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TAKEN AT HIS WORD.
A TRUE STORY
"Out of my sight ! You are a
calamity and distress to all your
family. Away with you, and join
the army if you can do nothing else.
You will then stand some chance o f
getting shot, which will be a good
thing for all concerned, and the
quicker it takes place the better."
Reader, who do you think said
that? And to whom do you think
it was said ?
Why, a father said it; he said it to
his own son.
"What a monster!" do you cry?
Nay; he was a church-member.—
He prayed, morning and night, with
his family. There is no doubt he
intended, and sometimes tried, to be
a good man. But he was enraged
at his boy, and this caused his un
christian language.
You may judge, by the language
he used, how he had brought up that
unfortunate boy.
You judge correctly, and the boy
was what you naturally imagine
him to be.. The father was getting
his reward now for having so neg
lected his duty in the training of his
son. But he could not bear, with
any sort of patience, the wayward
conduct of his son, and so raged
and railed at him that everything in
Edgar which was bad became a
thousand-fold worse. The mother—
as mothers will—clung in love and
patient pity to her boy, and her soul
was in agony to witness the violent
scenes between him and his father.
She talked faithfully to both; but
neither would hear. The father de
clared the boy to be reprobate and
worthless, and the son said, desper
ately, that his father hated him, and
that this conviction embittered and
poisoned his heart so that it was im
possible for him to be good. "Even
for your sake, mother," ho sobbed,
"for which I often do try to do bet
ter."
The night after the words with
which our sketch is commenced were
uttered Edgar was late home. When
he :;ame it was to announce that he
had enlisted, and was to march at
noon the• next day.
The mother worked and wept all
that night. At the right time next
day her boy's knapsack was ready.
He went without seeing his father.—
The troops passed the door of his
home. Edgar's pale and despairing
face was lifted to the pale, drenched
face that looked down, searching for
him in the ranks, from his mother's
window.
"God protect my poor boy," her
white lips murmured.
Edgar knew what those were,
though he could not hear them. He
kissed his hand to .his mother, and
tried to smile on her, but the• woe in
his great, dark eyes would not be
thus veiled, even for one moment.—
He bowed his head and passed on.
The troubler, the bone of conten
tion, the "calamity" was gone out of
the home of poor Edgar. The father
looked gloomy, but said not a word
of regret. He never seemed to re
flect that his son had not come un
bidden into life, nor that it is a crime
in any man to evoke a life that he
does not try his best to render good
and happy. He should have blamed
himself fhr more than he did Edgar
for all the faults of the latter. But
that he never did. He thought
children ought to come up a ll right,
no matter how they were treated,
and he was ready to destroy those
that did not turn out well.
Reasonable, sensible; but many men
are so. It is one of God's unfathom-.1
able mysteries, why he permits such
to become father , 4. 0, poor, ill-fated i
babes that are born into the families I ;
of such fathers. But God will surely j
make allowance, when the judgment
sets, for the children who were nev
er trained up in the way wherein '
they ought to go. We will anchor
our souls on this hope.
But Edgar.
Well, his company was one of the I
first that was called into action. He
was a brave boy. Hungry and
thirsty, and with face and feet blister- 1
od from the wind and the dreadful,
forced march, he walked, or rather
ran on to the battleground, and with j
his comrades raised the wild shout
that is said to have startled all that
heard it. They cast off their coats,
and piled upon the earth everything
that could interfere with the free
dom of their motions, and then for
ward they rushed into the bloody
fight.
Edgar's mother sat at home think-
ing of her boy. Mothers can imag-;
ins bow she felt. The telegraph re
ported that a battle was lost; that
our men had fled; that everything
was going wrong with the Northern
army.
"Oh !if Edgar would but run all
the way home !" thought the moth
er's heart. "I would not say that
if he were but fit to die," she added.
"For my country I could yield my
son's life ; but oh ! I cannot bear to
venture his immortal soul."
Soon the papers came with lists of
killed and wounded. Edgar's name
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1862.
was third upon the . list of killed.—
His body was brought home, and
when it lay straightened for the
grave, with the red mark just under
the edge of the brown, Nixing locks,
with the bullet-hole in the left breast,
with the dark lashes laying heavily
on the white cheeks, with the beau
tiful features set in eternal rest, and
the strong, young limbs, that had
done good service for their country,
helpless and cold, his father stood be
side his coffin and looked upon hint,
and tears (was there not reason for
them 0 dropped slowly from the
stern man's eyes. What his thoughts
were none knew ; but he was! taken
at his word. His wish was granted.
Will any father be warned by this ?
—Watchman and Reflector.
ALCOHOL DIMINISHES• MUSCULAR
POWER.
Alcoholic drinks diminish muscular
power. The well known case of our
countryman, Dr. Franklin, is in point.
He could carry heavier weights, r: nd
had a greater power of endurance of
labor, on his beverage of simple wa
ter, than his beer-drinking compan
ions in a London printing office.
The Turkish porters at Constanti
nople and Smyrna are celebrated for
strength. "The boatmen and water
carriers of Constantinople are decid
edly, in my opinion,' says MT. W.
Fairbairn, an eminent machinist at
Manchester, "the finest men in Eur
ope, as regards their physical devel
opment, and they are all water-drink
ers."
My friend Captain S. Rea, who thir
ty years ago, frequently visited
Smyrna, assures me that he never
witnessed such feats of strength as
are exhibited by the porters there.
In unlading vessels freighted with
Havana sugar, each porter carries a
box of sugar upon his back from the
vessel to the store-house ; and this is
done all day without complaint.—
The weight is over four hundred
pounds; as their pay is in proportion
to the weight of their burdens, Capt.
R. has frequently seen them call for
a bag of coffee to be placed upon the
box of sugar, and in one instance two
bags, the weight being about seven
hundred and fiftypounds. And what
is still more extraordinary, from the
office of Mr. Wiley, the American
agent there, a porter was seen carry
ing a load of boards so large that
the individual's present had the curi
osity to detain him, and to have it
weighed. Capt. R. saw it weighed,
and paid his proportion for the grat
ification. The weight was nine hun
dred and five pounds. The drink of
these porters was nothing but water,
and bread the staple article of food.
The Hon. Mr. Buckingham assured
me that he had frequently seen, at
Calcutta, those Himmalaya moun
taineers, who are trained to athletic
exercises, pitted against English Gre
nadiers in running, leaping, carrying
of weights, and throwing of missiles;
and that one of them was nearly
equal in strength to three of the En
glish. Their sole drink was water,
and their food rice.
In 1786, Jaques Balmat, that enter
prising guide at Chamouni, who had
long entertained the project of being
the first to reach the summit of Mont
Blanc, made the attempt, provided
with food and a small bottle of bran
dy. He gave out long before com
pleting the ascent, and returned.—
He next carried a bottle of wine with
his food; this attempt failed also.—
A third time he took water only,
with a little syrup to flavor it for his
drink, and succeeded in planting the
first human foot upon the summit of
that far-famed mountain.— _Hussey.
TRUTH AT HOME.
Of all happy households, that is the hap
piest where falsehood is never thought of.
All peace is broken up when once it ap
pears that there is a liar in a house. All
comfort has gone when suspecion has
once entered—when there must be reserve
in talk and reservation in belief. Anxious
parents, who are aware of the pains of
suspicion, will place general confidence in
their children, and receive what they say
freely, unless there is strong reason to dis
trust the truth of any one. If such an oc
casion should unhappily arise, they must
keep the suspicion from spreading as long
as possible, and avoid disgracing their
poor child while there is a chance of its
cure by their confidential assistance. He
should have their pity and assiduous help,
as if he were suffering under some disgust
ing bodily disorder. If he can be cured,
lie will become duly grateful for the treat
ment. If the endeavor fails, means must
of course be taken to prevent his example
from doing harm ; and then, as I said, the
family peace is broken up, because the
family confidence is gone. I fear that,
from some cause or another, there are bat
few large families where every member is
altogether truthful. But where all are so
organized and so trained as to be wholly
reliable in act and word, they are a light
to all eyes, and a joy to all hearts. They
are public benefits, for they are a point of
general reliance ; and they are privately
blessed within and without. Without,
their life is made ealiy'hy universal trust ;
and within their home and their hearts,
they have the security of rectitude, and
gladness of innocence.—llarriet Afartinean.
LEARN TO THE LAST.
Socrates at an extreme age learned
to play on musical instruments for
the purpose of resisting the wear and
tear of Old age.
Cato, at eighty years of age,
thought proper to learn the Greek
language.
Plutarch, when between seventy
and eighty, commenced the study of
Latin.
Boccaccia was thirty-five years of
age when he commenced his studies
in polite literature; yet he became
one of the three great masters of the
Tuscan dialect, Dante and Petrarch
being the other two. There are
many among us ten years younger
than Boccaccio, who are dying of
ennui, and regret that they were not
educated to a taste of literature; but
now they are too old.
Ludovico at the age of 115, wrote
the memoir of his own times. A
singular exertion, noticed by Vol
taire, who was himself one of the
most remarkable instances of the
progress of age in new studies.
Ogliby, the translator of Homer
and Virgil, was unacquainted with
Latin and Greek till he was past
fifty.
Franklin did not fully commence
his philosophical pursuits till he had
reached his fiftieth year. How many
among us of thirty, forty, and fifty,
who read ncthing but newspapers
for the want of a taste for natural
philosophy. But they are too old to
learn.
Accorso, a great lawyer, being
asked why he began the study of
law so late, answered that indeed be
began it late, but he should therefore
master it the sooner. This agrees
with our theory, that healthful old
age gives the man the power of ac
complishing a difficult study in much
less time than would be necessary to
one of half his years.
Dryden, in his sixty-eighth year,
commenced the translation of Jihad;
and its most pleasing productions
were written in his old age.
We con i(' go on and cite thousands
of examples of men who commenced
a new study and struck out in an
entirely new pursuit either for a
livelihood or amusement, at an ad
vanced age. Every one familiar
with the biography of distinguished
men will recollect individual eases
enough to convince him that none
but the sick and indolent will ever
say, I am too old to study.
EXPENSE OF TOBACCO.
We clip the following from the Il
linois Son of Temperance. if the
calculation be extended to the whole
Union, what a sinful waste of prop
erty is lavished over the United
States in the use of tobacco, with no
adequate gain, but an immense loss,
to say nothing of the invasion on
cleanliness and comfort of
:
There is no apology for any man,
rich or poor, who consumes money
for this nuisance ; but is not this es
pecially unbecoming in you when
your friends give you money simply
for the necessaries of life ? Is it
not a perversion i)f funds? The
evils of tobacco, it is true, are over
looked by Church and State, and
hence your friends do not consider
for a moment that a part of their
money is wasted on a vile poison.—
Tell them, as they pass you the next
dollar, that you shall use one-eighth
of it on cigars, and they might give
you to understand that, were it not
for your family, they would never
aid you with another farthing!—
Money for rum, gambling or tobac
co, is all the same in the eye of com
mon sense !
You say, ydur tobacco does not
"cost much." What victim of the
weed will allow that his tobacco
does cost much ?
You, my friend, have paid enough
for it to give your wife a twenty
five cent delaine, or' each of your
girls a pretty bonnet, or each of
your boys a pair of boots. You are
about fifty years old, and I under
stand you to say that you began to
use cigars at fifteen. Take the fol
lowing calculation, altogether too
low, and you will see that you have
expended $1,383.35 !
15 years to 18—I cigar a day, at 2c each, $21.90
18 " 20-2 " " 2c " 29.20
20 " 25-3 " " 21: " 164.25
25 " 30-4 " 3c " 219.00
114
30 " 35-5 " 3c " 273.75
35 " 40-5 " " 3c " 273.75
40 • . 45—S " " 2c " 182.20
43 " 50-4 " " 3c ' 219.00
Garibaldi, who masters kingdoms,
says ho can live on eight cents a day!
Is it not a shame that any man should
waste oven eight cents a day on a
loathsome poison? Is it not a sin ?
116 f r -No man can safely go abroad
that does not love to stay at Istnne;
no man can safely speak that does
not willingly hold his tongue; no
man can safely govern that would
not cheerfully become a subject; no
man can safely command, that has
not truly learned to obey; and no
roan can safely rejoice but he that
has the testimony of a good con
science,— Thomas a-Xempis.
sudden eltrvation in life, like
mounting into a rarer atmosphere
swells us out, and often pernicious,
THOUGHTS FOR YOUNG MEN.
Costly apparatus and splendid cab
inets have noiimagical power to make
scholars. In all circumstances, as a
man is, under God, the master of his
own fortune, so is he the maker of
his own mind. The Creator hits so
constituted the human intellect that
it can grow only by its own action,
and by its own action it must cer
tainly and necessarily grow. Every
man must, therefore, in an import
ant sense, educate himself. His
books and teachers are but helps, the
work is his. A man is not educated
until he has the ability to summon,
in case of emergency, all his mental
power in vigorous exercise, to effect
his proposed object. It is not the
man who has seen the most, or who
has read most, who can do this; such
a one is in danger of being borne down
like a beast of burden, by an over
loaded mass of other men's thoughts.
Nor is it a man who can boast merely
of native vigor and capacity. The
greatest of all the warriors that went
to the seige of Troy had pre
eminence not because nature had
given him strength, and Le carried
the largest bow, but self-discipline
had taught him how to bend it.—
Daniel Webster.
Spoiling for a Fight.
A letter from an officer who was
with Burnside's expedition at the bat
tle of Camden, says : I. met Col.
Robie, of Binghampton, during the
battle, with his cap stuck on the
back part-of his head, looking the
happiest man I ever saw. I remem
ber meeting him as he was leading
the centre of the regiment over a
heavy ditch, with sword drawn, and
hearing him speak to and encour
aging the boys On. Just then, a tre
mendous volley was poured into the
rebel nest. "That's it ! A good one I"
he cried. They returned a perfect
shower of grape and canister, tearing
through and over us. Col. Robie's
countenance was beaming, and turn
ing to the men, he called out: "Come
on, my children,
I'll die with you !
Press on,
my boys! .Now is the
time to show yourselves I" And as
the rifled shell goes singing by his
head, he cries in his joy : "Ye Gods !
Isn't this a handsome fight !"
An Affecting Incident of the Battle of Fair
Among those brought to White
House was a rebel colonel, who had
been shot through the lungs. As he
appeared to be dying, Mr. Barclay
asked him if he wished anything
done. He said, "Yeti," and gave the
commissioner the names and address
of his wife and children. "And now,"
said he, ask God to forgive me for
ever having anything to do with this
wicked rebellion." Mr. Barclay
asked if he desired him to pray with
him. He answered in the affirma
tive, and, after a prayer, petitioning
the forgiveness of Almighty God for
his sins, and His fatherly interposi
tion on the soon-to-be widowed wife
and orphaned children, the penitent
Carolinian raised his trembling arms
and threw them about the neck of
Mr. Barclay, and kissed him again
and again.
She Would'nt Swap,
A private of the Twentieth Massa
chusetts regiment was taken prison
er at Ball's Bluff last fall, and con
fined at Salisbury, North Carolina.—
Some weeks since a friend called upon
his wife with the assurance that her
husband would probably be ex
changed for a rebel then in our hands.
"I won't have him," cried the woman
in alarm ; "I love Torn, and won't
have him exchanged ; I don't want
a rebel husband." The friend cor
rected the woman's misapprehension;
the absent husband was finally re
leased, and she learned that for once
"exchange was no robbery."
ONE STERNE, who has been impris
oned for debt in Dublin prison for
thirty-six years, died in his cell a
fortnight since. He was formerly
the possesser of a large fortune and
once occupied an official position at
the British War Office. in early
life he eloped with the wife of an
eminent barrister of London, after
wards forsook her, and in the year
1824 was arrested for a debt of
£3OO, and having spent all his for
tune was committed to prison,
where he remained until his death.
lie was allowed a sum of ten shil
lings a week by a distinguished judge
who pitied him, but did not mingle
with the other prisoners, and in his
latter years was exceedingly morose.
lie had abundant cause for melan
choly, if not remcrsc.
$1.383.35
THE HAPPY FAMlLY.—Senator Wilson
calls Senator Chandler a drunkard, Sena
tor Wade calls Senator Cowan (one of
the ablest and most respectable members
of that body) a dog, and Senator Sumner
accuses Senator Sherman of being a sla
very eulogist ; all Republicans.
1 liar Elias Howe, of Bridgeport, in
ventor of the sewing machine, and
one of the wealthiest men in Connec
ticut, aftergivings2,ooo for the enlist
ment fund, has enlisted himself un
conditionally, and announced tbAktle
will not procure a substit4tob. "
Oaks.
titi~al.
TAXATION AND ABOLITION.
Though the war creates a necessi
ty for higher taxes than the Ameri
can people have before known, the
people can and do appreciate this ne
cessity, and they will cheerfully pay
the taxes if they can feel assurance
of two things :
1. That the war shall be conduct
ed to its end for- the simple, legiti
mate object for. which it was com
menced.
2. That waste and profligacy and
corruption in the public expenditures
shall be made with the strictest econ
omy consistent with energy and effi
ciency in the prosecution of the war.
Nothing can so much cripple the
ability of the people to pay the taxes
as to divert the war from the legiti
mate object for which it was com
menced to the legitimal e object of
abolitionism.
Whatever reduces the wages of la
bor reduces the ability of the people
to pay the taxes.
Slavery cannot be abolished in the
South without throwing into the
North an immense negro population
which will become competitors of
white labor, reducing prices to the
starvation point. Illinois, to be sure,
has opposed a barrier to the coming
of this population, but surrounding
States have not, and she would hence
suffer about as much from the com
petition as they. Nor does the evil
stop here. The surplus of labor would
create the necessity for more taxes
to support the laborers who could not
support themselves. Practically the
redundant negro population would
have to be supported by increased
public taxes levied upon reduced
prices of labor.
We say nothing of the demoraliza
tion of society, and the decline ir, the
value of property always consequent
upon the presence of a large free ne
gro population. Our suggestions have
reference only to the present ques
tion of taxation.
The people of the country can
bear, or they will try to bear the
taxes necessary to carry the war to
a legitimate termination. They can
not bear the taxes which will come
to them if the war shall be used for
the abolition of slavery.
The people must not wait until the
gigantic evil shall be upon them ;
they must take the alarm now, and
that alarm must move them to the
consideration of the absolute neces
sity of a revolution in Congress at the
ensuing election.—[Chicago Times.
VERY TRUE.
Horace Greeley, in discussing the
mileage question with 41 member of
Congress, Cyrus Aldrich, says :
It is important—l grant you—
that the next Congress should be Re
publican ; it is further important
that it should be honest and frugal.
War—Debt—gigantic Expenditure—
enormous Taxes—generations of ar
duous struggle to avert National
bankruptcy—such is the prospect be-.
fore us. Retrenchment and frugali
ty, always desirable, have become.
iudispensible. No orthodoxy in pol
ities can sate from downfall ang
party ascendency that is.not heartily 1
and thoroughly devoted to Public i
Economy and the cutting off of every
needless, the cutting down of every
inordinate outlay. If the Republi
cans do not realize this necessity, the
scepter will fall from their hands.—
That they may be so wise as to be
honest, is the earnest prayer of
Yours, ii. o.
The President Compliments . Congress.
A Washington letter to the New
York Commercial says: There is rea
son to believe that the President
receives no small amount of advice
from politicians, who intrude upon
him with their opinions; and who
are sometimes rather more emphatic
than courteous.. "I tell you, Mr.
President," said a Senator one day,
"unless a proposition for emancipa
tion is adopted by the Goverment,
we will all go to the d—l. At
this very moment we are not over
one mile from h—l." "Per
haps not," replied the President,
"as I believe that is just about the
distance from here to the Capital,
where you gentlemen are in session."
SW-There was one statesman, says
the Chicago Times, who comprehen
ded the magnitude of the rebellion
at the breaking out of it. Douglas,
on his way from Washington, just
after the President had issued his
proclamation declaring the existence
of insurrection and calling for sev
enty-five thousand volunteers to
suppress it, said, in a speech at In
dianapolis, that the call should have
been for half a million of volunteers.
Had the President comprehended, as
Douotats did, the magnitude of the
rebellion, and had he called for half
a million of troops at the outset, and
placed them under proper military
direction, the rebellion, fn its armed
aSpeq, lyonid . hkve been §uppressed
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 10.
FLUCTUATIONS IN WALL STREET.
The Albany Standard claims to
have received the following tele
grams from the feverish commercial
barometer . in Wall street, where
"merchants most do congregate" :
NEW YORK, July 19, 10 A. Al.—Stocks
feverish, a rebel having been seen
making towards Winchester with
loaded pistol.
H. A. m.—Stocks lower, a rebel
skiff having crossed the James Riv
er, throwing brick bats at one of our
gunboats.
12 m.—Great reaction in stocks,
a telegram having just been received
that Jeff. Davis is down with the
cholera morbus.
1. P. is reported that Davis
took paregoric, and is now better ;
stocks depressed; Government sixes
declined 2 per cent.
2. P. m.—Stocks buoyant, the news
of the taking of two blacksmiel's
shops and a buggy, by eight members
of Banks' Cavalry, having infused
fresh confidence in the market.
2:30 P. m.—A rain just commenced;
stocks lower, as operators fear the
rain may carry away the James Riv
er; 7;30s declined per cent since
the shower commenced.
HORRID TRAGEDY IN CANADA.
We learned last week, from a gen
tleman, from Arthabasksville, says
the Quebec Chronicle of July 2.1 d,
that a shocking tragedy had occur
red in the township of Stanfold,
about three miles from the station,
some time yesterday morning. A
woman named Madame Bourret, who
had manifested symptoms of insani
ty years ago, and before her mar
riage, and whose husband is now in
the United States, murdered her
seven children and then cut her own
throat. It appears that on Sunday
night there was a veillee at her house,
and the thing must have occurred
between the departure of the guests
and morning, for at an early hoUr
in the morning, Madame liourret's
daughter, who had been at the veil
lee, but resided at St. Norbert, call
ed at her mother's to see her. Find
ing the door closed, she looked in
through the window, and was then
shocked to see eight, corpses—those
of her mother, her brothers and sis
ters. The eldest of the murdered
children, a girl fourteen years or
age, seems to have had a desperate
struggle for her life, for the bodies of
mother and daughter were lying
close together, and the mother had
several wounds on her arm appa
rently inflicted by an axe that was
also close to the bodies. The daugh
ter's throat and arm were cut, evi
dently with a razor, which the rig
id fingers of the mother still tightly
grasped when the tragedy was dis
covered by the surviving daughter.
All the doors and windows were
found barred on the inside, thus, of
course, leading to the conclusion
that the dreadful deed had been com
mitted by some one inside.
Appointments of Rear Admirals in the
United States Navy.
The President, has commissioned
the following named captains to be
rear admirals on the retired list, an
der the recent act to establish and
equalize the grade of line officers of
the navy :—Charles Stewart, George
C. Bead, Win. B. Shubrick, Joseph
Smith, George W. Storer, Francis
H. Gregory, Elia A. F. Lavalette,
Silas H. Stringham and Hiram
Paulding. And the following named
captains to he rear admirals on the
active list:—David G. Farragut, L.
M. Goldsborough, Samuel F. Dupont
and A. H. Foote. The law provides
that the rear admirals shall be se
lected by he President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Sen
ate, from those captains who have
given the most faithful service to
their country.
bar-For once the course of true
love run smoothly. When the Duke
of Portland died recently in England
lie tried to prevent the marriage of
his daughter, Lady Mary Bentinck,
with Sir William Topham, by stipu
lating in his will that her dowry of
£32,000 should be withheld in case
she disobeyed his commands. The
lovers were warmly attached, and
Sir William carried the case into
court, determined to have the lady
and her portion with her. The court
ddtijded that the Duke had no right
to encumber the apportionment of
goney under a marriage settlement
with such capricious conditions, and
the funds were made over to Lady
Mary—whereupon the lovers were
made happy. Lady Topham may
enjoy her married life with means
enough to sustain her rank among
the aristocracy of England.
DEAD BELOW ins I.IEAD.—The BOB
ton Herald say s :—Deacon Wm. Col
burn, of Lincoln, a man about 70
years of age, fell from a load of hay
on Thursday, breaking his spine
near the neck. 11.6 was alive yes
terday morning, but his body lolow
the head was completely paralyzed.
His mind was perfectly clear,
could move his head and art
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