Village record. (Waynesboro', Pa.) 1863-1871, October 24, 1862, Image 1
" , L „ 3tip• voLumt PO~]T=d.A:*:.. MU OMR TEE LORD, I OFFER THEE THREE TAINGS." BY 0. W. EtOTAIEB. In poisonous dens where traitors hide Like bats that fear the. day, . - WNIle alt the land, our charters claim In sweating blood and breathing flame, Dead to their country's woe and shame The recreant whispers EvrtY In peaceful homes where patriot fires On loves own altar's glow, The mother bides !lei trembling fear, The wife, the sister checks a tear, To breathe the parting wtsrd of cheer, soldier of Freedom, GO ! In halls where luxury lies at ease, And mammon keeps his state Where flatterers fawn and menials crouch, The dreamer startled from bis couch, Wrings a few counters from his pouch And murmurs faintly Warr! In weary camps, on trampled plains That ling with fife end drum, The battling host whose armor gleams Along the crimson flowing streams, Calls, like a warning voice in dreams, We want you brother! Come! Choine ye whose bi lding ye will do— To g0,.t0 wait, to btay ! Sops a the freedom •loving town, Heirs of the fathers old renown, The servile yoke, the civic crown, Await your choice To- ll.av The stake is laid ! 0 gallant youth With yet unsilvered urow, If Heaven should lose and Hell should win, On whom should lie the mortal sin, Whose record is, IT MIGHT HAVE BGEH ! Clod calls me—answer NOW ! VHS IS NY SEIGEBOR. neighbor?—lt is he whom thou Bat power to al - an ese— W aching heart or ourning brow, Thy soothing hand may press. Thy neighbor?—'Tie the fainting poor; Whose eye with want is dim," Whom hunger sends from door to door; 6o thou and succor hint Thy-neighbor?—'Tis that weary man Whose years nre at their brim, Bent low with sickness, care and "pain; Go thou and comfort hint ! Thy neighbor ?'Ti—q the heart bereft . very earthly gem— NV Wows and orphans, helpless left; Go thou and shelter them. Thy neighbor?—Yonder toiling slave, Fettered in thought and limb. Whose hopes are filed beyond the grave Go thou and ransom him. Whene'er thou meet'st a human form, Less favored than thine own, Remember 'tis thy neighbor worm, Thy brother or thy son. Oh, pass not; pass not heedless by, Perhaps thou can'st red•'em The aching heart from misery; 6o share thy lot with hen. IVIISSICIM3iaIa.ELTIE". A Thought of Death. In the lung watches of the winter night, when one has awoke from some evil dream, and lies sleepless and terrified with the sol emn pall of darkness around one—on one of those deadly, still, dark nights, when the window only' shows a murky patch of pos itive gloom in contrast with the nothingness of the walls, when the howling of the tem pest round chimney and roof would be wel comed as a boisterous companion—in such still dead times , only, lying as in the silence of the tomb, one realizes that some day we shall lie in that bed and not think at all; that the time will come soou'when we must die. Our preachers remind us of this often en ough, but we cannot realize it in a pew in broad daylight. You must wake iuthe mid. die of the night to do that, and' face the thought like a man that it will eonie, and come to ninety-nine in a hundred of us, not in a maddening clatter , of musketry as the day is wen; or carrying a line to a stranded ship, or in such like glorious - time—when the soul is in mastery over the body, but in bed, by slew degrees. 'lt is in darkness only that we realize this: and then let ,us hope. that we may humbly remember that death has been conquered for us, and that, in spite of our unworthiness, we may defy him. in these troublous times, all who value serenity of soul should adopt as a, motto- the brave _words, "Never Despair!" Though appalling shadows lower neon our pathway, we should 13088098 our soul in patience, that we may take advantage of every ray of light to pursue our journey Aafely. Never despair, though storms boat and tempeSts rage; 'out trust confidently that He who ' controls the fury of the wind and waves will say, "Peace! 'be still!" Despair not; though our liberties ear•endangered; but patiently await the re sistless shock of 'our • gathering hosts that overthrow the armies of 'the conspirators. why should any despair? Does • not the earth yield bountifully? Though friends face danger daily, are they •not - mercifully preserved?", True, many fall, but their pa tient endurance of hardships; faithful vigils, brave deeds, and glorious death, ware . s not' in-vain. •Othets, animated by their'heroism• strlicCidgorous.bloire in difentif the right.!: In _every condition in: life • let .us resolve vteAiisolltrge our duty tothe beat of our ability, and De9eir,will 'never cause. its to•our equanimity ef tangier though..eurP4 . wick set with th4rits. '::"' 'Falt4 eitjzims,"• 'O.-where tlor . y. woit'a jotliot have to wait .1014. . . . • • _ ' ~ ,, g '...., r , - .4, 4 .si-Nik,t . :„ wil ..:- ~,, A5:,- . .tle ' . „ • . . . • ,i,,,,;m 1 ;t vi .i.,144 , 0 ,, ,, i rgov, ~,, , , . =.4y- , ,,,:,, , - . _ • . . . .. 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Not long since, we saw the. above words in large letters on a handbill,, 'informing thil public of the opening of a new' liquor-saloon. As we read it we could not help , reflecting how appiopriate was this blotto. We are now experiencing the horrors of war; but these worde, in this connection, called, to our mind a still more terrible war fare in which,We have long been engaged.— We mein the WAR _OF INTEMPERAN6E—a war more awful than ,has ever been decided by the sword; for, Ist. Its victims ottinuntber those., who have been slain. upon the field of battle. It is not simply two combatants that are enga ged in this conflict, but the whole world. • 2nd. Its watTare seems to be perpetual. Although-it orignated almost with the birth of our race, the battle is as fierce to-day as it ever was, and the end seems no nearer. 3rd.. Its conquests are so secret, that be fore the victim is aware he is bound hand and foot. Its work of destruction is often prosecuted under the disguise of friendship and hospitality. 4th. It is more awful, because its victims are not even delivered by death. The battle field is the end of other warfares, but not so with intemperance : "Its proudest trophies lie beyond the grave." It has thepower:to destroy both soul and body-in hell.' "GMAT &AUGHT:ER !" Alas, how true ! Here is the bill of mortally one year in our own most fitved land. 3,000 lives destroyed for time and. eter nity ! 25,000 persons sent to prison 10,000 innocent children sent to the poor house I. 1,500 murders I 500 suicides ! 10,000 orphans 1,000 widows ! What novelist would dare to risk his rep utation by pretending to describe a war at tended with such devastation ? But, add to all this the izaiireci effects of intemperance in the production of innumerable diseases ti it won never ave eeu -uoivu tu o this insatiate destroyer; and add, again,, the thousands who, for no crime of theirs, are brought into this world with physical and mental derangements, rendering them an ea sy prey to courimption and idoey; and if your heart is not sickened at this •appalling result, for only one year in our own country, go on and multiply it by all the ages past and by all the countries of the globe, and tell us if this grand total of misery, depreda tion and death, does not justify us in ex claiming, "Great Slaughter." "It is the decimation of the genius of the land." It holds more souls in bondage than all other oppressors, and its slavery is more abject and servile. It has filled oar jails and asylums with prisoners of war. It taxes the honest and virtuous of our land $12,000,- UN annually, to prosecute its victims at the bar of public justice and maintain them in their places of confinement. Its track: is marked with moral ruin and desolation. Its trophies are blasted hopes for time and eter nity, widowhood and orphanage, and disease cursing even the third and fourth generation. Its victims, !Vie the fabled Prometheus, are cursed with life, while suffering all the agon ies of a thousand deaths. Great, great indeed is the slaughter. But where is the opposing force that shall go forth to meet aud' overcome this giant de stroyei ? Alas, the enemy has already en listed upon its side au influence that seems almost too potent to defeat. Its advocates are found iu the legislative and judicial tri bunals of the land. It is nu revolutionary right which it pleads, trut it boldly points to legal aud constitutional enactments for its authority. It has even demanded that the ministi-srs of God should remain neutral, while its victorious Cohorts are numbering among its victims the professed disciples of the' Cross. Its boast is like that of the defiant Goliah before the armies of Israel, end like them we have been afraid even to lift up our voice against this great enemy. How long shall it be before we shall go" forth to give him battle in the name of the 'Lord of hosts ?' At the voice of our civil rulers, 'thousands gird on the armor of war fare to protect us against a foreign and do mestic toe; and shall we sit still while a more treacherous and terrible, because a more ad= lent and =relenting fbe is desecrating al most every hearth-stone in the land. Major General Curtis in a letter to his friends in Keokuk, lowa, says : Break down the Rebel armies, _ confiscate' the property of their supporters deprive, the Rebels of their slaves and their substance, prostrate the foes and elevate the friends ; and the Union men in thousands, who now tremble in the of the apprehension of its return, will proclaim their devotion to our Government, and unite with us heartily in restoring peace and prosperity to our once happy country. I have campaigned through three of so-called Confederate States and express to ys.a.r my observations and convictions,. , The Republic canuot be severed. There is no geographical, moral or political line on which. to divide.. No foreign power, could prescribe one that: would satislyosither party. ' We have, embarked in. a death "struggle, and have :no other'alternative, but to, stead fastly press forward the: engiima . of war,' and ail honorable disturbing elements," till rebel lion, weary and worn out and- overpowered, abaodons its -wicked desigos, and.' yields to the o:institution, and the-laws. Rands of robbers, such as We, see. in Ms- Bowl andnisewhere, trill survive the war, and' society Will fOr *long time be ,pastered . vritli thievea and .vagrants who only carry on thdr raids fury plunder;: but local r organisatiees will ultimately stifle such elernerits,and'penae 'and security will grad4ally retails. .......- - t . . • .....1.,t. AIL Viziaill..l*-itestitkatiCt i ' l ^ ' NOti.tr . al. lxi ,Iscolitiow 4fgata.4,;sl, 11he11614,124 - • - " ... .... - rfl'i , '.. , f ; .., ,n , . . . . . .,— , WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FAIDAY MORNING,: OCTOB E R 24,1862: "Greattlikughter!" d *4 Gen. Curtis on the War MOM An Inside View of Seoeseicoi. Letter of a North Carolina Fcgtiaer - ib a Conscript Son The Washington Republican has 'received fromr Captain Hanover, of the Sepond Dia triet Regiment, a letter ,taken frem the body of a Itiebel, soldier in one of the, late battles in Maryland, which has been forwarded us for publication. We make the following es, tracts from this epistle, Which, illustrate one Phrase of .this picked rebellion. -We omit the names and 'particular localities ? so as dot to involve the writer in difficulty: ..' 4.-----NCIRTEI CAROLINA, July 4, 1862. Illy Dear San: * , * 1 hope these lines will find you doing as well as a. poor soldier can. 1 have good news to write you : We have examined your age, and find you was born on the 18th of J uly, 1844; consequent ly the conscript law wau't catch you. Show the enclosed certificate of your age to your, Colonel, and come home, as you have a right. They say they pressed all overand under the conscript age fur ninety days longer: When that is out, come home, fur you have as good a right to come as auy of the rest. Though, I suppose, they will make some other law to hold you if they can, for they have broken three pledges already To Jet you all come home when your twelve months was out. 2. If you would enlist, they would give all furloughs to come home. 3. On the 16th they would let off all under, and o ver age. They have not and will not fulfil one of these solemn pledges. They are not going to do anything they say they will, if they cat elp it, for they know they are bad ly lipped. Now they are conscripting. The coo cripts here are the maddest men you ev er sa They say they don't Intend to fight. They can make them go but they can't make them fight. The most of them say they in tend to go to the North the first chance; and 1 don't blame them, for there is no jus tice in such a war. There never will be peace till they kill off all the men, or they all rebel and come home ; for it is given up by all the smartest men in this country ; that 111 I • better I don't want you to fire another gun at the North, if you can help it. Do like some of the rest—shirk out of it. They say it is no disgrace. I heard this evening that started this morning for the army. He has gone after his son D—. He says he is under age, and he will fetch hini home to stay. I would have sent you something by him, if I had known of his going. * * There are about 900 men at Warm Springs now, in camp. They are drilling every - day. • I can't tell you anything about my_ feel ings.. Nobody knows my troubles but my self. Your poor father has aegrcat - deal on him, as your sisters' families are now on'uly hands, since their husbands have gone to the war. There is a great deal of sickness here. J— L— has not ; one yet. Ile has been trying to get somebody to go in his place, and failing in that he made an effort, to get appointed deputy postmaster, and , various other ways to get himself exaupt. He says the Yankees will never get a pop at him.— He and old are the very men that ought to go, but they are the last who will. * * Since I began this letter, I have as certained that your Colonel has a perfect right to let you off, on ascertaining your age, so, my dear son ' have great hopes of seeing you in a very short time. • You will, have to pay back your bounty money before you. can get off. • Your brother and sisters send their best love to you. -. Write soon and let us know what your Colonel says. We still, remain, as ever, yonr affectionate father and mother until death. In vain will the true-hearted father, moth er, and dear friends look for the coming of the "dear boy." "groken pledges" sent the son to the bloody field of death. Waiting hearts, which beat high with the hope of the speedy return of the loved one; will wait iu vain. Hope, fear detibt and despair will follow each other, as the intelligence of "missing" is brought home. The bitter word's of the father, "There is no justice in such a war," will burn into the hearts of many be reaved ones, who reflect for a moment on the cause of all• this: How the Union Women do in Newport, Kentucky. A gentleman in this city received a letter from Newport, Ky., a' day or two ago, which related the following incident. •We are per mitted to give it in the language of the wri ter, except that the names aro omitted for the sake of impersonality. "A young girl, Miss J W (strong Union, as the sequel ,will show) ,was supplying the soldiers.as they passed; with water, cold- bus cuits, &e.-Mrs- S ~ Secessionist, was standing near. by and-made sport, of the Union lady's efforts., Sbesaid no lady would be in the street so en,gaged. Then. pointing to our flag sbe said, "I ,would like ,to see that Lincoln rag trampled into the dust." Whereupon •Miss J—slapped her mouth, tore her nubia. from, her shoniders, and completely ruined an elegant silk dress which Mrs. S—rwore. Mrs. S lead her AT rested., ,J--told the court- what she .did, Why she didit, and, 2added, ‘1. ) ,1.1.,d0i it again, t 00.7 • They dismissed, :herr.Vi.thouti reprimand ~-toll h er: she_ had,done just and advised blys.; , S-r- 7 -. to. go" ikoine l mfi mind her own affairiSand not insult •Ataion , ladies when they,were relieving the ,wants of Union 'soldiers: This-did not..occur •aMoug Tabble; for -both the-ladies aro 4tinitig of Newport. • - • unionists far( worse iliMt white traitors at the.iientis ofthe we inay ex pect . to:mak - 9 ~ u plail 'work in puttiog . <1•?n '?;et`iis learn' tO;bii 'tide . to ear'fripiit)s : and- litoteet t our sutural allies: - ' ' • ilooilLlGliT MENU., , The-moon has lust risen far over the deep, , lieoeam on ha bosom all tranquilly sleep, Ber.lustre is shed 'over nature's Nviirm=breast Anil forest andMelsdinv in silver are drest. How, tranquil the scene t how delightfuithe t hour! My slumbering-fancy awakes in its ,power; And beneath the Bolt rays of heriiiild;getitie A thousand bright feelings come o'er us tohiight.' . , The sce:ws of my childhood, unfaded andltrtis By her magical power are presented to view; Fond memory opens her glittering store ' , .•,, And the friends of my youth are arounil" 'Me once How - dear the loved home of iny infancy seerna; . ' W here I have sported, at eve, 'neath . her, favoring beams; Its memory still shell be dear to my heart, And W life a latest , hour it shall never depart. The Fashionable Preacher. _ The fashionable preacher is ' a mortal al ways adored by his congregation, the female portion particularly. lie is a mortal, but is sometimes deemed an unwinged immortal and eclipses the divinity whom he preaches. Lie prays resoundingly, (to the congregation;) and his amen sounds like the tap of a bask drum lie is meek, excleilingly so—in the pulpit; he loves his hearers collectively and sometimes indiVidually; he hates sin and the devil—professionally. Discourses elo quently on charity from a mahogany pulpit, but forgets his charity for those who differ with him. Gives liberally (his advice) in his resonant sermons, but always has his purse in his other pantaloons pocket when he meets a mendicant. Sends the gospel to Bariboola-G-ha, and sends the heathen at home—to the gutter. Perfumes his sermon with sacred poetry, and perfumes his white handkerchief with eau de cologne. Speaks yearningly of that other world", but would doubtless prefer staying where he is better acquainted. Calls his congregation the sheep of his flock, and pulls wool over their eyes while he shears them. Studies attitudes as he studies his sermons, seech the divine grace of heaven ! Delivers from a three story pulpit—where he is ele vated far above his, hearers—persuasiie har angues upon moral propriety. Acts as though sin could be drawn from man, as that beautiful rich Eve was taken from Ad am, by throwing him into a gentle slumber; or, as the dentist extracts a tooth, by admin istering chloroformal discourses and most ethereal sermons. Of mortality he talks in the aggregate, but never descends to particu lars. If one of hie, congregation, by mortgaging his property, swindles a friend out of a few thou Sand dollars, he never rebukes the man as the prophet did David ; never mentions it at all—that is a secular affair and belongs to the world. Prays to God not for wealth, which he wants not neither poverty, which he cannot bear, but only for a competence, by which he means a three-story' competence, finished with a brown stone and all the modern con veniences and a spacious basement. Believes there is no gate to heaven bu through his church, and calls other denoid nations "sects." Sends his brethern upward upon "flowery beds of case," but wether or not Peter lets them pass the pearly portals, we, being poor miserable sinners, cannot tell. If he preaches at night, always arrives af ter the audience is seated and waiting'; he has to rise tuysteribusly through a trap door in the pulpit, as tnany have seen Parson Beecher do; this allityEi produces a fine eff ect—so theatrical and striking. , Before his entrance the gas is turned down • to nmoon lightmellowness, and a dim obscurity broods over the congregation; the organ is Silent: But the moment arrives .p the' , sp:opnlar preacher enters; the gas blootnsiuto Magnifi cent brilliance; the ladies pond 'eagerly 'for ward and a murmur of expectancy permeates the air; silks rustle and . 'feathers and tans wave, the organ peals is grand voluntary, and the minister, slowly mounting the ,richly carpeted stairs, sinks into the silken cushions and opens a hymn book. , Is it the worship-of God or 'Man ? Ido not know, - hut think 14 . . the. poor Publican who stood afar off.and smote upon his breast and cried, "Goa be moriful to me, a sinner." A Spunky Soldier. One of the correspondents writing of the battle of Cedar MontiUtin, relates this inci dent: "Just after the firing Of musketry became interesting, I noticed a private - soldier cum log 'off the field, and thinking he was run ning '1 away to avoid danger, I - rode up to him when I found that he had two fingers of his left hand shot away 'and the third dreadfully lacerated; l'sa* at once „that he had at - least a hand in the fight. lassisted. him to dress his wound as well my limited knoviledge of surgery wouldiperunt, he in 'the meantime propping up my pluck. by his quaint remarks. Said-he, don't•keer a chum tor' that third-fin ger; for it warn't of no .couot.• no how; ,but the ptiinter and t'othor one were right good. ones. and I bate to lose 'cm.,.. couldn't have come to the rear if•thad , .to load my gun; but I wasn't." After. I had dressed_shis-lind he looked over in the dircetiomkif-,the firing anti stood. a moment:: Turning-to3niel he said, ; , i6Stranger; I wisla'you'woold• just lead. tip my shooting-teen for me; ['want .to ?have -a satisfactiori.oht of theniiisiiei , s.lr :ing-rny forepaw." u: • I loaded his goo for , him,:and he started , bank at ullonbleCquick in. quit -. l .satietac-t. 4414 1 4 of the - 111i51 ; Scv.kisitli. - fooilleet, not,'liitiiiipt..44 -, - - lack ill alupTrx.- -- yr' • ; time pk'; her.gu4ng, tortk,ihyfthco4ll . llooil '"7ou_tlevp,lll actliu 4ilitro ofµ Brat Irronythetkoublv)lle, Aptlrkriktiept, 27. Geo. D; PreOtioo'in AtefliorSi;Othlif • .. Rebel gon.- , . William •Clourtland.Prentiefa died,oniMon day last, nt • Aitgusta,,Ky., of wotioda receiti ed in the conflict it :that place on.;tho_.,pio cedeling. Saturdity. • Re perished Ilia. the cause of. the. rebelion. It is not in the columns of a moilispaper, it is , only in the - family circle or 'in the hug!) of solitude, that the emotions of &parent e ver such an event should have iktterlinee.-4- The tears .of weeping eyes and,•fast=trickling drops of bleeding hearts are, not for the pub lic gaze. The deepest agonies should be content to fold their sombre wings in. the soul. Consolation could not come!from..the world's sympathy; it can be looked ,for; ody from God audhis "angel • Time. Nay, they are griefs thakiike'running streams ure deep ening their ehannels, forever. - • diem Courtland:Prentice was no com mon young man. He was remarkable in .his powers and in his temperament. A model of manly beauty,. he had extraordinary intel lectual enery, a strong thirst for:strange and curious _knowledge; and a deep! :passion Cm all that is sublime and beautiful „in ',poetry and nature. He was generous, nianly,high. hearted, and of a,. cduaage that no mortal peril, come in what ,forin it - Might, ifeould daunt. lie exulted in looking. destruction face to face in all its ways. Ile loved wild and dangerous adtentures for the Very dan ger's sake.. His eagle spirit . lived among the mountain crags, and shouted back to the shouts of the storm. Although kind, unsel fish, and humane, he 'Watiiitif etuous,,passion ate, and 'of unconquerable prejudices. lie was frequently unjust in his judgetu&its; and he permitted nothing to 'stand 'between him and theexeOution of his purpOkes.: - ' This young mat. if he 'had always directed his energies judiciously, could have wide himself a distingtished ornament any pro fession of life. He Might have beed an able and honored statesman in the seiviee'of th 6 Republic.' But at intense Southern sympa thy, in spite of the arguementi, 'the Tema.= .40 - 141 4 n:id.111; l iii dearly loved him, made him an active retie' against his country. ~And, after a brief five= weeks service in the rebel ranks, he fell so r dit to breatraNns his fiery life, receiving, 'mean= while, far away frain his family, the kindly ministrations of those,itgainSt . whoseetiuse his strung right arm had , been raised. 0, if 'he had fallen in his country's service, fallen With his burning eye fixed in love'andr-devo tion upon the flag tluit for more than 'Alfred fourths of a century has been a star 'of ship to his ancesturs,,his early death, thotigli still terrible, might have been borne ' by' a father's heart; but, alas ! the reflection that he fell in armed rebellion againit that, glori. ous old banner, now the emblem of thegreat est and holiest cause Ale world ever knew, is full of desolation atid'almost of despair. And 'yet we shall love to think of Court, land Prentice, that brave and noble though misguided youth, during the ietnnant . of our lives. Our love for him undimmed by tears and grief, is and will remain an amarnnthiut flower upon, the grave of our.btiried 'years. - • Beautifully Defined. An old soldier, id appealing , lately 'to his son to go and fight for the Governmeut and the Union, Said : '‘Perhaps . you have never 'thought What your country means. It is all that surrounds you—all tluit has bought you up and fed you—all that you have •lored.-' 7 ' This country that you see--4hestr houses, these trees, those girls who go along : there laughing—this.is your country. The IaWS which protect you, the broad Which pays for your work, the words you'intorchinge with others, the jdy and grief which come to' you from. the Men and things among which you live—this is your country! The little room where you used to see-your molter; the ' memberances she .left you, the earth where she rest—this is your cuuutri 1 You'isee it, you breathe it everywhere.. Think for your self of your rights and duties, your affections and your wants, your past and present bles sings; write them all, under a single name—, and that name : will be your country. ,We OWC it all that we are, and he . who enjoys the advantages of li.'aving a free country,, and does not accept the burdens of it, forfeits his honor, and is a bad citizen. Do for your country what you, would di) for your father and mother. , Your country is in danger. TOIL.—The sentence of toil' and the promise of glory. have issued from one throne. Even our troubles here way make the material of,:enjuyineuts above the air: eumscription, of the c are, agents in the restorative mercy of the great Lis poser; all turn into The obstacles to knowledge, the struggles of ,the the ~thousand -roughliesses' of the .omuinou patit'of man,.are c'utiverted into the muscular force of the wind. We are. but sowing in the winter of our nature the seed which .shall flourish in immortality. • • . • . • HORE.- There it a fire residioi, , ~ is the breast efevery'inertul, that burus 'brightly anti clieertutly--and'it is *410.2' As . fouiii.t. it uur feeling ' gather tl4mselyea,'Aeiit they, beceme cuhr,aud fra4M And receive ifirinth and strength.'An'a bere too bur ,courage and ambition comes; and „kindles.into„ tictirt ' . 'l4ope toe life: . 'll.)eprivi k ii of its presence, likotha Ship lipoti the., briny , deep without a fietaitiinn, autldii`v,en, s hither and "thither by,storsa.aud become stranded upu the:lA . 4l.es Hope is sweet aim, , . . , the diw light by : ich , attin , pt . .to glimpses. of the. t' Futuri:' • ' Even, licar ,testiitiony to tile uegroes to the Union cteiu -The Express tho cap three . tiCsouie oKiVegefiiin's mien••_iii,llo hadi.kizadlikTelaeg I ; rl i i 4c4P4."-*Ti4l4 the pert di of a ne;gro. 43- :a, ", . "tte'gtit • •"Nel .." hi the Nth& Au tintithWka ' "What for?" t. - "His health." . - - "Alt ) ' he's' siek, :.; "Yps."_• "What. is. the , niateOr, He, took cold:"' to6k "Yea." - • •••• • ' "From. , what cause?" ' , , • ••: "Ou account of the heavy draft. ',Ytoz dotetsay so?". . "Yes:" , . "That's bad." , , "YeS" - ' ; ' "Theii. he wou't go to the war?" "No.". "Why?" "Du you ask why?" ' - "Yes." : .. .•. "Do, you require an answerer 46 1/es. ' itlslo'w?" , "Yes." . , "Immediately?" ' , . . , ; . . . _ il.i.rht, away'?" "Yesi tell iiie at once." ' - • : •-' : ' "Tell you • "Yes, .qUick." "What?" . 4, "'fell tue why yourtristerlvou'i,„g,o to war? "Oh:—is that it?" "Yes." "IV dll,--beeil use he ' treno'lr! ••••:! 4 •77 — . INTERESTINCI LINES..,hile sitting at the desk in the Natiotial lidwie of It6ftesen tatiies, theolate John' Quiney • Adtims:'wrote .dawn the Following. liues rf a(o. hande4,..thetn. to itlr. Binkerholfpf Ohio: • , "!W,lBter and mind ,inysteriottn one, to man till rfirr'eeecire yeeYri end 'fell; 1 ;' Where ! em the threati :of life .cyfki,lp Where! then reduced t4i.du.it tier!. "A liniglity Cod; 'the eletiftt stifilieettA=4. The doubt.'lltot only caost relieve t ; ..; Let me, to enlace oIY thsties:4; ' ' Fly the Gosisel,ditattelitivti !! 1 1'11E .WAY OF ;TILE RANSOICESSOR, IS Hint.).---4 rank riiii!ekii?tils'i r: was treated 'to e.ride on the-ahait edge - of a nil the btlitir dapin.sWilltsbarre, , -Pa.: He was taken,; to his: mother's hotme,- hat ,h,e .old lady rafnsell to receive hitu„as.lie Was a traitor and pot worthy to enter flio hOns4. She told tfil. boysle take'himdeWn Sfiatlrand give' hthi to 'Jeff-. •lias two Sons in thp.tiort• vice of the ,Unired Statesondjustly.yegards this fellow,a_disoTace . tho • CATCHING TILE• pea dog tire , first litmot so. .of , chapter Fin the Bible, the clerk, . by ,some• mistake other s read it after him., The cleigyMau read it as folli411: 7 -Mosiii 'Was"an guitere Man, and' rside'atoridirient for the: Rifis the people. The clerk, Who could net;,ex actly catch the sentence, repeated , thus:— Moses was an. oysterman, and made ointment for the shine of _llia pee,ple; it 'f • TEIE salt r may wit Ste and wear like the drifipiiiig - Alict but the inner life can never waste [roe wear? Time writes no wrinkles -14 on brow. It is no fleeting shadow, no wasting dream. It must remain unimpaiiod till it teaelfei that beautiful faint where angels - dwell, aria rejoices forever in the presence of God.- Father Taylor, the veteran sailorpreaoherl recently offered the followiag prayer :—"O . Lord, guide our dectrPre , iideat, OUT Abfaham; the friend of God; like old Abrahata. Save him from those wriggiing r intriguilig, politic; piercing, slimly borinc , keel worms; don't-let them go though the Eleathin , .. of his integ rity.". - . The shadows of the mind ,aTe . like those of the body. In the morning , of :life they, all lay behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and is the littiening they stretch along and - deepen 'beftiiii us. - . • The most tender-hearted man we ever heard of was a shoemaker, who always shut his eyes.and. whistled when he ran his, awl into a sole. • , The joyous • peals of marriage bells • have sometimes, it is said, n duleful echo: in the memoTies of the. parties concerned. :Death is .the condition of our creation; it is a part of us, and, whilst we endeavor to evade .it; we avoid ourselves. Youth and. the lark have their song fog the . motioin ,, ,, - while age , utul aightkogatti have Wile:for thU,eyening. • 'A bachelor ineraliant'a'adrice is selecting wife--"get hold of a pima of calico- that will wash." He. that.:swima the sea .of life with - blad ders „cannot stand the ~first prick ,)f adverse fortune:. The trout losses his life for a worm, many wee lose theirs-for lea: • A bad old age hi 'death,, without deatrea quiet.. • . Th , * pure'st - liehil 'tilt* . to call itself Over warm friendship, like hot coal*, are quickly dropped. bettir to - ka - OR prosperity thatibacikosk glpry, - •,, . DQemoti welchenfaili when its-Amis. to ; .. 6heeh l ue the, Rob of out. bin4 . 4,b9polk . 1 At b 0 .1 rAIR M -ttytAtr:Er Nu.mBEL.BO. !'3 1 , '