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VOLUME 2.
DIRECTORY.
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""iTlST rtF IOST OFFICES.
I'-itOfus. Post Mi sters. Districts.
Bun s trten,
Bethel Station,
Cxrrolltown,
Chess Springs,
treason,
Ebensburg.
Fallen Timber,
G.illitziiij
Keylock,
Johnstown,
Lorctto,
Mineral Point,
Mmuter,
Pershing,
riattiville,
KjsclanJ,
jt. Augustine,
Scalp Level,
Sonman,
Sammerhill,
Summit,
Wi'more,
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Joseph S Mardis, Dlacklick.
Benjamin Wirtuer, Carroll.
Danl. Litzinger, Chest.
John J. Troxell, Washint'u.
Mrs. II. M'Cagne, Ebensburg.
Isaac Thompson, White.
J. II. Christy, Gallitzin.
Wm. M Coush, Washt'n.
II. A. Hoggs,
Wm. Gwinn,
E. Wissinger,
A. Durbin,
Francis Clement,
Andrew J. Ferral
G. W. Bowman,
Wm. Ryan, Sr.,
George Conrad,
Johnst'wn.
Loretto.
Conem'gh.
Munster.
Conem'gh.
Susq'han.
White.
Clearfield.
Richland.
Washt'n.
Crovle.
B. M'Colgan,
Wm. Murray,
Miss M. Gillespie Washt'n.
Andrew Beck, S'mmerhill
fHKJRCIIES, MIXISTEKS, &C.
Presbyterian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor.
Treadling every Sabbath morning at 10:".
o'clock, and in the evening at 3 o'clock. Sab
l.tth ScL jol at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet
is.: everv Thursday evening, at G o'clock.
thodisl Episcopal Church Rev. J. SirAXE,
Precher in charge. lifv E. II. Bairu, As
tUttat. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
a: lo V o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the
evening. Sabbath School at D o'clock, A. M.
Pr;.voriueeting every Thursday evening, at 7
o'clock.
Welch Independent Rev Ll. R. Powell,
ptor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
) o'ciock. and in the evening at G o'clock.
Sbb.Uh School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
M-?et'n on the first Monday evening of each
w-i'ith : and on every Tuesday. Thursday and
Friday' evening, excepting the first week in
tiirh month.
('ih-iiu'ttic Method! l Rev. John Williams.
p:.. '.ir. preaching every Sabbath evening at
2aaJ 'i o'clock. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock,
A. M. Prayer meeting every Friday evening,
sr 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesdayevening
u! 7 clocK.
f)i.iri!e Rev. W. Lloyk, Pastor. Prcach
i every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
rtrticular Baptists Rsv. David Jenkins,
IV:or. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
3 o'clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock, P. M.
Cj:h-:ii-lla-. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
Services every Sabbath morning at 10J o'clock
aul Vei.crs at 4 o'clock in the evening.
MAILS ARRIVE.
r.;tur.l.
Vtitern
IllJff:r!l.
Vi'.i't-rn.
.at 12 o clock, noon.
ut 10 o'clock, P.
MAILS CLOSE.
M.
my,
at 3 o clock, f.
at C, o'clock, A.
M.
M.
f-Jf i 'in mails from liutler.Ii.diaua.Strong.--t
arrive on Thursday of each week,
a: : o'clock, P. M.
Leave Kbeusburg on Fridav of each week,
at a A. M.
k-'L.Tue mails from Newman's Mills, "Car-rsll'-own,
!c-.. arrive on Monday. Wednesday
I Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebeusbtirg on Tuesdaysf Thursdays
"-lj3;iturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. M.
JrjPost Oilice open on Sundays from 9
to lo o'clock, A. M.
KAILROAD SCHEDULE.
WILMOIIE STATION,
est Express Train leaves at 0.08 A. M.
" Mail Train " 8.17 P.M.
kt Express Trair 44 7 . 30 P. M.
" FasLine " 12. 35 P. M.
Mail Train " GV23 A. M.
Tue Fast LineWest does not stop
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Jwljfx of the Courts President, lion. Geo.
'?'ur, Huntingdon; Associates, George W.
t4;Kv, Richard Jones, Jr.
Frshonotari Joseph M'Donald.
&'jiter and Recorder Fd.vard F. Lytic.
W?r. Robert P. Linton.
li-putij S her rf. William Linton.
D'Mrict Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
Cuunly Commissioners. Abel Lloyd,
torm, James Cooper.
CUrk to Commissioners. Robert A. M'Coy
Tftuiurer. John A. Blair.
I'our House Directors' David O'llarro,
'itliad M'Guire, Jacob Horner -
P-jot House Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm.
Poor House Steward. James J. Kaylor.
Mercantile Appraiser. II. C. Devine.
-J t litor. Uenry Hawk, John F. Stull.
Ur.S. Khey.
Count; Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy.
coroner. -James S. Todd.
Sip'riatendeut of Common Schools. James
cncxsURG BlOIt. OFFICERS.
''tires of the Peace. David II. Roberts.
JTlgOB Kinkr.ll(i.
T'Jt'i David J. Evans.
Council Evan Griffith, John J.Evans,
"'am I). Davis, Thomas B. Moore, Daniel
J" to Council T. D. Litzinger.
fih Treasurer George Gurley.
Directors William Davis, Reese S.
j.,l.vl, Morris J. Evans, Thomas J. Davis,
Jones, David J. Jones.
'tourer of School Board Evan Morgan.
nMe George W. Brown. .
y Collector George Gurley.
,-H f Election Meshac Thomas.
"V'c0r,-0iJert Evans, Wm. Williams
-lMr Richard T. Davis.
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riginal poctrii
W ide A wake.
BY LOUISE E. VICKROY.
Wide Awake' the artist called it,
'Tis a very pretty picture,
Of a little girl just wakened,
And just risen from her bed ;
With a hundred curls a-tumble,
And her dimpled hand3 among them,
Drawing out their silken softness
Through her fingers, shred by shred.
Shine, her eyes like stars of morning,
In their gentleness upon me ;
And her lips, in rosebud freshness,
Part with just the softest smile ;
And her full round cheeks are telling
Of childhood, health, and gladness,
And the dawn of early womanhood
Is Hushing them the while.
This, you tell me, darling Laura,
Was a present, and the giver
Said the face of little 'Wide Awake'
Reminded him of you,
With her cheeks so round and rosy,
Her hundred curls a-tumble,
Her smile of angel sweetness,
And her eyes of tender blue.
Now, it hangs here in our chamber,
And. at morn when I awaken,
That face is, next to yours, love,
The sweetest thing I see ;
And 'tis sweet to think, my sister,
From your wanderings in drca:i land
You can come back in your happiness
As radiant as she.
'Ah ! 'tis easy to awaken v
From those dreamings of our slumber,
That leave U3 as we toss our curls,
And open wide our eyes ;
But, God pity those who waken
From the dreams their hearts have woven,
When Hope's sun was shining on them,
Like the dawn of Paradise 1
Then the cheeks may lose their fulness,
And the eyes their starry lustre ;
From the hands the dimples vanish,
Aud a shadow gloom the lips :
Never come such Litter waking
Unto Laura's Eden-dreaming ;
Be her 'Wide Awake' of gladness
Darkened by nc grief-eclipse!
Johnstown, Pa., June -i, 1 8 G .
A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.
The following eloquent llevolutionary
Sermon, prcacl't'-l on the 10th of Septem
ber, 1777, cu the era of the battle of
Brandy wine, by tho Rev. Jacob Prout, to
a large jci'ticn cf the American soldiers,
in the presence ot Gen. Washington, Gen.
Wayne, and others ol the Coutiuental
army, was recently discotered among the
old papers oi' Major John Jacob Schucfiu-3-cr,
an officer of the Revolution. It should
be perused by every lover of patriotism.
UEVOLL'TIONARY SERMON.
'They who take the Sword, shall perish by
the Sword."
Soldiers and Ftllovs-Country men :
We have met this evening, perhaps for
the last time. We have shared the toil
of the march, the dismay of the retreat
alike we have endured cold and hunger,
the contumely of the internal foe, and the
outrage of the foreign oppressor. "We
have sat night after night beside the same
camp fire, shared the same rough" soldier's
fare; we have together heard the roll of
the reveille, which called us to duty, or
the beat of the tattoo, which gave the
signal for the hardy sleep of the soldier,
with the earth for his bed, and the knap
sack for his -pillow.
And now, soldiers and' brethren, we
have met in the peaceful valley on the era
of buttle, while the suulight is dying away
beyond yonder heights; the suulight to
morrow morn will glimmer on scenes of
blood. "We have met amid the whitening
tents of our encampment; in times of ter
ror and gloom have we gathered together
God grant that it may not be for the last
time.
It is a solemn moment. Brethren, does
not the solemn voice of nature seem to
echo the sympathies of the hour ? The
flag of our country droops heavily from
yonder staff; the breeze has died along
the green plain of Chadd's Ford the
plain that spreads before us, glistening in
sunlight; the heights of the Brandywine
rise gloomy and grand beyond the waters
of yonder stream, and all nature holds a
pause of solemn silence on the eve of the
uproar of the bloodshed and strife of to
morrow.
"They who take the Sword, shall perish
by the Sword."
And have they not taken the sword?
Let the desolate plain the blood-soddcued
valley -the burned farm house, blacken
ing in the sua the sacked village, and
ravaged town, answer lot the starving
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JXJE
mother with the babe clinging to her
withered breast, that can afford no nour
ishment, let her answer, with the death
rattle mingling with the murmuring tones
that mark the last struggle for life let
the dying mother and her babe answer.
It was but a day past and our laud slept
iu the light of peace. War was not here
wrong was not here; fraud and woe and
misery and want dwelt not among us.
From the eternal solitude of the green
woods arose the blue smoke of the settler's
cabin, and golden fields ot corn looked
forth from amidst the waste of the wilder
ness, and the glad music of human voices
awoke the silence of the forest.
Now! God of mercy, behold the change.
Under the sanctity of the name of God,
invoking the Redeemer to their aid, do
these foreign hirelings slay our people !
They throng our towns, they darken our
plaius, and now they encompass our posts
on the beautiful plain of Chadd's Ford.
"They who take the Sword, shall perish
by the Svrd."
Brethren, think me not unworthy of
belief, when I tell 3011 the doom of the
British is near. Think me not vain when
I tell you that beyond the cloud which
now enshrouds us, I see, gathering thick
and fast, tbe darker cloud and the blacker
storm of a Divine retribution.
The may conquer us to-morrow. Might
and wrong may prevail, and we may be
driven from the field but the hour of
God's own vengeance will come.
Ay, "if in the vast solitudes of eternal
space if in the heart cf the boundless
universe, there throbs the being of an
awful God, quick to avenge and sure to
punish, then will the man, George of
Brunswick, called King, feel in his brain
and in his heart, the vengeance of the
eternal Jehovah ! A blight will be upon
his life a withered brain, an accursed in
tellect; a blight will be upon his children
and upon his people. Great God! how
great the puuishmeut!
A crowded populace, peopling the dcne
towns, where the man of money thrives,
while the laborer starves ; want
striding
among the people in all the forms of ter
ror ; an ignorant and God-defying priest
hood chuckling over the miseries of
millions; a proud and merciless nobility
adding wrong to wrong, and heaping in
sult upon robbery and fraud ; royalty cor
rupt to the very heart ; crime and want
linked hand in hand aud tempting men
to deeds of woe aud death : these are a
part of the doom and retribution that shall
come upon the Fnglish throne and the
English people I
Soldiers ! I look around ou your famil
iar faces with a strange interest ! To-morrow
morning we will all go forth to battle
for-need I tell you your unworthy Min
ister ivill march with 3011 invoking God's
aid in the fight? "We will all march forth
to battle. Need I exhort 3011 to fight
the good fiaht, to fight for 3our home
steads, and for your wives and children?
My friends, I might urge you to fight
by the jrallinir memories of British wrong !
Walton, I might tell 3-ou of 3our father,
butchered in the silence of midnight, on
the plains of Trenton I might picture
his gray hairs daubed in blood 1 might
ring his death shriek inyour-ears. Shel
niired, I might tell 30U of a mother
butchered, aud a sister outraged ; the
lonely farm house, the night assault, the
roof in flames, the shouts of the troopers,
as they despatched their victims, the
cries for mercy,, the pleading of innocence
for pit- I might paiut this a'l again in
the terrible colors of the vivid reality, if
I thought your courage needed such wild
..excitement.
But I know ou are strong in the might
of the Lord. You will go forth to battle
on the morrow with light hearts aui de
termined spirits, though the solemu duty
the duty of avenging dead may rest
heavy on our souls.
Aud iu the hour of battle, when all is
darkness, lit by the cannon's glare and
the piercing musket's flash, when the
wounded strew the ground, and the dead
litter your path, then remember, soldiers'
that God is with you.
The eternal God fights for you He
rides on the battle cloud lie sweeps on
ward with the march of the hurricane
charge God, the awful and the Infinite,
fights for 3ou, and you will triumph.
"The who take the Sword shall perish
by the Sword."
You have taken the sword, but not in
the spirit of wrong and ravage. You
hrve taken the sword for your homes, for
your wives, for our little ones. You have
taken the sword for truth, for justice and
right, and to 3ou the promise is, "Be of
good cheer," for your foes have taken the
sword in defiance of all that man holds
dear, in blasphemy of God they shall
perish hy the sword.
And now, brethren and soldiers, I bid
you all farewell. uany ol us may tail in
I tVn fiolit fn-morrow God ref-t the .souk
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of the fallen ? Man3' of us may Jive to
tell the story of the fight to-moirow ; and
in the memory of all will ever rest and
linger the quiet scene of this autumnal
night.
Solemn twilight advances over the val
ley the woods on the opposite heights
fling their long shadows over the green
of the meadow around us are the tents
of the Continental host the suppressed
bustle'of the camp, the hurried tramp
of the soldiers to arjd fro among the tents,
the stillness and silence that mark the era
of battle.
- When we meet again, the long shadows
of twilight will be flung over a peaceful
land.
God in Heaven grant it!
Let us pray.
Fit AYE II OF THE REVOLUTION.
Great Father we bow before thee. We
invoke thy blessing, we deprecate thy
wrath ; we return thee thanks for the past,
v.e ask thy aid for the future. For we
are in time cf trouble,, oh, Lord ! and sore
beset by foes, merciless and untyping ; the
sword gleams over our land, and the dust
of the soil is dampened with the blood of
our neighbors and friends. Oh ! God of
mercy, we pray thy blessing on the Amer
ican arms. Make the men of our hearts
strong in thy wisdom ; bless we beset ch
with renewed life and strength, our hope,
Goorge Washington. Shower thy coun
sels on the honorable, the Continental
Congress; visit the tents of our hosts ;
comfort the soldier for his wounds and
auctions ; nerve him for the fight ; prepare
him for the hour of death. And in the
hour of defeat, oh ! God of hosfs, do Thou
be our guide.
- Teach us to be merciful. Though the
memory of galling wrongs be at our hearts
knocking for admittance, that they may
fill us with desires of revenge, yet, let us,
Oh : Lord, spare the vanquished, though
they never spared us, in the hour of butch
er and bloodshed. And in the hour of
death do Thou guide U3 into the abode
prepared for the blest ; so shall we return
thanks unto Thee, through Christ our
Redeemer. God prorpcr our cause.
Amen.
To the Editor of The Alleghanian :
In the struggle which is now going on
between the united North and that por
tion of the South who are in armed rebel
liou against the Government, it is impor
tant to examine into the resources of the
respective sections. We of the free States
possess the undisputed power. We pos
sess every possible advantage. W'e have
the Right to strengthen us ; we have the
means money, men, intelligence and de
termination ; and Ave have the courage,
the indomitable and unconquerable will,
which, when fully aroused, as it now is,
can never be extinguished until Treason
is forever banished from this fair land of
Freedom.
No power on earth is capable of subdu
ing the defenders of the Union, and we
have only to continue our patriotic design
to achieve an easy aud immediate con
quest of the enemies of the Federal Union.
3iCt us, however, exercise some leniency
towards our enemies. As Napoleon has
said, "No commanding general shall con
demn his enemy with contempt. The
enemy, your enemy, the enemy of your
cause, shall ever be regarded as a lion un
til he is conquered. When he is defeat
ed, you may regard him as you will; if he
is entitled to mercy, extend it to him, and
thus let him feel his miserable depen
dence." The States of New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio, to say nothing of the Fast and
great Northwest, can raise a larger army
than the united South ; but notwithstand
ing this, let their army not be regarded
contemptuously until they are conquered
until the iron heel of our freemen has
crushed them out. We desire and 10 ill
have Peace, but it shall never be accepted
except on such terms as we dictate. All
that we ask, desire or hope for is a steady
and determined support of the Govern
ment. The freemen of the North have
said that this support will be rendered.
The day of retribution is at hand when
Traitors shall surely meet their doom.
A cooper, finding considerable dif
ficulty in keeping one of the heads of a
cask he was finishing in its place, put his
son inside to hold it up. After comple
ting his work much to his satisfaction, he
was astonished to find his boy inside the
cask, and without a possibility of getting
out, except through the bung-hole !
Lorenzo Dow once said of a grasp
ing farmer, that if ho had the whole
world enclosed in a single field, ho would
uot be content without a patch of grouud
on the outside for potatoes.
18, 1861.
CIoiv uuiter Was Irovissio2ic-J.
The traitor Floyd took great pains to
put the United States fort in Charleston
harbor into the hands of the South Caro
linians, without expense of men or money.
For this purpose he refused the constant
entreaties of Col. Gardner, the officer in
command "of Fort Moultrie, for troops.
Just at the time the danger was becoming
imminent, he sent, instead of soldiers for
defence, a body of laborers, who, under
the direction of an engineer, were ordered
to repair the fort in such a way and at
such a time as to render the fort defense
less against the Seeeders. These laborers
were to be fed from the supplies at the
fort. This made it necessary to purchase
provisions in Charleston from week to
week, so that in the event of a seigc the
garrison would be starved out in a few
clays. By desperate efloits the repairs
were finished in such a way that the forty
five men iu the fort could make some de
fence, but being dependent on Charleston
for food, the South Carolinians and Floyd
well knew that the fort was completely iu
their power whenever they should see fit
to cut off the supplies from the city.
In this dilemma, Col. Gardner practiced
the piece of strategy which finally enabled
Anderson to hold the fort aud make his
defence. Col. G. wrote to an old friend,
the Chief of the Commissary Department,
to send him provisions for one hundred
men for six month, at the same time cig
nificantly hinting to hiin that he could
obey this requisition in the ordinary dis-.
cretionary routine ot his duty, without
consulting with the Secretary of War.
He added also the further request that
the transport should be ordered to laud
her cargo at J.rt Moultlie immediately
on her arrival in the harbor, and before
she should go to Charleston. The patri
otic commissary officer, Col. Taylor, the
brother of the kite President Taylor, un
derstood the hint conveyed, and the reason
for it, aud took the responsibility of acting
out Col. Gardner's requisition. The pre
visious were thus safely landed at Fort
Moultrie, the traitorous Secretary, being
not a whit wiser for the operation. These
were the provisions which, gradually car
ried over to Fort Sumter iu the engineers'
boats, supported Major Anderson and his
gallaut command during the memorable
seige. Floyd, not knowing the ruse which
had been played upon him by Col. Gard
ner, expected every day that hunger would
do the business for the little garrison,
which he had intended to hand over
bound hand aud foot to the enemy.
While these matters were jro'incr on,
Floyd sent down a young officer to look
after the carrying out of his plans, aud to
represent to Col. G., by various indirect
processes, the Secretary's idea of an offi
cer's duty in command at Fort Moultrie.
Col. Gardner had reported to the Secre
tary that though he had but one mau for
each gun, he was determined to defend
111 3 place to the utmost against whatever
force may be sent against it. Floyd's spy
found Col. Gardner's men at work night
aud day, adding to the defenses of the
place. He found even the brick ejuarters
within the fort loophole! for a stand with
musketry, in case of an escalade by a
sudden rush of a large number of men.
All thl was evidently directly the oppo
site of the Secretary's policy, as was rep
resented in various indirect ways by the
officer whom he had sent. He was shown
all the preparations for a desperate defense
which Col. Gardner had made, and was
told that they would be used against any
force which should march from Charles
ton, as soon as they came within range of
the guns. lie was, moreover, requested
to tell the Secretary all that he had seen
and heard. The consequence was that
the commandant, disposed to do his duty
tno Kelly was suspended, and an officer of
Kentucky birth, who had married in
Georgia, was put in command.-
From Major Anderson's birth and con
nections, Floyd evidently supposed that
he had obtained a pliant tool lor his pur
poses. A few days' observation convinced
Major Anderson that he had been scut
there to sacrifice his honor, and that he
could save it only by carrying out the
desperate measures of defence already be
gun by Col. Garducr. The retreat to
Fort Sumter, its repair, its seigc, and
bombardment, were the natural sequel.
All those events, so important already in
history, turned upon the ruse by which
Col. Gardner's requisition for provisions
was net by Col. Taylor and kept a secret
from Floyd. This is a scrap of history
worth remembering, and we may add that
it is given on the best authority.
o
K2a- A writer says that "life may be
merry as well as useful." Every person
that owns a mouth has a good opening
for a laugh.
Subscribe for Tue Allf.ciu.max.
NUMBER 43.
IScautif'itl Women.
Every woman has a right to be beauti
ful ; that is the secret of her power, her
mission, the key that unlocks her destiii.
But while she has a right to be beautiful,
she has no right to be its opposite that
is an injustice to society, which has a
right to exact from her its loveliness, its
grace, and its attraction. There are many
different kinds of beauty, and it is a great
mistake to imagine that it consists wholly,
or even mainly, of color, form or texture.
There is the beauty of innocence and the
beauty of childhood aud the beauty of
matron, the beauty of wisdom and the
beauty of simplicity. The lowest kind of
beauty is of merely physical perfection
and splendor, which receives no aid from
voice, look, or expression, but is marred
by the action of the mind upon its fair
and smooth surface ; juot as the mud is
stirred in a shallow pool by any slight
circumstance that touches its depths.
The ideals of the ancient poets are all
beautiful, but their characteristics are dis
tinct aud separate, so that there is no flat
and wearisome sameness; and the beauty
of form with which they are endowed is
simply the vehicle or expression of the
mental idea they wish to convey. Thus,
the serene matron, the brilliant coquette,
the imperious queen, the delicate maiden,
the timid oung wife, and the thoughtful
nurse, have all an individuality of their
own, to which their outward appearance is
the visible sign or index. Their dress
should naturally correspond to those mental
and physical indications, so as to preserve
a sense of musical harmony and fitness
throughout the entire structure.
There is nothing that disenchants so
soon as the discovery of folly, ignorance,
stupidiry, bad temper or vile passions be
neath a fair and seductive form. The
possession of any fine and noble qualities,
on the contrary, illuminates the plainest
features and dullest complexion much
better than scores of costly powders and
cosmetics. Women who desire to be beau
tiful make a great mistake iu trying to
increase their attractions, or to make
themselves charming, after any other per
son's pattern. What is adapted to one
style would destroy the efiect of another ;
aud for every woman to adopt an arbitrary
mode or standard of dress is fatal to the
aggregate of feminine beauty, whose great
charm is variety.
It is natural to love admiration, power,
and influence, aud almost all women may
not only obtain these, but retain them,
by being themselves in the very highest
and most perfect sense of which they are
capable; instead ot a weak, diluted imita
tion of somebody else. When freshness
of youth and- girlhood has departed, let
them be succeeded, natuially, by the ma
tured grace of womauhood, and these by
the dignity of middle age. The affecta
tion of pretty coquetries and juvenile sim
plicity by shallow specimens of ancient
spinister-hood or, worse, by women who
bear the name of wife and motherhood
not only outrage all true ideas of taste and
propriety, but deprive those who indulge
in them of their natural claims of atten
tion and consideration. When all women
are natural and true, then rhey will all be
beautiful.
Soldiers, Look xp your Guns. Tho
1-lth Regiment during the interval from
the time they were accepted to service,
until their departure, were admirably and
indefatigably drilled. One of the sentinels
ou duty, noticed one of his officers ap
proach. "Who noes there ?"
"A friend."
" Advance, friend, and give the countcr-
sign.
The wrml was given; but the officer
said, "Is that the way ou hold j'our gun ?
(Five it to me and let me sluw you how it
should be held."
The recruit innocently handed over the
"instrument," when a corporal was called
and the soldier consigned to the Guard
House. The lesson intended to be con
veyed, and which will possibly not be for
gotten, is never, under any circumstances,
to part with your gun whilo on guard.
Fontknki.i.k's Gallantry. At the
age of ninety-seven, Fontenelle, after say
ing many amiable and gallant things to
the young and beautiful Madame Ilelva
tius, passed before her to his place at tho
table. "See," said Madame Ilelvatius,
'hw I ought to value your gallantries ;
'ou pass before me without looking at
me."
"Madame," said the old man, "if I
had looked at you, I "jould nct have
passed."
e"A Benefit your friends that they
may love you still more dearly ; benefit
your enemies that they may become your
friend.-.
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