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11: - S:" GOVERNMENT
President—ANDßEW JOHNSON,
VICO President —L. S. rosTert,
Socrotxry of State—Wm. 11.8EicARD,
So cretary or Interior—JAL 111111.45,
Secretary of Treasury-11(mo AltOottoon,
Secretary o tWar—FDWIN M. STA LiTJN,
greretary of Navy—GIDEON Wettes t
Poet M,, to Oereral—Wm. DENNIkt)N.
" - tornay don oral —.l,OlEs 8. Its ern.
for.ing.fee of the l'nfitriStates—SALMoN P. Co Ass
STATE GOVERNV'ENT
,a,,vortmor—ANlMEW 0. CURTIN,
Ancre•nry of stekto—P.l.l Stt n,
urvoyor Goner:if—.Loses ..13Anit,
• •••litoF Oolorol—lstec ALCNKrn,
Att..roi•y t:enontl—Wm. H. mr.BEDITH
totjutlut Ittiviet.L,
4tolo TroRRIIrI.I . —IIENIIT D. ?dorm E.
of the . • .•Ittpri•Die Court----Cio,.. W. Woo
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
Proside t udtte—lion . Jamesll cabala:
"„„ e f a t, J„dg,_tion. Conklin, nr.
if ugh Stuart.
District A toriloy—.l. W. D. Oillelou,
Prothonntary—Sahual Shiroman.
.'lark an I It rr trder—Ephmlin Corn man.
North.
frttth , itcriff —John Jacobs.
County Treasurer--Ilenry S. Ritter
Coroner —David Smith
County Cotnrulssioners—llenry Karns, John N
'oy, Mitchell
,McClellan,
Superintendent of Poor House—Henry Snyder
Physician to .isil—Dr. W. W. Dale.
Physician to Poor (louse—Ur. IV. W. Dale.
BOROUGH OFFICERS ir
Chief Ilurgesg—John
A. , sistaut 11 urges , — Camert,n,
Town Council—'not Ward—J. W. D. DiHaien, An
drew R. 7,4, ler, deo. Wetzof, Chas. U. Hotter, Hornet
Hoffman. Went 1 1,,rd—A K Rheem, John Days, gob/.
\I. ltlaek , 8 U. Ililimnn . Clark, Joe. Uasonhammor
13urooull Treasure!, Dal Id Common.
11101 C.,nsftthlr, Swartz, V,.rd Constables,
Ward, Ai:drew .1111r110, 11 . 1.5 t WurJ, Jamer , NI Id
nor
A R•essor— W 111 lit in N“ak or
=9
lax eolleeLnr—Andrew K err. Ward Collected-a—East
Ward, (lood) eat West Xard, 11 It Williams,
Street Comm issisn• r, Patrick Madden.
.luvf 'cos of tho Is tell— . L. Sp..Mder, David Smith
A hrru. flll if. Mlo haul Holcomb.
1.11 mi. Lip-intes—Ales. Meek. LeSi Albert.
CHURCHES
Flrgt Presbyterian ChM eh, Northwost angle of Ctll
ire Square. Rue Conway P. Mug
every Sunday Morning at. II o'clock, A. M., and
o'clock P. M.
Sums I Presbyterian Utturch, corner of South Han
over and I . ..fret street,, Rev. Johnllea. Pahlor
4 ervte., Collimenee at IL creiock s A. Al., lttut 7
P. M.
:sr., John's Chnhdi I Prot. Episrop.4/Inorthr,st
Ot .'ont.re Itey. y .1 e lore, 1.06.0 r. 814,14,0
iC II . ' clo4•K L. and o
. .
1.."v411., i.utller,lll Char• h, between I
urt Ivalthor nC,••etnl'u+tor.;Sor_
1, , 0s 11 .• . 1 • 1111, A. Al.. I' 31.
;0,111 ut t:et , t etod Ltut.lD , r, itetw. e.. Ilan
tt Ail Pitt ..treets. I:ei . S,ut eel Ithilps, Pastot
et At o'clock A. U.. ant! 6 o'clock I' M.
. .
1111 1,11.4 E. Cti Ore (tirst ell.k.r,fe) corner of Maio
Eat 4 tr-ets, Rey. Molnar, it. Sherlock, factor
At 11 1) . 1•(o1.k A. M. and 7 o'clock M.
E. Chu, h (B,olld char„,,,) Rev,
llowtartn. Pastor. t onions in Emory 31 Is. Church at I
u'eli.cif A , .11., cud I. 31.
Church of tiod 1 'h.qa,l Wes.t cor. of 11 eat S-t.
And Cnapel Alley, uev B. I , Bert:, Pasto . Serv,cs
At I I a, ID., and 5 II 41
O'.ttholic Church. Pomfret noar Eastst.
Rev Pastor. ; , ,,vives every other Sub
IS Vesper, at 3 I'. NI.
,tern, ru Lla 110r1-1. Church, corner of Potato et iii
tie Hord :tr , •els. Rev C Vritze, ;'actor. hen Ices at
o'clovlc I'. H.
9„. tv.rl oivinges in the niiiivo are nll , 9 eBSary thin
rouor re 1 . 1.1.00, , ted i notify us.
, ICKINSON COLLEOI,
Rev Tier . Lie 11.3ohnson,1). U., 1 . r0511.1-11.. and Pro,
ussor of >1 r tt Science.
IVilson, A. :11., PiAfesNer of Nut ural
Sr.ience a.l, Conant. ~ the 31useuul
Rev A AI.,
:rot.% Atl,tklertnAn I.,:taguagvs.
Sime,,l D. A. 11., Profe per of Mathount
John IC Staytn kn, A. M., Professor of the Latin and
N'ionrh !Angus:4es.
Ron .laines I. it rn ham, LL. , Professor of Law.
goilry C. Cllo4[oll, A. fl , Principal of the
,r
Assistant in the (Irallilliar orheel
DEE
lIIE MARY INsTrruTE
Os • - 1110 Reeti , Y, \V,11•,101111 111111 V ostrylnpn
of St..ll)l4ll's (1i,,, ii l7u 5,10.
Tlu• liev. N. ./. /.'lris. Rector and Troasurer.
.I“bn U. :inwitd,
Miss A. h. U n6creley, Instrurtor lit Languages.
Miss 1.. L. 11..bstor. Instrurto. In )latheniaties and
Vocal )11.1Fie
NI {SF E. Oral. am, Teocbc, of I eau lug and Painting
Pee S. Pklons, Lecturer on Elocution and Psycho)
n,.3.
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS
E. Corninan, Prosident, James damiltoo . , Fl. e.xton,
R. C. Woodward, henry' ewsltitn, U.,P. liutuerich,
Sect'y , J. W. ii;tiy, Treasurer, .Jahn Sphar, Messenger.
Meet on the let Monday of each Month at fi o'clock A.
M., at kidui,tion
CORPORATIONS.
OPIUM!: DEPOSIT 13.0111..—President, IL M. Hondo,
son. W. M. Beetnin Cash. J. P. Hassler and C. 11. Nailer
Tellers, W. H. Pfahler, Clerk, Jno. Underwooo Dies•
conger. Directors, It. 11. Henderson, President 12 C.
Woodward, Bsllos Woodburn, Moses Bricker, John
Zug, W. W. Dale, John P. Gorgas, Joseph J. Logan,
Jun. Stuart, jr.
Einar N 0.2199.4,1. BANlL—President, Samuel Hepburn
ea-nier. Jos. 0. Hoffer, Teller Abner C. Brindle, Men
em ;ger, Jesse Brown. Win. leer, John Dunlap, Itich'd
Woods, John 0. Iluullp, .saac Brenneman, John S.
Sterrett, Swill. Hepburn, Directors.
CUMIIERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.—PrOSIdeRI,
Frederick Watts: Seeretar and Treasurer, Edward
M. Diddle: Impeiletandent, 0. N. Lull. Passenger
trains three times a day. Carlisle /locomen° ation,
E tetward, leaves Carlisle b lib A. 14., arrlsOng at Cur.
lisle 5.20 E. SI. Tbrou.;h trains Destivard, 10.10 A.,11.
and 2.42, P, M. Westward at 9.27, A. M., and 2.5t1 I'.
CARLISLE GAS AND Win ComPArllr.—Presldent, Lem
uel Todd; Treasurer, A. L. Spanner; Superlntun, on,
George Wise: Directors, P. Watts, Wm. M. llootenit
E. M. Diddle, Ronry Saxton. G. C. Woodward, W,
Patton, F. Gardner and D. 8, Croft.
SOCIETIES
Cumberland Stu Lodgo No. 197, A. Y. M. meets at
Marton [fall on the dad and. 4th drueadays of every
month.
St. John's Lodge No. 2GO A. Y. M. Moots 9d Thurs
day of each month, at Nlarlon
. .
Carlisle Lodge No. 91 I. U. of 0, F. Meets Monday
evening, at 'I rout's building.
Letort Lodge No. 03, I. 0. of 0. I'. Meets every
Thursday evening in I:beam's flail, 3d story.
FIRE COAIPANIES.
The Union Fire Company Iva' , organized In 178 U.
1.101180 in Loather between hand Ifenorer.
Tho Cumberland Fire Cornp , ary was instituted Feb
IR. 11309. haulm in Bedford, outwoon Main and
trot.
The Goad Will Fire Company was instituted it
Mardi, 1865. House In Pomfret. mar Mineral..
The Iteapiro 'look and Ladder Company ivaslnstitu
tad in 1850. House in Pitt, near Main,
RATES OF POSTAGE
Postage on all letters of one half ounce weight or
under, 3 cents prepaid.
Postage on the figitALD within the County, free.
Within the State 13 cents por annum. To any part
of the United States, 20 cents Postage on all Iran
emelt papers. 2 mote per ounce. Advertised letters to
bo charged with cost of advertising.
MRS. R. A. SMITH'S
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HOMQEOPATIEIIp PIIYSICIAN '
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VOL. 65.
I coN the lights of the village
aleaul through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of Radnes/i rumen o'er ma,
That my' soul cannot resin!:
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not-4AM to pain,
And resembles snrron• only
As the mist resembles the rain
Curnu•, read to me porno poem,
Some simple and heartfelt la).
That shot! soothe this restless feeling,
And haniAlt the thoughts 1,1 day.
Nut from thy grand obi mutt ors,
Not from the bards matlinte,
Whotie rifFittint footetope oeho
Through the eon lodors of Tltm
For, like strains of martial Innate
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life's endless toil and entlttavort
And to-night I long for rest.
Read from Some humbler poet,
Witorso xong,s gushed from Jib heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer
Ax tears from the eye-lids start;
Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the oriole,
Of wonderful melodies.
Such-Mugs litre power to'quiet
The restlese pals° of care,
And conp like the benediction
That fonowe after prayer.
Then read front tile tretumred %plume
The porn] of thy choice,
And tend to the of port
The homtty of t!ty voice.
Aud the night shall be filled with mush.
And the rarea, that infest the clay,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arid.,
And as silently steal away.
ODE TO Mir NEW BONNET
Solt triangle 01 Ha MCO,
That can't, around my ',tusking fact
With stick a coy, hrwitching grace,
No mortal man would dream 3 I,ltrplaro
Wan on my head.
Your airy touch can acarOcly pros
The xhape front curl or flowing treati
So light, so next to nothingueaa.
Yon otirels could not well he Inca
And he a bonnet.
A hit of str.tw . adorned with !rather
A yard of loco, a apra of hontluu . .
Some bugles and R toastrig feather,
'Maio trillex 1:111110•11 all together—
Thrill a err you
Xt, cliprn with ntarehy netting lined
VoNVII jorojovlS hrLind
Ifni ntr...1111,2, 1111111.1 . ill 11,. kind
Whi•re iIWN, 111 Nilhen mesh, rnu final
.M v'
Yet most pole joints form I prim%
Asweeping Imek shove mine op,
It tutu the drinkled hillocks eke,
Professor of the
nndi•rnr Iti, in anllo.ll
BUI when rough Autumn winds sweep past,
And all your laces shako aghast,
The,/ Cali you hhieltl tue from the blast,
And mood Illy uerk a Aloft, Past
To keep yu/. worm .
A inn, a mummer V. knit nn• !
Awl only Mui while skies are blue
I long havo known the raying true,
friends are het ler than 111.. tie . ,
When trouble comet,
W 0 01, the dot -day lierthi he tied,
het me your 111 list" glorieii spread
For Won 101 minter whistles dread
tin once more about lily head
31y old Nroor bonnet!
Diltditsllll33l4.
FROM THE NEW YORK CITIZEN.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLIC
MAN.
Climbing up the Senate stairs, and turn
ing into a large bureau, where stationary
lies by wholesale, you pass straight
through, the busy clerks scarcely looking
up, and open the door of a small, but lof
ty office : behind a desk sits the Secretary
of toe Senate, with a phonographer fac
ing him on the opposite side.
He has at his feet a great pile of ex
chane newspapers, and as he takes them
up, one by one, his, practised eye catch
es whatever paragraphs affect himself, and
whatever suggestions of public or person
al note he may make available for his own
publications.
These latter he paraphrases at a thought,
in a few earnest, perspicuous sentences,
and talks them straightway to the phono
grapher] who copies them in long hand,
while Forney is looking' at another ex-
ohange
All at once he rises and paces the floor.
A vital idea has occurred to him ; he re
solves it without a pause into speech, and
directly his clear, modulated voice rises to
the finest didactic. The silent steno•.
ghrapher has no need to tarry ; he carries
the talk into manuscript, and reads it once
aloud while the t-'eoretary listens, and
then the article is done.
liy
this method-of preparing his copy,
Col. Fdrney is enabled to supply the
Washington Chronicle and the Philadel
phia Press with from two to five columns
of effective matter every day, and as he
rises regularly before seven o'clock, almost
his entire literary labor is despatched be-
Terc'eleven, and' from fifty to, a hundred
COD temporary journals.--aie. Sortiptilously
overhaUled: • •
He is therefore, by a single effort,
gleaning the political status of the whole
country, and reprOductng. it with all the
intensity he possesses. "
This man whose influence in the party
orgiknization of the country, and complex
ion of „its polioy,,iS Only equalled:by. the
ardor and ,persistence Whiph
urges them on, was, less ‘than, forty, pais
ago, a type-setter' iu the intand 'tan' of
Lancaster, kits wife, worked by, his side.
His edoaation was not of sol4O01,0,„tho
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RECEEM & WEARLEY. Editor
Vogitit'aL
THE DAY IS DONE.
BY IL W. LONOFELLOW
The day is clam), and the darkness
Fails from the wings of Night,
ASI a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle In his flight.
My Intl) 01 nth,.
JOHN W. FORNEY
s & Proprietors
fondness he had for public life rendered
him at the outset a companion of those
more exalted party leaders who were oblig
ed to avail themselves of his industry and
sagacity. From publishing a small paper
in the interest of the drama, he became
the proprietor of the leading weekly of
Lancaster county, which he soon made the
most influential political organ in the in
terior of the State.
Ills management was the only safe one
I consistent with his limited education.
Rather than originate principles of public
conduct he preferred to attach himself to
safe and experienced leaders, and battle
up both them and their platforms. This
has been the leading rule of his life; he
is a pilot at the helm, watching the cap•
tains, motioning hands, and standing to
the tiller through the hotness of noon and
the hurricane of the dark No beagle
folloWed the quarry with a keener scent
then he fought to their successful termi
nation the policies prescribed to him
Bis pride of State, and impulse of devo
tion, led him to assert the claims of Mr.
Buchanan to the Presidency, and there
has been no such signal instances in our
history of fidelity to the interests of one
man, as the peisistence and assiduity
with which Mr. Forney advocated the .
measures and the promotion of the Bache
for of Wheatland.
If one man ever made another great,
this journalist created that statesman-.
For more years than we care to enumerate
he rang the Deans of the future Presi
dent, deelaiming the latter's personal vir
tues; his public integrity, and the wisdom
of his counsels. Day alter day he wrote
unwearledly, qualifying in no line the
skilfulness of his adulation, and bringing
to his support all the motives and inheres
which finally arouse indifference toenthu:-i
-❑sm, All the while his own personal influ
ence-tx tended, and in the pri ;!.unuil aF
well as in clique, Forney still urged on his
cherished purpose, manifesting so i nflexi-
We energy that Buchanan's adherents
gave him at last the editorial chair of the
old and now deceased Prititgyfroni an at
Philadelphia.
This journal was one of the pulses of
the Union, and Forney kept it vibrating
on the same, ever iterated note, givalg,
really, to the interests of another, and
less capable man, the best half of his
indefatigable life
At last the victory came ; on the shout
de re of John W. Forney, James Buchanan
climbed into the White 'House. It was
the moment for thanks arid compensation.
The builder, front so long familiarity with
the plans of the architect, had, himself,
become a master of the art. lie was
past forty years of' age ; he had that
thorough appreciation of the service he
had rendered which all sagacious and sen
salve minds promptly feel. He knew
what he had a right to expect, but he did
not ask. His wishes were not necessary;
fur money keeping he had no ability; but
he did demand with more then a pol
itician's aspiration some place in the
high councils of the time, that be might
bo identified with the Government as he
had been with the man. It was the im
pulse for power, leaping, as far as the
rational spirit of the time went toward
true patriotism.
And every body in the country conceded
both Forney's desert and capacity, but one
wan
That was the man Forney hid made.
The sequel is fresh in the general mem
ory. Buchanan's obligation was so great
that ho wear:fd of it. The presence o
Forney was a reproach to his own vanity;
he felt that bitter consciousness which all
selfish sensitiveness has, of a man wbo had
served him, growing past his stature. And
he had not the art to retain the man, nor
the heart to render him, justice.
The retribution was almost as sudden
as the wrong. A man who betrays his
friend will betray Ilia faith, and James
Buchanan, believing in no one, holding
by no convictions, with his officers in mu
tiny and the crew distrustful or rebelli
ous, trembled and sagged at the helm till
the fabric of the Union shook like ship
wreck.
Then Forney took the thunderbolts
like Alio hml in the holy war, and led the
pursuit. He started the_Press newspaper
upon borrowed money, confidently contri
buted, and it went to the head of the po
litical press Ho had labored for Buchan
an like a teamster ; he fought against him
like a horseman.
True to his principle of devotion he al.
lied himself. with Douglas, but with more
independence than before, and with al
' most eleepleqs effort, aggravated by his
slight, flung himself upon the Adminis.
.tration. Douglas believed that Forney
would become as immediately and as close
/Otis supporter as Iluelninan'S;but the.
'Colonel ° bad wearied of such identifies:
tion. .111oreoVer, be saw the small hand
of the war rising up, as the camel scents
the eltiud, and reserved himsolf"for the
greater crisis. .l+Tever recreant to Douglas,
and always , spealting,kindlyand promptly
lo his tiver,,A.e ,yet felt the l ,e6ming, of
more momentous issues:—the end of ,tbe
Union or the end of Slavery. ,
For., the interregnum his policy was,to
wait and to assail. , The masterly ncutral
ity the Press,iti the' cainpaign of 149
gave,Pennsylvania to My Linoolo,,by.tbe
election, of. Andrew burtia, and ensured: a
total rebolution in National polities. Hu.
clmnan, bitterly aware of the strength of
the enemy he hotrtnade, went into retire
ment amid execration, and his page stands
the , weakest in the history of the Presi
dents
A genius, with his opportunity, might
have usurped the liberties of the country;
a strong and true man might have saved
the republic.
He has been away from the stage five
years, and in that interval our judgment
of him has grown-less harsh. We do not
any more name him a subtle traitor.
There are grave enough charges, besides,.
to fill his unenviable epitaph. He was
captious; he was old, he was weak. Had
Buchanan, like Scott, at the conscious
ness of his ineapheity, t Town up his eom
mirmion and retired, wo whould hove in-
dieted Breckinridgo for high treason, And
saved the rein).
For his miserable tenacity of office, we
stand charged with millions of debt and
of lives. •
Before the accession of Mr. Lincoln
that famous series of letters over the 'sig..
nature of "Occasional" had begun. They
were vehement and telling from the start,
but with the inauguration and secession,
they rose from clear vocal appeals to be
the swells of the clarion, the alarum of
the bagpipe, the plaintive appeal of the
harp, the call of the drum. Some of
thew seemed almost inspired, as they
touched all the strings of feeling in favor ,
of the Union, the law, and the country
In their dictation—and many of them
were written in Forney's own hand—the
great politician showed how closely rank.
ett Ute proirsston awl patriot's.
There was not a sordid line in them, nor
a personal aspiration: they were not the
articles of a follower and disciple; for
then the country stood without a leader,
and no man long had confidence in the
same man. Ihe Press rook down its flag
of neutrality, hoisted new sails, and un
der all canvas beat the seas like a man-of
Mr. Lincoln hailed it as the country
hailed the Monitor when the Moriimac
was making havoc, and iroin that day to
this UoI. Forney has been identified With
the government; the lute I'resident both
loved and consulted him ; he was the vir
tual nominator of Andrew Jo and
his battle ever since has been to keep solid
and intact the Republican organization.
If he fails in this, as we think he
it will be ascribed to causes beyond hi.
reach.
There are no longer parties but in name:
there trust be parties, or we are scarcely
safer than when the enemy held the Ap
pomattox and the Rapidan. The nation
is most secure when the lines of opinion
are distinctly wn ;at present we stand
nowhere, and anywhere, and where there
is no conviction there is most chaos Vive
years ago we passed from partisanship to
patriotism : we aro now changing buck,
and Col. Forney and others assume the
old roles, Wet,give him all credit for the
past, as sincerely as we shall have to dif
fer with him when the new issues aro pre
sented.
Among Pennsylvania politicians Col.
Forney, for the present, holds the first
place. The old regime of Whartonts
Reeds, Ingersolls, Bigler and Blacks, are
swept away : they loved the South wore
than the country ; feudalism more than
freedom : they never learned anything,
nor forgot anything.
Forney is the live man ; he has no habits
that are his masters, no gossips who ab
sorb more than his leisure. Ills office un
der the government is not a lucrative one,
but his two papers, the Press and Chron
icle, are probably worth to him from thir
ty to fifty thousand dollars a year.
In person be is striking—above the
- medium height, full of shonlder and limb;
and his face is finely featured and intel
lectualized after the best American typo
of physiognomy, the forehead high, the
grey eye open and direct, the mouth firm
and resolute.
Ile is a graceful and effective, but too
rapid to be a precise writer. his eloou
tion is always elegant; his rhetoric some
times defective. [fie uses many
meta
phors, which are always expressive;. hut
not always pers.picuous. For example, in
a late "Occasional" letter, be says;
"We leave all this to time, that great
Alembic, which separates the gold from
the dross, and. remove »zonnlabis /ppm its
path."
Col. Forney is a representative Ameri
can, ditting(bis origin from the quiet me.
ahanical way, and his life has been a work,
directed by talent. He is one' of the
"cleanest" journalists in the country, nev
.
er using billingsgate in denunciation, and
never perrerting the truth to work his
wishes.
_Of his three sons two are in the
service of his country, and the youngest
is n journalist. -
GEOROE 'ALEEED TOWNSEND
xtEa.A. father was, winding his watch,
when he said playfully, to his little 'Ol2,
"Let me wind'your nose, up,"'- "No," said
the:child, "I danqviant my dose wound
up, for, I. don't want it to run all day."
Upon a copperhead's expressing bis
wish that the assassins had been tried by
a civil, instead of.a. military odurt, he waa
naively as k ed,,' 11',/tyl are Samlibt afraid
they would , have got off ??. ;qopperhead
Colored,' the-by-atatulera .snichered.
Carlisle, Pa., Friday, August 18, 1865
No flame can burn so quickly or with
140 li4tle fuel as jealousy. Before we had
reached the orTosite hank, I was wish-
ing Donald at the "bottom of the sea
Being naturally impetuous, I burst ou
with .
•• Ye need na !laud sae gingerly, Helen,
as if ye !eared aN. I can aye carry.ye
lighter than Donald can hall' of ye "
Surprised at the vehemence ot n
tone, (Air queen interposed with an a
mission that we were both strong, and
that she had no idea of sparing my pow-
ers. But Donald's ire was kindled. and
he utterly denied that I WaR at all qu
ified to compete with him in feats of
moral courage. On such topics, boys
are generally emulous, and by the time
we reached the opposite bank, it was
settled that the point should be deter
mined by our singly carrying Helen
across the ford in our arms
Helen was to determine who had car
ried her most easily, and I settled with
myself privately in advance, that the one
who obtained the preference would really
be the person who stood highest in her
affections. The teflection stimulated me
to exert every effort, and I verily believe
to this day, that I could have carried,
Donald and Helen on either arm like
feathers. But I must not anticipate.
We suffered all the rest of the party
to pass quietly along, and then returned
to the ford. I lifted Helen with the ut•
most ease, and carried her like an infant
to the middle of the water. Jealousy
had inspired a warmer love, and it was
with feelings unknown before that I em
braced her beautiful form, and felt the
pressure of her cheek against mine. All
went swimingly, or rather wading,ly, for
a minute, but alas ! in - the very deepest
part of the ford, I trod elf a treacherous ,
bit of wood, which rested, I suppose, on
a smooth stone. Over Irollcd, bearing
Helen with me, nor did We raise until
fairly soaked from head to foot.
Itieed not describe the taunts of Don
ald, or the more accusing
„silence of
Helen. Both believed that I fitiled from
mere weakness, and my rival demon
strated his superior ability, .by bearing
her in his arms for a long distance on
her homeward path. As we approached
thit - htitisii; Helen, feeling dry and better
humored, attempted to conciliate mo o .--
But I preserved silence: I was mortified
beyond redress.
That night I packed up a few things,
and ran away. My boyish mind, sensi
tive and irritated, exaggerated the nega
tion which it had received, and prompt.
ed me to a course which, fortunately, led
to betterxesults than usually attends such
irregularities I went .to Edinburgh,
qvhere I found an uncle, a kind-hearted,
childless man, ttilio gladly gave me a place
in, his house, and, employed me in his
business. Wealth flowed in upon 'him.
I became_ his partner-L-went abroad—re
sided four years on the continent, and fin
ally returned to Scotland, rich,, educated,
in short, everything, hilt married.
One evening, while at a ball in Glas
gow, I was struok by, a young lady of un
iiretending appearance, but whose remark
ROW I BEGAN LIFE. ' 4 -
I began life by running • away from
home. Boileau, we are told, was driven
into his career by the hand of fate and
the peek of a turkey. Attilla started in
life with no other cause and capital than
an 91d sword, which he was adroit enough
to palm off for the divine weapon of Mars;
anti Robespierre owed his political career
to vetting his stockings—by which mis
hap he was forced to take refuge in a
Parisian club of Jacobins—and there
heard " words which burn," that fired
his soul, and determined his course in
life My running away from home arose
from a minor mortification, caused by
carrying a pretty girl over the brook.
Donald Lean and myself were good
friends at fourteen years of age, and we
both reguraect, with a little more tnan
frendship, pretty Helen Graham, " our
oldest girl at school." We romped and
danced together, and this lasted for such
a length of time, that it is with feelings
of bewilderment that I look back upon
the mystery of two lovers continuing
friends. But the time (mule, as come it
must, when jealousy lit her spark in my
boyish bosom, and blew it into a con
suming flame.
Well do I remember how and when
the '• green-eyed monster". perpetrated
this incendiary deed. It was on a cold
October evening, when Helen, Donald•
and myself were returning, with our pa
rents, from a neighboring hamlet. As
we approached a ford, where the water
ran somewhat higher than ankle deep,
we prepared to carry Helen across, as we
were accustomed to, with bands inter-.
Ivoyea, " r..A.t00," and thus car
ried our pre. ty passenger over the brook.
Just as we were in the middle of the
water—which was cold enough at. thc
tine to have frozen anything like keling
out of boys less hardy than ourselves—a
faint pang of jealousy nipped my heart
Why it was. I know not, for we had
carried
_l. , lelen fifty times across
brook ere now without entution, but this
evening, I thought or fancied that Helen
gave !Jonah} an undue preference by
casting her arm around his neck, while
she steadied herself on my side by hold-
ing the cuff of' my jacket
TERMS:--$2,00 in Ad
able beauty and brightened expression in
dicated a • mind of more than ordinary
power. ~I was introduced, but the Scot
tish names had long been unfamiliar to
my ear, and I ovoid not catch hers. It
was Helen something, and there was some
thing suggestive of pleasure and plain.
But we became well acquainted that
evening. I learned, without difficulty,
her history. She was from the country,
had been well educated, but her parents
had lost their property, and she was now
a governess in a family in the city.
I was fascinated with her conversation,
and was continually reminded by her grace
and refinement of manner that she was
capable of moving with distinguished suc
cess in a far higher sphere than that which
fortune seemed to have assigned her. I
am nuturany nelW,er taikutive nor assign
ed to confidence; but there was that in
this young lady which inspired ,both, and.
I conversed with her as I had never con
versed with any. Her questions of the
various countries with which I was famil
iar indicated a remarkable knowledge of
literature-and an incredible store of infor•
oration
We progressed in the intimacy, and as
conversation turned on the reasons which
induced so many to leave their native
land, I laughingly remarked that my own
travels were owing to falling with a pret
ty girl into a ford.
I had hardly spoken these words ero
the blood mounted to her face and was
succeeded by quite a remarkable paleness.
attributed it to the heat of the room—
laughed, and at her request, proceeded to
give the details of my ford adventure with
mien Graham, painting in glowing colors
the amiability of my love.
~
tier mirth, during the recital, became
irrepressible. At the conclusion she re
marked :
"31r. Roberts, is it possible you have
lorgotten toe ?"
I gazed an instant—retnembObed—and
was dumbfounded. The lady with whom
I had become acquainted was Helen Gra
Imm herself
I hate, and so do you, reader, to need
lessly, prolong a story. We-were married,
Helen and I made our bridal tour to the
old place. As we approached in our car
riage, I greeted a stout fellow working in
a field, who seemed to be a better sort of
laborer, or perhaps a small farmer, by in•
(miring some partic-ihrs relating to the
neighborhood, I.le .neWerod r.on
“"d I ania 0b0.,e to givo him a six pence,
when Helen stayed my hand, and cried
out in the old style:
" Hey, Donald, moo, dinna ye ken
y'ere cid frien's?"
The wan looked up in astonishment.—
It was Donald Lean. His amazement at
our appearance was heighteneu by its
style; and it was with the greatest diffi
culty that we could invite him to enter
our carriage and answer our numerous
queries as to old friends.
Different men "start in life" in differ
ent ways. I believe that mine, however,
is the only instance on record, of a gen
tlemen who owes wealth and happiness to
rolling over with a pretty girl in a stream
of water.
Arai AT SOMETHING.—Arthur Gill
man, in one of his published addresses
tells what he calls an Andover story.—
One day, he says, a man went into a store
there, and began telling about a fire.
" There had never been such a fire," he
said "in the county of Essex. A man
going by Deacon Pettingill's barn saw an
owl on the ridge pole. He fired at the
owl, and the wadding, somehow or other
getting into the shingles, set the hay on
fire, and it was all destroyed—ten tons
of hay, six head of cattle, the finest horse
in the county," etc. The deacon Was
nearly crazed by it. The men in the
store began exclaiming and commenting
upon it. "What a loss 1" says one.—
" Why, the deacon will well nigh break
down under it," says another., And so
they went on speculating One after,an
other, and the conversation drifted on
all sorts of conjectures. At last ai quiet
than, who sat spitting in the fire, looked
up and asked: "Did lie Mt the owl ?"
That man was for getting at the point of
the thing. Let our public speakers, in
the pulpit and elsewhere, heed the moral.
Did you aim at something, and did you
hit what you aimed at ? No Matter about
the splurge, and the smoke, and the hay
—"Did you hit that owl ?"
WA,..lk. LADY was once declaring that
she (maid not understand'how gentlemen
could smoke. "It certainly shortens their
lives," said she. "I didn't know that,"
exclaimed a gentleman "there's my fath
er who smokes every bleed day and he's
seventy years old." "Well," was.the re.
ply, "if he. had never smoked ,he might
have been eighty,"
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HANDHAII.-
MO.—There is the putrip•bandlo shake—
straight up and down, with the long move
went;-there is the , wiggle shake—small
dog-tail fashion; there is the two-hand
ed-shake---=where one , party take hold_witix
two hands; there ii - thertorpse. sh4e,
very fashionable with prudish ladies'—'
where the , hankie given rigid and • allows
itself to be Aaron, hut:without particle
of return pressure, and there is the &pees
ing shake::
MEM
anoe, or $2,60 within the year.
Beautiful Legend
We find in a sermon of Theodore Par
ker the following story. The subject of
his discourse was " _Rest :"
They tell a story that one day Rabbi
Judah and his brethren, sat in the court
of the temple on fast day, disputing about
rest. Ono said it was to have attained
sufficient wealth, yet without sin. The
second said it was fame and praise of all
men. The third that it was possession
of power to rule the State. The fourth,
that it must be only in the old age of one
who is rich, powerful, famous and sur
rounded by children and children's chil
dren. The fifth said all were vain unless
a man kept all tlie ) rit nal of Moses. And
Rabbi Judah, the venerable, the tallest
of the brothers, said. ~ Yo ho.. ~-..,L.:.,
wisely, but one thing more is necessary.
He only.,can find rest who to all thinsg ad
dethrthis—that he kept the traditions of
the elders."
1• There sat a fair-haired boy, playing
with lilies in his lap, and hearing the
talk, dropped them in astonishment from
his hands and looked up—that boy of
twelve—and said, " Nay, nay, fathers, he
only can find rest who loves his brother
as himself, and God with his whole heart
and soul. He is greater than fame,
wealth and power; happier than a happy
home without it; better than honored
age; he is law to himself above all tra
dition."
Rules for Drinking.
A Scotch parson once preached a long
sermon against dram drinking, a vice
prevalent in his parish, and from which
report said, ho was not free himself:
When you get up, indeed, ye may
take a dram, and another just before•
breakfast, and pethaps another after but
%firma always be dram drinking.
If you are out in the morn, you ma)
brace yourself up with another drain, and
perhaps take another before luncheon,
and some, I fear, take one after, which
is not very blameable, but dinna be al
ways drinking.
Naebody can scruple for one just before
dinner, and when the dessert is brought
in, and oue, orit may be two, in the course
of the afternoon, just ti. keep you frae
drowsing or snoozing, but dinna be •al
ways dram drinking.
Afore tea, and after tea, and between
tea and supper, is no more but right and
good, but let me caution you brethren,
not to be atways dram drinking.
Just when you start for bed, and when
you're ready to pop into't, to take a dram
or two, is no more than a Christian limy
lawfully do.
But, brethren, let me caution you not
to drink more than I've mentioned, or
may be ye may pass the bounds of mod-
erasion
Logical
"Julius, you better dis morning."
"No, I was better yesterday, but I go
over it."
"Am der no hopes den of your discov
ery ?"
"Discovery of what 7"
"Your discovery Iron/ de convalescence
what fotohod you on your back "
"Dat depends, Mr. Snow, altogether
on the prognostications which amplify the
disease ; should they terminate fatally de
doctor thinks I is a gone nigger , should
they not terminate fatally, ho hoped de
colored indiwidual wont die till another
time. As I said before it all depends on
de prognostics and till dese come to a
head, it is hard telling wedder dis nigger
will discontinue his come or not."
A Wife Wanted
A fellow in Aroostook county, Maine,
answered a New York advertisement,
'representing that hie Could furnish any
person with a wife. The advertiser re
plied, directing the writer to a neighbor,
ing asylum for idiots! The same youth,
not at all abashed, whose name is John
Morr's, speaks of himseif as follows:
"I am eighteen years old, haVe a good
set of teeth, and believe in Andy John
' son, the Star Spangled Banner, and the
Fourth of July. I have taken up a State
lot, cleared up eighteen acres last year,
and seeded ten of it dOwn. My buck
wheat looks first rate, and the oats and
potatoes are bully. I have got nine sheep,
a two year old bull and two heifers, beside
a house and barn. I want to get 'par
ried. I want to buy bread and butter,
hoop skirts and water-falls for some per.
son of the female persuasion during my
life. But I don't know how to do it.--
That's what's the matter with me "
Two llovits PicOr/MA.I3LX SPENT.—A
put* lady, residing in the English me•
tropolia, writes to a friend in the provinces
thus My friend, fashionable Madam
de 1i,., tells me that,. whatever are her
engagements however nurnerous.utay be
the guests in her house, it matters not
—she always devotes two hours a day to
the perusal of, current literature, and by,
this means she has everything at her
fingers, ends. If. a subject is started,
she• knows the antecedent circumstances,
•
and is not, o iged to ask some tiresome
preliminary. question, or appear ignorant:
In the country you read or_not, as you
like ; but in -Londdn you must read—l
do not-say deep Ifooks, or even bighooks ;-
but happily, our periodical literature gives
us the cream of thought with :only ; the
labor of kkimniinithequirface. • '
Vire haven't heat:d of a rioher thing
than was lately perpetrated upon a book
store clerk something less than a 1000
miles from Genessee.street bridge Ev
erybody has heardjokes perpetrated upon'
the odd names whjohlit,jgthe fashion to
bestow upon book's now-a-day, but, we
venture to say, nothing rioher than this
incident. A well known wag stepped in
the book store above mentioned, and in
quired," Ilavoyou , The Woman in white?"
" Yee," rittiect the mom *, dR alene"
asked the searcher after literature. "Yes,"
responded the clerk. "In the dark?"
still queried the questioner.
"Yes, sir," again promptly answered
the attendant. "Well, all I have to say
is," retorted the wag, " you have a nice
thing of it. " Good bye !"
" How are you, clerk ?"
graph
NO, 33
"Eat Your Brown Bread First,"
It
ikplain but truthful saying, "Eat
your broWn bread first," nor is.there a
better rule for a young man's outset in
the world. While you continue single
you may live in as narrow limits as you
please; and it is then that you must be
gin to save, in order to be provided for
the more enlarged expenses of your fu
ture family. Beside, a plain, frugal life
is num 's2tT nnnrtafi 11..arf n [iv It i s
your own choice, and-it is to be justified
on the best and,MOst honest principles in
the world,,and you have nobody's pride
to struggle against, or appetites to master
but your own. As you advance in life
and succeed, it will give yourself greater
indulgencies, and you may then be allow
ed to do both reasonably and safely.
FATED—THE LEPERS.
Here is a statement from Rev. J. P.
Newman, D. D.,-in his work "From Dan
to Beersheba," which shows the effects
of hereditary transmission in a clear
light. What " fate" can be worse than
this ? The author desci ibes
THE LEPERS OF JERUSALEM—A few
paces within the wall, and to the east of
the Zion Gate ; are the " quarters of the
lepers." Though formerly excluded
from the city, they are now suffered to
build their wretched huts along the wall.
to obedience to a law prevalent through
out the East, all lepers are compelled to
live together in three colonies. and it is
a coincidence no less singular the n true,
that the cities in which these colonies are
located were the residences of three his
toric lepers : Naarnan of Damascus, Ge
hazi of Nablous, and King Azariah of
Jerusalem. Numbering in all two hun
dred. those on Mount Zion are supported
by charity. Their homes are miserable
huts, low, dark. and loathsome. Allowed
to marry only with each other, their off
spring, when horn, are usually fair, and
apparantly healthy Retaining their
health and beauty up to the period of
puberty, the fatal disease, like a scrofu
lous spot, then makes its appearance on
a finger, on the nose, or on the cheek,
and spreading over the system, it ulti
mately reaches some vital organ, and the
unhappy victim dies.
Preparing their evening meal, men
r ri' e7et7 th
hut to hut, exchanging
and also their rude cooking utensils.—
Their garments were old and torn, their
voices dry and husky, their faces wer
red, like a coal of fire half extinguished
their eyes swollen and restless, their hair
was gone, their lips and cheeks, nose and
ears, were corroded with ulcers, and the
flesh of their arms and hands had been
eaten away, leaving the bone red and bare.
Standing afar off, as in the days of
Christ, they stretched out their hands
and begged in tones so piteous that none
could resist their entreaties. In the
plaintive accents of their native Arabic,
they hailed me, " Pilgrim, give me; for '
the Lord's sake, give mc." Dropping a
few piasters in the folds of their infected
robes, I hastened away, hearing their
tones of pity, and seeing their horrid
forms in memory days after the specta
cle had been withdrawn. Alas for them
to whom this world is one great hospital,
and life the vestibule of the grave:
PENsioNs.—Owing to the liberation of
prisoners and the discharge of the army,
the number of applications for pensions in
the month of June was greater than ever
before. Since the war began, 84,000 pen
sions have been issued ; 34,000 to in
valid soldiers, and 50,000 to widows,
mothers and minor children. The pay
ments to pensioners the past year have
amounted to $6,000,000, and when all
pensions arising from the war shall have
been granted, the annual expense will be
about $13,000,009.
CAMP MEETING A N ECIDOTE. —At a
camp meeting a number of ladies contin
ued standing on the benches, notwith
standing the frequent hints from the min
isters to eit down. A reverend old gen
tleman, noted for his good humor, arose
and said :
"I think if those ladies standing on the
benches, knew they had holes in their
stockings they would sit down.
This address had the desired effect—
there was an immediate sinking into the
seats
A young minister standing behind bim,
and blushing to the temples, said f
"0, brother, bow could you Bay that?"
"Say that !" said the old gentleman,
"It's a fact if they hadn't holes in their
stockings, I'd like to know how they could
get them on."
German thus describes an acci
dent : "Vonce,-a long vile ago, I went in
to mine abble orchard to °limbo bear tree
to get some peaches to make mine vrow a
plumb buddingmit ; and when I getson
the toper-most brand", I veil from the
lowermost limb, Mit von leg on both aides
of the fence, and like to, stove mine out-,
side in." , ' '
xtgk_Tho Rochester Times says it could
never understand the reason why the man
who sells a _yard, Of-calioo i or - a - hoe, or an
axe, or a:Pir of shoes, is regarded, by the
community as a better or more respecta
ble man tban he who 'made it—nor'-'he
who Sells a barrel orflour, or Ships it off
to another country, than he who raises
the wheat front wl lob it is manufactured.
Will not sotne one 'enlighten its - On this
sulieot? ' • -" t•
}low are You, Cleric P
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