• • \ • ( (Ay - • N. ' . 1 Lgr 1! 1 1 t I ( I \ • llt I t 11 \ ) ; ) 4 , k ) • filtraturt, lora*, Pomtstit anti - litneral fauttig nat---Pttratat to olitits, grkulturt ~~j ~,i ESTABLISHED IN 1813. WITNEOURG MESSENGER PUBLISHED BY fit. W. JONES MIO AS. S. JENNINGS. Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. IMPIOVPICE NEARLY-OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SqUARE...EII utaltiuma Hvamiatrrion.—s2.oo hi advance ; $2.45 at the ex piration of six months'; 0.50 after the expiration of tne year. - ADVIITISINENTS inserted at $1.25 per square for these insertions, and 25 eta. a square for each-addition al insertion; (ten Rues or less counted a square.) Itr • liberal deduction made Cu yearly advertisers. ' JO. eltianmaa, of all kinds, executed in the best o irr a on reasonable terms, at the "hlessengei" ataisubtrg Nusintss (Subs. ATTORNEYS i . 1 410.4... 1 07L11. 3. a. 3. 103C1ILIUM, D. A. P. RUSS WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, /11batorlasys de Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. ettil,preetice in the Courts of Greene andiudjoining divinities. n." collection's and other legal business will re pro attention. Aline on i roath side of Main street, in tho Old Dank BO • Jan. 28, 18631-13, . - a• wesnas. 3. 0. RITCHIS. NUM & RITCHIE. A . TTOV EL IiII AND COIINBALLORB AT L aW * • VlY4o.3rseeslbstrg, Ps. .. k. MF . .... , BlWirria*Matts Street, one door Cut of Rink .13.040 g. oIV w F jurdriell isMeens, Washington, and Fay eunCoustbs, einnissed Ito Gun, will twelve prong) onstalso. • - FL 11-A-flintertlarnttenthrn will be Oren to the col leen°, 4 4fLOW1 1 # 0 *1 1011 int1 Money. Back Pays and other claiwoogunst the Governmeut. ilbset4lcalll I —le. •" A. lecostsimt. J. J. ICIJITNAtt. 11=rtrall 31nPrE r Mainr, 41, , DrOUNSXLLORS dri" Z 10" .• Waipainistarge Pa. E reLl PritAllke "W htflaree." East Doer. * ofteattl Ise prompt attention. ly. SID CRA WFORD, s sad Cowneetlor at tsar. (Mae to the aitUrtWWasa. Will skew' promptly to all Nahum ikagoolisel table eisa. Irayseeliut , Pa., July 20, 11183.—1 y. - JOlllll PRIBLAN. LACY & • „. • ce - AND CONNSELLONS AT LAW ih the *Court Nome , Weynepbe rg. SopettaNlL-4v. soraminui . was auushas ILl'.llllOB • twos I nog RAM. • oIItICHRAIIII serology* as t t aar, avassatias, rstrus., Votive socsived front the War Department at Wash ington cihr, D. C., official copies of the several intiladd by Coupe's, and.all the teteseary Forms sad Instractions for the prosecution and collection of P.111M110"; /100. 7 TY DADS . P. 4 V, due dis abled 04.1,46ived soldiers, their widows, orphan dis able andalwed WMthers, fathem, sinew and broth skrowlatiwebnetut, tuvxm des. notice] will be attend editasipill and }anomaly if marmite(' to.thoir care. lb Vie 61dDsollt - BAffing.—April .8; 1863. G MUMMA, ATTOSAWY,4r.f.OUNSELLOR AT LAW, f•kirncif OFFICE, •the REGDSTER'd Court Iljiforiads l lol6oPaellbliif, Peoria. Betwiness of all koala issilisited. nistrateivail official - copies of all the trims passed lit Congeris, and °thee oecessary ituttruc dam abr tilaeotleatten of PENSIONS, BO UNTIES, BACK PAY, late dierharged ani diSabled soldiers, widows, Orphan tensheess if intrusted to his ears will Le promptly *tended to. May 13, '63. PZIMICLIM'S Dr. T. W. Ross, ariti v i.acam,32. db Iliburedcras, Waynesburg, thirene Co., Pa. CCE ANDMMOLMNINCE ON' MAIN STREET, oast, end netity oppotikrthe W►tgtlt house. laaMwsi.l3.so- - Di *. G. yams OULLiLyerylly tender his services as a GUN AND lIITRGitON, to the people of ) 4 lossimirg sipti vieiniyy _ne bolas- 8 7 due ut)Pew' httWis of human life IA keeith, and strict attention to bilinsim to molt a elms of -public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, ISN. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Dretrifst arid Apothecary. and dealer in Paints and Ole, die meet celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Lipstein for asedicinell Puppet*. Se/4.11,180-Iy. XENIA M M EMI WM. A. PORTER , Whoeteaki and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes- Or, Goods, Groceries, Notions, t*., Rain street. dept. 11.1861-Iy. It CLAMS, Dealer In Dry Moodp‘ grocarise; Hardware, Queens wan and notions, in the Hamilton house, opposite tile Wart House, Main greet. Sept. 11, 1861—Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro tetfanfQ.ueensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the GM% House, Hain street. dept. 11, 1881-Iy, foot AND SHOE DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite he jarrner's and Drover's Bank." Every style of and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, GROO/LBlBB & VA,BASTIES. JOStPII YATER Basler in 'Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Wars, Ace., than al pll s and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glue Plates. paid kir good sating kip Set. Sept. 11, lgai—ly. JOHN MUNNZLL, Dealer In Groceries. and Confection Wes, and Variety Goods Generally. Wilson's Nest Balding, Main street. Sept. 11. 1801-Iy. W4TOZDB AND 31BIRMAT B. M. BAILY, Main street, opposite the Wright Maim keeps aksrap on 'haat a Urge and also= naalaistent of Wes and ,iewitizy. ' Repairing of Meeks, Watches and Jewelry will • prompt mutation. Kam, th„ 11361—ty MOONS* &Os LEWIS DAY, Wailer in Epshool tadMus,ell,seons Swim Station al. In k. Magazine" and Nieto One deer east et pow s swim Maui olret. &wit Mk if, SWIWEDIIIIIIII4I,6IIIIOIIMIIIM ' 4 4 l laNallargriligialMai ragebisimiimporpoinibitArgeidakixo 1 10 . - stlett gortvg. Christmas-Eve. The following verses, by a true woman, pie, touching, and teeming with mother ove, come to us from Monroe, Michigan : Ds Christmas-eve the tireless clock is toll- ing the hours away, And my household all are sleeping, dreaming of Christmas-day. My countless varying duties are finished, one by one, Still there is always something left—my work is never done ; So I sit down by the cradle, my little ono to rock, And, while I sing a lullaby, I knit for him a sock. I've filled some little stockings with candy and with toys, And hung them by the chimney-place, to please my darling bp. , They're sleeping sweetly in their cribs, I've tucked the clothes in tight, I've heard them say their evening prayer, and • kiss'a them both good-night. I khow that, ere the daylight shall through the curtain peep, Their Merry Christmas wishes shall wake me from my sleep. I've many, many thoughts to-night, and they are sad to me : Two stockings only hang, this year, where three were wont to be— The tears are falling thickly as / think of the day When I laid that little stocking forevermore amy ; For the happy one that bang it there, but one short year ago, In yonder graveyard quietly sleepeth haeath the snow. How many little stockings, that on last Christmas-day Were filled by darling little ones, have since been put away I How many smiling faces, that to our nursery door Came wishing "Merry Christmas," will came again no more I Their waxen hands are folded upon each quiet breast, And the Shepherd, God, has gathered those little lambs to rest. How many pleasant visions, and, ob, what -sad ones too, With each succeeding C ristmas-eve, come vividly to view I see again my childhood's home, and every loved one's face ; The stockings hanging, as of yore, around the chimney-place, From the wee red one of baby's to grandpa's sock of gray— Each in its own accnstom'd place, not even one away. But the pleasant vision passes, and one of darker shade Reveals bow many changes each Christmas eve has made ; For those whose stockings hung there so closely side by side, In happy days of childhood, are ecatter'd far and wide A few still linger here to see this Christmas eve pass by, Bat many, many more to-night within the churchyard lie: The baby's sock is finish'd—lis sprinkled o'er with tears : Where will his tiny footsteps wander in future years? Perhaps this innocent will live to see, as I have done, The Christmas-eves of childhood steal on ward, one by one ; But, whether a life of sorrow, or whether a life of joy, I feel that I can trust with God my much loved baby boy. The clock has struck the hour of twelve! I've put the sock away, And, by the baby's cradle, I now kneel down to pray— • To ask that loving Saviour who on Christmas morn was given To save our souls from an and death, and fit us all for heaven, That We would gilds our footsteps, and fill us with His lave, That we may sing together a Ohrismas hymn above. --rroPOOBAPHIO ADVi=MrL Sena& EnOisimosam. An aocompliamil &Oa lady; in a meat contribetion tb Prweatia lifiegetine, says :-- "If at any tithe ! needed to &hi 4 pmtletrum who shotdd * me In my little trifficulties 8f travel, ershow me *kindness w h that con sideentinn.eia wom a n will& is the true sea!te‘ 40 32 e l / 9 1 4d &NW t° *134 5 .4614 1 1 4 0 0440 .4 6 41..., an Paws As woo hied ihrui 411104eume ef MY Pnic" lancierso!—Oß. r man living near Borth Veiminnti .411 sit mat alb* mgesimiimi ikiliaNlW • . . WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1864. iorellannuo. Modern Food, Drink, and Medicine. Let us begin with bread. If the natural history of a loaf could be thor oughly known, it would often have an ugly interest of its own. Perhaps the wheaten flour was mixed with as much care as the ingredients of a medical pre scription. So much of danzig, so much old Kentish, a dash of pure American, to make the percentage of damages Odessa pass muster, and then the com positions passes into the hands of Mac duff and Pattypan, the bakers. They too, have their little additions to make ; and what with Indian meal, bean flour, potatoes, and as much alum as will impart a dazzling whiteness, they add a good many inches to the staff of life. "Custom of the trade," says Pattypan, and Mephistophelus chuckles to hear the echo of his own persuasive voice. There are men who are not satisfied with evert this—bold rogues, who must needs mix plaster of Paris . or pounded spar by the hundred weight, with the flour they sell, and they get found out and fined, and pay the pen alty of rashness. Fair and softly is a safer rule. Mr. Bull is a patient animal, but prefers to bo homeopathically poi soned, not to swallow his proverbial "peck of dirt" at a single deglutition. Second in popularity to bread, and second to that only, is the blood of hon est John Barleycorn. It was not likely to escape adulteration, and many au il licit fortune has been screwed out of mash-tub and beer-barrel. In this re spect the humbler classes are the chief sufferers. Creaming bitter ale, mighty button, and other high-priced beers, are pure, or nearly pure. Young Rap id of Christ Church may be pretty se cure that his silver tankard brims over with generous liqnor made from the best malt and hops that money can ever buy. Poor Sam Jones, the coal-whipper, is just as sure to imbibe a stupefying draught of drug g ed beer at his house of call. The great brewers do not adul terate beer • they leave it to the smaller folks to drop quassia, tobacco juice, grains of paradise and Coculicas Mims into the vats where should be but wholesome materials. But every great brewer has his feudal tenantry, his scores of publieans bound over bo sell monthly so many casks of ale from the brewery. Scarcely any pure beer can be bought by retail ; it is made the. most of, with water to add bulk, and drugs to add potency. Ignorant men are said rather to prefer the house where the beer is richest in narcotics; they get intoxicated at a cheaper rate, and sit soden and blinking, like ruminating owls, on the benches. Wine fares no better. Many of us never through life really know Bacchus as he is. We meet with him in a per petual masquerade, so disguised that the vine-grower would not recognize his own produce. Port and Sherry, the red and white of old days, are elaborate ly manufactured. A good deal is done in Portugal, where the chemistry of wine is well understood, but London improves on Lisbon. What with log-wood chips, boiled to a pulp—what with sloe and elder-ber ries, with apple-juice, brown brandy, and essence of fruit, the Lusitanian grape is transformed with a vengeance. It is said that raw beef; lett to soak in a cask, improves the flavor. Be that as it may, Paterfamilias sips a sophisticated port; and that is but a queer cordial which Irish Mike absorbs at the Plas terer's Arms. Brandied sherry, loaded claret, sin cadinaire, whose acidity is counteracted by sugar of lead, cham pagne that owes its frothing amber to the turnip, the rhubarb stalk, the goose berry—what gallons of these vile pota tions are forced down the throat Of a thirsty and gullible publid. Coarse spirits, too, whether gin or brandy, contain a liberal percentage of turpentine, cayenne pepper, and other fiery ingredients. Thery is death in the wine-glass, death in the tumbler, or if net death, sickness and impaired vi tality. It may seem bad enough to drug and hocus the unoffending British public, but here steps in a new despot, stinting the measure in which these sus picious beverages are supplied. A hundred years ago port wine was eigh teen pence a bottle, and a bottle held a fair quart. It has been dwindling ever since, the three gallons being first stretched so as to fill fifteen flasks, then eighteen, and so on. Where, now, are the corpulent magnums of old-day ? where the- honest bottles from which our grandfathers drank the king's health? A wine bottle is now thought praise wasthy.if it contain a pint and a quar ter, "kicks" growing deeper every de aide ; arid a pint of ale insults the un derstantring of the buyer, yielding as it does one sorry half pint of liquid, an un blushing compusititai of tan shillings in the Wind. Suppaie we abjure aieehol in any AWM, cmir pima* Newt to it Nioiletaw drives. aPPUlllollllrind AY fer.eePeelaikat our *yew, Tua rnei 1 1 , 4*-40 1 /0 01 est jaPta14001.4.414 be ea *4 to Aue. Not is a c ili Jiinew4ofen4l4l%- tin . li tsue ll6ll ?" 4.4 ve been rialat mu& t, .111111* , 40 4 0 110141 r t 41 I* rs friend to be no coffee at all, but Belgian hickory and roasted beans. Hardly an article sold by Messrs. Lacquer and Gripp will bear a close inspection.— Cayenne—pshaw ! mere brick dust, F common pepper, red lead and oxyd of mercury. Curry— absurd ! tumeric, pepper, mustard, lime powder. Dur ham mustard—ridiculous, my dear sir I a thing as rare as roe's egg, and not to be obtained even at Apothecary's Hall. Wax candles are not wax ; olive oil does not exactly come from olives.— However sovereign a thing "parmaceti" may be, the sperm candles you buy owe but half their substance to the whales of the equator; sardines are sprats in mas querade ; pickles have more copper and acid in their jars than wholesome gherk ins should harbor; nothing is what it professes to be. Oddly enough, the oldest accusation against grocers is a gratuitous calumny. Sugar is never sanded, at least at retail. The reason is obvious. Slica is not soluble in wat er, and who ever found a small sand bank at the bottow of his tea-cup ? The coarsest brown Muscovado, swarm ing with lively acari, never contains sand. Butter, however, lends itself to base uses. "Good fresh" depends for its constitutuents on more sources than the cow with the crumpled horn. Fifty per cent. of animal fat, ten or fifteen of braised moss, or no uncommon adjuncts. Salt butter, especially in the manufac taring districts, is often buttered salt, rather than salt butter. Half the weight of a tub of "prime Irish" has been known to consist of downright salt, and of the remaining substance half was tal low. Pepper is full of miscellaneous sweepings, and spices are not at all from the Indian seas. If; rather unwell after a course of such trying condiments, we consult our doctor, his prescriptions do not entirely square with their results. Good physic is too rare, since Macbeth's time, to be thrown to the dogs. It is quite as scarce as good food, probably scarcer.— For while many of us are good judges of viands and drink, few have a search ing taste in drugs, and the blow-pipe and test tubes are wanted to , throw a light upon the subject.—Chambers's Jour nal. An Alpine Romance. The London Globe condenses from the Courier, des Alpes a remarkable story connected with a discovery just made in an Alpine glacier. Nineteen years ago, Sept. 14th, 1844, a young man, then recently married, set out from the village of Passy, on a pilgrim age to the convent of St. Bernard, pur suing his journey along by-paths across the mountains. lle never reached his destination, and from that time no hu man eye had seen him alive. All search for the missing man was in vain, and for many a lonely night a young widow wept in her little cottage in Passy, gradually solaced by the cries of a baby who had never seen his father. After that the vail of time covered all. It so happened that, about a fortnight go, a shepherd of the village of Samcens ent in search of a lost goat. Suddenly, .n jumping across a deep glacier, an extraordinary sight arrested his eyes.— The rays of the sinking sun illumined a . fof ice, looking like a vast crystal cavern, in the midst of which was the gure of a man lying flat on his back, with apparently open eyes, and hands olded across his breast. Horror-struck, o peasant nearly lost his footing ; ut recovering himself, looked once more. He had not been mistaken ; there was the figure at the bottom, to all appearance fast asleep, stretched out at his ease. Sooner than he thought, he arrived at the Chalet de la Gelaise, where he made known his discovery.— t was too late to revisit the cave ; but at break of dawn the next morning a 'arty of mountaineers set oat for the pot. The crystal sarcophagus was soon ound, and the boldest of the company was let down to the icy depths, from which he brought in his arms the body if a young man, frozen, and hard as stone, yet looking fresh and life-like. Two elderly peasants at once recog nized the features as those of the pil grim of Passy, mysteriously lost nineteen years ago. Embalmed in ice, decay had not yet touched his flesh, and he had .'n undisthibed in hilt crystal coffin while a generation of men had passed • way over his head. The discoverers • : e to the decision to carry their bur ,en at once to Passy. There was no ohoice of conveyance, the only cue be ing the crotchet or hook, fastened to the shoulders, on which all loads are transported in the Alps. To the hook . ordingly the frozen corps was fasten ed in a sitting posture, with upright . • . , and feet hanging to the ground.-- Thus the pilgrim, dead nineteen years, was carried to his former home, through ow fields and and glaciers, across fields and meadows, extending over ear a score of miles. Fastened still to the crotchet, the body of the young el " was left at the cottage ofthe young widow of Passy—now young, no:more, an eil&eby, .grarlaked WORLIIii, : The 104, Who %diem Were seen his ~. . , Intele a *chain cot*, and to e lila utenh) ; ktfet the; ti in wwlitit . lb.t Win% • The At Ifinging 1411 a- 'awl aasonip4l iltthoisiolitoili iii Iba milliagep tlea • , • vim sketrbilkiniMaislionie , iilliiintli* ii**Avii , at w as • - Marriage of Royal Widows. Concerning the rumor of the second marriage of Queen Victoria, C. C. Haze well, in the Boston Traveller, gossips thus pleasantly : "The English of the present day do not fancy the re-marriage of royal la dies, though the kind of thing is not unknown to their annals. Adelicia of Louvailne, second wife of Henry 1., took a second husband in the person of William de Albini, and the marriage was a very happy one. Isabella of Angouleme, wife of King John, of un blessed memory, took a second husband, the Comte de la Marche, a Lusignan, and bore him eight children. Isabella of Valois, second wife of Richard 11., had for her second husband her couisn, the Duke, of Orleans, a poet of much renown. Katherine of Valois, wife and widow of Henry V., the hero of Shrewsbury and Azincour, grew tired of a single life and married Owen Tu dor, a handsome young Welshman, whose face was his fortune, and who had fought as a common soldier in her royal husband's armies. This was a most important marriage, and has color ed history for well nigh four centuries ; for if it had never been consummated, the House of Tudor never would have had a place in the list of dynasties,— and the influence of that house on the worlds history, though as a royal line, it existed less than 118 years, is of un paralleled character. Katherine, like a sensible woman, married for comfort, being in love with a brave man; but the consequences of her venture, as old Mr: Weller would say, were such as never could have visited the dreams of even a Zenobia or a Semiramis. Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VTR's six wives, married Lord Seymour of Sudley, and she had more than once married before she became Queen Consort. It is be lieved that Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I, was secretly married to Harry , Jermyn. No English Queen-dowager has been suspected of marrying a ' second time since Henrietta Mans's death. Of English Queens-regnant pre vious to Victoria, there were married, namely, Mary 1., Mary IL, and Annie, but none of them had a second husband. Of English Kings, Henry 1., Edward I. Richard U., Henry IV., and James 11., were twice married. Henry IV's first marriage and widowhood occurred before he had any prospect of becoming , King; and his second wife, Joanna of l Navarre, was Duchess Dowager of Brittany, and was the first widow who ever wore the crown matrimonial of England, Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV., being second, and Katha rine of Aragon and Katharine Parr the ' third and fourth. James IL's marriages were both made while he was a subject, but heir presumptive to the crown.— Henry VILL married and murdered and divorced women until he could say that he had proved fatal to five women, and hoped to dispose of a sixth ; but death thought that so good a purveyor to his maw deserved himself to be taken and so took him before he could take off the head of his third Kate, the savage and unrelenting Petruchio that he was. Of the four Queens-regnant, two, Annie and Victoria, became widows. Annie was widowed in her 45th year, and was asked by Parliament to marry again, to which she made a dignified reply. In these days no Parliament would think of askine. Queen Victoria to marry. Modern ideas are more del icate than were those of olden times.— The English of Annie's day would have been as much pleased had their sovereign married a second time, as the English of to-day would be displeased were Victoria to bestow her fair hand upon some fortunate man; but Prince Albert was a very different sort of man from Prince George, of Denmark, and • his memory is revered. Then people as well as sovereigns have become ; more exclusive, and a Queen is consider-1 ed to be .a more sacred personage in England now even than she was in the I divine right days. There would not be the slightest impropriety in the Queen's marrying a second time, but if she were so to marry, no matter how worthy should be her choice—and she is not the woman to make a bad choice—the pro ceeding would go far to destroy her well won popularity. In this country we should take a very different view of the matter, and heartily should we congrat ulate a female sovereign, had we one, should she enter a second time into the holy statrof matrimony." Scarcity of Printers in Dixie. • In nearly every paper we pick up, says the Macon (Ga.) Confederate, we see adver tisements for printers, and yet there were, before the war, more papers printed in the State of Georgia- than are now published in the Confederate States. The reason of this is that at least 75 per cent. of the fraternity have been, and are now, in the army. Many of them command brigades, regiments and companies, and are upon different General? staff's, while hundreds of them hare met death upon the field of glory. We venture that there is not an °thee in the South that has not a representative in the Odd, and many aloes were suspended at the nom ideneemeut of the struggle; in , order that the propaistor, editor. printers and all might aw: bti• - • They aro gsasta g nof edisaibn, and always of superior iitelligeonst therefor* In4y untie the prinaiples awes • .1•11.41.1 of 4 414-., Wer4' 4111KAart Charlotte Corday. The details given by Sanson of this remarkable inekient in the Reign of Terror are, as might be expected, more minute than any that have yet been given to the public ; but they show the circumstances of the case, as depicted by Mr. Ward's _pencil from previously existing data, to be perfectly correct.— Charlotte had not returned ten minutes from her trial, at which she had con ducted herself with unexampled firm ness and ability, when M. Hauer, the artist, was introduced. She conversed with the artist, while engaged in his task, with perfect calmness for an hour and a halt; when she suddenly remem bered she had forgotten to write a letter. She had only penned a few lines when Sanson made his appearance. She went on with her work_ notwithstandino', and when she had finished, she placed .her chair in the middle of the room, and let down her beautiful hair to be cut off:— “Since M. de la Barre,” says Sanson, "I never witnessed so much courage in death ! We were there, six or seven citizens, whose business is not of a na ture to soften the feelings, yet she ap peared less affected than any of us, and even her lips had not lost their color.— When her hair was cut off she gave half to the artist, and the remainder to Richard, the jailer, for his wife, who had manifested great intersst in the un fortunate young lady." She went to the scaffold with the same remarkable intrepidity; there was not an atom of bravado—a simple, mild, pious resigna tion, or "a penetratinu. and irresistible sweetness," as a master of high works describes it. Robespierre, Desmoulins, and Danton were at a window in the Rue Saint Honore, on the way, think ing, no doubt, when their turn would come. Arriving at the scaffold, she threw herself upon the fatal plank, and Fermin, one of the aids, having let loose the string,.all was over in a mo ment. Sanson declares that he was at the foot of the scaffold, when a carpen ter named Legros, having taken the head, was not satisfied with holding it up to the crowd, but actually slapped I , the face—a face admittedly of extraor dinary beauty. This was too much even for a revolutionary tribunal, and Legros was justly punished for this act of sacrilege.—Collatra's New Monthly Magazine. Cure for Nails Growing into the Flesh. An eminent French physician has published an account of the effloctency of the sesquichloride of iron for curing the gi:owth of toe nails into the flesh, and as it is of importance to both the soldier and the citizen, we give the result of an experiment by au army — surgeon. He says : "I may hero remark that ulcers about the nails are occasionally observed among our soldiers, having escaped the atten tion of the medical boards, or being caused by the pressure of the boot dur ing forced marches. Under these cit., cumstances a prompt and painless cure may be effected by inserting the dry ses quichloride between the nail and the protruding flesh, and powdering the lat ter with the same substance. A large bandage should be appfied over all, not impregnated with the liquid sesqutchlor ide of iron ; a precaution which may, however, be useful, as the folds of the band dry rapidly, and preserve their sit uation in a more exact manner. On the following day the exuberant flesh is found to have acquired the hardness of wood ; suppuration speedily ceases, and a cure follows after two or three applica tions. Tbis simple and mild treatment is obviously far ,preferable to the num erous surgical procedures hitherto recom mended. In the course of four or five days, or in a week at the furthest, the original pain ceases, the swelling sub sides, and the patient is able to walk.— Naught remains but the hardened pro truding flesh, which falls away about a month after the application of the ses quichloride of iron." High-Life Marriages in Turkey. The marriages of Turkish princesses, on whose expenses, as the Mai-Hama youn recently stated, no saving could be effected, deserves special notice. If one of the Sultan's daughters has attained the age at which Turkish girls are usu ally married, the father seeks a husband for her among the nobles at his court.— If a young man specially pleases her, ho is given the rank of lieutenant general, nothing lower being ever selected. The chosen man receives, in addition, a magnificent, fully furnished palace, and 60,000 piasters a month pocket money; and, in addition, his father-in-law de frays all the house-keeping expenses.— The bridegroom is not always over and above pleased at being selected. If he be married, he is obliged to get a di vorce—he must never have a wife or mistress in addition to the princess ; and, moreover, he is regarded as the servant rather than the husband of his wife. The Sultan himself announces to him his impending good fortune, and it is bounden duty to bow rererentisity, kiss the Sultan's feet, and stammer a few words about the high hew, the nom pected pleasure, ke. He then proceeds , with a chamberlain, who bears the hope Ail Matt to the Sublime Pert& ~ ,A. =kitty bad reeedes. Ws, ANL mkt 41 4 04neliraWit up along #1 2344 Alta Parilt— 1 14 7. !Wm_ • 4 1 4 , th,tt . % ~`, • ‘ ,. is t ARAM the linglegmem is Graftoi rimier seitips44 • • . room "Iwo_ 40 the ,ininister, are titek kid WAWA teatt 2144, 2 '1" NEW SERIES.--VOL 5, iiO4. Vessel Carried over Nlipirtrallet , The Toronto, Canada, - efAthe 16th, contains the following: ging correspondent at Ohiplften us an account of amelancholrrence which took place on the NI on Monday last s which rigid re the death of one man by being _ cartied over the falls, and caused . imtritned - piNIM• five others, as well as the 1 94 Ir an vessel. About eleven o'ildek' the morning the steamer A. D. -Grriffin, of Buffalo, reached that port, " o two scows, the Abby and the A. y, of Port Robinson. The captain de steamer not knowing the depth 'of the water kept toofar into the tivelr;3llth not sufficient steam to keep headkaY,Sll the scows. One of the latter, the A. Murry, striking against the ailek.g. the entrance of the harbor, swnng mad with the current almost into the prig' of the mighty cataract. The,e2tPtam four men who were ou bon4 seeing Imo helpless position into whisk the venni had got and the great peril with which they were thnatenea—being yithif i i less than five minutes' distaaee of the /mat fall—leaped from the vetted and bob* struck for shore. Forteof theta, ttte Ottfr tain included, succeeded by great exer tions in maintaining. themselves above the surface ; but sad to relate, the lifth sank amid the leaping and Wiling ww ters, and was carried over the eat nut. In the meantime a boat maimed, byj_vo men, shot out from the month of Wel.: land river to the asSistatice of month of less beings in the snow. The aersinielf, Messrs. F. Laura; jr., ked"Geero Morse,- pulled boldly and tilltreet, rescued the .men from their. retailed !O. Eation, and enceseeded in remade's!** shore just above the first wapiti:. -bee minute more and they wroaki berbbies carried over the F'alls to the pestivall below. Too much praise mutt be given to the men by whose presence of mind and eneke tweintsmart beings were thus rescued from the Astiaiellins- Unction. The scow glidedg:. stream until it reached a r Olt on the brink of the cstaThen, - iittefeWA course was stopped, thd,wheire probably retrain tdllen gip by in the spring. Walter swft The following passage Ile e~; ; ti, *leer by Sir Walter Scott is quoted in. die "Seaforth Papers :" , t 'You ask me, dear Lady It, literary news. There le not . , ~. a any consequence. Lord . . I,."Va quizzed of old by the Eitiobtire, ",'F. : . , l has shone forth a great hiltiltitry t MO poetical world. "Childe TietO, , '.- it sort of sketch of his travOlg) -. aur ''' • ' tions while en,,magedin 'than, has' , bably reached India. It is a wof great poetical talent, Slit hull,- ~' -: a gloomy and .ratlter inktanthropteal tire of disposition.. "Childs .Harold" lei exhausted the round of all p` Yeas+ A, li censed and , rmli*s . dit atitr wqtt, . • feel the goblet, *lntlt did Las ' ~ even to its luscious dregs, pall upo ills taste when again reple;istred, pretty nearly the same cofitikt tif e } 4 0 knee whioh made 'Solomon of . okl pr6e claim that all was vanity, inducesleis modern epicurean to quarrel with / tbe system of the Universe, And toclis= its being gifided - by supreme !once and w isdom. Another beautiful and eccenttt duction of the same kind % the a Turkish romance. It': it . fragment, obaCftly written, but: : 0 ing with high and spirited :i L The tale is the intrigue of a chrierpin with the favorite of Mosietn. murders his wife,' and the Glizkvatr, lla ste-' venge, waylays And kills Iltiisik - sed dies a monk, without having the goo& fortune to become penitent. 'The Sen timent of this poem indicates the latne deficiency of virtuous feelint - Whjok throws a shade on "Childe 'Hardest' character. • The passion, so well stall powerfully described, is of an unwcirtlVy and bad kind, and. - shrewdly - suspect Lord Byron would be i •. #y a ri; drachm of chivalrous Se and„ a quantum &vied of virtuous ata tlaintex ested prkiciple added to his - verre#lll-: ordinary powers of intellect antftst sion. As he is, however,. he iimoddliime deadly, . or almost deadly, users his. among the ladies of fashion." - Strange Story Sir James Graham, in the' last ire* of May 1834, with great reg,fbt;left - the Cabinet of Earl Grey, to 't .4k "ow much attached, and surresnieith4 the high, office of First Lord of the Adannilty, which was very amseable to him, (Yaw count of the diNiSiOlik of this : Colaingt f t i tk entertaiK the questiou ..of appropriation of church property to stwalv purpoits. In the first wet* of luile, 1834, Mr. George FilarrnY' er'a native effintriberiand, differing from Sir James tiiiiiivain ea tiO; polities, and very mach app,, --a barrister of Lincoln's to have been se *Owl *lit Ail Graham fiat aboviiiiviimps ours t ,* 4 11 g his I: 4 rtY upon , principle, ' ' ,by a ootiscientiotta sense . 94' , 11, • ' , 1 4.4 then made hills Will, leaving' 'to • lir . 4 , 1 5 Grattan abstiltialy all hls"rog -; Flo* property, worth per haps' ' wW• Mr. George Blatalre'died i n the of 1863, and Ns, , 1 11040er proved IN* k iones eCiiiss , zu: ' vi • ARA F 1 ' - 1861, UT .:_fe' `i ' . f diect+ Vett' •• 1 :.. ~ ^ : ' I V* , .. nerf i ii) cat .t. , •• t, L. .. isk IE3 Ifftnit ft. MEN 1:;1=
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