. . . (Ajf • . • • )1,1,1 Ato J il -- 4 Peptr---Proattb to politirs, Aviculture, fittrotort, Slituct, Art, foreign, Pouttstic Quad Juttlligtift, ESTABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISHED BY R. W. JONES & JAMES S. JENNINGS WAYNESBURG, GREENE CO., PA 117'OPPICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUAIRS.-ni 3ittlat all @DIDENIIPTION.-5.2.00 in advance; $2.25 at the ex piration 44. six months; $2.50 after the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at $1.25 per square for three insertions, and 25 cts. a square for each addition al insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) Err A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. Dis-r-Joe PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the best style, and on reatill‘ble terms, at the "Messenger" Job °ince. lid agnesinag lkusintss Garbs. ATTORNEYS. oao. L. WYLY. J. A. J. BUCHANAN, D. U. P. HUSS WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, Attorn . eys & Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. Will practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining counties. Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. Office on the South side of M a nn t r ee 1 6 the Old B a nk Building. . 28, 160.-3, An A. P iTiMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COLINSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Otrica—, Alain Street, one door east of the old Bink Building. IrrAll Justness in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, entrusted to then, will receive prompt attention. R. W. TUMMY, ATTORNEY AND COU . NSELLOR AT LAW. lErOfftee in I edwith's Building, opposite the Court *louse, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. M'CONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN. Wit'oolll7/31L14 & IMPTBIL49Iq, STTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. Mr - Office in the "Wright Ik. se," East Door. Collerti6os, &c.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg. April 23, 1862--Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney ittxd Colansellar at Law. Office in Sayers' Sandier, adiniuing the Post Office. Sept. 11. 1861,--Iyr a ♦. BLACK BLACK A. PHELAN, ATTORN EY Office in S AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW the Couit-lionse, Waynetburg. Sept. 111,1801—Iv. ILSOLDIERSI WAR CIA/IMS! Tzi. R. P. MICITEMES, ATIORNZY AT LAW, WAYNESBURG, PEVA., HAS received from the War Department at Wash lsgtnn city. D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PAY, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan Children, widowed mothers, fathers, sisters and broth er., which business, [upon due notice] will he attend ed to promptly, and accurately, if entrusted to his care. Office In the old Rauh April 8, 1863. O. W. G. WADDELL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, FFICE in Campbell's Row opposite the Hamilton NJ House, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all kinds solicited. has received official copies of all the laws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc tions for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Rue discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan Children, &c., which business If intrusted to his care will le promptly adended to. May 13. '63. PHYSICIANS B. M. BLACHLEY I _M. D. pinrszcziuyir & SII"...01119N, :puree-111aellillers Building, Main St., 11DESPECTFULLY announces to the citizens of JR, Waynesburg and vicinity that he has returned from the hospital emits of the Andy and resumed the prac rice of medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June 11„ 1362.-1).. DR. A. a. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people or Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due &nitre .ciation of human life aad health, and strict attention to ;business, to merit a share of public patronage. ',Waynesburg. January 8, 1882. DR. A. J. EIGGY unie , ESPECTFULLY o ff ers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and • on. Office opposite the Republican office. tie ;hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life : and health, so native medication, and strict attention . to business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. ; April 9, 1862. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celeltrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 11361-Iy. MERCHANTS WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes it Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. It, Ig6l—ly. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Ihudware, Queen•- Ware and notious, in the Hamilton !Iroise, opposite She court House, Main street. Dept• 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic. Dry Goods, Crll retries, gneensware, Hardware and Notions, Opposite cls..D.reen House, Mail, street. 49,141,.18.01-Iy, BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker. Mafia street, nearly opposite •he "Farmer's and Drover's Hank." Every style or hoots find Shoes constantly hn hand or made to order. r • Rept. 11, 1861-Iy. - • GROCERIES & VABITIPPIES. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries. Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, ace., Class of all sizes.' and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. frriCash paid for contenting Apples. sept. 11, latHL-ly. JOHN MUNNELL, Denier in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goo d" G e ne t rity. Wileen's Nies Hbilding , Main street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. 59088• &a. LEWIS *DAY, D i aler tit &boat amt./Cm:o~w Soaks, station ery, lalk. Masiaziars sad Ripens Oa. door east et Poetises Store, lif ain Street. teem. 11, 1861 ty. BUILDING A MAN. BY PROF. WARRING WILKISON Beneath the blue waves of the tropic sea there is a work going on where, like Solomon's . temple, no hammer nor tool of iron is heard, and so imperceptibly, that a generation of men can scarcely mark its pro gress. Its foundations are laid on the ocean bottom, and slowly through countless centuries it rises, pushing its way towards the light. The ma terials are washed from the White Hills of New Hampshire, the Moun tains of Oregon, the Heart of the Andes, and, floating in every drop that pours into the ocean, are pre cipitated and made available by the strange alchemy of the coral insect. The architects of this wondrous structure are indeed a "little folk," but industry and numbers atune for littleness. Above it ; the stately ships go on, and as yet no chart tells of the hidden reef. By-and-by, in some great storm, when waves roll high, in the deepest trough of the sea a dark mass of rock is discovered, which some ages henceobtains a level with the ocean. Floating weeds and grasses now strand against it ; the ceaseless attrition of waves forms a sand to fill up its hollows ; strange seeds from afar off shores catch and germinate in its soil ; flowers that seem like the breath of God spring up, awl diffuse through the air a fra grance which the birds assimilate in to color and song. Thus a coral is land is formed. A man is built very much in the same way. For years, beneath the surface of social life, and like the coral insect, obeying un instinct of its nature, a child is gathering un consciouslyl to itself, and too often uticonseit,usly to others, the materi als for the future man. For this purpose nothing is rejected : nursery tales, sunshine and shower, fishing rods, kites, and ball-clubs, books and playmates, parental example and ad vice, are all received, and leave their good or evil mark on the forming character the child. It is because of this assimilating tendency in youth that we consider Home influ ences as one of the first importance in the Building of Man. "Sire," said a court lady of Napo leon, seekino.. a compliment, "who is the greatestwo.rtn in France?" 'She, who has.the most children," answer ed the Emperor. He spoke as a sol dier, looking on men as the rough material of war. A true Christian statesman would have added, "and brings them on the best." On the hearthstone is generally laid the foundation of man's weal or woe. For the first ten years of life the mother's mind and heart are the principal sources of supply, and du ring those years of golden opportu nities she may trace the plan by which a great and good man shall be built. Precept and example effect much ; prayers do as m uch more.— No man ever forgets what he learned at his mother's knee. He may try to ignore it, stifle it with business cares or wordly pleasures, but in ev ery lull of the great Babel he bear that home voice, like the song of the sea-shell, singing its quiet tune in his heart. Man has been described as a bun dle of habits, and there can be little doubt that they do go far toward making or marring the active yet in visible force which we call manhood They seize upon our actions, motion,• amusements, language, even our very tboughts—sometimes our de votions. Virtues and vices are noth ing but good and evil become habitu al. Good habits, however, are only secured by long and arduous labor, and here we are taken advantage of by evil habits which intrude them selves ; but though the latter are so ready to come, it is not so easy to get rid of them while we never knew a man to be so firmly tied up to a good habit that he could not break off without much effort. JOHN ?NOLAN Occasionally wo see a man brought under the dominion of some master ful vice that, like the Old Man of the Sea, rides him to death, or, after shattering mind and body, sends him to end his days in a mad house or the Inebriate Asylum. These ea seg are rare, and do not fail to ex cite pity. Most men are the slaves of small vices. We hold that by ev ery evil habit—if it is nothing more only putting his bands in his pock ets—a man's power and efficiency is so much weakened. A man is not physically perfect who has lost his little finger. It is no answer to say that such a man can do many things as well as before his mutilation.— Can he do every thing as well ? So every bad habit cripples in kind though not in degree, and when they are nutridibus enough such small vices deprive us of appreetighle power. We remember that:Gul liver was effectually bound and made helpless by the Lilliputians, though every cable was but a thread. It wou/d.ke very difficult to tell just what part the sunlight performs in the economy of vegitable nature, yet everybody knows what a poor, shriveled useless thing -a sunless plant is. So we cannot assign to So ciety its particular functions in the Bistettantots. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1863. (building of a man ; but from Caspar Hauser me have learned how weak and sickly is human growth when ; deprived of that necessary surround ! ing. I Friends do much to adorn and beautify or to disfigure the character; therefore have good friends, or none. "It is unnatural for a man to court and hug solitariness," says Dr. Ful ler, "yet a desert is more than a de bauehed companion." Nearly all wo have said of friends and their influence will apply with equal force to books, with this addi tion, that whereas in society a man can only have the companionship of the living, in his reading he may as sociate with the virtuous or debased of all ages. Faithless men, destitute of all stim ulus to noble action, stand like . blocks in the way of human grog ; rision. This is not a solitary case ; we might cite many others, and if the reader lives in the country his observation will bear us out in our statement. Pie is a good thing in its way, but it is not a household god, and to live on it mainly is to be dys peptic and full of all manner of mi , nor troubles the man wI.o intro ' duced pie and pork as articles of diet has a great deal to answer for; and consumers of such edibles have usual ly a heavy doctor's bill to settle an ' Dna fly. —Scientific Anzerican. PORK AND PIE. Pork and pie have a great deal to answer for in this country, and NVe wish most heartily that the old Jew ish law regarding the usage of the former could be observed by our people. Few persons have diges tive organs of sufficient strength to master this meat, and whether we eat it boiled, roasted, or fried, or more indigestible still, in the shape of sausage-meat, it is almost certain to rebel against us. It is but sel dom that we ever use this food •in our family, but we had the curiosity the other day to ascertain how much fat or grease was contained in two big, doggy-looking sausages, weighing, perhaps, half a pound The result was that over two table spoonsfu: of clear lard was extracted from those two sausages alone. We have frequently seen men, and wo men too, eating this sort of diet, and have heard them complain that "it did not set very well." We should Oink not. A table-spoonful of lard between the sensitive coats of the stomach is not apt to induce the most delightful sensations, and those persons who persist in using pork in any shape, would find themselves much better oft' without it. Down with the sausage ! Let us have no more of it; it has created enough distress already, and we hope it will disappear from our tables entirely.— We are borne out in our dislike of pork by medical testimony of a high character. Repeatedly have physi cians declared that it was unwhole some, and so on ; but still the people cannot relinquish the forbidden food. We are "down" on pie, too, not how ever, in so great, a degree as we con demn pork. Pies, made in the prop er manner, are not necessarily un wholesome, but in the hands of ordi nary cooks they aro tremendous weapons of offence. The unwhole someness of pies arises mainly from the quantity of butter (shortening) employed in the pastry. Fruit baked between two crusts is not unhealthy but the crust itself is, and lies heavi ly on the stomach. The butter turns sour, gives flatulance, and create dis tress generally in persons of ordina ry digestive force. In the country everybody eats pie, at morning, noon and night there is a deluge of pie, which old and young eagerly attack. The little children cry for it, the old ones demand it; and we heard with horror, on one occasion, a woman say she had baked seventeen pies for the week. "How many are there in your family ?" we asked. "Two," she said. Comment is superfluous. Here aro twu persons who eat seventeen pies in a week, quite as a matter of course. They were always sighing and complaining; the husband was downcast and unhappy, and always taking "tonics," and they were at a loss to imagine why life seemed so commonplace and dull. We ventured to suggest that the seventeen pies had some responsibility in the mat ter, but were met with scorn and de ress, and though borne onward by the resistless force of events, they go wagging their heads and reviling the martyrs saying, "they trusted in God ; let him deliver them now, if he will have them." Ah, men of faith ! what though you are crucified before the Right prevails. Abraham be lieved God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Shall not faith in the XlXth century on the shores of the Atlantic receive its re ward as well a; on the plains of Ma ture ?—lnd. tiirWomen are at field work in Michigan, because so many men, have gone into the field elsewhere. Persons from abroad ought to be able to get enough of work and good wages in the Northwest, that seat of future empire. jWho is the, most industrious of all ploughmen ? Time, for he tarns the meet, furroira AN ENGLISHMAN'S VISIT TO GEN. JACKSON. A correspondent of the London Times, who arrived in Richmond on the 13th of last February, writes of the condition of affairs at that time in the Confederate capital, and de scribes a visit to "Stonewall" Jack son, from which we extract the fol lowing : The city is one great camp, and every one is striving to obtain an appointment in the army. I sat% at once that the chance of an English , man getting a military appointment ' was very small. I brought out from Nassau a box of goods for General Stonewall Jackson, and he asked me when 1 was at Richmond to come to his camp and see him. I left the city one morning about seven o'clock, and about ten landed at a statism distant some eight or nine miles from Jackson's, or, as his men call him, -Old Jack's" camp I got in to camp about two o'clock. I then made my way to a small house occu pied by the General as his headquar ters. I wrote down my name and gave it to the orderly, and I was immediately told to walk in. The General rose and greeted me warm ly. He is tall, handsome, and pow erfully built, but thin. He has brown hair and a brown beard.— His mouth expresses great determi nation. The lips are thin and com pressed firmly together, his eyes are blue and dark ,with a keen and search ing expression. I was told that his age was thirty-eight, and he looks about forty. The General, who is indescribably sincere and unaffected in ail his ways, took off my wet over coat with his own hands, made up the fire, brought wood for me to put my feet on, to keep them warm while my hoots were drying, and then began to ask me questions on various subjects. At the dinner hour we went out and joined the members of his staff. At this meal the General said grace in a fervent, quiet manner, which struzk mo much. After dinner I returned to his room, and he a gain i talked to me for a long time. The servant came in and took his mattress out of a cup board and laid it on the floor. As I rose to retire, the General said, "Cap tain, there is plenty of room in my hod ; I hope you will share it with me." I thanked him very much for his courtesy, but said "good night," and slept in a tent, sharing the blankets of one of his 41d-de-camp.— In the morning, at breakfast time, I noticed that the General said grace with the same fervor I had remarked before. An hour or two afterwards it was time for me to return to the station ; on this occasion, however, I had a horse, and I turned up to the General's quarters to bid him adieu. His little room was vacant, so I stepped in and stood before the fire. I then noticed my great coat stretched before it on a chair. Short ly afterwards the General entered the room. He said, "Captain I have been trying to dry your great coat, but I am afraid I have not succeeded very well." "That little act illus trates the man's character." With the cares and responsibilities of a vast army on his shoulders, he finds time to do little acts of kindness and thoughtfulness which make him the darling of his men, who never seem to tiro of talking of him. General Jackson is a man of great endurance ; he drinks nothing stronger than water, and never uses tobacco or any stimulant. lie has be. known to ride thyee days and nights at a time, and if there is any labor to be un dergone, he never fails to take his shags of it. UPS AND DOWNS OF BUSINESS LIFE. A merchant of Boston, says the Boston Traveller, whose net profits during the Crimean war amounted to at least ono hundred and fifty thousaal dollars, passing safely through the crisis of 1857, and who was reported to bo worth a quarter pf a million, failed a few days ago with liabilities to the extent of 200,- 000,000 dollars, of which is estima ted he will only be able to pay about fifty per cent. A few weeks since, a business man of Boston, who here tofore has been remarkably lucky in all his operations, made purchases of sugar to a very large amount, upon which his losses, it is estimated, will roach at least sixty thousand dollars. A MISTAKE. It is often remarked that printers can read anything, and correspond ents and advertises say so as au ex cuse for half-spelling words, abrevi ating technicalities, and slovenly, unreadable writing generally. There is no doubt that printers are better dicipherors of bad manuscript than any other persons; but, when, for instance, a merchant writes that he ha's received five Drs. ten pounds Cu., it is somewhat difficult to tell whether the merchant really inef...ns boots, biscuits, or butternuts; chalk, cheese, or churn; cloves, clocks, or clams. Don't presume too much on the ability of the printer. iferdobn Van Bitten, son of the late ex-President, has purchased the Lineenwald property for $30,000. It is reported that he intends to 1.6- tire from politics and law, and de vote his attention to agriculture. THE OHARMS OF GOOD HEALTH. Woman's incapacity is the only real barrier to woman's progress.— Whenever women show themselves able, men will show themselves will ing. This is .what you need— strength, calibre. You do not set half enough value on muscular pow er. Esthetic young lady-writers and sentimental penny-a-liners have imbibed and propogated the idea that feebleness and fragility are wo manly and fascinating. The result is a legion ut languid headaches, and interesting inability to walk half a dozen c.msecutive miles, a delicate horror of open win dows, north-west winds, and the wholesome rain-storms. There is no computing the amount of charming invalidism following in the wake of such a line as, There is sweetness in woman's decay-- a lengthened sweetness long drawn out by some compliant and imita tive females. Ido not, of course, re fer to real invalids, who have inher ited feeble constitutions, and, by un avoidable and unselfish and unceas ing wear aed tear, have exhausted their small capital, and to whom life has become one long scene of weari ness and pain. Heaven help them to bear the burden ; and they do bear it nobly, often accomplishing what ought to make their ruddy and robust sisters blush for shame at their own inefficiency I mean those who have every opportunity to be healthy—who are sick when it is their duty to be well. A woman of twenty in comfortable circumstan ces ought to be as much ashamed of being dyspeptic as of being drunk.— Fathers and mothers, burdened with cares and anxieties, may neglect physiological laws without impugn ing their moral character; but for a girl, care-free, to confess-such an impeachment is presumptive evi dence of gluttony, laziness, or ignor ance, and generally all three. This is no elegant language, I know; but when we have learned to call things by their right names, we shall have taken one step toward the millen nium ; and it is an indisputable fact that a great majority of ailments arise from over-eating and under-ex ercising. The innumerable hosts of nervous diseases with which women are afflicted are always aggravated, and often caused, by these indulgen ces. Women do net know this, and if they did it would be of little use so long as they consider illness one of the charms of beauty. Let the idea once get a firm hold that ill ness is stupid and vulgar, and a gen eration or two—nay, even a year or two—would show a marked change. If a woman is ill, let her take it for granted that it is her first business to get well, and let her forthwith set about it. A good stout will, a resolute pur pose, wouli work wonders. " Few persons like sick people," says Charles Lamb ; "as for me, I can didly confess 1 hate them." What ever poetasters sing, you may de pend upon it, a good digestion is "an excellent thing in a woman."—li. J. THE AIB, WE BREATHE. No other subject bearing upon hu man health is so vitally important. My life is now censocrated to gym nastics. I could not have engaged in this work without a profound convic tion of its necessity and value. But as compared with ventilation muscle culture is insignificant. Our first, constant, and imperative need is pure are. Upon this vital point in telligent people are sadly and wi!- fully stupid. A large majority of of the cars, theaters, parlors, and churches are dens of poisons. It must be a strong attraction which can draw me to a public hall. In lectures before lyceums, I quarrel with the managers about the atmos phere of 0145 hall. 1 return from church sincerely doubting whether I have not comibitted a sin in ex posing myself in a poisonous atmos phere. The eminent Baudeloque declared is as his conviction that the lack of proper ventilation in our dwellings is the principal cause of scrofula. He believed if there be pure air, bad food, improper cloth ing, and want of cleanliness will not produce scrofula. Sir James Clark, expressed his opinion that the bad air of our nurseries, sitting-rooms, and bedrooms produces an immense amount of scrofulous disease. As a medical man, I have visited thousand of the sick, but have never found one hundred of them in pure atmosphere. Among the well, not ono in a hundred sleep in a well ven tilated room.. The air in our close furnace boated houses produces fits in our cats and dogs, and would kill our horses and cows in a few months. God had provided in this immense atmospheric ocean, a hundred miles deep, with its winds and very hurri canes, an exhaustless fountain of lite and death ! What a shame to our civilization that we should oxpend thousands of dollars in erecting splendid houses, and so contrive them as to compel ourselves to breathe, in instead of Oa pure air of heaven, a vile mixture with the poisonous ex cretions of own bodies and the poi sonous gases emanating from our gas burners and fires.—Dr. Dick Lewis' • THE FOIBLES OF GENIUS, One of the most encouraging signs of the age is the greater common sense which dictates our judgment of that strange class of beings called authors. For ages poets had been regarded as a species of "irresponsi ble beings," who were under the in thence of a demon which they could not control. A respectable poet, such as Shakspeare, was considered almost a lusus naturce ; and even he, in his plays, now and then threw the mange of the mens divinior over some of the most scampish charac ters-. How tenderly he deals with Falstaff, a man who set all the courts of law at defiance, and had the measureless impudence—or, as Leigh Ihmt terms it, the "divine au dacity"—to ask one Lord Chief Justice to lend him a thousand pounds, and another to become his bail for robbing the king's exchequer. The most gratifying in Shakespeare's biography—to speak as a respectable man—is the last recorded fa , A, of his life, namely, that he sued a man fox a quarter of malt. We dare say the man thought that because he was a poet he would not expect to be paid, since in those days poets never paid anybody. Every lover of the divine dollar will admit that Shakespeare's dying worth ten thousand pounds— a large sum in those days—is more to his credit than writing "Hamlet" or "Othello:" As a proof of the halo of scampishness which had settled upon the author's brow, we may 'mention that even Dr. Johnson, rigid moralist as he was, used to chuckle over the idea that Oliver Goldsmith died ten thousand dollars in debt.— When this was told to "Old Sam," he exclaimed, with curious wonder, "Was ever poet trusted so before ?" Now, however, things are different. Silly gossips may joke about Narcis sus paying his tradesman off alpha betically, and telling a man named Younu• that if he lived long enough he would be paid, but owning candid ly that at that moment he had not yet got into the A's ; but, neverthe less, tailors do not consider it an hon or to be swindled even by the first of living lyric poets, or a dramatist great as Boureicault. We live in ac age where twice two are four, and where the dollar is the only legal tender. GARDENS. Every man, rich or poor, in town or in country, should cultivate some piece of ground, no matter how small, and have something either useful or beautiful growing in it if it be within the scope of possibility. A garden creates a taste for simple pleasures. Thuse flowers and simple trees that may or may not interest the passing stranger, will always be looked upon with interest and affection by the eye of him wbo planted them with his own hand. This love of natural beauties is the best antagonist to love of artificially stimulating and expen sive excitement. A garden attaches a man permanently to his home. It is a kind of sheet anchor, that ties a man fast to a place he has once im proved by a thousand little roots and tendrils, numerous as those of the trees he has planted. When Gulliver went to Lilliput, he woke and found that the tiny inhabitants had driven stakes into the earth, and made them fast to the separate hairs of his head, so that while he could lie still pleas antly enough, let him attempt to move, and it was at the expense of a thousand little pains, each of itself surmountable, but the whole together forming a strong premium upon re maining quiet. Every plant and tree and flow er of a garden kept and cul tivated Cy one's own hand, becomes such a to to one quiet spot around your dwelling. Another Romance of the War. The following bit of the romance of the war is from a letter dated at Lake Providence, Louisiana : The Ist Kansas regiment. which I have spoken of before, is encamped near us. One of the members of that reg invent, a sergeant, died in the hos pital two weeks ago. After death his comrades discovered that their companion—by the side of whom they had marched and fought for al most two years—was a woman. wont to the hospital and saw the body after it was prepared for burial and made some inquiries about her. She was rather more than the aver age size for a woman, with rather strongly marked features, so that with the aid of a man's attire she had a very masculine look. She en listed in the regiment after they wont to Missouri, and consequently they knew nothing of her early history. She probably served under an as. sumed name. She wash in the battle of Springfield where Gen. Lyon was k , lled, and has fought in a dozen battles and skirmishes. She always sustained an excellent reputation both as a man and a soldier, and the men all speak of her in terms of respect tted affection. She was brave as a lion in battle, and never flinched from any duty of hardship that fell to her lot. She must have been very shrewd to have lived in the regiment so long and preserved her secret so well. Poor girl she wog Worthy of a hotter fate NEW SERIES.--VOL. 5, NO. 3. Who knows what grief, trouble or persecution induced her to embrace such a life ? A ROMANTIO INCIDENT. Mr. Thurlow Weed relates, in the Al bany Journal, the following romantic in cident, in connection with a friend of his, recently decased. The inci lent has P. lo cal interest : In his history there is a romance so well known to his friends that we can see no ejections to its constituting part of hie obituary.. More than forty years Ago, in the village of Manlius, two merchant clerks—Charles Williams and Richard P. Hopkins—were suitors for Lhe Imnaof Miss Phelps, an accomplished young lady of that village. They were intimate friends, and each so excellent in character, and so attractive iu person and manners, that a young lady might well be embarrassed iu her choice, exclaiming, low happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away. But a decision was finally made in Richard's favor. This caused no jar, howevr, in the relations of the trio. Hop, kinE went with his young wife to Chau tauque county, find Williams to New York, where, after several years of clerk ship, he went into business and was suc cessful. Many years afterwards Hopkins failed, and became, first a clerk, and then a partner of Williams, in New York.— Some fifteen years ago, Mr. Williams married the daughter of Mr. Hopkins, his early rival, and the daughter, also, of his first attachment. Like the mother, she was accomplished and estimable. The Parties were always happy because they were truly good. Mr. Hopkins died in Cincinnati. Mt. Williams retired from business several years ago, and resides in Stamford, Connecticut. A TOUCHING SCENE. A correspondent of tic Elmira Republican says that in a recent trip over the New York and Erie road, an incident occurred that• touched every beholder's heart with pity. A comparatively young lady, dressed in deep mourning—her hus band having recently died—was travelling Southward, having in her care and keeping a young daughter of some six years. The little girl was mild-eyed as an autumnal sky and as delicate as the hyacinth—her emaciated fingers as delicate and transparent as the pearls of Ceylon. Touchingly beautiful was the affec tion of her heart for the mother, whose solicitude for the daughter's comfort was unceasingly manifest ed. Looking ever and anon from the car window she turned to her mother saying: "Mother, I am wea ry, when shall we get home ?"—Af ter a time she fell into a gentle slumber, and awaking suddenly--u radiant smile oversprcading her features—she exclaimed, pointing upward'—"Mother there is papal— home at last I" and expired. It was yet many a weary mile to the moth er's home, but the angels pitying the little sufferer. gathered her 10,the Paradise of Innocence. MRS. DOUGLAS AND HER FAMILY. A Washington correspondent of the Springfield Republican, alluding to the death of James Madison Cutts, the father of Mrs. Douglas, says : "Mrs. Douglas is again in mourn ing. She was always a favorite with her father, and the attachment between them was -unusually strong. She is now left alone with her chil dren to battle with life as best she can. The children relinquished their Memphis estate long ago by choosing to remain here and espouse the cause of their country-, One of the boys 's upon Gen. Burnside's staff, if the government succeeds in restoring the Union, or in putting down the rebellion, the children will recover their southern estate, though doubtless in a ruined condi tion. Every few months the gossip mongers have coined a new story re specting Mrs. Douglas They have married her to several men, but most frequently to Mr. Chase. What makes the matter worse, is, that there never was the slightest foun dation for it. It must have been started purposely, for a mischievous purpose. Mrs. Douglas has busied herself for the last two years at the hospitals. There is not a woman In the country who has been more ac ive in doing nod than she, and hundreds of wounded and sick sol diers will remember her name with gratitude.". ear Dr. Johnson said :—"doettil tom your children- to a strict atten tion to truth, even in the most mi nute particulars. If a thing happen at one window, and they when re. lilting it say that it happened at an nother, do not lot it pass, but instan ly cheek then; you do not know where deviation from truth will end. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that th..re is so much falsehood in the world. All truth is not of eqqal importance; but if little violation are allowed, every violation will, in time be thought little." IZI
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