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POTTER ,TCYCRNALI
PUBLISHED 'BY
11. W. Itlelklarney, .Proprietor.
$l.OO PE TEAR., INVARLABLY LY 4DTANCX.,
* * *Ducked to the cause of Republicanism,
the interests of Agriculture, the advancement
.of Education, and the best good of Potter
vounty. l Owning / no guide except that of
Principle , it will endearer to aid in the work
of more fully Freedomizing our Country.:
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reference. :
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• " nine "
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BlisiNES :CARDS.
EULALIA LODGE. _No. 342.. A. M.
STATED Meetings on the 2nd and -4thWeclnes
days of each month:. Also Masonic gather
ings-on every Wednesday' Eveoing. for work
and-practice, at their Hall in Coudersport.
• - . T1310:11137 IVES, W. 31.
SAMVEL HAVEN, See.y.
Jolly S. MANN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa., will, attend the several
Courts in Potzer and WEeau Counties. All
business entrusted in his care will receive
prompt attention. Office ;corner of West
and Third streets.
ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,
ATTORNEY k. COUNSELLOR AT L.W.
Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business
entrusted to his care., with promptnes and
fidt ay. Office on Soth-west corner of Main
and. Fourth streets.
ISAAC BENSO.N
~ ,,TTORNEY AT LAW, ConderFport, Pa., will
attend to all linsiues‘: entrusted to him, with
care and promptnei:s. Of 116: on Second
near the Allegheny Bridge.
F. W. KNOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Condereport.P., will
regularly attend the Courts in Potter and
the adjoining CountieS.
0. T. ELLISON,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa.. ,
respectfully informs the citizens Of the vil- . 1
lege and vicinity that he will promply re=!
spond to all calls for professional services.:
„Office on Main st.. in building formerly oc
cupied by C,' Ellis. Esq.
C. S. & E. A. JONES,
DEALERS IN DREGS, 3IEDICINES, PAINTS'
Oils. Fancy Articks.Statienery. Dry Good:
Gracuries, Ec.. Main rt.. ConderFport. Pa.
D. E: 0.1.:31.5TED, •
DEALER IS Drs GOODS. READY-MADE
Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, &A:4 Main st..,
Coutlersporz, Pa_
COLLINS
DEALER in Dry Goinis,Groceries. Provisions.
Hardware, Queen',Bware, Cutlery, and all
Goods usually found in a country Store.—
Couders - °rt., Nov: 27, 180.
'N. AA; MANN,
DEALER D 7 BOOKS k STATIONERY. MAG.
AZINF:S and .Music. N. T. corner of ; :fait
and Third st.s.. Coudersport, Pa.
evening. •
COUDERSPORT. HOTEL,. i "Who is it ?" asked Julia, playinc^
F. GLASSMIRE, Proprietor. Corner o- 1
: carelessly with the geraniums and • rose.-
)fain and Second Streets, Couderspo'rt, Pot
;buds of her hoquet.
ter Co., Pa.
"Mr. Harley . 'you have beard of him
A Livery Stable 'l . also kept in conned 1
on kith this hotel. i , „,1 before. He does not often frequent
scenes like this, bat your eyes bare tempt
ed him to break through his usual cos
tom. Have I your permission to present
L. BIRD
SURVEYOR, CONVEYANCER, he.. BROOK.-
LAND, Pa.. (formerly Cushingrille.) Office
in his storsbLiiiiiirr. _
31A1M. GILLO.N,
TAlLOR—nearly opposite the Court House—
'trill make clothes intrusted to him in
the latest and best styles —Prices to suit
the'times.--G're him a call. 13.41
ANDREW S._ 3 i.NDERG BRO . S.
TANNERS ANDI CIA.RIERS.—:-liides tanned
on the a shares n the best planner. Tan
nery on the east side of !AileiTanY river.
Coudersport, Potter county, Pa.—Jy 17;61
t. J. OLIFST1:1")
OLMSTED & KELLY,
3EALER IN-STOVES, TIN & SHEET. IRON
. WARE Main st.. nearly opposite the Court
- House. Coudersport. Pa. Tin and Sheet
Iron. Ware made to order. in good style, on
ihort. notice.
U TELE UNION 's
ARCH STREET, ABOVE THIRD,
Philadelphia.
17PTON S. NEWCOMER, Proprietor.
This Hotel is central, convenient by
Passenger ears to all parts of the city, and in
every particular adapted to the crinots of the
bAsiness public.
'; Terms $1 50 per ,lay.
• • UNION HOTEL,
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PENN.,
A. S. ARMSTRONG
trATING refitted and newly furnished the
iIIt house on Main street, recently ()Coupled
by R. Rice, is prepared to accommodhte the
traveling public in as good style as canlbe bad
in town. Nothing_ that can in any Nsay in
crease the comforts of the guests ne
6'•setsd. Dec. 11 ; 831
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Give him a•pash E. He's jumbling down I
Sinking beneath Dame Fortune's frown.
Act with the rest of the heartless throng—
Give him a push and -s•rud him along.
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Stop ye for pity I What pity for him—
With shattered hope and prospect grim—
With pallid brow and aching breast? -
For him there's no p ii ty, for him there's no rest.
Mind nit his pleading eye, list not his moan.
Fie calleth on friends—when, oh ! whence have
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they flown,?
Now you may pity him ! Fool ! doekle dream
'•Friends" ever venture near Poverty's stream.
Pass him by scornfully ! E'en should it save
His soul from perdition, let no teardrop lave
His sunken cheek, burning with feti - er's bright
flush 1
Bat—for he is falling now—give him a push 1
lie's naught but a poor friendless child of De=
' spair ! . [there!
Naught could you gain, wasting syrup:tali
True! he oneez-hune the bright star of our sky---
Now,:who would notice him? Surely not L
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Pet child of Fortune—wbosmiled fOrin hour
Oncehe rens worshipped, the sun-nurtured
flower. ' [stick."
Now Fortune frowns on the " worthless old
Men, women, and children—please give him a
kick ! Worer/y ;Ilagazine.
WORKING FOR A LIVING.
The soft romance of bugle, , ' violin and
(dulcet harp, that for• the last half hour
had floated above the' sound of trippling
of feet and gay young voices, like the sil
ver"wings of some triumphant bird, had
i teased— Ole dizzy waltz was over,aud the
belle of the evening, surrounded by a
(dazzling eonkellatioti of masculine admi
ters,,. walked languidly toward the con
servatbr.
She was beautiful—very! beautiful,
notwithstanding the 'carping whispers
land sharp edged criticisms leveled at her
by her own sex, "never could see any•
thing - wonderful in Julia Mellen."
The cluster of diamonds at her bosom
was scarcely more brilliant than the spar
kle of her deep, violet eyes; her lips,
scarlet as the heart of the pomegranate
blossom, wore a slight curl of pride, that
',added, to her 'beauty ; and• the brown
!ringlets, just looped back from her fore
' head by a spray of gleaming
,pearls, had
!somehow contrived to entangle more
hearts in their shinitry tendrills than their
vt,
[lovely owner could well enumerate.
i[/ And did Julia 'Mellen know how bean
( tiful she was—hoW admiringly men looked
!upon her—how enviously men turned
!away ? Oh, woman, woman 1 thy reign
I is despotic,. but sooner or rater the blooin
and fire Must fade, the sceptre be laid
'aside and then—
The! beauty paused suddenly, as a frank
and noble looking gentaetuan made his
! way through the crowd that emended
her.
"Oh, Henry, I was just lookin r g for
yoct. I want, you to know iny, friend, 31r.
De-Torre."
The be-whiskered and freign-faced cav
alier, upon whose arm she leaned, bowed
low in return to the perfectly pulite, but
somewhat cold salutation of J ulia 31.ellen's
cousin
"May I detain you one moment, Ju
lia?" said the latter, in a low voice. '•I
have promised to introduce to you a
friend of mine, who is very anzious to
become acquainted with the belle of the
MID ?"
The puzzled expression which had ,at
first arched Julia's delicately-penciled
eyebrows. changed to a look of scorn,
which flashed rrom the 'dark eye; and
cursed the rose bright lips' in a very be
cowing manner.
"Oh,—the se/I/aught genius whom you
have taken up," she said, contemptuous
ly
"My dear cousin, you must really ex
cuse we. I don't think it is particularly
desirable to be acquainted with a man
who works fkir a living ?"
The pretty hauteur which she contriv
ed to throw into the last words was inim
itable. She 'moved on, smiling and lovely
as ever, heedless of the grave look of
displeasure that overspread, her cousin's
face, as he drew back without a word—
heedless of the crimson flush that mangled
Stanwood Harley's forehead, as he stood
in the deep embrasure of the window be
yond. and beard the light Wards and the
cruel musical' laugh that followed them
"She scorns the because I work with
the hands and brain God has given me,"
he muttered between his teeth ; "and be
cause lam less to her than the dust be..
neath her beautiful feet. 'Heaven be the
judge between me and thee, proud wo
man I."
S. D.,
The next moment he turned calmly . to
Mr.. Ashb y) who camo to Opologize that
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abol . e.o o ii)o ?titicipies of . Ito ginoct-Reti, qqo file Disseoiiitatioll' of iffotAiitg, via Vein.
GOOD ADVICE.
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA, WONESRAY, APRIL 2),1.862.
his cousin was too much engaged to ad
mit of , an introduction at present.
"Never mind, Ashby," he said, quietly;
"I appreciate your good will as much as
if it bad produced the desired effect.—
And now will you walk part of the way
home ?—it is a lovely night."
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Ten years I what marvelous, alchemist
it is ! Sunshine on the pearl-white down
of new married brides--starlight on fresh
ly heaped graves—joy and grief succeed.
ing one another as rapidly as .the chang
ing colors of the kaleidescope--and all
within the compass of .ten short years.
Oh, him pitilessly the wind howled on
the bitter March night—how keenly the
cold found itsmay into the myriad of crev
ices of worm eaten doors and rattling case
ments in that dreary tenement houie
where . a haggard, wild-eyed woman sat
over the smouldering remnants of what
once had been a tire, and straining her
vision over a piece of fine needlework by
the light of ore dim candle2 , -
"Mamma," lisped a little girl of seven
years, who bad been rubbing her small
blue hands together to wartnem—alas
with no very satisfactory eifeet—"where
did you learn to work so fast ?"
"I learned long ago, dear," said the
mother---"when fwas a gay girl—before
sorrow and want came to break me down."
She sighed heavily—it was almost a
sob—as, she spoke.
"Mamma," pursued the child, "did
you think then that you would ever have
to work fora livinn. ?"
- Julia De Torre 'started as if an adder
had stung Ler, and shrank instinctively
from the prematurely old gaze, of her child
"Don't ask such foolish questions, Ma
ry," she said almost sharply. "Who is
that at the door ?"
Die girl rose to open the door, and
the agent whose business it was to collect
the rents of the tenement house, stepped
in shaking a shower of snow from his
'broad shoulders.
"Well, how is it about the money to
night, Mrs. What's-your-name?" said he
in'a rough though not unkind tone.
"I have not been able to get it yet,"
she faltered.
"Well, look here, this. 'ere is a hard
case," said the man. "To be sure, it
aka% my business to be lettin' off my em
ployer's tenants, but then you have had
a plagney hard roe to hoe, I allow.—
'Tain't your fault that that whiskered
husband of yours run off with, another
woman—'tatri t your fault that you wasn't,
burn to scratch for a livin' like them
tough old Irish women down stairs.—
you see here----I'll gu and I kind o',
guess you'll be let off easy. Him that
owns these houses is dreadful good-heart
ed I"
"Heaven bless him" murmured Julia,
through her tears.
In the cheery .glow of fire light and ,
chandelier, sat Stanwood Harley„sur
rounded by luxury and splendor. Wei.lth
flowed Poctoius-like through his home; a
second Midas, whatever he touched
seemed to turn to gold; and the jewels
his fair wife wore, were a small fortune
in themselves, as she stood beside hiai
that evening, at the moment when the
agent was introduced.
"Well, )lePherson, what is it 7" asked
[Earley, who, in the multiplicity of Lis
business cares, had almost forgotten the
block of houses . in street.
The brief recital was soon made.
"What is the woman's name 7" asked
Harley, •
it's a kind of a queer name- 7
Julia De Torre."
Harley was silent for a moment, then
he spoke in an altered, yet strangely gen
tle mice.
"Let her have the rooms rent free,
henceforth. Aud, McPherson, here is a
check for what Money she may need at
present. I am only God's almoner for
the wealth he has given me."
The agent bowed silently and withdrew.
It was a joyful heart that he carried "to
the dreary home in the narrow court.
~ 4 w 1 dreaming?" said Julia De
Torre; pressing her hand to her brow.— .
"Who is thus.kind to me?"
"Mamma, Tou have dropped this, bit
of paper," said little Mary, who had
just returned from 'seeing the agent de
part.'
Julia took the narrow slip of paper
from her daughter's hand, and read the
signature appended to the cheek, with an
indescribable thrill.
"Stanwood Earley,"
Truly he was arauged I.
Don Quixote thought, he could have
made beautiful bird cages and tooth picks
if his brain had not been so full of chiv
alry: Most people would succeed in
small things,• if they were not troubled
with great ambitions.
Some. graceless scamp has presumed to
say that "it is woman, and not her wrongs,
6a.t should be re-dressed." The rascal
ought to suffer the torment of being in
vited out to tea, or to a sewing party.
san*bolieverGos i sipis:
Oh, no, I { never gossip ! I have Ipongh
to do to take care of my own butiness,
without talking itbOut the affairs of inhere,
Mrs. Smith. {
Why, there's Mrs. Crocker, rAii' deals
in scandle by the wholesale. it does
seem to me as though woman's kOna l ue
l imust be always, worn cat; but no, here's
no danger Of . that.d ,If everybody l as like
me, there.wouldn't be much I..rotible
the world. Oh, ao 1. never gossipll
But didivon know Miss Elliott had
got anew silk di-4s, Mrs. Smith Y i ou
;didn't? Well e 'she has. It's a raal bro
cade ; I bats , it ndseli; and I do tay
a shame for her, t4i be so extravagant. I
mean to give ,her a piece of, my whit!,
:Sirs Smith.' Yeti believe her uncle gave
tit to ; her ? Welld I don't care if he did:
Why it's only tivo months since her father
failed; and now in see beg dash Mimi in'
this sti l e, It's a biirning- shame.
'pose the thinks she's going to catch'vOUng
lawyer•Jonies; but I think she'll find*eri
self mistaken. lie's tot more sense than
Ito be caught by her, if she has got a ltirol
;
leade clpass. ;
I And there's thr -tart dressmaker
The Wo
—nt. there's a te upsl
Kate Mani y, 'setting her-cap for the dlocl,
tor's son. The ii , iipertitience of some peo
,!
pie perfectly astonishing. I don't
think she'S any 4etter than she ough!
he for my lowa, Part. •I never did like
her, with her initti, soft look, When aim s
body's. about. My word for it she /eau
look- lss enough when there ain't.
wok cross enou ti ,
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Then she baysFshe is, pnly, seventeenl
Goodness knows 'She's as - old 'asmy zira
bella Luerilia ;. and 1 srbi
say how old; but bile's cuore'n sevens:
and t ain't ashamed to sal so, either;
I think Dr. YOy's EOll will have n
discretion ;than td think Of marrying
Some folly call leer handsome.. Wel
don't: Sl l 3e ain't: half so good lookim
wy dangh'ter .vane. Then the way
does up her in such fiy-away en
and, if yM.I believe it, Mn.i Smith,
actually lad ihj impudence to tell
that she I couldn't make her hair
straight as my Maria's. Impertinet
If she'd let curling.-papers and corlin;,L
irons alone, I'd risk but t what }ter hair
would be as straight as anybody's. ij 1
But what do %;ou think of the minis-1
ter's wife '
, Mrs. Smith ? Yon like her,
Well; all I can .:ay is you'ie got a eery 11
peculiar tMitel Why,
,she's as proud as,
Lucifer—been married a whole week,iand
hasn't been to see me yet. you pre.luute
'she hasn'tliadtime ? I don't see yiliat:
the minister tvanted to go out of town to .
f.. , et him a` wife for, any way; atid*tlen,!
above all thinre, l to get that little irlishi,
leaking' thir , ! „Why didn't he take `wad'
of his p,arish — ones ? There's my Arid3el . 2 -
la Lucretia, she ;would have made him', 1
better Wife than be's got now. And lie's
just about the right age for him. 'What,
do you say?—that ArAella Lucretia IS
two years' older 'than the minister
should think it: was a pity if .I di,dn't
know my own' 1
. daughter's age,.l‘lr l s
Smith ! I.lf soave folks wonid mind .tibetr
own business, ai I do, I'd thank the'M.;
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The ,1 01 r 111 ;; - Ti l u e *1 . ' '
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The following beautiful passage .oecur
red in al sermon recently S preachep i,y
,
Henry 'Ward Beecher : • i 1
Tr ' ' 'thins even more toucbine
...'here is something _
than thisl It is the•flight of birds.! lAI
"summer they have filled the woc;ds.- 7 --1
They sing from •the trees The rise!,
from thickets and weed-inufiled fences,
as in our, wandrings we scale them. i'They
sing in the air. They wakciis with their
matins. They chant vespers with glo
rious discordance of sweet melody. I They
flit across the lawn, rise 'and fall on the
swinging twig, or rock to the wind oa
their mriitl, perch.
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Bht after August they become 'ratitei
arid in October days they begin to !recede
.from theldwelling. No,, more twi l f.terinc ,
wrens; no more circling, swallowS; no
more grotes.que bobolinks •,.• no inure larks,
singing as if they were • beart-brol4n
ti .
They begin•oW to come in:trodps, in the
distant field. At sunset the PaStUrel is
Tull of flecks of ;hundreds and thousands.
At morning they are gone.; And, every
day brings itl feathery caravan. I Bcery
day they pass' on. .Long flocks pf foils
silently move; far 'up against the Shy, and.
always going away from the North.l
evening the Weary string of traterlovili„
flying IoW. and iwistfut.of some pond fur
rest andi foul,! fill the air with hoarse,
trumpeting and clangor. ' They larl•
log; the lastnre going. Winteris
them ; summer is hefore,,tbetn;,l aa
are left.. Th§ Season is bereft. ,
short; darkness is icing. I.:Fli3vreti
sunken to reSt. The birds have
away. , Winter, winter : WINTEE is
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the earth. r :
At last come the December' cia;
The i4r-test readied., • T'heri
days shad alike. Then the solar
creeps forward minute-in, the eve
A ,little more;; again ,more,!till half'
ring around the horizon—till' lioni
strung {upon the
,the
comes I back—till ponds yinlock
The'forts gnaw purple , twigged.
The great.winds 'sigh and rage.. 'March
bluiters and smiles by turns—a giant
that now is cross; and now kind. The
cakes begi4 to came. Lambs bleat.—
The warm hills are plocied. At last the
nights Ore witheiut frost. i•
At length we, wake, some tmeipected
morning.-and the blue-bird's call is in the
tree. i :We throw up, the sash. The sun
lies ling) on all the landscape. There is
a saiile Of Soil and leaf in the air. The
popular buds are fragrant as balm. Tha
air-is Warm and' moist. - Thee birds are
surelydterel; they answer each other; the
e'parrow, the blue-bird, the robin, and,
afar.off on the edges .of the swamp, tl.e
harsb !twanging, notes of thebtackbira.
llt Is , sprindi It is time of the sinnme
of 'the:birds Nobody forgets the wild
',thrill of the heart at the'first 'sound of
birdS in the spring.
4311; with what a sense of emancipation
do We hear the birds sing again God
sends ,his choirs to sing over night and
death for us Winter, that buried an, is
het - self, put away. Death is swallowed
uriin!victory, and nature chants the re
print); of the past, and the joy of the fu
ture. Now, days shall grow longer, and
warmer. Now, ' industry shall Move free
ly.ll Now; !flowers shall come up. Seed
dial] be sawn. Doors and windows shall
stand open all day long. .Mound about
the barn the hens shall shunt: Spring
has come , and all things rejoice at then.
release. No more inhospitable . snow ;no
more ,blight of cold. All is promise:—
Men g) forthwith' seed, and roots"; and
scions. The orchard, and garden, and
field, ItieSull life
.The winter !is past, the rain lis over
and . golid; the flowers appear on the
earth ; the tittle of the singing of birds
is'coute,' - and the voice of the! turtle is
beard in, our land."
Is ;this; now', a mere ornanient/I pas
sarze 4ertpture ? Scripture bias no pas
stlges; thit are mere ornaments. Things
ornamental thel'e are in it, but they earr3 .
Marrow and meat. Unlike all literature,
never merely decorates. If there is 'a
figure,itiS always for some errand of moral
weaning. j: There is no description's sake.
There ts,j no ppeq for mere wthetical
pleasitre..]. There is always a profit with
al. •
shie
sh i e
ru ! e
lifkAnderson, the Wizad, and a very
pocr wizard he was, met a Yankee wind
stolelt march' on hid), after the' following
fashion : :Enter Yankee,
"L'say - ! you, 1-,'roessor.Anderson ?"
"Yes, sir, at your service."
"Wa'al l you're a itarnation smart man,
and I'm soulethin' at a- trick teu; kinder'
cuteteu you know. 7
"A, indeed, and What tricks are you
up to, sir," asked the Professor, amused
at the simple follow.
I can take a .red cent and i
change it,into a ten-dollar gold-piece."
"Oh', that is a mere sliiht-of handl
trick, I can dolthat too:" I
"No you can't. I'd like co see you
" ell,! hold out your hand-ivith a cent
in
, YaOkee stretched out his paw-with a
red lying upon it. , • -
"This is hour ceut. is it sure?" •
• ;
"It's within' else."
"fold; on to it tight—Presto ! thange.
Noy open-your hand."-
Yankee opened his fist; ancl there was
a gold eagle shining on his palm.
"Weal, you did it, I declare; much
obleegedtew neon," and Jonathan turned
to go out. ' •
"Stay„ . you may leave me my ten dol
lars,"
said the Professor.
"Young ! wan't it my cent ; and didn't
yon•livrilit into this ere palter thing, eh?
Good bye?" And as he left the room he
was, heard , toi say, "I guess; there ain't
an,•thing green about this child."
TO TAKE THE SCtNT OUTi OF CLonf
nva---Sitting,'cin the piazza of the Cat
aract, was a young, foppish looking gentle
man, his garments highly scehted with 'a
mingled' odor of musk' and cologne,, A (
seleinn faced, odd looking man, after pas
sing by the dandy several' times, with aII
look, of aversion . which drew general no-1
tice, suddenly stopped, and in a confiden
tial, ton said : • '
"'Stranger, I know what'll take that
wilt out of your clothes ; 'ydtt=--".
"What ! what do you mean. sir ?'' said
the', exquisite, fired with indignation,
startiod from, his chair.
101:17 get mad, now-swear. Ditch
round; fight, just becaOse a than wants to
dolyon• a, kindness
.!" coolly replied. the
Striang,er.. "But I tell you IJ know what
will take 'out that smell—Thew ! You
juSt, bury your clothes•—bilryi 'eta a day
day, ot two. Uncle Josh cot afoul of a
skutik,,and he—"
At this moment there wet up from
the' cro*d a simultaneous roar of merri
ment, and the dandy sensibly "cleared
thikcotli" and vanished up .
p go
lebiod
, Id we
l ght 18
r i s are
Iftown
Upon
Elm
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I blaze
• ning.
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Be Tirtnous and you`will he happy.
INNEE!
TERMSI-41.00 PER APINTRa
Our Camp _Letters':
From the S4th New Fork.
' Camp near Newport News.
Elizabeth City Cotinty ! ,Va , Apt. •
DEAD. JOußtimi: At last we are fain : ,
ly in Rebeldom. - We left:Meridian - Hill, -
at evening
on the 28th' tilt.. .and marched .
to Alexandria, arriving there at 2 next
morning and all' bivouacked .on the an
cient brick sidewalks of .that ancient city.
remained there until Tuesday Eve., the
Ist iast., we embarked on board the
steamer' "John' A. Warner." She also
taking three sloops in tow loaded with
horses, forage,
.bound. for .Fortress
Monroe, where we arrived Friday Morn- t
iug following. • The Potomac and its
scenery has been too often described, to
need an other description from as poor a
pen as mine, but it is worthy of remark
and perhaps, not generally known by your
readers, that- from Alexandria,, to the
mouth of that noble river, a distanee. of
a hundred ;miles, more or less, not a town
or a village is to be seen on either bank I
I-tould.not shake off,soui gloomy reffee
tias, as we passed Idount'Vernori. The
question arose—Do the spirits of the de=
parted take interested cognizance of what
•
is paising here,. where they were once,
the principal actors ? And if so, how
Must the glorified spirit of Washington
contemplate this ungodly - rebellion
A fter'remaining at anchor alew hoeing.
off the Fortress we steamed Slowly up .to
Where Hampton once was, and - there
'landed, glut), to step out on terra firnrop
again. Here,we remained•arihile to al•
low. the boys to make coffee. But what
a scene of de..olation ! 'Nay, the "abomi=
nation of desolation." Not a habitation,
;save two huts, reuaains undestroyed, even
the "Old Church"-.:the bricks of Which
I am told'. were brought froin Europe ha ,
fore the. Revolution- - -did net escape; but
'surrounded as it is by. its 'ancient—and
many of them honored--graves, itsplacra:7
willows.and cypress trees, it is a black- -
, ened ' rain. What wrought this niint
Rebeilion.. What caused rebellion? Sla
very Would to God this ruin was con
'fined to Hampton, but it meets us every
where, i where the accursed feet of the
monster _has polluted the earth.. We are
stopping "on the Peninsula between James
and Yi7rk Rivers, a few miles frOm New
Pert INetra. The Rebel steamer Merii
' mac came out yesterday and coo* towed
off two 'of our sail vessels. ladened mainly
• with horses-and forage, the vessels hap
pening - at,the time to lie oat of range of`
the gnus of the Fortress.. Nearly the
whole of Gen. Casey's Division is en
camped here, of which - Palmer's Brigade,
in whielrmur ii- included, forms
a part: -What we are doing, the Tratote
and Tiints will, probably inform, yotir
readers in advance of 4,his. The country
about us is low and marshy with belts of
san4nuct appears admirably adapted to
the raising of snakes and alligators. A
gloom was spread over our Reg't yester
day by the death .of Lient. E. Davis a
Ism, of Uol. U. L. Davis, who organized
the Reg't.. He was a good. officer and a
pleasant genial 3ssaciate. . The body *as
forwarded •to his father and friends at
Bolivar, Alleguay Co.;-. Y. ' It is one
thing to read history—and another, end
different one, to help make it. But I '
shall weary you—so no more at present.
!•.Truly yours, ' L. H. kiNNEt.
A-FEARLESS DUTCIIMAN.—After the
battle of Mill Spring; our soldiers entered
the rebel fortification's. and one of the
I first discovered a barrel winch proved to
t' contain apple brandy. Pulling out the
icorncob from , the bn'onbole, he turned it
up and filled a canteen. " Wffile doing
this one Of Bob 3lcCook'a skirmishers
came in, and says :
"Vot son gets there ?"
I The soldier replied that it appeared to
I be pretty fair apple brandy, upon which.
the thtchtuan ran to the door, calling
"Hans I Henrich I schnaps! see,
I c ome a routs?" upon Which a &ken
Dutchmen came in, and the brandy whieh
was not spilled upon the ground ) *ass
soon transferred to their canteens.
"Boyd," said the soldier, "yon bad
better lea: out ; this is a doctor's shop,
there might be strychnine in that btan
dv.".
They paused a moment to look at etch
other when one of them exclaimed :•
"Py Got, ilans, 'IA you rat I du;
tnnks some, and if it don't kill me lien
you trinks." Upon-,which he tookAjong
and , hearty, pull at his eanteeirkand
smacking his lips , a moment,said
right, Hans, go ahead."
And they , did go. ahead, and in a. few
minutes the cask was empty.
An ignorant Dutchman, passing- a
' number of railroad tracks during a day's
journey, and nerer haring seen•any be
fore, was nonplussed to : account for their
use. At length, after examinint: owat-of
them for about 25 minutes, and sext , tell
ing his head quite bald; he 'ejaeultztad,
"Tey musht be iron , 3lamps to keen deg
ertquakes froal_preakiug up der ros4o"