe Ari.and onthe h ' U1U."Ip I LtlSU 1 III C IV I ill MEMORIES. Tis but a little piece of bark, From off that white birch tree ; Yet pleasant memories of the past, It calleth up to me. The graceful waving boughs o'er head, The moss grown rocks below, - The fragrance of arbutus flowers Yet moistened by the show ; The rugged mountains slumbering near, The sound of running streams, The far off lake, that through tlie .top Of distant forrests gleam ; The violet dressed in heaven's own'blue, The fern leaves spread above, , The noise of winds, the ongs of bifdf, The thousand things I love. Ah me! that little piece of bark My heart with memory fills, Of nature in her loveliness, Amidst the granite hills. I w. C. A. Cast a Line for Yourself. A young man stood listlcssty watching nine anglers on a bridge. He was poor and dejected. At last nppioaching a basket filled . And while the hours of early evening with wholesome looking fish, he sighed: wore away the train thundered on, over "If now I had these I would be happy, I ; miles and miles of level prairie ; past farm coll tliom nt n fair nrico. and buv mc!!wu3cs nestled down among the trees and food anH lodrinM' ... ... . . . , - . b",,'""J J J goou usii, sum nit: uwnur, wuu cimuueu iu overhear his words, "if you will do me a trif fiing favor. And what is mat: ' asiccu me oilier ea- ( gcry. "Onlv to tend this line till I come back, Ii wish to go on a short errand." The proposal was gladly accepted. Tho fiiberman was gone so long that the young man began to be impatient. Meanwhile the hungry fish snapped greedily at the baited 1 hook, and the young man lost all his deprcs- ion in the excitement of pulling them in, .J h hnrl rniitrht n lnrtrC number. Count- i ing out from them as many as were ,n the! . b. . , :.t. bxskei ana preseuiing uicm 10 iiiu yuum umn, the old fisherman said, "I fulfill my promise from the fish you have caught, to teach you, whenever you see others earning what you rieed, to waste no time in fruitless wishing, but to cast a line for yourself." To Destroy Eats. The Griffin (Ga.) Empire State aya that & lady in that city, whose house became so infested with these troublesome varmints, gives the simple remedj7 of dissolving cop peras in water, (make it strong.) and sprink le ih the most prominent places, will nuke them leave at a two-forty rate, and no mis-1 take. She tried it successfully and has not I pleasant to look upon, though shadowed been troubled with rats or mice since. It; a !itl,le by the cares and responsibilities of . . , , .- , ...u : 1 middle hie. The other showing worn is fimple. and will not cost much to try iL , , . , . . ,. p r ' (and white under the lamp light, grey , ,, , , 1 hairs about the temples, lines upon the Ifniiaconibeaisppndedhyapiceofthrcad.forchcadj decp Iitlcs aromj(J thel mout,K to within half an inch of some water contain- Thc facc of au M inaIlj anJ yet h(J wa3 cd in a hyacinth glass, and so permitted . but thirty. His very voice had a curious to remain without being disturbed, it will1 unnatural tone iu it as he said, still look in a few months burst and throw a root down ! ing at the kindly eye "It's three years into the water, and shoot upward its taper- ! since I heard from them. I have been a 1 - 1 . .t . r 1 1 n in? stem with beautiful green leaves. A ' young oak tree growing in this way on a mantle-shelf of a room is a very interesting object Life. How small a portion of our life it! ts that we really enjoy. In youth we are! looking forward to things which are to come; in old a-e we a.c looking backwards to' tlilnfTc wli!Ti arp ornnfi nrjKl' in manhood ' lit . , j . 1 lot although we appear indeed to be more occu- : -.u.i- nnn iinoic I,' pied with Zhings present, yet even this is too, ""i" " - 1 7 ' i often absorbed m vague determinations to be va8Uy happy on some future day, when we have time.-i?c7c0. In the military district of Washington there are 41 colored schools, with an attend- m m mi 1 I imceoJ4,B44 pupils. xnese scuoois are upported by Northern societies. 3 A New-York jury has rendered a verdict . J J . , . , ,n , ofSl 004, 75 against tire Independent Pel- egraph Line for erroneous transmission of a aetpatch. 8,000 of the Navajoe Indians have agreed to abandon their wild life and td'se'ttle onthe Peco river. Will be introduced a bill into the legis- lature at the coming session, to prohibit th, killing of all kinds of game for the nextfive b fa ycws I Ait -d Reported broken the Allegheny Bank TIZnl ' Bcnk aU m Pennsylvania. ! Six thousand mink skins, worth $50,000 or niore than their weight in silver, have just ocea orougni jaw ou raui oy uie.iiuu&uu r 5 V r l-.'i- Bay Campany, COMING HOME. BY MAKY J. AtLEX. . . 11 f It was a bitter cold night : one of those .. . .. c , Y " q-U in a" ' jwllcn everything, animateand inanimate, isccms t0 shrink and cower from the in- !cns? ,cold' , T1,e very air was f"ll of icy particles which one was forced to draw t . . n wiin every breath ; and when the moon . in with every breath ; and when the moon ircse, round and clear and bright, aud the I nnnH n.t .Til. !i . . . n.uu mmu up viiui u, peneirating every crack and crevice, no matter hoWminute, the passengers by the night express gath- cred closer to the stove, crowding and juauy cacn oincr, as even well-bred peo- 1 pie win sometimes do, m their keep warm. 1 All but one man, who sat ; nimseii near the door, a tal man, wrap- 1 in . r ... U. U.U.J u,u, ,3- or of his cap drawn low over his eyes deep dark eyes, with a strange expression in them such eyes as a man might have j who had been fated to stand for a time on : the borders ot Hell, and havmr seen I . .... ' --0 ; must bear with him through hie the uiciu , ory of its horrors. j He sat there quietly enough, taking ; little heed, apparently, of what was going I on about him. All the evening h,c had ;sat so, seldom moviug, not speaking, only jouce, when he had given up his comlort sable seat near the lire to a poor looking ; woman, with a child in her arms, and j himself taking this one farther back: and , the passengers, noticing the little act of ! politeness, aud observing his dress as well, : decided that he was "a soldier on his way jlomc a veteran, probably, aud then dropped him out of their thoughts. I burns and corn cribs ; past little groups of ! dwellings with their home lights shining .cheerily out The man by the window watched them as they flitted by, an eager hungry look coming into his eyes. Was he thinking or a nousc ai 1110 end or his journey, where the lamps were lighted by this ti,uc' aud tlircc f:iees, sad enough now, would grow suddenly bright at his com ing f I do not know. The conductor came in presently, bringing a little of the keen outer air with him. lie paused wjth i,js )antj on tie 0f the seat jn which the soldier sat, smiling down into the gloomy eyes lifted to his face as he said, cheerfully, "W5 slla11 e at M. in eleven minutes. ru're "V"'" "les, thank bod !' Home ! Did Conductor Ilines know all that word meant to the man sitting there so quietly 1 He thought he did ; thought he could understand his feelings for he himself had served three years as a soldier, and well remembered the home sickness, the weary waiting, the longing that grew almost insupportable some times for one glimpse of dear faces left behind. Something of this he said in his earn est way, still standing there, his hand on the back of the seat. The soldier grasp ed it, and the two looked steadily into each other's eyes. Two faces so very, very unlike. One prisoner eiguieeu mourns ai caisoury. What a story was outlined the details will never be known till the great day of Remembrance, when the secrets of all prison houses shall he revealed, and the black record of Southern cruelty be shown un f0 tue .raze 0f angels and men. Eigh teen months! They had done the work ; of eighteen years on the once powerful frame of this man whose whole heart : seemed centered now iu the one thought , .. ... , getting nome. f 0 Home! Who can tell how blessed . , , , . d thoM d aJ(1 weekg and njonths o. Lerinir torment, when' hone and courage n0nn,r inrn.Ant wl.on hnm on,! nnr. jand manly fortitude alike gave way be to....0 "--"m " ""- """" fore the horrors of the situaiion, and linrrnrH nf t in s r.n:il on nH brave men who had looked death in the n.Hnir n t I tl I l TIM llflll t 1 I I t tl II I 1 1 . " ""i rank- now wnen came in me orm or slow starvation. But they lived through it-some of them-this Mark Ilydcr a- nintiir tho rist w on the platform of the J si(e a ow roofed, dingy little building, dignified by the name of a station. The station-mas- ter st00(j there, his lamp iu his hand,and beside him a mau and a boy waiting to et on the train. The man on the plat- o - form did not glance ouce at them, nor at the group of a dozen houses on a hill-side to the left, though he had many friends there when he went away. He was look- inr off across the fields to where, a mile away, a single light glowed steady as a star 'Chri ti up yet Likely enough she's thinking o? L this minute," voice and hand both trembled with excitement as he turned up the collar of his over coat for protection against, the wind that olr.., K;tn-.i. ..!! nnmcc tho tamo oinsjimg, uiutnv tum, nwwu -i;. r .. ! bit of open country. A friendly Land was laid on bis shoul-'ards the station, in the same path he had der as he turned away, and a friendly come over less than an hour before. The voice said, "Good night, comrade. God wind was in his face now, the bitter pier glVe YOU a liannV llOIllfi-nnmlnnr " Tllfln mno- ronton cnnf.iorl tn nnnofr-itn thn 1 I J . . - ......... the hand was irone from his shnnlrW t.h . . ... 1 traVashped on'and the so,dicr struck out cheerfully across the fields, steering straight for the 'light which glowed stead- ily in the distance. The air was still hi - tin- cold, but he did not feel it. How " I --ww u au-, J w I v i should he when his heart was a-glow ? should he when, his heart was a-glow ? "It's earlv vet hardl V nicrlif. T Allflll 1 . t i w . .... una uiem all up. Dear Ubristie I what will she say, I wondor." No shadow of doubt or fear dimmed the eager joy of anticipation ; no thought or chauire of, always Christie. . uuw juuimar iue oui gace iookco, ano the bars beyond. He would not go iu that way, though j the gate used to creak, he remembered, and he wanted to sur - prise them wanted to surprise them wanted, ton. to rrf nnn Inn!.- nt. hon nil wanted, too, to get one look at them all of a locomotive broke the stillness, start- weighing about three hundred and fifty without being uncomfortably hungry; if before he made his presence known. ling the echoes far and neur. But mark pouuds. During the war he was an ac- the cakes were omitted, he felt obliged Ihe blinds were un. aud the linht shone Rvdm did nor. mnvo. Hm! h t'nmnttnn tiva .m.l i;v,n.,i v;r,,i r. ..r ! t t..i- i..i. ..t i.. ' j full in his eyes as he approached thc win - ' r - I" 1 I I JIPII dow, stepping lightly that no footfall might betray him. Nearer and nearer till he stood close to the sill. What a pleasant room it was with its pretty carpet aud burnished stove and the picturesi on the walls. A little boy sat with his book and slate beside the lamp. That was Eddie, studious Eddie, and the pink checked child who leaned on his knee was baby Flow. A woman sat in a rocking chair before the stove a fair young woman with Christie's face and smile, aud Christie's baud of dark hair. But who was thc man beside her, who held her hand in such a confident, lover Itke way, aud even bent down to kiss her, right there in the broad light, before the children, before the very eyes of the hus band whose presence none of them sus pected ' In God's name what did it mean ? Mark liyder clenched his hand and took a step nearer the door, but stopped as a voice that thrilled to his heart, as it had done so often before, said. "Come Floy, Eddie, it's time for little folks to go to bed." The younger child came obedi ently, aud the man standing outside saw this other man catch her out of the moth er's and swing her high above his head. while the little oue laughed and shouted in glee, and Christie said pleadingly, "Please don't, husband, it makes me afraid to see you throw her up so." Husband I The mystery was growing clear now. The moonlight fell on a white convuls ed face, and the angels seeing it, must have pitied the man. I here was none other to pity ; no kindly human face or voice, only the remembrance of the con ductor's face which stayed by him some how, and the words that curiously enough recurred to his miud now, "God give you a happy home coming." He uttered no syllable of reproach, only the words that were almost a cry. "Oh, Christie ! Christie !" Even at this moment of bewilderment and torture the wronged husbaud saw clearly how the wrong had beeu done. He had been reported dead, and Christie, a timid, dependent woman always, had married again. She had been married many months his eyes told him that and ho could not bring shame and disgrace on her. Another train would pass in two hours. He would take it and go far a way, back to the army, perhaps, anywhere, it did not matter, and she should never know but that he was really dead. It be would best so. Oh, Christie ! if you had only known whose eyes looked upon you that night ! Whose uoselfish heart was plauning for you, placing your future peace aud well being before his own craving hunger tor home-happiues3 and children's love. hen Mark Ryder glanced again tow-l ards the window, the strange man had moved aside, out of his range ot vision, and he saw only Christie sitting there Ilur C'1U ia ,jer .,aP. wnuc iiU- uiu icnuiiu kjii kin: ai in ui vui; v,iiaii. Home, and wife, aud children all, that he had hoped and through three years of absence and e.gh- teen months ol captiv.ty-be Ore his eyes, w,thIn ns reach. at last: thn)k. U0,1C W1UUII HI IC.lCIl UI Ul&t. 1 uimu uooc u..t nA 1. ...... ...t... ,.... :.. i, ...... .'o -,.,! "ut T u i T "1KU M"u uvv- tt" j ted to become a wanderer. Oue long never see a- L-aiu this side ol heaven then he . turn- reso,ute, boiu.i. away. He f '"d on the fence to get over when a. dog came out of a keuuel near by growling savagely. "Bruno's a good ieljow) 1Jearinr his namc in that voice, the knew his mastc'r and sprang up with a quick, glad whine, licking the Jlaad lhat tressed his shaggy head and the face that bent down close for an in- . .i t t. I .. stauc, as me man Kiieu on one Kuee up- ou uie rrozen grouuu, uis aiius uuum luu "You will see them all to-morrow old fe low-Christie and Eddie and baby Floy but I shall never see them again until I meet them up yonder. They'll never know that I have been here to night, and you can't tell them, can you ? You'll keep" my secret, and whe,all the rest have forgotten, my dog will remember, No you must not follow. Back, I say, and-good-bye " IIHni nut nnk- hunk nnce as he went -rr ----- h-anr cf rnirrli. nn norofs thfi fiplnR -tOW- " i . i u i . utiju . W puilVVIUbb bill. UIUC nvoronnt cn .t;ii, nMll.nr, 1,,'n, t,.,..u vu.uj , ....w.,b ...... iiuuc,ii aud throuSh- He "hircred at first and shrank as it swept 6ver him, but after a while he did not feel it so much. 1 It must be gettiug late, he thought: he was -nttinc, vnrv filp-nvW!.IH.r Wr and slower, pausing once as the mournful and slower pausing once linivl nf n Ant full nn h his ears. "Poor a I liruno. lie's grieving for me. JNobudy else'll grieve. Nobody else knows or cares. It's strange what makes me so tired I mustsit down here and jbis face in his hands, he sat quietly. Not asieep, ror ne neard still the howling ot the dog, but it sounded to him miles and miles away. His senses were getting ; dulled, his faculties benumbed. An hour passed two then the shriek of ft !nfnmnf; rr..L- ti. ,:nnn..n Had he forgotten j that he meant to take this train ? When II'I 1 daylight came he was sitting there still, Jjater in the morning Uhnsties hus- oauo coming down through this very held, paused at the sight of a man in uniform, sitting there in that dejected attitude. "Are you sick, sir? Can I help you in anyway?" But the soldier did not look up or speak, A strauge fear fell upon the questioner, Ile came nearer and gently lifted the sol- dier's head, pushing back the cap that shaded the white, white forehetid aud the saddle, going from place to place. Until closed eyes. within a few years hu w.is his own account- "Dead ! Frozen to death with help so ant aud his owu banker, and strauge as near ! This is terrible !" " it may seem, kept no books, trusting en No slightest glimmering of the truth tirely to his memory, which never failed dawued upon his mind. He had never him. In physical labor he excelled in seen Mark Ryder, and to a stranger's eyes every department. this pale face, turned up mutely to the With a common hand sickle he has winter sky, bore liitle resemblance to thc been known to reap bind and shock sixty picture he had seen Christie kiss So he dozen bundles of wheat in a day. Far- with reverent touch, they lifted the poor pallid image of what had been a strong, Invincr nt'tn 'irifl linrn t in ta n o. vnr-f ni:m.':inri horn if. fo th nn-irncf Iwun. An.l th n,rBnrfl tl...f.. t ii.t , -v.w -v AUa thG !1LWS SnrflJlf t h:it. :i lioud soldier-a stranger-evidently a passen- ger from one of the night trains, was ly- " 1 ing at Dr. Furcells house, awaiting a cor-, ouers inquest. : hat impulse was it that prompted Chi her two little ones by the hand, and go down there? Her husbaud met her at a.iuvii., t.n uu UIUIU ui IV, LU UIKU the door with an awe-struck face. Some nn rvltn K.l L-nn.,. M..rt-T-ri.r i,.wi ..u ..un uiiiu ii ui ik ii j uuu ic- cognized the body, and one alter another his old neighbors had also recognized it. They would have kept her away then, but she only said, "I must see it," and putting aside their detaining hands she stepped into the room. Spite of grey hairs, spite of worn fea tures and altered look, she knew him in stantly. She did not faint nor cry out, but just knelt dowu beside the low bed where they had laid him and dropped her head on i i, ,. , , ., . his shoulder, kissinr his cold lios that would never again thrill under the pres sure of hers, calling him by name : -'Mark, Mark, my love, my husband !" and the neighbors standing there lifted up their voices and wept. Iu his pocket they found his papers transportation ticket aud discharge and .. . . , v , , n, . . i for his de ar ones a shawl lor Christie, a . , r , . .. .. . ; music box for Eddie, and a doll for baby T,, ,, ... , : 1 .1 1 - bloy. Ihe gilts had reached their desti- J 1 .1 ft .1 1 nation but, alas I lor the giver. Oh 1 ' ... V... i. . tender and faithful unto death, do you know, in that ''better country" in which you dwell, how one walks the earth for the sake of you, longing on ly for the time wheu '-This mortal shall put on immortality, and the little house hold band be gathered in an uubroken circle once more. Rauch, of the Reading Daily Record, ! us facetiously, sums up the result of the n!n,.nc Ac, rnnl it. i u-nll venr. . thy of being preserved for further refer-icd Gtu-p Idren alllence: 1 1 1 7t. c r .0 ' prayed for Uicpuhhcan States. Democratic States. C a". ei'An' Maine. Berks county, Ma Ne Ve New Hampshire. liichmond township, . Perry township, j Vermont. . ' Massachusetts, New Haveu, Conn., Connecticut. Connecticut, aud Northampton county, Pa., And portions of the late Ptebel States South, Including Richmond, Va., Aud, . 80 forth, &c, etc. Iihodc Island, New York, v.". 7. '.' Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio. - - Michigan, Iii(iuna Illinois, I0Wa, . Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Kansas, California, J est A irginia, Missouri. Uiegon, -. The proprietor of a cotton null put this notice on his factory gate : "No cigars or good looking men admitted." In ex- planation, he said "The one will set a flame agoln' among among my gals I won t . such d m erous thiugs into lUY osiauiiBuiwu' . , . . riHK IS tOO Creat. Jacnli StraWn, tht Illinois Earner. Jacob Strawu, of Jacks Miville, Illi nois, died suddenly, on the 24th ult. Startiugin farming and ca'tle buying at an early age, with a cap tal of fifty cents in silver, 3Ir. Strawn came to be the king farmer of the West. His acres spread over almost whole counties, and it was no unreal thini; for him to sow a field ol wheat or plant corn over a space twice the size of a German kingdom. He had sheep and kine upon a thous and hills, or would have had if the hills had beeu there. He built nret- J ty much the whole of the village of ! T 1 r 1 1 l i i....! Jacksonville ; he represented his district the time of his death, embraced nearly iio.UUU acres, worth at least 1,500,000 I without improvements. He was twice! married, aud leaves seven sons and one ! . daughter. . In person he was a Daniel Lambert, ..i .. .1 1 j 1 .... 1 tive and liber.-ll frifind. :inrl sunnnrMnt nf the Union cause. Manv intp.rriir.' in. - - j cidents have been related respecting him, among which arc the following: If e began life for himself by raising six- teen acres of wheat, which he traded for sixteen steers, which he sold at a profit. After this he dealt mainly in cattle. He was a rapid talker and a keen judge of human nature, a prompt actor, kuew how to drive a bargain and always made mou- ey. He seldom came to town, was busy every moment, aud was always in the more than one man iu thousands could perform. In earlier days he carried large en me nt ..,..u,r f I,;., on mo rl m.vn.... 1. 1.. 1 " vy 1 uiwu O Ul'WUU II 11 IfvJlQIJU, llllU Uli e-..-..l ....:" u: i:r . spvornl tw-iuiano hia ifrt t,r.. ..ttft.imtfl.1 as he rode along through the country! At one time, near Alton, he was attacked by W'a WVVMWI'MjJ IIIO f IIO tli-LI, III 1 CKJ'l . three robbers, whom he thrashed and put r to flight with his cattle whip. ' ? as a man of wonderful muscle and activity. lie VUUIU CUIIU UVUI UIU IMgllUSt ICIICC by merelyvplaeing one hand on the top rail, and on one occasion he cau-ht ai infuriated bull bv the horns who was i,....;.,.. : c-t.i .....i uimij;iUp ju Ittiu 111 ilU UjJUU UC1U, ailU i throwing him on his back completely subdued the animal. The Way of the World. There goes a virtuous aud houest man. Who cares Nobody looks at him or cares a fig how he looks or dresses. I Here passes a man of wealth. The' old ladies run to the window. 'Who?'1 j 'Where V 'How does he dress V He is a G l-Xr, Tr Vr world did he make so much C 'lie dosen't look as if he was worth a penny.' This is the way of the world. Every- body gazes with admiration upou the rich wuue mey turn away irom virtuous po- verty. Let a man make ten thousand dollars, and he is a gentleman, every inch of him. Everybody has a kind word aud SUIUC IOI 111 III . be poor and houest. and no one knows At 1 1 u 1 r you. Men and women have heard of such J , r a name as yours, and you may live at iu 1 . ,1 Z their elbow, but they are not certain L t ' J iauoui.li. and live at the mile . t -it 1 r t -it post, and your neighbors and friends wi .1 i, wi 11 line the heart of the city. All would know where you lived and point a Strang- er to the very door. .cry We repeat such is the world. Gold en vice is caressed, while bumble virtue is unobserved. Will the time never never come when u,u " . virtue ?nd despised for their vices, rather than men shall be uonored tor their virtues G caressed ror meir ricues auu condemn A;r tl,eir poverty ? Everybody i. words, censures the idea or honoring th in . . . . , " , rich because they are rich, and yet such are tho rej,uIati()lls of pociel t,BJt eve,.y. body doe humble in his manners and c feelings in the presence of the 'upper t thousand.' As long as the ladies w ten ill associate with the voluptous rich and shun the virtuous poor, so long will vice be considered no dis-iracc, and wealth will pay for the sacrifice of virtue. That Awful Child. Children and fouls speak the truth, as thc following incident helps to show : I, with 'suveral others, was taking tea with a lady friend. The conversation turned upon intemperance. The lady expressed her abhorrence of the habit, and was very proud to say that her hus band had never beou under thc influence of liquor. The lady's son, a little four-year-old, sitting at the foot of the table, upon hearing this assertion, and wishing to refresh his mother's memory, called out. 'Oh, ma-! don't you remember when pa came home drunk, and you wouldn't aleep with him ?" The effect may be imagined. A driver of a coach in Texas, stopping to get some water for tho youug ladies in thc carriage, being asked what he stop ped for, replied "I am wateriug my flow ers.' A delicate compliment. Curiosities ofEahng. An old beau, formerly well-known in Washington City, was accustomed to eat but oue meal in twenty-four hours; if af ter this, he had to go to a party and taktf a second dinner he ate nothing at all the next day. He died at the age of seventy years. A lady of culture, refinement and unusual powers of observation and conj parison, became a widow. HoA'tp.pA fVnm i afflueuce to poverty, with a large family or small cniidren dependent on her ma nual labor for daily food, she made a variety of experiments to ascertain what articles could be purchased for the least j money, and would, at the same time ""-o quiet for a longer time than aftdr" eatin any other kind of food. A distinguished jud-c 0f the United States District Court observed that when he took buckwheat cakes for breakfast be could sit on the bench the whole day u: . 1 1 I to talfA :i lnnnli iTimif nn.nn Unol-l.oof 1 cakes am imivpra il fc.rnrWn nf h 1 Ilk IIH, IIIU- ter breakfast table, and scientific fa- I vestigation and analysis have shown that , they abound in the heatforming principle, hence nature take's afray our appetite fo? them in summer. Exposing the Cotton. A feminiue rebel, a Memphisian and widow, who shall go by the name of Mrs. C was recently going up the river on a Cairo packet, when j-he got into an exciting di.-cus.-ion with Col. S. on the subject ol the war. It took place in the ladies' cabin and soon bromrhr n. round them a crowd of eager listeners ! She poured whole broadsides of sarcasm into the Col., who received them with his characteristic good humor. The clos ing scene of the di.,eussion is giving by my informant as follows: lou may overrun the whole south,' , U' 7?U may burn .ur t0'v.nf : X Zm. P,a"Ul,on3'. Im,lm kl11 i on, c nm arm I 1, uul ""Jshu squirrel CHIT hnvs With innirrnl ntlo tt. . J . 1 .wo uui auub f""f;.a.n PV,nef e QI every stump l" .! ,,a" ? l. , ) !,atf I", j0 1 ,en ' ! u ir' V I u , cahC we win oe compelled to call out and arm enough of your negroes to surround all fi 7 ' iil 1 1 ...... f. f 3 I acompiished all nen we-hc wn the south, will r' ' reuerai oayonots i ou u.ire not do mat niauani. 'Why not, sir V "For the simple reason, madam, it is unlawful. Your Confederate Congress has made it unlawful for you to expose your cotton to the Federal forces." Ihe lady suddenly retired, while the listeners laughed nnro:irifnW Joke on a Husband, The Bedford rind.i FnilnniW ,- that one of the merry wives of that place P,lled a pracuci joke on her husband, hv i:vino- t W r o e,-. Kfi : ' fant of six months, done up in a basket and left on the front doorstep with a J wwj WttWWU liLll IU note informing him that he was the fath- re of the child, and must support it. The iudi?naut husbaud sw.ire rnnnrllv that it was not his, but saw the joko fiuallv when he found thn One of our most fashionable hair-dressers tells thc following good story : An old Quaker lady was standing at her couuter, when a gay young girl came in to engage a hair dre.s for the eveniu. r ' I ' f liol. i. V i. ...1 1 .. . . Z .1 ii v uiuci iiuiiicwiv, j'uYluiT SUU , .,i vi(. , lt ,. J' . 0 !. wanted a halt dozen "rol s and butterfly n tnn n-.. .r... ...., A the blttck UIl ,ont of .. , am .1: J. ' , , cuuiuji Him au injuuciiuu 10 senu aioug auy quantity of "rats, mice, and cata ract." ''Poor child ?" said the old lady, compassionately, looking after her as she departed, '-what a pity she has lost hef miud I" A man in New Orleans who in 1S35 gave a soiree that cost 325,000, is now a dependent on the kinduess of his friends. At the party alluded to the very floors over which the dancers moved were cov ered with scenic painting", the work of the most acc(iiiiplihcd artist then in New Orleans, and in the saloon where gamin" tables were arranged stood two tables, ono filled with bank notes aud the other with g.dd, for the use of those guests who were unfortunate with the fickle goddeas.- A Question for Lawyers. A newspaper" correspondent, having lately visited the Siameesu twins, put thtf fo". owing question : " Should Chang, one of the twins, in--Iringe thc law by something worthy. qf death how should he be punished and justice be satisfied, if it could not be with out the death of the innocent? A young tyro in declamation in a neighboring seminary, who had been told by his teacher that he must gesturee-ac-cording to sense, in commencing a rpiece with, "The corhcS lifts its Cory tail" lifted hia coat tail to a horizuutofposi tion. Dr. E. A. Lud wig's paper at Scranton has been discontinued. lleaaouftxiH out. by th Sheriff. W.QV'WM .,VJi W
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