VOLMIE. XIV.--NtTEIBER 20 T - lIE POTTER JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY McAlarney, Proprietor. $l.OO PR TEA; ViVAELLBLY ADVANCE. 4.-J* * * *Devoted to the cause of Republicanism, the interests of Agriculture, the advancement of Education, and the best good of Potter county. Owning no! guide except that of Principle. it will endeacer to aid in the work ,of more fully Freedomizing our Country.' • I ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the folloWing rates, except where special bargains are 1 Square 110 lines] 1 insertion, - •- - 50 1 11 41 3; "., --- $1 50 Each subsequent insertionless than 13, 25 I. 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All business entrusted in his care will receive prompt attention. Office corner of West and Third streets. ARTHUR G. OLMSTED, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to his care, with promptnes and fidCity. Office on Soth-west corner of Main and Fourth streets. ISAAC' BENSON ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to him, with care and promptness. Office on Second st., near the Allegheny Bridge. F. W. I.c.NOX, ATTOPSEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., 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 lage 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. W. Ellis, Esq. C. S. & E.' A. JONES, DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS 'Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Good:, Groceries, &c., Main et., Coudersport, Pa. D. E. OLMSTED, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, Sc., 3lain st., Coudersport, Pa. COLLINS SMITH, DEALER in Dry Goods,Groccries, Provisions. Hardware, IZineensware, Cutlery, and all Goods usually found in a country Store.— Coudersport, Nov, 27, 1861. M. W DEALER BC BOOKS & STATIONERY. MAG. AZECES, and Mus N. W. corner of Bair. and Third sts:, Coudersport, Pa. COUDERSPORT HOTEL, D. F. GLASSMIRE, Proprietor, Corner o- Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot ter Co., Pa. ' A Livery Stable is also kept in connect tion with this Hotel. ' L. BIRD. SURVEYOR, CONVEYANCER, &c., BROOK LAND', Pit., (formerly Cushingville.) Office in his Sore building. MARK GILLON, 'TAlLQR—nearly opposite the Court House— will make all clothes intrusted to him in the latest and best styles —Price's to suit the times.—Give him . a call. 1 13.41 ANDREW SiNBERG & BRO'S. TANN'EftS - AND CURRIERS.—Hides tanned on the shares, in the lest manner. Tan nery on the, east side of Allegany river. Coudersport; potter county, Pa.—Jy I= OLMSTED & KELLY, DEALER IN STOVES, TIN ti SHEET IRON W.A.RE,,Main'st., nearly opposite the Court House, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to order, in good style, on abort notice. " THE ' UNION " ARCH STREET, ABOVE THIRD, Philadelphia. TIPTON 8. NEWCOMB, Proprietor. This Hotel is central, convenient by Passenger cars to all parts of the city, and in every particular adapted to the wants of the bdsiness public. h + Terms .51. 50 per day': UNION HOTEL, COUDEEPORT, POTTER COUNTY,. PENN., A. 8. ARMSTRONG UAVING refitted and newly furnished the house on Main street, recently occupied by R. , Rice, is prepared to accommodate the traveling public in its good style its can be had in town. Nothing that can in any way in erease the cemforts of tlisluests will' be ne &stud. - Dee. 11;1861- , - l ' • . , . • . ' • I .1 . 1 , .i. ';1 •i, ' ' • , . . . , . . ; • i . . . . ... . . 1 ' i . • • . - • - • I , ' . . . • • • . • . • , • • - -1 , : 1 ' • . 1 ~ • . 1 ' . . . . '' ' ' ' 1 'i. ... I,' ._. . ,_,_. ,ii . ...„:„.1 1 ,....;..„ 4, ........ ~....: -',,-.:-.- , : - , ,,, , ,. E .,!,..: , , i . :, , ,, • r . -,,,.....--...,-;,:::......... . ~,. : . . ~, re :1, .:.,. 1 , , I .:L .. ", ', :, '''.l; .- ~,,,,, ...i• • .• , - : '• " . ..:2" 111. 'N l''t .... . , „. . . .. , . :- :• ' • . 1 ::•'' II . , 1, , .„; •1 1 , ~ ..: -,1. - -I '; " -1 ' , 1 111 , • . , . . , . - II ' • . . ' . -. i , :- A # • ' s .- . -:. -- - - _..- , ... . • , , .. 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The looks are bent on the shaking uound; And the heart beatsloud with a knelling sound; Swift by the breasts that mast bear the brunt, Gallops the Major alorig the front— _" Halt !" • And fettered they 'stand at the stark command, And the warriors, silent, halt II Proud in the .blush ofamornineglowing, What on the hill-top shines in: Roaring 1 " See you the foeman's banners waving?" 1 " " We see theloeman's,banners waving!" . " God be with ye—children and wife !" Hark to the music—the:trump and the fife, How they ring th ro' the ranks which they rouse to the strife ! Thrilling they sound with their glorious tone, Thrilling they go thro' the mitrow and bone Brother; God grant when this life is o'er, In the life to come that we meet once more! See the smoke how the lightning is cleaving assunder ! ' Hark the guns, peal on peal, how they boom in their thunder! From host to host, with kindling sound, The shouting signal circles round, Aye, shout it forth to life or death— Freer already breathes the breath 1 The war is raging, slaughter raging, And heavy through the reeking pall, The iron' death-dice fail! Nearer,they close—foes upon foes— " Readyl"—From square to square it goes. Down on the knee they sank, • And the fire comes sharpfrom the foremost rank Mans' a man to the earth is sent, Many a gap by the balls is rent— -1. , , O'er the corpse before springs the binder man, That the line may, not fail to the fearless van. To the right,to the left,andaround and around God's sunlight is, quenched in the fiery fight Over the host falls a brooding night ! Brothers, God grant when this life is o'er, In the life to come that we meet once more 2, The dead men liebathed in the weltering blood, And theTeet, as they reeling and sliding go, Stumble still on the corpses that sleep below: What, Francis r "Give Charlotte my last farewell." • As the dyingman nurmurs,the thunders swell " I'll give-0 God! are the guns so near? Ho ! comrade !-jyon volley !--look sharp to the rear !-H I'll give thy Charlotte thy last farewell, ' sleep soft! when death thickest descende-th in vain. . . The friend thou forsakest thy side shall regainl" Flitherward—thithernMrd. reels the light, .1 Dark and more darkly . day gloms into night= Brothf rs, God gront when this iife is o'er, In the life to come, that meet once more ! Hark to the hoofs that galloping go I. t... The Adjutants flying— The horsemen press hard on the panting foe, Their thunder :booms in dying— • • Victors! The terror has seized on the dastards all, And their'culors IA! • . : Victoryi! •. Closed in the brunt of the gltiriens fight, And the day, like a conqueror, bursts on the night. i 1 Trumpet and fifel swelling choral along, The triumph already sweeps marching in song. Fai-euell, fallen Li-others, though this life Le o'er, There's another irs which we le* meet you once 7110 Tr. i It will. gratify many to learn that the stars and Stripes again float over the tomb of the old hero who so emphatically declared that "the Union Must and shall be preserved.", An army correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal writes 'from camp Andrew Jackson, a few days since, as follows : ' ' "Yesterday Gen. Nelson made a recon noissance in force towards Lebanon He took with him the second Calvary, three batteries of artillery and five regiments of infantry. -, Our regiment led the advance guard. We were obliged to leave .two batteries about four ibiles; from camp, in consequence of the bridges being too rickety to risk ,their goind over in safety. We went as far as' the "Hermitage," the former residence of Andreiv Jackson. As we approached the sacred spot, the band of the Thirty-Sixth' Indiaha played a INa tional air. Gen. Nelson ha ted the column and the Stars ,and', Strips were planted over the tomb of Jacksoollaod the Harris battery fired a Sainte of sixteen guns. To comment on the'eceremoniei of the occa sion would be useless, as all who know the history of the "hero ofj New Orleans" can readily imagine the feelings of the troops while-standing blfore the tomb of Jackson.. Gen. Nelson and staff were in vited into the mansion,; and remained some time." ' . i MANN, IMECIEI NET BRIDGE AT NIAaABA FALLS.— A new bridge is to be built on the Amer ican side, lehdlog to Goatlsland. A draft of fhe bridge is, already completed, plans and specifications • have already been drawn, and the worleis to be commenced at the earliest practicable moment. The question, of title to the island in the river, claimed as belonging to the Porter estate, is in dispute. lt is asserted that all the islands which have - never been surveyed. in the river near to Goat Island, belong to the Government. The rebels having failed to lay in any other orop, propose to lay their eitieti in ashes. - . e,bote43 to, file, b.iileip(is of IN6I 1411)0014, .4,q0, 10 Vsiiqii,liii . l of. .I_l'iltiti,- g:reiliglreq.ll.fetps THE BATTLE. BY SdEILLEE. I'Lie Old Fl4g. COUDERSpORT, POTTER' COURTY, PA,, WEDNESDAZ AT 30 l L 862 The Retreat from Illoseow . The retreat of the French army fro llcscow to Poland, through a thousand miles of snow and wilderness, of battle and of blood, stands out in the world's history as the sublime of horror, of pas sion and devotion.' Not the, slaughter, of the innocents, nor the ma ssacre , of : St. Bartholomew's, nor plague; nor earth quake, nor ought, save the great flood itself, so overwhelms the mind, with, the burden of grief, terror and desolaticin.— T4e; legends of . Alhat awful path come down from mouth to mouth 'by the-fire sides of 'Europe; and the direful tale will still be told, when Xerxes and Alei ander, and Atilla and Charlemagne shall have sunk out of the earths remembrance. As if rebuking the sagest calculationa of philesophy, snow fell twenty days earlier than had been known in twenty years— fell in vast quantities, and was' attended with most inclement gales, and biting frosts. The French burned with the sun ; in the summer months, had thrown their spare clothing away ; and now their shoes were worn out with toilsome march es, their provisions were exhausted, naught save their horses, jaded and lean, remained for them to ea.. The Ruisians, on the other band, well clad, inured to , the,terrible climate, flush in all provis ions and munitions of war, returnedjup on their path like vultures, and lined. the passes in front and rear, and on every side. Such was even the beginning of their retreat over a route on which the advince had not left even the bones and husks'of human sustenance. There wag no mani fest 'design on the part "of the Missions to give general battle, but rather to bar rass;them to death. The name of Napo leon hovered over and protected the sol emn host. Thirty thousand men under the dattnt 7 less Nev, the palladium 'of Bonaparte, and next to him, the hero of &roes formed the rear guard of this dread re treat. There was battle every day, in front and rear. The unsleeping eye of the 'Emperor covered every point of strategy. He could not be balled; he could not be kept back. Calculation after calculation, based upon the supposed positimis of the other divisions of the grand army, still Laved him, as at the last moment, from 'destruction, and still the straggling army luldde its way, faMishing, freezing, per -1 isiiing. But one in fourteen had been able to endure,—their bodies strewed the wilderness. And squadron after squad ron had been sent back to recruit the 1 toilino. ' 0 band of the fighting Nev. At 1 ivoe timet their =be a rumor that the rear guard were being overpowered :—in a wouleut, immortal honor to his gener ous memory ! Napoleon reversed, his march 'with but 9,000 guards to retrace 0.12 wilderness, against ten times his odds, and to save his friend or perish with him. -There are $200,000,000 in gold in the vault of the Tuileries," said ! ' be, "and I would give it all to know the 'safety of Marsha Ney"LLand again the fiery valor of the cheery shout, "Live the Emperor!" slung back do bitter and remorseless air as Napoleon himself, on foot like the rest,', with a beechen staff in-his hand, back to , almost inevitable destruction, trudged through the bloody snow. . What a wreck was here of all thatglo rious host ! Napoleon crossed the Buie-,- pers with 6,000 . guards, out of 35,000,; Eugene with 1,800 out of 24,000 ; .and Davoust, script even of his shirt, led 4,- 000 squalid and dying followers—the re mains,-from cold, famine, and the sword, of over 70,000 men. But 12,000 of the Grand Army re-, i mained!---and not a single cannon. , • 1 Yet, in the wake of these, there came a half naked, famishing,murderous,throng of 30,000 wretches, without discipline. and without remorse. No man has dared , - and few have lived to tell,of all the . horrors of that moving pandemoniuni.— - tt, was forbidden to speak of it. The 1 more enduring stripped of the clothing from the faint hearted, and the stropg dashed tout the brains of.the weak for no more inducement than the hoof of a dead horse. There were moaning sufferers IwhO gnawed with desperation the hag- merits of old shoes, or clutched some flesh lese bone like a miser, who fears assassin ation'for his gold, yea, the meagre by the meagre where devoured-cannibal fiends, whO fain would see the bright eyes of their loved ones once more concealed under their shrunken arms the warm and wasted flesh of the new fallen corpse. God forbid that such another tragedy should blacken the annals of the world ! But above in interest, and beyond all these, stands the sublime devotion of Marshal Ney. Like the star that keeps its 'Orbit, and we know not why, save for the deep integrity of its nature, he could not quit his post. With a meagre band of 700 men, and a musket in his hand, he held the bridge of Konow, until' the last of the grand army had, gone over in , safety, and the last grentther fell a corpse . .. at his feet! Scorning to fly or -yen to turn hie face from the inen3y be retreat ed bachward over • the. bridge' whsle the bullets Iwhistled :all , around Lite,--and firing the last , shot' into t . he Bussian ranks, be threw, the eMpty . piece it to the river.? ' '* * ' * ! 1 * On tbe , night of the 12th o Dedember, as Gen.: Dumas wasseated in eonsidtation with a Physician on the Gerinan side of the river, a gannt, hairy spectoral ' ooking r E man, ill al tattered military. .cloak, ntered the apartment, and s a id, with n se pulchral voice, 4.atlast lam here'',' "And who are your said Dumas, rising hastily, and with suspicion. "Do you nit know I me, General ?" . "Nel" Folding his rags spine his martial breast, Ithe appari tion answered, "I am Lthe rear pard of the grand. army,—and., my I name is-- Marshal I Ney ; I have fired the last shot, and the last musket 'sleeps ini the mud of the riveill7 Well might the youth, 'and bl chivalry, of France, °flail thzit fol ,Egypt, Syria; Italy, • bow their i ing eyes, as Napoleon himself us ed his royal head, and belle/ bit "Bravest of the brave l" - The Western General's. . 1 1 Major-Gen. Ilalleck is a native of On eida -County, N. Y. i He lentEired the Military: A oaderay atWeitr'oint as a ca det in 1835, stood third in the class and was - breveted Second Lieutenant !of Eogi users i°;1839. 1.0 1845, licilwappoin a.i ted First Lieutenant.; 1n.1847 be was promoted for•hie gallantry 14 California. In 1853 he was appointed . Captain of En girgeers. He is the author of a book on "Bitumen and its Usds," and, a series of lecturesFon Military ;Science, delivered; before the Lowell Iniititute,' in; Boston. He was la member of; the Climthittee to!'' draft the Constitutioh for the State of California; bad previbusly been Secreta ry of State for the teititory of California. In the naval arid raitary, operations on the Pacific Coast he was C iiei of Com Modore ;Shubric's Staff. He is an astute lawy:...r4-a man of fdrtune, au" I comparatively a . younpfl man, bt 43 years of age. El is ;gran dfathdi his hundredtli.year, lit living in lao '' n • of fWestern, near Utica.! IVajer-Gen. Grant is a na ive I t and is just 40 1 years of age. j graduate of West Point; wa.4 atil the 4th Regiment United States!. eleven I years. Immediatelyifter break lie tittered his; servi es ' i Yates, of Illinins, and; was akioin onel of the 21st Regiment of Volunteers. 'He has been, ac South-Eastern Missodri. His on' of Paducah and stopping, stipplit Rebels by the w 4 of the Tpon l e Cumberland Rivers, -his plan of the of Belmont, his shill and strat courage at the'rimmorribl ' mil I ] Fort Donelson, are fresh in the of a grateful nation. He"' l aluia words and , many deeds _modes) ous and humane. He has li l ht br fair complexion (now: stainedby and the 'smoke of liattle,) and 'blue eyes._ He was With Gen.ll 'Mexico, and . distinguished him, his soldierly attributes. At. the Pittsburg Lancting.he headed h and led them ihrough.the terribl of shot and shell, and his hrave lowed him as though they we hastening to a, festival., Gem Wallace is a mitive l lof Illinois and a graduate of Wtst Point. Prior to the present war-he was Captain" of the Wash ington Territory Mounted Volunteers, in which position. he took part' in the Indian War. At the commencement of' the re bellion he raised a reeuent: of 'Volunteers in,lllinbie, and was appointed Us Colonel. With this regiment of noble aid daring fellows, he was at Fort Henry and Fort aielson, where he greatli disquguished himself. ! Gen. McClernard won his sprits during the present war. He was a leader in tire Dougla's wing of the DeMocratic party, and in 1560 occupied a seat in the House of Representatives.. He also figured con spicuously in the Baltimore and'Charles ton Conventions. He was opposed 'to Rreckinridge in Congress, and he opposed him again at Pittsburg'. He left his seat in Congress to take up arms in defense of the,' Government. As, a soldier, he had hiS first trial at the battle of Belmont, and came off with flying colors His ad ministration of affair's in' Cairo was very satisfactory. At Fort Horyaiad Fort .Donelsbn he ,Won fresh laurelil , and for his bravery was created a ;llajor.:General. He is about 45 „years of, agej tall and graceful—a true gentlemra and a true soldier. , • I • Gen. Buelris a native of Ohio, a grad uate of West Point, and low inn the me redian of life." He has been in the ser vice twenty years was in thci M mican war. When the present ' war toroke out u • - *Perd'l, in Cali he was in the. regular 13)1 fornia. .Congress made hti General, and gavo him col vision of the army of , • When Gen. Anderson iesigned ' his command. Gen: Buell was appointed td tako his place in Abe department of Ohio. It was under his supervision the army Oat Marched, from Bowling Green bo,Naplivklle was raised and disciplined. On the reconstruction of the Departments hi 3 was' created a' Major-Geaeral. He is a Man. of great physical 'strength and pOwers of endurance; has light hair, blue eyes, lied wens a full beard. He is 42 yeais of age.. Though slow to niove, he is terrible in execution. Gen. Crittenden is a Kentuckian, son of the Hon.! J. J. Crittenden, and'brother to theritebel General George B. Critten den. (When the Rebels first assumed a warlike attitude in Kentucky, he took command of the Home Guard [not the stay-at.homej and checked the progress of 013 Rebels toward Lonisvilie. He cemesi of a good Stock, and ;gives a good accoupt of himself. Gen. Hurlbut is a Carolinian by both, but i!eitizen of the State of Illinois. At the Mitbieak of our troubles, he served le 'Missouri under Gen. Fremont. He now sfecmiiitinds a part of Gen., Grant's, glorious army'. He has the chivalry, the courage, and the magninitnity of the true soldier. ,iod and , nght in onsent- bonnet , as the Hen. Smith is a native of Pennsylva nia, a gradnate of the Military 'Academy; hail been teacher of infantry tactics: He Was at the battle of Fort Donelson, and for; his gallantry was cre a ted , a Major deneral. He was aeverely, wounded at dui battle of 'Pittsburg Landing. His wounds-are red stripes and his deedsstars np:on ;his coat of anus. r _ Pi r Oentat lOn to the President. WASHINGTON, April 7,1861 Hepresebtattve McPherson will ; , to morrow present a cane to the President, wade by John Hawkes, an ingenius me-1 chaafc of Scranton, Pa. Tlie cane was originally a cedar stick, withi• a crooked top and a number of braiches.l Tile top has been converted into an .I,inerican•eagle, ;with life-likel Undo. Ins throat 'is the national Shield, wi i the words inscribed thereon, foreVer." The eagle grasps in his t4lons,jeff. Davis by the seat of the bieeches. ' Below him on each side, is a eanniin—the arbiter of our national diffi bulti6 On 'the other side is a lion in is now 1.. -mg only r, now in the vil• Jultibs. Jn full 4ring, with a rattlepnake near by Below the lion comes a goat, in the act of leaping ; and' a buck and doe, at 'full speq, follow him. A foa is springing; between them ; and then comes an eagle, grasping , a winged serpent with human head. The serpent, of the rebellion; with tails, human headed, is next in Order; a gold. ;finch; a yellow bird with tall ; a large turtle; a small alliga anu an adder. Next is an owl grrsp snake, followed by another alliga- Then 'comes a Union dragoon, five then blue LOT, i 'mon ted;' and in the act of charging 30 the enemies of his country: By his side is a blunt, rampant . - A monkey, with tail twisted around; a limb next' appears, holding Jeff. Davis by the hair of his ;head' with one: claw, and grasping th • Union flame staff• with' the other, thus shoving that, dumb brute as he is,. he • 'knows enough to hold AD the stars and • 4 • In pttipes, and in the meanwhile , punish a triitbr. Uncle Sam, with eagle face and - cap surmounted by stars 'and stripes, grapples 4ohp Bull by the horn, who in tug n -is Pinching his lion's tail to excite ris•rage,.but the lion takes it quite cool ly ,nn lila haunches. Next is a' grizzly bear "srynatted' on his hunkers ;" then a a blue bird, and a rabbit in full ;bound.: On the side opposite the latter is the final figure, o Anierienn • hnlding a musket ouneside, while he grasps the stars and stripes in the other, aacifstands erect on the crushed Serpent of. Rebellion. I • • ,This cane has most of the' figures on it note' I only; carved, but painted to the life =the btxly of the stick being : black. It iS the product of- the leisure hours of John Hawk* an iaieniris mechanic of ScMoton, Pa., who is noted for his -me- I Chanical ftngenuity. • •• ; ; • • , 1 , PilloW and Floyd have Mutually sworn i voogdaope, and 'are now very careful to ' I keep apart. iWhen they seem about to ,nieet, one sheers off one way, and the other the opposite way. They cut each othir with a pair of sheers. The Richmond Rebels are sending away their whthky , and tobacco. They T will follow soon, of course. , ; , Tilley rebels have fled from Skidaway Island,near Savannah—glad to scud away fro 'Skidaway.'. - t e i. Savatinah Georgicsm boasts that -the Southern Confederacy is still : afloat. 13u blee:fioat till they burst. ' - iris play'; beautifully upon 'pines and our . oldiera upon forts. ''he Rebels must be getting bare-footed w h n they . put out manifest-toes, i ;' The Confederate "'alert, ire, like the Confederate motes---theria nothing to re= deem amp. 1 . - . i 1 .-• , nice in UIL m a I Briadier tha d of a di . Atomise.— TERN3.- 7 $l.OO_MR UMMII THE Awes Girr.. , —A poor Arabwis traveling in the desert, when be . -I with a spring of clear, sweet, sparkling water. Accustomed as he was to brack ish wells, to his simple mind it appeared that such water' as this was worthy -of a monarch, and idling= bis renthen, bottleo from the spring, he determined to go and present it to the caliph - himself. The poor man- traveled a considerable distance before, - he reached the presence of his sovereign, and laid his humble offering at his feet. The caliph did not despise the little gift brought to him with so much trouble. He ordered soma of the water , to be poured into a cup, 'drank it, and thanked the Arab with a smile, ordered him to be presented with a re ward. The courtiers around pressed forward, eager• to taste of the wonderful math, but to the surprise of all, the caliph for— bade them to touch even a single, drop: - Aft.r the poor Arab had quitted , the roya r presence with a light and joyful heart, the caliph turned to his courtiers aid thus oxplained the motives of his cenduct : • "During . the travels of the Arab,".said be, "the water in this leathern bottlahad become impure and distasteful. Ike it Was an offering of love, and as suet I have received it with pleasure. But I Well knew that had I suffered another to partake of it, be would not have con cealed his' disgust; therefore I forbade you to touch the draught, lest the heart of the poor man shonld have been wetted ed." All that einners can Insult to their king is like the water brought by the Arab, though like him we may fancy it. worthy the, acceptance of our Lord. - -- But he will not reject—he will not de spise the little offering of love and faith; for he bath promised that even a cup of cold water given in the name of *a dist& Ple shall in no wise lose its reward. lIME Gins' IDEAS OF MEN.--At sixteett &- girl considers no man good enough to bs• her husband. She must have :I real, live archangel, with "humid orbs," a "marbles brow," on which "cluster wavy tress& i . black as the raven's wing ;" a moustache . , of silken softness, and ebony hue; in it. word, no human eing of flesh and blood: qualities, but an altogether sweet and, lovely and ideal creation, in purpli - aut. linen, and no small' vices. Unfortunate— ly, no such person exists. Ng is a pleas ant myth of the butter-thunder school of ronince, and has no material form in this world of corner lots; dry goods and ges• bills. At eighteen, the girl discovers. that unwholesome truth, and changes her view accordingly. She is probably : in, love by that time, with some decent look ing and sensible young fellow, who though hardly an archangel, does very well to• idealize. Then it must be a great min.. A Judge of the Supreme Coot ; a great general would be very acceptable the- President of the Unh.od States would be just the thing; or a foreign prince or Count might find welcome if genuine:— Hut Tom or Harry utterly refuses to be come either a judge, a general, a TOM dent, or a foreign nobleman. He remains good looking, penniless, and clever,- and the aspiring young lady loves him' as mach as ever. • I . :pally. when the affair is settled ; As wedS him at twenty, settles down intl-an excellent matron, and enjoys her Fft y or breaks her heart, and marries Et tillow chandler.bild, but wealthy, at twenty-five, and regrets it at her leisure. Such is•the general history of maidens who set forth with an idea of marrying nothing short of a novelesque hero. . A UsioN PAPER AT NAM:MU - Z.—. S.C..Mercer has established an outspoken, unconditional Union paper at Nashville, Tenn. It is ealled the Nashville Union_ Its motto is "Freedom and Natimmlity." In his introductory the editor says: "The present &ate Government has no' eon:- promise to offer, and will take as step backwaid in i!s great cork of iesteration and reconstruction. It is firmly resolved to succeed triumphantly or to perish ut terly, and neither persuasion nor threats can deter it from its duty ; and so lone as it discharges this diity in pursuance of the Constitution and the laws, it eau take no step where I dare not follow. Let the people consider, that if it was vtioth sevealreare war to win oar liberties-from British tyranny ; it is worth a seven.t'iutes Seven-years war to preserve it frmst Con federate . Gov. Wise virile he hung Juhrßrewn, talked enthusiastically of the 914 f nerve. It seems. then, that'a ti Imile nerve without. 'Lavin' 0 The Confederate ?lien say lila tatr takes* five ilJnion men to match one reStl It gesursally takes_full that numbe• tk) 1:2t143‘ hien. Why is pew:Floyd tie eneror Slat Gems's-oar the Potonktor .Bractitetv is a General- Rooker: - CM
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