m E I.J IIII ,& •'• j( \ A ( I\\ fr L -P LIII i tiT L tt : Y ) ) • L ' 1 * famitt) paper---pooteli to Nricutturt, fittraturt, sfitlift, Art / foreign, pomestic nub @turd juttilignta, r. I: 4 4O:OO:OMICSRMci THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISHED /IT a. W. JONES & JAMES S. JENNINGS. WAYNESBURG, GREENE CO., PA 117.011PFICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC S%II ARE. -Ca 3llaMSl/Gli Suascarrnort.-82.00 in advance; 82.25 at the ex piration of six months; $4.50 after the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMINTS inserted at $1.25 per square for three insertions, and 25 cts. a square for each addition .at insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) ir,,t liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. Joe PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the best sty e, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Job Office. Itlie - No paper sent for a longer period than ONE YEAR without be ing paid for. quesburg Nosiness garbs. ALTTORM'EYS4 Dag. A.. WYLY. J. •. J. BUCHANAN, D. it. P. HUSS WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, ttorneys & Counsellors' at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. ror Itl practice in the Courts ot . Greene and adjoining °entities. Collections and other legal business will re naive prompt attention. Clinton on the South side of Main street, in the Old Bank'Snildmg. Jan. 28, 1863.-13, J O. RITCH/E A. • • PURINA R. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTOUNFSB AND COUNBELLORB AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. ffiND'Orttrv.—Main Street, one door east of the old 8 Ink Building. 1L7A.11 ..mainess in Greene, Washington, and Fay site-Counties, entrusted to them, will receive promp• attention. N. B —Particular attention will be given to the col lusion of Pensions. Bounty Money. Back Pay, and ether claims against the Government. Sept.. 11, 1861-Iy. a. W. DOMlfinr, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW grOtTice in 1 edwith'a Building, opposite the Court Wave, Waynesburg, Pa. A, A. M'CONNELL aIIi'CONNELL ac UDTTM.&N, 477'ORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. 70311ce In the "Wright Hi se," East Door. Cections, dtc.. will receive prompt attention. 'Waynesburg, April 23, 1861-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Main Street, East and nearly opposite the flank, Waynesburg, Pa., July 30, 1863.—1 y. IMIEZE3 BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. Sept. 11,1881—Iv. SOLDIERS' WAR CLAIMS! X). R. P. 331[1311319, ATTORN gY AT LAW, WAY N ESBU RO, PURINA., ILT AS received from the War Department at Wash ington city. D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and initructions for the prosecution and collection of PENVONS, 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 be attend. Ed to promptly, and accnrately, if entrusted to his care. Office in the old flank Building.—April 8, 1863. G. W. O. WALDDZLL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, O!WHIR in Campbell's Row opposite the Hamilton 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 01 PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Dee discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan children, ism, which business if intrusted •to his care will Ce promptly attended to. May 13,'63. PHYSICIANS Dr. T. W. Ross, Bfkiarissicasta3 Mauilgeocon., Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET east, anal nearly opposite the Wright house. Wad freshly g, Sept. 23, 1863. DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services an a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 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, Mg. DRUGS M. A. 11ARVEY, Mensgist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints acid Oils, the moat celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. dept. 11, 11861-Iy. BREROILANTS. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Roome r Pry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens & are and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., peatem in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gru reties, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House, mat t , street. Sept. 11, 1881-Iy, BOOT ADD SECOE DEALERS J. D. COSGRAY, Hoot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly npaosite the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." gerary style of B oot , an d shoes constantly on hand ar made lA ovder. Sept. 11, 1861—IY. GIMMUM:III & VAItIETIES JOSEPH YATER, *ale! in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Medians., Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of 401 sizes. and Gilt Moulding and Looking Clews Plates. 14.31, 140 PIA Rid for aged eating App e a. 1-41#.1 • • JOHN IvIUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and Courectionaries, and Variety Goode Goof 1 /I . Wilson's Nenrolinilding, poset. *O II P I NSACS• IZUjeL ) Ego Parte?. Stew* • MAXIMS TO LIVE AND THRIVE BY• One of the wealthiest men in Phil adelphia, as assuredly the least proud of his wealth, as wealth, is our respected and benevolent fellow-citi zen, John Grigg, Esq., founder of the great bookselling and publishing house of Grigg & Elliot, (now J. B. Lippincott & Co.;) which by the boldness, extent, and success of its business, gave an immense advance to the sale and publication of books in the United States. He has made his way to fortune by following a few plain and practical business rules, which, in fact, constitute a moral code for all who desire to gain success, by.deserving it. These rules, which we copy from the American Publishers' Circular, aro as follows : 1. Be industrious and economical. Waste neither time or money in small and useless pleasures and in dulgences. if the young can be in duced to begin to save the moment they enter on the paths of life, the way,will ever become easier before them, and they will not fail to at tain a competency and that without denying themselves any of the real necessaries and comforts of life.— Our people are certainly among the most improvident and extrava , t ant on the face of the earth. It is en ough to make the merchant of the olg school, who looks back and thinks what economy, prudence, and discre tion, ho had to bring to bear on his own business (and which are in fact the basis of all successful enterprise,) start balk in astonishment to look at the ruthless waste and extrava gance of the age and people. The highest test of respectability with me is honest industry. Well-direct ed industry makes men happy.— The really noble class, the class that was noble when "Adam delv'd and Eve spun," and have preserved their patent to this day untarnished, is the ; laborious and industrious. Un til men have learned industry, econ omy, and self-control, they cannot be safely intrusted with wealth. J. J. HUFFMAN 2. To industry and economy add self-reliance. Do not take too much advice. The busines man must keep at the helm and steer his own ship. In early life every one should be taught to think for himself. A man's talents are never brought out until he is thrown to some extent upon Ms own resources. If in every diffi culty he has only to run to his prin cipal, and then implicitly obey the directions h© may receive, he will re quire that aptitude of perception, that promptness of decision, and that firmness of purpose, which aro absolutely necessary to those whc hold important stations. A certain degree of independent feeling is es sential to the full development of the intellectual character. E= .3. Remember that punctuality is the mother of confidence. It is not enough that the merchant fulfills his engagements, he must do what he undertakes precisely at the time, as well as in the way he agreed to.— The mutual dependence of mer chaffis is so great, that their engage ments, like a chain, which, according to the law of physics. is never strong er than its weakest link, are often er broken through the weakness of others that their own. But a prompt fulfillment of engagements is not only of the utmost importance because it enables others to meet their own engagements promptly; it is also the best evidence that the merchant has his affairs well order ed, his means at command, his for ces marshaled, and " everything ready for action ;" in short, that he knows his own strength. This it is which inspires confidence, as much perhaps as the meeting of the en gagement. 4. Attend to the minutia of the business, small things as weil as great. See that the store is opened early, goods brushed up, twine and nails picked up, and all ready for business. A young man should con sider capital, if he has it, or as he may acquire it, merely as tools with which he is to work, not as a substi tute for the necessity of labor. It is often the case that diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to great enterprises. Those make the best officers who have served in the ranks. We may say of labor, as Coleridge said of poetry, it is its own sweetest reward. It is the best of physic. 5. Let the young merchant re member that selfishness is the mean est of vices, and is the parent of a thousand were. It not only inter feres with the means and with the end of acquisition—not only makes money more difficult to get, and not worth having when it is got, but it is narrowing to the miad and to the heairt , Selfishness "keeps a shilling so close to the eye, that it cannot see a dollar beyond?' Never be narrow and coatractofl in your views. Life abounds in inst.on of the brilliant rnatata of a generous day whet you fnean.— rfro what, yon say. aka your tfontittoottanfi take Ibt graht,o4 ca Isakda Yoistilintous. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1863. that you mean to do what is just and right. 6. Accustom yourself to think vig orously. Mental, like pecuniary capital, to be worth anything, must be well 'invested—must be rightly adjusted and applied, and, to this end, careful, deep, and intense thought is necessary if great results are looked for. 7. Marry early. The man of busi ness should marry as soon as possi ble, after, twenty-two or twenty three years 'of age. A woman of mind will conform to the necessities of the day of small beginnings; and in choosing a wife a man should look at-Ist, the heart; 2d, the mind ; 3d, the person. 8, Everything, however remote, that has any bearing upon success, must be taken advantage of. The business man should be continually on the watch for information, and ideas that will throw light on his path, and he should be an attentive reader of all practical books, espe cially those relating to business, trade, &c„ as well as a Igrtion of useful and 'ennobling literature. 9. Never forget a favor, for in gratitude is the basest trait of man's heart.- Always honor your country, and remember that our country is the very best poor man's country in the world, DOMESTIC INFELICITIES. Every lady . who has ever lived in New York or vicinity, and been obliged to depend on the intelligence offices for servants, will appreciate the following narration. It is well known that the servants of the pres ent day learned to value luxury and ease in the kitchen, as much as the u,istress in the parlor, and have car ried their ideas beyond the bounds of propriety in many cases, expecting that the kitchen will be filled with machines, for saving labor, which they are to propel, by the smallest possible amount of an outlay of strength, on their part. An inter view with one of these operatives, the particulars of which are strictly reliable, will illustrate my remark. A lady from Flatbush, L. 1., was visiting a friend of mine in A—, Massachusetts, and it chanced, the conversation one day turned upon the trials of housekeeping, not the least of which is the care of servants. She said that she once, flot long since, engaged a cook in New York, and in dae time the damsel present ed herself with the newspaper parcel containing her wardrobe, for the week of trial. Before proceeding to lay off her bonnet, she turned to the lady and said, "Now, Mrs. Bradford, I always like to have a good old-fash ioned tall; with the lady I begins with before 1 begins. I'm awful temper ed, but I'm dreadful forgiving. Have you flecker's Flour, Beebe 's Range —hot and cold water, stationary tubs, oil cloth on floor, dumb waiter?" Then follows her self-planned pro gramme for the week. Monday I washes. l'se to be left alone that day. Tuesday I irons.— Nobody's to come near me that day. Wednesday I bakes. I'se. to be let alone that day. Thursday I picks up the house. Nobody's to come near me on that day. Friday I goes to the city. Nobody's to come near me that day. Saturday I bakes, and Sat urday afternoon my beau comes to me. Nobody's to come near me that day. Sunday I has to myself ! Rising. she asked for a look into her sub-parlor. One hasty glance— "No oilcloth on kitchen floor ? • I can't work here." "You had better go," sr.id Mrs. 8., "for you can't work here." and she closed the door on the indignant female with a hearty feel ing of relief. It is high time there was a radical change in the management of ser vants, for they demand so much, and expect to render so small an equiva lent in service. As strange truths as these could be told every day, almost every housekeeper has some bitter experiences to pass through. The first question a servant asks now-a days, is not "what can 1 do for you, ma'am?" but "what privileges do you give, ma'am ?" and if company be not allowed every evening when the dam sel is not herself out, if the whole Sabbath be not uranted for her espe cial perquisite, from "matins" to "vespers," if the "tricads" may not be invited to a party occasionally, it free access be not granted to store, closet and pantry, tea canister, and flour barrel, besides soap box, empty, quite frequently, a lady is voted moan and unworthy of being served. se*-Experiments that have recent ly been made in FranCe shOw that a horse can live seventeen days with out food or drink, and twenty-five days upon water alone. If he con sumes solid food without drinking, he can live only five days. A horse that had been deprived of water for three days, drank eleven gallons in three minutes. Stir We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of an other, if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. fence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind thrown into the scale give the c9s4.ingweicrht. WASTE OF CITIES. Paris throws five millions a year into the sea. And this without metaphor. How, and in what man ner? Day and night. With what thought ? Without thinking of it.— With what object ? Without any object. For what return ? For nothing. By means of what organ ? By means of its intestine. What is intestine ? Its sewers. Five millions is the most moderate of the approx imate figures which the estimates of special science give. Science, after long experiment now knows that the most effective of manures is that of man, The Chinese, wo must say to our shame, knew it before us. No Chinese peas ant, Eckeberg tells us, goes to the city without carrying back, at the two ends of his bamboo, bucketsful of what.we call filth. Thanks to hu man fertilization, the earth in China is still as z 3 oung as in the days of Abraham. Chinese wheat yields a hundred and twenty fold. There is no guano comparable in fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most powerful of stercoraries. To employ the city to enrich the plain would be a sure suc cess. If our gold is filth, on the other hand our filth is gold. What is done with this filth, gold? It is swept into abyss. We fit out convoys of ships, at great expense, to gather up at the South polo the droppings of petrela and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth which we have un der our own hand we send to the sea. All the human and animal manure which the world loses, if restored to the land instead of being thrown 7 into the sea, would suffi.ce:to nourish the world. These heaps of garbage at the corners of stone blocks, these tum brils of mire jolting through the streets at night, these horrid scav engers' carts, these fetid streams of subterranean slime which the pavenient hides from you, do you know what all this is? It is the flowering meadow, it is the green grass, it is marjoram and thyme and sage, it is game, it is cattle, it is the satisfied low huge oxen at even ing, it is perfumed hay, it is golden corn, it is bread on your table, it is warm blood in your veins, it is health, it is joy, it is life I Thus wills that mysterious creation which transformation and transfiguration in heaven. Put tliat into great cru cible ; your abundance shall spring from it. The nutrition of the plains makes the nourishment of men.— You have the power to throw away this wealth, and to think me ridicu lous into the bargain. That will cap the climax of your ignorance. Satistics show that France, alone, makes a liquidation of a hundred millions every year into the Atlan tic fr-,m the mouths of her rivers.— Mark this with that hundred mil lions you might pay a quarter of the expense of the Government. The cleverness of man is such that he prefers to throw this hundred mil lions into the gutters. It is the very substance of the people which is carried away here, drop by drop, there in floods, by the wretched vomiting of our sewers into the rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean Each hic cough °four cloaca costs us a thousand francs. From this come two results —the land is impoverished and the water infected ; hunger rising from the furrow and disease rising from the river. It is notorious, for in stance, that at this hour the Thames is poisoning London.—Tl ictor Ruyo. A PARAGRAPH FOR LITTLE GIRLS. The Wheeling intelligencer says : "Every little miss who will look up to the word, 'Housewife' in Webster's dictionary will find the flame and description of a little article that, to the soldiers in the field, is extremely acceptable One of the public schools in Pittsburgh sent a box of them to the Christian Commission, and the youthful donors have been blessed for the gift by as many soldiers as there were housewives' to give them. The article is simply a receptacle for buttons, thread, pins, needles, tape, &c. Odds and ends of the work-bag furnish the material, though oiled muslin or other water proof stuff is better. The moment the box reached the field, 'Do give MO one, sir,' was the word until the last one was gone. The government would economize by issuing them to the soldiers, that they might mend their own clothes, but the schools-girls must do it instead. If the girls of the public and private schools would set at once to work they could earn the gratitude of every soldier that their presents reach." aiiirThe English, to their shame, permitted the sister and only surviv. ing relative of the late galiant Ad miral Sir Sidney Smith, the hero of, Acre, to live in abject penury. Re publics aro not alone ungrateful. tririf there was a little bell so attached to the hearts of man as to ring every time he did what wap , wrong, this would be a musical world. DON'T ROOK THE BABY. If all the ultimate consequences of one's acts are to be laid to his charge says the Agriculturist, the man who invented rocking cradles fbr cnildren rests under a fearful load of respon sibility. The down-right murder of tens of thousands of infants, and the weakened brains of hundreds of thousands of adults, are undoubtedly results of his invention. To rock a child in a cradle, or to swing him in a crib, amounts to just this: the rapid motion disturbs the natural flow of the blood, and produces stupor or drowsi ness. Can anybody suppose for a mo ment that such an operation is a healthful one ? Every one knows the dizzy and often sickening effect of moving rapidly in a swing; yet wherein does this differ from the motibn a child receives when rocked in a. cradle ? It is equivalent to ly ing in a ship berth during a violent storm; and that sickens nine people out of ten. A very gentle, slow mo tion, may sometimes be soothing, though always of doubtful expedi ency, but to move a cradle as rapidly as the swing of a pendulum three feet long, that is once in a second, is positive cruelty. We always feel like grasping and staying the arm of the mother or r.urso who, to secure quietude, swings the cradle or crib with a rapidity equal to that of a pendulum a foot long. If any moth er is disposed to laugh at our sugges tions or consider them whimsical,we beg of her to have a bed or cot hung on cords, then lie down in it herself, and have some one swing it with the same rapidity that she allows the cradle to be rocked. What she will experience in both bead and stomach, is just what the infant experiences. We insist that this rocking of chil dren is a useless habit. if not accus tomed to rocking, they will go to sleep quite as well when lying qui. etly, as when shaken in a cradle. if they do•not, there is trouble from sickness, or hiinger, or more likely from an overloaded stomach ; and though the rocking may produce a temporary stupor, the trouble ie made worse thereafter, by the unnat ural means taken to produce quiet for the time being. THE GREAT FREDERICK OF PRUS SIA. In the small town of Prussian Si lesia, there is chapel dedicated to Virgin Mary, and considerably en riched with valuable oblations made by pious Roman Catholics. The sex ton observed ono day that some of the oblations had disappeared. The suspicion fell on a soldier of the gar rison, who was constantly seen the first to come in and the fast to go out. One day he was stopped just as he was setting his foot out of the gate; and being searched, two silver hearts that bad been appended be fore the Virgin were found in his pocket. He had the assurance to pretend that ho had committed no robbery—affirming that the Virgin, for whom he bad over professed a peculiar devotion, moved by his pov erty, had made him a present of the offerings. This excuse, however, as may well be imagined, availed him nothing, and he was condemned to die as a r3hurch robber. The sen tence being, as usual, carried to the king for his approbation, his majesty convened the chiefs of the Catholic clergy, and put this question to them :—"Whether according to the dogmatical tenets of their religion, there was any possibility in the sto ry the soldiers?" Upon which they all unanimously answered, that the event was indeed uncommon, but not absolutely impossible. After this declaration, the king wrote un der the sentence—" The delinquent having constantly denied the theft, and the divines of his persuasion at testing that the prodigy wrought in his favor was not impossible, we think proper to spare his life; but, at the same, for the future, we make it death for .him to receive any present of the Virgin Mary, or of any saint whatever.—FREDERICK." THE POTATOE ROT. Thos. Carpenter, 9f Battle Creek, Mich., communicates the following as his mode of fighting off the pota to rot : • "Now I will tell you how I man age ; premising that I never yet had potatoes rot in the ground, and that I am 63 years ol€'. 1 plant my pota toes in the latter• part of April or fore part of May, and in the old of the Moon. When they get up six inches high, I plaster and dress them out nicely, Now for the secret.— When the sets show for blossoming, then is the time to take two parts plaster and one part fine salt; mix well together, and put one large spoonful of this compound on each hill; drop it as nearly in the centre of the bill as possible. Just as soon as the potatoes are ripe, take them out of the ground, bare them per fectly- dry when put in the cellar, and keep them in a dry cool plate. Some farmers lot their potatoes re. main in the ground, soaking through all the cold Fall rains until thesnow flies. The potatoes became .diseased in, this way 'mere Bad cnors emery year; hence the potato rot. . With such management they should rot," TO MAKE CIDER VINEGAR. The vinegar manufactured from acids enters largely in the consump tion of towns and cities and to some extent into that of the country also. Whiskey with all its adulterations is used fbr the purpose of making pick les, and in that manner lends its aid to the destroyer of human life. Many other different methods of procuring the sours of life are practiced, and many of which are not only produc tive of deleterious influences to the health of ourselves and our children, but require far more labor than ought to be bestowed upon that branch of a house-wife's business. We live in an age of labor-saving machines, and we ought to•economize, both in labor and money, as well in the less important matters of living as in the more important. And to apply a little Yankee ingenuity in this case is not so difficult as many people imagine. Almost every fam ily in the country have the materials for manufacturing pure cider vinegar, if they will only use them. Common dried apples, witn a little molasess and brown paper are all you need ito make the best cider vinegar. And what is still better, the cider which you extract from the apples, does not detract from the value of the apples for any other purpose. Soak your apples a few hours— washing and rubbing them occasion ally, then take them out of the wa ter and thoroughly strain the latter through a tight woven cloth—put it into a jug, add half a pin. of molas ses to a gallon of liquor and a piece of common brown paper, and set it in the sun, or by the fire, and in a few days your vinegar will be fit for use. Have two jugs and use out of one while the otl'er is working.— No family need be destitute of good vinegar, if they will follow the above directions. SMALL TALK. But of all the expedients to make the head weak, the brain gauzy, and to bring life down to the consistency of a cambric handkerchief, the most successful is the little talk and tattle which, in some charmed circles, is courteously styled conversation. How human beings can live on such meager fare—how continue exist ence in such a famine of tapies, and on such short allowance of sense— is a great question, if philosophy could only search it out. All we know is, that such men and women there are, who• wilt go on dwaddling in this way, from fifteen to four score, and never J ./1, hint ou their tombstones that they died at last of consumption of the head, and mar asmus of the heart ! The whole uni verse of God, spreading out its splendors and terrors, pleading for their attention, and they wondering "where Mrs Somebody got that di vine ribbon to her bonnet ?" The whole world of literature, through its thousand trumps of fame, abdur ing them to regard its garnered stores, both of emotion and thought, and they think, "it's high time, if John intends to msrry our Sarah, for him to pnp the vuestion !" When, to be sure, this frippery is spiced with a little envy and malice, and prepares its small dishes of scandal with nice bits of detraction, it be comes endowed with a slight ven omous vitality, which does pretty well in the absence of soul, to carry on the machinery of living, if not the reality of P. Whipple. MEE MAKE A BEGINNING. Remember, in all things, that you do not begin, you will never come to an end. The first weed pulled up in the garden, the first seed in the ground, the first dollar in the saving banks, and the first mile travelled on a journey, are all important things; they furnished a beginning, a prom ise, a pledge, an assurance that you aro in earnest with what you have undertaken. Row many poor, idle, erring, hesitating outcast is now creeping and crawling his way through the world who might have held up his head, and prospered if, instead of putting Off his resolutions of amendment and industry, he had only made a beginning! TO HUSBANDS. Winter wood, prepared in advance and well seasoned, will make a sweet tempered wife, a warm .room, and a cleanly well.couked meal. It will cost less wood. It will work easier when dry than when green It will make more ashes. which arc among the best of manures. It, will be a sat isfaction to a man to know he has such wood on hand. Your fire will seldom, go out ; and if it does, it can readily be built with seasoned wood, but—can it with green ? litiarExperiments have shown that a man's finger nails grow their com plete length in roar months and a half. A man living seventy years, renews his nails ore hundred and eighty-six times. Allowing each nail an inch long, he has grown seven feet and nine inches of finger nail on each finger, and on fingers and thumbs an aggregate ofseventy seven feet and six inches. Apar Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body. NEW SERIF.S.-VCIL..S, NO. 20. A. writer in Blackwood paints the following picture of the desolation that surrounds and enshrouds the once mighty Babylonian empire : "In the distance, high above the ,plain, loomed a great monad of earth. On both sides of us lay what looked like long ,parallel ranges of hills. These lines are pronounced to be the :remains of those. canals that once conducted the waters of the Euphrates over the length and breadth of the ancient Babylonia.— What mighty canals, they must have been, that stiil .showed under the roll :of , eenturiee such substan tial traces ! Now not so much as a drop of water; no, not even a drop of heaven's pearly dew, ever glistens, where once ships must have navi gated. These mighty banks that carried fertility to every corner of the ancient kingdom are now mere useless, sightless mounds. No morning mist, moistening the thirsty earth, ever bangs over them. No rain clouds ever shadow them, tempering the rays of a fierce daily returning sun. The - end of her that "dwelleth upon many waters" /as been brought only too surely The awful prophecies had been fulfilled, i and desolation, in alt its nakesinese, in all its dreariness, was around us. After riding some two hours We-ar rived at the foot of the great mound that we had seen in the morning.— We dismounted and scrambled to the top for we had even arrived at the ruins of Babylon ; and this great mound of earth that we wore ou was the grave of the golden city. I believe from the summit, raised some hundred feet above the plain, the walls of the ancient city may be traced. But a hot wind driving burning sand and the impalpable dust of ages into the pores of our skins, made every effort to open an eye so terribly painful that wagave up the idea in despair of either trac ing walls. or indeed, of looking about us much anywhere. I remember seeing, away to , the west, lines of willows, and a silver thread w nding away in tl e distance; and nearer. some unsightly bare mounds, looking as if some volcanic fire had been at work underneath the smooth surface of the plain, and had thrown these mounds up in the spirit of pure mischief. That silver thread was our first glimpse of the waters of the Euphrates, and the mounds of all that remain of the once beautiful hanging gardens of Babylon ; at least so the conjecture of men of research has accounted' for them. But so completely have the prophecies been fulfilledso completely has the "name and the remnant been cut off" of all pertain , ing to the once mighty city, LW,. even the great hill on which we were standing is only by conjeeture supposed to be the ruin of some great building or royal palace that stood within the walls—possibly the palace of Semiramis. We descended from the great mound, and male for. those lesser mounds which are supposed to be the site of the banging gardens of Nitocris and Semiramis. In one stop—the only thing we saw in the shape of a building in a state of ruin was a mass of vitrified brickwork, piercing the old soil and debris of centuries, angle upwards. The bricks were square, of large size, and beautiful make, the angle of some clear and sharp, as if the brick had but left the kiln yesterday, instead of nearly twice two thousand years ago. Turning into a little hollow way between the mounds, we came suddenly upon the colossal stone lion. Time with his leaden hand had knocked away all the sharp angles of the statue. The 'features of the lion are completely obliter ated, as are also those of the pros trate form that lies so helpless, so utterly and wholly human, beneath the upraised paw of the king of boasts. The group presents itself to the eye, owing to the wear of old Time, much in the appearance of those vast blocks of Carrara marble which the bold chisel of Michael Angelo struck into, and then, at the point that the shapeless marble bad be gun to assume the merest 4 . 4 akbozzo" of the great, sculptor's ideas; the block was suddenly abandoned and left as a wonder and a puzzle to future ages, so does this group of the lion and the man now bear an an finished, no wrought appearance; but you cannot, look at it a moment, and not instantly avow the majesty and granduer of the idea that once lay there so mightily embodied.— This dark colssal statue, which may once have stood under the gorgeous roof of a temple, and before which; the queenly Semiramis, proud and supremely beautiful, may once have bowed, stands now canopied by the grandest of all canopies certainly— high heaven—but never noticed but by the wind that sweeps moaning over it and the jackals that yelp around, as they hold high revel over the.bones of some camel who ba& been good enough to die in the vi cinity.' 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