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HUBS WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, 11144innasys Ali Councillors sit Lim, WAYNESBURG, PA. illiprietice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining unties. Collections and other legal business will re it/Atte prompt attention. M Office o the/ South side of Main stree . 28,t,18 in the 13, Old uds lithe Jan 63.— ./S. ♦. TURMAN - EURBULN & RITCHIE. 101rT,ORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT J. riW Witynessiburgi jagrOntra—Main Street, one door east of tits Old B ink Building. . grLll Justness In Greene, Washington, and Fay Me Coombs, entrusted to them, will receive promp Ottestion. N. if —Punkah': attention will be given to the col 'potion of Pensions. Bounty Money, Bock Pays and ethov Malmo against theiGovornisionE • 41,11381±1v. E. A. WCO2IIIIItI. SE'ODIIINZILL & AtrroairkYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW . Waynesburg, Pa. Er Offioe in the "Wright 111....5e," East Door. Basis us, ace., will receive prompt Melillo*. equesbilrg. April ILI, 1862-Iy. _ _ _ DAVID CRAWFORD, .114013 Wiry and Contemner at Law. Office in the aims Monte. Will attend promptly to all business •Weated to his care. Welekbutl, Pa., July 30, 1882.—1 y. A ap.lll.ltlt. JOHN IPSINLAN: HULCE & PEIFELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUBSELLORE AT LAW Otlice in the Court nage, Waynesburg. Rept. 11.1861-Iv. SCIZ.DI2II.IIP WAR CL AMM I • D. R. P. MSS, 49T14RR6T AT LAW, WATNESFICA(L PINWA4 Rreceived from the War Department at Wash- Ington city..D. C., official copies of the several laws peeped by Congress, and all the necessary Forms iipid Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY. BACK PAY, due dis.. *arise and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan andiron, - Widowed tnothers, fathers, sisters and broth els. rhich.business, [upon due notice], will be attend ddto firomptlV and accnratelyif entrusted to his rare. ceffies In the old Hank Building.—April 8, 1863. O. W. a. WADDELL, k nm; TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ii in the ffigGIBTIIR'S OFFICE, Court ow, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all Wicked: Ras received official copies of all the *we permed by Congress, and other necessary instruc- Iftsis for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, 4m.dies4witited and disabled 'oldie's, widows, Orphan sffitildren, &c., which business if intrusted to his cure " k• Plo Iffiffill alleaded to. May 13,'61. pIprEaCIANS Dr. T. W. Ross, Ai11 V 11114311.0.73. sib Satuargeocomai Waynesburg, Gmene•Co., Pa. erg AND Dasturacr. ON MAIN STREET. met, and nearly opposite the Wright house. neebn:g t Sept. 130863. DR. A. G. CROSS yrOrel) . very reepectfunk tender hie services as a ressuses 11.1011.0 14111IGEON, to the people or a norbang Ud vicinity. He hopes by a due appre *Nt. of hatann life and , health, and strict attention to ho petits dims of public patronage. ' nosbarg, Aanuarys, 12 t. AZIEBLOILANTS. WM. A. PORTER, < 11,1 WEN& and Asian Daalet is Fatly and tkonea. = 4 : fop* Groceries, Notions, as., Main great. R. CLARK, lasiler Is Dry Hoods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens erlrand Odom', in the Hamilton House, opposite °east House. lisle street. Sept. 1.1. ..„ . • MINOR & CO., - 081aleritIrVereign and Dotnestie Dry Coeds, Oro. c o. 4 es, atadisfistrare hardware awl petiole, opposite grime ,Dinise. M aini fuses. Ir, 1861-Iy, . . litewitfaxxl Mot Dmazzas J. D. COSCRAY, ,11/16411141.800 maltalr, Main street, niarly opposite Parosir's and Drover's Bank." Every style of Boots and Shoes constantly on band or made to order. . Sopa. 44,18111-1 y; • • G r VAILX Wi r n • • • _ lOSE7PI-1 YATER, 4.04., in Grow*Os •snd Confectioneries, Notions, iktodialnas, Perfinntrrim, Liserpoot dts., Ghost of sit "LUC tad Gilt lllodlaitill and Looking Glatt Plat**. •4.llPrldits& nald for good eating Apples. • JOHN MUNNELI I , Jet Ikt:tuella, and Contectialujiieill.ra Y ari el Y Wileiee Ditty ffultdint, itreet. Sept. 31. 1861-Iy. WATaxas AND. MAMBA? . BAILY, aegis, eirees., opposite the Wright House. keeps 0. PPa oh inige and elegaat ameonment of pePaghtlikt it goohto, Wateitm ead Jeeeolty wif tees • prompt a Ulna 1136t—iy •, , . 49 0 .11WitiltiC. 4.4 Y, ! Outer t? *hoot and Rook% Statham ity, tat, titegaibtre - sad mama 4ber east OT NNW', 1.101 1 14., NM-4 LAlitilv. itionnixo agaik_oisorm wttuarrEit, aadTaii* delis* 1W- Jll4-1•. _ k lartf c4w . * AdE 7 /2 " b" "*AfteOli* K f. .•*" 114 , e, .2`..4f,. The man that dies youngest, as might be expected, perhaps, is the Railway Brakeman. His average age is only 27. Yet this must be taken with some allow ance, from the fact that hardly any but young and active men are employed in the capacity. At the same age dies the factory workwoman, through the combined in fluence of confined air, sedentary posture scant wages, and unremitting toil. Then comes the railway baggageman, who is smashed on an average of 30. Milliners and dressmakers live but lit tle longer. The average of the one is 32 and of the other 33. The engineer, the fireman, the con ductor, the powder maker, the well dig ger, and the factory operative, all of whom are exposed to violent and sudden deaths, die on an average under the age of 35. The cutler, the dyer, the leather dresser, the apothecary, the confectioner, the cigar maker, the printer, the silver smith, the painter, the shoe cutter, the engraver and the machinist, all of whom lead confined lives in unwholesome at mosphere, none of them reach the aver age age of 40. The musician blows his breath all out of his body at 40. The editor knocks himself into pi at the same age. 7. CI. RITOLUS Then come trades that are active or in a purer air. The baker lives to the aver age age of 43. the butcher to 49, the brickmaker to 47, the carpenter to 49, the furnace man to 42. the mason to 48, the stone-cutter to 43, the tanner to 48, the tinsmith to 41; the weaver to 44, the drover to 40, the cook to 46, the inn keeper to 46, the laborer to 50, the do mestic servant (female) to 43. The tailor lives to 43, the tailoress to 42. Why should the barber live to fifty if not to show the virtue there is in person al neatness in soap and water ? Those who average over a half century among the mechanics, are those who keep ;their muscles and lungs in health ful and moderate exercise and are not troubled with weighty cares. The blacksmith hammers till fifty-one, the cooper to fifty-nine, the builder to fifty. two, the shipwright till fifty-one. The miller lives to be whitened with the age of sixty. The roperaaker lengthens the thread of life to fifty-four. Merchants, wholesale and retail, live till fifty-two. Professional men live longer than is generally supposed. Litigation kills clients sometimes, but seldom lawyer,s for they average fifty-five. Physicians prove their usefulness by prolonging their own lives to the same period.— Clergymen, who, it is to be presumed, enjoy a greater mental serenity than others last till sixty-five. Seafaring life and its adjuncts seem, instead of dangerous, to be actually con ducive of longevity, We have already seen that the shipwright lives till fifty six. The sailer averages forty-three, the caulker sixty-four, the sailmaker fif ty-two, the stevedore fifty-seven, the ferryman sixty-five, and the pilot sixty five. J. J. HUFFILAir A dispensation of Providence that "Maine Law" men may consider incona -prehensilie is, that brewers and distil lers live to the ripe old oge of sixty four. Last and longest-lived come paupers, sixty-seven, and "gentlemen" sixty eight. The only two classes that do nothing for themselves, and Jive on their neighbors, outlast all the rest.— Why should they wear out, when thk.y are always idle 'I How a Fat Man Reduced his Flesh. An Englishman named Banting has just published in London an account of his struggles against corpulency, show ing how he grew fatter and fatter, to his great disgust, and how, by a deter mined effort in the right Erection, he finally succeeded in reducing his weight to the standard of ordinary men. Not long ago Mr. Banting measured five feet five inches, and weighed about four teen stone and a quarter. He owns that he had a great deal to bear from' his unfortunate make. In the first place, the little boys in the streets laughed at him ; in the next place, he could not tie his own shoes; and lastly, he had, it appears, to come down stairs backwards. But he was a man who struggled gal lantly, and whatever he was reccom mended to do. he honestly tried to car ry out. He drank mineral waters, and consulted physicians, and took sweet counsel with innumerable friends, but all was in vain. He lived upon a six- Reneea day, and earned it, so that the favorite recipe of Abernethy failed in his case. He went into all sorts of vapor baths and shampooing baths. He took no less than ninety Turkish baths ; but nothing tliol him any good—he was as fat as wet A kind friend reeoommend ed isereesing bodily exertion every morning, and nottimg seemed more likely to be effectual than rowing. So this stout warrior with fat got daily into a good, sale, heavy - 151%a, and rowed a couple of horn*. 'Blake vribt only popr ino*ileiNto the bucket of. the Dan ; ;WWl* ofteol in inik) way . he lot% nfiether,_immisahr vigor _ _ Pilliordlautouo. "Ripe Old Age." WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1864. advice has been so successful that Mr. Ranting can now walk down stairs for wards, put his old clothes quite over the suit that now fits him, and, far from be ing made the victim of unkind or ill judged chaff, is universally congratu lated on his pleasant and becoming ap pearance. The machinery by which this change was effected was of a very simple kind. lie was simply told to leave off eating anything but meat. It appears that none of his numerous friend ly advisers, and none of the physicians he consulted, penetrated so far into the secresy of his domestic habits as to have discovered that twice a day he used for merly to indulge in bowls of bread and milk.. The Solomon who saved him cut off this great feeder of fat, and since then Mr. Basting has been a thinner and a happier man. Josephine's Granddaughters. There's to be a Queen Eugenia as well as au Empress Eugenia. The new King of Greece, George the First, is to wed Eugenia, a daughter of the Duchess of Leuchtenberg. The Duchess's oldest daughter is betrothed to Prince Hum bert, heir to the crown of Italy. These young women are great granddaughters of the Empress Josephine, the first Napoleon's first venture, and whom he would have done better to stick to, in stead of running after a young wife of blood as blue as his own was red, when he had got past the reflecting ages of 40 years. Eugene de Beauharnais, eldest son, married. a Bavarian Princess, who made him the father of two Sons and four daughters. The. youngest son married the Grand Duchess Maria, one of the daughters of the Emperor Nicho las. 'Twas a love match, which the Czar had the sense and kindness to ap prove and promote. From this marriage came the young ladies who are to he Queen's-consort in Italy and Hellas.— Though of Northern origin, they are to be Queens in Southern Europe. They have, however, much Southern blood, for the Empress Josephine and her hus band Alexandre de Beauharnais, were natives of Martinique, which is in far more southren laditude than Italy or Greece. It is surprising to see how Jo sephine's decendants do accumulate crowns, while not a Bonaparte reigns, or is likely to reign anywhere. Napo leon 111 is unquestionably one of Jo sephine's grandson's but you might put all the Bonaparte blood there is in his veins into the eye of a midge without injuring the midge's sight. Another grandson married a Queen-Regnant of Portugal, and their son became King of Portugal in 1853. Two of her grand daughters—daughters of Eugene—be came, respectively, Empress of Brazil and Queen of Sweden; and a third mar ried a German Prince. Now two of her. great granddaughters are to marry Kings. There is something romantic in all this, but there is no romancer who would dare to invent such facts as we mentioned. France, Portugal, Brazil, Russia, Sweden, Greece and Italy have contributed to elevate the descendants of "the Creole," or soon will do so, white Bonaparte's only legitimate child is dead, and the descendants: of his brothers and his sisters are as crownless, almost, as were the ancestors of these brothers and sisters. Though Josephine was divorced from Napoleon, she was not divorced from Fortune, but Napoleon himself was. A Miraculous Escape. Budleigh Salterton was some six years ago the scene of a new thrilling incident. Six infant children, one Wednesday morning, got into a:boat on the beach, and a mischievous boy shoved it off. The boat drifted away to sea before the children were missed. Terrible was the agony of the mothers when they knew it. The preventive men went off in all directions : every boat was on the look out till far into the night. Daylight re turned, and still there were no tidings of the helpless children ; the day wore away and still nothing was heard about them—they were lost either in the ex- : pause of a wide ocean, or buried within its insatiable depth. A Plymouth traw ler' fishing on the following morning early, saw something floating at a dis twee ; he bore down to it, and discover ed it to be a boat—and in the bottom the six children cuddled in like a nest of birds fast asleep, God having mercifully given them _that blessed solace after a day of terror and despair. The trawler took them aboard, feasted them with bread and cheese, and gladdened their despairing little hearts with a promise to take their home. Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the trawler was seen in the offing with the boat astern. All eyes were turned toward him, the best spy-glass in the town was rubbed again and again, and at last they fair ly made out that it was the identical boat—none to be seen in the sloop. In tense was the agony of suspense, and ill alike shared with the parents. At last the trawler came in, and the word went around "they're all safe," and many stoat-hearted men brunt into tears, women simieked with joy, and became almost -frantic with their iusupportable 'T i n"' It wag) indeed, a memorable day— and a prayer, eloquent for its rough sin cerity,.war offered up to Almighty Ged v -whei in. His infinite. aueray, had ,i re ttherehememe claim flee the paihrodiliiir*efillithea 41101 PO: re.- - 1 - ' Ti l ft - Ot Illan '' , ..de five afar _4: 141' 0 1 19111 1.4 a. .' 3I 4W- , .- i-t f' sk, A Delightful Legend. There is a charming tradition connect ed with the site on which the temple of Solomon was erected. It is said to have been occupied in common by two broth ers, one of whom had a family ; the oth er had none. On the evening succeeds ing harvest, the wheat having been gathered in separate shocks, the elder brother said to his wife : "My younger brother is. unable to bear the burden and heat of the day; I will arise, take of my shocks and place with his, without his knowledge." The younger brother being actuated by the same benevolent motive said within himself : "My elder brother has a family and I have none ; I will arise, take of my shocks and place them with his without his knowl edge. Judge of their astonishment when, on the following morning, they found theit respective shocks undimin ished. This course of events transpired several nights, when each resolved to stand guard and solve the mystery.— They did so, when, on the following night, they met each other half way between their respective shocks with arms full. Alas: in these days how many would sooner steal their brOth er's whole shock than add to it a single sheaf. Death of Mr. Thackeray. By the late English news we learn that William Makepeace Thackeray, the eminent English litterateur, is dead. His eminent talents were inimitable as a car ricaturist, and he was one of the most caustic wits England ever produced.— Ile visited this country twice, and the last time he established a very high reputation as a public lecturer. his lec tures on the "Four Georges" drew crowded houses. "Vanity Fair" and "Pendennis" are his most celebrated works, and through them he is best known to the American readers of fic tion. He was a man of eccentric hab its, as mast geniuses are. In his death brilliant light has gone out in the lit erary firmament. English papers brought by the Africa, give no particulars of the death of Mr. Thackeray, farther than he was found dead in his bed on the morning of the 24th of December. He was taken ill only the day - before, and his sudden de cease is attributed to effusion on the the brain. In the death of this cele brated writer the literary world sustains an irreparable loss. It's What You Spend. "It's what thee'll spend, my son," said a sage old Quaker, "not what thee'll make, which is to decide whether thee's to be rich or not." The advice was trite, for it was Franklin's in an other shape : "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of them selves." But it cannot too often be re peated. Men are continually indulging in small expenses, saying to themselves that it is only a trifle, yet forgetting that the aggregate is serious, and even the sea shore is made up of petty grains of sand. Ten cents a day is even thirty-six dollars a year, and that is the interest of the capital of six hun dred dollars. The man that saves ten cents a day is only so much richer than he who does not, as if he owned a life estate in a house worth five hundred dollars; and if invested quarterly does not take half that time. But ten cents a day is child's play, sonic will exclaim. Well, then, John Jacob Astor used to say, that when a man who wishes to he rich, has saved ten thousand dollars, he has won half the battle. Not that As tor thought ten thousand much, but he knew that in making such a sum, a man acquired habits of prudent economy, which would keep him advancing in wealth. How many, however, spend ten thousand in expenses, and then, on looking back, cannot tell, as they say, "where the money went to." To save is to get rich. To squander, even in small sums, is the first stop toward the poor house. God has covered the skull with hair. Some people shave it off—mischievous practice. It exposes the brain. It ex poses the throat and lungs--the eyes likewise, say wise philosophers. Men become bald. Why? Because they wear close hats and caps. Women are never bald, except by disease. They do not wear close hats and caps. Men never lose a hair, below where the hat touches the head, not if they had been bald twenty years. The close hat holds the heat and prespiration, thereby the hair glands become weak, and the hair falls out. What will restore it? Noth ing after the scalp becomes shiny.— But in process of falling out, or recently lost, the following is best : Wash the head freely with cold water once or twice a day ; wear a thoroughly ventil ated hat. This is the best means to ar rest the loss and restore what is suscepti ble of restoration. What will beautify a woman's hair: Whatever will invigorate the hair glands. Oils and in* other applica tioos debintge the.. Cold glands. Cold water is best At - ant Ilse hair looks like a witch, but alter a few weka it snakes thehair luxuriant. B the per **eat nee o enkt Aster I IosATA; thia, polar 14 1 .riek curl*- 10aly • ant the rhoveletemirsiik Arimilii - 4111% D. - T 3 ~_~ ~.~, Our Hair. A Curious Chapter on Food. The diversity prevailing in different nations in reference to articles of toed seems to confirm in its liberal sense the proverbial saying, "that one man's meat is another man's poison." Many an ar ticle of food which is in high esteem in one country is regarded in others with abhorrence, which even famine can hardly surmount. In the Shetland Islands it is said that crabs and lobsters abound, which the people catch for the London market, but refuse to eat even when half starved. The John Dory is reckoned by epicures one of the choicest fish ; but in Devon shire, where it abounds, and also in Ireland, it used to be thrown away as unfit for food. There seems to be some superstition connected with this, as it is said that a Devonshire cook flatly refused to dress it. Eels—which are abundant and of good quality in Cumberland and Westmoreland, and also in Scotland— are regarded by the people there with as much disgust as snakes. Skate, which is in high estimation in England, in Ireland is hardly ever eaten except by the fishermen. Scallops, on the other hand, which are reckoned a dainty in Ireland, are hardly ever eaten in Eng land; and, although they are abundant on many of the coasts, few of the Eng lish have an idea that they are eatable. The cuttlefish (that kind that produces the inky fluid,) although found on our coasts, is not eaten by us ; but at Na ples it is highly esteemed; and travel ers report that it tastes like veal. Cockchafers are candied, and served up with other confectioneries by the Italians. The hedgehog no one thinks of eat ing in England except the gipsies and some who have joined them, and who report that it is better than rabbit. - The sailors in the English and Dutch whaleships do not eat the flesh of the whale; but those in the French whalers (with their well known skill in-cookery) are said to make a palatable dish of it. By almost all the lower classes in England, venison and game of all kinds are heldin abhorence, and so are fresh figs. By the Australian savages, frogs, snakes, large moths, and grubs picked out from the wood, all of which the English settlers turn away from with disgust, are esteemed as dainties; but they are shocked at our eating oysters. Milk is an article of food (except for sucking babies) is loathed by the South Sea Islanders. Goats have been intro duced into several of the islands; but the people deride the settlers with using the milk, and ask them why they do not milk their cows. On the other hand, dogs and rats are favorite articles of food with them. These last, as is well known, are often eaten by the Chinese, who also eat salted earth worms, and a kind of sea-slug, which most Europeans will tarn over from with disgust. In the narrative of Anson's voyage is a full account of the prejudice of the South Americans (both of Creoles and Indians) against turtle, as poisonous.— The prisoners captured on prize ships warned the sailors against eating it, and for some time lived on bad ship beef; but seaing our men thrive on the turtle, they began to eat it—at first sparingly. and at length heartily. Horseflesh, which most Europeans would refuse to eat, except in great ex tremity, is preferred by the Tartars to all others; and the flesh of the wild ass colt was greatly esteemed by the Ro mans. As for pork, it is on religious grounds that Jews and Mohammedans abstain from it, as the Ilindoos do from beef. But the Christians of the East seem to have nearly an equal aversion to it; and the like prevailed till lately in Scotland. The large shell snail, called Escargot was a favorite dainty with the ancient Romans, and still is so in a great part of the South of Europe, though most Englishmen would be half storved be fore they would eat it. In Vienna the large wood-ants are served up and eaten alive. Snail-crabs are eaten alive in China. The iguani, a large species of lizard, is a great dainty in some of the West India Islands. And monkey and alligator are eaten in Africa and South America; and some travelers who have overcome their prejudices pronounced them to be good eating. Even when the same substances are eaten in different countries, there is a strange difference in the mode of pre paring them. Both we and the Island ers use butter, but they store it up with out salt till it is rancid and sour. We agree with Abyssinians in liking beef,. t:they would probably object as much to the roast ivef of old England as we should to the half-living morsels of raw beef in which they delight. Maize, the Indian corn of America, has been intro duced into New Zealand by the mission aries, and the people cultivate and high ly esteem it. But their mode ofprepar ing it for food is to Europeans most dis gusting. They steep it in water until it is putrid, and then make it into a kind of porridge which emits a most in tolerable stench.—Eag/ish Paper. iteirDo your duty, however danger ous. Death owned to all, and the world does not need your bodily - eneWso tench as it dme your. e- r°° l jormottimousittsouly to 44 aitithei ottalte nay w 4*-to raft duty: -- „ "A Traveller," in a letter to the Lon don Times, says: "I can assure you, if we go to war with the Japanese, we must not blind ourselves with the belief we shall have a second Chinese affair. They are bold, courageous, proud, and eager for every kind of knowledge. A friend of mine gave a workman a Bra mah lock to put on a box it was not discovered until some time afterward, and only then by the absence of the name, that the lock had been imitated, and, as the workman confessed, the original kept as a pattern. I have been on board a steamer (paddle) which used to run between Nagasaki and Jeddo, six hundred miles, whose engines arid boilers, and every part of her machine ry, were made of copper. She was built by a doctor in Jeddo, whose only guide was a Dutch description of a steam engine translated into Japanese.— Au American gunnery officer was sent over in 1859, in the Powbatan, to teach them gunnery. He was courteously received, and then taken over the arse nal at Jeddo. He returned to the ship, saying he had been taught a lesson, in stead of having to teach. "In many of the arts and manufactures they excel us; their beautiful castings in bronze would puzzle the most experi enced European workman. I have shown specimens to clever workmen who have confessed they could not imi tate them. I have seen examples that would rival in brilliancy any m:tde in England. The French minister had a large ball, so clear and of such perfect color that he believed it to be a gigan- ; tic sapphire, and bought it for a good round sum. Their paper imitations of leather are perfect ; their paper water proof coats are bought by the captains of ships for their exposed boats' crews ; their own clocks are good, and they have imitated our watches ; they walk about with 'pedometers' attached to their belts, and they are not backward in copperplate engraving and perspec tive. Their china is far superior to the Chinese. The country abounds with coal, though they only use that found close to the surface; but even that, a sort of bituminous shale, is good. In gold and silver, I believe they could ri val Mexico and Australia ; iron, copper, and tin are found in profusion. A friend of mine at Yokohama gave a Japanese a piece of English cotton shirting ; in a few days the man brought back two pieces, and my friend had much ditlicul- ty in saying which was his, so closely had it been imitated In fact, they are a people who want for nothing but teachers." giiirA terrible episode in connection with the storm occurred on January 2nd, in a house just outside the : northern boundary of the city of Chi cago, Illinois. A poor woman, who I resided there with her two boys, aged five and two years, respectively, came into Chicago, on that day, to make some purchases, leaving her children I at home. Late in the evening she was found in the street, and apparently suf fering from the effects of liquor. She was cared for, and toward daylight re covered sufficiently to be . able to pro- ' ceed home, and, in company with her preserver, reached the house about seven o'clock. The house was filled with smoke, which issued from several crevi ces in the building. They entered.— On the floor lay the youngest Child in a heap of snow ; he was frozen stiff, and of course dead. The eldest boy lay on the bed. He, too, was dead, but not quite cold. He had built a fire against a trunk which stood near, and a hole was burned in its side, another in the floor, and the bedclothes had been on fire. He had probably been asleep, and on awakening, almost perished with ' cold, he found his brother dead. He then lit a fire on the floor, and sank down benumbed with cold. The -an--1 guish of the mother cannot be &seri bed. One cry of agony went forth from her lips, and she sunk down in a eCl vulsive fit ti-em which it was difficult to recover her. A Word for Hoops.. The eminent Dr. Dixon,. editor of "The Scalpel," one of the best medical publications extant, speilking of hoops, says : "We consider the modern hooped skirts one of the most admirably artistic and health-giving devices of our - time ; and no sensible person can fail to appre ciate its benefits to the girl or woman." After giving his reason for so regarding this much abased improvement, he throws out the following suggestions: "If the ladies will pardon us, we will venture a hint on the dimensions of the skirt. Its most excellent end is to en sure the unrestricted use of the limbs in walking; it must, therefore, be of suffi cient diameter to allow a free step and the necessary space for the under cloth ing; if it restrict the step in the least de gree, it is too small; no woman should be ambitious of a small step ; the longer the step the more breath required, and the greater the development of the thorax and lungs; quick and euergetio walking, with the shoulders thrown back, will do as much for pia growth of the organs as singing '• woman must dress warmly, keep her feet dry, Walk more, and eat more, or she will never fillffi the great object of her ereition." arA Western pulhOriays:—Wanted OW sakes as ~lotto OM pkimie CZEIZI NEW SERIES.--VOL 5, NO. 33. The Japanese. Skiireassimate reproofs are like medi cines given scalding hot : thepsdepttuomot take them. If we wish to do good to those we rebuke, we should labor for weakness of wisdom, and use soft words and hard argu ments. If evil had Davin' been Perraittoidt die wisdom of God could not have appeared in overruling it; nor his justine, in:punishing it; nor his mercy, in forgiving nor-his power, iu subduing it: ser Many who think themselves the-iin lars of the church, are only its &Slier!. ~~ O • The Violations of the Conatitutlett. The violations of the Constitution by . the present administration are thus -eon cisery summed up in an address from the Camden (N. J.) Democratic ./".-:90 elation : 1. The freedom of speech has bey violated by the arrest and imprisonment of a number of persons, charged with: no crime, and whose only offence was the utterance of sentiment distsistnful, to the men in power. • 2. The freedom of the press has he subverted by the suppression of a num ber of newspapers. 3. The rigl't to security from arrest when no crime is charged has been dis regarded in the arrest and incareeratiOn. of a large number ofpersons, denounced' by the parasites of the administration as sympathizers with the rebellion. 4. The tight to security from tudszr ful searches and seizures has been vio.. lated in numerous instances, in which. domiciles have been visited and papers,. &c., seized without legal authority. 5. The right of trial by jury .has been refused in the cases:of citizens ar rested and imprisoned or banished- by military orders or court martial. 7. The frecdom of every citizen hits been taken f:om him by the iliegabluld unnecessary ..uspension of the• lagbt to demand the writ of habeas corpus. S. The right of proverty heeit abrogated by the Thodncipatiena nation and the Confiscation 9. The inviolability of contracts has been destroyed by the act which • 'Wake* depreciated treasury notes a legal tender for all debts. 10. The freedom of religious wor , ship had been violated on repeated 4No casions by the interference of military officers. , , 11. The right of states to the lOU agement of their militia has been takin from them by . the Conscription alt o which places the whole military Dom of the country at the disposal .of the President. _ 12. The formation of the State of "West Virginia" was a vilqlation ((the, third act of the Constitution. 13. The heretofore undispute4 right. of the people to elect their legislators and rulers has been taken from them, ea the will of majorities disregarded; as, is abundantly manifested in the manner in which elections have reeently been car ried by the grossest corruption in the Northern States, and by military orders in the border states of the Knuth. Than and Now. Before this dreadful civil war, which would never have taken place had not fanat icism reared its bloody head and usurped the government of he nation we had peace and prosperity at° hOme and abroad. We were respected among the nations •nf the earth. We hailau undisturbed eturitnesuie through out- the world. ,No foreign nation dared to tread upon our borders. We had the perfect freedom of Habeas Corpus. We had free speech and free press, We had no Prpvoet Marshals or hos tiles. We had no shoddy contractors or vend Governors. We had no arbitrary arrests. We had no banishment forre,phdon's.sakc We had no overwhelming national debt. We had no oppressive tarns, for ;the snk , ) of Eastern manufacturers. W had no government tax, aim arsnp of tax collectors. We had no large standing army. We had plenty of gold and silver. We had cheap living. We had Union and prosperity. We had not our fathers, brothers slain in battle. In fine, we bad our —what have we now but a corrupted haii box ?—[Detroit Free Press. wir Gen. Grant was lately about the per sistent and prepostr , use, by a ew York paper, cf for the Presidency. The Geri plied: "I aspire only to one office. When this war is ever, I to run for. Mayor of Galena_(his pi residence.) And if elected I hoc,: have the sidewalk fixed up tetwe ,, r , house and the depot." mar Mrs. Douglas, the widow of *or 'Douglas, is at present in WaslJ; $ "weird by Sesestalt aim Vilt Ilia Tres is soidankamla in pebige. , :
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