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VOLUME 15.
BLOOMSBURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1863.
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IDE OLD FIEMOCSS.
At the foot of the hill, near the old red mill,
In a quiet; shady spot, -Just
peeping through, half hid from view,
Stands a Luis' moss grown cot r
AbJ sirayini; through, a ihe open door,
Tb sunbeams play on the sanded Hoof.
The easy chiir, all patched with care,
. in priced by the old hearthstone ;
"With watching grace, in the old fire place,
-viae eveigreen are strewn.
-And picture hang on the whitened wail,
And the old clock licks iu the cottage ball
,1.
More lovely still, on the window-sill,'
The'dew-iiyvd flowers rest
""Waile'mii t the leaves, on the moss-grown i
Ibe mart iu builds her nest, Reaves,
And alilay long the summer breeze
.Iivwhioporibg love to the beudiug trees.
'Over the debr, aU is covered o'er
With a hivzk of a dark green baize,
Lien a rauel'j't old, whose worth is told
In the events ol other days ; .
And the ponder flask and the hauler's born
dlaie huug beside it (or many a mora. .
'For year bi.ve fled with a noiseless tread,
' Lice tairy dreama away,
.And left in their riight.all shorn of his roisht
A father-4oId arut gray; hair,
And the soft; wiud plays with hissnow-whiie
tAa the old truta tleeps in his easy chair.
. . .
In si the docH on the sanded floor,
Light farrf foottneps glide,
And a raaidirrt tatr, with flaxen hair, :
Kneels by the old man's side
Jin old oak 'wrecked ty the ang'y r,orm. ..
M' bile the ivy clings to its trembling form.
: 1 SIGHT IS C0.STAH1X3PL.
ay Geo b, wesTosi.
Tnring the Spring ;id Summer of 1856,
ConstcBtinapls was infected with organized
bands off thisves, -fsotjMids and garroiers -
Tho war in the Crimea having just termina
ted ,1h 3 city was tsverrati with the debris
of the en' idiug, armies, deserters, camp
followers ar d adventurers of all nations.
Tbis-e w reckless and daring men hesitated
not 10 commit robberies aud murders in
open day; and in the night few people went
abroad, unless in companies of several, aud
then well aimed. It was thea ! at rived in
Tarkey and ' took up my residence in the
city of the S ultan daring the reign of terror.
")ne morning, about a week after my ar
rival, . I called at the office of the United
States Consulate for tetters and papers; and
while in tbo ante-room awaiting the arrival
cf our tardy government official, a gentle
man came In at least hi external appear
ance indicated him as such; for his tall and
cotDmandidg person was arrayed in the
height of Faritian fashion, with the excep
tion of the hat, io lieu of which he wore a
while muslin turban wound round his head
in many a graceful fold, a style largely In
vogue with the Franks dwelling in the east,
lie introduced himself to me as one Mr. S..
belonging to Bangor, Maine. He was very
.cOBrnunicntive, said he' had resided in the
country a long time, and hud recently open
ed a hotel in Galala. (the Five Points of
Ccnstatitinople, though ! was not aware of
it at the time,) and giving me. his card
wished me to call some day and inspect his
boose. I Told hint I would, and the Consul
coming in at the same moment, I called for
xnj letters, and bidding the strange gentle
man a vety good morning, I passed oat of
this office.! '
About a weelr after this interview, 1 was
dawr. in Gilata, and just at night I went on
board of a:i American bark to pass the eve
ning, and ) 0 leatn the news from America.
1 fonnd tb'u captain to be & very agreeable
rant and with .reading and conversion the
'lime fled iapidly away.and ere f was aware
of .it the stiip chronometer indicated the
bear ot ele ven; rejecting an invitation from
the captain to paes the night on boarJ, I
lighted mj lantern and went upon deck
.The vessel was. lying alongside of the cus
tom boose quay, and bidding the officer a of
-the lark good night," I leaped over the
suip'a rail and landed upon the wharf; after
1 'pulleying' with the warder of. the city gate,
Iho onbarrid it, and let me pass throagh
r alter payhg hira the eternal backsheesh,,
1 giataity ixpectad for every Ihtle service
rendered byT those people. From the "out
er ga!e," ny way lay through the dark and
. B&rrow sit eeta ol this Galala j the St. Giles
'"of the'easiern capital; not one friendly light
'shed its rays over my dark path, nothing to
illarde the way bat the dull .light reflected
'turcGgh ti e paper lantern I was carrying
.J a tay hadd.,:'-"c " ' "
Tba narrow, tiirty lane throu&h. which I
was passin g was bordered opon one side
'ba lofty wall, and on the other by a row
cf cae iiorf Greek, wine shops and retail
, ,c eriasj kept by rascally Maltese Ionians;
t ct"kt that -hoar 'ot the night they are all
5 -Hfe'J and the street was deserted. Emer-U-"txom
thb alley I came, out npon a
' !r.t thol oasbfare leading from Galala
. '..-i in ihm Srsi!n' nalacd
In the
tnv,i i' r - ---- -- - i , ., , t
-3y ticit it ih daassiycrowdsl wuh people 1
passing through; bat, at that hour of night
the pedestrian usually meets only footpad
and assassins, and sees here and there a
sleepy sentinel, enjoying a quiet nap in his
sentry box. Leaving this broad street,
which is the only one in that part ot the
city wide enough to admit vehicles, 1 turn
ed a narrow lane leading toward Piza,which
was my destination. It was a suspicous
looking place, dark and dirty, enclosed by
two rows of tbree-sfory buildings, gaudily
colored. The doors were shut, but the up
per windows were thrown open. I could
hear the sound of hurdy-gurdies and tarn
borines as I walked along, and female
voices conversing in different languages,
and amoug them I could distinguish the
Italian, German unci Greek. At the upper
end of this alley I noticed a broad sign
board suspened over the door ot a public
house, adorned with the American eagle;
the second story was lighted, and without
difficulty I made out the place io be the
American tavern, and the gentlemanly Mr.
S., whom I met at the United States consu
late, was the Proprietor. I lelt pleased
wuh what I termed my good fortune in
thua coining accidentally upon the abode
of one of my countrymen, for I was then a
mile from my lodgings and would have to
pass through a part of the town where mur
ders were of nightly occurrence; there was
also another gate to go through, and noth
ing would make it turn upon its hiuge, but
the everlasting backsheesh.
I knocked at (he door; a young man claim
ing to be the 'steward' of the house admit
ted me" ; I was shown' up stairs and into the
room from which 1 saw the light reflected
when 1 was on the 6'reet below; one glance
around the room convinced me that I was
in a bad place. There were five men seat- j
ed around, English and American; two
were playing at poker with a bottle between
them,. out of which they occasionally look (
a lnnk. Une hne looking young man wuh j )em0cratic party. But they rubbed them
an intelligent countenance was busy charg- j 8elye8 a lilUe too coeely agikinBt ;De term,
ing a revolver, while the fourth was sharp j Thal term remio(i8 one of a 0setnl domes
ening a long dirk knife, and the fifth sat by , nc iQSUta,ion wnich "goes otP' by wiy of
the window, gazing into the street below; j friclion . anj our en political opponents
they merely glauced at me as I emered,but eoon joaj ltiat ,ne political fire,' enthusi
one of them spoke. I sat down apparently ; a8nj) anj combastioa, associated with the
unconcerned; in fact I thought nothing of term locoloco, were damaging to ihohe
their knives and pistols, as all go armed in wrio invented it rather than to thoie to
that city. -
I enquired of the steward if Mr. S. was
in. He replied in the affirmative, but said just odium into which they, their party,
he bad- re'ired for the night. I told him I : their party platform and their political nos
wished to stop, and if he would show me a irums have talien, on account of the trem
room I would retire also. He went out and endous calamities they have brought upon
came back in a few moments saying, ''that the country, have engaged in the dignified
the rooms were all occupied, but if 1 wish- business of coining opprobrious terra and
ed to staj he would make up a bed for me applying them to ail who will not ba led,
upon the table,"- pointing to a bagatelle or governed, or driven by their ruinous fan
board which stood in one corner. I told aticism. The term "copperhead" it, one
him that would do, it 1 could obtain nothing cf their choicest epiihets. To hear the
better. The oed being made I retired, but marked emphasis with which they pro
not to sleep. The occupants of the room, nounce it, one would imagine it to be the
who were so busily engaged, when I en- cardinal expression of the age, full of point
tered, had finished their work and were ed, well defined, clear and comprehensive
then smokina their cigars in silence, all but and signification ; an expression that told
the last mentioned, who still held his place the whole story, carried every political
at the window, peeping into the darkness point, silenced every competitor, vanquish
below. As I said before, I did not sleep, ed every disputant, and like charity, cov
but lay with partially closed ejes. I think ered a multitude of sins in those who ap
it cuiM have been one o'clock ; the hurdy- plied it.
gurdies and tambourines had ceased in the j But what does it mean ? What is its sig
houses opposite and a silence reigned over : nification ? Io what consists Its severity or
that pan of the city , broken only by the j its reproach 1 What does the ' critter" mean
watchman' beating his iron bound club J when he applies it? Who will give the
against the pavement. Then I beard a sol- answer? As generally applied and pe
nary foot-fall coming down the street, and cepted, I take it to mean a sound national
two ot my room mites arooe and went democrat; one who ioves the country, its
down stairs. I heard the street door open j Constitution, its freedom, and its free insti
and then a scofDe ensued, mingled with lutions; one who would by all the means
groans and expression in Turkish; the men, ) in his power promote the fraternal and
who remained in the room with me at that j friendly union of all the States, and the
instant extinguished the light and closed ! people of all the States, and who is willing,
the iron shutter. The street door was soon . ready, and determined to maintain the con
opened again, and the two men came up, stttution and the Union in their original in
exclaiming, "bring as some water, quick ! ; tegrity, against all the assaults of secession
for God's sake, we are all smothered in on the one hand and of abolition on the
blood.' Water was procured as I suppos-j other; one who eschews and detests polic
ed, and the murders washed themselves, at j
the same time speaking as follows:
" Something told ma ws should hara
some luck to-night. '
" How much is the pile?"
Don't know, we've got a gold ticker
and a pile of plaster no"es.'
" What countryman was he ?''
' Don't know, we didn't give him time
to explain himself; lie growled out some
thing in Turk, eo I goes Mohammed has
got him." -: "
Relighting the light they eat down to
count their monej ; all they could find waa
600 plasters, which made them curse fear
fully. The watch they prized at thirty dol
lars. The man who committed the deed,
was the one whom. I saw charging the pis
tol as I entered; at least I judged so, for his
shirt wristbands were dyed with fresh
blood.' It was that unlucky moment that I
made an involuntary movement which at
tracted their attention, and. the one with
the bloody shirt exciaimed,(tay down there
and be quiet; I trill attend, to you directly."
Then he arose and came over where I lay,
asking me "if I waa aware of what had tran
spired 1"
J told hira I was. ';
nYhat do job think of it ?" eaid he.
I replied that I bad nothing to say, as it
was none of my business. '
; "But yon may take a notion to make it
your bnsiness, one of these days; I will
lake fine care that yon don't;" closing the
sentence with a fearful oath.
Then drawing his v revolver, he cocked it
and placed iha muzle against my temple;
he swore a tremendous oath, saying that he
had carried ba that business iu Constant!-
nople for two jars, end at that lata day
we.s not a-going to allow himself to be cop
pered (caught) by me. s
" Now swear," said he, "that you will
never divulge this affair as long as you re
main in the city, and we may spare your
life." .
I told him to take the pistol away, and 1
would. At that, he commenced boring my
bead with the weapon, twisting it back
and forth; I expected every moment my
brains would strew the room; for the pis
tol was at full cock, and held in the nervous
grasp of the blood stained hand of a drunk
eo night assassin, I gasped out the neces
sary oath, and the weapon was withdrawn
with the advice, You ;had better keep
mum
The gang passed the night in drinking,
and at daylight they were in a drunken
slumber; stepping over their prostrate forms
I Opened the window, and twinging off the
sigh-board dropped down to the pavement,
and wont home. I never heard any thing
said about the murder, it being policy for
me to keep silent; for I was a stranger in
the city, and met some one of the fcang
nearly exery day daring a residence of two
years in the Turkish capital
WHAT IS A i:OPPSaEAD
The Hon. Ltvi Bishop, of Detroit, recent
ly gave the following plump answer to this
question : . ,
We ohen hear i? said of Democrats,
'"He's a Copperhead, he's a bitter Copper
head, shun him, Cot hitn, don't counte
nance him, don't associate with him, don 't
trade with him, don't give him business,
ruin him, crnsh him, for he's an inveterate
Copperhead." Well, what is a Copper
head ? Our opponents are verr lond of
coIr,ms came3 wh,ch thev imain to be
severe or opprobrious. I remember how
they got up the term lotofoco, and applied
n hy way of reproach to Democrats and the
whom it was applied. .
The Abolitionists, ever conscious of the
cal abolitionism in all its phases, in all it
corruptions, and in all its usurpation., and
who deplores its bitter, bloody, and dcslruc
live iruits.
In short, a "copperhead" is a nan who
designs simply to maintain our system cf
free government as the fathers founded it,
as their successors administered it, and as
we and posterity are bound by every motive
of interest, patriotism and honor to continue
it. He still adheres as all Democrats ad
here, to the good old-fashioned constit ution
al Union Democracy. He knows political
ly no North, no South, no East, no West,
and he opposes whatever he finds to be
destrnctive of that system of free govern
ment, whether found at the East, West,
North, or South, or if perched even in the
presidential chair at Washington. In this
view I most freely acknowledge myself a
firm, determined, uncompromising, and if
our opponents please, a most inveterate
'copperhead."
It is sometimes said openly, an J often
insinuated, that a "Copperhead" or a Dem
ocrat is in favor of secession, is in favor of
the rebellion, is in favof of a dissolution of
the Union, is in favor of mobs, mob law,
mob violence; in favor of the defeat of the
Union armies -and of the disgrace of the
Union flag; that he is opposed to enlist
ments, opposed to necessary taxation, op
posed to raising necessary armies, opposed
to the Government, and opposed 10 all prop
er maans and agencies by which the Union
and the government can be maintained.
These are cainmnies--all calamnius-de-iiberate,
wilful and malignant calamoies. t
- A" Democrat, or a "Copperhead," if yon
pie&se, wm wsuia iub wi u
I United SlaTea onder U cticuauttacm, ana,
indeed, it is the very object and motive of
Democratic action at ; the present time to
maintain the govern ment against all who
would destroy it, whethef North or South,
and at the same time, a Democrat, or "cop
perhead," it you please, will oppose, with
his influence, voice and vote, whatever
policy he may regard as unwise, that may
be pursued by the administration of the1
government for the time being, and whatev
er action on their part which he may regard
unconstitutional, unwise or illegal. A Dem
ocrat regards and will continue to regard
the constitution and framework of the gov
ernment as one thing which is to be main
tained at all hazards, at whatever cost, and
by any sacrifices; and at the same time he
regards and will continue to regard the
present administrators of the government,
that is to say Abraham Lincoln and his cab
inet officers, and his and their subordinates
and instruments, as a very different thing,
to be opposed at pleasure; to be resisted
when they overstep the law of the land,
and to be expelled lrora office and power at
the first opportunity.
A Democrat, or "Copperhead," if yon
please, is in favor of an honorable peace
based on a complete restoration of the
Union, under the Constitution, as it was
framed and handed down to us by the fath
ers; and to this end he would make the
enemy feel the Weight, Ihe losses and the
distresses of military governments, and the
painHand penalties of a state of civil war
while he would bold out the assurance that
constitutional protection of individual and
political rights should follow the restoration
of the Union and the retorn ol an honorable
peace. In other words, a Democrat would
throw aside all the extreme measures of
mad abolitionism, and of mad seceion
ism, and carry the spirit of reconciliation
wherever the armies and the flag of the
Union may go. Union, restoration, peace,
nationality and fraternity among all the
members ot the confederacy, without re
gard to local institutions and peculiarities,
and without regard to geographical lines,
are what he places above all other consid
erations. I have thus been explicit on this point,
"in order that democrats may not be intimi
dated by denunciation or influenced by
meaningless expressions. We are ready
to face our opponents on the merits of this
rational storm which they have raised; and
we are now to be led or driven aside from
those merits by any subterfuge whatever.-
We will face even their music of civil
war and desolation and national ruin ; yea,
we will play that mutdc to them upon the ;
''harp of a thousand strings" before the
next presidential election. Every democrat
is now in earnest. Thousands of our polit
ical friends are now in the field in front of
the southern enemy, and every Democrat
wbo is not in the field there is in the ranks
with his armor on against the relentless
enemy of the national Union at the North.
The Union must be restored by the sup
pression of the southern rebellion; but the
surest way, if not the only way to accomp
lish that result, is to put down abolition
fanaticism at the north. Let the glorious
work be accomplished. Let the broad en
sign of the republic, with not a star lot or
dimmed, once more wave in peace over a
united and happy people. .
Duty of American mothers.
Our highest standards of female culture
convey the same idea, and tend to the same
end. In an essay on the dutlos of Ameri
can mothers our own Webster says :
"Mothers are affectionate and effective
teachers of the human race. The mother
begins the process of training with the in
fant in her arms. It is she who directs its
first mental and spiritual pnlaalions. She
conducts it along the impressible years of
childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver
it to the rough contest and ' tumultuous
scenes of life armed by these good princi
ples which her child has first received from
mental care and love. It we draw within
the circle ot our own contemplation the
mothers of a civilized nation, what do we
see ? We behold so many artificers, wo rk
ing not on frail and perishable matter, but
oa the immonal mnd, moulding and fash
ioning beings who are to exist forever. We
applaud the arrest whose skill and genius
present the mimic man upon the canvass;
we admire and celebrate the sculptor who
works out that same image in enduring
marble ; but bow insignificant are these
achievements, though the highest and fair
est in all the departments of art in compar
ison with the great vocation of mothers !
They work not npon the canvas that shall
fail, or the marble that shall crumble into
dost, but upon mind, ur-on spirit, which is
to last forever,-and which is to bare through
oat its duration the impress of a ' mother's
plastic hand." 7
. s ,
A young soldier in the Army of the Toto
maCj writing to a friend in Boston, modest
ly requested a needlebook, having lost his
bl Gettysburg. The article was forwarded
in due time, and rapped io the folds was a
card photograph of General McClellan. In
acknowledging the gift, the soldier writes
'The picture of McClellan is rery fine
looks very natural ; all that is wanting ' is
the smile. It did my eyes good to see it.
it had to go the rounds of tberegiment, and
frbro the old members received six hearty
cheers." "1 ;
Pecnticc says the negro troops are so well
applied with colors : by the Abolitionists
that they have a donble rig at to be called
&6 colored regiment' ":: r '"'-.'
HOW SOFTLY.
How softly on the bruised heart .
A word of kindness falls,
And to the dry and parched soul,
The moistening tear drop falls ;
Oh, if they knew, who walk the eaith,
Mid sorrow, grief and pain,
The power a word ot kindness hath,
'Twere paradise again.
The weakest and the poorest may
This simple pittance give.
And bid deli'ht to withered hearts
Return again and live ;
Oh, what is life if love be lost?
If man's unkind to man
Or what to heaven that waits beyond
This brief and mortal span ?
As stars upon the tranquil Bea
In mimic glory shine,
So words of kindness in the heart)
Reflect the soul diviue :
0,then be kind, who'erthou art
That breathest mortal breat,
And it shall brighten all thy life,
And sweeten even death.
Tltin Questions for home CoasoptioDi
Have you ever known a Democrat Id jus
tify a violation of the Constitution ?
Have you ever known a stamp act enac
ted under a Democratic Administration.
Have you' ever known a Democratic
President to suspend the writ of habeas cor
pus ?
Have you ever known a Conscription
Law to be passed under a Democratic Ad
ministration ?
Have you ever known a confiscation law
to be passed by a Democratic Administra
tion ?
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad
ministration to form a New State in viola
tion of the plain provision of Ibe Constitu
tion ?
Have you ever known a time, except the
present, when a citizen could be incarcer
ated in a dungeon without authority of
law ?
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad
ministration to compel the people of a State
or the District of Columbia 10 sell their
proeny whether willing or i.ot ?
Have you ever known asy Administra
tion except Abraham's to create a National
debt of S3, 000, 000.000, in the short period
of three years ?
Have you ever known a time onder a
Democratic Administration when a day's
labor would purchase only two pounds of
coffee ?
Have you ever known a citiien to be
sent into banishment and exile, under dem
ocratic rule ?
Have you ever known a time under dem
ocratic rule, when the greatest crimes, and
outrages have been committed by our rnl-
ers under a plea of "militray necessity" or
"reasons cf State V'
Have you before this known a time
when the military was made superior to
the civil power ?
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad
ministration to tax the people of the whole
country to buy the negroes of the border
States ?
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad
minirtratioh to tax the people to pay the
expenses of stealing and educating the ne
groes of ihe Southern States ? j
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad-;
ministration to ignore the rights of the ;
States ? j
Have yon ever known a Democratic Ad- j
ministration in opposition to the Democ
racy to lave the affairs of the country in as
flourishing a condition as it found them ?
The Wife's Jiighteap.
Mf
who does not live mora than a
mil from the. nn.t nrTiM in N'er Orlo.n.
metome northern friend, with .nn.fcern
nrinrinle.nne. evening and in ertendin
to them the hospitalities of the city, visited
r.i. : , , i l,.
so rany oi trie prmceiy sai'ions anu marpie
h.lL. imbibing .nirit.,.! noUtinn . . her
joumied, that when be left them at their
hotel at the midnight boor, he felt decided-
Iv that ha hdA hriek in hi, hat. Now.
j - - -
he has a wife, an amiable, accomplished, i
and beanmul lady, who loves him devoted
ly, andfinds but one fault with him. That
is, his too frequent visits to the palaces
where thesw bricks are obtained.
After leaving hi friends, Mr. paus
ed a moment, took his bearings, and hav
ing shaped a course, on the principle that
continual angles meet, made sail for home.
In due coarse of time he arrived there, and
was not very much astonished, but rather
frightened, to find hi worthy lady silting
np for him. She always does.
"How are you, dear E ?" said she,
"yon staid oat so late, that I leared you had
taken sick."
"Hie aint sick, wife ; b-but don't yoa
think I'm a little tight V
"A very little perhaps my dear j but that
is nothing you have so many friends as
you sav, yon must join them in a glass once
ia a while 1"
'Wife, you'r too good j t th-the truth is,
I'm dd drunk."
"Oh no, Indeed my dear ; I'm sure that
even another glars wouldn't burtyon. Now,
suppose you lake a glass of Scotch ale with
me, just as a nightcap, dear."
'Yoa ere too kind, my dear, by half; I
know I'm drunk,"
Oh no ; only, a julp too much, love,
that's all
"Yes, juleps McMasiers makes such
stiff 'una I"
"Well, take a glass of ale at any rate ; it
can-t hurt you, dear, and I want one before
I retire." .
The lady hastened to open a bottle, and
as she placed two tumblers before her on
the sideboard, she put in one a very
powerful emetic. Filling the glasses with
the foaming ale, she banded oue to her hus
band. ,
Suspicion came clondily upon his mind
She never before had been so kind
. !
Wlien t
he was drunk. He looked at the glass
raised it to his lips then hesitated.
'Dear, wwon't you just tasie mine to
make It sweet sweeter ?" said he.
"Certainly, love," replied the lady, taking
a mouihfal, which she was Careful net to
swallow.
Suspicions vanished, and so did the ale,
emetic and all, down the throat of the satis
fied husband. Alter spitting out the taste,
the lady finished her plass, but seemed io
no hnrry to retire. She fixed a foot-tub of
water before an easy chair, as if she intend
ed to bathe her beautiful little feet. But
small as were those feet there wasn't water
enough in the tub to cover them. The
husband began to feel sick, and he wanted
to retire.
'Wait only a few minutes, dear," said
his loving spouse, 'I want to read the news
in this afternoon's paper I found in my
pocket."
A few more minutes ela(ped,and then
and then, oh ye gods, what ya time. The
husband was placed iu an easy chair.
He began to understand xhy the tub was
there, and he soon learned what ailed him.
Suffice it to say, that when be rose from
that chair the brick had left his hat. It
hasu't ben there since. He says berU
never drink another julp of scotch ale, but
he is death on lemonade ! He loves his
wife better than ever.
Reader, this is a true s'.ory.
Advice to Tonne Sea.
A lacy who signs herself "A Martyr to
Late Hoars," offers the following sensible
suggestions to yonng men :
Dear gentlemen betiveen the ages of
"eighteen and forty-five," listen to few
words of g'atuitous remarks. When you
make a social call of an evening, on a
young lady, go away at a reasonable hour,
Say you come at 8 o'clock, an hour and a
halt is certainly as long as the most fascin
ating of you in conversation can, or rathe
ought, to desire to ue his charms. Two
hours, indeed can be very pleasantly spent,
with music, thens or other games to lend
variety : but, kind sirs, by no means stay
longer. Make shorter calls and come often
er. A girl that is, a sensible, true hearted
girl will enjoy it better and really value
your acquaintance morei Just conceive
Lie aony of a girl who well knowing the
feelings of father and mother upon the sub
ject, hears the clock strike ten, and yet must
sit on the edge of her cnair, in mortal terror
lest papa fthonld pot his oft repeated threa
in execution that of coming down and in
viting the gentlemen to breaklast. xnd
we girls understand it all by experience,
and know what it is to drpad the prognistic
j of displeasure. In fun cas;s a sigh of re-
! lief "eserallv accompanies the closing of
! the door behind the gallar.t, and one don't
i get over the feeling of trouble till safe in
I the aims of Morpheus. Even then some
times the dreams are troubled with eome
phantom of angry father and distressed (for
all parties) mother; and all because a
young man tcjU rr.sHe a longer call than he
onght to. Now young gentlemen friends,
I'll tell ycu what we girl will do. For an
honr and a half we will be most irresistibly
and fascinating ; then beware, monosylla
ble responses will be all you need expect
And if, when the limit's shall have been
passed, a startling query shall be heard
coming Qowa eiairs, m. i u ..uir, ,
! P 1 must consider it a
i Punishment, and taking your hat, meekly
' depart-a sadder, and, it is to be hoped a
wiser man. Do not set anarv : but the
I
! next time you come be careful to keep
! wi,hin i0,t bounds- We wanl Xn rie9 early
! 'h(?se pleawnl morn.n?., and improve the
"shining hours ;" but when forced to be up
at such unreasonable hours at night, ex
bausted nature will speak, and as a natura
conaeauence. with the utmost speed in
dressing, we can barely get down to break
fast in time to escape a reprimand from
naDa. who don't believe in beaux a
though he never was young and a mild
reproving glance from mama, who under
stands a little better her daughter's feelings,
but must still disapprove outwardly, to
keep up appearances. And, now, young
men think about these things, and don't
for p)'y'j sake don't throw down your
paper with a "pehaw !" but remember the
safe side of ten.
A GENTLEMAN, cored of Nervous De
bility, Incompetency, Premature decay and
Youthful error, actuated by a desire lo ben
efit others, will be happy to furnish to alt
who need it, free of charge, the Reeipe"and
directions for making the simple Remedy
used in bis case. Those wishing to profit
by his experience and possess a valuable
remedy will receive the same, by return
mail, carelullv sealed by addressing. '
JOHN B. OGDEN,
No 60 Nasau Street, New York.
August 26, 1S63 Sm.
A young la ly in Milwaukie, suing for
damages for breach of promise, declared in
evidence that four abortions bad been pro-
cored upon her.
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A wag writes that he has postponed the
draft ia order to Tisit Canada.
A Dying Soldier Tale.
A boy of some eighteen sammers lay oa
the battle field near Fredericksburg, mortal
ly wounded. He lay all day, unmindful of
the scorching and the roaring artillery
Cannon balls flew past, fanning his pale
rkAdlr Art itaif taofllu m iautiM t. 1. .
1 wvi wi-mviiy IllialUii, UUI UJ IIIH17 .
it not. At last he awoke to consciousness
and looked around him. The moon wm
shining calmly on the boyish face; the
blood oozed slowely from his side was evi
dence that his young life was almost spent.
For a moment he pressed his trembling
hand to his side to ea?e the throbbing pain,
and the pale, bloodless lips pared with
sigh of acony. A woonded soldier near
hearing his groans, inquired! if he was
badly wounded. "Yes," replied the dying
boy, "1 am dying, and I want my mother !
for when they compelled me Io leave her
she bade me come back to her, for I was
the staff of her declining years. I promis
ed her I would ; but 1 am dying now, and
shall never see her more."
The boy went on to say, for it seem
ed to mot greatly relieve his mind to
talk when they told my mother her only
Child was drafted and would have to gu to
war, she said not a word until W9 were left
alone ; then she came to me and laid her
white arms arround my neck and kissed
me. I could not speak then, so I returned
her caress silently. At Iat she ipoke i
George, I have buried two sons, and the
next one called was your father. With a
ad, ttltnont broken heart, I heard the cloda
of the valley fall on his coffin lid, ar.d tried
to bear this great afiliction with christian.
fortitude, and I succeeded, for I had yoa lo
lean upon, my son ! Bit the cop that Ara-
hara Lincoln is pressing to my lips to night
i too bitier," and he fell , faintiug on my
bosom.
It would be ueleas to tell yoa of the days
spent by me to raise money to buy a sub-
s nute. We were poor and they told me to
go and they would care for my mother un
til I came back. They said it was but nine
months and it wonld soon pass away. Bo
I am passing away instead, and my poor
mother will be left alone ! Here his voice
sank to a whisper and bis lat words were.
"mo' her heaven" and the moon came out
of a cloud and revealed the chilJinh lace set
in death. This was all. But is it all. God
forgive the agitators of this most unholy
war, and bind up the hearts of widows and
mothers in their great Borrow. From Iht
Colcnbus Ohio) Crisis.
A FORTITA'E VOll AM,!
L I Til Lit 31 OR lrojicx !
NO HUMBUG, but an ENTIRELY NEW
thing. Only three month in this countryl
No clap-trap Operation to gull the public,
but a genuine money malting thing! Read
the Circular of instruction once only, and
you will nndersfatid it perfectly. A Lady
has just written to me that t-he is making
as high as TWENTY-DOLLARS SOME
DAYS! giving instructions in this art
Thousands of Soldiers are making money
rapidly at it. It U a thing that tak? better
than anythinz ever offered. You can
make money with it home or abroad oo,
"team boats or railroad cars, and in the
country or city. You will be pleased ia
pursuing it, not only because it will yield
a hand-ome income, but also in conse
quence of the general sdmiralicn which it
elicits. It is pretty much all prjfit. A
mere trifle is necessary to start with.
There is f-carcel) cne person oat of
thousands who ever pnys any attention to
advertisemeu's of this kind, thinking they
are humhug. Consequently lhoee who do
send for inductions will have a broad
field to make money 'n. There is a' class
of persons in this world who would think
that because they hve been humbugged
out of a dolUr or so, that everything that
is advertised is a humbug. Consequently
ue try no more. The person - who sue
ceed is the one that keep- on t'ying until
he ti'us something that pays him.
This art cost me on thousand dollar)
and I expect to make money Onl of i! and
?11 who purchase the art of me will do the
Nme. One Dollar sent to me will insure
the prompt return of a curd of instructions
in tie art. The money ci1 be relumed to
tho'-e not sati'JicJ.
Address WALTER T. TINSI.EY,
No. 1 Park Place, New York.
Oct. 21, 1863. Sm. V
EDITOR OF THE STAR, Dear Sir
With your permission I wish to say to the
readers of your paper that I will send by
return mail to all who wish it, (free) a Re
ceipe, with full directions for making and
u-ing a simple Vegetable Balm, that will
effectually remove, in 10 days, Pimple,
Blotches, Tan, Freckles, and all Irrpurilies
of the Skin, leaving the same soft, clear,
smooth and beautiful.
I will also mail free to those having Bald
Heads or Bare Faces, simple directions and
information that Will enable tbera to start
a full growth of Luxnrient Ha;r, WhUier?,
or a Moustache, in less than 30 days. All
applications answered by return mail with
out charge. Respectfully yours,
THOS. F. CHAPMAN, Chetist,
No. 831 Brosdway, New York.
August 26, 1863. 3m.
The counties of Preble, Butler, and Mont
gomery, which constitute the Yalandigbsm
election district ot Ohio, gave him a major
itj for Governor.
Self defence is the clearest of all laws,
and for this reasou lawyers don't xnal it
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