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dept. 11. UM —lv
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'QO ALL di: iturrucemr,
4117VAXETS AND COUNSELLORS A7' LAW
Waynesburg, Pa .
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'rept. 11;1861—le•
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PHYSICIANS
Dr. 'l'. W. Ross,
prk... 5 rmi.A....... alb Wram.rig.,coza,
Waynesburg, Greene CO., P.
iIFFICS ANI) REiODENCE ON MAIN S'I'REET,
last.enti nearly opposite the Wright house.
--- inealiwg, Sept.
,T 23, 1E23.
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DR A. G. CROSS
ivvr mum very restrectriilly tender ins services a e
PHYSICIAN AND SIuRm:CUN, to the people or
Waynestoug and vicinity. Ile hopes by a due appre
ciation of I►umati lire and health, and strip t am:idiot: to
be show. to merit a share of public patronage.
Waynesburg. January $,
riIERCELANTS
WM. A. PORTER,
Wheiesale and Retail Peale, in Forrign and Donley
I Pry Goods. Groceries. luliuus, &c., Main street.
opt. it. —lv.
MINOR & CO.,
''Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, tiro
mines, Queensware,Hardware and Notions, opposite
eke Green linuen. Main street.
Sept. il, 10111-Iy, . .
BOOT AND SHOD DEALERS
J. D. COSGRAY,
Boot and Shoe maker. Main street, o-arly opposite
lop "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style oL
i♦sds and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order.
Sept. 11, 1861—Iy.
GROCERIES & VARIETIES
JOHN AIUNNELL,
Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety
Snarls Generally, Wilson's New Building, Main street.
Sept IL 1861-Iy.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY
S. M. BAILY,
main street, opposite the Wright Muse keeps
always on hand a large and elegant assortment Of
Watches and Jewelry.
UT'RepeAring of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry wil
seettive prompt attention [Dec. 15. Mel— ly
BOOKS, &c.
LEVVIS DAY,
Dsahr in School and Misrell..menus Books, Station
al". ink, Magazines and Papers: One door east el
rowtoten Atari!. Hain Street. MIPPI. I I IPOI Iv
IegIiDLES AND HARNESS.
SAMUEL M'ALLISTER,
fltorldls. fkraess and Trunk Maker. oid Ilanit Build
iininstreet.
-I t.
FAMERS' & DROVERS' BANK,
*arasobtarg, Pa.
AL L MACK, Prts't. .1. LAZEAR, Cashier
MISCOUNT DAY,
WEDNESDAY
Sept. U. 1881--Iv.
as' lanbing,
DAM MAIL HACK
atm NI NG RgGIILARLY BET YVEEN
WOW MUNK
_lollllllBeellietnliPed reepeetfally informs the generous
VONA, Mat Davila the oussuact for the carrying r f the
between the above poirei,he has placed up .n the
' Me Mew gad commodious Hacks for the ac
. f the Unwitting seasonally. One oil
kereflullia ilidam's Hoese, ye aynesburg, every morn
gm4lllyit excep t .,.,, at 7g o'clock, and will arrive
nt ..,. .-thibe ,
Laelfing is time for the Ram
o Pittsburgh.,
widirla fdlimOt' Lemke( at the same time
wages ill apealsarg at noon. hietains will be
irt W of
t ri a ll VT , DOU ri'l
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When the Boys Come Home.
J 0. 111Te11111
I=
The tide has ebbed away ;
NO more wild dashings 'gainst the adamant
Nor swayings amidst sea-weed false that
The hues of garden gay ;
No laugh of little wavelets at their play;
No lucid pools reflecting heaven's clear brow;
Both storm and calm alike are ended now.
The rocks sit gray and loue;
The shifting sand is spread so smooth and
dry,
That not a tide might ever have swept by,
Stirring it with rude moan :
Only some weedy fragments idly thrcwn
To rot beneath the sky, tell what has been;
But Desolation's self has grown serene.
After the mountains rise,
And the broad estuary widens out,
All sunshine ; wheeling round and round
A spirit, o er Eternity's dim sea
Calling—" Come thou where all we glad
Where we sit patient ; 0 great sea beyond,
To rx hich we turn with solemn hope and fond,
But sorrowful no more!
Like white-winged sea-birds in the Infinite
0 listen, man !
A voice whhin us speaks that startling word,
"Man thou shalt die :" Celestial voices
Hymn it into our souls , according harps,
By angel fingers touched, when the wild
stars
Of morning sang together, sound forth still
The song of out great immortality.
Night and the dawn, bright day and thought-
ful eve,
All time all hounds, the limitless expanse,
As one vast mystic instrument, are touched
By an unseen living hand, and conscious
chords
Quiver with joy hi this great jubilee.
The dying hear it ; and, as sounds of earth
Grow dull and distant, wake their passing
souls
To mingle in the heavenly harmony.
erThere is at St. Etienne, in France,
a young lady, eighteen years of age, af
fected with a rare, though not unparal
leled infirmity. She is unable to see
while the am is above the horison, but
ems partway well at night and in com
plete &mimes&
IZ=‘Wg
ttert fettrt
Irk JOIM HAT
There's a happy time coming
When the boys come home!
There's a glorious day coming
When the boys come home.
We will end the fearful story
Of this treason, dark and gory,
In a ann-burst of glory,
When the boys come home,
The clay will seem brighter
When the boys come home,
For our hearts will be lighter
When the boys come home.
Wives and sweethearts press them
In their arms, and caress them,
And pray to God to bless them,
When the boys come home.
The thinned ranks will be proudest
When the boys come home;
And their cheer will Ting the loudest
When the boys come home.
The full ranks will be shattered,
And the bright arms will be battered,
end the battle-standards tattered,
When the boys come home.
Their bayonets may be rusty
When the boys come home;
And their uniforms dusty
When the boys come home.
But all shall see the traces
Of battle's royal graces.
In the brown and bearded faces,
who the 'lnv come home.
Oar lore shall go to meet them
When the boys come home ;
To bless them and to greet them
When the boys come home.
And the fame of their endeavor,
Time and change shall not dissever,
From the nation's heart forever,
When the boys come home.
Sitting on the Shore.
rocks,
mocks
about,
Seaward, a white bird flies ;
A bird Nay, seems it rather to these
IBM
bouls be."
0 life l 0 silent shore !
But little while and then we too shall
soar
Dee ;
Tfll then, p -
thou Father, wilt our spirits
keep
Our Great tmmortal►ty.
=NE
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1864.
I cannot well imagine a home more
incomplete than that one where there
are no little girls to stand in the void
of the domestic circle which boys can
never fill, and to draw all hearts within
1 the magic ring by the nameless charm
of her presence. There is something
about little girls which is especially
loveable; even their willful, naughty
ways seem utterly void of evil when
they are so soon followed by the sweet
penitence that overflows in such gra
cious showers. Your boys are great
noble fellows, generous, loving and full
of good impulse, but they are noisy and
demonstrative, and dearly as you love
them, you are glad their place is out of
doors; but Jennie with her light step
is always lic6.le you; she brings the
slippers for papa, and with her pretty
dimpled fingers untblds the paper fur
him to read ; she puts on a thimble no
bigger than a fairy's, and with some
very mysterious combination of " doll
rags '
:' Hs up a small rocker by mania,
with a wonderful assumption of woman
ly dignity. And who shall tell how the
little thread of speech that flows With
such sweet, silvery lightness from those
innocent lips, twines itself around the
mother's heart, never to rust, not even
when the dear little lace is hid among
I the daisies, as so many mothers know.
But Jennie grows to be a woman,
and there is a long and shining track
from the half-latched door of childhood,
till the girl blooms into the mature wo.
man. There are the brothers who al
ways lower their voices when they talk
to their sister, and tell of the sports in
which she takes almost as much inter
est as they do, while in turn she in
structs
them in all the minor details of
home life, of which they would grow
up ignorant if net for her. And what ,
a shield she is upon the dawning man
hood wherein so many temptations lie.
Always her sweet presence to guard
and inspire them,- a check upon pro
fanity, a living sermon on immortality. ,
How fragrant the cup of tea she hands
them at the evening meal, how cheery
her voice as she relates the little inci
dents
of the day. No silly talk of in-
,'
cipient beaux, or love of young men '
met on the promenade. A gei like
that has no empty s,ace in her head tor
such thoughts to run riot in, and you
don't find her spending the evening in
the di!a pallor with a questionable
young man for her company. When
her lover comes, he must say what lie
has to say in the family sitting-room
with father and mother; or it he is
ashamed to, there is no room for him
there. Jenuie's young heart has not
been filled by the pernicious nonsense
which results in so many unhappy mar
riages or hasty divorces. Dear girl,
she thinks all the time of what a peel
home she has, what dear brothers, and
on beaded knees craves the biessing of
Heaven to rest on them, but she does
net know how fir, veiy far, for time
and eternity, her own pure example
goes, how it will radiate as a blessing
into other homes where a sister's mem
ory will be the consecrated ground of
the past.
Cherish then the little girls, dimpled
darlings who tear their aprons and cut
the. table-cloths, and eat the sugar, and
are themselves the sugar and salt of
life! Let them dress and undress their
doll babies to their heart's content, and
don't tell them that Tom Thumb and
Red Riding [food are fiction, but leave
them alone till they find it out, which
will be all too soon. Answer all the funny
questions they ask, and don't make fun
of their baby theoloey, and when you
must whip them, do it so that if you
should remember it, it would not be '
with tears, for a great many little girls
lose their hold suddenly before the door
from which they have just escaped is
shut, and find their way back to the
angels. So be gentle with the darlings,
and see what a track of sunshine will
follow in the evake of the little bobbing
heads that daily find a great many. bard
problems to solve.
—ptia ituloch
Professor Chalk; Oren, of Clinton
county, Ohio, for several years Principal
of the Union schools of Martinsville,
volunteered about two years ago, and
when the work of organizing colored
troops commenced, obtained a Cap
tain's commission for the command of
a colored company. A tew weeks since
he was killed at Petersburg by a minnie
ball from the gun of a rebel sharpshoot
er, while enczaged in constructing some
defenses. His body was embalmed and
brought to Martinsville, where it was
received by a precession of his former
pupils bearing the motto, "We honor
our Teacher."
Captain Oren left a wife and three
small children. He had just purchased
and, paid for a fpm of seventy acres
mile south of that town, where his fam
ily now resides. The widow was Miss
Sarah Allen; of the Quaker family of
Abram Allen, of Oakland, in the same
county, and f or l thirty years one of the
self-sacrificing and enthusiastic laborers
in behalf of the liberation of his coun
try from despotism. Mr. Allen Is quite
advanced in years, but still toils for a
living as BtftaYi as when a young man.
He has lived by the cultivation of fifty
mere firm, and b the aboosional .y
-tisailtAl hie '
S
Little Girls.
Female Energy.
111
His daughter Sarah was educated for
a first-class teacher, partly by her own
means derived from teaching a common
country school. And to her educated
accomplishments she adds those graces
of person and spirit that render women
most attractive. Such are the influences
and advantages enjoyed by his daugh
ter in her home and school education,
and now we wish to present her exam
ple as a splendid result of this simple
method of bringing up a family :
Mrs. Sarah Oren cultivates that farm
of seventy acres and makes enough to
support her family and some to spare.—
She has her wheat harvest and her hay
ing as any other farmer. She has cul
tivated eight acres of corn, the usual
quantity of Irish potatoes, a patch of
sorghum and - a garden. Part of the
season she has had a " hired man," and
part of the time she has depended up
on her own hands. She stripped and
gathered her sorghum cane with her
own labor, and is now employed in dig
ging her potatoes.
Having that foracast which a practi
cal culture - always gives on the morning
of the first frost she was up at the
" peep of day," and out with her hoe
cutting off the vines of her sweet pots
toerto save the tubes from that damage
which the sun would do them by start
ing the sap of thirty vines back to the
roots.
Thus is this young and accomplished
widow perfectly independent. Her ed
ucation did not spoil her for the practi
cal duties of life. Anything that she
has strength to perrortm whether in or
out of doors, she is willing to do with a
willing mind and a cheerful heart. The
death of her husband was a teriible
blow to her affections, and for some
time she was prosteateq in her grief;
but rallying at last, she now lives a
bright example of what an accomplised
lady and a dutiful mother can do, when
necessity requires, for her own support.
Such a woman is worth a score of the
" nambypatuby" sort who seem to think
that education was designed to make
helpless and useless ladies.
Contractors and Sewing Women.
As the winter is setting in, when the
expense of living will be much higher
than at present, the question of the
wages of women is attracting attention.
Mechanics of every kind have, during
the past summer, demanded and receiv
ed considerable advancr.s in their week
ly waged, but we have heard of no ef
tbrt on the part of the working women
of the city to increase their wages. A
Philadelphia paper has the following re
marks on this subject:
Attention has been strongly attracted
for some time past to the shameful in
adequacy of th 2 wages recAved by wo
mea for government work, and efforts
have been made to remedy, or at least
alleviate the evil. An impression un
doubtedly exists that this has to some
extent been effected ; but we have
some reason to doubt whether much
has been accomplished. We shall state
a case which has come to our knowl
edge, and the absolute accuracy of
which we can guarantee ; this will at
least afford some grounds toward en
abling our readers to arrive at a just
conclusion.
A sub-contractor for the Govrenment
in this city (whose name, though given
to us, we for the present withhold), is
now getting work done in Wilming
ton, Delaware, and at the following
pric.'s.
Haversacks, ten cents. We under
stand that by a long and hard day's
work, four of these can be made, but
this rate cannot be ke e t up.
Pantaloons, sixteen cents. A case
was mentioned to us where a woman,
by working from early morning until 1
o'clock at night, succeeded in making
eight of eiese garments in a week, but
by working in this manner, seriously
injured her eyesight.
Heavy overcoats, forty cents each.—
We are informed that these garments
are so heavy to handle, that those who
work upon them soon break down with
pains in the back, unless they are more
than commonly strong of frame. To
the above price, ten cents are added for
making twenty-five button-holes—about
five hours steady work, or two cents '
per hour. We are told that the old
price fi•r these army overcoats was
always 80 cents each, so that now,
while the necessaries of life are at dou
ble price, those who consume them are
to work at half price, the effect of
which is that they are required to do 1 ,
exactly four times as much work as
formerly to procure the same quantity
of food, fuel or raiment.
Another case has been mentioned to
us where an army contractor gets $2
each from Government for making
shelter tents, for which work he pays
forty-five cents, which, it seems, is just
half the price formerly given, viz: nine
ty cents,
All this is literally shameful; there is
no other word to express it, and no
community is justifiable in seeing the
poor among* it crushed in this frightful
way. It is the clear daty of the Gov
ernment so to oontrol its oommetora
that
wh9Ntl
they
r shall be lowed to do some
kill4 / 9f tiSis 0 2 a 9 4 ikarem
ploy. this cannot be 4004 let
the tilde amtaraol sygitest 144 4
away, and jet the G.evorvew
its sewers 4ireedt 4 w e
iitassa4 ao-that isot W.
ing the poor to death, are squandering
their excessive profits in every species
of foreign luxury, swelling our imports,
depriving us of our gold. to pay for
them, aiding in depreciating our cur
,rency, and speculating in all the neces
saries of life, to the direct enhancing
of all values. Let us have a reform
without delay. The whole matter Is
too infamous to be tolerateJ.
A Romantic Story.
The following story reads very much
like fiction, but as we find it in an ex
change of high character, which avows
belief in its essential truth, we give it as
an illustration of providential reward for
kind actions:
r "Some years ago a poor, penniless
adventurer arrived at San Bernardino.—
His clothes were in rags and scant at that.
His cheeks were hollow, and his eyes
had that restless, fierce expression that is
seen in one who has not for a long time
tasted food. Thtstranger stopped at a
farm-house, and after some hesitation,
asked for a meal. The ranchero, who
was well-to-do in the world, at once
granted the request. Entering into
conversation with the stranger, he found
that he was trying to make his way to
the mines, but miscalculating the expense
of the route, had found his means inad
equate to bear him to his journey's end.
The ranchero was se impressed with
his story that he voluntarily loaned the
needy adventurer a sum of money to
help him to his destination. Time sped
with its chances and changes, and found
the once prosperous ranchero, despoiled
of his little property, seeking a precarious
subsistence in San Francisco, and get
ting a livelihood with difficulty at that.
Such was the condition of his affairs,
when, several weeks since, a showy car
riage droveup to the poor man's door.
A richly attired gentleman alighted
therefrom. It pr)vcd to be the penni
less adventurer whom the now reduced
ranchero had once so generously assist- ,
ed. Luck had changed with the former.
He had made • settle money in the pla
cers, had travelled thence to Washoe,
and, engaged in the silver mines, had
amassed, like many others once poor, a
rapid fortune. He had come'lto invite his
benefactor, with his family, to ride, for
the purpose of taking a look at a neat !
cattage which he had just been purchas
ing in the suburbs. The party rode
forth in high spirits: The morning was
fine and the air exhilarating. In due
time they arrived at the cottage, which
proved to be one of the neatest in the
neighborhood ; a bijou of a place, w.th
odd nooks and gables, and the cosiest of
furniture.
When the visitors had satisfied them
selves with admiring everything that
there was to be admired, and had taken
of a repast spread for the occasion,
their entertainer turned to them and
said:
'it is not so long ago that you must
remember the destitute stranger who
came to your gate for wherewithal to
satisfy the cravings of hunger, and
whom you sent on his way rejoicing,
with more money than he had seen for
a twelve-month. lam the stranger.
With the proceeds of your generosity I
reached the mines. Success crowned all
my efforts. I was wealthy. I visited
San Bernardino for the purpose of dis
charging my debt of gratitude, but you
were not there. I sought you every
where, and finally found you in your
place of refuge, nearly as destitute as
myself on the day when, overcome
with hunger, I paused at your hospita
ble threshold. My mission is accom
plished. You have been pleased to
admire this cottage. It is yours. •Tako
it, with all that it contains, and may
Heaven enable you, my benefactor, to
prosper as I have prospered."
To finish the story, the title deeds
were placed in the hands of the aston
ished ranchero, and he is at this mo
ment comfortably installed with his
family in his new domicile, the happiest
of men."
Incident in the Life of Livingston.
Edward Livingston was a zealous
freemason, and in his Life a passage
from one of his addresses as President
of the Louisiana Lodge is introduced
for the sake of the anecdote connected
with it: "My brethren, have you search
ed your hearts ? Do you find there no
lurking animosity against a brother '7
have you had the felicity never to have
cherished, or are you so happy as to
have banished all envy at his prosperi
ty, all malicious joy at his misfortunes!
If you find this is the result of your
scrutiny, enter with conildenc the sane
ttiary of union. Bat if the examination
discovers either rankling jealousy, or
hatred long concealed, or even unkind
ness, or offensive pride, I entreat you,
defile not the altar of friendship with
your unhallowed afferieng ; but, in the
language of Scripture, 'Go, be reconcill
ed to thy brother, and then offer thy
gi ft ."
Here the speaker was interrupted by
the sudden movement of two of the au
dienoe, who rushed into each other's
arms. They were real brothers, who
had gunrrelled, and not been on
iag tensuk for several
A Romsnee of Denmark. Facts Concerning Oil Wells.
A writer in the London Autheneaum Notwithstanding the long experience
; thus describes the romantic phaises of which we have in working -oil wells,
Denmark : "It is a region lying close we have not yet ascertained the laws by
upon the borders of a sea wbose white I which these wells are governed, at as
breakers roll northward till they turn yet there have been no inks laid oawn
to ice near the pole; a fhtt, low-lying which we can follow with any certainty
shore, behind which are landscapes of success in boring an oil well. The
green and quiet. The waves moan, Interference of one oil well with" anoth
the clouds gather, Olen rides by cv . the ler is becoming a common occurrence
wings of the wind, and a flash of Tight , upon Oil creek. It is, tosay the lent,
ring shows Hermot flying from Valhal Very vexatious to the lucky owner of a
with a message to the nether-spirits.— flowing dr 'tamping well, Who' hal if.
The elements roar. and the old deities bored dataaskinhtsa.. She earn
live again as in Mythology's morning. ings of years of toil self4leniel, end
Then the tempest vanishes, and a soft- just when he is on the. highway to
er spirit steals upon the scene, The boundless wealth •to have hit .
.„„.
sea lies calm and still, murmuring in a crushed in a few hours by the • •
low voice ; the shore and landscape wear of a well near his own that taps it, , •
the sunshine that pours upon them in ! turns his golden dreams of wealth tete;
a golden shower. You hear a sweet I limpid valueless water. Notwithst#ol
-
voice singing ; it is yonder mermaiden, ing the great disappointment m
combing out her yellow hair, smiling quent upon a disaster of this 104 the
freshly, and luring love-sick youths to ! true operator takes it coolly. lie - well
their destruction. The fisher mending , knows that no effort or foresighted , his
his line beside his hut heeds her not ; can remedy the matter, and so if he
for he has just caught a fish who is an fails to effect a compromise and sell out
enchanted prince, and who has promis- ; he seeks another location, and - very**.
led unbounded riches for being re-con- ! quently interferes with some one el in
Isigned to the sea. Close by the rocks I like manner.
a little maiden wanders dreamily ; let 1 It would seem in the minds of. many
her beware, for hard by lurks a beauti- Itobe a settled fact that any finw,iivi er
ful merman, ready to lure her with soft pumping well can be tapped or deprived
speeches to his home under the water. lof its supply by boring another' *ell
All is peaceful, sunny, still ; so sweet, , upon some particular side of it. *to
; you would never dream the spirits of ; which side or in what direction that in
the earth, water, and air were so wick- !we are not clearly informed. Ne - ene
ed. as yet has satisfacttlrily ascertain 4 "be'
But hark .! a roar as of thunder' exact bearings of the oil' veins. fjon
breaks from yonder great cavern, lies the Mcllhenny &rm.; in the same IoW
. a dragon huge and terrible, whose fbod ty, there were some nineteen wells.—
is human flesh, and whose lair is ' But few or any of these interfered with
strewn with human bones. For- each other, Finally a well, the On
innately, there is approaching a bold stead, was bored almost in the centre
knight, clad in glittering armor, who of these. The consequence hai been
will speedily put an end to the pranks the stoppage of all the wells, and She
of the scaly monster. Leave the sea- Olmstead, at one time not long ;shin,
shore and walk inland; every flower, flowed 300 barrels of oil per day.
every leaf, is peopled with tiny people, I On. the other hand, upon the Blood
such as haunted the immemorial wood farm a well has been bored adjoiaiag
near Athens, where love-sick Titania the Duncan well in such close proximity
lisped languidly in the ass's ears of Bul- I that the bottom of the derricks touch
ly Bottom. Climb this little eminence, each other—in fact the two wells ire
and you will ere longfind yourself not twelve feet distant. The new well
among new faces. Wh o are these that has not only failed to get say amides
come dancing dcwn so wildly with ble quantity of oil, but has not succeed
robes that flash white in the wind, and ed in tapping the Duncan, though it has
feet that scarcely brush the dew from been sunk several feet deeper. The
the tips of the flowers ? They are the owners of the Duncan will feel rejoestl,
elf girls, or maids of the mountain—ter- no doubt, at this contradiction ofibe
rible in the eyes of little children, and accepted theory. In the - awe of the
fascinating to the wanderer who halts Phillips and Woodford wells, when
too lazily upon his way. And what, hiith are tubed, the Phillips *ell rims
you ask, is this wondrous region in pure oil, while the oil from the iltrixa.
which yon have thus been wandering ? I ford is rily, or mixed with about lesity
It is the land of Danish romance, and is per cent. of water. These two, .ells
w
jest what Oehlenschlager, Anderssen and are located only a few yards ri t in
the rest have made it." an almost direct line. A great my
- - - other astonising facts could be hien&
up to prove how utterly uselesaiiiiito
theorize upon a matter which only Atie
great Chemist of the Universe knpsre
the causes and effects.—Exclian.qa.
A Fashionable Parlor.
How many people do we call on NM
year to year, and know no more °Miele
feelings, habits, tastes, family, ii 19.40
ways, than if they lived in liainsehtthf
And why? Because the room
they call a front parlor is ined&express..
ly so you shall not know. They Ala
a back room—work, talk, feed, perhege.
After the servant has let you in ,
opened a crack in the shutters. apd
while you sit waiting for them to change
their dress and come in, you , speenhae
as to what they may be doing. Emma
distant region the laugh of a chili, die
song of a canary bird, and then a deer
clasps hastily to. Do they love platiint
Do they write letters, sew, embroiralk,
crochet? Do they ever romp and fie*/
What books do they read' Do they
sketch or paint? Of all these, possiiigi
ties, a mute and muffled room Sayii
nos
ing. . _
Strength and Sagacity of the Ele
phant.
31. Phillipe, an Eastern traveler, re
lates that one day he went to the river
at Goa, a Portuguese settlement in In
dia, and in a dock near to the river-side
a large ship was building. He saw a
plot of - ground' near, covered with heavy
beams ready to-be used for this purpose.
lie watched, and saw the men fasten
the ends of a beam with a rope of great
strength and thickness ; this rope was
carried to an elephant employed to as
sist the workmen. The animal convey
ed the rope to his mouth, and after
twisting it round his trunk, • h" drew
the beam without any conductor to the
place where the ship was building.—
Other elephants were brought to assist
in the work, and some of them were.
able to drag beams so large that twen
ty men were unable to move them.—
But what surprised the traveler most
was, not the amazing strength of the
animal, but its sagacity ; for when oth
er beams obstructed. the road, the ele
phant would raise the end of his own
beam, that it might slide easily over
those which lay in his way. M. Tor
een, another traveler, tells us that he
also had the opportunity of nothing the
sagacity of an elephant. Its master
had let out the animal for a certain sum
per day, and its employment was to
carry with its trunk timber for a build
ing from the bank of a river. This
business it carried on very cleverly un
der the guidance of a boy, and the sa
gacious animal laid the pieces of timber
one upon another in such exact order
that no men in the timber-yard could
have done the work better.
The Daily Union, published at Vir
ginia, Nevada Terribory, says that the
remains of an Indian were found in an
immense salt field near Sand Springs,
about eighty miles from that city, com
pletely embedded in rock salt, four
feet below the surface. The body was
in a complete state of preservation, and
from appearances had lain in that posi
tion for many years, perhaps for ages.
The flesh was perfectly dry like that of
a mummy, and it was evident that it
had been staturated with brine, which
prevented its decay. The Indian was
about the usual size , and resembled the
Piatea ,that now inhabit: the same local
ity. Part of a bear skin and a bone
were found near by, and a few yards
44 4,,
.1 . , . a pair of elk horns of enormous
• . disintemd. The supposition
~ ~,* entire salt bed was once a
• „, naked ilha bad' been
, v. -8-w . - aelbsee in the *a
apae ibiktwed by. *be
'et.
*laud *the hot
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NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO._ a
Preserved in Salt.
A sofa, six chairs, two ottomans,
from the upholster's, a brass* carpet, a
centre table, with four gilt books of
beauty on it, a mantel clock from ritria,
two bronze vases—all these tell you dtdy
in frigid tones. "This is the best wee;•'
—only that and nothing more; and.soon
she trips in, in her best clothes, and
apologizes for keeping you waiting, .1*
you how your mother is, and you
mark that it is a pleasant day, and thtti
the acquaintance progresses from year* ,
year. One hour in the little back Moan
where the plants and Canary birds and
children are, might have made you felt
friends for life ; but as it is, you care no
more for them than the gilt clock on t i ts)
mantel.—H. B. Stowe.
Hard Times Ahead in Eu
The latest correspondence from
don, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and SC P 4.
tersburg, indicates that a severe financi
al storm was about to burst in BROW
and France, and sweep over the other
countries of the Old World: The ow
ernments of Turkey and Spain are rep
resented as being already bankrupt 7
that of Turkey particularly. This mow
revulsion, it was thought, would legit,
many important political changes, mud
terminate in a general war, which numill,
in ite tarn, annihilate the insolve4mr
ernments and obliteratithe mailer Stat.
royalties. It is said that the
visit of th
and coi
lave %ten
*reuse to
and *et
areeidly
be duly couei4
Asstia Iva