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COBSINfi, N. r. , r - 1
Ma }. A. FIELD, Proprietor.
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PEBItSYmUU HOt ; a»,
COBNEE OF MAIN' STREET AND THE /IVjjSUB,
Wcllsboro. Pa.
J, V. BIGONY, ....Propristor.
THIS popular Hotel, having been- re-fitted
and re-famished throughout, is now open to the
public as a first-class house. [Jan. 1,
IZAAK WALTON HOI SK,
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0. C. YERMILYEA Proprietor.
THIS is a new hotel located within'ensy ac
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tical workman in the State, r
IVellsboro, July 15, 1863, A, R.KASCT.
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B. B. HOLIDAY,.... Proprietor.
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TTcllsboro, June 24, 1£63.-
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j WRIGHT & BAILEY !
HA\ E had their mill thoroughly-repaired
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Cash paid for all kinds of grain. ;
j WEIGHT & EADvET.
IfellsWb, April 29, 1863. » t* \ r
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and the public generally that he is prepared to
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season, having secured tuS' services of Mr. J. *EET,
£ competent and experienced workman, and'!iso in-
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2ie will warrant ail work done at UU ahop, /
AA’ool, carded at five cents per pound, al-d wloth
.pressed at from ten Ureofj cenlf poryn*dosper
and J* I* •fACrK.SCiN* ...
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garble siios*. 71
1 no'w tcccvriog a STOCK of ITA.-tSIAN
_ X V**BLE, (bought will, cash)
and RUTLAND,---" '
and am prepared to manufacture 'all muu« , 5
TOMi-ST ON E S;.:;
and MONUMENTS at the lowest prices. . ‘
IUIiYEY ADAMS is my authorized ngc i..' tml
will sell Stone at the same prices os at the SCO > i
B’i? HAVE BUT ONE PRICE.J.
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JOHN A. HOY,
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J J Chemicals, Varnish. Paints, Dyes, Snips, Pcr
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ent Medicines of the day. Medicines warraaitd gen
aiue and of the • »
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The best Petroleum Oil which is superior to any other
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FANCY DYE COLORS in packagesell ready
{impounded, for the use of private A so,
urc Loaf Sugar for medical compounds. •- i *
AVcllsboro, June 2d, 1563-ly. ' y
Insurance Agency.
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appointed the undersigned an agent foi-Tioga
County and rieinityl I f « ’
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ny give the assurance of full protection to owners of
property against the hazard uf fire, I solicit with con
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This company was incorporated in 1791. - .3 capital
it $3011,000, and its assests in ISCI as perstajemont
GvtJau.of that year was $1254,719 SI,
‘CHARLES PLATT, r Secretary.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, . . .• , President.
■■Office of tho Company 232 Walnut Street
, Philadelphia. "
Central Agent Har
ri»bnr;,Pa.
JOHN W. GUERNSEY,
Ag-qnt for Tioga County, Pa,s
Joly 15, 1563. ■ ,'V:
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[For the SthrDUtriet, Pi.], itr
AKD j
Xansticid Classical Seiplnfiry-
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, , Vf. COC IRAK, ,
- Presldent of thfi Hoard 'iniEtees.
"M. HOLLAND, Secretary.
Mansfield,August 5, 1865, ; ”
TIIH A(iITATOI{.
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WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE
VOL. X.
Select JMetts,
in might—unconquerable. Have yon no heart
swellings of pride in this magnificent exhibi
tion of will and strength? —No part in the
nation’s glory? No eager hand helping to
, „ „ „ . stretch forth ?”
BT OLIVER VESJELL H 0 L >IE 8. n i
■ ■ Growler was silent still.
[From the Atlantic Monthly for February}
the last chabge.
Npw, men of the North! will you join in tho strife
, For country, for freedom, for honor, for life ?
The giant grows blind in hia fury and spite—
One blow on hi| forehead will settle the fight! !
Flash full in his eyes the bloc lightning of steel, |
And stun him with cannon-bolts, peal upon peal i
Mount, troopers, and follow your game to its lair,
As the bound tracks the wolfand the beagle the bare!
Blow, trumpets, your summons, till sluggards awako!
Beat, drums, till the roofs of the faint-hearted shake!
Yet, yet, ere tho signet is stamped on the scroll.
Their namesmay be traced on the blood-sprinkled roll!
Trust not the false herald that painted your shield :
True honor to-day toast be sought on the field !
Her scutcheon shows white with a blazon of rod
The life-dropa of crimson for liberty shed J
The hour is at baud, and the moment draws nigh!
The dog-star of f treason grows dim in the sky 1
Shine forth from the battle-cloud, light of the morn,
Call back-the bright hour when the Nation was born I
The rivers of peace through our valleys shall run,
As the glaciers of tyranny melt in the sun;
Smite, smite the proud parricide down 1 from his
throne—
His sceptre once broken, the world is onr own !
jf&lstellang.
GROWLER'S INCOWIE^TaS
Mr neighbor Growler, an excitable man by
the way, was particularly excited over the “In
come Tax,” or, as he called it, his “War Tax.”
He had never liked the war—thought it unne
cessary and wicked, the work of politicians.—
This fighting of brother against brother was a
'terrible thing in his eyes.' If you asked him
who begun the war?—who struck at the na
tions life?—if self-defence were not a duty?
—he would reply with vague generalities, made
up of partisan tricky sentences,-which he had
learned without comprehending their just sig
nlficance.
Growler came in open \me the other day,
flourishing a square piece of blue writing .pa
per, quite from his equinimity.
“ There it is! Just so much robbery? Stand
and deliver, is*' the word. Pistols and bayo
nets I Your money or your life /” I took the
piece of paper from hie hand and read :
Philadelphia, Sept., ISG4.
a Richard. Groxder, Eeq, f Dr. ' K -
To John M. Riley,
u Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Dis
trict of’Pennsylvania. Office, 427 Chestnut street.
“for Tax -on Income, for the year ISG2, as per return
jnnde to the Aseettof'bf the District, $43 21.
• “ Received payment,
Jobs M. Riley, Col.”
“You’re all right,” I said, smiling’.
“ I’d like to know what yon mean by ‘ till
right!’ ” Growler was just a little offended at
my way of treating this very serious matter
serious in his eyes, I mean. “ I’ve been
robbed of forty-three dollars and twenty-one
cents," he continued. “Do you say it is all
right?—A minion of the Government has put
his hand into my pocket and taken just so
much of my properly. Is that nil right ?” -
“ The same thing may he set forth in very
different laogjuage,” I replied. “let ns state
the cafe.”
“ Very well—state it!” said Growler, dump
ing himself into a chair, and looking as ill
humored as possible.
“Instead of being robbed,” said I, “you
have been protected in your property and per
son,.and guaranteed all the high'privileges of
citizenship, for the paltry sum efforty-three
dollars ana fwenty-cne cents as VOUf share of
the cost of protection.” j
“Ob, that’s only your way of putting the
case,” retorted Growler, dropping a little from
his high tone of indignation,
“ tet me be more particular in my way of
putting the case. Your income is from the
rent property?” *
I "Yes.”
1 “ What would it have cost you to defend that
property from • the army of General Dee, re
cently driven from our State by national sol
diers?” . .
“ Cost me I” Growler looked at me in a kidd
of maze, as though he thought me half in jest, j
“ Exactly! What would it have cost you ? \
Lee,if unopposed, would.certainly have reached i
this city, and held it; and if your property ,
had been of use' to him, or any of his officers •
or soldiers, it would have been appropriated ‘
without so much as saying—By your leave sir ?
Would forty-three, dollars and twenty-one cents
have covered the damage ? Perhaps not. Pos
siblv, you might have lost one-half to two
thirds of all you are worth.”
Grower was a trifle bewildered at this way
of putting the case. Ho looked puzzled.
“ You have a store on South warves 1” said I.
“Yes."'
“ What has kepi tho -Alabama or the Flor
ida from runningop the and burning
the whole city front? Do-you have forts and
of war for the protection of yot'r prop
erty ?—lf not, who provides them ! They are
provided, and you are safe. What is you! -
share of the,expenses for a whole year? Just
forty-three "dollars and twenty-one cents 1 It
sounds like a jestl” " .
Growler did not answer. So I kept on.
“Bat for our immense armies in the field, i
and our navy on the water, this rebellion would j
have succeeded. What then ? Hare you ever )
the future of this country in such an j
(event? Have you thought of your own posi- [
'lion? of the loss or gain to yourself? Howj
long do you .think we would be at peace with;
England or France, if the nation were dismem- ■
berjed, and a hostile Confederation established
on our Southern border ? Would our taxes bo
less than -now ? Would life and property be
more secure ? Have not you an interest in our
great army and navy, as well as I and every 1
member of the Union ? Does not your safety
as well as mine lie in their existence ? Are
they not, at this very time, the conservators of
everything we hold dear as men and citizens ?
Who equips-and pays this army ? Who builds
and furnishes these things ? Where does the
enormous sums of money required come from ?
It is the nation’s work—the people aggregated
into power and munificence, and so irresistible
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA.,WEM
“ There was no power in you or me to check
the wave of destruction that was launched by
fratricidal hands against ns. If unresisted, by
the nation, as an aggregate power, it would
have swept in desolation over the whole land.
Traitors in our midst, and traitors moving in
arms against us, would have united to destroy
bnr beautiful fabric of civil liberty. The gov
ernment which dealt with all good citizens so
kindly and gently, that no one in a thousand
felt its touch beyond the weight of a feather,
would Have been subverted; and who can tell
under what iron rule we might have fallen for a
time, or how many years of bloody strife wobld
have elapsed before that civil liberty which se
cures the greatest good to the greatest number
would have been again establisned ? But the
waves of destruction were met—nay, hurled
back upon the enemies who sought our ruin.
We yet dwell' in safety. Your property is se-
You still gather your annual income,
protected in all your rights and privileges by
the national arm. And what does the nation
assess to you as your share in the cost of this
security ? Half 1 your property ? No —not a
farthing of that property ! Only a small per
oentago of your income from that property/
Just forty-three dollars and twenty-one cents !
Pardon me for saying it, friend Growler, but I
am more than half ashamed of you.”
“ And seeing the way you put the case, I am
more than half ashamed of myself,” he an
swered, frankly. “Why; taking your view,
this is about the cheapest investment I ever
made."
“ You certainly get more for your money
than in any other linejof expenditure. Yester
day I had a letter from an old friend living in
the,neighborhood of Carlisle. The rebels took
from him six fine hordes, worth two hvndred
dollars a piece ; six cows and oxen; and over
two hundred bushels of grain. And not con
tent with plundering him, they burnt down a
barn whifh had cost him nearly two thousand
dollars. But for the army raised and equipped
by the nation, in support of which you and I
are,taxed so lightly, wo might have suffered as
severely. How much do you think it cost in
money for the protection we have enjoyed in
this particular instance V
“ A million of cellars, perhaps.”
“•Nearer ten millions of dollars. From the
time our army left the Rappahannock until the
battle'of Gettysburg, its cost to the government
could scarcely have been less than the sum I
have mentioned. iOf this sum, your proportion
cannot he over three or four dollars ; and for
that trifle, your property, maybe your life, was
held r? R nre.”
“No njord oT that, if you please,” said
Growler, .showing some annoyance. “ You are
running this thUi£>nto the ground. I own up,
square. I was quarreiui” with mj best friend.
I was. striking at the hand g (lve * ne P ro "
teotion. If my war tajc nest year should be d
hundred dollar* instead of forty-three, I will
pay it without a murmur."
“ Don’t say without a murmur, friend Grow
ler.”
“ What then?”
“ Say gladly, ns a means of safety.”
“Put it as you will,” ho,answered, folding
up Collector Riley’s receipt, which he still held
in his hand, and bowing himself out.
Not many days afterwards, I happened to
hear some one grumbling in my neighbor’s
presence about his income tax. Growler
scarcely waited to hear bim through. My les
son was improved in his hands. In significant
phrase, he “pitched into” the offender, and
read him a lesson so much stronger than mine,
that I felt myself thrown quite into the shade.
“You have been assessed fifty-eight dollars!
One would think, from 1 the noise jou make
about it, that you had been robbed of half you
were worth. Fifty-eight dollars for security at
home and protection abroad I Fifty-eight dol
lars .as your share in the cost of defence
against an enemy that, if unopposed, will des
olate our homes and destroy our government 1
Already it has cost the nation for your safety
and mine over a thousand millions of dollars,
and you are angry because it asks of you a
little part of the expense'. Sir, you are not'
worthy the.name of an American citizen.”
i “ 3,'hat’s hard talk, Growler, and I won’t hear
it?” said the other.
“It’s true talk, and you’ll havoTO bear it!”
was retorted. ■“ Fretting .over the mean little
1 sum of fifty-eight dollars ! Why sir, I know a
man who has given hfs right arm in the cause;
and another who has given his right leg. Do
they" grumble ? No, sir! I never beard a word
of complaint from their lips. Thousands and
tens of thousands have given their lives, that
you and I might dwell in safety. I know
mothers who have given their sons, and wives
who have given their husbands—sons and bus
bands —sons and husbands who will never
more return 1 They are with the dead. Sir,
you are dishonoring yourself in the eyes of all
men. A grumbler over this paltry war tax—
for shame!"
I turned off, saying, in my thought :
“So mnch good donel'My reclaimed sinner
has become ft preacher of righteousness.”
Tft Cure Sheep from Jumping.— A corres
pondent of the Ohio Farmer gives the follow
ing curious account of the method addopted by
him to' prevent bis sheep from jumping the
fences of his pasture: f
“ I want to tell you about my jumping sheep,
and how I broke them. I got them in a pen
built sufficiently to hold them ; I then caught
the ring leaders one at a time, and made a
small hole in each ear. I then taok a cord or
string and run through theholes in the ears
together close eneough to keep ‘ them from
working the ears; I then let them out, and
they are as quiet as any sheep.”
A stranger in a printing office asked the
youngest apprentice what his rule of punctua
tion was. “ I sot up ns long as I- can hold my
breath —then I putin a comma; when I gape, -
I insert a semmieolonand when I: want; a
qhow of tobacco,.l make a paragraph;”
ISUAI MORNING, I EMU ARY 24, 1864.
[From tlie New York Erening Post.]
REBEL cobbssfondence.
intercepted letters from the south.
THE REBELS TELLING THEIR TALE OT VTOK-—DB3-
TITCTION AND DESPAIR.
• Eighty rebel letters which fell into the hands
of one of our soldiers in General Grant's army
have been transmitted to this city. They were
written in several of the rebel states to the sol
diers in the various insurgent armies during
the year just closed, and are mostly from the
•fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters of the
men in arms. Many of these letters, though
guardedly written, tell sad stories of want and
suffering ; the writers want the war to end, but
they are of course too shrewd to write to the
rebel armies what might bo construed as
“ treason” to the Jeff. Davis government.
Many of the letters were taken in the “ orig
inal packages”—that is,- tied together and ad
dressed to particular regiments. The Eleventh
Georgia was peculiarly favored, or would have
been had the large package addressed, to It
reached its destination; but while on the way
to Richmond it was captured by our troops.
The following is a sample of the form of be
ginning, which is used, with modifications, in
nearly all the letters. The writer is a soldier:
“Dear Brother: Again I am permitted
through the kind hand of an all wise God to
seat myself this Knight after taps for lights
out to pen you a few lines to let you no that I
am yet numbering among the living & in the
very best of health, and I do hope this will be
received & find you & all the rest of the con
nection that is with you in the enjoyment of
the same great blessing,” |
The phrase “ Yours till death,”j spelled in
various ways, is the concluding complement of
about half the letters. The full names of the
writers it is not necessary to place on record.'
The following specimen extracts, are given
without regard to order in the subjects treated:
HOEING FOE THE BSD OF THE WAR-
Mrs. M. G. S. writes to her brother, A. S.
Williams, in Richmond:,
“ O that this wicked and cruel war could come
to a close and let my dear brothers come home to
their relatives and friends, who are so anxious
to greet them and wait their return so-impa
tiently. * * * T know you see hard times;
be patient; and hope the time is near at hand
when your warfare will be ended. We are do
ing well, considering the - hard times.”
WHY A REBEL BECAME A SOLDIER,
Joseph Q., of the First Louisiana Regulars,
writes a long letter to William Murry, care of
Colonel Souliwalski, Polish Brigade, Richmond.
Murry had been an associate of Q., who tells
why he joined the rebeli army:
•“ Yon know exactly the penniless situation I
was in ; and after trying ev.ery other resort, &
heering that I could not succeed in any other
way, my only chance was to join the army,
which I did. I assure you I have had hard
times since I left New Orleans. X only wish to
God the war was oven No more from your
;pogt affectionate friend.”
AN ILLITERATE FEMALE,
5-tty D., of “ IXiawassa,” Ga., writes to J.
A. Davenport, of “ C.ipt. Killier’a Co.” in this
wise:
“ I sed i had a Lonesome time now, hot i
think enjoy my self as well as any woman that
is left; thereJs none that seese a happy time
now ; but i think if peace-was mad we should
be the happiest people that ever lived.”
A FAMILY AFFAIR.
'J. G., at the close of ailong letter to Lpr hus
band oh family matters, says : ,
■ “ Since writing the above 1 hear that Mr.
Corine has killed his wife, bung her in they
wods, & Mr. Prator found her while he ware a
driving."
A mother’s LETTER,
Mrs. G , of Covington, Louisiano, ad
dresses her son in the Ist Louisiana regiment,'
acknowledging the receipt of two dollars. She
adds:
“ Times is very hard here; it is almost im
possible to get provisions; bnt we make out to
live, and that is All. Nearly Every negro on
this side the lake bap run away and gone to the
Yankees. Every one of Mr. Elottis’s has gone,
and all of T. Duncan’s except one negro woman.
I cant mention the rest of the names. There
has 15 left one man in one night, and every
night more or less go off.”
THE REBEL CONSCRIPTION'.
John W. 0 writes to David. Barton, of
the Eleventh Georgia Regiment, that “ about
all the news he has is war news, and one-half
it is fals." ;
Alluding to the conscription he says :
“ I do not know whether I will hafter go,
but if I do I will aim to comedo your company,
tljo.l am jn hops I will get off at the camps of
destiny.”
The address on the letter is “ to privit Davy
barton.”
a wife’s plaint.
Mrs. C. C., of .Grand River, complains to her
husband, who is in' the army, that they (the
rebels) had in three months refused to pay her
any more money (probably her ' husband’s wa
ges), and she has little hopes for the future.
“BASHIONS” OP BACON AND “FLOWER.”
-T.B. W., a soldier, sends a letter from “near
Fredericksburgh" to W. B. Watts, .another. —
He says: . '
“ Wo have a fine time now, hut T expect yon
would call it very hard times. We get one
quarter of a pound of bacon a day arid .flower
according 5 that is ft very small • rashion ; but
as long as We can keep out of fighting we are
all right, .but you must not think we are dis
heartened for we are not. We are ready any
time.’* , 1 -
lie then coni plains that he cannot “get off”
from the army for ariy reason whatever.
STARVATION.
MrS, M. M. Wi, of Tiokfaw, La., says to ‘S;
G. G. Morgan
“ I wish the war would end sometime.' !■ ant
tired out. ! We have; got no flour. ; I.could,eat
hipst snykind-of flout bread now, . Tom Sle-
vens would not go to war, and Mr. Addison
conscripted him ; he went down to the factrv,
and Mi*. Addison werit-there and handcuffed
him, and is going to take him off to the war.”
% HUSBAND RECALLED,
A. E, H.,J>f “ parsh of more house,” La.,
commences -p letter ns follows to Benjamin
Humphrey,'.are of S. M. Stevenson, 11th Lou
isiana volunteers:
“Deare h.jshin I seat my ecalf to w;rit you a
few lines to; it you now that I am tolable well
I ant never iiave been rite well since I had that
hard spek • yon to come home ns soon
as you can |ftel you the way ’tlmr are tacking
the conserip^ r tha have got tom Johnsons cor
.son crofed hHra.el, benny nap, wor montgomery
and several Jlbre tha say tbit have give this
part of the eOuntry to the yanks tha say if we
want to be jested to move oh the other side of
the river wa;| time is very hard her and I am
a ferd was is|a coming. I have got bad nns to
write to yon; brother dick is dead be dide yes
terday was weake he was takin tusday at
dinner and did on friday he had information
of the head.*
' 'THE LADIES WANT “ SOSTE ECX.”
John writgj from Suromersfield, Ala., to his
brother in Richmond, the letter says;
“ Thomas V-1 have got me anew sweet hart;
her mother liyps at the hotel; she is pretty.”.
The writeijsaid be had heard that his father 1
was a “ primmer,” but did not believe the
statement. Be then resumes hig talk about the
ladies: 1 1 j:-
“ Tom all mp ladies is as pretty as ever they
say that . the war fd close for the
young men to?|ome home so as they can have
some fun.” ry
The letter, :
“ The boy's.in school hes got the seven years
each here & spreds.” * * * “ Tom do
you think .you will let the Yankees alone, now
that yon have got so far off from theme,Tike
Matty did'tlie lord.”
This writer having closed his . epistle with
the words “so I remains tell death,” folded
his sheet, which was only half written over, in
such" a manner that the blank was outside, and
on one corner penned these words, “ rite on
this side.” Thus one sheet was to be used for
two letters.
How Statces are Made. —A correspondent,
of the London Header gives the following de
tails regarding the production of statues :
“ The sculptor, having designed a figure,
first makes a sketch of it in clay a few inches
only in height. When he has satisfied himself
with the general attitude, n cast is taken of
his sketch, and from it a model in clay is pre
pared of the full size he designs for his statue/
whether half the natural height, or life-size, or
colossal. The process of building the clay, as
it is called, upon the strong iron armatura, or
skeleton on which it stands on its pedestal, and
the bending and fixing this armaiura into the
form of the limbs, constitute a work of vast la
bor of a purely manual sort, for whose per
formance all artists able to afford it employ the
skilled workmen to be obtained in Rome.
The rough clay, rudely assuming the shape of
the intended statue, then passes into the sculp
tor’s hands and undergoes his most elaborate
manipulation, by which it is reduced (generally
after the labor of several months) to the pre
cise and perfectly-finished form he desires
should hereafter appear in marble. This done,
the formaiore takes a cast of the whole, and
the clay is destroyed. From this last plaster
cast again in due time the marble is. hewn by
three successive workmen. The first gives it
rough outline, the second brings it by rule and
compass to close resemblance to the cast, and
the, third finishes it to perfection.” .
Perpetual Motion. —A Western correspond
ent of Harper’s Magazine gets off the follow
ing excellent joke:
‘ r l was travelling in Virginia by stage, and,
spending the, nigb%at a country tavern, was
greatly entertained by the talk of the stage
drivers and others sitting by the bar-room fire
in the evening. One old fellow worked off a
good thing. ‘ When I was down to the fair, a
good many years ago.’ said the old fellow,
‘ there was a prize offered Jo the one who
come the nearest to making perpetual motion.
Well, all sorts of machines, of all shapes and
materials, were fetched there and shown, and
the makers of them told how long they would
run. As I was walking about among them I
saw a sign over a jent: —“ All who want to see
perpetual motion and no mistake, meet here.”.
So I paid the ifamission fee, and went in.
Very soon a queer little fellow got up on a box
that served for a platform, andj addressed the
audience: “ Ladies and gentlemen, lam going
to exhibit to you the most wouderfullest inven
tion you have ever seen. It has been runnin’
for full three years, and if nobody stops it, it’ll
run forever.” Here ho unrolled a strip of pa
per. “This is aj Printer’s Bill!” Andashe
held it.up to, tb>e gaze of the people, they ad
mitted that, whejther the bill was paid-or not,
they had been sold.’ 11
Cure 1 for Jealousy. —The affair of Bruce,
who Was murdered and found by aid of'a clair
voyant, according to accounts, induced a yoang
married man who Was on a visit to the city, to
call on one of these seers and ascertain in what
occupation his wife at her resi
dence some ninety miles away.
“ She is sitting inthe parlor,” said tho lady,
“ and every once in awhile she looks out of the
window, as if expecting some one.” 1
“ Strange,” said tho gentleman, “ whom
can she expect?” P,
“ SomO-one entering the door, she seizes hini
and caresses him fondly.”
“It can’t be; it’s all a hoax; my wife is
true to me,” interrupted (ho gentleman, who
was nettled rind-worried by tho green-eyed
monster.
“ Now he-lays his head In her lap, and looks
tenderly info her eyes.”
j “I swear that is false! and I’ll make you
pay deaf for this slander!”
“Now be wags his tail,” continued the
sleeperand as this explained ‘the story he
vamoosed; and resolved n:ver’.again to be. in
quisitiva in regard to hia wife’s doings.
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Spicy—What a Boston- Girl Wants.—.
The editress of the Boston Qlivo Branch bar.
ing received a communication from Nashville,
Tenn., enquiring whether some femalejn-inlers
cootd bo obtained there, to go to Nivshville, re
plied as follows: |
“ Every girl m Boston who is old eneongh to
work in a printing office, or any other office,
has a lover whom she would bo just as likely
to trade off for a Tennessee article as she would
to swap him off for a grizly bear. The idea of
a Boston girl, who goes to operas, patronises
Jullien’s concerts, waltzes once a ice
cream, rides in the omnibns, wears satin slip
pers, and sometimes kisses the editor, going to
Tennessee, except she goes as the wife of
one of your first citizens, (editors excepted.)
is truly ridiculous. Would not a girl in a
nice silk dress, lace pantaletts, and shiny gait
er boots, look well trudging through the mud
and mire of Nashville to an old roost of a
printing office, the walls of which are nil cov
ered with posters offering rewards for runaway
niggers, while in one corner of the room two
old darkies are jerking away at a Ramage press,
and in the other the editor is squirting tobacco
juice all over the floor ? Wouldn’t she be in iv
fix when the editor and some great brute of a
fellow whom he had offended, got playing at
the game of shooting their revolvers across Iho
office at each other’s heads. Who wouid mako
the fire when the devil bad run off and "the ed
itor was drunk ? Who would go home with her,
dark.nights ? Who’d take her out to ride on
Saturday afternoons and go to church with
her on Sunday? No, sir—a Boston girl wouldn’t
go to Tennesse for love or money ! She can get
enough of bojth nearer home.
The Open Door.—Sirs. Yanlqe was a poor
widow with four children, of whom Richard, •
the eldest, was eight years old.—She eonld on
ly lift up her heart to God, and this she did in
earnest prayer, Richard said to her:
“ Mother, does' not the Bible say that God
sent ravens to a man to bring him bread 1”
“ Yes, my child ; but that was a long time
ago.”
“'Well,” said Bichard, “God can send ua
some ravens with bread now. I’m going to
open the door, or they can’t get inand jump
ing up he ran to the door and threw it open, so
that the candle shone out into the street.
A few minutes after the' village magistrate
came passing by and casting a glance through
the open Roor, he was charmed by’the appear
ance of a pretty group within. He. could not
refrain from entering, and said to Mrs. Vnnlne;
“ My good lady, bowhappens.it that your door
is wide open at this hour in the evening?”
“It is my little Richard that has opened the'
door,- so that the ravens, he says, may come itt
and bring us some bread.”
Non- the magistrate vtas actually dressed in
black from head to footj •
“Ah, indeed," said he laughing, “Richard
is right. Ilfs raven hds come, and a big one,
ton. Come, Richard, I -will show you where
the bread is?’
lie took the little hoy with him to the
grocer’s, filled a basket with provisions*.and
sent him home with it. Richard, you may be
sure, hnrried'horoe as fast as he could.
IVhon they had finished their meal, Richard
again went to the door, took off his cap, and
Idoking up into the sky, said, “ Thank yon,
my dear Father in Heaven'after which ho
came in and closed door.
Tub School is the House.— Every family
Is a school. All iu members are teachers,
alt are scholars, Without text-books all study,
and by in instinct-all'learn. Looks, smites,
frowns, cavesses, reproaches, shrugs, words,
deeds, make np daily Household lessons, from
which each learner derives, first, impressions;
next convictions ; and then character. What
the school in the house. should be, may ofttimes
he best known by noticing what it is not. If
domestic courtesy, and family politeness, and
mutual forbearance, and considerate patience,
and befittiilg love are , not in the house, there
will be in their stead, rudeness and selfishness
ta'nd impatience and strife. These last are scor
pions whose deadly venom is sure destruction
of domestic pence, concord and: happiness.
Christian parents, you arc teachers at homo!
Let your children learn what practical pvgty is
from the bgnigoity of your tempers and the
blamelessness of your examples*
What is Conscience ? When a, little boy,
my father sent me from the field home. A
spotted tortoise caught my attention,, and I
lifted my stick to strike it, when a voice within
me said;
“It is wrong.” I stood with uplifted stick,
in wonder at the new emotion, till the tortoise
vanished from my sight. 1 hastened home and
asked my mother what it was that told me it
was wrong. Taking me by the arm she said i
“ Some men call it conscience, hut I prefer
to call it the voice of God in the sonl of man.
If you listen to if and obey it, then will it
speak clearer, and always guide you right.
But if you turn a deaf ear, or disobey, then it
will fade out little by little, and leave you in
the dark, without a garde."
The cockney’s method of spelling saloon id
well known. S.iid he, “ there's a hess, and a
hay* and a hell, and two hoes and a hen.” A
gentleman traveling throngb Yorkshirel ontside
of a stage coach, asked the driver the name of
a very pretty village they were passing throngb.
The reply was “ Hoogreen.” Being asked to
spell it; he replied: “We spell it with an haitcti
and two hoes, gee, har, two bees and a hen ”
“ la there anything for Georgs Hogdcrt? 1 '
inquired a young man the other day at the
New York post office. Nothing, sir.”—The
last day, happening.to watch the clerk, he sud
denly cried ;■ “ Look'ere! I say ? Yon’ra look
ing among tho baitches and my name begins
with ho!”
Gejt. Wool has publicly expressed his belief
that Buchanan knew the designs of the rebels
before hie election, and'that he promised, if
elected, not to interfere', but to promote their
work in every' possible manner* ®
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