The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, February 18, 1863, Image 1

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VOLUAE XV.- -NUAIBER '9
Tllll l
ERIE
EIMEMOI
POTTER
• puntastigp By
M. W. McAlartiOy, Prcipvietor.
$1 51 ex-rs - siciNvArtup LT IN., eureset:
•
* * *Devotedw to the cae of Republicanism.
the interests of Agricultiire, the allyani!einen;
of Education, and the best goal' ofi Potter
county. Owning no guide except that of
Principle. it will tadeay. , dr to nid in the work
of wore fully Preedumizing our Country.
ADVIM7ISIIIIENTS inset4ed at the foilowing
rates. except where special bargains ard made.
1 Square [la lines] .1, insertion;, ~,:_- ,1 : _ i su
1 • II il 3 - - - i ;$l2 50
Each subsequent insertion less than 13,1 . 25
'1 Square three months„-i --- , - :- ~;- !,-.- 2 50
t — sr - six -'. " . - --- ;.- ''.. 1 — 400
I " nine .. " I I' T 5 50
i '1 one year, ' i'6 00
• -
1 Botanic'. six months, 1 1.20 00
1• 44 It ttlo 00
41 - 44 , " ------ 700
1 "•- per.y.ear. ,r r-,--, r ,- - : 40 00
i ll, - .tt ; iI-:, ; .. 4 -.. ~. '.. . ..,:, .. . 20 00
Administrator's Or Executor's Notice, 200
Business Cards, 8 lines or less. peryent 5 00
;Special and Editorial Notices,.pe. line,.:. 10
* * *All transient adveitisemenes must be
-paidin'adv,ance, and no notice will be, taken
of advertisements from aldistanceomless they
mre accompanied by the ruoney'or satisfactory.
reference. 1 i
•* **Blanks, and Job *ork of all kinds. at-
tended to promuq - and flit h run vl
-13USIN.gSS CA1015..
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LEULALI4342:, A. M.
STATED Meethigs ori - the H2ii.l arid , Ith Wednes
days of each month. 'Also Nl.ts(iniC gather
ings on every Wednesday Eve , drig. for work
and practice, at their di:ill in C,indersport.
TlMeirrllY IVES, W. M.
SAMUEL HAVEN, Sec'y.
JOHN. s. 4 . 1 ANN,
ATTORNEY ANIMUUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Coudersport,l Pa., will, attend the several
Courts in Moller and EKeaa.Counties.
basin:es entrusted in his _care will" receive
prompt attention. (Mice corner of West
'and Third streets:
ARM lilt G. OLMST.F..O,
'ATTORNEY b• COUNSELLOR At LAW,
Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business
onrrusted to his care, with promptnes and
•
id& ity. Office on Soth-went corner. of Main
and Fourth streets.
ISAAC BENSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW, COudersport,
attend to all business entrusted tb him, with
care and promptness. *Mice on Seetind st.,
near the Allegheny Bridge.
r. W. KNOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Coudersport.
regularly late Id the Courts in Pot .
the adjoining Counties.
•---- -
O. T. ELLISON, • •
ritAcTiciNG Pis..vs IC CLia , lerlort, Pa.,
respectfully informs the citizen..of this vil
lage and vieinfty that he will proatply re
spond to all calls for orofn.ts,ionl
Office on st., in b til.liag fornierly oc•
copied by C. W? Ellis. 13.1.
S E.l .msll§,
OPALER:3 (N DRUGS. lIEDIGINE.‘I. PAINTS
Oils; ; Fancy ;kiddies, Stationery. prY Good:
Grarerieit. Main st".. (Willer:Tort, Pa.
D., E. OLMS'rED. .
IN I>ltY GOODS. READ'I% - 31.01.:
Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, Sc. , Main st.,
Coudersport, Pa. ,
COLLINS- SMITIL ' •
DEALER. in• Dre Cinods.Groceries. Provicions.
11.kidware, Qieen;:srare, and
u4nAlly found in 'a country Store.—
Coudersport . , Nov. 27; 1861.
. ,
'; 1 .- COMMSPORT HOTEI;,
p. F. GLASz:IIIItE. Proprietor. Coiner o-
Main and. Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot
ter Co., Pa.
A Livery Stable is also kept in: connect
Lien with this Hotel..
1M A RiC GLUON,
opposite the Court goose—
' will Mahe all clothes intrustedAl him in
the latest and best styles—Prices to Suit
'the' times. Give him a call.H 13.41
ANDREW SAN BERG • 5t.1311.0 . 4:'
TANNERS AND CURRIERS.-111d'es 'tanned
in the shares, in the; 'best manner. Tan
. nery ; on the east side of Alle,piliy river
Coudersport, Potter county, Pa Hly, I 7,'6 I
11. J. . :::::: KELLY
OLAISTED .
,EALER IN STOVES, * TtN & SIIRET IRON
WARE, Main st. - , nearly opposite tie Court
:Coudersport, Pa._ Tin' str(d Shee'
'lron Ware made to order, in good, style, on
short notice. • - , '
:Ulysses Ac tdemy.
incipal, Mr.E.It.CAIIPBELL,
Preccptre3s, Mrs. litaTlP.: J+IES ; 'As.
sistatit. 7diss A. E CAiitellochL The expenses
per Term are : Tuition, from $5 to $6 ; Board
from $.l 50 to $1..75, per, week; Ellomi for self
bba'rdimr, frOml2 to st. 'Each term commence;
spun Wednesday and continues Fourteen
milks; Fall term.Aug.27th.lB62; Winter term.
Den.lOth; lii62 rand Sprini terra. Nltich 25th,
159,, 0. R. ASSETT, President.
B (jRIDL '
4 Lewisville; Ju64
Dlssulution,
NOtice is.hereby given that the• Partnership
oeretofore existing under the tome of Boutou
and Burtis. is this clay dissolved by mutual
conpent. . The business will be coutiaued by
W. BOutiin; .
• : ' tiOUTOlf,'
WOCiLSEY BIIRTIS.
White's Corners, Sept. 30.
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for sale it!
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"Every Manly tits Post:"
MEM
If any mid thing more than another
upaid- -',..triake' us earnest in 9nreffotts to
preserve our country entire, it is the de-,
sire ny the aristocracy of the Old Wor'd,
everywhere Ina ni fested : --to see this. great
IfipUblic"Of 'ours split 'op iniri fractiois,
with jarring. interests sod a prospect of
Rimini.. strifes. Better, that we make'
any required 'eacrifiee Of; ti and substance
now, however great, thin that our Na-,
tional Unity be dissolved, and war and.
cljscord, _bp•• utt r peypet We'
have recently' stood upon swim of the bat.
tle-fields of Burite, where the very sell
is still fertile with thee l pipPd of thousands.,
of nicti—men - slain - in 'thb`wths concern
ing
imutagitiMylines where Nature has''
wade none,'Our country has no natural I
_
dividing
; L'et us forewarned
against all attempts to set up artificial
ones. Let every true AMerican, native
or foreign burg, ;spare,no effort no to save,'
vur country intact.
HOW A MODEST MAN; WAS MiSTAK
EN.—Tire. iti - OthZe Slizigtird- 'says : In'
Lowell. at a lecture a few evenings since,
a gentleman, the west modest wan of his
sex, and ticrlesS.polittS ..tbit_ modest, was
sitting in a pew rather remote from the,
light. A pretty lady sat next to him
Loulting.on the . pour during.thelecture,
he%espied what' he•thouglii was . rhe lady's
handkerchief, the lace trimmed - edge just
visible from under her dress. Turning
toitie pew.wato, he gallabilir:whispered,
"You'vl dropped your handkerchief;
madam 1' and .before she' could reply he
proceeded to pick it 'UP. Horror !he had
seized the edge of her pet—skirt, and did
nut diicuien,„his-mistake.tintil• the top of
a gaiter-boot ;stared him in the face; and
the faint tim i d of a , laugh,, just nipped
in 'the bed by the application at a real
handitereinet,l warned hiut of
,his .wis
hike:
Mural—Doi
thing with la
what it is.
GEM. SC()
sayt: The
nuw at the Fi
of the colum
of many wars
Longer is his el
force unabate
log to the in.
,sift but seldui
cloy. , The n
-fromUnke,"
as po:::oble, an
of the body oil
arable ..iid wo
'LI. at . A.offiNlys.
and already ti.
atilite in die v.
and .14s u:.efu
en hull ess and a
iiis time.
MEE
MEE
ANGELS lit l
matt ; he is
ale is not in •
ciples of ...tour'
day, he told in
them,-his'
, old :
"Perhaps s
saclilege. but I
back, I have bi
the Bible, an'.
uignt before tit
have dune it b
once on the chi
it way have a
Last night I w
Mason) and d
eleven o'clock..
were all abed,
Before g.,ing t
bed to pray, .
moment When,.
her bed in thC.
feet came patte
we. I kept p>
and knelt dim'
a word. I flid
moment, speak
she saic4.,Pa,-:
Kissed her, and
And I tell you,
ing affect me st
I have thought
Imig, except tht
- A Washington _dispatch says, in refer
ence to the alleged surrender of the gun
boat Slidell, Oat. there is no such vessel
in the 'Navy, nor atyofficer by the name
of Van Dorn. •
Parliament is About to discuss the sub.
jeer of the "Princi'of Wake" packet Moro.
ey. He has already an income of 6250,-
000 per annum, but his mother thinks he
oughL to, have 000,000-moro z or as,,much
ai the Yrioceas' Charl o tte 'arid ; her, hits:
'
• To' form an estimate of the beauty of a
bonnet, put irladi in. it:: ;1.1 !. • - •,'
We Gan rarely be what we would be,
but alway 'ALM clAhßld.
Stlep:9iiker ever
itrOß
Debotea to tile- itißeiples of itlio file Disseiiiiimflop of Yohlitg, Kitei7Ottlyel:Qqo„ilfe:o3.
't attempt to pick up any
lice to it, before you know
IT —A New York paper
I ntre of military interest is
hth Avenue Hotel. In one
dious apartmebts the hero
is ; laicLaside to die. No
. ..e undimited or his natural
Gen. Scott is fast yield
!;robicies of age. Lie goe-
1. and sees but little it
tide old warritir, like tlo
kept in the harness as lone
d yielded to t he infirmities
ly when Coey became hies
Id nut h i e appeased. The
1 :c - ntt: ha; had 'kis influence,
e old hero feels that he
orld, and Lis activity mei
ness ended., With great
settled . etnuPosure he waits
/ruk .. .i.inu§E -I known
l ot a Chri,,tinti. His daily
1 ccoidanee with e. en Fin
Ility: lie. Irtrt late beau
! ved children. . The other
Ithis incident of one of
i e•
ofri - ' three 'Or' - 'foar year,.
..
me people would think. it
don't ; but; for some titite
en :in the habit of reading
' of havi ng , prayer. every
e go - .to •b'ed. , .1
• cause it has a good influ
Itiren, and because I hope
mid ,influence, on myself.
ut; to the 'Lodge,' (he i 4 a
I'd. nut go home till after
The.chlidr,ep, of course,
stip)goSed. asleep.—
bed, I knelt down by ms
•nd h'ad been thety but 'a
heard Npbip get up' from
'reddi',.and her little
ing along the floor toward
Meetly still, and she cattle
beside pie without saying
taitotiee her ; and, in a
ug just above her breath.
ray Jou . v --I prayed; I
- She Wed biek to bed.--
G—, I have had noth
,o
fur 'the last ten years.—
of, nnthing else all day
t little, •I'u pray loud.'
COUDERSPORT, POTTER• COU4IIt, WEDDIESDAY,TEBRUARt..ISi,jB63:
A Carte or Anwittiesia.
It was immediately after the battle of
the - flatchie. The dead in that terrible
eonflict. had been laid beneath the,- , inold,
and while the wounded had been briMght
th - e church buildings, or placed iit-tht:
spaciouti apartments of the wealthy did
loyalists of &divan AulOng the number
of unfortunates was William C. Newton.
a Sergeant in Company G, of thadlovra
lufstitrY. Ilia leg had been so badly
shattered and torn by a musket' shot as
to render an • amputation -- unavoidable--
He Was - informed of such a necessity, but
mo: n iitormur or word of Complaint es
caPed • his lips, nor did the intelligence
Cast over his - face . the -least perceptible;
shade•of seriousness. The tablii was pre
pared; the thstruments were placed cun
veniently. and everything placed in read
limn; for the operation. lie was brought
out upon' the verandah and placed upon
the, table—his poor, shattered, torn,l and
half .fleshless leg dangling around, as if
only iti'extratieous and stoseless appen
dage:-
„There was no sighing, no Omit
irtg, no -drawing • back or holding ih.—
The . re . Was not a simple feeling of dtimb
resignation; nor yet of brate'indifference;
but a soldierly sobmission:—a heroic sub
mission, without a question or a sigh.--
He indulged freely in •convereatior, re
speeiing the operation, until the chloro
form was applied. From the waking and
rational state he glidea into the amsthet
ic without the convulsive :notion of, aSin
gle muscle, and without the utterance of
single incoherent sentence.; but glided
into h :as the innocent and weary child
elides into the sweet embrace of a henith
ful and:-restoring sleep. The operation
was performed. The arteries all ligated ;
the stump cleansed, and the last suture
just in.that instant applied. • Duripg,the
entire operation he Sad scarcely- moved a
muscle. just at this time the large body
of prisoners taken in that engagement,
were ,marched up the street, and wore
heating the house where the maimed and
bleeding soldier lay. The streets Were
thronged with soldiery ; and hundreds of
them rushed to get a - nearer sight- of the
vanquished, while they rent the heavens
with their loud Imam . A full regiment
precedefl the column of prisoners rind
when jvist opposite, the band etruols .up
in ftill Orem the inspiring martial air of
' Hail Qgilumbia." , In a moment, -upon
the ve,ry: instant..the color mounted to his
face. tie opened his eyes, half wonder.
ingly; and raised his head flow the
low with a steadiness and dignity of a glad.
The seMie of tile conflict came back; to
him; and he thought his noble Regiment
was again breasting, toward the erietuv.
thi•ougli a shower of shot and shell ! • nis
brave coMrades,he deewed,were fading one
by urge around' him; just as they had dime
iu that 'dreadful hem of fratricide and car
nage. The spiri. of the time t.aute over
him, his featug :laughed an air of bold.
'reo.ticry, unyielding cleteragination;Juid
he hoist. forth into exclamations the tigost
ti-rrible and appalling 1 had ever listened
to in all any lite. .
"Louder With the music! louder ! !guid
er! Burst the heavens with your strains!
'Sweeter ! softer I sweeter ! charm the
blessed 'angels from the very Courts of
!leaven ! Victory ! vimory ! Onward !
I uWard ! :No tlaogitig ! flinching !. un
'faltering! Fill up I step up! press for
ward ! your comrades' graves ! the fretih
graVes of your 'slain I Remember . the
graves of. your comrades ! Blue Mills!
Bliie Mills ! Shelbina! Shelbitia! Hu
ser Wood I Shiloh ! Shiloh ! For God's
caht onward ! Onward, in [leaven's
Mune'? MI war d 'onward ! See the dev
ils Waver Sec them run ! See! see thew
dY!,flgr„
During this outburst of passion, his
countenance kindled and grew Purple.
tillshiS look . zieetitt;tl like that, of diabol
tam 1 Such fury [narked his • Itneatnents
that I lost ineti vely drew back. But there
Tiqt . .. , tnethod in his tnadneis." ,He only
erred in mistaking time, and in MisplaC
ing'his position ; facts which the martial
music aticrtlie"...pomp and the citcuth•
stance of war" in the public streets would
liarci•ti natural tendency c.oward produc
fM>.' in the very middle of his fury, he
seemed Suddenly to comprehend his ma]
take. .He ceased abruptly, liis whole
frame in a !renter of emotion. Ile looked,
around upon the faces present, and with-
mu a word, glietly laid down his head.
lie grew mePative as he seamed to re•
aliz - ti a full-senile of his unhappy situation
At.length his eyes gradually tilled with
tears; and his lips grew tremulous. He
quietly reaterked, “Well, boys, good bye,
good-bye; I s ahould do . but Sorry fighting
on a wooden 120. " ." He again relapsed
into siletiCe and was , shortly afterwards
carried' to his room.
.., Is a recruit supposed to be raw until
he has been exposed to fire ?
Ile wilco' , pays, his addre:'ses to dumb
.
belles is in
.no danger of being discarded.
Tire beat fpfeientive of fits if to buy
Your clethei at a Slop-shop.
AN ~PITAPn .— It 'stated that Two .
Moore, one night whgesteitolng at an ion'
in Scotland, l was coniinually-troubled.lb,,y
the landlady : with the request that the
would. write her, - epitaph. AccOrdingly,
at night, he gave—inipromPtu"-ael fOC
lows
"Good Bonn. Blake, in royal state,
Arrived, at last, at her Masteris gate,r--I
and stopped, promising to flnish it in the
morning. The, good lady , was in trans
ports at the ineetiptioa, and treated,Mr.
Moore with every possible attention. In
the Morning as he was about Ileaning, l the
lady reminded him that he , had' not fin
;.„l,e,l!the, "That'sfio." he said
end inauecliatelp added—
t , Sttt Peter. met her, with a clap,
And knocked her back to Beelzebub."
It-is said that Mr. MOore'itihorses were
io tuutionjust as he had finished the last
line. - 11
Bow they Recruit In 1
The Nashville Gide . n gives
ing description of the rccrtii,
in blessed Dixie : "The doug
in hiarocetit visit to Franklin,
seat cA p Williatuson, - nad liv
enforcing the Conscription Lti
riving there with lii cavalry„
a spot, placed guards around
dared all the -wale citizens in I
repair thither without a 'thoin ,
The order was prinnnistated
flans, who
,galloped up ao4
streets with menacing sabres. The citi
zens obeyed, and hurried to: the rendeX
vous indicated with grear,trepidation, out
knowing what dreadful event I was, about
to happen. Pe they rushed along,
singly and in squads, until they arrived
at the place, Where the terrible ogre Foe-.
rest, the 'raw head and bloody bones' Of
guerilla warfare; was standing with his
brigands. ' lie ordered all whui were with
in the limits of the •ConscriPtion
except thu.ye who owned twenty negrue
--tu come along with him as soldiers in
the Cunfecierate a. my, and thieatened to
bloW every traitor to the devil who hesi
tated one moment. One orthe unfortg
nate gentleman thus summarily muste.'ed
into service, the Clerk •of the Court,
named Robinson, approached: Forrest and
asked to be allowedl to makc 'Sittne necei;
sary arrangements;for this :unexpected
campaign. .Forrest replied by drawing
his pistol and clubbing it, beat the poor
fellow several times over the Iheaci, gash .
ing it frightfully. After thiexhibition
of chivalry, the crowd walkdd off after I
Forrest as meekly as the I,Cgro gangs .
which he 'used to lead to auction when
he plied his vocation as sla4-trader at
Meluphis. ,
The Way Gen. !looker got his'
'
When the war broke out, says a Cali . -
fornis paper, Gem Hoeker, t 144 iu Cali:
.oruia, came post bake to Washington ttl
utter his services to I to the Go,Verumeutl
G e n. Scott war at the bead of the wilita
ry affairs of the country, and beiween that ;
o ld gentleman and Allen. IltMiiin. was . .a
l'eud - dating back to :the MexiJan war.H
H e uee,'as everything relating t.) the army
was referred to Bcott, Booker: ivas suffer
e ( 1 to apply in vain for even aLregiMentaf
cumniand. • Ditgu;ted and mad, he made
1
iri s preparatitnis• to return to Itlhe Pacific;
coast, aud;wus about; to - start when the;
that h'attle of Bull Run was teught.---!
There was nothing is that. toeneourage i'
se he went up to the. White; House
. as,
the lust thing before leaving, ;to calf on
the President, whoa) be' lia4 never seen.
He wait introduced, by some Mistake of
bin friend, as Capt. Hooker, and the fol.
lowing Was the conversation that ensued;
-Hooker. "Mr. President, I!wati intro
duced to you as Captain 1100k4,1 am or
was Lieutenaut Cotimel Hooker, of the
regulsi army Wheil this wail began, I
was at Imam, in, California, and hastened
to wake a tender 'of - my services to the
Go%ertimeut; but my relationito General
Scutt, or some other, impediment in the
wily, mid I see no chance of tiMking my.
4uilitary knowledge and ea perioti f ee . useful.
am about to return; but before going I
was anxious te pay my respects to you,
and to . express my . wishes for your per
sonal Welfare, and fur your puecess in
putting down this : rebellion j And I
want, while 1 am atiit, to•say Une.tling
wore ' j 1 was at Milli Run, tlietber day,
Mr, Presideot,.aud lit is oo , anity. ur
,7
breasting iu we, to say that I. a
p.ight better general than you, s
that field'!"
After this announcement, Mt. Lincoln
concluded he. might venture tojrust him
with a colonelcy, ancil therefore; gave.hitu
the coma - land of a regiment. Since that
time his march has been onward.
Mrs. Partington, in illustratinn of the
proverb , t hat "a soft answer turneth away
wrath," says tbat, "it ;s bawl. to• - speak'
paranorinal of a person, than twig:inn the,
tithe flinging epitaphaat him; for no good
camel to nobody tbat never @Oaks' no
good of no,ene:" ;.- !. : -
z:zi
EMI
„ Way-Side Gleanings.
dPare the rod, and you'll; have no fish
.edinnerl. .
What is. taken from. you before you,get
Youtl portrait.
One rod.is often equal toa dozen per
ang mg..
Bullets ',can sing and. whistle', but they
.e not pleasant musicians: .
- ,'Ttallittie trouble to brew_ beer; but
:er brews much trouble. •
ustoralourself to keep secrets. •If
renit, any, borrow your neighbor's..
Ace,
u ha
BM
ule,4 ofl
2 *41
a _ht
In ainalial battle the work of death's
selthe is often best done by a rake.
A persou who has no address should
not undertake to address' audiences.
e South.
the 'follow:
ling systetn
41ty Forrest.
; the eutinty
-ely tiwntri
Odar:
he Selected
it. and . orl
•
LLe
tuwwto
loot's delay.
dirty
I
I Let the young man who blushes take
cdurage, for it is the color of virtue.
13.Iisse.s May be :wived. but oftentimes
wives, 'even though they die, are not
missed., '
. ;If women do the &eater part of the
calltiog, they also do the better part of it.
Man women to the alter; in that
ac'his leadership begios and ends.
IDon't put your watch under your pil
lojr—a man should never "sleep upon his
wStoh."
• •
iFew ladies are so •modest as to he un
ickbit in the lap of ease and luxury .
It is better to be laughed \at for not
Being Married than -to be unable to laugh
beeause , you r are. -
The u n h appiestof mortals are thpso
who have more money or more time than
they know bow ttse.
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Many a man tries to play the devil who
is l oot smart enough to act the part : lre
makes a! poor devil.
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If-a woman's Sottish husband is scold
ing her, ! let her tie a flour-bag over his
'head, and be will get mealy-mouthed. •
GenerallY, the office•seeker who gets
nothing; gets what is good for him and
exactly what he , is good for. ,
down 'the
- Nany persons who have a raging wkr
fever before; going into battle, are apt' to
get. the ague afterward.
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We hear uch'of the romantic evening
rambles of lovers;•but there is often a
great deal of moonshine about it.
He who pays more attention to his hat
than to his head, shows which is moat
Priied. [1 e ,
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Nothing is more easy than to do mis
chief; nothing is more difficult than to
stiffer .withoUt complaining.
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,Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds
than joy ever can, and 'common suffering
are tar stronger than common joys.
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preaclier should not have a twam in
his.eye; but if he looks around him in
Lisbermon,.he will be sure to have a good
many sleepers in it.
The man v,v' horn you Raied from drown
lig, nod' the y thati-..wko .never pays you
shat he owe!, you init . ) , eunbidei ea alike
nilaited to .on for life.. - .
What can be wore foolish than to think
that all rare fabric of heaven and
earth could dome by chance when all'the
skill of art not able to niaiteatroyster?
• siViserY assails riches as lightning does
the ; .highest towers; as a tree„ that 'is
heavy-laden, with .fruit breaks its own
boughs, so fu riches destroy the virtue
of their.posscissor. . " '
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• In all evils Which admit a• remedy, Ito.
• 1 , ..
patience
,should be : avoided , because .it
Wastes that , time ,and . attention in cow
plaints, which, if properly applied; 'night
remove the 4itse. ' .. . . .
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- The avaricious man is - like the barren;
sandy ground of the desert, which buck:,
in ail the*tin and dews Zia!' greediness.
hut - Yields polfruitful herbs or plants for
Ehe beneffit o6thers. •. •• •
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Small dchts are like small shot; they
irel tattling on every side, and can , scarce
'he escaped without a wound; great
debts are cannon, of loud noise but
i little danger.
A; man being asked, as he lay sunning
;himself on the grass, what, was the height:
j of his ambitiun, replied, "To marry a rich
,widow with albad cough.
Many men (fail ;in life because when
youog they &ants a faltie judgment touch
ing their mental= capacities ; and, incline
tibuß,. and ! are lever after engaged in the
tasi:ef prnvink.to themselves and-others
that 'their ;verdict is a just one. '" '
'n
r, bad on
Air old boo,
was oanedi.
Pea.
ng to a
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principle are no s prunithd men.
fight, take your friend's part;•at
iet him have it hiumelf.
elor sayethat Adam's wife
'e because; when she ap
day, Of r happjuila wag draw
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,T,EMEW-741.,51:!..P . F4,4011:,A,:,
Case of Anitialgaosittloo.
One of .-the- wounded rebels captured:
during the , engagement' at Goldwater' on'
the &h i died at the !hospital in this plaie.
His_ name was Caliberne.. - He - Was a
member Of Jaokson'sOavalry CoMmand.
; A. few hours before the - death of the
soldier, and whilehe was quite conscious,
a likely mulatto boy, about twenty yenta
of age, called' at the hospital and request
ed permission to visit “Massit Caliborne.
He was the dying man's, slave,' and had
been:his eamp sevantin the Sold.. Cali
horne appeared very much rejoiced tosse
him... The ;two conversed _very cordially
for a. while until the attending physician
(i f ,,,,,i0il sit nor,SA •tivallitta 41...-:-.....,,,-,,,,,
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le- continue longer, as. the patient.was
sinking under the exhaustion Produced
by speaking. " Accordingly tiv.rave was
it .: is
advised to leave the room.. s* - "" ' '' , s , ii.
The dying:Van overlie*. the r i t,
made to hisleisitor. and remonstrate
earnestly as be could.. '4lO is my brother,
and he has a right tostay herei" said
Caliborne. .
This ezpression astonished the physi
ohm. and others in the room. and was at
first regarded as the emanation of a .win - .
dering mind. But- . the mulatto said it
was true, and further inquiry, after'Cali
botheos death, which occurred in less
than an hour, confirmed it. • The mutat.
th',s fatherand the soldier's father were
preven•to be identical. Both were borne
near Bolivar, Tennessee. - The • mulatto's
mother is still the slave , of CalibOrne's
father, and he was both the slave and the
brother of the dying man. "He is my
brother and he his a right to stay here,"
were Caliborne's last words. •
Among the'crowd of •mourning corn•
portions who stood around the soldier's
death-bed, none were more. pained and
grief str;eken to. witness the last strugglO,
than the saffron cbeeked ,boy who knew
n T o other name for his brother than
"Massa Caliborne."-- Cincionatti Com
mercial.
JUICING A NEEDLE.—=Needles ar•
made of steel wire. Thewire is first out
by'shears, from coils, into , the length .of
the needles to be made. After a batch
of anal bite of wire base been out off,
they are placed in a hot furnace, end then
taken but •and:rolled backward and-for ,
ward on it table till they are Straigfit.--
They at-e,now to begiourd. The needle,
pointer then takes up two dozen or so of
the wires and rolls them between - his
thumb and fingers, and their ends on : the
grindstone; firet, one end and then the
Other. Next is a machine which Battens
and gutters the beads off' ten thousand
needles in
.an hour. Next cornea the
Punching 'o f
.. the eyes, by .a boy, so fast
that the eye can hardly keep pace with
him. The splitting fellows, which is run.
meg a fine wire through a dozen, per.
haps, of these twin needles. 'A wanton,
With a little 'anvil before her, ales be.
tweet) the heads and Separates them.
They are now complete needles, but
!.hey are rough and rusty and easily bent.
The hardening cornea next. They are.
heated in batches in a furnace, and when ,
red hot are . thrown into a pan of cold
watest Neit they must be tempered,
and this is done by. : rolling them back.'
Ward andforward OD a het_tnetal plate.
The polishing still remains,to be : done
On a very coarse clothneedles are spread
to the number of forty or fifty . thousand,
Emory dust is strewed over, them ; oil is
sprinkled and soft soap daubed otter
t.heni; the cloth is rolled herd up, end,
itb' several others of the same kind,
thrown into a sort of _washpot, to roll to
sod . fro twelve hours or More. They
pine out dirty enough, rut, after a rins
ing in clean hot miter, and tossing'in saw
dust, they become bright, and ready _to
he sorted and put up for !ale.
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SINGULAR FIDELITY OF A DOG A A,
"he. Hon. John Covude, in hompanY with
a number if officers; was 'sassing over the
battle field beyond Fredericksburg, their
attention was called to a small dug lyit , g
by a corpse: Mr.,Covode halted a few
minutes to see if life was extinct. Rais
ing the, coat from, the man's face. he Grand
hint dead. The dog, looking:wistfully
6p, ran to the dead man's face'ind kissed
Ibis silent lips Such devotioti in a smell
40g was so singular thar, Covode ex
4mined some papers upon the body, and
found it'to be - that of- Sergeant W. 11.
trowti, Co. C, 91st Pennsylvania. The
dug .was shivering in the cold, but , re.
fused to leave his master's body,] and al
the coat was thrown oveillis face sitin-he
seemed very uneasy, and iried,to - get um
der - h to .the man's face. He , had, .it
s t ems followed the regiment , into 110 le,
and. stuck IQ his master, and" .when Its
fell remained With him, refusing to leave!
him or to eat anything. As the' .puty
returned an ambulance-was -carrying the
corpse- to a little -grove , of trees,:for: iti
,tOrtutO,Jho dog following, the on
ly"mounter that funerol.,sts
re'scomrades ; bad *t eon cajicid to AKA,
tithe* point. =
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