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Va. 4 Wrar. 7. A. P. 11VCRAIIAN, D. B. P. num,
WILY, FITCHANAN & lIUSS,
atuiesa r . Counsellors at Law,
IVAYITSBURG, PA.
will intake In the Comte of Greene and adjoining
dlipt.e. Coalelione and other legal Madness will re
doll re pro* attentiOn.
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MiIIRAN A Rr'reillAr.
ztvNiams AND COUNSHLWAB AT LAW
Waynesburg" Pa.
a--Mail street, one door east of
do old Bank Building.
ilDrAll Amines' in Greenlet, Washington, and Fag
am Counties. entrusted to them, win receive swam
N. I --Psalmist attention will be given to the col-
Vallsa of Pensions. Bounty Money. But Pay, and
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kc.. will rot:Moe prompt attendee.
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DAVID CRAWFORD,
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rat, Massa, Will emend promptly to all basilica
VISA to his care.
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B. IL P. HUBS, :
Mei, CZ AT LAW, watillisenao. ritirsts.;
LiAl Setteived from the War Department at Wash
hqpion chat, D. Z., official copies of the several
e pipmed by Congrees, and all the nemweary POEMS
l i tZi l a °ll. DVb `b. F . ,"` 06 , 7 `4l4°ll2li: r .
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and disabled soldiers, their widow!, orphan
nOtridowed mothers, Cathent, , sistets and broth
• . wbieh 'toilettes, town due notice] will be attend
/Ito meamtly and acchratclyif entrusted to his care.
01 ja the sid hankilMileng...-Aprit 8, M.
O. W. G WADDELL,
Alk i natNEY & COUNStbLOR AT LAW.
In the ItlitiqBTllll4l OPTICS, Coen
IVC* ltio rentembets., Peens. pus!Tiens of ail
ElHas received official copies of all the
puttied by Oentress, and other necesitagy instruc
ting the eetteethett C
ON4 BOUNTIES, BACK PAY,
elialitiOidield disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan
dot" which biaseiella if Intrusted to his care
Ira pftfeaptly attended to. May 13, 'll3.
PirIrSICIANS
Dr. T. W. Ross,
iirIiarIBICASSER. lIEWAE.IIKIO424IEL.
Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa.
g. AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET.
*early Apposite the Wrigla.trouse.
Inrirate_L_A.lB63.
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EmsD envy rinpeetfully tender his 'entices as a
. PHYSICIAN AND SURGSON, to the people of
rg Mid vkinity. He hopes-by a due appre-
OM/ma li fe and health, sad strict attention to
sni„ to learn. a Share of public patronage.
„January 8, Ildl.
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Grenades,
lilocriende Retail Realm in Fen and Danes
allsiramede. Grenades, -Notions, Re or ., Main sweet.
11.18N—Iy.
R. CLARK,
wawa Dry Goode, Groceries, Hardware, Queens
were and matins, in the .iientileon House, opposite
Op Gout Mao. Main street. 'Sept. 11, IBM —ty.
MINOR at CO.,
goilai4Weida and Wm.* Vry Goods. Gro
ittlie
were, flard and Nations, opposite
=rig" Min. NO& liirtet.
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J. D. COSGRAY,
applesdlnise iogrlr,. street, nearly opposite
Ole 'ParlaW*o and Drover's Sank." Every style or
SlOWand Shoos ermetantly on kand or made le order.
Sept. 14 111917-Iy.
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JOSEPii YATER,
11Zeri is s Oroenries and Confeet,ioneries. Netiou,
SI Perfumeries, Lliforpoot Ware, ke., Mame of
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a 44 Gilt Moulding and Looking Ohms Plato.
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glider in armories amt Confeetionsiiet, and Variety
il lt. 41.1 11: 11an 1811r1 W ly il" . " I New if Mien atreeL
lIMINTSI3IB AND • JEWEL*:
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The mail ! The mail !
And sun-burned cheeks awl eager eyes
Come crowding round the Captain's tent,
'Each out stretched hand receives the prize.
For fond perusal meant.
'Unless distressing news be told,
These letters nought of pain convey,
For friends at home will never scold
The lad that's tar away.
The mail ! The mail !
And toil-stained palms are closing there—
How rough ! how very coarsely moulded
On dainty missives, fresh and fair,
By filly fingers folded.
For kindly thoughts pursue tho youth
Who battles with his country's foe,
For soiled attire, nor guise uncouth
Prevents their genial flow.
The mail 1 The mail !
A father's word of pride and cheer ;
A mother's trembling admonition ;
A. sister's blessing—oh, how dear 1
A brother's generous wishing.
And many missives, frank and bright,
From early friend and neighbor boy ;
Each page a volume of delight—,A
brimming cup of joy.
The mail ! The mail !
And stillnessrtdes the boisterous throng,
And "silence half an hour" prevails,
The Heaven of those who wait so long
The coming of the mails.
Each reads his own, and these alone,
No soldier seeks to play the spy,
And letters, wheresoever thrown,
Are safe from every eye. '
Chisel in hand, stood a sculptor boy,
With his marble block before him,
And his face lit up with a smile of joy,
As an angel dream passed o'er him ;
Ile earved the dream on the shapeless stone,
With many a sharp incision ;
With heaven's own light the sculpture shone
He had gat that angel "take.
JOHN PNWLAN
Sculptors of life are we as we stand
With our surds uncovered before us;
Waiting the hour when at God's command,
Oar life-dream passes o'er us.
If we carve it then, on the yielding stone,
With many a sharp incision,
Its heavenly beauty shall be our own,
Our lives that angel vision.
, il;J'4(iorellautouli.
The Sleswiek-flotstein:Business.
Here is a brief statement of the pres
ent condition of German opinion in re=
sped to Prince Frederic of Holstein,
admirably, illustrating the harmonious
tendencidif of German politics :
Nine States have recognized Frederic
as Duke of Holstein; these are Baden,
Weimar, Coburg-Gotha, Meinigen, Al
tenburg, Brunswick, Soudershausen,
Reuss-S'chletz and Waldeck.
Eight recognize him as entitled to be
Duke of Holstein ; these are Bavaria,
Wirtemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Ham
burg, Reuss-Goeiz, Anhelt, Frankfort
and Bremen.
Three are disposed to recognize him ;
these are Saxony, Rudolatadt and
Mechlenburg-Scheverin.
Five are indisposed to recognition ;
these are Hanover, Electorol Hesse,
Lichtensein, Nassau and Mecklenburg-
Strelitz.
Two are decidedly hostile to him ;
these are Prussia and Austria.
Three don't know their own mind ;
these are Oldenburg, Hamburg and Lu.
beck.
Two keep profoundly dark on the alibi
ject ; these are the great Kingdoms,
Lippe-Detmold and auenburg-Lip-
Meanwhile Duke Frederic is taking
; pp a policy of his owsomd proposes to
'order the Federal troops out of "his
Duchy" by way of indficilig -the Dined
to let him remain in it? This is a high
ly original conception on the part of the
Duke, and bothers his friends consider
ably.
A bit of Advice for Boys.
'You are made to be kind,' says Horace
Mann, 'generous and magnanimous. If there
is any boy in sehool who has a dub foot,
don't let him know that you ever saw it.—
If there is a poor boy with ragged clothes,
don't talk about rags When he is in haring.
If there is a lame boy, assign him apart of the
gam. Which dem- not require running. It
there is a hungry ose,.gbildhim a part of
year dinner. If time ia :omei help
him .to giea bier lamens. if imam 'Height
one, be net egminso ahem.; bor Mum twit
proud of his talents, and another iot taivielatint!
them, there are two greet ihnitg*
more Wadi than k let or
strow ixtylmati4nrid le l / 4 ?ad is sorry far
it, for-'m Viiinottet • 44, tte 'letkolni not
to lelloQ l lOU akit'w by
thei I*4lll4kg it '
Soldiers' Letters:
A Beautiful Thought.
WAYNESBURG, GRKENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1864.
Intemperance.
I was much interested, a few days since,
in reading an article on the subject of In
temperance written by Dr. J. C. Gunn. It
will be found in the work of that gentleman
entitled 'Gunn's New Domestic Physician.'—
I propose to make a few extracts from this
treatise, hopeing that, in the Providence of
God, it may do something towards eradicat
ing an evil habit, which destroys the body,
ruins the mind, blasts every font hope and
cherished expectation, brings down age In
sorrow to the tomb, sends youth to an early
grave, and gives the undying spirit of man
into the band of the evil one, to take up its
unending abode in that 'dark pit where there
is no water ; but where there is 'weeping,
and wailing, and gnashing of teeth,' forever,
and ever.
Intemperance not only destroys the health,
but it inflicts ruin upon the innocent and
helpless, for it invades the family and social
circle, and spreads woe and sorrow all around;
it cuts down youth in all its vigor, manhood
in its strength, and age in its weakness ; it
breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting
mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases
conjugal love, blots out filial attachment,
blights parental hope, and brings down
mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It
produces weakness not strength, sickness not
health, death not life. It makes wives wid
ows, children orphans, fathers friendless, and
all of them at last beggars.
It produces fevers, feeds rheumatism,
nurses the gout, welcomes epidemics, invites
disease, imparts pestilence, embraces con
sumption, cherishes dyspepsia, and encour
ages appoplexy and paralytic affections. It
covers the land with idleness and poverty,
disease and crime ; it fills our jails, supplies
our alms-houses, and furnishes subjects for
par asylums ; it engenders controversies,
fosters quarrels., and cherishes riots ; it con
demns law, spurns order ; it crowds the
penitentiaries, and furnishes victims for the
scaffold ; it is the life-blood of the gambler,
the food of the counterfeiter, the prop of the
highvyman, and the support of the mid
night incendiary and assassin, the friend and
the companion of the brothel.
It countenances the liar, respects the thief,
and esteems the blasphemer; it violates ob
ligations, reverences fraud, and honors in
famy; it defames benevolenCe, hates love,
scorns virtue, and slanders innocence; it in
cites the father to butcher his innocent chil
dren, helps the husband to kill his wife, awl
the child to grind the parricidal ax.
It burns man, consumes woman, detests
life, curses God, and despises heaven; it su
borns witnesses, nurses perjury, defiles the
ury-box, and stains the judicial ermine; it
bribes votes, corrupts elections, poisons our
institutions, and endangers our government;
it degrades the citizen, degrades the legisla
ture, and dishonors the statesman. It
brings shame not honor, terror not safety,
despair not hope, misery not happiness; and
now, as with the malevolence of a fiend, it
calmly surveys its frightful desolation, and
insatiate with havoc, it poisons felicity, kills
peace, ruins morals, blights confidence, slays
reputation, and wipes out national honor,
then curses the world, and laughs at the ruin
it has inflicted upon the human race.
It is liquor that mars the whole consisten
cy and blights the noblest energies of the
soul; it wrecks and withers forever the hap
piness of the domestic fireside; it clogs and
dampens all the generous and affectionate
avenues of the heart; it makes man a drone
in the busy hive of society, an encumbrance
to himself, and a source of unhappiness to
all around him; it deprives him ot his nat
ural energies, and makes him disregardful .of
the wants of the innocent beings who are
nearest to him, and dependent upon him; it
transforms gifted man (fashioned in the ex-;
press image of his Maker,) into a brute,
and causes him to forfeit the affections and
break the heart-of the innocent and confid
ing being whom God has made inseparable
from himself, and who should lcok up to
him for comfort, protection and support ; it
cantles hint contemptuously to disregard the
kind admonitions of a merciful Savior. Li
quor! 9h, how many earthly Edens bast
then made
.desaate i How many starved and
orphan children bast thou cast upon the cold
charities of an unfriendly world! How many
graves hest thou filled with confiding and
broken-hearted wives! What sad wrecks
had thou made of brilliant talents and splen
did geniuses ! Would to God there were
one universal temperance society, and all
mankind were members of it; the glorious
1 cause of Christ would* adynnesa} and my-r
-bids of bare-Moted orphans and broken-heart
ea wires would chant praises to heaven for.
the success of the temperance cause, the. lost
;would be reclaimed and bleeding hearts
heeled
Lem pleading for the diaeonsolete mother,
the hapless orphan,' and the broken-hearted
and distracted wife. I come with the tears
of dlsappointed love and the auguisit of a
wounded Wirt. I plead in the name and
behalfef suffering virtue, neglected and aban
doned for revel and riot. I imagine I hear a
voice from the dark and dismal mansions of
tha 464 sallatf' Oh, ye iNtillofdindpatinn
turd to 7 0 PrOdigia• who , riataed wanton
w ith r ,thvgilha. of a heastem heviderree
*maid behellt the . cakapimionfrat *sr
lass oleo
glory ; but ere the morning dew has escaped
on the breeze it sickens, withers, dies. Here
the object of virtuous affection ; there
the promise of connubial bliss : this the hope
of his country, and that the encouragement
and consolation of religion—all poisoned by
intemperance, all doomed to a premature and
disgraceful death. Look at these and be ad
monished.,
The following fact as related by Prof. Se
wall, is a serious warning to men who drink
ardent spirits. A man was taken up dead in
the streets of London, after having drunk a
great quanity of whiskey. He was carried to
Westminster Hospital, and there dissected.—
In the ventricles of the brain was found a
considerable quantity of limpid fluid, impreg
nated with whiskey, both to the sense of
smell and taste, and even to the test of in
flammability. The liqind appeared as strong
as one third whiskey, and two-thirds water.
What strong infatuation is it that tempts
men to drink alcoholic liquors, when facts
and reason, and nature and religion, are
continually warning them of the train of
disasters and evils consequent thereon !
When physicians demonstrate to us the
poisonous, deadly influence of ardent spirits
upon the system,and all experience illustrates
the truth, why have men not sense and con
sistency to forsake the miserably foolish
practice of drinking poisons, Beware of one
more glass I
San Francisco.
A correspondent of the Milwaukee
News thus pictures San Francisco :
"It is a beautiful city, full of life,
business, and money. It is unlike
other cities--unlike them in every cus
tom, appearance, and manner of living.
People live independently and queerly.
The prudence of northern society would
receive a severe shock to hear of ladies
and gentlemen living in furnished rent
ed rooms, eating at a restaurant, and
owning a residence one or two miles
outside the city limits, to which they
retire as buits their convenience, stay
ing at one place at Bight, another dur
ing the day, and boarding at restaur
ants. Not such restaurants as you
have in your, northern cities—under
ground, windows of stained glass, a
bar, and fit only for loafers—but ele
gant saloons, fitted up with taste and
style, with dressing rooms for both la
dies and gentlemen, private and public
entrances, a reading-room, and every
thing equal to a splendid hotel.
Every other building nearly has fur
nished rooms to let, and restaurants are
to be found in all parts of the city, near
every corner and every place of public
business. People look happy, content
ed, and mind their own business, and
seem to be very busy at that. No
crowds or clubs of lazy men stand on
the corners peering into the faces of
passers-by, or loaf around the steps of
hotels and saloons, with nothing to do
but pick their teeth and revel in petty
gossip. Everybody has employment.
Rich and poor dress in the height of
fashion, and wear the most costly of
fabrics. Montgomery street is almost a
palace of stores—and store palaces. I
should be considered an immense falsi
fier if I should tell the weight of apples,
pears, and grapes in this State.
Think of pears weighing from one
and a half to three rounds—potatoes
(not fruit, however,) ditto—and grapes
weighing five and six pounds the bunch
—the most delicious tasting grapes in
the world are to be found in California.
San Francisco has almost a foreign ap
pearance, yet enough of good old Amer
ica to make it a home for the American
who endures the foreign habits which
have become ruling customs from the
foreign majority which once existed.—
Spanish customs, names, and fashions
prevail over the cit. People never
speak of a park, but a plaza, a lovely
spot in the heart of the city, now fra
grant with fresh blooming flowers and
the shade trees that encircle it. The
Spanish custom of ladies remaining in
doors until three o'clock in the after
noon is carried out by the ladies in San
Francisco generally. You see few la
dies in the street before that time.—
The Chinamen, or rather the Chinese
population, form a prominent fea
ture of the city. They are on every
street, and one part of the city is devo
ted entirely to their trade and business.
At any hour of the day the poor China
man can be seen with his two baskets
on his shoulders, his hair in long braid
quite to his feet, gathering up the paper
and rags in the street. 'The principal
and best paying occupation of the poor
er classes of Chinese is washing ; their
odd looking signs are hung out all over
the city. They look queer indeed, and
we would imagine the nanies meaning
less; for instance, "Chung We," "Sing
Tean," and "Ya Chong."
The German Boy.
Among the chddren in one of the Sabbath
Schools in New York was a little German
boy, whose parents were very poor. From
the time he entered the school he was ratnark
able fpr his eagerness learn, and his docili
ty. Risleaciter's hopes were, hooever, frus
trated by a madden illheea, -which cot him
down in a few dais. Awing his sickness
the snperintisodent, of phis achnokrint, to see- .
him, and forMirlsim perfectly - , y- 'wait
ing.' That afternoon he .. rose in,
his elbow and iminimed, ,do
bear dial music 7 40 bettOifial
You hear it ?" Mahar, ttook4l4s
mind affected, tried to hushbits,e reo ,
pealed thewords, lookingsaniit3
time with eager eyes. -Mak iiiikb.ort to
sing*singularly SlNfilt VAN, 'I *loci
r... angols coining, coming.' Vitale bal,
- a llYn *b_ olPh. !roe. , Afb
I.lke gt hair the adeptsAinsintr—i•—
• As ha •
A prominent officer attached to the
ambulance corps of the French army in
Italy, Dr. Armand, has published the
result of some curious and interesting
observations made by himself and others
upon the battle-fields of the late Na
poleonic war with Austria. The posi
tion which the bodies of the slain as
sume, under the effect of mortal wounds
in various parts of the body, upon the
expression of the features, as well as up
on the- general attilude, were the sub
jects of somewhat novel investigation,
which might have been pursued on a
grand scale in this country for the past
two years.
In a number of cases the dead soldier
was found almost in the speaking atti
tude of life. A Hungarian hussar,
killed at the same moment with his
horse, was only slightly moved in his
saddle, and sat there dead, holding the
point of his saber in advance, in the po
sition of charging. A parallel case oc
cured in the death of an Austrian artil
leryman. Those wounded in the head,
it was remarked, generally fell with the
face and abdoman flat to the ground.—
Wounds in the chest and heart produc
ed a like posture of the body, though in
the latter cases modifications of the po
sition and expression more frequently
took place than in the former. A Zou
ave struck full in the chest was "doubled
upon his musket, as if taking a position
to charge bayonet, his face full of ener
gy, with an attitude more menacing
than that of a lion."
In wounds of tho abdomen the agony
seemed to have been prolonged ; the
face was contracted, the hands crossed
and closed upon the stomach, the. body
doubled upon itself and laying partly on
the side.
But the report of Dr. Armand, after
all, contains no cases so remarkable as
two which have been observed upon
one of our own battle-fields,—that of
Shilo. On that bloody field, when the
carnage was over, a soldier was found
standing. his legs somewhat spread apart,
and his arms thrown convulsively out
ward, his posture that of a living man,
agitated, perhaps, by a strong emotion ;
he was nevertheless stone dead, a ghast
ly monument of seeming life along the
hecatomb of fallen corpses. Another
body lay partially prostrated on one side,
the right hand holding to the mouth a
piece of cheese, which the set teeth were
almost in the act of grasping. Lying
upon the back, with the arms extended,
and the knees drawn up towards the
face, was a posture frequently to be ob
served, on this as well as otebther fields.
The living attitude of the dead soldier
still standing upon his feet, and the
grim mockery of life in the apparent
offer of food to a corpse, are hardly sur
passed by any reported incident of war.
The facts are derived from au officer
who witnessed the usual spectacle.--N.
T. Journal of Commove.
The Hindus regard the monkey as a
sacred animal ; they therefore feed it,
or let it help itself to food, and speak
kindly to it, calling it pleasant names.— .
In a former birth they say that monkeys
were men, and that they could speak
now if they chose to do so; but they
wiignot speak, lest they should be made
to work.
Let me give you an instance of how
these creatures conduct themselves, and
how they are regarded by the Hindus.
Early one fine . morning, in the year
1857, two of them oame walking down
the middle of a street in the pattah of
Bangalore, in their usual style, with tails
erect, swaying to and fro, probably to
secure something tasteful for breakfast.
Peeping hither and thither as they stroll
ed leisurely along, they surveyed nu
merous fruit and vegetable stalls, and
stopped frequently to examine them ;
but the owners of the fruit were either
too watchfql in guarding their property,
or they were too irreligious to admit the
claims of Hanuman's descendants, for
none of the coveted spoil could our
friends profit by. They looked wistful
ly,
_sad grinned ; or they showed their
teeth in anger, and, chattering abuse,
passed on.
Presently, however, they espied a
stall-keeper, an old man, squatted on the
grontid, eastern fashion, with a fan in
his hand, fanning vigorously to keep the
flies from his fine collection of sweet
meats. Before him they stopped, and
held a parley of an amusing kind, which
proved them to be keen observers.—
They found that the owner of the sweet
meats was perhaps feeble with age ; or
they judged from his countenance that
he was good-natured and irresolute ; or
they may have thought that he was de
vout, and prepared to respect their de
mands. At any rate, they deemed him
fiir game ; so they proceeded, to his
4iscomltuire, and to the sustaining of
their ownleputation.
One of them boldly attempted to
Mize a nice,
lucious lump of candied
sweets. Mie Ad man remonstrated, gen
in hand ; Ilkiye-yese4olbbe.
,setio, no ; my younger, brOther, do not
fie so.- The monkey renewed hit ef
fort to possess hiosseltof the !greets,
sod tlaes old Man eoutheued,demes.tet_
lyehroarii, "less is r itari alp
*en he suggested; 4 91"rinfir is a itch
tan —he is very chatitalle."
ckey POW, :OW
bird es W.
mi his fatt:,
thaw,
Attitude of the Slain.
A Story about Monkeys.
hind, quietly thrust his paw forward, and
bore off the booty, which they both re
tired to share, leaving the poor old man
to bemoan his fate, and lament the freaks
of his gods.—Missionary Record.
Narrow Escape from Another Tragedy.
A Panama correspondent writing con
cerning the late horrible calamity at San
tiago, Chili, says : I informed you in
my last that the government had issued
a decree ordering the demolition of the
Church of the Compania, in which the
terrible accident occurred. Since then
another decree has been made, forbid
ding any church service after dark.—
The latter order has met with the most
terrible opposition from the women,
who have presented petitions of the
most formidable length to the govern
ment, asking that evening services—
their favorite amusement•---shall not be
dispensed with. It has almost become
a war of the sexes. The number of
lives lost on the occasion was more
than first mentioned. The superinten
dent of the cemetery reports having
buried two thousand one hundred and
ten bodies. This does not include those
who have since died of their injuries and
the charred masses that could not be
distinguished. It is safe to say that
not less than two thousand five hundred
persons perished in that; conflagration.
A list of two thousand and thirty
names is published that are known to
have perished. Others will be discov
ered from time to time, and many will
remain unknown.
Notwithstanding the warning given
by this first catastrophe, another almost
exactly like it came very near occur
ring in another church in the aurae city
only twenty-three days after. On the
31st of December, while services were
being performed in the Church of San
Lsidro, some artificial flowers became
ignited from one of the candles on the
altar. Of course, when the fire was dis
covered, an immediate rush for the
doors took place. Women, screaming
and fainting, fell in every direction,
the doors becoming choked, and exit
was almost impossible. Providentially
the fire was at once extinguished, or we
should have had a re-petition of the Bth
of December. The confusion was so
great that the church was at once closed
and the remainder of the service dispens
ed with. As in the first instance, near
ly all the congregation, or by far the
greater part, were women.
A Touching Incident.
An officer, just returned from the South
West, relates a touching incident of
the loyalty and tendency of many of the
inhabitants of that nominally secesh
land. After the battle of Bean Station,
the rebels were guilty of all manner of
indignity toward the slain. They strip
ped their bodies, and shot persons who
came near the battle-field to show any
attention to the dead. The body of a
little drummer-boy was left naked and
exposed. Near by, in an humble house,
there 'arere two young girls, the eldest
but sixteen, who resolved to give the
body a decent burial. They took the
night for their task. With hammer and
nails in hand, and boards on their shoul
ders, they sought the place where the
body of the dead drummer-boy lay.—
From their own scanty wardrobe they
clothed the body for the grave. With
their own hands they made a rude cof
fin, in which they reverently put the
dead body. They dug the grave and
lowered the body into it, and covered it
over. The noise of the hammering
brought some of the rebels to the spot.
The sight was too much for them. Not
a word was spoken, no one interfered,
and when the sacred rites of the burial
were performed, all separated, and the
little drummer-boy sleeps undisturbed in
his grave on the battle-field. Such
tenderness and heroism deserve to run
along the line of coming generations with
the story of the woman who broke the
alabaster box on the feet of the Saviour,
and with her who of her penury cast her
two mites into the treasury.
Neglected Duty.
No man has any right to manage his
allitirs in such a way that his sudden
death would bring burdens and losses
on other people. There imay be rare
cases where a man really cannot help
entanglements, or where, from inexperi
ence or lack of judgment, he has
brought his affairs into such a state that
the interests of others depend upon his
life • but /A 0 should make all possible
haste to extricate himself from such a
position. Honor and honesty demand
that he should so conduct his business
that his death should cause no one to
be wronged. And as to dying, although
all men everywhere believe that all other
men will surely die, yet they unite in
thiuking that they themselno are ex
ceptions to this fate ; or, at least they
act sit if they thought so ; this is radical
ly wrong. It is every man's duty in
every transaction in Moto be influeno •
ad by the Ibleit that at, say day, or at any
hour he may die.
erThe tallest man in the United
Kingdom same behind the bar of a
abbe boatel it Livertool. HOU oven
Seqc *Air is bigu upwards of
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From the American
The sap of the sugar or, /411Lifildo
when it first flows in the to
appearance nearly as elear as
pure water, and in reality it canasias
scarcely anything but srSpc INK
sugar is more el ob .'uusseol7 4l 'figok
etable state than from the knees of thy
other plant yielding sugar for commerce.
If the sap be pure and clear ad it &yrs
from the tree, it is onl necessary to bed
it down in *lean vesse ls , taking care not
to burn it., and edam magician* tomes"-
trated, to preserve it as molasses, or af
ter boiling more, to pour it into mould
It is so easily and cheaply rrodueed
that sugar makers have been very care
less about it, using utensils of the rudest
character. The amount of uncrystal
lisable sugar or molasses oeceeserily
produced is very small, but as the ma,
lasses is quite as mink valued as auger
in most markets, this has led to some
neglect of the sap, and dettivioantof the
character of both sugar and molasses.
Let the first fact stated above, be fix
ed in the mind, viz., thatparc Imp yi!ikda
nearly pure sugar, and that the colmag,
the quality, and much of the labor of
sugar making, result from foreign anb
stances that get into the sap w
. in in
the troughs, etc- Remember leer,
that in the abscence of these fbrelgtHiva- .
terials the amount of crystalisied sr.
obtained will be much. greater. We
see then, the importance of securing the
greatest possible cleanliness, in, es
tay
thing connected with collecting and
manufacturing the sap. Expatiate to
the air produces fermentatico, and
ininishes the crystalized sugar rapidly;
therefore, covered vessels, and bo g
as fast as the sap flows, are irat
Fermentation of the sap also_injulra the
peculiar "maple flavor" which is so
greatly relished. The qu< the
sap, that is the amount of moist* the'
barrel of sap, varies consitiouhiy frous.‘
year to year, but we know of HO SOME
ate experiments touching it, nor to dp
termine the character' of other sUbstan
ces present in the sw. .
The wooden sap ilonglbt rind potash
kettles aro still in use in some par& -of
the country, but. eutesprielsg sew •
makers use wooden buckets ,whiph :
preferable to tin, aid, ev
pans, and the augur it mush to
.
The sap is sometimes co '
sugar house in "leaders* or smil assedl
en troughs, which would be imprened
by scalding them out ewe a dal , to
prevent souring. In like manner the
buckets ought to be scalded txclsiskinsM..
The trees are tapped withholf-intds au
gers, and the hole enlarged , sti alt
teenth of an inch larger bit,:hafprs,
close of the flowing soma. The eap
spouts are six or eight intliihritilitigth.
One inch square, or tarried rikandAtiv
ing a one-fourth inch -hole based
through them. The ends are tapered
off, and they are driven into the helm
of the trees so as to barely holl. If
tubs are used to collect the itai l / 4, there
should be holes of about ten inches
square cut to pour in the sap, land over
them linen towels should be laid, to
strain out sticks leaves, ete,if the ar
ran gements of the buckets, , et.b. e j p
so perfect as to exclude all Mtn, as is
desirable. After this, the sap oval ire '
kept covered. The storing tubs-should
stand on higher ground than the belling
pan, so that the sap will tiow,freils ewe
to the other. During the boiling, shim
as often as scum rises. It is 'seldom
that much skimming is riecemery.—
When the cooled syrup is nearly sa
thick as good mob/see, draw it eir ate
a tub to settle, straining thungh
nel strainer, here any sediment di ll
be deposited. After the syrup haat abi
ded clear, draw it off; and , lxioil a ditwoh
again, until it is thiek. "lough to vigor
off. When the sugar is to iisk "Aker'
or "stirred," it must be boiled until a
spoonful of it put upon snot be
perfectly brittle when eold. Thelkisdils
sugar is taken from the ire anal vim
granulation has conunempad, sad errs
mass is thickened considen&y, 0 the
moulds rapidly. If' it is to be Ward,
at the same time commence "
the kettle being held Ar ltaly, Mid -setraz
the mass till it hat the mummy* 447
brown sugar of the shops. When the
sugar is to be drained it IS usually liarer.
from the fire before it woad cod
and after standing until itraa-
later quite thoroughly, it is ladlil ele
into tubs with talm bottoms, musei.
inches above the tree, 3 er 4 Wins Los
ing in the false bottom, and eov=
saucers or plugged by round
sticks. The sugar is ladled into the
tubs, and when settled the plugs are
loosened awl partly withdraw% se that,
the molasses will run Tbia
may be drawn off faun die an, of
the tuba.
iirAn English writer - thov' easeribea
the Duke of ..401. about
whose succession to t of
Holstein, Lew. a thnistesed with
war, as a tall maa, (ortirliir kei ` lll O4
with hazel We, blue era, iis l **7 l .'
brows, “good" complexion, unnanw
acarkewhat slow but stately, asap speech
readmit., with skisi spandbaltr
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'A Alit ablutions& bilit
km, ft.
Maple Sugar Milkiag;:
vbs. 41/111
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