BY M. H. COBB. > ? Published every Wednesday morning act Malted to eaberiberaat ONE DOLLAR AND FXIH V-CENTS per year, always IN'ADVANCE. ; ” 7 The paper is sent postage freeto county st Writers, though they may receive-their mail akpoPtjoiices lo cftted in counties jence. The Acitatoh is the Official paper of 'fi'ga Co., and circulates in every neighborhood thoreiu. Sub ecriptions being on the advance-pay systeit, it circu lates among a class most to the interest of Advertisers to reach. 'Xafms to advertisers as liberal as those of fered by any paper of equal circulation in. I orthorn Pennsylvania. T’ A cross on the .margin of a paprt, denotes that the subscription is about to expire. Vd SSf' Papers will be stopped when the si»J?firiptlon lime expires, unless the agent orders tbeif continu ance; ' , ”■ i B’i? HAVE BUT ONE PRICE.J. Tioga, May 20, 1563-ly- A. D. COKE- JOHN A. HOY, TYEALER IN DRUGS AND MEDICINES, J J Chemicals, Varnish. 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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: STATE NORM AX SCHp&X, [For the SthrDUtriet, Pi.], itr AKD j Xansticid Classical Seiplnfiry- Sev. W. D. TAYLOR, A. M r..Princi \nl. Mr. Aestftipfc. Mrs. H. s7tTvlor/.’*”* * Preceptress. Miss H. A. Farssworth, ............... Ass Blast. * Assistant, and Teacher in MddeJ/Scfcool* ‘Assistant, and Teacher of Musft. The Fall Term of this Institution will (peu Sept. 2a. The Winter Term, Dec. 2d. The Spring Term, March 16th. ISG4, Each term to continue thirteen weeks, A formal School Course of study fpr graduation, embracing two years, is adopted. ’ . ‘ r Students for the Kormal Cojirse, and the Clnssi- C &1 Department, are solicited, ' - f \ ■ t- fi° r Particulars, address Rev, W. D. Ta.t- 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. Advertisements will be charged $1 per square of 10 Haes, one or three insertion?, nnd 25 cents j<,r subsequent insertion. AdvertiaemeiUs of lines considered; as a square. Thorsubjoincd rates will bo charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Te&rly advertisements: 3 mourns. (JaosißS. I2jrosiHS» 55,0- $4,60 , $6.00 I - MO 6,50 • 5,00 £.oo 5,50 10,00 i Column, 8,00 9,50 13 S 0 i “jo. ""H’?? " 20,00 25*00 \ do, Advertisements' not bavin" the number of inser tions desired marked upon them, will be published until ordered out and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads, end all kinds of Jobbing done in conntry establishments, executed neatly and promptly. Justices’, Constable’* and other BLANKS, constantly on band. m 26. 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* ® Rates of Advertising, .25,00 35,00 40,0 fr