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iept. 1, 1861 ly.
THE CHOICE OF A WIFE.
The Rev. B. Kurtz, D. D, LL. D.,
on the 3d ult., made this the theme
of a lecture to the graduating class
of Theological Students in the Mis
sionary Institute of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Selinsgrove, Pa.
Dr. K. favored early marriages, but
not early engagements, for the fol
lowing reasons :
"In general I advocate early mar
riage, and might assign, if time per
mitted, many weighty reasons to
sustain my opinion. But instead of
this I shall only reply to the princi
pal argument commonly urged
against it, namely, that young men
arc too inexperienced and precipi
tate properly to estimate character
and exercise sound judgment. There
is some truth in this objection, but
not enough to dislodge me from the
position assumed. If men, as they
grow older, generally became pro
portionably more competent to select
wives, the objection would receive
additional force. But is this the
fact? Look at your old bachelors ;
do they, as a rule, select more judi_
ciously than young men of from
twenty-one to twenty-five years of
age? It is true, as we grow older
we become suspicious but suspicion
operates rather to pervert than to'
improve our estimate of human char
acter. .1 have known as many blun
ders to be committed by old bache
lors as by young men, and this is the
more likely to be the case because
on account of mercenary speculation
they are more liable to be the ob
jects of female art. The handsome
young lady too often takes the ugly
old bachelor not for love, but for
convenience or for money. Hence,
there are no matches more absurd
than those sometimes made by this
class of men, unless indeed, it be
those perpetrated occasionally by
old widowers. The Germans have a
proverb to the effect, that when God
wants a fool he takes am old man's
wife from him,' because the old wi
dower is so prone to act fantastical
ly and foolishly, and make himself
rediculous when in search of a wife.
Now, I readily grint, that there are
many honorable exceptions in regard
to the follies attributed both to
bachelors and widowers ; neverthe
less, it does not strike rue that age
gives any peculiar knowledge where
woman is concerned, or which is
likely essentially to assist in choos
ing a wife.
" It appears to me, then, that the
objection to early marriage, arising
from want of experience and mature
judgment, is not a valid one. If a
man at twenty-one is deemed old
enough to preach the Gospel, to prac
tise medicine and law to engage in
:mercantile pursuits, or any other
business which also requires the ex
ercise of prudence and judgment,
why should he not have sense
enough .to choose a wife, if be will
only properly exercise his sense?
"But while I advocate early mar
riage, I am not in favor of early en
gagements. Suchengagem en ts open
wide the mouth of busy gossips, and
too often terminate -in a jilt on one
side, or a breach of promise on the
other. Besides, the student of thvin
ity is constantly progressing in
knowledge, developing his intellect
and enriching it with learning,
which is rarely the case -with his be
trothed. .§tie is usually employed in
domestic duties, and remains sta
tionary in mental culture. Of
course, his views are enlarging and
his opinions rapidly changing, and
the female that would win his agee
tions when the engagement was
made a year or two previously, while
she was his equal in mental develop
ment, is by no means the one that
would command his admiration af
ter the great change that has been
wrought in his taste by his more ex
panded views.—lience, they no long
er suit each other; she is the same,
but he is now qutte a different man,
and ten to one if he do not regret his
premature engagement and attempt
,to escape from it. Indeed, it would
I perhaps be better for both parties If
it were dissolved by mutual consent.
Many other reasons might be men
tioned to expose the folly of hasty
and premature engagements, but
but these are sufficient. Hence we
warn young men against them, and
especially while prosecuting their
studies, as they then have anxieties
enough to perplex their minds, du
ties enough to employ their time,
and cares enough to worry them,
without adding to them those of a
rash engagement."
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CURE FOB OONSUMPTIVE PA-
The Medical Reporter says that a
consumptive patient now under treat•
ment is taking cream, with better
effect than was experienced under
the cod-liver oil, previously tried,—
Our advice is for all who have, or
think they have, consumption, to
adopt cream diet. Rat ,the pure
sweet cream abundantly--as much
of it as the stomach will digest well,
and we doubt not that it will prove
quite ma effectual as the purest cod-
liver oil that can be bought.
Biottßautpuz.
WiNNTS.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1863.
DIARRHEA.
it is quite sufficient for all pratical
purposes, to say that diarrhea, dys
entery and Asiatic cholera are one
and the same disease, differing only
in intensity. Diarrhea is a watery
loosenees ; dysentery is a bloody
looseness; cholera is an immense wa
tery looseness.
In diarrhea, there is not much
path, necessarily. In dysentery,
there is a great deal of pain inevita
bly. In cholera, there is never any
pain at all, as to the bowels. In
diarrhea discharges always succeed
inclination, with no satisfactory dis
charge.
In cholera, desire is followed al
ways by immense and relieving dis
charges. In all these, there is one
never failing circumstance always
and inevitably present, and can nev
er be absent, ui'der any conceivable
circumstances —it is the quenchless
instinct of nature calling for absolute
rest, bodily quietude, and without
that rest 11 cure is impossible, and
death an inevitable event.
There is in all these a remorseless
thirst. Nature then calls for two
things, to satisfy her longings—rest
and drink, and if these two thing are
done with sufficient promptness,
there is a perfect cure in nine cases
out of ten.
Perfect quietude on a bed, and
chewing ice, swallowing as large
puce as possible, until the thirst is
perfectly satisdiA, is all that is neces
sary in any ordinary attack of any
of these three inevitable diseases.
To make assurance doubly sure,
keep the abdomen tightly bound with
two thicknessess of woollen flannel,
eating nothing but boiled rice, with
boiled milk, in ordinary cases; if
more violent, let rice be parched as
black as coffee generally is. then boil
and eat; or what is still more effi
cient, put a pound or more of flour in
a linen bag, boil it in milk, two
hours, take off the skin, dry it, grate
it into boiled milk, and eat freely,
and nothing else, until the disease is
checked. If these bowel complaints
are checked too promptly with laud,'
num, paregoric or opium, fatal co,
vulsions takes place in a few holm
as to children; an incurable cong.
tion and inflammation of the brain i
grown persons. As bowel digeasl
are the scourge of all armies in t:
fall of the rear; these suggestiG
should be circulated —Health Tract
SMALL LIES.
Henry Ward Beecher, in a se
mon on faithfulness in small thing
said :
'1 do not know of any buyer w
pays such prices as the devil pa;
when he buys a man. Here is ama
who sells himself for about I of
pound of chickory in a pound of c 4
fee. He prepares his commodity wi,
a lie, and retails it with another lie
Every time a man commits a known
dishonesty he sells his soul; and
thousands are selling themselves by
little driblets And I think a man
who sells himself thus, cheats him
self—no, ho cheats the devil who pays
too much for him. I am informed
that before the commutation was
abandoned by the ferry company,
men of property and standing in
society, would boldly declare that
they had a commutation ticket in
their pocket when they had none,
for the sake of getting through with
out paying! They lied for 1 cent
1 pity the devil. It is awful to be
chief .magistrate of a parcel of men
like these. I cannot understand
how these exigous, thrice squeezed
men can be managed."
HOW THEY DEAL WITH DRUNK
ARDS IN NEW ZEALAND.
In the Lyttleton Times, published
in the province of Canterbury, •in
the above colony, we find the follow
ing advertisement :—Notice to the
Public.—Whereas it has this day
been proved to the satisfaeLion of us,
the undersigned, being three of Her
Majesty's Justices of the Peace, that
one Mary Ann Robertson, of Christ
Church, who is described at the foot
of this notice, has become an habit
ual drunkard, and is injuring her
health by excessive drinking, we
hereby, under the provisions of the
thirty-third clause of the 'Public-
House Ordinance, 1862,' give notice
that we prohibit all persons from
supplying the said Mary Ann Rob
ertson with any spirituous or fermen
ted liquor whatever, for the space of
two years from the date hereof."—
This warning is enforced by the
threat of a fine of £2O, or three
months' imprisonment.
YOUTHFUL VETERANS.
A Massachusetts cotemporary
says : "John Brown, of North Ston
ington, an active young man of nine
ty-four years, walked five miles on
Monday, on business, without ap
parent fatigue."
Another "youth" of this class, says
the Boston Journal, is the well
known Daniel Hawkins, a New Le
banon Shaker, for fifty years an el
der of one of the families, who can
read the finest print without specta
cles, works fourteen hours a day in
the garden, has the care of twenty
hives of bees, and can walk five
miles with ease and comfort at auy
time.
A scientific writer says that bad
news weakens the action of the heart,
oppresses the lungs, destroys the ap
petite, stops dig.estion, and .partially
suspends all the functions of the sys
tem. An emotion .of shame flushes
the face; fear blanches it, joy illu
minates it; and an instant thrill elec
trifies a million nerves. Surprise
spurs the pulse into a gaHop. De
lirium infuses great energy. Voli
tion commands, and hundreds of
muscles spring to execute. Power
ful emotion often kills the body at a
stroke; Chilo, Diagoras and Sopho
,cles.died of joy at the Grecian games.
The news of a defeat killed Philip
the Fifth. The door-keeper of Con
' gress expired upon hearing of the
surrender of Cornwallis. Eminent
public speakers have often died in
.the midst of an• impassioned burst
of eloquence, or when the deep emo
tion that had produced it suddenly
subsided. Largrave, the young Par
isian, died when he heard that the
musicial prize, for which he had com
peted, had been awarded to another.
ROW TO LOOK YOUNG.
Bow is it, that some men, thought
to be so old, stil ) look young, while
others, though young, still look
old ? The cause lies very frequently
in themselves. An old gentleman
being asked the reason, said: 'never
ride when I can walk: I never eat
but one dish at dinner ; I never get
drunk. My walking keeps my blood
in circulation, my simple diet pre
vents indigestion, and never touch
ing ardent spirits, my liver never
fears being eaten up alive." But he
forgot to add ono of the greatest
causes of lasting youth—"a kind, un
envious heart." Envy can dig as
deeply in the human face as time it
self,
GOT ONE.
Peter Apple of Oakland, Indiana,
was lately recruited for the 11th In
diana, and took part in the attempt
to storm one of the Vicksburg bat
teries. The rebel fire was so destruc
tive that our army recoiled. Apple,
the "raw recruit," "didn't see" the
backward movement and kept going
ahead wail he came right on to one
of the rebel guns, caught a gunner
by the collar and brought him with
in our lines, saying "Boys, why
didn't yogi come on? Eve_yy fellow
might have got one." We have
heard of no more daring act of bra
very than this little incident since
the war began.—Piulsville Democrat.
. S/OKNESB NOT OAIIBELESB.
There never caa be disease with
out a cause; and almost always the
cause is in the person who is ill; he
has either done something which he
ought not to have done, or he has
omitted something which he should
have attended to.
Another important item is, that
e.kness does not, as a general thing,
irne on suddenly; as seldom does
thus come, as a house becomes en
;loped in flames, on the instant of
, e fire first breaking out. There is
)nerally a spark, *a tiny flame, a
ifling blaze. It is so with disease,
d promptitude is always an im-
Jrtant element of safety and deliv
,ranee. A little child wakes up in
) e night with a disturbing cough,
, ut which, after a while, passes off;
nd the parent feels relieved; the
;coed night, the,eough is more de
ded ; the third, it is croup, and in
few hours more, the darling is
;ad !
Had that child been kept warm
n bed the whole of the day after the
.st coughing was noticed, had been
.d lightly, and got abundant warm
31cep, it would have
.had no cough
the second night, and the day after
would have been well.
An incalculable amount of human
suffering, and many lives would be
saved every year, if two things were
one uniformly. First, when any
;comfortable feeling is noticed,
egin at once, trace the cause of it
id avoid that cause ever after.—
;cond, use means at once to remove
,a symptom; and among these, the
;at are those which are most uni
rsally available and applicable, as
vt, warmth, abstinence,
a clean
.son, and a pure air. When wai
ls are ill, they follow nature's in
nct, and lie down to rest. Many
Taluable life has been lost by the
vise efforts of the patient to "keep
," when the moat fitting place
was a warm bed and a quiet apart
ment.
Some persons attempt to "harden
leir constitutions," by exposing
iemselves to the causes which in•
iced their sufferings, as it they
, uld by so doing, get accustomed
the exposure, and ever thereafter
idure it with good impunity. A
iod constitution, like a good gar-
Alt, lasts the longer by its being
taken care of. If a. finger has been
burned by putting it in the fire and
is cured never so, well, it will be
burned again as often as it is put in
the ere: such a result is inevitable.—
There is no such thing as hardening
one's self against the cause of dis
ease. What gives a man a cold to
day, will give him a cold to-morrow,
and the next day, and the next.—
What lies in the stomach like a
heavy weight to-day, will do the
, e to morrow ; not in a less de-
.ee, but a greater; and as we get
older, or get more under the influ
ence of disease, lesser causes have
greater ill effects; so that the older
we get, the greater need is there for
increased efforts to avoid hardships
and exposures, and to be more prompt
in rectifying any symptoms, by rest,
warmth, and abstinence.--Ball's
Journal f Health.
A DEAD DUKE.
The foreign papers, a short time
ago,brought the account of the death
of the Duke of Hamilton in Paris.—
The circumstances attending his
death were kept very quiet, but it
leaked out that he was drunk, fell
down the stairs of the ;liaison Donn,
and broke his neck. He was a dissi
pated, handsome man, possessed of
vast wealth, and occupied an envia
ble position in society in Paris as
in London. He was the boon com
panion of Louis Napoleon and the
reckless set who, in the days of the
Presidency, made the little palace
at St. Cloud ring with their orgies ;
and his life has been from manhood
to death, a career of proflagacy and
' excitement. There is not mention
ed of bim one solitary act which ben
efited his fellow-man, not one enno
bling trait of character--yet the
flunkey London P9st, whose especial
-duty is to look after the quality, liv
ing and dead, expatiates a fulsome
eolumn upon the deceased roue.
STORY OF TWO B ULLBTS
The Vicksburg correspondent of
the Missouri Republican narrates the
following singular incident:—"l late
ly saw at the headquarters of Colonel
Slack's brigade, two Minnie bullets,
which had once told a history. One
was a rebel bullet of English manu
facture, smuggled over by our dear
brethren in Britain to shoot their
dear brethren in America. The oth
er was a national ball of the Spring
field rifle type. The former was fired
from a rifle pit at Jaekson,at our
skirmishers. The latter was fired
from our line of skirmishers at the'
the fifle pit. They met midway in
the air, were welded by the com
pact and fell harmlessly to the
ground. They are now firm friends,
sticking each to the other closer than
a Mother or a lover,"
stir Pew people realize the extent of th
Territories of the West. It is said that,
Idaho embraces an area of 326,000 square
miles—etkugh to make eleven States like
New York—and her extensive gold Gelds
are attracting a large emigration.
Horrible.
The Newport (Vt) News relates
the particulars of a fearful tragedy
which took place on the 9th instant
in the town of Worcester. Mrs.
Mary Loomis, only fourteen years
of age, although a married person,
was attacked in the woods by Orrin
Carr and her own brothel-in-law
and terribly abused after which the
fiends hung her by the neck to a
tree, with the binding of her apron,
in which condition her body was
found. The men were arrested and
are both in jail at Montpelier, and
will be tried next month,
Star- Alice B. Haven, (formerly
Alice B. Neal) died on Saturday, in
Mamaroneck, Weschestur coutlcy, N.
Y., at the age of thirty-five. Her
maiden name was Emily Bradley,
but while a school girl, she sent, un
der the psoudonyme of Alice G. Lee,
many attractive sketches to the Sat
urday Gazette, then recently estab
lished by Joseph U. Neal, in this city
She was married to Mr. Neal in 1846'
and at his request assumed and has
since retained the name of Alice.—
On the death of her husband, in
1847, she took the editorial charge
of the Gazette, and conducted it for
several years, contributing at the
same time poems, sketches, and tales
to the leading magazines. In 1853
she was married to Mr. Samuel L.
Haven, and has since resided in
Westchester county, N. Y.
SPEECH
COL. WM. HOPKINS
THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY
Our readers will remember that
in April last, a series of Resolutions
on the war and the state of the
country, was offered in the House of
Representatives of this State. Be
fore their adoption a discussion arose
between the Democrats and Aboli
tionists, in which Judge SHANNON, a
renegade Democrat, elected by the
Republicans from Allegheny, par
ticipated, and to whom Col. Horxrris
ably and successfully replied in the
following speech :
Mr, Speaker, the magnitude of the
issues involved in the question be
fore us must be my apology for tres
passing upon the indulgence of the
liouse at this late hour of the ses
sion. Before proceeding to the dis
cussion of the resolutions, I desire to
strip tLe subject of the mists thrown
around it by the political harangue
delivered on last night by the learn
ed and eloquent gentleman from Al
legheny, (Mr. Shannon.) Whatever
may be said of the length of that
speech, or of its applicability to the
subject under discussion, all will
agree that this logic was irresistible.
It would be impossible to remember
'all that was said in the course of a
three hours' speech ; and I regret
that an opportunity was not afford
ed me to reply to hint ftt the time,
when his remarks were more fresh
in my memory.
Had a stranger chanced to enter
this hall during the first two hours of
his speech, he would have supposed
that a political gathering of parti
sans were assembled here, and that
the orator was arraigning.the great
Democratic party upon a charge of
incqnsistency, especially upon the
slavery question. Now, Mr.,Speak
er. I must confess that my powers of
perception did not enable me to see
the relevancy of this part of the gen
tleman's speech to the questions un
der discussion. Suppose, sir, we con
cede that the Democratic party has
been inconsistent upon this question,
or that it has been even as variable
upon all questions as th 9 opposition
party (with which the gentleman
himself is now identified) With its
varied names, bow would that affect
the present condition of our country?
Sir, in the present sad and trying
hour, when the pillars of our glori
ous Republic seem to be crumbling,
and the temple of our liberties rock
ing on its foundation stones, it would
be more patriotic and statesmanlike
to strive to prevent its utter over
t brow, rather than to indulge in tir
ades about party inconsistency.
But to tbo logic of the gentleman
from Allegheny. He told us that a
Democratic convention was held in
the city of Pittsburgh in 1849, at,
which a resolution was adopted
`against the farther extension of
slavery;" and therefore, by the gen.-
tleman's logic, every subordinate of
the administration has a right to ar
rest and imprison for months a pri
vate and peaceable citizen in a loyal
State, "without due process of law,"
or without even any information f
accusation being made according to
the requirements of the Constitution.,
Is not that clear
Again—the gentleman told us that
Floyd, Thompson and Cobb had de
frauded the government out of large
sums, consisting of arms, bonds, &c.,
and therefore he would have us be
lieve that the hundreds of millions of
dollars that have been plundered
from the treasury during the present
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administration, was all right; and
not only so, but the man who quest
tions the integrity of these publie
robbers, is "in sympathy with the
rebellion." Is not this equally clear?
The gentleman also told us that
James Buchanan, in 1819, offered a
resolution against the introduction
of slavery into free territory, and
therefore, according to the gentle
man's logic, President Lincoln had
au undoubted right to issue his pro
clamation freeing the slaves in the
revolted States. Who will fail to be
convinced by such cogent reasoning
as this ?
Having thus disposed of the gen
tleman's political declamation, of
which 1 cannot see the pertinency.—
J. proceed, Mr. Speaker, to notice his
are merit upon the resolutions. The
meferenee he eladre to these, 'was
to the third, fourth and seventh.—
The third reads thus :
"Third, That thiefieneral Aseem
bly recognizes a manifest difference
between the administration of the
government and the government it
self; the one is transitory, limited in
duration to that period of time for
which the officers elected by the peo
ple are charged with the conduct of
the same; the other is permanent, in
tended by its founders to endure for
ever."
This resolution the gentlemen was
pleased to stigmatize as worthy only
of the notice of a school-boy. Mr.
Speaker, it does not so strike me;
and, inasmuch as there have been
found in this House but three. per
sons to vote with the gentleman
against this resolution, I am safe is
saying that there are many who re
cognize here a sentiment and a
principle thit merits something more
than a sneer—and amongst those
who think so are many upon the
gentleman's own side of the House,
who are almost as old and as learned
as himself. There are many in this
land who confound the goyernment
with the administration. It this is
not ao, why are men denoun6ed as
traitors who, while unwavering in
their fidelity to the Constitution—
which is the life of the government=
feel it their duty to denounce sorne
of the measures of Mr. Lincoln, his
Cabinet, and the Republican Con
gress, who compose the administra
tion ? Why, sir, when was it ever
supposed that fealty to the govern
ment requiied blind and passive ac
quiescence in the policy of the party
who, for the time being, might have
control of the administration ? If
this dogma were true, our country
has always been cursed with a pro
lific brood of traitors. For the time
has never heretofore boen when those
ont of power did not freely discuss,
and even bitterly denounce, jibe
measures of the party in power—if
we except the days of the elder Ad
ams, when it was attempted, by the
then opponents •of the Democratic
party, to make it seditious and trea
sonable to speak disrespectfully of
the Pr3sident. Can it be that those
days are to return again ?
The fourth resolution is in these
words :
"Fourth. That this General Assem
bly in the exercise of its right to dif
fer with the Federal Executive, en
ters its solemn protest against the
proclamation of the President of the
United States, dated the first day of
January, one thousand eight hund
red and sixty-three, by which he as
sumes to emancipate slaves in cer
tain States, holding the same to be
unwise, unconstitutional and void."
In regard to this resolution, I shall
have something to say hereafter.—
For the present, I pass on to tke
consideration of the-seventh resolu
tion, which is as follows :
"Seventh, That this General As
sembly deems it proper further to de
clare, that it, together with all the
truly loyal people of the State,
would hail with pleasure and delight
any manifestation of a desire on the
part of the seceded States to return
to their allegiance to tile govern
ment of the Union, and would, in
such event, cordially and earnestly
co-operate with them iu the restora
tion of peace and the procurement
of such proper guarantees, as would
give security to all their interests
and rights."
And this, Mr. Speaker, is the reso
lution the gentleman from Allegheny
treated with such scorn and con tempt;
and concerning which he even used
the polite and classic expression,
that he would "spit upon it." I
venture to say, sir, that this resolu
tion .embodies the spirit of every
PM NW that is offered to tho Throne
of Grace by every truly christian
man. Yes, sir, go with nie to yon
der sanctuary of the living God, and
listen to that devoted servant of the
Prince of Peace, whose mission was
to preach "peace on earth, good will
to man," and hear him as he invokes
the "Great God of Battles to restore
onee more to our beloved and bleed
ing country the inestimable bless
ings of peace." What think you,
Mr. Speaker, would be the response
of a gentleman who would sneer at
each a resolution as this ? Would it
be a hearty "amen ?" No, sir ; no.
It would be "blood," "blood,"
"blood." Or, Mr. Speaker, go with
me, if you please, to yonder humble
cottage, and as you approach tread