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BY M. H. COBB. t
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JAS. LOffKEV & S. F. Wf'J.SON,
Attorneys & counsellors m law,
will attend the Courts of Tioga, T'otter and
BlcEean counties. [Weilsboro, Jan-J , : lhG3.]
DICKINSON
COESISG, N. X. . '
A. FIELD, ?r )prietor.
GUESTS taken to and from‘the-INpot free
of charge.' _ ' [JaifiilTSGS.]
. PESSSYLTAIIA HOliliMß,
‘Corner op main street and Tit^-AxiwnE, 1
Weilsboro, Pa. > '
j. W. BIQONir, jfjiijirietor.
THIS popular Hotel, having -bdeffc: T&fitteJ
and re-furnishcd throughout, is now igx r,! to tho
public as a firsixclass house. [Jar..' , iSJJ-]
S/HABT’S IB.OTEIL/
WELLSBORO, - TIOGa. CO. FB.FEA. '
THE subscriber takes this method!l/l inform
his old friends and cnstqjncrs that h i has re
sumed the conduct of the old “ Crystal, Fountain
Hotel," and wilHicrcoitor give it his entiikj itt’ention.
Thankful for past favors, he solicits a reiiis ;al of the
same. ' DAYTIKaART.
Wcllsboro, Nov. 4, ISG3.-Iy. - V'.* ;
IZAAK WALTON HOlgjE,
Gaines, Tioga Connty, JPi V-i:.
H. G. TERMILYEA, lV4pHeto/,
THIS is anew hotel located with) ac
cess of the best fishing and bunting'£ifaunds in
Northern Pennsylvania. No pains will b spared fdr
the accommodation of pleasure seekers jyi 1 the trav
• clling public. ‘ [Jan. X, 1563.] ,
WELISBOBO HOTtii
B. B. HOLIDAY,.... -i.-.P^pyrietor,
THE Proprietor having again taken p :ntefeion of
the above Hotel, will spare no pains to insure
’the comfort of guests and the traveling public. At
tentive waiters always ready. Terms reasonable.
Wellsboro, Jan. 21,18C3.-tf.
WATCHES, CLOCKS- * ASD
JEW EERY! ' p : '
Repaired at BTJLLA HD'S £CO’S. ST(>lJ£,;by the
subscriber, in the best manner, and at as lo Pprices’as
the same work pan be done for, first Vatp prac
tical workman in the State. /
Wellsboro, July 15, ISC3
A. FOLEY, •; ■
Watches, Clocks, Jewelrv, fefv, fee.,
REPAIRED AT OLD PEICEj, ,
POST OFFICE SOILING,
XO. 5, UXIOI7 BLOCTuI V
Wellsbbro, May 20,15C3, -
E. IV BLACK,, ;Tv;
BARBER & HAJR-DREpER,
SHOP OVER C. L. -WLCOX ; S STORE,
NO. 4=, UNION BLOTJK.
Wellsboro, June 24,15G3, . ' -j} '
FLOUR AND FEED ST<'|iHE.
WRIGHT & BAILEV>
HATE had their mill thorDughlj' jipaired
and are receiving .fresh ground, A jir, feed,
meal, See., every day at their store in . .
Cash paid for all kinds of grain.. 'jj.J ,
weight i/Hailey.
Wellsboro, April 29, 1853, • r , " ‘ -
AGRICULTURAL IBIPLEWIiI^TS.
I WOULD inform Boaters in Agricultural' Imple
ment?, that" I have Horse Bakes of -most ap
proved styles land superior quality. A f £i>, Hand
Rakes of a better quality than any manuloo'tnred in
this section, which I will furnish in any quwitUy de
sired, to dealers in the counties of-Tioga,Xxadford,
sad Lycoming. • I?* H. i^OUB,
Mainsburg, Nov. 18, 1563-omos. 3 «
‘ JIAKBI/E SWOP."
T AM now receiving, a STOCK bf ITALIAN
1 and RUTLAND MARBLE, (bopgLt T-UL cash)
aad am prepared to manufacture all SiniKof
TOMB-STONES
Sod MONUMENTS at the lowest priced A ;
HARVEY ADAMS is my authonzwl vjtrcnt and
will soil Stone at tjie same prices as atlh(t..aop.
V~£ HAVE BVT ONE PIIINJ. '
Tioga-May 20, ISO3-!r. A. I' .'COLE.
CLAIM AGEW^v
THE undersigned will promptly all
claims against the Government -for unices ren
dered in tho Military or Naval Service o£jffe United
States. Charges reasonable—will advar.t>ltbe legal
nceessarv fees if desired. No charge if success
fa! in the application. B. Mi-NAI X*HXON.
It'ft mice* : Eon. Victor Casc,\l. M- Es
iUrming Surgeon at Knoxville, Pa., -!!->■>. Strang,
Ciymcr, Pa., F. Strang, Hector, Pa.,.Ft#. Beebe,
Harrison. Pa. * ;
Westfield, Jan.* 11, ISGi.-Cmos 3 -
STATE NORMAL SCflfljTWL, 1
[For tho sth District, Pa.]’ ' k
AND
ITlau&f i£ld - Classical Scfn^ary.
Jlev. W. B. TAYLOR, 1. M
Mr <A^Ci?lant.
Mrs. H. S. Tatlor, A..;.......PvN&ptrcss,
MissH. A. Eauwswobtii,~ ‘..Ag'-^tant.
Assistant, and Teacher in-Mo*l££School*
Assistant, and. Teacher of
The Fall Term of (his Institution Sept.
3d. Tho Winter Term, Bee. 2d.' The Term,
March ICth,.‘lB6l. Each term to conli&tf.V thirteen
weeks. ’ I
A Normal School Course of study for Tgiajluailon,
•embracing two years, is adopted, “ ■
Students for the Normal Course,and fct ’jbe Classi
•:al Department, are solicited.
For particulars, address Rev. W. B. TaV
£eld, Tioga County Peana. Send for ft Ct-eular.
W. COCIiRAN,
President of the Board of
>WM. HOLLAND, Secretary
• Mansfield, August 5, 1863. • - r )
-TREiSMf DEPAETffIpT,
3ffi.ce of Comptroller of thfe Currency,
WASHINGTON, IS6I.
'TIfT’IIEREAS, by satisfactpry cvifeuo. presented
lj to the undersigned, it hashccnOia itoappear
that Tin: First National Bank, of tti4?borough,
*a tbc county of Tioga, and State ofy Pennsylvania,
bn? been duly organized under to tbc
of the act of Congressmen w An act
*2 provide a national currency, secured pledge of
Baited States stocks, and to provide fc?’ i .e ck*oula
boa and redemption thereof,approve! ternary 25,
•lfC.3, and has complied •with all'the privki *pne of snid
' L ct required to be complied with ’befot if 5-lnmencing
the business of banking : , i : ; *
THEREFORE,. I, Hcgh; -.VJjCullotit,
comptroller of the Currency, do that
tbo First NATioxAn Bank, of Wellsb county
‘Of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania,-IB homed to
commence the business of banking uir&r tbo act
sJoresaid. . N V :
J n testimony whereof} witness my hal ii (srjd seal of
office, this twenty-first day of March, fS \4&. •’
V "ut \ HUGH McC B^UOOH,
t Comptroller of < W Currency,
VOL, Xi
f,
TRIES! TREES! FOR SHE.
Apple, Price 20 cts. Extra, 25 cts.
■SUMMER VARIETY.-?— Early Harvest, Red As
tracbnn, Early Strawberry, Juneting, Early Sweet
Bough, Early White, Jenkens’ Pippen, Golden Sweet.
AUTUMN VARIETY. —Autumn Bongb,Graven
stein, Porter] Autumn Strawberry, Hawley or Dowse,
p4ar, Henry. Prince, Canada Snow, Jersey Sweet,
Stoddard, t Fttll Pippen, Mammoth' Pippen, Rarubo,
Fail Juneting, Neutral, Thomas Wells.
WINTER 'VARlETY. —Baldwin', Fay’s Russctt,
Boston Russctt, Golden Rnssett, Payne
Sweeting, BottlrGrccn, Sweet Pcarmain,Peek's Plea
stint, Bentley Sweet, Rhode Island Greening, Hnb
bardston, None Such, S wear. Black, Tallin an’s Sweet,
Dnnver's Sweet, Tompkln’s County,'King, Esopus
Spitzccburg, Wagoner, Lady’s Sweet, Yellow Bell—
florterp Dutch Mignonne, Newtown Pippen,' La-dies’
Sweet.
CRAT3. —Large yellow andred. Small, do, do.
Pcai SjPrice 50c. Extra, cx. Price.
SUMMER VARlETY.' —Bartlett, Brandywine,
Bloodgood, Benrro Gifford, Carpenter, Dearborn
Seedling, Gansel’a Burgamot, .Golden Bewre of Oil
boa, Harvest, Julienne, Madclienc, Kostiezer, Osborn
Summer, Summer Prank Real, Tyson.
AUTUMN VA2HETY,~yjcuno. Bose, Benrrc Dl
cl, Bcurro Ganbault, Bezi De La Mott,' Beurre De.
Amills, Buffbn, Cushing, Dix, Dutchess de Angou-i
lemo, Flemish Beauty, Fon Dante do Automno, Ful
ton, Henry Louise Bonne de Jersey, .Maria
de Louise, Napoleon, Onondago, Paradise dc Autom
ne, Scckel, Sheldon, Sweet Pear, Stevens’ Genesee, I
XJrbaniste, .Wogdstock, Vergnlieu, Washington.
WINTER - VARIETY. —GIout Morceau, Posse
Colmar, Winter Wadden, Lawrence, Ylcar of Wink
field, Winter Nelis.
PJani§, Price 50 els,
Blc'cker’s Gage, Columbia, Coo’s Golden Prop, Egg
Plum, Green Gage, Imperial Gage, Jefferson, Law
rence Favorite, Lumbard, Magnum Bomnrn Princes
Gage; Red Gage, Smith’s Orleans, Washington, Ru
ling Superb. .
Peaclics, Price 18 cts.
Bergen Yellow, Melocoton, Crawford’s Early, Early
York, Red Rare Ripe, Sweet Water, Geo. the Fourth,
Lemon Cling, Red Cheek Melocoton.
Cherries, Price 38 cfs.
Black Heart, Black Eagle, Black Tartarian, Down
er’s Late Red, Maydtfkc, Guigne, Elton, Late Black,
Grey’s Early White, Napoleon Bigcreau, Amber, Yel
low Spanish, Beauman’s May, Holland Bigarean,
Golden Drop of Herrington.
GRAPES.—lsabella, Diana, Hartford Prolific, Ca
tawba, Rebecca, Delaware, Concord,. White Sweet
Water, Black Burgundy. *
GOOSEBERRlES.—English—several varieties.
A. R. I&SCY,
ClTKKAK'TS.—WThite.’Cbcrry, Dutch and Red,
ORNAMEATAI.
Rorway Spruce, Balsam Fir, Scotch Fir, American
Arborrilm; Siberian do.. Weeping Mountain Ash,
Mountain Chestnut, European Larch,
Green Forsytbea, White Flowering Deutzia, Graceful
Deutzia, Chinese Wiegelia, Roses, Basket Willows.
The above I offer for sale afiny Nursery. They
■ore all of superior quality.. In digging and packing,
care will bo taken.; and the charge for packing will
bo the cost of materials used. Trees will be delivered
at the Tioga depot Iree of charge. Call at the Kqr
sery, and look at the trees for your own satisfaction.
' B. C. WICKHAM.
Tioga, Tioga'Co., Pa.—March 9, ’64-Sm®** ;
WHOLESALE ■ - * •
d'rf©' stoke; -■
Prince's Metallc Paint, Pfizer & Go’s Chemicals,
Thaddeus David’s Inks, Fluid Extracts,
Concentrated Medicines, Rochester Perfumery and
Cincinnati Wines and Flavoring Extracts,
Brandy, Paints and Oils,
Whitewash Lime,' Petroleum Oil,
’Kerosene Lamps, Brags and Medicines,
Patent Medicines, School Books,
Stationary, • ‘ Wall Paper,
Wyoming Mills Wrap- Window Glass,
ping Paper, Bye Colors,
Furnished at Wholesale Prices by
W. D TERBELI,
*C‘ Corning, N. Y.
" iZimmermann & Go’s,
NATIVE BRANDI & WINES,
MEDICAL & COMMUNION PURPOSES.
THIS BRANDY has been analyzed by the Me4i
ical Birector of the Naval Labratory at Brooklyn,
and substituted for French Brandy, for nse in the
United Slates Navy, It is also used and recommend
ed by Br. Medical Purveyor in New. York
of U. S. Army, in the Hospital of his Department.
DRY CATAWBA WINE.
THIS WINE has all the properties of Dry Sherry
Wine,
THIS WINE for its mildness is adapted for Inva
lids an£ for communion purposes.
MESSRS. ZIMMERMANN & CO., of Cincin
nati and. New York had formerly partnership
with N. Longworth of Cincinnati the wealthy Native
Wine producer, and therefore enables them to furnish
the best of American production* at moderate prices.
Sold by W. B. TERBELL, at Wholesale' and Re
tail, and by Druggists generally. i
Corning, N. Y., Jan. 20,15G4-tf.
Farmer’s Catedaisiu.
Question. Whatie the best kind of Wooden beam
Plow ?
Answer. The WIAXiD PLOW.
Qnes. Wherein does it excel all others?
Ans. In ease .of draft, in being less liable to clog,
and in fact it excels in every particular.
Qucs. .Where Is this Plow to be found ?
Ans. At the KNOXVILLE FOUNDRY,' where
they arc made, and at various agencies around the
country.
Queg. Are there any other plows made at that
Foundry?
Ans. Yes! Biles makes various kinds of wooden
and ironTjeam Plows, both for flat land and aide hill,
andhe keeps ahead of all other, establishments by
getting the BEST PATTERNS invented, without
regard to the COST.
Qnes.' Are Plows all that Biles.makes ?
An*. By no means. Ho also makes HORSE
HOES; a superb article for Corn, Potatoes, Ac.
HOAD beat the world. Cast Cul
tivator Teeth of -a very-superior pattern. Shovel
Plow Castings for new land, and indeed almost every
•thing that is ever made at a Foundry, from a Shot
Jack to a Steam Engine. *
Ques. Would you then advise mo to buj r there?
An?. Most certainly would I, for besides making
the best KIND of cfecry ‘thing, BUcs makes those
that arc tbc most X>URAiiLE, and jtds a common ex
pression where his Plows have been introduced, that
they last as long as from two to four got at any other
shop; bb has always been nt the business from a
small boy and ought to know how it is done, and if
you try his wares once, you will be ready with me to
tell all wanting anything in that Hno to go, send, or
in some other way procure them of J. P. BILES, at
the Knoxville Foundry, -
Knoxville, March 30, 1863-tf.
Baking soda & salebatus at 1
BOY’S DRUG STORE.
SULPHITE OF LIME for preserving CIDER, at
ROY’S DRUG STORE,
Behotetr to if)t mtitmim of tfje mttn of iFmOom nnXf tt>t of mtnltfys Mtiatm,
WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST. CONTINUE,
EOS
CATAWBA BRANDI.
SWEET CATAWBA WISE.
E AGITATOR
WEILSBOBO, TIOGA. COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MOANING, JUNE 1, 1864.
Select SMrtrff*
She flings at her wheel at the low cottage door,
Which the long evening shadow is stretching before,
With a music’ os' sweet os the music which seems
Breathed softly and faint jn the ear of ourdreams !
How brilliant and mirthful the light of her'©ye,
Like a star glancing out from the blue eflhe sky!
And lightly and freely her dark tresses play •
O'er a brow and a bosom as lovely.as they 1.
Who comes in bis pride to that low cottage door—■
Tho haughty and.ricb to the lowly and poor? . v
'Tis the great Sou thorp planter—tho master who
Ills whip-of 1 dominion o'er hundreds of slaves'. %
(t Kay, Ellen—for shame! Let those Yankee fools spin,
■Who would pass for our slaves, with a change of their
skin ;
Let them toil as they will, at their loom or the wheel,
Too stupid for shanm, and too vulgar to feel 1
But thou art toe lovely and precious a gem
To be bound by their burdens and sullied by them;
For shame, Ellen, shame I—cast thy bondage aside,
And away to the South, as my Messing and brHe.
Oh, come where no winter thy footsteps can wrong,
But where flowers are blossomingall the year long;
Where the shade of the palm tree is over my home,
And the lemon and orange are white in their bloom.
Oil.come to my home, vrbere my servants shall all
Depart at thy bidding and come at thy call;
They shall heed thee as mistress with trembling and
awe, r
And .each wish of thy heart shall bo felt ns a law."
Oh, could yon hare seen her —the pride of onr girls—
Arise and cast hack the dark wealth of her curls,
■With a scorn in her eye which the gazer could feel,
And glance like the sunshine that flashes bn steel 1
“ Go hack, haughty Southron 1 thy treasures of gold
Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
Thy home may, ho lovely, hut round it I hear .
The crack of the whip and footsteps of fear 1
And the sky of the South may bo brighter than ours.
And greener thy landscapes, and-fairejdßy flowers;
But dcaferer the blast round onr mountains which
raves, .
Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes over
slaves.
Full low at thy bidding thy negroes may kneel,
"With the iron of bondage on spirit nnd heel;
Yet know that the -Yankee girl sooner would be
In fetters with them than in'freedom with thee 1"
An Incident of the War.
Bight above our heads blazed the overpow
ering sun. We looked up piteously at the gla
ring sky, hoping in vain to see some friendly,
cloud interpose in our behalf, and cast a gen
erous shadow over our panting columns- .But
nothing, the clear blue of interminable
space, unrelieved by a single cloud;- and em
blazoned by the scorching sun, met our despair
ing eyes. Still we marched on, our blouses sa
turated with perspiration, and . our temples
throbbing painfully amid the tramp of a thou
sand brogans. Each one of the innumerable
strops which complete the harness of a soldier,
seemed to sink gradually into our burning flesh.
We did not drop from the ranks and stretch
our wearied linjbs 6n the yellow grass, or we
would famish for water, as nlone bad been seen
for many a weary mile, so still wo .moved on.
Beside me walked a pale, slender young fellow,
whom the boys had christened “ gentle Joe,”
doubtless on account of bis mild disposition.—
Joe ahd 1 bad been great friends since he bad
been transferred along with some eight or ten
others, some sis months previous.- He wag a
meek little fellow, and ns a matter of course
tyranized over by the rest. I often met him
about camp, and eventually took an interest in
him, and protecting him as far as lay in roy
power, /youi| imposition ; and, indeed; one day
rescued him from the hands of[ a drunken ras
cal, who, with an iron ramrod, whs about, to
impose summary punishment rin poor Joe, be
cause, forsooth, the little fellow had declined
visiting the quartermaster’s tent, for the pur
pose of realizing a canteen of whiskey. After
this I made an attempt to have him transferred
into our. mess, and, to his evident joy, succee
ded. Here, under my protection,. Joe seemed
perfectly happy; for, though in action he was
ns brave as the bravest, ho appeared to. have a
mortal terror of the rough ways of, the men, —
His modesty Jformed a capital subject for the
witty, nnd I would.often see him. turn scarlet
at some rough joke. He was very fond of mo,
however, and by many a little incident of self
sacrifice, I knew the patient affection of “gen
tle Joe.”
But to return to cur march. As I said, I
was dragging my weary limbs along beside my
friend, who, in spite of my own suffering, in
spired me with pity. His eyeballs were turned
painfully towards the lids ;■ his lips cracked,
dry, and bleeding, were drawn tightly across
his teeth ; his knapsack hang flapping from his
narrow shoulders ; and but one drop of sweat
rolled down his check—a drop of mortal agony,
pressed from on unwilling brain; Yet he bore
up, and his burning feet still echoed to the
thousands around, On, on we tramped; our
clothes, powdered, our beard gray, and our lunge
stinging with the hateful dust. Anon anon
fortunate falling in convulsions by the way,
and the surgeon bending over him in piteous
helplessness, for his flask is long empty, were
the only interruptions in our monotonous march.
But no signs of commiseration disturbed the
dogged expression of the grim faces that passed.
All feelings, all senses ware lost in one of in
tense thirst.’ No familiar shout greeted the
colonel as he rode along the linci trying with
ghastly smiles to cheer his men, or with husky
voice and swollen tongue to venture a melan
choly joke. Even the dumb stones reeciyed
no curse, as they struck the soldier’s foot-as be
went stumbling on.
•'Let me take your mosket, Joe,” said'l,
fearing he would sink down. But lie shook his
head and staggered on.
“ Will .you give the that gun?” I.resumed,
after he had taken a few more wild steps, reel
ing like a drunken man.
“I can carry it; Tom," he answered, looking
up gratefully. I saw it was useless to ask him,
as the bravo, little fellow would never have re
linquished it ; and it was evident, tbat.both ho
and his .musket must soon, fall, unless he was
relieved. , Therefore I unslung 'my knapsack.
*£HEYANKEB GIBIi.
BT JOHJT G. WHITTIER.
A DAY’S MARCH.
and. leaving it in my tracks, took the piece from
hi« shoulder. We had hardly gained another
mile before my head began to whirl, and the
glittering bayonets ahead seemed. a flickering
sheet of flame. I felt myself staggering.
‘' Here, Tom, I have some water, drink 1”
“Water!' I must be delirious, or ore you
mocking me ? No, Joe never does that. But
hadid hot drink-then he cannot have it. Joe,
Joe, where is the , water V’
• ‘“Here, Toro, in my canteen.”
“Then for God’s sake drink yourself, for X
won’t,” I answered ; determined he should not
sacrifice thej lost drop of life at the altar of
friendship. I dropped both muskets, in -hopes
they would relieve roe. It was in vain, for,
after a few random strides, I became' insensi
ble.
I was awakened by a grateful drop of wafer
trickling down my throat. “ More,’’ I gasped,
as I opened my eyes, and distinguished the form
of a man kneeling beside me., The canteen
was placed to my lips, and, as I drained it to
the last-drop, I recognized my " good Samari
tan’/ in the form of “ gentle Joe.” I felt some
what revived, and regained my feet, . ,
“ Come, Joe.”
Bqt be made no attempt to move, sitting mo
tionless, embracing his knees, and watching me
intently. - •
“ Are you goirjg, Tom?” he said vacantly.
“Of course; we will both die, if-we stay
here. Come on.”
“Good-bye, Tom,” be said; while an almost
angelic expression of love lit up . bis face. I
stood confounded; was'he crazy ? Then, for
the first time, theitruth flashed hphn my bewil
dered senses. I had taken his last drop .'of wa-j
ter, and he was famishing., I turned to him in
an agony of remorse. lie was lying upon his
back, with his eyes closed. I knelt beside him,"
nnd placed my hand on his temple; he slowly
opened his great brown eyes.
“Joe, friend,'how do you feel?’?. He an
swered faintly; ~
“Kiss me, Tom.”
Poor boy, hia mind wanders, thought I.
“ Qpme, now, let me carry you,” I said; but
he made no signs of'consciousness." I seized
his hand, but it was cramped and stiff. I laid
my hand bn his temple, bnt it'tbrobbed no
more. T raised the clenched hand to. my ,lips
and kissed it—for he was dead. I took,a small
gold chain from his neck, as a memento, and
taking off my" blouse, covered the face of “gen
tle Joe,” and reeled onward.- -
*■ - *
In my convalescence I- bethought me of the
chain. Taking it from my pocket,. I examined
it,,as well, as my tears would let me. Attached
to the chain was a small locket; enclosing an
amhrntypb of a girl—Jon’a sweetheart, perhaps,
poor girrP—or more likely' his 1 sister, as she
greatly resembles him. I took the picture from
the locked, in hopes offinding the name pnor
was I mistaken, for on the’back was pasted a
piece of paper, upon which wag i written :
“ Any one, who finds,this pfter I am killed,
will please send it to my mother, Mrs. ,
living at —— ! ' ‘ Josephine.”
A HAPPY HOME.
We can fancy a poor bird, forever restless,
forever on the-wing; beating the air, bright
with the sunlight; or black with the storm, with
its .weak wings .seeking shelter, but, finding
none. There-is no warm place for.tha wander
er, in a snug nest among the leaves of some
high and hearty old tree of the forest, fall of
comfortable chirpers. There is no' room for it
in any downy habitation, sunk jimid tho fra
grant foliage of the hedge, or fastened against
the sloping side of’ the grassy hillock. There
is no quick cry of welcome to greet its coming.
"Without any home, it wings its weary way thro’
space, until it is qhilled, and there is ho strength
left in its thin body. Then it circles, helpless,
to the ground, no more- to meet the sun with
signing, nor to praise the Giver of Light from
the tree top or herbage of the meadow.
. .But we will find it a more difficult task tp
imagine a humap being—one of ourselves, with
out any home, j&nd yet we encounter every
dsy of Pur live?, brush against them in the
street, and waive impatiently away, men made
in the-image of |3od, who are utterly homeless.
When .the coming shades of evening deepen
into the gloom of night, they cannot gladly turn
their hacks on' borrow, and go to a bright fire
side and a cirolejof loved andioving ones. The
cold stars find these forlorn creatures skulking
away into their wretched holes and hiding pla
ces, or creeping into the genial; light flooding
.put through windows upon the flinty street, or
pouring burning rum down their throats, and
dozing stupidly by the pot house fire, thcnoe to
he driven (when] relieved of their last cent) out
into the night. (And if the stars are 1 concealed
behind great sullen clouds,, which chase each
other in wild skjirry over the sky, and dash big
•drops to the c ( artb, these , houseless vagrants
must bear the rage of the eiemcjits, unless they
happily find refuge in some retired covert, or
are kindly suffered to become the inmates of
the lodges of tbje law. They have no home 1—
•Unfortunate, fohlish, or debased, they have no
hpmol |
Our reader a home, we hope. He is
blessed, if he is not a stranger in a strange
place, obliged td eat and sleep at- a mockingly
grand hotel, and’stare listlessly at people he
feels no more interest in than ha does in that
mystical individual who is said to exist in the
moon,-and fromj whom he would be silly to ex
pect sympathy and kindness; at a magnificent
holstery, uncongenial Inside and outside, find
ing loneliness land solitude , among. a great
crowd, and yearning with a homesick heart for
distant lights! j lie is likewise very fortunate
if his residence is not a boarding house, where
nobody makes it a point to cultivate anybody
or regard Lis follow with aught but suspicion ;
whose people are always making mischief; and
looking savage;and saying sharp things about
each other.
Our reader’s jhoroe, wo trust, is a happy home.
It need not be four stories high. It need-not
have a brown stone front; nor have vast suits
ot rooms with' frescoed" ceilings, an® Hashing
mirrors, and rich curtains, carpets, paintings,
and gewgaws ip inconceivable variety and use
lessness. To happy,'jour, home must be
Imadeao by its mmates.... llow true it is, that
I joy dances in with the sunbeam at the window
j of a'thatchedj cottage, and lights up the'faces
of its humble inhabitants; that silken lounges
often hold languid, miserable complaining bo
dies, and that good eating does not always
bring good cheer; that the humblest cabin of
the peasant may be illumined, into so great a
brightness as to outdazzlo the gorgeous palace
of the peer 1 If, when you, dear reader, grow*
sick and tired of the rough life of thestoroand
street, and bend yonr footsteps toward your
house—;be it lofty or lowly—you are welcomed
at the very threshold by a loving kiss, embrace,
smile, dr exclamation. If your arm chair is
ready by the fire, or at the table; if the loving
eye of a mother, sister, or wife, is upon you,
and their tender, delicate attentions are be
stowed ungrudgingly to make you comfortable ;
if there is no malicious, jangling jealousy, nor
protracted and bitter disputation about trivial
ities ; if there are good books, and pleasant
music, and pleasant games, and merry laugh
ter, and considerate kindness alt round, then,
indeed;, you have reason to thank God uncea
singly for your happy home. And it is your
chiefest joy in times of misfortune, that you
have one refuge from the clamorous, greedy,
contentious world—from the miseries of money
making and losings—and the fright and anxiety
which is pressed into every working houi of
your life. Though yonr paper is protested,
and your credit shattered, and your name wl is
pered into eager ears, there is one pbtoa where
you are sure of kindly treatment and unselfish
coromisseration.
.Prize your home. If it is not already a happy
one, you can make it so, if you exert a proper
influence there. Unknit the. brow, and db’nt
look like an animated account book when you
join the ; family group. Forget your counter
and cash drawers, and your bank books and
bills, and business, and strive to diffuse cheer
fulness ns mnch as possible. So far as your
means will permit, furnish it with pleasant
reading matter, and such harmless means of
diversion ar contribute so much to the satisfac
tion of home. Do’at mope nor anarl, nor yawn
your family into fidgets, and out of your sight.
And then you can sing with poor John Howard
Payne, although hot in his heart-broken spirit,
when you are faint in the race, and worn and
w(>nry, those lines which shall be chanted for
ever, until homesick wanderers are no more;—
- -“Home home I'sweet, sweet home 1
There’s no place like home,
There’s no place like home 1”
Henry Ward Beecher’s Interview, with the
King of Belgium.
• Me. Beecher gives the following account of
an interview with the King of Belgium:
“ When I - was in Ghent, at the request of the
American Minister, I consented, in the hope of
doing some good to our- country, to call on the
King of Belgium. It would not do for mo to
go without some preparation. As to borrow
ing a court suit, I would not; hut I did con
sent to get a white vest; and I did consent to
get some white gloves; andltUd consent to
get a stiff hat:. When I had got myself ar
ranged for going to Court, in a manner unlike
that to which I had been accustomed, I pro
cured a splendid carriage and started. As I
rode through the. streets, all the boys looked at
me. arid I felt very much like a fool going to
court. And, as I came to the King’s residence,
I thought the soldiers knew that I was dressed
up for the first time in my life in such things
—which was the fact. I did not know what to
say to the servitors at the foot of the stairs, or
to the servitors at the fop of tho stairs; but I
made my way along somehow. They conduc
ted me through a hall, and whisked me at once
before the King. He is a venerable personage.
He speaks the English language beautifully.—
Deis the mentor, he is the adviser of European
monarchs. If you were to see him dressed in
ordinary clothes, you would think him a plain
American citizen. But he was dressed, from
the crown of bis head to the .sole of his feet, in
all sorts of beautiful things and ornaments. —
He walked towards .me in a very stately man
ner, with his sword rattling on the floor by his
side, and I walked toward' him the headway I
could.. He bowed, nnd I bowed. We talked
together, and I called himSir,’ all through,.
and said a good many things that I should not
have said. I could not get it out of my head
that I was not afraid of the King, nnd that I
was doing something disreputable. I wanted
to observe court forms ; but the very desire to
do so rendered tho thing impossible. I saw
that he knew it; for he. smiled bcnignantly,
nnd seemed to have a fatherly consideration for
me; Finally, on-leaving the room, I ought to
hove backed out. I did go backward for one or
two steps; but then I turned and whisked
through tho. door, face foremost.”
Rloral ERclnsivoncs*.
Owing to the perversion of moral sympathy,
there are a groat many persons that separate,
themselves from human life, substantially fol
lowing after moral qualities. They live for
ideas. They give themselves to self-culture.—
They are to ordinary life cold, and heedless,
and indifferent, comparatively speaking. They
are like the birds that fly from the house and
from the farm, and seek the wilderness, and
build their nests in secluded nooks and in the
crevices of rocks, and are seldom seen. Thera
are many persons'wbo-think that, because they
have exquisite sensibility [and culture, they
have a right to live up aipong books, or pictures,
or philosophic ideas, and let the- toiling multi
tude thunder oh their reforraationsand conflicts
down below. They are like men perched upon
j a cliff, who give no thought to the ocean that
! rolls at its base, except to look at it occasion
j ally as a mere curiosity,—and such men have
the worst kind of selfishness. ■ Yet they think
j themselves Christians, simply by reason of their
[ negations. They are not tempted by passions;
i they do not mingle in human ambitions. They
1 are set free from the seductions of the lower
I sphere ; and they are unlovely because they aro
cold, and unsympathetic, and selfish—fur no
man can be a Christian that separates himself
from-his fellows, from his kind,—if. IK Beec’r.
Ir ever the cart was put before the horse, it
.was when wrong was placed before rig Tit,
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Miss Sis Bescibes the Bctuxasd Fris*
oners. ■
-I met Miss Dorotha Biz this morning—sister
of Major-General Diz—the guardian-angel of
our hundred hospitals—a- glorious woman in s
sublime cause. She waa in a flutter of patri
otic excitement over the barbarous treatment
of our heroes who fall into the rebel hands.
She bad just returned from Baltimore, she said;
where she had been at the request of the Sec
retary of War, to see our returning prisoners;
and she wanted to tell all about it. She stool
over the table where wo were gathered, ami
her tongue ran on, as an indignant woman's
will, the sad rehersal interlarded with fierce
gestures in the right.place. I will tell yoa
the story as she told ns.
'“I had just got to tbs wharf," she said,;
“ whan oar Flag-of Truce boat, tho City of
New York, came in, and Soon the poor fellowir
begat* to land—four hundred and flfty'of thear
from Belle Isle. Such a sight I It was a reg
iment of skeletons! Most of them had to bC
carried off on stretchers. Several died on tbs'
boat as thejy were lifted up. Nine died on tho
wharf listing their gratitude ia God that;
after all their privations, they were permitted
to die under the old flag! A majority were so
weak that they could scarcely speak, and in tt
hundred the brain seemed to be implicated;
First as near as we conld learn from thaf
few who conld tell the story, they had been
starved—systematically they though at
meagre scrap of - musty bacon being brought to
them with water so that they gradually lost
their strength, and became mere skin and bone,-
“ Then they wore left exposed in cold weoth*
er to freeze. They were in such a conditioa
of hunger at any time that a man would giver
his blanket or his shoes for a bit of food, so 1
that they became aimost deprived of cloth
ing, A majority of them bad their feet froied
more or less. Many had lost their feet, and
several had to bare their legs amputated
after their arrival at Baltimore.
“ Besides they were absolutely covered with
vermin, and in the moat distressing state. I
never saw, any of our boys so filthy-—never.-
They had been huddled together like sheep,-
and ns [their minds failed them they became'
deliriodk they gave less and less attestioa M
themselves.
Immediately on their arrival, they Were or
dered to have a thorough bath. It was pitia
ble to refuse their feeble cries for food I' * food I*
“ For God's sake give me something to eat V*
and our great strong Surgeons whom I never
saw shed s tear before cried like children, when
they were - obliged to deny the appeals and
confide their patients to a' simple diet and d
bath. .
“ Most of them bad to be carried to the
bath-room, but I saw one, apparently sturdier
than the rest, standing alone in his blanket*
and I ordered him to go .alone to the bath*
Without a word ho went. In half an hour he
was found there unconscious and helpless,
bis mind and strength having failed him to
gether.; 'An attendant lifted him up and sup
ported him as he got out, and accidently trod
on one of his feet when it came off I—having
been frozen to that degree during the dreadful
exposure of the winter;
“ A majority of the poor fellows are maimed
or invalided for Ife ; many of them are hope
lessly insane, also;. It seems to have been the
deliberate-policy of the rebels to return all
our prisoners in such a condition that they can
never more be of service to us.
“ Oh,- fir,” said Mias Dix, ‘lf your papef
could only stir up -the Administration to some
adequate retaliation for thesa awful crimes
against humanity—and if that can not be, tell
your people of Rochester to send their soldiers
even more freely to conquer these savages*
and secure protection through victory."—Cor*
respondent Rochester Democrat.
A WORD TO TBS PEOPt.D
Until the war is.over and the rebellion put
down, our people must make up their minds W
pay- high prices for goods, as well as high tax*
es upon their property. The immense expen*
ditures necessary in modern warfare mustdis*
turb the commercial balance, We cannot ex*
pect everything to run on as smoothly as if
wo had no rebellion in the country. High tax*
es we must pay to maintain our armies in thd
field, and to sustain the credit of the Govern
ment. Without a large income raised by tax
ation, the national currency must depreciate*
and prices will bound up higher and higher.
Our principal hope of safety now lies in heavy
taxation. Tho Government cannot borrow for*
ever unless there is provision made, for paying
interest and principal. Our public income
and tariff and taxation is not enough to meet
the emergency. Congress' must day on the
burden and the people must carry it for their
own good. It is better to pay a high tax and
support our financial system, than to pay noth*
ingaudletour treasury fall into bankruptcy.
Besides, hundreds of thousands of
citizons are on the battle-field, offering evefy*
thing, even to their very lives; for the causa of
the country. We ere asked only to pay a por
tion of .our substance. We risk no limbs nor
lives in staying at home employed in out usual
vocations. For the public good and own good*
we are called on to pay for the work that oth
ers are doing. It will cost us some economy
and self-denial, hut nothing compared with
what the soldiers experience every day. We
must atop our indulgence in costly foreign lux*
uries, and live in a manner to suit the timest
Money is abundant among ns, but it should
not therefore he wasted.' First, provide a de
cent subsistence for yourselves and families ;
then give what you can afford to the Aid Soci*
eties and Sanitary Fair, and invest the sur
plus in the public loans, the best securities in
the world. Pay your taxes cheerfully and
freely, and, be satisfied that every act of your
hand is for tho freedom, hnppines, and unity
of your country.— Bucks County Intelligencer-.
Sir Peter Lely made it a rule never Id
look at a bad_ picture, having found byeipe
riertca thatwherrever ha did so his pencil look
a tint from it. Apply the same rule to had
lwok? J ; mid r bad' company.
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