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,OCE HOBFITAL.
JLISUKDaa A REFUGE FROM QUACK-
xnx.
ONLY , PLACE WHERE A CURE
CAN BE OBTAINED.
JOHXSTOX ai discovered the moet Certain,
needy and .only Effectual Remedy In the
for a'll l'rivalcJiseaes, Weakness of the Back
be. fitrictures,.Affeetionl of the Kidneyi and
,r. Involuntary discharges, Impotenoy, dene
lility, Nervousness, Dyspepsy, Languor, Low
Confusion of Idea, Palpitation of the Heart,
ty Tr'omblingSi JJimness of Bight or Uiddincaa,
j of tho lioad. Throat, Nose or kin, Affections
Aver, Lunga. Stoirach or Bowels those Terri
sordcrs arising fsom the Solitary Habits of
-thoao aocrot aud enlitary practices more fatal
r victims than the song of Syrens to the Ma
if Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hopes
Icipationa, rendering marriage, Ac, impossi-
ally, who haveibecome the victims of Solitary
that dreadful :nd destructive habit which
lvsweyt.toan untimely grave thousands of
&lcn.altitewst exalted talents and brilliant
at wb might otherwise have entranced listen
lates with the tliundcrs of eloquence or waked
ity the living lyre, may call with full con-
rledfcMuns, ' Y , Mn eohlemplatlng
e, being aware of physienl weakness, organio
i deformities, Ae.. speedily cured,
no plaoes hinuclf under the car ofPr.J.
ilgio usly eonfide In his honor as a gentleman,
6den.''y lr upon his skill as a Physician.
Ct:C M UAIOKSJ
iatelr Curvd, and Full Vigor Restored.
Dtetrcssing A flection winch renders Lire
leand niarriiife'o impossible is the penalty
tho virtf in of ii iproper indulgence!. 1 oung
aro ee pt to commit excesses from not
(rnreofUhe drea Sful consequences that may
Now wi-io t iat iindcrstnnds the subject will
to deny that the V"wrr of procreation is lost
,y th.we.fSiilin. l"' improper habits than by
lent" .Ileiic bci,ng deprived tho plcasuros
hy offering, th, i.t serious and destructive
. to n!.Htwdy " mind arise. The svstem
UXranged, je 1 bysical and Mental i unc
AKenedT Lose-ef "creative Nervuui
itv jliviiaiMnL, I'ulpttntion of tho Heart.
SnV'ComtitX;... i luy. BW5"'n,of
e, Cough, Consiu upturn, Peony and Douth,
,Xo. 7 ISoiUU. t'J-ederlck Utrvrt
aside P..B . -,-:. - i
. . . .r irnitimnra Biroac. n law i
the coruur.
tL be rmia nd e.iuUin a stamp
Th
lliploiuas hung in hist 'L'c0-
K13 WAnA3P. I E" I TWO
1AVH.
A"s Xrrtvry r Nausf ' Drug:
iit. joiaxi': r.
or the Royal College oft uigeons. London,
te from one of the most eo .inent t'u leges in
tcdsStes,d th.grcato! VU fwl,oje ifo
a Vut in the hospitals . f Jndon, Paris
aStJff rin bend -d ear.
oCctim- wiih Aer.ng.il. em of mind, were
inintdiaule. -xiwwtv'
n rAitncn.AK ioiki..
! address.! all those who have injured them,
,v Uup.r indulgence and so itary hab.U.
Zn holh b.ly "d mind, unfitting them for
utinras. study, society or marriage.
TarT smuo ofthe aad and melancholy nfleeto
ed by early habits of jouth. Ti.: Weakness of
It and Lituts, Pains ic tho Head, Dimnees of
Lo of Mus.-ulur Porer, Palpitation of the
Uvsnensv. Norvoue Irritability, Derangement
Uigestive Functions, Generul l)ebility, bymp
'Cousuiuiition. Ac. .
tally The fearful effect! on tho mind are
obe dreaded Loss of Memory, Confusion of
Depression of Spirits, Evil-Forebodings Arer
, rlociety, Bolf-iHitJuit. Lor of bolitude,
,tv Ae are soiueof tho evils produced.
L-iiNns of persons of allege! can now iudgo
,the cause of thetr declining health, losiug
viuor, bocoming wtak, pale, nervous and
tied, having a singular appeurance about the
.ouirb and svuiptoms of consumption.
iav Injured themselves by Kortain practice
ed in when alone, a hnhit frinently learn.d
Uil eompaiiion- or at school, the effects or
are nightly M, even when asleep, and if no
renders mariiuge impossible, and destroys
lind .nd body, should apply J-.
sta pity thuta young niBn. the hop of his
v.the darling ofhis p.Weutn. should be snatched
all prospects and enjoyment! of life, by tue
.uenee of deviating from the path of nutur
dulgiiij; in a crrtuiu secret habit. Suou person
before contemplating
.11AKItlA.K.
. that a sound mind and body are the most
ary requisites to promote connubial happiness,
d without these, the journey through life bo-
a weary pilgrimuge ; tho prospect hourly
us to the view; the mind becomes shadowed
lespairand filled with the melancholy reflcc
bat the happiness of another become! blghted
ur own.
ini:akk of i.mpri ii:3'H.
ou the misguided and imprudent votary of
ire finds thai he has imbibed the seeds of this
il diseuse, it too often happens that an ill-timed
of shame, or dread of discovery, deter! him
applying to those who, from education and
tability, can alone befriend him, delaying till
unstitutionul symptom! of this horrid disease
their appearance, such as ulcerated sore
., diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the head
mhs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the
ones and arms, blotches on the head, face and
nilics, progressing with frightful rapidity, till
. the fa)ate f the mouth or tLe bunea of the
all in, and the victim of this awful disease
ice a horrid object of enmmiseration. till death
. period to his dreadful sufferings, by sending
i "that Undiscovered Country from whence no
ler rc'urns."
I hmrlaiitlioly fact that thousands full victims
i terrible disiuue, iug to the uuskillfuUiess of
ant pretenders, who, by the us of that Deadly
hi, Ncrritry, ruin th constitution and make
isiducof life miserable.
NTUACIF.RIs
ist not your lives, or health, to the care of the
t'nloarned and Worthless Pretenders, destitute
lowledge, name or cbaraetor, who copy Dr.
ton's advertisements, or style themselves, in
lewspapers, regularly Educated Physicians,
able of Curing, they keep you trifling month
month taking their fiitby and poiaonui coin
Is, or as long as th ajnaiiost fee can be obtained,
i despair, leave you with ruined health to sigh
rear galling disappointment.
Johnston .k the unly Physician advertising.
credential or diDlouias always hang in his office.
rnitiiM nr treatenicnt are unknown to all
i, prepared from a life spent in the great bus
or .Europe, the first in the country and a uwn
utt.i'fiH&U Practice than any other Physioiaa
i world.
itiiKi:iis'T ' tiii: pki:nn
i uiauv thousand! cured at this inswtution year
year," and the numerous important Surgical
Uona performed by Dr. Johnston, witnessed by
eportorsof th '-Bun," "Clipper," and many
miners, notice! of which have appeared again
gain beta the public besides bis standing as
itlemau uf character and responsibility, JJ e
ent guarantee to the amicted.
tiutu.
-sons writing should b particular in directinc
letters tobis Institution, in the following manor
join Jl. JOIIXSTO.I, 9U !..
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, assuring them they will and everything that
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-h from the Depot to avoid the noise and eoulu
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POETICAL
XI1U NATlU.li'S l)EAI.
Four hundred thousand men,
The brave, the good, the true,
la tangled woodln tntiuutain glen,
On battle plain, in prison pen,
Lie dead for me and youl
Four hundred thousand of the bravo
Have made our ransomed soil their grave,
For me and youl
Good friends, for me and you!
In many a fevered swamp,
By many a black bayou,
In many a cold and frozen camp,
The weary scntiobl ceased his tramp,
And died for me and you I
From western plniu to ocean tide
Arc stretched, the graves of those who
died
For Uio and you 1
Good friends, for me and you!
On many a bloody plain
Their ready swords they drew,
And poured their lifc-blocjil, like the rain,
A home, a heritage to gain,
To gain for me and you !
Qttr brothers mustered by our side,
They marched, and fought, aud bravely
died,
For me and you 1
Uood friends, for me and you!
Up many a fortress wall
They charged those boys In blue:
'Mid surging smoku and vollt-y'd ball
The bravest were the first to fall !
To Jail for mo and you !
These noble men the nation's pride
Four hundred thousand men have died
For me and youl
Good friends, for me and you!
In treason's prison-hold
Their martyr spirits grew
To stature like the saints of old,
While amid agonies untold,
They starved for me and you !
The good, the patient, and the tried,
Four hundred thousand Pien have died,
For me and you !
Good friends, for me and youl
A debt wo ne'er can pay
To them is justly due,
And to the nation's latest day
Our children's children still shall say,
'They died for mo and youl"
Four hundred thousand of the brave
Made this, our ransomed soil, their grave,
For me and you 1
Uood friend," for me and yon 1
The ltouud Table.
. e t-
iibi: ii:ni. ai jo are win:.
Sly Beelzebub took occasion
To try Job's constancy and patience,
lie took his honors, took his health,
He took his children, took his wealth,
His camels, horses, assef, cows
Sly Devil, did not take his spouse.
But, Heaven that brings out gool from
evil,
And loves to disappoint the Devil,
Had predetermined to restore
Twofold ol all Job hud before
His childreu, asses, camels, cows,
Short-sighted Devil not to take his spouse.
From th llarrisburg Telegraph.
"Kirixu 1'okty.i'ivu n:it
Am : " Who Will Cart or Mother Xou."
See the kine so sleek and hairy,
Calmly chewing at their cud;
Pastures green around them growing,
And gad flies buzziug in the wood.
Tell them that you kuowed their answer,
As you question every cow
"Sfu", tell nic, tell me truly,
Who can pay for butter now!"'
Chorut Arounti tuv, markets I nm marching,
Asking who will tell MC how.
In the name of all that is fearful,
Who can pay lor butter nowl '
The farmers tell us to our sorrow,
That cows aro very dry this yenr.
But who from this cau comlort borrow,
While butter 's so extremely dear?
Should you offer them but forty,
They'd kick up a precious row,
So I insist on loudly bawling
Who can lmy for butter now?
Chorut Around tho market. I am march
ing ic.
Oh, I will souk my bread in gravy!
Or any other kiud of grease,
Thus making all these greedy farmers
Gladly sue for terms of pence,
But will they still keep up their prices,
To iiiijionitioa I'll ne er bow,
Aud tell them plainly to their faces,
"I'm bio wed if I buy butter now!"
CItorui Around the markets I am march
ing, &c.
TALES AND SKETCHES.
TWO I.IVKS 1 0E.
More than fifty years ago, by brother Ste-
pheu and I lived together in a village about
three miles south ot London, where be was
iu practice as a surgeon. Stephen was thirty-two,
1 eighteen. Wro had no relations
but a sister, five or six years older than my
self, and well married in Loudon. Stephen
was a solitary and studious man, living
somewhat apart from his neighbois, aud
almost in a fatherly position towards me.
iiirougn tuo years we Have lived together
no one bad thought of his marrying. Thus
it, was wnen tne events 1 nave to tell liegan.
The house next to ours was taken by a Mr.
Cameron, a feeble looking man, rather past
uiuiuio age, wuu one aauguter, Jtlurion by
name. How shall I describe her. tho most
beautiful creature I ever saw? She was per
haps, twenty years old; I never knew pre
cisely. A tall, slight form, fair complexion,
dark chestnut eyes ana nair, and au expres
sion more like that of an acgle than a hu
man being, luougu i ws much struck
witb her appearance, Stephen did not seem
to notice it: and we might have remained
unacquainted with them forever, but that
he was required to help Mr. Cameron
over an awkward stile near our house. Ac
quaintance once made, they soon crew fa
miliar; for they had two feelings in common,
a love ol tobacco and owed' nborgiacjBin
Many a sum user evening ii they pass.
smoking the one aud talking the other,
jiiariou sometimes joining in, for she gener
ally walked with them, while uiy chest
whih was weak at that time, kept me at
home. One day they quitted Stephen at
the yate and as ha entered h duqi, taid
to lum i . . .
4.
"How lovely Marion is 1 1 am never tired
of looking at her."
"Look at her while you may,!' said he,
"she has three years to liv."
It was only too true she had some dread
ful complaint aneurism, I think it was
which must carry her off in the flower of
her days. Stephen told me that he had
consulted the moat eminent doctors without
getting any hope; and the emotion, rare
enough in him, that he displayed, told me
that he loved Marion. I said no word to
him about it, I knew better, But I saw with
what dreadful doubts he was perplexed.
Excitement might shorten Marion's life
such an excitement as a declaration of love
from him might be of material injuury; nnd
even if it did not prove so how could he
condemn himself to the prolonged torture
ot seeing the life of a beloved wife ebb away
day by day? Besides, he did not think
she cared for him. I, who had watched her
ceaselessly, knew that she loved him with
her whole heart, lie struggled witn nimseil
fiercely ; but he won the tight. He left home
for a few weeks, and returned, looking older
ond paler ; but ho had learned to mention
her niiniu without his voice quivering, and
to touch her hand without holding his
breath hard. She was pining away under
the influence of his changed manner, and I
dored not help my two darlings to be happy.
An unexpected aid soon came. Mr. Cume
ron, who was in had health when we first
saw him, died suddenly. Poor Marion's
grief was terrible to see. He father was
dead, Stephen, as she thought, estranged ;
and there was no one else in the world who
cared whether she lived or died, except my
self. 1 brought her home with me, and was
with her hourly until Mr. Cumeron's funeral.
How we got through that time I hardly
know. Then came the uecessary inquiry
into his affairs. He had died, not altogether
poor, but in reduced circumstances, leaving
Marion an annuity that would scarcely give
her the luxuries her state of health required.
And where was she to live, and what to do ?
Stephen was the sole executor, the sole ad
viser to whom she eould look. He had two
days and nights to consider, and then ofi'er
ed hcr his hand and home. At first she could
not believe that his offer arose from any
thing but pity and compassion ; but when
ho had told her the story of the last few
mouths, and called me to bear witness to it,
a great light seemed to come into her eyes,
and a wouderful glow of love, such as I had
never seen, over her face. I left them to
themselves that evening, till Stephen tap
tied at the door of inv room and told mc all
j nothing, in fact, but what I knew long
i before. In their cuse, there was little caiibu
I for delay. Trousseaux were not the impor
! tnpt matters in my day that they are in
: my grand-children's and Marion was married
; to Stephen, in hrr black, within a month
, alter her lather's funeral.
I The next month was a happy timo for a',1
: of us. Marion's health improved greatly.
The worried, frightened look she used to
j wear left her face as she used to wear liTt
j her face ns she recovered from the depres
: sion caused by her constant anxiety about
I her father, and the loss of rest she suffered
, in attending upon him at night. It seemed
I as if she was entirely recovering ; and Stc
I phen, if he did not lose his Jcurs, at least
was not constantly occupied with them.
How happily we used to look forward to
tlie
utuic, for Stephen was beginning to ;
save money ; aim many
anil nihiir wrrs our iit
found it so happy as our days in that dear
om burrcy village.
Well, our haiiiiy time did not last lone.
..(.,, i,cilui. v.'MLU (Will LUILI US 11IC
Winter came on, and was soon so ill as to i
be taken to London for advice. Stephen ,
came back alone, with a weary, deadly-look-
i&fs. tKur, riski
t. on to a w?
J ... - J - I
the necessary things, and went witu btcpnen
I ... ;
return '
' J
to Loudon the next flay, to say gooil-
Marion, who had been forbidden to
home. The same afternoon they were on
board a trading vessel, bound for Leghorn.
Luckily, Marion was a good sailor and well
used to ships, for she hud made more than
one voyage to Madeira witu Her tutuer. !
Much as I wished to go with them, and j
much as they wished it, too, it was out of !
the question. Stephen had saved but little
, ,,,, , i i
money, aid could hardly see how ho ami
MnKirm u' in, ti l,v iiiiImb Via rrtlllil mftL'ft
Murion w re to live, unless he could make
practice somewhere among the Lnglisli
abroad, and his taking me also was not to
be thought of. 1 was to live for the present
with my married sister. I was very sore to
part with Stephen, with whom I had lived
almost all my life, it was sorer still to part
witu Marion, who bad been more tr.an a
sister to me ever since I saw her. Stephen
and I were nearly overcome with emotion ;
but she was calm aod tulcut, witu an intent,
wilful look about her lovely face that lias
hauuteci tne all my life since. I can tee it
now when I chut my eyes, though U is fifty
years ago. Need I say Uut I never saw her
again ?
I wcut to uiy sister's house, and began the
fashionable life I used to wish for. It was
uot all that I pictured it, though it was pica
Mint enough to occupy me iu the dvy-timc :
but at night 1 longed sadly for my darling.
Stephen wrote letters full of hope, aud
talked cf returning after spending two years
in Italy. Murion, too, wrote favorably of
herself, and iny anxiety u.gan to lessen.
There was another reason fur this at the
same time my late husband, the friend and
partner of my sister s husband, was ut that
time beginning to pay his addresses to uie ;
and the tender troubles of my own case,
made me careless of others. Summer came
around again ; and one dayas I was half wish
ing for my country home again, a letter arriv
ed from Stephen. Marion's complaint was at
crisis, and a great change would take place,
one way or the other, iu a few days. I was
to go home, put the place in order, and be
ready to receive them. I did not know till
afterwards that Murion had begged to be
allowed to die at home, if the change were
for the -orse j i it had been for the better,
there wsuld hav been no reason for her
staying abroad.
Well, I went home, arrangod everything
and waited for them. The three weeks
passed (the usual interval) and no letter; a
month, and I supposed they were travelling
slowly to avoid fatigue. On the day five
weeks after I had received tho last letter, I
was sitting alone, rather late in tho cvoning,
when a umck sun sounded in the road out-
aide, and Stephen camo to tho gate, opened
it, en urea .tne bouse and sal down in
silence, lie was dreaaed aa usual, and look
cKl tired and traval-ataiuad: .but ther wis
dreams about professional eminence for him, bt-nutyliil, always alone, always iiressed us
..... . . .... . v , ... r ulin Ii2i.il t ilri.ua t.jlL'iitrr n a ulin iicnrl In I
niut iasinonaoie nie in ionoon, partly mr i " - .
Murion, but mostly for me. I have tried . talk not an Angel, but herself. Sometimes
fashionable lite in London since, but I never . e u.. llirCJi," wliole tlaj ot pleasure:
no aorruw Jo bis face, and I. fait aura that
111 AMEEICAK
,., I - - - J , - - - . , -. . .. , .. , - - ' I, I ,
MASSER & E. WILVERT,
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 18G5.
Marion must be safe. I asked him where
she was. Ho said she was not with him. .
"Have you left her In ItalyP I asked.
"She is dead," he answered without a J
shadow of emotion.
"How? Where?" I was beginning to
question him but he stopped me, I
"Give mo something to cot and drink,"
he suid, "I have walked from London, and
want to sleep."
I brought him what ho wanted, ne bade
me good night; and as I saw he wished it,
I left him and went to bed, full of grief, but
even more of wonder than he, who truly
loved his wife if ever mail did, could speak
of her, uot a month after her death, without ,
his Voice faltering, or his face changing in
the least. "To-morrow will solve the ques
tion,"! said to myself, o", weary with cry
ing, I felt a sleep coming over me. But to
morrow did not solve the question. He
told me as before, withoflt emotion, what
he wished me to know, and from that mo-
ment we spoke no more on the subject. In
every respect but this ho was my own Ste-1
phen of ole! its kind and as thoughtful ns
ever, only altered by a rather absent and ub- j
stracted manner. I thought at first that he
was stunned by his loss, and would realize it
more painfully afterward ; but months pass
ed on without a change. He used Marion's
chair, or things of her work, or sat opposite
to her drawings without seeming to notice
them : indeed, it seemed ns if she had drop
ped out of his life entirely, and lelt him as
lie was before he knew her. The only dif
ference was, that he, naturally a man of
sedentary habits, took a great deal of exer
cise, and I knew that he kept luudunum in
his bedroom.
At this Bime my lover was pressing me to
marry him, and with much djtiiculty I con
sented to tell Stephen about it, though I
had no intention of leaving him. To my
surprise, he seemed pleased. I told him
Unit I would never leave him alone, not for
all the husbands iu the world, but he would
not hear me.
"I think it is your duty to marry him,
Margaret," he said ; "you love hiiu and have
tnuglit him to love you, and you have no
right to sucrilicc him to me."
"My first duty is to you Stephen. I will
not leuve you alone."
"I see that I must explain to you," he
said, after a pause. Wheu you leave me,
I shall not be alone.
"Who will be with you," I asked, wonder
ing. "Marion."
I started as if I hud been shot, for I
thought he must surely bo mad ; but he con
tinued, quite calmly, unci, as usual, without
emotion :
"She died at mid-day. Till night I did
not know what I did. I felt stunned and
broken and dying myself ; but at hist, worn
out as I wits with watching and sitting up,
I fell asleep ; and by God's mercy she enme
to me iu my dreams and told mo to be com
forted. The next night she came ngnin, and
from that time to this had never failed mc.
Than I telt it was my duty to live ; that if
my life was valnelcM to myself, it was not
so to you. So I came home. 1 dare say it
is only a freak of my imagination. Perhaps
I even produce an illusion by aneflbrt of my
will; but however that is, it has saved me
Irom going mad or killing myself. How
docs she comi: ? Always as she was in thtit
cummer inai we spent were, or in our
-"'. nun: "i unit , mnu tiiitnui uu
sometimes she only comes and goes; but no
nifilit bus ever yet been without lier; antl in
deed I think that her visits are lenger nnd
dearer as 1 draw nearer to her side again. I
, , r , . , . ,.
"""' f'f 1 two lives
11 1,e nal OIK: -1 RS,k, "'".8C'f 'iow' "nd f.an"
M,,t "!,"4,p- 1 d tt!"" tJ,Bt thohvr1
:xnlr W
puss without my seeing her; for my health
is gootl enough, aud I -never fail to tlecp.
Sleeplessness is the ouly earthly evil I dread,
now vou are provided for. Do not think
mo hard to you in not having told you this
belore. It is too sncrcd a thing to be spoken
I of without necessity. Now write to your
! husbnnd that is to be, and tell him to come
here. '
I did so, nnd the preparations for my mar
, ...Ti.. , . , ... ..,,.. ...... fJ,i..
riage began. Stephen was very Kind, hut
ma iii"U"iiia n iiiiiit-ic,4 in, iiici mitt icvi
, , (j" , ke d , f , d
.
of hii, about him, but it seemed that noth
ing ailed him. 1 longed, almost to pain, to
ask him more about Marion; but he never
gave me an opportunity. If I approached
the subject, he turned the talk in another
direction, and my old habits of submission
to him prevented me from going on. Then
came iry wedding-day. Stephen gave me
away, and he sat by my side utdic breakfast.
He seemed to hang ovur me more tenderly
than ever, as be put. nm into tho carriage
and took L-ave of aie.
The lost thing I did as I leaned out of the
carriage window was to tell him to bo sure
to be my first visiter in -my Dew home.
"No, Margaret," he said, with a sad smile;
"say gaud-bye to me now, my work is
dome.
Scarcely understanding what ho said, I
bade him good-bye; and it was not until my
husband asked me what it meant, that I re
membered his strance look and accent. I
then felt half-frightened about him; but the
novt'lty of my first visit abroad mado me
forget my fears.
The rest is soon told, l no first letter X
received from England said. that on the very
morning after my marriage ho had been
found dead cold in his bed. He died with
out pain, the doctor said, with his right
hand clasping his left arm above the wrist,
and holding firmly, eveu in death, a circlet
of Marion s hair.
Changed Han Mind. Tho luto Professor
Duncan, of St. Andrews University, in Scot
land, was, prior to his appointment to his
shair, rector to an academy in Forfarshire.
He was particularly reserved in his inter
course with the fair sex; but, in prospect of
obtaining a professorship, ventured to make
proposals to a lady. They were walking
together, and the important question was
put without preliminary cent fmunt or note
of warning. Of couiso the lady replied by
a gentle "Xo!" Tho subject was iiumcdiatly
dropped; but tho parties aoon met asain.
"Do you remember," at length said the lady,
"a question you put to uio when wo lost
metl" The Professor said that ho remem
bered. "And do you remember my answer,
Mr. Dunrsnt" "Oh, yes," said the Professor.
"Well, Mr. Duncan," piocoeded the lady,
"I have been led, ou consideration, to
change my inind." "And so hava I," dryly
responded the Pro ft nor.
SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, FENN'A,
OLD
MISCELLANEOUS.
Oplnlonaofltie .tfllltnry Chlflnlaii
or Knell Other.
' The following letters have just been made
public :
UBSBnAL 0 II A XT TO OHHBRAI, SnBRMAH.
Dear Sherman: The bill - reviving the
grade of lieutenant general in the army 1ms
become a law, aud my name has . been sent
to the place. I now receive orders to report
in Washington immediately in person,
which indicates a confirmation or a likeli
hood of confirmation.
I start in the morning to comply with the
order.
Whilst I have been eminently successful
in this war in at least gaining the confi
dence of the public no one leels more than
I how much of this success is due to the
energy, skill, and the harmonious putting
forth of that energy and skill, of those whom
it has been my good fortune to have occu
pying subordinate positions under me.
There are many officers to whom these
remarks are applicable to a greater or less
degree proportionate to their ability as sol
diers; but what I want is to express my
thanks to you and Mcl'hcrson, as the men
to whom above all others, I fee! indebted
for whatever I have had of success.
How far your advice and assistance have
been of help to me you know. How far
your execution ot whatever has been given
you to do entitles you to the roward I am
receiving, you caunot know as well as
I feel all the gratitude this letter would
express, giving it the most flattering con
struction. The ward "you" I use in the plural, in
tending it for MeTherson also. I should
write to him, aud will some day, but start
ing in the morning, I do not know that I
will find time just now. Your fricud.
U. S. Guant, Major General.
OBNKnAL SllEllMAN's ltl'.I'I.Y.
Sherman received this letter near Mem
phis on the 10th of March, aud immediately
rcpiieu :
Dear General : I have your more than
kind and characteristic letter of the 4th inst
I wili send a copy to General Mcl'hcrson
at mice.
You do yourself injustice and us too much
honor in assigning to us too large a share
oi tuo merits wuicu nave lea to your nign
advancement. I know you approve the
friendship I have ever professed to you, antl
will permit mc to consinue, as heretofore to
manifest it on ail proper occasions.
You are now Washington's legitimate
successor, and occupy a position of almost
dangerous elevation; but if you can contin
ue, as heretofore, to bo yourself simple; hon
est, and unpretending, you will enjoy
through life the respect and love of friends
and the homage of the millions of human
beings that will award you a large share in
securing to them and their desceudauts a
government of law and stability.
j I repeat, you do General McPherson and
' and myself too much honor. At Belmont
! you manifested your truits, neither of us be
I ing near. At Donelson, also, you illustra
ted your wnoie cuaracter. i was not near,
and General Mcpherson in too subordinate
a capacity to influence you.
Until you had won Donelson I confess I
j was almost cowed by tho terrible array of
Duarcincul elements that presented them
selves at cvcey point; but that admitted a
ray of light have followed since.
1 believo you arc as brave, patriotic, and
11 II l .1.. a. . i
.Ju" ", P" ,u i Pe, usu
uiiniTiusu, ikinu iiuui ten, hiiu uiinest us n lunii
should be. Hut the chief characteristic is
tho simple face in success you have always
manifested, which I cau liken to nothing
elsu than the faith a christian has in the Sa
viour,
This faith gave you victory at Shi loll and
Vicksburg. Also, wheu you have comple
ted your preparations, you go into battle
without hesitatiou, as ut Chattunooga no
doubts, no reserves; and 1 tell you it was
this that made us act with confidence.
knew, wherever I was, that you thought of
mo, and if I got in u tight place you would
ueip me out, u anve.
Jly only poiut ot coubt was m your
knowledge of grand strategy and of books
of science nnd history; but I confess your
common sense seems to have supplied all
these.
Now as to the future. Don't stay in
Washington. Come West; take to yourself
the whole Mississippi valley. Let us make
it dead sure, and 1 tell you the Atluutic
slopes and the Pacific-shores will follow its
destiny, as sure as the limbs of a tree live or
die with the main trunk. We have done
much, but still much remains. Time and
time's influences are with tis. We could
almost afford to sit still and let these influ
ences work.
Here lies the seat of the coining empire;
and from the West, when our task is done.,
we will make short work of Charleston aud
Richmond aud tho impoverished coast of
tho Atlantic. Y'our sincere friend,
W. T. SUKUMAJJ,
"GliBKN'nACKs" in Nobtu Caholika. A
letter from North Carolina to the Boston
AJtertiter says :
"I saw to-day for the first timo a man who
would not take 'greenbacks' in payment for
property. He came in from the country
with a load of wood, and actually hauled it
out of town this evening because no one
would pay him for it iu gold. .Much en
quiry in South Carolina discovered only
two or three localities in which there would
be probable dilliculty in travelling without
gold ; but one of our majors; whom duty
has called through over a doxeu of these
western counties within the lat six weeks,
tells me that the localities in which paper
money would be taken are the exception
rather than the rule ; and a surgeon ot our
army whose home is fifty miles buck of this
place, and who has been there oc two
weeks' leave, said to me this afternoon that
he lost the opportunity to make several
good trades w hile there, because he had
only legal tender money. The people ssy,
he observes that having lost so much by
ona soit of paper money, they don't propose
to take any of the other sort just at present."
The mother-in-law of the Ppttnwatomio
Chief at Silver Lake, Kansas, died a few
days siuce, at the age of 104 years. During
the revolution she lived neur Detroit, was
then married, and had twin girts who now
survive her.
ButterCelJ's Overland Dispntub Company
are nuking arrangements to put 04a line
of express cnacuea from
to Ucover via v"
SERIES, VOL. 2G, NO. 4.
Hovr aa Editor Died.
niS COOLSESS AND COUllAOB TIB MA.:!!, A
WILL AMID TnB HOWLINO OP TUB TE.MrP.ST
THH VBB9BL OOES TO I'lKCKS, AND II It IS
DH0W5BD.
A. San Francisco correspondent furnishes
this account of a remarkable case of coolness
and couroge. The gentleman alluded to
was James Nisbet, of the San Kranciscq
ltulletin, who was lost on the steamship
Brother Jonathan, nnd his body was (ouiid
floating in the oceau seven miles from land.
When it was taken ashore and examined
there was found in the deceased's vest pock
et a will, which was written after the ship
struck the fatal rock. Contemplating cnlm
ly the terrible scenes about him, and calcu
lating his chances for life, hp had tho cool
courage to make such a dispositmn of his
property as would be most beneficial to those
who would be left behind him. That old
man writing a will, amid the howling of the
tempest thut was lashing the ocean into
foaming billows, and surrounded by drown
ing men, womem and children wailing out
their Bgony to the pitiless winds and the
raging sea, presents a heroic picture. Here
is a copy of the will, and. let the reader ob
serve with what care it is written:
"At Sba oji Boaiid thr Bro. JoxATnAn,
"July 20, I8S.
"In view of death, I hereby appoint my
brother, Thomas Nisbet, at present engaged
on the Pacific Railroad, near Clipper Gap-,
California, my sole executor, with instruc
tions to wind up my whole estate, real and
personal, and convert the same into cash,
with all convenient speed, but so as not to
sacrifice the same, and to pay ovr and di
vide the same equally between himself and
my sole sister Murgart Nisbet, now residing
in England; and under burden of the pay
ment of a legacy of $.'5,000 in gold to Almira
Hopkins, wife of Casper T. Hopkins, insur
ance agent, San Francisco, Cal. And I
desire that my brother, said Thomas Nisbet,
shall not bu asked to give security fup his
iutromissiou with my estate.
"Jas. Ni8bkt."
The document was written with a pencil,
the writer coolly recollecting that pencil
marks are less affected by water than ink
marks. It was clearly written, in Mr. Nis
bet's bold and steady penmanship. When
he bud concluded the will he found that he
had yet a little time left before the ship
would probably go down, and he added the
following brief note to a family in this city
where he had boarded for many years:
"My Dkak Ma: A thousand affectionate
adieus. You spoke of my sailing on Friday
hangman's day and the unlucky Jona
than. Well, here I am with death before
me. My love to you all to Casper, to
Belle, Mellie, and little Myra kiss her for
nie. Never forget
"Graxdpa."
The children familiarly addressed the old
man as grandpa, although he was in no way
related to them.
What Mukes) 4'onl Dear.
From the Saoraniento (Peon.) Register.
In the cities, where the burden of the
high price of coul falls so heavily upon
the consumers, the impression is, as we are
informed, made to prevail that the high
price is owing to the exorbitant demands '
of the miners. That such is not the fact, j
and that consumers must look elsewhere for
the true cause, is shown by the following :
statement, mudu up from information ob-1
tained from reliable sources, principally i
from practical men engaged as operators iu I
the business of mining:
Terton. I
Coal in the mines held to be worth t 25 '
Mining the same' hO
Preparing for market bO
Muking th cost of coal her
The charge of the railroad company for
transporting coul from this poiut to Eliza
bethport, a distance of one hundred aud
thirty-two miles, is three aud one half cents
per ton pur mile, or a
Total for transportation of (4-83
Xo this add eost burs 1-Bi
Aud have J4.4I
as the cost of coal at Elizabethport, when
shipped by the operators themselves, and of
which the miners receive but eighty cents.
In this calculation the cost of transportation
is fixed at the basis of three and a half cents
per ton per mile. The law fixes the price
below three and a half cent, but the charge
of the company for the use of the cars, in
addition to the legal tolls swells it to that
sum.
On coal shipped North, we have been in
formed by men engaged iu transportation iu
iu that direction, that the price per ton to
Syracuse, as charged by the couipuny, is f 5,
with 00 cents additional for the use of each
car required in the ehipment.
Gentlemen here, eugaged in coal opera
tions, and whose experience as transporters
enables thein to form correct calculations ou
the subject, assure us that even with the
high price of everything labor and mate
rial included employed in the coustructigu
of cars, the company could make the most
liberal per ceotage on its capital invested,
with the cost of importation, including
charge for cars, fixed at 2 cents per ton per
mile. This would bring tho coal at Eliza
bethport as follows:
Cost at point of shipment f 1 8S
Transportatiua SO
Total cost at Kllsahethport A1
From these statements, which we believe
to be true, and in the formation of which
liberal allowance has been made both for
the railroad company and the operators, it
can easily be settled to the satisfaction of
every man how far the exorbitance should
apply to the miner, how far to the operator,
and how far to the railroad company.
Tub Fastest Sraao ox Kvcord. The
young Uambletouian gelding Dexter made
.I.a ui,.nik, t.ct VArt itartai at tli Vacliiitll I
Course, L. I., to trot a mile under saddle
IU, . w www m
in less than 8.19. The match was $5000
against 1000 that be could not perform the
feat in three trials. He did beat Faltffer Time
however making bis mile in tuo minvU;
eiyhtetn and one-fifth ttfond; on the first
trial! This is the best "time" ou record, no
other horse having come up to it, of which
tho racing calandar has any account. It is
understood that t25, 000 have been offered
for the extroardinary animal.
1 e e 1 1 - -
It is said that the late Chief Baron
Thompson was a very factious companion
over the bottle, which be much enjoyed.
At oue of the Judge's diuuers during the
Assizes, there was present a certain dignitary
of the church. When the cloth was remov
ed, "I always think," said tho very reverend
guest, "I always thiuk, my lord, that a cer
tain quantity of wine doea a man no harm
after a good dinner!" "Oh, no, sir! by no
utaans," replied the chief Baron; ";t" the
uueortvi qaaatity thai all the uiiwhief,'
TCItMS OP AIlTEnTlSD'
On eqn v of 14 tine, on Urns, t -
Every subsequent insertion, '
Ono square, 1 monthi, " 4
Six months, '..
Ono you,
Exeouturi and Administrators notice 3
Auditor notloes,
Business Cards of i lines, per annum,
Morchant and other advertising by the year
with tbo privlloge of changing quarterly, at
follow! s1'
One quarter Column, sot exceeding 4 squares, $ : '
One jalf column, not exootding 8 squares,
Optoolunin, .';
Editorial or local advertising, any number oi
not oxceeding ten. 20 cent per line ; 10 eoii: : f
rory additional line. "
Marriage notice, SO cent!.
Obituaries or resolutions accompanying notlac" '
doathSj'lO cent per line.
Tli Una 'nrtorle of Itagland.
From the Liverpool Time, Sopt. 16.
Among the papers read before the Brit:
Association ot its late meeting may be mi
tcned ono which shows the enormous ;
sources of Birmingham in tho raanufactr
of arms, and the superiority of the grc '.
town' in tho midland counties in this 1
spee't is not a thing of yesterday, but e
tends fur back into the past. Nearly c'ib'i
thousand workmen are almost' constant
employed in this branch of production alon-
and the wages of these skilled worknu ii
vary from three hundred pounds a yeai eat!',
down to eighty pounds and seventy pounds.
As far back as the war between England
and France it was the boast of Birmingham
that it could produce a gun a minnte, whit '..
is five hundred and twenty-five thousand i:.
the course of a year. In 1813 no less than
four hundred and niucty' thousand musket.-:
were supplied to the British Government,
nnd one hundred nnd fifty thousand to ttic
late East India Company; France,' at this
time, though aided by thp prpducing power
in the same line of Italy and Bclguim, could
only yield muskets at the rate of two hun
dred thousand in a year. But this capaci
ty of production, as great as it was, was
even exceeded during the late American
war, when Birmingham turned put muskets
at the rate of two thousand every single day.'
For a couple of years the American demand,
strained every exertion that even Birming
ham could furnish; but this was before tho
Americans began to manufacture for them
selves, or at least before the native resources
came into full p!ay. Even in he earlier,
stages of the production on the other side,
of the Atlantic; the guns exported by Bir
niingham were at the rate of forty thousand
and fifty tho'usaud a month. Six months
before the war closed the demand almost
entirely ceased. We learn from this paper,
read by Mr. Goodman, that from 185'J to
180-t Birmingham supplied three million of
weapons to tl:e British government, exclu
sive of a million mare proved &t ' the-gov
ernmcnt proof-typuse in that town.
Tueicbiui; Tribune to the "Icunory
of Abraham Lincoln.
A correspondent of tho Chicago TribttM,
writing from Florence, Italy, says:
"Among the first incidents which met my
eyes as I entered ftuly'wcre one or two,
which are perhaps not altogether unworthy
of being read, and one of w hich in particu
lar may have a peculiar interest for' Ameri
can leaders. I was walking through the
narrow streets of the little town of Lugano,
when my eyes were attracted "by a well
known portrait suspended in tVont of a small
bookstore. The portrait was that of Abra
ham Lincoln ; aud you will not wonder that
the sight alone of the familiar features ar
rested one's footsteps, as they hung there in
that quaint, mudiitval, oiit of the way place,
looking round upon a sceno so wholly for
eign to that other world, of which tho late
President of the United States was so vivid
ly the personification. I wect tip by an
irresiktable impulse of respect to look ut it,
and I was glad I did so, for I found beneath
it in writiug. and in Italian, un inscription
which showed that tho little portrait hud in
fact been attached to his house by the owner
like a sacr.ud image, at once a testimony ot
l;is own faith and feelings, aud an appeal to
those pf his fellow citizens. 'This,' said the.
inscription, 'is a portrait of Abraham Lin-
colu, and so long as the suu shines on men,
so long shall the name of him who redeemed
four millions of slaves from captivity, of
hiiu who, clutching to his strong breast tba
incetof the American Union, full a victim
to horrible assassination so long shall his
name resound great, venerated, aud blessed
throughout the world.' "
Wheat ou tlie I iicr .MUiiiiil.
Horace Greeley has been making a trip to
Miitncsota. Here is what he says about
tho wheat crop iu that reqion :
I am more and nioro impressed with tho
wheat growing capacities which are hure
just beginning to be developed. At Hud
sou, at Prescutt, and other points on tho
Wisconsin side, as well as at Hastings and
all the landings in Minnesota, the cry is
Wheat! Wheat 1 Hudson is a pretty Eastern
village, strung along the Wisconsin shore of
Lake St. Croix, aud the shire town of St.
Croix county, whose staple is wheat. Wheat
ladeu wagons surrounding tho store houses
at au early hour yesterday morning, await
ing the turn of each to have its load weigh
ed, emptied, antl paid for; and they still
swaruivd there w hen we left at nightfall.
Every steamboat goes down the river with
all the wheat on board that she will take,
and a couple of w heat luclon barges made
fust to her aides. Little villages of three to
six storehouses talk of shipping their half
million bushels each. The crop cannot
nearly all be threshed out this fall iu fact,
some of it yet stands in the shock ; nor cau
it be brought away, if ready, before tho
river freezes; but 1 shall be disappointed if
ton millions do uot pass La Crosse going
southward aud eastward of the crop of 1805,
YiuHls of thirty, thirty-five, and eveu forty
bushels per acre aro frequently reported,
while I can hear of no failureany where ; and
I firmly believe that Minnesota must average
at least tweuty-seveu bushels per acre, aud
theu be beaten at least three bushels by
Northwestern Wisconsin.
A "Mcximent" Wantkd. A Parisian
writer tells this droll story of an American
at Home: A celebrated pork contractor for
the Federal army presented himself .a short
time back to a sculptor's atelier in Home,
and stated his intention of sending a durable
memento of himself to adore his' native
Elace in America. With au amiable candor
e explained to the artist t at he bad begun
life as a poor boy selling matches, and by
lucky speculations had attained his present
gigsutic greatness. "Now," ho continued,
"1 vs seeu a muuiment in tno city as suits
my views to a uicety a kinder column with
a - J - .
little figures ruumug up all around it, and a J
chap at the top." ."Trajan's column," sng-
gested the artist. "P'raps it may be; and I j
wish you to sculp me jes such another, a
workiiV out the whole of my biogralT, be
ginning at tho bottom with a boy jcKia'
ipatcbes, and then keep ou winding it up
till it ends with ms in an easy attitood at
the top." '
"They say" that one of tha latest fashions
with the ladies i.s wearing long ends of nar
row ribbon around tha neck. Few of tha
uuiuitiated know tha significance of tha
same. When they wear ends hanging in
front it means that "the lady is married,"
over the right shoulder that "she is en
gaged," down the back that she "has a
teller coming to ace uer but is ni n?aei.
over tne iu:t snoumer it uivaue '
coma follow me." If she does r"
it means that she "is eoga,
with to hav anything to
tker Jelrvr."