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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.
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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.'
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JC3T Domestic quiet is a jewel; love the
light of it.
JG2C" Trasported for life—the asm wko
marries happily.
VOL. 3, NO. 21.