1 h . ' ".'V . ' ":. " : - . - ' - 1 r 1 j 1 0 U. a. JACOBr, rubllsher.j TrnjmhM God and our. Country 1 $2 50 In Advance, per A on new Volume 16. BLOOM S B tJ R G. COLUMBIA: COUNTY, PA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1865. NUMBER 15. GET ? Court Proclamation. W ,rHEREAS the Honorable William El - we!l, President Judge of Ihe Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Deliv ery, Court of Quarter Session ol the Peace, md Court of Common Pleas and Orphans' Cnorl. in the 26th Jiw'irial nillri.l fnmr.na- d of lb counties of Columhia' S.llivn "Wyoming, and the Hon?. Stephen Balrty and John Alt-Reynolds, Associate Judges, of Co lumbia cfi., have issued their precept, bear- lrg tlBte one thousand eight hundred and , eixiy foor, and to ire directed fcr holding a . Coon of Oyer and Terminer, arid General - Jitil Delivery, Quarter Sessions ol the Peace, Com. Pleas and Orphans' Coon, in Blooms r borg, in the cpunty of Colombia, on the first Monday, bein-? the 6th day of Februarv nex t and io continue one week. Notice is hereby given, to the Coroner, the Justices of the Peace and Constables o tlie said County of Columbia, that they be then and there in their proper persons at 10 o clmclc in the forenoon of said day, with their ' records, inquisition and other remem bran res to do those tninga which to their offices , appertain, to be done. And those that are hound by recognize, to prosecute against , the prisoners Jhat are or may be in the Jail . of said county ol Columbia, to be then and there to prosecufe then a? shall be just. Ju rors are requested to be ponciual in their attendance, agreeably to their notice, dated t Bloomsbnrg, the 31st day of Dec, in the year of onr Lord one thoasar.d eight hundred and sixty-fourth and in ihe eighty-ninth year of the Independence of the United Slates of I America. (God sae the CromnnweHlth.) SAMUEL SNYDER SherifJ's Office, " ) Bloomsburz. Jan. 4, 1864. J Sheriff. List of Causes for Feb. Tern, 1 885. 1 Elijah McMnrtrie Endorsee of Aaron Wolf vs Christian Wolf. 2 Jacob Harris vs Peter Jacoby. 3 Rusel P Stacker vs. Win. Ikelef, 4 David Achonbach vs John Wurdin. 5 G Longenberger, Geo. Miller et al vs Joshua Robbinon and Wm, Boyles 6 John Alle&ar and Sarah A. Allt-gar vs. .' John Y. Allegar. 7 Sarnuel Williams v Charles H: Diet . rich and Geo. A. Herr'mji. ' 8 Wilson Aner v Joseph F. Lonj. 9 Hnh All-Reynold et al vs Peter Oii phant. 10 A W Creamer vs Enoch Howell. 11 A W Creamer Enoch Howell 12 Johr Beisel et al vs S F H lly et a. I - 13 Geo VV Garr';on vs Camper I Thomas 14 Richard Morgan vs Samuel HuagUnd. 15 John Ruckle vs Henry T Riley et al .16 Henry Gilmer v Moore. Creveling. 17 Enos L Adams vs Sam'l B Seibert with Sei. a. to Pe;er M Trauyh fa Josiah Thomas. Garnishee 18 Johr. Keiflr a-Jm'r of Joseph G deceased vs Moses Alver arhart 19 Rebecca Vamletslice vs Richard B Metiitih 20 George Carr, eruloree of James Carr vs Sylvester J Faux fa Thomas Crev elingjr. - Trarerse Jurors Feb. Tern, ISG5. Bor. Berwick J. P. Sibbet, FreJerick Nicely. Bloom Samuel Ma'Iick, Stephen K lorr, Jos. L Shannon Catawissa Joeph Brei?ch, Jacob Gen si!, Danil Helwiz. . Centre Theo. McD. Price 'Henry C. Bar ton. - ,Fishingcree!c D-iniel Taoma, Silas Mc Henry, Reuben Savage. Tranklin Michael Mensch, Jesse Cleaver, Ufjnlock Abraham Van Horu. Jarkson Abraham Mannins. locost John Snvder, Henry Fahriner, Washinclon Yea:er. Alt. Pleasant John Ruckel, John Mordan. AlifSin Henry C. Hess. Lewis Eclrtoth. i ' AIadiion Jacob Girton. Alame Michael Groover. Oane A C. Beidleman. , pine Thomas McBiide, John W. Hooter, Luther A. Garman. 1 Roaringcreek William Rhoadc. JScott John Eqt, Wm. H. Creasy, Thomas Dollman, Henry VV. Creasy. - .Suaarloai George Dills. December 26, 1864 Grand Jnrors for Feb. Term, I8G5. Bor. Berwiek Jeremiah. Seesholtz. Briarcreek Wm. Hippenneel, John H Smith, Samuel Kelchner. . . Bloom Vastine Boon. Benton Jesse Oh I. " Catawissa Solomon Hewi. -Centre Henry D. Knorr, Hiram Schwep- petiheier. STishingcreek Abraham Kline, Esq. .Hemlock John Hartman, William Fry, Jackson Leiby. . Xrf)cost M.ichael Hower Jona Fahrin;er, Isaae Rhodes, Wm. Barninger. AlifSin Charles Grover. .Madison Frederick Derr, Jacob Eyer. Alaine Jacob Susar. Orange William Bellas. Scott Harmon Crevelinj, H. D Alellick. w v Jan. 4, 1865. . ' - . . . ,,. TVTOTICE i hereby given that the follow. - in persona have filed in the office of the Clerk ol the Quarter Sessions, apph ' rations to keep Hotel, or sell liquor by the 'jDart, wilb or without other merchandize, at the places named, and that Ihe applica tions wilr be presented to the Court 'of Quarter Session of Colombia county, on Alonday. the 6th day of February, 1865, .at 2 o'clock, P. M Berwick, Hotel, Hiram Smothers -.!reenwool, John Lecgot, ,CntervilIe, Liqaorstora Chas. P. Smith, , " ' ' B. McBrerty. 7&jCOLEMAN, Cleik, 0. C. J7" FOR RENT. , THEMountain Lodge, No. 264 I. O of 0. F. desire to rent the public house known as the Tut Uwio House in Orange itle Col. Co. Pa. Possession to be given -on the 1st day of April 1865. For terms . Jtc. inquire of Sanmel. Everett Orangerille Pa. . ' ; SAMUEL EVERETT , 1 O- A. MEGARGELL, Hall ComUee g:v-. rittenh"ouse. . 'Oranseville, Jan. 4th 1865. 3i. DAYID LOWEXSEFtG, CLOTHING S TO n E, C " Iain t r3et,t wo door? above the An er I iiipOi'lniit TO ALL IRON IN THE BLOOD. It i well known to the medical profes sion, that Iron is the vi al Principle or Life nrl I Element of the Mood. This is derived I rf,iefly from the food we eat ; but if the - IO a 18 nftI propeny aigemeu or ir, trom any cause whatever, ihe necessary qnan my oi iron is nui iBKen miu me circulation or becomes reduced the whole system suf- fers. The bad blood will irritate the heart, will clog up the lungs, will stupefy the brain , will obstruct the liver, and will send its disease producing elements to all part r.i - Ml rr- oi me system, ano every one w n sunr in whatever organ rr.ay be predisposed to dis ease. The great value of IKON AS A MEDICINE Is well known and acknowledged by aH medical n;en. The difficul'y has open to obtain snch a preparation of it as will n ler the circulation and assimilate at once with the blood. This point, says Dr Hayes, Massachusetts State Chemist, ha been at tained in the Peruvian Syrup, by combina lion in a wav before nnkrrown THE PERUVIAN SYRUP I a protected solution of the Protoxids of Iron. A new discovery in medicine that , strikes at the Root ol Disease by supply. : ins the blood with its Vital Principle or , Ufe Element Iroi. THE PERUVIAN SYRUP Cures. Dipepnia, Livr Complaint, Dropsey Faver and Ague, Los of energy, Low, Spirits. THE PERUVIAN SFRUP infuses strenui h, vior, and new life into the pji-tem, ana builds up an 'Iron Consti tution." x THE PERUVIAN SYRUP Cures Nervous Affections, Female Com plaint, and all diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder. THE PERUVIAN SYRUP Is a Specific for all diease originating in a had stale of the blood, or accompanied by Debifn; or a low ktate of the system: Pamphlets containing certificates of curps and lecom mendi ions from some ot the most eminent Physicians. Clergymen and others, will be tent FREE to any ad dress W select a few of ihe names . to show the character ! Ihe telimonials. John E. Williams E-q , President of the Metropo itan Bank, N V. Rev AbeM 5tever., late Editor Christian Advocate fa Journal. Rev P. Lhnrch. Editor N. Y. M'rnn ic.Ie. Kev. John Pieri'otit, Rv.Wurren Burtons Rev. Arthur B. Fuller Rev. Gurdon Rob nins, l,Vv. Slvanns Cobb. Rev. T. Starr J King, Rev. Ephrsim Nue. Jr., Rev. Josehp j H Clinch, Rev Henrv Upham, Rev. P. C. neaiiej jtev. jonn v . 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THE undersgned, appointed by the Orphans-Court oi Columbia county, to make distribution ol the balance in the hands of Richard Denntt, administrator of Saran Stephenson, late of Madison t wp., in said county, to and among the heirs and Jegal representatives of the said deceased, in Ihe order established by law. will meet the parties interested, at the Recorder's Office, in Bioomsburg, on SATURDAY 2STH OF JANUARY, A. D 1865. All person- ha v. iug claims or demands againt Ihe Estate of the deceased, are requested to present them to the Auditor, or be debarred from coming ia tor a share of the assets. JOHN G. FREEZE, Audi'.or. B'oomsborg. Jan. 4, 186552.50 AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Alexander Mears, deceased. THE nnlerpgnd, appointed by the Or phan' Court ol Columbia cooiny. to make distribution of the .balance in the hanJs of Peter R. Herbein and John Yeager jr., Executor of Alexander Mears late of" Lo cust Iwp , in said county, lo and among Ihe creditors of the saiddeceased, in the order establ ished by law, will meet the creditors of Ihe deceased, at Ihe Recorders Office, in Bloomsburg, on SATURDAY THE28TH OF JANUARY. A D. 1865. All persons having claimf or demands against te Estate of the deceased, are re queued (o present them to thf A editor , or be debarred frou coming in for a share of the assets. JOHN G. FREEZE, Auditor. Bloombnrg, Jan. 4. 1855 S2 50 CHARLES G. BARKLtY, Attorney at Law, - BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA CO., PA. WILL practice in the sever! Courts of Colombia county. Alt legal business intruded to his care shall receive prompt attention O F F I C E, On Main Stree', Exchange Buildings, over Miller's St; je. Afril 13. 1WU HENRY . ROSENSTOCK, Sky-Iaiiht Ambrof ypist, OOMS in the Third Story of the ExeajiedBC -' change Block, (entrance above the' Book Store,) Bioomaburg, Colombia conn- ( or'l ty, Va. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISH ED tVCRTTWEDNCSDAT BV " WM. II. JACOBY, Office en .Main St., 3rd Square below Earkst. TERMS: Two Dollars and Fift? Cents in advance. II not paid till th end of the year. Three Dollars will be charged. No subscriptions taken for a period less lhn six months ; no discontinuance permit' - j eti u,i a arrearages are paid unless at the 1 option of the editor Ihetermi of advertising will be a follow: j One square, eight lines one time, SI Of) ; Every subsequent insertion, ..... 25 One sqnare, three months, 4 50 One year. 10 00 PETROLEUM. B? A PUPU. OF PACKER INSTITUTE. The shades of night were failing fat, As through the Western village passed A man whose tutore golden fame Hong trembling on the magic name. Petroleum. His brow was sad, but his eye was bright, With the bannting vision day and night, And in his ear this word was rung Lke niosic from a fairy tongue, Petroleum. In cabin homes he saw a light, Which flickered through the starless uiht; His heart was growing sad and lone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Petroleum Yet on he pressed with weary tread, . Dark rose the tempest overheard, The mountain wind went whistling by, And mocked his sad, despairing rry, Petroleum. "Beware the branch of the withered tree ! Beware ol swamps anJmud to the knee !'' These were the wordsof the cautions sire, Lost in that word, which echoed higher, Petroleum "Try not the pass the peasant cried, 'The rocks are raed, the chas in wide, The oily river is rushing by ;" Bui the purpose leapM IroTn his flashing eye Pe roieum. At break of day, when su:luht spread Its halo of glory over his head, A scene in the distance canght hi eye, His heart onsprung w;ith the joyful cry, Petroleum. The poal as reached, and pntient toil Drew from the earth its wealth oi oil, And now repaid lor his anxious care ; His clarion voice rings through the uir, Petroleum. re-roltum Review. A. M. M. - Fromtk? Richmond Senfi'ef Jin 20th. S0CTUEUX SEWS. ! No wilder hallucination coald take pos sesion ol the human mind than the belief tha we conlo ever again live with the Yankees on terms of equality, or come un der the same government with them, ex cept as cpnqoe red peopled Differences of habit, sentiment, and feeling, and diversity of interest, which wie legislation and con serva'.ive statesmanship might have recon ciled, have, under the councils of madmen, fit to disturb peace of all the world, har dened into an enduring an'agonisTi. Vio lent and exclusive opinions at the North have borne their legitimate fruits. Force has been substituted for reaVnn and all the healing arts of statesmanship. War has torn two peoples asonder, and placed be iween them an ocean of blood that will re main forever ; (or never can true recon cilement grow where wounds of mortal hate have pierced so deep. Let us not deceive ourselves in Ibis matter. Lei no weak dreamer drug himself, with, the iodine of reconstruction, nor ley to bis soul the flat- lering hope that would be tolerable without our indipendence. Mr. Lincoln has indeed vouchsafed to tell ns that we will cease' when we lay down our arms. So Ihe war cesed after the batile of . Hastings, but the; Universal spoliation of property, depriva- ! tion of all personal privileges, and the loll- j ing of curfew bells illustrated the object for, which the war was undertaken, and kepi j long in memory the bitterness of the peace j by which it was followed. But worse than all this worse than anything to be found : ing to ihe North Ihe otter hoplessnes uf re on the darkest and saddest page of human J storing their sacramental Union, except bv history woold be that peace that we sho'd , gain by abandoning our struggle for inde- j pendence, and bowing the neck to our ene-1 roies. Then Mr. Lincoln in his own ele- j ganl phrase would run his courts, and thro' their instrumentality complete the 'work of robbery arid spoliation and rain. Not only will all our property be swept from us into j he public coffer- of the Yankees, or be di vided not in portions and rewards to a hire, ling to'diery. bot judicial murders will be the order ol the day. All the dark and ma lignant passions ol a vindictive people, drunk with. bloo4 and vomiting crime, will be unleashed upon us like bl'.odhoundi npon their prey. Between reconstruction J and subjogation there i no reason why we I should draw distinction without a difference I Lincoln has taken anxious pains to assure j as of this The only reconstruction of j peace he will allow as is submission, Thi j is subjuga:ion. The reconstruction of south- j arn dreamers is not cotceived of at the Norih. But even could we aobmit npon terms which would not be allowed ns, such reconstruction would enly be subjugation ia form, scarcely respectable enough to be cheat. Both mean slavery to the lite without honor, and a futore withoai hope. There would be no practi- submission. How vain the effort, how foolish the wish, to reconstruct, ' upon any terms, the Union which was perished thro' the bad faith of those whom we should have to trust again. I. et ns pledge our selves, if need be, afresh to this resolve. Let us swear by the memory of oar immor ' t al dead ; by the sofferinss of the past, and ! hopes of the foture ; by our ravaged fields j and desolated homes ; by the tears and 1 sorrows of widowhood, and cries of help j less orphanage; by the blood of the slain that calls io us from the ground, 'hat we J w in never, never have part oj lot in any government which, in its every department executive, legislative, and judicial, is under the bole and exclusive control of those who can oflsr as ns guarantee fo the" futore, but the broken faith of the past. This is what manhood and liberty reqnire. This was the spirit that fired the hearts of those who fell so nobly at Thermopfae, and of those who conquered so glorioasly at Marathon ; and such, too, the spirit which dictated the ever-memorable reply of heroic William of Orange, when, poising himself upon the center of his own great sonl, he solemnly declared before God that he would nsvtr abandon bis country, hawever desperate her cause, bat wonld defend her to the last estremity, and die in the last ditch. We have bnt to catch this spirit to consecrate I ourselves to oor liberty, and to pass from heart to heart the sacred fire of devotion to our country's cause, and we will we mnst be free. Let it be remembered that the boon of liberty is never . denied to those who are worthy of ih ; and they atone are worthy of it, who, in her sacred caose, are determined to do or die It is written in the book of late; it so revealed in the provi dences of God, and proclaimed in moral agencies, which sway the destinies of the world. Mr Lincoln xffill tterer vego'iite with the South till he i ready tn acknowledge their independence. From the Richmond Whig. Jan 21. It would be absurd to suppose that im mediately after those successes which Yan- keedom professes to believe are crowing ' vistories of the war and finishing stroke to the rebellion, Lincoln would offeror accept ! Knv nthpr iprma ihuri atinh a n-ntd.4 invnlr. ! ... tr i ' .t - i our unconditional return to Yankee Union. nd a tniM or mi I r tint ronmra norrrtliaf irtn not require negoliation. but, on the contrary, would be an utter ab diction on onr pari of even the right to ne gotiate, it is just as absnrd to suppose that j he intend to enter into any diplomaC dis- i cussions with our government. We ven-i tore to state, and to place the statement on i . ... . . . i recorj as a prediction on winch we are wi ling to hazard our sagacity that Lincoln will never nego'iate with ihe government of the ConletWitie Sta-es til! he is ready lo ac knowledge their independence. Neither en we attach mnch importance to the re- iterated expression of an intense deire on the part of our Yankee brothers to find out what we mean and what we want. The pursuit ol this kind of knowledge is not at tended-by so many difficulties as to make its attainment at all problematical. We know that the moral seuse of .the Yankees is prat'y effectually blanied, and that they have lot the little capacity they ever pos sessed to discriminate between right, and wrong, but even a Yankee would know what a man meant who should try to expel a thief from his kitchen, or a burgler from bis bed chamber. Then why d es Lincoln send his emissaries here ! Simply because he knows that it the Con(d-racy he'd ont for another crmpaign, her triumph is assur ed and our independence won ; because he knows that his available physical resource are absolutely exhausted ; that neither the cheap enthusiasm of the populace over magnified victories, nd inconsquential euccessess ; nor the frantic appeals of all the newspapers in the land ; nor the subtle persusions of Seward and other priests and and prophets of Black Republicanisms; nor kjb own supernumerous calls a-id procla- mations, can aid him in anything in getting together another army even half as great as that which he launched upon the Soalh in the first days of May last. He must, there fore, either indece the Confederate Govern ment to surrender, or by some means break up the league of these State; or, by prov- fihtingior it, so resuscitate the war spirit, as io enable him lo raise the three hundred thousand men contemplated by t.is last call, eUe he'will be broken down before the next summer begins, and all the magnificent pow er and pompous military parade. ol the uni versal Yankee nation will lade away, and leave not a rack behind. A New York Administration paper bav ing stated that Gen. Dix, aided by the de tective, has found every incendiary engag ed in the attempt to set fire trrthe hotels in that city, but that "for purpose ot public welfare no revelations of the facts in the case will be made until after the war,'' the Boston Courier ratter mildly observes : "This is certainly an amazing disclosure, and it the statement be true, nothing can be more clear than that the fires were no: kindled bv Southern eraisaries Oar readers caa draw their own conclusions as to the class of persons engaged in this atrociously criminal act, an3 perhaps .carr readily inter the reason why, after, so mnch apparent preparation for a general conflagration, so compajatively little in mischief took place." Jlos. Edward Everett died suddenly, of apoplexy, al Boston Mass., on Sunday the ; THE COQUETTE.'S FATE. Oh ! Nellie, Nellie ! Oh Nellie !" A tiny pair of white hands were raised deprecatingly, and a pair of large, violet ej es sought her face, bearing ii their depths an expression of entreaty beautiful to be hold ; but the proud face of Nellie Ray mond turned away, perhaps to shut out that beautiful vision, and a low, trilling laugh ran over her red lips. "Oh Nellie, how can you be so heartless ? How can you lead a man on to believe you love him, and then, when his heart i yours, with all its great fount ot manly love and tenderness, laugh in his face, and bid him go from your presence hopeless and despairing. 1 tell you Nellie Raymond you will tome day have to account ior.he misery you have wrought." "Do yon think so V said Nellie, lightly j "Ah ! well." "Bat it will not be well," said Alice May. ''You will see it in a different light some j day. I coold not cloe my eyes one boor in peaceful slumber were my life so weigh ed do-vn with such evil deeds as yours." "Evil deeds! Really, Alice, yon are harsh," exclaimed Nellie a flush o! mo. mentary mortification and anger overspread ing her whiie forehead. ' Dear Nellie," said her friend, "what is ! the use of calling things by other than their right names I? I seem severe, I only tell you the truth, and yon know that I have been your best friend candid and frank." "Well Millie, you might have a little more regard for one's feelings," said Nellie. "Have you any regard for the feelings of j others, Nellie ?" asked Alice. 'There is a gooJ book in which a sublime teacher said, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' Now, how far do you carry out this rule V "Oh ! Allie spare me far pity's sake don't preach to me now," said Nellie. ' I'm not in a mood for it." Bot Alice May was relent!es. "You did not spare poor George Morton, whom you so cruelly deceived," she con tinued, and then drove hirn from )ou with despair in his heart, and the burden of a hopeless life. The green sod of an Italian vale covers the heart of onewho loved you but too wildly, and whose reward, after . " , . . t , i 3 i pining lite, wn:cn soon sans oeneatn us hie. which soon sanK oeneatn weight of sorrow, is an exile's grave. Then i thorn is another, a widow's onlv son. who fret his life away in a mad-house; jes a mad-honse, Nellie, to which your cruelty consigned him Oh ! Nellie Raymond, better a thousand times depoil your lace of its dangerous beauty than bear the load of sin it brings upon yo'i, far it is tearful." A slight quiver in the erect'frame of the beautif'il girl wa the sole response. "Poor Walter Maj field !'' continued Al ice sadly ; "sometimes I pass the window of the cell in which he is confined, arid catch a glimpse of his haggard face and he always smiles like a pleased child when he sees me. Then I contrast him now with i i what he once was, and weep in spite of myself over the wreck of a strong noble : life. He used to be pleasant and gay al- ways, bot strong aid sell-reliant when any thing occurred to call forth energy or action. Oh ! he was a noble, handsome man ; but now he is a feeble helpless maniac. Poor fellow !"' Nellie's face wore an expression of min gled grief, defiance and mortification ; but she remained silent for a few moments, watching the tears as they rolled over Alice May's cheeks. 'And rny own der, only brother will be your next victim," said Alice, after a pause, looking op sadly and mournfully. "Oh ! Nellie, he is all I have I am alone in the world with him or.ly lo love me ! Spare him to rne for the love of mercy !" Nellie roe with a hotly flushed cheek and flashing eye. "Allie, how can you talk thus she claimed. "But I tell you Allie May, if art; and r.ea'ity can Dnng your proud coui brother to the leet ot a woman, he shall come to mine. He shall love rne." "Andil he does, and yon torn him from you, you will kill him," said Alice. 'JOnce unbend his proud nature, and unlock the founts of tenderness in his heart, and then cast him from you, and see the conse- quence9 Oh ! Nellie Raymond, there is sufficient on your soul already. Spare yourself, if you spare no other." The last words were unheeded,' for Nel lie had swept irom the room, and little Al ice May bowed her head upon the sofa cushion and sobbed piteously. She had warned her brother repeatedly, but he seemed heedless, and with an aching heart the gentle little sister looked forth to a home less, desolate life for him who Lad ever been her all on earth. Several weeks passed away, and lillle Alice May stood before the altar. The man she had chosen was noble, true and good, and for her feet a bright path lay before her; but there was another to whom her eyes wandered uneasily, and who hovered incessantly ronnd ihe gay botterfly form of the proud syren, Nellie Raymond, whose dark eyes flashed with triumph as the proud man bent .his handsome, stalely head with such devotion. Alice's sweet lips quivered when she saw her brother bend down and whisper in Nellie's ear and heard the request that she woald walk with him oc the lawn ; and the two wandered off. The moon shone brightly, and Edward Mjr, drawing Nellie Raymond's arm,with- gravel walk, his face upturned towards the stars and a smile of inexpressibla happi ness wreathing his sweet month. "Nellie." said Edward, and he spoke very low and softly ; "Nellie, I am very happy :o . night happier than I had ever hoped to le, and I want some one to sym pathize with me in it. Allie has another now to occupy l.er attention. May I tell it to you ?" "Yes," she whispered softly. "None can share your happiness and sympathize with you more freely than I. Tell me all." For a moment he was silent, stretching out his hand to draw her down npon a seat beside him. After a while he spoke, half dreamingly and very gently "I once believed," said he, "that I conld never find a woman whom I could .love fully and truly with such a love as I most cherish for the woman whom I woold call my wife ; bu: I have found her Nellie (why do yon tremble so?) a sweet, pure-faced little thi ng, fresh and fragrant as a budding rose, gentle as the summer breezes and gay and glad as the lark whose song she trills the who'eday long. Tell me that yon re joice in my happiness. Nellie lell me that you will love my little wife that ia to be sweet Lilly Walton." Nellie's lips were rigid and ashen, and she rose up qoivering like an aspen. "O ! I am ill she gasped. "Take me in to the house.' EJward M ay rose hastily, and snppor ed her with his arm, but she nearly repuls ed h ira as she planted her loot firmly on (he gravel. IShe had learned to love the man with all the hidden passion and fire of her strong nature: and now he told her he had won another, and that other was only a poor but beantiful governess in a rich man's family. Oh ! it was too much! He knew Nellie Raymond's weakness, and had pun ched her most fearlully, though he believ. ed in his heart that the was incapable of deep feeling. Alice went to Neilie in answer to her brother's summons ; and, when every one was gone from the room, she held out her arms to Alice ai,d stricken with an anguish ed moan ' Oh ! Alice, I gave him my whole heart and he loves another!" 1 Then she sank down pale and lifeles, and it was many weeks ere-Nellie Ray mond woke to the life and consciousness. Then shs was a changed, repentant wo man ; but it was hard to feel the Soft torjeh of a h'tle hand, and see the light form of Edward's wife bending so pityingly. Oh ! the punishment of her evil deeds had came, and if was heavy and bitter. Nellie Raymond is Nellie Raymond still but she has grown into a calm, dignifieJ but lovely woman. She can sympathize with the offerin; because she has sofTered, and strives, by tenderness and love lo others, to atone for the misery she wrought while yet in the heyday of her pride and selfish love lor ad miration. Fcsbion and Women. The laws of fashion are inexorable as the laws ot Mose. An exchange gives the following views of the matter : Fashion kills more women than toil and sorrow. Obedience to Fashion is a trans gregeion lothe laws of woman nature, and grea-er injury to her physical and mental constitution than the hardships of poverty and neglect. The slave woman will live t-lowly and grow old, and see two or three genera I lions of her mistress fade and pass away. The washerwoman, with scarcely a ray of nope io cneer ner in uer toils, will live io see her fashionable sisters all die aronnd her. The kitchen maid is hearty and strong.'when her lady has to be nursed like ask-kbaby. It is a melancholy truth that fashion pampered women are almost worth less for ail tf e great ends of human life. They have but little force of human char- acter ; they have still less of moral will, and quite as little physical energy. They live lor no 'great purpose through purpose through life; they accomplsih no worthy ones. They dress nobody ; they feed nobody j they in struct nobody ; they bless nobody, and they save nobody. They write no books ; they set r.o rich example of virtoe and jvoman life. If they rear children, servants and nures do all save io conceive and give them birth ; and when reared, what are they ? What do they ever amount to, but weaker scions ot the stock? Who ever Jieard of a fashionable woman's child ex hibiting any virtue or power of mind fo which it became eminent? Read the bi ographies of our great and-good men and women. Not one of them had a lashiona ble mother. They nearly all sprnng from strong minded women, who had about as much to do with fashion as the changing clouds. "He is onlv a printer," was the sneering remark of a leader in the circle of aristoc racy of the codfiish quality. Well, who was the Earl of Stanhope ? "He was only a printer." What is Prince Frederick- WiU liam, married lo ihe Princess Royal of Eng land ? "He, loo, was only a printer." Who was William Caxton, one of the fathers of literature? "He was only a printer.', Who are Horace Greely, George D. Prentice, Charles Dickens, M. Theirs, Doogtass Jer rold, Bayard Taylor, George P. Morris, J. Gales, C. Richardson, N. P. Willis, and Senators Dix, Cameron and Niles ? They, too, were all printers. What was Benjamin Franklin ! A printer. Every one cannot Ktatsns For Kot Enlisting. ' Signa," of the Boston Irontcript, says : The following reasons for not going to . the war are believed to be authentic : 1. 1 was broght op by my kind parents to do nothing, and cannot think of changing my vocation. 1 therefore pray.ihee .have me excused. .. . " II. I have a hereditary horror of strife. My grandfather ran away at the battle of, Brandywine. If he had thep and there been killed my father woold iiot have hid in the cypress swamp al the batile of New Orleans. My mother always cautioned me to be careful how 1 meddled with edge tools. ) cannot go. III. I am rather delicate ; mast have a fire in my chamber; couldn't live in a lent; must have my mulled wine at ten ; besides, what shoold 1 do far lobster salad and broiled oyters ? . Pray have me excused. IV. When I was poor I could not restrain ray patriotism ; somehow or. other it has not troubled me much of late. This war ' has lasted long enough. 1 have married a tich wife. 1 cannot go. V. Talk not to me about yoor didce et de em urn est pro pitria mori I 've no notion of it. I want none of your dukes and decorums. My maxim is, dun vivimus. I bought a couple of trotters last week cost me 82,00. Gues ! shan't go to war while sleighing lasts. VI. I cannot deny It, the smell of burnt gunpowder acts like a catharic on my stomach and bowels Have me excuse im mediately, .f VII. My heart is with oor gallant troops. No tor.goe can tell how I long to j in tbe army. But, when I refer to the subject, my poor wile goes into hysterics. "Dearest Fleezor," she cries, "have yoo the heirt to leave your own, yoor devoted Jerusha Ma tilda Anne !'' and over she goes, tossing op her arms, and kicking oot her legs, like al! possessed. It is irresistible. I give it op. 1 canoot oppose the wishes of this interest, ing creature. I cannot go. VIII I have no time for it. The very few hours I can spare from eat ing.drinking smoking, and sleeping, I give to the fine arts. War is not one of these. 1 would be excused. , IX. I should go, were it not for my re ligious scruples on the subject of war.. Of ten, as 1 bave been silting, all alone, ir, my distillery, something within has told me that war was wrong probably ihe workings of the spirit I cannot go. - . X. 1 have consulted the spirit of old Mrs. Pitcher, of Lynn, and am. asured that, if 1 went, I should certainly ron away, and be shot in my back settlements. Oh ! horrors, I cannot go. XI. My mind is in a very unsettled state. Upon every confederate success I am all for secesion; and upon every Union victory I am for enrushing the rebellion at once. If the war was over I iLink I might be tempted to volvnteer ; but I cannot 'aa mat ters are at present. When 1 read the little telegrams as they are broogt in at the insur ance office, if tbe tidings are in favor ot Jeff. 1 find myself aljnosl onconscioosly , . nodding and winking significantly at Major Piddler, who goes for secession, and il ihn news is unfavorable to the rebellion, my hand seems of its own accord to grasp ibi of Deacon Blunt, and "the Lord be thank ed" slips out of my mouth, before I knew what I am saying. I must bo excused. It is a mistake to suppose every roan yon see with a brick in his hat to be a mason. A selfish man is like a pump with the handle pad-locked. A i honest man is the noblest work of God ; bat a woman is the prettiest. A Young poet, out Wet describing hea ven, says ; "It is a world of bliss, fenced in with girls." A Wise man will speak well of his neigh bor, love his wife and take tbe Star of the North, and pay for it in advance. A Yonng spark, suffering from a too strong sensation of ihe more tender feeling, defines his complaint as an attack of Sam tude. A poet who was engaged in examining the varioos "wale' falls" that adorns the heads of the ladies has perpetrated the fol lowing : . "Such curls as thoie yonr sister wears, How many maids have prayed for; Now candidly are they her own ?" "Oh, "yes, they're hers and paid for." IroRMiioN Wanted: An inquisitive youth aked us lor information in regard to the process of healing :he back-bone of the Confedaracy, used by the rebels.' We of course declined answering and referred him to some practical sorgeon. 1 "How's dal, Sambo ? Yon says you was at de battle oi Boll Run! when I see yoo at New York on de same night !' "Yes, Julius, you did for sar'.ia. Yer see, oor Co!, says he, 'boys, strike lor yer country and jour homes !' Well, some struck for dar country, bnt dis chile be strockbr home. Dat splains de, matter, yer see. If yon would have yonr cattle come oat well in the spring see that they are well hooeed in the winter. r. utucu in me woman wdoss) ncsoana has a wooden leg, as she will have bal oty Ty . '. .i , i
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