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JOHN S. MANN,
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ATTORNEY! AND"COUNSELLOR AT L.ALW,
• Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several
Courts in Potter and M'Kean Counties. All
•business entrusted in his care will receive
prompt. attention. Office corner of West
and Third streets.
ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,.: , ;
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
• Coudersport, Pa:,, will attend to all business
entrusted to, his ',care, with pre inptnes and
fidCity. Office on Soth-west comer of Main
end Fourth streets. I
ISAAC BENSON
ATTgßnsi . AT LAW, Coudersport, 'Mt.,. v4il
attend - to all business entrusted to him,
Date and promptness. Office on Second st.
near the Allegheny Bridge, 1
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F. W. It.NOX,
ATTORNEY 'AT LAW, Coudersport, PR., will
regularly attend the Courts in Pottr and
' 'the adjoining Counties.'
O. T. ELLISON', I . "
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 Oe
enpied by C. W. Ellis, Esq.
C. S:&;;E. A. JONES,
DEALERS IN DREGS, 3180CINES.-ZAINIIS
Oils, Fanoy Articles, Stationery, Dry
Groceries, &c., Main st., Coudersport,i Poi
D. E. l 013 STED,
HEALER IN Dlr4 GOODS; READY-]LADE
Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, &c., Mpn st.,
Coudersport, Pa.
COLLINS SMITH,
EULER in Dry Goods,Groceries, Provisions,
Hardware, Queensware, Cutlery, and p.ll
Goods usually found in a country Store.:
Coudersport, Nov. 27, 1861.
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COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
F.- GLASSMIRE, Proprietor, Corner
Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot
ter Co. Pa.
2:Livery Stable'is also kept in conn'ect
lion with this. Hotel. '
MARK. GILLON,
TAlLOR—nearly opposite the Court House—
will make all clothes intrusted to him in
the latest and best styles —Prices to suit
the times.—Give him a call? 13.41
IL J. OLMSTED
• OLMSTED .& KELLY,
'BALER. IN STOVES, TEN' & SHEET IRON
WARE, Main st., nearly opposite the Court
House, Cotidersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet
Iron Ware made to order, in good style', on
short notice.
Mysses Academy
Mill retains as Principal, Mr.E.R.CAMPBELL,
Preceptress, Mrs. NETTIE JONES GRIDLEY . ; As.
aistint, Miss Ane Wetaran The expenses
per Term are : Tuition, from $5 to $6 ; Board,
fromrsl'.so to $1.75, per - week; Rooms for iclf
boarding from $2 to $4. Each term•comme4ces
upon Wednesday and continues Fourteen
'weeks. Fall term,Ang.27th,lB62;Winter terni,
Dec.loth; 1862 ; and 3pring term, March 25th,
1863. 0. R. BASSETT, President.
W. W. GRIDLEY, Sect'y.
.I,ervieville, July 9, 1862. •
MANHATTAN HOTEL.'
NEW YORK..
T B s Popular Hotel is situated near' the
Corner of Murray Street and Bread
way opposite, the Park within one block
of the Hudson River Rail Road and near the
Erie Rail Road Depot. It is one of the most
yltasatit'and convenient locations in the'city.
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. "Board & Rooms $1.50 per dray.
. • N. HlMGlNS,ProprietOr.
Feb:lBth, 1863.
The Rochester Straw-Cutter.
OLISISTED .Sr KELLY, Coudersport, have
the exclusive agency for' this celebrited
itriadtine, in this county. It iecoyenietit,
able; . and CHEAP. • Pee. 1, 1860.-1
118.,,N0w is, the time to subscribe 16i your
felinity Patier:=THE JOURNAL.
BRAND TINE LIARS.
Vallandigham, the chief Of the Cop
perhead. tribe, :efforts' . to Aid: U . ,*
Rebels by perjudleing the people against a
Union Government, says :
" THIS wicked' Admini.stratio7), IN
CITED and PROVOKED Civil War, as a
PRETEXT to abolish Slavery in the
States." .'
And this is repeated by all the Tories,
for the purpose of deceiving honest men.
Now, st•ho ever heard of an- Adniinis
tration, .against itsel 1'
Why should Old Abe try - to turn him:-
selfout ofthe-,White House? And, what
cap
_an,
."Adthip,istiation" do bef..re it
comes into - existelice? • The - vile 'charge
is r,idicutous in argument--prepostbrously
absurd and wantonly, wickedly, design
edly untrue. •
What are the facts of history 0x the
point of TIME? • .
The leading Rebels boast that they
were for THIRTY YEARS PAST maturing
the Secessiou they are now striving for:
Now loOk at the FIGURES !
While James. Buchanan was yet_ Pres
dent—before "this Administration" bad
a being in point'of fact—the following
acts of "civil war" were openly perpe
trated :
ON NOVEMBER 10, 1860—before the
vote for President was fully known—
hostilities were virtually inaugurated by
bilis, for arming troops and denuuncing
the United States authority passing in a
Southern Legislature: and by open revolt,
sedition, and treason, at numerous public
meetings there.' . .
On the 20th of Dec. &et/t Carolina
in State Convention declared war by her
Secession Ordinance. 25th, called upon
the Slave States to form a Confederacy.
18th, tore down and trampled upon the
Union's flag, and by force seized the U.
S. Custom House, Post Office and Arse'.
nal at Charleston, and also captured For:
3loultrte and Castle Pinckney.
Dec. 25, the U. S. revenue cutter
Aiken was betrayed into its enemy's
power.
in 1861-2 d January, Gov. Ellis of
Arortit Carolina took Fort Macon at
Beaufort, the barracks at Washington,
and all the U. S. prope'rty at Fayetteville.
Same day, !Mississippi commenced war
by setting up another Government with
in Ibis this "supreme" government. --
The same day Georgians took posses
sion of Forts Pulaski and Jackson and
the U. S. Arsenal at Savannah.
On the 4th Jan. Fort Morgan at Mo
bile Bay and the U. S. Arsenal at Mo
bile were seized by 9ov. Moore of Ala
bama.
Jan. sth, the steamer Star : of the West
sailed from New York, with supplies, for
Fort Sumpter, and on the Sth leas fired
upon by Rebel Batteries at Charleston,
and driven back to sea.
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On the 11th, the U. S. Arsenal at
Baton Rogue, Forts Philip and Jackson
below New Orleans, and Fort Pickens on
Lake PonchartrAn, were seized by the
troops of Louisiana.
On the 16th, the Rebei Col. Hayne
demanded from the President the surren
der of Fort Sumpter.
Same day, 216, sick and feeble patients
were turned out of U. S. Marine Hospi
tal, at New Orleans, to make room for
Rebel soldiers.
Mil
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Next day, Florida seeedei, then takes
possession of Pensacola Navy Yard.-
Jan. 19? Georgia secedes, and, steals
all the remaining property of Uncle Sam.
On the 31st, Louisiana seized the U-
S. Branch Mint, and' $511,04) of money
in it belonging to the-Government.
FEBRUARY "Texas revolted, and
Gen. Twiggs betrayed.over to it the Union
troops and a million and a half of arms or
other Union property. '
On the sth, Arkansas takes arms from
the U. S:Arientil at Little Rock to figla.
the Union power.
On the Bib, the Rebel Government
was fomented at Montgomery, Alabama
—7th, elected * Jeff Davis' President—
and, 19th, inaugurated him as President
of a hostile and seperate Confederacy.
8. D. KELLY
On the 23d, the President' elect
thwarted the plot to assassinate bin by
going through Baltimore without being
announced.
Freedom of speech and of the press,
the right of peadeful assent blage, , and ha
beas corpus, were suppressed—U. S. Of
ficers were insulted, and driven from; pow.
er—peaceable,,. law-abiding Union men
and woman were abused, fobbed, impris•
oned, mobbed, ( driven from home, *or
killed, in various ways, in great numbers ;
In short the Uonstitution, laws, and pow
ers of our Goveinment were under the
iron hoofs of b military. despotism, in defi
ance of the will of several of those States,
as expressed py their honest votes.' All
was a "reign of teTror': by. a,
armed 'Aristdcricy.
• S' ON 4Tir
of the above and a hundred other acts of
war, treason, roWrg; murder, and crime
were committed, _ P resident-, Lincoln was,
inaugurated, and with Cabinet began
Debotoa to the, of ,lINe orp) ffle Dissellgoglioq of Wolling,
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTy, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE•IO, 1863,
to roll back the tide of - they foulid
raging.
Look at the dates, again. And yet we
are unblushingly told that "ram wicked
.11.dministlation incited and provoked
civil tcarP If the Devil don't roast
such a liar, he fails to get his own dues.
—"As a PRE 4 TEXT," quoth Vallan :
digham and his mfederate
Look at - the dates again. The RebelS
began their road game in the Fall of 1862
—through all 1861 they used Slaves to
destroy our Government—and not until
the end of 1862 (two years) did , the
President restore Freedoin to the Slava'?
of ._Enbel- masters; as "military neces
sity," not as's - "pretext" devised Worn
hand. • --
Reader! cut out the above dates and
post them up for reference against liars.
—Lewisburg Chroncle.
Arrest of a Woman Spy.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press gives the following particulars of
the arrest of a woman spy, referred to by
our Norfolk correspondent yesterday:
Yesterday (Wednesday) morning it
was made knewn to a single individual
that Mrs. Webb had a parasol in her pos
session, in the handle of which was a mi
nute statement of all the men and means
in Gen. Dix's department. From her
hands this invaluable parasol was to be
intrested to the careful guardianship of
Miss Hoosier, who was to convey it safely
through our lines at Suffolk, and carry it
to Gem Longstreet. Col. Boyer, with
the skill of a 'Jonathan Wild, permitted
the lady to depart, so he might see if she
carried the pretty little shade, which cost
$B, Federal money. Everything was co,r-.
rect. A telegram was immediately sent
to Gen. Peck to have Miss Hoosier re
turned immediately to Norlolk. Miss H.
was riding swiftly along, every moment,
as she thought, nearer freedom, and in
her dear little parasol was all the reqUi
site information for recapturing Norfolk,
and driving the hated Yrnkees from Stif
folk and vicinity. It was her lot, per
ehance, Ito deliver' Virginia from the*
who vexed her sorely. All alone she sat,
feeling 'happy as Lady Alicia, when, at
the side of Lady, Mandeville, she attended
the first
"The heart's delight: did like a radiant lamp
bight the sweet temple of her face." .
At length the cars stop :.t Suffolk. A
quick, brief ride, and she's home. • No,
not yet ! She is stopped ere she leaves
her seat, and politely requested to return
in the same train. Expostulation
lows .; then entreaties; then she grows
furious, and at last a soft, betraying air
steals overher broad features ;She flatzers,
she cajoles, but without effect. Mean
while she clines to her parasol, like a be
reaved mother to her deformed child.
Soon she is back to Norfolk. The par
asol is'taken frOw her reluctant grasp.—' r
The handle' was one long, hollow iron
tube, and in this concavity was closely
concealed- long rolls of paper, closely
written on. There is scarcely a quarter;•
master in this 'department who could give
such a correct, minute, and perfect ac
count of the' number of men, nieans of
subsistence, stores of ordnance, &c., as
these papers contained. In regular order
was set down the whole number of troops
in Gen.• Dix's department, cavalry, in.
fan try; and artillery, and tediously•defined
and described each place where they were
posted; the correct number of those disc
charged whose term of service had ex:
pired; and those who would soon leave
for their homes.
Every man sent from Suffolk and otbeti
places to re enforce Yorktown or to occu
py West Point was there. Great,Bridge'
was graphically described ; Bower's Hill
Deep Creek, and the .‘inirenched
were all mentioned as being weakly guar
ded, and none of them further than eight;
miles from Norfolk. The force stationed;
at Kempsville was fairly enumerated
, at,
fifteen - men, and the weak and strong,
points in the fortifications around Suffolk
taithfully portrayed.
Los ;street was instructed how to make,
a Morgan-like raid through all this coun
try, and the sure means of a safe retreat
made plain and clear. He was infOrmed
of Gen. Viele's residence, and how he
might be captured; where Gov. Pierpoat
resided when in town, and how' strong or,
more properly, how weakly, these local
ities were guarded. The secret ennuis-,
sary earnestly hoped they might succeed
in capturing the "bogus Governor of Vir
ginia " The number of gunb?ats st
tinned on James River was given, with a
correct description _of their_strength, and
the position they occupied in the stream.
Tha Other paid Suffolk was to be evac
uated soon. The . Yankees could not
spare a sufficient force to hold the , place;
and that they. meant to retire ,-0 Bower's
Hill, a place located on the Seaboard and
Roanoke — Bailroad, within abOUt seven'
miles of,Portsmoutb. . The long seational
rolls thus found in' the handle of the par i
asordbuld le...worked into a perfect mini
tary encyclopedia by the ingenuous Long;
street, and, while they would have been
of incalculable benefit to him, would have
brought irretrievable disaster to thb•De
partment of Virginia.
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I .For the Jourital
MR. EnixoP. : Here is a description of
a western home, which perhaps may in.
terest those who are fond oflevel country :
"E. , says I may have the privilege of
sending you a description of thienountry,
and as Ithink it will not bediffmult,l have
taken a piece of paper and am out doors
sitting on a log, so I can survey the whole
world and give you a correct picture of it.
In looking around here, one 'would think
this might borthe only place irAhe
verse, for I can see the "end of the world"
in every direction. On the south, as far
as the eye can reach, are prairieand sky,
which appear to, meet on very' friendly
terms—they seem quite glad to, see each'
other. The prairie is the greener of the
two; I cannot say which is the
On the west is sky and prairie, and I
think the prairie looks a little nearn to
the sky, than the sky 'does to it,—such
little differences are worth nothing where
everything looks so plain. On the north
is sky and prairie, interspersed with a
black-bird. On the east it is quite difler
tut ; it is sky and prairie wtih a few trees
standing up against the sky, but they
look very much out of place; I think there
was a mistake made in the arrangement,
there are so few it is only an ag g ravation.
However the scenery: is very fine here
just now. It has been raining a litee
and the clouds hang : beautifully in the
sky. They are,.of all; colors, and I pro
, sume, are sent to show 'us that the west
has charms as well as 'the east. The sky
is the handspwest thing in the country,
but it is too far off to suit me. 'lt is the
only thing I can see anywhere around
here to hang anything on, and it is rather
inconvenient to reach:
Can you 'see this county now from my
description ? I have. not told you about
our looust trees and 'the grouqds about
our house. We have very extensive
grounds here; indeed: This ia all the
paper I allowed myself to, deserite this
country on, so will close by saying it is a
bewitching place. , X.
ANTIQUE SLANG
It is not "generally knoren .that 'the
phrases "Bully Boy," "Bully : for You,"
so commonly used in the street, are not of
modern coinage, but have a classic origin.
As a stimulus to martial exploits, the
Romans honored a victorious genpral when
lie entered a city with a 'triumph. He
was placed in a chariot drawn! by four
homes, preceded by his captives and his
spoils, and followed by his army,and thus
escorted, he passed along the Yia Sacra,
and ascending to the capitol, sacrificed
bull to Jupiter. An inferior trium was
balled an ovation', from the
. practice of',
sacrificing a sheep instead of a bull. In
the case of an o;ation, , the victor entered
the city on fo6t, attended.by a small ret
inue and a band of flute players. .It is
common in our army for the soldiers to
` manifest their appreciation of a gallant
officer or soldier by exclaimipg " Bully
for him I" (a bull for him,) but no man
who wears an epaulette would consider it
a complitnent were his soldiers to shout
"a sheep for, him." And yet we give
ovations to our conquering heroes. In
the tale_of Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott puts,
the following words in the mouth of Friar
Tuck when he entertained the Black
Knight
Come, trowl the brown bowl to the,
Bully boy, bully boy—
Come, trowl the brown bb-v1 to me,
Ho I Jolly Jenkin I I spy a knavo in drink
ing.
Come, trotvl tbe brown bowl tome,
Bully boy, bully bbyx--,._,
THE SACRED VoLum.e.—oome writer
gives the following analysis of 'the book
of boolts the Bible:
It is the book of truth ) which detects
all human errors.,
It is the book of life, that shows how
to avoid everlasting death.
It is the most authenic and entertain
ing history ever published:
It contains the most remote antiquities.
the most remarkable events and w onderful
occurre i nces.
It is a complete code of law.
It is a perfect body of divinity. .
It is an unequalled. narrative!
It is_a book of biography.
It is a book of travels.
It is a book of voyages.
It' is the best covenant ever made, the
best deed ever written.
' It is the best will ever executed; the
best testament ever signed.
'-- It is the schoolboy's best instructor.
It is' the learned man's master-pieco.
- It is the ignorant man's dictionary, and
every man's - dictionary.
But that_ which crowns rail is the
author.
He is without partiality and without
hypocrisy.
-With whom there is uo variableness,
neither shadow of turning.
elpi.
OUTLIVED HER IJSEF
Reverence for age should bi
very early into the minds of
and, like .all seed sown by a
hand, lit will take deep root the
will the virtues of the aged s
brightly before the mind; and thi
ides be looked on with. with
ency 4od pity. Next to the d
children do the "stricken in yea
our syiunethy. • ,
Nod longsince ; a good lookin.,
middlelife, came to.our door . a
the tOniste;r. When informs
was 0111d:town, he seemed dis
land aiiiitiroi. 9n being "queiti
I bis brisiiie.so ' he replied: •
"I iiave ;l ost my ' -'mother, a
place (used; to be her home, a
father' lies here , we have Come
besid ! him .l." 1
1-
Our heart rose in sympatb
said, 9'you have met With a grea
"Well yes," replied the str
With hesitancy; "a mother is a
in general 'but our mother ha:
her Usefulness --she was in h
childhood, and her mind hedi 1
weak as her body, so that she w
fort to herself, and was a burde :
body. `Mete was seven of us,
daugtters,ind as we could not
body who" fas willing to boar
agreed4olteep her among us a ye
But IA bad more -than my she
for she was too feeble to be mo ,
lily time was out, and that was n
three inonths before her death.
she Was a good mother in her
toiled very !hard ko bring us all
Witheutl looking at the fa
heartless man, we directed hi.
house of a neighboring: pastor,
turned to eor nursery. .We gas
merry little faces there, which
grew sad, i l tittritatien Of ours,
tie ones tel w ose ear flows no
our language half so sweet as "1
and we wondered if that day w
come itihen they would say of
has Uutlived her usefulness—s
ecnnfOrt to !herself, and a burden
bodyeise.” l And we hoped be
day would dawn, we might be
obr rest. ] God forbid that we sh
live the Icle of our children; r
us die whine our hearts•are a . par
own, that our grave may be wat
their tears, and our love linked
hopeb of heaven. •
When the bell tolled for the
burial, we went up to the san
pay our only token of respect to
stranger; fo r we felt that we c
her memory a tear, even though
i ohildlen had none to shed.
! "S ip
l was a g ood mother in
and tvled bard Co bring us all
she had outlivecther usefulness
no cdpfort! to herself, and a bu
everybody else." Thes,ei cruel,
words rang in our ea r s; we <
ffi
conlborne up the aisle. The b
long end loud, until its iron to i 1
ohroeicled 1 the , years of the 1
mother. One, tiro, three, four,
clearl and almost merrily eac
told of her once peaceful sluinb
mother's bosom, of her seat at
,•.
on her weary father's knees, Sik
eighq nine; teri, rang out the tai
sport upon the green-sward,
meatier, and by the brook.
twelv , thirteen, fourteen, fifiee,
more gravely of school days, a
house old joys and cares. Sixt•l
eaten, eighteen, sounded out 1 E
tured visions of ruaidenhoOd, a
dream of early love. Nineteen I
;ore a happy bride._ Twen ]
1 youbg mother, whose hear
irstingl with a new strong lo .1
hP" . -
us be
of the
to hu,
,
God bad awakened in her bosoL And
then Stroke after stroke told of her early
womanhood—of the love and Care and
hopcsl and fears and toils. through which
she passed during these long verus, till
fifty .rang oat harsh and loud. i rom that
to sixty, earth stroke told of the, strong
warm hearted mother and grandiuother,-
livingiover again her own • joys and sor
rows in those of her children and her
child en's children. Every fau.ily of all
the
.g oup wanted grandmother hen, and
the , o ly strife was who shout 'Secure
the p,ize. I But hark ! the bell tolls on I
Seventy, seventy-one, two, thre , four.—
She begins' to grow feeble, requires sonic
care, Is not always perfectly patient or
eatisfiid, and goes from one child's. house
to anather, so that no one plate seems
like Lorne. She murmurs in 'plaintive
tones,' that after all her toil and weariness,
it is lard she cannot be allowed a home
to die in ; that she must be sent rather
than invited from house to housu. Figlty,
eighty-one,ltwo, three, four, five, ab, she
is now a second chil'd, "she has outlived
her- usefulnbss ; she has now ceated Ito be
ti comfort to herself or anybody ;" that is,
she hits ceased to be profitable to.ber earth
craving and money grasping children.
Now sounds out, reverberating Ithrtugh
our lopely . forest,, echoing back from Our
"hilts ;of the dead," eighty-nine! There
ahe lies now in-the coffin,:cold and still;
T*U!l_ l o.--$5O 'PER ANNUfIL
she makes no trouble now ) dema'nds nd.
love, no soft words, no tender little offices:
look, of patient endurance, we fancied
also an expression, of unrequited love, eat
on her marble features. Her
woe, there, clad in weeds of woe, and id
irony we remembered the strong man's .
Words "She Was a good rootha het
day."
hen the bell ceased tolling, thd
strange Minister rose in the pulpit .
. Hie
form waS erect and his voice strong, but
his hair ;was silvery white. He read sevt
eral pas Sages of Scripture expressive of
God's co:mpassion to feeble man, and esi
pecially of his tenderness when gray Baird ,
are on him and his strengt h failetit. Hit
then. made some touching 'remarks di biti,
man frailty, and of dependence oh God)
urging all present to make their peaed
with their maker while ,in health ) that
they might claim his promises when heart
and flesh should fail theta. • "Then," hit
said, '"the 'eternal God shall be thy refuge)
and beneath thee shall be the everlasting
arms." leaning over the desk and gaging
intently,on the coffined farm before him
he then:said reverently : "From a little
child I have honored the aged ; but nevet
till gray; hairs coveted my own head, did
I.know truly how much love and sym:
pathy this class have a right to demand
of their fellow creatures. Now I feel it.
Our mother who now, lies in death before
us, was it stranger to me, as Was all these
her descendants. All I know of her is
what her son told (me to•day—that she
was brought to this town from afar, sixty;
nine years ago, a happy bride--that herd
she pissed the most oilier life, toiling as
only reothele ever have strength to toil )
until she ?Nand a large family of sons
aod daughters, that she left her home
here, clad in the weeds of widowhoed, to
dWell among her children; and that till
health and vigor left her, she lived foe
you her descendants. You who togethet
h&vo shared her love end care, know ho*
well you have requited her. God forbid
that conscience should accuse any of yott
of, ingratitude or murmuring on account
of the care this has been to you oflatd:
When you go back to your homes, bd
careful of your words and your exampld
before your own children, for the fruit of
your oWn doing you will sorely reap from
them When you yourself 'totter on did
brink. of the grave. I l ,entreat you as
triend, as one who has 'himself entered
the "evening of life," that you never say
the presence of your families nor her&
eu, "Oar mother outlived her ussfhlness )
eh wad a burden to us." Never, neverj
a mother cannot livo so long as that !===
No • whet: she can no longer labor for her
children, nor yet care for herself, she call
fall like a precious weight on their faith: ,
ful bosoms and call forth by her helpless;
uess all the noble, generous feelings of
their natures.
LNESS.
instilled
children ;
mother's
e. Then
ine very
it itifirtu-
reat leni
otherless
s," claim
I .(g man, in
sking for
that .he
, ppointed
.ned as to
Id as this
d as my
o Jay her
and we
loss."
inn man,
:rest loss
outlived
-1. second
Igrown as
s no loom
! to every
sons and
find any
, her, we
ar about.
e of her,
• ed when
ore than
klut then
day, and
11,
of the
to the
and re•
'd on the
wiled or
hose lit
word in
other;"
uld ever
s, '!She
le is no
to every
ore that
taken to
uld out
ther let
of their
red with
i l ith their
other's
tuary to
he aged
aid give
Iher own
Adieu, then, poor, toil-worn mothet.-- ,
there are no more sleepless nights, ed
more days of pain for thee. Undying
vigor and everlasting usefulness are pad
of 'the, inheritance of the redeemed. Fee.;
ble as thOu wert on earth, thou wilt bd
no; burden on the bosom of Infinite Lives
but,there shalt thou find thy longed fot
rest, and receive glorious sympathy_firout
Jesus and his ransomed fold.'
IN Lc
ri,: MHO FOR "TAKING SOMETHING."
—A spoudent of the Philadelphid.
( 1 .
Inquire , with the army at Falmouth,
has bee 6 visiting one of the Provost Mar=
steal's prisons. He tells the following
anecdote '.•
One of the prisoners, a Unfori soldier,-
a droll-looking fellow, is also on hoar&
thit barge. I accosted him with—
"Weil;fine follow, what are you
here for ?"
"For taking sometbing," i be replied;
"What do you mean ?"
."Whi," said he, "one morning I ditil
not feel t , ery well, and went to see thb
surgeon.! He was busy writing at thtt
time, and when I went in he stt.pped ausl
looked at me, saying, "Well, you do lotile
bad ; you had better take somethinB;'"
Ile then !went on with his writing, mitt
left me standing behind him. I 'Doha
ardund, and saw nothing I could teket
except his watch, and I took that thattst
what 1 aiu in• here for."
Flis explanation was satisfactory, WI
dropped the subject.
TOUCHING THE SNARE.—The NIP 13.
mented Ea-Gov. Briggs was a stauut-li
advocateof the most rigid abstinboce frein
all that
,ean - intoxieate. • On one occioion
ho was arguing, "that the only safety Vas
to let itentirely alone as a beverage—;--tat
a little occasionly was not necessary; lout
injurioqs,"When he gave the followitigifls.
tration ILA rattlesnake lies here uti the
floor. Be is quiet. One man says, fan
tench him without any harm ; Ise sr , m't,
bite mei; I'm not afieid.' [Eels tidd
to do it.t there is danger if he touChet; ifino;
he is safe if ho lets him alone.' He ret4tes:
'II can take care of myself; I'm nes' e , ffiiiti
Of the snake; and I will touch him.' Re ,
monstrance is vain. He atoombe 'reit:Ars'
him; the snake strikes hia baud is iv:;.•
fang; the 'man dies ,
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