IE -...,,. • \ ..___,.... , . fi t 4- 1 \ , t• , 1 \ \ ',. N. , c ,,, , „ ~,.„!,, ~ ~..„ . \ ~,\ ~ ~„ , 1 / 4 ., L. , tt , t p , 1 , --, •Ix \ ( ii I - n 1 - t tN. ' 1 , ' — i\ I )1111 1 I \ sL ;11l ! ! ( — N. __ • --- )J •u• k i s ,t ; _ tj(IL ; i L , - , ......0-' paper---flootell to 3griatitnre, fittratort, Sciturt, Art, foreign, liomtstic anti &um' juttiligturt, MABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISHED BY W. JONES & JAMES S. JENNINGS , W.AYNESBURG, GREENE CO., PA trrOFFICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUARE...Ca valsanza Scascatrrwr.--SI 50 in advance; SI 75 at the ex phaticm of six months; 412 00 within the year; $2 50 after the expiration of the year: "XIIVERTISEMENTS inserted at $1 00 per square for three insertions, and 25 cents a square for each addition al insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) fEr- A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. Fa- JOB Pr in Tom. of all kinds, executed in the best style, an. on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Job agatsburg - guziness (Itrbs. ATTORNEYS. R. A. McCONNELL, STTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa 117:Nrice In the new frame building corner of Main and Washington streets, and nearly opposite the new Hotel. Collections, &c., will receive prompt attention Waynesburg, February 5, 1862-Iy. .1. A. J.Bucm•m•M. Wm, C. LINDSEY. BIWILANAN & LINDSEY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Office on the North side of Main street, two doors West of the "Republican" Office, Jan. 1, 1862. A. A. PURMAN. 4. G. RITCHIE. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. All business in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. H. W. DOWNEY, Attorney mid Counsellor at Law. office in Led wiffi's Building. opposite the Court House. Sept. .11, 1861-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building, adjoining the Post Office. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. C. A. BLACK. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. 114:1,4=)1..)f-Viz DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iv. DRUGS DR. W. 1.. CREIGH, Physician and Surgeon, ♦nd dealer in Drugs, Medicines. Oils, Paints, &c., &c., Main street, a few doors east of the Bank. Sept. It, 1561—1 y M. A. HARVEY, • Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11,1661-Iy. MERCHANTS. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealei in Foreign and Domes tic Dry Goods. Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. GEO. HOSKINSON, Opposite the Court House, keeps always on hand a large stock of Seasonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and Notions generally. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. ANDREW WILSON, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Ilardware, Queenswarc, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Soots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Main street, one door east of the Old Sank. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. IL CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, one door west of the Adams House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO" Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro ceries, titueensware, liardware and Notions, opposite tne Green House. Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy, • OLOTHING N. CLARK, -Dealer in Men and Boy's Malting, Clothe, Cassi mores, Satinets, Hats and Caps, &c., Main street, op• polite the Court House. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. A. J. SOWERS, Dealer in Men and Boy's Clotting, Gentlemen's Fur nishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 m BOOT AND SHOE' DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker, Mail street, nearly oppositel the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style of Boots and Shoes constantly 0 - 1 hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. J. B. RICKEY, Boot and Shoe maker, Saver's Corner, Main street. Boss and Shoes of every variety always on hand or made to order on short uotke. Sept. IL, 1861—ly. GrI4.OOEIUMS & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groteries and Confectioneries, Notions, Perfulinvries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of aU sizes, and Gift Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. EIV - Cash paidfor good eating Apples. ept. 11, 1861--ly. JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Gro4eries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goods Genera Wilson's New Building, Main street. Sept. it, 18611-Iy. BOOKS. &o. LEWIS DAY, Dealer in Bch era, Ink, diary inF ft lillan street and Miscellaneous Books, Station nes and Papers, Wilson's Old Build Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. 1 waltz And we might as well say, too, "What poor girls can do," for we have many re markable examples of girls born in humble life, who have risen to stations of great honor and usefulness. But as we happen now to have a particular case in mind, we have made our title read accordingly. The western part of Massachusetts, as all know who have been there, is very rough, rocky and mountainous. After one crosses the Connecticut river, going westward, he soon comes to the beginning of the Berkshire hills. This is not one single line of hills, but a great spreading region of hills, twenty or thirty miles wide. The towns in this district of country are mostly small in population, and the people live scattered. The roads are steep and hard. The pasture lands are good, but the fields are full of rocks, and it is diffi cult to cultivate them. A little more than fifty years ago, in one of the towns on the eastern side of this rocky region, a Mr. M— was keeping a little academy. As he came to his school room early one winter morning, he found a lad sitting on one of the benches, who was a perfect stranger to him. Wondering who he was, and why he should be there, he began to question him. The lad told him that he had come over that morning, on foot, from a neighboring town, several miles away among the bills, that be wanted very much to get an education, that he had heard of his school, and he had come to see whether there might not be some way by which he could join it. Mr. M asked him of his parents. The boy said they were very poor, and were not able to do much for him, and he had no friends to assist him, but he wanted to get an education, and he thought there must be some way by which it could be done. The teacher found that he meant by an "educa tion," not simply going to school for a few months, but a thorough collegiate and theological course. He wanted to be a minister. Mr. M— set before him the difficulties of the undertaking, the expense of going through three long years of study. The boy had thought of all that; but other boys, starting from poverty, had found their way through, and he thought he might. At any rate, he wanted very much to try. The teacher found by all this - conVerid= tion, that though the lad did not know exactly how it was to be done, yet there was in him a fixed idea that it might be done in one way. His purpose was strong and his will decided to make the attempt. Not daring any longer to discourage a lad who was so resolute, he assisted him in finding a place where he could work, for his board and pursue his studies. When . the school closed in the spring, the teacher was satisfied that the boy was right. He had made great progress in his studies. He had shown that unflinching will and courage, before wbich difficulties give way. He had fairly started, and there was no thought in him of going back. But we must not stop to follow him through all the steps of the long and diffi cult journey upon which he had set out. He went through as he thought he should, though he did not know at first how. We have told from what region of country he came, and how he set out; and now we will skip over several years, and look at him after his education is completed. He was a distinguished scholar, and after he finished his course of public studies, he was appointed Professor in one of our New England Colleges, and went to Europe on some service connected with the college. He was in Paris, soon to return to this country, when the Foreign Mis sionary Society wanted him to go as mis sionary to Palestine, and had obtained the consent of the college, provided he himsel were willing to go. Word was sent to Paris what had been done, and after con sidering the matter carefully, and with prayer, he decided to go on this mission. He did not return to this country, but went directly on his way to Palestine, and now for about forty years he has been a faithful and laborious missionary in that quarter of the world, distinguished for his learning and usefulness. This lad, who found his way out from the rough hills of his native town, and from the poverty to which he was born, has a name in the world now of great dignity and honor, which came from a life of self-denial and Christian usefulness. For several years past he has been at Athens, in Greece, laboring to bring men to a knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This poor boy is Dr. Jonas King, and if our young readers do not know much about him, or about what he is doing, this story which we have told of him may lead them to be more interested in him, and to learn more about the work in which he is engaged. BANK, EAR, Cashier IC.MMNIS TER, aht etwheree How much nobler it is to live in this way, to conquer and overcome the obsta cles that stand in Our path, than to float along just as it happens, and grow up a penon of not much *want in the world ;twiggy 1 Let ehe , 'Poor bay who *olds this gee** Ant, with the Islip ofillod, be ;gillb. somitithw nut d& thing in . -j/K t iu % • grtErt WHAT POOR BOYS CAN DO. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1862. his short life—something which shall make those around him, and those who come after him, bless him for what he has done. A Bad Habit. A great many husbands, especially in the country, spend their evenings away from home ; formerly at the tavern, but now at the store, talking politics and gen eral business. Is this right? Is it gener ous ? Has not the wife as good a right to spend her evenings abroad ? And what would the husband think to be left alone to take care of the house? Is it fair?— Did you not promise to love your wife, and cherish her ? And is this the way to fulfil your vows? Home should be the pleas antest of all places, both to husband and wife. There the evenings of both should be spent. And this is the way to keep alive the fires of love, and to warm the heart with a general unselfishness.— Wives may not complain, but they feel, and deeply, the absence of their husbands. They want their company ; want their sympathy, and they ought to have it.— Especially, if there are children in the house, should the husband be at home.— The wife, in her sphere, labors as hard as the husband in his ; and, when the even ing comes, she and her little ones have a right to the company of the husband and the father. And what good comes of lounginging at the store ? It is a habit and a bad habit.— We do not object to passing an evening occasionally in this way, when it is neces sary in the way of business. But it is a bad sign to see a man hanging about a grocery in the evening. He does not care much for mental improvement, or for the society of women. The best husbands are those who love their wives best, love their company, and do the most to make them happy. The best fathers are lovers of home, lovers of their children. To a good husband and father, absence from home is always regrettrd. It is submitted to as a necessity, when it cannot be avoided ; but the good husband and father loves his home ; loves his family ; delights in the circle of domestic affection ; and is never so happy as under his own roof, and among those of his own blood. Husbands, think of this ; if your evenings are lounged away at the store, break off at once, and acquire the habit of staying at home; of helping your wife and becoming her com panion, and the companion of your chil dren. The London Times. THE following information about the great "Thunderer," which we find in Chambers's Journal will inter- est our readers : "It was on the Ist of January, 1788, that the Times first appeared— nineteen years after the Morning Chronicle, sixteen after the Morning Post, four after the Morning Herald, and six before the Morning Advertiser. Nominally, its birth was on the day here named; but in reality it was a continuation under a new name of the Universal. Register, a daily paper which had been commenced in 1785, one year after the Morning Herald.— From first to last, the Times has been chiefly the property of one family, the Walters. The first Mr. Walter was more of a printer than an editor, and the Times, under him, did not take precedence of the other daily papers. The second Mr. Walter, who assumed control in 1803, was a man of wonderful tact and energy ; he took a very decided part against the Pitt ministry, and contrived that the Times should always create a ferment in one way or another.— The government bitterly opposed him, and adopted various expedients to prevent him from obtaining cor rect information as to what was going on in the court, in the government; and in foreign countries; and there were also numerous imprisonments to be borne, and fines to be paid, for statements which were deemed libels in those days. All this served only the more to rouse the energies of Mr. Walter. The more determ ination he showed, the more liberally was his paper bought by the public, and the more numerously were prof itable advertisements sent him for insertion. The earlier numbers of'' the Times consisted of four pages of four columns each, but the number of pages and the size of each page gradually increased. In 1814, Mr. Walter began the bold system of printing' his newspa pers by steam. In subsequent years the great upward starts of the Times in circulation seem to have taken , place immediately after some strik ing public events, as if the vigorous writing in that journal had drawn new streams of subscribers to it.— It was talked of as a great thing, when, on the 10th of January, 1806, the Times sold a few additional thou sand copies, on acccount of its nar- Ative of the funeral of Lord Nelson. In 1828, the regular sale was seven thousand. On February 10th, 1840, when the account of the Queen's marriage" appeared, the Times sold thirty thousand copies. Curiosity hunters were wonder-struck, and calculated that all the columns of all the copies, if laid end to end, )uld reach from the Land's End to ...ork-shire. Eleven years afterward, however, the regular issue was thirty eight thousand copies; and on the day after the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, the num ber of the Times sold was fifty-two thousand. Rush's . trial carried off 111,y-five thousand; and the opening If the Royal Exchange fifty-four iousand. These numbers were far :ceeded on the 19th of November, ;52, when the account of the Duke Wellington's funeral commanded . sale of seventy thousand copies, which were printed at the rate of ten '‘ousand or twelve thousand per lur. The gradual but vast increase advertisements brought the pro ietors of the Times so much money at they could afford to incur ex ;nses utterly beyond the power of iy other journal in the world.— tie Russian war of 1854-5-6 brought it the Times in greater force than 'or; the glowing articles by Mr. tssell ; the splendid fund raised by Times for the poor suffering sol ;rs ; and administered by its own imissioner; the voluminous cor ipondence of which it became the ;diem ; and the absolute necessity ir the government to pay attention what this particular journal said and thought—all tended to give to the Times a greater influence than was ever possessed by any other newspaper, English or foreign. No other newspaper has been so often or so heartily abused. The proprietors, editors, and writers, take the abuse with great equanimity : They do not exactly announce their independence in the form adopted by an American newspaper a few years ago : We do not belong to our patrons ; Our paper is wholly our own ; Whoever may like it, may take it ; Who don't may just let it alone"— it they imply this; and the world, spite of assertions to the contrary, Neves them. iSo long asinen are imprudent their diet and business, doctors ' lawyers will ride in their car ,ges. Virtue forgives injury . , even as the sandal-tree perfumes the hatchet that fells it. sap. Children always turn toward the light. 0 that grown-up people in this would become like little children! jar -The sacießts dreaded death , ; the Christian cannikty Saar Millionaire Stewart. The war is fast piling full the cof fers of certain big operators. A Nett/ York letter says : "It is safe to affirm that no single merchant, banker, or other person, whatever calling in the world, is coining money at so rushing a rate as is Alexander T. Stewart, of this city. During at least one year of his dry goods experience he has been known to clear profits amounting to one million two hundred thousand dollars, and his usual gains have been estimated at one million per annum : but since April last, as the reasonable sequence of a lack of commercial con fidence and numerous failures among merchants, Stewart's business has vastly augmented, until his sales have ranged at a million dollars weekly, for weeks in succession. The trade of all classes seems to set like a flood towards the Broadway marble palace, and now, men, women and children have cane to consider it impossible to pass any number of days without visiting Stewart's. It is the wariest beehive in the country at this time. But, startling as it may seem, the re tail and wholesale drygoods business is not the most active or profitable department of this mammoth estab lishment—if rumor does not mistate the ease. We are told that the mil lionaire merchant is making money in fabulous sums from Government contractors for blankets, army cloth, clothing, and various et ceteras not found usually upon the retail coun ters down stairs. It seems that Stewart was shrewd enough to fore see the immense and continuous de mand likely to arise for clothing ma terials and army supplies ofsuch sort, and early proceeded to engage from many of the manufaCturers their en tire production for r several months ahead. When our venerated Uncle Samuel came into market, he found himself forest ailed by the Broad way merchant, and was com pelled to pay tribute to the marble palace or go without the goods. In fact, Mr. Stewart had at one time so complete a monopoly that Govern ment had to give him the contract for making many thousand uniforms, simply because no one else could get or furnish the cloth from which to manufacture them. I know of one instance where contracts were so plenty in the hands of the gentle man referred to that he threw in a little job of making fourteen or fif teen thousand uniforms as a sort of make-weight in negotiating the job of a lot of army cloth. Who wouldn't be a member of the Union Defence Committee under such interesting circumstances ?" The Three P'B. PROMPTITUDE, PERSEVERANCE k PAINSTAKING At the close of the last century, a poor, awkward, uncouth boy entered London, but he was so long, lank and ungainly, that he seemed fit only to be the drudge of a printing-office; run errands, bring water, sweep the floor, and the like. Already bad poverty and hardness of the Arld made him sour, unhopeful and inde pendent. Under less discourage ments, many a youth has abandoned himself to an aimless life, having no higher aim than to live but for the day, or, worse still, has plunged head long into all the extravagances and indulgences connected with thrift lessness and crime. But the boy had vigorous health ; this imparted to him a mental vim, a moral power, which soon showed itself to his em ployer. He was prompt, persevering and painstaking; and with these three qualities, in spite of the fact that he was good at nothing, in everything tolerable only, he made his patient way, step by step, to the woolsack of England, and lately died, (worth a million of dollars,) among the most honored men of his nation and age—Lord Chief-Justice Camp bell. In this case, vigorous health was a mine of wealth ; better for tune than if he had been the heir of many thousands. And certain is it, that the world would be a happier world, and the men in it would be happier, better and greater, if one tithe of the time, and care, arid study, which parents bestow on the accu mulation of money to leave their children, were devoted to the physi cal education and training necessary to secure a vigorous constitution. Of any two young men starting on the race of life, one poor but healthy, the other rich and effeminate, other things being equal', the chances for usefulness, honor, and a well-remem bered name, are manifold in favor of the former. Who that reads this ar ticle will lay it down and resolve : "I will do more to leave my children a vigorous constitution ?" Another element in the success of Lord Chief-Justice Campbell was, that his employer seeing his dull na ture, but noticing at the , same time that when he had anything to do, he went at it promptly : and with great pains-taking kept at it until the work in hand was done, although done painfully slow, he patted him on the shoulder, always spoke cheerfully to him, and thus stimulated to greats* activities. Hew many a youth in school, how many an ap- Prentice in the shop, how many a child in the family, has gone'out in the night of a blighted life, who, with humane encouragements, might have lived usefully and died famous! Let the passionate teacher and mas ter and parent inquire, and do alittle more patting on the thoulder.—Jour nal of Health. A Wonderful Olook. The clock in the tower of the Ca thedral of Strausburg, is not only a monster in size, but is the most won derful piece of mechanism in the world. It is one hundred feet high, thirty feet wide, and fifteen feet deep. About twenty feet from the bottom is the dial, on each side of which is a cherub, holding a small mallet in his hand, while over the dial is a small bell; the cherub on the left strikes the first quarter, and that on the right the second quarter. Fifty feet above the dial is a colossil figure of Time, with a bell in MI left hand and a scythe in his right.-- A figure of a young man in front strikes the third quarter on the bell in Time's left hand, and then turns and glides with a slow step around behind Time, when out comes an old man with a mallet and places himself in front of the great reaper. As the hour of twelve comes, the old man deliberately strikes, with much pow er, twelve times on the bell. He then glides slowly behind Time, and the young man again comes out and takes his position, ready to do his duty when called upon by the ma chinery. As soon as the old man has struck twelve and disappeared, an other set of machinery is set in mo tion, some twelve feet higher, where there is a high cross with the image of Christ upon it. The instant twelve is struck a figure of one of. the Apostles walks out from behind, NEW SERIES.--VOL. a t NO. M. comes in front, turns facing the cross, bows, and walks on around to his place. This is repeated until the twelve Apostles, large as life, walk out, bow, and pass on. As the last appears, an enormous game coek, perched on the pinnacle of the clock, slowly flaps his wings, stretches forth his neck and crows three times, so loud as to be heard outside of the ' , .ureh to some distance, and with ife-like naturalness. Then all is still death. An Editor's Duties,. Mr. R. Wilford, editor of the New stle (Eng.) Chronicle, on recently ;tiring frdra that paper, enumers,- !d, at a dinner given him, the follow ing' as among the duties of an editor: "Ile must argue with the writers of , ected contributions; mollify the indignation of suspeetible people whose heads some obscure or unno ticeable cap in the paper fits, and who refuse to Iv ear it ; (laughter;) - :ep all the bands employed, avoid either pressure or want of copy; insert something about everything that turns up, even if it be only a few Ines, so that the paper may not be isgraced by an anouncement that, ring to the pressing demands upon Lr space, we are reluctantly corn lied to postpone our important' 'eting at until to-morrow.— , must wade through yards of re ating, handfuls of 'flimsy,' and tires of communications from die 'let correspondents, weeding out re- Indancies, and 'doctoring up' gen ally, a process for which by the ty, I am sorry to say, he gets no ;edit whatever. The reader says: What an excellent paragraph that AS of Brown's ! Lots of people have den talking about it, and all agree that it is capital!' Why, the fact was, that the editor spit twenty minutes in 'touching-up' that identical fifty-four _line paragraph fctr which :own gets so much praise. He must :now every body itnd everybody's tnnections, so that if Mr. Smith, !dress unknown, outs a figure in the indot papers, the event may be dy chronicled at home for the bon a, of Smith's admiring fellow-towns- Len. He must be acquainted with Le locality and orthography of every ,race under the sun; be familiar with the names, dignities, and histo- T of every person, famous and nq orious; have a smattering of all the Jlogies and isms; mectanies, music, the drama, and the fin arts—in short, be a living dictionary of useful knowl edge, 'known and read of all men-'" The °mallet of the War. We extract the following graphic passage from a late speech of the ec centric yet successful American in England, George F. Train: ‘ , "l have often read descriptions of ,e wholesale game hunting of some ,nds—the sportsman surrounds the lodland for miles and beats steadily to the centre—where the ra . ttle of .flee deals death and destruction on very side. Such is now the Federal 'hey. "No better analogy can be found an tl at of the Bastile prisoner who • placed in an elegant apartment, light, and fruit and flowers.— punishment seemed a luxury, till ,e day he imagined that, while the 'portions of his apartment were same, the room had lessened in a. Again he looked, and sure , ough there was a change. Where the wonderful machinery, Pale 'th doubt—listening- with stOpense )ach day he noticed the dontrae ,n of the walls. Closer and closer Ley came—shutting out window :ter window—but no hand was no noise heard—all was as Xll death. His doom was sealed. An leh to-day, another to-morrow—one •ip of the four walls, and all was ✓er. The man was pressed to death foot by foot—inch by inch, and he knew not from whence emanated the secret .power that crushed him! So it is with this ungodly revolution. Little by little—step by step----bat, talion by battalion—the camp is be ing surrounded—and another mail may bring the startling news of the death-knell of treason." Religions. Condition of the Sandwich Is- . A recent number of the Friend, publielae - d - at Honolulu, makes the fol lowing statement :—We are confi dent that the cause of Evangelical Protestantism was ever more firmly established aluong the Hawaiians than at the present time. Large ac cessions have been made during the past li var to the Protestant churches in Honolulu. At liraikane (in the north part of the Island) the natives have caused to be erected a small, neat wooden church edifice , mating near $l2OO. It has been and paid for within two years. At Hauula, the people have i justrepaired their church at an expense - of $llOO. At the time of our visit there was a debt of about $3OO. On the 27th ult., there was a large gathering fEw the purpose of paying off the debt, when $460 was contributed, and sub sequently sufficient has been paid to amount to $5OO, or MO more than the debtl Hoes brightens up the darketit hour lands,
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