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tners of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hopes
r anticipations, rendering marriage, Ao., impost!-
specialty, Vho have become the victims of Solitary
: ice, that dreadful and destructive habit which
annually sweeps to an untimely grave thousands of
Young Men of the most exalted talents and brillinnt
Intellect, who might otherwise have entranced listen
tng Senates With the thunders of eloowence or waked
toecstaty tha living Vyro,3ay call with fall 'con
fidence. NARnlAGC
V rrtil fwtmim. or Yun Men eontcWiafin:
Warriage, being aware of physical weakneca, organic
debility, deformities, e., speedily eured.
lie Who places himself under the oara of Dr. J.
nay religiously confide in hia honor as a gcntloman,
and confidently rely upon his skill as a Physician.
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This Distressing Affection which renders Life
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eing awsre of tha dreadful consequences that may
annua Mow, who that understands the subject will
pretend to deny that tha power of procreation is lost
sooner by those falling into improper habits than by
the prndent ? Besides being deprived the pleasures
of healthy offspring, the most serious and destructive
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tions Weakened, Loss of Procreativa Power, Nervous
Irritability, Dyipepssa, Palpitation of the Heart.
Indigestion, Constitute at Debility, a Wasting of
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i) it. joiixsto:.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. London,
Graduate from one of the moat eminent Colleges in
tha United States, and tha greater part of whose life
baa been spent in the hospitals of London, Paris,
Philadelphia and elsewhere, has effected some of
the most astonishing cures that were ever known ;
many troubled with ringing in the head and ears
when asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at
ludden sounds, bashfulnesa, with frequent blushing,
attended sometimes with derangement of mind, were
cured immediately.
lAHi: PAKTICTLX.AR NOTICE.
Dr. J. addresses all those who have injured them,
selves by improper indulgence and solitary habits,
which ruin both body and mind, anfitting them for
either businMa, etady, aoeiety or axrrian
These are some.of the sad and melnncholy effects
produced by early habits of youth, vis: Weakness of
the Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimnees of
Sight, Loss of Muscular Power. Palpitation of the
Heart, Dyspepsy, Nervous Irritability, Derangement
f the Digestive Functions, General Debility, Symp
toms of Consumption, Ao.
MaHtALLY. Tha fearful effects on the mind are
auich to ba dreaded Loss of Memory, Confusion of
Ideas. Depression of Spirits. Evil-Forebodings. Aver
:ion to Society, Self-Distrust, Love of Solitude,
timidity, Ac are some of the evils produced.
Thousands of persons of all ages can now Judge
vbat is the cause of their declining health, losing
oeir vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and
i naciatcd, having a singular appearance about tha
lyes, cough and symptoms of consumption.
' vot;3iJiK.
Vhohave Injured themselves by a certain practice
ndulged in when alone, a habit frequently learned
rom evil companions, or at school, the effects of
vbich are nightly felt, even when asleep, and If no
ured renders marriage impossible, and destroys
oth mind and body, should apply immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his
ountry, the darling of his parents, should be snatched
;om all prospect and enjoyments of life, by tha
unsequence of.devlattng from the path of nature
nd indulging in a certain secret habit. Such persons
VST, before contemplating
!UAKKIAi:.
jflect that a sound mind and body are the most
ecessary requisites to proiuot) connubial happiness,
odeed without these, the journey through life be
irnes a weary pilgrimage; the prospect hourly
arkens to the view; the mind becomes shadowed
ith despair and filled with the melancholy refleo
on that the happiness of another becomes blghted
ith our own.
mwr.AMF. of lMPnimCE.
When the misguided and imprudent votary of
casurc finds that he has imbibed the seeds of this
.'inful disease, it too often happens that an lll-tiincd
nteof shame, or dread of discovery, deters him
txa applying to those who, from education and
tipectability. can alone befriond him, delaying till
e constitutional symptoms of this horrid disease
ake their appearance, such as ulcerated sore
roat, diseased uose, nocturnal pains in the head
td limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the
in bones and arms, blotches on the head, face and
tremitiee, progressing with frightful rapidity, till
last the palate of the mouth or the bones of the
se fall in, and the victim of this awful disease
comes a horrid objectof oommiseration, till death
ts a period iu bis dreadful sufferings, by sending
i to "that Utttlwcovered Country from whence no
tveller returns."
It i.mclantholy fact that thousands fall victims
this terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of
lorant pretenders, who, by the use of that Deadly
sow, Mercury, ruin the constitution and make
residue of life miserable.
Trust not your lives, or health, to tha care of tha
ny Unlearned and Worthleaa Pretenders, destitute
knowledge, name or character, who copy Dr.
inston'i advertisements, or style themselves, in
t newspapers, regularly Educated Physicians,
mpable of Curing, they keep yon trifling month
er auonth taking their filthy and poiaonua eom
mds, or as long as ahaeoiallest fee can be obtained,
I in dospair, leave you with ruined health to sigh
r your galling disappointment.
)r Johnston is tha only Pbysieian advertising,
lis credential or diplomas always hang in his offioe.
lis reuidtes or treatement are unknown to all
ers, prepared from a life apent in tha great hos
il of Europe, the tret in the eountry and a more
ensive Private Fraeti than any other Physician
the world.
JIOIIaEnEW OF THE PRESN
'he many thousands eured at this institution year
tr year, and tha numerous important Surgical
irations performed by Dr. Johnston, witnessed by
reporters of tha "bun," "Clipper," and many
er papers, notices of which have appeared again
'. agaiu before tha public, besides hit standiug as
bulleman of character and responsibility, is a
icient guarantee to the a Alio ted.
UH mSEANKN K1EE1IEY
jlitt:i,
arsons writing should ba particular in directing
j letters to his Institution, in tha following manor
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Tlie Prison Pen at Florence.
THI STOCKADE AI IT II NOW HOW OCR SOL
DIER LIVED CITT. OF THE LIVING DEAD.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
write! a long letter from Florence, South
Carolina, describing particularly the itock
do at that place, and its lurroundings. Ai
the tubject is one of general interest, we
make the following extracts:
FLORENCE
Is a name, rather than a place or, say, a
point at which three railroads center, rather
than a town. There is a hotel and a church
and a machine shop, and two so-called
stores, and three bar-rooms, and twenty-Gve
or thirty residences, and a rraat Dine forest.
There is a long broad street, at one end of
which is the hotel a somewhat pretentious
two story wooden buildiag, with a wide and
loity piazza in iront, and an uugaiuly tower
in the centre. At the further end of the
street are the stores and the machine shop,
.. .. ... . 1
jiuaway are cue apniacary ana use Hos
pital, and a vacant law ollice. Back of this
street, in the pines, are the dwellings which
constitute the town. The three railroads
have a common starting point just in front
of the hotel. Passengers from Wilmington
to Charleston reach her about seven in the
evening, aud leave about three in the morn
ing, after paring two dollars each for sup
per and lodging of a passably good charac
ter. Passengers front Charleston to Wil
mington reach here about the same hour,
leave at the same time, and pay the same
tax for the supper of the landlord. Those
frcm Columbia get supper here, and are
taxed one dollar. Those for Cheraw are
obliged to disburse three dollars for supper,
lodging, and breakfast. The town is there
fore, a railroad eating house, with sleeping
rooms attached.
Situated at the intersection of the great
cross line of railroad with the great coast
line, about one hundred miles from cither
Wilmington or Charleston, and about seventy-five
miles fro in cither the coast or Colum
bia, it was pecularly adapted for the loca
tion and safety of a prison.
THE STOCKADE
Is about a mile and a half north of east
from the hotel, about a third of a mile from
the railroud, and near the centre of a great
opening in the pine forest, which is locally
known as the "the old field." The field is a
sandy, rolling, fenceless, irregularly-shaped
tract of COO acres, more or less, which pro
bably, at some time, formed the tillable por
tion of two or three plantations, mostly
given up to turpentine and rosin-making.
The stockade is about thirty-five rods long,
cast and west, containing perhaps, sixteen
or seventeen acres. Through the middle of
this enclosure, front north to south, flows
a little stream of water, five or six feet in
width and four or five inches in depth. It
is a swiftly running atrenm. anrl tl.o 'tw
has a not uupleasont taste. From either
end the prison pen slopes to this brook
making rive or six acres of low, marshy
ground, lying principally east of the stream,
full of sink-holes and stagnant waters, and
miasmatic odors and malarial inlluences
the breeding-place of agues and fevers, and
typhoids aud rhcttmatic complaints the
rank and pestiferous home of disease and
death, than which hellish malignity could
scarcely have fashioned one more fit to the
purpose of that foul treason which laid its
foundation in slavery, and sought to enthrone
linpine and Anarchy as twin deities in the
land of Law and Liberty 1
Everything remains as the rebels left it
when they evacuated Florence remains al
most as it was when these hill-sides swarm
ed with our soldier prisoners. On the east
and on the west, twenty rods or so distant
from the walls, are the long lines of earth
works aud far down in front of these again
are the numerous rifle-pits commanding the
advance for nearly a hundred rods. The
main entrance to the stockade was at the
northwest corner. Near this corner were
the log houses of the guard, and half a
dozen small ovens. The barracks stand al
most as they did when last occupied, but
the houses over the ovens have been burned.
Just north of this entrance is a handsome 1
little grove of a dozen trees, among which
remain the benches aud stools of the officers
of the guard. Fifty feet in front of the
middio of the northern wall was the Sag
staff whenco floated the banner of treason
and slavery. Its stump only remains and
loyal and disloyal alike cut chips of memen
to therefrom. Across the pestilential
quagmire, beyond the northwest corner, is
another deserted village of log houses
houses of the guard for the rear of the
prison-pen, not one of which had been touch
ed. I went among them with the wonder
if some long-haired, lean-bodied, leering
cyed Johnnie might not. spring out with
reaily musket and uia me halt: and sure
enough, from one of them suddenly emerged
a leiiow in grey, who looked at me a mo
ment, and then strode away with a swing
ing and defiant step. In the southeast cor
ner of the pen was the rear entrance thence
the prisoners went to fetch wood, a dozen
cords of which yet He piled only five or six
rods away.
The walls of the stockade are fifteen feet
high, built of unhewn logs, some nine or
ten inches in diameter, set deeply in the
ground. This solid wall of oak and pine
logs is unbroken, except by the gate open
ings and the quagmire the niarshv ground
necessitating the substitution of a stout
board fence for the wall of logs. Outside
the wall is, of course, a wide and deep ditch,
the earth from which is thrown against the
logs and forms narrow path about three or
four feet below their tops,whcreon the guard
walked and overlooked this prison-pen; and
wbeoea fiends in human shape shot half
crazed boys who straggled over this dead
line, which runs just behind the -hut within
which I sit. A ditch could not be dug
through the quagmire, and so there are
picket platforms built on the fence there
one, noticeably, on each side over the brook.
Inside the stockade there baa been very
little change save such as time makes. In
the northwest corner, near the main entranco,
was the hospital seven log bouse, each
some forty feet long and twanty feet wide.
These the guard partially burned when they
left. Through the centre of the enclosure
from east to west is narrow graded road
the bridge over the creek list partially
fallen in, but the road-bed it as bard and
smooth as it was sis months ago. The re
bels attempted to burn the stockade wall
by firing piles of wood thrown against it on
the inside, but the fire refused its work and
only scorched the log at seventy-five or a
hundred point of the long line, and the
half burned stick of wood and to little
bundles ot pitch-pine remain la their place
to show bow lb most daetructiv of th
aleneat nlijtod in to .icrrloa ef the
IBURI
7.
Union and laved this prison-pen at ail elo
quent token of the cost of Liberty.
Does any man, horrified by the stories
told concerning it believe the famous
and infamous "dead line."
Go no more, even in dreams, to Pompeii
and Her ulancum, buried cities of the old
world. Here is the
CITT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
City as prosperous as those, as fruitful ai
those in the signs and tokens of a life that
was and is not. On those eleven or twelve
acres there were at least 2,500 houses per
haps 8,000 would be a more correct figure ;
and not less than three-fourtbi of .them are
nearly as good as they were on the day of
their sudden evacuation, and in hundreds of
them are memorials of that life of want and
woo which 18,000 men knew here, and from
which 4,000 passed out through the door of
the dead house to the slope way yonder by
the timber, and laid themselves down in
long rows for the final sleep, and for tho
glorious reward due unselfish souls.
In the construction of these habitations
there is almost infinite variety on a common
general plan. This one in which I sit, and
through which tho still driving storm be-v
gins to beat, furnishes that general plan,
with very little elaboration or decoration.
Come in and see it. Do you find the door 1
low aud narrow, and have you a horror of
this squat roof and these smoky walls, and
this floor? Yet here lived three or four
men for many weeks, doubtless, and, per
haps, for many months I The but is six
and a half fuet long, four feet and three
inches wide, and about five feet high in the
centre. A hole of fifteen inches depth was
dug ; and at cither end of it was set a fork
ed stick ; in these two forks were laid a
ridge pole. The wall of our house is the
side of the hole; the roof is the slopo of
sticks or slabs of wood resting on the ridge
pole, and at the edge of the hole. This is
the general plan. The huts smaller than
this are more numerous than those larger.
The back end is made of sticks driven into
the ground, against which earth has been
thrown. Tho front end is built with more
care. Half of it is of mud brick, and the
door and the little chimney at the corner
occupy the other half. The door is simply
a hole ; the chimney is seemingly built up
of little bricks, and gives a tiny fire place
of about fifteen inches square. The roof
was first covered with pine brush and then
six or eight inches of earth.
Perhaps a hundred of the huts are en
tirely above ground. Possibly a score are
so high that an ordinary man can stand
straight in them. But then there are a
thousand built over holes three feet deep a
thousand not more than four feet high in
the ridge a thousand not more than four
feet square some hundreds that show only
such height above the ground as a well fill
ed grave. Do you deem it awful that men
should live in such habitations as these!
Yet there wore palaces beside the burrows
of Salisbury. The thousand of tiny bricks
.l kr Mde s"rM 4k reddish earth,
of the hill side west of the brook. Tho
graded flat extending back eixty or seventy
feet from the stream suggests a parade
ground ; but it was only the bed on which
these little bricks were sun-baked. In tha
use of tho brick thero was sometimes a great
deal of skill and ingenuity displayed. One
sees with pleasure a score or two of chim
neys that aie models of architectural beauty;
one finds not a few fire places that are con
structed with elaborate improvements. So,
too, a few of the wooded huts have doors
curiously braided or woven of splinters.
There is, indeed, over in the southwest
corner, one whole house above ground,
woven walls and roof, like a basket. These
things, though, are exceptional ; generally
there was only so much as would answer
the baldest utilitarianism.
I saw with gladness that there was plenty
of wood. Some of it at I have already said,
is still piled in a long rank just outside the
stockade. There is an abundance, also,
scattered all about the enclosure particular
ly east of the brook. Look into a hundred
huts, and you shall see the wood ready cut
for the little fire place in seventy-five of
them surely. In a few cases it even yet lies
nicely piled againBt the chimney on the
outside.
In one of these, a littlo square, deep hole-
house, was a page of Hazzlitt's Table Talk, a
rude wooden spoon, a pair or wootien
knives, a tin plate, and an armful of pine
wood. Was it this morning that the tenant
moved out into the large world)
HERE LIVED A YANKEE BOY OF EDUCATION.
It is six months since he last passed
through the door, yet everything is as
orderly and neat as if arranged but an hour
ago. His wood is carefully piled in the
corner next to the fire-place, his stool is
sound and strong, his scat against the wall
has not fallen down, the bowl of his brier-
wood pipe is tweet and clean. lie wss
saving and thought fnl here is the spring
of a pocket knife laid away against a possi
ble need; carefully in the pine busn cover
ins of his roof is a little roll of blue army
cloth for patches; cn a string tied iu the
corner are strung three buttons. He read
somebody's history of English literature, for
here is a leaf from the book pages 229 and
230: be kent the roll of his comoanv. I
judge, for here is a page, wet and dingy,
from his diary, on which are a dozen
names.
Iced Champaone. A gentleman who
has been in the ice trade at St. Thomas, re
lates funny anecdotes about the native
there and their luminous idea of Boston
hard water. '
He once sold a lump to a gentleman, who
sent a colored servant for it, with directions
to bave it kept for the dinner table. The
lervant took it home, and inquired of the
cook how it was to be prepared. After
considerable discussion in the kitchen cabi
net, it wa decided to have it boiled. At
dinner the gentleman called for it, and was
in high glee, for he bad drank iced cham-
fiagne in tha State, and be felt a mighty
tankering for a second trial of the same
beverage.
Soon Sambo inaed hii appearance, with
eyes rolling on the outside, grinning like a
frightened monkey.
"Where is the ice, 6ambor laid th gen
tleman. "Oh 1 glory, maasa!" replied Sambo, 'I
put him in the pot and boiled him for more
rau half an hour, and when I went to look
for him, he wasn't dar."
To Eeef Sausage Meat. Prepare it in
small, round cakes, fry them as for the table,
pack them closely in an earthen jar, pour
the fat from frying over them, and put a
weight on them to keep them down until
oolu, then remov th weight, and cover th
top OTwr with. lard. Keep la a cool, dry
pise.
I XyWTUt LITa-fv fa inocp'tWOEWCty
B. MASSER & E.WILVERT,
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 18G5.
Tiiii uisco.vrK.vri:i iii...-.i.
WAsniROTON. November 81 1805,
A delegation of chiefs representing the
onus ana r ox triucs ct Indians, named re
epecuvciy Ainmeeno-Ka-Kc no, (.Dear,; lle-po-a-tu-ka-to,
(Wolf,) Na-ma-ke-na ha, Sa-ke-kam-ke,
(Polecat,) Shcs-tti-kano-ashwa,
(Grey Eagle,) and Me-ke Ituma, had an in
terview witu the President at ten o clock
this mornincr. in the Executive Chamhrr
The chiefs were dressed with their usual ac
companiments of blankets, beads, paint and
feat.ters, and the wolf-teeth necklace formed
a ciuspicuous feature of their costume.
Their heads were variously arrayed. Some
ot them had their hair cut in short tufts,
others wore it long and tied up with gaily
colored scarfs), and others contented them
selves with the single ornament of a. red
quill feather arranged upon and fastened to
tho crown of the head. The car-rings of
tin pendants, were almost universal, and the
stylo in which they were manufactured, was
as much nice one ot the prevailius fashions
adopted by our American ladies as anything
that can be imagined. The -chiefs were all
differently ornamented some of them used
Vermillion, which contrasted pleasantly with
the sombre hue of their comrilcxions. whila
others had their countenances disfigured
with dark blue and black colors. Thev
wore handsomely decorated moccasins, and,
although the Fox are said to bo the most
lrieiully of all the tribes, none of the gar
ments peculiar to civilization, save one, was
adopted by them. They differed in this re
spect from many of the delegations that
como here, some of which accept at onco
and gladly assume the dress of American
citizens. The chiefs were accompanied by
Mr. Bells, agent for tho Southwestern De
partment ; Hon. N. D. Coolcy, Commissioner
of Indiun Affairs, and George Sunn id, Uni
ted States Interpreter. The chiefs were
severally introduced to and shook hands
with the President. The counsellor, He pe
a tu-ka-to, said they had come to see their
grandfather, and would like very much to
have his advice in regard to the business
which brought them here. Thcj had al
ways been kind and friendly to the Govern
ment of the United States.
The President replied that he was clad
to meet and receive them here. His object
would be to cultivate peaco, ntaity and
friendship, and he hoped that the Govern
inent would lie met with a corresponding
spirit 011 their part. If the friendly rela
tions wuicn should exist between tlie Presi
dent, the Government aud those chiefs re
presented were cultivated, they could be
made to result in the promotion of their in
terest and the interest of the Government.
He would spare no pains to see that their
interests were promoted, and that they were
protected in the enjoyment of all their
richts. Provision would bo made for them
while they remained here, and they would
io L-iucriuiiiL-u 111 a manner unit, was suita
ble to their condition. He would be pleased
to see them again before they returned, and
assured them that when they did leave for
home tlicy would carry with them tho best
wishes ot the President.
Commissioner Cooley explained that the
question now before the department was as
to the division of their annuities and their
lands. 1 he hoc and Foxes were settled on
the reservation of Kansas, under a treat v
issued about 1842. They have a perpetual
annuity of fifty-one thousand dollars. Tho
Sacs are largely in the majority. About
two-thirds of them have not their rights on
the reservation. Some of the Fox tribe
have left, and purchased a tract of land in
iowa. 1110 commissioner said measures
would be taken to ascertain how thev were
situated in Iowa; after considering their
complaints, tno matter would be lctt to the
President to decide whether the; should be
permitted to remain in Iowa, or bo sent
back to their reservation.
The President said he would hear with
patience the statements that inhjht be made
in reference to what they destrcil or the ob
jects of their mission. After Warning all
the facts of the case, it would le his pur
pose to do what was right, and he hoped
that sumo arrangements would be made
that would be satisfactory to ticm and to
those they represented.
The Indians gave vent to their gratifica
tion in their usual expressive bat not verv
elegant manner, and after the customary
saiuiatauons naa ocen rcpeitecl, they re
tired. How the Western Indian l'lglti.
A correspondent of a Ciicinnati paper,
describing a recent attack or a Government
train, on tho Western plains, bus the follow
ing as to the Indian method of fighting ;
They rarely, if ever, atiack, except on
horseback, and each man keps his horse on
the run, riding generally in circle, so as to
avoid shots, discharging it the meantime
showers of bullets and arrows, aud shoutiug
to stampede the animals. When a weapon
is pointed at one of them, he shelters him
self almost entirely by ranging over one
side ot his horse, and fiont this position
continues firing. Dashin; suddenly upon
a train, in this manner, titty can discharge
great number of shots bilore the teamsters,
taken by surprize, and incumbered by the
care of their teams, can nake any organized
or effective resistance, and if unsuccessful in
their attempts to shoot tAu drivers or stam
pede the auimals, they tre often able to
make good their retreat vithout loss. The
principal defence against an attack of a for
midable nature is to form a corral, which
furnishes a considerabk protection, and
case bave occurred when corrals hive been
besieged for several days, by large bodies of
Indians too numerous to be encouitereu on
the open plain.
Although arrows an still mirh used,
many of the Indians are well arued with
rifle and revolvers, thoigh some o them at
least do not understand the uie of the
breech loading guns, and they lave been
known to leave captured weapon of that
description, after breaking so ef to render
them useless. ,
-U
' Mr, Wm. E. Doster, one of the ounscl in
the assassination trial, ha receivd a letter
from th father of Lewi Payne Pwell, the
young man who attempted to tae the life
of Secretary 8eward, and who wa executed
for connection with Booth's asassination
operations. The letter is dated a'Live Oak,
Florida, on the 80th of Septemer, and u
the first direct intelligence whiii has been
received from young Powell's A.ily lines
the lira of bis arrest. It is brief, out shows
the father's grief over the crioe aad terrible
fat of the son.
A clergyman who lost his cirpat bag with
clothing and sermons in New liven, recov
ered all but the sermon among be baggage
of aa opera company at Albany. H caused
th arrest of tha agent of th optra to con
fiscating tb sermon.
AMERICAI.
SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENN'A,
OLD
IIoiv to tell a I.ndy.
Ten women shall get into an omnibus,
and, though wo never saw ono of them be
fore, we shall select you tho true lady. Sho
does not titter when a gentleman, handing
up her fare, knocks off his hat or pitches it
awry over his nose; nor docs she receive
her "change," after this (to him) inconven
ient act of gallantry, in grim silence. She
wears noflawered brocade to be trodden un
der foot, nor ball-room jewelry, nor rose
tinted gloves j but tho lace frill round her
face is scrupously fresh, and tho string un
der her chin have evidently been bandied
only by dainty fingers. She makes no por
ade of a watch, if she wears one; nor does
she draw off her dark, neatly fitticg glove to
display ostentatious rings. Still wa notice,
nestling in tho straw beneath us, such a
trig little foot, not paper soled, but of an
anti-consumption thickness; the bonnet up
on her head is of plain straw, simply trim
med, for your true lady never wears a "dress
hat' in an omnibus. She is quite as civil
to the poorett as to the riehent person who
sits besido her, and equally regardful of
their rights. If she attracts attention, it is
by the unconscious graco of her person and
manner, not by the ostentotion of her dress.
We are quite sorry when she pulls the strap
nu uisappeore; 11 we were a bachelor we
should go home to our solitary den, with a
resolution to become a better and a mar
ried man.
A Singular Stout. Tho Macon Tele
graph tells the following sad story of the
war: "i learned on yesterday the circum
stances of a melancholy quandary in which
a young lady, one of tho most estimable and
lovely in this part ol the country, was
placed. A gulluut vounrr officer was be
trothed to her. Ho fell on tho fatal field of
Snarpsburg. Sho loved him dearly, and
was afflicted far beyond what lovers of a
mora buoyant temper would have suffered.
She went into mourning, secluded herself
from society, devoted herself to rcliirious
and charitable deeds, and was "dead to the
world." A few months ago, a young gen
tleman of great wealth, superior talents,
and handsome person, accidentally formed
her acquaintance in the progress of a busi
ness transaction. He was fascinated with
her; persevered until he overcame her aver
sion little by little, and finally they became
engaged to be married only a fortnight ago.
Sho hud already made out her order for an
cllegant troutneuu. But four days ago the
first lover returned. He had been carried
to a Northern hospital from tho bnttlo field,
with no hope of life, and has just been lib
crated and returned. Ho has a frightful
scar across his face, only one eye, is an in
valid for life, and is poor; but in his bosom
burns a manly and noble soul. The poor
girl has shut herself up, and will not see
either of them. The meeting between her
and her first lover the other day is said to
have been distressing. His letters had fail
ed to reach her, and sho firmly believed he
was dead till ho stood before, the ghastly
ruin of her lover, onco so handsome and
manly. Poor fellow! I have caught a
glimpse of him once as he passed along tho
street, with his crutches and melancholy
face." '
Rencounter with a Gano of Rats.
Oa Wednesday night last a friend of ours of
the jegal profession was savagely attacked
in his bed chamber by a gang ot rats, who
mounted his bed and began to vigorously
assault him on all sides with their teeth.
Astonished at the boldness of his pigmy as
sailants, the gentleman sprang from his bed
una seizing a pair of tongs commenced slay
ing the rats right and loft when the few
survivors taking fright beat a hasty retreat
into the Cre-place and up the chimney.
Our friend lighted a newspaper and stuffed
it up the chimney with a view to "burning
them out." Tho application of bout had
the desired effect. The ruts were soon after
wards heard jumping down upon the tin
roof of the building. Of so strange a freak
of these little animals we have uever before
heard. It is almost needless to mention
that tho experience of Wednesday night in
duced our friend to visit early next morning
both apothecary shops and hardware stores,
where lie laid in an abundant supply of poi
sons and rat traps of every description.
PeUrtbunj Exjirtt.
Cast a Line for Yourself. A young
man stood listlessly watchinc? some an tilers
on a bridge. He was poor aud dejected. At
last approaching a basket filled with whole
some looking Hub, he sighed :
"If now I had these I would be happy.
I would sell them at a fair price, and buy
me food and lodgings."
"I will give you just as many and just aa
good fish," said the owner, who chanced to
overhear his words, "if you will do me a
trilling favor."
"And what is that ?" asked the other ea
gerly. "Only to tend this line till I como back, I
wish to go on a short errand."
The proposal was gladly accepted. The
fisherman was gone ao long that tha young
man began to be impatient Meanwhile
the hungry fish snapped greedily at the
baited book, and the young mau lost all hi
depression in the excitement of pulling
thuut in, and be had caught a large num
ber. Counting out from them as many aa
as were in the basket and presenting them
to the young man, the old fisherman said,
"I fulfill my promise from the fish you have
caught, to teach you, whenever you see
others earning what you need, to waste no
time in fruitless wishing, but to cast aine for
yourself."
Rev. Dr. Cartwright, an old border State
veteran of the M. E. Church, at the recent
session of the Illinois conference, was re
appointed Presiding Elder of tho Pleasant
Plain District. This officer is a kind of
sub-bishop. He is eighty years old, and
ba been a traveling minister sixty-three
years, and during that time has held the
omce 01 Presiding tkler forty-six years
longer than any minister ever held that no-
sitiou since the foundation of Methodistisin.
Twenty years in this office is considered a
great honor, and rarely enjoyed by ono min
uter. Dr. Cartwright is about as he has
been for twenty years, and has even gained
a little in strength. Ha is a remarkable
man, and holds the heart of the Draachers
and people till
The new ITymc and Tune Book ordered
by the Old School Presbyterian General As
sembly, which baa been in preparation for
some time, i almost ready for publication.
It will contain about five hundred hymns,
and about two hundred and fifty tunes.
There will also be in the volume nearly fifty
pages of chants, with Scriptural selections.
The Book will be aa originally designed,
a for congregational ratber than choir
SERIES, VOL. 26, NO. 7.
Ingratitude to Parents. There is a
proverb that "a father can more easily main
tain six children, than six children one fa
ther." Luther relates this story: "There
wa once a father who gave up everything
to his children his house, his field, his
goods and expected for this tho children
would support him ; bnt after be had been
for some time with the ion the latter grew
tired of htm, and said to blm, "Father, I
have had a son born to tnj this night, and
there, where your arm-chair stands the cra
dle must come ; will you not) perhaps, go to
my brother who has a large roomr' After
be had been some time with the second son,
ho also grew tired of Uirrl, and said, 'Father,
you like a warm room, and that hurts my
head. Wont you go to my brother the ba
ker? Tho father went, and after he hod
been some time with the third son he also
found him troublesome, and suid to bim,
'Father, the people run in and oot here all
day as if it were a pigeon house, and you
cannot get your noonday sleep ; would you
not be better off at mv sister Kate's near the
town wall? The old man remarked to him
self, 'yes, I will do so ; I will go and try it
with my daughter.' She grew weary of him
and she was always so fearful when her fa
ther went to church or anywhere else, and
was obliged to decent! the steep stairs ; and
at l.er sister Elizabeth there were no stairs
to decend. as she lives on the around floor.
For the sake of peace the old mab assented,
and went to the other daughter; but after
some timo sho too become tired of Ihim and
told him by a third person, that her house
near tbo water was too damp for a man who
suffered with the gout, and her sister, the
grave-digger's wife, at John's, had much
drier lodgings. The old man himself
thought she was right, and went to bis
youngest daughter Helen ; but after ho had
been three days with her, her little son said
to his grandfather, 'Mother said yesterday
to cousin Elizabeth that there was no better
chamber for you than such a one as father
digs. These words broke the old man's
heart so that he sunk back in his chair and
disd."
The Galveston News of Sept. 25th, says:
"We saw a planter in town yesterday buy
ing a large lot of books for his freedmcn.
It is his purpose to establish a Sunday
school and night school for them, and also
have them taught on Saturday and Wednes
day afternoons. This is tho right spirit. Wo
are glad to see it prevailing in one manifes
tation or another to a very large extent.
noming snouiu bo Uono to alienate our
former slaves, but everything to conciliate
and elevate them."
The Nashville, Tenn., Times says that in
East Tennessee peace and harmony prevail.
Large numbers of tbo rebels are leaving for
Brazil and Mexico. Tho peoplo are all
gathering their crops, fattening their hoes
and beeves, and joining tho church. We
doubt if a more peaceaful region exists
south of the Ohio River than East Ten
nessee, that renowned land of women and
patriotic men.
By the way of San Francisco we have some
satisfactory news from the Russian Ameri
can Telegraph Company's expedition to the
s.ju 01 oeptcmncr. They wnre then at Plo
ver-oay. Hounding of Uelinngs straits
proved that the cable could be laid across
there very satisfactorily. The other surveys
were equuiiy nattering.
A Georgia journal says that many of tho
leading Methodist clergymen of that State.
in consequence of their hostility to their
orincrn urctiicrn, nave made overtures to
tho Episcopalians for a union with them.
Tho ITammcrcreck Gap and Lancaster
Hailroad, says the Reading Record, is the
title 01 tue new road now in courxe of con
struction from Manheim to Lancaster. It is
to be extended from Manheim, northward
through Hammercreek Gap to Pinecrove.
and ultimately from Lancaster southward to
New Castle, Delaware, where coal can be
shipped during any season of tho year.
Mrs. Lucinda Hall, of Springfield, Mass.
died at the breakfast table Sunday moraine.
She was the last of a family of eight children,
seven of whom died suddenly in theirchairs
the eighth being found dead in bed.
The Great Northern Railway ia England
is going to introduce a system of consuming
tue smoke ot tue locomotives, and thereby.
at the same time, manufacture tho necessary
gas lor lighting the trains.
Among the worshippers at Christ Episco
pal Church, Elizabeth, N. J., on the occa
sion ot the preaching ot Iiistiop dark
Rhode Island, were Gen. Winfleld Scott,
who is spending a few weeks at his resi
dence in that city. Although four score
and four years tld, he was able to go
through the services by his natural eyesight,
without tue aid 01 glasses.
The contest in the Sixth Congressional
District of Massachusetts, between General
Banks and his unole, tho Rev. Mr. Green
wood, the opposing candidate, had its
parallel somo years since, when Rev. Dr.
Uraokinridgo waa a political rival of his
nephew, the traitor rebel general. In that
case the nephew waa successful, as the nep
hew will be now. Iu both cases the uncle
is a clergyman and nephew a lawyer.
"It' Miohtt Hard." A minister who
bad lost his wife and who had become wearv
of his second edition of tingle state, was
once instructing a congregation from the
passage, "Use this world aa not abusing it,"
etc ia 1 ne course 01 nis remarks lie took
occasion to mention some things which a
Christian could dispense with in this world.
In the category he placed a wife. He bud,
however, scarcely suid, "A man may do
without a wife," when his experience stoutly
protested, and be finished this branch of the
subject by Baying, in the simplicity of his
heart, "but my brethren, it's mighty bard."
Civil law has been completely restored
in Arkansas. President Johnson has lent
Governor Murphy, of that State to its former
relations to the Federal Government.
President Johnson has received a despatch
that the Georgia State Convention, without
a dissenting vote, declared slavery abolish
ed. A New Yorker, living in Nineteenth
street, discovered the other day that he bad
lived for two yean oa the same block with
bis brother, whom be bad not seen for
twelve years.
Tb Wife of Cluistiau Wilds, of Schuyl
kill county, Pa., gar bim $30 th other day
to go away ami not trouble bar again. He
returned, however, ana asaea tor aom
clothe, but b refused him. He therefor
bung himself in her barn.
Caleb Cushing baa sailed for Buxop on
mission for tb government.
A. II. H. Ptoart ay th teat oath will
aelnd him from Cengreea.
TERMS' OF ADTIBTISWU
One square of 10 Unas, onetime, ' ' $1
Kvary subsequent insertion,
One square, i months, 4 (M
Six months, . 0
One year, 10 00-
Executors and Administrator! notloat I
Auditor notices, t Mi
Business Cards of Sllna. per annum,
Merchant and other adverUsisg by tha year
follows P" 01 la3ing quarterly, a
One quarter column, not exewdfag 4 squares, ST) M
One half ooluma, net exooediag 8 squares, 24 69
Ona oolumn, Ml It
Editorial or leanf adrertrsfng. any aambei ef tla
not exceeding ton, 30 eenta per line j 14 eeata fa
every additional line.
Marriage notices, 90 Cents.
Obituaries or resolutions accompanying nolloes
deaths, 10 tents per tin.
HUMOROUS MATTER.
Cory O'Limn on Family A flu Ira.
The Brooklyn Bigli has 0 correspondent
who knows a thing or two. Hear bim :
It 19 a good thing for a man to pay atten
tion to his family.
Provided he has one.
Married men generally have. I have.
It is the natural conequonce of trettinir
married. 0
Families, like everything else, are more
expensive than they used to be. Shoes and
clothes cost a light now-a-daya, and chil
dren bave mostly good appetites.
Mine have.
Boys will be boys. They can't help It
They were born so. It U thoir rli.tin
tear their trowsers, nnd wear out two pair
ot boots per month ; keeping their blessed
ma constantly employed like a besieged
garrison lepoiring breeches, and their un
fortunate pa paying out currency under the
strong conviction that there ia nothinii like
m near oui.
I tried copper-toed boots on my heir.
The copper wore well, and I have on idea
that copper boots would be a good idea,
but I couldn't fiud a metallic shoemaker to
carry it out.
Mrs. O L. also became attached to copper,
and thought it would be an improvement
and save sewing if the boy's pantaloons
were like ships and teakettles, copper-bottomed.
The suggestion, was A, No. I, but
we haven't tried it yet.
Copper so ran in my head at the tim
that O'Pake called me a copperhead.
This was the origin of the term,
Mrs. O'L. is a managing voman. Sho
makes trowsers for our ion Alexander
Thcmistoclcs, out of mine, when I've done
with them. lie can get through three pair
to my one, ordinarily, nnd I'm obliged to
wear out my clothes faster than I used to,
in order to keep him aupplied.
I once suggested that it might be within
the resources of art and industry to mako
him a pnir out of new material.
Mrs. O'L. said positively that it could'nt
be done. It would ruin us. She concluded
that it was cheaper to cut up a pair I had
paid twelvo dollars for.
I subsequently found upon inquiry that
new cloth for that purpose could havo been
bought for about two dollars.
I ventured to tell Mrs. O'L.. exnectincr a
triumph of male foresight over female lack
of judgement.
She gave me a look of scorn, as she want
ed to know if I had asked tho price of
"trimmings."
Trimmings were too much for me.
I have been afraid of trimmings. ever
since.
Trimmings, I suppose, meant buttons
and things.
In addition to clothes, each scion of our
house runs up other expenses.
But what is the expense compared with
tho joy a father feels, when after a day's la
borious exercise at tho office, wresifing
with a steel pen, he returns to his domestic
retreat, and is met at the gate by a smiling
cherubim, who, in tones that go to his fond
parent's heart, and make him forget his
troubles, says, 'Hello, pa give me a penny!'
Your hand instinctively goes to tho scat
of your affections, your pocket, and draws
forth the coveted coin, which is is promptly
invested in molasses candy.
Hot Well Isreaeed.
I heard, a few days ago, a story of tho
ball given at the Hotel do Ville, which
gave me a thing hard to be got iu theso
cruel times a Irearty laugh, and which, I
hope, may bo as successful! with you. At a
ball given last winter by Baron ilaussman,
(who is Prefect of the Seine,) tho crowd bo
come so dense that it was necessary to open
an additional door. The ushers "being all
occupied at the other portals, the service or
tho new door was confided to a national
guard, with strict orders to admit nobody
except persons provided with a ticket, and
well dressed. The first person who presents
ed himself held this conversation with th
sentinel;
"Have yon a ticket?"
"Yes; here it is."
"Well, that seems to be a good one. Now,,
let's see your dollies."
The prefect's guest was a little startled
and annoyed at this injunction, but-"a dog's
obeyed ia oflico" he threw back his cloak,
and displayed a full eveuiug dress. The
sentinel scanned him carefully, and then
said;
"That won't do; you must stand aside."
The guest remonstrated.
"Silence.' or I'll lock you up in the guard
house. Don't block up the way!"
Another gentleman appeared, showed his
ticket, and held the same colloquy, with the
same result; and then another, and another.
In fine, nobody was allowed ingress by that
door. The captuin of service seeing this.
came up to inquire the cause. He looked
at the guests, and then, turning to the sen
tinet, said;
"What iu the world do you mean by re
fusing these gentlemen!"
"Why, the order is to admit ooa but
well-dressed people."
"Are they not well drcedl"
"Thrt they ain't, and I ought to know.
for I'm a tailorP'
Who 1 Imppsity? During the epidemio
fever of 1853, a well to-do planter in a cer
tain region of Mississippi, used to send down
his cotton by his trusty slaves, without ven
turing into the "city" about fifty-five
houses! himself. After a short experience,
however, he fancied that his factor wsf tak
ing advantage of circumstances, and deter
mined to go down aud look after the next
wagon load in propria ptrtona. He was not
a little afraid, however, of "Yellow Jack"
and "small blame to him" and 10 be re
solved on first consulting with a friend, as
to the propriety of his venturing into thi
epidemtc-iufested locality.
"Do you think " said lie, "I can co to
with safety! No fear of the yellew fever!'
"On, ao!" responded his friend, "you can
go there, and slay as long as you pleas witt
impunity."
"AH, au!" replied our friend. "I am slat:
you have told me that. I bv long beet
dissatisfied with "s and 'a; bu
I did not know there was any other placi
where a fellow could put op at. Now yot
have told me. however, dog on it. if I don
try Impunity's. What u tit"
Effort era being niad by partio
Washington to briug Colonel Sloseby
trial belore a military court,
Barnunt baa purchased save a lot o
ground in Union Squar. New Ycrk. n
will eommenc th reetlon of hi aw Hit
sum next May.