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VOL. 65:
The following is pronounced by the “Westminister Re
view" to he unquestionably the finest American poem
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Within the sober realms of leafless trees,
The russet year inhaled the dreamy air,
Like some tanned reaper In his hour of ease,
When all the fields are lying brown and hare
The gray barns looking from their hazy hills,
O'er the don watess winding in the vales,
Sent down the air a zreetlng to the mills,
On the doll thunder of alternate flails.
All sights were mellowed, and all sounds subdued,
The hills seemed further and the stream sang low
As in a dream the distant woodman hewed
ills wintry log, with many a 'nified blow.
The °what tied forests, erewhila armed with gold
Their hanners 'bright with every martial hue,
Naar stout fi6lllo Sad, beaten host of old,
Witlith,,Vll afar in Mill's remotest blue.
On t o Wing the voltnre tried his flight :
The dove senree hoard Isis sighing mate's romplaintt
And, Ilhe it star elow droivnlng in the light,
The tillage church Vulle Seellied to pale and faint.
The sentinel cock upon the crew—
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Welthia Washburne's Reward
"What is it, my darlinfz?"
"I want ynu to help that poor man in
the jail, papa. lie has no one to he
kind to him, and he feels so bad; it
tuake me feel sorry "
Who told yon ahont him, WeHie ?"
"Why. I etw him when i went to the
jail will) Mr: Ilarnzami yes,t(rdav ; and
after we came I,mne she told me he had
no fri, nds, and no monpy .0 get a law-
yet. to—to-1 don't know what, but Mrs
said it. would izot him out of
jail anvw,ay, Now, ;:apn, you're a law
)er, and won't you do it without money ?
Say yoki, lika f .xmal papa and tba child
twined her soft ;MI'S ahnut. his neck and
kissed him again and again.
It was not in the great lawyer's heart
to refuse iinything that his brown ey, d
darling—this only child—requested at
any time, certainly not when the settle
fountain spring of benevolence that wel
led up so sweetly in his child's bosom,
gushed from his own heart, and whispered
of common humanity, urging him to al
leviate the sufh•rings of hie erring broth•
ers in this uncharitable world of' ours,
where many are willing to render assist
ante doWn.life's hill, but very few in the
difficult ascent...
the rager,.eunest child, with loving epi
thets, was pleading, "Say yes,,i)apa !
There's a good papa!" •
"Wehills. I am astonished ! Behave
yourself, child ! Miller, why don't 'you
make her.stort ? That comea_of
letting her go with Mrs Hapgood to the
,jail yesterday. Ever since she came
thing or telling me of the horrid wretches
she sow there You ought to know bet
ter than to let her go; but you never con•
suit my wishes," and Mrs. Miller Wash.
borne arranged the folds of her silk
morning robe, and leaned mournfully back
upon the velvet cushion.
"What is it so terrible that my'birdie
is ,tibieg ?" - arid hir passed his hand light
ly over the brown curls.
" I don't like the way Mrs. liapgood
is bringing her up," said di.: lady, petu
lantly. "She is always talking some
'Quixotio idea into her hertcl;stich as go
ing flit() the jail; and I do net . Want„ , mY
child to mingle in sueh scenes."
""Martha; Mrs. 'Hapgoint'isnna , of the
noblest w;itten God 'everpliMed on thiSt'
earth. She has been my teacher,
thore than mother, through life; and ',I,
Am perfectly' willing she - 'Should lead my
child in the• Santo path 'ji-for - what ; little of
good there ropheart isOwing.to the
principles she has insulated; - pleiMea
to ate the kindnesS'of. licart this little one ,
.Monifesis by the intereitt she•tak4iti the,
Suffering's 'and . sorrow's of othersi:'
i.laligood wished Wellie to, go : with' liar
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THE CLOSING SCENE
BY TIMMAS ISTIMANAN READ.
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'Say yes, papa ; do, please."
But for a moment he hesitated, while
ome ebe has been teasing about some
, I-, .1
y'esterday, and I unhesitatingly gave my
consent, as I knew she would he as safe
tl ere as here. Mrs. Hapgond's project
is a noble one, and I think she will suc
ceed in reclaiming many a falling one
from the gulf of ruin beneath his feet,'
and the most abandoned there would not
dare to treat her with rudeness. How
did the men behave, Wellie ?"
'They wasn't all men, papa; some of
them were little boys, like Charley Wil
son. Mrs. Hapgood took them some
flowers, and then she read to them out
of the Bible a long time, and then she
had a school, and great, big men, as big
as you, papa. said their letters, and some
wrote. Before that, we all sung one of
my hymns, and then we came home.—
Mamma said they mould he rude and
noisy ; but they wasn't ; and they said T
was a good little girl, and Mr. I%.ionroe
sail T was an angel ; he didn't think" I
wore a white dress, and had wings, and
flew in the sky, did he, papa ? But,"
suddenly jnn ping up, "you didn't say
you would help him, yet, papa."
"Yes, T will do all I can for him (11)1'1-
ir.g." And, with a farewell kiss,, the de
lighted child hounded away to tell Mrs.
llapgnod the joyful tidings, while, with
a groan of dismay Mrs. Washburn() turned
to hoe husband.
'•Surely, Miller, you do not 0 ink of,
knvintr, your business to plead for some
miserable creature, whom you know noth-
in_ )f "
•rf know whom Weilia means. It is
youm4 Ylontoe, formerly book keeper at
WiT•cm's. He was arrested for forgery,
.I,ort time two and if anv one meti , s
pity. he does ; an T shall do all T can for
him " And .Vr. Washborne left the
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room, while his wire returned to her
with the firm belief' that Miller
and mrs. thipond would ruin the whole
ritnily yet. That child, Wcllie, talk
ing and singing with the horrid .creat
ures ; it W3S terrible, but there was no
use expostulating. Dliller would have
his own way."
Miller ‘Vashburne, left an orphan when
but a few months old, bequeathed by his
dying mother to her girlhood's friend,
Mrs. Ilapgood, loved the childless widow
who fostered the parentless child as a
mother. A mother she had been to him
in all those long days of childhood ; and
upon his mariage, finding, his wife illy
fitted to command a household, he sent
for that one true friend to come, and,
among other cares, guard the wee pearl
God has consigned to his protection.
Dignified and quiet. yet always pleas
ant. Mrs flapgood's sixty winters sat
very lightly on her head.
A truly benevolent woman was Mrs.
finpg.ond, not in showering pence upon
none wam ering, vagrant, but in search
ing out the truly suffering, striving to al
leviate their 'sorrow, and rescuing., the
erring from a path of vice and -- ifffinty;
hut her last and greatest folly, in Mrs
Washburne's eyes, was entering the coun
ty jail, to assist, relieve and if possible,
reclaim some of the many children con=
fined in that soul hardening place.
But let us follow Mr. Washburno up
stairs, where lie rapped at a door, receiv
ing Mrs. nap g ,,,a , , , , pleneant "now° in"
"I was wi'hin, to see you, Miller.—
ThiQ little girl,"—and he put her hand
on Wellie's head—"wishes to go with
me to visit the prisoners, this afternoon
Are you willimr she should go ?"
"Yes, and I will accompany you, and
see how young NTonroe's case stands."
"Wellie came in a few minutes ago,
and told me you had promised to do
something for. Mr. Mem;oe ; she did not
know what " And she smiled quietly
upon little brown eyes.
Half an hour afterwards, as -they en
tered the room where Nathan Monroe was
eonfined, little Wellie skipped g i qy across
the finer, and torching the bowed head,
said ,"I'm here, and Mrs. Hapgnod's here,
and papa's here, too. Are you glad 1"
When the lawyer came forth from that
long conference, there was a firm look in
his eyes ; and to Mrs. Hapgood's anxious
inquiry, "Haim you_any _hoPc_for_himr_
ho responded,
"He iS innocent; rind I will save him." .
And he redeemed his wotd. The al
most lost was saved ; and the lawyer led
the innocent man from the shadowy fel.
on's',doom, looming so black before him,
to, freedom and honor.
"God bless you, all 1" said he, as the
trio met him for the last time. "I am
going'far f om here to try my fortune in
a strtitige'plaae; but though I can never,
never" express my ,gratitude, I am assured
that God will sometime place' it in my:
power to repay,. at, letiht-a part' of the
kindness you have done me; and•Jr,pcly
life shoillti'be the price, will
etnee more bless my good augel I" and,
for"a - Moinerit,,his lips touched the child's,
forehead, then he was gone. ,
Time passed swiftly, one by:one, Mrs..
hapg,ood, , with„ Mr. ~and Mrs. Wash
burne; were laid ibegath' the Waiiig wit
I low, until none,,but Wellie remained;
and as the-wife , of the' young merchan t', FldWaid ,Wynne, trod the , streets of her
'birthplace, 13uV the aeotheuluted wealth
of Years melted away before speculation's
frown;.and.'the' beggared merchant, with
: faniiryi wandering west Ward. to
'retrieve his'fallen fortunes. in the btist
wegterii'ati; 'he made •
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Cailisle 'hi.day,',December 22, 1865
home,:he soon found employment; but
fortune seemed to spdrt with the strug•
glint man even here, for the firm by
which he was employerltlosing several
thousand dollarS, charged it to his inat•
tention and carelessness, and he was
thrown from employment.
After months of ceaseless searching,
which drained the last dollar from his
light purse, he obtained another situation;
but, within three weeks a heavy robbery
was committed in the store; Suspicion
fastened upon Edward Wynne; an under
clerk asserted to have seen him conceal
the money ; and because he was a friend•
less stranger the tale obtained ample cre
dence.
Wealthia Wynne, her husband in a
prisoner's cell', was left penniless, home•
lesS, and friendless, to—fold her babes to
her bosom and endure stifferint),•—suffer
ing.such as she had never known; but
hers was not a heart to sink under mis
fortune, and though very little hope for
the future illuminated her path, she un
fearingly trod the daily rou'ine of al
most superhuman labor to procure bread
for her helpless children. God only
could read the future, and in his wisdom
her faith rested.
It:was evening; and in the library of
a noted lawyer the lamp burns brightly,
shedding its brightest lustre upon the
face of an elderly gentleman sitting by
the table busily conning the endless
parchment in preparation for the coming
court term.
Lines or care and sufferino. crops the
broad high brow, and shadow the dark
eyes w•th a kindly look, as though he
had passed through the fiery furnace of
sorrow
Tie is interrupted by a t3et‘Vaitt. an
nouncing, "A woman on business' sir,"
And with a kind respectful air lie rises
to greet - the poorly clad woman; hut, as
he motions her to a seat, and inquires her
business, lie gives no sign of recognition.
Probably they are strangers ; but that
cannot be—yes it is—the fairy like Wel
lie Washburn° of our memory, and the
Welthia Wynne, of latter years ; and so
Chon . ged !
In a voice, faltering with the danger of
a rude dismissal, iibe told the tale of her
husband's danger, of their poverty and
friendless situation, concluding by asking.
him to plead her iusband's cause in the
°riming trial.
"We have no fc.e to offer you, but we
will labor as your ►laves our,
Oh, do not refuse tie! Whatia"so little
to you is life or death to us!" and a gas
ping sob closed the ippeal.
lie hesitated no linger, but said,
"I am very busy; Fat I will do my best,
for him—save him, f possible. I must.
lose no time writing to his former_ ae-
quaintances, to certify to his previous
good character; and i!• you will give we
the address I will write in the morning."
You may address in!' father's brother,
Lemuel Washburne, Lt—d, Connecticut.
Suddenly the lawyer *heeled around
and peered curiously at her.
"le d your natke place Mrs
Wynne'."
"It is. My father was 6,lawyer there"
"And your name was---?"
" ealthia Washburne
"My God,' thank thee!" Same fervently
from his lips, but, rising, at, he noted the
look of astonishment with ivhieh she re
garded him, hemdded,
"Pardon me, madam. lOs unsafe . in
le streets. I will send this. carriage to
like you. home."
And he rang the bell for he servant,
scarcely heeding the expressiins of grati
tude poured forth by that palif care worn
but hopeful, thankful women* she left
him alone.
That night, as he restlessly Paced the
luxurious apartment, he thougit of that
time so king ago, when this woilen, then
a gleeful child, plead to save hid from a
fate worse than death, and a layer of
thankfulness ascend to the Greit Being,
that it was his privilege to reft l ore light
and happiness to that desolate tme that
in this hour of peril.the head f Provi
dence had led her to liiiiWilingly—yes
thrice willingly given aid ; tile in the
low tenement r00m,,. where., Wealthie
. Wynne laid "her children to rAinnocent
babyhood breathed a prayer loil l‘ th9 good
.gentleman who was going to.big papa
back."
After anxious days of waiti?g, the
day of Edward Wnne's tri4 crier, and
1 )
found the busy lawyer at' is post. Ho
had never worked upon . Mutest hope-.
less case with greater en 6', but, he ha---
gained a clue to work Om ) and he . wits
Satisfied.
-- .IT - titiroisible he So , I
witness
,'against t
and he had giv
with a stern o. I
addressed the 'an.
, r "What ,e in'
when you v" the P ri
iliOneYr . , ' asked
'oA t , Ppdst Sev i
...; ling beneat
.'d limn -pro
J . yoU ' were -in
et." ,
A .
11
his testimony, then
tenance. he arose and
ure, ql
And bast ilk followl
(i'9 ni tnfliiia liion'ayr
( ai
and - overoolne witli
deed. - ' ' •
. • ~. -
That night,aa Edward Wynne eat with
hie family, talking gratefully of the late
deliverance, the door opened, and their
benefactOr entered.
When the gratitude they felt would
have found vont in words, he POW.
"No, you owe mo nothing—l have but
paid a debt. Mrs. Wynne, years ago,
when you were a little child, you and
your family saved me frem a fate wtrse
than defith, and made me what I' am.
without reward, except such as your own
hearts gave you. In saving Mr Wynne
from a similar fate I have only repaid a
part of the great debt I owe you. All I
have I owe to you and yours, and think
you I would see you want while I have
the power to assist? Step over to my office
with me,Mr. Wynne,and we will arrange
a plan I have for placing the merchant's
staff in your hands again."
And he tried to smile, but his lips
quivered, and a mist. of tears gathered in
his eyes. vs Mrs Wynne sobbed her
mingled greeting and blessing to him she
now knew as Nathan Monroe.
And was Wealthia Washburne's
reward.
THE AGED PASTOR.
lie stands nt the desk, that grave old man,
With an eve still bright, though his cheek is wan,
And his long white locks are backward roll'd
From his notle brow of a classic mould.
And his form, Om' bent by the weight of years,
Somewhat of its primal beauty wears.
If, opens the page of the Sacred Word—
Not a Whist, r, nwr low lair loud, is heard:
Even folly assumes a serious look,
An lie readeth the words of the Holy Book ;
Awl the thoughtle.B not gay grow rev'rent there
As he opens Ids lips in ferv, nt prayer
Ile stands as the (;rare old prophet stood,
1....1,—i,, ,nell,iff Ciutl—
Pouring reproof on the earn of Clio
Who..• hearts are nt ease iu their folly and sin
{Pith n eltallenge of guilt, still unforgh
To th4..n1l until ted, I for 1101,011.
Oh, %rho can but honor that good old man,
An he neareth hie three-score years and ten—
Who hath made it the work of his life to Idees
Our world in its wt. , and wretchedness ;
Still guiding the feet which were wont to stray
In paths of sin, to the narrow way.
With a kindly heart through lapsing years
Ile Loth shared our joys, hath wiped our tears,
Ile 1111111 hound the wreath on the brow of the bride
Ile 'lath stood by the couch when loved ones died;
Pointing the stun to a glorious Heaven,
And the ties which bound It to earth were riven.
Methinks you'll weep another day,
'She❑ the good old nun shall have passed away,
When the hutit Of his ebbing sands have run,
When his labors are o'er and his work is done ;
Who'll care for the flock and keep the fold,
When his pulse is stilted nod his heart is cold?
You'll miss him than every look and tone
So familiar now, when forever gone,
{Sill thrill the heart with an inward pain,
As we long anti listen far them in vain
When a stranger limn and a stranger un,
Shall stand in your nonto . .l inaaol - 13 lilacs
Mr. Nasby Suggests a Psalm of Sad
ness for his Friends South,
SAINT'S BEST, (which is in the }
Stnit of Noo Gersey) Sept. 12.
A SAM UV AGONY.
On thestreet - fsee a nigger !
On his back a coat of bloo, and he car
ryeth a n uskit.
He is Provo Gard, and he halteth MC ;
ez wun Levin authority.
And my tender daughter spit on him,
and to he arrested her, and she languish
eth in the Bard house.
My eyes cloth dwell on him, and my
sole is a arteshen well uv woe ; it lan•
guisipth with greef.
For that nigger wus my nigger I I
bought him with a price. ,_„,
A lass ! that nigger is out uv his nor
mal condition, he is a stir out of its
sphere, with sweepeth thro the politikel
hevens smashin things.
Normally he wuz mouth gold and silver,
now he is a nitemare.
Wonst I wuz rich, and that nigger was
he basin the'•cof.
Wo ez me ! i owned him, sole. body,
sinons, muske!s, blood. b. ots and brichis.
His intelLarlc wuz mine, and his body
wuz mine, likewise his labor and the fruts
'thereof.
concubine
The normal results of the eonkebin
age rsold, combining pleasure and profit
in an eminent degree.
And on the price thereof I, played pok
er, and drank mint gool0„ and road _in
gorgus cbarats, and wore purple and linin
every day-.
iVuz micegnashun or nigger equal-
ity ? Not any.
For she wuz mine, as my ox or my
horse, or my sheep, and her increase wuz
mine, even ez was theirs.
Abliehn micegnashiln elewates the nig.
ger wench to, her did it for gain
with degraded her muddy.
And when the wife uv my buzzpm lift
ed up het-voice in complaint sayin, "Lo!
I am abused— this little nigger resetn•
blktb thee!" Half the price uv the in
fent chattel wood buy a diamond pin with
wick to stop her yawp.
And my boys follered in my footsteps
and grate was the mix, but:profitable: -
But my. dreetu is bustid.
in til the pri i ioipa.
prisoner was called
The nigger is free, and demands wages
whether she'll cleave to her husband, or
he evening was it
sorer concealing the
be my concubine. ,
.Yistorday I• bade her come to me, and
lo ! sho remarkt, !'Go 'way white man, or
t hust yer head,"
And I Bode.
nilraterod the crest
the searching look.
that •at half pat
saloon o'n 'Fourth
Her children are free';—tbey are mine,
likewies; but can't sell.'ern,on the block
to,•tie highest bidder.
Therein Lincin sinned—he. violated
the holiest knstinks of nor nature; he in•
ierpand a prailumashen ataton fathar
aaa ahila: •
up Lis' lidvontage,
ed forlhp
(:urn concemied the
His wife was mine, and she was my
~-~ ~~1~
We took the hethen from Afreca, and
wuz a making Christians 'uv 'em. Wo
to him who stopt us in our mishnnry work.
It is written—" Kin the flthinpe change
his shin ?" I wuza ohangin it fur him,
and my fathers, and we bad mellered it
down to a brite yaller.
Dark is my filcher.
I obeyed tl e gate Law uv Labor, ez
served in the army, by suhstitoot—now
steel I have to stane my hands with labor,
or starve ?
In what am I better than a Northern
I kin eit no more diamond pins for the
wife of my buzzum, and she yawpeth con-
nonally
A rrnynd in homespun she wrestles with
pot and kitties in the kitehun.
Weighed duwn with woo, alio , ajp. Snuff
in silence.
She Rsks ity me 'comfort—wnt kin I
say, whose pookits contene only eonferier
nte Fk ri pt. Save us from Massachusits,
whieh is celery and cussid.
Protect us from nigger sojers, which is
grinnen feends.
Shelter us from the ghost uv John
Brown, which is nuirellin on.
PETROLE 'M N. N NSBY,
Lait pester nv the church uv the Non
disperrsashum
Losses in some of Grant's Battles
The New Ynrk Expreaa, in an art;ele
bendel "Mnterinitt for Tii.tnry," givpQ
name reQnits of recent inreQtimitions by
the Wnr Pennrtrinent glinwing vai , h more
neenrnev thnn the pnhlie hive vet 111)4
TIP tinmher kill r~ l vrrm nard end ini..;et ,
n the hnttles of the TTnion. The Pe
prirtment are vet renkine: enrefel
ios. to pot on record n enrroct statement
of the losses in all the battles. The fel
loNvino- is a list of castialties in the earn
raign of the Army of the Potomac from
May 5, 1864,10 Novemberl, of the same
year—a little less than six months:
In the battles of the Wilderness—May
5 to May 12—•260 officers and 2019 men
were killed ; 1017 officers and 18.261
men wounded; and 177 officers and (3077
men missing—making an aggregate of 27,-
310.
In the battle of Spottsylvanin—May
12 to May 21-114 officers and 2032 men
were killed, 2P9 officers and 7697 men
were wounded ; and 3 officers and 321
teen were - missing—aggregate, 18,381.
In the battle of the North Anna—May
1.1. 10 01.—is ummrs anti 10Z twzo were
killed ; 67 officers and 1,063 men were
wounded, and 3 officers and 324 men
were missing—aggregate, 1,607.
In the battle of Cold Harbor—June 1
to 10-144 officers and 1,561 men were
; 421 officers and 8,631 men were
wounded, and 51 officers and 2,456 men
were missing—aggregate,, 13,153.
In the battle of Petersburg—. June 10
to 20 officers and 1,143 men wtrc
killed; 361 officers and 619 men were
wounded, and 7,427 missing—aggregate,
ME
Battle of Petersburg—June 20 to 30-
29 officers and 576 men were killed; 120
officers and 2 374 men were wounded, and
108 officers and 2,100 men were missing
—aggregate, 5 316.
Battle of Petersburg—July pO-47 Of
ficers and 373 men were killed ; 121 of.
ticers and 1,555 men were wounded, and
91 officers and 1,819 men were missing—
aggregate, 4008 ;
In the battle of the Trenches August
1 to 18-10 officers and 120 men were
; 5S officers and 726 men were
wounded, and 7 officers and 4a men Were
missing—aggregate, 868.
In the battle of Weldon Railroad,, Au
gust 18 to 21-21 officers and 191 men
were killed ; 100 officers and 1 005 men
were wounded, and 104 officers and 3,072
men wcre missing aggregate, 4 543.
In the battle of Reams' Station, Au
gust 25-21 of cers and 93 men were
killed ; 62 officer's and 484 men wounded,
and 95 officers and 1,674 were mistiing--
aggregate 2,432.
In the battle of Peeble's Farm, Sep-
tember 10 to October 1-12 officers and
129 men were killed; 50 officers and 738
MOEI were wounded, and 56 officers and
1,700 men were missing—aggregate, 2,-
685.
In the battle of the Trenches, August
18 to 30-13 officers and 184 , men were
killed, 91 officers and 1,214 men were
wounded, and 4 officers.and 811 men were
missing—aggregate, 2,417.
In, the battle of Boydtown Plank Road,
October 27 to 28-16 officers and 140
men Were killed ; 65 officers and 981 men
were' wounded, and 8 officers and 691
men wore missing—aggregate, 1,902...,
The totals are 796 yofficers and 9.796
men killed ; 2,796 officers and 71,161
men tvon , nded, and 775 officers and 23,-
685 meri‘inissing.7—Total aggregate, 88,.
I=
All , this is in one oainpaign of six
months I The loss in killed and wound
ed in this oampaign—over 63,000—is
du osed to. be equal to,abou one 7 . thirti of
the total force under Gen. Grant's dont
rnand when it left/Culpepper, and aftev
reinforceurnts had been sent to it.
ImPAumo pleasure is like putting
money out at interest;" It .benefits both
the lender and borrower at - once No
ode, oan be really anti - truly . happy. unless
othem'syroputhize in and sharp that hap.
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- TERSIA3iS2,OO in Advanee, or A2,so,:vilthfir . the year.
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i
As the Philadelphis Press is a welcome
daily 'visitor in hundreds of families in our
county, the following description of its new
building and improvements will doubtless
interest our readers.—En.
FORNEY'S PRESS BUILDING-ITS INTERNAL
ARRANGEMENT AND EXTERNAL APPEAR
ANCE-VAST FACILITIES AND IMPROVE
MENTS IN PRINTING NEWSPAPERS-THE
"PRESS" AND ITS PROJECTOR.
Correspondence of the Harrisburg Telegraph.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12, 1865
The immense pile of bricks and mortar,
known as "Forney's Press Building," a sub
stantial monument to the energy of Col J.
W. Forney, stands at the southwest corner
of Seventh and Chestnut streets. It is the
largest and most complete newspaper estab
lishment In Philadelphia. The entire cost
of this great improvem nt is estimated at
one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. It
is perfect in all its departments. The ground
floor is occupied by the publics ion office,
the largest. and prettiest in this city. Ad
joining this on the south, is a large apart
ment appropriated to packing purposes•.—
This- room, of itself, presents a busy hive of
industry when all the men and boys are at
work within its spacious limits. Adjoining
this on the same floor, though in a building
erected especially for the purpose, is the
press room, where the last fast four-cylinder
rotary machine is worked to its utmost ca
pacity, but this is not of sufficient speed to
meet the increasing demand for the paper.
An eight cylinder with all the recent im
provements has been ordered, and will be
placed in position as speedily as possible.—
The stereotyping pr,,cess will be introduced,
and by this invention. with twelve cylinders
in full activity, thirty thousand well printed
papers will be produced per hour. It is
thought that the presses can be made to print
thirty three thon.Tand papers in the same
Cl/1. Forms)• desires to run his daily
circulation to one hundred thou-and paper,
per day, and there is do doubt about his 111 . -
conipli,bing this much. So far as indomi
table will—daring courage—unlimited awl
unyielding energy are concerned, it a ay be
safe to pr e dict this amount of success.
In regard to the establishment, allow nit
to say that at splendid engine, and tubular
upright Indices, are located in the basement.
From the steam generators the building is
heated ; and warm water forced to the fifth
story, occupied as the comp singroom.—
There are more bands employed here than
in any other establishment in Philadelphia.
The room is 15.) feet long by 25 feet wide,
with ranges of windows on the eastern and
western fronts. Overhead is a long skylight,
with sliding sashes on both sides. The ven
tilation is perfect, the light unquestionable
and the air pure. Such a place \till add
twenty per cent. to the length of the lives of
the compositors
The editorial rooms lace on Chestnut st.
There is a clear front of thirty nine feet by
the same in depth. 1 he nod') room is ap
propriated to the editor—the au j omoi g 111 M. ~
ment for his assistants, together with the
financial, commercial, managing, literary,
amusement and theatrical editors, critics,
&b. To the south of this is a splendid apart
ment appropriated to the exclusive use of
the-local editor and his numerous corps--of
assistants. Ala.. these gentlemen have had
more or less experience in the profession, and
all wm k in the most perfect harmony ; each
k uses his business, and the paper shows 110 W
well he performs his part.. Ott the same floor
is an exchange room where al. the leading
papers in the country are filed regularly as
they are r ceived.
Tho old four-story corner building, one of
the most substantial structures in the world,
wits carefully preserved in the improvement,
with another story added to it, so as to make
the cave uniform all around. The entire
surface is painted four colors, and thus makes
a pleasing appearance. We might have
stilted before, that a continuous stairway ex
tends from Seventh . mtreot to tho uppor
in the south end of the edifice, fur the espe
cial accommodation of the compositors.—
There is 111.50 a stairway fronting on Chest
nut street, for the use of the editors and
others. So great was the demand for prop
erty in this part of the city, that Col. Forney
yielded to earnest solicitations and agreed to
rent portions of the building out to other
business men.
The Press is now located further west than
any other daily newspaper printed in Phila
delphia. It is in fact the great sun of the
westward, as old So' himself, and gives vi
tality to all around. Already it has drawn.
the Public Ledger and Evening Bulletin as
far west as Sixth street, where both these
papep will soon be located. The Press and
Ledger are beyond all question -of doubt the
leading newspapers in the eastern part of
Pennsylvania. So far as the Press is con
cerned, copies of it May be seen in all parts
of the country. It always had a circulation
in Pennsylvania. It will in a short time
circulate more. Its teeming sheets; big
with the wonders of each ,passing
ere lon4 be unfolded in the pure breeze of
the mountains, and in the graceful valleys
of the old Keystone. It will--cariT light
and life into the coal regions, and it must
become a familiar companion-with oleagin
ous residents of the oil territory. It will bo
sent to every city in the country ; from the
'White Hills of Now Hampshire to the gold
regions of Californ a. ft already has Oirger'
circulation in the last flaws.' place, than
some of the papers printed Philadelphia
have in . our onrn city. It is the only Phil
naslphia paper that lirigham Young :sub
scribes to—he receives six cooies.i A special
clerk is employed merely to : receive new sub
'scribers, and to snperintend the transportn
tion of the papers to their, many places of
destination. A. corps of Men nro traveling
in the'Several Staten, with. the view of estab
ing agencies for the
,paPer., Twenty-one, of
these agents have reported nn additional list
of 87,000 subscribers to the daily paper, and
positively more for the weekly. tlinn can be
well printed. Col. Forney, will. prObably,
introduce a last fast
,four cylinder rotary :
machine espenially for the weekly
weekly. editions. , I should ;not ite Surprised:,
that Counting,nil tho'papers of the'dokk, tri
Weekly, Weekly, California and 'European'
editions,le will, in .the course pf, time, print
nearly w'million of papers per - week.' This
is 'enormous; but Seceinfilisleci: .
'iNrhat 4oYou'SiippOSol3eit•*ranklin' i liMi4
say, ; could he 4jtly yevisiti.thie earth
jiess so gigantic an opsration?
The success of Col, Forney is simply -owing
to theft* that be las•i+ell studied huSin
Suture. uniforni 'kindnesi;. hi'S
. ey'er- - . •
ready willing Less to useist young Men . whp..
assist themselves, is one : of 'his agreeahle
characteristics. He dtieS'ncit, pull down his:
Struggling business follo*:.ereature, but takes
him by the coat'collar,sti fti speak, and pulls t ,
him up. Tho Colonel ought .tohavo been
born in New York, for his motto is Excel
sior. His present building is ,ndmired by
every one who,. can appreciate_ enterprise,
honor and honesty. Taking the vast num
ber of on- ployeoe in tho building into -consid
eration, the carriers ?, ,packers, agents,.&c.,.
outside of it, most of whom are married and
pave iiimanee, It May. tilfr lg fely said-that bread
'and butter are put in tho — iiitiuth.-of,stitroyal.
thousand human beings by this extensive
establishment, because of tho energy of ono .
Yours, W.
NO, 51,
man
Origin of Illustrious Men.
Columbus was the son of a weaver and a
weaver himself. Claude Lorraine teas bred
a pstry cook. Cervantes was a common
soldier. Homer was the son of a small far
mer. Moller was the son of a tapestry ma
ker. Demosthenes was the son of a cutler.
Terrence,was a slave. Oliver Cl.omwell was
the son of a London brewer. Howard was •
an apprentice to a grocer. Franklin was a
journeyman printer, and son of a tallow
chandler and soap-boiler. Dr. Thomas,
Bishop of Worcester, was the son of a linen
draper. Daniel Defoe was a hostler, and a
son of a butcher. Whitfield was the son of
an innkeeper at Gloucester. Sir Cloudsley
Shovel, Rear Admiral, of England, was an
apprentice to a shoemaker, and afterwards a
cabin boy. Bishop Prideau worked in the
c.,,11000. 0,, ford. Cardinal
Wolsey was the Son of a butcher. Ferguson
was the son of a shepherd. Dean Tucker
was the son of a small farmer in Carding
shire, and performed his journey to Oxlord
on foot. Edmund Halley was the son of a
soap-boiler at Shoreditch. Joseph Hall,
Bishop of Norwich, was the son of a farmer.
Virgil was the son of a porter. Horace was
the son of a shop-keeper. Shakespeare was
the son of a wool-stapler. Milton was the
son of a money scrivener. Robert Burns
NT as a plowman in Ayrshire. Confucius was
a carpenter. Mahomet, called the prcphet,
was a driver of asses. Mohamet Ali was a
barber. Madame Bernadotte was a washer
woman of ..Paris. Napoleon, a descendant
f an ob,cure family of Corsica, was a Major
when he married Josephine, the daughter of
a tobacconist Creole of Martinique. Gen.
E , cartero was a \ esti y clerk. Bolivar was
driwgist. Vasco de Glona was a sailor.—
John ,Jacob Astor ones. sold apples in the
-trees, of New York. Cathurine, Empress
of Ile- , sia, Wit, it rump grim Ate. Cincianatus
NrisS pit/Wing i n his vineyard when the Die
tator,hip oI Rome wh, 0 ffered him. To this
11,1, the Cepty•rhemN add Abraham Lin
coln was tt clown rail-splitter I" An
drew Johnson was " a boorish tailor l"
Mr. Seward's Account of the Attack
The American correspondent of the Lon
don Spectator writes that ho recently heard
Mr. Seward and Mr. Frederick Seward give
the following account of their own sensa
tions at the time of the attempted assassin
ation:
'< Mr. Frederick Seward said that oh step
ping froth his bedroom into the passage and
seeing: the assassin. he merely wondered what
he was doing there, and called him to ac
count.. On „his resisting the fullow's.enifea
vor to press into Mr. Seward's room, the as
sassin drew a revolver, whidh he presented
“t r yi•edcrick Seward's head. What fol
lowed, It, mu s t be renwmpervil, WOK 111r1,C lu
a few seconds. Mr. Frederick Seward's first
thought was, 'That's a navy revolver.'
'‘ The man pulled the trigger, but it only
snapped, and his it tended victim thought,
• That cap missedliib.'
His next sensation was that of confusion,
and h'ing upon the floor, resting, upon his
right arm, which, like his father's jaw, was
barely recovered from a bad fracture—the
assrsin had felled him to the floor with the
butt of the pistol—he put his hand to his
head, and finding, a hole there. he thought,
That cap did not miss fire after all.'
•• Then 'he h came insensible, and remain
ed so for two day and more. His first indi
cation of returning comeiousness, was the
question, Hare you got the ball out ?' after
which he 6.11 off again into a comatose con
dition, which was or long continuance.
"On the very afternoon of the day when
Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, Mr. Frederick
Seward, who was A ssistant Secretary of State,
had asked his father what preparati;M should
be made for the presentation of Sir Frederick
Bruce, which was to take place the r ext day.
Mr. Seward gave him the points of a reply
to he made to Sir Frederick, and he laid the
outline of the speech upon the President's
table. and, as I have previously informed my
readers, Mr. Lincoln, that afternoon, wrote
out the reply, adopting Mr. Seward's sug
gestions, and thus preparing that reception
of the British Minister by President Johnson
which was regarded at the time by the peo
ple to whose representative it was addressed,
us so friendly, and fair, and dignified.
‘. Mr. Frederick Seward's first inquiry af
ter he came fully to his senses, which was a
long time after the assassination, was :t 4 Has
Sir Frederick Bruce been presented ZI He
thought that only one night had_passeftsince
he knew not what had happened to hiiinsnd
his mind took Up matters just where it had
loft them.
Mr. Seward's mental experience during
his supposed a'snssination was in its nature
so like that .f his son, that it raises the ques
tion whether this absence of consternation
and observation of minute particulars is not
common in circumstances of unexpected and
not fully apprehended peril. Mr. Seward
was lying upon his side, close to the edge of
his bed, with his head resting in a frame,
which had been made to give him ease and
to protect his broken jaw from pressure.
He was trying to keep awake,.having
been seized upon by a sick man's fancy—it
was that if he slept he would walco up with
lock_jaw- -He-was-brought to,full-conscious
ness by the scuffle -in the passage-w: y, fol
lowed by the entrance of the assassin, and
the cry of Miss Seward, Oh l he will kill
my father But he saw nothing of his as
sailant until a hand appeared above his facd;
and then his thought wits, 'What handsome
cloth that overcoat is made of.' The assas
sin's face then appeared, and the helpless
statesman• only thought, What a handsome
man P -(Payne was a fine looking fellow.)
"Then mum a sensation as of rain striking
him smartly upon one side of his 'face and
neck, then quickly the same upon the other
side, but ho felt no severe pam. This' was
the assassin's knife. The blood spoUted
he thought, 'My time has corne,t - und
from the bed to the floor, faintoL: His first
sensation of returning consciousness was that
Le was drinking ten, and that 'it tasted'good.'
—Mrs. Seward 'was giving btu:ileawith a'
spoon. He heard low voices .around him,
aslcing,and replying as to whether It would
!be pdisible for to recover. He could
not speak, 'but hid dyes shoWed hid cOnseioud
ness, 'and that. he desired' to ' They
brought him a porcelain tablet, on which he
managed to. write, 'Give me some:more tea.
I shall got well.' And from that moment
ho line slowly but steadily recovered health
and strength."- ' , .
, • •
—Cotton , culture is soTiatible "in the
:oath - . at present' prices, that' many - small
Iplantations in Alabama are being leased by,
hlrortliorn men, among; thorn Many offlaers
and' soldiers, disbanded'sincd . theetose of the
' \Ver. 'it may seem'strange that the planters .
dive uP'theit' plantations if- the btisinesirie
'.so: profitable,. but it may be , well-toinentiini
;thitt.tho'planters have no faith in free latioi;'
ivitile-thebeW Operatordhalie". , Thicit t ante,
therefore, is a healthy one. , „ •
upon Himself.
AN INTERESTING STORY