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W, U. JACOBY, Proprleior.
Truth and Right Cod and our Country.
Two Dollars per Annua.
VOLUME 13.
!BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MAY 1, 1861.
NUMBER 17.
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SPRfNQ.
A flash of green is on the bough ,
A warm breath panteth in the air,
.' And in the earth a heart-pulse there
Throbs underneath her breast of 6uow.
- Lii'e is astir among the woods,
And by the moor, and by the stream,
The year, as from a torpid dream,
Wakes' in the'euhohin'e on the buds.
Wake? op in mosic as the song
Of wood bird wild, and looonl rill
More Irequent from the windy hili
'Comes greening forest aisle along.
Wake op io beauty as the sheen
Of woodland pool the gleam receives
Thro' bright flowers, overbraidej laaves
'Of broken sunlight?, golden-greeu.
'She sees the outlaw'd winter stay
, Awhile, to gather after htm -Sjiow
robes, Irost cryatilFd diadem,
'And then in soft showers pass away.
fShe could not love rongh winter well,
Yet cannot choose bot mourn htm now ;
, So swears awhile on her young brow
'His gift a gleaming icicle.
Then turns her, loving, to the sun
Upheaves her bosom's swell to his,
, And, in the joy of-his first
Forgets for aye that sterner one.
'Old winder's pledge from her he reaves
That i-y-cold, though glittering par
And zones her with a green cy mar,
Aud girdles round her brow with leaves.
The primrose and the woo.l vifctet
He tangles in her chining hair,
'And teaches elfin breezes fair
To ting her some sweet canzonet.
All promising long samroer hours,
When she in his embrace shall lie,
Utder the broad dome of bright ssy,
"Oa uios.ey couches starred with flowers.
Till she smiles back again to him
The beauty beaming from his face ; -And,
robed ift light, glows with the grace
Ol Eden placed cherubim.
O, earth, thy glowing loveliness
Around onr very hearts has thrown
An aiidimr.ed joyance all its own,
And suon'd u o'er with bappines.
The list Days of ChaiB II. 01 Spain.
The prince on whom to much depended
was the most miserable of human beings.
In old lime he would have been exposed !
as soon av he came into the world, and t
expose him would have been a kindness
From his birth a blight was on his body,
and on his mind. With difficulty his al
most Imperceptible spark of life had been
screened and fanned into ; a dim and flick
ering flame. His chddhooJ, except when
he could be rocked and . snqg into sickly
s eep, was one long piteous wail.' Till he
was ten yar o!d his day were passed on
the laps of women, and he was never once
buffered to stand or his rickety legs. None
ofhose tawny little urchins, clad in rags
stolen from scarecrow?, whom Murillo loved
to paint begging or roltfn in the sand,
oweJ less to education than this despotic
ruler of 30.-000,000 of - subjects. The most
important events in the history of his king
dom, tho very names of province and cit
ies which were among his most valuable
possessessions, were unknown to him. . it
may well be doubted whether he was aware
that Sicily was an island, that Christopher
"Columbus had discoved America, or that
the English were not Mohammedans. In
his' youth, however, "though too imbecile
for study or business, he was not incapable
"of being amused ., . He shot, . hawked and
banted. ; He enjoyed with the delight of a
tree Spaniard two delighful spectacle : a
lior?e with its bowels gored out and. a 5eir
wriihingin the fire. The time cara'o when
the mightiest of instincts ordinarily, wakens
Trom iia repose, it was hoped that the
young ting would not prove invincible to
female attractions, and.ihat he would leave
u Prince of AstaHas to succeed him. A
fcoasort was-found "for him 1 in the : royal
family of France and her beauty and grace
igave him alangaiJ pleasure lie liked tb
uJorn, her with jewels, id see her dance,
iand 10 tall h'e'r what sport he had had with
iiis.dogs and falcons. But it was soon whiS
erei that the was a wifs only In name.
he died, and her place was 'supplied by a
German princess nearly allied to the im
perial hosse. Bal the second marriage,
like the first proved barren, and long be
fors the king had passed the prime of life
all the politicians of Europe had began to
A fake' it for granted in all their calculations
ihat hs woa'J be the last descendant In the
fcii'.s iir. 3 cf Charles V. Meanwhile- a Snl
laa sad &V.cl melancholy took possession
tf bU czi. Tii diversions which had been
tha asrhra eaploj-mont of his youth be
tana dkta:ifd to hita." lis ceased to find
j-lsiuzre in LU 1:213 and boar spears, in thS
tzci--;: a.J tha brllflit. Sometimes he
t'r.ci L.:.:?e'ij' cp in an inner chamber from
lbs t
s ,ce :rt
Jlitce-s he
set, in life
did 'not waste id listless indolence were di
vided between childish sports and childish
devotions. He delighted in rare animals,
'and'still more 'in dwarfs. : When neither
slrange beasts nor little men could dispel
th black thoughts which gathered in his
mind, he repeated Aves and Credos; he
walked in processions; sometimes hestarv
ed himself; sometimes he whipped him
self. At length a complication of maladies
completed the ruin of all bis faculties.
His stomach failed '; nor was this strange,
for in him the malformation of the jaw,
characteristic o! his family, was'so serious
that he could not masticate his . food, and
he was in the habit of swallowing ollas and
sweetmeats in the state in which they were
set before him. While suffering from in
digestion he was attacked by ague. Every
third 'day his convnUive tremblings, his
dejection, his fits of wandering, seemed to
indicate the approach of dissolution. His
misery was increased by the knowledge
that everybody was calculating how long
he had to live, and wondering what would
become of his kingdom when he should be
dead. The stately dignitaries 6f his house
hold, the physicians who ministered to his
diseased body, the divines whose business
it waa to soothe his not less diseased mind,
the very wife who shonld have been intent
on those gentl'n offices by which female
tenderness can alleviate even the misery of
hopeless decay, were all thinking of the
new world which was to commence with
his death, and would have been perfectly
willing to see him in the bands of the em
balmer, if they could -have been certain
that his successor would be the prince
whose interest the espdosed.
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In a very short time the king's malady
took a'riewfortn. That he was too weak
to lift his food to bis misshapen mouth; that
at thirty-seven he had the bald head and
wrinkled face of a man ofseventy ; that his
complexion was turning from yellow to
re?n ; that he frequently fell down in fits,
and remained long insensible these were
no longer the worst symptoms of his mala
dy. He had always been afraid 'of ghosts
and demons, and it bad long been necessa
ry that IhTee friar should watch every night
"by his restless bed as a guard against hob
goblins. Bat now he was firmly convinced
"that he was bewitched, that he was possess
ed, that there was a devil within him, that
there were devils all around him. He was
exercised according to the forms of his
i church, hut this ceremony, instead of qui-
enng him, scared him oat of almost all the
I little reason that nature had given him. In
his misery and despair he was induced to
resort to irregular modes of relief! His
confessor brought to court impostors who
pretend that tbey could interrogate the
powers of darkness. The devil was called 5
op, sworn and examined. This strange j
deponent made oath, as in the presence of.
, God, that his Catholic majesty was under a
ppejj , which had been laid on him many I
yearB before, for the purpose of preventing
tne continuation of the royal line. A drug 1
1 had been compounded out of the brains and j
Sidneys of a human corpse, and had been j
administered in a cup of chocolate. This
portion had dried op all the sources of life, j
and the best remedy to which the patiertt j
could now resort would be to swallow a
bowl of consecrated oil every morning be
fore breakfast."
Unhappily, the authors of thi ory fell
into contradictions which they could excuse
only by throwing the blame 01 Sa'an,.who
the said, w&s an unwilling witness, and a
liar from the beginning. In the midst of
their conjuring the inquisition came down
upon them. It must be admitted that if the
holy office had reserved all its tenors for
such cases, tt would not have been remem
bered as the most hateful judicature that
was ever known among civilized men.
The subaltern imposters were thrown into
dungeons. But the chief criminal contin
ed to be master "of the king and of the king
dom. Meanwhile, in the distempered mind
of Cbarlen one mania succeeded another.
A longing lid pry into' those- mysteries of
the grave from which human beings avert
their thoughts had long been , hereditary In
his hopse. Joana, from whom the mental j
constitution of her posterityseems to have
derived a morbid taint, had sat, year after
year, by the bed on which lay the ghastly
remains of her husband,' apparreled in the
rich embroidery and jewels which he had
been wont to wear while living; Her son
Charles found an eccentric pleasure in cel
ebrating his own obsequies, in tatting on
his shrond, placing himself in the coffin,
covering himself with the pall, and lying
as one dead till the requiem had been song
and the mourners had departed, leaving
him alone in the tomb. Philip 11. fonnd a
similar pleasure in , gazing on the huge
chest of bronze in which his remains were 1
to be laid, and especially on the skull which
encircled with the crown of Spain, grinned
at hi hi fro rh the cOver. Philip IV., too,
hankered after be rials and burial places,
gratified his cariosity by gazing oh ihe re
mains bf hit great grandfather, theem per
br, and sbmet:mes stretched himself out'at
full length, like a .corpse; in the niche
which he had selected for himself In the
royal cemetry.. -In that cemetry his son
was hoMf attracted by a strange fascination.
Europe could bhoir no inore magnificent
place of sepulchre. A staircase intrusted
wkh jasper led down ' frOm the stately
chore'; cf the EsccHal Into an octagon situ
ated jjst beneath the high aliar. The fault
inpervioni to the sun, was rica with gold
On the right and on the left reposed, each
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in a massy sarcophagus, the departed kings
and queens ofSpain. Into this mausoleum
the king descended with a Jong, train of
courtiers, and ordered the coffins to be un-
closed. His mother had been embalmed
with such consuma'.e skill that she appear-
ed as she had appeared on her deathbed.
The body of his grandfather, too, seemed J
entire, but crumbled into dust at the first
touch. From Charles neither the remains
of his mother'rior those of his grandfather
could draw any "signs of sensibillity. But
when tHe gentle and graceful Louise, of
Orleans, the miserable man's first wife, she
who lighted op his dark existence with one
short and pale gleam of happiness, present
ed herself, after the lapse of ten years, to
his, eyes, his sullen apathy gave way.
'She is in 'heaven," he cried, "and 1 shall
soon be'lhere with her ;" and, with all the
speed of which his limbs were capable, he
tottered back ro'the upper air.
The Dnty'df Democrats.
We can cordially endorse the following
articles from the Chambsrsburg Valley
Sphil. We feel that as Democrats we had
no part nor lot in bringing on this war, and
that if our efforts to restore peace had been'
met by a proper spirit on the other side, it
might have been avoided ; but the war is
here and must be fought through Let ns
give a generous and hearty support to all
measures to preserve our government and
restore peace to'our distracted country -and
and settle political differences aflerwardo.
This is the only course the true patriot can
pursue.
The.Dott of Democ8ts. In the 'present
awful condition of affairs in our beloved
country it becomes the duty of every man to
assume that position best calculated to allay
excitement, and restore tranquility tb the
nation, at the earliest possible period.
Every hour of civil war in the land is one
of ruin and horror. It behooves every man
then, in these fearful times, to drop the
partisan and become the patriot that a spee
dy peace may be conquered. We need
hardly admonish members of the Demo
cratic party to give up for the time beirfE
their party predilections and stand by the
government under which they live, and
which it is their bounden duty to support.
This loyal position the Democratic party
has ever maintained, and it will not now
prove recreant to all its former devotion to
the country by abandoning It. In assuming
this attitude it requires no surrender of our
political principles, no acknowledgement
ot the rights of a sectional party in the
North to invade the Constitutional rights of
the South it requires no sacrifice of this j imprisonment at labor, not exceeding ten
sort, it requires us simply to do our duty by ! yeers, and be fined in a sum not exceeding
our Government. Let . us not imitate the five inousand dollars, or both, at the dis
"bad example of the Republican party, cr ' crelion of the Court.
the material out of which that party is com- j
posed, by arraying ourselves against the I A Strange Delusion. A respectable la
government in lime of war. They were ' dY of Albany applied, a few days since, to
opposed to tha war of 1812, and denounced a physician, and staled to him the singular
the government all through the Mexican circumstances of her caso. The lady in
war, with a bitterness that knew no bounds,
They voted against furnishing supplies to
our soldiers, and hoped that our gallant
soldiers might meet with 'hospitable graves.'
There canno't be found a Democrat to utter
as wicked a wish as this no not one.
And yet this is the party that talk so fierce-
ly of 'traitors' to the country in time of war.
For consistency sake they had better rer -
rait their patriotism become full-fledged j
before they attempt such loyal flights. j
Let us prove now, as the Democratic :
party hai ever done, that we are better
patriots than ihe Republicans. Let us j
stand op for the government in pOwer and i
not be found giving 'aid and comfort' to '
the enemy in time of war. Had this war
occurred under a Democratic administra
tion, as it might readily have done had it
not been for the wise policy pursued by
iir. tsucnanan, we wouia nave expec.ea
the Republicans lo sustain the government.
They can ask and expect nothing more and
nothlno- less of us. If we are divided
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among ourselves, and arrayed against
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government, it Will only create bad blood
in me commamiy aim u mo eusci 01
. . i ' j i a i a a t
prolonging the war and adding lo all its
horrors. We want a short war, now that it
his begun, and hope negotiations for peace
on a basis satisfactory to all sections, may
be speedily commenced and definitely de
cided. It were belter to settle our difficul
ty by diplomacy than the bayonet at all
times and under all circumstances. This
course it was hoped the present adminis
tration would adopt and not plunge the
conhtry into civil war, the most horrible,
cruel and relentless of all wars. Il has,
however, seen fit to accept the dreadful al
ternative of war war against our own
countrymen. This every lover of his coon
try, and ol humanity, will regret ; but while
he may deplore it, at the same time impo
ses a duty upon him, from which it would
be traitorous to shrink he must sustain the
government under hhich he lives. It is the
motto of all true patriots ray country, may
it always be right, but right dr wrong, thy
country.
' : ; I'rayer. ;
! bften say my prayers, '
" But do lever pray?
Or do the wishes of my heart
Suggest the words 1 say !
J may as well kneel down, 7
. And worship Gods of stone.
As offer to the Living God,
A prayet of words alone.
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C' " So far so good," as the boy said!
Doom of Home Traitors.
Xhe ronowin imnortant bill, "fixing e.
: Tere penalties to the enlistment of men and
the fining out of privateers to assist the
f Secessionists,' was passed by both Houses
our Legislature at Harnsburg and signed
' hy ,he Governor on Saturday, and is now a
''faw :
An act supplementary to an act to con
solidate, revise and amend the penal laws
' this Commonwealth, approved the thirty
first day of March, Anno Domini one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty.
Section 1. Be it enacted &c , That If any
person or persons belonging to or residing
within this Ssate and under the protection
of its laws shall fa"ke a commission or com
missions from any person, State or States,
or other enemies of this Stale or of the
United States of America, or who shall levy
war against this Siate'or Government thereof
or knowingly and willingly shall aid or as
sist any enemies'in open war against this
Stale or the United Stales, by joining the
armies, or by enlisting, or procuring 'or
persuading others to enlist for that purpose
or by furnishing such enemies with arms or
ammunition, or any other articles for their
aid and comfort, or by carrying on a traitor
ous correspondence with them, or shall
form or be in any wise concerned in form
ing any combination or plot or conspiracy
for betraying this Slate or the Uniietl Slates
of America into the hands or power of any
foreign 'enemy, or any organized or preten
ded government engaged in resisting ihe
laws of the United States, or shall give or
send any intelligence to the enemies of this
or of Ihe United States of America for that
purpose, every person so offending and be
ing legally convicted thereof, shall be guilty
of a high misdemeanor, and shall be sen
tenced to undergo an imprisonment for a I
term not exceeding ten years, and be fined
in a sum not exceeding five thousand dol
lars, or both at the discretion of the Court.
Provided, That this Act shall not prohibit
any citizen from taking or receiving civil
commissions for the acknowledgment of
deeds and other instruments of writing.
Sectiom.2. That if any person or persons
within this Commonwealth shall build, con
struct, altar or fit out, or shall aid or aseist
in building, constructing, altering or fitting
out any vessel or vessels for the purpose of
making war, or privateering, or other pur
pose, to be used in the service of any per
son or parties whatsoever to make war on
the United States of America, or to resist
by force the execution of the laws of ihe
United States, snch person or persons shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic
tion thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo
question has lor many years been atflicied
wilh an irresistible penchant for dnplica-
ting everything she may have lo do. If
he desires to go out, she does so, and then
88 carefully unrobes, folds her clothes and
deposits them, in the place from whence
they were kon after which, she can
; "dre8 acd proceed wherever inclination or
1 Business may lean ner. Having reached
the termination of her walk, whether it be
to the house of a friend, or the store, to
make a purchase, she finishes her call or
transacts her business, and returns home
the same as any other person would do ,
but here, however, the synonym terminates;
for no sooner does she reach home than the
must im medially retrace her steps no
matter whether the weather be fair or
stormy, cold or warm. But this lime she is
with .imply going to the door of
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! aSain return home, with the conviction lhat
' tha" ne haR done her du, or Pe'frmed
,he involuntary penance which some invis-
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I IDie power lias imposed upon uer. a:IBI
I oamasi, ainner or supper, sue can exer
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t l'ipc iiu f uiiuuii ui uei un 1. uiitii biics iidn
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repeated, in pantomime, eacn uisiinci
in pantomime,
meal. If she steps to the door to answer j God bade me let go my hold, 1 was in des
the bell, to witness some passing pageant f pair. But the Bank of Heaven had 1101 fail-
or other display in the street, she must re
turn to her room, sit down in the same
position she has previously occupied, and
again go the door in ihe same manner as
he has done at first. If, in raising a cop
of tear or coffee to her lips, by some acci
dent it should fall from her hand the casu
alty, slight as it is, mast be immediately
repeated.
Forty years once seemed a long and
weary pilgrimage to tread, i: now seems
bill a step. And yet along the way are
broken shrines where a thousand hopes
have wasted into ashes; foot prints sacred
dnder their drifting dust; green mounds,
whose grass is fresh with the watering of
tears ; shadows even, which we would not
forget We will garner the sunshines of
those years, and with chastened step and
Hopes, push on towards evening whose sig
nal lights will soon be seen swinging where
the waters are still, and the storms never
beat. T. IV. Bro&n.
fSTlt is said lhat "Old Abe" euchered
the Baltemoreans. This is not so, bnt the
facts are, that he saw their "hand" and
merely said " Pan." The Baltlmorearts
then gave him the "deal."
CHusbahd: Mary.' roy ' loTe, .this
Rock at The Bottom., -
When my Willie was sixteen he acci
dentally dropped a valuable watch into the
well. His father was absent from home;
and without consulting me, he resolved to j
recover the treasure. 'Providing himself a j
long handled rake, he gave it in charge to j
his sister Jennie, iwo years younger, and
bid her lower il to him when he called, he j
stepped into the bucket and, holding fast .
by the rope, commenced his dehcent. The
bucket descended more rapidly thot Willie
expected, and struck heavily against the j
side bf the well ; the rope broke, and he J
was thrown into the water. I
"Mother, I shall be drowned !" was his '
despairing cry, which Jennie re-echoed coming day. All, all seemed to rest ; not a
with a wail of anguish. . But I knew the gOU seemed to stir. Bnt did all rest 1 Oh
depth ol the water, and .houted to him as n0 j There was one who slumbered not,
camly as I could. "Stand upon your feet, j Biepl nol ; but ere long would sleep ne'er
Willie ; the water isn't over four feet deep." ( again to wake until the trump cf the Arc'h
"But 1 shall sink in the mud," said the , angel should wake the dead in earth and
poor boy, still striving to keep himself sea, and bid them rise to meet the mighty
afloat by clinging desperately to the slip- ' ju'die. Racked with'pain. and weakened
pery stones. j
Let go the stones and stand up."
The assurance of a hard foundation, and
the impossibility of holding much longer io , last, and sheltered him from the slorm of
the slimy surface of the stone wall, gave terror, which often overwhelms, ere death
him confidence. He felt for the rocky bot- j makes 6ure its victim. He died, and soon
torn, placed his feet firmly upon it, and lo the grass will wave above his grave ; and
his great joy fonnd (hat ihe water scarcely that silent mound, and ihose two marble
reached to his shoulders. I sent Jennie to 'stones, placed there to mark his la?t rest
the 'houe for a new strong rope, and fast- ing place will be all to tell us that once he
ening one end of it securely I lowered the lived, and now reposes there beneath that
other to him to be tied into ihe bucket, and sod. Oh! the silent but mighty eloquence
we drew him safely up. j of the grave stones, what a sol men lesson
"O mother !" said the dear boy when he : they teach us of the frailty of man, what a
was rescued, "those were precious words deep sense of our own nothingness -per-
to me "there t rock at Ike bottom J I shall ,
never forget them."
Two years after, in a commercial panic.
my husband's property was swept away, 1
and we were reduced to poverty. At first
I bore bravely up. I did not prize wealth ,
and luxury for my own ake, neither did I ;
covet it for my children. I chifly mourned i
for my husband's disappointment as his
crushed hooes, and strove Vv unflagging
j cheerfulness to cha.e away the gloom
which settled so heavily upon him. 1 en
deavored to assist him, not only by the ut
most economy in household expenses, but
by devising plans for the future. Willie
and Jennie were old enough to tarn their
own support, and even to aasist in the edu
cation of the younger children. I succeed
ed in putting them in the way to do this. I
felt strong and brave, and almost wondered
el my husband's despondency.
But new reveres. The baric in which
Jennie had deposited her quarier's salary,
which might partially meet our necessities,
suddenly failed, and her money was lost.
I could bear this too; she would sooi be
able lo replace it. Next, the school in
which she taught was dif banded, and Jen-
niehad to 'take much lower wages ; but
she still earned a little, and I said cheer-
fully, "We will not murmur; half a loaf i
better than no bread." Next Willie's hand
was disabled by an accident, and he lost
his situation. My courage began to give
way; but rallying myself for one more ef- !
fort, I resolved 10 brave the reproaches of
friends and ihe world's dread laugh, and
seek remunerative employment for myself,
It sorely tried my womanly delicacy, yet it
brought the needful aid, and I battled with
my wounded sensitiveness, and aa'n
screwed up my failing courage. But the
, laM blow came ; sickness suddenly .laid me
1 prostrate. "1 shall give up now ; we must
all sink together !" was the language of my
despairing soul.
''Dear mother," said Willie, when he
heard my lamentation, "do you remember
what you said to me when I was at ihe bot
tom of the well ?
I have often thought of it
of late. I know we are in deep waters,
but God has promised thai they shall not
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j foundation ! Let us plant our feet upon
j bis promises, and stand firmly. We cannot
i sink, for 'there's rock at the bottom.'"
I u 1 .-!.. I I . ... L .
uearu aim tuus. iue ieauu iu my uean.
II .i..tujv i : . l . i :
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; aw mai i nau ueeu ci.ngmg 10 uie up
: yci v riuiica ui iiuuiaii ciicwxiu ami pchuo" .
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i penaence ; ana so, wnen ine proviaence oi
ed ; God was able to redeem his promises ;
and though I stood in deep water it should
not overwhelm me, neither should 1 cink,
for "there's rock at the bottom."
So Irorh ihe chamber where pain and
illness still hold me prisoner, I send to each
burdened and weary child o? God, who is
tempted to feel lhat all is lost, the key-note
of my new and greatful psalm, whatever
your sorrow br strait my be, plant your feet
trustingly upon the Rock of ages, and with
me, ' thank God and take courage." Amer
ican Messenger.
Politkwess. Politeness is a redeeming
part, in a persons character. It is the most
beautiful illustration ol the refining power
which a higher development of humanity
always exerts upon our race. - By polite
ness is meant that behavior of man towards
man that he would ask for himself It is
but a part of the mode of carrying out the
great Christian precept which lies at the
base bf order and harmony among men.
''Do unto others as you would that others
as shonld do unto you." Do what we may
in life, the wheels of society car. never
move smoothly and well., where the spirit
of politeness does nol actuate the thoughts
and deeds of man in his intercourse with
lints on the Death of W. A. Scott.
'by a jriend.
The day had e'or.e
The bright sun, that
great luminary that shines so brightly and
so sweetly down upon ns, that warms and
enlivens the earth, that cheers the heart of
man in 'his'pilgrimage 'through life, and
makes the earth a pleasant dwelling-place
for him, had slowly sunk behind the clouds
that obscured the western horizon. The
night came on apace, and darkness veiled
the land. All nature seemed at'rest, Man
wearied with the toils of the day had "joy
fully hailed the return of night, and early J
retireil toffil hi8 body for the labors of the i
to utter helplessness, ho lay on the borders
eternity, the grave would soon close o'er
him, he feared it not ;the Rock upon which
his hopes were founded stood firm to the
vades our frames, as we gaze upon the in
scriptions which they bear; they tell as
perhaps of one stricken down in the vigor
of youth, as was my friend, cut off by the
hand of death, when promises of a long
and happy life were set before him, but he
is gone; freed from the toils, trial, and
troubles of earn. We trust he is in Heaven,
where sufferings never enter and where
sorrow is unknown
'Tis hard 10 die, he said,
'Tis hard to leave my friends,
But soon in Heaven, I'll see
The joy that never ends.
Dot to Avoid a Bad ffasband.
Never marry a man for wealth. A wo
man's life consintelh not in the things she
poceseeth.
Never marry a fop, or one who struts
about dai:dy.like in his silk gloves and ruf
fles, with a silver headed cane and rings on
his fingers. Beware ! there is a trap.
Never marry a niggard, a close fisted,
wretch, who saves ever penny, or spends
it grudgingly. Take care lest he stint you
to death.
Never marry a stranger whose character
: " nol Known or tested, aome leraa.es
j jamf ri8hl inl ths fire wilh ,heir ei68
open.
Nevr marry a mope or a drone one
! who and draggles through life, one
foot after another, and let things take their
own course.
Never marry a mar. who treats his moth
er or sister unkindly or indifferently. Such
j treatment is a mre indication of a mean
and wicked man.
Never on any account, marry a gambler
or a profane person, one who in the least
speaks lightly of God or religion. Such a
! ma" canever make a good husband
Never marry a sloven, a man who is
negligent of his person or his dress, and is
fiiihy in his habits. The external appear
ance is an index to the heart.
Shun the rake as as snake, a viper, a very
demon.
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breath is polluted;and.hoise vitals are be
ing gnawed out by alcohol.
A Nobik Horse Grant Thornburn says:
"1 once saw a horse in the neighborhood ot
New Vork drawing a load of coal, twelve
hn,UI In r9n. Th Un. wc
. - -
very narrow, the driver, some distance
behind, was conversing with a neighbor
The horses, on a slow walk came up to a
child sitting on his hi:id quarters in the
middle of the road, gathering up dust with
his hands, and making mountains out of
mole hills. The horse stopped he smell
ed bf the child there was no room to turn
off. With his thick lips he ga'hered the
frock between his teeth, lifted the child and
laid him gently on the outside of the wheel
track and "went on his way rejoicing."
And well might he rejoice he had done a
noble deed."
Provisions Plenty. At ihe beginning
of operations at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg,
the commissariat was somewhat confused
and defective. The people of Berks county
hearing this, yesterday forwarded fifteen
tons of provisions for the soldiers from lhat
region. We are gratified to learn that the
Commissary Department is now on a good
footing. Several hundred tons of haras,
beans and crackers have arrived, the gro
ceries and warehouses have an abundance
of flour, and the butchers are receiving
cattle by the car load from the West.
EF"The boy who undertook to snck an
egg-plant and was choked by the yolk, has
recovered.
American Fall Scenery,
There can be nothing more beautiful in
nature than an American scenery when it
begins to show the effects of the gentle
touch of autumn, or of the fall a- we prefer
to call it in spite of Englieh loxicographers,
for the sake cf the tender associations em
bodied in the idea of the fall of the leaf
England has her dowy spring.
"When birds be merry and shawes the
. green," t
but the glorious of our ( American autumn
are unrivalled, incomparable. Visit fhe
couutry upon some bright morning in Oc
,uu"' J"cro uern a ni ,roM
rfady' antl !he B,ubb,e fie,d bare down
tober. There has been a slight frost al-
on
their suit of sober brown. Alons the lands
we discover a thousand touching and lovely
indications that autumn has alreadjr begun
to irail 'her garments among as stately,
but most wealthy and rewarding qneen.
She has plucked the leaves of the grapes,
and has here and there touched the leaves
of the maples with her wiue-stained fing
ers. The cock quail calls up. his mates at
evening through the tall weeds to ihe mat
ted 'purple brambles, and down swoops tb
keen-eyed hawk, like Satin, "seeking
whom he may devour." The maize fields
topped and stripped, assume a dull, dead
yellow, touched here and there with mil
dew, and giving no token of the wealth and
plenty that bear down their faithful stalks.
Apples shine bright and rosy in k the orch
ards, hall hidden among the green leave?,
jike the blushe..5of merry damsels that the
would conceal behind their veils, or among
their dancing curls. The woodcock dips
his long bill into ihe mud of the swamps',
levying taxes upon worm-nature, the plo
ver jifts his shrill 'plaintive voice at morn
and even ; the kildee sails erratic by, and
flashes on your dazzled eye the snowy
white of his bosom. Heavy and green
hang the chesuut burs, touching already
with gold, but waiting for a black frost to
practice its obstetric arts nponjlhem. Mes
sieurs Squirrels have deserted the corn
fields, and are new exceedingly busy lay
ing by their winter -tores, filling np their
poachy cheeks, and skarrying. to the right
and left froraj every hickory tree. On the
rivers, the wild ducks begin to make their
appearance, and the pulpy medasae sink
down out of sight till the waters shall grow
warmer again. The buc-bes i:i the woods
are all full of sloes ard baws red and waxy.
Many flowers are gone, the queens and
lords cf the floral realm have passed away,
but some very dear ones still lend ns their
hues and fragments. Every garden is
beautiful with autumn crocus hangs out
her yeflow flag ; the wild mine flowers and.
ihe wild thyme furnishes eager bets with,
dainty flavoring essences from their drain
ing bells. The harebells sway with each
breeze,
"In the maiden meditation,;fancy free.,",
and the brown'sod emulates the ripe gram
fields of July. Still reigns the dahlia, lord
of the garden though some of the petals
may be black -tipped with Jrost marks
sunflowers droop their sun-drunken faces
over the hedges, like broad visaged farmer's
boys of a Sunday, loaning over a gate
hollyhocks lend their rich luxuriance of
color here and there to enliven the scenes
and everywhere chrysanthemums rear
themselves, proud at once ot iheir beauty
and their hardihood. And, oh ! the glories,
the various, rich, picturesque glories of the
kingly forests Gaze upon them at mid
day, when the air is mild and melting ;
when a faint bluo veil of baze settles around
the horizon, an gives a languid, soft, south-'
ern dreaminess to the landscape, out cf
which the woods come of your eyes, steal
ing out in all their gorgeousness of color, as
Cieopatra might have aroused herself from
the noontide "slumber, and come forth to
bless her Anthony with ripe frnity kisses.
The birches meet you with gifts of yellow
gold, glowing in ihe quivering air, with
diaphancons, amber like, splendor the
oak's dark green in spots has put on a fa
ded, dreary yel!ow that ofWta finely &e '
pine tree's sombre green, and elm's tall
and Abronqnin solemnity. Crimson and
green berries deck the thick undergrowth,
white the ground itself, brown and yellow
with drying leaves, is ali decked out with
ten thousand fungi, of every hue, from
milky white to all shades of crimson, lo
chocolate brown, and tumeric gaudy yellow
and varnish striking blue old dame Na
ture's gewgaws, these, which she puts on
to conceal the ravages of age. , And the
ashes all dripping wilh crimson dyes, ana
hang about them like gouts ot blood; and
the red flecked dogwood, once so pearly
white in spring, and, oh ! the maples, the
gorgeous maples bf the lowlands, glowing:
at noonday, flaming at sunset as if they had
stolen the very Promethian fire, and would,
rival ihe sun himself in painting let( tho
eye revel npon these mingled and sweetly
painted splendors, talcing in at. once th
artistic perfectness of harmony 'twixt hill
and valley, field and forest, plain and up
land, land and sky, and it cannot fail to
feel, with entranced rxstbetic consciousness!
that the autumn, the perfect American au
tumn, il is the loveliest time of the yeari
(FA great poet say lhat "the moun
tains stand fixen forever." We know,
however, lhat it is no uncommon thing for
them to 4 slope."
. CF'What is the difference lietween a Per
sian and a Turk ! One worships the sun
and the other the daughter.
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