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BEGINNINGS IN LIFE.
Beginnings are difficult. It is
very hard to begin rightly in a new
work .or office of any kind. And I
am thinking not merely of the iner
tia to be overcome in taking to work;
though that is a great fact. In writ
ing a sermon or an essay, the first
page is much the hardest. You
know it costs a locomotive engine a
great effort to start its train ; once
the train is off, the engine keeps it
going at great .speed with a tenth
or less of the first heavy pull. ,But
I am thiuking now,of the many fool
ish things which you are share to say
ar.d do in your ignorance, and in
the novelty of the situation. Even
a Lord Chancellor has behaved very
abaardly in his first experience of
his great elevation. It would be a
great blessing to many men to be
taken elsewhere, and. have a fresh
et 4 art. As a general rule, a elergy
man should not stay all his life in
his first parish. His parislaoners
will never forget the foolish things
•be did at his first coming, in his
inexperienced youth. 'I here, he can
not get over these; but .elsewhere
he would have the good of them
without the ill. He would have the
experience, dearly bought; while the
story of the blunders and troubles
by which it was bought would he
forgotten. 1 dare say there are peo
ple, miserable and useless wbere
they are, who, if they only could get
away to a new place, and begin
again, would be MI right. In that
new place they would avoid the er
rors and follies by which they have
made their present place too hot to
' hold them. Give them a new start;
give them another chance ; and
I taught by their experience of the
, scrapes and unhappiness into which
they got by their hasty words, their
ill temper, their suspicion and im
patience, their domineering
. spirit,
and their determination in little
things to have their own way ; you
would find them do excellently.—
Yea, there is something admirable
about a beginning I There is some.'
thing cheering to the poor fellow
who bas get the page on which he
is writing hopelessly blotted and be
fouled, when you turn over a new
leaf, and give him the fresh unsul
lied expanse to commence anew !
It is like wiping out a debt that nev
er can be paid, and that keeps the
poor struggling head under water ;
but wipe it out, and oh ! with what
new lite will the relieved men go
through ail his duty. It is a terri
ble thing to drag a lengthening
chain ; to know that, do what you
may, the old blot remains, and can
not be got rid of. I know various
people, soured, useless :end uniappy,
who (I am sure) would be set right
forever it they could but be taken
away from the muddle which they
have got themselves, and allowed to
begin again something else. I wish
I wore the patrons of six livings in
the Church. I think I could make
something good and happy of six
men who are turned to poor iii&count
now. But, alas thatin many things
there are no second chance-! You
take the wrong turning ; and you
are compelled to go on in it, long
atter you have found that it is
wrong. You have made your bed
and you must lie on it. -And it is sad
to think bow early in life all life
/Day be married. A mere boy or
girl may get into the dismal lane
which has no turning; and out of
which they never can get, to start
afresh in a better track. flow many
of us, my readers, would be infinite
ly better and happier it we could but
begin again rig Country Parson.
THE TOMB OF THE LAST SIGNER,
The ancient Neat Pi Charles Car
roll, of tharolltou, and his tomb, is
about fifteen miles from Baltimore.
Entering the gateway, we drove
through a noble avenue, planted on
each side with tress of every variety,
and soon found ourselves in front of
the Carroll mansion, which is a long
comfortable two story building, ter,
minuted tit the north end by the
chapel, which has button:to famous as
the repository of the remains of the
gallant old signer of the Declaim.
tion of Independence. His tomb is
set in the wall on the left altar, and
presents a shield and ottroll of white
marble, on which is carved in relief
a pen and roll of parchment, cur.
rounded by thirteen stars; a Latin
inscription, appropriate to his great
act, appears ou a scroll in tue cen
tre. .Below this are some fi gures in
basSO
• revroseuting Fame
with inverted torch, and history
guarding a funeral urn. The chapel
js cruciform and con tains.a handsome'
marble altar, some tine old pictures,
a good organ, and is decorated with
rich stud windows of stain
ed g i 4t s S. Ibe # o o l ', wl icl is eleva
ted, contains some fourteen or six.-
teen pews which aro occupied by the
family of Mr. Carroll and their
friends. . The body of the Church
con - ,ains about forty commodious
pews, where his slaves who arecare-
I fully instructed in the Catholic
faith, sit and kneel. .."
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1863.
TAKE OARE OF YOURSELF.
"Take care of yourself," is a prin
ciple which, in some respects, is not
neglected by mankind in general.,, but
is not often carried out in the way
it ought to be. Take care of your
self; for, be ,a,saured, from the very
outset, list if you do not take care
of yourself, there are none to be
found who will perform this office for
you. In taking care of yourself,
your health, your reputation, your
interests, your happiness, are to be
considered, and whatever else com
bines with them to make up the fu
dividual known as yourself. A con
trary course may secure your tem
porary popularity, but nothing mole.
People may call you a clever follow,
.and all that ; but heed them not,
for the day may come, unless there
be a prudent change in your tactics,
when the same people pass you with
a smile of contemptuous pity, as the
man who did not know how to take
care of himself; .and ON you will
find but a poor reward for sacrificing
to the good of others. Your individ
ual self, remember,
is a sacred trust
,confitled to your keeping; and as
that trust is discharged, so will be
your happiness.
It is a groat fault to neglect your
own advancement in life; see to it
always., by every means of a fair and
honorable character. It is folly to
stand aside while others punt and
struggle for a prize which might as
well be yours as theirs, Assert your
own eltlims, your own dignity, and
heed not the sneers that may assail
your corning forward. It is ever
so. If you are successful( these
sneers will be changed at List into
applause.
What are great men, successful
men, self-made men—all men whom
the world Admires ? What, but men
wbo have taken ear(' of themselyes?
It is not, perhaps,
that all of them
are endowed with lofty qualities;
this was not necessary to the end ;
but it is evident that they have been
firm and inflexible in taking cam of
themselves. Those nearest to them
have doubrAe often thought they
were cold, selfish, and wanting in
generous sympathisersperhaps, even
considered them monomaniac 3. But
let it be remembered that if you ta)
good care of yourself; it is essentii
that you devote yourself to a purposi
always fixing your energies on t(
end you have in view, and laborik
iiiteadily until that view has been a ,
tamed. All else must be secondiu
and insignificant. If you pause 1
chase butterflies, and play amon g
the roses more than is necessary
nourish strength, some one else, wi
better jinderstauds bow to take ea,
of himself, steps fleetly beyond yo ,
place of enervating repose, and y ,
will never recover the lost ground,
Up, then And be doing.
;.Waste nut, want hot," was we
written on the walls of the iudustri
ous man's kitchen; "Take cure
yourself," should be placed in letters
of gold before the eyes of the young
that it may never, even for a mo
ment, be forgotten, Pay no regard
to unreasonable sneers about taking
care of Number One. It is your spe
cial business ou earth to take care
of that number, and to have a sharp
eye on Number One's welfare Who
else is there to care of that number?
Will Tom do it ? or will Dick ? No,
nor ;Lary either.
If you acknowledge the correct
ness of this maxim, awake at onr
from your dreams of intorestednes ,
and look at the tate of those wl
were careless of Number One. Si
them in middle life; observe them
old age. Alas ! what sorrow, whi
suffering, what remorse ! Be wit
therefore, while it is morning ; for
paying attention to yourself.
wil, be able to assist those who stagy
in need of your assistance ; tu
there is no greater happiness th,
this.
A NEW -DISEASE.
We see it stated in the Philadel
phia correspondence of the Balti
more Gazette, that a disease has re
cently made its appearance at
Manayunk, which closely resembles
the spotted plague of Basteru coun
tries. The disease, it is supposed,
has been introduced here by the'
large importations of woolen rags
recently made for the manufacture
of shoddy. Rags have been for
years imported from Smyrna, in Asia
minor, for making paper, but the
material has been different, and the
strong acids in which they were
steeped for the purpose of extracting
all coloring matter from them, serv
ed to neutralize awl destroy alt dole
terimis influences which might, by
chance, be lurking in any portion of
them. The rags now importer
however, are woolen rags, and th,.
are not subjected to the action of
strong acids. They are torn to
shreds, and then worked up into
shoddy blankets and cloth.
If the fact, then, (says the same
correspondent) of the appearance of
the plague he true, as theme is reason
to eelieve that it is, from the number
and character of the cases which
have proved fatal, the matter is one
of the most serious importance, and
it is impossible to say where its con
sequonces_ may end.
We see it stated that ,a similar dis•
ease has made its appearance in ti.
yielaity of Washington cit=y.
DON'T FORE= ME.
How often do we hear the word
"Don't forget me" when separating
from oar friends, How often theof
come to our ears in every variety y
tone—from the light, impulsive
school girl's to the deep, tremulous
.accents of those who love us as on
ly true and faithful hearts can love,
"Don't fbrget me," lisps the rosy
checked cherub, scarcely concious of
the import of the words. "Don't
forget me," says the aged man,
whose hair is white with the frosts
of many winters. All wish to be
remembered. All wish some little
nook of the heart preserved for their
words-and images. But are• they all
forgotten ? Ask the lonely being
resting his head upon his hands, and
listening to the wild requiem of the
wailing winds, while the thick shades
of approaching darkness fold their
wings around him—ask him if those
he once lovedthose who once cast
sunshine in bis path of life—and no
longer remembered through the
long lapse of time which has inter
vened ? if the day of separation
and those from whom he separated
are now mouldering beneath the
dust of later scenes and trials ? Ask
him if the sylph like from which
stood by his side, the sweet blue eyes
which sought his with tears of sor
row are no longer remembered ?
Ask him if the half whispered last
request, "Don't forget me," is un
heeded ? As.k him .and he will tell
you that the friends of former days
are still enbalmed by memory's mag
ic power, and their images are still
within his heart ; that the sylph
like form and soft blue eyes have al
ways in fancy remained the same,.;
And that the last request is whispered
in hie ear by every passing breeze.
Oh ! there is no fbunt upon earth
more sacred, than the fountafn of
memory! There is no costly gem
hidden in the depths of earth so
precious as the relics contained in
the heart. There are no words so
fiwett, as those affection breathes
as the images, the heart images, of
Our friends.
TEN
Battle Near Memphis
We published an item on Saturday giv
ing an account of a battle reported to
ave taken place within a few wiles
Mmuullis. A Cairo correspondent con.
. - 318 the news, as follows :—We have re
,ble information trout Memphis that,
'withstanding our troops fell back to
'in a distance of nine miles, we there
tanked Gen. During's command, and,
giving thew a good drubbing, Inla
id in taking 700 prisoners, besides
issariee stores, &c , as we ll as
lei amount of negroes, made and
'iu such cases, a ad who will be
tue to join and be drilled in some
- invents that ' ijunu k t, Gen.
The Desperate Flight at Frank
lin, La.
The New Orleans Era publishes a
full account of General Grover's ex
pedition and the fight near Frank
lin. After sketching the first day's
skirmishing, itproceeds asfollows to
recount the particulars of the fight
on the second day :—As the troops
came up, to their right was a thick
forest of large trees, behind which
tbec.neoy was concealed, having al
so a wooden fence between them-and
their opposers. Preparations were
made at once for a desperate attack.
The Twenty-fifth Connecticut regi
ment was ordered into action on the
left of the 1.1u.e, .aud in ;the .advance.
They met the-enemy .a-waiting their
approach in a piece of woods, where
their artillery was supported by a
fftroug force of infantry and cavalry.
When a charge was ordered,to force
the rebels from their position and
take their artillery, the Thirteenth
bed to , charge through a plowed field
and over two fences. Notwithstand
ing these obstacles, this regiment
succeeded in capturing two caissons,
six horses, two swords, and a splen
did flag from the enemy. The flag
was of fine silk, six feet in length,
bordered with rich silver tinsel, and
bore upon it the inscription—" The
Ladiesof Franklin to the St Mary's
Canztoneers." Soon after the charge
of the thirteenth, the enemy fell
back defeated. The force opposed to
us was not large, but had the advan
tage of position, and of making a
surprise. The total force of the reb
els, bath here and at the batteries be
low. did-not exceed 10,900 men.—
Our loss was considerable, and that
of the enemy must have correspond
ed with ours. Already nearly fifteen
hundred prisoners have been taken,
including some characters well
known at New Orleans. We have
sent 179 of our own wounded to New
Orleans.
ADVANTAGES Or YEARS.
You are "getting into years." Yos
the years are getting into you—
the ripe, rich years, the genial, mel
low years, the lusty, luscious years.
One by one the crudities of youth
are falling off from you, the vanity,
.eotism, the isolation, the bewilder
mt, the uncertainty. Nearer and
lal•or you are approaching yourself.
ou are consolidating your forces.
are becoming master of the sit
uation. Every *wrong road into
which you have wandered has
brought you, by the knowledge of
that mistake, so much closer to the
truth. You no longer draw your
bow at a venture, but shoot straight,
the mark. Your possibilities con
centrate, and your path is 4 cleared.
On the ruins of shattered plans you
find your vantage ground. Your
broken hopes, your thwarted purpo
ses, your defeated aspirations be
come a staff of strength with which
lu mount to. sublimer heights. -
.D 1N
ith self-possession and seThcom
nand return the possession and coin
land of all things. The title deed
' creation, forfeited, is reclaimed.
le king has come to his own again.
,rtliand sea and sky pour out their
,rgess of love All the past crowds
iwn to lay its treasures at your
,eet.—Gail Hamilton.
A VALUABLE HINT.
In the Ohio Valley Farmer a cor-
Ispondent gives a capital hint to
-mers, whose flocks of sheep are
oubled with sheep-killing dogs, how
get rid of the said dogs pretty of
Anally, which we take great pleas
in reprinting for the benefit of
mers generally. It is this:
"If a sheep is killed or crippled by
dog, the night thereafter house up
your sheep at& your dogs that
would not have killed : then re
, the dead sheep out of reach of
;s, first cutting out the liver, or
der lean part of it, into which put
ychnine a little more than the
;e of a largo grain of wheat; leave
A in place of the sheep, and my
.d for it, next morning you will
almost certain to find the guilty
near by. If the first night
iuld fail, try again; he will be sure
come back as soon as ho is hungry.
in, ii a sheep is only worried and
killed, any other lean meat will
in • place of mutton. By this
method you will be sure to get the
guilty dog; when by the old method
of hunting him up, it is very doubt
ful if you do."
Strychnine can be obtained at any
drag store. Care must be taken in
handling it, as it is the deadliest of
poisons.
A Dog Story.
The other day, while an Eastern
bound train, ovor the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, was standing at Mar
tinsburg, Va., a man tied a large dog
to the rear end of the train intend
ing to return and release the animal
before the train started. But the
man did not return and the train
sturted—the dog trotted along be
hind. The train being sornowhat
behind time soon commenced ma,k
-jag about forty miles an hour. The
dog put in his best licks, but he
could not keep up, and it was not
long until the life was battered tout
of him. The dog was not discover
ed until the train reached Harper's
Ferry, at which there was very lit ,
dog left.
POLAND.
The latest ,news from Europe ,does
not warrant, the conclusion that there
will be a general European war,
though the Polish insurrection is
spreading and gainimg a foothold in
some of the old Polish provinces.—
England, France and Austria, it is
true, have sent to St. Petersburg
analogous notes; but between such a
proceeding and an ultimatum present
ed by three powerful allies, there is
a world of difference. The truth is,
the sympathy of the French, Eng
lish and Austrians, is fhr ahead of
the disposition and ability of their
respective governments to inter
vene by force of arm's. Sweden, ,t,o
be sure, is arming, but merely by
way of precaution; while Italy is
quite willing to pay a debt of grati
tude to France—in expectation of
other favors England's sympathies
for Poland aro merely producing a
stage effect, no statesman of Europe
believing that, she will expend a .
shilling or sacrifice a man for an ab
stract idea. There is no treaty in
commerce in prospective, no chance
of acquiring.a sea-port, no booty of
any sort—in short, nothing to excite
the enthusiasm of a British states
man.
As regards Franco, she has a diffi
cult problem to solve. The army
and the people, especially the labor
ing classes, strongly sympathize
with the Poles, and so does the
Catholic clergy of France, and
Count Waltewski, the natural cousin
of the Emperor. But the Emperor
Napoleon himself looks further into
the future, where ho sees that to ac
complish the destinies of Franco,
Russia must be her fast ally. His
role, thereforo, is simply that of a
mediator, whatever form he may se
lect to express his concern for Po
land. The Emperor Alexander
knows this, and will overlook the
form of the French diplomatic notes,
in view of the embarrassing situation
in which Napoleon 111. is placed by
the sympathies of the French people.
It is the Prince Napoleon who loudly
and openly espoused the cause of
the Poles, and we find that he is go
ing to Egypt, the Isthmus of Suez,
and the Lord knows where. He is
allowed, perhaps ordered, to travel
in any direction except that of War
saw.
Austria is peculiarly circumstanced,
and must take care of her Polish
province of Galicia, whatever conces
sions she is willing to make to her
own Polish subjects, and to the Pol
ish subjects of Russia; she has no
idea of giving up five millions of her
subjects, after having surrendered
nearly three millions by the peace of
Villafranca. Neither can Prussia
surrender the Duchy of Poing', be
cause that would reduce her to a
power of the second rank.
The reunion of all the Polish prov
inces into a powerful kingdom, we
fear, will not result from the concert
of European powers; and the bravely
of the insurgents and their historic
reminiscences are the only allies on
whom they can really count in their
present heroic struggles.
That the Emperor of Russia will
be compelled to make concessions to
his rebellious subjects, far greater
than those contained in his amnesty,
we do not doubt; that these con
cessions may hereafter lead to a
greater national development of the
Poles, we also believe; but the re
union of Poland can only be the
result of a general European war,
and a reconstruction of the whole
political map of Europe—perhaps of
Asia.
A NEW LIFE-PRESERVER.
Much interest has been excited in
Paris, by the dispatch of two official
representatives of the marine to
Marseilles, by the Emperor's special
desire, in order to report upon the
success of the unimmergible tunic,
which has been tried amidst the
heaviest seas raging during the reign
of the mistral. Five sailors had been
chosen from the various ships of war
lying in the harbour. Only one of
the number could swim. All five,
however, wore soon beheld far out at
sea, walking over the waves as se
renely as if they had been crossing
a hayfield in summer time, and were
merely compellea to step higher, in
order to avoid treading on the hay.
The tunic is wade in the form of an
ordinary paletot, and is easly put on
and taken nil. Ono of the sailors
was cooly smoking a cigar during
the whole time of the experiment,
while another was eating and drink
ing from a little tray which he carried
before him. The last and most con
clusive, because most French, exper
iment was the game of dominoes
played by two of thoparties, who, in
spite
. of the tumbling and tossing of
the ugliest sea over behold, main
tained with the greatest gravity the
excitement of the game to the very
last.
• Star Everything is very cheap in
Japan. A first class house can bo
purchased for thirty dollars. Ser
vants work for fifty cents a month.
For the use of a horse and groom,
one dollar and a half: A person can
live comfortably in Japan for two
cants& day, dr six cents a week. '
,NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 49.
"ROE OUT SOUR ROW,"
One lazy day, a farmer's buy,
Was hoeing out the corn,
And moodily he listened long,
To hear the dinner horn.
The welcome blast was heard at last,
And down he dropped hie hoe;
But the good man shouted in his ear,
"i 4 41Y, hoe out your row I"
Although a "hard one" was the row,
To use a ploughman's phrase,
And the lad, as sailors have it,
Beginning well to "haze"—
"I can l" said he, and manfully,
He seized again his hoe,
And the good man smiled to sea
The boy .hoe out his row.
The lad the test remembered,
And proved the moral well,
That perseverance to the end,
At last will nobly tell.
Take courage, man ! resolve you can,
And strike a vigorous blow ;
In Life's great field of varied toil,
Always hoe out your row.
DRAINING A MASSIGAL.LANE.
In Southern Italy, not far froth
the frontiers of the Roman States, an
interesting work of engineering is
now being prosecuted. This is noth
ing loss than the attempt to drain
the famous Lake Fueino. This lake
Is simply a great pool surrounded by
mountains. Last year the watese
of this lake were drawn off through
a tunnel, four milesin length, which
had required eight years to eat ; and
drains are now being cut in the seat
of the lake for rendering the recov
ered soil fit for cultivation. The lake
covered 40,000 acres of land, which
in a few years will be coverted into
arable land. Julius Cmsar planned
the draining of this lake nearly nine
teen hundred years ago, but the Em
peror Claudius made the first at
tempt. Pliny describes the wonders
of a tunnel following the sides of..a
mounta'n as a depth of a hundred_
feet And it was, indeed, ari 'aston
ishing attempt in those days, when
the engineers had none of the applii
ancee of modern science. Cla m
employed 30,000 men in the attempt
for eleven years, and exhausted the
public treasury. When he believed
that his work was complete, he (tele
brated the event by one of the great
est naumachia, or water-fights of
Roman tizzies, in which 19,000 men,
divided into two fleets, fought to
death "to make a holiday."
Claudius, Agrippina* and yowls
Nero—who, a few months later, be
came master of the empire—the im
perial court and immense crowd of
spectators were present at this fear
ful and imposing gladiatorial con
test. W hen
. the play was termina
ted, the dam which stayed the wa
ters from the tunnel was removed,
and they rushed in with a roar, but
they soon rolled back. The tun
nel was a failure ! The cause of this
failure remained hidden for centu
ries. The work was re commenced
under Trajan and Adrian, still later
by Frederick IL, in 1240; by Al
phonso 1., of Arragon, in the
seventeenth century; and lastly by
Frederick I , King of Naples, in the
eighteenth century ; but all failed.—
In 1826, Afan de Rivera, Chief of the
Public Works in the kingdom of Na
ples, obtained leave to clean out the
cut or drain made by ClaudiuP. This
work was finished in 1835, but the
problem of draining the lake was as
tar off as ever. At length, in 1853,
a Neapolitan company obtained per
mission to drain the lake, and take
the reclaimed bed for their remuner
ation. On investigation, it appeared
that the tunnel constructed under
Claudius had not been so devised as
to draw the water from the lake ;
the Emperor had been cheated by
his Minister of Public Works. The
engineer of the modern company
nally decided to destroy the Roman
work, and make one of double the di
mensions.
PAPER MAKER'S 0010INATIOS.
This respectable body of gentle
men met, we are informed, in this city
last week, and resolved, in view of
the slight decline in the pride of pa
per, owing to an overstocked mar
ket, and the diminished use by pub
lishers, to put their mills on three
fourths time. By this it is hoped so
to decrease the supply of white pa
per, that they will bo able to con
tinue the high prices, and possibly
even. advance on them. When the
publishers petitioned Congress to
repeal the duty on paper, and thus
enable them to import it from,
abroad, it will lie remembered that
it was most positively denied by
the members of the organization
that there was any purpose or . wish
on their part to keep up the price
of paper beyond a fair market value.
In private they wore no less explicit
in their denial of any intention to
interfere with the running of paper
mills, so as to diminish the quantity
of paper manufactured. But what he
this last action but an attempt to
do WO r if paper .con tin nes to
as high as it has for months past,
the public will be at On loss to mildew
stand the cause.—.N. Y. Tires.
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