rattail. BATTLE HYMN OF THE RE- PUBLIC. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coining of th Lord ; Lie is trampling Out the vintage whero the grapes of wrath are stored ; Ile Math loomed the fateful lightning of file terrible swift sword ; Ms truth Is marching on. Onoatts—Glory, glory, hallelujah I I have soonlm In tha watch-fires of a hundred air cling maps; They have bullded Him an altar In the evening down and damps; I can read Ills righteous sentonca by the dim and Bar lug lamps; Ills day is matching on .Clioaija—Glory, glory, hallelujah .111a.vo read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of CLEM "As 3ie, deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal ; Let tho hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with hie heel. Since God Is marching on." ' CHORUS—GIory, glory, hallelujah I Ile has soundod forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; Re Is sifting nut the hearts of men before his Jude. ment solt; Oh, be swift, my soul, Co answer hlm I be jubllaut, my feet I Our God 13 marching on tnouurt—Olory, glory, halleluiah I In the beauty of the I illios Christ was born across the With a glory In Ills Bosom that transfigures you and ran; Ai no Mod. to make mon holy, lot us dle to make men free, While God is nutrehing on. CHORUS—G lory , glory, hollolujah I p.icrl/a3;l4rolio. . . Hoxnekeeping vs. Housekeeping =I ''..'here are many women who know how 4'okeep a house, but there are but few that know how keep a konte, Tt,tkee . p_ --- iign - s - etnaY - seem a complicated affair, but it is a thing that may be learned; it lievin--the region of the•material, in the region of weight, measure, color, and the lositive forces of lite. To keep a home es not merely in the sphere of all these, kit - it takes in the intellectual, the social, the spiritual, the iusutortal, I remember in my bachelor days going with my boon companion, Bill Carberry, to look at the house to which he was in a ,law—weeks-to—introduce•liits•-•bride.-- Bill was a gallant free-hearted, open-handed fellow, the life of our whole set, and. we felt that natural aversion to losing hint that bachelor friends would. How could .we tell under what strange 'aspects lie might look forth upon us, when once he had passed into "that undiscovered' noun try" •of matrimony But Bill laughed .t 0 scorn our apprehensions. "I'll tell you what, Chris," he said, as be sprang cheerily up the steps and un locked the door of his futrue '.do you know what I chose this fur.— Becatue it's a social-looking house.— Look there, now," he said, as he ushered me into a pair of parlors—Hook at thos6 long south windows, the sun lies there all daylong ; see what a capital corner there is fur a lounging chair; fancy us, Chris , with cur boas or our paper, Spread out loose and easy, and Sophie glid ing in and out like a sunbeam. I'm get ting poetical, you see. Then, did you ever_see a better, wider, airier dining room ? What capital suppers and things we'll have there! the nicest times—every thing free and easy, you know—just what I've always wanted a house for. I tell you, Chris., you and Tom Innis shall have latch-keys just like mine, and there is a capital chamber there at the head of the stairs, so that you can be free to come and go And here now's the library— fancy this full of books end engravings from th.; ceiling to the fluor; hire you shall come just as you please and ask nu questions —all the same as if it were your awn, you know." "And Sophie, what will she say to all this?" "Why, you know Sophie is a priwe friend to both of you, and a capital girl to keep things going. Oh, Sophie'll wake make a house of this, you may depend !" ~A day or two after, Bill dragged toe stumbling over boxes and through straw AM' Wrappings to show inc the glories of thiipailor-furniture, with which he seemed pleased as a child with a new toy "Look here," he said, "see these chairs, garnet-colored satin, with a pattern on each ; well, the sota's just like theM, and the carpets,made for the floor, with cen tre-pieces and borders. I never saw any thing more magnificent in wy life. So phie s governor furnishes the house, and everything, is to Le A No. 1, and all that, you see. Messrs. Curtain and Collamore Are coming to make the room, up, and her mother is busy un a bee getting us in ,order!! , "Why, Bill," said I "you are going to be lodged like a prince. I hope you'll be able to keep it up ; but law-business comes in rather slowly at first, old fel low." - • "Well, you know it is'nt the way I should furnish, if my capital was the one to cash the bills ; but then, you see, So phie's people do it, and let them—a girl dops!nt , ..want to come down out of the styliiho has alwas lived in." / Said nothing, but had as oppressive porsoutirnent. ga,t, Aopio froodoin would entpire is that house, crushed under a . iiivdight of unholstery. ' Aty, there came in due time the wed liing-and-the--Wedding-reeeption,-and-we t rill• wont ' to see Bill in his new house, 'Olondidly lighted up and complete from top to toe; and everybody Said what, a lucky fellow • ho was,;. but that was about the end of it, so far as our-visiting was concerned. 'rho running in, and drop ping in, and keeping hitch-keys, and mak ing Informal calls, that had been fore spoken ,seeined about as likely as if Bill bad lodged in the Tuiliories. . Sophie, who had always boon ono of your snapping, sparkling, busy port of girlo, begau at once to develop her woman hood, and chow her prinoiples, and was as difforent from her former self iyi your onroworn, mousing old eat is from your ) rolling frisky kitten. Not but that So ) hie was a,good girl, She had, n capital cart, a goo, true, womanly one, and' was ovini; and obliging ; but still sho , wao VOL. 64. A. K. RHEEM, Editor & Proprietor one of the desperately painstaking, con scientious sort of women whose very blood, us they grow older, is devoured with anxiety, and she came of a race of women in whom housekeepiyg was more than an art or a science—it was, so to speak, a religion. Sophie's mother, aunts and grandmothers, for nameless genera tions back, were known and celebrated housekeepers. They might have been genuine descendants of the inhabitants of that Liollandie town of Broeck, celebra ted by Washington Irving, where the cows' tails are kept tied up with unsul lied blue ribbons, and the ends of the tirtiwood are painted white. lie relates how a celebrated preacher, visting town, fond it impossible to draw these housewives front their earthly views and employments, until he took to preaching on the imatness of the celestial city, the unsullied crystal of its walls, and the pol ish of its golden pavements when the lim os of all the housewives were set Zion• ward at once. Now this solemn and earnest view of house-keeping is onerous enough when I a poor girl first enters on the care of a moderately furnished house, where the articles are not too expensive to be reasonably renewed as time and use wear them ; but it is infinitely worse • when a cataract of splendid furt,iture is heaped upon her care ; when splendid crystals cut into her conseienee, I.ind mirrors reflect . 11 - Cr duties, :mil moth and rust ready to devour and sully in every room and passage way. Sophie was solemnly warned and in structed by all the mothers and'aunts— she was warned of moths, warned of cockroaches, warned of flies, warned of dust; all the articles of_ furniture had their covers, made of cold Holland linen, in which they looked like bodies laid out ---even the curtain-tassels hail each its little •shrouclitrnd - bundles — of -- receipts and ceremonies necessary for the preset vation and purification and care of all thee article , were stuffed into the poor girl's heal, befor, guiltless of cares as the feather: that fiiiaied above it. Poor Bill lound very soon that his house and furniture were to be kept at such an ideal point, of perleettun that he needed another house to live in—for, poor fellow, he found the difference be tween having a house and a home. It was only a year or two after that my my Wife and I started our menage On very different principles, and Bill would often drop in upon us, wistfully linger ing in the cozy arm-chair tdetween my writing-table and my wife's sofa, and saying with a sigh how confoundedly pleas int things looked there—so pliaie.int to have a bright, open fire, and ger.uniums and roses and birds, and all that s,rt of thing, and to dare to stretch out one's legs and move without thinking what oIR' was going to hit. "Sophie's a g«,al girl," he would say,-and wants to have every thing right, but you see they won't let her They've loaded her with so :natty things that have to be kept in lavender, that the poor girl ie actually getting thin and losing her health; and then, you see, there's Aunt Zeruah, she mounts guard at our house, and keeps such police reg ulations that a poor fellow can't do a thing The parlors are splendid, but so lonesome awl dismal l—not a ray of sun shine, to fact not a ray of light. except when a visitor is calling, stud then they open a clack. They're afraid of flies, and yet, dear knows, they keep every looking glass and picture-frame muffled to its throat from March to l)eeember. I'd like for curiosity to see what a fly would du iu our psi lots 1" "Well," said I, "can't you have some little family sitting-room, where you can make yourselves cozy ?" "Not a hit of it. Sophie and Aunt Zeruah have fixed their throne up in our bed-room, and there they sit all long, ex cept at calling-hours, and. then Suphi,2 dresses herself and comes dawn. Aunt Zeruah insists upon it that the way is to put the whole house in order, and 'shut all the blinds, and sit in your bedroom, and then, she says, nothing gets of place; and she tells poor Sophie the most hocus pocus stories about her grandmothers and aunts, who always kept everything in their house so that they could go and lay hands on it in the darkest night. I'll bet they could in our house. Front end to end it is kept looking as if' we had shut it up and gone to Eursope—not a book, not a paper, nut,v, glove, or any trace of a human being, in- sight. The -piano shut tight, the book cases shut and looked, the engravings locked up, all the drawers and closets locked. Why, if I want to take -a fellow into the library, in the first place it smells like a vault, and I have to unbarricado widdows, and unlock and rummage for ball an hour before 1 can get at anything'; and I know Aunt Zer uah is standing tiptoe at, the,door, ready to' whip everything hack and:Jock up a gain. A fellow catet*secititoor take any comfort in showingltis books andVe -tures-that way, Then-tbards our--great; light dining-room, with its sunnY , ,,,south windows—Aunt Zeruah got us Out of that early in April, bopause she said the flies would speck the fresoos . and got into the china-closet, and we have'been eating in a little dingy den, with a window look; ing out on a black alley, ever since; and Aunt Zeruah says that now the dining room is always in perfeet order, and that it is such a care off Sophie's mind that I. ought to be willing to eat down cellar to end of the chapter. No'w, you see, Chris ; my position is a delicate one, be cause Sophie's folks all °glee that, 'if there is anything in oreation that is igno"; rant and dreadful, and mustn't be allowed his way anywhere, it's 'a man: Why,. you'd. think, to lt,ear Atint 'Zeruah talk, that we were all like bulls in a ehina•shop, rpadyito toes and tear and rend, if we 7711 v , (t'atlisslr are not kept down cellar and chained ; and she worries Sophie, and. Sophie's mother comes in and worries, and if I try to get anything done differently So phie cries, and says she don't know what to do and so I give it up Now, if I want to ask a few of our set iu sociably to dinner, I can't have them where we eat down collar—oh, that would never do I Aunt Zeruah and Sophie's mother and the whole family would think the family hon or was forever mired and undone. We mustn't ask them, unless we open the dining room, and have out all the best china. and get the silver home from the bank ; and if we do• that, Aunt. Zerua doesn't sleep for a week beforehand, get ting ready for it, and for a week after, getting things put away ; and then she tells me, that, in Sophie's delicate state, it mildly is abominable for me to increase her cares, and so I invite fellows to dine with the at Delmonico's and then Sophie cries, and says it doesn't look respectable for a fiimily man to be dining at public places; but hang it, a fellow wants a home somewhere !" My wife soothed the chafed spirit, and spake comfortably unto him, and told him that he knew there was the old lounging. chair always ready for him at our fireside. "And you know," she said, "our things are all so plain that we are never tempted to mount any guard over them ; our car pets are nothing, and therefore we let the sun fiide thein,4fiTlive Lai LIM - Siun4hine and flowers." "That's it,'' said Bill. bitterly ! Aunt Zeruah's monomania These wu men think that the great object of houses is to keep out sunshine. What a fool 1 was, when I gloated over the prospect of our sunny south windows 1 Why, loan, there are three di-tinctr sets of fortifica tions against the sunshine in those win dups; first, outside blinds ; then, solid, fulding;-insitle.slmttm ; arri,last ly ; heavy,• thick. lined damask curtains, which loop quite down to the floor. What's the use of my pictures, I desire to know ? They are hung in that room, and it's regular campaign to get light, enough to see what they are." 5 • - But, at all events, you can light them up with gas in the evening." '• In the evening 1 Why, do you know my wife never wants to sit there in the evening Y She says she has so much sewing to do that she and Aunt Zeruah must sit up in the bed room, because it wouldn't do to bring work into the par lor. 1/Idti;t, you kinT that-1 Don't you know there usu't ht such a thing aS a bit of real work ever seen in a. parlor 1-- What it sonic threads should 'drop on the carpet 1 Aunt Zeruah \,ould have to open all the fortificati o ns next day, and search 'Jerusalem with candles to find thew ~Iu; in the eveniiii4s the gii4 is at half' cock. you know ; and if' I turn it up, and bring in lily newspapers and spread about we, and poll down some books to road. I can eel th e nervou,ness through the chaLub..r thaw, Aunt Ze ruah looks in at eight. and at a quauer past, and at half past, and at nine, at d at ten, to see if' I ain done, so that she way fold up the papers and put a book on them, and lock up the books in their eases. Nobody ever comes in to spend an eveniog They used to try it when we were first married, but I believe the uninha. iced appearance of our parlors discouraged them. Every , id) has shift ped cowing now, and Aunt Zeruah says • It is such a comfort, for now the rooms tire always in order. How poor Mrs Urowfi •Id lives, with her house such a thoroughfare, she is sure she can't see. Sophie never would have strenolli for it ; but then, to be sure, some folks ain't as particular as others. Sophie was brought up in a family of very particular house keepers.' " My wife smiled, with that calm, easy, :Mused smile that has brightened up her sofa for so many years, . ' Bill added, bitterly : " Of course I couldn't say that I wish ed the whole set and system of house keeping women at the—what's his-name.? . because Sophie would have cried for:' week, and been utterly forlorn and consolatc. I know it's not the peer girl's fault, ; I try sometimes to reason with her, but you can't reason, with the whole of your wife's family, to the third and fourth generation backwards ; but I'm sure it's hurting her health—wearing lief out. Why, you know Sophie used to be the life of our set; and now she really seems eaten up with oare from morning to night, there aro somtiny things in the house that something dreadful is happen ing to all the while, and the servants we get are so clumsy. Why, when I 'tilt with Sophie and Aunt Zerutth, it's noth ing but a constant string of complaints about the girls in the kitchen: We keep' changing our, servants the time, and they break and destroy,oo, that,. now:, are turning out of. Alm use ~of things. We, pot only, eat itflbOjiitse ment, but all:our pretty tabje.ttdbgq'i,l're; -put-awayi-aMi7-wfAmve--all4he-,..e.r*ed plates add ''the erttokocr4umbleifilind orScked teacups an - d ; OltVlanck-htindled: knives that can be traiiietfolifor olutcs. 1 could use these' things apd..biOnerry,.. if I didn't knew we4..4 bett;OP:ne6l;;:and can't help wonJori4g.. whether • there isn't some way that' 9 . l.4l.4ti.hlt=could • be. set to look like a gentbirOdetkeAble; but Amnfr' ,1 3 ! 1 .Y0P,":1 - W. 6 4.. 4 I.A° l 4';''Plou'. sands;:and what :tlifferiknoe':dooS,l'MSke as long as nobody see - eat You, see, thore's.no.inedium` iti'ber::blitid be tween china and cry*, Oa . ' cracked earthen ware. Well, Vat wondering how all these laws of . the'.4edes and Persians are going to work W.lien,'the children come along. I'm .r in. hopes the children will soften off the.old ',folks, and make the house more habitable." Well, children did come; and.a tleatd CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1864. many of them, in time. There,was Tow, a bread-shouldered, chubby-eheek(4., ac tive, hilarious An of mischief, born in the very image of his father i and there was Charlie, and _Jim, awl 'Louisa, and Sophie the second, and Frank—and a better, brighter, more joyAiving house hold, as far us temperament and nature were concerned, never exhited. But their whole.childhO,o was a long battle— children versus urniture—and furniture always carried o . le day. The first step of the housekeeping powers was to choose the least agreeable and least available room in the house for the chil dren's nursery, and to fit .it up with all the old, cracked, rickety furniture a n.•ighboring auction-shop could afford, and then to keep them in Now every body knows that to bring up children to be upright, true, generous and religious, needs so much discipline, so much re straint and correction, and'so many rules and regulations, that it is all that the pa rents can carry out, and ell the children can bear. There is only a pertain amount of the vital force for parents or children to use in this business of education, and one must clioose_what it shall be used for.— The Aunt-Zeruah fraction chwe to use it for keeping the house and furniture, and the children's education proceeded accordingly. The rules of right and wrong of which they heard most frequent ly were all of this sort ; .I.;a•ighty chil dren Wdre — ttrOse — Who — werit - n - p - the front stairs, or sat on the best sofa, or fingered any of the books in the library, ur {,ot out (me of the best teacups, or drank out of the cut g,lu,s goblets. Why did they ever want to do it? If there ever is a forbidden fruit in an Eden, will not our young Adainj - ind Eves risk soul and body to find out how it tastes Lithe Tom, the oldest buy, had tho cour age and enterprise and persaverence of a -Cupttii ti -Parry .or Dr— _Kunz,. and lic_used... them all in voyages of discovery to for• bidden grounds. He stale Aunt Ze• rush's keys, unlocked her Cupboards and closets, saw, handled and.tasted every thing for himself, a•id glurifd in his sins. " Don't you know, 'foie," said the nurse to hint once, " if you are so noisy and rude, you'll disturb yoyr dear mam ma ? She's sick, and shtt : , may die, if you're not careful." " Will she die ?" said Tom, gravely. "that's " Why, she mcry. o - " Then,' ; says Tow, turning on his heel —" then go up the trout stairs." Au suit its ever the little. roe was old eqougif, Hsu sent atrai'l' b6;trdnig, 7 school, and then there was never found a tittle when it Has convenient to have him come home again. He could riot come in the spring, fur then they were house elcanin:i, nor in the autumn, b cause do-a they were house eleamng :and so Ile Spell( his va..ations at sehaol, unless, by go. id luck, it companion who was so fortunate as to have a home invited him di. re. His associations, associates, hub its, principles, wets as litttle known to his mother as if she had sent, him to Chi na. Aunt Zeruahused to congratulate herself Oil toe rest there was at home, now he was gone; and say she was only living in hopes of the time when Charlie and Jim would be big enough to send away tau; and mean whtle Charlie trod J tw turned out of the ellartned circle which should kiltd . gt<Wing buys to the lather's and mother s side, dete•ting the dingy, lonely play -Now, used to run the city streets, and hung round the railroad de pots ur docks. Parents may depend upon it, that, if they do not make an attrac tive resort for their boys, Satan will.— There are places enough, kept warm, and light, and bright; and merry, where boys can go whose mothers' parlors are too tine fur them to sit in. There are enough to be found to clap them un the back, and tell them stories their mothers must nut hear, and laugh when they compass with their little piping the dreadful litanies of sin and shame. • n middle life, our poor So phie, Who a girl was so gay and froliek smite, so full of spirits, had dried and sharpened, into a hard-visaged, angular womansareful and troubled about many thingsii and forg etful that one thing is needful. One o f thu boys had run away to said I believe ho has never been heard of. As to Tom, the oldest, he run carder wild and hard enough for a time, first at school and then in college, and there camii a time when he came home, is the full might of six feet two, and al-, most broke his mother's heart with his' assertions of his home rights and privi leges. Mothers who throw away the key of their children's hearts ill childhood sometimes have a sad retribution. As the children never were considered vrhon they were little and belpness, so they do not consider when they arc strong and 'powerful; Tom spread wale-deso lation among the •honiteltobt gods; douitg•~ ing ou the kits, .spitting tobacco' juice on ,the .''carpets,, scatterin g and engravings hither and thither; and throw the family, traditiOns i 'into wild disarderi,,as: i wOuld . had 'net all hiSehildislfrenaeAranecs Of them bean , embittered, by the,aisociatiOn . of re 7 *mint and:priVation.:',:' Fie acteallyaecut -4 to, ,bate ""any. appearance' of luiratry . or: taste or oider4-lio 4sitifi'it . perfect' Nails= tine; As fer friend Bill, frets being the pleasantest and most genialof fellows; be , became a morose, icaisant4repio -man. Dr. Franklin has a Significaat 0 . Silks and satins put out„ the kitchen Sre.” Silks and satins—Meaning by them them the luxeries'of 14Usekeepitig —often .put out,not - ,Only the,pirlar fire,, but that more aaored fiscal!, ,t4 - I,Wor domestic love. "It is the greatest pessi- - . ble‘misery ku_k_man and--to his ehil#eri to homeles.i.'ind many 4 manya man has a splendid house, beetle home:.:,: , :; f' rape;'' snit} 4eppie, o.ygu ought to "llow's that, ?" said I. "There's a little more life in me, you'd better flo , b it out," was the reply. And Ibeat him again. I boat him till he sank from my hand against the rail; and I sent one of my other men fur my quadrant. When it came, I found that the sun was already past the meridian, and that I was too lute. This added fuel to the fire of my madness, and quickly seizing the lad by the collar, I led him to the main hatchway, and had the hatch ta ken off I then thrust him down, and swore 1 would keep him there till his stubbornness was broken. The hatch was then put on, und.l went into the cabin,. I suffered a good deal that afternoon, not with any compunctions of conscience for what I had done, but with my own turn per and bitterness. It made me mud , to think that I could not conquer that boy —that I could not break down his cool, stern opposition. "But 1 will do it," I ',Said to myself ; "I'll starve him into it, or he shall die under the operation." After .supper I went tc the hatchway and' Called out ..to him, but he returned me no, answer. At 8 o'clook_l called a .gainr and again gpt.no answer. I might • have' thought. that the flogging had ta. ken aW4Y - bialenses, had not some of the 'ttleriasitired tue,tbat they ,had heard him, ~ n ot an 'hour beforc,i*ing to himself. I 'did not tremble him 4t . gain - until morning. -Mter4irealtfast.--r.--wot-,to-the--Itatehway and'called,,to him once more. ' I heard nothing him, nor could 'Zee() had,notaean, him since - I:put him down I . there. - .l . CaTled out several: times, but he , wOuld.uniko - no=reply, •and yet the same men told ine'theylad leard him talking tliat'very: . .nuirning,' ITO seemed to be ealling.on:.thenOcr but he would not ° ask for. meant to • break •him :inteit it. He'll hog before he'll starve, I . .thought; and so determined to. let him :stay therp, 7 l supposed, that he had crawl tid forward to.tbo forecas tle bulkhead, in Order . to make Elie sailors hear ,him. Some , Oic'the men, naked lea*, to*. clown and look for him, bUt.l. refused, and threat ened to.punish the fi,rat man that :41.4 . to go dOwn.„4'.. 11113 1/' TERMS :--$1,50 in Advance, or $2 within the year write and tell what are your ideas of keeping home." " Girls, you have only to think how your mother' has brought you up." Nevertheless, I think, being so fortu nate a husband, I might redude my wife's system,to an analysis, and my next paper shall, be— What is a home, and how to keep 4 Y —Atlantic Monthly,. THE CAPTAIN'S STORY When, I was about forty years of age, I took command of the ship Petersham -he was an old craft, dud had seen full as lunch services as she was capable of seeing with safety. But her owners were willing to trust a valuable cargo in her, so I would not refuse to trust myself. We were bound to Liverpool, and nothing unusual happened until about the eighth day out, when we ran foul of a small iceberg. It was early in the morning, before sunrise, and not above six or eight feet of ice was above the water, it having nearly all been melted in the warm , re gion of the gulf stream: - I did not think two had sustained much injury, for the shock was light; but I was very angry, and gave the lookout a severe punish ment, without stopping to inquire wheth er he could have seen the berg in time to escape it. 3.1 y cabin boy was named Jaak Withers. Irii - liag - Tirifite - eil — Yea:Fa of nee, irn — d — th - ls w;Js his first voyage. I had taken him from his widowed mother, and had prom iSed her that I would see him well treated, that was, if he behaved himself. He was a bright, quick, .intelligent lad. I soon wade myself believe he had an awful disposition. I fancied that he was the most stubborn piece of humanity I had ever come across. I had made up my wind that he had never been properly govern.ed, and.halkresul.vecito breaLhim__ in. I told him I'd curb his temper be fore I'd done with him. In reply he told me that I night. kill him if I liked ; and I flogged him with the end of the mizzen top gallant halyards till he oould hardly stand. I asked - him if he'd got enough, and he told we I might flog him more if I wished to. I felt a strong inclination to throw him overboard ; but 'at that tuotnent he staggered back against the mizzen mast from absolute weakness, and L left him to himself. Whet) I reasoned calmly about the boy's dispt sition, I was forced to acknowledge that he was one of the smartest and most intelligent and }ILION! lads i ilau eves• seen. When I asked him to do anything he would be off like a rocket; but when I roughly ort„lcr ed him to do it, then came the di.•pusition with wh eh I. found fault. One day, when it Wit`i very , near noon. I. spoke to him to bring up my quadrant lie was looking over the quarter-rail, and knew ne did not hear me ; the nest time I spoke I ripped out an oath, and intima ted if ho did not move I'd help him. "I. didn't hear you," he said, with an independent tone. “No words," said I. "1 suppose I_ can speak," he retorted, moving slowly toward the companion way His looks, words, and the slow, care less manner in which he moved, fired rue in a moment, and 1 grasp•d him by the collar. "Speak to roe again like that, and I'll Hog you within an inch of your life," said I. "You can flog away," he replied, firm and undaunted as a rock. And I did flog him. 1 caught up the end of a rope, and beat him till my arm fairly ached ; but he never winced. lAt noon .T•Wsnt again, and as he did .not, answer pleOlis time, resolved that he should come to the hatchway and ask for me, ere I went any more. The day passed away, and when evening O'IMO a gain, I began to be startled. I thought of the many good qualities the boy had, and of his widowed mother. He had been in the hold thirty-six hours, and all of forty hours without food or drink. He must be too weak to cry out now. It was hard for me to give up, but if he died there from actual starvation, it might go hard with me still. So at length I made up my mind to go and see him. It was not quite sun-down when I had the hatch taken off, and I jumped down upon the boxes alone: A little way forward 1 saw a space where_Jack might easily have gone down, and to this point I clawled on my hands and knees. 1 culled out there, but could get no answer. A short distance further was a wide space, which I had entiroly forgetten, but which I now remembered had been left open, on ac, count of a break in the flooring of the hold, which would let anything that might have been stored there rest direct ly upon the thin planking of the ship. To this place I made my way. and look- , ed down. I heard the splashing of water, and thought I could detect a sound like the incoming of a tiny jet or stream. At first I could see nothing; but as soon as I became used to the dim :Wit, I could distinguish the faint outlines of the boy at some distance below me. lie seemed -to,-be—sittineon—tire—brokerr—floor;--with his feet stretched out against a cask. I called out to him, and thought he looked up—" Jack, are you there He answered in a faint, weary tone : " Yes I help me I Do help me I Bring men and bring a lantern ; the ship has sprung a leak I" I hesitated, and he added, in a more eager tone, " Make haste, I will try and hold it till you come back " I waited to hear no more, but hurried on deek as soon as possible, and returned with -a lantern and three men. I leaped down beside the boy, and could scarcely believe the evidence of my own senses Three of the timbers were completely worm-eaten to the very heart, and one of the outer planks had been broken, and would burst in any moment the boy might leave it, whose feet were braced against the plank before him. Half a dozen lit tle jets of water were streaming in about him, and he was wet to the skin. I easy the plank must burst the moment the strain was removed from it, so . I made uty wen brace thewselve.' againSt it be fire lifted him p. Otho wen wore called down with planks, and spikes, and adzes, arid, with much care arid trouble, we finally su ceeded in stoppin g the leak. and averting the danger. The plank which had been stove in was biX feet long by eight inches wide, and would let in a rtream of water of that capacity. It would have been beyond our reach lung before we could have discovered it, and would have sunk us in a very short time. I knew it must, be where the iceberg struck us Jack Withers was taken to the cabin, and there he managed to tell his story.— Shortly after I put him in the hold he crawled forward, and when he be, awe used to the dim glimmer that came through the dead lights, he looked about for a snug place in which to lie, for his limbs were very sore. Ile went to sleep, and when he woke he hcurd a faint sound like water streaming through a small hole. Ile went to the open place in the ear-n and looked down, and was sure that he saw a small jet of water springing up through the ship's bottom. lie leaped down, and in a few moments found that the timbers had given wholly away, and that the stream was increasing in size.— Ile placed his hand upon tl e plank, and found it broken, and discovered that the pressure of the water without was forc ing it inward. lie had sense to see that if it gained an inch niers it must all go, and the ship be lost, and perhaps perish. And ho saw, too, that, it he could keep the broken plank in its place he might stop the incoming flood. So ho sat him self upon it, and braced his feet against the cask, and then called for help. But he was too far away—so low down, with such a mass of cargo about him, that his voice scarcely reached other ears than his - own. Some of the men heard him, but thought he was talking to himself, there ho sat, with his feet braced, for four and twenty dreary hours, with the water spiriting till over him, and drenching him to the very skin. lie bud several times thought of going to the hatchway and call ing for help, but he knew that the broken plank would be forced in if he left it, fur he could feel it heave beneath him. his limbs wore racked with pain, but he would not give up. I asked him if he should not have given up if I had not come to him as I did. He answered that, he could not have done it while he had life in him. He said he thought not of himself; he was ready to die; but he would save the rest if he could—and ho had saved us, Surely saved us all from a watery grave. Tha boy lay sick almost unto death; but I nursed him with my own hands— nursed him all through his delirium ; and when his reason returned, and ho could situp and talk, I bowed myself before him andhumbly asked his pardon for all the wrong I had done him. Ile threw his arms around my neck, and told 'me I would'bo good to him, he would never give we cause of offence; and added, as he sat up again, "I am not a coward, I could riot be a dog." I never forget those words; and from that: hour I have never struck , a, blow, on, board my abip. I make my Men feel that they are men, that I so'regard them, and; that I wish to :make . them 'comfortable and happy as possible ; and I have not failed to gain their reepeot and confidence. I give no undue license.; but)it - alta . crows feel that they have a fri'orid'',Stid superior in the same person. For nine years I have sailed in three different ships, with the same crew. A man could'aot be hired to leave roc save for an officer's birth. And - Jack Withers remained with me thirteen years. He was my cab in boy; one of my lore•mast hands; my second mate ; and the last time he sailed with me, be refused the command ea new bark because he would not be sepaitited from me. But he is a captain now, -and one of the best the country ever afforded. Such gentlemen, is my experience in go vernment and discipline on shipboard. NO, 13 Married, sometime about the year 18- 56, by his Satanic, Majesty, Mr. Copper head Democracy and Miss Rattlesnake Slavery, both of the United States. Slices of the wedding cake were sept to the locofoco editors, in consequence of which they have never ceased to puff the iabove) Union. Born, in the Summer 0f1.867, Leoomp ton Border Ruffian, son of Hon. Mr. Copperhead Democracy. This unsightli child,, born six months after the above marriage, alter a few months sickly existence, died from a pa• eultar disease called Free States. Born at Charleston, S. C., in the year Of grace, 1860, Mr. Secession Pro-Ski very Rebellion, trde son of Mr. C. and Mrs. R. S. Democracy, Jimmy Buchatt flan, acting granny. This child, " which looks so much like its daddy" is now going on three years old. Its infancy. was marked by so much precocity, that it is now universally lieved that it is " too smart to live." lts backbone was lately broken by the fall of Vicksburg, its face horribly burnt in tkie tire at Gettysburg, one of his feet ampu tated in Ohio. It has been a source of great trouble all its days. Its death, however, is looked for soon. The old 1 adj_i s, also ." dre_ad fuLpu.uke_r.," = ,autit, some of her friends - have got the "spa: pathetic fits." Born in New York City, in July, 1863, Mr. Patrick Riot, third son of Mr. C. and Mrs. R. S. Democracy. This monster baby came very nearly be ing still born, but by aid of Dr. Seymour and his friends it lived three days. The fataiity which has attended these children shows that no child of such efeni ---- And yet they survive long enough to cause great trouble; and as long as the old folks live there is danger of an "increase in the family."—The pea ple will rejoice and cry Amen at the et tincLion of the whule race. BUSIYESS RULES.—An Eastern paper gives the fol o luwing seasonable excellent rules fur young wen counnencing nest' : The world estimates men by their suc cess in lite, and, general consent, success is evidence ut superiority. ever under any circumstance(' &HUM a ro•if. , ini:ihility c.to avoid ecm.sisteat ly with yuur duty to yourself and others. Base all your actions upon a principle of right; preset ve yuur integrity of char acter, and iu doing this ',ever reckon on the Cost. Remember self-interest is more likely to warp your judgment than all other air euuisianees combined; therefore, look well_ to your duty when your interest is con cerned. Never wake woney at the expense of your reputation Be neither lavish nor niggardly; of the two avoid the latter. A wean man is universally despised, but public favor ie a stepping-stone to preferment; therefore generous leelings should be cultivated. . ',Say but little—think much and So more. Let your expenses be such as to leave a balance in your pocket. heady money is a friLnd iu need. Keep clear of the law ; fur, even if you gait' your cause, you are generally the loser. Avoid borrowing and lending. `Vine-drinking and smoking cigars are bad habits; they impair the mind and pocket, and lead to a waste of time. Never relate your uaisfurtuneti, and nev- er grieve over wz.at you cannot prevent; HABITS. Like flakes of snow that fall unperceived upon the earth, the seeming ly unimportant events of life succeed eaoh other. As the snow gathers together, so are our habits formed. No single flake• that is added to the pile, produces asap- sible change. No single action oreatesi however it may exhibit a man's oharaoteri But as the tempest hurls the avalanotie, down the mountain, and overwhelms the inhabitant, and his habqation, so passion; acting upon the elements of mischief which pernicious habits brought togeth er by imperceptible accumulation, may overthrow the edifice of truth and virtues There are lour kinds of readers,—the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, the sieve The sponge sucking up all; the funnel taking in at one end and letting out at another; the strainer separating the wine from, the lees; the sieve dividing the bran from the flue flour. We do not die wholly at one death ; - -we have mouldered away long before. F. Feti ult after faculty, interest after interest,. ist• tachment after attachment disappear; vie are torn from ourselves while living; year after year sees us no longer the same, and -death-only consigns -the -last fragments of what we were to the grave, Because you can't get it) you want, don't neglect what you can got. Squkie out of the world 411 the juioo thorn isivat. Auger, like a hurricane on the mein, rolls heavy surges of afilietiOn ever the tetupest-tossed soul. A myrtle among nettles ia still a myr. 110. When thii shepherd is angry with the sheep, he sendS diem a blind guide. Be very lowly, humble in spirit; 'for wan is a worm, and his.ainbition•vanity,, A rum suggestion—calling,a man giic; (lOUs. A baleful NEErriage. FIRST BORN SECOND BORN THIRD BORN
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