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ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. ?Office over Tutton's Law Office, near t'a a Pos Office. Dec. 11, 1861. TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS OF liOTII SEXES. A REVEREND GENTLEMAN HAVING BEEN restored to health in a few days, after undergoing all the usual routine and irregular expensive modes of treatment without success, considers it his sacred du ty to communicate to his afflicted fellow creatures the means of cure, llence, on the receipt of an ad dressed euvelope, ho will send (free) a copy of the prescription used. Direct to I)r John M Dagnall, 168 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. New York. v2u'24ly THE CONFESSIONS AND EXPERIENCE OF A NERVOUS INVALID. Published for the benefit and as a caution to young men. [and others, who suffer Irom Nervous Debility, Early Decay, and their kindred ailmetots—supply tug the weans of self-cure. By ono who has cured him self after being a victim of misplaced confidence in medical humbug aud quackery. By enclosing a post paid directed envelope, single copies may be had of the author, Nathaniel Mayfaik, Esq, Bedford, Kings County New York —v3-nls-ly Poet's iL'ornfv. LITTLE BESSIE, AXD TLLE WAY IV WHICH SHE FELL ASLEEP. Hug me closer, closer, mother, Put your arms around me tight, I am cold and tired mother, And I feel so strange to-night, Something hurts me here, dear mother, Like a stone upon my breast, Oh I wonder, wonder, mother, Why it is I cannot rest. All the day, while you were working, As 1 lay upon my bed, I was trying to be patient, And to think of what yoa said — How the kind and blessed Jesus, Loves his lambs to watch and keep, And I wish'd He'd come and take me In his arms, that I might sleep. Just before the lamp was lighted, Just before the children came, While the room was very quiet, I heard some one call my name; All at once the window opened, In a field wheie lambs and sheep. £ome from out a brook were drinking, Some were lying last asleep! But I could not see the Saviour, Though I s r lined my eyes to seo; And 1 wonder if He saw me, If He'd speak to such as me ; In a moment I was looking On a world so bright and fair, Which was ftill of little children, -And they seemed so happy there. They were singing, oh how sweetly ! Sw i ter songs I never heard ; They were singing sweeter, mother, Than can sing otlr yellow bird; And while I my breath was holding, O.VE, so bright upon me smiled, And I knew it mnst be Jesus, When be said, " Come here my child " Come up here, my little Bessie, Come up here and live with tno, 54".'.ere the children nev r suffer, But are happier than you see," Then I thought of all you'd told ine Of that pright and happy land, I was #)ing when you called ine, When ycu came and kissed my hand. .And at first I felt so sorry You had called me ; I would go ; Oh ! to sleep and never suffer— Mother, don't be eryiug so. Hug me closer, closer, mother, Put your arms around me tight; Oh how much I love you mother ; But 1 feel so strange to-night! And the mother pressed her closer To her overburdened breast; On the heart so near to breaking Lay the heart so near its rest; In the solemn hour of midnight, In tho darkness calm and deep. Lying on her mother's bosom, Little Bessie fell asleep! Selctt Jsdoni. vo livuOpi BY EI.LIB GRAEME. One might have fancied her a statue as she stood there in the oriel window ; so pale, so motionless, with the moon shining full upon her, enhancing the marble whiteness of her complexion. Edgar liaughton, as he gazed, thought lie could understand why men, though paying homage to Rowena Rawdon's wondrous beauty, dared not speak to her of love. Love could have no power over a na ture cold, passionless such as hers. He ap proached her. " Miss Rawdon, 'it is wronging such a night' as this to stay in-doors. That flower dotted panterre," pointing from the window) '•invites to a walk. What say you ?" " Thank you. I find it very pleasant here,'' wis the answer, in a tone that seetned to iua. ply : " Your politeness is intrusive ; I would rather be alone." A long silence. " Miss Rawdon." She started slightly as the sound of his voice broke the stillness. " Such a night as this always saddens me, bringing back vividly a melancholy event that occurred four years ago in the field of Bala - klava, —the death and burial of a beloved friend, an English soldier. All day long had the battle raged fiercely, and when the moon rose she looked down upon a crimson-dyed plain and into the ghastly, upturned faces of the dying, the dead. I had been wounded, hut slightly, and had returned, with several otliere, so soon as I could to the carnage, to seek for my f riend, who was missing. After a long search we found hiiu. He had receiv ed a mortal wound and was dying, the warm life blood ehbiug fast away. I knelt beside him. He knew me smiled- and, raising one hand, pointed to a ring which glitterred on a finger of the other. Then his lips moved. I bent low to listen, but could only distinguish the words, 'To my wife.' " A few moments more and the soldier was at rest, his warfare ended. " With our swords we dug a grave, and HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jellcnon. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6, 1864. buried him by the pale moonlight, on the spot where he fell. Poor Vernon ! His last words were a mystery to me. I could never understand them, for, in the eyes of the world, he was a single man. I have thought perhaps he may have been secretly married. Ho had been gazing from the window while he spoke. As he ceased he turned towards his companion. An exclamation of surprise escaped his lips. ller hauds were tightly clasped, and an ex pression of agony rested upon her face. Apparently by a great and painful effort sha regained her self mastery, but there was a tremor iu her voice as she said : "My emotion must seem strange to you, Lut 1, too, lost a friend on that fatal day, and your word caused to vibrate painfully a long untouched chord in my heart." "Would that 1 had known this!" he ex claimed, earnestly. "Pardon an offence inno cently committed:" She exe ide 1 Iter hand, and as it reßted a moment in his he felt how icy cold it was. "Good night," and she was gone. Edgar liaughton stood where she left him. absorbed in thought. So she could feel, after all, and deeply too- Ah, it was clear to him now ! She had loved the friend to whom she relerred, hence her strange emotion, lie thought he under stood her. She was one of the few with whom " Love is love for evermore." From that night M.ss Rawdon's manner towards Edgar Haughton changed. To him she wa# kind, almost gentle ; but to others as cold, as proud as ever. The change to him was fatal. He learned to love her with all the intensity of a strong pure nature, j'et feel ing that he was "Nursing a heart-flame that might be Quenched only with his tears." But will the storm cease at man's bidding, or the avalanche slay its course ? As soon will the tempest of passion he still, or love obey the dictates of reason. Edgar liaughton stood in the oriel window, with the moon smiling down upon hint as coldly, calmly as it had six weeks before, when Kowena ltawijpn had been beside him. On the morrow he must leave Rawdon Hall. He had lingered there too long already, and yet it was very hard to withdraw from the presence of the woman he so madly worship ped. Should he go without telling her of the great love that surged through his whole being, and like the ever-moving sea, would not be still? He knew she could not love him, but she would pit}' him j and even her pity would be grateful to liirn. lhe rustle of a dress stir'led hitn from his revery. He turned and sw Miss Rawdon just rising from a divan, near the window. He had not heard her come in ; she must have been there a long time : hut being in shadow he had not discovered iter. "Do not go, Row—; Miss Rawdon," he pleaded, eagerly reaching forth a hand to de tain her, as she was gliding by him. She quietly took her place beside him in the window. " Do you remember the last time we Rtood here together ?" lie asked, and without awaiting a reply he went on. " That night I learned that you loved once, and 1 knew that with such as you, to love once is to love al ways. Yet certain as I felt of this, I could not teach my heart submission to my will ; and day by day the feeling I entertained for you deepened, until it has become the intens est, strongest passion of my nature. Oln Rowena, would to God you could love me !'' lie had spoken calmly at first, hut, at the last the wrung heart would wail forth one cry of anguish. She laid her hand softly upon his arm, and in a voice of gentle, pitying tenderness mur inured : " Oh. my friend, I would rather have died than that this should have happened. I did not dream that any one could love me. For so long have I shut myself up in hermit-like isolation of heart and soul, repulsing the af fection, epmpathy, even thr friendship of my fellow-beings, that I thought, no man could ever wish to link with his a life so chill, so joyless as mine You love me—alas ! that you do—you are my friend. I know you honorable, noble, true, and do not fear to trust you. Listen. He you laid to rest on the battle-field of Balakva was my friend as well as yours ; nay, he was more, he was my lover—my husband !" She felt the strong frame shiver beneath her hand. "When I first met Elliot Vernon, I was a wayward girl of eighteen. A creature al l feeling, all impulse, singuarly sympathetic and impressible, and delighting in the romantic You know that he was a man to command a woman s admiration, love. He won my heart; but my father, in his pride, so soon as he knew of it, forbade him the house, and ordered me to cease all intercourse with htm. His daughter should not marry the penniless son of a country curate. I secretly rebelled and a few months after Elliot's dismissal we were clandestinely married. My father dis covered it, and his rage knew no bounds He swore that he would kill my husband if he crossed his path. He kept me a close prisoner at home, and ensured submission on my part by promises not to injure Elliot All this time, as I afterwards learned, he employed means to impose plausible stories upon my husband, which he protended to prove to him, causing him to doubt the love of his wife. In his despair he joined the army. The rest you know. You understand my manner towards you, of late. You were his friend: you were with him at the last. You Slid truly, for me there is but love for a Hfe time. My beart is in the soldier's grave Edgar IJanghton in silence took in his the hand that still rested on his arm, and placed upon one of the delicate fingers the ring he had always worn. As he did so a tear fell upon it and glittered there a moment in tne moonlight. "I have fulfilled the dying request of my friend," he said, sadly. "I cannot tell you, my friend, how deeply the knowledge that you love me grieves me. I beseech you, strive to forget this sad episode in your lifq. You deserve a happier fate than that of one doomed to heart-loneliness and soul-desolation, as I am." ,; For me, as for you, there is no second love. I thank you for the trust you have reposed in ir.e. It will never he betrayed God b'ess you, Rowena," and with a passion ate kiss upon the hand he had retained in his clasp, he left her. They never met again. Edgar Haughton is an old man now, hut still fresh in his heart lives the remembrance of the only woman he I ever loved. 1 early he makes a pilgrimage to the grave where she has so long peacefully slumbered, and is waiting, Only waiting till tho shadows Are a little longar grown, Only waiting till the glimmer 01 Life's day's last beam is flown.'* i limitations. MASONRY AND THE WAR. An interesting fact is connected with the death of Capt. Isaac Nicoll, of the 124 th, who fe'l at Gettysburg, and whose obsobuies were recently atten led at Washington ville.— Before his departure for the seat of war, Captain Nicoll was'initated into the Masonic fraternity by the Newburgh Lodge. Alter the news arrived of hi 6 fall at Gettyshurgh, friends were despatched on to seek for his body. It was unlike many thousands of other victims on that field, readily found, from the fact that a board was placed at the head of the grave, bearing his name, the number of his regiment, and a Masonic symbol. On removing the earth above the body, evergreens were found deposited in the grave. Those engaged in the disinterment knew nothing of the significance connected with this fact, but on their return, a letter was received from a rebel officer, we believe a Georgian, who stated that a testament was found upon the body of Captain Nicoll, on the fly leaf of which was written his name, and some direction in case of his death, and a symbol showing his confraternity. True to (he obligatons of the brotherhood, though they had met 'n hostile array on the battle field, the rebels stopped to give descent rites o! sepulchre, and left directions with a resi dent in the vicinity to have the testament forwarded to the friends of the deceased. By some accident this was delayed until after the body was found as stated above. It is a beautiful and touching incident of the strength of that tie of brotherhood which net even the horrors of that terrible field c.ubi smother or even loosey.— Neuburg Telegraph. A Model Railroad, On the Dubuque and Siouz City Hail road, travelers and conducters have the gayest possible times. The train is only about two hours making the first nine miles. Thy other day, near Pecsta, a boy ran alongside the cars for neariy half a mile, yelling, " Mr. Cawley ! Mr. Cawley !" at the top of his voice. At length the conductor herd him. and asked what was the matter 1 " Why," said the boys " father's big bull has jumped on the hind car." The conductor ran back, and sure enough, on the platform of the hind car stood a big bovine leisurely chewing his cud, and con tentedly viewing the country from his exalted position. The conductor had the brakes whistled down, and the noble critter was helped off. He had been standing on the side of the track several days, and had probably deliberately come to the conclusion that he could wait till the train passed, and then catch up to it, jump on the hind car and take a free ride. He tried it and won. Since then the conductor has placed a cow catcher at the rear end of his tiain, and has had no more trouble with animals on his hind car. The Dubuque and Sioux Oity is a great road for time. You can rule longer on it than on any other road in the country for the same amount of fare. When a young lady offers to hem a cam bric handkerchief for a rich bachelor, she meaDs to sow in order to reap. JEST IV by should the highest apple on a tree be a good one? An Deeause it's a "tip top" apple. "THE JERSEY BLUES.". " The Democratic Association of Camden," (New Jersey.) have adopted the report of a committee appointed to prepare a declaration of the views of that organization with regard to national affairs. The report is wanly and patriotic, and recommends that prompt action be taken by the people to rebuke the unlaw ful acts of the President and his subordinates, and to compel them to respect the Constitu tion and the laws—and proceeds to indicate some of the constitutional means of defend ing the assailed rights and liberties of the States and citizens. The report declares, justly, that— "lt has beeome manifest that the men who now control the National Administration do not intend to bring the war to an end, until they have subdued the people of the free States, and perpetuated their own power ; and there is much reason to believe that the rnili tary force, and the financial resources of the country, will be made use of to defeat the popular will at the next Presidential election ; and that by these means the tyranny which is now oppressing the people of the free States will be permanently established." The association, adopting the language of their committee, assert that " the Constitu tion has been overthrown, and a despotism of the most tyrannous character has been estab lished in its place," and prove their position by the subjoined catalogue, which, although incomplete, abudantly sustains them: I. The freedom of speech has been viola ted by the arrest and imprisonment of a num ber of persons charged with no crime, and whose only offence was the utterance of sentiments distasteful to the men in power 11. The freedom of the press has been subverted by the suppression of a number of newspapers. 111. The right to security from arrest when no crime is charged , has been disre garded in the arrest and incarceration of a large number of persons, denounced by the parasites of the Administration as " sympa thizars with the rebellion." IV. The right to security from unlawful searches and seizures has been violated in numerous instances, in which domicils have been visited, and papers, etc., seized without legal authority. V. The right to a trial by jury has been refused in the cases of citizens arrested and imprisoned ,or banished by military orders or court-martials. 1 1. The right to persouut, Jreedom has been taken fruui poor men by the Conscription act. which compels persons, who are unable to pay §3(X) to enter the army. This act is an assumption of power, not given, by the Con stiiution, and it makes a grossly unjust dis tinction between the rich and (he poor man. fII The freedom of every citizen has been taken from him, by the illegal and un necessary suspension of the right to demand the writ of habeas corpus. I 111. The right oj property has been ab rogated by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Confiscation act. IX. Ihe inviolability of contracts has been destoj'ed by the act which makes deprecated Treasury notes a legal tender tor all debts. A". The freedom of religio ,s worship has been violatsd on ropeated occations by the in terference of military officers. XI. The right of States to manageir.eut of their militia has been taken from them bv the Concsription act, which places the whole rnili. tary of the country at the disposal of the President. XII, The formation of the State of' West Virginia' was a violation of the 3rd section of the 4th article of the Constitution. A 111. The heretofore undisputed right of the people to elect their legislators and rulers has been taken from thtin, and the will of majorities disregarded, as is abundantly mani fested in the manner in which elections have reeently been carried by the grossest corrup tion in Northern States, and by military or ders in the border States of the South. The Association, in the spirit of reprobate the conduct of President Liucoln and the members of his Cabinet, in pamper ing parasites and menials, and encouraging them to denounce all who oppose the illegal acts of the Administration as " traitors,' 'reb el sympathizers,' Ac., as grossly insulting to the people, and deserving the indignant re buke of every honest mm. In refereeco to the corruption and extravagance of the Ad ministration, the Camden Association say that— " The expenditures of the General Govern ment, since the commencement of the present Administration, have been wasteful and ex travagant in an unexemplified degree; and it, lias been acknowledged by men of its own ■ party that the National Treasury has been p andered in the most shameful manner. It cannot be expected that the party in power will willingly end the war while myriads of its creatures are fattening upon the disgrace ful waste of the people's money.,' The conclusion of the declaration is that " The recent elections have made It mani fest that the will of tho people has been over borne &y tht' military authorities and the TBFIMB: SI.SO FZJH. corrupting influence of a free expenditure of Treasury notes and thus the last vestige of freedom has been taken from us." "It therefore becomes us aa men 'wbe know our rights, and have the courage to maintain them,' to speak to those recreants to truth, justice and honor ; who have filched from us all those noble rights which freemen love, in tones which may not be misunder stood, telling them that our Co<*titution shall and must be restored ; and that we will not be deterred by threats, menaces, insults and outrages, from maintaining the noble heritage which wo have received from the hands of the patriots and sages of the purer days of the Republic." THE LOST INDIAN.— Hon. George B. Smith of Wisconsin, tells an Indian story, in illus tration of the position and pretensions of certain "life long Democrats," now in the camp of the Abolitionists, which runt as follows: An old Indian having strayed from bis wigwam, found himself lost on trying to return to it. After looking about into strange "lodges" here and there, the Indian exclaimed in dismay, "Injun lost!" but re covering himself and unwilling to acknowl edge such shortsightedness, continued, drawing himself up : "No—lnjun no lost wigwam lost—(and striking his breast) In jun here !" So with the wandering Democrats—they are unwilling to acknowledge they have stray ed from the party—it is the party that is lost. The bolter says, "No, I'm no bolted, it is the party that has bolted. I'm here," (and' that's right in the center of the Abolition camp.) JaJST* As the cold blasts of winter strike us, let us remember that they strike the contrabands as the chills of death, by reason of their having come from £ warmer climate, and the scantiness of their covering. Sup plies are needed now as winter is setting in— CLEVELAND LEADER. ''the cold blasts of winter strike hundreds and thousands of poor white peo ple, as the chills of death." In the garrets, and damp cellars of our large cities are hud dled togeter thousands of shiveting, half famished men, women and children, some of them wives and children of men who have sacrificed their lives in this "crnil war," but the Leader has no words of sympathy or appeal in their behalf. They are, unfortu nately' white. The contrabands engage the entire attention of these Abolition negro worshippers. They urge on the conflict of brother against brother' and shout hosannas as rank after rank of brave men are swept away in the tide of battle, and all for the negro. "Oh, Liberty, what crimes are com mitted in tby name !"' fn an affecting account of his courting with Betsy Jane," Artemus Ward says "There was many affecten, ties which made me hanker after Betsy Jane. Her father's farm jined ourn; their cows and ourn squench ed their thirst at the same Bpring; : ou? r old marcs both stars in their forreds ; the measlea broke out in both families at nearly the lame time ; ©ur parents (Betsy Jane's and mine) slept regularly every Sunday in the same meetin' house, and the nabora used to ob sarve "How thick the Wards and Peailet air !" Tt was a sublime sight in' the spring of the year to see our several mothers (Betsy's and mine) with their gowns pin'd up so that they couldn't sile 'era effecshun itely bilin soap together and aboosing the neigh bors." How IT WORKS—A widow in Western New York, vrhoce husband'was killed in the war, had left her by him a note for about five thousand dollars secured by mortgage. At the the same time she owed in Canada a debt of less than $4,000. Under the legal tender law she is obliged to take greenbacks tor what is due her in New York, while she is obliged to pay specie or its equivdont for the sum she owes in Canada. The five thou sand dollars is not of course, sufficient to pay this debt. The widow don't clearly under stand it, and has lost faith in "'Olde's Aba's" proposition that it is easier to pay a large debt than a larger one szasr Some young men, traveling on horae back among the White Mountains, became exceedingly thirsty, and stopped for milk by the roadside. They emptied every basin thai was offered, and still wautod more The wo man of the house at length brought out an enormous bowl of milk, and set it down on the table saying—"One would think, gentle man you had never been' weaned." Z+ZST A countryman once brought a piece of board to an artist, with the request that he should paint upon it St. Christopher as largess life. " But," returned the artist •that board is too small for that purpose.' The countrymen looked perplexed at this unex pected discovery. 'That's a bad job,' laid he; 'but look 'ere sir, you can let his feet hang down over the edge of tho board.' ■*'*- —.— JC3T Domestic quiet is a jewel; love the light of it. JG2C" Trasported for life—the asm wko marries happily. VOL. 3, NO. 21.