Terms of gubU Sflijtlon.
WOGA' COTnmiiOXj SWjJlftl
, rer y Wed'nosßay ilornjng, and
,t the very feisonable.pike of '■ ' '/- - ’ -' '
- ONl| DOLLAR PER : -
innarieily in Advance. Xt is into ld|fll to notify every
mbseriber the term' forsrh Wjhehas paid shielf
expired, by the figures on thV pWntedlabeionthe
igifgia of each paper. The paper eyH then be stopped
etjrtl a farther remittance be By this ar-
T ln»«ineat n>, man can be brod jijt in debt to the
pThter. ; jS‘
d. Tea iVthe,.Official P iger'of the'Connty,.
(fTu a l|(|e ahdfteadily incteasii gcircalation reacb
afca to in th' ■ 4*onty. Itis sent
fttt o f po ilajii teeny subscriber jifiMn the county
. ifKHi, haßwhose iboil^conTonjet viost ofijcsmaybe
, Ittjm adHninJ; , j. ; p
*'Pa«ineßCafds» pfft’fttceedina,' .lines, paper inolu
•'
. S. i I,|wtJLSOW,
a? TtSnHYS S COUNSELL AT LAW, will
TJI Thaga, *>mor and McKean
£^pties?[WfeUfcboro’,s*eb.^,lSi
Sx ift dKISSOS , f»IISE
bOBH T N" o,' - ,i'3T; ,
to. A, F iEtD,‘. . . .-. ,;» . . • Proprietor.
QnaatnjSjteii to and from the Del jtNTree of charge.
C? : *• EfflUßi U
A,TT(®Nt? Ato CODNSBtM)R ; AT LAW
32. Tioga Co. F Pa. *&ViIT demote his
liipe • xcjtfsively. to,the IW. Collections
a*dc inStPTrOf Northern-CQ jwiaa of PenniyU
Sr f ' ! ' n0v21,60
w
AN 1 A-;- *| OUSE.
4vr» sr tfailain Nlrtrt and ffije Acer vJjk.iV' tllitboro, Pa.
r>. W. BI6ONT, PROPi PgTOE.
pepni ar Hotel, haring beei and re
fSjnisbefPthroogtoat, ia mow; open thSthe public ai a
Sri't-elaaSbonse.. ' jl^
■3 -#
laglAK WAItOU HOUSE,
C. V ERMIL YEA,? PR ffiSIETOB.
f -
Hl9® » new hotel located wif ip.) »w access o
the tfhat 4»hing and hunting# in Northern
JRleasW sebkers and the travelii {Tublie.
££priNß. 1960. ■ •i| ,
fZ. '<C. CAMPS ■'
BARBER A-JfH- HAIR-. DRESSER.
jjHOP in thi rear of-the Post Offi (Everything in
line will be well a u£j»rompily as it
la be done in the city saloons. Pi ipajtatiops for re
lating dandruff, and beautifying y**"" *
‘hejip. Hair and whiskers dyed an
see. Wellsbofo, Sept. 22, 1859. > J
THE CORNinrG jlOl
George W;
Snblished- aborning, Stefibkn . , -*‘6
?l!ar and Fifty Cents per year,' iiladvance. The
i!TiBn^§oSlioan‘in 'politics,'B ’it|.;ba.v i circula
frienj-eaohinf into every part'of SI itiS&tt County.—
Thoee c^sirona t of extending their into that
eii will find.) a&ezcelleat ad
rertl||Bjg Actress as
•' W£LIi«BORO H iIrEE,
- i * !'- 1 j|i
Wfcfti'-, A - - -•-- |jPROPRIKTOR.
i - »f thi 'United Stai I
• HaTioe lhade'il this well known an 1 Jlpular House.
Jtlinls the'pattonage of the public. .jrt'Ub attentive
»»Aph}t*ing WiVtters, togethef with,
ko.wlejge of the bnsincss, he hopes the stay
«f thostr'whi stop with him bol f%j)l«asant »nd
srrccuble. ; -
TTellsbojOrMny 31, }S$O. . \'j£.
E. jB. BptiT&DtVT,. iflK,
TlTOUlip. inform! the public that l*6‘& pcrmanentl
* VV' located iti Elklaed Boro, Ti gag Uo. Po., an
%i prepared by thirty years* experiem > jlVeataU dis
“dread |>il C S?'Antus’ l f ( Chart
Mat TirtpnajJ wJII-attend to any < I fear business i
tie lihe .f Physic arid Surgery.' ; %;
Blfclnod Boro, August 8, 1860. 1 . .u 4
DIipiSTRV. | .
- .d.-N| r DAM|
WOULD respectfully say to ,tl elrcUizens of
WelUboro and vicinity, that nSjhas opened
hie •£*« eper WBJGHT’S FLQU* , FEED
STsRB,'wbare be will continue to d ' esfl kind* of
in the line of DKnTISTRY.
3O, *1862,
,_CO R N t N ('if;
WROtSSALB BfiUG \tyS \BO MSFORE'.
glass', ■ , ■
■- rt-SiEROSINB OIL, ' %
r ■ - ALCOHOL,; :
,l! ■ ■■ books and s-’Jtiosery,
Sold \>y, • 1 |j’
W. I>. TERBIiLi 4
Coanh'y Merchants supplied, with tl p articles at
NEW YORK PBliSfcS-
Deraiog, Feb. 26, 1862. ; - ■
WAITED! .
Mt THOUSAND BUSHELS >U|EAT I
..ONE THOUSAND BUSHELS c(j;RN! .
ONE THOUAND BUSHELf 1 G>TS !
ONE THOUSAND BUSUiilp RYE!
T*r wbleli w« will pay CASH! ' A , -
WEIGHT, 4
Tl*or bj tbe-pound, aa£lt or lj ; ,
r«ad by the pound or ton,- r J t JL'
Bran in any quantities, t pj;
!k m). «V»p at Wright A BaHsjV' *«.»jpour ami
f**4SkTra. '; , ■ |‘, U 1
' F»rk cheap at pur Store. , ' ; •
delivered FREE'' OF Clf E within
'” -' : - PftßD
7 FASHK®s7
. S. F. QUICK, HATTE R|.
; l»o. t 3» Water Street; f Iniira,
fcwpi, constantly on banjd a,genera\ aseo iingnt of '
FASHION SILK A2U) CASSIMEi TS . .
Ml kinds of Soft Hats and Fit .'3 lor Ladies,
Hatf mkde lo order. Call j£qiir meas-
and then yoa can-have a Hat td fit.yiU. Prices
tnit tbortimes; Quality warranted* v
Almira, March 19, 1862. ; v ’[|t
w —— jj-—'
AMERICAN eotflC|
'■ {fortntrly DeHart'a “ffrj/ttal FoimiaiS’iffioutt.)^
‘‘l . Jt^' **•
. CoRi'KH OjF MaWI . AUD Qtl£E!f
WELLSBOBO, PA. ji .
? BOtCftMAM. ■ . . > ffcipietor.
i’ 1,161 •tUntion paid to the eorofortofgaife. Good
I ‘^ ,a «;' Ch Wg«« reason able. > ■< . '
f A good OMkAHd « hostler wanti a| J
SWtUikoro, Sept. 3,156J.—1/.* !
I ir&wir c AWiiiiicr a.)® , -•'
CLOTH» DBES S t! Or,
nr tub. old foundry}^.
'W Cmm^Pa.
subscriber bating |UUd~np 4he , |ft£9for the
Purpose of Wool CarJfag and Clot I pressing,
wouldntform tbepeople that. take
I *° manufacture on shares or by tbe r 'aicdl;to suit
a t jS llOtr *» and would inform the people jbil: *e can
a *Q.olat'--aiiy time, as out work* m\lp steam
H an< * & lB° thsl all wool wifi .be care w-pbp four
Sm uj l -pound, ■ Wool aod produce will ‘testoken for
H^wiho^a« 9 , . V JJl* „
Wr*” 8
■ - , ' CHARI. IssliEE,
a U, 1862. - =r£", ’■
''Kll
THE
VOL.IX
Ip
'TH® BATTLE AtJTtTHH Q& 1562.
The Sags of war like •tonh*b!fda flyi
The charging trumpets blow;
Yet rolls no thunder in the sky,
Ko earthquake strives below.
And> calm and patient, Kata re keeps
- Hop ancient promise veil,
Though o’er her bloom and greenness sweeps
The battle's breath of bell.
And still she walks.in golden boars
Through harvest happy farms.
And still she wears her fruits and flowers
Like jewels on her arms.
What mean the gladness of the plain,
This joy of eve and mom, •
The mirth that shakes the beard of grain
And yellow locks of com?
Ah I eyes may well be full of tears,
Aud hearts with bate are hot ;
Bat even-paced come round the years.
And Nature changes not.
She meets with smiles om bit,ter grief.
With songs our groans of pain ;
She mocks with tint of flower and leaf
The warvfiald’s crimson stain.
Still, in the cannon's pause, we bear
Her sweet thanksgiving-psalm ;
Too near to God for doubt or fear,
She shares the eternal calm.
She knows the seed lies safe below
The Ores that blast and burn ;
For all tbe tears of blood we soW
Sbo waits tie rich return.
She sees with clearer eye than oars
Tbe good of suffering born—
The hearts that blossom like her flowers
And ripen like her corn.
Oh, give fo us, in times like these,
The vision of her eyes;
And make her fields and fmited trees
Our golden prophecies I
Oh, give to us her finer oar !
Above this stormy din.
We, too, would bear the bells of cheer
5 King peace and freedom In !
—Atlantic Monthly for October.
Looking in the dictionary, I find there wp-
J miin, a noun, barbarously derived, obscurely
defined, and bolstered op by a number of poet
ical quotations* of which lovely woman beads
the list. The dictionary is evidently puzzled ;
and well it be; wiser ones than the dic
tionary have muddled their brains on the sub
ject. ‘ Men don’t dare come oat boldly and say,
“Woman an improper noun, meaning the root
of all mischief,” because they are sure to have
a slip of ib at home. Even 1, old bachelor as 1
am, am outwardly excessively civil to the pref
ty little serpents, remembering that my landla
dy, my laundress, and tny mother all belong to
the objectionable class, but I make 0 private
note ttf my opinions, and intend to run it over
every morning before going down to breakfast,
feeling that I am at present in a situation
where, as human and especially bachelor nature
is weak, I might be tempted to fall away from
my principles.
How on earth it ever happened that I accept
ed Fred Sinclair’s invitation, 1 don’t know.
He is a married mao. and has one of the pret
tiest places on' the Hudson. I might have
known that the house would he full of visitors
in June and July ; but at least I could hardly
be expected to guess that the majority of
visitors would be women—not matrons, with
pinched noses and careful mouths ; not cozy
old grandmothers, or even old maids, but
young women, yonng and shamelessly pretty ;
fire of them, as ]’m a bachelor, and hope to re
main so, and only two of my own persuasion
to keep me in countenance, George and Hal
Guhijer. They say they like it; I wish I did.
Now, I am going to make a confession. I
dislike these lovely torments on principle and
| io the lump; individually, I lan’t help admi
ring them, for my life. We have here, Lou
and Tivia Boraeole, Belle Bayadere, Del Or
gandie, and Lute Pina. I am continually
watching them, and I believe the torments
know it, and put nut a little arched foot, or let
a sleeve fall back from a rounded arm pur
posely to' aggravate me. They will group
themselves together in the prettiest manner;
they will put their blonde and brunette heads
together, and confonnd roe with the glories of
night and morningiside by side. Some one is
perpetually hlushibg or pouting, or letting lohg
eyelashes full over eyes black, blue, or gray ;
or showing me a little round chin, or a pink
‘tipped ear, keeping me thereby in a constant
flutter and tremor ,of admiration. I think I
might write a treatise on the circulation of the
blood, if watching its pulse, and surge, and re
cede, flushing from the pale pink of a shell to
the- bloom of a peach, in fair young cheeks,
could qualify me; or on mantua-making, such
an expert am I becoming in their muslin mys
teries ; their little, collars, their filmy hanker
chiefs, their bows and sashes, their belts and
clasps, their thousand and one roao-trnps that
they have the effrontry to spring on uS under
our vary noses. Fancy a man possessed of a
muslin devil; haunted by ankles and Balmoral
boots, cunning little trimmed pockets and Zou
ave shirts I What miserable frivolity end
waste of time. Bat the lust,, the worst, the.
most unendurable df all these irritants,'is Del
Organdie. - *
Her characteristics I admire-in the abstract,
but consider them ns, combined in her, repre
hensible and pernicious in the highest degree.
She has brown hair of the sort that flames out
here and there with a deep golden tinge, fine,
and softand long; beautiful hair in itself, bat
what right has she to encroach on my time
■with it? It has a basilisk fascination for me.
I watch, perforce, where it comes .in little
ripples on the white shore of her forehead, 1
wonder within myself at the brow, and the
possibility of the smooth kills brushed away
•‘a laTimperafriaf’ then she will never settle
on any particular mode of arranging what wo
men call in their detestable jargSn, their “back
hair. One day it is twined around' in soft
coils ; the next, in wide shining braids and
once it tumbled down; {designedly I know) all
abbot her-shoulders and down to' her elettder
Waist.—Never tell me that it was an accident;
the knew that those golden brown waves would
not let me sleep that night; and she put iiwher
comb loosely, io malice, prepense. She should
3M»ot*fe to tf>e &xtcn*Um ot tf)t Stem- ofof Hr^tt^mVfovm.
WHXXB .THERE BHAT.L BE A WRONG UNRIQHTBD, AND UNTIE ‘‘NJ^ , S c tHfiWMANP?y r Vd MA'N* jMIi J t?EASB, AGITATION MUST CONTINTTE
BT JOEtJf G. WHITTIBB.
A BACHBZiOR’S DIARY.
BT GEORGIANS MOBRISO.'V.
' r y ?A %T&vOO' miT 3HT . -
'^ii^dt;:: Jt - Jt\; •
(--■SI
wEtisßOKo;: troGA couNtt, -f , issi
• 1 , | , > ;j - '1 t f j
have been end fiped-,'.fhp woyJ3.hay*
been, bad. I apything.-to (fd witfi law
Women ought tq be obliged to have
cropped, or,else be condemned fo, solitary .epn
finem'ent- These beautiful, shining,
tresses are nothing on earth but bachelor traps J
but I hold thalknen deserve ait they sflffer,
since the power is in oar own hands, and we
take ao measures for self-defence. / . _;;
Del (I mean Miss.Organdie,. I have a.bad
habit of calling her Del to myself, which ;mgst
be corrected—Del has another, abjectionahle
feature: her eyes. They are,gray,/pf thegqrt
that darken '< almost, into black or melt into
blue. Thera is often a look in them of a.oleap
shining,' tuch as yon see in thewestfiyh sky
after a gentle rain ; she has ato the r look that
I have seen in a child’s eyes, just waked fr(|m
a sweet sleep, before the first smite cyvces'jts
scarlet; the sweet and solemn in of Jin
innocent soul that has Just passed tnrougß'the
gates of a world, barred against our heavier
tread. ' i:
She has a third ; a wicked sparkle,' and mer
ry mhlice that Hike best. Then! can defy
her, and toll her all the spiteful things I think
about her. .
Dark lashes shade these reprehensible eypi 1 j
long and sweeping out on the white cheek' in;a
way that doubtless she thinks pretty ;/blMk
brows arch above them, making her ufidti fore
head all tbe whiter; .no doubt She considers
herself a belle. ' . ' t
She has 'small hands white with taperfin'gen;
the nails round and rosy like lhtle'bits : hf pink
shell. I wish she would wear' gloves, or keep
them out of sight, for so am I annoyed by
them that I feel a constant temptation to cover
them with my own. Bachelor trips ofr tfie
most dangerous kind are they ; they are sure
to be busy with a crochet-needle,,-,or brought
out in relief on the dark cover of abook, or
folded like nestling doves in her lap ;‘ a nuis
ance and a snare I consider them.. She has a
little foot besides, arched and high, and she
wears delicate little boots, and heeled-slippers,
half buried in rosette. Worse than all, she
lifts her dress when walking in the garden., or
promenades tbe piazza in a gale, .or clambers
up and down places in tended-only-for gpaM,
and shows them. ' : ,
There she is now. I can see her {com my
window, going up and down the piauia under
that jaunty little bat with its i long feather,
humming to herself, and choking her. boot
heels to mark the time. Restless’thing;;- she
is like a .bird or bee on the wing; she has.gods
into the garden. Why, on earth,- can't .she
walk? She goes with a run and whirf'of’. her
sweeping dress treading lightly, »s if she weht
on springs. She has picked a rose, two tjf
them: wasteful creature 1 See, she. U consid
ering where to put them, in her hair, on her
bosom, or in her belt. The belt carries the
day; there are the roses against her heart.
IVhat utter frivolity arid vanity 1 arid'howipdr
nicious in its ejects! I promised! to read op iln
law while I- was■ here, but Chitty -knotra-beit
how many of-his pages 1 have .turned since J
have been here. How could I-i Study de
mands calm and serenity of mind. lam con
tinually annoyed. There she goes;.she has ta
ken the path to the -river! lam going to
smoke a cigar, and tranquiliee my nerves.
This room is intolerable.
Really, this is a most unclmritable, vyorld.
Vivia Baracole ant) Lute Pina. But stop ; let
me think how it all was.
I went to smoke in t(ie grounds, of course,
I don’t consider it polite to smoke in the rooms, -
or in the piazza, where there are ladies, Think
ing and smoking, I strolled along; ; not noti
cing the path I took I found myself on . the
shore. She sit there—l couldn’t do less than
speak, after nearly stepping on her. She made
room for me on the bench—seemed to expect
me to take a seat beside her ; but she was’in
no hurry to talk. She was looking out; ovier
the water, with the solemn child-look thatdj
bare mentioned.! I could smoke my cigar apd
watch the flickering of her lashes, the ebb of
faint color in her cheek, the rise and fall of
the laee on her white neck, the unconscious
movements of her little grasping fingers, holii
ing idly two or three roses. . When she did
speak, she proposed a walk to some miserable
waterfall, that can’t flow along like a decent,
well-conducted brook, but conies plunging
down a hill, tearing out a bed for itself, and
leaving just the narrowest ledge for a path. I
couldn't in Common politeness refuse to go,
and of course I offered to help her up the ledge.
Her hand rested in mine; and snob a little,
warm, white, and rosy clinging.thing it was.—
When we reached the top she was out of breath,
and we eat down j the pines that shade it made
of itlu cool, temple-like place; the water did
look pretty, foaming over the tucks; hot - still
that don’t quite account for the way in which
I enjoyed it. , I like Nature well enpugb, but
1 am not fanatical about her ; we sat oo a little
very damp earth, and a ‘great deal pf. stops;
there-was a toad—-to which I have an aversion
—hopping about ina way-suggestive of land
ing in my lap; I took two worms off mj arrp,
and a spider from Miss Organdie’s shoulder;
as for the conversation, here it is; “Ab!l
am so tired.” \\
"Yes. The walk is steep.” 1
“ I believe I have cut my slipper”'—half
showing tbe nonsensical little thing that she
cells by that name.
” You should bave worn your Bnlmorpl
boota. You girls are always so improdent.-r-
We should die from one half .as much expo
sure.”
■’ Oh ! but I didn't think of gomiog hers I” ■
Pause—Del looking off at nothing in .partic
ular ; I. at—but that is nobody’s, business, and
I don’t beliefs in so many details. Another
conversational ripple.
“ How peaceful it is 1”
“ Yes.”
. That was all; but the ten minutes spent
there were the moat delicious of .ray life. Then
we went home. Vivia Baracole and Lute
were on the piazza and saw us come. Del sank
down on a seat with a sigh. . • di
“ Have you been far T" Lute, _sym pa
thisingly.
■ ■“ Only to the fall,”
The girls exchanged looks,- ' i >. v- - ; :
“ you have two hours!” )
' i . .7
■T k
i as
■ sd‘
■~U_
wete;Dnly. there ten,,minutes.'„ 'Were, we. not,
. Wayhe’P' 4 ‘' • " ' .
‘'Pbat WiS all, b’y'foy Watch.
° ' 4 ‘ Ifor bliss an<f ¥rlili‘ftafch«S bSrfc tMpcWsrj''
i.i bewv'’,j o . r _,„;; ,
fatt .Yiva*ilviJ4 tm tea»thnMo-Pfoft.d'«
?aP«OW 4
connection with -iia. '
■■ tf'ir g^'vP''dfi&iM: * L '£a • 'fo? Thl cm deter-
irnrateditrtb}y: !: ’ Bliss
ahdi raytelf (meatkmed Hr the- earn# 'connection
tojf mueb.'-it fKaca.pqnspiracy,done
ciyj all occasions.
I Will I won’t.,. Runaway from a par
cel of w pmM, K inferr6‘r,'friVolQug' beings, 1 ' whose
Wiry exittetioa- fiahgs'trn 0, -a 'TiBW» , s not T, I
.trllUassert my independence. -There goes Del
across the ball; she.has gane irrto the library.
I know-.»be:eo.und;o£.-the door., W®U,T Bhalt
.go there, too. It- bps heemipy euf tgm to repd
tbfere Attlpa..hour of tbe day, always. I was
here three diys'before TOi ! oaihe, and the thing
f'WoD*t give ft up for any
•crinoline thaWevßfrfilled op'-a-.-whole 1 sofa, and
ciYCffojßed.W ,W9-fih«r*l)ec[deg.^, ,
, (flapped! ! .-undppe,! walked in,.with
hiy eyes,wide, open, and nibbled the "bait, star
'ihg at iheepring that Was to shut down bn me,
SftHtle tdid it. .** '-n • >
■■■■ Delwasilnthe library^—more thin dimt, she
brushed, piyiya tear ur/two-from her Ipng lasli
e&„asj I eat close by her;, for it
IcyjSs as if, peoplji’ bad quarreled When they
elation thcnjsslves at the antipodes of the
booin. - ’ - - ■'• ■ -
■ 1 asked wfadt was becanse l had
an metinefoye #pat; it yus epraeibing: about'
"jAHS| e .'f.‘o; ( V datisfO t»c it! .
. ~ wap the answer,, And then a
blush* Vcfse ‘ln l cKCekj J crHri(ind’ed; l deepened,
flamdH b'utPqoiekiy.'' u ßbe' ’(nit up her hands in
-1 stinclivsly td'cove* -herJ face* and; recollecting
herself, put them dowp,mgain s . topk one of
the hands (it seemetUquito-aatural to do so,)
and said what—
it wfts.probabijf-toiCr/Qojlish to repeat.'*
, -.T.he pret.ty head dipped, in answer, down to
my shohlder, Where it rested.
Poor little darling f Vitiaandtute had Been
■leasing her pitilessly.' THeh ; T bad ;, hevbr fepo
,ken-ft -Word oMdve to.her pcandJ’what cdaldCl
think of yhal hadabego.; ffBid :«n,v
.and
Soft eyes brim over, and the’ fair .ctieeh flush
&hd'bii/ri r utfde]f > my £l qhCB^lc)riinS’'ga2e. 1, ‘ l ' ‘
Pobr child! how could I have called herlt
Saobelat-trapn-: ■Miirfi ~ -.c I— ’ . >’
......rr,.. The'"Winter of iiie Sbart.
- i -tvT v f -' L i-'
WW JW-u’jywe e. 9 that
good angels may nrotect von from this terrible
evil—ri Fie winter p?\he heai-ff*' ’ A
' J Xernd oHillnfg iutfuence ifresze 'up the fm:n
-tain-' tdr-''Synfpßlliy : hapfdtieiis ‘from its
depths(no -.cold htfrthan settle lover its vvitb
.ored hopes, like sqcrvv,pn the faded powers; no
yude, blasts of discontent moan and shriek
through its desolate clpunfierL
Your life prtW iHhy ybu amidtrials
wbicbforn tihur-BCsm t Mftetf to impede your
-preeriSssjrandishufeauWhe.wiry light of heaven
,f ri ?Rhsrft ut -9“ ious t •!
. PeDury rnuv taka thspbice'of ease and plen
tj. your luxurious bome may ba changed for a
jingle', 'Towfy' rba'm—thg :, sbff-'etiuih' Tor' the
Vtraw»ffp!tHec-nitie sfhe-course
food,ofihe.poor.7f Summer frierids may forsake
yp.o„pjid. the gnpltying pass yqu with
ycarcely a ..word of compassion. j
You may be forced’id toil’ wearily, steadily,
’tdeafrt a livelihood ; you may encridnlerTrao’y
and base stance,. wbleb-owauld -eitart the'last
farthing, . till you tjisgust
from your fellow beiggs [( -;
Death,,m3y dear that; hind you
to the earth yfi nljl.| you in .fearful.darkness.
The noble in an IV boy, Hope of your
declining, years may be taken suddenly from
you, whilh a: your 'spirit clings ‘to 'hlm’With-’a
wild lenrifcSty-ivfiicb ’even the shadow of the
tomb can nofwhofly snbdue.
But amidst all the sad trials nnd
not cotne to the etificlusion that nobody was
ever sclideeply* afflicted as you are, and aban
don evdry 1 gweet anticipation of.tbettordaya”
in the unknown futufa. . .
Do not joke your’ faith in human excellence,
because'your confidence .has been betrayed,
nor believe that friendship is only a delusion,
and love a bright rphantorij which glides away
from yourgyasp: ... .
Do not thgnk lyo.n are fated to bo, miserable
becausqjou are disappointed in your expecta
tions ami -baffled ii) .your pursuit. Do nq de
clare that.Godthgnforsaken you wherryour way
is bodged with.lhornp,,or repine sinfully when
he calls yburdearffnep to the .land, beyond the
grave, .j
Keep a holy trust ip heaveq through every
trial ; ; with fortitude, and lopk
upwartl in)h Pprs /: of temptatipn. and suffering.
When yntjr looks, .are. white) your eyes dim,
and your limbs weary, when'your steps falter
on the veryo uV Death’s gloomy vale, SilPrela’in
the fresbhessL’ftnd’buoyancy • of spirit whiih
will shield.yBtf ! ftislß*iiiri'WintaFn'P the heart!
•i. ,iiiv,->» 77,,
“ Pleai.e.eir.vjegd pjtppy make
a pen ,
“ Certriihly, my berp.it is.”
Youth
about half an,liodt..) . '
“ Pleiae air, here's your knife; papp'js done,
with it,”.. ,
“ I should tbi,nk*Bf Why what the
has fid beyn' doing with it ? T thought he
wanted’ ?” ••• ■ “ '' ■> • "
“ So he did ; but I forgot tm say’lt was a
pigpen." ; _,i. ■ ■;
. Exit youth, a little in advancesf nriiold boat..
Cnßiost'riss l -j-Tht> chair in vyhich .the sun
sets., ',-rJ f r
A garmebf Vor eye.' ’ :
T broke up the’meeting. 1
Buckles (o fastefiya'lSfllhing stock.
• I*fie animal that dfew the inference.-
’Egg* fr’orn/;a peetTof thieves.
A-n&Cifoifßf 1 tv alter from “All’s -’WoU’." • • ”
Douglas Jerrold;*»i<tirt.T Treason is like din-
tP-bc-HW¥iS,%it.b?. ,a
kßwil ■trad#.’'
V ,f ' >
~ 1 i . Art
Mr. Ebiipr.— l notjpe, in your paper of Oct.
8, a short par ft graph about rhyming, in which
if is stated that thereis lid word in the English
language (Kaf will fairly rhyme' with the word
siepL ;My menlnryat once, reverted to* com
: municatiun on this very matter,.in the N,. 3T.
Evening Post of Sept. 30, in which the. writer
(tf. C. W.) says ;
“ Learning Irom a paragraph in the ‘ Foreign
Gossip’ of your paper of this evening, that llie
united wits of England have failed to produce
a correct rhyme to the word step, I venture to
offer the following;
• A level; making one false step,
becomes a demirep.
'Upon which, I' respectfully ask your opinion.”
Again in -the Evening Post of Oct. 14,' I find
another eorrespoirderit (D. G, R.) suggesting
the word rep (the name of a peculiar style of
fin.ish used in making ceptain kinds silk goods,)
as a good rfeymo.for step.- lie gives this for
an'example.:
“ The light was in her eye, grace was in her step, ■
. , Her form was perfect, her dress wraa made of rep."
, Again, there is yet another rhyme j for the
word, in question, if we may adopt that mimed
by a correspondent of the London Athenaeum.
it is the name of the Cape P.iver Gariep. He
says be thinks Pringle used this as a ruytne, in
bis “ South "African Sketches.’’
As to Byron’s assertion of the impossibility
of rhyming silver (which is referred to in your
paragraph,) permit me just to remark, that, so
long as man can readily make silver jingle ip,
their hands nnd pockets, they probably wont
be very anxious ahout ; ¥hy ming it on paper.—
Of course, the rhyrasters -must .give up month,
unless IV. C. IV, or D..G.,11., Of supiobudy else,
comqs. to their assistance. , , X. .
„ —Another ’correspondent: whip dues not lisp,
except on paper, points a moral in love matters,
and protends to make a rhyme to the word
month as follows: '
-] I dearly lored Mith Tbutkhn Bond
And Thiuhy loved me too ;
But wouldn’t thay the dear word “Teth”
The bettt that t could do.
I flirted then with Tliaruh Blakoj
’Mith Bend got thcared at wonth,
And-Xhuthy lhaid the near word “ Yctl "
In Jelh mue than a month .
■A. lietter for the Hour.
Writ a sobtbibx wife has -to till hi: a iicsrand
’ uTtie subjoined letter, which’: was veritably
addressed-by a lady of Illinois to her husband,
in New York city, dues too much credit to the
'self-sacrificing patriotism of ’our Northern
Women to-be withheld from pdhlieaiion ;
———, August, 1862."— hfy dear ifnsbattd:
1 received your letter, 1 blushed scar
let re(J —blushed from my heart out, at the
weak, aye, cowardly spirit it betrayed. You
say juq have been sorely troubled lately on ac
count’of the drafting'men for the war ‘in New
Ynrk’-f that ydri have your “exemptiun'papefs"
nit made out, &c.( and that it will be impossible
to,procure a substitute; ’ Now, for shame ! Js
there not a drop .of your grandfather’s blood in
your veins, who fogght at. Bunker’s. Hill when
the blood of freedom’flowed shde-latChe deep ?
Dries not the love-you bear me and the- hihiren
make your love of home arid country more?
You!—six feet high, strong, vigorous, and with-‘
out a single riilmen in limb or body, and with
al a godd shot and native born—you ask for ex
emption ? For shame 1 Gretk Heaven, “Is thy
servant a dog that he should do this thing V I
should live hot to blush wben.the name of “pa
triots”’Was spuk-eo, and the heart of our little
•'son Would never throb -with pride, his eyes
sparkle with holy fire, nor his lips say, “My
father was there too”—when,iln after years,'
you and I shall recount the scenes of the war
bf'lBt>l;-’tm ’62.■■ And then at the judgment,
Wheti you shall-stand with that great host of
brave men who have given their lives for
freedom’s sake, all you can do will he to point
to yuiir or show'your exemption
papers. But will they he accepted there ?
Not only are you recreant to country and
■ Constitution, but the “higher, daw,” on which
all good and wise Constitutions'are constructed,
.when you say you do not helieye “God has any
thing to do with the political,troubles of any
country, but, with Napoleon, that he is on the
Side of the heaviest artillery.” Is it possible
stbatamran, born arid bred in this latid’of edu
cation and Gospel, can. utter such an infidel
sentiment as that ? What has been the trmiblo
of any nation of'people, if not political? If
such s ’catastrophe as is burs—the direst that
can -befall the mass of humanity, and which is
felt the world, around—means nothing, surely
He takes little heed of the affairs of meu. Can
you, think that marks the sparrow’s
fall,” will ever permit men—living pien—with
love of liberty on one aide, and love of slavery
on the other—every one of whom is loved by
entile heart, to meet, fight, bleed, fall and die
by thousands— tens, hundreds of thousands—
, without,meaning something by it ? |
Politics, indeed ! What did it mean in the
revolution —what does it mean now ? Run the
Word’out; does it not-mean government, laws,
'equity, jUstide,'rectitude, home, affection ? And
■if God is nut in these; where in all the world is
.He ? “He that is not for Me, is against-Me,”
so if,,there is-a great moral question involved in
this struggle, either one side or the other must
bo right—-and if wo are-right,,why not fight to
uphold our Government and ail its blessed in
stitutions? And if they are 1 right; surely the
oddS are against them—they need help. Choose
ybu on .which side you will serve.
: Ijlere men are' rushing to the standard of lib
erty by hundreds,; ministers, merchants, law
’ yets, mechanics, farmers, all. Poor , who
r nils left his lucrative office in Washington, is
dying? to go, but cannot be excepted on account
| ot his pour health. And just think of my brave
| hroiberi—how-beiwont at the - very tap o’ the
drujnf, vyiiiiogly, gladly giving np all—how be
disabled by sickness atjd ball,; yet his
warm heart’ presses upon “his stomach'
1 and; kebpit it-full all the Inne—Warhishis feet,
j arid| the ground whereOn-hb : sheeps.“-' And God
:■ will keep him-! - - . ,r
j -Bo not trouble yourself about ppautlfary.ant-,
tors if you wish, to go, for I ;ira gettmg w-cii
every day, and in case of Vui-cmity ’there will
uhc some wny providcd. I-can (each oV'ipkmt, i
-,i I . -
no v ;,u.
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-eonted ncaUy and ■ promptly. ' Justices’, Constant ’»
and other BtiXJTKS oonstanllydn hand.
and vrJU to totter off than one-half the wives
whose husbands go.
How I'shdold miss you.-or live without you,
you dan imagine’aswell as I. Surely no wife
appreciates the strong, willing arm, the gentle,
loving Words, the Cep .thousand nets of love and
kindness moredhnn I do; but close around my
heart, where I carry my darlings, is'my lore of
country (End of freedom, and if you come not
back, oh let me know, my Savior strengthening
me, that you-feil with the Banner of the Cross
around your, bead, and over your heart tho
Stars and Stripes. (
May God help us both.
Prom an Invalid Soldier.
Extracts from a Private Letter.
Fairfax Seminary, Va., Oct. 6/1852.,
* * * —You must not expect a wall con
nected letter from me this time, as I can only
write by little fragments of time, and I con
warrant you a very disjointed mass of stuff, by
this mail, for my thoughts are as unsteady as
the gusty winds without, and my pan—l inuw
by the very looks of it —is meditating soiia wild
freak this morning. Therefore, let gusty, r.sur
ty, dusty, rusty, be the churscicri-.i.c* t;
for. I think I shall have to tcii y u--tsk.ng it
for granted that ypu want to in.. l .'—all about,
■how, where, and with whom 1 am, Jbc., &o.
First then, although’on iinanJ. lam on the
list of those.quoted convalescent. Too fearer
has spent its force.'and succunud to good treat
ment, and a constiSition hard to k.U ; and the
pulss that under the heat of its lire, galloper
swiftly along at the rate of one hundred eric
hatter to the minute, now throbs quietly am
at the more regular and healthful tate oi sixty
or seventy.
Secondly ; according to the heads, my where
abouts, as you see by the date, is Fairfax Semi
nary, Va.; hut as this is rather a vague an!
general explanation, I shall have to make it a
little more local and particular. It situated ,n
a beautiful hill, in the northeastern part of ti;.
commonwealth — not a bit noneommon— of in -
state of Virginia, on the west bank of the p.
tomac Hirer—as it runs here—a little wet bars
of the city of Alexandria; commanding a bo
view of that place, the Potomac, and the city
of Washington,
The Seminary lies west of these places, so
that in the afternoon, when the sun has moved
around and throws light on every thing east
ward, and.casts a shadow on your eyes while
looking that way, the view of these places and
surrounding objects, is very fine; although
they are some distance away.
Alexandria and' that portion of the River
which is yisiblp near it, are three miles distant.
The distance to'Washington, in a direct, or iir*
line, which would throw Alexandria several
miles to the right, is six or seven miles.
Not much of the city can be very plainly seen
»t this distance, but tbe,great white, luminous
mass of the Capitol building, surrounded by it*
symetricai, cowering dome, can be easily and
plainly span and it is a grand eight too, I can
assure you. This immense pile of pure, white
marble, softened in the hazy distance, by the
mellow rays of the setting sun, reflecting the
pale light shed upon it by the Potomac’s mild
amd placid waters, forms a picture, lovely to
contemplate, and beautiful beyond tbe power of
my pen to describe, so I will not hazard the at
tempt.
Let us step a little way down the River. Bo
you sea that mass of dingy looking, squabby
brick, and butternut coloped buildings ? That
is Alexandria.' Well, it is a fair-sounding
name, and being so like in sound, serves to per
petuate that of a great conquerer, if nothings
better. But these pretentious Virginians,
would dignify it with tbe name of City; if so,
like every other institution at presen t Southern,
it must bo-nn tbe decline.
As to size, its claim might be reckoned good
ly fur the title of village; but don’t epeak of
energy in tbe same connection ; it is a common
lifetime- behind the spirit of energy, to say
nothing of- the activity of the same. As may
be said of any other city or village which I have
seen in Virginia, it is sleepy, stagnant, inert,
lifeless. .
There seems to be some dreadful incubus
that poisons the purity of the very air we
breathe here. And there is. It can be seen,
it 6an be felt. It is s, gloom on the day ; it
renders more sombre tbe night. mourns in
tbe valley ; its lament may be heard on tbe
hill-top. IVhasisit? It is the emse which
darkens this fair land. But enough. Mightv
agencies are working its inevitable overthrow-,
its final doom'. ■
As I wheel out the Invalid’s ear
ths cool freshness of these autumn nitcrnoom-,
and view, from some shaded nook, the distant
Capitol in its seemingly quiet repose,
trooping thoughts come crowding on the mi;;,:
They -slip-shod, like indistinct dreams
oror the sad past, the trembling present. an.l
the uncertain future. Washington ! That wo; d
has an electric thrill! What American heart
has not felt it? It is synonymous with liberty
—the mantle of freedom—and the watch-wo; d
and rallying cry for the, preservation of both 1
By this name is our proud. Capital known.—
But strange anomaly stalk in its streets, and
crouch in its shadows.
Here, os elsewhere, the dust from
ing chariot wblees of Dives, falls upon pinen-.
fpg want, and squalled misery ; which ali, eM
forts were vain to strive tit cover from- ey es '
not blind, but inquisitive to see. Acts, wlmse
immortality, will grow. brighter and clearer
down the aisles of time, and others, sinister,
inhuman, corrupt, and fearfully oft repeated,
whose gloomy shadows hover over us like birlis
of prey, have here,.yes here, been consumamd
and sent forth to our people—law. Hore wuti
io the precincts of church spire, statues and
monuments, in the ihidst of the cherished em
blems, trophies and innumerable evidences of
a nation’s genius, parity-and prosperity. bare
schemes beeh-'conceived, 'nurtured ’by fraud, 1
glazed and transformed by cunning subterfuge,
developed and spread broadcast over the land
"by unprincipled and . smooth tuogoed dema
gogues, and finally culminating in some act'of
such shocking depravity, that every lover of bis
cdutmy, is startled from his pleasing dreams of
fancied security, dad springs with a aimSMi.
■■ZT&C.
chair, in