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OMNI. ,AN
niortilautratti.
From an address recently delivered
before the Grand Lodge of lowa by
Rev. Bro. I. K. Fuller, Grand Orator,
we take the following answer to the
foregoing question :
"Latitude and longitude on the
earth's sell face arc measured by degrees,
minutes and seconds, and the smaller
divisions, the minutes and seconds, are
esteemed to be equally important with
the deeTees. and nbsolekei, ean.,reilei
ble to the perfection of measurement.
So that he, who, placing undue empha
sis on the degrees, is unmindful of the
minutes, will be regarded as unskillful
and defective in his calculus And so,
brethren, in competing our Masonic
latitude and longitude it is to be feared
to great strees has been laid upon the
degrees as such, while too little irayor
tance has been attached to the minutes
awl seconds, or ‘vhat Masonry enjoins
upon us between the degrees. It is to
this detectioa, this ernninal want of at
tention to what have been falsely called
the little things of Mvonry, that such
false estimates have been made as to
the character of our institution, and
that profanes have sometimes a till "Ma
sons are no better than other people,"
whereas Masons should so exemplify
their principles in their lives as to cote:
strain others to desire admission to our
rights, lights and benefits. Bat I hasten
to the consideratioe, who is a Master
Mason ? I hear a brother say, he is
one who is regularly initiated, passed
and raised according to the due and au
cient form. But does this really make
a Ma-ter Mason I I answer unhesitat
ingly, No. Masonry, as you are aware,
is a great moral science, and in strict
ness he only is a Master Mason who has
secceeded in meste• ieg the whole sub
ject i n Ali its parts, whether speee!eteee,
perceptive or practical. He who has
simply gi.aduated in the third degree
of RISC/Dry has only entered the vesti
bule of our glorious old temple, having
not yet penetrated tar enough to be
come familiar with its sublime myster
ies. It to live in a Christian country,
to profess the Chri- tine religion and
join a church necessarily make a man a
Christian, then to have taken the third
degree of Masonry makes a man a gen
uine Mason ; but tl_e premise being
false the conclusion is of c nurse untrue ;
still further, a person may take upon
himself the solemn obligations of Chris
tianity, and still have done nothing
more than "stolen the livery of Heaven
to serve the devil in." So if you were
to ask a brother what makes him a Ma
son, and he were to answer, my obliga
tion, he would have but half answered
your question, because his obligation
only makes him a Mason nominally,
not (re facto, It is the working out that
obligation into the life that makes him
ach in reality, it is profession and prac
tice, married faith and works as cause
and effect, that illustrate Masonry. In
a word, then, a Masher Mason is one
whose heart is always in the right place,
always palpitating at the sight of human
woe, whose conscieuce is tremblingly
sensitive, and true to its trust as the
needle to the magnet, who comes up
out of the dust anu toil, the complica
tions and antagonisms of daily life, un
sullied with his soul perpendicular to
the zenith. lie is a man whose hand
is never lifted up in violation of God's
law as expressed in the decalogue, but
who is always ready to mingle his un
affected tears with the suffering sons
and daughters of mortality. Such is
my ideal of a Master Mason, an ideal
which I am glad to know has many
illustrious exemplifications in the cata
logue of American Masons,
J a. PiTCIIJIC
JOH:1, PHI LAN
During the damp and cold season
deficient dress of the feet and legs is
a fruitful source of disease. The head,.
throat, and liver are perhaps the most
frequent sufferers.
The legs and feet are far from the
central part of the body. They are not
in a great mass, like the trunk, but
extended and enveloped by the atmos
phere. Besides, they are near the
damp, cold earth.
For these and other reasons they re
quire extra covering. If we would se
cure the highest physiological conditions,
we must give our extremities more
dress than the body. We men wear
upon our legs, in the coldest season,
but two thicknesses of (loth. The body
has at least six. Women put on four
thicknesses under the shawl, which
with its various doublings, furnishes
several more—then over all, thick, pad
ded furs; while their legs have one
thickness of cotton under a baloon.—
They constantly come to me about
their headache, prlpitation of the heart,
and congestion of the liver. Yesterday
one said to me "All my blood is in my
head and chest. My head goes burnpa
ty-bump; my heart goes bumpety
bump." I asked, "How are your feet?"
"Chunks of ice," she replied. I said to
her, "Ii you so dress your legs and feet
that the blood can't get down into them,
where can it go ? It can't go out visit
ing. It must stay in the system some
where. Ot course, the chest . and head
must have an excessive quantity. So
they go 'humpety-bump,' and so they
must go, until you dress your legs and
feat in such a way that they shall get
tb.ir share of blood, In the coldest
Who is a Master Mason
Talk About Health,
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, Pk, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1865.
seasons of the year I leave Boston fu• I "What you give for that wifey of yours?"
a bit of a tour befbre the lyceums—go- "Oh," replied the husband, laughing at
ing as far as Philadelphia, and riding the singular error of his visitor, two
much in the night without an overcoat thousand dollars." This our merchant
but I give my legs two or three times thought, would appear to the China
their usual dress. During the coldest man a rather high rigure, but he was
weather, men may wear in addition to mistaken. "Well," said the mandarin,
their usual drawers, a pair of chamois- taking out his purse with an air of busi
skin drawers with great advantage.— ness, ";pose you give her to me, I give
When we ride in a sleigh, or in the cars, ' five thousand doll , ." It was difficult
where do we suffer? In our legs, of to say whether the sung merchant was
course. Give me warm legs and feet, most amazed or am ed; but the orate
end 11l hardly thank you for an over- air of the Chinaman v i tiwAk i typiat
coat.
throat,-l-. •
, to refuse e offer, with as
much placidity as he could assume.—
( so e 're ills`l ore,
heart, congestion of the liver, or indi- The mandarin, however, continued
gestion Wear one, two, or three pressing, and went as high as seven
pairs of warm woolen stockings, and thousand dollars. The merchant, who
thick warm shoes, with more or less had no previous notions to the commod
reduction in the amount of dress about ity which he had taken out with him,
your body, and you will obtain the was compelled at length to declare that
same relief permanently that you derive Englishmen never sold their wives after
temporally from a warm foot bath." they once came in possession of them—
I must not forget to say that a thin an assertion which the Chinaman was
layer of India-rubber cemented upon slow to believe. The merchant after
the boot-sele will do much to keep the ward had a hearty laugh with his spouse,
bottom of our feet dry and warm—Dr. ; when he told her that he had discover-
Die L(lt'i6. ed her frill value, as the mandarin had
Death of Mr. Dayton
The Observer has some further par
ticulars from a Paris correspondent of
the death of our late Minister to France,
Hon. AV. L. Dayton, which we quote:
On the evening of Dec. 1, Mr Day
ton, being, as we supposed at the time,
in his usual comforthle state of health,
rode to the Hotel de Lot.vre, to call upon
an American gentleman. While wait
ing for his friend to conic in, he was
seized with a disturbing pain in his
head. As it rapidly increased, he asked
to be shown to the apartments of a lady,
a friend and countrywoman. who had
before relieved him of a former similar
attack, by appropriate restoratives.—
On reaching her room, he sank on the so
ffit fainted. Ills friend applied the
eune remedies asbetbre,and in a few mo
ments he recovered his consciousness,
and conversed freely and cheerfully on
the Presidential election mid other top
ics, and seemed in excellent spirits.—
Presently, however, lie fainted a second
time. Yet on a renewal of the previ
ous treatment, he rallied again, and re
sinned the cunversation without appa
rent apprehension of danger. Bat this
was the last rational interval, and these
his final words on earth: In a few mo
ments he sallied back on the sofa and
fell into a loud, stentorions breathing,
which his friend mistook for sleep. Un
der this impression, she covered him up
and withdrew, to allow him uninterrup
ted repose. Alas, it proved to be a re
pose which nothing but the trump of
the resurrection will ever disturb. Af
ter the lapse of twenty minutes, the
lady returned, and found, to her great
alarm, that his hands were cold. She
presented a mirror to his mouth, but it
caught no signs of breath, and the start
ling truth flashed on her mind, that Mr.
Dayton had been dead nearly half au
hour. It appears that a physician had
been sent for soon after Mr. Dayton
entered her room, but unfortunately no
one answered the summons until nearly
two hours after his decease. Such were
the singular circumstances under which
this eminent ambassador and excellent
man came to his end.
Word was quickly sent to the family
residence that Mr. Dayton was sick at
the hotel and milder the care of a physi
cian. The ladies were spending the
evening with friends in the neighb - whood
and the yonger son alone was r.t home,
who immediately hastened to the hotel.
He was soon followed by his brother
William, private secretary to Mr. Day
ton, who came home directly after, only
to hear from the servant of his father's
illness. Scarcely had he left when Mrs.
Dayton and her daughter returned to
Fear the same vague, startling intelli
gence. And with this appalling an
nouncemen‘ they had to wait alone in
agonizing suspense, until 2 o'clock in
the morning! Then suspense gave way
to awful certainty: for then the lifeless
form of husband and father was brought
back by the bereaved sons to the deso
late mansion. The delay was occasion
ed by municipal regulations, which
the police were disposed to enforce as
in ordinary cases, but which were final
ly overruled.
On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 3, pri
vete funeral services were held at the
Embassy for the benefit of the afflicted
family and a few personal friends, con
ducted by Rev. Drs. Sunderland and
Cleveland. After these solemnities, the
embamed remains were removed to a
room, provided for such purposes, in
the American chapel.
A Valuable Wife
The degrading position of a woman
in China is well known. Nothing so
much astonishes a Chinaman, who visits
European and American merchants at
Hong Kong, as the deference which is
paid to the ladies, and the position
which they occupy in society. The ser
vants even express their disgust to see
ladies take their seats at the same table
with gentlemen, wondering how men
could so far forget their dignity. A
few years ago a young English mer
chant was accompanied by his youthful
bride to Hong Kong, where the couple
were visited by a wealthy mandarin.—
The latter regarded the lady attentively,
and seemed to dwell with delight on
her movements. When she at length
left the room, the mandarin said to the
kinsinuid in his iinperfect English.—
offered seven thousand dollars fOr her,
Physiognomy of the• Fox.
The fox's cranium may be styled a
model skull; the forehead horizontal,
with skin tightly drawn over it, craft
itself seems to lurk in its very smooth
ness. Look at his ear! sharply pointed
at its extremity and projecting from the
base, so as to catch every passing sound.
It seems made for obtaining the faintest
trace of the booty slumbering in the
trees above; nothing, depend upon it,
escapes him; the trembling of a leef,
the slightest noise, even the quiver of
the sleeping bird, all fail into the des
tined auricle. Then the nose! What
grace and malice! llow much e.Trit lies
in this -supple, fine, stretched out, long
point! It is such a nose as likely the
Talleyrands, and Martin
Van But ens have had. A statesman of
the last tame was called, in honor, by
the Indians, "The little Fox." If we
forget the eyes, however the face is noth
ing, and in the Fox's you recognize the
mighty animal of prey. Its color plays
between green and gray, lying askance,
half hidden in the avity, and during
the day, drawn together in a mere per
pendicular chinek. It has not the gay,
green wood freshness of the roe, nor the
rolling sparkling which beautifies the
gaze of the cat; still there lies in it far
more significance. Now, an innocent
smile plays about the lids; and then, a
keeen look darts fourth, concealing a
world of passion and of craft; and the
fox is the most accomplished actor the
the family of animals has to show.
The rest of his countenance, mil the
body, harmonize with this picture. The
mouth stretches wile, a spare beard is
ranged around the upper lip, in long,
receding points, like the pattern of
EOM?, Broadway exquisite or successful
shoddyite. If his lips move apart they
exhibit his sharp white teeth, which
glisten fiercely at times, gnashing with
rage, while a hoarse cough-like, snap
pish bark is
,heard. This the French
call /owe de rmard, the fox cough ; and
"has he had the fox cough ?" has there
become proverbial, and is the same as
"lie is on his last legs." Swift feet,
almost trackless, carry his hanging body
over the ground. On his breast he
wears a delicately white chemisette, and
his hair or fur shines red and golden or
fiery colored
Belgium.
The little kingdom of Belgium, hedg
ed in by powerful neighbors, and known
of all men as "the battle ground of Eu
rope," presents a pleasing spec,acle.—
The most densely populated country in
Europe, it is peaceful, industrious and
free. With a spirited and intelligent pop
ulation,it is very great, the and doctrines
of imperialism have produced no marked
effect upon it. Its soil, originally un
favorable, by generations of careful cul
ture, has been raised to greet productive
nes.g, and its agriculture is not surpassed
by that of any nation. Its manufactures
have long enjoyed the highest reputa
tion, and have contributed, and still con
tribute, largely to its prosperity. In
commercial pursuits it is famous. It is
accepting frankly the doctrines of free
trade, and, by the opening of the Scheldt,
indicates a preparation for increased com
mercial intercourse 'with other nations.
Its foreign commerce is large and grow
ing. It is much occupied in carrying
out judicious plans of internal improve
ment, by the aid of which to increase the
national prosperity. Its revenue is in
creasing through the progress in wealth,
and its taxation' is simultaneously dimin
ishing. It is free from the enormous
lot.l of debt which weighs upon the in
dustry of Holland, and is comparatively
free from the trammels on energy and
enterprise which a huge national debt
imposes. Its constitution a limited mon
archy, its press is free, its laws are duly
administered by properly constituted
courts, its citizens enjoy the full right
of trial by jury, and all are equal in
the eye of the law. Its legitimate
body consists of a Senate and House of
Representatives. The elective fran
chise is vested in citizens paying not
less than forty-two francs annually of
direct taxes, and citizenship is the sole
qualification for the Representatilies.
The Senatorial qualifiation
ship, doniiciliation, fcirty yeitrs of age,
and payment of a certain &Mount of di
rect taxes annually. Bach Homo of
the Legislative body may organize laws,
but there is the excellent provision that
money bills must originate with the
Representatives. Religion is free,
while the Roman Catholic is predomi
nant, and education is well provided
for. In literature, science, and art,
Belgium can boast of many names,
which attest the intellectual activity of
the country. Belgium presents a fine
example that prosperity attends upon
freedom.
— v - ro - ikeasers Epitaph.
Many years ago there lived an old In
dian, woo had become quite a poet,
having written some little pieces that
attracted attention. He had becu edu
cated in one of the New England col
leges, but subsequently partially relaps
ed into his former barbarious vices. In
latter life he travelled through the coun
try, paying for his provisions and his
whiskey by the exercise of his poetical
talent. During one year of his tour he
put up with a man by the name of Kea
gel, who had long wished for an oppor
tunity to get the old fellow to write his
epitaph. Accordingly a bargain was
struck. The Indian with all the wari
ness of his tribe, stipulated that after he
got his supper he should give one half
the epitaph, and the react after he got
his breakfast in the morning. Accord
ingly, after supper, he repeated the first
instalment, which read thus:
"There was a man who died of late,
For whom angels did impatient wait.
With outstretched arms . and wings of love,
To waft him to the realms above."
Old Keasel was in ecstasies. He could
think of nothing but his epitaph. He
was almost willing to die for the sake of
having such beautiful verses inscribed on
his tomb. All night his visions were of
the angelic being who was destined to
carry him to the regions of eternal feli
city. I❑ the morning he called in his
neighbors to hear his beautiful epitaph,
but the poet proceeded to get ready fur
starting, apparently having forgotten all
about his promise. lie was about
mounting his pony, when reminded of it.
After a little reflection he signified his
ability to finish his task; but, as the
friends of his host had not heard the fira,
part; he said he would repeat it as a pre
liminary to the last:
"There was a man who died of late,
For whom angels did impatient wait,
With outstretched arms and wings of love,
To watt him to the realms above;
But while disputing 'bout the prize--
&ill hovering round the lower skies—
In slipped old Satan like a weasel,
And down below he kicked poor Reasel!"
As he finished he lett, and old Keasel
after him; but the race was unequal, and
the poet escaped.
le- Take it for all, no bird in either
hemisphere equals the English lark in
heart or voice ; for both unite to make
it the sweetest, happiest, the welcomest
singer that was winged, like the high
angels of God's love. It is the living
ecstacy of joy when it mounts upon its
"glorious privacy of light." On earth
it is timid, silent and bashful, as if not
at home, and not sure of its right to be
there at all. It is rather homely withal,
having nothing in feather, future, or
form, to attract notice. It is seemingly
made to be heard, not seen—reversing
the old axiom addresed to children when
getting voicy. Its mission is music,
and it floods a thousand acres of the
blue sky with it several times a day.
Out of that palpitating speck of living
joy there wells forth a sea of twittering
eestacy upon the morning and evening
air. It does not ascend by gyrations
like the eagle or birds of prey. It
mounts up like a human aspiration. It
seems to spread out its wings and to be
lifted straight upward out of sight by
the afflatus of its own happy heart. To
pour out this in undulating rivulets of
rhapsody is apparently the only motive
of its acsension. This it is that has
made it so loved of all generations. It
is the singing angel of man's nearest
heaven,. whose vital breath is music.
Its sweet warbling is only the metrical
palpitation of its life of joy. It goes
up over the roof-trees of the rural ham
let, on the wings of its song, as if to
train the human soul to trial-flights
heavenward. Never did the Creator
put a voice of such volume into so
small a living thing. It is a marvel,
almost a miracle. In a still hour, you
can hear it nearly a mile's distance.
When its forms is lost in the hazy lace
work of the sun's rays above, it pours
down upon you all the thrilling semi
tones of its song as distinctly as if it
were warbling to you in your window.
—Elihu Burritt.
Everybody's Duty.
People, there are who have money
on hand, and yet they will not pay little
debts. Times are doubtful, and they
may want their hoard for a day of want
and scarcity. Let us tell them that if
such a day come, it will be their own
bringing. By paying small debts ) mo
ney is kept moving in a lively way, do
ing good all around; confidence is kept
in good health, and enterprise is stimu
lated. Any man who is a than Ought
to feel this, and do his dtity in the
premises at once. You owe a debt, per
haps long since due-4hr tour newspa
per or a job; pay it to-day like a man
with an upright soul. Year groCer,
your Alegoakeir, joint teikor, your wash-
ervtoman, has a 1)11 against you. Li
quidate it before the sun sets, and keep
a good conscience. Go, do some good
thing, even though its merit is so small
as the payment of a debt. If you wish
your country well, do it; if you wish
yourself well, do it quickly. Go.
Cheerfulness.
Tonics, stimulatives, medicines ! -
TIIP.I • P a oneermi tem
per ! DJ not fancy yourself a victim !
Do not go through the world with a
face half a yard long ! Do not per
suade yourself that everything happens
wrong ! My dear friend, you are the
only person that is wrong, when you
say this is a world of trial and trouble !
It is a great deal better to be without
an arm, or leg, than to lack cheerful
ness. What if the globe does not roll
round in the precise direction yon want
it ! Make the best of it. Put a pleas
ant face on the matter, and do not go
about throwing c Id water on the fire
sides of all the rest of mankind. If you
are in want of an example, look at the
birds, or the flowers, or the very sun
shine on the grass ! Show us our
grumbler in all natures wide domains!
The man who is habitually cheerful has
found the true philosopher's stone ;
there is no cloud so dark but he sees
the blue sky beyond—no trouble so ca
lamitous, but he finds some blessing left
to thank Providence for. He may be
poor and destitute, but he walks clad in
armor that all the mines of Golconada
cannot purchase. Snow and rain can
not penetrate it—scorn and contumely
fall haimless from its surface. The
storm that sinks a less courageous craft
ean only compel him to trim his sails
and try again. Who would be a mere
themometer to rise and fall in spirit
with every change of life's atmosphere
Whenever we see a man sighing and
despondent about anything and every
thing, we know it is the mental health
that it is out of "gear." Cheerfulness
is all he wants. No matter how thick
and fast vexations may come, there is
nothing like a bright little ray of the
soul's sunshine to dispose them. Coun
ted in dollars and cents, your wealth
may be but a paltry sum, but if you
have a cheerful temper you are rich.
Beautiful Anecdote of a Great Man.
UPON KEEPING ONES WORD
Sir William Napier wag one day tak
ing a long country wa'k, near Freshford
when be met a little girl of five years ed,
sobbing over a broken bowl; she had
dropped and broken it in bringing it
back from the field to which she had ta
ken her father's dinner in it, and she
said she would be beaton on her return
home for having broken it; then, with a
sudden gleam of hope, she innocently
looked up int( his face and said: "Bat
ye can mend it, can't ye?" Sir William
explained that he could not meud the
bowl, but the trouble he could, by the
gift of a sixpence to buy another. How
ever, on opening his purse it was empty
of silver, and he had to make amends
by promising to meet his little friend in
the same spot at the same hoar next day,
and to bring the sixpence with him, bid
ding her, meanwhie, tell her mother
that she had seen a gentleman who
would bring her the money for the bowl
next day. The child, entirely trusting
him, went on her way comforted. On
his return home he found an invitation
awaiting him to dine in Bath the follow
ing evening, to meet some one he spe
cially wished to see. lie hesitated for
some little time, trying to calculate the
possibility of giving the meeting to his
little friend of the broken bowl and of
still being in time for the dinner party in
Bath; but finding this could not be, he
wrote to decline accepting the invitation
on the plea of a "pre-engagement," say
ing to us, "I cannot disappoint her, she
trusted me so implicitly."—Bruce's Life
of Gen. Sir 'Maim Napier.
How Mrs. Lincoln was Dressed.
Our lady readers will be interested in
knowing how Mrs. Lincoln was dress
ed upon the occasion of. the New Year's
reception at Washington. Here is
what the correspondent of the Philadel
phia Inquirer says on the subject :
Half the people here were out to-day
making calls. The leading fequre of
the occasion was the reception of Mr.
and Mrs. Lincoln, which was attended
by at least five thousand persons. Mr.
Lincoln was dressed in a plain suit of
black, with white kid gloves. Mrs.
Lincoln stood near him, and charmed
the visitors with her queenly grace and
dignity. She was tastefully dressed in
heavy purple crocade silk, very richly
trimmed with black velvet, an exquis
itely fine black lace shawl, gloves, head
dress, with jewelry to correspond
They took a position in the blue rooms
Messrs. Nicolay and Hay on Mr. Lin
coln's, right. At twelve o'clock the
doors were thrown open and the For
eign Ministers were ushered in.—
Among the first to wish a Happy New
Year was Senor Lisboa, Minister Ple
nipotentiary from Brazil, 4ccortrpanied
by his suite. • All the other Foreign Min
isters were prompt in their attendance
in full court uniform.
uAs the good *an with, so say
we ; but as the goo'd woman Nab,
it must be.
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 31.
By the last American mail we receiv
ed a letter which is remarkable both as a
documentary curiosity and a specimen
of manufacturing skill. It is written on
iron rolled so thin that the sheet is only
twice the weight of a similar sized sheet
of ordinary note paper. One letter is
eight inches long by five and a quarter
broad, and its went, is +--
gamut, dillaly note pa
per of the same size is one pentiy-iteight
and eleven grain's. The letter itself sir
plains why we received it. It is dated
"South Pittsburg, (Pennsylvania,) Nov.
6th, 1864." and it runs: "Tether edifek
of the Buretingham Journal; Sir: In th 4
number of your paper, dated Oct. /4
1864, there is an article setting forth
that John Brown &Co , of the Atha
Works, Sheffield, had succeeded in rat
ify" a plate of iron thirteen and a half in
dies thick. I believe that to be the
thickest ever rolled. I send you this
specimen of iron made at the sligo ria
Works, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, as tits
thinnest iron ever rolled in the world,
up to this time, which iron I ohathmire
all England to surpass for strength sesd
tenuity. This, I believe, will be the
first iron letter that crossed the Atlantic
Ocean, and if you should think it we
thy of notice in your wikely circulated
paper, please send me a copy of tiem:3os
Yours, &c., John C. Evans." We lira
assured by competent authority that de
iron on which this letter is written is Of
exceedingly fine quality, and that Sea
sheet is by far the thinnest ever soon In
this country. Some remarkable spOf
mens of finely rolled iron were shown in
the Belgian Court in the Exhibition tif
1862, but the thinnest of them was
much thicker than this. The prodie
tion of such a sheet is indeed hiOly
creditable to the manufacturing sldi. , el
Pittsburg, the Bermingham of Amerios.
—Burmingleion Past.
Judge Tanriel and his Witc
A correspondent of the Gospel Yder ii #
indulges in some pleasant gossip about thi
]ate Chief Justice and his family, which ma
be as new to many of our readers u it wail
to us :
The Chief Justice lived and died a ROM&O
Catholic; his wife a consistent and unyield
ing member of the Protestant Epiaospid
Church. Six daughter blessed the folio;
and, it my memory is not at fault, a ace,
who died in infancy. A groundless rumor
was, for a bug time, and may be still, is
circulation; and generally credited, that as
agreement was entered into by the parents
that the children "should be educated, the
boys in the Roman Catholic; and the gllfi in
the Protestant faith. That the Witham,
with the exception of the one reterred,
were all girls, was considered by those irho
believed the story, a providential indication
of the Almighty, as to the faith in which
they should be educated. The mother was •
Protestant, and in this faith were the• chil
dren reared, but not from any previous
agreement, for no such agreement, as I am
informed upon the best authority, was ever
made. Mrs. Taney was a woman of a noble
and cultivated mind, of deep religious ttOit
victions, and of a truly catholic spirit,
Courted by the influential, the affluent
the fashionable, she cast aside the phittows.
and attractions of the world, that she might
more fully and freely devote her life to the
Saviour. From many an abode of virtuous
poverty in the city of Baltimore the prayer
of gratitude has gone up in her behalf to
heaven. One of the most unselfish woes
have ever known, her life was a beautiful
exemplification, not only of active benevo
lence, but of that spirit of true charity so
admirably depicted by the Apostle Paul.
TRIG LAST CALL FOR Mas.—The Prat•
dent's coil for 300,000 more men swells the
total number called into the army, dads the ,
commencement of the war, to 8,253,1148, as
follows :
Raised in 1861, per report of Sec.
Cameron for three months.
Raised in the same year, as per
same report, for three years: 650,971
Call of July Ist, 1861 (three
years' men). MO°4l
Call of Aug. 4th, 1862, for militia
(nine months' men).
Call for militia of certain Stet*
June 15, 1863, to repel invasion
of Pennsylvania.
Draft of July, 1863 (three years'
men). 1100,000
Number raised since October 7th, .
as per statement of of Senator
Wilson
Call of July 18th, 1864 (one year
men).
Last call, Ded. 19th, 1864
Total
orAn officer down in Georgia tells
the following story:
One night Gen. was oat on the
line, and observed a light on the moun
tain opposite. Thinking it was a signal
light of the enemy, ho remarked to hie
artilery officer that a hole Covild basil
be put through it. Whereirpon the
officer, turning to the cdrporal is charge
of the gun, said:
"Corporal, do yon see that light!"
Yes, sir."
"Put a hole through it," ordered the
captain. The corporal sighted the
and when all was ready he Jed vp
end said:
"Captain, that's the moon."
"Don't care for that," wits fie cap
tain's ready response, "pat it hole
throughit anyhow.'
WHAT IT was Anorr.---lir, hams
being inclined to sleep der* a dull,
prosy sermon, a friend who ,eree witt
him joked him on his hiroiu4. *kidded
HOW end then. Barnes insisted on bin
intlingteen sinks au the thew ft Welk
the/4" said he frierido•ihen rest ten R s
wilt** knew wars . vow ‘.914,
si
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eat" ho aneVered " 1 4 111 and 111
bay liogra
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1100,006
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800,000
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