1 V r r 1 f j i W. II. JACOBY, Proprietor Truth and Right Cod and oar Country. Two Dollars per Anrcn. VOLUME 13. BLOOMSBUPJG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 18, 1861. NUMBER 50. r E STAR "v T"! i i i it- tp l I I'll o J s s 1 s V STAB OF THE NORTH YCBLtlBKD KTERT WKDMESTtAT BT WM. II. JACOBS Crflce on Main St., Srd Square below Earket, .TEKMS : Two Dollars pr annum if paid within six months from the time Qf subscri bing: two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription taken for a less period than six mouths; no discon linaar.ce permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. 2 he terms of advertising will be as follows : One square, twelve lines, threa limes, SI 00 Every subsequent insertion, ..... 25 One square, three months, ....... Z 00 One year, ... 8 00 Cljoue IJoetrrj. LADIES' BOOTS. A little glove, stirs up my hearV As tides stir up the ocean, .And snow white muslin, when it fits, Wakes many a cnrious notion. ' All sorts of lady fixins thrill My feelings as they'd orter, But little lemale gaiter boots Are death, and nothing shorter. And j'jsf lo put yon on yonr guard, I'll give you short and brief, A small hotel experience, Which filled my heart with grief. Last rummer, at the Clarendon, I stopped a week or more. And marked two "bootees'' every morn Before my neighbor's door, Two boots with patent leather tips . Two boots which seemed to say, . ' An angel trots around in us ;" They stole my heart away. : I saw the servant take 'em off, With those of oiber brutes His soul as all in sixpences, Bat mine was in the boots. And often in my nightly dreams, They swept before my face A lady growing out of them ; As flowers grow from & vase. But ah ' one n.orn I saw a sight, Which struck me like a stone; .Some other name was on the books, Those boots were uot alone' A grpat tall pair of otl er boots Were standing by their side! And off they walked that afternoon, And with them walked a bride! Enough, enonjrh : my song is sung Love's tree bears bitter fraits ; Beware of beauty reader mind ; But, oh ! be ware 'cf boots ! Early life the Golden Age far Military Lau rels. In glancing over the records of revolu tionary history we find that the greatest mil itary achievements of the world have been accomplished by individuals comparatively young in vesrs. Alexander the Great who wept because there was no other world to conquer, was only 33 years of . age when conquered by the King of Ter rors. Ltaaniba! who led the Carthagenians across the Alps.performing one of the great est military marches upon record, was only forty at the period of his death. Napdean and his great competitor Wellington, wee upon the sunny side of forty when their greatest triumphs were consummated. Old fiickory was only forty-eight when he gain ed his great victory at New Orleans. Gus tarus Adolphusdied at the early age of thir ty one. Cortez was not 31 years old when he took possession of the Halls of the Mon tezuma, giving Mexico into the hands of Spain. Nelson's name was written with Indelible characters upon the scroll of Brit isa fame ere he bad attained the age of 45. The world's military battle fields are thick ly covered with heroic deeds of valor, spring. jDg from the young life of commander and soldier, before they iell back into the dus: of motLer earth. , These are but few illustration pointing to early manhood as the golden period for military chieftains to make their names immortal- Passing from the bloody grounds of eon tending foes, we find in the religious and political world a similar array of talent. Luther gained bis greatest victories over the powers ot darkness that abstructed the lights ot religious knowledge in the' dawn ing hours of the . reformation, years before the fortieth winter of life had been passed Knox, Calvin, Huss, and Zuingle were throwing out their brightest thoughts and exercising their strongest influence before the shady side of forty overtook them. John and Charles Wesley, the great prog cnitors of Meiuodistism created a religious church.and fully incorporated it in the great harvest fields of the world before the silver locks and wrinkles began to show signs of physical decay. Raphael the greatest pain ter o( any age died at 37. Bolingbroke, iO'Connel, Pitt and Russel were statesmen before many bad gone through with the pre liminaries for subsequent action, during their day and generation. We might gather columns of examples where young life has been represented and won the premium achievements on the jcroilda. great battle grounds With the sub jects gathered up' from the records of six thousand years, "we have every reason to be of good cheer, and rely with implicit con5 decce upon the wisdom and foresight of or yeung commander,. Gen. Geo. B, -Mc-Xlellan. May the blessing of Heayen, and the united petitions of a loyal people enable .him with successful energy to discharge bis high and responsible duties, ultimately res cuing oar bleeding country frorn the hands TjfLer destroyers, and firmer than ever es Ublishing'her Constitution and her laws in -the hearts of the people. . . - f ,i A Texas paper says that "no body ever -tif Wij'all 'drunk." Bat Prentice says ha hss seen him when he w asaa't sober by AN ELIGIBLE MATCH. BY "TOM FPANK." Very few persons in this work-a-day world are apt to lend the subject of matri mony that serious consideration to which it is entitled. We read with indignation, in the page of romance, of the cruel tyranny exercised by parents over their children in this relation, and sincerely do we depreci ate for the moment that selfish and avarice spirit which would lead a father to sacrifice the happiness of a child on the altar of Mammon. But we are too apt to regard such matters as romance only, and to lose sight of the fact that such things do actually exist, and (hat such event are transpiring every day around us. It is not in the lower and middling classes that we are to look for the full extent of speculation in hyme nial matters, though the spirit, more or less pervades all grades of society. It is among the more wealthy families that the custom obtains with scarcely an exception of estimation the human character by dollars and cents, and the following narrative, which is 6trictly true, developes the pain ful effects of the unholy and pernicious custom. In a little town called Mere, in England, there lived, some time ago, a family of the name of Dorrington, consisting of four per ron?, viz: Mr. John Dorrington, his lady, and a son and daughter. Though quite wealthy, they did not spring from an aris tocratic stock, Mr. Dorrington having com. menced life as a tanner, from which pur suit, by strict economy and untiring indus try, together with a run of great luck, be had amassed a large fortune. As generally happens, however, in such cases, the ac quisition of wealth had entirely obliterated from the memory of the tradesman the fact that he had ever been a dealer in hides,and he assumed an arrogance that would have put to the blush the most aristocratic scion of the most pampered stock. His children were taught to look down upon their honest neighbors with a feeling of superiority, and the son, John Dorrington. Jr., was not slow to improve upon the lessons taguht him by his puree proud parent, though the daugh ter was not so apt a scholar irv the school ; ol vanity, and had the audacity to regard j the virtuous but poor people of Mere as i human beings, to joyfnily exchanges greet ' ings with them on meeting, and even occa sionally to visit them at thuir dwelling, and to treat them in all re peels as her i equals. She was a gay, joyous, gond-heart- ed girl, full of love for all the world, "and , the rest of mankind," and could never nn j dersland why the mere possession of a few i hundred pounds more or less should place a barrier between the members of one com j mon famfly striking at the root of earthly. i happine?s by destroying every social and ; kindly feeling. Her appearance fairly in- dicated her character. There was none of ; that sickly sentimentality and "interesting I paleness," which are too apt to be the com panions of young ladies belonging to the j higher classes, apparent in her , healthful I and frank features. Her eye was large, blue, and exceedingly expressive, her hair of a sunny, golden hue, her complexion a purs white and red, and her form rather above the middle stature, well moulded, round and full, betokening a sanguine tem perament, and a disposition to correctly appreciate and enjoy to the full the blessings of life. She was of an exceedingly volatile j disposition, and though one might be apt I to imagine from her free almost rude be ! hav'rour at times, that she lacked refine ment somewhat, such was not the case. She was sensitive to a degree, and her feel ings when wounded rendered her the sub ject of the most poignant anguish. At the same time of which I am writing, Laura Dorrington was about twenty years of age, and though her parents had endeav ored by every means in their power to in duce her to drop what they were pleased to term her"insufferable vulgarity," in order that she might be fitted tom brace an "eli gible match," she only laughed at their ex hortations, and declared that "she must laugh heartily when she felt inclined, that it was impossible for her to go at a snail's pace when she felt like running, and that surely no gentleman would object to her being a woman instead of an automaton." She might have added that there were hun dreds of sensible men who would not have objected to anything in her ; had she been hump-backed, lame and blind, her money would have covered every defect, and she would have seemed to them a very angel. She bad numbers of snch suitors, but they were not "eligible matches," and, of coune, were not to be thought ol by her parents. Indeed, though not possessing a decided relish for the society 'of the opposite sex, and as willing to "commit matrimony," as roost ardent young woman of her age, Lau ra had not op to the time of her majority, met with a man among nil her suitors, who she thought, was calculated to make her happy, even although nothing stood in the way of an alliance. There was bat one man of whom she had ever thought as a husband, and he, although a constant visi tor at the house bad, never made any de cided overtures. -This was William Hill, the son of a near neighbor, who was quite as wealthy as the Dorrington s themselves and who was regarded, by Laura's father and mother as tba very beau jdeal of so eli gible match for ' their daughter. He was a person of very handsome countenance and rather ganteel address, but there was tome-) thin: in the expression of bisfeatares which, j There was a cold calculating expressim in his grey ee, and passion seemed lurking around the corners of his thin lips. It was necessary to scrutinize him closely, though in order to detect anything in his a pear ance not entirely in keeping with the most urbane, polished and benignant gentleman, and as such, Laura regarded him. This man, Hill, was a most consummate hypocrite, he loved but one thing oi the earth, and that was money. Money was his god he knew no other and he ould have linked himself with the most loath some creature that ever crawled through life, if by so doing, he could double the wealth which he already possessed. His only object in visiting the dorrington i, was to satisfy himself beyond a petad venture as to the real state of that family's fininces, before hazarding a courtship, and Laving become convinced that Laura's mi rriage portion was likely to reach a sum near his own wealth, he at once set abou1 pay ing his addresses to the young lady ii, earn est, much to the delight of her paren s, and not at all to the discomfiture of the young lady herself. Things progressed rap dly. He courted, proposed, was accepu d, and the time for their wedding was fixed, all in less than six months from the period when Hill first seriously contemplated marriage. Lanra was the happiest being in the vorld ; she had every confidence in the man to whom fche had pledged her e'.ernal fidelity; she knew no deceit herself, and did n it look to find it in any one else but least of all would she have thought of seeking it in that bosom where she had yielded up th i treas ure of her virgin love. He had told her he loved her, time and again with all 'the ap parent fervor that a shrewed, calc dating, oily tongued fiend could muHer, le had told her so and she had fimly belie ed him as she believed she was born and must die again Hrw could she, then, but te hap py ? for she loved him as fervently as ever woman loved man. It would seem to her that she had never lived till then, and she felt thatNbe could almost die in ti e wild ectacy of her joy. The wedding mcrn arrived, the minister was present, the guests invited, nnd the marriage documents prepared for si jnatnie. The bride, beautifully dressed in white, awaited the coming of the man wh was she fondly thought to be her future hus band, her friend and adviser throogi life. Her father and brother had waited on him an honr previously, but not one of tf em had yet returned. At leng'h when tw hours had passed away two hours which seemed like years to Laura footsteps were heard upon the stairs, and shortly after ards the door opened, and Mr. Dorrington nd his son entered with flushed and angrr faces, but the brvltproom did not accompany tktml Half dead with fright, Laura trem ling in quired what had happened. 'Not much," carelessly answred her cold, calculating, stern-featured fat :er," but no mam'rge can tale place" 'In the name of Heaven, father, what is it you mean V exclaimed the now igonized girl, the perspiration starting from ler mar ble brow and running in large beais down her placid face. "I mean this," answered her father, "Hill is not an eligible match. He thou rht him self, pretty shrewd I suppose, but le found that I could calculate as well as ho could ; he was not satisfied with the amount which I offered to settle upon you, nd I would give no more ; so after politely r (marking that he could not think of wedding a tan ner's daughter for any such sum, he rang the bell, called the servant and politely bade me good morning While her father was delive ing this speech Laura stood mute and rigid as a stature, her eyes were fixed in her head and glared wildly, and as he finnhed, she fell heavil) upon the floor. They bore her to the bridal :hamber, where restoratives were applied, ir.d after a while, she was restored to life, !ut not to reason ; the unmeaning glance of her once brilliant eye, and her incherent speech too plainly told the story she was a lunatic! Two days afterwards, Laura was missed from her room. She had been watched with the utmost vigilance, for it was not safe to leave her alone; bat d iring the temporary absence of her nure, who had left her asleep she made her escape from the house, and all search for her ras vain, till on entering the dairy she was discover ed dressed in her bridal robes, h inging by the neck, and quite dead a vict m to the base treachery of a soulless villaii , on the one hand, and a sorded desire on the part of her lather to bring about an "eligible match," on the other. How to Stop the Flow or Blood. Houskeepers, mechanics, and others, in handling knivev, tools, and otter sharp instruments very frequently recei re severe cuts, from which blood flows prefusely and oftentimes endanger life itself. B ood may be made to cease to flow as follow s : Take the fine dust of tea and bind it close to the wound at all times accessible an i easily to be obtained. Alter the blood has ceased to flow, laudanum may be advantagiioualy ap plied to the wound. Due regard to the in structions would , eave agitation, of mind, and running for the surgeon, wl o would, probably, make no better prescription if he were present. Qaeer fellow the editor wt o thinks "people should never kiss their awn sex ;" becaa9 "he rr. !'lXi'vJ k.bXJt. Jiapolfon'sCoat of Mail. Just before Napoleon set out for Be'gi vtm (before the baitl of Waterloo) he sent for the cleverest artisan of his class in Parii", and demanded ol him whether he would engage to make a coat of mail to be worn under the ordinary dress, which should be absolutely bullet proof ; and that, if so, he might name his own price for such a work. The man engaged to makethedesired article, if allnud proper time, and he named eigh teen thousand francs (seven hundred and twenty pounds Bterling) as the price of it. The. bargain was concluded, and in due time i the work was produced, and the artisan was I honored with a second audience of the Emperor. "Now," said his imperial Ma jesty, "put it on." The man did so. "As I am to stake my life on its efficacy, you will, I suppose, have no objection to doing the same ! and he took a brace of pistols and prepared to discharge one at the breast oi uie asiontsneo artist, mere was nn retreating, however, and, half dead with j fear, he stood the fire ; and to the infinite credit of his work, with perfect impunity. But the Emperor was no; content with one trial. He fired the second pistol at the back ot the artist, and afterward discharged a fowling piece at another part of him with similar effect. "Well," said the Emperor, "you have produced a capital work, un doubtedly. What is to be ihe price of it V Eighteen thousand franc weTe r.amed as the agreed sum. ' There is an order for them.'' said the Emperor; "and there is another for an equal sum, for the fright 1 have given yon " rirasant neighborhood. One's pleasure, alter all, is much affacte. by the quality of o ieVt neighbors, even though one may not be on speaking terms with them. A pleasant bright face at the window is surely better than s discontented cross one ; and the house that has the air of being inhabited is preferable to closed shutters and unsocial blinds, excluding every ray of sunlight and symphathy. We like to see the glancing cheerful lights through Ihe window of a cold night, or watch them as evening deepens, 'gradually t creep from the parlor to the upper stories of the house near us. We like to watch; the little children go in or out of the door, j to play or to school. We like to see a ' white robed baby dancing up an.1 down on its mother's arms, or the father reading his nawspapef in the evening, or any of) those cheerful, impromptu home glimpses, ! which, though we are not Paul Pry, we will assert, go far to make pleasant neighbor hood for comfort instead of show. Sad, indeed, some morning, on walking, it is to see the blinds down and the shutters closed, and to know that death's angel, while it spared our threshold, has crossed that of our cheerful neighbor. Sad to miss the white robed baby from the window, and see the little coffin at nightfall born into the house. Sad to see the innocent little face pressed at eventide against the window- pane, watching for the "dear has gone to his long home. papa: it rho A Fightihg Ncgro. A corrispondent of the Chicago Tribune, describing the battle of Belmonnt, Says : "During the thickest of the fight the body servant of Gen. McClernand, a mu latto named William Stains, of Decatur, exhibited conspicuous courage. He was close by the General during the whole en gagement, cheering the soldiers and swear ing that he would shoot the first man that showed the white feather. Many of us laughed hartily nt the fighting darkey, while the bulles flew like hail about us. "In the eourse of the fight, a Captain of one of the companies was struck by a spent ball, which'disabled him from walk ing. The mulato boy, who was mounted, rode up to him and shouted out' "Captain, if you can fight any longer for the old Stars and Stripes, take ray horse and lead your men " He then dismounted and helped the wounded officer into his saddle. When he was walking away, a rebel dragoon rnoh ed forward at the officer to take him pris oner. The darkey drew his revolver and put a ball through the rebel's head, scattering his brains all over the horse's neck "I relate these little circumstancesso that merit may be justly dealt with, eveu if the hero is a 'nigger,' as some people would call this brave fellow," The Heavcns. An interesting sight may now be observed before sunrise in the morning. Three of the heavenly bodies Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon will appear, to be within two or three degrees of each other. All are now in constellation Leo, the two planets being scarcely three quarters of a decree apart. Jupiter is the brighter of the two, and has just passed by Saturn in its course eastward. The apparent mo tions is so stow that it cannot be detected in less than three or four days. As Jupiter makes the circuit of the heavens in about thirty years, it will be two-thirds of the latter period before they are seen so closely together, and that in a different quarter of the sky. The planet Venus is now a most beautiful object ia the southwest for an hour or two after sunset. It is near the tropic of Capricorn, and of course will soon turn and move east by north, shining with a brilliant light in the higher constellations during winter and spring. ' A "Contraband" has arrived at Wash- . vs r ' a mton. direct Irom ramax court Mouse, D 9 I The Language of The Ameriean Flag. A number of years ao we'jead in an o'd congressional document an explanation of the colors and symbolical meanins of the stars and stripes of our national banner, written by a member of the committee of the Continental Congress to whom was refer red the duty of selecting a flag for the then infant confederacy. Since then we have frequently desired to republish the expla nation, as a matter of intereM to our rea ters but were never able to find it until this morning we discovered it incorporated in a sketch of the battle of Saratoga read before the New York Historical Society by A. B. Street, Esq. The explanation reads a follows : "The 6tars of the new flag represent the new constellation of Slates rising in the West. The idea was taken from the con stellation Lyra, which in the hand of Or phens signifies harmoney. The blue in the field was taken from the edges of the Cov- enantrs' banner in Scotland, significant oi the league covenant of the United Colonies against oppression, incidentally involving the virtues ol vigilants, perseverance and justice. The stars were disposed of in a circle sjmbolizine the perpetuity of the I Union : the ring, like tt circjing serpent of the Egyptains, signifying eternity. The thirteen stripes showed with the stars, the number of the United Co'onies, and denoted the subordination of the States to the Union, as well as equality among themselves. The whole was the blending of the various fla2s previous to the Union flag viz., the red flags of the army and the white of the float ing ba fries The red co'or, which in Roman days was the signal of defiance, denotef daring ; and the white purity." What eloquence do the s'ars breathe when their full significance is knon. A new Constellation ! Union ! Perpetuity ! A covenant against oppression ! Justice equality, subordination, courage and puri- y- Old Men. How I love them. How I love to see their dim eye l'Mer and bright at the remem brance of some boyish freak long foro'ten by all on earth but themselves, or grow dim with tears at the thought of some loved and lost one, some friends they still count amone their treasHres. Each feeble step is nearer lo the end now, and every silver hair a cord which binds them to the crave. How I love my old grandfather; he was an old man, almost io the alotted three score and ten, when 1 first remember him, when I used to sit on his knee while he me wondroni stories, of peni and fairies, and lent me his knife with its rough horn han dle, and showed me how to open his curi ously fitted tobacco box. and suns to me "Old China" and ' Windham." Ob how 1 love to hear the old man sing.' And the last time I went to see him in his city home, how his lip trembled as he kissed me an'l bade me good bye. "Be a good girl, Hope, and don't forget me. In the summer I am comming out lo see you. I want to fee the old D once more, the river and the hills, and the little rid hone I lived in so long. I shall come in the sum mer." Poor old man ? when the June roses vere blooming, and the villa was dressed in its summer mantle, he did come, but the faded eyes were closed and the weary limbs were at rest, and that still Sabbath morning we laid him quietly down beneath t tie oak tree and left him there alone. And ten years has he laid there, and the sod is green above him, and in the autumn sunlights, the tall ripe grasses bend their yellow heads to the pale blue asters and tem to whisper, "It is not the end." A Dandy Answered. An amusing colloquy came off recently at the supper table, on board of one of our Eastern steamers, between a Hoeton exqui site, reeking with hair oil and cologne, who was damning the waiters, and otherwise assuming very consequential airs, and a raw Jonathan who sat by his side, dreed in home-spun. Turning to his "vulgah" friend the former pointed his jewelled finger and said : "Butter, sah !" 'I see it is." coolly replied Johnathan. "Butter, sah. 1 say!'' fiercely repeated the dandy. "I know it very good a first rate arti cle," provokingly reiterated homespun. "Butteb, i tell you!" thundered the ex quisite in still louder tones pointing with 'slow nnmoving finger,' like scorn's and scowling upon his neighbor as if he would annihilate him. "Well, gosh all Jerasalm, tchit of itV now yelled the Down-Easter, getting his dander up in turn. "Yer didn't thin'; I took it for laid, did yer ?" The Confederate postage stamp is green with a lithographic likeness of President Davis, with double oval border, surmounted with the inscription "Confederate State of America." Outside of the circle, and at the he&d of the stamp is the word postage.' and at the lower edge its denomination, "five cents." A gentleman from Cheat Mountain tells the following: A squad of Indiana volun teers, out scouting, came across an old woman, in a log cabin, in the mountain. After the nsual salutations, one of them asked hen 'Well old lady.are you a secesh rretfulness. But the efTect of fretfnlness h seen not only in the temper and in the spirit, but in the voice and in the aspect of thy lace. Hear that woman's cracked and ehrieking tone, pitched in a falt-etto. plaintive, heez ing whine, mote disagreeable than the gra ting of a rusty door hinge, or the filing of a saw, or the creaking of a broken chair, or the chewing ot unexpected gravel in the teeth? Is that the human voice? Such a voice henrd in a house is worse than the smell of brimstone, and it operates like a perpetual mildew to rot out all energy, and peace, and hope from the hearts of the whole honshold, servants, children, com panions, and lovers. See thut face, , with an eye glaring tut not lustrous the ghire of wet putty, not of keen steel or cold ice look at the pinchen nostril, sharp and yet dulled ; mark that scowl, irresolute and depondiug, 'uneven, and yet deep as though plowed by a drizzyly nor;h-east fog ; behold that npper lip, curled but not stigened with nerveless scorn, and filled tut . not controll ed by impotent hate ; read the picture of self torture and forceless deponcy upon the whole countenance, and tells us. If fretfol-n-- that can so iran-torm the human face divine, from the imatie of all heavenly beau ty, into such a charging, wishy-washy mafk of mud, be not a crime against our commcn humanity, of ihe deepest, meajie: kind! Does it rot dishonor the Maker of ail souls and Indies, and doe it not destroy both the inward spirit and the outward farm of a man cr woman ? We say, then, do stop thepractice at once Set your fare as a flint against it, and reso lutely refuse to fret at what you cannot cure. Direct 5our energies, if you have not any, pray to yonr Maker to give )-ou seme, against the evils in i La world, in the way of practical work and not in the way of im practicable frettina, and worrying and wear ing yourself out, and souring your tamper, ar.d veiing your friends and dishonoring your God because we think them ne.leil, and our prayer i that they may be read and heeded lf''n Advocate. How He Kct Ised To It. Somewhere in our neighborhood lives a farmer of such social habit, thai hi" com intf home iMoxica'erl was no unusual t'line. His wife urged him in vain to sign the pieces. "Why yon e," he would say, "I'i! sijin it after awhile, I don't like to break riofit off. it ain't who!et.ome. The bet way is io gei used to thtnes." "Vry well, clJ man," his helpmeet would rejoin, "see now if you don't fall into a hole one of these lays where yon can't take rare of yourself, and i.nbody near to help yon out." Sure enough, as if io verify the prophecy as he returned home one day, he fell into a very shallow well, and after a crat iVal of 1 useless scrabbling, h shouted loudly for ! the "light of his eyes" to come and help ' him out. j "Didn't I tell yon so" said the .pood soul, showing her cap frill over the ede of the parapet ; you've go; into a hole at last, and irs lucky I'm in hearing, or yon might , have drowned. Well,'' frhe cominned, af i ter a pauee lettine down the bucket, "t:ike j hold." And up he came, higher al each ; turn of the windlass, until the old lad'ys 1 tirasp slipping from the handle, dnwn he went to the bottom annin Thi occtirrin: more than once, made the temporary oc cupant of the well suspicious. 4 Look hre !' he Fcrcamed, in a fury at the last (.plash, "you're doing that on pur pose, 1 know you are." "Well now I am," responded his wife tranquilly, while winding him up once more. "Don't you remember telling me its test to get used to things by degress ? lni afraid if I bring yon up right of a f udden, you would not find it whn'esome !" Ihe old fellow couldn't help chuckling at the trti spplicatiop of hi princip'e, and protested he would siin the pledge on that instant, it she would lift him out. This she did, and packed hi.n oiT to fin the pledge, wet as he was. "For you see," Fhe added very emphatically, if you ever fall into tve ditch ayam, 1 If leave you there, that's what I will." He knew she was a woman of her word, and he oioV return to her loving arm until the pledge was signed. s -s s lie who never forgets his old friends and cherishes his attachment for them as ever, i no matier how much time, space,or fortune I )p.e kept them apart, is one of thoe rare j beings with whom God has endowed the earth that society may not utterly wither though the inflnence of ingratitude, selfish ness, and the incessant changes in life. Snow flicrc Cream. Put in a stewpan four ounces of ground rice, two ounce? of sugar, a "Tew drops of the essence of almonds, cr any other essence yon choose, with two ounces of fresh butter ; add a quart of milk, boil from fifteen to twenty minutes, till it forms as month substance, though not too thick ; then pour into a mould previously oiled, and serve when cold. It will turn out like jelly. A little girl being lold of some poor chil dren who came near starving to death be cause they could get no bread to eat.natvely said. 'Ma, if they couldn't get bread, why didn't they ettcnieV A Gkeet man commonly disappoints those who visit him. Tbey are on the look, out for his thundering and lightening, and h Strange but true Story A ciriumstancp which fully illustrates the saying that "truth is stranger than fiction,", recently came before Judga Sharswood in the district Court. Had it not been for the " legal question involved in the events to, which we refer, they would have never, -probably, had any publicity given them. Some time since there was & conpto resi dir.g in this city, who were surrounded with many blessings. The husband pos sessed a comfortable share of worldly goods " his wile and himself were fondly attached to each o'her.and lo-gether they doaled tip on an only child- The first blow to their . happiness was in the loss of their little one , who sickened and died, leaveing its parent ' heartbroken. The death of the child fell.; like a shadow upon the household, the pa- rents became unhappy, moodiness came in the train of their melancholy, and absolute . aversion for the society of each other fo!l w- -ed. The source and discontented pair finally determined upon a separation,and a divorce was procured. Af'er a lime both married again, and they became utter strangers to each other so far as s jcial intercourse was concerned. - Iteo' happened that it oecame necessary to re-" move the remains of the dead child from the grave where it had been interred, and ; the father was notified of the fact. A ' handi-ome lot was procured by the latter in one of the cemetaries north of the city, and a day was fixed for the re-in erment. The father notified the former wife, and the mother of the child,of the circumstance,and ' i'dormed her by nole, that if he thought proper che could attend the burial of the re- mains. The mother accepted the invita- lion, aiid with her second husband repair-? ed to the cemetary. The father, with hia second wife, was already there. The little coffin was placed near the open grave, and the parents of its occupant advanced to it while the second wife and husband stood, in the bac8 ground. The couple who had been so long estranged and who had again met to urangeiy over their dead hopes, gazed earnestly at each other, the solemnity of the hour ravjved their old tenderness, and falling into each other'd arms both burst into tears. The re-interment took place and ihe parties returned to their proper homes.. With the consent of all who were inter ested the father of the dead child Tisited,ori terms of friendship, bis former wife and they were in the habit of riding out togeth er Not lon af er this sin2nlar reconciliation ' the father of the child look sick a id died Before Ins death he placed in the hand-t of a friend two city bonds, of a thousand dol lars each to be handed over to his first wife , in the event of his death. In his will he appointed, as his executors, the friend who ' was ihe custodian of the bonds, and his first and second wives. The friend, in his ca pacity ot trustee, was uncertain as to the le gality of the gift under the circumstances, and he made application to the t'ourt lor a deci-ion in the matter, so as to secure him sel Irom loss. The legal heirs of the de ceased offered no opposition to the ante mortem request, and the Conrt decided in favor ot its leg-lity Ihih. BvHe'jn. A Steam Batteht. The New York Her ald fays the Government is having built at', that port an iron clad vessel, which is to be . launched by lha middle of December The following will be the dimensions of the vessel: Ing?h 1"5 feet, breadth of beam 40 leet. depth 12 fee'. Her hull, where pro tected by the water, will be formed of wrought iron p!a'e, five eighths of an inch thick, and above the water mark the plate will be si inches thick. But very little wood is to be ned in her construction, and the deck will be protected by pla'es one inch in thickness. She will be fitted up with Ericsson's patent steam engine, which together with her machinery, now being t'uilt at Delamater's iron works,foot of Thir teenth street, North river. She will carry two twelve or fiiteen inch Floyd or Rodman I guns. These will be mounted inside an ! iron fort iwenty feet high. The plates of I which it will be built are to be eiht inches. thick. The most peculiar feature connected with the battery is the fact that the guns cai be brought to bear on any given point, wiihont altering the position of the vessel. This is accomplished by means ofa tnrn ta ble on which the fort will revolve ; it will be turned by means of gearing connected with her machinery. The steersman will be plrced inside the fort, and when in ac tion all the crew will be protected, as no man will be required to appear on deck,for the pnrpose of working the vessel. She is water-tight and fire-proof, and her deck which is but eighteen inches above the wa ter, may be swept by the waves from stem to stern without any damage being done, as nothing will be left exposed either to Ihe action of the waves or the 6hot of the ene my. A Yankee and a Frenchman owned a pig in co-partnership. When the killing time came, they wished to divide the meat. Th Yankee was very anxious to divide so that hp could get both hind quarters, and persuaded ihe Frenchman that the way - ia divide was lo cut it acros ihe back. The Frenchman agreed o do it on condition tha the Yankee would turn his back and take the choice of pieces after it was cut in two. The Yankee turned his back accordingly. Frenchman Vich piece vill yon have ze piece wid ze tail on hini or ze piece vat haint sot no tail ? Yankee the piece with the tail on. Frenchman Zen by gar you can take him, I take ze ozer. Upon tnrn- r I
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