1 1 j 1 Two Dollars per Annuo. W. U.-JlCOBTf Proprietor. Truth and Rteht Cod and oar Country. BLOOMS BURG. COLUM BIA COUNTY, P A., WEDNESDAY MAY 21, 1862. NUMBER 20, VOLUME 14. "K T TV TPt Tin TTTT ; 1 w ! W. II U 10.0 i . STAR OF THE NORTH FUBLISHKD ITIBTWIDSISPiT BT WH. 11. JACOBr, CfflCC 00 Sain St., Sfd Square belOW iuarkei, TKKMS: Two Dollars pr annum it paid mnmh trom me ume m buuwu- tin : two dollar and fifty cents if not paid within thfc year. No subscription taken for a les period than six months; no discon tinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. 7 k te ms of advertising will be us follows : One square, twelve lines three limes, l 00 Kvery subsequent insertion, 25 ths 3 00 0'ie yar. 8 00 -vaoicci)oun... TQB GIRL f I T T II E C A L 15 J D S. eYs.' A fig (of yur pper ,en ir!s' Willi their velvets, satins and laces, Their diamonds rubies and pearl, And their milliner figure and faces; They may shine at a piny or ball, Emhlazvmed with hall they possess, But give me in place of 'hern all. The girl with the calico dress. She is plump as a partridge, and fair As ihi!. in the earliest bloom. Her 'eeth will with ivory compare, And her breath with re clover perfume Her stee U a tree and as light pre-, A the Ihwii'k whom the hunter hard And her eye is a soli and a bright, My girl wiih ihe calic dres. Your dandies and foplinas may sneer At her simple and modest aiiire, B-.tihe ciiarm she permits to appear Would sei a whole iceberg on fire. Site can 4la1.ee but she never allows . The hujigiru. the squeeze ami caress, She is savin U the-e tor her spouse, My girl wiib the calico dress. She i cheerful warm hearted and true, Ah1 kind to her Uther undfmoiher. She studies how much she cau do For her sweet little listers and brother. If you want a companion for tile, To comfort ei liven and Me-s. ihe i jus; the right sort of a wite, My cirl with ihe calico die. lit W II A I BY FELL IN tLOVE. ' AH.the girls in Flowerdale were in love with Harry Vernon. That is to say," thev admired htm excessively, and were ready ' to UH in love, if he should lead the way. Fanny Somer. tbe Utile witch, wa- the on ly exrepiu.ii. Merry, dancing and pretty asatatry.it was a queston beir,?r she had ever yet thought of love; if she had, she never talked ol it. Harrj's father was a Senator to Congress, and hefciraseir was a young lawyer ot bril liant talents, finished education and hand some iortune. It wa known that his fath er wished Kirn to marry and did not, as i often the case, insist on his seleciing an heiress. The now gray haired statesman had made a love match in his youth, and till worshiped the memory of the wife he had too early lo.-t "Lt your heart choose, my son," he said. ' Marriage without -true affection, holds out 'but a poor show lor happiness." Most of those not directly interested in the event, thought that Isabella Furteqne Would carry ofl the prize. She was deci dedly the belle ot the village. Having re ceived her education at a fashionable sem inary , there was scarcely an accomplish ment ot which she could jiot boast. Be rides the families ot Vernou and Forteeque had been the leading ones in the cou ity for two generations; and gossip said that ih union of the two fortunes, and ol ihe .1 i an ted inUuence, wouia give uarry a pooi- tion almost unrivalled. (Jeriam 11 lo mai narry ineu isie" j very often. Those who envied her, accus- j ed her of maneuvering to win him. "Throws herself in his way continually." said one. "Did ever anybody " cried an otl er, "see a girl make love so bare-laced-lyt" She ought to get him, I'm sure," sneered another, "for she has tried hard enough ' Nevertheless, as hooesi chron ieveriueies, as uotiwsi iuiuh- must record the lact, that someof iclers we these very young ladies, such is the iufir- i imity ot human nature, did their very prel- ! tiest to out-mai.ceuvre Isabel and get "Harry forthemse!ves. - j Harry bad uot seen Fanny since she was ' achild. It was only a month since she ; had left school,- and returned home again-; and the first time she bad joined in the vil- lage vocial circle was" at a picnic. Here? her blooming complexion, gracetul figure' and wringing Ua-h haJ been the theme of household charm wnicn surrounded ranny unnstian soiuters as ine iioi u. u..u. admiratioli by ttbeaus, the envy of the forced him to do so, whether or do. He cumci-ed Phillistines melted awa before belles. Harry had beeo a partner in a, went away, thinking to himselLwhat a the armies of Israel. dance or two and, ia coumon with each other, felt it would be only eivil to cad op- on ber. So the morning alter the party he sallied forth to make the round of the vil lage girU. He first visited Isabel. She was reclin ing on a lonteuil, charmingly dressed, and reading a novel. All she could talk was tier fatigue Yet she looked bewitchingly, it was incoatestible, in the subdued light oi that sumptuous parlor, with elegant pic tures upon the walls, boquets ol flowers all -v.--. '?.T,n.Th,r- of rnmri j vr t,.,i urr fait ia mn.h letted to bein love. He staid nearly an hour, when he bad intended to stop fo. on- ly a few minutes ; and would not, perhaps, have gone then, if other geralemea had not roptin. From Isabel's he went to several other bouses. Everywhere he found the young ladies dressed to receive company. Mtne .. - u i , i r were reaqmg nove.s; oiB . ww v. roe:ry open before them; one ' ad a pretty Garni, was coqoe.ii.niy apurse. .ftoiODo. ..etu -FF. - and talked as if the fatigue of the day be fore had nearly killed them. When Harry reached the pretty, but un pretending cottage, wbete Fanny resided with her widowed mother, he found the i hail door open to admit the breeze, and so, ; ust uppmg at the parlor entrance, ne en- ( ered bowing. In ihe shaded light of the ! cool fragrant room, be could not for a rno- ment, see, but he noticed immediately that to one answered his salutation; and, di rectly, he beheld that ihe apartmeU was empty. Jost then, however a fresh liquid voice, as merry as a bird's in June, was heard warbling in an inner apartment. Harry listened, awhile, charmed, but finding that his knocking was not heard and rec ognizing, as he thought, Fanny 's voice, fin ally made bold to go in search of the sing er. Passing down the hall, and through another open door, he suddenly found him sell in the kitchen, a large, airy apartment. scrupulously clean, with Fanny at the end opposite to him, standing before a dough- trough, kueadi.ig flour and carrolling like a 'ark. It was a picture an artist would have loved to paint. Fanny's face was seen partly in profile, showing to perfection her long lashes, and bringing out in relief the P'iuiii, lip and round chin. The breeze Hew her brown curls playfully about, and occasionally quite over her face, at which lime she would throw them back with a toss of her head. Her arms were bare; and rnnnded, while, for more taper arms never were ; they fairly put tr shame with their ro.y pearliness, the snowy flour pow- dered over them As she moved with unick teps at her task, her trim figure showed full its grace ; and her neat ankle and delicate foot twinkled in and out. For a while she did not observe Harry. It was not till she turned to put down the dredg ing box, that she beheld him. Most ol our fair readers, we suppose, would have screamed, and perhaps have run out of the opposite door. Fanny did no such thing. She blushed a little, as was natural but having no lalse shamo, she saw no reason to be frightened merely because a handsome young gentleman had caught her at work. So she curiisied rettily, laughed one of her gayest laughs and said, hold ng" op her hands. "I can't shake hands with you. Mr. Ver non, you see. Mamma was kind enough to let roe go to the pic-nic yesterday, and pat off some of my work ; and so I'm doing dooble to-day, to make up for it. If you'll be kind enough to wait a minute, I'll call mamma."' "No no," said Harry, charmed by this frank innocence, ai d unceremoniously ta king a weil scrubbed chair, "I've only a few minutes to stay. My call is on you. I came to see bow you bore the fatigue of yesterday." Fanny laughed till her teeth, so whi e and so little, looked, behind the rosy lips, like pearls set in the richest ruby enamel, ' Fatigued ! Why, we bad such a charm- ing lime yesteiday, that one couldn't ;iet tired, even if one had been a hundred years old " "You'll never grow old' said Harry, sur prised into what would have teen flattery, it he had not sincerely thought t ; and his countenance showed his admiration tor the bright happy cieature before him. Fanny blushed, but rallied and answered, Ijnnltiii rl 4- v 0 r crrtwiff old I Oh ! Minn -- o - enough. What a funny bight I'll be, to be tn almorti double and a can uu niv ' head, like granny Horn's " Harry laughed too, so ludicrous was the image; and thus he and Fanny were as much at home with each other, at once, as if they iiad been acquainted lor years. . The intended five minutes imperceptibly urew into en. and the ten into hall an hour n Fannv continued at her household work. ! pleasantly chatting the while, both she and Harry mutually so interested as to forget time and place alike. At last the entranca the Colonel addressed his men ta a speech of Mrs. i-omers interrupted the tete a te't. which for brevity, conciseness i nd Tig Fa nny was a little embarrassed, when 6he or, may bear comparison with my that found how long she and Harry bad been Caesar Napolean ever addressed to their alone ; bu: the easy matter-of-course man- troops. "Soldiers," said he; 4'oi r wives ner of Harry, as he shook hands with her ar.d children are in the rear, the Hessians mother, restored her to herself. are in front give it to them!'' Tjey did If the elegant refinement about Isabel give it to them, and that band of foreign had tempted Harry to fall in love, the mercenaries melted away befoie those 1 cOarmmg wue ranny wouiu maae, -uu : . ! a how sweetly sne would iook in uer neai home dress, engaged in ner uomesuc amies. Nor is Harry the only young bachelor, who remembers that a wile cannot be always in fr.ll iroc anr! vhn natnrallv wishes to know how she -rould look ia the kitchen, "A wile ought as much to know how to manage ber house," be said to himself,-., a man to understand business. I don't wish a wife of mine, indeed, to be maid ol all work ; . but I should like to have ber ca- I cable of overseeing her servants; and do - I mestics discover very soon wnetner weir; , mistres. ,. competent, and od.j : gard her accordingly. Besides Fanny ; ed bewitching this morning Ah ! I bad .cch a dear little wile, how I d her U nto the kttcheu occastooa.ly, that I j might see her work. It .ooa became apparent .hat ,t wouIJ be no ju.i u. n Inriniln Never was a man deeper in I U.rrw'a ,1 KonifT fim MXIB r Jill- affnrt ' e,i "''"J 117 rhsh flirt, she j . . .. feelinrg as r - r - only hesitated long enough to be certain; of the state of her own heart, when she ri ade Harry happy by accepting him., ;- Two'persons more fined lor each other, in fact, could not be. Though always ner- ry, because always happy, Fanny was i.mi- able, intelligent and fti'I of sound sense. She had read and thought a great deal, es. pecially for one so young. Her heart ran over wjln .unwrilten poetry." Hat,' Harry sought for a life time, he could noubave fouruj a w-,re eo companionable anc so suitediin every way to him What a'talk the engagement made when it came out! The haughty Isabel, vho, without being half as capable of sin:ere love as Fanny, bad made up her mini to have Harry, and whose vanity therefore was piqued, even degraded herself so much as to call the bride elect 'ar. artful and in triguing puss." Other disappointed beau lies Lad other hard names for Fanny. But though, when our heroine first heard ol these slanders, she shed a few tears she 80on dried her eyes, for with Harry's ove, nnihinu rmilil mskn hpr lrwir nrilinnnv- It was not till the young couple hatl set ! - o - "a 1 1 J ofl on their wedding lour, that Harry told his wile what had first made him fall in love with her. "Every other girl I visited that morn ng,' he said, "was playing the fine lady; and that, while, as I well knew, their mothers were often slaving in the kitchen. I rea soned that the daughter who would neglect her duty to a parent, could scarcely b - ex- peeled to be less selfish towards a hus!iand. Besides, it is a common error with yoi rsex now a-aays, to suppose mat it is debasing ; to engage in domestic duties, to a rr an 01 j sense, dearest, a woman never looks , more attractive than at such a time. As Words worth writes : "Her household motions light'and free, And str-ps of virgin liberty. A countenance in which there meet Sweet record, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright nor good For human nature's daily lood : For transient sorrow, simple wile, Praise blame, love, kisses, tears and snijes " As he recited ihese line, with ext uisiie se'.sibiiity, he put his arm around Ft nny's waist, ard drew her towards him ; at d the young wife looking np into his lace, with devoted aifectiOn le&ied her head n bia bosom, and shed happy tears- And so we leave them. Bevuiuliunary Anecdote One of the regiments in the ba tie of Bennington was commanded by a Colonel, who when he was at home, was a deacon, j He wast a calm, senate, determined man, j and went to the battle because he wis im i pelled by a sense of duty. Hi whole par ish was in his regiment, so was thuir be loved pastor, without whose presence and blessing they scarcely thought themselves iu a way to prosper. The Colonel w as or- dered by Gen. Stark to re if. force one of the wings which was suffering severely. He marched at the instant with his fore !8, but as slowly and composedly as if he hi d been marching to a conference meetmj. .The officer in command of the corps to be re lieved, loaring that he should be conpelled to give way sent to hasten the Co onel. "Tel! 'em we're corning," said le, and marched steadily on. A second messenger came with the intelligence that th wing w as beginning to fall back. "That will make more room for us tell 'em we re I, A I M I I coming " replied the Colonel, with onmov- ed countenance and nnaccelosated ace A third messenger reached bun, just as his troop-emerged from behind a coppice, in lull view of the enemy, whose ba Is now began to whistle about them. " Halt!"' commanded the Colonel; "loin: into col- umn and attend prayers." - And there in the face of the enemy, did the regiment . . - - Dause. while the solemn prayer wa offered - for their success in the deadly struggle they were about to begin. Prayer benu: ended, A Soldisr's Burml. A letter from the field of Shiloh says: On Wednesday evening we observe J a tew men working on the lace of the hill not far Irom the boats V'e turn ed aside to see and found them engaged in digging a grave for a dead rebel sol I.er who bad lain there for some time wrapped up in hi. blanket The work wasdone rith lutle ceremony, but with decent propriety No j rabald word was uuered by anybody. Before he was laid in his lonely resting place we ' u,,co e,BU ,,,'a I J I.!. In.. It was ghaiitly, but ' .:.t..- -.-..!).... A 1 ar r raA It. I 51 ii htfAn ... .tern's solitary pris , .adder impre.slon lh ,n wbole foe PefcIwiM. he had been forced into lhe onholy eeiTlce ,, , for fa.m p - nQ of ft- fed opon his mortal -.gonies, and no baud pro! M"" " 9 .. ' . . terred to his burning hps a cop o cold wa- he 001 ! now, and it a teat dropped beside his rune - " " 3 iTp!. ntth A Female Editor on Kissing. Miss Belle .Phillips, evidently a very sprightly young lady, has, or recently had charge of a department in the Georgia Weekly Herald. She is a very dashing writer, talking just as she feels and feeling, we guess, about right. Just listen to her: "We got such a raking about our thoughts on kissing, that to spite some folks we now will tell them what we don't; like. We don't like to be importuned for a kiss until all our patience is gone. We don't like to threaten bashfjl men to kiss them. They turn pale and red, and finally, like j some simpering ' school girl turn their heads, aside, as if they really .thought us in earn est. Well, we'll tell you what, il we were in their places, no young 'lady under the sun should threateiijto kiss us and not do it. We saw a young man kiss a Iady:s pic ture once, and she present. Now we wouldn't have done that, and we '.told him so. Kiss a cold inanimate picture, when the original was sitting before us,Jwith rosy red lips and defiant eyes? No, never! "Jacob kissed Rachel," is the earliest re- j believe of a love kiss thouah we feel assured that long belore this the luxury was indulged la. In olden time peop e used to greet each other with a real hearty kiss, but fashioii has substituted the formal bow or the shaking of bands. Poor ex change, we say. Mark Antony resigned the world for a kiss. Our poets have writ ten some of their sweetest lines in praise of kissing. We humbly beg our lriend, those who are insensible as not to leel the pleas ure ol a kiss, not to pester themselves in picking us to pieces because. we nave thus expressed ourselt. If thev do we'll PaJ' ! them tack. There is one thing pretty cer- ! tain, there's only one objection we would raie to kissing ; if any one wishes 10 know, j let them inquire through the Ihrald We 1 do not condemn kissing, but if anj one was to attempt to kias us well, never mind . the rest." i Prentice says : "Ah, Belie you start a t good many kiss-memor.es to our lip-.. And we guess you 11 nave 10 'lase a sweet kiss, ('it will io you no hrm') for your sugyes- ' tion. We dotri intend to 'importune you , till all your patience is gone' on the wings ot kisses, but you needn't think we'll 'kiss you qu.ck ami let yoi go.' Go along with j your kiss winged patience., How much ... 1 . . 1 . 1 - ' patience have you, and does your 'patience on a monument' smile at kissing 1 Let an swer 'slip 'twist the kiss and our lip,' now. ''Mark Auiony resigned the world for a kiss," you say This was a case of 'bills payable 'lor valuable received,' we doubt not, and Antony was conscious of having a kUs pay lor the blow struck by Augu-lns Ctesar lor Ociavia, Antony's wite. 1 'We agree wiih you that il is a 'poor ex change, we say,' the substitution of hand shaking or head inclining for the old hearty meeting kiss (this was the origin of love feasts in the churches, we believe.; Bel ler far an exchange of kisses, we say, than any 'silver fragments of a broken voice," or any other currency; better this ringing coin which cannot be counterfeited than any earthly minting; belter than any poetry ol the dead languages this lambric and spon daic of the living lip-language. "Ah ! the poetry of kisses ! All the love poetry ol tre world Dears itie print ana im- print ci Kisses : spiritual or umerwtse ; Love literature is embalmed in kisses. Love itself is sealed and laid away in the heart envelope, sealed with kisses and how many of the treasures laid up in Heaven are kissed 10 sleep in the dreams of Para dise. Tennyson sings : "Dear as remembered kisses after death And said as those on people's fancy feigned On lips that are for others." " Perhaps these last mentioned kisses are the saddest unrealizations that a heart can t feel (N. B We have tried these kisses i , ,, . ... ( 'feigned, on lips that are lor others see our unpublished 'Reminiscences.') Hood seems to have appreciated as well as our greater Tennyson, the sad lover's fancy, in his most sadly sweet ballad of 'Inez,' for it is full of the soul of lost kisses feigned on lips that are for others :' "Farewell, farewell, sweet Inez, That vessel never bore So glad a freight upon its deck Nor danced so light belore ; Alas, for pleasure on the sea, And sorrow on the shore. The smile that blessed one lover's heart, Has broken many more." This should have been : "The kiss that blessed one lover's heart Has broken many more." Kisses'have become historical. Every man has historical kisses in his lite, but they embalm unwri'ten histories. The kis ses that Antony wasted a world so gladly for 'on a brow of Egypt,' never grew old. and Margaret's kiss on the sleeping lips of Alian Chartier comes to the dream of every poet. Do you remember it 1 Alian Char tier the poet was 'be ugliest man in France; but ihe Queen with her maids found him one day asleep and bent over and kissed his dreaming lips. M kiss not the man ' she said, 'I kiss the soul that sings ' So France kises her children, dead or living; she kis ses the soul that sings Longfellow makes old Miss Staudish say that he has stood a good many bullets, but that a cannon ball was more easily to be withsiood than 'a terrible No point blank from the mouth of a woman.' .'No' shocks one's little world 0, H ,Q the ceDtre at:d poor6 broad- ol thorn, into the left side, but a kiss, poin, blank from the mouth of a woman' delightful is the elecuical earth shock throned.' It seems as it has been filly ex pressed : "A battery of bliss Let off in a tremendous kiss." "By the way, if Love is an electrical fluid, kisses are agreeable telegraphic des patches though it requires skilful opera tors. "But, young lady of our text, we must not lorget you. You beg us not to pester ourselves in picking you to pieces for your free thoughts about kissing Well, we don't pick you to pieces, but it doesn't feel pleasant no matter how it looks to kiss 'before folks' shanl we just tuke you i.pait Vs Kicking Horses Horses that are disposed to kick in har ness may be cured in one half day's time, by pursuing the following course: Have a yard of thirty to one hundred feet tnrtit with a hizh and strong CVJlWJW-"w- ------ - fence. Lead ths horse into the yard, then put on h'.m a regular biting bridle, buckled back very close, so'that he can have little or no play with his head; then take a basket and lie it securely lohis'.tail, and just long enough so that his heels, when kicking, will reach it but not go into it. Now let him kick, meantime, talk to him, but at the same lime keep out of his way. Should he throw himself, walk up to him, and taking hold of the basket, lay it upon him, and all around his heels. Alter he f as laid a littl while loosen one rein of his bridle, and then the other, until he ran set up. If again he. tries to lick, buckle the biting reins again, and so keep him until he is Quiet. When he shows 110 further disposition to kick the ba-ket. take .( ofl-auJ pQ, or, Uie harness ihen hook a whiffle ,rt!e ,0 OIie ,ni, and lead him around ,he yarJ ,f he phoWB no fear of u hook ,he olhef e.,d of u anJ ;el h hit hi, heels al every f,ep very fe001, he wlU nol nollce Now i00en his buckling lines, and let Jm )ave reep!ay of his head, drive .him aroon(j ,f . . w .r,.noirort to kick, buck- - - - j le nplthe biting ren again, and drive Inn: thus a while longer, then Hgain ui icheck him, and so continue 10 manage until he exhibits'no sign of fear or disp si-ion 'o kick , 110 matter what may hit. hi- heels Hdfses j disposed to run away when ever anything,' hits their heels. in.harness, may also be cur ed in the 6amemanner. Gallaktrv or a Pennstlvaman Lieut Edward 1C Mull, of Capt Richard's com pany, Third regiment of Pennsylvania Re serves, while on duiy near the Rappahan nock river was captured by a party of reb ! and carried off some'distance. where a , ..l .1.,'. i 1 guard armeu wnn a snoi gun. y...u over him to prevent him making his escape while the party went off for more came.- As soen as the captors were out ot sight ,he Lieut, pulled a revolver from his coat pock- ei, and holding il close to the headjo! the goard; poli'ely informed him that he was under the painful necessity of .blowing his braiiis out if he did nol instantly lay down his gun and go with him. It is needless to add that the frightened rebel obeyed orders and il was not lon before the Lieutenant was back in his own camp, as good as new accompanied by his prize. Lieut Mull, is a resiJmil o( Buck8 coonly, Pa lotercstin to the Human Race. Tall men live longer than enrol ones The married are longer lived than the sin gle ones, and, above all, those who observe a sober and industrious conduct. Women have more chances of life previous to the age of fifty years than men, but fewer afier. The number of marriages are in proportion of seventy-six to one hundred. Marriages are more frequent after the equinoxes, that is, during tbe months of June and Decem ber. Those born in spring are generally " more robust than others. Births and deaths . u u. i. . i ' are more frequent by night than by day The number of languages spoken i, four thousand sixty-four. The number ot men :.-K.,.n.i.,h-nnmh-r nt mr,.i ,J H U V U l &.ju, . wiw ....... . . - ..... . The average of human lile is it iny-inree . . t years, seven teen. One quarter die before the age of i nr. hitlf hefnm the atre of seven- , - - -a To every thousand persons only one J reaches one hundred years, and not more than one in five hundred will reach eighty years. There are on the earth one biLion inhabitants. Of these, thirty-four million three hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three die every year, ninety-one thou-and eisiht hundred and twenty four die every day, seven thou sand seven hundred and eighty, every hour, and sixty per minute, or one in every sec one. The-e losses are about balanced by an equal number of births. A young fellow of our acquaintance, whose betier hall had just presented him with a pair of bouncing iwiris. attended Rev Mr 's church on last Sunday evening. Dunug the discourse the clergy man looking right at our innoi ent friend, said in a tone of thrilling eloquence : "YounjZ man. you have an important re sponsibility thrust upon you." The new fledged dah-dah, supposing the preacher alluded to his pecular home event consid erably startled the audience, by replying: ' Yes, -sir, 1 have two of them." Some country editor gets off the following; 'The Battles of Life Courtship is the en gagement, the proposal is the assault and matrimony the victory.'' Then, we con . dude that a treaty of peace is on the aP W1XTER IS THE COUNTRY. BY ISAAC MACLELLAN. The winter moon rides high, 1 ho yellow moon shines bright; The frosty stars, like jewels, Entwine the brow of Night, Ami the wintry winds are calling, And the feathery flakes are falling. The snow shines on the roof. The snow drifts o'er the street; Road -side and field are sprinkled With the sharp ar.d transient sleet. Big icicles hang from the wall Like spar in grottoes dim: And a polished shield is thick enclasped Around the old oaK limb; While sparkling crystals on each twig In liquid lustre swim. The brook hath lost its merry song, And ceased its playful chase; O'e' glistening lake a rosy throng Of skaters ply their race; The water wheel 10 choked wilhsice, Nor tarns its dripping beam; Mire rests the Irozen water-fail, Mute rests the frosty stream. The snow-birds perch on the garden rail, The earth denies them food ; Under the hemlock mopes the quail, Wiih her hall-perished brncd And the partridge shivereth as ihe gale Howls through the inclement wood. The cattle haste to the friendly barn, The sheep to their folds repair ; The dame by the fire-si!e spins the yarn Her good man nods in his chair, While children crowd to the chimney nook Intent on frolic, or picturedjbook. About Packets. Pockets are a marked feature of civi'ized life. The history is the history of humani ty, and a ca alogue ol their successive con- tents would lurnish a condensed biography. There, werej no pockets in ihe fis leaf of : Eden- our first parents had no need to hoard or appropriate, tor itie trees arm neroage 01 ihe garden offered them freely all their sim ple wealth There were no pockuts in Adrfm' first'blouse of skins, for as vet he r m L J had no fcnite wherewith to cut tobacco, and was innocently ignorant of the po'ency of the marvelous weed But when li'e grew hard and human interests conflicting then 1 . I I ... a tL. . . A rtniilA.iAll inflif nliArt , 1 ,' r r 1 1 ! incpMnic i"i n- j , amenity and convenience It ts a social not se fih institution. It contains supplies, not boards. The treasures of the mi-erare buried in a vanlt, while lite subsidies of the norkei are anuronriatelv known as change From its warmest corner comes the penny lor the street sweeper,ihe toys for the fire side, and the weekly gratuity for charities of every kindly name. Butthemor-t characteristic deposits are not in money. Children preler he concrete t the abstract, the end to the means While the little man wears the dreof his tUter. his nockets like hers is filled wiih , l. f3lr anil randies. Hul verv soon lie teens a wider range of activi.ies and the sweet- meats, not yet ignored, disputes possession j DJ w"n je . " . . , -. i ' 1 r. 1. tops, kite strings, ana Knives. 11 ue is me chanical the knife gains a companion in an ; ivory rule if studious in pencils and paper, j Then comes the biliigetent period, when the country boy makes investments in pow- j .lr u.i.l shot, and the vouug citizen is an , amateur in pistols and percussion caps. ; and cities will become thef liberaluyersjof And as war alternates wiib peace, the torn- luxnrie, and those engaged in raising of .hawk with -he calumet so about this peri- ; small fruits, as well as orchard products cd, if at all, ii developed a preterence tor will find better markets ihan have occurred cigars and fine cut, but these are noxious for years while staple crops willJbeVequir weeds ;hat are liable to choke oat all ed to supply the manufactnring districts, heatthlul growth. Just as rats leave a sink where unprecedented scccess will insure ing ship, when these fragrant.lreasures find increased demand their way to the pocket, indignant mo'hs leave ihe oung men's wardrobe in disgust. It will be weil it the odor does not serve to expel more desirable visitants than these. Then follows the youth's lates' pocket com pauion, the watch, pointing with its golden ' . finger ihe silent moral of the time For the girl, her early sufar plums give place to the cheap luxury of parer dolls, , nii,,.,., 4 K. iKi luimli-.ir imn! erne nt a - " thimble. Hard upon tins come the scrio- . . bling stage, when the pocket finds room lor Pencil and paper, for notes ot many pages crossed, and filled with the fancies i . ill 1 ' 31111 Illlllf I f lllCIKl llli'O nil" . ... ... cron. r j sixteen It is oui a sngni cnano uum mo.-o i mimoc m ihnsK of a warmer hue , ; "" i the billet doux of boyish acmirer. 10 ue followed we trust by the firm lines that bear the frank avowal of a manly love. She jlte(j hef ,al hanj8 jn tjje altitude of Yet ther-e last will not long remain in ihe devotion ani, excla',med "See God's big bo pocket; these are too precious guests lor qoetji Ar.oher child of five having seen each familiar treatment and shall retire to , h?(. fa,her or ,he first time he having been some inner sanctuary, set apart lor the ho- I ah(lcJlU n California, was much astonished liest of all With love come sorrow, with ! . h(J 6hould claim any authority over her. sorrow religion; so when our crowned wo man has hidden away her heart's treascres hallowed by kisses if not by tears, amid a shower ol fallen rose-leaves perhaps pro phetic of their fate, the receives a new friend a pocket-bible in their place. Con j secrated to labor, love and duty, the pocket thus meets the whole round ol human need A story of an enterprising newsboy is told by a Detroit paper He took the telegraph ic heading of the news of the Tennessee battle, and, at his own expense had them telegraphed to Port Huron and the various places along the railroad route. On the re ceipt of such news everybody was stirred up and eager to get the lull particulars As the evening train arrived at the various sta tions he found crowds anxiously awaiting him, ar.d everybody calling for the papers At Port Huron a meeting was in progress at the church, and the choir was singing as the wi.tle sounded the approach of the train The meeting at once broke U. th congre gation dispersed to read the news in a Te moments every paper bad been disposed of. -1 From the Working Farmer. Agricultural rrospeels of ISG!. The disturbed condition of the country which has prevailed the year past has par alyzed trade, and agriculturists, in common with most other classes of the community, seem to have superceded all energy of ac tion, beyond that called for by the exigen cies of the day. At this time ihe prospect of a speedy peace may fairly be anticipated, aid we hope to find at an early date, the energies of all the States directed agaia toward the, common benefit, and farmers now, with the slightest foretho't, must see their interest in renewed vigor in the prosecution of their business. The demand for this year will probably be greater than that of any previous year. The general success of business of all kinds will be unprecedented, and the mere in crease in consumption consequent upoQ successful trade, will of itself give rise to nnnsual demand for agricultural products. We now see that in all of the southrea : ports, cotton hss a mere .nominal value, ' whi'e at the north it has greatly increased in prices; the mere change of position coo j sequent upon this, will create an immense amount of transportation Sugar in Louis iana is worth three cents a ponnd. ard iu New York has advanced materially. Pork, fl.inr, and corn, in most of the south ren I stales bear'exiranrdinart prices, while in j .he northwest they may be purchased at a '; very low ra'e Indeed, there is no part of the country in which some commodity is not in exce?."whi!n the locality is deficient in others, to be focr.d elsewhere in plenty. The amount of manufactured goods which has been consumed, without being replaced throughont the south, is very Urge, and even in the north, the manufacturers "have been so panic stricken, that it is deficient of the very clas of goods which il usually , supplies to other markets, The very moment the conn'ry is at peace, ! an amonnt of interchange of commoditi mnt ocenr. creating the mot successful trade N-'w York has ever known, and in deed this remark will apply equally well to every part of the cour.try. The mere move ment of transportation, giving activity to the capita', will call or.l all resources of credit in its varions modifications. Produ cers, manufacturers, negotiators and bank- ers, will ail prosper fonder new state of things, all of which will tend to an increas ed nse of farm prodncts. 0ir factories have . sent forth large numbers of their workmen, as soldiers, while Ihe agricultural districts havrt parted thousands of their most indes- ! ,r,on "on Millions of acres of land have ! been neglected, and we anticipate excess- 1 "e demand, wnn remunerative prices mr i ..lirls hish ms fln.l ii. iv tn ths j -.- 7 proper markets. As water finds its level, ro will the laws of trade equalize all the ab errations from the usual healthy connec tions which may have occurred doring theie troubled limes, and this equalization calling out all the energies of the nation, and giv ing a'i impetus to commerce, manufactures and agriculture, will form an epoch in the history of our coontry Inhabitants of town Don't Kill Thxm The spring! Birds have returned. Welcome them don't kill them TLey are friends. A naturalist vis ited a farmer, who complained that his crop of turnips was failing. The naturalist went K on. I .1 uKAvoru. that lhr vprA in o the field and discovered that they were destroyed by worms "Have you been killing the small birds?' asked the gentleman 'My neighbor and I" killed 1,500 spai- rows this spring ' said the farmer. That explains the mysiery. The farmer had killed his best friends. The birds would have destroyed the worms and saved the A li'tle girl of three years, from beyond the Miissippi, who had never seen an ap ple tree m full bloom, behe'd one in Ohio, and on occasion of rebellion, as he admin istered punishment, she cried out, "I wish you had never married into our family!" A Precocious youth, in a country town in this State, had arived at the age of nine years' when his father aent him to school. He stood beside the teacher to repeal the al phabet. "What's that ?'' a-ked the master." "Harrer," vociferated the urchin. "No, that's A." "A." Well, what's ihe next!" 4 Ox yoke." "No, it'. B " "'Taint 3, nei ther ! it's an ox-yoke. Crotch all hemlock! gosh a mighty ! think I don't know V A wag was passing a. livery stable on day, in front of which several lean horses were lied, stopped suddenly, and gazed at them for some time with a phiz indicating the utmo-t astonishment, and then addressed the owner who was standing near " if ha made horses." "Make horses said the knight of tbe baroom and currycomb, no, why do you ask such a question!" "Only, because I observe you have several frames set op." i i
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