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ADMINADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.'
ISTRATOR'S
of Administration on the Estate of Ben).
tutier, late of the Darough of Carlisle ‘ doc'd., haring
been issued by the Register of Cumberland County to
the undersigned residing in said borough. Notice is
hereby given to all persons having claims against said
estate, to present thorn properly authenticated, and
those Indebted to make payment to
ROBERT MOORE,
Administrator.
April 24, 1863-6 E
STRAW GOODS.
riF all the NEW Styles,• For Ladies
N_Jblisses & Chi Wrens Wear. Froncb & American
FLOWERS
Bonnet Ribbons, and a general assortment of
MILLINAItY GOODS I
at the lowest Cash prices—Wholesale &
Retall—
M(LLINISRS Will Consult their interest by examining
0, 1 stock before making their purchases.
WM. KRU°EN,
No Arch Street, Philadelphia,
March 20,1503.
MILLINERY GOODS
-1863. SPRING, 1863.
W
CHEST
NITD4TI&CIike:T'AIRZL'ANDI°N.A7'I.I2ISA,
STRAW & MILLINERY GOODS
Including STRAW HATS & BONNETS,
MISSES & CIIII,DRENS STRAW GOODS,
FANCY & CRAPE BONNETS,
French blowers, Ribbons &c.,
In which they respectfully invite the attention oL
Merchant & Milliner.
CASH fltl YERS will find special advantage in ex
arnining this stock botoro purchasing.
March 20, 1863-31 n.
Watches, Jewelry,
SILVER WARE, and ROGER'S SUP
RIUR PLATEDAVAIIE.
HENRY II AR PER,
No. 52,0 ARCH Street. PIIILAIYA
N.ll. 'All kinds of .sllvorcrare mem In the Factor
back of the St6re.
March 20,1802-3 m.
NEW STORE.
CEO. P.
,iIIYERS & SON,
GREEN GROCERS
Wu have taken the Rolm Rooms formerly occupied
by Greenfield it tzliefifer in East .lain street, next door
to the fail, where we Intend to keep all kinds of
l/I:it.N6N% time and Ortocimiss. Our stock Is now and
11,11. carefully selected In the Eastetlif Cities. We in
tie the ruhllc and friends in coneral to give us a ca 1
sod examine our stock of goods as we are determined
to slit CUP:AP FOR CASII. Our stock consists in part cti
SUGARS, COFFEE, TEAS, SYRUPS,
` 1 0 1 . ,,, es Queensware, Willow ware, Cedar ware. Breen
ti USLICS, Cards and 4nees 01 every kind, warranted pur
lisu,
Green and Dried Fruit
'orelgu :and Domestic, and a full dlisortment c
weeiles generally.
Flour by the barrel or pound, Country produce re
eked In exchange for goods.
Mat ch 20, 1863
Watches Jewelry and Diamonds
LEWIS LADONI US ,kc CO
803 Chestnut Strect, Philadelphia.
[TAVE always on band, a large stock
Liof Gold and Silver Watches, suitable for Ladies,
entlemen or Boys wear. Some of our own importm
on, extra tine quality.
Our assortment ofJewelry'comists of the most rash
.mable and rich designs; as also the plainer and loss
xpensive.
Silver Spoons: Forks. Pie, Cake and Fruit Knives;
Ise a large variety of fancy Silver IVare, suitable for
Didal presents—
Ws have also on hand, a illoot, splendid assor t men t
f Diamond Jewelry of all kinds, to whirls we Invite es.
erial attention. Our prices will be Mond considerably
cgs than the same articles are usually for.
All kinds of Watches repaired in the very best man
or find warranted to g. Vif sadisfartlon.
WEDDING RINGS on hand and made to order. Call
r address ti
LE WIS L DOM US & CO.
HO*2 Ch retuutStrout, l'hiladolphia.
V. S. The hitthost priro paid for old Unlit and
iver. All ordeds troll the Con ntity liIII receive cope
'al attention.
April 24; 1 Sti3— 1 y•
SHIRTS ! SHIRTS ! !
WE have the largest and finest shirts
ever offered In thlg place.
SII I RI'S itt 1'2,00 per doz
'• 15:00 ••
do. " 20,01 "
do. " X 5,00 " "
do. " 30.00
arranted-to be or lite best and most celebrated mattes
;ought before the late..utranceAn 449c.ea, sold by th.
ozen or single, if you Want a
Perfect Filling Shirt,
ISAAC LIVINGSTON'S
North Hanover Street Emporium
ill at
larch 13, 1983
SPRiNa TRADE, 1863.
NEW GOODS!!!
NiOW offering an immense variety o
L mans.
CASS .111 ER ES.
VESTING S,
COTTON GOODS k c..
For Igen and Boys' Wear,
a larger variety, than ran be Sound in any estab
shment in this place, and at as low prices as can be
Id any where, to suit taste and pocket. We menu-
Lot ore the slewe goods to order, in the latest styles,
r sell per yard. Customers wishing to have the goods
ought of us, cut, can be accommodated, free of char ae,
u early inspection of our goods and m ices. respectful.
r solicited.
ISAAC LIVINGSTON,
North Ilauovor Stroet Clothing Euiporltnn
March 13,1803.
DENN MUTUAL LIFE INSUR
L ANCE
(ASSETS $1.151 789 50,)
-ISESUS LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES,
on favorable terms.
The Board of Trustees Lave declared a Scrip Div'.
loud of foe ty per coat. upon the Cash Premiums re
el ved In I+nl, on all Policies in force on the 31st of De.
ember, and have decided to receive the Scrip Dlvi—
lends of INh3, IsSk, 1835 and 1856 in payment of 1'ro•
niuni Notes or Loans on Policies duo the Company,
lii be el edited on the same with the Scrip tit bald
•ears.
The undersigned Is ready to deliver certificates to
larlies entitled to receive them, at the Carlisle Agon
y, at his office on Main street, at any time after the
have of this notice.
Pam ph los, Wiles of rates, applications and every In
orlnntio❑ furnished without charge.
March 13, 18f3
1863.
NEW GOODS ! NEW GOODS ! !
% ,.... - 11NC.113 the decline in Foreign Ox
.jcbang,e Leldich Sawyer & Miller hare received
heir stock of Foreign Spring drew goods, embracing all
he latest fabrics and newest styles in the market.
PLAIN AND FANCY SILKS,
.Soot and silk Poplins, Pongees, Tints Cloth, Shop
terd Plaids, Greoadines, Minigolf, Lawns, De'eines &c .
All kinds of Mourning and funeral goods of Mesons
mportations, Spring Mauling, Shawls, lialmorals,
loop Skirts, Sun Umbrellas, (!loves, Hosiery, to.,
A. LOUIS,
CA SSINIERES,
YESTINGS,
dale and fancy; all kinds of pantings at low prices.
We have a large stock of desirable goods, such as
anoy silks, dress goods, Delaines Bareges, Lawns,
uany other goods left over from last season, which we
rill sell at last years prices.
We have an Immense stock of Domestic goods, also
Jarpets, Oilcloths, Window Shades,
,00king Menet, House furnishing goods, ite.
We will make additions to our stock as the season
ulvances. Thankful for past patronage, we hope to
neat a coutlnuauco of the Fatno.
LEIDICE SAWYER & MILLER
April 3,' 1863
heady Made Clothh*,
O F our own manufacture, the, most
kytenal v e stock ever exhibited, warranted as repro
tented, sold Whole - side or Retail at the lowest market
niee,lot up In the most
,F4S,I 7 IIONALE STYLE, -
o please the most festhilous tasto, be sure and call bo
:ore furnishing elsewhere at
• ISAAC LIVINGSTON,
• North llanover Struot Clothing Emporium
March 13, 1863] • •
1 1,
oamtIANDKERCHIEFS, Tics, stocks,
14bbotka, Suspenders , Under Shirts, Drawers, a
ful assortment can bo found at - -
ISAAC LIVINGSTON'S
North Hanover Street Emporium
March 13, 1063.
G. I'. UYEEItS R SON
was visiting at my grandfather's, when
a little boy, a long time ago. It was I
think three or four years after the memora
ble battle of Waterloo. The armies then
stationed ii the towns and villages of the
interior of Ireland, were not yet disbanded.
A great number of the yeomanry were
still under arms. The country was much
disturbed ; tanners burdened with enormous
taxation; law partially administered; Orange
ism rampant; while robbery, outrage and
vagabondism of the darkest die, were mat
ters of almost every day occurrence.
My grandfather was reputed rich; one of
those Irish farmers denominated Middle
men, in good circumstances. Ills house w
comfortable, a goodly-looking mansion of the
cottage order of that day, substantially' built
on the roadside, one mile from Drotnhair, in
the hospitable county of Leitrim. The old
gentleman was, at the time I write, about
eighty years of age, yet sturdy and active,
for a person so far advanced in life. His
consort, who was not my grandmother, but
his wife by second marriage, was nearly
twenty years younger than he. She was in
personal appearance anything but a pleasing
woman to look on, and was besides, cursed
with a sour ienspercalways unhappy, sulky,
and dissatisfied. So very disagreeable was
she to the children of his first wile, that sel
dom any of them could be induced to visit
the old family mansion,, or endure to call
her even by the cold, icy appellation of step-
mother. Yet, strange to say, I believe she
liked me, in some queer kind of way pecu
liar to herself, though I must confess to my
shame that her cold partiality was never duly
reciprocated.
Besides the old couple, the other inmates
of the cottage consisted of a middle-aged
man of many years servitude, and a young
girl, brought, up in the family almost from
infancy.
A. L. SPONSLER
Agent, Carlisle
It was in the latter end of September, a
dark, cold, windy night, about 11 o'clock ;
the cld man and his wife had retired to their
chamber, a sleeping room ofrthe parlor; the
hired man crept to . his bunk on the garret,
and in a short time was sound asleep. The
girl and I were still up at the kitchen fire,
telling stories of fairies, goblins;King's sons
and daughters of good old Ireland in happy
days gone by. She was a fine, fat, lair,
bouncing young blonde of about twenty-two
summers, full of good humor, Irish wit, and
vivacity; honest and faithful to her old guar
dian; devoted to her religion; and, I really
believe, as virtuous us a vestal of the Golden
Age. I was at din time eight or nine years
of age,—a little slim. spindle shanked, white
headed, gabby kind of codger, immoderately.
fond .of listening to tales of the marvellous,
and_as—W-inny—possessed--an - inexhaustible
fund of that kind of lore, and had a most
fascinating way of telling her storieS,lt was
only natural to suppose that I loved the girl,
and at the time preferred her society to that
of any other living being on the face of the
Garth.
The girl's bed stood in a small closet off
the kitchen fire, a kind of couvonientsleep7
iv place, called a pouch, in tarn houses of
that citiy and as 1 never had, up to this'
time, slept alone, and could not endure the
idea of lying either with the old couple, or
the hired man, it was not thought indecorous.
in virtuous old Ireland that a gaffer of my
age should sleep with the servant maid, pro•
Vaduir
VOL. 63.
A. K. RHEEM, Editor & Propr
Avlrrtrfa NoTtrg.
THE CARELESS WORD
A word Is ringing through my brain,
It wue not mount to give me pain ;
It had no tone to bid it stony,
When other things had passed away,
It had no meaning more than all
Which in an Idle moment fall;
It was when firs the sound I heard.
A lightly uttered, careless word.
That word—oh I It doth haunt me now,
In scenes of joy, I n scones of woo;
By night, by day, in sun or shade,
With the half smile that gehtly played
Reproneldully, and gav o the sound
Eternal power thro' life to wound.
There i no voice I ever heard.
Eci deeply fixed ad that one word.
When In the laughing crowd some tone,
Like those whose joyous sound- is gone,
Strikes cm my ear I shrink—for then
The careless word comes back again.
When alone I sit and gaze
UpOn the ch,erful home Ilre blase,
Lo I freshly as when first %was beard,
Ile turns that lightly uttered word.
When dreams bring back the days of old,
With all th tt wishes could not hold :
And from my feverish couch I start
To press a shadow to my heart—
And its beating echoes clear
That little word I ceem to bear; -
In vain I say, while it is heard,
In vain I say, while it is heard,
Why weep?—'twas but a foolish word.
It comes—and with it roni.s the teats,
The hopes, the joys of former sears,
Forgotten smile, forgotten looks,
Thick as dead leaves on autumn brooks,
And all as joyless though thky were
T! a bri:htest !hinge Ilfe's spring could kh n
Ohl would to God I ne'er had bear 1
That lightly uttered, cateless word.
It was the first, the only ono
Of these which lips forever gone
Breathed in their love—wtdch had for me
Behnke - of harshness at my clod;
As if these lips were heard to say,
" Belovi tl let it pats away,"
Ah ! then. perehan. a—but I have heard
The last d •ar lone—the careless word!
Oh! ye who, meeting, Flgh to part,
Whnsn words'are [re:taunt, to some heart,
Deal gently, .:re the d rk days r Ann,
When o' nh hath but for one a home;
Lest mnsing o'er the past, like no,
They feel their hearts wrung bitterly,
ALM, heeding not what else they heard,
Dwell weeping on a carelte, word.
i'liorrillutrolu3'.
ROASTING A MAN ALIVE!
A True Story of Irish Burglars
-BY J. GOLDR-ICK
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1863.
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viding the fair damsel herself should have no
objection. WinnV hadn't the least, neither
had I, and accordingly at about half-past 11
o'clock, we found ourselves in the warm
pouch bed, with the fire raked and the lights
extinguished.
It might have been half an dour after we
retired, when a gentle rap was heard at the
front door. r
" Who's there ?" asked the girl, with a
kind of tremulous voice, giving me at the
same time a slight nudge with her elbow to
arrest my attention.
"A friend, IVinny ; open the door," was
the reply from rather a genteel voice out
side.
I can't till I know who you are, and what's
your business," spoke the girl, sitting up in
the bed and commencing to dress herself.
" Make no fuss, Winny," said the voice•;
" don't wake the o d man, a rolken, I only
want to hand in this story-book to the little
boy. It was sent to him by me, and in troth
it'll make him laugh till the buttons fly off
his jacket. Here, take it out of my hand,
and don't keep me standing in the cold all
night."
The girl still hesitated, but the temptation
of a story-book, and one so funny, was more
than a little boy fond of the marvellous could
resist. I kicked off the blanket, leaped out
of bed, and in two springs was at the front
do..r, drew back the bolt, removed the cross
bars, and swung the heavy door full open.
But horror of horrors! instead of the
smooth tongued bearer of a 'funny story
book, in marched six or eight huge fellows,
with guns in their hands and faces black
ened
Thl foremost of the villains stroked me
on the head, called me a good boy, bid me
not fear, and taking me up in his left hand
as if I had• been a young kitten, laid me back
in the bed and commanded me to cover up
my head, and keep my mouth shut, on pain
of being instantly shot, if I gave the least
alarm. Poor Winny I she was bound hand
and foot, blindfolded, and put to keep me
company. The man on the garret was simi
larly dealt with, after receiving a crack from
the butt end of a musket that nearly frac
tured the poor fellow's skull.
One'scoundrel stood sentinel at the door
with fixed bayonet. Another in the centre
of the floor, with cocked musket, threatened
shoot the first who attempted to utter a syl
lable. Two others went into the old gentle
man's room, while two more commenced to
ransack - the house for be ity. EVCrything
valuable that could be borne away was col
!eked. Yarn, linen, bacon, butter, bed cov
ering and wearing apparel were stuffed into
sacks brought for the purpose, and piled on
a cart in waiting at the door. The old gen
tleman was then rudely lifted out of bed,
blindfolded, and placed in an arm char in
front of the kitchen tire. His wife was served
in the same manner. Lie was then com•
mantled to give up his money, on pain of
being roasted alive I
1 have no money in the house, gentlemen,
said my grandfather, 'except ten pounds,_
which - yeti will find there in the till of my
box.'
' That's a lie for you old Dives,' spoke the
leader. ' Where's the 100 guineas your wife
there, and the mother of the little boy 'in the
bed, took out of the feather pallet. day before
yesterday, and bid by your order in some
safer place,' continued the robber, giving the
old man a rude shake that nearly jostled him
out of his seat.
' No such thing, sir,' said my grandfather,
' I min safely swear on the Bible, there is not
a copper under this roof at the present, except
the ten pounds already in your hands,'
It's some place else out of doors then,'
answered the villian, give us the where
abouts, or take the value in good sound roast-
' You would not ho so barbarous as to roast
a poor old man of eighty;' replied my grand
father•, appealing to the humanity of 0 scoun
drel, who had no more of a feeling than a
tiger of the jungle.'
Wouldn't I indeed,' answer the leader, with
another shake and rude laugh, which evinced
his determination to carry the wicked threat
into execution, 'keep us five minutes longer
in waiting, and may I be if I don't roast
your old hide on that fire like a salt barring.'
' I have no gold or silver either within or
without my house,' finally replied the old man,
'whatever treatment you give me.'
'Down with his drawers, off with his flesh
bag,' roared the miscreant, and suiting Iho
action to the command, the poor old gentle
man was stripped naked to his waist, lifted
between four of the scoundrels and laid on the
- - -
burning embers of the hot turf fire raked out
for the purpose.
Ills shrieks were terrific ; the old woman
dropped off into a fit ; the girl screamed at
the top of her voice; the robbers all gathered
around the fire ; the sentry left hls post at the
door and dashed up the ladder, to settle ac-
counts with the man on the garret, whose
lusty yells wore bidding fair to gather the
whole perish around the house.
In the confusion 'worse °cofounded' that
ensued I found a chance to slip out, in bare
buff order as I was. Outside the door I stum-
bled on the sentinel's gun, which, in the hurry
of his flight up to the garret, he had forgotten,
I ran cross lots, with the tire-look in my hand,
and when about twenty rods from the house I
cocked and discharged it. The recoil of the
piece knocked we down, but after a minute I
was able to rise, and heard the whole brigade
of cut-throats flying in wild confusion over
the hill in the direction of Dromahair. The
report of the gun alai med them, and suppos
lug, I presume, that an armed force was iu
pursuit, they precipitately fled, leaving the
horso and cart at the door, with all their
booty and fire.arms.
When I entered the
,house I found many of
he neighbors before me. The old man was
untied and carod for
N...xt morning all thesentlemen of the email
h-tbe•muthorities-aud-tlectorsi-wore-nw-
sembled. • Tho gaup were examined cod found
to be the arms of the yeomanry of the - district;
the horse belonged to the oqieer of the cola •
Foley ; .tho robbers were the soldiers of the
. -
village, some of theta my grandfather's linr
neighbors. The ten . pounds wore restored,
but for the credit of the service trainfamous
afrati was quashed.
The old man never recovered from the shook'
of that night ; about ten mouths after be died,
leaving one hundred guineas to each of his
children, of whom he had seven then living
Wiuny was bequeathed (artyq pounds,Ellorriod
an industrious' husband, : and emigrates' to
America.
This was the list robbo,i7 that came to nt)t
knowledge in that peaceful locality. and the
last man I heard of roasted alive in the beloved
land that gave me birth.
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THE MILESTONE
Mon r tho road, two Irish lade
Onesummer's day were walkinr,
And all the while, with laugh and grin,
In lively strain ware talking.
About thAtr—about the girl.,
And who worn heat at dancing;
While at each pretty faro they met,
Their oyes were brightly glancing.
And fo they strode for many a mile,
And grow In time quite frisky,
And now and then from lip to lip
They passed the darling whisky.
At length, a milestone standing elo.o
Beside the hedge, they saw,
And straight up to it they went,
To con its letters o'er.
They i ioad, and quickly doffed their hats,
With sorrow on each face,
Then lightly stepped above the sod,
And turned to leave the place.
" Spake low, worn near the dead," cried 0 - 0
" Ills grave we'll not be ttublin';
An pfd man, sure It°, and
Ills name Is Mlles from Dublin"
THE YANKEE
BY HENRY WARD BEECHER
There lies between the St. Lawrence and
the Atlantic Ocean, a little grove of land, a
few hundred miles wide and long, which seems
to have been made up of the fragments and
leavings, after the rest. of the continent was
wade. Its ribs :tick out beyond all covering;
it has sand enough to scour all creation, there
are no large rivers, but there are many nim
ble little ones, that. seem to have been busy
since the flood, in taking exercise over rifts
and rooks. Its indigenous productions are
ice, Indians, and trees. Its 'wild fruit are
whortleberries and chestnuts. About the
time that this part of the continent was first
explored, a plague had swept off a large por
tion of its liidians. Trading and commercial
adventurers bad endeavored to effect a settle
ment in yain. The place seemed too hard
for Indians and roving traders, This tongue
of land was set apart. apparently, for a wilder
ness, and it bad peculiar aptitudes for keeping
men away frt.ni it. Its summers were short,
its wintets bong, its rocks innumerable, it's'
soil thin. Bounded to the north by hyper•
boreun cold, to the east. by endless forests, to
the sou h by the ocean ; only to the west was
sere an opening through which the people
could wake their way Out, should there ever
he a population. To settle this cold sterile,
and sombre corner of the creation a race of
men was raised up called the Puritans. Nat
uralieil us that every plant has its insect,
and every animal its parasite: so there must
be sonic sort of animal adopted to live on these
shores, and that animal was the Puritan.—
The Puritan was not described by Cuvier, or
by any naturalist Nonepf modern cenuogra
phers have given attention to this class of be
ings. They have been described in popular
literature and in newspapers ; and if we.may
not believe them, what shall we believe?
. .
Taking our idea from political speeches and
newspapers, the Puritan was a hard, tough;
gaunt creature, utterly devoid of taste and of
the finer affections, but excessively endowed
with a holy combativeness. lle was always
to be seen with his eyes earth-bound, and a
sanctimonious face; whenever they wttl•e lift
ed it was to find fault, or money, as the case
might be lle is supposed to regard all men
as wrong but himself, his vocation is to put
all things right Therefore he is the moral
tinker of the universe, and is for mending
rips in morals, and putting patches upon cJia
duct generally, making up the deficiencies he
detects in providence and creation. Like the
sea•hird, he is ever on the wing, and never
better pleased than in storm. This character
infests the whole Western continent, and
causes more disputes, controversies, and e)c
citoments than all the rest Of the populati4
put together. No other personage could have
lived in New England, and nothing else could
live there if he did. He was tougher than
the atone, drier than the sand, more ob
stinate than the seasons, and, indeed, some
naturalists tell us that since the Puritans
dwell in New England its climate has grown
much milder; even New E n gland winters could
not stand the eternal fault finding of the Pur
itans.
As long as this controversy between nature
anddhe Puritan was confined to New-England,
men were patient. But within a hundred
yea - s we have seen great mischiefs introduced
upon time rest of the continent. Therd is the
Hessian fly that has robbed millions on mil
lions of dollars from the wheat crop; there
aro weevils, and blights, and the curoulio on
trees; and then we have the Canada thistle,
the very Yankee of botany—sharp, hungry,
and prolific, with a million of seeds and every
seed sure to sprout,—growing ten times a •
fast when you cut it up by the roots as when
you let it alone. Among all these none have
been so much deplored as the spread of the
Yankee. He is the plague of. the continent;
goes everywhere; engages in everything ; is
always and everywhere the same disputing,
meddling, reforming character ho was in En•
gland, and is in Now-England, and seems
likely to be until the end of the world. Agita
tor in politics, disputant In theology, fault
finders in morale, prying up peaceful citizens'
houses to see if the under-pinning is safe—
the vender of gimerackiCto every housekeeper,
he has always some new way of grinding, or
screwing, or twisting, or rolling, or churning,
or knitting, or sewing, or plowing to show.—
His ploughs and washing-machines would
build the Chinese wall. The Puritan Yankee
has at last exhausted the patience of the
saints of the plantations, and they have deter
mined to "hunt him home 'to his den." and to
shut him tip there all b,y himsalf—We....would.
-- suggifs - Olier 0 ficrls:,lliiH. til [The Yankee in von-
tions bo colleated i -and a wall be built. of; the
earls, pl(lughs, reapers, churns, sewingina ,
chines, Weeks, stoves. and all the contrivances
which_the indefatigable Yanked-has- -invented,'
:and that all the Yankee books, spelling-books,
reading-books, histories, geographies,. the
ological books, be piled upon the top of these,
and that it be rendered lawful to shoOt any Yan
kee who attempts to settle the wall ; and then it
may be hoped that, 'left to feed upon thee,
they may -become refined ,biyond the, body,
and peradventure the wholit stock may rise
seine windy day in b eased' translation and
leave the world, in pee, to/shudder at noth
ing any•more, except i o romembranoo of
,the
horrid Yankees ? \
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TERMS :--$1,50 in Advance, or $2 within the year
If the neck is broken low down, the person
does not necessarily die on the instant His
siidation is the most distressing. pet haps, of
any which can be imagined. He may live
and have a being for years, but he cannot
move. His face may express all the passions,
feelings and emotions ; but beyond the mo
tion of his breast and countenance, his ener
gies do not go. His arms are pinioned to his
side his legs ere lifeless; and he essentially
beholds his body in the grave while he his yet
in the full possession of his faculties. The least
disturbance of his position is liable to launch
him at once into eternity.
Death by cutting the throat is the least
seemly mode of making away with life that
ever entered the head of a madman: and it
is the least certain and most painful mode of
committing suicide. Such persons have the
disadvantage of dying for want of breath, and
of bleeding to death. They labor, Lou, undei
the difficulty of not knowing the precise seat
of the arteries. They generally cut too high
by several inches, and .f theic.knife happens to
be dull, they can scarcely accomplish either of
their objects in reaching the windpipe or the
important blood•vessels. Unsightly wounds
are created, and the unfortunate victim of tem
porary insanity has the mortification of hear
ing his own folly made the theme of animadver
siciii and jest.
In taking laudanum a person exists in a
state of insensibility. for a length of time, a
melancholy spectacle to his friends. In pois
oning from arsenic, a great amount of suffering
is undergone. The sensibility of the stomach
is tixceedingly acute when inflamed and the
effect of amble is to produce 'alatal inflamma
tion of this vinous. Prussic acid is rapid and
acts by paralyzing the brain.
Death by lightning is instantaneous. In a
visitation of this subtle fittid we might almost
picture to ourselves the very parent of life (for
such may eleotrioity be deemed) assuming the
arrows of death for the purpose of fell destruc
tion
In reflecting on the horrors which death pre
sents under those different aspects of violenoe,
the mind becomes satiated with disgust. We
cannot do better than to turn to the cent empla•
tion of its features in the milder course of die
ease, where, if the mind ho at ease, the final
exit is made,. without any of those revoking
exhibitions bodily suffering.
,C.,,y7A young lady nf eighieen was engaged
to be married to a gentleman of thirty.sis.
Her mother having noticed her low, spirits
for some time, inquired the reason.
" Oh,dpar .mamma," replied sh'e, pettishly,
"I was thinking about thy husband being
twice my age.
That's very true, but he is only thirty-six
He is only thirty-six now, but when I am
Oh, dear why then he'll be a hundred and
twenty. •
- Karin the interchange of laden and iron
compliments between .soldiers t it is thought
more blessed to give than receive.
Lines for Music.
The thedal fence of rosy light
Are clinging round the amber dawn,
And crimson isles of verdure bright
Lie bathed in Odor freshly drawn.
The vesper tire of vernal touch
Ascends with starlike foot of snow,
While hearts of gold that love too much
And cradled fair in sleep below.
Undying crimson swells and curls
O'er limpid wild and lustrous hay,
And showers on showers of crystal pearls
On music's pinions glide and stray.
From fairy harps the faintest string
Ts raft to deck the golden hair.
And Beauty's own eternal spring ,
With sweeter pang is quivering there.•
Sensations of the Dying
The popular ideas relative to the sufferings
of persons on the point of death are undoubt—
edly to some extent erroneous. The appear
ance of extreme agony which is often pre
sented under these circumstances is duo to
mere muscular agitation, independent of any
extraordinary sensibility of the nerves of feel
ing. Those who die a natural death, in the
very last stages of existence, are scarcely
conscious of bodily suffering—not more than
they frequemly are to the attentions
...and so
licitude of friends. It is certainly a consols
Lion to reflect that, whatever may have been
the measure of suffering undergone by one of
our cherished-associates, during the term -- of
his illness, the final moment is not attended
with as aggravation of distress.
' Those who die by violence or accident un
doubtedly experience a degree of pain pro•
portionate to the extent of the bodily mutila
tion. lianging is doubtless an unpleasant
mode of death ; hut few, after all, " shuffle off
this mortal coil" more easily than those who
are suspended by .the neck It is akin to
drowning in this 'respect. The blood imme•
diately seeks the head, and soon deprives it
of consciousness. The efforts to inhale the
air, which are kept up for some time after the
cord is attached, and which causes such vio
lent movements of the chest and extremities,
arise from the influence of the spinal marrow,
whose sensibility is not so soon destroyed by
the congestion of blood as that of the brain.
Persons who die by decapitation most proba
bly suffer more, though their pain is only
momentary ; this is the case with those who
blow out their brains. The sensation pro.
duced by a ball passing through the hody
would-be difficult to describe by one who has
never experienced it. It is something singu
lar in this case that, those who are shot, al
though the "leaden messenger of death" may
not have penetrated any essentially vital or=
gas, immediately fall to the earth, apparently
under an irresistible feeling of their approach
ing return to dust, exclaiming, as it were
voluntarily, " I am a dead man."
A dagger wound in the heart, for the few
moments which are consumed in the ebbing of
life, must occasion unutterable feelings of ag
ony, independent of the mere sensation of
pain in the parts sundered by the entrance
of the blade. The rushing tout of the blood
at - c - nch convulsive pulsation Of the beiirt must
seem like the actual spectacle of the flow of
life.
Those who are crushed to death may not
expire instantly, unless the cranium happens
to be involved in the c . asu•ilty. Where the
skull is not fractured, there is probably an in
conceivable agony for a•fow seconds, a flush
ing thought of home, friends and family, and
all is over. Those who are cut iu two by a
heavily burthoneJ railroad car must experi
ence some similar sensations.
THE child who cried for an hour, did not
get it.
A - person in speaking Of wigs, says they
are "lies with the hair on."
Embrace many opportunities tut you please;
but only one woman;
Ho that loses his congoienCe t has nothing
left worth keeping.
Which of the feathered tribe lifts the heav
iest weight?—The crane.
NO, 20.
A single woman has generally a single
purpose, and we all know what it is.
To make hens lay. Wring their necks—
they will lay any where then. .
To see if a girl is amiable—step on her
dress in a ball room,
The fellow who picked up a living has be
come round-shouldered.
You can get a crack most any where .
but for a cracker you must go to a baker's.'t
The printer who has nothing but " the
devil to pay," may think himself lucky.
Juries, like guns, are often " charged,
and sometimes with very poor ammunition.
An object of" interest ." A girl whose
ncome is three thousand dollars a year.
The man who minds his own business
has obtained steady employment.
The" Golden Rule." One made of the
real California ore.
A darkoy's instructions for putting on a
coat were, "Fast de right arm, den de lef,
and den gib one general aonvulshun."
The man whose" soul was in arms,
isn't reported to have been very heavily bur.
dened.
Summer costumes are simple in Egypt.
They consist of a straw hat, a small shirt
collar, and a tooth-pick.
The editor of the Albany Transcript says
that the New York Day Book is set up en
tirely by girls, and adds that he should
to set up With them."
An Irishman complained of his phys
ician that at he so stuffed him with drugs that
was sick after he was A common case.
It is said that the man
. who first intro
duced gas to the public, was disposed to
"wake light of the affair,"
Our "pil-grim" fathers derived the name
from tho wry faces they used to make at a
physic.
The man who changed hi, mind, pro
bably got something more valuable by the
operation.
• "Sam, I have lost my watch overboard,
it lies here in twenty feet of water. Is there
any way to get it ?" "Yes," says Sam,"thero
are "divers' ways,"
A man came into-a printing office to beg
a paper. "Because," he said, "we like to
read the newspapers very much, but our
neighbors are all too stingy to take ono."
The daily papers all record the fact that
the stone cutters have struck. Wade Awake,
inquires how they can cut stone without
striking 7
Old batchelors do not live as tont , as
other men. They have nobody to mend their
clothes and darn their stockitim. They
catch cold, and thore•is nobody to make them
pepermint tea, and they drop off.
" Mr. SIIONTMAN, said a greenhorn at the
menagerie, "can the leopard change his
spots '?"-"- Yes, sir," replied
who stirs up the wild beasts, "when he gets
tired of ontinipot be can easily go to another."
The human heart like a leather bed, must
be roughly handled, well shaken, and ex
posed to a variety of turns to prevent it be
coming hard,
The fellow who tried to get up a concert
with the band of his hat is the same genius
who, a few weeks since, played upon the
affections of a lady.
A " camp follower," at a late regimental
parade, excused the irregularity of his gait,
by saying', that he was Tying to march after
two tunes I
The Providence Trinscript says there is a
lady in that city so aristocratic that she re
fuses to take a newspaper because it is made
of rags.
"Sir," said a little blustering man to a re"
ligious opponent, "to what sect do you think
I belong 7" " Well, I don't exactly know,"
replied the other, "but to judge from your
size and appearance, I' should think you be
longed to the class called ' insects."
A newspaper reporter in New Orleans re
cently had his pocket picked by some ex
pert thief, who extracted therefrom a purse
with two cents in it, a steel pen, half a pen :
cil, a tailor's bill, a rent bill an omnibus tick
et, and a dickey. He requests the robber td
B°ll the valuables, pay the bills, and keep the
balance himself.
A young gentleman feeling restless in
church, leaned forward and addressed an old
gentleman thus : "Pray, air, can you tell me
a rule without an exception ?" "Yea sir," he
replied, " a gentleman always behaves well
in church."
DISINTERESTED MATOLIES : Among the an.
Mont inhabitants of France, females could not
inherit property. Marriages, therefore, were
not Contracted from the sordid ties of Inter
est, but trine pure inclination. Women were
then loved for themselves alone. "Noun
avone change tout cela." The qustion is not
now, "Is she fair ? Is she honest ?" but
"how much is her dowry ?" Apropos to this
matter is the following- illustrative anemiae
from the Picayune—" A fellow who was ar
ranging marriage matters with the father of
his duloinea, had a great. deal to say about
',dollars' , and lots,' and a deeds.' *Why.
hang it,' said the enraged parent of the lady.
one would suppose you came hero to specu
late in land, instead of, da I supposed, to mar.
ry my daughter.' replied the other,
with much sang froid, I look upon wedding
the fair Eliza as a fair business transaetion.'
The•fair Eliza must have felt herself highly.
1h orthred _ up_o_n_tkat_ T impertatilLicoasion-and----
vastly indignant, but, we think her fortunate
in discovering what particular charm had en
tranced her suitor ere Wares too late to re
pent:of having bestowed herself-upon a worth
less fortune - hunter. , Marriages de convenance
and marriages forytealth are, unfortunately
too much the fashion now on both Continents.
Jloys fiorn Infancy aro taught that nothing
short of au heiress should receive their at.
tentions ; and young ladies from. their cra
dles are kept on the lookout. for a fine estab
lishment and dm opulent husband—in the
world's vocabulary this is embodied in the
term, "making a good match." We think
some of these outre ideas of so.olety would bear
extermination, and its code of morals yet re-.
main uninjured. - -
`ll, mints.