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The following touching effusion, which wo
find floating around oil the great sea of news
paperdom, unclaimed and uncredited,
breathes the true spirit of poetry. Its peru
sal will not fail to awaken tender heart-emo
tions, revive sad family reminiscences, and
cause tears to moisten the eyes of those par
ents whose "iambs have gone before," a n d
who are "longing for the faces passed away
forevermore." The picture is a beautiful and
touching one:
WILMOT . T THE CHILDREN,
0, the Nveary, solemn silence
Of a house NN ithont the children,
0, the strairge ; oppressive silence,
Where the come no more!
_lh! the longing of the sleepless
For the sof! timns of the ohihlren.
Ah ! the longing for the faces
Peeping through the opening door—
Faces gone forever more. !
J. A. J. OtCIiANA7;
Strange it is to wake at midnight
And not hear the children breathing,
. I kothing but the old clock ticking,
Tickimr, ticking by the door.
Strang,c to see the little dresses
Hanging up there all the morning;
And the gaiters— ah their patter,
We will hear it never moore
On our mirth-loisaken floor.
J O. RITCHIE
What is home witjAwit the children
Tis the earth withont its ti eedure,
And the sky witho'tt its simshine;
Utc- is withered tilt , core
So - ss ell le: , \-(• 4,11!:,• dreary desert,
Ana WC ' A
fOllO the ff,lo S!'l 4 2, pilOrd
To the greener pastures vernal,
Where the lambs have "gone before"
With the Shepherd evermore
0, the «roar• solemn silence
Of a house without the children,
0, the strange, oppressive stiffness,
Where the children come no more!
Ah ! the longing of the sleepless
For tho soft arms of the children;
Ah ! the longing for the faces
Peeping, through the opening door—
Faces gone forever more !
PEEI.AN
There's a land far away 'mid the stare, we
are told,
Where wo know not the sorrow of time;
Where the pure waters wand,er threnk val
leys of gold,
And life is a treasure sublime,
lis the laud of our God—Ms the home of
the soul,
Whet the age; of splendor eternally
roll—
Where the way weary traveler reaches his
goal,
On the evergreen mountain of life
Our raze cannot coos io • that beautiful land,
But our visions have told of its bliss,
And our souls by the gale from its gardens
When we faint in tire deserts of this.
And we sometimes have longed for its holy
When our spirits were torn ; with temptp.-
tions and woes,
And we've drank from the tide of the river
that flows
From the evergreen mountains of life
Oh, the stars never tread the blue Heavens ctt.
night,
wLere the ransomed have
And the day never smiley from its palace of
. But we think of the smiles of our God.
We are traveling homeward through changes
and gloom,
To a kingdom whqre pleasure unchanging
ly bloom,
And our guide is the glory that shines
through the tomb.
Fran the evergrep . r,:Pulltains of life
Excuses for not Going to Church,
Overslept myself ; could not dress in
in.tim9 ; too cold ; too hot ; too windy;
too tisty ; too wet ; too clamp ; too
sunny ; too cloudy ; don't feel disposed;
no other time to myself; lobk over my
drawers ; put ray papers to rights ; let
ters to write to friends ; mean to take a
walk ; going to take' ride; tied to bus
iness six days in a week ; no fresh air
but on Sundays; can't breath in church;
always so full; feel a little feverish; feel
a little chilly; feel very lazy ; expect
company to dinner; . got a headache; in
tend musing myself to-day ; new bonnet
not come home; tore my muslin dress
down stairs;t a new novel, must be
returned on 4onday morning; Wasn't
shaved in time ; don't like the liturgy,
always praying for the same thing; don't
like Wen/Oral y prayer ; don't like an
organ, 'tis too noisy ; don't like singing
without music; makes me nervous—the
spirit is willing, but-the flesh weak dis
like an extemporary -sermon, it is WO
frothy; can't bear a written sermon,
too prosy; nobody to=day . but our own
minister, can't always listen to the same
preacher; don't like stfangefrs ; can't
keep awake when at chgrch; Tell asleep
tin when I was •there"; simet risk
it again; mean to inquire of sensible per
soak about the
,propriety of going to
NO a PhaleN4. 4 ;hazabs- .***** l 9 l l the
result., : •
A Poetic Gem.
Evergreen Mountains of Life.
Sir JAMES G. %mix
are fanned,
rc poo,
FZA
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1864.
I Oiorelbuttfuo.
The London Times on Gen. Grant.
The great British organ of public opinion—
the "Times"—thus dagnerrotypea Gen.
GRANT'S striking characteristics as a inilitaiy
commander:
If be has not achieved absolute suc
cess, he has bid for it more desperately
and approached it more Really than any
of his pre3ece,ssors in command. He
hag fully justified his reputation for
dogged and . unconquerable tenacity:—
After once breaking, up from his camp
he has marched straight on, incessantly
closing with his adversary, always of
fering battle, never declining it, midis
mayed by losses, undeterred by the
most immenent danger. For the first
time in the histery of this war, a great
battle has been followed by an immedi
ate pursuit, bringing another battle
equally obstinate and bloody. Grant,
though slightly worsted in the actions
of the Gth, refused to quit his hold upon
the enemy, or to plead any of the obvi
ous excuses for suspending the opera
tions of the campaign. It was this
stubborness of purpose which gained
him his success at Vicksburg and his
favor with the Northern people. They
never thought him a military genius,
but they believed him to be a most de
termined man—a man who would bring
everything to the immediate issue of
hard fighting, and who might either
beat or be beaten, but who would nev
er be hesitating or inactive. This esti
mate of his character lie has fully justifi
ed. He has fought unceasingly, and has
clung like a bull-dog to his work. Nor
can it be added that he has fought alto
gether in vain ; for he has advanced as
he proposed to advance, and is actually
a few miles further on the road to Rich
mond. On the other haul, it now ap
pears beyond all doubt that the succes
sive petirements of the confederate com
mander ;yore but so many judicious and
precoucerted operations of the campaign,
The whole road to Richmond. be it re
membered, is a series of positions which
have long been studied and strength
ened by the confederates, terminating
in a capital fortified by all the defenses
which modern art could devise, through
a period of three years. Lee, if he
falls back, is only falling back from one
strong post to another, till he finds him
self in the strongest post of all. Grant,
if he falls back everso little, gives up
the game, while he persists in advanc
ing he discovers harder work than ever
betbre him at the end of each day's
march, and separates himself from his
supplies in the same proportion. bin
donbtedly Grant is in a more difficult
situation' than Lee, or if he falls back,
which, if he cannot dislodge his adver
sary, he must do, it will be under dis
advantage still. But he is invincibly
obstinate, he has uncontrolled com
mand, he has exacted the unreserved
support of the government, and he has
seen the southern general retire before
him. He will perhaps renew his at
tack upon Lee, bat if he ever reaches
Richmond with an effective army he
will have achieved a miracle of military
RiCeeSS,
Gossip About General Grant--The
Vexed Question of the General's
Politics Settled at Last--Mrs.
Grant says Her Husband is a Very
Olotinate Man.
[Correspondence Boston Journal.]
Many inquiries have been made about
Gen. Grant's politics. lam happy to inform
yqur readers from his own lips to what par
ty he belongs and under what banner he
marches. A near relative to his has been
passing some time in this city. While with
qea. Grant at the West, before he was made
Lieutenant General, the friend said tq him
"General, I have been inquired of to-day
about your politics." "Did you give the
parties any information i" was the quiet
query. "I did not, was the answer, "for
I don't know n - hat your politics are."—
Knocking the ashes from his cigar, the gen
eral continued : "When I resided at the
South I had the opinions and prejudices of
Southern people against the Republican par
ty. 1 brought those opinions and prejudices
with me when I came to Illinois. Had I ta
ken an active part in politics I should have
been with the party opposed to the Repub
licans. I watched Mr. Lincoln's course, and
was satisfied with his patriotism. But these
are not the times for parties. Indeed, in
this ctisis there can be but two parties—
those for the country, those for its foes. I b 2.-
long to the party of the Union. Those who
are the most earnest in carrying on the war,
and putting down the rebellion, have my sup
port. Asa soldier, I obey the laws and ex
ecute the orders of all my superiors, I ex
pect every man under me to do the same."
When Mrs. Grant left Washington for hex
Western home she remained 0. Oiort tine in
this city at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Sev
eral gentlemen called upon her, and in the
•
course of the .conversation rcogmtulated her
oßthe elevation of her husband, and express
ed a hope that he would be successful in this
cappaign. ljer whole manner, quiet, dig
nified and reserved, seemed to express sur
prise that-any one ootild doubt his success.
Pp*/ a 'moment
,atte !Tiled 'These tie
doubt : hut .the Goma' inkCeed, for he Is
twee Obstillati man. •Tb.is remark ended
the conversation. A Galena neighbor of the
commanding general has been stopping here
sometime and seems utterly confounded
with the sudden growth of his neighbor, the
tanner. He can't account for it, for he vipb
not a marked man in his home, and nobody
supposed him a great man ; he seldom talk
ed, asked no advice, gave none to any one,
but always did what Le agreed to and at the
time.
Household Cares.
Mrs Kirkland has very truly said that
woman is never really and healthily lutp
py, without household cares. But to
perform housework is too frequently
considered degrading. Even where the
mother, in obedience to the traditions
of her youth, condescends to labor oc
casionally, the daughters are frequently
brought up in perfect idleness, take no
bodily exercise except that of walking
in fine weather, or riding in cushioned
carriages, or dancing at a party. Those,
'in short, who can afford servants, can
not tkriTc!iin themselves, as they think,
by domestic labors The result is, too
frcquently. that ladies of this class lose
what little health they started life with,
becoming feeble in just about the pro
portion as they become fashionable. In
this.neglect of household cares, Ameri
can ladies stand alone. A German lady,
no matter how. elevated her rank, never
forgets that domestic labors conduce to
the health of mind and body alike. An
English lady, whatever may be her po
sition in society, does not neglect the af
fairs of household, and, even thou , i she
has a housekeeper, devotes a portion of
hitt. time to this, her true and happiest
sphere. A contrary course to this, re
sults in a lassitude of mind often as fatal
to the health as the neglect of bodily ex
excise. vife w ho leaves her house
hold cm , to her domestics, generally
pays the penalty which has been affixed
to idleness since the foundation of the
world, and either wilts away from sheer
ennui, or is driven into all sorts of fash
ionable follies tc find employment for
her mind. If household cares were
more generally attended to by ladies of
the flunily, there would be comparative
ly little backbiting. gossiping, envious
ness and other kindred sins, and women
in good society would be much happier
and much more truly loveable.
A Titled Machinist.
Lord Oxman ton was at some Mann
factory, the name I have heard, but for
crotten. In walking through the works
he met with the principal, who finding
him well versed in the subject, and
taking him for a practical man, explain
ed some improveuient he was about to
make. His lordship discovered fallacy
in 'die plan and predicted that it would
fail, but the other was confident in his
calculation, and so they parted. Some
time afterwards, when his lordship was
walking to the House of Commons, lie
was accosted in the street by one who
turned out to be his too confident ac
anaintan:e, and who said: "I have been
often, since we last met, Wishing to see
you. You was right and I was wrong,
and I am going to make you an offer.
My engineering foreman is going to
leave me, and if you will come down,
and construct the work your own way,
I will give you a post." "I am much
obliged," replied his lordship, "but I
could not accept your offer without con
sulting my father." "One would think
you were old enough," said the other
With some scorn, "to be out of leading
strings. And when can you hear from
your daddy?" "I can give you an an
swer at once," said Lord Oxmanton,
who saw his father, then garl of Rosse,
appreachiog,. When the latter came
up, he was informed of the offer, and
entering into the joke, he said he was
quite willing his son should accept the
post if it did not interfere with his par
liamentary duties. "And who is he,.
and who are you, old gentleman?"
roughly demanded the Bruminager.—
"I am Lord Bosse," was the reply, "and
this is Lord Oxmanton." Eventually,
the latter consented to look down for a
few days in Warwickshire, and give his
friend the benefit of his best advice,
which ended, this time, in the thorough
ly successful completion of the improve
ment in hand—Bristol England Times.
,year a Smile.
Which will you do, smile and make
others happy, or be crabbed, and make
everybody around you miserable
You can live among beautiful flowers
and singing birds, or in the mire sur
rounded by fogs and frogs. The
amount of happiness which you can
produce is incalculable, 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 fret
ful disposition, you can make hundreds
unhappy almost beyond endurance.,
Which will you do! Wear a pleasant
countenance, let joy beam in your eye
and love glow on your fiirbeaci.,
There is no joy so great as that which
springs from a kind act or a pleasant
deed, and you'may fool it at th . ght when
you rest, and at morning when you
rise, and alrough the tis,y when about
your daily business.
_.Among the , (trophies" on exhi :
bition at the Fair in Philadelphia, is
one called" ...a trophy of Mob," which
consists or the lock of a musket. The
insaription tells us that Thin is the look
that cluolold the esp„ t i fiutS fired the gun,
carried the bea, eseeej the
fall of qa. masup....4
Exit Pelissier.
Old Pelissier, says the Boston Post,
has thrown up his hand—dead and gone
where be sent the Arabs he smothered,
and burnt to death in a cave in Africa.
He was an unmitigated, ferocious old
brute—a good soldier, but a poor Gener
al—and was hated by the army fbr his
ill nature and his savage temper. Louis
Napoleon feared him, but kept him well
in hand by giving him place and money.
He was an Orleanist to the back bone,
sneered at the Emperor, ridiculed and
defied him, but accepted his favors; was
always quarreling with the Empress,
and probably feared no human being,
save his witi), who young, pretty and
coquettish, has kept her old moustache
of a husband in a constant fume of kat
on,y by her flirtations and her fondlings.
Probably no intelligence will be more
gratifying to Louis Napoleon, than the
announcement of Malakoff death, and
the Empress's mourning will be of a fes
tive character. He was a gambler, a
rogue, and duelist—one of the St. Ar
naud clique—and French mess-rooms
ring to this day with the scandal they
created. He took the tower of Malakoff,
and by it gained a dukedom, a pension
of $20,000 per annum and the ridicule
of the wits of Paris, who compared kilo
to the Haytien Dukes of Lemonade and
Princes of Molasses Candy. Pelissier,
however, pocketed the honors and the
money, and resented the sarcasms. He
was round awl fat, but his sword-arm
was as good as ever, and his fencing, if
not his military abilities, were respect
ed.
In the Imperial club in Paris, the
loudest talker, the loudest. swearer, the
heaviest player was Pelissier ; his life
was a sad one, mc,r;bly, until the Em
press found him a nice little wife, when
he partially reformed, and as as he
could, behaved himself. But he seems
to have borne Eugenie ever after,
and made much trouble in Louis Napo
leon's household by his brutality to the
ladies of the Court and the Empress's
household. The present Marquis Gali
fet, another ne'er-do-well, but a brave
and gentleman-like young man, gave
Pelissier a reproof not long since, for
some incivility, whioh nearly led to
bloodshed. Galifet offered to 41,64 him
in any way and at any time, after hay
ing in the presence of a large company
rated him as a boor in his manners and
unfit for 'polite society. The Emperor
stopped the duel, but it was• with diffi-.
cults, for both were hot-blooded and
anxious to fight. Pelissier is another of
the tools and enemies of Louis Napoleou
gone to the grave. It seems as though
the master bore a charmed life, proof
against disease as well as ballets. It
must be with grim satisfaction that he
orders the preparation for the military
pageant which will celebrate the last
honors to the old marshal, and casts
about him for somebody whose purchase
will be worth the baton which every
French soldier is said to carry in his
knapsack, but which so few ever wield.
A Dutch Romance.
Several of the Paris journals tell the
following story relating to the interpre
ter of the Jilpanese embassy now in
Paris% Frantz BleckmAn was a na
tive_of Holland, but being of a roving
disposition, embarked on board a vessel
bound to Batavia, to seek his fortune.
Years passed by, and nothing being
heard of him, his friends at last con
chided that some accident had befallen
him, and that he was no longer living.
Ijis tattier remained in Holland, but,
being unsuccessful in business, he came
to Paris. Here his resources soon fail
ed him, and on writing to a friend to
solicit a small loan, he received the fol
lowing letter in reply : "I send you
the money you ask for, and add to it
the photographic portraits of the Japan
ese embassy. You will remark the
face of one of those strangers, for ho
is the very image of your son." Thn
father could not but perceive the•resem-
Nance ; the features were certainly the
same, but the closely-shaven head and
the Oriental costume greatly puzzled
him. He, however, went to the court
yard of the hotel in which the embassy
was staying, and was so fortunate as
to arrive just as the Japanese were
passing to go out. The original of the
portrait he at once recognized, and call
ed out, "Is that you, Franter In a
moment the son--,for Frantz it really
was—and the old man were locked
in each other's arms. The ambassadors,
who witnessed the scene, were greatly
moved ; and old. Bleckmann's troubles
were now at the end, as thq son is weal
thy and prosperous.
Affecting Incident.
A soldier of the Ninth regiment, Mas
sachusetts volonteers, was found on the
battle-field of the Wilderness, mortally
wounded and dying. As he lay- sup
ported by the comrade who had found
him, he took from his bchom a picture,
gazed at it, stretched out his hand and
died. Not knowing his name, his com
rade. took the picture (it was a carte-de
visite) from the dead man's hand, and
serO s it to the photographer whose im
print was on the back, viith an account
of the oircumstames, and a request that
it might be exposed for recognition.—
it was seen the day of its arrival by'
two young ladies walkittronthe street
and recognized by them its that of the
dead-soldieo wik, The WO= name
wab. Wm: WWI. of ,IdOblelti4
Theory of the Origin, of Coal Oil.
It is probable. that all instances of sol
id bitumen found on or beneath the
surface of the earth have resulted, from
the hardening of drops or reservoirs of
liquid coal oil. The . lumps and crystals
of graphite found in the oldest rocks,
like the lumps of amber found in the
newest, were doubtless only substuices
involved by sand mud. Flakes of an
thracits are found in the centre of rock
crystal. Gelatinous animals and fuceus
plants abound in those ancient seas,
and ought to have provided, by their
death, plenty of animal and -,a.getable
hydrocarbon for the mineral. The old
red sandstones, like more modern for
mations, present us, for our cabinets,
immtnerabl; flattened fish, converted
into bitumen ; some in so perfect a state
that every scale can be counted, and
every sculptured line upon them sub
mitted separately to the microscope
others an eliMistinguishable mass or
daub of tar. The rocks have been so
thoroughly charged with animal dead
matter that they emit a fcetid odor
whenever struck, and are technically
known as stinkstones. The bitumin
ous limestones and shales of many dif
ferent geological ages are so many
reservoirs of animal and vegetable oil,
produced by the death and slow de
compositions of successive floral and
animal creations, perhaps principal car
ohne. The fossiliferous black shales of
the central belt of the State of New
York underlie Lake Erie, cross Ohio
and Kentucky into Tennessee, and re
turn through Indiana and form the
beds of Lake Michigan and Huron. In
Middle Kentucky the faces of the rocks
are smeared and streaked with oil, fried
out of them by the sun, so that the sur
faces are blackened as if with tar.
Up to the horizon of these black
slates, ascending in the column of de
posits, gelatinous sea orgaifisms, both
animal amt vegetable, seem to have I.
constituted the principal, if not the sole,
apparatus for generating petroleum.—
But Dawson has lately discovered in
the sandstone over them a true, angios- !
pennons exogeneous tree. not nincit, if
any, lower in the scale of development
than those of.' which our forests are coin-
posed. Coniferous trees began also to
abound, and coal beds to be deposited
in groups. Thence the higher we as
cen towards and through the second
and third, or great coal measures, the
more abundant became the vestiges
of fresh water and land vegetation,
un
til in the tree stumps of the coal beds
of Nova Scotia we find small laud ani
mals. The mosses and ferns, the rush
es and reeds, minute and gigantic, of
which the coal beds came, suggested
the vegetable origin of coal oil. For
it is near or between the three systems
of coal measures proper that the, amaz
ing
discoveriesof subterranean reservoirs
of oil had taken place. It is impossible
to suppress the suspicion that petro
leum is a product of the slow decompo
sition of vegetable tissue.
But the oil wells are not sunk in
coal measures, but through them at the
edge of the great coal areas. The oil
is uever found in coal beds, nor have
the subterranean reservoirs of •oil appa
rently any connection with the coal
beds, nor even with the coal slates or
bituminous shales or pyroschists, as they
are called. • Black slate, cannel, fat coal,
like lignits, peat and living wood, will
yield the oils and grass by distillation,
but the geological distinction must be
carefully preserved between the free
petroleum of the rocks and wells and the
distilled petroleum of the old oil works.
The Siamese Twins.
A correspondent of the Macon Tele
graph, who lately visited the Siamese
Twins, gives the following account of
them :
"Your readers have no doubt teen
those remarkable individuals, the Si
amese Twins, but few of them perhaps
have been to their houses and seen
them in their domestie relations.—
Though united by a ligament as strong
as life itself, they live a mile apart,
spending alternately three days at the
oue and the other house, and allowing
no circumstances to prefer their deurt
ure from the one to the other when - the
regular time arrives. The one at whose
house you visit them leads the conver
sation and acts master of ceremonies,
while the other speaks only as occasion
or politeness may require. One has
.eight and the other nine children, but
one of whom is in the war o ,the rest be
n* girls and little boys. The twins
are good neighbors, intelligent men,
and thoroughly patriotic. They are, to
all appearance,
two seperate and differ
ent men, with very little social resem
blance, and a marked contrast, of char
aoter. Eng is much the more posi
tive, self-willed and uncompromising.
They are seldom both sick at the same
time. Why should death, result from
a separation of persons . so unlike and
so little subject to be afitcted by each
other's infirmities"?
TERRIBLE TRAGED:Y.—SirS.Mary Mil
ler, of New York, who has been resid
ing for several.weeks at Fishkill Land
ing committed a bloody deed on Mon
day morning at that place, by cutting
the throats of her .two children• (girls,
aged respectively seven and two years)
and themoutting her own. She is sup
posed to have been. suffering from a
spell of insanity, to whieh the was, oc
casionally subjeet: •
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 4.
It is what we rejoice to see—men,
women and children, the rich and the
poor, the old and young, always look
ing up. It shows the purity of your in
tentions, and the determination of your
hearts. We never despair of a man
however poor and degraded he may be,
who looks up—springs up. We see in
hint the elements of a true man. No
matter if the seas have swallowed your
property, or the fires have consumed
your dwellings, look up, and take fresh
courage. Is your name a by-word or a
reproach ? Look up to the purity of.the
sky, and let its image be reflected in your
your heart. Detraction, then, will re
bound from your bosom. Are you trod
upon by the strong ? Look up, push
up, and you will stand as strong as he.
Are you crowded out of the society of
the rich ? Look up, and soon your
company will be coveted. Whatever
may be your circumstances or condition
in life, always make it a point to look
up, to rise higher, and you will attain
your fondest expectations. Succeks may
be slow, but sure it will come. Heav
en is on the side of those who look up.
A Single Pound of Steel.
Willis, describing a visit to Waltham
and the manufactory of the American
Watch Company, says : "A small
heap of grains was shown to us, -look
ing like iron filings, or grains of pepper
from a pepper castor—appareThtly the
mere dust of the machine . which turned
then out — and these examined with a
microscope were seen to be perfect
screws, each to be driven to its place
with a screw-driver. A single pound
of steel, costing but fifty cents, is thus
manufactured into one hundred thou
sand screws, which are worth eleven
hundred dollars."
AN Iscrae.x.r *V TUE COLD HARBOR
BATTLE.—Sometimes the sadness which
generally prevails among the wounded
and dying is banished by a ludicrous
incident. An Irishman who had been
fatally wounded. was advised by the
surgeon to give his effects to a person
near by. He pulled out his razor, and
asked comically, "It he would send
that home to the ould woman." "Yes,"
said the delegate. Next come out his
glasses, and then 817,65 of which one
dollar was silver. All these • things he
wanted sent But when the delegate
cent to take, them, he asked him to
"Wait a bit. These doctors are not al
ways right. Yese betther be afther
seeing whether I'm going to die or not."
A BEArrirut. THOUGHT.—A writer,
whose life has passed its meridian, thus
discourses upon the flight of time:
"Forty years once seemed a long and
weary pilgrimage to make. It now
seems but a step. And yet along the
way are broken shrines where a thou
sand hopes have wasted into ashes ; foot
prints sacred under their drifting dust,
green nioimds Where grass is fresh with
the watering of tears ; shadows even
which we would not forget. We will
garner the sunshine of those years, and
with ilistened step and hopes, push on
tow. ie evening whose' signal lights
will soon be seen swinging where the
waters are still and the storms never
beat.."
tia- Medicine will never remedy bad
habits. It is utterly futile to think of
living in gluttony, intemperance, and
every excess, and keeping the body in
health by medicine. Indulgence of the
appetite, indiscriminate dosing and
drugging, have ruined the health and
destroyed the lives of nioro persons than
famine or pestilence. If you will take
advice, you will become regular in your
habits, eat and drink only wholesome
things, sleep on a mattress, and retire
and rise very regularly. Make a free
use of water to purify the skin, and
when sick take counsel of the best phy
sician you•know, and follow nature.
• WllO ARE Tiny.—A ease similar to
that of Sergeant Hummerston, who was
found dead upon the Gettysburg battle
field, holding a photograph of his three
children, has just been discovered. It
is a photograph of a woman, apparently
25 or 30 years of age, and two little
girls, one about three years and stand
ing by the side of the mother ; the oth
er about two years, sitting in the moth
er's lap. The . little °lie has the thumb
of her left hand in her mouth. This
photograph was found in the grasp of
a dead soldier on one of the Virginia
bat tl e-fields.
Edvrard Hunter, the wife murder
er, has been sentenced to imprison
ment, in the New York State prison, at
hard labor for the residue of his life.—
Before semence, in reply to the usual
question as to what he had to say, why
sentence should not be pronounced, pris
oner's counsel read a. very remarkable
statement, admittulg that he caused the
death of his wife. He claims that the
deed was committed during a paroxysm
of violence, superinduced by the severe
injuries to his head, caused from filling
head-long from the top of a stage upon
a stone pavement, a few days Wore.
frEirA little girl died in Norwhich
the other day, from eating almonds. A
piece of the nut had lodgedAn some
part of the intestines, prodaeitig an Mk
scess•
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