<?hc fanners' department.
WLTFVATIO N.
How filr and swept the planted rose,
Beyond the wild in ||edg©« grow I
For, without it, the noblu*t needs
Of flowers degenerate Into weeds:
Dull and rugged. ore 'tis ground
And polished, looks the diamond !
Though Paradise were e'er so ftiir,
It was not kept so without
Pruning Fruit Trees.
There is, perhaps, no subject in
horticulture BO little understood as the
principles upon which pruning is foun
ded. The object in pruning fruit
trees is chiefly to hasten or regulate
the crop of fruit, and induce or retard
the development of wood growth.—
With reference to the former more
depends upon eurffmer pruning and
disbuddihg. Trees are frequently
barren from excessive wood growth,
which is weakened by pruning during
the summer. It is a well understood
fact among scientific cultivators, that
summer pruning weakens, and winter
pruning strengthens the wood growth,
llence the practice of nurserymen in
pruning young trees after the season's
growth is completed, to increase their
luxuriance. Trees that have arrived
at a bearing state, if properly mannged
during growth would probably require
no winter pruning unless the removal
of misplaced branches. In the ab
stract, it seems a negative practice to
encourage a luxuriant growth, and
then cut itdown in winter. It is, quite
possible to manage trees without hav
ing recourse to winter pruning, unless
for special objects, as already alluded
to. It is certain that much injury is
inflicted by the indiscriminate use of
thi' saw andpruningknife, at this time,
especially on young bearing trees.
Make it a stiulv,next season, to disbud
and summer prune all growing trees,
so that you may weaken and check
the wood; pruning sucli trees now in
creases their future vigor, since, by di
minishing the branches after the fall
of the leaves, the roots gain a greater
preponderance. On the oth hand,
it is noless necessary to prevent, weak
ness from overbearing. Since the in
troduction of the dwarfing system, by
grafting on weak growing stock; this
error has been frequently committed,
and unprofitable trees have been the
result. It bus also hail a tendency to
throw disi redit on the system, by those
who from want of knowledge and expe
rience, have been unsuccessful in cul
tivation. There are many kinds, natu
rally of slender growth, grafting them
on a slow-growing stock induces fruit
fulness, and represses wood growth to
an injurious extent. Such trees should
have every blossom picked oft'that ap
pears in spring all growth carefully
retained during the summer, and prun
ed down in winter. Such treatment
will be followed by increased vigor,
which may be maintained by taking
moderate crops, and continued good
cultivation. So much depends upon
individual peculiarities in trees, that
it is difficult to form a definite rule
that.would serve as a safe guide to
the uninitiated. Close observat ion,ex
tended experience, and at the least, a
slight knowledge of physiology, are in
dispensible requisites to a successful
cultivation of fruits.—[Horticulturist.
MUTTON VERSIS PORK.—An ex
change says:—"Mutton can be produ
ced pound for pound,at loss than half
the price of pork; yields more nourish
ment when eaten, and keeping sheep
does not exhaust a farm to the extent
feeding hogs does. Sheep can be kept
through the winter on hay and turnips
or mangle wurtzel, or suger beet, while
hogs will not do without at least some
corn, and are comparatively much
more expensive.
FATTENING TURKEYS—The ailmen
tary properties of charcoal are very
great; indeed, it has been asserted
that domestic fowls may be fattened
* upon it without any other food, and
that too, in a shorter time than on the
most nutritous grains. In an experi
ment, made to test the value of the
article, four turkeys were taken and
fastened in a pen, and fed on meal,
boiled potatoes and oats. Four others
of the same brood wore also confined
at the same time, in another pen,, and
fed daily upon the same articles, but
with one pint of finely pulverized
charcoal mixed with their meal and
charcoal, in their pens. The eight
were killed on the same day, and
there was a difference of one and a
half pounds each in favor of the fowls
which had been supplied with, flic
charcoal, they being much the fatter
and the meat greatly superior in point
of tenderness and ilavor. This would
appear to establish, beyond a doubt,
the benefit of charcoal for fattening
purposes.
AMONG the novclities of the age is
seedless apples. A tree has been found
in Duchess county, New York, bear
ing this fruit. There are no blossoms;
the bud forms and without any show of
petals, the fruit sets and grows entire
ly destitute of seeds. In outward ap
pearance the apples resemble Rhode
Island Greenings.
There is a man in
cut so opposed to anything
on monarchy, that he will not wear a
crown in his hat.
THE mind has more RCORNIN it than
most people think, if you would furnish
the apartments.
IF you want to see a black squall, just
negro baby attacked with the
cholic.
BORN to rise—People who tease bulls
during the continuance of "fly time."
<£ (Uuationut J|qmrtmrnt.
TO ANNIE.
BT M139 31. CHO3BT.
Then faro the well! my dream Is fled
'Twaa all too bright to last;
The hopes I cherished long ago
Are buried In the put.
I'll try to banish memories
So fraught, alas! with pain:
The hopes that once illumed my path
Must uevcr come again 1
I loved thee, oh how fondly,
This broken heart must tell.
And pride will sometimes whisper,
I loved thee hut too well.
I loved thee! oh! I love the** yet—
This heart still clings to tb«*e—
And though we part, where'er 1 roam.
Thine, thine it still must be!
®5T' There is no more striking instance
of the silent and imperceptible changes
brought about by what is called "time"
than that of a language becoming dead.
To point out the precise period at which
Greek Initio ceased to be a living lan
guage would be as impossible as to say
when a man becomes old. And much con
fusion of thought and many important
practical results arise from not attending
to this. For example, many persons have
never reflected on the circumstance that
one of the earliest translations of the Scrip
tures into a vernacular tongue was made by
the Church of Ilome. The Latin Vulgate
was so called from its being in the vulgar,
i. e., the popular language then spoken in
Italy and the neighboring countries; and
that version was evidently made on pur
pose that the Scriptures might be intelligi
bly read by, or too, the mass of the peo
ple. But gradually and imperceptibly
Latin was superseded by the languages de
rived from it—ltalian, Spanish and French
—while the Scriptures were still left in
Latin; and when it was proposed to trans
late them into modern tongues, this was
regarded as a perilous innovation, though
it is plain that the real innovation was that
which had taken place imperceptibly, since
the very object proposed by the vulgate
version was that the Scriptures might not
be left in%n unknown tongue. Yet you
will meet with many among the fiercest
declaimers against the Church of Hume
who earnestly deprecate any of the slight
est changes in our authorized version, and
cannot endure even the gradual substitu
tion of other words for such as have become
quite obsolete, forfearof unsettling men's
minds. It never occurs to them that it
was this very dread that kept the Scrip
tures iu the Latin tongue when thatgrad
ually became a dead Language.—Archbish
op Wheatley.
CAPTAIN PRIEST ON TIIE'VKCI STABLE
KIXMDOM.' —The term vegetable—some
times wegetable—is probably derived from
the peculiar long and pointed form ofthis
description of esculents, hence originally
called wedge tables, then wegetables, and
now refined into the present term.
Annualfloweringplants resemble whales,
as they came up to blow.
Flowers are very warlike in their dispo
sition, and are ever armed with pistils.
Like dandies, the coating of many trees
is their most valuable portion. Corktrees
and boot trees, for instance.
Grain and seeds are not considered dan
gerous except when about to shoot.
Several trees, like watch dogs, are val
ued mostly for their bark.
A little bark will make a rope, but it
takes a large pile of wood to make acord.
Though there arc no vegetable beaux,
there are a number of spruce trees.
It is co isidered only right and proper
to axe trees before you fell them.
Fruit trees have military characteris
tics ; when young they are trained they
have many kernels : and their shoots are
straight
Grain must be treated like infants; when
the head bends it must be cradled ; and
threshing is resorted to fit it for use.
Tares are mostly found with the small
er grains—which require sowing.
Great indulgence in fruit is dangerous
—and too free a use of melons produces a
melon colic effect.
OM maids are fond of pairs, but cannot
endure any reference to dates.
Sailors are attached to bays ; ovstermen
to beeches, love sick niaideus to pine.—
Yankee, A'utions.
teaTEighteen things iu which young
people render themselves very impolite:
1. Loud laughter. •
2. Reading when others are talking.
8. Cutting finger nails in company.
4. Leaving meeting before it is closed.
0. Whispering in meeting.
6. Gazing at strangers.
7. Leaving a stranger without a seat.
8. A want of reverence for superiors.
0. Reacting aloud -in company without
being asked.
10. Receiving a present without soir.e
manifestations of gratitude.
11. Making yourself the topic of con
versation.
12. Laughing nt themistakesof others.
13. Joking others in company.
14- Correcting persons older than your-'
self, especially parents.
15. To commence talking before others
are through.
16. Answering questions when put to
others.
11. Commencing to eat as soon as you
get to the table. And—
-18. In not listening to what one is say
ing in company—unless you desire toshow
open contempt for the speaker. A well
bre4 person will not make an observation
whilst another of the company is address
ing himself to it.
2Miflious Jqwrtmcnt,
Selected for ths Citizen.
How to Enjoy This T .ife.
The Orientals relate a beautiful legend
of their renowned califf,, IIAHOUN AT.
RASCHID. He was riding one day with
his train along a narrow street in Bagdad,
when one of the camels stumbled. By
its fall a casket of pearls was broken, and
its precious contents scattered upon the
ground. Nodding to his attendants, the
calif gave them permission to gather the
Mostly spoils for themselves. In an in
[ stant they rushed from his train to gather
up the guerdon of their master —all but
one stout, hideous-faced Ethiopian.—
" Moveless as the steed he reined," he
still sat behind his lord. Surpised, the
calif said : " Tell me, good fellow, why
you seek not your share of the perils?
What will you gain by thus lingering near
to me ?" "My gain will be this, sire,"
replied the Ethiopian; 11 1 shall know that
I have faithfully guarded my king."
That noble reply won the califs heart.
Speaking of his faithful Ethiop to his
friend, he said :
" So feature.' fair
Nor mnn lv mien are his:
Love is the beauty lie doth wear,
And love his glory Is."
This legend finely illustrates n difference
between the Christian and the worldling.
The former finds his good in the Creator
himself, as the Ethiop'found his gain in
serving his king; the latter seeks his good
in tlie " creature," as the calif's servants
sought their gain in the scattered pearls.
The former remembers, the latter forgets,
"That if thon not to Ilim anpirc,
But to hi« gifts alone.
Not love, l.ut covetous de-ire.
Has brought thee to his throne."
As a worldling you, beloved youth, are
falling into the sad mistake of the latter
class. You are looking for the happiness
not in (rod, but in his gifts alone, in the
scattered pearls of earth * broken casket.
That this expectation must be quenched
in the dead sea of disappointment, your
past experience fully demonstrates. Per
mit me now to unfold a truth which is
probably new to you. Let me show you
that the way to extract the utmost pleas
ure from the things of this life is not by
a " studied indulgence of the appetites
and passions," but by seeking your chief
happiness, in God. Before entering fur
ther, however, in this subject, 1 must
guard you against the dangerous idea that
your personal enjoyment is the true end
and aim of life. The poet, in his " Psalm
of Life," teaches you better. He says :
"Not enjoyment find not sorrow,
Is our def lined en. I or way;
But to net, that each tomorrow
Finds us further than to-dav."
The poet is right. Your chief end is
neither selfish joy nor selfish grief, but
such earnest action- 1 -such a right use of
your powers—as shall daily carry you far
ther from the selfish and the carnal, and
nearer to the pure haraeterof Him, who
is both the embodiment and the source of
all real felicity the result of that action
will be the highest happiness, physical,
mental, and spiritual, of which you are
capable. If you will make it your object
to attain the image of God, be will make
it his care to promote your enjoyment.—
Tf his service is your light, he will sec
to it that all things within you and with
out you contribute to your happiness. His
whole nature, which is love, moves him to
do this. Look backward along the far
stretching aisle of time.
See tlie first pair as they came from Lis
hands in Eden. So long as they made
him the sole object of their loving ser
vice, he made every thing tributary to
their pleasure. Beauty filled their eyes,
melody charmed their ears. Every move
ment of their limbs, every excitation of
their senses, every gratification of their
appetites, every agitation of their emo
tions, every exercise of their reasoning
faculty, every thought of each other, eve
ry perception of the Creator, caused a
fresh wave of delight to pass over their
happy spirits. But when they turned
their eyes from their Creator and set them
selves to the work of seeking their own
interests and pleasures in their own way,
then alas ! happiness fled from Paradise
and them. Then pain, and sorrow, and
discord and fear, were born into their
hearts, and misery became the heir-loom of
sinning mortals. Still God's desire for
human happiness, like his loving nature,
remained unchanged. But as man lost
it by turning away from God as the su
preme good, so he must recover it by turn
ing to him again with devoted love and
faithful service. Sought on selfish princi
ples, and as a selfish end, happiness can
never be found ; but sought in God, ■it
bubbles up within the soul " a well of wa
ter springing up unto djtrnal life.'.'
You probably hold the opinion that to
be pious, you must separate yourself
from the world as to take no pleasure in
anything but strictly religious exercises.
You fancy that true piety prohibits you
from enjoying any pleasure in earthly ob
jects, pursuits, and associations; that it
requires you to walk amid all the de'ights
of this terrestrial life with elongated
countenance, rigid muscles, and mournful
step, like some grave mute at a funeral,
or some half hurried old monk of the
middle ages, whose mystic* creed taught
him that he was in the high road to saint
ship because say:
"I have torn np the rose# from my garden
And planted thorns instead: I have forged my griefs.
And hngged the griefs I dared not furge; made earth
A hell for heaven.**
If you hold such views, you, like the
moDkish mystic, cherish a false opinion.
True piety does not BO war with your na
ture as to prohibit you from enjoying all
the delight which springs from the legiti
mate exercises t>f your bodily senses and
appetites, of yoursieial affections, of your
various emotions, tnd of your intellectu
al faculties. You |iay be eminently pi
ous, and at the samfc time find pleasure in
eating, drinking, htoring, seeing, feeling;
in the transaction of business, and the ac
cumulation of property; in cheerful, so
cial intercourse with congenial minds; in
intellectual pursuit!, in the cultivation of
the imagination ana the esthetic tastc3; in
historic, philosophic, scientific studies.—
In brief, you may le a devoted Christian,
and enjoy every pleasant sensation, emo
tion and affection ftiat can be called into
activity, by external objects, without vio
lating the lairs of your physical, moral,
or intellectual nature.
to bo continued.
THE POETII'VIEW OF AMERICA. —Tn
the history of the earth hitherto the
est and most stirring nation appears tame
and orderly to our ample largeness and
stir. Here at last is something in the do
ings of ihe man to eorrrespond with the
broadcast doings of the day and night.—
Here is not merely a nation, buta teeming
nation of nations. Here is action united
from strings ; necessarily blind to partic
ulars; magnificently moving in vast mas
ses. Hero is hospitality which ever indi
cates heroes. Ilfcre are the roughs, and
beards, and space and ruggcdncss. and
nonchalance that the Soul loves. Here
the performance, disdaining the trivial—
unapproaclied in the tremendous audacity
of its crowds and groupings, and the push
of its perspective—spread with crampless
and flowing breadth, and showers its pro
lific iyid splendid extravagance. Other
states indicate themselves in their depu
ties; but the genius of the United States
is not the best in its executive or legisla
tures. nor in its ambassadors, or authors,
or colleges, or cliurohes, or parlors,, nor
even in its newspapers or inventors, but
always most in the common people. Their
manners, speech, dress, friendship—the
freshness and the candor of their physiog
nomy—the picturesque looseness of their
carriage—their deathless attachment to
freedom—their aversion toanything inde
corous, or soft, or mean—the practical ac
knowledgement of the citizens of oneState
by the citizens of all other States—the
fierceness of their roused resentment —
their curiosity and welcome novelty—their
self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their
susceptibility to a slight—the air they
have of persons who never knew how it
felt to stand in the presence of superiors
—the flneney of their speech—their de
light in music, the sure symptom of manly
tenderness and native elegance of» soul—
their good temper nnd openhnndodnCP:—
the terrible significance of .their elections
the President takiug off his hat to them,
and not they to him—these are unrhym
ed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and gen
erous treatment worthy of it.— Leaves of
Grass, hij Walter Whitman.
BOOTS AND SASSENO Ens.—"Nancy,
my dear, did John black them boots ?"
"II ow should I know ? I hain't got
nothing to do with your boots. This is
washing day." #
" But, my love, you needn't speak so
cross."
" Speak cross ! I didn't speak cross."
"Oh, yes you did."
" I didn't."
" I say you did."
" I say I didn't.
"By gracious ! I won't stand this! it's
too bad to be treated in this way. I'll
leave you, madam. I will have a separa
tion.
" Was ever a woman so abused ! Here
I've been washing and scrubbing all day
long as hard as I could, and then you come
home and act so to me—jest' cause 1 don't
know nothin' 'bout your boots ! —Oh, it's
too bad, it is—boo hoo ! boo boo?"
" Hem ! Well, Nancy, I didn't mean to
make you cry. Never mind—l reckon
John has blaekecLmy boots—is them 'ere
sassengers to be fried for supper ?"
" Y-e-s, my dear; I got'cm Jbr you par
ticularly." Ahem I
MAN A FAILURE.—A year or two ago
when the Millerite fanaticism was at its
heighth Mr. 8., an eccen'rieolil gentle
man, in one of our western towns, was
walking in the hall of the village inn, lis
tening, at the same time, to the talk of a
distinguished -disciple'who was prophesy
ing the prompt fulfillment of Miller's cal
culations. Mr. 8., stopped, and in his
short bitter way asked—
" Do you really think now that the world
is soon coming to an end ?"
0 " I do."
" And on the twenty-fifth of April ?"
" As much as I believe in my own ex
istence."
" And you really pretend to believe that
there's to be a regular smash of the whole
world in less than three weeks ?"
" Yes, sir."
"Well, sir, I'm glad of it! I consider
this experiment of Man a miserable fail
ure ; and the sooner the whole thing is
broken up, the better '"
Saying this, the old gentlemen started
off, muttering imprecations on the human
r#ce in general.
toff" A Western editor perpetrates t ie
following—"A flock of sheep composed of
all •• weathers" may be said to resemble our
climate."
A "STRANGE" PREACHER.—His name
was Strange. Many will think his con
duct was strange also. lie was a'zealoiis
preacher and a sweet singer. Nothing
gave him so much pleasure as togo
about the country preaching and singing.
A benevolent gentleman, welloff in world
ly gear, desiring to make himand hisfam
ily comfortable in their declining years,
generously presented him a title-deed for
three hundred and twenty acres of land
Strange accepted the donation with thank
fulness, and went on his way, preaching
and singing as he went. Buta few months
he returned, and requested his generous
friends to take the title deed. Surprised
at the request, the gentleman inquired—
" Is there any flaw in it ?"
" Not the slightest."
" Is not the land good ?"
" First rate."
" Is it not healthy ?"
" None more so."
" Why, then, do you wish mo to take it
back. It will be a comfortable, home for
you when you grow old, and something for
your wife and children, if you should be
taken away."
" Why, I'll tell you. Ever since I've
owned that laud, I've lost my enjoyment
in singing. I can'tsingmy favorite hymn
with a good conscience any longer."
What is that 1"
" This:
'' No foot of land do I possess,
No cottage in the wilderness,
A poor wayfaring man,
I dwell awhile in tents below,
Or gladly wonder to and fro,
Till I may Canaan gain.
Yondcr's my house and portion fair,
My treasure and my heart are there,
And my abiding home !'
"There," said Strange. "I'd rather
sing that hymn than own America. I'll
trust the Lord to take care of my wife and
children."
He continued singing and preaching,
and preaching and singing; and the Lord
did tdke care of him, and his children af
ter him.
•Tin; WAY TO CAPE ANN.—Some forty
five years ago "there lived in Boston a
Frenchman, and who spoke our language
imperfectly, lid had occasion to visit
Gloucester, Cape Ann," and in those days
there were no railroads; consequently, he
had to make his journeys by some other
conveyance.
Accordingly ho prorttred a horse and
started off on horse back. He found but
little difficulty on the road, until he passed
Beverly bridge, when, not knowing which
way to turn, he «did as anyother wise man
would have done in such a ease, inquired
of the first person he met which was the
right road. There happened to be a free
and easy Yankee passing alongjust at the
time, and our traveler raisfid his.hand to
his hat and bowed, as Frenchmen often will
do, and thus addressed the Yankee :
'■ Voulez vous tell me the way Jo A" ep
"Well, T don't know any better way
you can keep on unless you tie your legs
together under the horse."
"Be gar, I no vants to keep on de horse;
I vants de place Keep on."
" Oh ! you want, the place to keep, on
do you ? Now, down this way we always
think the place to keep on is the saddle;
and I guess you're in the right spot."
" You no understand ; I novant de horse
or the saddle. I vant vat you call de
Keep Ann."
" Well now you are an old rogue. This
is a very moral town, and our selectman
won't allow any body to keep Ann,or any
other woman."
" You be \m tick head, you rascal: I
no vants your madamc Ann, 'tis de town,
de place Keep Ann."
" Worse and worse; you want the town
to keep Ann, do you ? No, Monslier, that
won't go down at all, you would ruin the
reputation of Beverly. 'Twontdo, stran
ger."
" I vill vight you. Bare , you insult me.
I ask you de way to Keep Ann. and you
tell mc about de horse, de saddle, and de
voman. Now, sare, vill you tell me de way.
to Keep Ann, de Glossether?"
" Oh,Tio ! now I take. I suppose you
want to know the way to Gloucester, Cape
Ann, do you ?"
" Oui, oui; data it.
" Well, why in thunder didn't you say
so at first? Keep straight ahead and turn
to the right."
" Tank you, tank you, Monsier; Ino
vight you now. Bonjour,',
MISERABLE J'KOPl.E. —Young ladies
With new bonnets on rainy Sundays.
A witness in a bribery case.
A printer who publishes a paper for noth
ing and finds himself.
A smoking nephew on a visit to an anti
smoking aunt.
A star actress with her name in small
letters on the bill.
An editor with nothing but cold pota
toes for a Christmas dinner.
J®" The Earl of Cork, being under the
correction of his schoolmaster, received
the following reproachful accompanimen'
with the rod: _ "One of your ancestors in
vented a orrery, and anotherof them gave
to the world a translation of Pinery ; but
you. I fear, will never invent anything but
mischief, nor translate anything but an
idle boy into a foolish man ; so that, in
stead of myrtle, you shall be honored with
birch."
PRINTERS' DEVILS. —The following
toast was given at a celebration of
Franklins Birth Day, by the printers
of Syracuse, N. Y. We commend it
for the wit it contains: By Dr. Gone.
There are two kinds of devils. Sa
tan's devils and printers' devils; the
former are subjects of degeneration;
the one lies to wash his black on, the
other lyes to wash his black off; nil the
nose of one is horridly peaked, all the
other knows must be horridly pica'd;
one has a tail that goes out behind, the
other has a tail that goes out before
the mail closes; the presence of the
one gives us a feeling of dread, the
feet of the one are all hoofs, and the
feet of the other are often huffy; the
horns of one grows on his head and
the horns of the other goes into his
head; gentlemen, my sentiments are
with
The Printers, Devil—>lay his as
pect never change? except to his boss.
Reveiuesof a Drunkard:—'l think
liquor's injuring me; it's .a spoiling my
temperament. Sometimes I get mad wlion
1 am drunk. andabusoßetty and the brats
—it used to be Lizzie and the children—
that's some time ago; I can just mind it.
When T used to come home then, she put
her anns around mv neck, and kiss me.
and call mo dear William.
'■ When I come home now, she takes
her pipe out of her mouth, and puts her
hair out of her eyes, and looks at me, and
says something like, ' Hill, you drunken
brute, shut the door after you ; we're cold
cold enough, having nofire, without letting
the snow blow in that "way;"'
"Yes, she's fietty, and I'm Bill. now.
T ain't a good bill neither—'speekt I'm a
counterfeit—won't pass—a tavern, with
out going in and getting a drink. Don't
know what bank I'm on ; last Sunday 1
was on the river bank—drunk."
" I stay out pretty late now—sometimes
I'm out all night. Fact is. I'm out pretty
much all over; out of friends,out of pock
et, out of elbows and knees, and always out
rageously dirty—so 1 Jetty says; but then
she's no judge, for she's never clean her
self."
"There's one good quality I've got—l
won't get into debt; I never could doit.
There, now. one of my coat tails is gone ;
got tore off 1 'spect, when I fell down here.
I'll have to get a new suit soon. A fel-
I low t >ld mo, the other day. I'd make a
good sign for a papermill; if ho wasn't so
I big, I'd liek him. I've had this shirt on
| for ninety days, and I'm afraid it won't
come off without tearing. 1 ain't no dan
dy .although my clothes is nearly all grease
| ian style. I guess I tore this liole in my
j pants, behind, the other night, when I sat
| down on aspail in the carpenter's shop.—
j I've got to get it mended up, or I'll catch
cold."
" Lend me three cents, will you ? T feel
an awful goneness—clear way down into
my Uo. 9.
Tiik Misiriis of a IJriueoeoom. —
The elitor of a country paper had been ab
sent for a few weeks, and during thai time
a drunken compositor had been employed
half a day. hut he had madcsomanyhlun
ders. tin' ii w is not deemed adv snhle to
endure his presence any longer. One day
after the editor's return, he wax seated in
his office, writing a "crusher" against a
political opponent, when the doorwasflnng
violently open, and a stranger rushed in.
hearing in one hand a copy of the Crab
town Clarion, and in theothera huge fam
ily umbrella, a hi battering ram.
"fi®"Laine. si, lied Mrs. Partington,
'there I have been suffering the bigamies
of death thee three mortal weeks. Fn t
I was seized with a'bleet ing phrenology
in the left hampshire of the brain, which
was exceeded by the stoppage of the left
ventilator of the heart. This gave me an
inflamation in the borax, and now I am
sick with the chloform morbus. Theie
is no blessing like that of health, particu
larly when you lire sick ?"
A GREEN HAND.—A sailor, in describ
ing his first efforts to become nautical, said
that just at tho close of dark night he was
sent aloft to see if lie could see a light.—
As he was no great favorite with the lieu
tenant he was not hailed for some hours.
" Aloft there !" at last was heard from
the lieutenant.
" Ay, ay, sir."
" Do you see a light ?"
" Yes, sir."
"What light?"
" Daylight, by jingo 1"
jSy'" Well, Sambo, what'syerup tonow
a-days ?'
" Oh, I'se a carpenter and jincr."
"He ! 1 guess you is. What departs
ment de you perform, Sambo?"
" What department? I does the circu
lar work."
" Wat's dat ?"
" Why, I turrs dc grindstone."
ttni" ' Your hand annoys me exceeding
ly," said the Prince of La Loche to a talk
ative person, who was constantly suit
ing the action to the word, as he sat next
him at dinner. "Indeed, my lord," repli
ed the babbler, "we are so crowded atla
ble. that I do not know where to put my
hand." "Place it upou your mouth," said
the Prince.
One of the worst things to fat on,
is "iivv. In our opinion, it is as diffi
cult for a grudgeing man to raise a
double chin, as it is for a bankrupt to
raise a loan.—Plumpness comes not
from roast beef, but from a good heart,
a cheerful disposition.
l|£?L.A fool in a high station is like
a man on top of a mountain—every
body appears small to him and he ap
pears small to everybody.
EoT An editor out West has married a
girl named Church. He says he ha- en
joyed more happiness since he j■ ne he
church, than he eve. knew m.uli iik> iilu
before,
IMPORTANT SOTICEN.
OTFICE or TIL* BOARD OF ENROLLMENT,}
23d District of Ptnnfvlriinia v
AlleghohyCity, L>oc.*6, ISTTF. j
THE IMPENDING DRAFT.—IN PURSUANCE of the re
quirements of Circular No. 101, "War Department,
Provost Marshall Oenerai'S office, Washington, 11. 0., No
vember 17, 1863," WE have printed copiotof the enroll
ment of each ink-district within this District, and have
caused the same to be put up in the most public pln«I»* in
each Ward, Township and Borough for the purpose of
correcting any errors that may exist in the enrollment OH
made in Juno last.
Any person enrolled before the Board at any time be
tween the 10th and 2uth days of December, 180&, and claim
to hnve his name strickon off the list, if ho can show to
the satisfaction of the HOARD that he is not and will not bo
at the time fixed fur the next draft, liable to military duty
on account of
1. ALIENAGE.
2. NON-KESIDENCE.
3. UNBUITABLENKSS OF AGE.
4. MANIFEST PERMANENT PHYSICAL DISABILI
TY.
Persons who may be cogniann) of any other persons lia
ble to military duty, whose names do n->t APPEAR on tbe«E *
Printed enrollment li*t« are requested to notify the Board
of Enrollment, who will thereupon direct the enrolling
officer of the sub-district in which thepaities reside, to as
certain the farts and enroll the person so reported, if they
are found to be subject to enrollment, or they may coui
tnunicnte the information dirbctly to the Enrolling Officer,
who Is hereby dsrected to make the inquiry above speci
fied and enroll the person, if found subject to enrollment
All persons so enrolled may avail themselves of the pri
vilege of appearing as specified above, AS if they had beet.'
originally enrolled.
Applications for election by parents. In accordnnce with
the act of March .1,1968, must be made before the 20th of #
I*. ember. No election can be made after the Draft-
No other claims for exemption will be considered by
the Board, except those above mentioned until after the
Ornft. The quotas for the several sub-districts will bo
published as soon as they are roeefved, and any sub-district
that may furnish its quota cy volunteering will be exempt
front the Draft, or if they furnish part of their quota by
volunteering they will boexemyt to that extent.
OFTTOE hours from 9 to 12. and from 1 to ft.
J. W. KICK Kit, Provost Marshal,
JOSIAII COPLEY, Commissioner,
Dec.9,1808. A. PERCHMKNT, M. D , Surgeon.
Arthur'* Home MNUII/IM*
For ISIIt. Eillted
T. S. ARTHUR AND VIRGINIA F. TOWNSEND.
YOLCMRS ZZRIF. AND XXIV.
The HOME MAG AEINE for 1801 will be conducted in
the same spirit that has distinguished it from the com
mencement; and continue to unite in one periodical the
attractions nnd excellencies of both the Ladies', or Fash
ion Miigaxines A« they are called, nnd the graver literary
monthlies. Our arrangements for 18FI4 in elude
THREE ORJGINAIi SERIAL STORIES, written ex
pressly FOR the Home Magazine (>ne OF these will be by
Miss Virginia F. Townsend, and commence in the Janu
ary number. Another will L»e BV T. 8. ARTHI'R. And
the third from the pen of MR.* 4 . M. A. DENISON, a wri
ter who has long been a favorite with the public.
Besides these,OCß LARGE CORPS OF TALENTED
WRITERS will continue to enrich the Home Maga/.lno
with shorter stories, poems, essays, and skotches of life
and character, written with the aim of blending literary
excellence with the higher teachings of morality ahd re
ligion.
ELEGANT ENORATIXOBappear in every number, in-
R hiding choice picture*, GROUPS nnd characters, prevailing
fashions, and a large variety of patterns for garments,
embroidery, etc. etc
PR KM 11' MR FOR GETTING CPCLL?BS— Our Premi
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••EVANGELINE" and"THE MITIIERLESS BAIRN."
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WAVERLY MAGAZINE.
FOR FAMILY AMUSEMENT AN DESTRUCTION.
Kdltcd L>y MOHCH A. L>ow.
This paper is the largest Weekly ever published in the
country. Its contents are such AS will be approved In the
most fastidlous circle—nothing Immoral being admitted
into its page*. Ibwill afford as much reading matter A*
almost any one can find time to peruse,consisting of Tales
History, Biography, together with Music and Poetry.—
The paper contains no ultra sentiments, nnd meddles nei
ther with politics nor religion, but it is characterised by a
high moral tone. It circulates all over the counfVy, from
Maine to California.
TKRMS -The Waverly Mngmdne is published weekly by
Moses A. Dow, No. ft, Lindnll Street, Boston. MASS. Two
editions are printed, one on thick paper, for Periodical
Dealers, at S cents a copy, and an edition for uuiil subscri
bers (on a little thiner paper, so as to come within the low
postage law.)
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must be sent by mail. A name must be given for each
paper in the club.
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But if a commences at any number in the volume,
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with a title-pige.
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he should tell us what was the LAST number he received,
then we shall know what number to renew it without H*M
j ting over our L»>N»ks. Otherwise we «hall begin when the
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write their name, post office, county and state very dis
tinctly Those who wish their paper CHEERED sh'S'ld tell
where It has previously been sent. Postage on this pa
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where taken out.
Clubs must always be sent at one time TO get the benefit
of the low price. We cannot *en-l them at the club price
unless received all together, as it is too much trouble to
look over our books or keep an account with each one get
ting them up.
Monthly Parts— $1 a year, in all ca*es.
Any one sending UM Five Dollars can have the weekly
"Waverly Magaalne." and either of the following work*
for one year bv mail: "Peterson's Ladles' MHga/.ine,"
"Harper's Magnr.lne." Oodny'S Lady's Book," "Ladies Ga
zette of Fashion," "Atlantic Monthly."
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P'»st office, county ami state very plainly written, as post
marks are often illegible.
AddrcM MOSES A. DOW, Boston, Mass.
trrivaland I»oparlure©f]*fi»#ls.
The mail from Butler to East Sandy, by way of Holy-*
oke, Coultersville, Anandale. Mnrrinsvllra and Cllnton
ville. 30 miles; LEAVES Butler on Monday and Friday of
each week, at 0 o'clock, a. M., returns on TuoSday nnd
Saturday of each week AT 7 o'C|Ock. p. m.
The mail from Butler to Salem Cross Roads, by way of
Saxonhurg. Sarversville. Freoport, Shearer's Cross Roads,
McLaughlin's Store and Oakland Cross Roads, ndlcs;
leaves Hutleron Tuesday and Saturday of each week, at
5 o'clock, a. m.: returns on Friday and Monday cf each
week, at 8 o'clock, p. m.
The mail from duller to New Castle, by way of Mount.
Chesnut, Prospect. Portersvllle and Princeton,2B miles;
leaves Buiier on Monday and Tuesday of each week, at
ft o'clock a. M: returns on Tuesday and Friday of each
week, at FT o'clock, p. m.
The mail from Butler to Lawrencsburg, by way of North
Oakland. Barnhart's Mills, Baldwin ami Bruin, 2ft miles,
leavs Butler on Monday and Friday of each week, at U
o'clock, a, m ; returhs oh Tuesday and Saturday of each
week, at TI o'clock, p. m.
The maii from Butler to Now Brighton, by way of Pe
ter-burg. Break-Neck and Kellenaple. 2o miles; with two
additional trips between Break-Neckapd Z«dfenople; leavs
Butler on Wednesday of each waek, at 7 o'clock, a. ro
turns on Thursday of each week, at ft o'clock* p. m.
The mall from Butler to Pittsburg, by way of Olado
Mills. Baker-town, Tally Cavy, Etna. I)EQUE*ne and Alle
gheny City. .12 miles: leaves Butler every morning, except
Sunday, at 7 O'clock, a. m.; arrives af Butler from Pitts
burgh by the same route, every day, Sunday excepted, at
1 o'clock, p. m.
The mail from Butler to Mercer, by way of McCandloss,
Browningtou, Slippery-Rock, North Liberty, LINDEN and
8a1m,82 miles; leaves Butler every day, Sunday excep
ted, at 1 o'clock p. M.: returns by the same route, every
day, Sunday excepted; arriving in Butler at 7 o'clock in
the morning.
THE mall from Butler to- Indiana, by way of Coyie*-
ville. Worthlngton, Kit tanning, Klderton and Sholocta,
48 miles; leaves Butler on Monday and Thursday of each
week, at 4 o'clock, a. m.; returns on Tuesday and Friday of
each week, at 7 o'clock, p. m.
The mail from Butler to Boydstown, 0 miles, leaves
Boydstown on Friday morning of each week, arrives at
Butler in the forenoon : departs f.»r Boydstown same day
after the arrival of the mail from Pittsburgh.
HI ray Sheep.
CITRAYKD from the residence of the subscriber In Penn
township, on or about the Ist of July, 1808, Fourteen
headofHHEKP.to wit:eight Ewe* and six lambs. five of the
ewes were marked as fellows: Two crops off and slit in
the right ear. and threfc not marked; Lambs marked —A
crop off the left ear. and the letter G. on the side of all.—
Information that will lead to the recovery of the above
strays will bo thankfully received at the office of tho
"CITIZE?*," or the residence of subscriber.
Dec. 23, 3::t. JOHN GRAY.
Mtray Steer.
rAME to the residence of the subscriber in Washing
ton township, about the find of June last a BROWN
STEEB, with crop off the right ear and spreckled face,
one year old last spring:'NO other marks perceivable.—
The owner is requested to come forward, prove property
pay charges and take him away, otherwise he will be di»-
posedof according to law. DAVIB SHiRA.
Dec. 5*,3t.
A. M. NEYMAN, M. D.
Physk'lan UNCI Surgeon.
Office immediately opposite Wslker's buildings,
Butler X*a.
Dec. 9. 18C3::tf.
JAM KB O. **• CAMP»f U
Stove*! Stove*!! Stove*!!!
\*TM. * JAS. a. CAMI'HKI.L.—K'ii-ar> n—K iinilry
V\ S-mth c- tfce t» 'ruu((h "I ) ■u' li' I;
; Plough* aitiaade. A largo supply cuii
I sUntly on bawl «n<t for sale at rtaunoable ratw.
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