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Ober Gleams against the Government.
11, 1861-Iv.
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Waynesburg, Pa.
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YE.6.6 ebeetred (moths War Department at Wash-
II girt, D. C., official copies of th e several
rows passed by Congress, and all the necessary Ponns
d 141=ons n tr u ths prosecution z.4 and
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tired and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan
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401 4 nXimptly and necnratelyif entrusted to hjet c".
in the sild think Building.—April 6, 1662.
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/ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
IFFIOId In the REGISTER'd OFFICE, Court
nous., Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all
Bevis solicited. Has received official copies of all the
Weis passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc
10m Ayr the ooltectinn of
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tn, Ise., which business if hummed to his care
MB by projaptly attended ic. May 13. '63.
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Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa.
ernes MU) 1111.81DENCIS ON MAIN STMT.
met, aN seasty opposite the Wright house.
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berg and vicinity. Ho hopes by a due appre.
of human life sad health, and stint attention to
bli=to merit a share of public patronage.
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WM. A. PORTER,
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ittry Goods, Groceries, Notions, kc.„ Main strut.
Sept. 11, 1861-1 .
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pidetliskate, pernurarras. Liverpool Ware, gre., Gia oi
wad Gilt molding and Looking Glass Plates.
fi:Masli paid for good eating Apples.
dept. 11. 1061*--ly.
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Mee& Manerally. Waimea Meer ilaildiag, Main street.
At. 1101-4.
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A Touching Incident Sweetly Told.
The Vicksburg correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette relates the follow
ing.
It was on a Sabbath morning, the last
in October, the black birds and the blue,
who had left you at the approach of
winter to gladden them in the Southern
sun, were chattering in the groves, while
the queen of song, the mocking-bird,
sat off alone, as though conscious of her
regal title, while the little throat was
tremulous with melody. On Saturday
it bad rained, and this morning was
fresh as one of June's sweetest. I was
strolling along after breakfast, when I
met a friend who asked me if I would
go with him to a funeral. They are to
me horrible things. Fashion, which
regulates even the cut of the clergy
man's coat, the form in his prayer, must
step in here and regulate all save the
manner of one's dying. I said that
they were horrible—that is the word—
so offensive to taste, to art, to all that is
high in sensitive, impressionable natures.
First, strangers, feel no interest in the
sleeper, criticise his dress and cerements,
then Cie heartbroken mourners, the
stricken ones, are paraded before the
spectators ; poor hearts torn asunder,
grief unutterable, is shown to strangers;
then the cheerless and lonely ride to the
last resting place, perhaps miles away,
is to be suffered ; at the grave the
mourners are again made to show the
bleeding heart to the multitude. This
is wrong ; it is in bad taste, to say noth
ing of its inhumanity. None of this
grief should be seen except by those
who are in bonds of love with those who
weep. Let the farewell be taken before
the multitude come.
I asked "Who is dead ?" and this was
his story.
A wife who dwells in the Wet, be
yond the Lakes, whoa. ' ausband is an
officer in the army, had not , beard from
him for some time. Two small boys
were with him, their only ones. While
she sat at home reading a paper, her
eyes fell upon a notice of the death of
her husband. All the tenderness of a
mother's love, all the strength of a
wife's devotion, nerved her to start im
mediately for her children, and clasp
them to a widowed heart. Day after
day passed ere she reached Vicksburg.
Three days on a sand-bar. What a
fortune! At last she reached the
hoped-for city. As the boat neared the
wharf she .uoked at the crowd, and saw
her two boys upon ponies, and beside
them the husband and father. One
long, piercing cry of joy filled the air ;
the husband flew, rather than ran, and
took the lifeless form in his arms. It
was too much of joy for a heart over
cast with grief. The strings snapped,
and reason tottered for a time, to fail, in
two days, to the sleep of death. This
is the funeral I would have you attend.
This was his story. I went.
J. J. HUFFMAN.
I=
The assemblage was small—only five
women—and they not dwellers here—.
sojourners. Gay uniforms filled the
room; the birds sang so sweetly, the
sun shone so brightly, and the fragrance
of the rose and the honey-suckle swept
through the window over the face of the
sleeper to kiss the cheeks of the living.
The old chaplain, with silver hair, and
almost the aureola of the crown that is
laid up, might be seen upon his brow,
arose and read the sweetest of all hymns
and sweetest of all poetry.
I wonld not live aiway, I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the
way;
The few lurid mcznings that dawn on us
here
Are followed by gloom or beakided with
fear.
After a request that some one would
start the hginin, and a deep silence, one
who was a sinner, and stood in a corner,
as though he would get sway from the
throng, began the melody in a tremu
lous voice, to which all the rest added
theirs, until the sweet anthem filled the
morn and mingled with the fragrance of
the flowers. The stricken one was too
ill to leave his bed, but the two mother
.ess boys stood among us unconscious
of their greatest of all losses—a mother's
tender care. After a prayer, in which
the aged teacher, with tearful eyes and
trembling voice, implored the Giver
of all Good to give us peace, to take
from us the vices that follow war, and
give us the blessings that follow peace.
His prayer was beautiful.
The solemn and true words, "Man,
that is born of woman, is of few days
and full of trouble; he (*meth forth as a
flower and is out down, he fleeth as a
shadow and continueth not." "For
what is our life ? It is even as a vapor."
"Man, who walketh in a vain shadow *
* he heapeth up riches and cannot tell
who shall gather them * *."
All were strangers. No resident of
the place was there to honor one who
gave evidence of those qualities which
made the name of Mary more sacred and
Beth a sweet household word--and.
made Hannah a word of magic to obe
dient sons, and the Jewish mother with
her slain eons in the lonely watch day
after day, that fowls might not tear
them, and night after eight that the
beasts alight mot feed up& them, one of
the Oldest idolises of l ov e.
btailanas maw after eradowhet
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9 4. 9 - WEDNESDAY MARCH 2, 1864.
lawn where the sun shone so brightly
and the birds sang so sweetly iri the per
fume that swept from the flowers.
Albert Pike.
A letter from Arkansas gives the fol
lowing interesting sketch of one of the
most remarkable men who have lived
in the Southwest :
He is now a refugee in the mountains
of Southern Arkansas, and is said to be
occupying his leisure time in the com
position of two works—one on the "Art
of War," and another on "Civil GlN
ernment"—which it is said he proposes
to publish. Soldiers who saw him in
the battle of Pea Ridge, where he led
the Cherokee Indians, whom he had
seduced from their allegiance to the
Government of the United States, de
scribe him as a noble-lookint4 white
haired man, of very imposing appear
ance. Citizens here tell me that he
proved an utter failure as a military
leader, and his friends here did not de
ny that he ran like a coward before the
veterans of Curtis and Sigel on that
bloody day.
Gen. Grant said that Pike was a man
of extraordinary genius ; that he had
seen him, during a term of Court, meet
his brother lawyers for an evening ca
rousal, drink with them till the stoutest
was laid under the table, and then seat
himself, and, in the midst of their sing
ing and roaring, draw up a most in
tricate bill in chancery, without an era
sure 'or interlineation. He would do
the same thing in Court, apparently
undisturbed by the noise of a trial in
progress; but, with all his genius and
wonderful versatility of talent, he was
utterly wayward and dissolute in his
habits, and had spent half a dozen for
tunes in reckless and prodigal excesses.
I was told by citizens that Gen. Pike
had pocketed a hundred thousand dol
lars, the fees of a single lawsuit. His
wife, who is now here, occupying a part
of their old residence, has long since
retired from society, and is, I am told
by a lady who resides in the city, half
insane, a mild maniac, who wanders in
her talk whenever the conversation
turns upon "Albert," as she still fondly
calls him.
To a friend of her husband, who called
upon her a few days since, anxious to
aid her, she insisted that Gen. Steele
had promised the day before to send
her to her husband. "No," said the
gentleman, 'Gen. Steele will permit you
to go to your husband, but he has not
the transportation that he can spare to
send you.' "But the General promised
to send me," she insisted, and could not
seem to understand the distinction.—
"Oh, well," she finally said, "Albert
will come back if they will let him pub
lish his book, which abuses both sides,
and sides with neither." AU this inter
ested me deeply, and my imagination
ran back over the path of a life whose
heart sorrows make up one of those
tragic histories which God alone has
read. I recall my school boy enthus
iasm for the young poet who wrote the
"Hymns to the Gods" while a student
at College, and which had been pro
nounced by an eminent scholar to be
the most remarkable literary creation
considering the age of the writer, this
country has produced.
Once young, highly educated, graced
with personal accomplishments, which
entitled him to be called the "handsom
est man in the Southwest," his magic
touch had swept the lyre of the gods,
compelling a busy, dim-resounding na
tion to stop and listen in enraptured si
lence. Now, an exile from his home, a
traitor to his country, the pusilanimoire
leader of red-handed savages against the
valiant defenders of the Union and the
old flag, and, to clap the climax of his
infinite disgrace,. deserting the savage
victims of his own silver-tongued, Sa
tanic eloquence, and running if ke
coward in the day of battle!
"So fallen 1 so lost ! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore :
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore !"
Capital Punishment.
The Governor of Maine, in his recent
message to the Legislature of that State,
discusses at considerable length the
policy of the prohibition of the death
penalty for capital offences. Twenty
six years ago a law was passed forbid
ding the execution of a criminal until a
year had elapsed after his conviction.—
Since that period no person has suffered
the extreme penalty of the law. Capi
tal punishment has been virtually abol
ished, although the laws perscribed the
manner in which executions shall s take
place, after expiration of the probation
ary year.
During th,t term of mote than twenty
years, in which non-enforcement has
prevailed, says the Governor, "the num
ber of felons convicted of capital offens
ive has most disproportionately inereaa
ed, there being at this time in the State
Prison, under sentence of death, no less
than twelve convicted murderers."—
And he adds : "The argument most
relied on by the advocates of the aboli
tion of capital punishment, that the saf
ty of society would be as well assured
by the imprisonment as by the death of
the criminal, in consequence of the in
emend certainty of conviction .and pun
ishment repulting from its tiholitioa, has
been 4slLy nowetived by the Maki
ties of crime in thislinno."
Ws mike in this monnesties that
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inst., within the walls of Vermont State
prison, located at 'Windsor. The cul
prits were an Irishman named Kavan
augh, and an Englishman named Ber
net, the latter charged with the murder
of his wife. A local paper says : "Thus,
after a long interval, has the majesty of
the law against murder been vindicated
—the sacredness of human life proclaim
ed, and God's command, given before
the Law at Sinai, and when society was
about to enter upon its second and last
trial, 'Whoso sheddeth man's blood by
man shall his blood be shed,' been obey
ed by the State. May the transaction,
painful as it is, through the Divine
blessings, serve to deter men from com
mission of this great crime."
Treatment of Croup.
Hall's Journal of Health says : Croup
is an imfla„mmation of the inner surface
of the windpipe. Inflammation implies
heat, and that heat must be subdued, or
the patient will inevitably die. If
prompt efforts are made to cool . the
parts in ease of an attack of croup, re
lief will be as prompt as it is surprising
and delightful. All know that cold ap
plied to a hot skin cools it, but all do
not as well know and understand that
hot water applied to an inflamed skin
will as certainly cool it ofil Hence the
application of ice-cold water with linen
cloths, or almost boiling water with
woolen flannel, is very efficient in the
cure of croup. Take two or three pie
ces of woolen flannel or two folds,
large enough to cover the whole throat
and upperpart of the chest, pat these
in a pan of water as hot as the hand
can bear, and keep it thus hot, by add
ing water from a boiling tea kettle at
hand ; let two or three of the flannels
be in hot water all the time ; and one
on the throat all the time, with a dry
flannel covering the wet one, so as to
keep the heat in to some extent ; the
flannels should not be so wet when put
on as to dribble the water, for it is im
portant to keep the clothing as dry as
possible, and keep up the process until
the phleghm is loose, the child is easier,
and begins to fall asleep; then gently
wrap a dry flannel over the wet one
which is on, so as to cover it up entirely,
and the child is saved. When it wakes
up, both flannels will be dry.
A Life Saved by an Insect.
An incident, trivial in itself, was the means
of saving M. Latreille, when in prison, from
the terrible fate of his fellow victims. The
surgeon who visited the jail in which Latreille
was confined, one day observed him care
fully examining a small beetle which had
found its way into his place of confinement.
Upon inquiry, he was informed by the prison
er that the insect was a rare one ; and he
then expressed a wish to have it for the
purpose of presenting it to two young natural
ists of his acquaintance living at Bordeaux.
The wish was readily complied with, and the
insect was conveyed to MM. Bory de St.
Vincent and Dargelas. Latreille's eminence
as an etomologist was already known to these
gentlemen, and being thas made acquainted
with his perilous situation, they immediately
exerted themselves to obtain, if possible, his
liberation, in which they ultimately succeed
ed. One trembles to think that a month
later he must in all probability have shared
the fate of his fellow-prisoners, who were
shipped as convicts for Ceyenne, and the
vessel which conveyed them foundered in the
Bay of Biscay, when every soul on hoard
perished The deliverance was truly mar
vellous,if we refer to its cause—the accidental
discovery of an insect. It has been said by
one of our great divines that 'a fly with God's
message could choke a king!' A little insig
nificant beetle thus saved Latreille. How
obscure are the means God often employs,
and how apparently inadequate the instru
ments he used, to effect his wondrous pur
poses ! It is as though he said in language
not to be mistaken, 'I kill, and make a
live,'
All is not Gold that Glitters.
A Mr. Chase, who left lowa some
two years ago on a tour through the
land of gold, has returned. He spent a
month in Idaho, leaving some time in
November. He gives the "other side
of the story"—states that the mines of
California are much richer than those of
Idaho—that in the latter country they
occupy a very limited space, and are
poor at that. It was estimated that
30,000 men in Idaho were out of em
ployment, and everything exorbitantly
high. The climate is cold, and they
have ice there in August. It is nothing
uncommon to have four or five feet of
snow, which lasts all through winter.—
Rather a discouraging picture without
the usual gold setting.
istrAt one time - Mr John Wesley
was .traveling in Ireland, his carriage be
came fixed in the mire and the harness
broke. While he and his compation
were laboring to- extricate it, a poor man
passed in great distress. Mr. Wesley
called to him and inquired the cause of
his distress. He said that. he had been
unable, through misfortuna, to pay his
rent of twenty shillings, and his fiumlif
were just being turned out-of doom.--
"Is that all you need r said Mr. Wes
ley, hamrtug him the amount-n"here,
go and be hwy." Then turning to
Stu eemspanten - No said, pteemandy,4lTou
inspapip war amilimes atipped hoe
Robespierre.
The 10th Therrnidor was the revolution
ary name for the day (the 28th July, 1794,)
which brought the termination of the cele
brated Reign of Terror. While pressing
dangers from foreign invaders and internal
enemies surrounded the Revolution, the ex
treme party headed by Robespierre, Barrere,
St. Just, &c., had full sway and was able to
dictate numberless atrocities, under pretense
of consulting the public safety. But when
the Revolution became comparatively safe,
a reaction set in, and a majority in the Con
vention arrayed themselves against the Ter
rorists. A struggle of two days between the
two parties produced the arrest of Robes
pierre, Couthon, St. Just, Leas, and a young
er brother of Robespierre; and finally, in the
afternoon of the 28th, these men, with some
others, their accomplices, mounted the scaf
fold to which they had, during eighteen
months, consigned so many better men.—
Robespierre died at the age of 35.
It is undoubted that many of the most
frightful outrages on humanity have been
perpetrated, not in wanton malignity, or
from pleasure in inflicting pain, but in the
blind fervor of religious and patriotic feeling.
We do not charge St. Paul with cruelty
when, as Saul, he went about "breathing
threatenings and slaughter," and "making
havoc of the church." St. Dominic, who led
on the massacre of the Albigenses, is said to
have been a kindly man, but for a heretic he
had no more heart than a stone. Indeed,
the catalogue of prosecutors contains some
of the noblest names in history.
Had Robespierre himself not been sent as
deputy from Arras to Paris, he probably
would have lived a useful citizen, respected
for his probity, benevolence, and intelligence.
When an enterprising spirit in Arras set up a
Franklin lightning-conductor, there arose a
popular outcry against his -impiety. 'What !
shall we rend the very lightnings from the
hand of God ?' exclaimed the terrified people.
Robespierre defended Science against Super
stition, and won a verdict for the innovator.
He was appointed a judge in the Criminal
Court of Arras, but he actually resigned his
office rather than sentence a murderer to
death. In Paris he dwelt with Madame Du
play, who idolized her lodger. His even
ings he occasionally spent in conversation
with her and her daughter; sometimes ,he
read them a play from Racine, and sometimes
took them to the theatre, to see some tavor
ite tragedy. Once he proposed to leave the
house, saying; 'I compromise your family,
and my enemies will construe your children's
attachment to me into a crime.' 'No, no,'
repled Duplay, 'we will die together, or the
people will triumph.' Similar tbstimonies of
esteem came from others who knew Robes
pierre privately ; yet we cannot suppose he
ever commanded any deeper feeling in any
human breast than respect. He had no geni
ality ; his virtues were all severe ; be was a
Puritan and Precisian, and perhaps the most
perfect type of the fanatfc to be found in
biography. As Mr. J. H. Lewes, in his Life
and Correspondence of Robespierre, ob
serves : "All that is great and estimable in
fanaticism—its sincerity, its singleness of
purpose, its exalted aims, its vigorous con
sistency, its disdain of ivorldy temptations—
all may be found in Robespierre; and those
who only contemplate that aspect of the man
will venerate him. But there is another as
pect of fanaticism, presenting narrow-mind
ness; want of feeling, of consideration, and
of sympathy; unscrupulousness of means,
pedantic wilfulness, and relentless ferocity,
and who so contemplate this aspect also, will
look on Robespierre with strangely mingled
feelings of admiration and abhorrence.'
Is was the intense unity and energy of his
character that carried Robespierre so quickly
to power. His mind was small but single :
not any of its force was wasted. When he
first spoke in the Assembly, ho was laughed
at ; but, said Itirabean, with the prescience
of genius: "That man will dodoniewhat ;
he believes every word he says." It is to be
remembered that he ran the career by which
he is infamous, in the short space of five
years; he arrived in Paris as deputy from
Arras in 1789, and was guillotined in 1794.
Robespierre's person was in striking cor
respondence with his mind. He was little,
lean and feeble. His face was sharp : his
forehead was good, but narrow, and largely
developed in the preoeptive organs ; his
mouth was large, and the lips thin and com
pressed, his nose was strait and small, and
very wide at the • nostrils. His voice was
course in the lower, and discordant in the
higher tones. and when in a rage, it seemed
to turn into a howl. He was bilious, and
his complexion livid, and thus Carlyle, in his
French Revolution, thus always marks him
out as "the sea-green."
His wants were few and his habits simple.
For money he had as little desire as neces
sity ; at his death his worth in cash was no
more than £B. Thus as easy as justly did
he win his title of "the Incorruptible." He
drank nothing but water; his only excess
was in oranges ; these he ate summer and
winter with strange voracity, and never did
his features relax into such pleasantness as
when his mouth was engrdsaed in one. His
lodgings with Dnplay were very humble; his
bed-room and study were one apartment.—
There might be seen a bedstead, covered with
blob damask and white dowers, a table and
tote' straw-bettorned &aka The waft
cleMistudfied wtaiDpats.lo l, 4o l 0 1 4-
4.4 asot prewar
.
ed the few books he cared to read and his
manuscripts carefully written, and with
many erasures. On the table - there usually
lay a volume of Racine, or Houseful, open at
the place he was reading. He went to bed
early, rising in the night to write. His re
creation was a solitary walk in the Champs
Elysees, or about the environs of Paris ;
with his great dog Bronnt, who kept nightly
guard on the mat at his master's door. A
striking picture might be made of the lean,
anxious, bilious, precise, tribune playing with
his colossal mastiff.
Enlistment of Troops.
Most encouraging adviees of the pro
gress of re-enlistment of old troops and
enlistments of recruits have been receiv
ed at the War Department. Over 80,-
000 veterans have re-enlisted up to this
date, of which number the Army of the
Potomac has furnished 23,000 the Army
of the Cumberland 22,000, the Army of
the Tennessee 19,000, and the Depart
ment of Virginia and North Carolina
4,500. Old regiments returning from
their thirty days' visit to their homes
have an average• of one hundred and
forty-three new recruits each. Very
near 100,000 new recruits have been
formally mustered into the service since
the Ist of last November. Many thou
sands more are known to be enlisted, al
though not yet mustered in. For the
last two weeks the enlistments have
averaged 1,880 a day. Of this num
ber, formally mustered into service,New
York has furnished about 16,000 ; Ohio,
10,000; Indiana and Illinois, 12,000
each; Missouri about 7,000 and Penn
sylvania only the same number.
Strange Case of Apparent Death.
A case of apparent death occurred in
Berlin a few weeks ago, and naturally
created a little sensation. The wife of
a well-to-do-merchant, after a short sick
ness, suddenly expired in the night.—
Next morning the corpse was carried,
by women called in to prepare it for the
limeral, into a retired4partment, where
the usual operations of washing, etc.,
were performed upon it. The husband
went out in the course of the day to make
the necessary arrangements for the bu
rial, when, during his absence, the
neighbors were aroused by fearful
shrieks proceeding from the dwelling
of the deceased. On entering, the
neighbors found no one at home, and
finding the door of the room from
which the cries issued locked, broke it
open, and to their horror discovered
that the corpse had risen from the dead !
In less than forty-eight hours the wo
man would have been buried a living
tomb—a casualty which, though happi
ly prevented is her case by a speedy re
covery from the fit, it is to be feared
carries of no inconsiderable number of
persons every year.
Sleeping with the Mouth Open
Mr. Geo. Cathin, in his quaintly got,
up monograph, ".'he Breath of Life.,"
attributes many human bodily ills to the
extraordinary habit, so common, he says,
among the people, of sleeping with
their mouth open—in this condition
breathing being injuriously performed
through the mouth, instead of the safe
and natural process through the nos
trils.
Remarkable Hold on Life.
The Hartford Conn., Times says :
Major Geo. N. Lewis, of the 12th regil
meut, is in town. His remarkable
wound promises to heal, and his life
will be saved. Not a man in ten thou
sand would survive such a wound. It
was a cannister shot, weighing about
four ounces, and made a hole clear
through him, shattering his collar bone
and his shoulder blade, and splintering
his spine. It did not displace the ver
tebra), which would have probably end
ed -his life suddenly, but it has left a
hole through him, and it is said that
even now a stick can be passed through
it. A number of pieces of bone have
been taken out.
a& There is a great excitement in
Michigan over the discovery of silver
near lake Superior. The Detroit Free
Press says speculation has already com
menced. Men who have taken lands at
one dollar and 25 cents an acre are
selling out at advances of thousands of
dollars upon the original cost of their
tracts. One tract has been sold for six
thousand dollars; the owner bought it a
few weeks ago from the Government
for two hundred dollars. The specimens
of ore contain liberal quantities of lead
and silver.
DEATH OP A. DISTENGULSHED MASON.—
The Duke of Athole, the Grand Master
of Scotland, died on the 16th ult. He
was born in 1814. He held a variety of
titles and had been much of his life ha
public office. He was appointed Grand
Master Mason of Scotland, Nov. 30,
1843, and was annually re-elected with
out a dissentient voice. He was also
Grand Master of the religious and mili
tary Order of the Temple, and Most
Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander
of the anoient and accepted rite, better
known as the Rite Ecoosais.
THE CHICKAMAUGA DEAD.-A Chat
tanooga dispatoh of the 14th says that
the First Ohio iihamshootors have buri
ed eight •ii . and vineteat
aoldisesimail a rebate -as
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NEW SERIES.---VOL 5, NO. 38.
firde.
[By a young mother after the burial of bee
• two may cLildren.j
Eight little years ago
I started on a jsmrney, newly trdne:
And yet I never knew, till last yearlmoe.
The weariness of tuna.
I went with willing feet,
Gathering the Summer roses as the grew,
Usti] I reached that hour, so bitter, swee4
My angels numbered two;
Bitter, for non• I wait,
Beside life's sluggish waters, for a tl4.
To bear me unto the celestial gate,
Where love is satisfied.
And sweet, because I know
By patient suffering we are perfected ;
And for these tears, that agonize me so,
I shall reap joy instead.
O journey incomplete
I shall go on again, but not content
As when with eager and impatient feet
The first few miles I went;
But looking ever on,
Steadfastly longing my beloved to see,
Until this weary waiting shall be done,
And heaven unclosed to me.
For that unbroken peace,
0 Christ, prepare me with Thine lathiest*
So, when this aching evermore shell caw.
My love by Thine shall all be made corn
plate,
And laid at Thy dear feet.
"Love as brethren, be pitiful, be coarteous."
k 1 Peter, iii. 8.)
"Hans, take off your cap !" So the
widow Balzen (who lived in a village la
Germany) always said to her little son,
when a stranger happened to be passing
by. And Hans took cff his crap,
learned always to behave kindly and
civilly to everybody, whether they were
rich or poor. The other, people in the
village were not like the mother of Hans,
and did not teach their children the
same lessons. Real politeness is cooly
produced by love, the love that 114
teaches us in the Bible ; and it is re
markably taught in the beautiful earn-
wand that you, have just read :, "Love
as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous."—
For God requires that the inward feel
ings of the heart should agree with the
outward behavior. It is not enough to
have the outward politeness of the world,
while the heart is not pitiful and loving
others as brethren; neither is it enough
to have some pity in our hearts; while
we do nothing to help those who need
'it. But now let us return to Hans.
If a stranger came into the village.
Hans was always the first to greet him
with a kind smile, taking off hie eV;
while the other boys would stand like
posts staring at him, and never -taking
their hats from their heads. Sometimes
it happened that a stranger would ask the
way ; and then the boys, without
speaking, would look at one anothry,
and perhaps rudely laugh. But Hans
was always ready to answer at once.
and would go himself part of the way,
that the stranger might have no dialcal
ty in finding the road. He earned
many kind thanks, but he did not like
to take any other reward, because he
felt it was his duty to be kind to A.
Hans was now sixteen years old, tali
and strong, and helping to support his
mother and himself by his labor. Every
body liked him, because of his kiudiei
to all, One summer evening, after
work was over, he was sitting with
some others under the trees in the vil
lage street, when an old gentleman was
seen to come into the village on foot, by
the road leading from the town. A
drunken man met him, and began to
shout and abuse him ; the other villa
gers laughed aloud, but none of them
offered to help the stranger. Then
Hans sprang forward, and with his
strong arm threw the drunkard asick
and finding that the gentleman wished
to s lgo to the clergyman's house, went
with him to show him the way. A few
minutes afterward came two carriages,
full of ladies and gentleman, driving
down the same road. The people won
dered and stared as they passed, till
some one said, "It must be the Gover
nor coming to the castle:" Then they
all snatched their bats off, though &it
carriages were already past, and were
stopping at the castle gates. Very
soon they saw the old gentleman, trof
gether with the clergyman, go up to tho
castle. The old gentleman was the
Governor himself, who had been many
years away in foreign countries, serving
in the wars. He was so much
by the kindness and courtesy of Hem,
that he kept him with him. By his
readiness to serve, oblige, and help
every one, Hans won all he arts; at the
castle ; the old Governor put the great
est confidence in him, and. left a large
sum of money and a farm to ttie Alta
ful Hans. Hans married, and lives hap
pily upon his farm. All this arose, In
the providence of God, from his kin
ness and readiness to be of use to oth
ers. The people in his native village
saw it. and began to teach their children
better bettavi6r, and to tell th
of Ham z ;
end now, if a be
, radely, the rest erg oise to
Meal
My Journey.
sweet ,
Politeness.
if.