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Waynesburg, Pa.
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PHYSICIANS
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B. M. BLACHLEY, M. D.
rztirsxamsr & SURGEON,
Oillec—Biaohleygo Building, Main St.,
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ESPECTFUI LY announces to the citizens of
Waynesburg and vicinity that be has returned froni
Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac
tice of medicine at this place.
Waynesburg, June 11, 1361.-l).
DR. D. W. BRADEN,
Physician and Surgeon. Office in the Old Bank
Building, Main sireet. 'Sept 11, 1861—ty.
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JR, of Waynesburg and vicinity. as a Physician and
dungeon. Office opposite the Republican office. lie
lopes by a duo appreciation of the laws of human life
and health, so native medication, anti strict attention
to business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage.
April 9, 1862.
DRUGS.
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M. A . HARVEY,
Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and
Vile, the Most celebrats4 Patent Medicines, and Pure
Liquors for medicinal purposes.
Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
MERCHANTS
WM. A. PORTER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealei in Foreign and Denies
Or Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, dr.c., Main street.
Sept. 11. IBM —ly.
R. CLARK,
Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens
ware and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite
the Court House. Main street. Sept. 11, 186I—Iy.
MINOR & CO.,
Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro
eerie', Queeusware, Hardware and Notions, opposite
the Green Donee, Main street.
Sept. 11,
CLOTHING
N. CLARK,
Dealer iu Men's and Boys' Clothing, Cloths, Casei
merest, Satinets, Hata and Cape, &c., Main atrt et, op.
posit° the Court muse. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS
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the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style of
Boots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order.
Sept. 11, 1861-Iy,
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GROOZIRIES & VARIETIES
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Medicines, Perfumeries. Liverpool Ware, kc., Glass of
all sizes, and Gilt Moulding. and Looking Glass Plates.
117 - Casli paid for good eating Apples.
Sept. 11, 1961-Iy.
JOHN MUNNELL,
Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety
Goods Generally, Wilson's Nuw Building, Main street.
sopt IS6I-I.y.
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Dealer in School and Miscelleneous Books, Station
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SADDLES AND BABBIZIBI3
SAMUEL M'ALLISTER,
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Ing, Wam street.
spo. 11, 1861-1-
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WHEN the GREAT REBELLION'S OVER.
Climbed the baby on her knee,
With an airy, chjldish grace ;
Prattled on her lovely face:
"When will papa come to me ?"
"Papa ?" soft the mother cried—
" Papa! ah ! the naughty rover!
Sweet, my pet he'll come to thee
When the great rebellion's over!"
"Mamma once had rosy cheeks
Danced and sang a merry tune ;
Now she rocks me 'neath the moon,
Sits and sigl - a, but scarcely speaks,"
Sad the smiles the mother wore—
" Sweet mamma has lost her lover,
She will blush and sing no more
Till the great rebellion's over I"
•`Till the blush of peace shall come,
Like a quiet fall of snow.
And the merry troops shall go
Marchinghback to hearts at borne"
"Papa—home?" the baby lisped,
Balmy-breatb'd as summer clover,
"Yes, my darling, home at last,
And the sad rebellion over!"
Entered at the open door,
While the mother soothed her child
One who neither spoke or smiled,
Standing on the sunny floor,
Wistful eyes met mournful eyes,
Hope took flight, like airy plover;
Ah poor heart thoul't wait in vain
Till the great rebellion's over !"
Heart, poor heart ! too weak to save,
Vain your tears—your longings vain—
Summer winds and summer rain
Beat already. on his grave !
From the flag upon his breast.
(Truer breast it ne'er shall cover!)
From its mouldering colors, wet
With his blood, shall spring beget
Lily, rose and violet,
And a wreath of purple clover,
With the flag upon his breast,
They have hid away your lover—
Weep not ! wail not ! let him rest,
Having bravely stood the test,
He shall rank among the blest.
When the great rebellion's over.
iordlantouo.
OLD EAGLES AND THEIR NESTS,
The Girard (Pa.) Union gives the
following interesting account of a
couple of old eagles, their troubles
and their constancy. It says : "Six
ty years ago, when the township was
first founded, a pair of eagles, the
• white-headed or bald species, had a
nest in a tall tree on the farm of Mr.
Kelly. They were not disturbed,
and for twenty years they occupied
the nest, annually rearing and send
ing forth a brood of eagles, when a
violent storm overturned the tree,
and, of course, destroyed their habi
tation. They then rebuilt their airy
house on a lofty and inaccessible syc
amore, on the farm of Richard Petti
bone, adjoining Mr. Kelley's, and en
joyed perfect happiness for forty
years longer, raising to eaglehood
two or three chicks yearly. A few
weeks ago a high wind wrenched oft
a limb containing the nest, and
threw it to the ground with such en
ergy that it was torn to atoms, and a
very young and a very bald eagle
killed. The nest was very large, be
ing made of about ten bushels of
sticks and leaves. This aged and
persevering couple are now making
the third on another sycamore, near
the one lately destroyed. How old
these birds are is not known, but
that they are the same pair found
there by the earliest settlers there is
no doubt. They are so long familiar
with the presence of men that they
can be approached within a few feet;
and their great age, constancy and
friendliness have given them the re
spect of the neighbors, who would
turn out en masse and mob the un
lucky sportsman who should, attempt
to shoot or despoil the royal family."
OUT OFF THE BACK LEGS OF YOUR
CHAIRS.
I will tell you a secret worth know
ing. A thousand things nct worth
half as much have been patented
and elevated into a business. It is
this. If you cut off the back legs of
your chairs, so that the back part of
the seat shall be two inches lower
than the front part, it will greatly
relieve the fatigue of sitting, and
keep - your spine in much better shape.
The principal fatigue in sitting comes
from your sliding forward, and thus
straining the ligaments and muscles
in the small of the back. The expe
dient I have advised will obviate
this tendency, and, as I have suggest
ed, add greatly to the comfort and
healthfulness of the sitting posture.
The front edge of a chair should not
be more than fifteen inches high for
the average man, nor more than
fourteen fbr the average woman.—
im average ebair is now seventeen
inches high, for an, which no Anumat
of slanting in the seat can make com
finiatble.—Lemnis' Gyortnasiton.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1862.
I OUT-DOOR EXEROISE OF 'ENGLISH
WOMEN.
The women of England are blessed
with one pre-eminent advantage as
regards exercise out of doors,
which to us must be always wanting,
and that is the character of their cli
mate. Say- as you will against the
English climate, it could hardly be
better for walking, and that is some
thing all must admit There is noth
ing comparatively of summer heat or
winter cold. Eighty in the shade is
reckoned a very warm day, in ordi
nary seasons. You will remember
such day a good while. The nights
are few in which a blanket is not re
quired for comfort. As to winter,
England can hardly lay claim to any
! thit7 , to which we should accord the
name. Snow is a rarity, and seldom
remains on the ground 'for two days
together. The ice in London parks
is so thin at best, that the skaters
are constantly breaking through and
being taken out half dead. Garden
ing operations are suspended only
for a very short time, if at all. Cab
bages are left in the garden through
the winter, and taken as they are
wanted. The crocus and anemone,
ranunculus and polyanthus, are out
in all their beauty in January, and
peas arc up and potatoes planted by
the middle of February. Mud is but
little known, because there are ex
cellent gravel sidewalks all over Eng-
I land. What is there to prevent the
women of England from walking,
then, if they want to, 911 almost any
day from New Year's to Christmas ?
It is true they have gloomy clouds,
and damp chilly winds, and rain in
abundance, but these are hardly al
lowed to stand in the way. Equipped
from head to foot according to the
weather, they sally- forth in most all
weathers, and in almost all circum
stances. The young wife never shuts
herself up at home, or stays away
from church as long as she is well
enough to go abroad.
A deeply interesting illustration of
the good health of English women is
the filet that deaths among young
wives is very unfrequent. Such cases
are far more numerous among our
selves. We remember to have seen
an English lady amazed and appalled
in wandering over a New England
cemetery and reading on the head
stones the many inscriptions which
tell this exceedingly sad and mourn
ful tale: To her it seemed as if some
fatal pestilence must have visited
that particular locality. Yet it was
the tale which all our places of burial
tell, and to which no one among us
takes heed. An Englishman who
should have committed his third wife
to the grave at forty years of age,
would be regarded with feelings ap
proaching to superstition, and anoth
er woman would hesitate to assume
the thrice vacant place. We knew
one such case, and only one, in a per
iod of fourteen years.
An English woman i& pedestrian r
almost from her birth, being taken
out for an airing when she is scarcely
a week old, passing several hours of
every fine day out of doors during
the first year of her existence, and
walking thousands of miles before
she has numbered her teens. Would
it not be strange if she had not a
full form and a rosy cheek, and a mer
ry, laughing eye? An English girl
who would not rejoice in a walk of
four or five miles would be thought a
poor thing.
WANT Or COURAGE,
Sidney Smith, in his work on
moral philosophy, speaks in this wise
Of what men lose for the want of a
little brass, as it is termed :
"A great deal of talent is lost to
the world for the want of a little
courage. Every day sends to their
graves a number of obscure men,
who have only remained in obscurity
because their timidity has prevented
them from making a first effort, and
who, if they could only have been
induced to begin, would, in all proba
bility, have gone great lengths in the
career of fame. The fact is, that in
order to do anything in this world
worth doing, we must not stand
shivering on the bank, and thinking
of the cold and danger, but jump in
and scramble through as well as we
can. It will not do to be perpetually
calculating risks and adjusting nice
chances; it did all very well before
the flood, when a man could consult
his friends upon an intended publica
tion for a hundred and fifty years,
and then live to see its success for
six or seven centuries afterwards;
but at present a man waits, and
doubts, and consults his brother, and
his uncle, and his first cousin, and
his particular friends, till one fine
day he finds that he is sixty-five
years of age; that he has lost much
time in consulting first cousins and
particular friends; that he has no
more time left to follow their advice.
There is so little time for oversqueam
ishness at present, the cpporcunity
slips away_ The very period of
life at which a man chooses to ven
ture, if ever, is so confined, that it is
no bad rule to preach up the neceeity,
in such instances, of a little violence
done to the feelings, and of efforts
made in defiance of strict and sober
calculation."
BE PATIENT WITH THE LITTLE
ONES.
Be patient with the little ones.—
Let neither their slow understand
ing nor their occasional pertness of
fend you. or provoke the sharp re
proof. Remember the world is new
to them, and they have no slight
task to grasp with their unripened
intellects the mass of facts and truth
that crowd upon their attention.—
You are grown to maturity and
strength through years of experience,
and it ill becomes you to fret at the
little child that fails to keep pace
with your thought. Teach him pa
tiently, as God teaches you, "line up
on line, precept upon precept; here
a little, and there a little." Cheer
him on in this conflict of mind : in af
ter years his ripe, rich, thought shall
rise up and call you blessed.
Bide patiently the endless ques
tionings of your children. Do not
roughly crush the springing spirit of
free inquiry with an impatient word
or frown, nor attempt, on the con
trary, a long and instructive reply to
every slight and casual question.—
Seek rather to deepen their curiosi
ty. Convert, if possible, the careless
question into a profound and earnest
inquirv, and aim rather to direct and
aid than to answer this inquiry.—.
Let your reply send the little ques
tioner forth, not so much proud of
what he has learned as anxious to •
know - more. Happy thou, if in giv
ing thy child the molecule of truth
he ask for, thou canst whet his curi
osity with a glimpse of the mountain
of truth lying beyond; so wilt thou
send forth a philosopher, and not a
silly pedant into the world.
Bear patiently the childish humors
of those little ones. They are but
the untutored pleadinff h of the young
spirit for care, and cultivation. Irri
tated into strength, and hardened
into habits, they will haunt the
whole of life like fiends of despair,
and make thy little ones curse the
day they were born; but, corrected
kindly and patiently, they become
the elements of happiness and useful
ness. Passions are but fires that
may either scorch us with their un
controlled fury. or may yield us a
genial and needful warmth.
Bless your little ones with a pa
tient care of their childhood, and
they will certainly censeerate the
glory and grace of their manhood to
your service. Son- in their hearts
the seeds of a perrenial blessedness ;
its ripened fruit will afford you a per
petual joy.— The Friend of Youth.
A HARD FIGHT BETWEEN A MAN
A.ND A HORSE.
The Norfolk Reformer relates the
following singular oceurrenee as
having taken place in the township
of Walsingliam, Canada :---" Mr
Abram Brandow had a very narrow
escape one day last week from being
killed by a horse. Ile want into a
field to catch his horse, and as soon
as he got near the animal, it pitched
at him in a determined and savage
manner, biting Brandow fearfully.
Brandow is a strong, able man, and
a good horseman, and he fought the
horse as long as he could with the
bridle, but finding that it did not
heed that weapon, he threw his arms
around the horse's neck, and his
feet around its fore legs. "While in
this position, he threw the horse
down. This, of course, broke his
hold, and the horse soon got up
again and continued the fight with
renewed severity. Finally, Brandow
threw himself flat upon the ground,
giving up all hope, the horse contin
uing to bite him for some time after
he lay perfectly still. Even after
the animal had left and gone some
distance it returned and bit Bran
dow several times. Strange to say,
the horse did not strike or attempt
to stamp the Mall, but tried and did
kneel on him, as if trying to crush
him with his knees. Brandow had
his clothes almost entirely torn off,
and from one of bis arms the flesh."
A. WORD TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS
ABOUT ORDER.
Little friends, put things right
back in their proper places. Never
leave things all about, helter-skelter,
topsy-turvy—never. When you use
any article—hoe, shovel, rake, pitch
fork, axe, hammer, tongs, boots or
shoes, books, slates, pencils, writing
apparatus, pins, thimbles, pincush
ions, needles, work-baskets, kitchen
furniture, every article of house
wifery or husbandry, no matter
what it is—the very moment you
have done using it, return it to its
proper place. Be sure to have a
special place for everything—a place
for everything, and everything in
its place. Order, order, perfect or
der, is the watchword—heaven's first
law. Row much precious tube is
saved (aside from vexation) by ob
serving order—systematic regular
ity ! And little folks sbonkl begin
early to preserve order in every
thing—form habits of order. These
loose, slip-shod slatternly habits are
formed in childhood, and habits once
formed cling for life.
Young friends, begin early to keep
things straight in their proper place;
study neatness, order, economy, .so
briety—,everything just, honest, pare,
lovely, and of good report.
YOUTH RENEWED.
There lives in the town of Parson
field, State of Maine, an aged Free
will Baptist Minister, by the name
of John Buzzell. Sixty years ago he
was one of the most popular and sue
cessful preachers in that part of the
country. When it was announced
that he would hold forth in any
place, the whole population, from all
the cross-roads, the hill-tops and the
valleys, would flock to hear him.—
He belongs to what may be called
• the Old School of that denomination;
and in his early days was accustom
ed to wear his hair long and parted,
' with 'a black homespun coat as
plain as the tailor could make it.—
Ile preached in the peculiar tones
which were used by his brethren of
those times, and always exerted a
wonderful influence upon the minds
of his audience. We last heard him
thirty years ago, his locks were
white and flowing, and his eyes dim.
by reason of age. He has always
worked upon his farm, kept the
charge of his peopie, in Parsonstield,
and attended all the quarterly meet
in,s held in his district. In politics
he has ever been an unswerving
member of the Democratic party ;
in religion one of the most consistent
of Christians. He is now ninety
five years of age, enjoys good health,
and preaches occasionally. Bat the
mrst remarkable of all is, that with
in a few years he has had new hair
—the hair of his youth—new teeth
and new eyes! Wonderful illustra
tion of the Scripture statement, "Thy
youth is renewed like the eagle's."
IT PAYS TO TARE THE PAPERS
A capital story is told us of an old
farmer in the northern part of this
county, who had been 'saving up'
to take up a mortgage Of $2OOO held
against him by a man who lived near
er the sea shore. The farmer had
saved up all the money in gold, fear
ing to trust the banks in these war
times. Week befhre last he lugged
down his gold and paid it over when
the following colloquy ensued
"Why, you don't mean to give this
$ . 2,000 in gold, do you ?" said the
lender.
"Yes, certainly," said the farmer,
"I was afraid of the pesky banks, so
I've been saving up the money, in
yellow boys, for you this long time."
"All right," responded the leader,
only I thought you didn't take the
papers, that's all."
"Take the papers ! No sir, not I.
They have gone on so since the war's
been a going, that I won't have one
01 the devilish things about. But
the money is all right, isn't it ?"
"Yes, all right, $2,000 in gold. All
right, here's your note and mort
frq h ere 2 "
•
And well he might have called it
all right, as the premium on gold
that day was 22 per cent., and his
gold was not only worth the face of
his bond but $440 besides, enough to
have paid for his village newspapers
for himself and posterity for at least
three centuries. It pays to take the
papers.—Norwalk (Conn.) Gazette.
PURE WATER FOR STOCK.
A goad draught of good water is
probably as refreshing to beasts as
it is to people. But, in the month
of August, nearly all domestic ani
mals suffer for more than we imag
ine for want 'f good water. Sheep
will thrive for better if they can
have a plenty - of pure water ; and if
milch cows must drink stagnant
water wherever they can find it, how
is it possibie for them to give their
flow of good milk. It is impractica
ble for thorn to do it.
Some people allow water to stand
in troughs day after day and compel
their animals to drink it all up. Did
such people ever drink water from
an old dirty slop pail, after it has
been allowed to stand for two or
three days ? Let them try the ex
periment of such water, and wait for
the result ; and then they will be
prepared to express a correct opin
ion whether such water is as good for
stock, in the sultry days of August
as pure water would be.
Water troughs and water tanks
should be cleaned frequently during
the hot days of August, and fresh
water pumped into them several
times during the day.
Mitch cows require a good deal of
pure water in hot weather, in order
to produce their usual flow of good
mil k • Country G-entleman.
INCREASE OF RATS
Thu Farmer's Gazette (English) as
serts and proves by figures that one
pair of rats will have progeny and
descendants amounting to no less
than 651,000 in three years, Now
unless this immense family can be
kept down, they would then con
sume more food than would sustain
65,000 huinan beings. It will be far
wiser for the farmer to the destruc
tion of rats than of small birds.
Certainly it will. Whoever enga
ges in shooting small birds is a cruel
man; whoever aide in exterminating
rats Is a benefactor. We should like
some of cur correspondents to give
us the benefit of their experienoe in
snecessfully driving out these - pests.
We need; somethitig besiees dogs,
eves anti traps; for this- business.
HOW BODIES ARE EMBALM.
Embalming, which is coming
much into practice of late, is thus
performed :—The modern embalmer
finds an artery into which he can
place the nozzle of an injecting
syringe. The artery in the upper
part of the arm, called the bracial,
or the artery in the neck, the carotid,
answers the purpose. Into this ar
tery, the embalming fluid, consisting
of alum, or corrosive sublimate, is
injected until it permeates every
structure. The solution sometimes
retains its fluidity; sometimes it is
so constituted that while it is warm
in the fluid. on cooling it sets, and
becomes more or less hard. After
the injection, the artery is closed,
tt'e opening through the skin is neat
ly sewn up, and the operation is com
pleted. Great numbers of the offi
cers of the army, who have fallen in
the engagements in Virginia, have
been embalmed in this manner by
Dr. Holmes. of Brooklyn, New
York, and sent home to their rela
tives.
A VALUABLE OAT.
For some days last week, says the
New Bedford Mercury, the servant in
a family in this city discovered each
morning, at the back door of the
house a number of apples. She was
puzzled to account for the circum
stance, until a neighbor discovered a
cat bringing an apple by the stem,
and depositing it at the door, and
then going away and repef.ting the
operation. On Saturday morning,
the Ilajor, who is the owner of the
animal invalulble as a purrveyor,
discovered thirteen pears and an ap
ple, as the result of the previous
night's Imaging of puss. Of strict
integrity, our friend investigated the
case, and found that his cat, though
regardless of the rights of property,
•was an excellent judge of pears and
apples, having selected her plunder
from the grounds of Mr. Thomas A.
Green, who has had rare success
in the culture of fine fruits. The Ma
jor has made us in a manner parti
ceps eriminis, by acceptance of the
spoils, and so we tell the whole story.
We learn that the cat is not for
sale,
SINGULAR HYSTERICAL PANIC.
About 320 factory girls and women
are employed in sewing in the large
cellar schoolroom under Dr. Mun
ro's chapel, Grosvenor Square, and
it appears that one or two of the un
fortunate girls are subject to some
kind of fits, most probably epileptic.
On Friday afternoon, about three
o'clock, every thing connected with
the sewing was proceeding in the us
ual satisfactory manner, when sud
denly one of the girls subject to them
was prostrated by a fit. There was
considerable alarm created iu the
school by this circumstance, and al
most instantly another girl was at
tacked by what the sapei intendent
believes was hysteria, and then
another, and another, until quite a
panic prevailed, altogether nineteen
of the girls becoming affected i❑ less
than an hour. We may add that the
schoolroom is well ventilated, and
could not have been over crowded,
since it is capable of holding seven
hundred scholars.—Maneltester (Eng.)
Examiner.
THE PAIN OF DYING
"The pain of dying must be dis
tinguished from the pain of the pre
vious disease; for when life ebbs
sensibility declines. As death is the
final extinction of corporeal feelings,
so n umbness increases as death comes
on. The prostration of disease, like
healthful fatigue, engenders a grow
ing stupor—a sensation of subsiding
softly into a coveted repose The
transition resembles what might be
seen in those lofty mountains, whose
sides exhibiting every climate in reg
ular gradation, vegetation luxurates
at their base, and dwindles at the ap
rroach to the regions of snow, till its
feeblest manifestation is repressed
by the cold. The so-called agony
can never be more formidable than
when the brain is the last to go, and
the mind preserves to the end a .
rational cognizance of the state of
the body. Yet persons thus situa
ted commonly attest that there are
few things in life less painful thana
the close. 'lf I had strength enough
to hold a pen,' said William ILuft er ,
'1 would write how easy and delight
ful it is to die.' If this be dying,'
said the niece of Newton, of Olney,
'it is a pleasant thing to die;' 'the
very expression,' adds her uncle,
'which another friend of mine made
use of on her death-bed a few years
ago.' The same words have so often
been uttered under similar circum
stances, that we could fill pages with
instances which are only varied by
the name of the speaker. 'lf this be
dying,' said Lady Glenerehy, 'it is
the easiest thing imaginable.' I
thought that dying had been more
difficult,' said Louis XIV. 'I did not
suppose it was so sweet to die.' said
Francis Saurez, the . Spanish theolo
gian. An agreeable surprise was
the prevailing sentiment with 'them
all. They expected the stream to
terminate in the dash of the torrent,
and they4ound it was losing itself in
the gentlest current The whole of
the -faculties seem sometimes eon- •
NEW SERIES.--VOL, 4, NO. 28.
centrateci on the placid enjoyment.
The day Arthur Murphy died he
kept repeating from Pope
'Taught half by reason, half by mere tie-
cay,
To welcome death, and calmly pass away.'
Nor does the calm partake of the
sezmitiveress of sickness. There was a
swell in the sea the clay Collin ;wood
breathed his last upon the element
which had been the scene of his glo
ry. Captain Thomas expressed a
fear that ho was disturbed by the
tossing of the ship. 'No, Thomas,'
he replied, i am now in a state where
nothing in this world can disturb me
more. lam dying; and am sure it
must be consolatory to you. and all
who love me, to see how comfortably
I am coming to my end.' - -Book of
COBBETT'S 001:11,TVIIIP.
Cobbett tells us how an English
yeoman loved and courted, and
how he was loved in return, and
and a prettier episode does not ex
ist in the English language. Talk
of private memoirs of Court, the gos
sip of this cottage is worth it all.—
Cobbett, who was a Seargeant Major
in a regiment of foot, fell in love
with the daughter of a Sergeant of
artillery, then in the same orovince
of - New Brunswick. He had not
passed more than an hour in her
company when, noticing her modes
ty, her quietude, and her sobriety,
he said, "that's the girl for inc."—
The nest - morniug he was up early,
and almost liefere it was light passed
the Sergeant's house, There Eihe
was on the snow, scrubbing cut La
wash tub. "That's the tor
again cried Cobbett, although she
was not more than fourteen, and he
nearly twenty-0;w "From the day
1 first spoke of her," he write,i, "I
had no more thought of her being
th,., wife of another man than I had
a thought of her becoming a chipt
of drawers." He paid every atten
tion to her, and, young as she was,
treated her with ail confidence. He
spoke of her as a friend, his second
self. But in six months the artillery
were ordered to England, and her
father with them.
Here was indeed a blow. Cobbett
knew what Woolwich was, and
what temptations a young and pret
ty girl would be sure to undergo.—
He therefore took to her his whole
fortune, one hundred and fifty gui
neas, the savings of his pay and
overwork, and wrote to her to tell
her if she did not find her place corn
. fortable, to take lodgings, and put
herself at school, and not to work
too hard, for he would be at.borue in
two years But as he 5ii.54, - WaS the
malignity of the devil would have it,
we were kept abroad two years long
er than jar time, Mr. Pitt having
knocked up a dust with Spain about
Nootka Sound. Oh, how I faulred
Nootka Sound, and poor, bawling
Pitt, too!" But at the end of four
years, Cobbitt got his discharge. Re
found his girl a servant of all work, at
5 pounds a year, in the house of a
Captain Brisca, and without saying
a word about the matter. she put in
to his hand the whole of the one
hundred aul fifty guineas unbroken.
What a pretty, tender picture is
that : The young Sergeant and the
little girl of eighteen, who kept tour
years the treasure untouched, wait
ing, with patience,her lo,ver's return!
What kindly, pure trust on both
sides ! The historical painters of
our Royal Academy give ua scenes
from English history of intrigue and
bloodshed. Why can they not give
us a soene of true English courtalip
like that? Cobbett, who knew bow
to write sterling English better than
many men of his own day, and
most men of ours, does not forget
to enlarge upon the scene, and dear
ly he loved his wife, for her share of
it; but he does not forget to add,
that with this love there was mixed
"self congratulations on thisindabit
able proof of the soundness of his
own judgment "
The effect of tobacco upon the
nervous system was one of the im
portant subjects which attracted the
attention of the British Association
at its late meeting. 1)1.. E. Smith
read a paper en the effects of "the
weed" upon pulsation, arguing that
tobacco operated differently upon
different constitutions, and under
different circumstances, and demon
strating that, as a rule smoking ftar
celerated pulsation. A discussion
ensued, in the course of which the
literary man appeared to be general
ly accepted as the most fitting e*priti
ent of the results. Here, however,
doctors differed. One or two gentle
men maintained that the effects of to
bacco were stimulative of vital and
mental action; other praisedijts sooth
ing effects; while other t, , entlemen
maintained that as a rule, it was
stupifying and d estructive of lite
means of obtaining th'e results de
sired. Ultimately the qnestion -vas
left an open one, and is bkely 80 , to
continue.
sar Itiany are pleased with
company of those who arc goud a that
are not pleased with the good °Nits
company.