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Hospital Corps of the A.rtny and resumed the prac
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Waynesburg, June 11, lAA.- It .
DR. D. W. BRADEN,
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April 9, 1962.
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Waynesburg, Jan. 1, 1881.
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Oyler in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs. Notions,
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Main street, one door east of the Old Bank.
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bilhliapoim sad Papa. Owl *Kw Nana
"PosseelliOno 1 6 1110 . 1 1- Eqpt. 11,11111-17'.
[ln these sad days of war, when so many
homes are filled with mourning, because of
loved ones fallen in battle, it may be consoling
to those who are bereaved to read again the fa
miliar lines of Longfellow on Resignation. The
poet's heart seems to be mourning over a be
loved daughter, but the lesson applies to any
touching domestic bereavement. It is always
the same sorrow, and always needs the same
consolation.]
There is no flock, however watched and
But one dead lamb is there
There is no fireside, bowso'er defended,
The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead
The heart of Rachel for her children crying,
Will not be comforted!
Let us be patient I these severe afflictions,
Not from the ground arise,
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
Wm. C. Lutoary
We see but dimly through the mists and
vapors,
Amid these earthly damps—
What seem to us but dim funereal tapers,
May be heaven's distant lamps. .
SAMUEL. MONTGOMERY
There is no Death ! what seems so is tran-
sition—
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portals we call death.
She is not dead—the child of our affection—
But gone unto that school
Where she no longer nceds our poor pro-
In that great Cloister's stillness and seclu-
Ireil
By guardian angels led,
Safe from temptat'on, safe from sin's poi-
Day after day we think what she is doing
In those bright realms of air,
Year after year her tender steps pursuing,
Behold her grown more fair.
Thus do we walk with her, and keep un-
broken
The bond which Nature gives,
Thinking that our remembrance, though
unspoken,
May reach her where she lives.
Naas a child shall we again behold her,
For when with raptures wild
In our embraces we again enfold her,
She will not be a child— .
But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion
Clothed with celestial grace,
And beautiful with all the soul's expansion,
Shall we behold her face.
And though at times impetuous with emo-
And gusbings long suppressed,
The swelling heart heaves, moaning like
the ocean
We will be patient! and assuage the reel-
We cannot wholly stay ;
By silence sanctifying, not concealing
The grief that must have way.
Japan is a feudal empire, gov
erned by a military aristocracy.—
There
are nine classes of Japanese;
with very rare exceptions, no ono
can rise above the class in which
he was born. Every attempt of the
kind is unfavorably regarded, anq is
adverse to public opinion. The ab
senc of ambition and of luxury is
the probable cause of the quiet air,
the complete sAisfactiou, the expan
sive gaiety, which mark the Japa
nese character. Nowhere else do '
you meet with people who are so
contented, and so devoid of anxious
thought.
The princes of daimio, the nobles,
the priests, and the military, consti
tute the four first classes of the na
tion, and enjoy the privilege of
wearing two sabres. The subaltern
officials and the medical men form
the fifth Class and may wear one
saber. The merchants and whole
sale dealers, the retail dealers and'
artisans, the peasants and the cool- !
ies, the tanners and the leather cur
riers, make the four last classes of
the population, and may not, in any
case, wear any sabre. All who deal
in skins are reckoned impure; they I
are not allowed to reside in towns ;
but dwell in villages especially al
lotted
to them in the open country.
They supply the state with execution-
, ere, who do not lead an idle life; for
the penal laws of Japan are. exceed- !
ingly rigorous, and inflict the punish
ment of death - for very trifling of
fences., Whosoever causes his neigh- j
bor's death through imprudence, or
Conceals a criminal, is immediately
.beheaded. It is to be hoped that
farther intercontse.with Europe may
temper thfkieveritty of dapaaese
Nut Martry.
RESIGNATION,
tended,
But has one vacant chair !
tection,
And Christ himself doth rule
81Orl,
lution,
She livos, whom we call dead
tion,
That cannot be at rest,
Bli,stettaittouz.
THE JAPANESE AT HOME.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1862.
The only sciences cultivated in the
empire are medicine and astronomy.
There are two observatories in the
Island of Niphon; one at jeddo,
other at Meako. The great come
of October, 1858, did not cause tl
slightest signs of astonishment or u
easiness in the natives' countena , ..
ces. At Shanghai, during an eclipse
of the moon, very different manifes
tations were made. The militia;
mandarins shot their arrows, to ki,
the dragoon who was devouring the
moon • from every junk and every
pagoda there resounded a deafenir
din of gongs, intended to frighte
the monster away. The Japaner
physicians read Dutch medical boo]
and seriously studied their art.
Two of them assidiously frequentk
the embassy for the sake of consul
ing the navy surgeons respecting t'
cholera.
In religious matters the Japane
are tolerant, or rather very indiffel
ent. In the Archipelago, for age,
past, several worships have co-exist
ed in peace; Buddhism and the rt
ligion of Confucius, foreign imports
tions, share the public favor with th
State, or worship of the Kamis, th
primitive religion of the country.-
Thanks to this tolerance, the Spanish
and Portuguese missionaries had not
been many years in Japan before
two hundred thousand natives of the
highest classes had received baptism
and become Christian converts.—
Such a religious movement was un
exampled. But times are changed.
For the last two hundred years there
has not been a single Christian in
Japan. They were all exterminated
by the Emperors Taiko and Yeyas.
There is no standing army in Ja
pan. All the two-sabered gentry,
who form the suite of the governors
iu time of peace, act as soldiers in
time of war. Individually, they are
very brave; but their swords at
spears will hardly enable them to r
sist European tactics. It is asserte
however, that, conscious of the.
weakness, they carefully read strati
gieal works. Japan feels that EL
rope has made the first breech in her
exclusiveness, and is tormented just
now by a touch of anxious uncertain
ty respecting the future. She uncle;
stands fully that with bows and an
rows, she can make no head against
Minnie rifles, and she endeavors to ac
quire a knowledge of the actual
state of naval science and military
art. To have soldiers worthy of the
name, she must at once renounce
sandals, puffy trowsers, and long
robes trailing behind; but she is
ready to make the sacrifice. The
Japanese have not, like the Chinese,
the stupid prejudice to believe and
to boast themselveg superior to ev
ery other people. They set them
selves above the Chinese and the Cor
cans, but they estimate the Western
powers at their real value.—All the
Year Round.
BURNS AND THE MOUSE.
About forty years ago, while trav
eling from Dumfries to Glasgow,
seated beside the coachman, I got
into- conversation' with him when
we arrived at Mauchline on
the character and writings of Burns.
I asked him if he had any person
al knowledge of the poet. He
promptly replied : "Well, I knew
him, many a day on the farm of
Mossgiel." This farm lies on the left
side of the public road from Mauch,
lin to Kilmarnock. As we approached
Mossgiel he began to relate some
anecdotes of Burns, one of which
struck me as not a little interesting.
"You will have read, " he said, "the
poem of The Mouse." I answered
that I had. Then, pointing with
his whip to a spot about six yards
from the road-side, "that, srid he
"is the very rig where the mouse
was turned up. Burns was holding
the plow, and I was driving, the
horses when it sprung out. I at
tempted to kill it. 'Let it alone,'
'cried Burns, 'what harm has it
done you ?' lie then got into a
musing mood, and I did not get a
word from him the who'e afternoon.
About nine o'clock in the evening,
when I was littering the horses,
and giving them a little oats
and hay, Burns came into the sta
ble and read to me the poem of the
mouse, and then said, 'What do you
think of the mouse now ? 'Very
much indeed,' I replied ; am glad
I did not kill it.' On leaving the
stable he said, 'Never do a cruel
thing to the meanest of God's crea
tures.'"—Scotch Paper.
How to get Repose in Old Age.
I strongly recommend you to fol
low the analugy of the body in seek
ing the refreshment of the mind.—
Everybody knows that both man and
horse are very much relieved and
rested if, instead of lying down and
falling asleep, or endeavoring to fall
asleep,. lye changes the muscles he
puts in operation; if, instead of level
ground, he goes up and down hill, it
is a rest both to the man walking,
and the horse which he rides—a dif
ferent set of muscles is called into
operation. So, I say, call into action
a different class of faculties, apply
your minds to other objects of whole
some food to yourselves as well as of
good to others, and, depend upon it,
that is the true mode of getting re-
( pose in old age. Do not overwork
yourselves ; do everything in moder--
ation.— Lord Brou s ham.
A SKYLARK PREACHING A SERMON. '
There is no such thing as a song-
bird natural to Australia ; there are
birds who chatter, birds who shriek,
but no bird that sings. Well, there
was a young man who went from
England as a gold-digger, and was
lucky enough to make some money,
and prudent enough to keep it. He
opened a "store"—a kijid of rough ;
shop where everything from candles
to coffins are sold—at a place called
"The Ovens," a celebrated gold-field,
about 200 miles from Me[bourne.—
Still continuing to prosper, he, like a
dutiful son, wrote home to his fath
er and mother to come out to him,
and it they possibly could, to bring
with them a lark. So a lark was pro
cured,
and in due time the old folks
and their feathered charge took ship
and departed from England. The
old man, however, took the voyage .
so much to heart that he died ; but
the old woman and the lark landed
in sound health at MelbGjrne, and
were speedily tbrwarded to Mr. Will
stead's &tore at The Ovens.
It was on Tuesday when they ar
rived, and the next mk.)rning . the lark
was hung out side the tent, and at
once commenced piping up. The ef
fect was electric. Sturdy diggers—
big men, with hairy faces and great
brown hands—paused in the midst of
their work, and listened reverently.
Drunken,brutal diggers !eft upfir t 'shed
the blasphemous sentence and look
ed bewildered and ashamed. Far
and near the news spread like light
ning—"Haveyou heard the lark r"—
"Is it true, ma;,e, that there is a real
English lark up at Jack Wilson's ?"
So it went on for three days, and
then came Sunday morning. Such a
sight had not been seen since the first
spadeful of golden earth had been
turned! From every quarter—east,
west, north, and south—from far
hills, and from creeks twenty miles
away, came a steady concourse of
great rough Englishmen, all brushed
and washed as decent as possible.—
The movement was by no means pre
concerted, as was evident from the
half-ashamed expression of every
man's face. There they were, how
ever, and their errand was to hear
the lark ! Nor were they disappoint
ed. There, perched in his wood and
iron pulpit, was the little minister,
and, as though aware of the impor
tance of the task before him, he
plumed his crest, and lifting up his
voice, sang them a sermon.
It was a wonderful sight to see,
that three or four hundred men ;
some reeling on the ground; some
sitting with their arms on their
knees, and their heads ou their hands;
some leaning against the trees with
their eyes closed, so that they might
the better fancy themselves at home
and in the midst of English corn-fields
once more; but sitting, standing, and
lying, all were equally quiet and at
tentive; and when, after an nour's
steady preaching r the lark left off,
his audience sloly started off, a lit
tle low-spirited,:perhaps, but on the
w hol e much happier than when they
came.-11estelea Mme Pets.
THE DEATH Or WORDS.
When a word has fairly ceased
from whatever cause, to perform its
proper functions, it would seem to be
nearly as impossible to recall it to a
really living or working condition as
it is to raise the dead in any other
case. Pope, indeed, has spoken of
commanding "old words that have
long slept to wake ;" and, of course,
-y writer or speaker may employ
antiquated terms-to any extent that
he pleases. Certain it is, at any
rate, that very little genuine revivifi
cation has ever been accomplished in
human speech ; you will sooner in
troduce into a language a hundred or
a thousand new words than you will
re-establish in the general acceptance
ten old ones that have been for some
time thrown aside. It would almost
•)em as if words, as well as we who
ise them, wore doomed to wither
id decay with age, and all at one
ite or another to lie down and fall
Ileep in death.— Craik's History of
Iglish Literature and Language.
ARAGRAPHS FROM LORD BACON.
The following clippings Loin Ba
con's Essays are full of wisdom. It
seems a wonder that a man who could
write thus, should have yielded to
temptation as he did at one period of
his life :
"I cannot call riches better than
the baggage of virtue, the Roman
word is better, 'impedimenta;' for as
the baggage is to an army, so are
riches to virtue; it cannot be spared
nor left behind, but it hindereth the
march; yea, and the care of it some
times loseth or disturbeth the victory:
of great riches there is no real use,
except it be in the distribution; the
restis but conceit."-
"It will be acknowledged even by
those that practice it not, that clear
and round dealing is the honor of
man's nature, and that mixture of
falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold
and silver which may make the metal
work the better, but it embaseth it.
For these winding and crooked
courses are the goings of the serpent ;
which goeth basely upon the belly,
and not upon the feet. There is no
vice that (loth so cover a man With
shame as to be found false and per
fidious."
"Men in great places are thrice ser
vants---servants of the sovereign or
state, servants of fame, and servants
of business; so as they have no fr9e
dom, neither in their persons nor in
their actions, nor in their times. It
is a strange desire to seek power and
lose liberty; or to seek power above
others, and to lose power over a
.man's self. The rising unto place is
laborious, and by pains men come to
greater pains, and it is sometimes
base, and by indignities, that men
come to dignities. The standing is
slippery, and the regress is either a
downfall, or at least an eclipse, which
Is a melancholy thing."
ANOTHER AMERIOAN MISSIONARY
MURDERED.
The Levant Herald, of July 9th,
published at Constantinople, says :
"Hardly have we reported the
capture of the murderers of the Rev.
J. Coffing, before the telegraph
brings news of the equally brutal as
sassination of another member cf
the same excellent brotherhood.—
The Rev W. Meriam, an agent of
the American Board of Missions.
stationed at Phillipopoli, who had
been lately accompanied to Constan
tinople by his wife, left in the begin
ning of last week on his return to
his station, and after a abort halt at
Adrianopole, had arrived within
three hours(nine miles) of Phillopo
poli, when the little party was at
tacked by brigands, and Mr. Meriam
brutally murdered. Till yesterday
the intelligence had ohly reached the
capital in brief telegraphic form and
we are therefore unable to do more
than report that the widow of the
unhappy gentleman finally succeed
ed in reaching her desolate hone, and
the authors of the crime are as yet
at large."
Rev. Wm. W. Meriam, referred to
in this sad intelligence from-Turkey,
was a yOung man, from Cambridge
port, Mass. He was a graduate from
Harvard College and of Andover The
ological Seminary. Mrs. M. was from
Boston. He sailed from Boston, Jan
uary 17th, 1859, and has just acquired
the Turkish language sufficiently to
be able to preach. Phillipopoli where
he was murdered, is in European ,
Turkey, about 90 miles northwest
from Adrianople. He was returning
from the annual meeting of the Mis
sion at Constantinople, when he was
murdered.
WOUNDED OFFICERS.—The Wash-.
ington Star of Monday says :—Dur
ing last night trains arrived from
Culpepper bringing a number of
officers wounded in the late battle
and skirmishes in that vicinity.—
They are mostly wounded in the
arms and legs, although one or two
were more seriously injured in other
parts of the body—one of them hav
ing received no less than four bullets
in his hips. They report attkifte
leas of life in the late battl.
Culpepper, many regiment. kittriatg
lost ail their oaken.
WIPING OUT THE CAUSE OF THE
WAR.
The following is a pretty good "take off"
on the plea that slavery is the cause of the
war, and therefore slavery must be "wiped
out" before the war can end:
"Sambo sensibly argues that of slav'ry
am de cause of de war, and ought to be
wiped out, den de nigga am de cause of
slav'ry, and ought to be wiped out too;
kale thar would be no war widout slav'ry,
and thar wohld be no slav'ry widout de
nigga. Take kar dat yer don't wipe out
too much."
ADDRESS
OF THE
Democratic State Central Commitee
To the Democrats and alt the other
aerlends of the Constitution and
Utlloll iu Pennsylvania.
The Democratic State Central
Committee address you upon sub
jects of the gravest moment. The
life of our beloved country is in
danger. The nation writhes under
the throes of wide-spread civil war.
All our wide-spread patriotism ; all
our wealth; all our physical pow
ers; -all of whatever virtue exists in
the Republic is invoked, and should
be promptly afforded to save the
National Constitution and the Union
of the States from utter overthrow.
- Is there a Pennsylvanian who
values the title cf American citizen
—who reveres the memory of the
men of the revolution—who values
givil and religious liberty—who ab
!Tors anarchy or despotism—or
who claims to possess a manly, pa
triotic heart, that is not prepared to
pledge life, fortune and sacred honor
for his country, in this, her hour of
greatest need and peril ? None can
withhold such assurances of a just
estimate of the importance of pre
serving the existence of our republi
can institutions. We approach you
with the full conviction that the
hearts of the great body of the peo
ple of Pennsylvania are with their
country in this great crisis of her
destiny ; that all that is needed is
to be satisfied of a feasible mode of
relief and extrication, and of the
most effective organization to coin
bine all the forces that can be ap
plied to speedily and effectually
yield the happy fruits of returned
peace and prosperity.
To clearly indicate the mode of
relief, it would appear to be prop
er
to first determine the cause
or causes of our present difficul
ties. Understanding the causes,
it would seem to be in the order of
nature that restoration should follow
upon their removal. It is not com
patible with the practical efficiency
of an address, such as this, to engage
in any elaborate exposition or histo
rical account of the gradual process
of antecedent causes, that. have at
last culminated in the dreadful re
sult we now behold. We shall, there
fore, necessarily be brief, and best •
discharge our purpose by a state
ment of facts, which you will all re
cognize as correct, and by the asser- '
tion of propositions and conclusions
which we maintain cannot he suc
cessfully controverted. The troubles
that are now upon us are those that
the fathers of this country foresaw
might arise upon the decay of patri
otism, and against which they un
dertook to guard by the Constitu
tion of the United States, and the
establishment thereby of what was
deemed by them—and has, until re
cently, proved to be the harmonious
action of the States and the Fede
ral Government—in their defined :
and just relations to each other.—
Washington, in his farewell address,'
pointed out these dangers; and,;
above all, indicated, as the evidence
of a waning attachment for the
Union, and as the precursor of its
fall, the creation of sectional parties.
It was in view of probable efforts
in Ibis direction that he appealed to ;
his countrymen to "indignantly ;
frown upon the first dawning of eve
ry attempt to alienate any portion
of our country from the rest, or to
enfeeble the sacred ties which link I
together the various parts." Had
the countrymen of Washington suffi
ciently appreciated his patriotic
warning, the wide-spread civil war j
that now afflicts us would never have ;
existed ; but, on the contrary, we
should, at this time, under the sup- ;
port which a most bountiful Provi
dence is extending to us, be in the I
enjoyment of a degree of prosperity
and happiness (we venture to assert) ;
unequaled in the . history of nations
Diost unfortunately sectional parties ,
have grown up, begetting sectional I
bitterness, and already the title of
American citizen begins to pale be- i
fore the invasive progress of such
titles as Northerner and Southern
er.
Years ago, men in the North, then
a very insignificant combination, be
gan to assail our Constitution and
our Union. This faction, basing its
opposition upon a misguided senti
mentality to swallow up all true feel
ings of patriotism, and all duty as
citizens, boldly proclaimed their 'hos
tility to the Constitution and Union,
whieh, they righ_tly claimed reoogni
'iteli and was pledged nett° inve,detha
control of the Sintarttepectivoly °roc
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the institution of domestic slavery
Disloyal declarations, such as "better
no Union at all than a Union with
slaveholders," became the axiomatic
dicta of this faction, then and now (in
its formidable proportions) best
known as Abolitionists. Without
dwelling upon the progress and
growth of this faction, it is, too, la
mentably true and well known that,
proclaiming through its leaders their
chief object to be "the ultimate ex
tinction 'of slavery," it attained to
such consequence that the people of
the slaveholding States became
alarmed, and began to form counter
combinations to resist the threat
ened overthrow of what they claim
ed to be rights that were intend
ed to be sacredly guarded by the
Constitution of the United States.--
At the same there had existed an in
significant, and of themselves pow
erless. band of disunionists in one or
two of the slave-holding States, who
seized upon the opportunity thus of
forded by the aggressive action of the
Abolitionists to stimulate these coun
ter movements. These efforts were
too, successful; and materials too, for
such efforts were being continually
supplied by the successes of the Abo
litionists. Abuse and obloquy against
the slave-holder steamed out from
some pulpits in the North, where the
virus of Abolitionism had been infu
sed. Retaliatory epithets were in
dulged in by pulpits in the South
against the Abolitionists. Church or
ganizations in the Union were split
up into organizations North and
South. Nominations for the Presi
dency were made upon issues, in
fainter or bolder terms, involving the
questions of the existence or limita
tion of the area of domestic slavery.
The decisions of the Supreme Court
of the United Stateswero resisted, its
integrity assailed, and its remodelling
avowed. These were followed by
outbreaks, as illustrated by the raid
of John Brown into Virginia. Mean
time the retaliatory and disunion
movements in the South, crystalized
and proclaimed the monstrous here
sy that the Union was but an alli
ance of sovereign Slates, and that any
one of its members might, in the ex
ercise of an unlimited sovereignty,
which was claimed for it, withdraw
from such union. This heresy was
designated, and as we all know, is fa
milarly called Secessionism, and, .an
der its banner, a great and formida
ble party in the slave States was ral
lied.
Thus were confronted two great
sectional parties—the Abolitionists
North and the Secessionists South—
the very antipodes of each other in
their sentiments ; they met on the
common platform of Disunion.—
Each alike tended to overthrow the
Constitution and the Union. Bach
alike are the enemies of the Repub
lic. The Secessionists claiming te
act from the apprehension that the
threat for "the ultimate extinction.
of slavery" would be put in execu
tion, succeeded by bare majorities in
some cases, and by the more efficient
organization of probable minorities
in others, in procuring the adoption
of ordinances of Secession, or for the•
withdrawal of such States from the
American Union as are now banded
under the designation of the Confect
ate States. Obtaining thus the for
mal organization of a government.
they set at defiance the Constitution.
and the laws of the United States,
and undertook to resist their execu
tion within the pretended jurisdic
tion of this revolutionary govern
ment. The Government of the Uni
ted States, in strict accordance with'
its powers, undertook to enforce
these laws and to demand obedience
to them ; armed resistance was at
once inaugurated on the part or the•
Secessionists, and thus began a re
bellion and civil war that has become
one of gigantic proportions, and for
many of its ebaractertatics cue of
the most formidable that ever exist
ed among a civilized people. At its
outset, the appeal was made to the•
loyal men of the North to fly to arms,
in order to uphold the Constitution'
and laws, and to maintain tne Union..
With the rapidity of magic this ap
peal was responded to with unbound
ed enthusiasm, an armed force of
over 700,000 men stood ready to meet
the foes of the Union. President
Lincoln, in his inaugural address,
had said :
"I have no puipose, directly or in_
directly, to interfere with the insti
tution. of / slavery in the States where
it exists. I believe I have no lawful
right to do 60, and I have no inclina
tion to do so." * * * * * *
The Congress of the United States,
immediately after the battle of Bull
Run, in July, 1861— •
"Resolved, that the present deplorti.
ble civil war has been forced urnit
the country by the Disunionista of
the Southern States, now in arms
against the Constitutional Govern
ment, and in arms around the capital;
that in this national emergency; 0(0(1
gress, banishing all feeling of mere
passion cr resentment, will recollect
only its duty to thu whole country
that this war is not waged or ebeikg'
part in any spirit of opireesion cl. or
for any purpose of conquefilt
gation, or purpose of °velar:f r
i ll
or interfering wWi the rictn or
tablisbed inatituttOos of t 41960404.
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