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The Motherless Drummer Boy. diers, show the thought and tit
Pe" The following Uerfutiml poem is fromfeeling
AT a new publication called "The Thirty Po- B. F. Taylor, in a recent letter to the l home.
Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. eras," from the pen of .that sweetest of all Chicago Journal, thus refers to the Thus, on a homespun blanket, worn,
American Poets, Win. CuLLEN BRIANT. ft story of Johnny Clem, the motherless but wash e d as cloan as 51101 V, was pin
-11:r0 PFIC E NEARLY OPPOSITE TIRE is one of the most graphical scenes from the atom of a drummer-boy, "aged ten," at I neti a bit of paper, which said : "This
PUBLIC SQ,UA RB. _En drama of human life we have ever read: the battle of Chickamauga. lie says : I blanket was carried by Billy - Aldrich
, ~-..-. -- At Chickamauga he filled the office of (who is ninety-three
. years old) down
tit 2.11 Ilt an 0 a Waiting at the Gate. "marker," carrying the guidon whereby `hill and up hill, one and a half miles, to
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`ttEnsettfterioN. -82 . 50 in advance; !!2.25 at the ex-. they - form the lines; a duty having its be !given to sonic soldier."
viration of six months; $2.50 a ft er the expiratios of Beside a massive gateway .built up in years
counterpart in the surveyor's more peace- On a bed-quilt, was pinned a Cftlii,
the year. g,one by,
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted 81 18.1.25 per senate for ful calling, in the flag man who flutters saving :—"My seri is in the arniv.—
'three insertions, and 37 cts. a square for each addition- upon whose top the clouds in eternal shadow
RI insertion; (ten lines or less counted a square.) t
he red signal along the metes and Whoever is made warm by this dull',
ID- A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. lie, bounds. On the Sunday of the battle which I have worked on for six day s
117 - JOB PRINTING, of all kinds, executed itt the belt
ity/e, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger ' While streams the evening sunshine on quiet the little fellow's occupation gone, he and most all of six nights, let him re.
Job Office. wood and lea, picked up a gun that had slipped from member his own mother's love."
a .
I stand and calmly wait till the hinges turn some dying hand, provided himself with On another blanket was this : "This
Manutsburg llusiness CaOs, for me. • ammunition and began putting in the blanket was used by a soldier in the
periods quite on his own account. blitz- war of 1812— may it keep some soldier
The tree tops . faintly rustle beneath the ing away close to the ground, like a fire I warm in this war against traitors."
A.TTOB.
_____-----NEYS:
---------- breeze's flight, fly in the glass. Late in the wanning j On a pillow was written : "This pil
day, the waif left almost alone in the low belonged to my little boy, who
~ .e.o. L. WYLY. • J. A. J. RUCIIANAN. A soft and soothing sound, yet it whispers of
WYLY & BITCHANAN, the night ; whirl of battle, a rebel colonel dashed idied restin! , on it ; is is a precious
up, and looking down at him, ordered treasure to me, but I give it for the sol-
Attorneys & Counsellors at Law, I hear the woodthrush piping one mellow de-
" Surrender," he dors."
TVA YNESB UR G, PA. him to surrender :
scant more, • r
shouted. "you little----" - l" of woolen socks was r
Will practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining
comities. Collections anti other legal business wilt re- And scent the fio•xer,i - that blow when the 1 .; no,-9 was knit
ceive prompt attention, heat of day is o'er. - l sh
Office in the old Bank Building.
Jan. 28. 1563.-13,
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PURWLAN - 8( RITCHIE.
ATToRNEvs ANDn esb COUur NSELLORS AT LAW
Wayg, Pa.
...7r-OFrier.—Main Street, one door east of
the uld (link Building.
irg - A.O -iusiness in Greene. Washington, and Fay
ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive proms
attention.
N. 11 —Particular attention will he given to the col.
leotion of Pensions. Bounty Money, Back Pay, and
other claims against the Government.
Sept. 11, 1861-Iv.
R. A. IrCONNELL. J. J. lIUFFMAN.
IST'CONNELL & nurriviArz,
dTTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LA IV
Waynesburg, Pa.
fEr'Otlice in the "Weight 1I c.se," East Door.
Collections, &c., will receive prompt attention.
Waynesburg, April 23, 1362-Iy.
DAVID CRA WFORD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office ia. the
Court House. Will amen& promptly to all business
entrusted to his care.
Waynesburg, Pa., July O.
ITEMEI
BLACK & PHELAN,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LA W
Office in the Court House, Waynesburg.
Sept. 11,1861-Iv.
SOLDIERS; WAR CLAMS
D. R. P. HUSS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, WAYNESBVRO, PENNA.,
Y 7 AS received from the War Department at Wash
."' in[ on city, D. C., official copies of the several
taws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Fortes
and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of
PENSIONS, BOUN7'Y, BACK P.9Y, due dis
charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan
children, widowed mothers, fathers, sistets and broth
ers, which business, [upon due notice] win be attend•
itiltn promptly anti accurately if entrusted to his care.
Qffice, Nn. 2, Campbells Row.—April 8, 181i3.
G. W. G. lATADD.ELL,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
OFFICE in the REGISTER'S OFFICE, Coma
House, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of ail
Rinds solicited. Has received official copies of all the
taws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc
tions for the collection of
PENSIONS, .VOUNTIES, BACK PAY,
Due, discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan
children. &c., which business if intrusted to his care
will to promptly attended to. May 13.'63.
PHYSICIANS
Dr. T. W. Ross,
X l l3.3riEsicsittaa. ctre
Irczynesburg, Greene Co., Pa.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET,
cast, and nearly opposite the WOOL house.
Wo3 nesbu•g, Sept. 23,1E03.
DR. A. G. CROSS
W0‘11.11) rery respectfully tender his services as a
PIiitSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people or
Waynesburg and vicinity. lie hopes by a duc! ;Tpre
dation of human life and health, and strut attention to
business, to merit a share of public patronage.
Waynesburg. January S,
MERCHANTS.
Wlll. A. PORTER,
Whenesale and Retail Realm in Foreign and Domes
♦ Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street.
Sept. li. IsCI —ls.
MINOR & CO.,
Heaters in Foreign and Liontssriu I)ry Coeds, Grin
queensware, Hardware and Notiuus, opposite
the Green House. Main street.
Sept. it, 1861-Iy,
BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS.
_
J. D. COS6RAY,
Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opp ,, site
the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style of
Boots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order.
dept. 11, 1861-IY.
GROCERIES & VAkIETIES.
JOHN MUNNELL,
Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety
Goods Generally. Wilson's .I%icw Building, Main street.
Sept. IL 1661-Iy.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY
S. M. BAILY,
Main street, opposite the Wright house keeps
always on hand a large and elegant assortment. of
Watches and Jewelry.
1E7 - Repairing of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry'wit
'active prompt attention. [Dec. 15. lefil—ly
BOOKS. &c.
LEWIS • DAY,
_Dealer in School and Miseen4nenus Books, Station
ery, Ink, Magazines and Papers: One door east el
Porter's 4.t.01,!.. Mail) 141. rem. Rem. 11. 1861 Iv.
SADDLES AND HARNESS.
SAMUEL M' ALLISTER,
Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker.'old Bank Build
nr, Main Weft.
Sept. 11,
BANK.
FAAJERS' & DROVERS' BANK,
Waynesburg. Pa.
C. A. BLACK. Freer. J. LAZEAR, Cashier.
DIRCOUNT Dar,
WEDNESDAY
Rent.
Legal :Notice.
lETTER9 testamentary upon the estate of 8002
j ROTRISToN, Esq., late of Perry tp.. Greene co.,'"
deed,baving been granted by the Register of said
county td the undersigned, all persons knowing
themselves Indebted to said estate are hereby notified
is gay the maw s and those having !WWII against.said
'State are requested to prawnt them duly sat/Wallas-.
tad Rocasitiontent.
AARE SOYDSTON, Ex'trix.
Mit4 1117. • IESIMITOI I IIII. BOTINOTOW, Ser.
amilp o'iirriat---Pthfeb . t Volitio, Agriatturt, Yittrature. iortic i n t 'irionte,stic nab' 05entrat jfnttiligenct, &c.
Behold the portals open, and o'er the thres
hold, now,
There stops a weary one with a pale and far
rowed brow ;
Ms count of years is full, his allotted task is
G. RJTCHJE
wrought,
Ire passtis to hi .vest fn ..m a I:lace that nee s
In sadness thcn I
. pondcr how quickly fleets
the hour
Of human strength an,' macs cour-
age and ills power,
I muse while still the woodthrush sings down
the golden day,
And as I look and listen the sadness wears
MEI
Again the hinges turn, and a youth, depart-
ing, throws
A look of longing backward and sorrowfully
I=l
goes;
A. blooming maid, unbinding the roses from
her hair,
Moves manfully away from amidst the
young and fail
Oh glory of our race that, so sthltlenly decays:
Oh crimson flush of morning that darkness
as we gaze'
Oh breath of Summer blossoms
restle:A air,
Scatters a moment's sweetness and flies we
hnow not where !
I grieve for lice's bright promise just shown
and then withdrawn ;
But still the sun shines round inc ; the even-
ing birds sings on,
And I again ant soothed, and, beside the an-
cient gate,
In the lioft evening I calmly statia
and 7,-a:t.
O➢tc mOro the gates are openeil ; au infant
group go out,
The sweet smile quenched forever :Ina stilled
the sprightly
Oh frail, frail tree of Life, that upon the
croon sward stro \vs
Its fair young buds tutopentfd, with ever.)
wind that blows!
So eotnc' fr,m every region, so enter, side by
CM
The strong and faint of spirit, the meek and
men of pride,
Steps of earth's grc:it and mighty, between
those pillars gray,
And prints of little feet, mark the dust along
the way .
And some approach the threshold whose
looks are blank with fear,
And some whose temples brighten with joy
in drawing near,
Ss it they saw dear faces, and caught the
gracious eye
01 Him, the fiinless teacher, who came for
us to die
I mark the joy, the terror; yet these, within
my heart,
Can neither wake the dread nor the longing
to depart ;
And in the sunshine streaming, on quiet
wood and lea,
I stand and calmly wait till the hinges turn
for me.
Occupation or Children.
The habits of children prove that occupa
tion is a necessity with most of them. They
bye to be busy, even about nothing, still
more to be usefully employed. With some
children it is a strongly developed necessity,
and if not turned to good account will be
productive of positive evil, -thus verifying the
old adage, that "Idleness is the mother of
mischief." Children should be encouraged,
or it indolently disinclined to it, be disciplin
ed into performing tor themselves every little
office relative to the toilet which they are
capable of performing. They should also
keep their own clothes and other possessions
in neat order, and fetch for themselVes what
ever they want; in short they should learn to
be as independent of others as possible, fit
ting them alike to make a good use of pros
perity, and to meet with fortitude and re-
Arerse of fortune that may befall them. I
know of no rank, however exalted, in which
each a system would not prove beneficia
11 . 1)1 nut
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1864.
The words were hardly out of the
! rebel's mouth when Johnny brought
his piece to ''order arms," and as his
hand slipped down to the hammer he
pressed it hack, swum* up the gun to
the position of "charge bayonet," and,
as the officer raised his sabre to strike
the piece aside, the glancing barrel
lifted into rage, and the proud colonel
tumbled dead from his horse, his lips
fresh stained with the sylable of vile re
proach he had hung upon a mother's
giave in the hearing of her
low moments I ickcil shots.
and the tiny gluing was swept up at a
r e bel swo o p. a n d butte away a pris,
Soldiers, bigger but not better, were
taken away with him, only to be washed
backed again by a surge of Federal troop
ers, and the prisoner of thirty minutes
was again John Clem ''of ours," and
General RosucuANs made him a sergeant,
and the stripes of rank covered hint all
like a mouse in harness, and the daugh
ter of Secretary presented him a
silver medal appropriately iscribed,
which he worthily wears, a royal order
of honor, upon his left breast, and all men
conspire to spoil hint, but, since few
ladies can get at him, perhaps he may be
saved.
The influence- and pleasures of Home.
Self control and discipline Inns; lie
learned at home, or livens::: in after life
will surely follow. Let hone- be the
nursery of truth, of retinernew, of sim
plicity, and of taste. Study to make it
attractive to your children by every
means in your pow-sr, and lose no op
portunity thr improving their iniinls
and cultivating their home atihetions
Let system and order, industry and
study, taste ainl'retinement, be cultiva
ted at home, and comfort, harmony, and
ncace will reign within your dwelling,
however humble. Do your children
love music, or drawing, or flowers! en
courage their taste to the utmost of your
ability. linked, when t Ito love ot
music ttervades it tinnily, mut is jinlinions
ly cultivated, it is an important aid in
the training of children, lOr the child
whose soul is touched with melody
easily yields to the voice of affetnion and
seldom requires severity. More than
this. the harsh tones of the father's voi c e,
as it commands, and the cutting tones
of the mother, as she thrbids, become
milder and more persuasive, if accustom
ed to join with their c hild re n i n th ese
recreations, and thus both parents and
children are mutually relined and eleva
ted. Let me add that I cannot con
ceive ot any purer enjoyment than is felt
by the head of a tinnily, as wile and
children gather about him, and pour
tiwth their sweet voices in songs of praise
at the morning sacrifice and the evening
oblation. If the father has money to
spare, I do not doubt that he might
make a good envestment in a piano, a
melodeon, or same other instrument, to
accompany the voices of his wife and
children, provided that practice on these
instruments be not allowed to interfere
with the practice at the kneading-trough,
the wash-board, or with any other duty
that a true woman, be tithe daughter,
sister, with or mother, ought to under
stand. These duties and these pleasures
are in no degree incompatible with each
other, or out of keeping with a farmer's'
home. Whatever tends to deyelope the
intellect, to refine the taste and purify
the affections, may find a fitting place
in every farmer's house. If he has
wealth, none has a better right to adorn
his walls with the gems of art, and sur
round his home with all that is beautiful
in cultivated nature.
that on thk-
An Explananation of Faith.
A female teacher of a school that stood on
the banks of a 'quiet English stream, once
wished to communicate to her pupils an idea
of faith. Willie she was trying to explain
the meaning ot the word, a small covered
'boat glided in sight along the stream. Seiz
ing upon the incident for an illustration, she .
exclaimed:—"lf I were to tell you that there
was a leg of mutton in that hoat, you would it-ITwo countrymen went into a
believe me, would you riot, even without see- hatter's to buy one of them a hat. They
were delighted with the sample, inside
ug it yourselves ?""Yes, ma'am, - replied
the scholars. "Well that is faith," said the the crown ot which was inserted adook
i
ng slas "What is the glass for?"
school-mistress. The next day,. in order to said - oneOf the men. The ober impa
test their recollection of the lesson, she in- tient at such a display of rural ignorance
quired:—"What is faith ?" "A leg of mut- ,e,roiaimed: “wh at for f why for the
ton in a. boat I" was the answer shouted from man !alio buys the hat to see how it fits
all parts of the school room. _ him."
C::C=Il
Oa a pair of woolen socks was writ
ten : “These stockings was knit hy a
little girl five years old, and she is go
ing to knit some more, for mother says
it - will help some poor soldier. -
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O n a t,ox of Ixantifill lint wTI-;
mark : sic!: room, wliete
the sunlight has not entered ck,r h . xn . e
vears, hut where God. has entered. and
N" here two sons have bid their mother
good-bye. as they have gone out to
the NV:I r."
huml:e containm4lages was
writtun : "Thls i a poor giti, but it is
ail I l: I have my Int:.:band
and my boy, and only «i..,11 I had nvire
togh e."
tin some eve-shades were marked :
, •:thide, by out who is Oh he - ov
I hm. , to st:e the fie:tr 01,1 t:lLr that
you ::re fighting tor."
The Power of Love.
Amid the gloom and travail of exis
tence suddenly to behold a beaufful be
ing, and as instantaneously to feel an
overwhelming conviction that with that
form forever our destiny mast be
entwined: but there is no more joy but
in her joy, no sorrow but when she
grieVes: that in her sigh of love, in lax
foadite:s. hereafter, 1.5 all blis , .;
to feel (mi. flaunty ami)ition fade away,
ijk e a s'a; . iveled goierd our
to tonic a :juggl e and Ipq.erity a
lie: and to be pcepar t ‘d at 1 mkt-c., for this
g eat object. to fol flit and fling away al
tOrmer hopes, ties, schemes, views; to
violate in Ina' tavvr evtfty duty Of 50,4-
ety; this is a lover, and this is love !
ALernitieent. sublime, divine sentiment'.
An nnincirtal flame burns in the breast
of that man who atlores and is adored.
He is an ethereal being. The accidents
of earth touch him not. Revolutions
of opinion, are to him but the cionols
and meteors of a stormy sky. The
schemes and struggles of mankiiid are,
in his thinking, but the anxieties of
pigeons ;mil the fantastical achievments
of,apes. Nothimr can subdue him.—
langhs alike at loss of fort une , l oss
of friends. loss of character. The
and thoughts of men are to him
equally imitterem.
ll; * does not nungle iii their paths os
ea llous bustle, or hold himself respon
sible to the airy impostures h e il,, re
which t her how down. Ile is a mariner,
who, in the sea of hi e , keeps his gaze
fixedly on a single star ; and if that
does not shine he lets go the rudder,
and glories wnen his hark descends into
the bottomless cult.-11./Ladi•
Empty Bottles Navigating the. Ocean
Captain Beecher, editor of the "En
glish National Magazine, has compiled
within the last ten years the following
curious voyages of bottles thrown into
the sea by tinfoil iinate navigators. A
good many bottles thrown into the sea
next to the ' African coast found their
way to Eampe. One bottle seems to
have anticipated tlie Panama route, hav
ing traveled from the Panama Isthmus
to the Irish coast. Another crossed the
Atlantic fiom the Canaries to Nova Sco
tia. Three or fiar bottles thrown into
the sea by Greenland mariners of Davis's
Straits, lauded on the northwest coast of
Ireland. Another one made a curious
trip, swam from the South Atlantic
Ocean to the west eanst of Africa, pass
ed Gibraltar, went along the Portuguese
coast of I'r:ance, and was finally picked
'up on Jersey Island. One bottle was
found after sixteen year's swimming,
one after fourteen, and two after ten
years. A few only travelled more than
one year, and one only five days. This
was sent off by the Captain of the Race
Horse, on the 17th of of April in the
Carribean Sea, and was found on the
22d, after having gone through degrees
longitude ,'2lO miles,) western direction.
Captain McClure, of the Investigator,
threw a bottle into the sea in 1850, on
his way to Behring's Strait. It swam
3,500 miles in two hundred days, and
was picked up on the Ilondu: as coast.
zc ar S ate.,, S- :ra,,_ r
rz47:z
The child as so sensitive, so like
'hat little shria.ino• plant that curies at
the breath and shuts its heart from
light'. The only beauties: she possessed
were an exceedingly teansparent skin,
and the most unduntall blue eyes. I
ilaa been trained by a Etera,
conscientious mother. I was a hr.;
olant, iebounding at every Aloel:
kortune could not daunt, n.is
line tamed into. I fancied, al,.
must go through the same routin e
Mills delicate creature; so one dav
he had displeased me esc( edingly by
lepeating an offence, I was determined
to punish her severely. I was very ca
rious all day, and on sending her to her
little couch, said:
"Now, my daughter, to punish you,
and show you hoW very, very "naughty
von have been. I shall not kiss you to
night."
She stood looking at me,w ith astonish
ment personified, with her great mourn:
fill eyes wide open. I suppose she had
forgotten her misconduct till then; and I
left, her with big tears dropping down
her cheeks, and her lips quivering.—
Presently I was sent for.
"0, you Will kiss me : I ca n't
c-o to sleep if you don't" she sobbed.
every tone of her voice tremblinL , , as she
held out her haul to me.
Now came the struggle 'between love
and what I falsely termed duty. _Mc
heart said give her the kiss of pence;
my stem nature urged me to persist in
my correction, that I might impress the
taint upon her mind. That is the way
I have been trained until I. was a sub
missive chill, and i remember how otter
I had thanked my mother since for her
straitforward course. I knelt by her
bed and whisp e lvd. "Mother can't kiss
you though the words seemed 1 0 ,
clu;ke nit. f_onelled ;Mile: it
It-Ty but I :ittri%)lll ,- . , 1 it to !it-r
exeitt‘itlent. I 1)1:1111t,1 111. :•4
the
11);•»1
and !•ayin:r, “.M.aiket• Itapvs Er=l
her better after thi•••, - lett the room
f'o: the night.
It might have been about midnight
when I was awakened by the nurse.—
Apprehensive, I ran to the child's cham
ber. I had a feartul dream; Ellen did
not know inc. She was sitting up,
crinisoned fr(im ircheatl t 6 the
i'nroat, her eyt , s so bright that 1 almost
dre 11' bfl:k at her glance. A ra ri ng
i \oi dr3!,l; up her litc from that m rift.
tel wllal do you tliink was the in,•cs
sant wards poored it.to uty atc, 4 ;ushing
heart? "Oh'. kiss me, mother, do ki,, 3
rue, mother, I can't go to sleep You'll
kiss your little Ellen, won't you? I
can't go to sleep. I w.)ll't he naughty
it you'll kiss me. Oh' kiss me, dear
inaauna: I can't go to sleep."
Holy little she did go to sleep
one arty morning. and woke
again --no never: Her hail NV:l`locked
in mine, and all with its
gradual chill. Faintly the tight faded
out Mille beautiful eycs—whiter and
whiter grew the tremulous lips. She
never knew me; but with her last breath
she whispered, '4 will be dear
mother, it you will only forgive me."
• Kiss her: God knows how passionate
and unavailing were my kisses on her
cheek :trier that fatal night God knows
how wild were my prayers that she
might know, if only once, that I would
have yielded up my life,
.could I have
a.-zkeif for . ! , iveness of that sweet child.
Well. grist i unavailing- now. She
lles in her little tomb, there is a marble
urn at her heal, and a rose-bud at her
&et—there grow sweet summer flowers:
there waves the gentle grass; there birds
sing their matins and ve:Ters; there the
blue sky shown down to-day, and there
li e s the freshness of my heart.
Parents you should have heard the
pathos in the voice of that sad mother,
as she said: "There are plants that
spring into great vigor if the heavy pres
sure of a footstep crush them, but, oh:
there are others that even the pearls of
the light due bend to the earth."
31 a hers and fathers, be kind to the
little ones Do not wait till the daisies
grow over their bosoms before you learn
to chide them in love. Kiss them be
fore you stiike them. By and by you
must leave them; but leave no thorns in
their memory!
HOME COURTESIES. —A correspondent
gives us this experiancc:—"l am one of
those whose lot in life has been to go
out into an unfriendly world at an early
age: and of nearly twenty famileis in
which I h' we made my home in the
course of about nine years, there were
only th , or four that could be properly
designatel as happy families, and tin,.
source of trouble was not so much the
lack of love as lack of care to manifest
it." What a world of misery is sac , -
gested by this brief remark! Not over
three or four happy homes in twnety,
and the cause so manifest, and so easily
remedied! Ah, in the "small voice
courtesies of. life," what power resides.
In a look, a word, a tone, how much
happiness or disTlietude may be com
municated. Think of it, reader and
take the leson home with you.—Life
Pladrat,d.
HOW TO PHARE orr TROUBLOZ—Set
about doing good to somebody. Put
on your hat, and go and visit the sick
and poor; inquire into thesr wants and
minister to them. I have often tried
t)is method, and have alWays found it
to be the best medicine for a heavy
heart.
The Mother!S Remorse
u -ter
An Industrious Monarch, f Family Newspapers.
Peter the Great once passed a whole f Few persons have any just concep
month at the fores of Muller, during 1 tions of the extent of their indebtedness
u hick time, after giNing doe attention to the papers 14 the information they
to the alThirs of State, which he never possess and the moral sentiments they
neglected, he amused himself with see- then ish. Compared with the past ages
iu and examinrng every thing in the of the world, t l ll,s is a remarkably en-
:Host minute inianier, and even employ- , li:d,tened +erica].
ca himself in learning the business of a A large portion of the people have a
He succeeded so well. chat considerable share of correct information
„ e b e t; ) „, h e l e f t th e pla ce be•t o rg- on almost all topics of any importance,
geogrally, history, and the
e:Lrhteen pools of iron,- and put his
'an particular mark on each bar_ The , political condition of the world, political
ft)yttrs and other noblemen of his suite economy ; the important oieiltl it i 'e ig atu ot re . s g L o
o e pi m 'ae r; -
were employed in blowing the bellows. tical philosophy ;
stirring the fire, carrying coals, and per- chemistry as applied -to agriculture and
forming the other duties of a black- the mechanic arts. and many other sub
smith's assistant. When Peter had fin- 'jects are finniiinrized to the popular
'shed, he went to the proprietor, pl'aiS- mind . Most persons can talk intelli
ed his man ei tac i ary, and asked him how ) - ently about them, pretending to learn
much i ; ' 7 */tICII Per Pot- 1 ? nod research.
- Tll' ' answ-r- But how do they come by this knowl.
cal edge? Not at schools nor at books gen
'•Very !• the Czar, but by picking up, here and there
"I 10E - 0 ct naS." ;
from newspapers, 'small instalments.
.linker /Ilia Let any one ask himself where he ob
!ed them to Pc ter, and told him that he tained his knowledge of any particular
could not give a workman like his maj- fact. He is probably unable to tell, be
esty less per pool. cause it came silently, imperceptibly in
Peter rellised the sum, saying,, "keep newspapers. The same is true in regard
thy ,lueats, I 11;iv&• net wrought better
to our best mot al sentiments. They are
Cian any otlicr loan: give me what you, surrgested, reiterated, and fastened on
tcou;~l dice !/: an , ,rilcr. I want to buy a the mind by the press. The pulpit does
pair of sla- a •:, yihich lam. in great much ; parental instructions in many in
nerd." stances, does much: and the press more
At I la? same time lie showed him his tt,„„) both. L et any rea d er o f a we ll
shoes, whi e h had been once mended conducted paper open its pages and con
and were again Mil cif holes. Peter side'. well its contents. There are in a
aocepted the eighteen :Minas. and single number sumetimas one hundred
boughtittims!lfa Anew shoes,which distinct articles, each one carrying an
he used to chow with much pleasure, ide9, a fact cr a sentiment, and stated
say '•Thasc I earned with the or illustrated - so as to produce an effect
sweat of my brow." - in enlarging the readers store of knowl-
On e of the Lars of Iron forged by edge, or giving a right direction to the
Peter the Great and authenticated by thought, feeling or action. Must not
his mark, is still to he seen iu Istia. inall this have its iniluenee on the reader?
1110 I;)!go No reflecting man can fail to-see that
bar k preserved in the enhinet of cur- the many Yisits in a year of a well con
io~ilies it St. Petershargh. ducted paper, with a corrected, elevated
tone and withal interesting in its con
tents, must exert a great moral influ-
111=E1
Sleep
There is no fact more clearly estab- enee upon domestic life. Children
lished in the physiolo! , y of man than growing up under such an influence are
this, that the brain expends its energies fir more likely to he intelligent, correct
and itself durber the hours of wakeful- in their opinions and morals, and better
ness,*and that these are recuperated du- prepared for the active duties of life,
ring sleep ; it the recuperation does not than they could possibly have been with
erlual the expenditure, the brain Ivithers: out it.
this k iik•anity
early lit»dish 1:01- , ,,,ns who The Simple Secret.
were condeanned.to death by being pre- Twenty clerks in a store—twenty
ri•nte , l from sleeping, always died m- hands in a printing c,fliee—twenty
ving maniacs : thus it is also, that those young men in a village. All want to
who a re s!arved to death are insane ; get along in the world, and all expect
the traiii is not nourished, and they to 1 1 0 so. One of the clerks will rise to
cannot sleep. The practical intereates be a partner, and make a 'fortune. One
are these; of the compositors will own a newspa
1. Tho,o who think most, who do per, and become au influential and pros
most hmin work, require most sleep. peroni citizen. One ~ f the apprentices
2. That timo saved from neces- will become master builder. One of
sary sleep is intidlibly destructive to the villagers will get a handsome farm,
mind, body, and estate. and live like a patriarch. But which
3. give yourself, your children, your is destined to Become a lucky individu
servants—give all that are under you, z l ? Lucky ? There is no luck about
the fullest amount of sleep they - will tt. The thing is almost as certain as the
take, compelling them to retire at some Rule of Three. The young fellow who
regular hour, and to riQe the moment will (VKnace his competitors, is he who
they wake; and within a fortnight. na- masters his business, who preserves his
turd will, with :ilinost the regularity of integrity, who lives cleanly and purely,
the sun, unclose the bands of sleep the who never gets in debt, who gains
moment enough repose has been se- friend s he deserving them, and puts his
cured for the wants of system. money into a savings bank. There are
phis is the only s afe, a n d sufficient some way* to fortune that look shorter
rule : and as to the question how touch t h an this o ld d us ty highway.
But the
sleep any one requires, each must be astaunch men of
the community, the
rule for himself Nature will never men who achieve something really
t.) write it out to the observer un- worth having, good fortune, good name,
der the regulations just given. and a serene old oge, all go this road.
rmoNtziNG Tai. Your,.—tlow often
have I heard the unf,rtanate working
man lectured as if he were a little char
ity-child, bound as to his nasal develop
ment,sirietly :1.1 to his Catechi:tn,
a nd eniled by Providence to walk all his
days in a station of life represented on
f k iitive occasions by a mug of warm milk
and water and a bun! What popguns
of jokes have these ears tingled to hear
let off at hint, asinine sentiments, what
impotent conclusions, what spelling
book moralities, what adaptations of the
orator's insufferable tediousness to the
assumed level of his understanding! It
his sledge-hammers, his spades and pick
axes, his saws and chisels, his paint-pots
and brushes, his ihrges, furnaces, and
engines, the horses that he drove at his
work, and the machines that drove him
at his work, were all toys in one little
paper box, and he the baby who played
with them, he could not have been dis
coursed to more impertinently and ab
surdly than I have heard hint discoursed
to, tithes innumerable. Consequently,
n u t being a tl)ol or a fawner, he has
come to acknowledge his patronage by
virtually saying: me alone. 11 you
urvierstz:rid me no better than that, sir 1
and ma fron, let me alone. Yea mean
very well, I dare say: but I don't like
it, and I N'6in't come here again to have
any more of it "—All the Year Round.
SENSIBLE M .x[ms.—Never taste an
atom when you are not hungry—it is
suicidal. Meyer hire servants who go
as sisters, cousins, or anything else
Never speak of your father as' "the old
man.", Never reply to the epithet of a
drunkard, a tbol, or a fellow. Never
speak contemptuously of womankind.,
Never abuse one who was once your
bosom-friend, however bitter now.—
Never smile at the expence of your re
ligion or your Bible. Never stand at the
corner of a street. Never Insult poverty.
Never eat between meals.
ifir The Federal debt facreatud $lOO,
00,000 i u the mouth of Kistch.
NEW SERIES.---VOL, 5, NQ. 48.
Thus it is that, in
Wear a Smile.
Which will you do, smile and make
others happy, or be crabbed, and make
everybody round you miserable? You
can dice among beautiful flowers and
singing birds, or in the mire surrounded
by togs and frogs. The amount of hap
',Mess which you can produce is incal
culable, if you will show a smiling face,
a kind heart, and speak pleasant words..
On the other hand, by sour looks, cross
words, and a ti-ettul disposition, you can
make hundreds unhappy almost beyond
endurance. Which will you d'? Wear
a pleasant countenance, let joy beam in
your eye and love glow on your fore
head. There is no joy so great as that
which springs from a kind act or a pleas
ant deed, and you may feel it at night
when you rest, and at morning when
you rise, and through the day when a
bout your daily business.
Rebel Prison Fare.
One of Colonel Dahlg,reen's men whcr
escaped from Richmond writes that
there were Union prisoners in the Lib
by Prison with him "who actually ate
horse beet; and even dog, and were
glad to get it ;" and he acids : "One
man I saw in the prison before I went
to the hospital had one of the dog's paws
that he ate of on the Island. He said
that he was going to keep it and fetch
it t 5 our lines when he came. The
prisoners On Belle Island, - although
nearly exhausted trom exposeure and
starvation, were detailed to cariT wood
about three-fourths of a mile. Some
of them were so weak they could hard
ly get around, and would refuse to fetch
wood.
Va - As daylight can be seen through
very small holes, so' ittle things will il
lustrate a person's character. Indeed*
Character consists iu little acta halite
ally and honorably perform** daay ft e
being the gamy from which we bead
it up and roughhew the habit's that haw
it.