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‘; ;Inman life. and ;,ealtil, and Ftri..t attention to
Inert, e'1:11C of p , IY,C, patronage.
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ruler e ❑i.. , Drover's Pan!c." Every style of
1.0 :s constantly en hand or made to order.
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).tier in Grncerie , . an.l Cnnfedionaries, :sAd Variety
(:, Nt w I:Willing, Main street.
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inrarsTCH.ES AND JEWELRY
S. M. BALLY,
Main street, opposite the Wright Muse keeps
41 , ....ays no hand a large and elegant &saw:meet of
Watches and Jewelry.
Clocks, Watches and Jewelry oil
r , , vs prompt :mention !Dec. 15. ISM--Iv
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the 11104'-`', ‘4 - '4 ay tlesllttrg, every morn
,• days ev•ept..,, at 7} o'clock, and will arrive
Dire in tone far the Boat to Pittaburetz,
toe ,the• c Laihthtg at the saute lime
eut Way4l,‘,, , urp, at nuns. No pains will he
,pr r LLe a, r.,in mod:Lunn of passengers,
Tim,lTlll" IMUGIIER„ Proprietor.
u., 71,.. tCFI. no. 9.
'of AY A ESBURG STEAM MILL.
r 11. E' .o E. EIS I e.rectfully inform his friends and
:he pett.itc 1!.a• i,e has leased the N faIN STE a TV
3111.:. al Waylit,htlig. Pa., where Lc will always he
rlund In a,....munodate all who may call on the
ic..!•et. Dria k ilinc done on the same terms ns
ny water mills. FLOUR and FEED kept constantly
dlede;a ref gither can be WI at tile Mil/or at
Yea 1 , gore; " 1X as. i7,1131t2
When George Washington was a boy ha
wanted to enter the navy. Like many oiler
boys he wanted to go to sea. His mother
gave her consent ; and vet it was plain she
was not willing to have him go. A midship
man's commission had been got for him, and
the vessel was about to sail. The servant
was at the door with his trunk. Ile went
in to say good-bye to his mother. Ile found
her in tears. lie saw the look of distress
that was ja her thee; but she said not a word.
That was enough for him. Ile went out and
said to his servant, "etrry back my trunk
to my room. T will not break my mother's
heart to please myself. - lie gave np his
commission and stayed at home.
When his mother heard what he had done,
, (I,;:orge,' she •GA has proinisa to
bless those who honor their parents, and lie
will bless you.'
El
How true her words were ! G.)l did
bless George "Washington, and made him a
blessing to his country and the world.—
Washington gained many victories after
wards, but this was perhaps the most impor
tant victory he ever gained. Ito conquered
the British at Trenton, at Monmouth, and at
Yorktown ; but when he gave up his own
will to please his mother, he conquered him
self. The Bible tells us, "Ye who ruleth
his spirit is greater than he that taketh
city.
J. J. 11 1' 31 A N
A Singular Marriage in Old Times.
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, in a recent let.
ter from Greenfield, Connecticut, relates the
following intere..-ting incident of its early
history 'Rev. Stephen Mi-; made a jour
ney to Northampton, in l(lm;, in search of a
wife. He arrived at l v. S.,lontou
(lard's, informed him of the object of his vis
it, and that the pressure of his home duties
required the utmost dispatch. Mr. S;od;
dard took him into the zoom where his
daughters were, and introduced him to
Mary, Esther, Christiana, Sarah, Rebekah,
Hannah, and then retired. Mr. Mix addressing
Mary, the eldest daughter, said he had late
ly been settled at WeathertOrd, and was de
sirous of o'•)taining a wife, and concluded by
offering her his heart and hand. She blush
ingly- replied that so important a proposition
required time for codsideration. Ile re
joined that he was pleased that she asked
foe suitable time for rellection, and that, in
order to ailbrd her the needed opportunity to
think of his proposal, he would step into the
next room and smoke a pike with her lather,
and she could report to him. Having smoked
a pipe and sent a message to Miss Mary that
he was ready for her answer, she came in
and asked for tardier time for consideration.
Ile replied that she could reflect still longer
on the subject, and send her answer by let
ter to Weatberstiold. In a few weeks he
received her which is probably the
most laconic epistle ever penned. Here is
the model letter which was soma followed by
a wedding I
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Re r . S! ell
The matrimonial Mix-tare took place on
the Ist o f
.I)ecember, 10G, and proved to
he compounded of most congenial elements.
Ignorance often conceals a deadly weapon
in our choicest articles of food, but selfish
ness often conceals a greater. It manufac
tures and compounds poisons for others in
many temptingly disguised forms. Candies,
toys and cakes are ornamented or colored
with various poisons. (Arsenite of copper,
and carbonate of copper are used in powd er
t•o ornament cake green, or color candies )
The blending in various ways in candies and
on cakes, makes them attractive to the eye,
but destructive to the health of those who
use them. Cakes ornamented with colored
dust, candies colored in such nice style, toys
so attractive to childern, cause decayed teeth,
calker, intestinal inflamation, nauseating
headache, colic, spasms apd often convul.
[QM
Confectionary may lys4 prepared without
coloring material, so as to be wholesome;
gay colors are made of poisonous material,
that ought never to be introduced into food
or drinks. Wall paper, ornattw.nted with
beautiful green, 'pretty yellow, and lively
red, often diffuses, through sitting and sleep
ing rooms, an atmosphere impregnated with
a poisonous vapor that causes headache,
nausea, dryness of the month and thioat,
cough, depression of spirits, prostration of
strength, nervous affections, boils, watery
swellings of the face, cutaneous affections,
and inflammation of the eyes. These occur
in more serious forms in apartments that are
not constantly and thoroughly ventilated.
The number of creatures in one species
exceeds. human calculation. Wilson, in his
`Ornithology,' mentions a flock of passenger
pigeons that Passed over Kentucky, more
than a mile in breadth, and two hundred and
fifty in length, containing at least two thou
sand million of birds. The fearful locust is
sometimes so numerous in the last that they
'arken the atmosphere, while the sound of
tbeiAwings is like the murmur of the dis
tant ocean. Considering the vast number of
species and the immense number in each ;
what a bountiful hand it is that supplies all
their wants and prqvi4s them with a place
to rest, while all move on in their own
sphere without intruding on the rights of
each other a most beautiful system of per
fect harmoniousness which would never be
destrciyed, if man, poor, fallen and disobe
dient, did not break in upon
Washington's Great Victory.
NORTITAMPTON, 169 G
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BE
:MATT STODDARD
Poison in Daily Use
Birds.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1864.
The Deserted Mansion of General
Lee.
B. F. Taylor, in his last letter to the
Chicago Journal, describes with his usu
al wramth of diction and poetry of idea
the deserted mansion of the rebel GO).
Lee. After having wondered amonc ,
;=,
the beauties, natural and architectual, in
and gurrounding Washington, he bends
his steps to Arlington, and this is what
lie sees : ."And now, fairly en route for
Arlington, we have upon the right the
swelling wooded hills, the site of the
soulless city of the dead : twenty-seven
hundred lie there; it is the National
Cemetery; it is the summer fallow of
the old estate. l'pon the left lie the
Government farms, the golden fields
just shorn of their glory ; you e.,tch
glimpses of white tents among the tb
linge : you hear the stroke of the scor
er's axe : you see groups of men at din
ner here and there, as you slowly wind
up the hill ; birds flash across the road
as you climb ; ravines deep and shad
owy invite you - out from the steady
stare of noon. A thousand shades of
green, from the tint as delicate as the
poet's thought to the dark, rich hue of
the tropics, delight you everywhere.
No monotony anywhere; the seeds
seem to have been flung at the wind's
sweet will ; if art at all, it is its highest
type ; it is art concealed, and, so akin
to Nature. Here, in the elder days—l
said the elder not the better—the red
deer trooped across this splendid park,
and spotted fawns lay hidden in the ce
dars. There where the paths make
mystery and lose themselves like cildren
in a holiday, the stately dailies once
walked, and the fair young Southern
flowers brushed by the ranks of other
flowers not thought more fair than they.
He; e stood, here talked the men dis
guised to-day in butternut and grey be
yond bright honor's rucogllition.
The mansion is reached at Lt t, and
you stand in the lofty portico. with its
eight massive columns of Inutile.—
There is nothing light and elegant
about it, but all is grand, almost severe.
The walls are finished in stucco, and
patchea of it have i.:llen off here and
there ; the panels, (..^.e filled with fig
ures in relief, n.e ereety and defaced ;
an hundred swallow,: ,T•st head the COr
llices, as with a ma :mil: , necklace, and
the plant of young bird and the flutter
of wings 'fill the silence like a speyeli."
'The wooden shutters are fast closed.
The broad doors, that once stood wide,
lending to the front a hospital, almost
a human smile, are sealed like the lips
of the dead. 1 feel as I. did when stand
ing before the belted door of a tomb on
Georgetown Heights, bearing a name
fOrevel• fallen out of common speech.
Did ever lovelier landscape greet tile
eye from portico before ? The rolls of
green washing up into richest foliage,
lapse away to the Potomac with its sli
cer flow. At your lett, the old garden,
that like deserted Eden lacks many
hands to "lop the wanton growth," yet
makes a gorgeous show of flowas.—
Your eye catches the telegraph wire
spun along from tree to tree,and through
a crevice in the window, a paralyzed
nerve of the old headquarters establish
ed here. What tidings from the field
have flashed along this wire; what syl
lable of triumph and defeat: Before
you lies Washington ; exactly in your
front lifts the monument, a mighty mile
stone "to count the ages by." Straight
out beyond, the dome of the Capitol, a
splendid bubble, as if an angers breath
had blow it.
I push open the reluctant door and
enter the deserted hall ; the floors are
covered with dust ; the frescoes on the
walls are dial with cOwebs; the
arches are stained and battered. A rus
ty chain dangles from the ceiling, sus
pending a fragment of a lamp, its light
put out forever. The antlered heads
of old Virginia deer, trophies of some
forgotten field-day, to the merry music
of tho hounds and the dashing leaps of
the blooded hunters, yet cling to the
walls like sculpture. Paintings are here,
too, that have gone into history ; stare
enough now, and as literal as a Scotch
man, but yet time has done fin• them
what it does for books and friends and
wine. I open a door and ant in the
dining room ; there stands the table
yet, the cloth removed for its old host
forever : the tabie with its lion's claws,
leaving to uprints in the dust as von
move it, as if the mansion were indeed
a haunt for the beasts of the wilderness.
Here Lafayette sat a guest ; here spark-
Je ( l , jest and wine ; here rose the song,
died out so long ago in sighing ; here
woman's smiles shone around the board
now failed out and dying. A sacred
sideboard of some ancient fashion
against the wall ; not so did it look in
the old days. flashing in the glory of
cut glass, • ruby and finiber. von
mark., the doors are double opening
here, and the narrow space between
the walls' Wine is a truth-teller, they
say, and so syllable over the third bottle
could stray beyond this room to ears in-
•
I catch myself in this dim and shut
tered place of banquets—alas, "funeral
baked meat." as they all seem now—
trying to think how they looked who
thronged it; who sat here and there and
yonder, but the pictures is faded, and
my hand cannot restore it. I go from
room to room. Here hangs one of Ar
rowsraith's nankeen-colored maps of
North America, with no northwest. in
it at all, but only a symbolical bear, and
"10, the poor Indian!" There is a lea
of irginia story, a picture of Poeahan-
tas. Here a stray loiterer of a velvet
chair ; old bureas full of emptiness; a
chest of drawers with a "till" in the
top. I had not seen one for twenty
years, and lifted the lid, almost expect
ing to see my old-fashioned mother's
goald beads, and the pencil sketch of
"the little boy that died," for those old
mothers, you know, kept their bits of
treasures in the "till." Gilded picture
frames and nothing in them ; a high
post bedstead, big enough for a mill ; a
broken mirror with a spider watching at
the fracture; fragments of marble man
tels strewn about the floor; the guest
hambers carpetless as the cave of Mac
pelah ; the fbotflll sounds as sharp as
the stroke of a hammer.
And so I go from room to room and
think of Hoizarth's picture of the end
of all things, and that it wants only
this to complete it. This lets been Fed
eral headquarters, I told you, and tra
ces of the truth remain ; oblong boxes
marked '.llabana," bottles suspiciously
labelled “Sillery," and "Old Tom."
riding gloves, tarnished spurs, "passes'
out of date, rosters of regiments in the
front or in heaven, such signs on parlor
doors and chamber doors as "Quarter
master," •'Adjutant," "No admittance."
A strange jumble it all is of yesterday
and to day.
Retracing my steps, Igo out from
the heavy, darkened air of the silent
house, into the glad sunlight where the
trees are waving and the birds are
singing, as if this were not Dead Man's
Land. Not far from the mansion is the
God's acre of the family; surrounded
by a wall, the gray tables bearing such
old historic names as Randolph. Wash
ington, and others that sometimes had
wearers to illustrate and adorn them.
Returning to the portico. where the
birds so ,;brave are brin.Qinc4 home the
dinner, 31 rind a soldier curled up I, esilL
tl!e d , x/r, and lazily earvin ,, a laurel
root pipe. "How do you think oil Lee
will like the improvements !" said he ;
"a freedman's village on one side, a na
tional cemetery on the other, and his
house given up to the birds, if not to
the bats
The Maine Law in Maine
For the last fifteen years the liluor
traffic has been outlawed in the Pine
'free State. .and the people of that
State are s, fully satistied NVIIII this kind
0 4 .: that the last legilature
fllncllded the law, so :is to include lager
ber, ale. etc. That this law is not a
litilure is evident from the following
which we cut from a Maine paper. Of
the thriving~ city of Lewistown it says:
''The tnunicipal authorities have the en
forcement of the law under their com
plete control. It is a matter of extreme
difficulty, except - for those who are t an
ticularly well-posted, to obtain a drop of
liquor for drinking purpose~. The sale
of ale or beer is exceedingly limited, if
not entirely abolished. The worthy
marshal recently made a seizure of eight
hundred dollars worth of H. G. at the
Lewistown House, and we have reason
to believe, that the proprietor of that in
stitution has concluded not to invest ex
tensively in that article under the pres
ent administration.
Of the city of Bath the same authority
says: "We are credibly informed that
there was not a single beer-pump in op
eration throughout the city.
Of the large and flourishing town of
Waterville, the seat of a Baptist college,
it is said: ''There is not a ruin shop in
this village or vicinity. They are either
closed up, or the sale of the 'infernal
stuff' completely stopped There are
two public houses in the place. The
'Continental,' a temperance house from
choice; and the ‘Williams House,' tem
pe:lince from necessity." A good place,
we think, to send boys to college.—
From Skowhegan, a large village, it is
said the law strictly enforced. When
the sale of liquor was in full blast, the
Sons of Temperance determined to take
the matter into their own hands. They
called a meeting and after various meth
ods were suggested to break up the rum
shops. they each and severally agreed to
hold themselves in readiness at any time,
to sign warrants issued against the ruin
sellers. The scheme was comilletely
successful, and in a very short time, every
rum shop in town was etlectudly closed.
What a blessing to have this terrible
traffic closed up. Why not have it done
every where!
Healthful Effects of the Tomato.
The tomato is one of the most
healthful, as well as one of the most
universally liked, of all the vegetables.
Its healthful qualities do not depend on
its mode of preparation for the table;
it may be eaten thrice a day, cold or
hot, cooked or raw, with or without salt
or pepper or vinegar, or all together,
to a like advantage, and in the utmost
that can be taken with an appetite. Its
healthful quality arises from its slight
acidity, in this making it as valuable,
perhaps, as berries, cherriefi, currants
anu similar articles, It 'is also highly
nutritious. The tomato season ends
with the frost. If the vines are pulled
up before the frost conies, and hung up
in a well ventilated cellar, with the to
matoes hanging to them, the "love-ap
ple" will continue ripening until Christ
mas. The cellar should not be too dry
nor too warm. The knowledge of this
may be improved to great praeticid ad
vantage for the benefit of moy who
are invalids, and who are fond of the
totnatq.
True History of the Guillotine
Appended to an account of the execu
tion of the French prisoner, La Pom
merais, the Paris correspondent of the
London Times gives the following his
tory of the guillotine, claiming to cor
rect former versions:
Of the origin and history of this fa
mous instrument of punishment, an er
roneous idea generally prevails. The
popular version is that it was invented in
1785 by Joseph Ignatius Guillotin, au
eminent physician and deputy for Paris
in the Constituent Assembly. This is
not correct. An instrument, differing
from the guillotine only in its heavy and
cumbrous construction, already existed
in Italy. It was known in Genoa by
the name of mannaja and it was by the
manuaja that Beatrice Cenci was behead
ed at Rome in 160.5. The "maidan,"
an instrument not unlike the guillotine,
was long known in Scotland, and it was
employed on the Regent Morton, who
is said to have introduced it. It was
used also in Halithx, Yorkshire, in the
region of Queen Elizabeth. The Duke
of Montmorency was beheaded at Tol
()use in 1632 with the manuaja.
All that Dr. Guillotin, who was a man
well known for his humanity, had to do
with the matter, was preparing the draft
of a law in the Constituent Assembly, in
1789, to the effect that the mode of in
flicting death on criminals should be the
same for all alike, without any distinction
of nobles or plebians; in fact that it
should be uniform. Before the revolu
tion of 1789 the inequality that existed
during life was maintained in death;
the noble was beheaded: the villian hung
from the gallows. But the inequality
was a trifling grievance in comparison
with the cruelty which accompanied the
execution. There was the stake and
t tn y ;o t for those convict:d of sacrilege
or heresv: the tearing of limb from limb
by Loses for regiciilo ; the breaking on
the ‘vile(l, with the additional r u il ne _
ments of barbarity for crimes of other
'lnc bill proposed by Guillotin was
voted, :mil the Assembly enacted on the
21st of January, 1700, that "in all cases
where the law pronounced the penally
of death the punishment should be the
whatever might be toe nature of
the crime:" and, moreover, "that the
criminal should be beheaded by means
of a stople machine." The same As
embly also introduced in tile Penal
Code (October, 1701) tliic clause: "Tile
penalty ot:_death shall consist in the sim
ple taken away of life, without the ac
companiment of any sort whatever of
torture: and the convict so condemned
shall be beheaded." The clause stands
the same at the present day.
Decapitation being thus declared the
only legal mode of inflicting death, the
next step was to invent the simplest
mechanism and the least painful for the
purpose. The Committee of Legisla
tion directed Dr. Louis, who was then
perpetual Secretary of the Academy of
Surgery, to draw up a report on the best
mode of decapitation to be applied to
criminals. The report was presented to
the committee on the 7th of March, 1792,
alai on the 20th of the same month the
Assembly passed a law, which was sanc
tioned on the 25th day by the king, de
claring that the penalty of death shot ld
be carried out in tile manlier recommend
ed in the report of the perpetual Secre
tary of the Academy of Surgery In
this paper Dr. Lori i did no more than
suggest the plan on which the instru
ment should be constructed: but he was
enjoined to get one constructed accord
ing to his plan. A German named
Schmitt, maker of harpsichords, was em
ployed for the purpose, and on the 19th
of April, 1792, Dr. Louis informed Be
hind, then Minister of the Interior, that
"experiments had been made with
Schmitt's instrument at the Bicetre on
three dead bodies, and that the heads
were cuteoff with such precision that he
was astonished at the strength and ce
lerity of its action." It was at once in
troduced, and the "experiments" made
with it soon atter the date of the latter,
and for a long time afterward, were not
of the harmless nature of those at the
Bicetre. In the memories of Stinson, the
famous headsman, recently published, a
full account is given of the instrument.
The first execution for which it was used
was that of a highway robber, which
took place on the 27th of May, and the
first political execution was that of Col
lenotd' Aliglemont, on the 21st of Aug.
fhllowing.
The machine was at first popularly
known by the name of Louison, or Lou
isette, from the inventor's name. By
some unaccountable change of public
opinion, or caprice, it soon got the name
of guillotine, which it keeps to this day,
and will probably do so as long as it is
in use, though Dr. Guillotin had noth
ing whatever to do with its invention or
construction, and had merely proposed
the measure of uniformity in the mode
a execution. There is another error
also very generally spread, that Guillotin
himself died on the scaffold . during the
revolution by the instrument of which
the invention was falsely attributed to
him. Dr. Guillotin long survived the
revolution, and died „Futetly in his bed
in 1.814.
,6i 'Senator Hare said some time as
that the stealings under the Lincoln ad
ministration were more than the entire
legitimate expenses of .the Goren
Can anyhody„guess why thest-*vi
dies divorgea Senator Hale. •
onitzlit anb• 6tneral ~ttteZZ~e~xe, fix.
Hints for the People.
Credit never permits a man to know
the real value of money, nor to have full
control over his affairs.' It presents all
his expenses in the aggregate, and not in
detail. Every one has more or less of
the miser's love of money—of the actual
gold pieces and the crisp bank notes.—
Now, if you have these things in your
pocket you see them as you make your
purchases, visibly diminishing under your
eye. The lessening heap cries to you to
stop. You would like to buy this, that
and the other; but you know eyy.dy
how much money you have lett l :' 1' if
You (4-c) on buying more things yo -
will goon be empty. You do nOt *see
this when you take credit. You give
your orders freely, without thought or
calculation ; and when the day of pay-
Meta comes, you find that you have over
run the constable.
On every hand we see people living on
credit, putting off pay day to the last,
making in the end some desperate etlbrt,
either by begging or borrowing to serape
the money together, and then struggling
on again with the canker of care eating
at their heart, to the inevitable goal of
bankruptcy. If people would only make
a push at the beginning, instead of the
end, they would save themselves all this
misery. The great secret of being sol
vent and well to-do, and comfortable, 'is
to get ahead of your expenses. Eat and
drink this month what you earned kst
month; not what you are going to earn
next. There are, no doubt, many per
sons so unfortunately situated that they
can never accomplish this.
No wan can guard against ill-health;
no man can insure himself a well con
flicted, helpful family, or a permanent in
conic. There will always be people who
cannot help their misfortunes. But, as
rule, these mistbrtunes they bring upon
themselves by deliberate recklessness
and extravagance, You may help a poor.
honest, struggling man to sonic purpose.
But the utmost von can do for an unthrift
is thrown away. You give him money
von have earned by hard labor, lie spends
it in pleasure which you have never per
mitted yourself to enjoy.
The Moon anal the Weather.
Dr. Todd says: Mr. Merriman, lately
deceased, probably Ivatelied the weather
and made more close observations with
instruthents, for over thirty years, than
any man living, declares in all his expe
rience he has never been able to perceive
that the moon has the least influence up
on the weather. And yet, to what mul
titudes is this rank heresy: How they
run to the almanaeks to see when the
moon is "new," when it "quarters,"
when it is ''full," and predict changes in
the weather at these points. The fact
is, the moon is new, or quarters, or is
full, once a week the year round; and in
our variable climate, the weather changes
often—but once a week—when it does
not remain unaltered for weeks: and so,
it' a change in the weather takes place
anywhere near the change in the moon,
she is the author of the change. 1 have
known educated men to cling to this no
tion instilled into their childhood. I
have known men who are careful not to
plant—especially beans—in the old of
moon. And I put it to my reader, who,
as I have no doubt is wise and well ed
ucated, and free from all superstition,
had you not a ''leetle" rather see the
new moon over the nigh t shoulder than
'over the left? Don't you always think
of it when you see the new moon? Can
you tell why? It is one of those old
roots which time and Christianity have
not yet removed. So many had rather
see a crow thy over the right shoulder
than the left—a renmaat of the old Re
man notion of omens. The number and
variety of superstitions which still linger
and burrow in the world, like the rem
nant of the old Cananites whom Israel
"could not drive out," is far larger than
most suppose. My wonder is, not that
there are so many roots of the old tree
remaining, but that Christianity has done
so much toward removing them.
Sensible.
The Committee of the "Working
Men's Association of New York, from
whose Address we extracted, some.
days since, the arraignment of Abraham.
Lincoln for sundry high crimes and
misdemeanors therein set forth, I ••4i
ed, in that Address, various top
posed to affect and interest pfv , u , : ,, :
the large class they represent. 0.+0...t.•_:*
feet, upon the wor'-'
North, of the emauci
slaves, they think co
detrimental to the
mer. They say •
We do not want
overrunning the Noe
us to support, or as
crowding white men
sides, we want the m
raising cotton, suga?
other tropical produi
des are now becornint„
within the reach only
the negro is everywhere feed, the labor
ing man of the North is reduced to the
vassalage of the middle saes. We be
come the serfs of Northern capitalists.
be.' 'Have a weed, gran'pa ?" said
Tom.
Grail pa--'A what, sir r'
Master Tom—'Why, a weed--,a ei,
gar.'
Gralipa—Certainly not, I never
smoaked in my life, sir'
Master Tom—'Ah! then I w0.41d ad
vise you to begin.'
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 13.
Damascus.
Is the oldest city in the world. Tyre
and Sidon have crumbled on the shores
Baalbec is a ruin ; Palmyra is buried
in the sands of the desert; Nineveh and
Bacilyon have disappeared from the Ti
gris and Euphrates ; Damascus remains
what it was before the days of Abraham
—a eenter of trade and travel—an is
land of verdue in a desert—"predes
tinal capital," with martial and sacred
associasions extending through more
than thirty centuries. It was near Dam
ascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the "light
from heaven above the brightness of
the sun ;" the .street which is called
Straight, in which it was said "he pray
eth," still runs through the city. The
caravan comes and goes as it did a thou
sand years ago; there are still the
shiek, the ass, and the water-wheel;
the merchants of the Euphrates and of
the Mediterram an still occupy "these
with the multitudes of their wares."—
The city which Mahomet surveyed from
a neighboring height, and was afraid to
enter, because it was given to men to
have but one paradise, and for his part
he was resolved not to have his in this
world, is, this day, what Julian called
"the Eye of the East," in the time of
Isaiah ''the head of Syria." From
Damascus came the damson, our blue
plum, and the delicious apricot of Port
ugal ? Damascus damask, our beautiful
ftbric of cotton and silk with vines and
flowers raised upon a smooth, bright
ground ; the damask rose, introduced
into England in the time of Henry viii ;
the Damascus blade, so famous in the
world flu• its keen edge and wonderful
elasticity, the secret of whose manufac
ture was lost when Tamerlane carried
off the arts into Persia ; and that beau
tiful art of wood and steel with silver
and gold, a kind of Mosaic engraving
and sculpture united called Damaskeen
inff, with which boxes and bureaus,
5v orris and guns are ornamented. It
is still a city of flowers and bright wa
ters; the streams from Lebanon, the
"rivers of Damascus," the "rivers of
gold," still minmur and sparkle in the
wilderness of Syrian gardens.
Magnitude of the Earth.
According to a recent authority, the
circumference of the globe is twenty
five thousand and twenty miles. It is
not so easy to comprehend so stupc ndu
(;us a circle as to put down its extent
in figures. It becomes more palpable,
perhaps, by comparison, such as this:
A railway train travelling incessantly
night and day, at the rate of twenty-fire
miles an hour, would require six weeks
to go round it. The cubical bulk of
the earth is two hundred and sixty
thousand miles. Mr. Lardner says, if
the materials which form the globe
were built up in a column, having a
pedestal of the magnitude of England
and Wales, the hight of the column
would be nearly four and a half millions
of miles. A tunnel through the earth,
from England to New Zeland, would be
nearly eight thousand miles long.
Discontent.
lierodotus tells us of a poeple in Af
rica, who live in the neighborhood of
Mount Atlas whose daily custom was to
curse the sun when lie rises high in the
heavens, because his excessive heat
scorched and torme rated them. We
have always thought this a fine illustra
tion of discontent 4ich overlooks
blessings and dwells uponl evils. Did
they forget that to the sun they cursed
they were indebted for light, food, for
ten thousand blessings, without which
they could not live'? Did they think
his absence, but for a short time would
have made them pray for his return as
their benefactor, as heartily even as they
cursed him fOr their tormentor.
WIN TUE Dru7:o NEVRIt WEI/P.—The
reason the dying never weep is because
the manufacturers of life have stopped
forever; every gland of the system has
ceased its functions. In almost all dis
eases, the liver is the first manufactory
that stops work; one by one others fol
low, and all the functions of life are at
len2;th dried up; there is no secretion
anywhere. No the eye in death weeps
not: 0 - !.at, all affection is dead in tho
he— nit because there it; not a tear
dr(, Ai it, iy more than there is mois
ture on 0
e rebels claim to h gleaned
.ilions worth o. small arms,
•uts, lead, tt., from the battle-
Jfthe wilderness and Spotsylva-
The Richmond Dispatch enumer
among the spoils 30,000 small
and 25,000 pounds of lead. The
- ere collected on the battlefields
people living in the vicinity, and
to a depot established for the pur
where they were need into pigs
tire use. Corn and flour were
exchange for the led, an article
_ had become scarce and valuabie
iu the confederate army.
e-Few parents like to be told of
the tault of a child ; the reason is obvi
ous. 11.11 faults are either he riditary or
educational ; and, in either ease to point
a finger at a child, indirectly, to re
prove the parent.
do r President Madison during the war
of 1812 in one of bis annual messages
called Petersburg fhe "cockade of the
Union" because of the patriot spirit
iter citizens.