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VOLUME 85
Ia Tine of War.
Mao ars whits fawn in earth'anany sheet,
Aid sigas of trouble meet ns everywhere ;
nillUitionif pulse bath an unsteady War,
?or scones of battle fout-ltitinninier-air.
A thrill gosa through the oity'rbusy life,
/tad then—u when a strong man stints his
- breath—
A. stilleess comes ; and sub ose in his place
Waits for the news of triumph, loss, and
death,
"The " Extras" fall like rain upon a drought,
And startled people crowd sround.the board
Whereon the nation's sum of loss or gain
' rude and hurried characters itecorod.
Perhaps it Is a glorious triumph's ilea's—
An earnest of our Future', recompease;
Perhaps it. is a story of defeat,
Which smiteth like a fatal pestilitice.
But whether Failure darken's all the land,
Or whether Victory sets:its blood ablaze.
An awful cry, a mighty thtob of pain,
flhall scare the - ;sweetno'se from these sum
mer days , 4
God ! , how thislland grows rich ittloyal blood !
Poured out Upon it to its uttassi - lerrgi i h,
The incense of a people's sacrifice—
The wrested offeriug.of a people's_sirength!
It is the costliest land beneath the sun!
'Ths priceless; purahaseless! And not a rood
But bath its title written clear and signed
-In some elain hero's consecrated blood.
Aid not a sower that gems its mellowing soil
But thriveth well beneath the holy dew
Of tears, that sue a nation's straining heart,
When the Lord of battles smites it through
and through.
LOVE IN THE BREAKERS.
A STORY OF CAPE MAY.
I do not like fashionable watering
places, either on the seaboard or inland.
Yet fate, or my restless, wandering spirit,
has more than once led me in " the sea
son " *to Saratoga, Newport., Cape May,
and the now desolate 4tri, deserted and
onee famous " Whits Stilthurs" of Vir
ginia. Those who know 'OlOlO as I run—
know that I am hafpiest when shut out 1
from the world, its frivolities, its diasipa
lions, and its hypocrisies. I wander in the
wilderness of my own mountain home,
watching -the wild deer in its gambols,
the trout sporting in the, crystal waters,
or the eagle piercing the clouds, far, far'
above the lofty mountain tops: -'
But to my story.
It was many Summers ago when " the
spirit moved me" to take a flying eisit to
'Cape Kay. It was in the height 'of the
season-when I reached the Cape, gOing by
steauteir from Philadelphia. Evety hotel
was otowded ; the company'was as various
as oompanles at watering places generally
are—belle* looking for mates, beaux on
the same scent, any quantity of fortune
htinters, and a few, very iew reasonable
men and women in that vast crowd. The
fair ea was not represented, as I thought,
by any "killing beauties." I, wandered
in at three or four of the evening " hops,"
and Made tip'my mind that 1 bad seen as
much beauty at a Mexican fandango, and
more t in a dance; on the green of tin An
dalusian village, 'and not less at back
woodi dance, where one fiddle formed the
band; anda Viaginia reel the " dancing
card."
I sew nothing in the fact to driv4 away
my natural melancholy, and made up my
mind to take one good swim in the surf
of old Atlantic, arid then on the next day,
to start once more for,my backwood home
among the glorious old Adirondacks.
So when I took my bathing suit from
may trunk, and when the sun began to
droop toward the pines in the weer, 1
sauntered down to the beach where bun
deeds were already sporting in the surf— I
the shrill laughter and petty screams of
the lair ones tusking a fine contrast with
the heavy roar of the surf. , •
For a few moments I hesitated to enter
the surf, being more pleasantly engaged
in scannirk the scene before me. barley
never had/ a fineri chance for sketching
from lifeNthan he would have had there.
A Hogsrth would have been only too
happy for the carticaturean opportunities
afforded him, For instance; a fat, beef
eating citizen, carrying at least two hun
dred weight of mortality in his own per
son, went into the water . with a wife on
his arm whose lean and lank figure, taller
than his own, was too thin to cast a eha
dew
on the white sand of the shelly beach.
And via VOW:, a very fat lady and a man
as lean as Bomeoet apothecary would be
seen—the one waddling, duck fashion, the
other " tottering ". toward it like a
starved sand-snipe. •
" Not &handsome woman in the water!"
I muttered, as I gazed over and among the 1
crowd.
But at that moment, as if to rebuke me
for, my lack of gallantry, a vision passed
me—she seemed to be too beautiful to be
anything but a vision—which made my
spirit retract the thought .of an instant ;
for the lady was beautiful=-gloriously
beautiful. Ono glance of her eyes—great,
black, bewildering eyes—fell upon me as'
she passed, and I felt that I had blushed;
from my bead to my feet. 'She glided—'
did not seem to walk—so close tome that
her snow-white bathing ' robe actually
touched me, and the contact threw - alt
electric glow through me in an instant,
Nall, ,her figure could, even in that uri-,
gainly garb, be seen to be perfect—he
'complexion almost too fait' for the 'ravel
of jetty hair which hung about her white
brow and neck ; and, to crown all, a look
of melancholy upon her perfect features;
that made my but too susceptible heart
whet° be her sympathetic confident, her
comforter, if only
. such a thing 'could be.
With bitterness in my heart against the
happy man who could be privileged to
watt upon such an angel, I turned to see
what heathen was attending the goddess
of my heart's sudden adoration.
There was no masculine present—no
one so near as myself. She entered 'the
water alone; not timidly or with a shrink"-
ing step, but like a calmly prowl Diana, I
when no prying Acteon was near.
Involuntarily I followed, though at a
reepectful distance. I watched her every
motion,. as she advanced farther into the
foamy " yeast& waters."
Moving otithactil more than half her
queenly form was immersed in the briny
waves, she stood, and gently bowed her
male the.great breakers it. they rolled
IX snowy wraiths updn itbr. 01r, how I
wished that , I was bee—Jitst'one or those
breakers! Would . 1 not clasp that queenly
form in my chaste embrace. and ,bear it
Away to soma /one isle of beauty" to tie
mine, mine forever ? Yes, I would !
But a hoarse about from the men, and
a cry of 'warning, and a thousand screstna
from rosy lips turned suddenly white, re
called me from the wild dream which was
taking possession of me. My queenly
vision had gone fartlier out than the rest ;
so had I. when a roller of thrice the usual
length' earn* tumbling in upon us. In a
moment ate . was bidden from my view •,
the next second I was under' a hundred
tont of water, or so it seemed.
Half strangled; I buffeted my way to the
top of the water, only to find that the
uondertair' ? bad swept me outside' of
surf, befond' the outermost breaker, and
that the tide was beefing 'me seaward.
I thought not of my own danger. Where
was she? At tbst4instant I saw her--a
'leek of despair upon her beautifutfaos—
witisla afew feet of vie, just sioldoi; Cos
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TWO.DOLLA.RS AND- A•HALF PEE YEAR, IF PAID IN ADVANCE; $3,00 IF NOT PAID UNTIL TER END OF THE TRAIL
she evidently could not swim, as she made
no effort to do so.
Heaven ! what strength came tolli
then •- Never did " strong swimmer ,n
his agnny " strike out more boldly Otani I
did then arid there. In an instant I was
by her side, my hand supporting her arid
my v?ice uttering these-words :
• " Lady. do not despair. I will save you
or die with you!"
Oh. how her look went through' Me.
Words never could express gratitude.
Wave after wave heat over me, but I lifted
her!. bright, beautiful head above them all.
"ff your, strength will last a few min
utes, we are saved 1" she said, in tones
that were melody condensed, :waled, an
alytically. modulated, (excuse my rhap
soiliel-4 cannot , help them). " For they
are launching surf boats,"she added.
llad not thought of that, or,cared for
it, or looked for it. I only loolOd in her
too beautiful face.
"They will soon be here. Do not let
your strength give way," she said again.
I How I wished they'd sink, capsize, do
anything but come there and share with
me the felicity of saying her.
But they came. A great lobster-fisted
i hand was stretched out, and it rudely
I grasped her round, peerless arm, and she
'was lifted into the boat. I would have
sunk myself—for with her went all my
strength=lond not another pair of lobster
looking hands lifted me also from the
I water, and tossed me, es carelessly as if I
had been a half.drownecl dog, into the hot
/ tom of the boat.
I believed was so weak as to faint ; for
I knew nothing more until I found my
self on a bench on the beach, surrounded
by hundreds of men and women who were
drowning the noise of the surf with their
cheers. One man was pouring, brandy
down my throat to revive me. I pushed
his hand away and looked around for her.
There she stood, pale, but, oh, so beau
tiful yet, and looking gratitude enough
out of those large black eyes to pay for
death a hundred times over. '
" Do come up to the Ocean House,
Room and Parlor No.. 16," she said, is her
musical voice, " just as soon as you are
able. I cannot thank you enough for sav
ing my life ; but my dear husband, who
is confined to his room with an attack of
the gout, will do all that man can do to
prove his gratitude to the pmgerver of his
wife's life."
" Oh; vrlutt a Sall was there, my country
men!" Her husband l—a man with the
'gout linked to such a living angel ! I
don't know what I said or did just then.
I believe I asked somebody to blow my
brains out. They took me to my room. I
did not leave it that• night. The next day
I did leave it, and left Cape May also, for
ever. I dare not again look at the angelic
wife of the man who had the gout. But I
started citi at once for my bachelor home
in the wild Adirondack's; for only in their
deep solitudes could I find the peace which
had ,been so fearfully disturbed by " love
in the breakers!"
It is in j(ist such a retreat as Hood's
army has lately accomplished that a com
pact and powerful body of cavalry, like
that of Forest's, is able to render its best
service, in protecting the rear. To this
able cavalry leader, Hood is indebted on
,this occasion, for every man and every box
of cartridges he bas succeeded in getting
across the Tennessee.
Hovering continually in the rear and
upon the flanks, the cavalry select such
places as are eligible for defense, generally
a slight ridge, and, if possible,just in the
edge of a piece of woods and there make
a stand, and throw up hasty batnieades.
These are-usually constructed of Ordinary
rail fences, by tearing down those lines
that run parallel to the road, and leaving
rails upon lines, that cross it, with the up
per points townie lam enemy. Dtrevity iu
the road or close by the side of it, is late.
allY planted a piece of artillery, raking a
column that may presume to approach.
Behind these slight defences three out of
four of the men are posted, while the
fourth holds the horses at a safe distance
to the rear. The enemy ()Omount, make
the same dispOsition of their horses, and
advance more or lees rapidly to the as
sault. When the party on -the defensive
have as their object simply to gain time,
they resist as long as they can do so and
yet regain their horses and escape with
safety.
Sometimes the pursuers make a head
long charge, if the works are slight,-meunt
ed, and capture a part of the enemy's men
before they can mount. On the part of
the pawed party, this is called " sacri
ficing the skirmish line." and frequently
it is their only resort to keep the pursuers
in check a sufficient length of time. The
skirmishers know the risk they run, and
accept it understandingly. An opposing
battery or section is always ready to wheel
into position and engage the attention of
the retreating guns rand these, too, fre
quently delay a few minutes too long, or
are overwhelmed in a sudden onset. and
captured. •
When a body of infantry is about to
evacuate A fortified position, the ill-starred
cavalry has again to perform the last sot in
the drama. With as little commotion and
noise as possible they advance dismotint
ed, and relieve the infantry skirmish-line,
which quietly drops back to the main line,
and the whole body moves off to the rear.
As soon as they have attained a sufficient
distance to ensure their escape, the trn9p
ers begin to crawl stealthily back toward
'iheir - hOrtses; which they mount and riiie
away as ' rapidly as they may. These vari
ous movements often catch the quick eyes
and ears of the enemy, and, suspecting the
design,' they charge on the unfortunate
cavalrymen and take them as they run.—
Corresporvicride Cincinnati Commercial.
QUI= CASE. Abu , BAD Fta.---llndoubt•
edly in wars such as we haye now on hand
many more such cases ca the following
occur than we hear of. The Altoena Tri
&isle of the Bth says :
It appears that with one of the compa
nies organized in this plane, (for the nine
month's service,) in the manner of 1802,
went Itz man who left a wife and small
family. 0a the bloody field of Antietam
be fell, was buried, and his wife after
wards had his body disinterred ; brought
home and re-interred in the soldier's lot
in the cemetery.: A year afterwards she
married again, and In due time a—child
was born, the fruit of the second marriage.
,When the call for 50,0001, troops was being
filled up, last fall, the segiond husband en
listed and is now in the army. A short
time since, the first husband returned,
alive and well, having been taken prison
er at Antietam, instead of being killed.
He had been held by the rebels until the
late exchange al" Savannah, ttf course,
the parties are in a bad fix ; but all will
agree that the soldier who was once killed,
twice buried, starved two years in rebel
prisons, and yet came home alive. id nee
tainly entitled to bit wife " Truth is
stranger than fiction " The query-is, who
was buried in the cemetery I
Na'to JensPy opt of ihfbt, and Oahe, JIL
balance tine I:41.4141ln i,lia-United States of
$910,037. Her railrola monopoly pays the
expenses of her State Governmeniand hot
wen n! not burdened with ./000ttaxso.
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ERIE, PA., THURSDA S .Y AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 2, 1865
How Cavalry Cover a Mint.
party Tbessupd Negrilei la Waathestair.
By the following extract from the pro
ceeding, of a meeting held en the lflth
inst., in Wiufhington, it will be seen how
much the condition of the negro has been
ameliorated by the aid of his philatithopio
Abolition friends. Such things, under the ;
shadow of the Federal Capitol, tray serve
to indicate the state to which the unhappy :
" freedmen " have been reduced in other.
parts of the country. The National
InkQi
yoaeer mere than confirm! the statements
made by the chairman of the meeting.
Rev. William Cheening :
Mr. Manning read a report setting firth
tise startling and moat heart-sickening
condition of these wretched outcasts under
the shadow of :the National Capitol. In
June last the census showed at least 30,000
colored population in this District, nearly
all in the confines of this city. There are
now not less than 40000. There are at
least 900 families of these poor people in
the city. A few of theist have been able
to build shanties, paying for the misera
ble ground on which to place them $25
and $3O a year. Not more than twenty
five of tbeAti families pay for their hovels
less than $6 per month and not more than
fifty pay lee* than $5 monthly rent.
The following cases are reported as those
which met the visitors in every direction :
An old svotcuiti on Eleventh street was
found with the melting snow dripping
through her hovel upon her pallet of rags.
She was sick ; had buried two children ;
no fire; fuel, or food, and no means to get
any ; was hungry ; had begged a match to
light in the night, so that the night might
not seem FO long..
In another hovel near by was a mother
and a babe Withoutidress. No fire, and
twenty-four hours without food. A girl
nine years old' witsbing'rags gathered from
the mud to sell. '
A few squares 'away, Sally Clayton,
daughter, and two grandchildren.,..,,i The
daughter had an undressed infant, nefacod
nor fuel, and in a perishing condition.
AR old man, many years a preacher
while in slavery, sleeps in a hovel on a
board, with a stick of wood for a pillowl"
no food nor fuel; "no shirt. Ws collar
bone has been broken, and he cannot
work. .
In a s h an ty on the island were six chil
dren huddled in rags together like a flock
of sheep. The mother ; Mrs. Jackson, is
recently dead. No food nor fuel.
On 04pitol frill, in a space in a stable
smaller than two stalls, are two families—.
an old man. a cripple. and a girl twelve
years old, with the consumption ; a your&
child dying of starvation ; a sick mother
less boy, and another old man ; a plank
bed for the old people, and broken boards
with. rags on: their, for the children ; a
widow fifty years old, their only support ;
rent $l2 ; no fire nor food.
On Sixteenth street, a. woman ninety
years old, in a stable ; nO light, no food,
no fuel.
When the report had been read, Mr.
Channing requested Mrs. Griffin, the agent
of the association, who has been laboring
among those pitiable human beings some
months, to express her views on the mat
ter. They 'need everything. They fled
from slavery, taking nothing but a few
raga on their backs. Food, fuel, clothing
were all equally needed, and the report
stated likewise
The women needed clothing. They can
not get employment. People spurn them
from their doors, refusing entrance to
creatures half covered with filthy rags..
She spoke of the women as brave and de
termined. They had come here in deco
Winn. and in the face of every form of dis
couragetnent had done the most of them
well and many of them nobly. Their des.
t ttt nr •• sea pionutlivemy gtinert.
ing. A dozen and more-persona are crowd
ed into a single small room. More than
four-fifths of the families have no fuel.
Fifty of the families are to be turned into
the street-immediately for nonpayment
of ren t. A man and four children *have
already been thus turned out of doors, and
another family, mother and three chill.
dren, all barefooted. Almost t yery fami
ly has a sick person .
The New York Express prints, the &bare
extract, and adds : ,
We might quote at greater length from
these proceedings. We might comment
upon the condition of these negroes now,
and before the wir. We might state that
the negroes here described are but a type
of the elm all over that portion of the
Southern country visited by our armies,
and especially in Louisiana, on the Missis
sippi end elsewhere. We might point to
over 80,000 negroes destroyed in and near
New paeans since th• war begun—but we
forbear.—Philadelphia Aye.
LINCOLN ' S RZi'LT TO a DIPLOMAT.—Lin
coin is equal to any occasion, no matter
how momentous. His intercourse with
PO representatives of foreign nations has
ittused the growth of a degree of respect
for Americans hitherto unknown. Wit
ness the following from the Boston Chris.
eta's TVatehprn and Rettertor :
About two years ago, when the Prince
of Wales was soon to marry the Princess
Alexandria, Queen Victoria sent a letter
to each of the .Sovereigns, informing theta
of her eon's betrothal, and among the rest
to President Lincoln. Lord—Lyons. her
Ambassador at Washington, and, who is
unmarried, requested an audience of Mr.
Lincoln, that he might present this im
portant document in person. At the time
appointed he was received at the 'White
House, in company with Mr. Seward. '
"May it please your excellency," said
Lord Lyons, " I hold in my hand an au
tograph letter from my royal mistress,
Queen Victoria, which I have been com
manded to present to, your excl;illency. In
it she informs you that her son, his Royal
Highness, the Prince of Wales, is about to
contract a matrimonial alliance with her
Royal Highness, the Princess Alexandra,
of Denmark." -t
. After continuing in this strain for a few
minutes, Lord Lyons tenderel :Abe letter
to the President and awaited his' reply. It
wa s s ho r t, simple and expressive, and con
sisted of these worts
" Lord Lyons, go f hr.it and do likewise."
BLAcsvrcxas Hagan id has the following
story, purporting to be original with Mr.
Lincoln. It appears that before Virginia
seceded ,committee of gentlemen waited
upon him to see if something could not be
done to avoid.the impending catastrophe:
It was just after the taking of Fort Sum
ter, and LinColn'a having called out 75,000
men to coerce the South. " But what
would-you have me dot" said Mr. Linroln.
"Mr, President," replied one- of the
deputation, "I would beg you to lend me
your finger and thumb' for five minutes,"
meaning. of course. that he wi4hed
to write something that should allay the
prevailing excitement. ,But ' Mr, Lin coln
did-pot chore* to understand turn. •' My
finger and thumb!" he repeated—" my
finger and thumb I What would you do
.
with them 1" " Blow your acme?" The
deputation retire,in disgust, and Virginia
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Writtis forth. Otsinrer.3
The Old Straw Bed.
The old straw bed--Its tlok sad rug, -
In whiob har aweer-erawled e hog;
It is of thee, old bed. I slag -
For often la my wandering
Titre' life's dull walks hare I been led,
To muse spore—she old straw bed.
tlo it Ns had some strange, wild &tains;
On it Pre passed thro' by-gene Mosses ;
.0e it rye tossed from side t 4 side,
Like storm toned skip epos the tide ;
For tike a furnace was my head,
While dreaming on the Old straw bed. •
Yet, still this bed I shall revere ;
Pile when the night was dark and &rear,
And I nould not before ma see,
Old bed thontst prayed a friend to me
And offered to me o hit repose,
Wherein I might forget my woes.
And whoa thou wort made up sIl tight,
Ere Wilt and I would say "good night,"
Another . 1 bumper " we would take
For "mild !sag sloe" and friendship's mike ;
Then with wild fancies in my head,
I'd ley me on the old straw bid.
IWO it Prim Mat Monk. ;
Rev. Mr. - Adams, of Philadelphia, in bis
recent thanksgiving discourse, speaking
of an early morning. call upon Mr. Lin,
coin, made the following interesting
statement: Morning came, and 1 bas
ierrig my toilet, and found myself at a
quiker to Rye in the waiting room of the
President. I asked the usher if 41 could
see Mr. Lincoln. Re said I 'could not.
"But I have as engagement, to meet him
this morning." "At what hour ?" "At
five o'clock." "Well, sir, he ,will see you
it five." I then walked to and'fro for a
few minutes, and !rearing a voice as if in
grave conversation, I asked the servant,
"Who is talking in the next room?" "It
is the; President, sir." "Is anybody with
him?" "No, sir. he is raiding the Bible."
"Is that his habit so ear ly in the morn
ing?" "Yea; sir;lie spends every morn
ing from tour o'clock to five Jn reading
the Scriptures and_praving."
To tiv Editor of ihs Bnftin Courier: The
above extract. which f clip from an even
ing .pApe * r, "puts me in minis or a story."
A. few years since n somewhat distin
guished pugilist resided: in this city, who
had the mil( irtune of always being in
debt. To relieve himself trona• his difficul
ties, he got up a subscription among his
pupils for a gymnasium, which in due
time was erected, and at first proved quite
successful, but after a while the interest
in it began to fling, and the pupils were
becoming fewer and fewer. In order to
recuperate, and fill nis school once more,
he called on several clergymen, and told
them of the wonderful benefits that would
accrue to their physical condition, if they
took regular gymnastic exercises, and
.vited them to call and see his gymna
sauna, on a certain day, at nine o'clock in
the morning. The clergymen went so
cordingly, and on entering found our pu
gilistic friend seated at s desk, at the
up
per end of the 611, habited in the tight
costume of a gymnast, with a large Bible
before him, reading aloud, and one or two
pupils (who happened to be present, and
lied been leLinto the joke) standing in a
reverent 'attitude. After finishing the
...k.ptima u ;,,cured,she book. and looking
up, appeared,' for the first" time to be
aware of the presence of the clergy whom
he had inAitea.. Re apologised to them;
stating that it was . his ntiversal custom
to read,; t chapter in the Bible every
moruing before the commencement of
gymnastic exercises. We need not tell
the result ; the clergymen were charmed,
and at once entered their names as pu
pils, preached the neoessity of physical
exercise, recommending the . gymnasium*
to all t heir
i friends, which soon gave !the
professor, once more, a school full of pu
pils. This was : said to have been the first
time old Jack ---- ever opened the
Bible.
PascoctocerisrY2—A Michigan lawyer
tells the following story : - Several years
ago I was practicing law in one of the
man. beautiful towns in Wisconsin. One
very warm day, while sealed in ay olßce
at work, f was interrupted by the entrance
of a boy, the son of one of my elienta,who
bad walked into town six miles, in a bia
sing sun. for the purpose of 'procuring &-
Bible. He had been told, be said, that
there was a place where they gave them
away to people who bad no money. He
said he had no aseey, and was very anx
ious to get one of the books, and asked
me to gd with him to the place where
they were kept. Anxious to encourage
him in his early piety, I left the brief on,
which I was, and went with him ever to
the stand of a Presbyterian deacon, who
had the much coveted books in charge. I
introduced him to the deaoon;telling him
the circumstances.- He preised the boy
very highly; was delighted to see's, young
man so early Reeking after the truth, etc.,
etc.; and presented him with -the best
bound Bible in his collection. Hubby put
it in his pocket, 'and was starting off,
when the deacon acid, "Now, my son,
that you 'possess what you desdred, I sup•
pose you feel happy I"
"Well I do, old hoes; for between you
and I, I know where I can trade it for 4
plaguey good fiddle I"
Church-goers in
,New York are axes
died about an eccentricity perpetrated
by the venerable pastor of the asiebrated
"Brick Church." It appears that the so•
Clef) , called a popular young preacher to
act as associate pastor, and at the same
time slightly curtailed the senior pastor's
salarY. Whereupon the latter gentleman
promptly put an advertisement in the
Tana offering for sale his library and
household furniture, "in lots to snit pur
chasers." to meet, as he intimated, `,ls
pressing exigency." Considering that the
old gentleman has the reputation, of being
worth more than'a hundred tbourand dol
lars, and his youthful and beautiful wife
is twice as wealthy, there was Odle a bob
hery kicked up at 40;1 ;otiose, and the
society is lOsndaiiiri by this imputation
of having impoverittwi their taidiful old
sitepheld.
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NUMBER 362
Mazuts was Yoirtnra hiss.-1. The world
estimates men by their snooem in life, and
by general (sonata, moues ii evidinoe of
superiority.
Now, under soy eirotunstanook •s.
moo a rorpotudbility you out avoid °oasis
too* -with your duty to yourself and
Ohm.
3. Base all your actions, upoa a prinni.
pie of right ; preserve year of
ehantatar, and in doing this, never rookott.
tha cost.
4. Remember that *Alf-interest is more
likely to warp your judgment thanall
other clirotunstanoes,oonsbined ; therefore
look well to your duty, when your inter
est is ooncierned.,
5. Never auks mousy at the expense
of your reputation.
6. Be neither Wish nor niggardly ;• of
the two, avoid the latter. A Ibsen into
s universally despised, but public, favor is ,
a steppingstone to preferment; therefore,
srenerous'feelings should be cultivated.
7. Sty hut littisp:—think much, and do
more.
8. Let your expenses be snob as to leave,
s balsnoe in your pocket. - Read; money
is a friend in need:
' 9. Seep. clear of the law ; for even if
you gain your case, you are geoaratly a.
loser.
. 10. ♦void borrowing and lending.
11. Winu4rinking and smoking cigars
are bad habits; they impair the mind and
lead to a waste of time.
2 . 'Never relate your vnialortunee, and
never grieve oVer what ,yott . einnot help
or cannot prevent.
"Wentraittwo Ja,stie. "—ln the place
known as the "upper eri i .: o" or my county
there resides a Sohn:R---. This
title he.has gained irOm the fact that he
always talks (even in common conversa
tion) like a major general on parade, or,
to use the common expression, "like ea if
he was raised in - a mill."
This gentleman. who, , by the way, is
"one of them," m<anted his horse one of
the coldest mornings last' week, before
daylight, for the purpose of riding - down
to 31-,. He rode up to the hotel
just as the bnirthos and travelers had
chine their breakfast. ,
He dismounted, , wilked in to the bar
room, and spoke •to the. landlord in his
usual whispining tone :
'•Good morning. Mr. how
do you dot"
"Very well, l*r. bow do jou
do?"
"Oh, very well, but I am so very bold I
can hardly talk." ' . •
Just then a nervous travellor, whd was
present, ran up to the landlord, and
catching him by the coat, said :
• "Mr. have mq hors* caught
as soon as possiblet".
"What's the matter, my dear sir--;.has
anything happened t"
"Nothing upon earth, only I want' to
get away before that man tAsior.".
Bram/a AMOS ST A Pa7BlCa:v.-01d
Dr. C. was known as a skillful physician,
blunt and downright, but not addicted to
church-going. Mr., EL, the stok trader,
sent for him. Visa put.. was examined,
the pills dealt out, and the directions
giien. But as the doctor _was taking up
his saddle-bags, ktr.S. turned to him with
a pious look, and said :
"I hare a solemn reqaest to make of
you. Doctor C."
"What! of met a solemn request of
met" ,
"Yes, sir; it concerns my salvation, and
I hope you won't refuse it."
"Why, bleu you ? Mr. S., that don't
come iu my line ; send for the minister."
"But but me. I feel that lam a very
sick man, and if a;ly t h n you see I 'sin
going to die," want you to let me know
at least three days beforehand."
"But what in the world do you want to
kill* that for?"
't(lh, ',don't know that fam prepared
to die, and I shall want at least two or
three clays to prepare."
"Oh,l well, make your preparation—.
wake ioiar preparation, Mr. S., and if you
don't die, it will not be bit to' your edit
'tourers." ,
Coat roa SIIALL Pox —The German Re
formed Measeitor has received a letter from
A friend in China, in which it is stated a
great discovery is reported to have been
recently made by a surgeon of -the Eng
lish army in China, in the way of an of
fectaal cure of small pox. The mode of
treatment is as follows
When the preceding fever is at its
height, cad just before the eruption ap
pears, the chest is rubbed with croton oil
and tartaric ointment: This causes the
whole of the eruption' to appear on that
part.of the body, to the relief of the rest.
It also secures a full and complete erup
tion and thas prevents the disease from
attacking the internal organs. This is
said to be now the established mode of
treatment in the English army in China,
by general orders, and is regarded as a
perfect cure.
FAIMItti WlllO Doper • RIAD UM NlSl'S
rArox—The worst instance of ignorance,
resulting from not taking the papers, we
have heard of lately happened 'the other
4. farmer wanted to salt his place.
antinitkodS3,soo for it. Another farmer
offerokkizo /3,000 in gold for. it. but he
w 1 1 1.1 - not take it, insisting that he must
h.sr I,l* pr tto, A few Ilya after a buyer
zztua along and pre hint $3,500 in paper
ronews for the farm. lied he taken the
$3,000 . in gold, the principal with , the pre-
SWUM shkris time, would have amounted
tolB,Boo. Some men are born wise, awl
some otherwise.—Erelleasw. •
•The Rev. Mrs. Antotwat& L. Brown
Blackwell has emerged from her domestic
seclusion, And is boron:tering away win
in 'Olio 11 a leetur,ev, talking 'about
"MOD and. women." She has &grievance.
of coupe, tt is that "women are denied
the right of statesmanship." This is
fright of
• Tas,Philisielphia. Coavneicie/ Val says a
fortunate individual in that 6.4.? owns 22,000
shame Of oil ettielt. Inieh , cost $148.740, soil
aro sow worth 1438.000, on Isaiah 4e. his re
waved, is atne snontha 44 per coat, amount
lag to $96,8001
ChM •ar.
If the masons, of the past is any cri
teria% tor the future, there Is set mush
that Is encouraging to our° people in eon
neetion with the teirmiastiou of the rebel,
lion. The Reaton Climaureiel Bens& has
been reading tip history. of late and dis
covers that ''great_ civil Wars have often
been long wars, their length dependingin
many oases upon the sincerity of the par
ties to the contests, men seldom fighting
well or stubbornly ualeas they are thor
oughly attaohed to their principles. The.
Peloponesian war was in some respects of
the nature of a civil. contest, as it was
waged between men of the same , rsee, and
who had ben united to a very great ez•
tent, year, before; to resist foreign inva
sion ; and one man of note at least saw Its
closing scenes who would remember Ker.'
sthon. Sparta tied Athens were the heads
of the two principal brooches of the Hel
lenic moos, the Dorian and the lonians,
and were more than once united, though
they were deadly enemies in the Peleptm
nesian war, whieh was carried on for
twenty-seven years, and was the twat
cause of the ruin of (fleece. That terrible
civil contest which led to . the destruction
of the. Roman Republic bad more than
one stage, or war, in its very long course,
with intervals of peace, which parties eft
ployed as breathing times. The decisive
stage came when Caner crossed the Rubi
cob, and Rome herdly knew what pest*
meant for the next twenty peers, when
the success of Octavius "over Antenins
prepared the way for the pat .Rotemsa.
which gave general tranquility to 'the
empire for many generations. It was like
taking a long holiday after a long period
of severe labor. Civil wars grow out of
peace that has long been unbroken, and
they are followed by periods of profound
repose, during which the . materials of
future convulsions are accumulated. It is
icr the moral world as it is in the physical
siorld, in which the pleasantest weather
is' but the precurser of the severest
storms. Ls the calm of the elements fol
lows and precedes the most fearful devel
opments of Natures energies as a destroy-
er, so in the life of a nation there is.most
to be feared when, apparently, quiet
reigns, and war is the last thing that need
be feared ; Our experience has added a
new proof to the many that previously
existed of the truth of this remark.
" The greatest civil war that England
has , ever had was that contest which is
known as the Wars of the Bases, or the
Ware of York and Lancaster. It ooeurred
in 'the fifteenth century, and it s lasted,
tho' with considerable periods of peace,
for some thirty years. It opened at the
first battle of St. Albans, in 1455, and
lasted to the battle of Bosworth, in 1485.
It was of a most ruthless character; and
the greatest battles ever fought on Eng
lish ground then took place. Almost two
centuries later,. England had another do
`mastic contest, which is celled par (zed-
Isnee "the Great Civil War," and which
extended over all.the British Islands..lt
began in the summer of 1643, and it Wan
not terminated until the 'autumn of 1651.
Even then the people Were kept in obey
dience by the ecergetic use of the victor's
sword. Cromwell's sceptre,.frons first to
last, was the sword which he well knew
'how to Use. He was indeed. a "thing of
sabre sway," but his front was not of
brass, nor were his feet of clay.
"The worst of the civil wars that Prance
ha's known erac that religious contest
which did her so touch mischief in the
reigns of the last three kings of the Valois
line, and which endured for more . than •
generation. They were.marked by periods
oi truce, but of peace France had small
knowledge for well nigh forty
,years.—
Those wars are commonly spoken of as
having began in 1560,and as having closed
in 1598 ; but th e re was much or disorder
before the earli4 :dot4; nor did absolute
order return to th 4 country with the nom
inel return of peace. Franca was long
agitated. as the ocean is immediately after,
a storm.
"The Thirty Years' , War of Germany
was a civil contest, in the main, though
its issues became complicated with foreign
questions, in its course and at its Mose. It
lasted from 1618 to 1658.,
"The war of our Revoldtion was a civil
conflict. On the day of Lmtington, and
at Bunker Hill, and for more than a yeas
after the latest battle. the inenwho here
contended against King Ois:irge c)n
sidered themselves as much of English
men as if they had been living in Cornwall
or . Yorkshire. That war lasted more than
seven years, opening in the spring of 1775,
and endingin the autumn of 1781.
" The greatest civil war of the existing
century is that which broke out in Spain,
between the Caristinoc and the Carlini.
in 1832, sod which %VAS not ended until
1840. -It was characterized by atrocities
of every kiwi, and it will be long before
Spain shall have g3t rid of . the effects.
The Christmoa triumphed. and the pres
ent Queen reigns in virtue of the sursess
of her partisans in the longest sad cruel
est civil war that has been known for
abiaost two centtariei."
We submit these facts, copied fry the
pages of history by a "loyal" Massachu
setts journal, without Comment, leaving
our readers to apply theca to our present
national difHoulties, and draw such *oc
clusions from them ,as they maiv We
trust they will be able to obtain more
consolation from them than it bee been
within our ability to do.
'ehe following, from that eminent and
distinguished man, , Washington Irving;
stamps him as a 'copperhead' of the wont
kind
411110/ON AND rotaries
4. cunning politician is often found skulk
ing under the 'cleric i 1 robe, with -an out
side all religion and an inside all.-pelitical
rancor. Things spiritual and thiqg temp•
oral are strengels jumble], together".:--like
poisons and amid HPi enyin argotchtie s po g
Shelf; and flute& of s devout sermon, the
church going pruple- have often &political
pamphlet thrust down their throata, 14.1-
ed with a pious tPst from Scriptute."
C 0 tikes llactsion..—The Arse deci
sion of Chief Justice Chan, in **rams
Court of the United Slater, van that West
Virginia is legslly • State. The.daoision
'nu 'given on the question of -- placing th e ;
name of that State on the 114 wrniii caning
the docket. We tic not billets it fit Slats,
nevertheless.
- .
- N owi,r married man down East it4o iS
he WO an Inchniore happiness,' kenouldi
n ot poseibty live. His withitt -obliged to:
hint on the door autiitat hitztto keep..
him teem being too happy.
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