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. Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa.
pro. S. Tt'TTOX, ATTOI'tNEY AT LAW,
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nock Pa.
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Respectfully off. rs his professional services to the
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announce to the eiii: n-of Wyming anl Lu -rne
Counties, that he continue? his regular pra Ice i'. 'ho
various departments of ::is prof -si 01. May heffiun-i
at his ofaec or residence, when not professionally ab-
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Chronic Diseas.
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LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/
TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA.
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. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor.
Tunkhannock, September 11, 1- il.
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Under the house an agreeable place ol sojourn for
l! who tu.iv favor it with their cost- n.
P.M.Li WARNER.
roptemW 11, 1861.
HOTEL,
TINKI IAWOGK,
WYOMING COUNTY, PENNA.
JOHN mA V N AK D , Proprietor.
HA3 ING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of
funkhanncek. recently occupied by Kiley
Warner, the proprietor rusp-j -tfully solicits a share ot
pr lie patronage. The House has been thoroughly !
repaired, and the comforts and accomodations of a
.rc class Hotel, will be found by all who may favor
H with their custom. September 11. 1861.
M. OILMAN,
DETIST. -
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• hann -ck Borough, and respectfully tenders his
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arr,landing country.
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Hee. 11, 1861.
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irulent and Chronic Diseases, and especially
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a CUR ,.u .v \„e given ly the Acting Surgeon
aluable Reports on Spermatorrhoea or Seminas i
Weakness, an l other Diseases 0 f the Sexual Organs I
anion the Now faunedtcscmploye I m the Dispeiw,a- j
r>, sent to the afflicted u, sealed letter envelope true '
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Sept. 18- 186 L
|1 oct's Comer.
[Written for the DEMOCRAT.]
THE BABY.
BY STELLA, OF LACK A WAS A.
Have you seen the " blessed baby."
Over at the meadow cottage—
Tender, wae-bit, puling baby,
Soft as swan's down—soft as snow-flake,
Feathery, fleecy, flying snoxr-flake,
Chasing downward in December?
7 have seen the wondrous baby—
Seen it tu -bed hi broidered wrappings—
Delicate, dainty, roso-lincd wrappings:—
Seen its star-eyes peeping open,
Like two rays of hi 1 len sunlight,
Sparkling on a shaded fountain—
t ss ng. noisy fountain,
Down the rocky hill-side tumbling.
'iis tho first, and only baby,
Ever s<ien beneath the roof-treo
Of the cozy wayside cottage :
And the most miraculous baby,
That the sun has ever shone on,
Or the blue sky ever looked on,
Just the plumpest—just tuo cutest,
And the handsomest of babies!
Go and see it i fifty others,
Curious cites, and speculative,
Snatched the baby from its cradle—
K;.->ei it o'er from head to tootles—
Counted each pink toe and finger,
8to!e tho fashionable pattern,
Of the robes , the mite was dressed in,
Said it was a peerless baby,
With an '0 aristocratic,
An I f c chanuingc t of dimples—
That it looked jus! like its pajia ;
Whereupon the papa simpered—
Faced the floor, and olushed a little,
At the delicate allusion
Of his evident connection
With that funny lo Ling baby,
lb J as pcot:y-b!osso;n, blooming
lu the corner of the garden ;
Aui with [ ate of io.ks as guiltless
As tne stone stops of the cottage :
And its chubby fists 1 tli doubled —
Pugilistic-ally doubled,
As if ready lbr the battle
Lkc is said to be, to babies,
Of a sensitive extraeti <u.
! Henceforth, doors must quit their creaking,
And bo taught to swing as noiseless,
As the tread of green-eyed kitten,
Stealing from the kitchen pantry,
f tored with cream and otl er nicities.
N : a soul must dare to whistle,
When his foot hath crossed the threshold;
Not a breath of air must enter —
Lock the door, and el <so tho shutter!
sure would get the snuj/ics!
Peodle cur, so fondly petted,
With his white locks tied with ribbons—
Hi boons blue, ad suit, and silken,
Aou? must wan ler, mournlul—visaged.
Never venturing to be c.il,
Iu a modest little bow-wow.
Daby's papa scarce may utter,
That his soul's, his own, exclusive.—
Must not walk the hall with boots on—
Must no' talk above a whisper—
Nor \ et .-tir the evening paper,
For the rattle wakes the baby,
Wakes the nicest ojall babies'.
Speculative thought is bus}',
On the soft-checked baby's future —
Lilly, smiling in its slumbers,
As it angel stirred the cradle:
Will tho :i tie feet go straying,
Through tho world's forbidden high-ways,
Up and down forbidden by-ways?
Will the tiny hands, now dimpling,
Down beneatn tho rose-lined drapery,
Twine them in the web ot discord,
Ever being woofed and woven ?
Will the blue eyes flash with scorning?
Will they dance to joyous meaning?
Will they dim in silent sorrow,
In the fateful years a-comiug ?
Will fiie clouds drop golden sunshine,
O'er the head, now softly pillowed,
Or will bitter storms, descending,
Cru.-h it earthward, bruised and bleeding ?
Will the tender heart grow callous—
Will the loving heart grow sordid
In tin rough world's great ambition?
lint the sinless baby slumbers,
Tucked beneath the rose-lined wrappings,
Sucks its thumb, and dreams of —nothing.
TIIURLOW WEED ON GRELEY AND
1 HE TillliUNE.
To the Editors of ike Journal:
It is not rnv intention to " keep before the
people :: but for the material misrepresenta
tions of two or three journals, I would not
intrude, even to express, what I feel most
gratefully, the more than kindly, the gener
ous constructions of the press, irrespective of
party. To the letters of troops of kind friends
I shall endeavor to reply individually.
The Rochester Express and Oswego Times
say :
" Mr. Weed's opinion may he founded, as
he avers, on deep convictions. At this time,
when he retires from a position where his
opposition to the administration Was damag
ing the cause of the country, we cannot
discuss that question but take it for grauted
that personal feelings and motives in no de
gree dictated a course which gave so much
pain to those who have so long regarded the
veteran editor as a safe counsellor and saga
cious leader.
It is strange that any reader of the Jour
nal, in the face of facts, should hazard such a
statement. My point has been, distinctly,
that our danger arises from the blind and
"TO SPEAK IIIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1863.
frantic course of the New York Iribune and
independent, the extreme views of Messrs.
Sumner, Phillips, Gerrit Smith, and their
followeffi, ty whom the administration is be
leagured, importuned, and peisecuted.
I have not " opposed," but in all the ways
and means in my power sustained the ad
ministration. So far from having " personal
feelings or motives" other than friendly, my
relations with the President and every mem
ber of his cabinet are cordial. They are all
exerting themselves to the best of their abil
ity, and with integrity anl fidelity, to re-es
tablish the authority of the government.
I have referred frequently to the incendia
ry principles of the New-York Tribune, be
cause that journal, by its vast circulation,
exerts a malign influence throughout the
whole North. I again admonish my coun
trymen to shake off this incubus, to emanci
pate themselves from their mental thraldom,
before all is lost. Mr. Greeley, the infatuat
ed victim of the wildest ambition, will soon,
amid the "ci ash of worlds and the wreck
of matter," be seized with a " REMORSE rn AT
COMES TOO LATE." 1 speak not idly. This
" Architect of Iluin" has much to answer for.
First, while Slidell, Toombs, Mason, Davis,
&c. Scc., were maturing their scheme for re
bellion, and the Gulf States, under their in
structions, were seceding, Mr. Greeley Al>-
AROVED, JUSTIFIED, and INVITED them to gO
forward with their treasonable designs!—
Here is the evidence from his own ' lribune,
and in his own language:
[From the Tribune of Nov. G. 1 SCO.]
If the Cotton states shall become satisfied
that they can do better out of the Union
than in it we insist on the Idling go in peace.
The right to secede may be a revolutionary
one, but it exists nevertheless. * * *
We must ever resist the right of any state to
remain in the Union and nullify or defy
the laws thereof. To withdraw from the
Union is'quite another matter ; whenever a
considerable section of our Union shall de
liberately resolve to go out ire shall resist
all coercive measures designed to keep it in.
We hope never to hvc in a republic whereof
one Section is pinned to another by bayonets
From the Tnbue, Nov. 20, 1800.]
If the cotton states unitedly and earnestly
wish to withdraw from the Union, we think
they should and would be all an d to do so.
Any attempt to compel then by force lore
main wou'd be contrary io the principles
enucialed in the immortal Declaration of
Independence, contrary to the fundamental
ideas on which human liberty is based.
[From the Tribune, Dec. 17. ISG<U]
If it (the Declarrtioa of Independence.)
justified the secession from the British em
pire of three millions of colonist in 1776, we
do not see why it would v.ot justify the se
cession of fire million of southrons from the
Union in ISCI.
[From the Tribune of Feb. 18, 1562.1
Whenever it shall be clear that the great
body of the southern peopfe have become con
clusively alienated from, the Union, and
anxious toescape fropi it, WE WILL DO
OUR Bf#T TO FORWARD THEIR
VIEW.
Here then, in the outbreak of the rebell
ion, J the Tribune "doing its best to for
ward their views." " Their views" were
forwarded with fatal celerity. We all see
with what consequences.
When the rebellion, thus encouraged, be
came a reality, the Tribune, with an inso
lence peculiarly its own, assumed a dictator
ship over the government and the array.—
Our first calamity was occasioned by its in
sane cries of "ON TO RICHMOND." After the
inglorious defeat at Bull Run, Mr. Greeley
became spasmodically repentant, confessing
that he had done wrong, and promising to
mind his own business. But this promise
was soon forgotten, and the Tribune became
as arrogant as ever, and ere long its inflated
editor put forth an edict in the name of hun
dreds of thousands, addressed to the Presi
dent of the L nited States depending a change
of policy in his administration of the govern
ment.
And now we are called to witness, with
amazement, a new phase of character a start
ling change of switch !
The editor of the New-York Ti'nes, in a
carefully prepared article, charged Mr. Gree
ley with seeking, through. Mr. Mercer, the
French minister, foreign intervention ! And
still worse, the accusation goes so far as to
implicate Mr. Greeley in a correspondence
with Mr. Vallandigham ! We venture to say
that not ten of the Tribune's hundsed thou
subesibers on any outside authority, would
have believed either of statements.
And yet both are virtually admitted in the
Tribune of yesterday :
" But here follows the exait Iruth with re
gard to our views on the whole subcct, which
Mr. Jilercier, or Mr Vallandigham, or any
one else can have for the moderate price of
six cents in Washington or three if he pur
chase in New York:
1. We believe that the War for the Union
has now entered upon a phase which in all
probability must prove final—that we are on
the eve of movements, combinations, attacks,
battles, whereof tho iesult must be well nigh
decisive.
2. We believe that the rebels are about to
be badlj whipped at several vital points, and
that their defeats will be so conclusive that
any impartial umpire would thereupon advise
them that their enterprise is hopeless, and
they ought to give it up.
3. We believe that, if our armies do not
whip theirs, theirs will whip ours.
4. We believe that should they be success
and we defeated in the general results of the
campaign now opening, impartial third par
tics will say that we ought to consent to peace
on the best attainable terms. Whether we
shall take that counsel or renew the struggle
as a united people who have come to under
stand and to accept its real character, the
cost and suffering involved, events will deter
mine.
5. , But we believe that the time wi'l come
—we do not say how soon, as that must de
pend on the results of conflicts yet future—
when the great powers of Europe will medi
tate—not by blows, nor by menaces, but by
representations—against a continuance of the
struggle as fruitless, wasteful butchery, and
urge a settlement in the interests of humani
ty and commerce.
Thus the Tribune pronounces tLat we
must subdue the rebellion by " movements'
combinations, and attacks'' now " on the eve,'
or call upon the "great powers of Europe" to
interfere " against the continuance of the
struggle as fruitless, wasteful butchery and
urge a settlement in the interests of humanity
and commerce ." In simple, direct, unequivo
cal language. Mr. Greeley says that if we
are not successful in tho campaign now open
ing, our cause and country are lost, and that
we must have peace " upon the best attaina
ble terms."
This is saying, openly and publicly, to the
enemy, that they have only to hold out two
or three months longer to secure the triumph
of rebellion and slavery. Had an opposition
journal or member of Congress uttered these
sentiments, the Tribune would have demand
ed their removil to Fort Lafayette.
Mr. Greeley evades, though he does not de
ny, that he has communicated with the French
minister and Mr. Yallaudigliain, suggesting
meditation to the former, and peace to the
latter. In entering upon the question cfl
meditation with a foreign minister, he takes
issue, in violation of law, against the govern
ment. And in opening a correspondence with
a representative whom her is constantly de
nouncing as a trcitor. he commits an offence I
leave others to name and characterize.
And now I leave Mr. Greeley, the columns
of his own Tribune being the exponent and
witness, as first INVITING the withclawl of the
Cotton Stales, and a consequent division of
the Union ; and then, after a hundred thou
sand lives have been sacrificed, and twelve
hundred millions of treasure squandered de
manding the intervention of the great power s
oj Europe in favor of u peace upon the best
tei uis attainablefor the sale of " humani
ty and commerce ." T. W.
A New Policy*
The York Herald says, the abolition dis
unionists have made a new programme, they
now propose to fight and liberate all the
niggers they can, between this and the first
of May, and then invite foreign mediation,
and recognize the Southern Confederacy.
This policy is forshadowed by the Tribune
and other abolition journals. They have
steadiy shown opposition to every effort
calculated to bring about re-union with the
South ; they have declared in congresß and
elsewhefe; that the Union as it was should
not be restored, and have by confiscation and
emancipation schemes labored to make it
impossible. Their cry ofwar for the Union'
has been a monstrous cheat and a lie, They
fear that if the Union was restord, the South
would vote against them and that the Union
sentiment of tho two sections would over
whelm them. They are in short what they
started out to be from the very first, sec
tionalists and disunionists, and they never
mean that the Northern and Sothern States
shall live and vote again together If things
could remain as they are now, until a dem
ocrat administration eould come into power:
with a democrat Congress, the Union could
easly restored, hut Heaven only knows what
this misrabledisunion administration may do,
e're we can get an oppotuuity for a change.
"A Case in Short Hand."
The " Tribune," in pithily showing the
causes of the war, and the greater cause to he
" Slavery," thus sums up :
1. The Rebellion has broken out only in
the Slave States.
(A mistake ! it first broke out in Massachu
setts, —which nullified the Constitution of
the United States and the Laws of Congress,
in so called Personal Liberty Bills.)
2 It commenced in South Carolina, the most
intensely Pro-Slavery of them all; and mas
tered State after State in exact proportion to
their interests in devotion to Slavery.
(Another mistake ! It began in Boston, in
rescues from U. S. Marshals—in Syracuse, in
the Jerry rescue case—in Milwaukie, Wis
consin in the Booth case.)
The real fact is, that for ten years, Massa
chusetts has net been fairly in, or under,
the Constitution of the United States, —aye,
ever since the organization of the Govern
ment, —from the days of the Shay's Rebellion
on to the Hartford Convention, Massachu
setts has been more or less, in opposition to
the Constitution, and the Laws of the United
States. We have had three Rebellions iu
Massachusetts, since 1780, —Ist. The Shay's
Rebellion. 2d. The Embargo Rebellion. 3d
The Personal Liberty Rebellion.— New York
Express.
Letter from the 132ud.
CAMP NEAR FALMODRH, Va., >
Jan. 28,1863. \
FRIEND
Your favor of 20th.
inst, was duly received, for which in these
times of doubt and uncertainty, I am, I think
sufficiently thankful.
The last of the pontoon boats which accom
panied tho " grand surprise party" got up
about a week ago, by Gen. Burnside, were
i removed from the neighborhood of our camp
to-day—whither lam unable to say. The
"surprise party " was rather a costly affair,
but owing to the unfavorable state of the
weather, failed to make the intended impres
sion upon those for whom it was especially
arranged and, indeed, had not the elements
interposed, I am a little doubtful whether it
would have had the desired effect, as our
neighbors across the river are pretty wide
awake chaps, and are seldom caught napping.
If they had the least intimation that the af
fair was 011 the tapis the party would, un
doubtedly, have received a warm reception 5
an lus the prestige of the "surprise," and
its natural and desirable consequences—the
novelty, for instance—would have been lost.
However, that affair is over with, and, like
many another seven days wonder, has almost
ceased to he a topic of conversation.
I, in common with my fellow soldiers of
every grade, have no antipathy to Gen. Burn
side. On the contrary, I believe him to be
a brave soldier, and a good man—a man who
would do honor to a position requiring from
him only the attributes of a subordinate
general j hut he is certainly lacking many of
the elements of greatness which should mark
the General in command of so great an array
as is that at present occupying the left hank
of the Rappahannock ; and indeed, there are
few men in the world who have the genius to
make its ponderous movements successful
one 3. I hear that he has resigned. While
I would like to see him at the head of the
old "Ninth Army Corps,"—his old command
—I am glad that his good sense, and the
evident innate modesty and truthfulness of
his cha'-acter, have induced him to give up a
place for which he has no positive fitness.
Supposing that Burnside, and whatever
claims he may have had upon the Adminis
tration for a further trial, are thus disposed
of, the natural inquiry arises to the mind of
every reflecting soldier," who is to be his suc
cessor ?" In the army all hearts tufn to hut
one man—all lips echo the name of but one
man, and that is GEN. GEO. B. MCOIELL-AN !
"Public clamo*-" at home, succeeded in hav
ing him removed from his command. " Pub
lic clamor " in the army, now demands his
restoration to that command. Which shall
be the potential power? We who have our
lives, our honor, our all, invested in the
country's cause, or you, who have only the
sacrifice of your party prejudices to make,
and the acrimonious hatred with which you
have pursued the man ?
We find no fault with you for remaining
at home while we are absent in the field—
though we have suffered much—endured
much ; hut we do blame you for joining in
the clamor with which unscrupulous partizans
have effected their miserable purpose in ob
taining the removal of MCCLELLAN from our
command. Is it asking to much that we be
permitted to have a voice in this potential
power which so readily makes and unmakes
the Generals, upon whose genius we are de
pendent for the soldier's chiefest pride—
victory? We are no less citizens now than
we were before we left our homes and fire
sides to fight our country's battles. We
have the same thoughts, feelings and emo
tions now that we had then. We are just as
competent in judgement now as we were
then i and, in sacrificing our individuality,
and consenting for a time to become the ma
chines through which another acts his will,
we have not delegated the right to think for
us to those that remain at home. We claim
that in "proportion to the population," there
is just as much intelligence in the army as
there is out of It—that we, being the party
more immediately interested, are more com
petent to judge of the fitness of our leaders
than those who have never seen a squadron
in the field, nor marched to tho music of the
battles deafening roar.
Give the army the leader it trusts and
confides in, and you will restore its morale- •
revive its esprit , and the dash and spirit
which leads men to victory, and nothing can
withstand its courage and the devotion with
which it will fight. Continue to depress it
with the "jerrymandering" process which has
heretofore been practised, and it will soofr
become a dangerous and disunited power
little better than a mob—ready for a mutiny,
or the vile purpose of the first ambitions lead
er who has the daring to proclaim for the
overthrow of the Government. You may
think that this is putting the case pretty
strong; but were yon so well acquainted
with the feelings pervading the ranks of the
army as I am, you would not wonder at the
thought, The masses of the army are intel
ligent, reflecting, peaceable and quiet citizens.
They have been accustomed to enjoy the lar
gest liberty bestowed upon American citi
zenc. They have submitted to the arbitrary
rule of military life have giv
en cp their accustomed privileges, for a time,
without a raurujur because they believe that
ITlinMßi SLBO PBI ANNTr^I
the exigencies of the times and \~- ~~
try's salvation needed the sacrifk co " n "
they have become so sick and disguste x
mere political Generalship that the cm '
bitterness is almost full to overflowing, a,
they feel unwilling to suffer and endure, ove.
again all that tuey have suffered and endur
ed, if the issues upon which the war was
commenced are to be lost sight of, and their
ablest Generals disgraced to satisfy the clam
ors of the fanatical grannies who have aided
so materially in bringing this great war up
on the country.
Every true patriot in the North should
cry aloud for McClellao, and insist, with the
army, upon his restoration to the place he
has fairly earned by his valor aDd genius •
and I hold no man a friend to his country >or
its cause who detracts from his merits, or
would cast a shadow over his fair fame.
I hese too are the sentiments of the entire ar
my. Democrats; Republicans ail.
" Bogus" Billings—the veritable Bogus,"
of Antietam notoriety— has again distin
guished himself. He was out on picket the
other night, and whilst standing at his post
the " Grand Round" consisting of the Colo
nel, officers of the day ifcc., approached him
lie challenged as usual, and halted the party
at the point of the bayonet—adding, as rt
came to a halt, " What in h—ll aud d
nation are you doin' on- poken around here,
at this time o' night ?" Tho Colonel, some
what astonished at this rather more than
ceremonious reception, asked "Bogus" if he
knew who he was talking to. " Know h II "
rejoined " Bogus," " how the d -I a iff
d nation do you suppose I know whether
you are a reb or what you are, sneaking
around this way in the middle of the night i
The Lieut, of the guard, hearing the colloquy
finally came forward and settled the difficulty
Whether " Bogus" or the Colonel had the
best of the argument, I am unable to say
At Frederickeburg, when the Regiment was
passing along one of the streets of which tho
Rebels had range, a round 6hot came bound
ing through the ranks, —fortunately without
doing any damage, at which <f Bogus" look
ing up towards the batteries on the hill.said
" you had better look out up there, or weT!
have you in the guard house." " Bogus" did
not go quite up to the front when the grand
charge was made, and when asked the rea
son, said that the shells flew so d -d thick
that he couldn't see which way to go. Take
him all in all, he is a trump, and I do not
know how we would well keep house with
out him.
Yesterday it commenced snowing and has
continued doing the same, with a fair pros
pect of having a " right smart" snow storm,
before it " dries up."
Tho " blockade" thus promises to be fairly
established, if bad Weather and bad roads
cau establish it.
On dit. —lt is rumored that our Brigade
is ordered to North Carolina—don't believe
though, nor don't want to.
Truly your friend
CUNT.
MAKING A NEEDLE.
N&edles are made of steel wire. The wire is
first cut by shears, from coils, into the length
of the nedles to be made. After a batch of
such bits of wire have been Cut ofl, they are
placed :n a hot furnace, and then taken out
and rolled backward and forward on a tnblo
till they are straight. They are now to be
ground. The needle-pointer then takes up
two do'en or so of the wires, and rolls them
between his thumb and fingers, with their
ends or. the grindstone, first one end and then
the other. Next is a machine which flattens
and gutters the heads often thousand nee
dles in an hour. Next comes the punchiug of
the eyes, by a boy, so fast that the eye can
hardly keep pace with him. The splitting
follows, which is running a fine wire through
a dozen, perhaps, of these twin needles. A
woman with a little anvil before her, files be
tween the heads and separates them.
They are now complete needles, but they
are rough and rusty and easily bent. The
hardening comes next. They are heated in
batches iu a furnace, and when red hot are
thrown into a pan of cold water. Next they
must be tempered, and this is done by rolling
them backward ami forward on a hot metal
plate. The polishing remains yet to be done.
On a very coarse cloth needles are spread to
the number of forty or fifty thousand. Emo
ry dust is strewed over them, oil is sprinkled
and soft soap is daubed over them ; the cloth
is rolled hard up, and, with several others of
the same kind, thrown into a sort of washpot,
to roll to and fro twelve hours or more
They come out dirty enough, but after a rin
sing in clean hot water, and tossing in saw
dust, they have become bright, and ready to
be sorted and put up for sale.
Zeal without kuowlodge is fire without
light.
" Lock out for paint;" as the girl said ifheii 1
a fellow went to kiss her.
£3T A young belie in Washington smit
ten with a Russian officer, an adventurer in
the Union army, married him in haste
After five weeks 6he repents at leisure, and
I claims against him for assault and battery.-
" Buttons on the drain" is the malady of
young ladies now.
VOL. 2, N0.27.