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'..
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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.
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