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WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, ♦ttorneys de Counsellors at Law, WA FIVE SBURG., PA. w ill practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining sounties. Collections and other legal business will re alise prompt attention. Orme on the 18oullt tide of Main same, in the 014 Bank Building. Jan. 28, 1863.-13, S. A. FORMAN. J O. ■ITCHIR. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYA_AND couriseLLoßs AT LAW, Waynesbarg, rm. Air OrtirE—Main Street, eae door east of she old B tuk Building. DLO ...sine,* In Greene, Wastrington, and Fay ittte Counties, entrusted to theui, will receive prompt mention. Supt. 11. 1661-Iy. S. IC DOWIII2IIr, ATTORNEY AND COUNAELLOR AT LAW jCrOtliee in I edwitla's Building, opposite the Cour nose% Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. SCILIONNELL M i CCOMMIEL •TTOR,SEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LA 11* Waynesburg, Pa. -office In the "Wright lb se," East Door. Collections, Ace.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg. April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, !Mutiny and Counsellor at Law. °Mee in Sayers' *adding, aelioinisig the Post Office. Sept. IL, 1861-Iy. & a. SLACK BLACK A. PIIIELAN, ATTORNEYS AND UOUNSELLORS AY LAW Office in the Court House, Wayneiburg. Opt. 11,1861-le. fitOLZoll.ll3s WAR OLAUMUII 13. R. 3P. XICT7I Bar ATTORIIII AT LAW, WATIIILSBUIRCI, rasit•., - 11 Ad received from the War Department at Wash ington city. D. C., otficiet copies of the several )laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and Instructions for the consecution and collection of PXNSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PAY, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan , albildren, widowed mothers, fathers,gisteis and broth ' Iltn, which business, (upon due noticej wilt be attend ed to promptly, anti accurately. if entrusted to his care. Office in the old Dank Building.—April 8, 1863. O. W. O. W'ADDELTAL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, OFFICE in Catnpbell's Row opposite the Hamilton l-I /louse. Waybasharg. Penna. Business of all kinds solicited. Has received official copies of all the Wes passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc tions for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Puy discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan children, dcr., which business if intrusted to his care will Es protuptly attended to. May 19. •63. PHYSICIANS B. M. BLACHLEY, M. D. rawsminiull a. straemoN, 011ee—Welolighltsg i a BIIIIiiII4I, Blain Ss., . I RESPECTFUI lY announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity that lie has returned from t ie Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac- Atm at medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June il, 1382..1). DR. A. G. 'ORM WOllll.l/ very respectfully tender his services u a PUY6II.3AN AND BURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1869. DR. A. J. EDGY LIEeIPECTFI I I.LY offerable services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and rgeon. Office opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life Ind health, so native niegivAtion, and strict attention to business, to merit a liberal char, of public patronage. April 9, 1999. DRUGS M. A. lIARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and ttils, the most celebniterl Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. - fleet. 11, 18111-Iy. MERCHANTS WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Male! in Foreign and Domes it Dry 43100d5. Groceries, Notions, gm, Main street. ept, 11.1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens cause and notions, in the Hamilton House. opposite n dhe Court Douse. Main street. Sept. 11, 186l—ly. MINOR St CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Oro caries, Mueensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite 'the Green House, Main street. iPspt. 11, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SBOILDB.&LERS J. 1). COSGRAY, Boni and shoe maker, Main street, n.mrly opposite llts "Flower's and Drover's Hank." Every style n it Mimeo! Shoe' sonstantly on hand or made to order Sept. 11, 186I—Iy. pROCERIES & VARIETIES JOSEPH YATER, Denier in Groceries and Confeetionerias, Notions Illed`niana, Perrone/tries, Liverpool Ware, &c.,Glass o all sizes. and Gift Moulding and Looking Gin n Plates gfrCask pad for good eating app!es. Idol—ly 7 , . JOHN MUNN ELL, ossfeesiemai., and Variety Ge 7C e di a T' s asses Nt w Msh wee ass. it. iss —ly. Asa 2,EWIS DAY, Airrakelastria tagefiewsous Immo, Milieu -1111101" raPen. ofif Naar salt of NOW's et." a fign. 1 Ig; tie lay upon the hillside where the bullets could not come, Down in the grass, his soldier cap was thrown beside his drum, A stain was on his affirm, a dark stain on his vest, And on the little sunlurnt hand, that lay upon his breast. A stranger in a foreign land ; for, far from him that day, His dark-eyed mother watched the waves, by Naples' silver bay, She heard the soft, sweet chiming sound, she heard the boatman's oar, She waited on that vine-clad rock, for one who'd come no more. The soft wind swept the wavy grass, and in the war-field's gloom, God's sweet blue violets looked up, the peach trees were in bloom. He saw the lurid sun go down, be saw the red coluds gleam, He closed his eyelids wearily, and dream ed a fevered dread: He dreamed he saw the flashing arms, he saw the campfires glow, Wild music rose exultingly, he heard the trumpets blow. And onward swept the crimson flags, and through the rolling drum, A voice cried, See the laurel wreaths, we fight for glory, Come Again the vision swept away, he saw k mingled throng, The poor, the lame, the blind of earth, pressed eagerly along, No glory lit that thorny path, no light that man could see, But sweetly rose a gentle voice, My chil dren, come to Me. J. J. HUFFMAN lie thought of all the laurel-wreathe, the glory of the strife, Ile heard the trumpet-call ring out, along the march of life, Again lie saw the red flags wave, again he heard the drum, And through them all, that gentle call, My weary children, Come. JOON I.IIILAII He woke in languor and in pain, men said he died alone, They made him there a little grave, and raised a nameless stone, His two small hands were clasped in prayer, upon a silent breast; The emigrant had found a home, and love and life and rest. Wild flowers and grasses spring above that lonely little grave, His dark-eyed mother looks to-day on Naples' silver wave, She shall watch the burning southern sky, the twilight calm and mild, But never, till the day of God, her eyes shall see her child. WHAT CONSTITUTEB A STATE ? Not high raised battlements or labored mounds, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with turrets crown'd ; Not bays and broad armed forts, Where laughing a 1 the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts Where low•browei baseness wafts perfume to pride, No ! men—high-minded men, With power as tar above dull brutes en- dued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold brakes or brambles rude— Men who their males know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, • Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a state. You are "getting into years."— Yes but years are getting into you —the ripe, rich years, the genial, mellow years, the lusty, luscious years: One by one, the crudities of your youth are falling off from you, the vanity, the egotism, the insola. Lion, the bewilderment, the uncer tainty. Nearer, and nearer, you aro approaching yourself. Yon are be coming master of the situation.— You are consolidating your forces.— Every wrong road into whit you have wandered has hrought Tcott, by the knowledge of that mistake, SQ much closer to the truth. You no longer draw your bow at a venture, but shoot straight at the mark. Tour possibilities concentrate, and your path is cleared. On the ruins of shattered plans, you find your van tage ground. Your broken hopes, your thwarted purposes, your de feated aspirations become a staff of strength with which yon go to sub lime heights. so- A eerier of services for the people under die dome of St. Poet Cathedral, London, has been froasr. route& lb* first semen use preached by the Bishuip Lonfloa. gr tied Etatrg. THE DRUMMER BOY. Advantages of Years. WAYNESBURO, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1863. iisullaunits. DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC MAN. Major Charles Darrabee, well known to a large number of our cit izens, died at his place of residence in this city, at about two o'clock, yes terday morning. He was eighty-one years of age. He retired the night before, as well, apparently, as he has peen for several months past. The history of the man is full of interest. In 1801 ho first came to Hartford, from Windham, his native town.— He lived with the Rev. Nathan Per kins, doing his farm-work for some time, and remained about the "west parish" till 1808, when be received a commission in the army. He proved a faithful soldier, and at the battle of Lunday's Lane received a gun shot wound in the left arm, which rendered its amputation necessary. Up to the time of his death he re ceived a pension from the govern ment ; at one time it was twenty five dollars a month, but subsequent ly was increased to forty dollars. Major Larrabee was worth proper ty to the amount of several thou sand dollars, which he devotes en tirely for the benefit of lame,deform ed, and maimed females. His will, dated June, 1847, be queathes all his real and personal es tate to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of Hartford, and the Selectmen of the town of Hartford, that. the annual income may be appropriated "for the relief and benefit" of the persons named, "selecting the most needy ;" for which purpose "said estate is to constitute and remain a perpetual and permanent fund, to be called, "The Larrabee Fund." Subsequent ly, in a codicil, he gives to the town of West Hartford the sum of five hundred dollars, to be invested and the interest thereon applied as stated in the Hartford bequest. In refer ence to the disposition of his body after death, he leaves a written mem orandum addressed to Mr. Roberts, the undertaker. It exhibits some of the peculiarities of the man. He says. "My grave must be dug but four feet deep, and midway between the obelisk and south part of the fence." [lie had a lot in Spring Grove Cem etery.] "Should I die in the winter, enough earth must be placed so far above the surface of the ground as will save the body from the frost When the spring has come, and the grass has grown well, then earth must be added to raise my grave two feet above the adjoining surface of the ground. The top of the grave must be three feet wide, and eight feet long, with a gentle slope all around i+ : and may this turf have a good and substantial growth every summer'. My head must be placed at the west end of my grave, so when 1 rise, or am called to judgment,.l may face the sun. * * * I have had an engagement many years with Mr. Roberts to furnish my dead body with a coffin. I want a well-made coffin, but I do not want a cent's worth of fancy work and materials upon it. I do not want a box for my coffin, for I desire to lie as near our mother 'earth as * * * I have not room for extracts from the written papers he leaves. It was his desire that his writings in MS. should be published in pamph let form, and likely they will be.— Though a peculiar man in many re spects, yet, quite natural to a person of his advanced age in life. Mr. Larrabee possessed a warm, sympa -1 thising heart for the afflicted, partic ularly those who were maimed in body. His notions of things were queer, but his motives were thorough; ly honest. He was firm in 'his opin ions, many of which hardly touched the chord of this generation. But we cannot wonder it. He was schooled in the last century. It is true to say ho was a good man, and deserved, as he had, many friends.— liattford Comfier. Our Best Parlors. ben't keep a solitary parlor, into which you go but once a month, with your parson or sewing socie ty. Hang around your walls pic tures that shall tell stories of mercy, hope, courage, faith and charity. Make your living room the house. Let the place be such that when your boy has gone to different lands, or even when. perhaps, he clings to a single plant in the waters of the wide ocean, the thou,.,ht of the still homestead shall come across the des olation, bringing light, hope, and love. Have no dungeon about your house—no room you never open ----no blinds that are always shut, Victor Emanuel's Marriage. The Bing of Italy has just conclu ded a morganatic marriage with the beautiful Rosins, whom he first saw on the battle-fidld of Magenta She is the daughter of a simple drummer in the army ; but the King's partial ity has since made her a Countess of Mira ores. So ardent is his love for her tint be told his ministers, who tried to dissuade him from ta kArsg sops that he would sooner phoommosiloorown thou An Wiwi*. THE FIRE-ESCAPE DOG. We find in one of our London Magazines, Early Days, the following account of a sagacious dot , which i will interest our young readers : There is a noble band of heroic men in London, who have charge of the tire-escapes--a contrivance for letting persons down from the windows of a house that is on fire.— Samuel Wood, one of the bravest of these brave men, has saved nearly one hundred men, women, and chil dren, from the flames! Much of his suceess. however, is justly due to his wonderful little dog " Bill," around whose neck the inhabitants of Whitechapel have placed a silver collar, in token of his valuable ser vicesduring the nine years that he has been the fire-escape dog. Bill, like his master, has to be very wakeful, and at his post of duty all night; and therefore he sleeps during the day, close to his master's bed. Ho never attempts to run out of doors until the hour approaches for them to go to the station. Bill does not allow his master to sleep too long. Ile is sure to wake him if' he is likely to be too late. How the dog knows the time, is a puzzle; but know it he does. When the fire-es cape is wheeled out of Whiteeliapel churchyard, at nine o'clock, Bill is promptly at his post. When an alarm of fire is heard, Bill who is at other times very quiet, now begins to bark furiously. Wood has no need to sound his rattle, for the po licemen all around kuow's Bill's bark so well, that they at once come up to render their valuable help. If the alarm of fire takes place where there are few poople in the streets, Bill runs round to the coffee houses near, and, pushing open the doors, gives his well-known bark, as much as to say, "Come, and help, men! come, and help." Bill has not to bark in vain. His call is cheerfully obeyed. lu dark nights the lantern has to Ibe lit, when Bill at once seizes hold of it; and, like a herald, runs on be fore his master. When the ladder la' erected, Bill is at the top before his active master has reached half way! He jumps into the rooms, and amid thick smthce, and the approach ; ng flames, runs from room to room, helping his master to find and bring ' out the poor inmates. On one occasion, the fire burned so rapidly, and the smoke in the room became so dense, that Wood and another man were unable to find their way out. They feared that escape was hopeless. Bill seem ed at once to comprehend the dan ger in which his kind master was placed, and the faithful creature be gan to bark. Half-suffocated, Wood and his comrade, knowing this to be the signal, "Follow me," at once crawled after Bill, and in a few mo ments they were providentially led • to the window, and their lives were saved. On another occasion, a poor little kitten was found on the stairs of a house that was on fire: Bill imme diately drove the kitten down from stair to stair, until it reached the door, and was there tenderly taken up and cared for by a kind-hearted policeman. Richly does Bill deserve his silver collar. It bears this inscription : "I am the Fire. Escape Man's dog, my name is BILL, When 'tire' is called, I am never still : I bark for my master, all danger I brave, To bring the 'Escape,' human life to save." Poor Bill, like human beings, has had his trials and sufferings as well as honors. At one tiro, through a hole burnt in the floor, he fell down into a tub of scalding water, from which be suffered dreadfully, and narrowly escaped a painful death.— On three other occasions he had the misfortune to be run over; but with careful doctoring he was soon able to•resumo his duties. When we last patted Bill on his head, he was suf fering from acough which has never left him since his last accident. Since the above was written, poor Bill bus died, through injuries receiv ed at a fire. Buffering in the Mountains A recent reconnoissance. into the mountains of Kentucky, near Bar boursville and Cumberland Ford, dis closed that the people there are as poor as they are loyal. The rebels resort to torturing women and chil dren to disclose bidden corn, and take all. Men, women and children have been stripped of their clothing and shoes. One officer found two men stripped to their shirts and ntar ly starving. These people were first cleaned out by the necessities of Morgan, and ever since by the reb els. Starvation or flight will soon be the only steps left them. The IKOlllOllllal l l Expedition. The official repot.' of Gen. Stone man will show the following l e a ses Officers wounded, one ; missing, four teen; men wounded, eight; missing, one hundred and torty-nine ; killed, eight. The command of Gen. StOne man captured forty-three officers, s i x hundred and thirty-five men, two handred and two mules, two bus drod and thirty wagons, and six hup drod and fifty-six boron. EATING HABITS. The most common way to a prema ture grave and one of the shortest cuts to that destination is down a man's throat. There is a multitude which no man can number, daily eat ing immoderately, thus sapping the constitution and laying the founda tion for innumerable ills and a too early grave. The wise man does it, and the fool; the virtuous and the abandoned ; the kind and the cross, of all climes, are among the orrorists. But there are some who aro wise as to this point, and the number is in creasing; the number of those who are men and women of force; who think for themselves ; who have vig or of intellect enough to compare causes and effects, antecedents and eonsequents. There is constantly coming to us the knowledge of moth ers, who, by the teachings of this Journal, have been led to regulate their households rationally, and are reaping a rich reward iu the shape of health for themselves, and what is dearer still, increasing health for their children. The first point in the philosophy of eating is to perform that very necessary business with the greatest regularity. A young Scotch trapper, Thomas Gienday, told us thirty years ago, that the Indians, with whom lie had been bunting ; ate but once a day, and that was in the ear ly evening; that then, a single in dividual would consume several pounds of moat, smoke his pipe, lie down to sleep, get up by the dawn, hunt aftday, eating nothing until the night again. An old beau of Washington city took it into his head that eating was a trouble, and that he would perform that process but once a day. On occasions of hie being invited out in the evening, he felt compelled to take something, although he had eaten his regular dinner; but then he would eat noth ing at all next day. These irregu larities were very rare ; be died w hen nearly eighty years of age, a spright ly and gallant old beau to the last. On the other hand, persons who are regularly irregular seem to live a good while. Captain Hall lately stated to the Historical Society, in this city, the case of some esquimaux, who, being carried to sea on a cake of ice, ate absolutely n'ithing for the space of thirty days, when each man swallowed about thirty pounds of meat and oil, and neither bursted up nor died. But observation has shown that, both as to man and beast, regularity in the hours of eating is indispensable to a healthful, thriving condition. Most articles of food re quire several hours to be placed in condition to be passed out of the stomach ; and if a new supply of food is introduced before this process of digestion, or conversion, is com pleted, the former food is not passed out until the latter hots been brought to its own condition ; the result of its being kept warm for so long is, that it begins to decay, gas is generated, and the whole mass is corrupted.— Those who eat often, who eat be tween meals, always have wind on the stomach and other places : but if it cannot escape, it causes a feel ing of weight or oppression, and this is dyspepsia, that horrid hag which has a thousand ails in her train. Half "the gills" have dyspep sia before they aro seventeen, in consequence of their everlas„ing nib bling at every thing eatable in the house. The most natural and health ful times for eating would seem to be at daylight, noon and sundown ; the last meal being very light indeed. —Hall's Journal of Bealth. KEEP THE 001480IENOE OLEAR. Whoever believes that kravery, cruelty, hypocrisy, or any other vice, can, under any circumstances, prompt even tile temporal happines of him who practices it, is but a superficial observer and a shallow reasoner. In the world's parlance, men who ac quire wealth and influence by urrvar rartable means are called prosperous. But what is prosperity in the true and legitimate sense of the word ? Webster tells us : 'Advice or gain in anything good," No man can be domed truly prosperous whose con science is ill at ease, and whoever enriches himself at the expenses of justice, duty and honor, plunges his soul, even here, into a state of adver sity which no indulgence of the senses, no adulat;on of time-servers and parasites, nothing that motiey can buy or power command, will of. fectually or permanently relieve Another strange argument in favor of doing right is, that out of every hundred men who seek wealth by dishonorable roads, ninety-nine conic to - poverty and shame. This is a statistical fact, and taken in combi nation with the undeniable truth, that the small per tentage of aspir ing knaves who win their game fool in their souls that it has been dearly won at the sacrifice of inward peace and self esteem, should long ago have made all the world honest on selfish principles. The yetrospoct review of a disap pointed scamp must be melancholy in the extreme. He sees, of course, with terrible distinctness how each departure from rentitude helped to cloud his life, sink him deeper in misery, and alienate_ from %int sympathies of the noble an 4 good— He is conscious of the besotted blind ness which led him to put his trust in cunning and chicanery, instead of choosing the path of duty and leav ing the consequences to Providence, and is compelled to acknowledge to himself that roguery is the twin of folly, and a pure life the best evi delice of a sound brain as of a Chris tian spirit. Be assured, therefore, that it is good wordly policy to keep the con science clear. It tends to comfort, content, real happiness ; nor can this fair earth, and the excellent things with which it abounds, be thoroughly enjoyed by the Creases to to whose gold cling the curses of the wronged. The closing scenes of a are however, the grand of test the wisdom or folly which shaped its course. Sir Walter Scott's dying words tell the whole story : "Be a good man, Lockhart, nothing else will comfort you when you come to lie here." STATISTIOS OF THE GLOBE. The following cut ious facts are stated by the Ahab) Medicale : "The earth is inhabited by 1,288,000,000 of inhabitants, namely, 369,000,000 of the Caucasian race ; 552,000,000 of the Mongolian race , 190,000,000 of the Ethiopian ; 1,000,000 of the American Indian ; and 200,000,000 of the Malay races, All these re spectively speak 3,064 languages, and profess 1,000 different religions. The amount of deaths per annum is 333,333,333, or 91,954 per day, 3,730 per hour, 60 per minute or 1 per sec ond: so that at every pulsation of our heart a human being dies. This loss is compensated by an equal number of births. The average duration of life throughout the globe is 33 years. One fourth of its population dies be fore the seventh year, and one-half before the seventeenth Out of 10,- 000 persons, only one reaches his hundreth year ; only one in five hun dred his eightieth, and only one in 100 his sixty-fifth. Married people live longer than unmarried ones ; and a tall man is likely to live longer than a short one. Until the fiftieth year, women have a better chance of life than men, but beyond that pe riod the chances are equal. Sixty five persons out of 1,000 marry : the mouths of June' and December are those in which marriages are most frequent. Children born in spring are generally stronger than those born in other seasons. Births and deaths chiefly occur at night. The number of men able to bear arms is but one eigth of the population.— The nature of the profession exerci ses a great influence on longevity.— Thus, out of 100 of each of the' fol lowing professions, the number of those who attain their seventieth year, is among clergymen, 42 ; agri culturists, 40 ; traders and manufac turers, 33 ; soldiers, 32 ; 'clerks, 32 ; lawyers, 29 ; artists, 28 ; professors, 27; and physicians, 24 ; so that those who study the art of prolong ing the lives of others, are most like, ly to die early, probably on account of the effluvia to which they are con stantly exposed. There are in the world 335,000,000 of Christians, 5,- 000,000 of Jews, 600,000,000 profess ing some of the Asiatic religious, 160,- 000,000 of Mohammedans, and 200,- 000,000 of Pagans. Of the Chris tians, 170,000,000 profess the Catho lic, 76.000,000 the Greek, and 80,000,- 000 the Protestant creeds FIRST SHOT IN THE REVOLUTION. The first American who discharged his gun on the day of the battle of ' Lexington, was Ebuezer Rock, who died at Deering, N. H., about fifty ' years ago. le resided at Lexing ' ton in 17Th. The British regulars, at the order of Major Pitcairn, hav ing fired at a few Americans on the green in front of the meeting house, killing some and wounding others, it was a signal of war. "The citizens." writes one, "might be seen coining from all directions in the roads, over the fietds and through the woods, each with his rifle in his hand, his powder horn to his side, and his pockets provided with bullets," 1 Among the number was Ebnezer L 3ek. • The British had posted a reserve of infantry a mile in the rear, in the direction of Boston. This was in the neighborhood of Mr. Lock, who in stead of hastening to join the party at the green, placed himself in an open cellar at a convenient distance for doing execution. A portion of the reserve was standing on a bridge, and Mr. Lock commenced firing at them. There was no other Aineri- ! eau iu sight. Ho worked valiantly for sonic ten minutes, bringing down one of the enemy at nearly every shot. Up ...o this time not a gun had boon tired elsewher3 by the Ameri cans. The British greatly disturbed at losing so many men by the ran dom fire of an unseen foe, were not long in discovering the man in the cellar and discharged a volley of balls which lodged in the walls oppo site. Mr. Lock, remaining unhurt, continued to load and fire with the precision of a distinguished marks man. He was driven to such 01040 quarters, however, by the British on his right and left, that he Was eOl4l - to retreat. NEW SERIES.--VOL. 5, NO, 2- He had just one bullet left, and there was .but onelva.y to escape, and that wastthrough .orchard, and not one moment was to be lost ; he leveled his gun at the man near by, dropped the weapon and the man was shot through the heart. The balls whistled about bim. Lock reached the brink of a steep hill, and throwing himself down upon the ground, tumbled downwards, rolling as if mortally wounded. In this way he escaped unhurt. At the close of the war he moved to New Hampshire, where he resided until his death, twenty years after. He lived in seclusion and died in .peace. MOTHERS AND CHILDREN. Few things are more painful to look upon than the self-renunciation, the self-abnegation of mothers—pain ful both for its testimony and its prophecy. Its testim ony is of over care, over-work, over-weariness, the abuse of capacities that were bestow. ed for most sacred uses, an utter waste of most pure and living waters. Its prophecy is of early decline and decadence, forfeiture of position and power, and worse perhaps than all, reparable loss and grievous wrong to the children for whom all is sacrifi ced. To maintain her rank, no exertion is to great , no means too small.— Dress is one of the most obvious thing to a child. If the mother wears cheap or shabby or ill sorted clothes, while the children's are fine and harmoni ous, it-is impossible that they should not receive the impression that they are of more consequence than their mother. Therefore, for her children's sake, if not for her own, the mother should always be well-dressed. Her baby, so far as it is concerned in the matter, instead of being an excuse for a faded bonnet, should be an in ducement for a fresh one. It is not a question of richest aid poverty; it is a thing of relations. It is simply that the mother's dress—her morning and evening, add street and chant. dress--should be quite as good as, and if there is any difference, better than her child's. It is of no matter of consequence how a child is clad, provided only its health be not injur ed, its state corrupted, or its self-re speet wounded. Children look pret tier in the cheapest and simplest ma terials, -than in the richest and most elaborate. But how common is it to see the children gaily caparisoned in silk and feathers and fl9unces, while the mother is enveloped in an atmos phere of cottony fadiness! One would take the child to be mistress and the mother a servant. "But" the mother says, "I do not care for dress, and Caroline does. She, poor child, would be mortified not to be dressed like the other children."— Then do you teach her bettor.--- Plant in her mind a higher standard of self-respect. And be so nobly and grandly a woman that she shall have faith in you.—Gail Hamilton in the Atlantic Monthly. --- - - - Our ♦ictery on the Mississippi. The success of General Grant is regarded by the military authorities, says a Herald Washington dispatch, as incomparably the most import ant of the whole war. It is 'estima ted that it breaks the backbone of the rebellion and pasklyzes the whole rebel movement. It places Missouri, Arkansas and Texas at the mercy of the Union forces, cuts off the main rebel armies from their usual supplies of grain,' cattle and war materials, most of which were received through Texas, gives to the United States the control of more than a million bales of cotton and large quantities of other productions, secures to the great' Northwest the free navigation of the Mississippi river, and opens avenues for the ad vance of the Union armies into the very heart of reheldom. The Union re-possessions of Vicksburg is re garded us worth more than the cap ture of a thousand Richmond& Dar Th e sentence of death passed by court martial against IVilliatn S. Burgess, Thomas Harkins alias Hawkins, uud George Tints, convict ed of being rebel spies has been ap proved by the President, and their execution, by hanging, will take place on Friday, the 29th, inst., at Sandusky, Ohio. The President has also approved of the sentence of court martial in the case of john U. Shore, a private in the one hundred and ninth Illinois volunteers, convicted of desertion and ordered to be shot. The exe cution will take place at Sandusky on the same day. xotiy-A Tragedy has taken place at St. Petersburg which has created a powerful sensation. A very pretty young widow of the German Theatre, who was teased with the addressee of a Polish Court, of the reasonable and unromantic ago of fifty, toad him she was determined to have nothing to do with him, bat to mar ry again; whereupon, as s t friend, he begged a last teto4-tete at dirner, and after the repast drew out a brace of pistols and shot the pour act see dead, and then shot himself, but nr vived for a few ltours.
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