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41. .E %111.-•NQNSER 45.
TUE LAND WE LOVE.
The landof love 1 the land we love 1
flow shall we sound its praise to-day;?
Buell hope and fear our spirits move,
We sannot sing—we can hut pray. ;
Oh I Star of Promise, shine acraiO
From out these cloud enveloped skiedl
O i, heavenly Light, our path make plaid,
Through the dark mists that round na rise
Vince last to these fair vales and hills
We saw the hues of autumn come, •
What desolating griefs and ills
nave crowned Freedom's sacred hOme
Now vaitO . all these splendors smile
On *vend height and winding shori;
they cannot saddest thought beguilt,
Or therm un, as they charmed of yore.
in vain bright harvests gleam around ;
In vain fair Plenty crowns - the year; ,
No heart to Joy's light thrill can bound
While' Warfire's heavy woes are near.
Ohl worse thair in that weary time
• When patriiit, sires their toil begun I
When, struggling long with hope sublime,
This goodly:heritage they woe.
My rose against a foreign fee ;
They battle with an alien crew;
Their hands were strong to give the blow ;
. Their hearts were eager to subdue.:
ut pause In dOtibcatid dread;
- We hate no spirit for the fray--
h is not alied,blood we shed, -
A friend, a brother, we: may slay.
A brother I N f
o I blot out the name,.
And •'traitor" let the record stand:
?or traitors they—all lost to shame—
Who plot against their native land.
Just Ileayen, that such a,thing should be I
That recreant man bright gifts should mar,
lnd wage 'gainst land so fair and free
Unnatural and unholy war!
Oh, tionthern chiefs t oh. rebel bands,
A sacrilegious deed ye do 1
ale smite , with parricidal hands,
The sacied*east whence life ye dre
Men of the North go forth-,go forth,:.
To aid your yoititg Republic now ;
Oh ! let not her who gare you birth,
Beneath this weight of sorrow bow.!
Take from her cheek the Hush of ARM
To her sad brow its crown restore ;
And let her, mid the nations, Claim
The honored place she held before.;,
Show her she still has al eons—
Sults wtirthy their immortal sires--
Sons through whose leaping veins yet
The old, warm glow of sacred fires:
Go forth, unviarnfing, to the strife :
Give fervent prayers, 'yout :real Ito koVO ;
Give toil and treasure. strength and life—
Give all to save the land you love. ' _
[3lfs. E, S, SMITH in the Home Journal.
A MI% AND A DUCKING.
It was one of the most beautiful nights
is August that our mess were seated be.
tore the quarters at Fort Corcoran, court
ing the Muses and • recounting tales of
flood and field. OT— bind related a
laughable story about
"the holy ground .
Of poteen and potatoes;'
W— thrown us into hysterics with
"Larry M'Ualc." when with ono accord,
the boys appealed to R— for some•
thing sentimental.
was a handsome young feliow
of about twenty.four, and as fond of the
girls as a duck is Of water. His easy
nonchalant manner, combined with a
spice of deviltry, a hue roide, natural tab
eat for music, and a 'good pair, of legs,"
made him a general favorite with the
gentler sex; and if he took a little ad.
vantage of this fact, it is excusable on ,
the ground that "all is fair in love and
war.' If-Modesty was one of his killer.
ent characteristics. its development had
,been sadly neglected, so. without fur.
Aber inducement, he related the following,
which, as near as I can recall, I give in
Ids own language.
"You see, boys, before I Was transfer
led to this prison•linuise, I was in•charge
of as awkward a set of recruits as - ever
shouldered a musket or wore a uniform.
Thejliad rushed with willing hearts and
sturdy arms from workshop and . field to
the defence of `constitutional liberty,
knowing as much about military tactics
Ai' an elephant about rope.walking
Morning, noon and night, I umuceuvred
those fellows until drill became a regular
tore. Just as they. had attained a re..
speetable proficiently, and I was ready to
enjoy the satisfaction which accompanies
all good works, the following , was placed
RI my hands
..; •-• Neal-Quarters, Army of tsie Potomat.
Lieutenant R--- will prepare rot a par
tidelar Benito and report for inutrifutiont at
Ausadluarters: By order of
Brigadier-General MoDoWatt,
• Commanding-
A- A. Com Military Secretary.
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fiTiC;iii in eof camp 1e ha quite
taken the romance out of soldiering,. and
I hailed iiith delight any change from
it dull .niptibron . V. So after a hearty
breakfast, .1 donned my best Clothes.
mounted my pet puny, and itdt.. l up to
head-quarters, where r *a§ iiifilinted that
r ii
strict ttention to' my duties in camp fir
seve months, having much gratified
my co onel, by his request F. was tempo
rarily relieved freim active ;service, and
ordered to northern New-York there to
superintend the enlistment and forward
ing of recruits to the seat of war.
"Bowing my thanks with as much
calmness as I could command, I backed
out of the presence of my ) superior offi
cers, remounted My horse. rode off to tell
the mess of my food luck, packed up my
traps, and left in the first train for li—,
a pleasant town on the Hudson, and not
al thousand miles from Troy. My in
structions amounted to little less than a
furlough, the superintendende consisting
in riding about to severe recruiting sta
tions to overlook the business.
“Of necessity, the entrance of a dash
ing thagoon, all mooted 'and spurred,
somewhat disturbed the repose'of L—,
and wore than one pair . of bright eyes
glistened through the bowed shutters, as
rode up to the Phosnix, i(so called, I
suppose,- because, it arose from its ashes,)
gave niy - horse to the groom, and entered
my name—Lieutenant RE-:=-, United
Stater Army, in flaring characters ou the
register. 1 •
..It required but a short time for a
scion of Uncle Sum, fresh from the scat
of war, to Matte himself uNtiaint6cl; and
the second'afternoon fouittl we in cow
pany with Charley
. i (a fine fel
low who isn't,•btit ought tube, asoldier.)
in presence of three as pretty•and agreea
ble young ladies as one need wish to pass
au evening with; There ie a fatality in
my existence: it never rains but it pours. !
The desire. to have a flirtation was so ,
prewe, but how to choeSe. from' three
equally attractive and pleaiant was diffi.
cult. However, what indecision faded
to bring abont, ahunde c inplished-;
and in less than three. dys 'mina 0
drop thou Miss, as merely on.ventionall
and myself were skirtnishing • with oui
light artlllery.of glances, Occasionaly va
ried on my part by throwing . in a few
volieys of tender speeches, all supported
by a reserve force of sighs whose import
wit:- unmistakable.' to the mean time,
Mary was by no means it elected; and
as she lived in an other rtn.t o he town,
the two . offlares clu cceui• seldom cc ii
flicted ; while Jennie, whb manifested a
motherly interest in all 'of us, looked
particularly to the welfare:of Emma, her
cousin and visitor.
"Pic ;tics, drfres, sails, and surprise.
parties . assisted old Father; Time . to travel
with unusual rapidity, and,l btgan to re
take that my holiday was thawing to. a
! close. The frequent, indeed almost con
stant,' association with &auto, had et-sett
ed in my heart something! more than a
transitory interest. although I StrDS hardly
willing to concede, even to myself, that
I was fairly caught in theinet woven for
her. That she not dislike use, I tag
convinced, but nothing 141 ever escaped
her; which gave me much - ground for
hoes; while, on' the other hand, Nary
was as attentive and engaging tis,za miss
of sixteen, and evidently in noWise dis•
pleased with my show of devotion. TO be
the victim of unrequited affection was a
little more than my instructions. called .
for, and- my recruiting expedition seemed
likely; so far its
,a sweethetrti was concern•
ed, to be a failttre. But I recalled the
'faint heart never won a fiiir lady' adage,
and determined at least to tpake the at
tempt. , Vent, vidi. Fuid I - didn't feel dis
posed to abandon'Aht field :Without the
vie/.
"As a preliminary I projected a sere
nade, and, with Charley ; for a companion,
prooeeded, one magnificent night, armed
with a guitar and camp stool, to the
scene of action. The-prelude had scarce
ly died away when the shutters were
slightly opened and two heads—rohite-•
capped;, like the waves+-became iudis
finctly visible through the crevice., Cer
tain of the presence of my fair 'one, I
cleared my voice fur a sentimental, meo
dy, which was:to send cohviction - of my
cincerity to her heart. i Striking an atti
tude—fulf opera—l bla4ed away; and
was in :the midst of something about a
deep•seated affection, when the camp-stool
broke, and over I-went into the gutter,
elevating my heels toward the window in
an ungallant arid spasmodic farewell.=
The screams of laughter: that followed
would have waled the dead. Nightcaps
protruded from neighboring windows;,
dogs barked, and watchmen sprang their
rattles; so I scrambled, up, and . with the
dilapidated remains of the guitar in my
hands, beat a hasty retreat, rather crest
falleo, back to the hotel. ; 'Allah is woe
—the girls kept the affide to themselvets,
and itt- a few days all went on swimming
ly,as before. - . 1 •
"My leave expired on Bunday, and it
was already - the Thgrsdly previous when
I-eailed -on Emma for the purpose of lay-
OtOote6 to lite of liertoctlep, 170' the &isooliiiiiof on of ; 11061114,, 24ifet.q1111.e
COUDERSPORT,. POTTER COUNTYi PA., lATDRESTILitiOCTORER 301
in a Vali) Statement of bias before
What I sai4 of -.What I did are Out Mat-;
tens of historleil interest. Suffice it to
say i that I left her several degrees hap;
pier thin when *.d met, and with her
father's addiesSlii mgt. ard-case. l : .
"What to do in the other case became,
a ; matter of :amusing i itiiptirtance • It
straws tell which way the -wind blows;
Mary!s actions indicated something wore
than ordinary friendship. So I consulted
with :Emma" as to the course fur me to
pais-te, and Jennie was called to advise
in the,,pretuises. The council of war de;
cidetl,that nothing was left to me but a
propesal. and to trust to luck for a refus' 7
al, which Jennie intimated would probe '
bly fellow. Saturday evening was -- set
apart for the Ordeal, and with a palpitating
heartrritood, at the time appinted,
.in
her presence: There was a i 'rnisCheitcitts
twinkle in her eye when she received nue,
I glanced around, but perceived nothilig
to excite distrust. %Y. Litt down near
'curtained window *hich.opened upon a
veranda My anxiety to finish the farce
led we to a very early proposal. The ex•
truvegance4n-of my expressions seemed to
impress her, and several times she shook
With suppressed . agitation. (I learned
subsequently that it was smothered laugh.
ter y Thus encouraged, I fell upon my
eta which position brought my back
toward the open window. At the mo
mentous question, she covered her face
with her handkerchief and, pleing her
hand in mine, uttered it loud and unro
mantic 'Yes.' At the instant I was del
aged with water, while a very boisterous
ealrus echoed het reply. Utterly dumb.
founded. I. jumped up, the angriest youth
you ever saw; but before I had time for
notion. Emma, Jennie, and Charley, Or
, rounded and subdued me. 'Discretion
was the better pact of t valor,' su I fur,e4ot
lily wrath, laughing with the rent, though
this struck pie as rather a novel and ebol
way pf endorsing an acceptance. Jennie
had planned, and Emma reluctantly tie- -
quiesced in, a lesson Whin has,effectual-;
ly cured me of flirting.:
-Sunday came much sooner than I
sired. I wade my will 'in ftriwofrEtobia,
placed it- in Jennie i s keeping, took 'Ole
evenin, boat from Troy, and ain here
now to tell the-gory. .
"That repruting expedition cost me a
wife and a dttekiktr t.i.in hutet; I tetei l ped
at, sight., arid lire (IL her -I aut (Dina to Mke
next Winter. ;--
"In conclusion let me advise you 'pot
to put your tru.t in weak eamp-sioolS or
make a confidante of your sweetheart's
cousin."—llome Jovinal.
My, Mother taught me to Pray.
mother. taught nie to pray when .
I was a little boy. 1 often to .ga to
the town a wile
,and a hall from lily
home. alter dark. fiir the days are sl.ort
in Scotland,' and I used to • be
So :uy [mother told nie that when• I Was
afraid, I mus.t pray to God, 'and d Used
to do so..
"My father .died when was very
young. 1 csan out remember him at:all
My Mottle) used often to. have spell. 4. of
sickness; and I felt badly for her, for t
had no fatlier'to hive, and I loved I.toy
mother very dearly. and I love her,. now
112 tee when she was sick. I Pra . }ed j fiir
her; and I told the Lord if he wOuld
make my mother' Well, I would never
doubt him atmitt. And slue enough! she
was well in the morning; it was ialthe '
morning I had asked., him she tnigh be
wall. God has been wonderfully gr'd to
'me. If you knew how he kept .meiand
°my sister from evil to whieb we were*x.-
posed, you would say we have great gauge
of - thankfulness. I have not served littit
aslought, and I wish to do better in
future."
• - B(ch store the .words of a humble luan
who came to my study to talk t6 *
health is feeble, and he is so' deaf
that 1 itas obliged to use a pen forHtny
part. of the Conversation. while he would
speak. to we in a feeble, hut audible
voice. His simple and fervent utterap
ces touched my heart, and I tbought
they might intereat some others. ' • j
The New York Herald contains the foi
hoeing eneouragi ng paragraph in its money
article of Monday week
"Commerce, ih the North, is alreaur
entering aroma phase heretofore unknown
in the history of America * , but far Safer
for the future welfare of the country.r.in
stead of the insecure .business With, the
South, by 'which our inefehante havelost
such vast SUM of money, and tia;:e been
obliged Itreacritice feelings and principles
for, gain f a certain and lucrative trade is
springing up. We are becoming depen
dent upon each other, instead of upon
strangers. Credit is curtailing itself with
in limits that exclude the pikaibilitY of
tlic4e periodical monetary cauvulstons,
that have : swept over' financial elides
every few'years with au terrific and de.
structive violence. (Other New York
and Philadelphia papers' also speak - Uf an
increasing._ sound Fall Trade.)
Revising Trade.
iIrIiATAIS illi THEBEDROOM '1
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If two persons are to occupi a bedroom
during a night let them ijtep Upon weigh
-1
ing scales, as they reside„ and. then again
in the morning, and they( will find their
.actual weight is at :east .4 pond less:4n
the morning. Frequetully there will
be a loss of two or nipip Pounds, ; and the
average loss throughont the 'year will lie
more than one pound. I That I is, duritig
the night there is a hiss 'of it potindrof
matter gone from theirlboißes; partly lieu'
the lungs and partly throUgh l thelporesjof
the skin. The escapeti inaterial is car-1
bouic acid, and . deigtypd'anintal , matter,
Il l n
or posoiootis exhalatio s:1 T its is diffus
nar:, a d in part
ed through' the air in p
absorbed by the bed cloth es. If a single
ounce oT wood 'er cotton lite urned hi a
room, it. Will so completly sattirate the
air with :sinoke Omit :unclean hardly
breathe, though there can only, be, one
ounce
.of foreign wetter iit the air. -f, an
ounce of chtton be
. hurned every' hour of
the night,lthe air will 'be continually sat
urated with 'smoke nullss there : be an,
open wind6w.for it tail eiicaph. ( New the I
sixteen odeleis of smoke; this formed, is
far less poisonous thah the stlitteen ounces
of exhalations front the u sing and - bodies
of the two persons whit have Ilost a pound
r i
in weight durinst ;th eight
r lieurs of
;sleeping, for:while the dry sinokel is
tuainlY taken into the l I tigi, the dituip
odors from the body! a , absoiled both
into the itings'and into he Pores of ,the
'
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whole bodly i
Need more be said, t sho the impor
tance of hating bedreo , s wolf ventilated,
and of thoroughly airlint tht sheets, cov.
e l
eriids andintattrasses, iri tit I morniag, be
fore putting up in thle form q a neatly
made ball? Perhaps the trinst of all
bedroom evils is the fee:oer Ib4—but ac
cording td, We hofioii, ilsouie; it it is gild
' and dirty lit is so [finely/the •I better—if it
I was slept on bi, a grot...Lirrandotother, aim'
has absurbod the exlialtitiot4 of 'the body,
the diseash and - decemposit on of three
generations, it is a capital b ti. A grand
mistake. 1 Being an Ow:pail:id against l he
fi et:. e,ircitiation of thh electie forces' of
the s,,stetn, auji being a body of cons:aro -
ly decayiqg epithet Matter, 4 feather) bed
is the worst of all;couches it) sleep upon.l
A person of .00ll; Ilealth and vigorhas
moist i l 11 ,i ii will I never rise from ode
without feting a weakness I which takes
hours to' recover, titan. The moisture
and vitality of the systemhas been, ab
sorbed without being : replaced by:, Mi l
equal miiunt of life alkali and particu-
larly when the room is ;pitutly vett / al: l ilted
will the d estructive nil weakening hat;
ences of he feather , bed she felt. "'Par
advice is, to ditcoeti . ue their hs'e entirely.'
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• now To, ADMONISII..
We wttst consaltlthe'geStlet4t manner
and softeit seasons of 'addceSs ; our r ad,
vice must, not fall lite a i ittlent storm,
bearing duwn,and making hose to droop
't
whom it. ' meant' td elieris 1 end refresh.
'lt must ldescend. tit the dew' upon the
tender herb, or like Mel ingH flakiis of
snow ;' the softer, it - falls thel . longer it
dwells upon, and the deeperit.sinksi into
the Haul. If there r are ew !who have
the hunillity to reeeiVe a vice
,a.s,"they
ought, it is oftett . flecause there ar e few'
who -have the disnretititi t " carry it in-
,
a' proper proper ip .
ehicle,. mail Who an qualify the
harshness and bit!ternes.srt4 reproof,
ii
against #hich cor rupt nature is apt to
revolt, 11 -an-artful mixtutie 'Of sweeten
ing and agreeable iugredtents i To Probe
the wound to the Ibottotoi, with all. the
boldness pod resolution of la good spirit
ual surgebn, 'and yet all' the delicacy; and
tendernetts of a frie o ,' reciuires a ivery t
dexteroa4 and masterly hand . .,' Affable
deportment and cetaplaceney; of behavior
will disatin the most obstinate; whereas,
lirl
if instead of: canon' pointing 'out their
tuistake,Wrn break out into it seemly sallies
of passiod, we ecaselto hav any' influence.
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THE gUINS OF FiAMPTON.--A:CireS
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responde(it of the BoAo ,
n Courier,;writ
ing from - Sewport.etvs, says : ; 1
A foray au t thorize c d by tbe proper offi
cials, has just been inane by us, upon the
ruins ot burned ' Hatnipton.. From them
;6
have be brought !? our camp boards,
stovas,a d whatever was nteedful tot pro
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serve on web from
suffering. tand'inany
embra es of rebel a relic o these picturesque ruins and te•
mel t Outrile and&lreek
lessne,sa , ill reach ip due tpue t our Mass
ochusettti homes. Cruel, canton rtasthe
destructiint* Martidee t s i men of this
tune thriving and keatitiful tvillage, l but
the deed' was donut, and tthose scarred
titnber were silent,t emit nary hoMeless
k ls
estandere are eloquime witnesses of the
atrocious chaiacter f. this ebtoti. l
- Some f the half kilted' or rued- at-
Melee to etifrom t tthOct ruins Inok singu
larly like antiqtees from Herculaneum or
(
int
Pompeii: I have a portion of 1 the Inlet
al of the noted bell which I was given to
the anal nt Epit.cupttl church at HiMpton
lung bef re the separrion 4o r
country
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from Gr t Britain. Besides this :relic,
sotueod half melt & cuit t nt and books,
nitTe than a e ntury nit.l6 I lave I
been permitted to rind° an relies., ! •
The Ouffbeam a 'the Church.
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t It Sweetly, stole thron ! pj tihted pane
ith mild add
And stayed within the Sacred lane,
t s though it loved the siicht.
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Itlilajed on childhood's cloudless brow,
"la warMand rosy rays, ;
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And gaie ;, the mother's pa ild cheek
!Ramo of,rither days; I
Itiouched the old man's Silver betid . '
;with Rialter'a softest. ue,
And fondly o'er the hallowed fdnt
A peaceful•rainbow thresi. • •'.
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•1 It, lit the sculptor's claSsic giocp,
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Of monumental atone, ' '
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-1: And lingered, long with faith arid hop,
, And round the monirier shone •
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It o'er the bleased Altar hung ! 1
• And Crowned the priest with gold,
A royol_robe the surplieb Seemed
And fell in purple fold. • ; !;
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3tOre bright than Aaron's brisst plate'glowed
The holy book of Gqd, ! j
And gems bestrewed the very 400 i, •
Whereon the people:trod,
!!!
E'en thus the Spirit's living light
Wilt all our lives surround,
And we that helivenly.gift may seek
i Within the Chlirch's botind. , -
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Then come, by font mid Altar come,
With faith and works of love,
The darkest days shall bright]) beam
I • With radiance frdiu above.
,! Don't be Dirsoilrag-cdl
.! I !Don't ; get diseoarged:! Whit ;
; ever
gained, anything by Idratving clown tho
•
corners of his team tti, „when' clouds' game
l ityr the t•un, or letting •bis heart ; drop.
I like a lead sleight. rote his shoes :when
!Misfortune came over ' hitu:? Why; luau;
if th e .. world knocks you dOwn and jostles
im r st you in its great race; don't set !whin
ing under penple's ; feet but get Up rub
your elb. 4 7s and begin i s !lttitt. ' "There ate
i,3ovne people whom : even .fli loOki at :is
ifthan a dose of namoatile tea ' '.What
if ;you do happen to be puzzled alittie on
On dollar and cent+ que4l . ion ? ; ()them
bosides you have-.stOod "ebtactly ; ; on
.the
it ante spot and struggled : bra iety oilf, of
it ; and you :are neither, ~ halt, ;lame or
blind that yotigattriut.do, likewise. :Th:l
;weather may be dark and rainy l —veryl
*ell—laugh between the drops aul think
cheerily yf the blue sky{ and
„ attnshine
that will . surely comae tutriarrow. .! Busi 7
ners "may.be dull; make' the best.of wha t,
you have and look forward to something
I : tivore hopeful ;If you catch a fall don't
lament over your-britises but be ;thankful I
that no Vanes . are broken ;;,lf youi can't
I ufl'ord.roai. beef and pluits-pudding, eat I
}your codfish joyfully and; bless your.stars I
for the mdigastion ; and 'dyspepsia.
,you
. I
thereby escape l. But :the. moment: you:
„
begin to groan
.over your. troubie l s, and
'count over the , calamities; yoa May as
well throw yotirself ; over the duoc. - and
Aerie with it.. . .
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The luckiest fellow that ever' lived
inight have l woes enoaFir, J . if :. he set' hid
kelf se. iontily to work looking theiMup.—
They are like ;invisible Specksufi dust;
you don't see 'em till Yon, put un your
spectacles. But then i,, iis wort*, your
while to put'on your spectacles to discov
er what; .is a • great' deal better let! alone.
' Don't ; get 'discouraged little wife ! life
'is . not !wag enough to spend in inflaining
'your - eyes and reddening- .your noe be
ifause the puddings wori't bake,, and the,
husband , says that' the', new shirts yoft I
worked over so - long ".4et likelrieatbags."
Make thmtber poddino-4egin- thd shirts ;
anew! Don't feel "down in the mouth' l
because dust will settle s iUntl' clothes wilt
Wear out,. arid crockery Will, ;get broken_ w
Being a ornkii don't protiure yriglan ex-
emption from trouble atrilicare; : •yi.M haVe
got to fight the battle of Ilffe as Well as
;Your husband; and it .:will tic Yeti do to
givegip without a struggle ~ Taketlii rigs i
aii they conic,: '.. , 00t.1 and - bidtoget,her and!
'whenever .you''feel incliOqd to cry, juste
timge your wind and, hala]. -'' Keep the 1
horrors Est arm's length i' ` 'never; ; urn a
i t
bldssing round to see if•it bus got a dark
iiide - to it, and; always take it for 'granted
that they are'tilessings until they] prOve
to be something else.. 1 .1 - \\ ' .1
' tlerer' allow youiselt to `t.. , ei. iiiscoin:
aged, and yOull find: the world , l pret- I
ty coMfortable kind Of : a '.'nlac.e! after;
all. •H .: ' - , , ,
. 1 .1,
A noble lard` asked &clergyman' ow,
at the. htittoui:- of !'wily: the
:Pose; if there-was on Was'alwaysl placed'
.next the parson ?"--I'.Watly',"i..qhilf L ife - :
"I .can e no' reason' fur ; blit'*ur
queitionisiie odd that I I shall , never pied
a goose for the future without: thinking,
your terdship.' •
Religion is .nut 'a thitig astnea I speads
itself. lit iS.:like "a
river wnl'eh ;titleus
elmtimuilly, and is never it,' tinlqtA . or so
4op as its mouth,' where' it rultt 'iptia ibe .
ciztean or eternity. - - I
El
in:Vit.-41,00 PER ANNUM
An Original Zoilave Leiter:. .
T
b ollowing is . worthy, the pen- of
the original „Doesticki, and, is, Oat.*
good,"take off" on teleiratibio re ports ; ,
of the
just returnedfrom witnefisfrig ooh
of the most mournful . , sights , tit t• ever "
made a man feel as though be had beew
peeling onions all the week, and 'ratind
horse radish:ou Sunday. it wal.the tly
s
i .
ing see*, of r On of the Pet LOMS,A'.
4oivr at Aleaan ea, and as one of Fivelt
bbaparetuarked, t was enough to make
lCite eye.of a darwiti needle weep..Mot
was the name of th sufferer—if he 4;9 , 4 7-
had any other.it had slipped his. tUtungry .
—tholfili his affectionate, litives some,
tin es called him "Shor t lie tirftS Otit
. . ,
oipichet guard when the n Con.;
federday attempted to piss intin ife,
challenged the intruder, and called to
his conirarlee for help , but before Ithe let : .
ter arrived,, • the r Southern Contbdoracy,
drew a masked battery frein his 'poker,. '
and, fired six heavy balls through the
head of .the unfortunate Zouave nearly, .
fracturing his skull, and breaking several
panes of glass. The cowardly trilegreant
then fled to an adjoining feoce, closely
pursued by Sherman:B artillery.
'Upon discovering that he Was wounded,:
Mi. Shorty examined the caoi on his
musket, and stood it carefully against.' a
tree, buttoned up the jacket lo the neck,
1
and asked his comrades for a chew of to- -
bacco. . Too full of emotion to speak, the.
gentlituduly coMrade, titided ,a 1 tang or
tobacco to the dying man, who cut off
about half an ounce from it, p laced r it,
thougl.tfully in his
,tuauth, and
. then.
staffed his' hankerebief carefully in the
hula in his forehead made by, the shot.
"Is any of my brains hanging out?'
he asked of his emorgidg.
.1 .
;••;\!:i Sitorti," lutz.Wered the, other,
bursting int.. tears, "you never had any
to hung out."
. .
After this response, the dying wan,
' paused fer a moment to spit in the eyes,
of a 414; that was swelling rourod.'
heels; and then proceeded in Ole direct
litAl Ot the hilStklitS . l. cad he parse,. A
,tite•
ofßeers' tent,.L utaieed that die top of:
i head was utinpletely gnus, 110 mile o'f•
his eyes was hail way &tau the lbacic •of
his neck. Upon entering the iuspital, •
be took up a pipe and counuenced to
any.ike•it; at the,saine tinie_giviir , us a:
history of his life afid career. ilter fin
lilting the pipe and history, hettlied us,.
wrap litu'up in the American ag, and"
died. •
P. 8.-,—Since - writing the 'at . hpre,
liave heard that neititi j ah ocdtirredee
place at Alexandria.' The decal was oc
casioned by the failing of u bundle of hay
in the. officers' quarters=--the,noiaa. hav—
ing been ulistaken for the 'discharge of,
attillery.• I have since learned fthat oti
aeeident has occurred, - 814 that Ohorty,
did not Cyan: with die rignitaut j but re
niaitied iu New York:,
' Value' of Aluman Life.
But the lesson of defeat would be f i
tm-'
1 perfe6tly 'earned, did not the aims and
the nation alike gain from it a juster sense,.
diet they before possessed of thvalue - of,
1
individual life. Nev er has hf been so
much.prized and so Oeeious ast has be-,
comer in "America. Neve.i befor has each,
individual been of so muck, w rth. It'
costs
costs more to bring up a um here, and he
is worth more when eronght up, than else
-1 riliere.'tc`e long peace and the extraor-.
1 dinarratnount of comfo3 whic the na
tion has enjoyed have : made us peaking,,
broadly) fond of life and tender f it. We'.'
of the North haie looked with astonish-
meat at the recklessness' of t e South
concerning it.. ' We. have thong, t it bra
ver.to - save than to .spend it; and a ques-.
tionable ht muni.ty has undoul4edly le.f
us' sometimes into feeble seatituer4lities.,
and false estimates of its value. We ha 4 •
been in danger of tbiaking too Much of
it, and of being mean spirited i .its use.,
But the first sacrifice for.erhich war milla .
is life; and' we moat revise our stiinates.
of its value, if we would, conduc our war.
Ito a happy end. To gain the; end, ne .
sacrifice can be too preciniii or oo costly..
, , „
The shudder with - which we heard the.
first report that three thousand Om mem. ,
were Slain was
,but the sigh ofithe blow,
that our hearts received. Bulethere must
be no shrinking from the prosp et of thtr.
death of oar. soldiers. Better than we.
sh6ald fail that a'million men a - ould die
on_ the battle:lleld. 'lt is net o ten that .
men can have the priVilege 'to ffer their ,
li%es'for a , principle ; and when he
_tippor
tu.sity comes, it is only the co and that.
does not welcome it with (.ladu Life
.i
is of no value in comparison will the spit...
dual piniciples from which itlgain.s its,
worth. No - matter how Many lb: hi it eosts
to defend pr secure flirt!) or juslice or li.
bigly. truth and justice and liherty mavt. ,
be defended and secured. Beltiprilvirrar,....
thin "must-yield to Truth'spre i 4ervition..
The little human life is , for ,tolday 7 ,7—tbe,
principle is eternal. To die foil truth, tv; ',
die open eyed ant . .l rrutely for the "good' '
old cause,' is note lihonor' bii6etra-4:
ffill
usout? 4 4 Irtua4.•l thu
40iiirdiutto Oeitli;4l-tsp6o
Et